Alien Relic Hunter.

Chapter 573 Development Plan

If this world is a novel, then "Meme Crisis" can only be regarded as an unexpected episode... However, this episode almost ended the main plot, and Ke Lan still Use it to gain some very important information...and power.

Perhaps it should not be called an episode. It is more appropriate to compare it to a side mission independent of the main character, and it is also a challenging mission. It is mandatory to accept and cannot be given up. It has extremely high difficulty and failure penalties , but at the same time, after completing the task, they will also get extremely generous rewards.

The dark red blood oozed from the pores on the back of Ke Lan's hand, and instantly condensed into a pair of exaggerated gauntlets. With Ke Lan's thoughts, the gauntlets melted like ice and snow, and he took back his gloves along the original road. in vivo.

This "living armor" should be regarded as the most important "reward" he got in this side mission, but what makes him a little uneasy is... No one knows whether this "reward" comes with What kind of side effects.

Even the undead crew knew very little about this living armor.

Ke Lan believed that Pan did not hide information related to the living armor from himself—with the style of the Undead Crew, if they couldn't let themselves know about those things, then they would either choose to be riddlers, or just tell themselves "permissions" Insufficient" instead of making up a false claim to cover yourself up...

This approach may seem a bit "pretentious", but there is really nothing to do with them.Ke Lan even has a feeling that the organization of the Undead Crew has been separated from the humans on the entire Ark, and they have jumped out of the "Ark" chessboard... Although from a macro perspective, they are still part of the chess game, But for the people on the Ark, they already have the ability to manipulate everything.

With the original technological level and development speed of human beings, they should not have acquired such abilities... Even if the technology of the Alpha civilization is included, Ke Lan still feels that it is not enough.

It has only been 50 years since the Ark landed on Alpha. Counting the early stage of exploration, it has only been nearly 70 years since humans began to come into contact with the heritage of Alpha civilization.

70 years is almost a lifetime for a person, but for a civilization, it is like a fleeting moment, in an instant.

A thought suddenly popped up in Ke Lan's head that he couldn't even believe: In the Undead Crew Club, no one has obtained the complete inheritance of Alpha civilization, right?Or be a little more daring...they found the surviving Alpha man, and through some means, let him join the crew?
An indescribable strange feeling occupied Ke Lan's heart. In the dark, he felt that he was very close to the truth.

Ke Lan opened the notebook on the table, which is Zofia's personal computer, but at some point the eldest lady also included her face password, Ke Lan's face just flashed in front of the camera, originally The computer screen in the locked state suddenly lit up.

The window at the top of the screen is a plan about exploring Yagunaktor. It seems that before her arrival, the eldest lady is obviously having a headache for this matter.

Ke Lan had previously notified Zofia via the Zero Fleet network, asking her to prepare for the development of the new ruins, but judging from this almost blank plan, the actual progress is better than the "new folder" So a little bit.

After all, the business of the Soma Consortium was rarely involved in the field of relic exploration, and the few employees of the consortium with field experience were all lost in the "Leviathan Incident". Director Manstein and his female secretary who fled back failed to escape the assassination of the heretical sect in the end.

Such a huge Soma consortium, at this moment, can't even provide a few qualified and trustworthy expatriates.

The Soma Consortium is not as rich and powerful as the Ye family, and can directly lease a complete consortium-level hunting group.This kind of "industry miracle" created by spending money can only be achieved by a behemoth like Mrs. Ye.

Although the total assets of the Soma Consortium's accounts are huge, in fact, the liquidity is not abundant-a qualified businessman will not deposit money in the bank...they will only invest the money and use it This money is used to earn more money, and the snowball of capital will continue to grow.Instead of being like a miser, guarding the pile of gold coins that can't give birth to cubs.

Even if the board of directors is willing to give Zofia all the liquid assets under the name of the consortium, it will be difficult for them to pull up a qualified exploration team before the official opening of the "Yagunaktor" ruins—starting from scratch To create a hunting group with the ability to explore S-level ruins, the three elements of money, time, and resources are indispensable, but the Soma Consortium failed to pass any of these elements.

According to Zofia's original idea, she planned to hand over the business of exploring the ruins to Ke Lan, and let the Hunting God Hunting Group fill the short board on the bucket. In view of the relationship between the two, even if Hunting God Hunting The group is not an asset belonging to the Soma consortium, but as long as Zofia can inherit the family and the consortium, then her and Ke Lan's children will naturally become the joint owners of the two.

This is also the main purpose of the marriage between the royal families of European countries in the old era - since the other country cannot be annexed by war, then in the name of blood relationship, the two countries have the same master.

This idea is very beautiful, and Ke Lan does not feel repulsed... But the problem is that although their hunting group is a consortium-level hunting group in name, its actual scale is not as good as those old-fashioned company-level hunting groups.

To put it nicely, they are following the cutting-edge route of "less but better"; but to put it bluntly, it is simply because of "poor".

But this is also a time when there is no way. After all, Ke Lan and the others are really self-made, and even the deposit for the registration of the hunting group has to be "borrowed" from Zofia, and the problem of the headquarters building is "half sold and half given away" by Ye It has to be solved, there is not a complete newcomer training system, and there is not enough capital to poach talents from other hunting groups. An accident happened to this group of main forces during a certain exploration, and this consortium-level hunting group would collapse in an instant.

The Hunting God Hunting Group is not so much a hunting group, it is more like a "fixed team" composed of Ke Lan and the others. Although this kind of fixed team is very strong, it does not have any risk-taking ability-those with a deep foundation For the veteran hunting group, if the main team is buried in the ruins, although it will inevitably be injured, there is a high probability that they will be able to recover. But for Ke Lan and the others, one mistake may end in annihilation of the entire army.

"There are few people...there are still too few people." Ke Lan was thinking, while tapping on the table lightly. It has been a while since the Hunting God Hunting Group was established, and several high-level tasks have been completed during this time , the ranking has been soaring all the way, but looking at the size of the hunting group, in addition to the logistics staff, there are only two more people, Qin Zhao and Valentina.

The guy nicknamed 33 is quite strong, and his personality is very against Ke Lan's temper... But Ke Lan has no idea whether he can be included in the group.

This kind of person seems to be easy to talk on the surface, but in fact he is extremely stubborn in his heart-this is quite similar to that old dog.

"Yeah, there are too few people." Zofia's voice came from behind, and Ke Lan turned her head, only to find that the eldest lady had woken up while she was browsing the documents, and she was wrapped in a thin In a nightgown with cicada wings, she sat on the edge of the big bed in a somewhat strange posture.

On her shoulders, arms, and chest, there were traces left over from the "fierce battle" just now, and Ke Lan couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed--was he really that rough just now?
It's just that the eldest lady didn't seem to care about this, but continued to talk about the topic just now: "I supported you to create a hunting group, just to make up for the gap in this field of the Soma family... But the problem now is that you There are really too few people here, and Yagunaktor is a very big cake, which cannot be eaten by the Hunting God Hunting Group alone."

"You're right, that's why I want the Soma Consortium to participate..." Ke Lan glanced at the clearly visible red tooth marks on Zofia's snow-white neck with some guilt, and moved away embarrassedly. out of sight, "At least, the fat and water will not flow into outsiders' fields."

"But the problem we encountered is the same as yours... Yaguna Ketor appeared too suddenly. Even if the Soma Consortium now tilts all the available resources in this direction, it will be difficult to reach Ye's Level." Zofia sighed.

"From this point of view, it seems that you can only be responsible for the preparation of logistics work, and the front-line exploration work may not be possible." Ke Lan shook his head, "Although the main control of Yagunaktor is in my hands, this is after all An S-level ruins, the various mechanisms and traps inside are unimaginably complicated, not to mention there are "foreign sojourners" like the mutated lava beetle... The kind of rookie hunter who makes up the numbers, probably just delivers food when he goes there .”

"But if you participate in the logistics preparation work, the Soma Consortium can only get the leftovers left by the first-line exploration team." Zofia smiled helplessly, "I'm not complaining about this In the distribution system, the first-line exploration teams need to take the greatest risk, so naturally they have to take the biggest piece of cake... But if we can only get the rest of the soup, the extra main course will definitely cause trouble. Everyone is jealous."

"Hmm." Ke Lan nodded approvingly. There are some main dishes on the Ark that people can't eat. If you blindly refuse other forces to participate in it, it will undoubtedly greatly slow down the progress of the exploration. The undead crew Should I or would I not be happy to see this situation of occupying the latrine and not shitting.

Although Demeter said nicely that Ke Lan can decide everything by himself, but at that time, whether to take back Ke Lan's authority is just a matter of the crew's ability to say a word.

"The Soma Consortium may not be able to participate in the first phase of the exploration operation, but..."

"Actually, I still have a backup plan." Zofia suddenly interrupted Ke Lan and said.

"back up plan?"

"The people at the Leviathan base are actually not the only people in the Soma Consortium with field experience." Zofia said seriously.

"You mean... the crew of the Pioneer?!" Ke Lan immediately realized that he and Zofia met on this icebreaker, and Zofia had been the captain for two years at that time. And the crew under her will probably only stay on this ship longer than she does.

Not only that, the Pioneer icebreaker has also participated in the exploration of more than a dozen ruins including the "Undersea City". This group of crew members counts as one, and they can definitely be regarded as experienced veterans.

"I actually forgot about this!" Ke Lan patted his forehead lightly, "It's just... if you transfer this group of people, what will happen to the Pioneer?"

"Just throw it in the port." Zofia said indifferently, "You may not know that the Pioneer icebreaker has been sailing in the Middle Seas for so many years, but it has not created much value for the Soma Consortium... Especially After the 'City Under the Sea' was officially blocked, in the past six months, not only have we not received any income, but we have also spent a large amount of budget, and the family has already had a lot of opposition."

"You can't say that. Being able to train this group of crew members is the greatest value of the Pioneer... This kind of 'wealth', but money can't necessarily buy it." Ke Lan laughed, "If they If so, it only needs a two-week targeted training, and it can be directly used as the main force of exploration!"

"One more thing." Zofia looked at Ke Lan and said.

"what's up?"

"Training, I also want to participate."

"You?" Ke Lan was stunned for a moment, "You want to go to the ruins?"

Zofia nodded.

"No." Ke Lan flatly refused, "It's too dangerous."

"Do you think I'm the kind of weak vase character? Will it hold you back?" Zofia glared at Ke Lan with some dissatisfaction and asked back.

If we only talk about physical fitness, Zofia is indeed not weak... It is impossible for such a weak young lady to persist on the icebreaker Pioneer for two years.Moreover, as far as the "battle process" of the two of them just now is concerned, the tolerance and physical strength of the eldest lady have also greatly exceeded Ke Lan's expectations—if it hadn't been for his body to have experienced many "crystallization" and "living armor" successively After the second reinforcement, I'm afraid Ke Lan will be the one who just lost the battle.

"That was not what I meant……"

"Then what do you mean?"

"There is an old saying in Huaxia called 'care leads to chaos', you should have heard of it? I don't want you to suffer any harm, so I will rest assured only if you stay in a safe place." After finishing this sentence After speaking, Ke Lan immediately gave himself a big praise in his heart - if he was the straight steel man back then, he would never be able to say these words... It seems that his progress is still very obvious of.

At least he won't feel nauseous about such words anymore... Thanks to the "strategy" sent to him by the hound before, although Ke Lan only glanced at it in his spare time, he really benefited a lot.

However, what he didn't know was that when the hound sent him the strategy, he deliberately deleted the title of the strategy. In fact, the strategy was a paid tutorial published on a social networking site, commonly known as "Scumbag Cheats" "...

"..." Zofia looked at Ke Lan with complicated emotions in her eyes, and said after a few seconds, "Well, I won't enter the scope of the ruins, let me take care of the logistics, it's okay ?”

[PS Thanks to Tian Qingse and others for the 1500 starting point coins rewarded by Aventure. 】

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