Alien Relic Hunter.

Chapter 542 Exogenous Branches
Ke Lan and the others randomly found a quarantine area where there were not too many people, and sat down on the ground.

As soon as Ke Lan sat down, he felt that someone behind him gently pulled his sleeve. He turned around and found that the other party was a well-dressed middle-aged man, wearing a pair of thin-rimmed glasses and a meticulous suit and tie. , looks very gentle.

If Ke Lan hadn't seen that the watch on the middle-aged man's wrist was a high-quality imitation, he would have classified this middle-aged man as part of the upper class of Ark.

A suit worth three or four thousand and a high-quality imitation watch whose original price is estimated to be 300,000... Well, this guy should be just a white-collar worker who loves vanity.

To be honest, Ke Lan doesn't really like to deal with such people. This kind of people are too philistine, they value interests more than anything else, but they care about everything. Profit and evil.

But this kind of people are not like the rough people at the bottom who will tear their faces in front of others. Most of them like to play tricks, such as secretly speaking ill of people behind their backs, making people trip, etc... This point is different from the Morgan consortium before. The things they did were pretty much the same.

In addition, words such as following the trend, bullying the weak and fearing the strong are also typical labels of this type of person.

It can be summed up in three words: not popular.

"Little brother, were you also brought in by those soldiers?" the middle-aged man asked with a smile.

"Yeah. What's the matter, is there something wrong?" Ke Lan tried his best to pretend to be dazed.

"Uh...well, just now I saw that the soldier who brought you in seemed to treat you very well. Do you know that soldier?"

"I don't know." Ke Lan shook his head. He just wanted to end this conversation as soon as possible, and he didn't want to have too much interaction with the other party.

"Then you must be a person of status. You must be the young master of a big family, right? To be honest, with so many people coming in, it's the first time I've seen those soldiers with such a good attitude." The smile on the young man's face turned into a flattering smile in an instant, and he pointed to the stitches on his shoulder, "When we were brought in, it was like catching prisoners, pushing and pulling... A young man got a little aggressive and got hit by the butt of a gun, and even his teeth were knocked out."

When he said this, his tone was full of pain and resentment, obviously this high-end suit was very precious to him.

But he didn't focus on his torn clothes, but focused on describing the young man who was "violently enforced the law"... Ke Lan couldn't help complaining in his heart: This guy...is really a scheming bitch what.

"Then I can only tell you that your guess is completely wrong. I'm just an ordinary person. Those soldiers' attitudes may be because we are more cooperative, and then we just bumped into a group of soldiers with good tempers."

Seeing what Ke Lan said, the middle-aged man's eyes showed obvious disbelief, but instead of entangled in this matter, he changed the subject subtly: "Then little brother, do you know what's going on outside? What happened? This somehow brought people here, this is illegal imprisonment, even if they are the guards, they have no right to restrict our personal freedom without a legitimate reason!"

"Didn't you hear what the loudspeaker kept saying-a sudden outbreak of an acute infectious disease, for the sake of the safety of the people, everyone must be quarantined." Ke Lan pointed to the two loudspeakers in the mall that were playing on a loop Said the power speaker.

"The devil would believe such a poor reason! This is a blockade of the entire ship. What kind of infectious disease can block the entire ark! And the wall will be activated——Let me tell you, I'm afraid it's not the Alpha people who broke in!" The young man suddenly lowered his voice, "That's what another group of relic hunters said just now. They said that there have been major discoveries in the field of relic exploration recently. It is very likely that Alpha people are still alive on this planet, but they are all in collective dormancy. , Some time ago, someone activated the alien warship of 'Yashator', which has woken them up!"

"This imagination is too rich..." Ke Lan couldn't help but twitched the corners of his mouth, "Uncle, which hunter did you hear such alarmist words from? This is simply spreading rumors, and there is a bonus for reporting of."

"Here, just a few relic hunters over there wearing sand-colored camouflage uniforms and sitting together. I heard that they are still members of a large hunting group." The middle-aged man pointed to a dozen people sitting not far away , They were discussing something nervously, while the group of people listening to their discussion all looked nervous.

Ke Lan and 33 looked at each other, they ignored the middle-aged man who wanted to continue talking, got up and walked over, and squatted down outside the circle of the relic hunters.

The relic hunters immediately noticed Ke Lan and 33 approaching.At this time, 33 was still wearing an oil-stained casual suit, but it was Ke Lan's combat uniform that aroused their interest.

A skinny boy who looked less than 20 years old raised his chin at Ke Lan and asked, "Hey, that one over there, are you a mercenary?"

"No, I'm a hunter, a relic hunter." Ke Lan replied.

"Ha, we're going together, it's a pleasure to meet you." Hearing Ke Lan's answer, a big man nearby moved his butt slightly, making room for a little space in the circle, and motioned for Ke Lan to join the discussion.

"Brother, which hunting group are you from?" the skinny boy asked again.

"I didn't join the hunting group, I did it alone."

"Oh... so he was a lone hunter." A look of obvious disappointment flashed in the skinny boy's eyes, but he quickly recovered his original expression, and asked Ke Lan pretending to be enthusiastic: "Brother, how did you get caught?" brought here?"

"Walking with friends for dinner, we suddenly encountered a blockade, and a group of soldiers we met brought us here." Ke Lan briefly described, and then directly cut the topic to the core of the problem, "I just heard that there An uncle said, how many brothers know the reason for the blockade of the whole ship?"

"Ah... well..." The skinny boy seemed to be trying to keep it a secret, and after pondering for a moment on purpose, he said in a very low voice, "Actually, we don't really know...we just caught a little wind."

"A bit of wind? What wind?" Ke Lan asked immediately.

"Now outside the ark, there is an ancient battleship of the Alpha civilization called 'Yagunaktor' hanging not far away, you should know it?" the skinny boy asked.

"Of course I know, not everyone in our industry knows about such a big news." Ke Lan nodded again and again, "That is the No. 19 S-level ruins, but it is a pity that it is not open to all hunters yet."

"Hey...you don't know, today's matter has something to do with 'Yagunaktor'!" The skinny boy pretended to be mysterious.

"How to say?"

"I don't know which bastard actually drove this treasure out of the ground... Tell me, can Alpha people just watch their super battleship being stolen?" Realized that "that bastard" in his mouth is now sitting opposite to him.

"Haven't Alpha people disappeared for tens of thousands of years?"

"Tch, those guys from the research institute made it up to bluff people. In fact, the Alpha people have been sleeping deep in the depths of the Alpha planet... They are a very special kind of creature, just like the temperature-changing animals on the earth." It’s the same as hibernation, but their hibernation lasts for tens of thousands of years, if the guy who stole the ship didn’t startle them, they probably would have been sleeping forever!”

"Hibernation theory?" Ke Lan murmured in his heart. This is a very classic one of the several speculations about the whereabouts of the Alpha civilization. There were quite a lot of supporters in the early years, but as more and more negative evidence was discovered, This kind of speculation has gradually declined in the academic world. On the contrary, there are many "non-professionals" among the people who firmly believe in it.

"Then what's going on with the whole ship blockade...?" Ke Lan asked with interest, he wanted to see how far this group of people could make up the story.

"I'm afraid you don't know...we have been abandoned by the high-level of the ark!" The skinny boy's voice was lowered, and several of his companions raised their heads and looked around vigilantly, in case there were any guards at this time. Guardsmen approached.

"Abandoned?" Ke Lan frowned.

"The Alpha people wake up, with the power of the ark, there is no way to compete with them... Those big men have already prepared to run away, they locked us ordinary people here, in fact, they intend to use us as bait to attract the Alpha people attention, to buy time for them to escape."

"...and this?" Ke Lan couldn't help thinking to himself, these hunters, shouldn't they be "500,000"?

After the "East Ninth District Incident" was exposed, the Ark official once issued an announcement that anyone who finds suspected heretical sect believers or missionaries can receive a reward of up to 500,000 credits after successful reporting. Since then , People call this kind of people "the walking 500,000", or "500,000" for short.

But in fact, there are very few cases of successful reporting... One is that ordinary people may not have such a strong ability to identify, and the other is that when they realize the true identity of these people, they are often in a quagmire and cannot extricate themselves .

"Believe it or not... But then again, we relic hunters are not the kind of ordinary people who have no power to restrain chickens. I don't think we should just wait to die like this, buddy, what do you think?" After the skinny boy finished speaking, he stared at Ke Lan expectantly.

"What are your plans?" Ke Lan is basically sure that even if these people are not members of heretical sects, they are probably from some extremist organization. We can't do anything...weapons and other things were taken away when they came in, and those soldiers were all armed with guns, and even if we wanted to escape from here with bare hands, we couldn't do it."

"What if I have a way?" The skinny boy suddenly showed a weird smile.

Is there a "container" for the "Seed of Corrosion" among these "500,000"?No...Since the incident in the East Ninth District, the Ark's official inspections on this aspect have become much stricter. It is difficult for "containers" to mix into the Ark, and they will be detected at the boarding place... Even if they use some special The method has avoided this first hurdle, and what is waiting for them is a weekly routine inspection: With the deepening of research, it is no longer even necessary to draw blood for the detection of "containers". The security door equipped with scanning equipment at the entrance can distinguish these parasitic "containers" from the crowd.

If it is not a "container", then there is only one possibility...

Could this guy be a "Black Robe Bishop"?Ke Lan thought to himself, could it be that he is so "good" that he can bump into a "black-robed bishop" even in any containment facility?
He glanced at the soldiers in the distance from the corner of his eye—all those responsible for maintaining order in this temporary shelter were soldiers from the garrison, and there were no agents from the Security Bureau. Those who were summoned by order were carrying conventional equipment, not to mention heavy firepower and active ammunition, they didn't even have a heavy machine gun.

Perhaps they left the heavy machine gun, a visually oppressive and lethal weapon, at the station in order not to cause panic among the people, but if heresy sects were related to this incident, the situation would be completely different.

At least thousands of civilians have gathered in this temporary shelter transformed from a shopping mall. If the black-robed bishop uses the "Holy Word" in this place, the consequences will be disastrous.

Ke Lan's eyes swept across these relic hunters in turn, and in this state, he couldn't tell which of these people...or which ones were the "real threat".

"What do you mean?" 33 asked, his tone was a bit blunt - as a retired soldier, he naturally saw that this group of so-called "relic hunters" was not normal. Obviously, there are other motives for spreading rumors and creating panic.

"Who are you?" The skinny boy looked at Ke Lan, "Is this guy with you?"

"Yes, he is my friend." Ke Lan nodded, and lightly touched 33 with his elbow at an angle that the other party could not see, implying that he should not act rashly.

He needs to test the other party further. If he can confirm the identity of the other party, Ke Lan doesn't mind at all.

"Oh, this guy seems to have some opinion." The skinny boy asked very vigilantly.

"It's nothing, he's always been more cautious in doing things, and he doesn't want to take risks, so sometimes he looks a little annoying." Ke Lan argued, "Are you planning to escape from here?"

"Not only do we want to escape, we also want to rescue the innocent people here—" said the skinny boy.

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