Alien Relic Hunter

"Moving direction, due south, everyone set off." Sergeant Ken's calm voice came from the earphones.

The convoy suddenly started to move. At this time, no one was chatting in the team channel, only formulaic reports every ninety seconds were left.

The terrain of this tundra is very flat, and there are no traces of indigenous creatures as far as the eye can see. However, the members of the 776 Special Forces Team still dare not relax at all. Collins's AUG assault rifle has been loaded, and the butt of the gun is resting on his Above the knee, you can raise the gun and shoot at any time.

The thick shock-absorbing tires and the hard frozen soil continued to make harsh friction sounds. Collins focused all his attention on exploring the surrounding environment - as scouts, he and Martin were the pioneers, and their mission was to It is to detect in advance and help the convoy behind to avoid the indigenous biomes wandering in the wilderness.

The two reconnaissance vehicles maintained a distance of about one thousand meters from the rear convoy. This was the maximum distance that the communication device carried by the team could ensure stable communication under strong interference.

Not long after the reconnaissance vehicle drove out, Ke Lan discovered a problem.

The dashboard of this car has obviously been modified - except for a simple mechanical compass, all electronic devices that can be used to locate and record driving routes have been removed, including the odometer found in any car. All locked up.

(Note: Although there are no man-made positioning satellites in Alpha Star's low-Earth orbit and the GPS positioning system cannot be used, you can still roughly determine your location based on geomagnetic positioning, base station positioning, etc., of course, provided that the magnetic field is not disturbed or There is a transfer station established by Ark within the sensing range of the device.)

Obviously, this was done to prevent the soldiers participating in the mission from remembering the specific coordinates of the mission target.

"As for..." Ke Lan murmured in his heart, "The base of the wreckage of Engine No. 92...is it really so shady?"

He felt like he was watching a suspense movie. The more foreshadowing like this, the more curious he became...

"Mewtwo" can be skipped and fast-forwarded just like a normal video. If it weren't for the fear of missing some details, Ke Lan would have enabled these two functions.

He had plenty of time, so much so that he could even read the entire task process over and over many times.

The convoy galloped on the frozen tundra for nearly four days without stopping for a break. Even eating and excretion problems were solved by soft liquid food and urine bags with their own straws.

As for the drivers, they were rotated among the soldiers. Collins and Martin would switch duties with others every eight hours and go to the off-road vehicles in the rear to rest for a while.

"It's time, it's time, change people!" The two reconnaissance vehicles drew a big circle on the tundra and returned to the side of the convoy. Two soldiers who looked sleepy jumped out of the driver's seat and moved around. Walking towards the convoy with his limbs hanging.

An off-road vehicle in the convoy stopped. Collins and Martin looked at each other, and they could see the unconcealed fatigue in each other's eyes. Even though they were working on an eight-hour shift, this intensity of off-road driving was hard on people. The consumption of physical energy is also extremely terrifying. It is impossible to rest well in a bumpy car, let alone fully recover the energy consumed.

At that time, augmented personnel were only a rarity in the military. None of the members of the 776 Special Forces Team had undergone augmentation or modification surgery, and their physical fitness was only slightly stronger than that of ordinary soldiers.

The two people jumped out of the car silently and walked towards the reconnaissance vehicle parked not far away.

"I'm so tired. I feel like my waist is about to break, and my butt is so shocked that I can't feel it at all." The soldier who was replaced complained to Collins and Martin while rubbing his butt.

"It's all the same." Martin shook his head with a grimace, "We can't sleep in the car at all... The boss doesn't allow us to use stimulating drugs to test fatigue..."

"Probably because we are afraid that we will exhaust our physical strength and energy before we reach the target location... Phew... Phew... But for me, the situation is actually no different now... If we don't find a place Set up camp, everyone can't hold on any longer." The soldier gasped for air, his chest heaving violently.

As for the other guy who was replaced, he was so tired that he didn't even want to say anything. He waved his hands to the two of them and walked towards the off-road vehicle with a dull pace.

Collins once again sat in the driver's seat of the still-warm reconnaissance vehicle, took a deep breath, held the steering wheel with both hands, and stepped on the accelerator.

The two reconnaissance vehicles quickly passed the convoy and returned to the forefront of the formation.

But this time, Collins noticed something unusual not long after driving!

On the distant horizon, a cone-shaped mountain appeared.

"Reconnaissance Vehicle No. 2, Collins reported that a cone-shaped mountain was found ahead, about fifteen to twenty kilometers away." Collins said into the communicator, "Preliminary judgment is that it may be a volcanic cone."

"Copy that, keep moving forward." Sergeant Ken's emotionless voice sounded through the communicator.

At this moment, Ke Lan suddenly realized that the direction of the convoy was facing the "volcano cone" on the ground line, and his consciousness suddenly shook - the mission destination of the 776 Special Forces Team, the Could it be this "volcanic cone"? !

Collins obviously had the same thought as Ke Lan. After a short silence, he turned on the communicator again and asked: "Boss, isn't that our destination?"

Sergeant Ken didn't reply.

But Ke Lan already had the answer in his heart.

As the distance between the convoy and the volcano cone gradually shortened, the details of the volcano cone began to become clearer and clearer... Soon, Ke Lan and the soldiers of the 776 Special Forces Team realized something was wrong...

This volcanic cone seems a bit too "right"...

The essence of a volcanic cone is a mountain formed by the accumulation of ejecta from the interior of a volcano near the crater. Generally speaking, volcanic cones whose ejecta is mainly lava are basically conical, because the lava has not completely cooled before It is fluid and can easily form a smooth cone - but no matter how smooth the cone is, it cannot be a completely right cone.

The volcanic cone in the distance does not look like a pile of mountains formed by lava eruptions, but more like a huge civilization creation.

"Could this be...the ruins of engine No. 92?!" Ke Lan was extremely shocked.

The volcanic cone... the engine... could the crater on the top of the mountain be the nozzle of the propeller?

Such a huge engine...then what could it drive...? !