Alien Relic Hunter.

Chapter 837 Destination Coordinates: Zhonghai
"It's called 'Abandoned Nuclear Beacon'." The hound said, "The undead crew asked Ke Lan to keep this thing with him all the time, but later Ke Lan became an official member of the undead crew, so he didn't continue to abide by this. I have requested it. It is said that it is related to that 'great god'."

The hunting dog glanced at the flashing disused nuclear beacon with some apprehension, and continued: "I always feel that anything related to that 'great god'...wouldn't be a good thing."

"Let's not talk about whether this thing is a good thing or not, what does it mean when it flashes non-stop?" Zhuoligetu muttered.

"Why don't we just throw it away... The members of the Undead Crew Association asked Ke Lan to carry this thing with him, and he definitely didn't have the best intentions!" Layton suggested.

"I think so too." Zhuo Ligetu nodded, agreeing, "The name of the beacon is hard not to make people vigilant, this thing is either used to locate the coordinates, or it is the trigger of some kind of teleportation device Terminal... According to my understanding of beacons, there are roughly only two explanations. No matter which one is, for us now, the disadvantages outweigh the advantages."

Although Zhuoligetu has well-developed muscles and a simple and honest personality, he looks like the kind of character who can use brute force to solve problems without using his brain, but in fact he is a thick and thin guy... Otherwise, it is absolutely impossible to become a senior elite hunter relying on brute force alone.

"You mean, this thing will send my real-time positioning coordinates to the undead crew, just like the GPS on Earth in the old era?" It's impossible for a big guy to hide his whereabouts... As for the teleportation device, is it possible that such a small stone can teleport an entire army over?"

The hound paused, and then said: "I'm afraid that if this thing is exactly what the undead crew would want, they are now eager for us to throw this thing overboard, what should we do?"

"How is it possible?" Layton wondered, "If the undead crew wanted this thing, why didn't they just take it away, but gave it to Ke Lan for safekeeping, and especially emphasized that he should carry it with him? "

"Are you stupid? Can't you use reverse thinking?" The hound gave Layton a blank look, and said, "The more the undead crew members pay attention to this thing, the more Ke Lan will pay attention to the mystery of this thing... But if you put The attitude was completely reversed, and he abandoned it like a shoe, not only would Ke Lan not pay attention to this denuclearized beacon, but he would treat it as a hot potato..."

"The old dog's words, I feel a bit like trying to explain..." Layton grinned with disbelief, "Back then Ke Lan was just a wage earner working for the Undead Crew, they There is no need to be so afraid of Ke Lan, this approach is meaningless... It's like taking off your pants and farting, no, to be precise, it should be taking off your pants to fart, but before the fart comes out, you put your pants on It’s mentioned—if they really want this thing, they can just ask Ke Lan to hand it in, and Ke Lan didn’t have the idea of ​​keeping this thing at that time, right?”

When Layton said this, the hound blushed immediately, but with his thick skin, his expression immediately returned to normal: "Don't let this fart, don't talk about these things, according to your intention, we now Should this stone be thrown away?"

"To be on the safe side, I think it's better to destroy it completely." Layton said, "Although the evacuation was hasty, in order to fill the vacancy of Yagunaktor's long-range weapons, I dismantled them from the battleships of the Zero Fleet. The plasma cannons of the two heavy cruiser-level main guns come down, and they should be able to vaporize this stone with those things."

"Are you sure? This is something that fell out of that black mummy." The hound raised his eyebrows, "That guy's plasma cannon and hydrogen bomb can't do anything about it... Don't say anything else, try using yours Try that thick and stupid mechanical arm, can it make a gap in this stone."

"This is what you asked me to try." Layton raised the mechanical arm, "Just try it."

The palm at the end of his mechanical arm retracted into the inside of the forearm, and was replaced with a drill bit made of pure Nino alloy. With a "buzzing" sound, the black drill bit spun rapidly.

The two auxiliary sub-mechanical arms were separated from the main arm, and the "nuclear waste beacon" that was still flashing was clamped with pliers, and it was firmly fixed on a horizontal surface. Then, Layton Slowly put the nino alloy drill bit up.

"Bah——————"

A tooth-piercing sound instantly filled the entire command room, and the Hound and the others immediately covered their ears—the energy shield can block flying sparks and debris, but it cannot block high-decibel noise.

When the dazzling sparks dissipated, the drill bit on Layton's mechanical arm also slowly stopped.

The "nuclear waste beacon" was intact, but there was a circle of "cut off" grooves on the Nino alloy drill bit.

"Hiss...good guy." Layton sighed in a low voice, "This thing is actually harder than Nino alloy. If this material can be reproduced, even if only a small amount of reproduction is used as a processing tool, it can make the The current mechanical processing level of the Ark has been improved by several levels."

"Hehe...Alpha civilization can't even reproduce Nino alloy, you still want to reproduce this thing? I suggest you wash up and sleep before it's too late, after all, dreams have everything." Hound sneered mercilessly, "As you can see now, the physical strength of this thing is definitely at the same level as that of the black mummy. Even the main gun of a heavy cruiser cannot destroy it."

As he said that, the hound sighed again: "Hey... I think we should find a way to contact Ke Lan before talking. In addition, we must find out whether the sudden interruption of communication has anything to do with this stone."

"I do have a suggestion." Zofia said, "Send a plane and fly away from Yagunakoto with this nuclear-depleted beacon. Afterwards, the communication between us and Ke Lan was restored, which means that this beacon is the source of interference, and we can also discuss with Ke Lan the countermeasures to deal with it. If the communication has not been restored, then we will make another plan."

"I think this method works, but we must pay attention to whether there are stealth fighters sent by the undead crew behind us... If our plane is intercepted or shot down with a beacon, it will be troublesome." The hound said.

"The flying vehicle on Yagunaktor is either an escape airship or a transport plane. The speed is not much faster. The fastest and most flexible is the spindle-shaped shuttle of the Yip Consortium. It is said that it can It reached Mach [-], but that thing is just a prototype machine, without any armor and shield generator installed, and its defense power is equivalent to zero, no matter how fast it is, it cannot be faster than laser weapons."

"Let that shuttle carry out this mission. In addition, send a few armed transport planes as escorts. Once encountering an enemy, the shuttle will return immediately, and the armed transport plane will be responsible for covering...Zoligetu, please contact Major General Alexander and let He picked out a few pilots with high enough skills and high enough credibility. As for the specific task content, you just tell him that it is patrolling..." said the hound.

"Major General Alexander shouldn't be suspicious, right?" Zhuoligetu said worriedly, "How can such a configuration be used for patrol missions..."

"Even if he becomes suspicious, he will cooperate with us." The hound said, "Until we contact Ke Lan, we will keep this matter a secret from them for the time being."

"Okay then, I'll go—"

Before Zhuoligetu finished speaking, the closed-circuit video phone in the command room rang.

A reserve hunter of the Hunting God Hunting Group appeared on the surveillance screen with an anxious expression on his face.

This young hound named Qi Xiao is no stranger to him, and he is even familiar with him.This is the son of a subordinate he sacrificed before, and he has a very good relationship with the hound, and the two even call him uncle and nephew on weekdays—as the second batch of "employees" who joined the hunting god hunting group, everyone trusts him The level is second only to the core members of the hunting group.

"Qi Xiao, what happened?" Seeing Qi Xiao's anxious expression, the Hound couldn't help but have a bad premonition—the task he assigned to Qi Xiao was to guard Yagunaktor's console. With his appearance, I am afraid that something happened to the console.

"Uncle Nick! The route you originally planned has been changed, Yagunaktor is now heading in another direction!" Qi Xiao said urgently.

The hound is very disgusted when others call his name, but he never says anything when the relatives of his old comrades and subordinates call his name, not to mention, now is not the time to be entangled in such trivial matters.

"What did you say?!" The Hound and Layton exchanged glances, and they rushed out the door immediately, and ran towards the console.

……

"The route has indeed been modified, but no trace of intrusion has been detected." Layton shook his head at the hound after a pass, "My authority has been locked, and I cannot change the route back. This can be done." A little bit, just..."

"It's just Ke Lan, right." The hound frowned.

"That's right...but he has no reason to do that. And, if he can change the route through the console, then he can also use this method to leave us a message, even with some simple communication signals... ...But except for the changed route, everything in this control interface has not changed." Layton wiped the sweat from his forehead and said.

"Can you determine the destination of the new route?" the Hound asked. "Are we heading towards the Ark?"

"The target location is not marked, but at least the current flight direction is away from the ark." Layton replied.

"Can you guess the destination based on the moving path?" the hound asked again.

"It's being done...but there are several conjectured results, and the probability of each is about the same..."

"The destination of the new route is Zhong Hai." Zofia's voice cut in, and the hound turned around to see that Miss Jian was holding the flickering denuclearized beacon in her hand, and a faint light curtain was shining on it. The surface of the beacon emerges.

But if you look carefully, you will find that this layer of light curtain is actually an imaging technology similar to holographic projection. The projected content is a map of a small half of the Alpha star and an irregular curve that traverses the small half of the Alpha star.

"This line..." Layton looked at the map that appeared on the beacon, then looked at the virtual screen of the console, and whispered, "The first half of this curve is completely consistent with our navigation trajectory superior!"

"So, the route change is caused by this thing?" The hunting dog widened his eyes, "Zhong Hai... this stone wants us to go to Zhong Hai?"

"Zhonghai... what's there?" Layton was taken aback for a moment, then turned his head to look at Zofia, and then met the eyes of the hound again.

The first time they came into contact with Zofia Soma was on the Central Sea... At that time, Zofia was still the captain of the icebreaker "Pioneer".

"The city under the sea?" The three said in unison.

"After we evacuated from that sea area, the ruins of the underwater city have been banned, and no ruin hunters and folk expedition teams are allowed to enter." Zofia said, "The Security Bureau... or, the direct troops of the Undead Crew Club have taken over For subsequent exploration operations, even the icebreaker 'Pioneer' was transferred to other sea areas to carry out some irrelevant scientific research tasks."

"I know that." The hound nodded, "After Ke Lan joined the Undead Crew Club, he went to check the relevant files. In fact, those people did not continue to explore the underwater city after they took over. A large number of mines and sonar devices were deployed in that sea area... Oh, by the way, they also built an offshore floating platform not far from the minefield, leaving a group of people to keep an eye on the sea area. It's just that those people In the submitted report, there is no abnormal data."

"I can't figure it out, why does this stone want us to go to Zhonghai?" Layton scanned the route that appeared on the disused nuclear beacon of the electronic device, and after zooming in, it was overlaid on the three-dimensional map model of Alpha Star. The end of the route, It happened to be the forbidden sea area.

"Layton, can you make Yaguna Ketor stop?" the Hound asked.

"I can't do it. I only have the right to view it now, but not to manipulate it... 'Read-only' files cannot be edited, do you understand what I mean?" Layton shrugged helplessly.

"The teleportation device can be used? It really can't... At least put those people down first."

"Also locked." Layton sighed, "Yagunaktor has now become a mobile prison in the sky, and all of us have become its prisoners."

(End of this chapter)