Alien Relic Hunter.

Chapter 585 The First Joint Exploration
Ke Lan didn't stay on the "New Dawn" for too long. After eating two bags of instant military rations to fill his stomach, he immediately took a transport plane to "Yagunaktor".

It was less than a month before the first joint exploration started, and even though he had always been a hands-off shopkeeper, there were still a lot of trivial matters that had to be handled by him personally.

For example, this front-line supply base built in the "Yagunaktor" power room... Calculated according to the scheduled construction period, it is almost time for acceptance.

In order to facilitate the transportation of materials, Ke Lan set up three semi-permanent transmission channels outside Yagunaktor.Of course, this channel is not accessible to everyone, only those who have a "transmission beacon" can enter, and the quality of the things they carry is also strictly limited.

The so-called "transmission beacon" is actually an empty shell of energy crystals that has been specially marked. Only when this beacon is carried on the body can it be teleported to the core power room. Those who are not will be thrown into the passage that trapped Ke Lan and the others for a long time.

After gaining control of "Yagunaktor", Ke Lan realized that most of those passages were not for people to pass through, but the heat dissipation pipes of this ancient battleship.When the engine of the battleship is running, a steady stream of scorching hot air will be discharged into these passages. At this time, if any unlucky person is sent into these heat dissipation pipes, it may take a few seconds for the whole person to go inside and out. The outside was scalded.

The three transmission channels are located on the top of Yagunaktor. The Zero Fleet built four parking pads and a large unloading dock on this ancient battleship. The building materials and equipment transported from the ark will be They are sent to this platform by a transport plane or a small transport ship, and then stacked up in different categories, and finally sent to the core power room of "Agunaktor" by manual handling.

According to the cargo throughput of this unloading dock, all the materials for the construction of the frontline supply base can actually be in place in half a day, but these materials are stuck in the last step of the transportation process-every worker can only carry at most including weight and weight. Including its own equipment, a total of 450 kilograms of materials entered the transmission channel, so that the efficiency of transportation dropped instantly.

This is like installing a valve to control the flow at the mouth of a crazy spraying water pipe... With the current efficiency, it will probably take more than a month just to move the materials stacked on the platform, let alone build the base ...

This is also impossible. Only by strictly controlling access can spies from heretic sects be prevented from mixing in.Fortunately, it will take some time for the training and integration of personnel on the other side. When the people from the Soma Consortium and Ye's Consortium arrive at "Yagunaktor", the progress of the project here should be only seven or eight.

Ke Lan picked a passage at random and entered the core power room. The first thing he saw was a construction site covering an area of ​​more than [-] square meters.

The basic frame made of alloy pipes has been completely built, but most of the buildings have not had time to install walls, and less than one-fifth of the houses have closed rooms, but even so, the entire The general appearance of the base has been presented - this is like a mecha, the skeleton has been completed, and the rest is to fill it up with various equipment and armor.

These projects were all contracted by the Ye family consortium—in order to build this base, the wealthy Ye family even temporarily acquired a top three established construction company in the industry and six steel structure production lines of the highest specification.

Undertaking the annual mech competition has given Yep's consortium already a wealth of experience in base construction. Coupled with this wave of support and the almost unlimited budget given by the board of directors, the design team in charge of this project was able to take off on the spot. , the blueprint that originally took half a month to complete, the group of bald people took two nights to get it out... It is said that this group of people is so busy that they can't even take care of food, all rely on concentrated nutrient solution and high-strength Military stimulants to maintain their status.

Ke Lan has seen the blueprint. Although he only has a superficial understanding of architectural design, he can also see that the design of this base can definitely be called a masterpiece. The protective cover is an unprecedented creativity in the history of human architecture.

This protective cover was the first to be built and is now in use.This is a hemispherical physical protective cover, buckled upside down above the entire base. The body of the protective cover is spliced ​​out of more than 2000 million energy-depleted crystals, connected with deciphered crystal path structures, and Equipped with eight large shield generators, the protection that the entire protective cover can provide to the frontline supply base is not weaker than the energy shield at the headquarters of the research institute.Moreover, due to the use of solid crystals as the carrier of the energy shield, there is almost no problem of "overload" in this protective cover-in other words, as long as the energy supply is sufficient, the shield can be maintained forever, and there is no problem at all. The issue of battery life needs to be considered.

"Captain Ke, look here. This is the office area we specially arranged for you, and it is also the first room in the base to be renovated." A person wearing a fluorescent construction warning suit and an orange safety helmet guides Ke Rand walked into a hallway.

This person is not an ordinary worker, but one of the senior engineers of the explosive liver design team. The two thick dark circles on his face make him look like the national treasure "Panda" of China in the old era. The layer of grease accumulated by staying up late and neglecting to wash is so thick that it can be scraped off with your fingers.

But there was no hint of exhaustion in his voice at all, and the excitement was so strong that Ke Lan even wondered if this guy was on drugs—oh, no doubt, just walking into the corridor, Ke Lan I saw several engineers who looked similar to this guy discussing fiercely around a table, and a large number of empty disposable stimulant syringes were scattered on the ground at their feet.

Good guy... Ke Lan counted the number of syringes and the number of engineers. If they knocked out these medicines, each person would have injected at least five large doses of military stimulants within two days, and one large dose The dose of military stimulants contained four standard units. Generally, the headquarters would distribute such specifications of military stimulants to soldiers only on the eve of important battles.

"Among you... didn't anyone die suddenly?" Ke Lan didn't look at the design drawing on the table for the first time, but asked the engineers.

"It's not a big problem. Anyway, the emergency personnel are waiting outside. As long as they give rescue in time, they won't die." An engineer said without raising his head.

"Lao Li and Tom rushed to the street yesterday and were directly carried into the medical cabin, but I heard that they have woken up today and clamored to come back." Another engineer took over the conversation, and he just realized that Ke Lan's voice was very unfamiliar. He raised his head, glanced at Ke Lan with doubts and dissatisfaction, and shouted: "Speaking of... who are you? Who let you in? Didn't you say that outsiders are not allowed to enter here?" ?”

"You idiot! This is Captain Ke!" The engineer who brought Ke Lan in immediately said.

"Captain Ke? Which captain? Even the captain of Fleet Zero, this place is not just for him to enter!" The engineer had no intention of backing down, "Marcus, you guy, you designed the place before. I haven't settled with you for such a big mistake in the heating system! Now you bring people here again, you..."

Before he finished speaking, the engineer called Marcus interrupted him: "He is the captain of this battleship!"

"This battleship?" The engineer who was still spitting all over the last second was stunned for a moment, and the expression on his face suddenly became extremely exciting, "You mean... he is the captain of Yagunaktor? "

As soon as he said this, several other engineers also raised their heads and looked at Ke Lan together.

After doing this, Ke Lan felt a little embarrassed. For a while, he didn't know what to say to these bald men.

He can't say "Hi comrades, comrades have worked hard"...

The madness of this group of people is comparable to that of the research institute, but they are not as lawless as those researchers. To be subdued.

"Is this my office area?" Ke Lan cut directly to the topic and asked, pointing to the door at the end of the corridor.

"Yes." A crisp female voice replied, Ke Lan looked in the direction of the voice, but did not see any figure, until he moved his gaze down, only to find a man who looked to be eleven or twelve years old at most The little girl was standing on tiptoe with her hands on the edge of the table, watching Ke Lan with excited eyes.

She was wearing a construction suit that obviously didn't fit well, and a child-sized safety helmet was buckled on her head. There were also two huge dark circles on her fair face—just because of the angle of view. Because of the relationship, Ke Lan didn't notice the little girl who was blocked by others.

"You... still recruit child labor here??" Ke Lan glanced at Marcus beside him with some puzzlement.

"No, no, no...Miss Bianca is not an employee of the company, but the youngest daughter of our boss." Marcus lowered his voice a little, and said in Ke Lan's ear, "She is a genius... the one outside You have just seen the physical protective cover made of discarded crystals, and the original idea of ​​that thing was proposed by Miss Bianca."

"But... even if she is a genius designer, she should still be a minor, right?"

"I skipped six grades in a row, and I graduated from the Architecture Department of 'MIT' last year. It is very stupid to judge a person's ability by age alone." The little girl glared at Ke Lan and said angrily.

The "MIT" in her mouth is a very famous institution of higher learning on the Ark. Its predecessor is the "MIT" on Earth. If the architecture department of this institution claims to be the second in the world, then no school dares to claim to be the world's first. First of all, the strength is so strong that there is no need to repeat it.

The "MIT" on the Ark has completely inherited the mantle of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Its architecture and engineering departments also maintain the "Ark No. 27" throne, and students who graduate from this college are admitted to the graduate school. The proportion is as high as [-]%.

You must know that among the top 1.9 institutions of higher learning on the Ark, the average rate of graduates admitted to the graduate school is only [-]%. As long as many schools can produce a talent who has entered the graduate school, they can get this amount when they recruit students in the second year. There is a lot of hype about it, and "MIT" will send more than [-] outstanding talents to the research institute every year at least.

Ke Lan couldn't help but take another look at this talented girl who just graduated from "MIT" last year, and sighed secretly in her heart. It's a good thing that she was not favored by the research institute.

"That's what I said, but it's illegal for minors to use military doping." Ke Lan glanced over Bianka's arm intentionally or unintentionally, as if he could see through the thick construction uniform. See those pinholes on that slender arm inside.

The ingredients of military stimulants contain a large number of hormones. Minors who are still in the stage of physical development will have an irreversible impact on the body, especially if they are injected in a short period of time—a strong adult People may not be able to bear it, let alone a child who is only eleven or twelve years old.

"I am a natural enhanced person, and the side effects of stimulants are basically ineffective for me." The little girl said with some pride—a natural enhanced person refers to a person who has been genetically adjusted at the embryonic stage and has received multiple uteruses during pregnancy. Infants with endoenhanced surgery.

This kind of person can get two to three levels of reinforcement from birth, and subsequent further reinforcement will become easier, and the success rate is much higher than that of ordinary people.

But the disadvantage is that the cost is huge, and both the mother and the fetus need to bear a lot of risks-if the intensive operation fails, not only the fetus will be aborted, but most of the adults will also lose it.

However, in the high society of the Ark, there are quite a few innately strengthened people like this... In order to ensure that the offspring have superhuman qualities, some families will let the heirs of the family give up marriages with other dignitaries and choose outstanding girls from the common people as Spouse - there will never be only one such spouse, at least five or six, and at most a dozen... After these girls become pregnant, they will undergo such congenital enhancement surgery.If it fails, her original family will receive a huge amount of compensation. If it succeeds, her child will have the opportunity to become the future heir of the family, and she will officially become the wife of the child's father.

If multiple fetuses survived the operation, the situation would be more complicated... On the Internet, there is a relatively derogatory term to describe this practice, that is... "raising Gu".

The way Ke Lan looked at Bianca couldn't help but get a little complicated—this genius girl must also be a "Gu" in a certain Gu cup, right?

(End of this chapter)