Alien Relic Hunter.

Chapter 859 Hive Capital Class
"Could it be that something happened to the Alpha planet, and the Alpha civilization had to turn to the underground refuge to survive." 33 continued, "After the situation improved, they returned to the surface from the underground again, and built what we are now. The ruins I saw. In this way, the huge technological gap between the two eras can be completely explained... After all, in the era of refuge, it is already very difficult to survive, let alone develop technology."

Could it be that the Alpha civilization also suffered a catastrophe that nearly wiped out its genocide?The cause of that disaster...would it have something to do with the "Him" they later "believed in"?
"Ke Lan, there is one more thing, have you found it?" 33 said again, "Zero's space barrier has been removed...I don't wear a breathing mask now, but I find that the air in this underground space is completely satisfactory. The need to breathe..."

"There is fresh air flowing in this underground space." Ke Lan nodded, "This underground city can't even pour in the sea water above, so the air can't be drilled in by itself, it should be installed with a ventilator." I didn’t expect that tens of thousands of years or even tens of thousands of years have passed, and these devices are still working..."

Speaking of this, Ke Lan was suddenly startled.

He remembered one thing.

He had seen some analysis reports on the urban relics left by the Alpha civilization before. When studying the living areas of these cities, experts and scholars discovered one thing, that is, the tolerance of the Alpha people to the harsh environment Not only are they not afraid of radiation and extreme high and low temperatures, but they don’t even need oxygen. There has always been a speculation in the academic circles that Alpha humans may not need to breathe. At least, their respiratory organs are similar to those of humans. There is a huge difference.

If this is the case, then the living environment of the Alpha people should not have too high requirements for the air condition... Especially in this hive capital where the conditions are worse than the pigsty, the builders don't need to bother to make any air condition. Purification device...Anyway, as long as it can meet the minimum requirements for breathing, it is enough.

Ke Lan's nostrils buzzed, and he took a deep breath of the air with a faint rust smell——according to Ze Luo's analysis, the oxygen content in the underground space is roughly between 20.00% and 60.00%, which is very suitable for human survival A ratio of: if the oxygen concentration is too low, it is easy to cause suffocation; but if you live in an environment with too high oxygen concentration for a long time, especially if the concentration of oxygen exceeds [-]%, you will have symptoms of chronic oxygen poisoning... I have to say, Compared with most creatures, the human body is really picky and fragile.

But the air in this place can just meet the picky needs of human beings—it is no exaggeration to say that the environment in this closed underground space is more suitable for human survival than 90.00% of the places on the surface of Alpha Planet.

Ke Lan even thinks that if the Ark is damaged for some reason in the future, or if there is a future (assuming there is a future) population explosion... Maybe some Ark residents can be moved to live in this underground city.Although the conditions here are poor, it is still better than the wilderness where the environmental factors are extremely unstable.

But one yard counts for one yard... Why did the Alpha people who have extremely low requirements for air conditions build such a dungeon?
Ke Lan recalled the appearance of the Alpha Remnant seen in the "Super Dream Video", which was the only Alpha man Ke Lan "seen".Judging from the appearance alone, except for the tentacles on the lower body, the upper body of the Alpha Man is actually very similar to that of a human being, and even the layout of the facial features is quite similar... No way, that nose-like organ is just a decoration. Or something else?

Ke Lan tried to outline the face of the alpha man in his memory, but he was a little surprised to find that the harder he tried to recall, the more blurred that face was in his mind. In the end, he didn't even know what the alpha man looked like. I don't even remember what I looked like.

The picture in memory is like a thick layer of mosaic.

"This...what's going on?" Ke Lan felt a chill down his spine, "Could it be my brain's self-protection mechanism... Those things involve 'taboo knowledge'?"

But... why didn't this happen when I recalled related things before?
The lifting platform continued to descend, and soon submerged into the growth-like building complex.Ke Lan and 33 noticed that although those illegal buildings were layer upon layer in danger, the ground around the lifting platform was extremely rarely exposed.

It seems that there is an invisible boundary that isolates these buildings, and the houses closest to the lifting platform track are more than 30 meters away.

This is like a strange open space suddenly appeared in a popular street in a commercial district where there are many crowded stores, and it is like a row of neat teeth being knocked out one by one... …No matter how you look at it, it feels extremely abrupt.

"Like a petri dish." 33 said, "I don't know if you haven't seen that kind of experiment, where a drop of a reagent specially used for sterilization is dropped in the middle of a petri dish where a certain fungus is cultivated, and when the hyphae grow wildly in the surrounding area, The culture medium in the circular area in the middle is clean... I have seen a biologist accompanying the team do such a simple experiment in the ruins before."

"Could it be because of safety requirements?" 33 said again, "That's why those buildings are restricted from being close to the lifting platform area? But speaking of it, this city has been built like this, and the people who live here probably don't care about safety. There is a problem... In my opinion, those stilted buildings supported by a few steel pipes are much more dangerous than the place close to the lifting platform track."

Just as 33 was talking to himself, Ke Lan suddenly felt a shock in his head, and a long-lost familiar feeling reappeared——

Accompanied by a feeling of swelling and buzzing in his ears, a picture that only appeared in his mind overlapped with the reality in front of him.

The "hive capital" in the memory fragments is far less densely built than it is now. A circle of shadowy figures guards the lifting platform track in the middle of the hive city, and on the periphery, there are another group of people who seem to be working with each other. This circle of figures fought against more figures.

All the pictures are blurry, without color or sound, just like watching an antique black-and-white mime from the old era through a layer of thick fog, but for some reason, Ke Lan completely understands the two groups of figures What I am doing, it seems that these things and pictures are recorded in my mind separately.

First it is a written description, and then it is accompanied by pictures or video materials...a very typical historical document recording mode.

Those figures in the outer circle wanted to enter the lifting platform, while those in the inner circle wanted to stop them... Although there were hundreds of times more figures in the outer circle than in the inner circle, the figures in the inner circle held There are powerful weapons, so that the figures in the outer circle only dare to protest and demonstrate, but they dare not really attack the seemingly thin defensive circle.

Ke Lan always felt that this scene seemed familiar.

Not to mention the earth in the old era, such things often happened on the ark.

There are often dissatisfied people who initiate demonstrations for various reasons... In the face of demonstrations, the joint parliamentary group and the garrison generally adopt negotiation and control measures, and the soldiers in charge of maintaining order will try their best to maintain Restraint, use non-lethal weapons, such as electric batons, pepper spray and riot shields, and the people in the parade rarely rush to the cordon-only a very small number of parades that are used by "people with a heart" will eventually developed into bloody violence.

These figures in the outer circle...are for some demands...so they are demonstrating?What are their demands?Is it the poor living conditions?Survival supplies are too scarce?But the problem is that all the places in the whole nest are the same, even if they want to live in another place, it's just moving from the east of the city to the west of the city, and the actual situation will not change substantially.

As the lifting platform continued to descend, the scene Ke Lan saw was gradually changing... Finally, one of the figures in the outer circle couldn't help but rushed towards the defense circle, and those figures who formed the defense circle immediately chose to open fire— ——In the next scene, Ke Lan couldn't help but cursed "crazy" in his heart.

On the Ark, even if there are over-emotional people rushing to the cordon, what greets him at most is the shoving of shields or the pepper spray on the face. At that time, they happened to be in the same carriage with the believers of the heresy, and they also helped Lieutenant General Magino to resolve the crisis.

However, the figures forming the defense line in the picture are not only holding deadly weapons, but also powerful lethal weapons.

With just one shot, not only was the figure rushing towards the defense line torn to pieces, but even a large cone-shaped blank area was cleared behind these figures.

Those who did not attack the defense line were also knocked down in large numbers.

Although Ke Lan couldn't see the weapons those figures were holding, the only way to achieve this effect was the large-caliber shotgun.

That thing is specially used for tactical mechs... According to the regulations, it is strictly forbidden to use such weapons inside the ark.

He didn't even have a warning shot, and the first shot directly hit the crowd... Apart from "crazy", Ke Lan couldn't think of any words to describe these defenders.

They are not like officers on duty to maintain order, but more like ruthless, bloody massacres.As long as they are given a reason to fire, Ke Lan has no doubt that they will slaughter all the people in this hive.

Assuming that this nest is really a refuge, it won’t be long before the entire nest is plunged into chaos with this brutal method of suppression... No one can escape from this refuge alive. go out.

Is the sanctuary statement wrong?This place is actually a prison, specially used to detain those vicious people?That's why the guards fired so recklessly?
Just when Ke Lan guessed wildly, the lifting platform had reached the ground and continued to sink.

"Hmm... Is there still room underneath? This nest has more than one floor?" 33, who was about to step out of the range of the lifting platform, immediately took back his steps and stepped back.

The lifting platform passed through a shaft with a vertical depth of about 200 meters, and reached a deeper underground space.This underground space is about the same size as the one above, but the first impression for the two is that it is much "cleaner".

Many large buildings that can be seen as factories are built in an orderly manner on the ring wall of the underground space. Although the arrangement is compact, it is not messy.There are rails and vehicles used to transport goods between workshops. Cranes and robotic arms hundreds of meters high stand at various transportation nodes and distribution centers. Mountains of containers are stacked neatly. Huge generator sets are still in use today. In operation, the densely packed indicator lights emit a faint green fluorescence in the dark.

"Is this...the industrial area?" 33 murmured, "The industrial area gives me a much better feeling than the residential area above... To be honest, if I were a worker living on the upper floor, I would rather Staying in the factory 24 hours a day, I don't want to go back to my residence."

"It's not just as simple as an industrial area, it's also a residential area." Ke Lan shook his head, "The workers who work in these factories live on this floor, and they won't go up to it...and the people above , and can’t come down here.”

"Why is it designed like this? I don't quite understand?" 33 wondered, "There is obviously a lot of space in this industrial area. Since it has already served as a residential area, the residents on the upper floor cannot be divided into parts." Come down there?"

"No... the lifting platform we're riding on actually symbolizes the class and power of this 'hive city'... If I'm not mistaken, this hive city should have more than two floors." Scene after scene Black and white silent images flashed in Ke Lan's mind, and he gradually understood the operating mode of this "hive capital".

"More than two floors?" 33 was surprised, "How do you know? I didn't see anything written in alpha characters either?"

"If I'm not wrong, the lower the level, the better the living conditions, and the larger the per capita area... The elevator platform goes down, just like a train on the ark, from the block with the largest number to the block with the smallest number. It’s the same as driving to the block.” Ke Lan said, “The reason why the surrounding area of ​​the lifting platform is so empty is because people on each floor can only live in the floor that belongs to their class and status, and there is no one to go beyond. Try to Anyone who breaks this rule will be wiped out by the management class."

[PS Thanks to Daoist Baishi for the 200 starting coins; thanks to Swordsman Qingfeng for the 100 starting coins. 】

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