Alien Relic Hunter.

Chapter 998 Bold Escape Plan
Eight hours ago, inside the ark, East Ninth District.

While those men in black were fighting with the behemoth that suddenly emerged from the ground—no, to be precise, it was the behemoth killing the men in black unilaterally—Bianca leaned on the cyborg The remaining energy in the prosthesis quickly escaped from the ruins, crossed the border between East Ninth District and East Eighth District in one breath, and plunged into the bustling commercial street of East Eighth District.

She didn't know why those giant beasts attacked the men in black... Logically speaking, shouldn't these giant beasts and the men in black belong to the same camp?Could it be that these behemoths are not intelligent and difficult to control, they don't specifically attack the men in black, but indiscriminately attack all living creatures they see?
I was able to survive only because of luck and running fast...

After much deliberation, Bianca felt that this explanation was probably the most reasonable.

Although East Eighth District and East Ninth District are only separated by a boundary line with a width of no more than 20 meters, the degree of prosperity is very different.Before the Arasaka Consortium had an accident, the East Eighth District was much better than the East Ninth District in terms of population, economy, and security (of course, the poor security of the East Eighth District was also likely to be related to the various street gangs supported by the Arasaka Consortium).And after the East Ninth District was destroyed and rebuilt, there was no comparison between the two.

Except for the famous "Kabukicho First Street" in East Ninth District, this commercial street in East Eighth District is comparable to it in terms of prosperity. Both sides of the street are densely packed with shops. Above are colorful signs and various holographic projection advertisements full of cyberpunk atmosphere.

On the street and at the end of the street are two large shopping malls covering an area of ​​tens of thousands of square meters. The interior of the shopping mall is like a maze. People who come here for the first time will often get lost even if they follow the navigation.

Further back, there is a large area of ​​office buildings in the business district. Buildings hundreds of meters high are directly connected to the dome, and suspended train tracks shuttle and circle between the gaps in the buildings.

The traffic of this commercial street can reach more than 3 people during holidays, but now, it is as quiet as a ghost town.

"Are there no survivors..."

Bianca was limping along the first floor of the street, and the energy indicator light of the cyborg prosthetic was flashing a dim red light... This is a signal that the energy is exhausted, if Bianca cannot find the energy in time If crystallization or other charging methods are used, the cyborg prosthetic body that supports her now will soon become a heavy burden in turn.

"Need to replenish energy...and food and medicine." Bianca was thinking in her heart.

The commercial street in the East Eighth District is better than the East Ninth District, that is, the temperature regulation system is still working-although it is affected by the East Ninth District, the temperature is a bit unstable, but at least it will not be like that ruin at night , enough to freeze a person to death.

Bianca's eyes searched the street, and soon she locked on a luxury car parked on the side of the road.This kind of luxury car is different from ordinary charging cars or cars that use synthetic chemical fuels. In order to reflect its high-end, they all have built-in small energy converters, which use energy crystals as energy sources. In the trunk of the car, there are nine out of ten There will be a safe for storing crystals.

Bianca inserted a crowbar she picked up into the gap in the trunk lid, pried it hard, and the alarm sounded. She couldn't help but swear, raised her head and shot the horn of the luxury car.

Bianca's consciousness was already on the verge of wandering. The moment she saw the luxury car, she completely forgot about the existence of the alarm... The piercing sound of the alarm was particularly piercing on this quiet commercial street. .

She quickly retreated into an empty self-service convenience store on the side, and squatted behind the glass to observe - she waited for 10 minutes, and saw any living things attracted by the alarm.

"It seems that those men in black didn't continue to chase after them...was they wiped out by giant beasts?" Bianca turned her head and glanced at the bread on the merchandise counter, although the bread had already passed through from the package. Shelf life, but there is no obvious deterioration.Bianca, who was extremely hungry, couldn't help swallowing her saliva... After confirming that there was no alarm at the counter, she smashed the glass with a crowbar, took out the bread, tore open the package, and began to bite .

After eating four expired breads in one go, plus a whole can of salad dressing and a forearm-thick Russian sausage, Bianca's hunger was completely gone. She searched the counter for some small, calorie It is tall and easy to carry the stored food. After filling the backpack, I walked out of the convenience store.

After looking around and confirming that no one was there, he continued to pry the trunk of the luxury car without saying a word—the beautiful metallic paint of the luxury car was cracked and peeled off in a large area under the double force of the crowbar and the cyborg prosthesis , for a luxury car of this level, the price of repainting and maintenance is much more valuable than the energy crystal in the trunk... However, for the current Bianca, no matter how much money he has , also useless.

The Ark has been destroyed, and human civilization has been destroyed... Although this commercial street vaguely retains the shadow of its prosperity in the past, it is actually considered a barbaric world.Without civilization, the existence of currency has no meaning, and luxury goods without practicality are not even comparable to a coarse grain steamed bun.

It's not that Bianca hadn't thought about taking this car away, but she dismissed the idea after she found out that it wasn't bulletproof at all... One-third of the value of this car is on the car label, and one-third In terms of appearance, as for the materials and workmanship, it is not even as good as the off-road vehicle they drove from Mukahe Fortress.

Before the cyborg prosthesis was about to shut down due to low energy, Bianca finally pried open the trunk, and then used violent means to open the safe—there were not many energy crystals in the cabinet, and the quality was average, but Enough for her cyborg prosthesis.

Bianca picked up a crystal at random, and replaced the crystal in the prosthetic body that had become completely transparent and looked almost like glass, and the constantly flashing red indicator light finally turned back to green.

Bianca roughly calculated the energy in the remaining crystals, which can almost maintain the action ability of the cyborg prosthesis for three days... In three days, it is a bit reluctant to walk from the ark to the Mukahe fortress, but if If you have a vehicle, it's another matter.

Vehicles, that’s definitely not going to work... There’s no way to cross that clear zone at all... As for the aircraft, it’s probably a live target as soon as it leaves the port... Bianca has already tasted that kind of ballista’s aim Once, she didn't want to try it a second time.

But that doesn't mean it's impossible to escape at all... As long as the speed is fast enough, so fast that the spikes fired by those ballistas can't catch up...

Whether it is an airplane or an airship, it takes time to accelerate, and it is impossible to reach the fastest speed just after takeoff, and this acceleration process is enough to be pierced into a hedgehog by a ballista.

"It needs to be fast enough when leaving the port..."

A flash of inspiration flashed in Bianca's head, and she suddenly thought of something that could have a very fast speed when it was just launched—when it got out of the launch tunnel, it could already reach Mach [-] or even Mach [-]. , and can accelerate to Mach fifteen within two seconds.

The air defense weapons deployed in each military port on the top floor of the ark - "Bolvali" air defense system.

The main body of the "Bolvali" air defense system is composed of radar, launch tower and launching device. Its biggest feature is that the silo of the air defense missile runs through the entire ark, extending from the bottom of the ark to the top of the ark, which gives the missile enough acceleration. time.By the time the missile leaves the silo and appears outside the ark to be detected by the enemy, its speed is already difficult to intercept.

If you can find a set of "Bolvali" air defense system that can be used, hollow out the warhead of a missile, put on power armor and parachute to get in, and set the target and warhead disintegration time, then you can use it The missile "launches" itself, and then disengages from the missile at a safe position far enough away from the ark, and returns to the ground by landing.

But the "Bolvali" air defense system requires a very high level of authority to activate... Bianca was taken aback, touched the inner pocket of his chest as if remembering something, and took out a piece of paper in a waterproof bag. black card to come.

It was this black card that led to the annihilation of her team... But Bianca also knew that this black card symbolized a very high level of power. It is equivalent to the presence of General Maginot himself.

The authority of the black card should be enough to activate the "Bolvali" air defense system, but there is also a disadvantage of the black card, that is, when it is inserted into any device, it will be noticed by the person called "Zeus"... ...If Bianca didn't move fast enough, it's likely that the men in black would come after the missile before it was launched.

The black card must be used in the final link of the launch... Before that, including access to the military port and launch tower, as well as the storage of anti-aircraft missiles, Bianca had to rely on himself.

The difficulty of this plan is very high, and the success rate is almost negligible...but it is the only way for Bianca to escape from the Ark at the moment.

"Military port...the nearest military port should be..." Bianca opened the electronic map, searched carefully, and found that the nearest military port is "C25 Military Port" located directly above the East Seventh District.

"C25 Naval Port" is a Class C military port, and it can only berth small warships such as supply ships and high-speed support ships, and there are only a pitiful four berths... But no matter how small it is, it is still a military port, and It is still the military port located on the uppermost structure of the Ark, so it must be equipped with the "Bolvali" air defense system.

The "Bolvali" air defense system is not only to ensure the safety of this military port - when hundreds of air defense systems are operating at the same time, an airtight "air defense firepower network" can be woven above the ark. ", therefore, the size and level of the military port is not important, the location is the key to whether the military port will be equipped with the "Bolvali" air defense system.

The biggest problem facing Bianca is how to reach this military port safely.

First, she must traverse the entire East Eighth District, and then take the elevator or the vertical rail train to the top floor of the Ark in the East Seventh District—if both of them have been out of service, she can only choose the maintenance channel and rely on climbing ladders Climb to the top structure located 400 meters above the East Seventh District.

There should be power armor and parachutes in the warehouse of the military port, so there is no need to look for them, but whether the air defense system of the C25 military port can still be activated, which makes Bianca feel a little uneasy.

"It can only depend on luck..." Bianca said silently in her heart.

She did not hurry to the East Seventh District, but first searched for supplies on this commercial street - food in convenience stores and supermarkets, medicines and bandages in pharmacies, and guns and ammunition in weapon stores, all of which were Bian. Card goals.The only pity is that things like military stimulants or quick-acting hemostatic agents are hard to find in ordinary pharmacies, and the same is true in weapon stores. Most of the weapons that can be bought in commercial street weapon stores meet civilian standards. Semi-automatic weapons and gun calibers are also restricted.Explosives such as grenades and explosives are impossible to buy here, let alone the crystal energy bomb that Bianca most wants to get at this time.

Even relic hunters and mercenaries with licenses and purchase qualifications must go to a special place to buy such weapons... Weapon shops like this in bustling business districts basically serve civilians. Competitive needs and collection needs are far greater than actual combat needs - just like a joke circulating in the mercenary circle: "Who would a serious person go to a big shopping mall to buy a gun?"

"Perhaps we should go to a military camp or a place with an underground black market." Bianca thought, "I just don't know if there are any surviving troops on the ark..."

But in fact, even if Bianca met a survivor, she would not dare to contact him easily—no one knew whether the survivor she encountered was a "survivor".

As she walked, she observed the shops on both sides of the street - a few days ago, these shops should have been crowded with people, but now she couldn't even see a single living thing... Pedestrians on the street, people in the mall Workers and shoppers, white-collar workers in office buildings in the distance, the daily population of this commercial district is at least tens of thousands. Could it be that all of them evaporated in an instant?

Perhaps the upper layer of the ark issued an evacuation notice, and everyone evacuated this place?

No... No, if there is really an evacuation notice, even if there is an army to maintain order, it should be a chaotic scene—Bianca can even imagine all kinds of vehicles blocking the streets, and people pushing each other shoulder to shoulder. Crowded, the soldiers of the garrison holding riot shields and rubber batons struggled to keep the evacuation passage from being washed away by the flow of people...

Stampede incidents and traffic accidents will definitely happen... Even if the crowd can evacuate smoothly in the end, the streets will definitely be a mess.

But the commercial street in front of him didn't look like it had experienced a big evacuation at all.

(End of this chapter)