Alien Relic Hunter

"The minority obeys the majority. Set up camp on the spot first, and then determine the next action plan based on the actual situation." The man who spoke was called Jonah, the last of the four rotating team captains, and the only one with a "name" in the Fool's memory. A person... Unfortunately, except for his name, the Fool "forgot" all the memories related to Jonah, and even Jonah's character and specialties were all erased. The only thing left for Ke Lan is this name.

No...not all erased...

Ke Lan was startled. He suddenly discovered a loophole in the world of memory - although he could not remember anything related to Jonah, if the Fool really erased everything related to Jonah except his name , then in this world of memory, Jonah’s sense of existence will be even thinner than that of that passerby girl... You may even only remember the existence of such a person in the advance team. You can’t even see what this person looks like or what he says. I can't even hear clearly...

Now that Jonah is standing there completely, with no mosaic on his face, and Ke Lan can hear what he says, this means that the Fool has not really forgotten this person, but only transferred the information related to Jonah , hidden in a deeper place.

Among all the people, he is the only one with a name, but for this person with a name, all other relevant information is blank... This is very intriguing. Ke Lan couldn't help but wonder, could this be a reminder specially left for him by the Fool?

Could this Jonah be the key clue in this memory?

Ke Lan immediately decided to make this Jonah a key observation object, and if possible, try to choose to act with this person.

"Only Jonah can hold down that blonde girl." Lu Dan folded his arms and whispered to Ke Lan and the others with his head tilted, looking like he was watching a good show.

"Why do you say that?" Just ask if you don't understand. Since the Fool didn't leave any information about Jonah in his memory, it's better to just ask the other people in his memory. Anyway, if you don't ask, it's useless. Even if it affects the original memory process, It will also be automatically corrected, so Ke Lan doesn't have to worry about triggering a "butterfly effect" that will change the course of the incident.

"Except for the late commander, Jonah is the most prestigious in the advance team... Apparently decisions are made through voting, but in fact as long as Jonah takes a stand, most people will agree with him." Dan whispered to Ke Lan.

It seems that he guessed it right... Ke Lan thought silently, the Fool did not forget all the information related to Jonah, he just hid the information.

"To be honest, I kind of forgot who this Jonah is..." Ke Lan asked tentatively, but this time, Lu Dan didn't respond at all as if he didn't hear his question at all.

"Maybe the necessary triggering conditions have not been met, so this part of the information cannot be unlocked?" Ke Lan muttered in his heart.

In the end, the blonde woman's suggestion was not adopted, and the advance team unanimously decided to act according to the plan set at the beginning.

The weapons box located in the cargo bay of the shuttle was opened, and each advance team member was assigned the corresponding weapon according to their position - these weapons have been sealed in the box for nineteen years, and fortunately they are in pretty good condition. , basically still usable.

Unlike the large-caliber firearms that were replaced after Ark landed on Alpha Planet, these weapons are basically models handed down from the old era. During the interstellar drifting, although there were small-scale conflicts within Ark, they never turned into a war. People also knew very well that using powerful weapons on the Ark was tantamount to self-destruction. It is precisely for this reason that individual light weapons such as firearms have basically not developed much in the past nine hundred years. Even the newly built production lines are still made from thousands of years ago.

In an era when resources are extremely tight, as long as the most basic needs can be met, people will not invest excess manpower and material resources in unnecessary projects.

Ke Lan glanced at a pile of 5.56, 7.62 and 5.8 mm caliber weapons in the box, and couldn't help but sigh in his heart... People in this period have not suffered from weapon calibers. When the Ark landed on Alpha Planet, humans began to interact with the indigenous people. Only after a large-scale conflict between creatures occurs, they will discover that the weapons handed down from the old era are not powerful against the vast majority of indigenous creatures on Alpha Planet. A rifle that can easily penetrate body armor is not even a scratch in front of those tough skin and chitinous carapace.

In the ninth year of the new era, the proposal to upgrade the muzzle of universal firearms was passed. At that time, the prototype gun sent to the joint parliamentary group was the "Zero Rifle". After several improvements (or various castrations to save costs), it was finally finalized. It is the famous "Ark-01 automatic rifle".

After that, the soldiers of the Field Corps - no, there was no such thing as a Field Corps at that time, it should be called "troops that perform combat missions outside the Ark" - finally had a weapon in their hands that could deal with most indigenous creatures. An individual weapon capable of causing fatal damage.

As for this box, the only ones that can meet the requirements of this type of weapon are a few general-purpose machine guns using 7.62mm full-power bullets and an M14EBR precision marksman rifle that also uses this type of bullets.

Before the big screen of the shuttle went out, Ke Lan had already looked at the map. The place where they landed was a desert area named Area B17.

If Ke Lan remembers correctly, the official name of this place later was called Xiya Desert. It was the fourth largest desert in terms of area on Planet Alpha, almost equivalent to the Taklimakan Desert on Earth - of course, "Planet Alpha", or in other words, The Taklimakan Desert on the earth in this time and space has long since disappeared in the geological changes that lasted tens of thousands of years. The original four oceans have also merged into the Central Sea and the Polar Sea, and the continents have been connected together again to form a The vast "Pangaea".

(Actually, plate movements are measured in units of hundreds of millions of years. Tens of thousands of years are not enough time to produce "vast changes". Planet Alpha became what it is now mainly because of the transformation of the planet by Alpha civilization - geological changes also include "Man-made" interference factor.)

The most common creature in the Xiya Desert is an armadillo-like creature, but it is much larger than the armadillos on Earth. Adult individuals are generally more than ten meters long. Alien armadillos are also very aggressive and territorial. If someone intrudes into their territory, they will secretly drill holes and sneak directly under the enemy, and then break through the ground to launch a surprise attack.

This creature was named the Alien Armadillo by the biologists on the Ark. The most threatening parts of them are their sharp claws and scales that contain a large amount of metal elements and are as hard as armor. It is difficult for the weapons held by the advance team to penetrate this layer of scale armor and cause effective damage to the alien armadillo, but the sharp claws of the alien armadillo can easily tear through the protective clothing equipped by the advance team.

Ke Lan did not personally participate in Ark's campaign to eliminate alien armadillos, but some related combat cases were recorded - before the Type 01 rifle was incorporated into the army, heavy machine guns or artillery were generally used to deal with alien armadillos. , bombs and other powerful weapons. If the firearms in the hands of ordinary soldiers want to hurt them, the only way is to get under the belly of the exotic armadillo and fire at their belly that is not protected by scales.

However, the success rate of doing so is extremely low. In order to protect the weakness of the abdomen, the alien armadillo crawls close to the ground... Even if someone can really squeeze under the alien armadillo's belly and beat it to death, he will still die. The carcass of an exotic armadillo was crushed to death - an adult alien armadillo with a body length of ten meters weighs several times that of an Asian elephant, not to mention the heavy metal scales.

The situation is not optimistic for the advance team.

After the weapons were distributed, perhaps because the Fool's marksmanship was better, the only M14EBR precision marksman rifle in the box was given to Ke Lan. The other one was also given to him, and its damage to indigenous creatures was basically negligible. 9mm Glock pistol.

Being able to obtain a precision marksman rifle naturally means that Ke Lan and his group are classified into the "action group". The "Garrison Team" stayed behind to set up camp, while the "Operation Team" was responsible for exploring the surrounding area, collecting information and available resources... In addition, they also had one more task: hunting.

Jonah asked them to capture at least one indigenous creature from Alpha Planet and hand it over to the team's biologists for dissection - understanding the characteristics of this creature was secondary, and the most important thing was to figure out whether it... could be eaten.

The action team is composed of two fully staffed rotations, no more, no less, exactly ten people. The leaders are Lu Dan and the Chinese character face. Each of them carries a 7.62 mm caliber general-purpose machine gun, including Ke Lan. In the M14EBR, there are only three weapons in the action group that can penetrate the scale armor of the alien armadillo.

"We have walked almost three kilometers." Luodan looked back at the shuttle in the distance, "The surrounding situation is clearly visible. Prey, resources... nothing can be seen. In my opinion, I want to gain something. , I’m afraid I’ll have to go there.”

Luodan pointed to the hilly area in the distance, which was the boundary of the Xiya Desert. It seemed not far away, but it was actually dozens of kilometers away from their current location.

The Chinese-character face also sighed and said: "I just had people analyze the ingredients of those shrubs. They are all highly poisonous and cannot be eaten."

The only living creatures that could be seen in the desert, apart from themselves, were some low bushes covered with thorns. These bushes were all grey-brown and looked like they were dead. An advance team member squatted down, cut off a small branch, and put it into the reagent bottle. The reagent in the bottle immediately turned into color.

Although Ke Lan didn't know what that color meant, he knew it was dangerous at first sight - the colorful and bright colors were like knocking over an art student's palette.

Ke Lan really wanted to tell them that there were actually many indigenous creatures living in this desert... According to Ark's statistics, between 900 and 905 of the New Era, there were at least more than 100,000 exotic armadillos living in the West Cliff Desert. It's just that this kind of cave-dwelling creature basically lives in underground caves during the day, and only comes out of the ground to look for food at night.

The previously dispatched drones were all shooting at high altitudes, and the signals were intermittent. It is completely normal that they failed to capture any signs of the alien armadillo's activities.

What's more, alien armadillos also have another characteristic. They know how to bury the holes they dug and erase the traces of their movements on the ground... Because of this, the members of the advance team never imagined that underneath this desert , there is an intricate network of caves.

"It's probably useless to say it." Ke Lan thought to himself, "There's no need to consider whether they will believe what I say... As long as it involves information that 'should not be known', they will probably turn a deaf ear... After all, I am just a bystander and cannot change this period of history."

The action team walked almost six kilometers in one breath before encountering the first attack - an exotic armadillo suddenly emerged from the ground, and two members of the advance team who were caught off guard fell directly into the cave entrance. He didn't even have time to let out a scream. Another person was torn in half by the alien armadillo's claws. Warm blood rain fell from the air, staining the white protective clothing of the people around them red.

"What?!" Luodan immediately took a dozen steps back, raised his machine gun and fired at the exotic armadillo. The team doctor went around to the side and used the submachine gun in his hand to attack at close range.

The moment the exotic armadillo emerged from the ground, there was a rare opportunity to attack its weak point on the abdomen. But just when Ke Lan raised his gun to aim, he felt a strange dizziness in his head, and his finger on the trigger It also seemed to be petrified and could not be suppressed no matter what.

After the dizziness disappeared and the fingers returned to normal, the exotic armadillo emerged from the cave and lay down. Ke Lan's "delayed" shot finally hit the scales on its back.

"Fuck..." Although Ke Lan knew that this was because in his original memory, the Fool failed to hit the Alien Armadillo's weakness, which caused the abnormality just now, he still couldn't help but cursed.

This feeling of powerlessness is really uncomfortable.

The two machine guns of Guozi Lian and Lu Dan are at an angle of 45 degrees, suppressing the alien armadillo from two directions with firepower - the 7.62mm full-power bullet can indeed cause fatal damage to the alien armadillo, but it is not One or two shots can be fatal. They can only penetrate the scales of the alien armadillo. As for this behemoth to fall, they still need to accumulate enough damage.

In game terms, the weapon's attack power reaches the BOSS's armor-breaking line, but the BOSS's long health bar still needs to be worn down little by little.

[P.S. Before finishing, I plan to use this memory fragment to narrate some of the plot when the Ark just landed on Alpha Planet. I don’t know if you are interested in this part of the content. If you're interested, I'll write it in more detail. If you're not interested, I'll explain everything that needs to be done about the main plot and then get back to the main story and resolve it quickly. As for other stories, they can be written in extra chapters in the future. What do you think? 】