Alien Relic Hunter

Meanwhile, the forest floor.

"The bombing... the bombing seems to have stopped." Mo Jue looked up at the dome and said with some disbelief.

"Did they succeed?" Ivan clenched his fists subconsciously. He felt a lot of pain in the back of his neck from keeping his head raised, but he didn't want to lower his head at all.

Calculating time, if Ke Lan and the others had not succeeded, the "Shaojiang Kai" plasma cannon should have been fully charged by now.

Even if he dies, he must clearly see the scene of his death, instead of burying his head in the sand like the ostriches on earth do when danger approaches.

The next moment, an extremely strong white light penetrated the dense tree canopy and the thick fog that blocked the sky. The originally dark forest glade was reflected as if it were under daylight. The light was so strong that it was difficult to see even with goggles. Perform direct vision.

"Is... is it a plasma cannon? Was it... fired?" Mo Jue's lips trembled slightly.

"No, if the plasma cannon fires successfully, we will have turned into ashes now." Thirty-three shook his head, "I won't have time to express my thoughts for you... You are also from the 'Hell Paratroopers', don't you think so?" Don’t you even have this bit of common sense?”

"I...I'm just..." Mo Jue choked on Thirty-Three, and her face turned red and white, "I'm just a little nervous."

"Article 3 of Chapter 1 of the 'Hell Paratroopers' Combat Code, 'Under any circumstances, you must maintain reason and rationality, even if death lies ahead.'" Thirty-three thought, "Soldiers who only know how to obey orders can only be regarded as As consumables on the battlefield, you have to know how to make your own judgment on the battle situation."

"..." Mo Jue flattened his mouth and did not answer.

She originally wanted to say that she was no longer a soldier, but she still didn't say this in the end.

A humanoid machine body whose shell was burned red crashed down from above. It was the Blasphemer mecha that Ke Lan and Valentina were riding.

Under the action of the cooling device, the outer shell of the aircraft gradually returned to its original color. The cockpit door opened again, and Ke Lan, who was naked to the upper body, jumped out of the cockpit and landed on the ground.

"Did it succeed?" Ivan asked.

Ke Lan nodded, took the spare clothes handed over by Ze Luo, and put them on: "After cutting off those vines, the indigenous creatures in the gray mist forest regarded the 'Shaojiang Kai' as an intruder. Damn it." After those monsters consumed the energy shield, we blasted away the battleship's main cannon with one shot... It shouldn't take long before the entire battleship will fall from the sky."

"Is it that hot? Did you take off all your clothes?" After hearing that the "Shaojiang Kai" was about to crash, Ivan's mood immediately improved a lot, and he also had time to tease Ke Lan.

"The Blasphemer mecha can be piloted by two people. The clothes I wore before were torn to pieces by the tentacles used for nerve connection." Ke Lan said truthfully, "But it's hot. For two or three seconds just now, the cockpit The temperature inside should be over 60 degrees Celsius, so I don’t have any problem, I just don’t know if Valentina is affected, you can go check her out.”

"I'm fine." Valentina's voice came from the cockpit, "The heat was quickly taken away by the injection fluid in the cockpit, and I was not affected at all."

"Double piloting?" Ivan was obviously more interested in another thing Ke Lan mentioned, "Isn't this mecha operated by the driver's nervous system? It's like connecting two pilots at the same time, wouldn't it? Is there a situation like a conflict of instructions? Or is it that the two of you have a high synchronization rate of consciousness sharing? "

"Let's study this after we go back." Ke Lan raised his head and looked into the sky. "That 'Shaojiang Kai' ship is probably going to be smashed down soon. Everyone, be prepared to resist the impact."

Although Ke Lan said that everyone should be prepared, in fact, as long as Aizeluo is alone, it is enough - several small bubble-like space barriers wrap everyone up and suspend them in mid-air. On the outside of the "space bubble", three flexible buffer layers are set up to resist the impact caused when the warship lands.

Although Zeluo's space barrier cannot withstand the plasma main gun of the "Shaojiang Kai", it is more than enough to block the vibration caused when the battleship collides with the ground.

A battleship crashing to the ground and self-accelerating collision are two completely different concepts. The former is a free-fall motion, with no propeller acceleration and no hull attitude control. When the angle cannot be adjusted, the battleship cannot cut in with the smallest obstructed area. If the angle passes through the canopy of the gray fog forest, then this canopy can serve as an excellent speed bump, absorbing most of the kinetic energy when the battleship falls.

"I can feel that large objects have entered the canopy." Ze Luo said, "But that's all...these fog has a strong shielding effect on my perception."

Although everyone's sight could not penetrate the thick fog, the flow of the fog kept telling everyone a message: a huge thing was moving from top to bottom, passing through the thick fog.

Or...fall.

Since the space barrier simultaneously isolates the sound from the outside world, and the gray fog itself has extremely strong sound insulation capabilities, everyone is now in a completely silent world... But in this almost suffocating silence, The ground suddenly began to shake violently. The land was cracked, earth and rocks flew apart, and countless pillar roots and the main trunks of foggy trees were uprooted... A shock wave like a sea wave swept in from the twelve o'clock direction, The ground everywhere it passed was turned up, as if it was swept by an invisible giant plow.

"Good guy, this is the first time that a battleship has crashed so close to me." Thirty-three looked at the earth and rocks below that were surging like a tide and couldn't help but sigh.

"What are you going to do next?" Ivan looked at Ke Lan, "Should you continue heading deeper into the gray mist forest, or..."

"Let's explore the wreckage of the 'Shaojiang Kai' first... I want to figure out some things." Ke Lan said.

"I think so too. Instead of continuing to explore the more dangerous depths of the forest without a 'navigator', it's better to take advantage of this rare opportunity to collect some clues." Ivan nodded, "Since Mo Jue's father and others can get these clues, so as one of the warships that participated in that mission, there must be more valuable things on board the 'Shaojiang Kai'."

Ke Lan and others waited until the shaking completely stopped before returning to the ground. At this time, the fog perches in a large area around the area had been uprooted or broken, which suddenly expanded the scope of the forest glade dozens of times. Even the originally dense gray fog became thinner at this moment. Much thinner.

"The recovery speed of Mist Roost is very fast. It will be back to its original state in less than a week."

Just as Mo Jue said, many new saplings have emerged from under the bark of the fallen mist trees. They have grown rapidly like bamboo shoots after a rain. The original trees have been used as nutrients and gradually withered. .

"One week is too much for us." Ke Lan walked at the front of the team - after being impacted by the crash of the battleship, the gray fog concentration in this area almost dropped to about one kilometer behind the red line. The concentration and fluidity have also become much stronger, and the surrounding gray fog seems to be gathering in this direction... Compared to the fog perch that has regrown from saplings, the fog concentration is estimated to return to its original level in less than a few hours. .

Along the way, Ke Lan also saw many "incubation nests" that were originally hidden in the canopy of the fog perch tree... But after the fog perch tree fell, these "incubation nests" all stopped the cultivation of biological weapons. Those egg-shaped embryos have also turned into liquid substances and been absorbed by the tree body, and then supplied as nutrients to the vigorously growing seedlings.

For the Gray Mist Forest, filling the vacancy in this forest seems to be the highest priority task at the moment.

This is good news - at least Ke Lan and the others don't have to worry about being attacked by biological weapons on the ground. Although the individual combat capabilities of things like the Ghost-faced Giant Owl are not very strong, their numbers are too terrifying... Even the energy shield of the "Shaojiang Kai" can be blasted by force. Ke Lan and the others are A small team might not be able to hold on for even a minute in the face of such a battle.

The crash site of the "Shaojiang Kai" was not far away. Ke Lan and the others only traveled less than 200 meters, and the remains of the behemoth appeared in their field of vision.

Although in the establishment of the Ark Fleet, the size of the frigates can only be ranked at the bottom, but this is only a conclusion drawn from comparing with those aircraft carrier battleships that are often several kilometers in length... In fact, this "Shaojiang modified" The length of the frigate has also exceeded 500 meters, which is larger than most maritime aircraft carriers in the old era.

The hull of the "Shaojiang Kai" that crashed twice has become dilapidated. Even the thick vines can no longer connect the fragmented hull. The entire battleship was directly broken into four parts, with the abdomen The location of the plasma main gun was evaporated out of thin air, and not even the hardest keel part of the ship was left.

"That's good. It saves you the trouble of finding the entrance." Thirty-three walked to a crack that was more than ten meters wide and leaned forward to look inside.

There seemed to be a serious fire inside the battleship. The bulkheads were burned completely black, and the space inside the ship was filled with intricate vines.

"Where should we start searching?" Ivan looked at Ke Lan, "My personal suggestion is to search the bridge first, then the CIC and the escape capsules that could not be sent out. These are the places where intelligence is most likely to be stored. ."

"Well, in this order, go to the bridge first." Ke Lan said.

The "Shaojiang Kai" frigate adopts a traditional lift-type central bridge, which can be raised above the deck when not in combat, providing the command team with a good direct view. During combat, it will sink inside the hull and collect information through thousands of monitor cameras installed on the outside of the hull.

Of course, there is another use for the lifting bridge, which is to allow the warship to be controlled through visual observation when the external monitors are completely destroyed or interfered with and cannot work properly - this situation rarely occurs. It is also very dangerous to raise the bridge during battle. It can only be said to be an extreme response measure under extreme circumstances.

At least the battleship crew will not have the only option of abandoning the ship and escaping when all external vision is lost.

When the "Shaojiang Kai" crashed, the bridge sank into the interior of the hull, and the location to accommodate the bridge was located exactly in the wreckage of the second section. Between the wreckage of the second section and the wreckage of the third section was where the plasma main gun was located - —If the bridge had been set a little further back, I'm afraid it would no longer exist now.

The fracture of the second section of the wreckage was also tightly blocked by vines and wood fibers. Sansan San and Akira Asano moved to the front of the team at this time. One of them waved the sword, and the other controlled the black flying blade. Soon He then dug out a passage wide enough for the Blasphemer mecha to pass through.

What surprised Ke Lan was that these vines did not actually completely fill the space inside the battleship. At least the corridor leading to the bridge was clear. There were only some finger-thick vines clinging to the walls, ceiling and floor. , it looks like the messy wiring in those facilities that have been in disrepair.

"Actually, I'm quite curious...how do these vines control the battleship..." Thirty-three lowered his voice and said, "Is it possible that these pieces of wood can be connected to the circuit board of the battleship's control system?"

"Go in and take a look before talking." Ke Lan said.

The corridor leading to the bridge is only more than three meters high and only four meters wide. The Blasphemer mecha cannot pass through. Ke Lan had to let Valentina, Mo Jue and Ivan stay at the entrance of the passage while he Take Asano Akira, Sansansan and Zeluo and continue moving forward.

But as they walked, they discovered another thing.

Although the air in the corridor is very turbid, the thick gray fog outside has not invaded the inside of the battleship... It stands to reason that those all-pervasive gray fog can penetrate even if there is only a gap, and the wreckage of this battleship has long been destroyed. It was riddled with holes and had no airtightness at all. Why didn’t the gray mist pour into the interior of the battleship?

Moreover, the vines that invaded the battleship seemed to have no ability to generate fog.

Are these vines and the fog vine two different species? But Ke Lan remembered that the vines wrapped around the controlled Walker mechas were able to create mist, so that the Walker mechas could be covered with a layer of armor composed of mist... But the "Shao" ship previously When "Jiang Gai" was hanging in the sky, Ke Lan didn't see a trace of fog clinging to the battleship except for the vines wrapped around the ship.

It's just a little...too clean.

This made Ke Lan feel alert.

"There is movement in the bridge." Asano Akira stopped and said when they reached the middle of the corridor.

There is no gray fog here, and his "hearing" will naturally not be affected in any way.