Alien Relic Hunter.

Chapter 663 The last mission of the 776 special team

Only members of the Undead Crew Association have the power to transfer the information in the general archives. However, in 499 of the New Era, the Undead Crew Association and the technology named "Eternal Life Coffin" had not yet appeared. It is absolutely impossible for the members of the "Decision Seats" to live up to the present... The members of the Undead Crew Club are all born after the 499th year of the new era, without exception, and there are no members of the ten people decision seats at all.

Even if there was any "black history" in that year, it should not have much to do with the current members of the Undead Crew Club.

Could it be that these files were transferred before the establishment of the Undead Crew...or destroyed?

Ke Lan squatted down and carefully inspected the metal oxidation in the bolt holes, only to find that there were even brand-new scratch marks in the bolt holes—that is to say, the cabinet frame that was originally placed here was recently dismantled. .

It is difficult to judge the specific time, but it is basically certain that the files in the 499th year of the New Era were transferred or destroyed within one year.

A year ago, those files were stored in this location with a high probability, and any member of the Undead Crew Club can consult them at will.

Ke Lan couldn't help but swear in his heart.

Clearly, he was targeted.

The members of the Undead Crew Club deliberately concealed from him what happened in the 499th year of the new era... These secrets were not allowed to be known even after Ke Lan joined the Undead Crew Club.

What's the point of that vote from the previous members of the Undead Crew?If it wasn't for "The Fool"'s sudden fraud, all the secrets of the crew would have been shared long ago, which would naturally include what happened in the 499th year of the New Era and the reasons why the relevant files were transferred and destroyed.

If you can't let yourself know these secrets, isn't the purpose of this vote contrary to it?

If I asked those people in the "pro" camp about this matter, would they tell me the truth?

Ke Lan had no idea, but he decided to give it a try.

The 499th year of the new era, natural wormholes, space-time leaps... Any one of these key words makes Ke Lan a little nervous. The appeal of these disappearing files to him even surpasses the last one of the 776 special team. Mission gone.

According to the "official files" that can be easily found on the Internet, that year was the largest population decline in the history of Ark's interstellar voyage. It passed through the natural wormhole, but it took more than 100 years for the damage to the hull to be completely repaired. This is a serious injury in the true sense. A few resource asteroids have been discovered in China, and the Ark may not even be able to make it to the galaxy where Star Alpha is located.

No one knows how the people on the Ark survived that time... Nearly 260 of the 499 grain warehouses on the Ark were destroyed. The population is constantly declining—starvation, disease, armed conflict, and repression have claimed countless lives. The population of the Ark once dropped to about one-tenth of what it was before the time-space leap. The human race has repeatedly struggled back and forth on the verge of complete extinction .

The damaged part of the Ark was repaired in more than 600 years of the New Era, and the population level was barely restored to the level before the time-space leap until 800 years of the New Era.

The Prophet also said to Ke Lan—"The β-type replicator was successfully developed in 750 of the New Era, but at that time it was in the period of high incidence of riots in the ship, and the members of the Undead Crew Association were worried that the announcement of this technology would stimulate The emotions of more people have the effect of adding fuel to the fire. As a result, this technology was sealed up as a taboo, and the scientists involved in this project also signed the strictest seal."

Population growth is slow, so technologies such as asexual reproduction, cloning and cloning are needed; food shortages, resource scarcity, and management chaos lead to rising public discontent, which leads to protests and riots...these clues are all right On the number, that is to say, at least most of what the prophet said is true.

The rest of the Undead Crew did not deny the existence of Type β clones.It's just that when Ke Lan asked himself, they all kept silent in unison.

Although Ke Lan has become a member of the Undead Crew Club, he cannot force other members to disclose the news to him—unless the previous resolution can be voted through.

If you want to know the truth, you can only investigate yourself.

However, before the investigation even really started, the leads were broken.

Ke Lan could only put aside what happened in the 499th year of the new era and continue walking forward.

The 776 special team lost contact with the Ark during the last mission 49 years ago, that is, in the 902nd year of the new era. The former SDU member who joined the 776 special team in the same year, Liao Zilang, also disappeared with the whole team. Grandfather, Liao Xing.

The ending of the 776 special team is all wiped out, Ke Lan verified it with his own eyes at this time - except for Liao Xing.

He still has a vivid memory of that scene: when he bent down to observe the abyss where the primordial species had been imprisoned, a black shadow quietly appeared behind him, he...or "it" had a long The faces of Zhang and Liao Zilang were so similar that he didn't pull the trigger at the first time. Afterwards, the black shadow suddenly stretched out his hand and pushed himself into the abyss.

According to the information gathered by the hunting dog, it can be confirmed that the black shadow should be Liao Zilang's grandfather Liao Xing, at least, that face should belong to Liao Xing.

Liao Zilang looks very similar to his grandfather, which can be seen from the column of the photo on the file.

But why did the rest of the 776 special team die, but Liao Xing survived?

Did he... really survive?

One question after another flashed in Ke Lan's head.

The speed of time on that unnamed island is different from that of the outside world. Ke Lan stayed on the island for at least one day and one night, but from the perspective of everyone on the "Pioneer" icebreaker, he only "missed" four hours only.

Ignoring this point for the time being, although the speed of time is different, the effect of time in the same space on things in that space will not be much different—on that unnamed island, the plastic gun The props will age and become brittle, the fabric on the corpse will crumble and decompose, and the small iron parts on the equipment will also rust... If you ignore the phenomenon that there is no alternation of day and night, and do not compare it with the outside time, Ke Lan is completely unable to detect the time anomaly.

If that was really Liao Xing, the corpses of his teammates had already turned into bones, why didn't his appearance age at all?
Time seemed to stop flowing on him, sealing him in the year when he lost contact with the outside world.

Ke Lan tried his best to recall those memory fragments... In his impression, the black figure was not wearing the combat uniform and equipment of the 776 special team, nor was he wearing a diving suit, but was wrapped in a tattered black robe... …Except for the head, almost all parts of the body are completely covered by this robe.

That black shadow...is it really Liao Xing?Ke Lan couldn't help but have such doubts.

Could it be something else, just occupying Liao Xing's "body", or imitating Liao Xing's appearance?

There is a piece of meat that can perfectly replicate human beings in the glacier ruins, so there can be a certain "thing" on Wuming Island that can replicate a fake "Liao Xing" and keep his original appearance for dozens or even hundreds of years , Ke Lan thinks it is entirely possible.

First rule out the species of erosion.

The physical fitness of the container parasitized by the seed of erosion will become extremely strong, and Ke Lan clearly remembers that he pulled the trigger of the shotgun the moment he fell, because his body lost his balance, most of the shotgun All the projectiles hit the empty space, and only a few hit the black shadow, but even so, the black shadow staggered back a few steps...

"It"'s defense is not strong, at least much weaker than Seed of Corrosion.

What puzzled Ke Lan most was—why did "it" appear at that time and push himself into the abyss?
I don't know if it was because Ke Lan was too tired at the time, which affected his state, or if the opponent's movements could really make no movement. Ke Lan didn't notice the strangeness until the black shadow was less than [-] centimeters away from Ke Lan's back. , in that case, if the other party wanted to kill Ke Lan, Ke Lan would have died many times already.

Even if the opponent's own strength is not strong, it is too easy to sneak attack a person whose back is turned away, but the opponent did not do that, but just watched him silently from behind Ke Lan.

It wasn't until Ke Lan turned around and saw "it"'s face clearly that "it" reached out and pushed Ke Lan off the cliff.

Moreover, judging from the final result, "it" seems to have saved Ke Lan and allowed Ke Lan to escape from that weird nameless island—if the only way to leave that place is to jump off that cliff, Ke Lan I'm afraid I'll be stuck in that place for the rest of my life.

But—if the opponent pushed him down to save himself, why didn't "it" jump into the abyss by itself?

Is it because "it" can't leave that place, or..."it" can't return to human society again?
There are so many doubts that Ke Lan didn't know where to start to analyze for a while.

Ke Lan's footsteps stopped, and the chaotic thoughts in his head also stopped - the inscription on the ground "The Nine Hundred and Second Year of the New Era" told him: he has arrived.

With a trace of expectation and a trace of nervousness, Ke Lan's vision slowly came to the stage, and then he breathed a sigh of relief - the files of New Era 902 have not been transferred, and every shelf is full.

The name of the commander of the 776 special team is Ken. He once left an incomplete voice record in the "black box". The special team has been on that strange unnamed island for four days—with the capacity of the ark at that time, it is fully capable of dropping a small-scale special force to any corner of the surface of Alpha Planet within fifteen days .

In other words, their departure time should be between the end of June and the beginning of July.

Ke Lan walked between the cabinets, and soon, he found the rows of cabinets where the June 902 files of the New Era were stored.

His eyes swept across the rows of cabinets, and it didn't take long for his attention to lock on an antimagnetic box with the label "Military Special Forces Transfer File".

In 902 of the New Era, the army of the Ark had not yet been divided into three major armies: the field force, the garrison force, and the air force fleet. ——In order for the Ark to gain a firm foothold on Planet Alpha, the soldiers fought against countless indigenous creatures almost every day. Every day, troops were wiped out in an organized way, and there were new numbers and new soldiers every day. Fill the battle lines.

There are 21 hard drives stuffed in the antimagnetic box that stores the special forces transfer files.

This is only the mobilization record of the special forces. If the regular troops are included, the number may be more than ten times higher.

"Fortunately, we were prepared in advance." Ke Lan sighed, sat down cross-legged on the cold metal floor, moved the bucket backpack behind him to the front of him, and lifted the lid.

What was in the backpack was the mainframe of a high-performance computer. Ke Lan used a laptop to connect to the mainframe, and then spread out a one-meter-square folding metal plate on the side.

These metal plates are covered with hard disk interfaces, which can be connected to 30 yuan of mechanical hard disks of this specification at the same time.

Ke Lan inserted 21 hard drives into the interface and turned on the power.

The platters inside the hard drive started spinning, making a slight humming sound.

Although there are only 21 hard drives, the files stored in them are still an astronomical figure for the processing efficiency of the human brain. Naturally, it is impossible for Ke Lan to read every file.He could only enter the two keywords "776 Special Team" and "Liao Xing" into the computer to search for files containing these two words.

Even so, the number of documents found still reached [-].

As one of the most elite special forces on the Ark at that time, in June alone, the number of dispatches of the "776 Special Team" reached 776 times, and participated in many battles with indigenous creatures.As for Liao Xing, who was transferred from the SDU to the [-] special team, he has made outstanding contributions. If he hadn't been MIA in the last mission, he would have been transferred to the special operations command in the second year.

"Sort by time-reverse order." Ke Lan moved the cursor and clicked on this option.

Immediately, the last task received by the 776 special team was moved to the front position.

[PS Thanks to Longyuan Su for the 5000 book coins rewarded; thanks to the reading giraffe for the 1500 starting coins. 】

(End of this chapter)