Alien Relic Hunter.

One or two soft lights hit the ground without any change, but when hundreds of soft lights hit a location at the same time, like sunlight focused by a convex lens, a coin "burned" on the ground. size holes.

Yeger suddenly heard a "gudonggudong" sound, and in a few seconds, the black sea water emerged from the hole, and then, the whole space began to tremble, and the ground began to appear to one side. Tilt signs.

Yeger felt suffocated for a while. He wanted to ask what Wilson was doing, but he couldn't speak directly. Before he could write on the tablet, Wilson began to run wildly, towards the high wall not far away.

Yeger had no choice but to follow.

Before running a few steps, Yeger discovered a very strange thing-although the ground was sloping towards the side of the pool, the high wall gradually began to level, and the angle between it and the horizontal became more and more smaller.

Assuming that the high wall and the ground are directly at a fixed [-]-degree angle, as the ground tilts towards the pool, the wall should move to the top of Yeger's head and become a new ceiling, but now, it looks like a The cardboard, folded ninety degrees, is slowly flattening.

Finally, when the angle between the high wall and the ground reached almost 180 degrees, Wilson and Yegel "climbed" up the high wall one after another. Yegel looked back and saw the seawater coming out of the hole. It has merged with the sea water that was submerged due to the tilt of the ground, and it is overflowing in this direction.

As for the dilapidated "Zorcock Kai", it had sunk to the bottom of the pool and disappeared.

Wilson's footsteps did not stop, and Yeger could only follow him and continue to run.

……

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Inside the Tongtian Tower... or in other words, in the "Second City" of the underwater city.

Ke Lan and 33 have already searched the ruins of three medium-sized blocks. During this period, they were attacked by underwater creatures a total of fifteen times, and these creatures that attacked them, without exception, had genetic sequences very similar to Yinglong.

From another point of view, these creatures can be regarded as distant relatives of the prehistoric species, and they are not the type that cannot be hit by eight poles.

Humans and chimpanzees are close relatives in terms of species, with a genetic similarity close to 90.00%, and dolphins, which are also mammals, are as high as 80.00%... And according to Ze Luo's analysis, these sea creatures evolved from the eggs of Yinglong The genetic similarity of the monster "Seraphim" ranges from 90.00% five to 90.00% seven.Calculated according to the classification method of "Gatemen, Orders, Genera and Species" in the biology of human civilization, these little things that were casually strangled to death by Ze Luo's space power, and Yinglong's prehistoric species can at least be classified as In the same "section".

Of course, the premise is that a classification can be specially created for the prehistoric species in this system... But the problem is that the classification method of biology is generally based on external factors such as appearance and habits. Back then, genetics was not as advanced as it is today...

But the most important point is that in general, the higher the genetic similarity between two organisms, the higher the similarity in appearance, body structure, and living habits. These two types of attributes are positively correlated. Therefore, even after the gradual development of genetics, it did not bring too great changes to biological classification.

The problem lies in the prehistoric species - the research institute has a research report, although the authors are only a few junior researchers who have just turned regular, and the highest title of the organizer and instructor is no more than an associate professor, but due to the particularity of the topic selection, this report is confidential. The level is not low, and Ke Lan accidentally caught a glimpse of it when he was searching for information after he became a full member of the Undead Crew Guild.

There is not much content in the report. I don’t know whether it is because the research is not in-depth enough or because of the interference of external factors. The content of the report also seems a little vague. All in all, it can be summed up in one sentence: existing, known, and possible To the primordial species with observable biological tissues, the gene sequences are highly similar.

Ke Lan knows very well what it means to say the words "highly similar" in the mouth of a researcher.

The relationship between the prehistoric species and the prehistoric species may be closer than that between humans and chimpanzees.

But this report was not made public in the end, and it was not even published on the public website of the research institute - this is nothing, for any normal person with a little basic biological knowledge, who saw this report The first reaction was that it was nonsense... After all, the differences between the prehistoric species are too great, and it would be unconvincing to say that they are close relatives at the genetic level.

What's more, this report does not record in detail the samples of the primordial species that the research team took, the state of the samples, and the conditions and methods used for comparison... There is no data, just There is only one conclusion, as if the students did not write any problem solving process in the mathematics test, but only filled in an answer at the end.

Even if the answer is correct, it will make people feel unconvincing, not to mention...

The answer given by the research team is like writing a three after a question that one plus one equals how many.

But Ke Lan, who had read this report, couldn't help but think of a story that once appeared in ancient Chinese myths and legends...

"Dragon has nine sons, all of them are different."

Perhaps, these prehistoric species are really the same species... Maybe.

In addition to this report, Ke Lan also discovered a brand new term in the internal documents of the research institute, called "Alpha Gene", which is a gene that is only found in the primordial species and the Alpha planet's indigenous organisms. There is absolutely no "alpha gene" in the genetic sequence of the organism.

Both belong to carbon-based creatures, and the Alpha star indigenous creatures are actually quite similar to earth creatures, but only this "alpha gene" is something unique to them.

There are many people who have tried to "hybrid" the Alpha planet's indigenous creatures with the earth creatures, most of them have failed, and there are only a few successful examples, but these successful examples have one thing in common, that is, the newly born" There is no "alpha gene" in the genetic sequence of the "hybrid species".

As long as there is an "alpha gene" in the genetic sequence, a fertilized egg cannot even form an embryo.

The only pity is that the research institute has not been able to obtain the genetic samples of the alpha people, so it is impossible to determine whether there is an "alpha gene" in the alpha people.In addition, the experiment of the "symbiote" was completely under the control of the Undead Crew Association, and the research institute was not allowed to intervene, so the research institute did not make any breakthrough in the research of "alpha gene".

Ke Lan didn't even know that there was no such "alpha gene" in his body.

Regarding the "alpha gene", there is another short paper. The general idea of ​​the article is that the "alpha gene" is derived from the prehistoric species, and the "alpha gene" occupies a very high proportion in the gene sequence of the prehistoric species. As for why the alpha star The indigenous creatures on this planet will more or less carry some "alpha genes" because the ecology of this planet has been permanently "polluted" by the primordial species.

According to the point of view of this article, this "alpha gene" named after the planet is not actually a local thing born and bred on the Alpha planet, but an "foreigner".

Ke Lan also remembered one thing, the indigenous creatures on the Alpha planet have not produced any obvious signs of evolution or mutation for tens of thousands of years, as if their genes were "locked".For this reason, there was a saying that "Alpha Star is actually a large biological testing ground"...

Thinking about it now, there seems to be some truth to this seemingly absurd statement...

What about Alpha Civilization?Assuming this claim is true, what role do they play in it?

The creator of the proving ground?Or a manager or an observer?Or... an experimental subject?
……

Ke Lan was thinking about these things while walking through the ruins, and he didn't even notice that 33 had stopped for the first time.

"Ke Lan, I sensed a large mass of Nino alloy again." 33 said.

"Large quality? Could it be the parts scattered from those refitted warships?" Ke Lan asked.

"No, it's much bigger than that... unless, unless the entire battleship is sunk here." 33 shook his head, his facial muscles tensed, and there was a look of excitement and tension intertwined in his eyes.

"Could it be that the main body of a 'Zhenhai-class' cruiser sank here?" Ke Lan was stunned for a moment, then he looked around, and then said, "With the scale of this ruin, it's impossible to bury a cruiser, right? unless……"

Unless the ruins are removed first, a pit is dug under the ruins, the wreckage of the cruiser is buried in it, then the pit is filled, and finally the removed ruins are moved back to their original place...

This kind of thing feels ridiculous.

"Where?" Ke Lan simply stopped thinking about these possibilities and asked bluntly.

Seeing is better than hearing a hundred things. No matter how much you think about it, it is better to dig out and take a look at the real thing.

"It's at twelve o'clock where I'm standing, 35 meters away."

The place mentioned in 33 is a relatively large ruin. Although it is relatively large, it is at best equivalent to a collapsed [-]-story building. It is absolutely impossible to bury a cruiser.

Ke Lan stepped over the rubble and debris on the ground and stepped into the ruins.

"This building looks quite different from other ruins." 33 bent down and picked up a piece of debris, "Look, there seem to be many patterns painted on it, as well as characters from Alpha civilization. This piece of debris should be It's peeled off from the wall... Well, it just fits with this gap in the broken wall... There are also patterns and characters on the wall that are about to be smoothed."

This building is indeed different - the architectural style of the underwater city, or the architectural style of the Alpha civilization, is mainly based on simplicity, especially those residential areas and functional buildings used for living, the style is extremely clean It is neat, and it is rare to write and draw on the walls - this is why relics with Alpha civilization characters can sell for high prices.

Rare things are precious. If relics with words can be seen everywhere in various ruins, then the research institute and various consortiums will not offer such a high purchase price.

But there is one architectural exception.

"This ruin used to be an altar or a temple or something," Ke Lan said.

"I think so too." 33 nodded in agreement, "Only in religious buildings can you find a large number of documentary relics... This kind of relics are the most profitable, but they are also very dangerous. There are organs everywhere. , the hunters who enter it are often dead... In my impression, those large temples are at least B-level relics."

"That's right. And the words written on these walls are all prayers to praise the 'great gods' they believe in." Ke Lan nodded, "This is an extremely standard religious building."

"By the way, it's all collapsed like this, so there shouldn't be any danger?" 33 whispered, "Besides, the scale of this 'temple' isn't too big..."

Those large temples with "B-level start" are generally super-large buildings or building complexes where a single temple can be counted as a relic, and the "small temple" in front of them should belong to that kind of Alpha city. outbuildings.Compared with the temples on earth, the former is the famous temple in Baoshan, the kind of big temple with strong incense, and the latter is the Chenghuang Temple built next to the vegetable market.

"If there is danger, it shouldn't threaten us." Ze Luo was here, and Ke Lan was quite confident. As he walked in, he used the big hand condensed by the power of space to level the ruins.

Soon he pushed to the position where 33 said "inducting a large mass of Nino alloy", but the problem is that there is nothing here.

"Is it really underground?" Ke Lan was stunned for a moment, and couldn't help thinking of the absurd picture of burying the battleship in the ground he had just imagined.

"Well, it's underground, and it's... very big." 33 murmured—after Ke Lan flattened the ruins and the barriers were emptied, his senses became more acute.

"Then... dig three feet into the ground!"

As soon as it was said, a large pit was dug out not long after, and at a depth of about one meter at the bottom of the pit, a round gate made of pure Nino alloy appeared in front of the two of them.

"This is what you sensed, right?" Ke Lan glanced at 33 and said.

"That's right... there are words written on the door, what does it mean?"

"The Nest."