Alien Relic Hunter.

Chapter 840 Explore the underwater city again
"What did you say?" 33 almost froze, "Didn't the old dog say that you stayed underwater for nearly a day and a night?"

"It's on a deserted island, not a city under the sea." Ke Lan explained, "I didn't stay in the city for a long time, so I went to the abyss hatchery, that is, the rift valley. After encountering the fusion body, In order to avoid pursuit, I hit a liquid cliff and fell into the deep sea... When I woke up, I found myself on an unnamed desert island."

"This is completely different from the version I know!" 33 frowned——since he joined the Hunting God Hunting Group not long ago, he knew very little about Ke Lan's "secrets", especially these hunting gods Before the establishment of the regiment, Ke Lan and the others formed a temporary team to explore, and what he knew was not much more detailed than that of outsiders.

Although Ke Lan and others mentioned the place of "nameless desert island" many times in their conversations, 33 never connected this nameless desert island with the city under the sea—and because he had just joined the group at that time, I felt that I was not qualified to know those things, so I didn't ask more.

"According to the version circulated outside, you floated out of the water near the 'Pioneer' icebreaker, and were rescued by the lifeboat that was lowered from the ship... You weren't on an unnamed desert island?" 33 continued. , "Could this version be used as a cover to disturb the line of sight?"

"No, I was indeed discovered on the sea near the 'Pioneer'." Ke Lan shook his head, "The speed of time on that unnamed deserted island is different from that of the outside world, as the old dog and the others mentioned earlier I stayed in the city under the sea for a day and a night, but actually spent most of my time on this unnamed desert island."

"Then how did you leave that island?" 33 asked.

"This is a long story. It may take at least half an hour to explain clearly. Are you sure you want to listen now?" Ke Lan glanced at 33 and said.

"Forget it." 33 waved his hands again and again, "If we really ran to the nameless desert island you mentioned, then we will have time to talk about it... Now I still want to know more about this underwater city. "

"According to my short exploration experience, I didn't find any threats inside the undersea city. Instead, it was the abyss hatch not far away. We'd better stay away, so as not to disturb the fusion body inside." Ke Lan said.

33 touched the back of his head, and said, "The fusion body is the kind of monster cultivated by the New Star Chamber of Commerce, right—it can absorb the genes of various creatures and fuse them into its own body, prompting its own mutation and evolution, and even It perfectly simulates the organs of the absorbed creature... If it was another creature that behaved like this, it would have died suddenly due to immune storm or gene collapse..."

"If you use the level in fantasy novels to describe it, the fusion body cultivated by the New Star Chamber of Commerce is at most a 'qi refining period', and this one dormant in the abyss hatchery can definitely be regarded as the 'Old Monster of Nascent Soul' 'Yes. The Alpha people don't know how many 'gene seeds' they fed it, and in the following tens of thousands of years, it preyed on a large number of marine life close to the abyss... Even if there is Zelo, we will meet it I guess I have to run too," Ke Lan said.

"But as long as it's not close to the abyss hatchery, it won't come out to attack us, right?" 33 glanced at the dark chasm, and took a deep breath.

"I'm not sure, anyway, last time, I was attacked when I dived into the depths of the abyss hatch." Ke Lan said, "But it doesn't rule out that this guy is waiting for me to go down... It's very intelligent, even It has a habit of playing with prey, and it seems that there is no limit to its range of activities... Chasing me has been chasing me beyond the sea platform, according to this calculation, the entire city under the sea is within its range of activities."

"That is to say, when we are exploring this underwater city, this monster may emerge and attack us at any time?"

"In theory, yes." Ke Lan nodded.

"It feels like a sword hanging above our heads, and it will fall down at any time."

"It's the 'Sword of Damocles'." Ke Lan added for him, "But this metaphor is a bit inappropriate here. You might as well say that you are a ticking time bomb that cannot see the countdown."

"I'm not writing novels, so why bother so much, you just need to understand what I mean." 33 checked the dozens of Nino alloy flying blades left on one side of his body, then pulled out the magazine of the pistol, and put the bullets inside All of them were withdrawn one by one.

The power of firearms in the underwater environment is extremely limited. Even if it is a large-caliber hunting pistol, the bullets fired cannot go far in the water, and the kinetic energy attached to the bullet will be exhausted by the resistance of the water body, let alone the water pressure. So high up there.

The range is estimated to be not as far as the toy guns used by children.

However, the warheads of the bullets they carried this time were all fused with a large amount of Nino alloy. At this time, it is a good choice to supplement the flying blades lost earlier.

Zelo used the power of space to separate the Nino alloy part of the warhead, and then pressed it into thin sharp blades—more than 40 rounds of bullets, and pressed out a total of 130 five thumbnail-sized, paper-thick ovals. Blades, although the strength and durability of these blades can't compare with the specially made black flying blades, they are still enough to be used as consumables.

33, who replenished the "ammunition", hid the blades in the hidden pocket of his clothes, and then nodded to Ke Lan: "I'm ready and ready to go."

"Then go."

The big air bubbles surrounding the two of them began to "float" slowly, approaching the city under the sea.

……

It took about 5 minutes, and the two finally entered the interior of the underwater city. At this time, Ke Lan and 33 discovered another strange thing.

According to their original perspective, the city under the sea is hanging upside down above their heads.But after approaching the city under the sea, the two discovered that the gravel and other scattered and unattached things on the ground were actually attracted to the ground as if they were magnetic, and did not move toward the ground under the action of gravity. "Down" to sink.

Ke Lan and 33 looked at each other, neither of them spoke, but expressed their thoughts with practical actions - they turned over with the help of Ze Luo's space power, and landed on a fairly empty street .

Ke Lan and 33 did not verify the idea in their hearts until their feet were on the ground.

Those things didn't sink not because they were sucked by the ground, but because there was still gravity in the city under the sea—gravity that was in the opposite direction of the plane Ke Lan and the others were on before.

From the previous perspective of the two, they are "hanging upside down" on the street at this time...

Moreover, the two did not feel the "cerebral hemorrhage" feeling when the blood flowed to the brain under the action of gravity when they were hanging upside down. The direction of gravity changed from the moment they turned around and stepped on the ground with their feet.

"It feels like being in a gravity-free environment in space, and I'm wearing induction gravity boots... It's a pity that there is no reference in the original place, otherwise this feeling will be more obvious." 33 said, from He took out a shell casing from the "bomb defuse" that had just been left in his pocket, and as soon as he let go of his fingers, the shell casing fell straight towards the "ground".

"Let's go." Ke Lan was no longer surprised. He looked around and walked towards the intersection about 100 meters away.

Although Ke Lan felt very familiar with the outline of the city, this location was very strange to him—he had never been to this place during the short exploration two years ago.

"This city doesn't seem to be much different from the Alpha civilization city on the ground, and the architectural style is almost the same." 33 said while observing the buildings on both sides of the street, "Also, these buildings seem to have no waterproof measures at all... "

"This city was originally on the ground, but later it sank to the bottom of the sea." Ke Lan remembered the scenes of "mirages" he saw on the beach of the unnamed desert island.

"I thought 'City No. [-]' was originally built on the bottom of the sea. After all, this sea platform is like a foundation specially prepared for this city. In addition to the abyss hatchery next to it—the city can sink, The hatchery can't sink, can it?"

"This city was originally built on a floating platform above the sea, and the bottom of the floating platform is the abyss hatchery." Ke Lan said, "The city is the camouflage of the hatchery, and it is also a defense, and the underground city in this city... is not , to be precise, it should be part of the underwater city, and it is a large biological laboratory that is matched with the hatchery."

This information comes from the memory fragments sealed deep in his mind... Ke Lan can even glimpse a few afterimages of the moment the city sank from the perspective of the researchers among the Alpha people.

"This place should not have been explored yet." 33 sniffed, "Maybe there are many useful good things buried in the ruins."

It has been a few years since he retired and became a relic hunter, and the "professional habits" that those old hunters should have are almost intact on 33... Normal people only want to save their lives when they see this kind of relic, but a senior relic hunter , while thinking about saving his life, he would also subconsciously think about the valuable treasures in this ruins.

"It doesn't seem right." Ke Lan shook his head suddenly.

"What's wrong?" 33 immediately became vigilant, and those "thoughts" in his head disappeared instantly without a trace.

"I remember that the last time I saw this underwater city, there seemed to be not so many ruins... At least [-]% of the buildings are intact." Ke Lan said.

The construction technology and material technology of the Alpha civilization are still very strong. Even if the city sinks into the deep sea and has been immersed in such a strong water pressure for tens of thousands of years, most of the buildings still retain their original outlines... But now, Ke Lan However, [-]% of the buildings in the field of vision are ruins, and only some relatively low houses are relatively intact.

"Could it be the relationship between different regions?" 33 said, "Like a human city, there are bustling downtowns and shanty towns on the fringes. When the city encounters an earthquake, the reinforced concrete houses in the downtown generally shake If it does not collapse, those slums and shantytowns will instantly turn into ruins... Maybe this is the slums of the city under the sea? During the sinking process, the solid buildings in the core urban area remained intact, and here The house was all destroyed..."

When the word "destruction" was mentioned, 33 paused, and then continued: "Of course, there is another possibility that I don't want to mention... This block may also be merged on the other side." When the body came out to move, it was destroyed."

"It's better to be careful." Ke Lan nodded and slowed down a little.

Just 20 meters away from the intersection, 33 stopped and looked at a building ruin on the right hand side of the street.

"What's wrong?" It was Ke Lan's turn to ask this time.

"I can sense...a large amount of Nino alloy is buried under this ruin..." 33 frowned.

"A lot? How much?"

"At least... a ton."

A ton of Nino alloy rarely appears even in the ruins of the Alpha civilization.For Alpha people, Nino alloy is also a very precious material, and the importance of a whole ton of Nino alloy is definitely not low.

"Stand back a little." Ke Lan signaled 33 to back up, and then waved his hand, and two invisible buckets condensed with space power began to dig on the ruins.

After a while, a black metal pipe covered with a large number of barnacle-like marine life appeared in front of the two of them.

"That's it." 33 said immediately.

"What is this...?" Ke Lan waved his hand again, and the "barnacles" dense enough to trigger trypophobia were swept away, revealing the original appearance of the metal pipe.

Nino alloy is non-rusting and has strong corrosion resistance, so the metal pipes basically remain in their original state.

"It's not a pure Nino alloy, but the content is over ninety..." 33 told Ke Lan.

But Ke Lan stared at an inscription on the metal pipe, an inscription in both Chinese and English.

This thing...was made by humans?Or... the "fugitives"?
33 also saw that line of inscription, and immediately read it out: "The first ship of the Zhenhai class 'Zhenhai', No. 45 caliber smoothbore gun..."

"This is a gun barrel!" 33 whispered, "It's still the barrel of a naval gun on a naval battleship!"

"Navy?" Ke Lan froze for a moment, "Ark's navy?"

He knew that there were three major armies on the Ark: the garrison guarding the Ark, the field army that was the main force for external operations, and the most powerful air force fleet, but he had never heard of any naval fleet.

(End of this chapter)