Alien Relic Hunter.

Chapter 616 Gopher Squad
The hound rubbed his nose a little irritably, and said, "Unless they are crazy—in fact, in my opinion, sending troops to attack a fully activated Alpha ruins is essentially the same as being crazy."

"I also think this is a suicidal mission..." Layton sighed, "The gap in technological level between the two warring parties is too great, and the Ark has no chance of winning at all."

"Damn... If it was in the past, I would never have imagined that one day the Ark's army would be overwhelmed and beaten by those rats in the wilderness in terms of technology... It's really beeping dogs, why is that shit Didn't the Prophet get killed while exploring the ruins? Isn't that too shit luck?"

"Actually, we are also the same." Ivan lowered his voice and said to the hound, "Old dog, you haven't noticed... Since our group officially formed a group, hasn't there been a reduction in the number of people in the process of exploring the ruins?"

The Hound froze for a moment.

What Ivan said is correct. Since they formed a team, apart from Jiang Lian who died in the glacier ruins, none of the members of the team have had any accidents in the ruins. The only teammate they lost was because of the Arasaka consortium. Because of this, it has nothing to do with the ruins themselves.As for the people who died in the next few missions, whether they were members of the Polaris Hunting Group or agents of the Security Bureau, those can only be regarded as "outsiders" and not "our own people."

As for the six of them who walked out of the glacier ruins together alive, there has been no attrition until now, and it can already be regarded as a legend in the hunter circle.

Not to mention, the relics they explored afterwards were either S-level or A-level... As long as other hunters of this level of relics can come out alive, they will be able to boast more in the future. Level Relics—Hounds They didn't realize at all before that they had created a record that was difficult for others to match.

Before the living armor was transplanted, Ke Lan's own combat effectiveness could only be regarded as middle-low among the ranks of elite hunters, but the special abilities he obtained by accident can greatly improve the survival rate of the team and the success of exploring the ruins Rate——Thinking of it this way, the efficiency of a prophet with the same ability in exploring the ruins must also be terrifying.

After all, the time when he acquired the ability was more than ten years earlier than Ke Lan...

What Ke Lan and the others are short of is time... If Ke Lan is given ten years to develop most of the functions of Yagunaktor, a ruins of the ancient bronze city will not be able to resist this ship from a higher civilization. super battleship.

It's a pity that there is the word "if" at the beginning of this passage, and all of this is just a hypothesis.

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Ke Lan and the others are still having a meeting to discuss the plan to attack the ruins of the Bronze City, while the Field Corps has already begun to take action.

The assembly of large forces takes time, but this does not prevent small elite units from carrying out infiltration operations on the ruins of the Bronze City—the 574th special team "Gopher" of the Field Service Corps was one of the first combat units to receive the task .

Just like their name, the Gopher Squad is equipped with the only "Super Drilling Gopher" heavy drilling rig in the entire Ark.This drilling rig is rebuilt on the chassis of the "Mammoth Tank" (Note 1). The front end of the drilling rig is equipped with six largest tricone drill bits, with a total of more than 10,000 taels and more than [-] diamond teeth. No matter how hard the rock formation is, It can also be easily cut and minced like freshly baked shortbread.

At the same time, this drilling rig is also equipped with two high-power pumps powered by crystallization, which can pump the mud generated during excavation several kilometers away to ensure the smooth progress of excavation operations.

At this moment, the drilling rig is located in a rock formation 140 meters deep underground, [-] kilometers away from the Bronze City ruins.

Several members of the gopher team gathered in the control room of the drilling rig. In order to save energy, all unnecessary light sources in the control room were turned off, leaving only the fluorescence emitted by the screen and the indicator lights reflecting their faces—from Looking at it from a third perspective, it feels like a poor-quality horror film from the old era.

"There are still eleven kilometers left... At this speed, we will have to dig for a day and a night to reach the ruins of the ancient bronze city." Said the engineer sitting in the passenger seat and manipulating the drill bit, "But the problem is... If we are too close to the ruins, the power of the pump is not enough to discharge the mud directly out of the tunnel, and a transfer station must be built."

"Set up a transfer station a few kilometers away from the ruins...will definitely be discovered by the enemy?" said another soldier sitting in the back row.

"Of course the transfer station cannot be built on the surface." The engineer who spoke earlier shook his head, "My suggestion is to build the transfer station directly in the tunnel. You only need to reserve an opening for the follow-up troops to pass through, and the rest of the space is completely fine. To house a second set of silent pumps and a couple of kilometers of pipes so that the mud can be pumped to the ground twenty kilometers away."

"I have already reported this set of plans to the headquarters." The captain of the gopher team nodded, "The silent pump and the extension pipeline will be shipped directly from the Mukakh base, and it will take about eight hours for transportation and assembly. "

"The action is really fast." The engineer sighed, "I heard that this time, the entire field army has been mobilized, and more than a hundred thousand people will be transferred here in the future."

"That's not something we need to care about." The captain frowned. "Our task is to dig this tunnel, and after the battle starts, send the special operations troops directly to the ruins of the ancient bronze city."

"I know..." Before the engineer finished speaking, the entire control room suddenly shook violently, and on the operation panel in front of him, a series of green indicator lights turned red in an instant.

"What's going on?" the captain asked in a deep voice while supporting the cabin roof of the control room.

"The drill stopped... Hey, it's strange. I checked the equipment up and down, and found no faults..." The engineer slid his fingers on the screen, and the six huge drills were divided into dozens of independent ones. modules - however, each module displayed a status of "everything is fine", but after putting them together, the drill just wouldn't move.

"Could it be that the pump is malfunctioning? Or is the pipeline blocked?" The driver sitting in the driver's seat on the left is a muscular and strong man, and he turned around from the small driver's seat with some difficulty. Come on, say to others, "If the mud cannot be discharged smoothly, the safety device will lock the drill bit."

"This possibility cannot be ruled out." The engineer nodded, "Someone has to go down and take a look."

"Baile, get out of the car and take a look." The captain said to a soldier wearing light power armor sitting outside the control room, "Pay attention to safety, this place is already in the depths of the enemy-occupied area, and everything can happen. Could happen."

The soldier named Basil nodded silently, and just stood up when he was held back by the captain again.

"Wait a minute, I'll go with you." The captain said, taking off the breathing mask and carbine hanging on the bulkhead. "I always feel that something is a little strange, so I have to go and see it myself to be relieved."

The two pushed open the hatch behind the control room and climbed up a vertical passage with a ladder.

Although the "Super Driller" transformed from the mammoth tank site is very large, its internal space has actually been filled to the brim with pumps, crystallization engines, and energy conversion devices. Not much bigger than a normal tank.

Two members of the Gopher Squad got out one after the other, and Basil, who was wearing a power armor, turned on the searchlight on his shoulder, and turned the beam of light around the car body.

"No abnormality was found." Basil said in a muffled voice - he doesn't like to talk usually, because for a special team whose main task is drilling, his existence as a fireman is really redundant... Gopher The team seldom receives missions that require combat. As time goes by, Basil, who is originally relatively introverted, becomes even less vocal.

"Don't let your guard down." The captain said in a deep voice, "Wait...something seems wrong..."

Basil turned his head and looked at his captain suspiciously.

"Basil, say something casually," the captain said.

"Say what?" Basil's puzzled expression became more serious.

"Didn't you notice that when we were talking, there was no sound in the earphones?" The captain pointed to the communication device hanging on his head, "The reason why we can hear each other's voices is entirely because we rely on It's very close, but there is no sound coming from the earphones... By the way, when I talk, is there any sound in your earphones?"

"No." Basil shook his head.

"Then can you get in touch with the people in the car?" the captain asked again.

"No." Basil still shook his head.

"It seems that either the communication devices of both of us are broken at the same time, or there is some extremely strong interference in this place... The interference is even so strong that the two of us face each other, and the radio communication will fail..." The captain said while turning Turning around, lifted the hatch, and shouted into the car: "The radio communication seems to be interfered, have you found it?"

"No—" The engineer's voice echoed through the channel, "Our communication with the headquarters is normal."

"Idiot, we use wired communication with the headquarters, so of course there will be no interference!" The captain couldn't help cursing, "Check if the remaining sets of radio devices can still work normally."

Ten seconds later, the engineer's voice came again: "Report to the captain, the remaining four radio communication devices are all out of order... Even zero-distance communication cannot be achieved."

"With such a strong interference, even if we are in a tunnel full of metal ores, this shouldn't happen... Look at the radiation intensity of the surrounding environment to see if it is abnormal."

"The radiation intensity outside the vehicle is below the safety threshold, and no abnormality was found." The engineer replied.

"I think so." The captain whispered to himself. Not only did he not wear radiation protective clothing, but because of the crowded and hot environment in the car, he didn't even wear a combat uniform jacket. He only wore a summer uniform with short sleeves and two His arms were completely exposed—if the radiation intensity in the environment was high enough to affect wireless communication, his body would have had an uncomfortable reaction long ago.

"You guys are waiting in the car. Basil and I will check around." After the captain finished speaking, he took Basil and climbed down from the roof of the car.

Although the cross-section of the tunnel dug by the "Super Gopher Driller" is very large, due to the huge size of the drilling rig itself, there is only less than two meters of space around the body, and only one person can barely pass through - the captain of the Gopher Squad was originally He planned to split up with Basil, and the two circled the car in two directions, but for some reason, just when he was about to say that, a feeling of uneasiness rose in his heart for no reason.

"Basil, the two of us will work together. We will start checking from this side first. You are responsible for the part above the track, and I will check the exposed part of the bottom of the car and the pump... As for the mud pipeline, we will talk about it at the end."

"Understood." Basil didn't say much, and walked forward with the electromagnetic assault rifle in his hand.

The captain took out a tactical flashlight from his pocket, installed it on the Picatinny rail that came with the carbine, bent down, and looked towards the bottom of the car.

At the moment when the light of the tactical flashlight swept towards the bottom of the car, he seemed to see a shadow flashing past and entering the deeper darkness.

"Basil." The captain immediately whispered, "There seems to be something under the car."

Basil, who was wearing the power armor, didn't look back, he just stood there in a daze, as if he was stunned.

"Basil?" The captain thought that Basil also saw something surprising, and when he looked in the direction he was facing—however, under the bright searchlight, there was only a dark rock wall full of drill bits in front of him. crushed gravel.

"What's the matter with you?" The captain patted Basil, but there was still no response from behind, which made the captain suddenly nervous. He quickly walked around to the front of Basil, only to find out——Under the transparent mask of the power armor helmet, It's a white skeleton! !
In horror, the captain smashed the gun butt on the breastplate of the power armor, and the whole power armor fell straight down, hitting the ground with a loud noise.

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[PPS Note 1 - Mammoth Tank: The largest combat vehicle of the land armored force of the Ark Field Corps, with a body length of more than 20 meters, a height of nearly four meters, and a weight of about 260 tons.The main weapon is a 160 mm caliber twin cannon.

The tank was developed from the improvement of the "Mouse super heavy tank" that the German military industry failed to complete in the old era. After adding anti-gravity devices, crystallization engines and energy shield generators, the shortcomings of the original Maus tank were eliminated. The perfect solution also makes the Mammoth Tank a veritable "mobile fortress". 】

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