Alien Relic Hunter.

Compared with the previous exploration of Passage No. [-], the two were more cautious this time - because Ke Lan saw some disturbing pictures in the "sense of sight":

It seemed to be a routine maintenance of the channel. Four armed personnel wearing protective suits shaped like powered exoskeletons and holding firearms walked in the front. Behind them were six armed personnel carrying various tools and equipment. staff of.

The protective suits worn by these workers were several sizes smaller than those worn by armed personnel. Not only did they not have armored decks, but they did not even have power modules.Coupled with those heavy maintenance equipment, the pace of the six people seemed to be extremely strenuous, and within a short while, they separated a distance from the four armed men in front.

The four armed men in front stopped and urged impatiently... But none of them was willing to reach out to help the lagging staff, and they just stood there with indifference, A few words of complaint spit out from time to time.

This is a very standard team of ten people. The one walking in the front obviously has the identity of the captain. The weapon in his hand has a melee weapon similar to a sword in addition to the firearm——but these people Everyone's figure was shrouded in a thin layer of mist. Ke Lan could only see a rough outline, but couldn't clearly see their appearance and the details of their equipment.

Ke Lan tried his best to maintain the same forward speed as the ten-member team, and "followed" behind them unhurriedly, advancing toward the depths of the passage.

"Hurry up! Stop wasting time!" The leader of the four armed men, that is, the "captain", turned around and shouted to the six panting staff behind him, "There are still two hours left. It's almost time for dinner, those bastards won't leave food for us if we miss the time!"

After hearing that they might not have a meal, the speed of the six people obviously accelerated... But it didn't take long before they resumed their original slow pace... After all, physical exertion is real, even if they want to Hurry up, that is more than enough energy.

Finally, amidst the complaints and curses of the armed personnel, it took the ten-member team a full hour to reach the first "one-way valve"——according to the dialogue between the team members, Ke Lan knew that It was the first "one-way valve" that failed, and their mission on this trip was to find the cause of the failure and repair it.

"Hurry up and work!" The captain put the long knife in his hand on the ground and shouted loudly. The other three armed men dispersed with their guns in hand. They each found a direction and stood still, looking around vigilantly.

The one-way valve is much dirtier in the "instant vision" than in reality. All kinds of garbage filled every gap in the mechanical structure, and even the hatch used for maintenance was covered in a large black patch. The filth of the lake was blocked by the lake, and those workers who wanted to open it could only use a hammer to break up the hardened filth, and then scraped it off with a spatula.

"Hurry up, time is tight!" The captain tapped the ground with the knife head, and the dull sound immediately spread along the metal passage to the depths, and the sound waves bounced back and forth between the passage walls, sending out "gudonggu The sound of "Winter" sounds like a huge monster swallowing something, and the passage they are in now is the esophagus of this giant monster, and the deep darkness is connected with a wriggling stomach pouch...

This kind of imagination made Ke Lan feel a little uncomfortable. He withdrew his gaze from the darkness deep in the passage and put it on the workers who were working.

Two people were still prying on the deformed and stuck maintenance hatch, and the other four were using special tools to clean up the garbage stuck in the cracks and corners of the valve. The orange thing, a staff member squatted down immediately, and stretched out his hand to the orange thing.

It was a whole orange, not even the skin removed.One side of the orange was sunken due to the collision, but it was not rotten, and there was no visible mildew on the surface... This is a very fresh orange. Even if it is on the ark, it is not a fruit of this quality. Ordinary residents can afford it every day, let alone hives with extreme resource shortages.

As for why a fresh orange appeared in this passage dedicated to the disposal of hazardous waste, Ke Lan can only think that there was a mistake in the waste sorting process in the upper city, and the orange that should have been used as domestic garbage and those hazardous waste mixed up.

Ke Lan clearly heard the sound of swallowing saliva from the throat of the worker who picked up the orange. He looked around and saw that no one noticed his movement, so he quickly wiped the orange with his palm, and planned to Stuff it in your pocket.

At this moment, another staff member suddenly flashed behind him and grabbed his arm.

"What are you doing?!" The person who picked up the orange asked in surprise and haste, but he had to lower his voice to avoid more people discovering the situation here.

"I still want to ask what are you doing?" The voice of the worker who was holding him was also very low, and while speaking, he tugged on the former's wrist vigorously.

"This is what I picked up! Don't grab it from me!" The man who picked up the orange was anxious to put the orange in his pocket, but his hand strength couldn't hold back the latter. Under the restraint and pull of the latter, the whole Neither arm could move an inch.

And he didn't dare to struggle a lot—if he attracted the attention of those armed men, let alone the oranges would definitely be gone, he would be severely beaten.

"Are you fucking stupid? I didn't say I wanted to grab this broken orange with you!" The latter cursed in a low voice, his tone full of annoyance.

"Then let me go! Act like you didn't see anything and go do what you should do!" The man who picked up the orange immediately answered.

"I said, don't you want to live? Don't you think about where this is... the oranges you picked up here, are they still edible?" The latter did not let go, but continued to maintain a stalemate .

"This orange is not rotten, and there is nothing dirty on the surface, so why can't it be eaten?" The man who picked up the orange said confidently, "At worst, I will take it and wash it with water later to wash off the radioactive dust on the surface. Just drop it... Do you know how long I haven't eaten this fruit?"

"Are you really not afraid of death? You—" before the latter finished speaking, he staggered and fell to the ground—the "captain" of the armed personnel had walked behind the two of them at some point, He stared down at the man squatting on the ground, clutching the orange tightly. …

"Bring it." The captain said in an extremely impatient tone.

The worker who picked up the orange hesitated for a few seconds before handing the orange up unwillingly.

"Huh?" The captain took the orange, and let out a puzzled sigh in his nasal cavity, as if wondering why an intact orange appeared in this aisle for dealing with hazardous waste - but he was puzzled, he didn't Forgot to add a kick to that worker and kicked him to the ground like the other worker.

The strength of his feet was not small. The first worker who was kicked couldn't get up after five or six seconds. As for the second person... Ke Lan heard a crisp sound of bones being kicked very clearly.

This "captain" doesn't seem to care that the worker's injury will slow down the progress of the operation, he seems to have decided that the team will miss the meal later... But he is quite satisfied with the accidental discovery of "Orange".

Although Ke Lan can't see his face clearly, for the characters appearing in the "sense of sight", as long as he stares at the other person for a while, he can more or less feel part of the other person's emotions.

Just like the worker who picked up the oranges, his current mood is full of resentment, while the captain is a little more joyful amidst his irritability.

Ke Lan didn't know whether the joy came from the violence or the orange, but all in all, the captain didn't throw the orange away, but carefully put it in a pocket.

"Boss, what did that kid pick up?" an armed man who was closer asked aloud, "It can't be some glowing radioactive waste, right? An idiot sneaked out the radioactive waste that he picked up last week. , causing more than a dozen workers in the entire dormitory to suffer from acute radiation sickness... If this kind of thing happens again, we will definitely be condemned to death by the people above."

"Don't worry, it's just an orange." The captain waved his hand, signaling his subordinates not to worry.

"Oranges? Why are there oranges here?" The subordinate was obviously also a little puzzled.

"Probably there is a mistake in the garbage disposal equipment in the upper city... It's a pity, but it happens to be in this damn passageway No. [-]. Even the inside of the outer skin must be full of radiation." The captain patted his pocket, " But as long as you deal with it a little bit, you should be able to sell it for a good price in the black market in the downtown area, and those gangs may even grab their heads for this thing..."

"Boss, you made a fortune." The armed man said enviously, "Why don't you treat me to a good meal?"

"Hmph, how much do you think an orange can sell for?" The captain who was still saying "can sell for a good price" in the last second suddenly changed his face, "I invite you guys to eat, I guess I have to put a lot of money in." , you kid really dare to say it?"

"Boss, you are really stingy as always..." The word "door" of "stingy" was only halfway through, when a black shadow suddenly passed over his head—the armed man stopped abruptly, and then What disappeared together was his upper half of his brain.

The corpse with the Tianling cover cut off fell straight down. The captain was stunned for a moment, and then yelled loudly: "Attacked! Everyone, get closer to me immediately! Execute the No. [-] response plan!"...

Ke Lan didn't see the black shadow clearly, and he couldn't even see the rough outline-time stop can only stop the reality, and the "sense of sight" shared by Ze Luo to Ke Lan, even in a stagnant state, The black shadow is still in the state of the mold lake, and it will not become clear because the picture freezes.

Ke Lan feels that these "sense of sight" most likely come from the memories of those who have seen these pictures, and they do not have the real appearance of the black shadow in their memories, and Ze Luo who "read" these memories and It is naturally impossible for Ke Lan to see something in these memories that even the creator of the memory has not seen.

The remaining two armed men quickly raised their guns and ran towards the "captain", but those staff members were in a mess - Ke Lan couldn't help shaking his head after just one glance... "captain" The so-called No. [-] response plan should be some kind of plan that has been rehearsed in advance to deal with emergencies, but judging from the performance of these staff members, either no actual drills have been conducted at all, or the quality of the personnel is too high. Too bad...

It wasn't until this moment that the worker who picked up the oranges wobbled up from the ground... But before he could stand still, the black shadow passed through his chest, and hot blood shot out more than ten meters away.

"Fire! I tell you to fire!" The captain held up the tactical flashlight and swept the beam of light around indiscriminately. With the other hand, he held the sword and waved it nervously in front of him.

At this time, Ke Lan realized that the sword seemed to be a chainsaw sword driven by an engine. With the captain's swing, the friction sound of the chainsaw's rotation continued to come from the blade covered in mist.

"But... that thing... we can't lock the target... If you fire indiscriminately, you will hurt your own people!" Another armed man with a gun said anxiously.

"It's already this time, why do you still care about this?!" The captain inserted the flashlight into his waist, picked up the gun hanging on his chest with one hand, and shot at the fast-moving black shadow... However Well, none of the bullets fired from the muzzle could hit the palm-sized black shadow, but knocked down three or four staff members who couldn't dodge.

"Fire, you guys! Cross fire and block the path of that thing!" The captain cursed while shooting, "Could it be that the set of things taught to you in the training camp has been completely forgotten by now?!"

[. Thank you for the 200 coins rewarded by Unarmed Respect for the Years w; thank you sd Ha for the 100 coins rewarded. 】

[.s. I would like to add that the residents of the hive capital, including the "second-level manager Nieto", all use a language developed based on their unique script. After deciphering this kind of text, he only had a brief exchange with Nieto to fully master the language, so there is no communication barrier between Ke Lan, who is now in a state of mental connection with Zelo, and the hive capital civilization.

As for language logic, idioms, and some specific vocabulary, etc., it is purely for the convenience of reading, so it is directly presented in Chinese, so please don't pick up words or anything. 】

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