Alien Relic Hunter

Based on Ke Lan's understanding of this unit, the word "give up" has never been mentioned in the SEAL dictionary. The training these soldiers have undergone is enough to allow them to face hell, even if the enemy is a demon from the abyss, They will also pull the trigger without hesitation.

The ammunition is not exhausted, the food is not exhausted, and he has not even encountered a battle... What is the reason that drives him to give up the desire to survive?

The combination of the instinct to survive and the will of a soldier can't resist the despair... What happened to this non-commissioned officer named Collins?

Ke Lan searched the contents of the body again. In addition to some standard wilderness survival supplies, he also found a damaged walkie-talkie, a photo and a paper mission log.

The material of the photo is a kind of photosensitive plastic photo paper that has been eliminated long ago. Due to aging, the entire photo has turned completely white, and it is impossible to see what was originally taken.

Ke Lan could only put the photo aside and open the mission log.

Many pages had been torn out of the diary, leaving less than half of its thickness. The yellowed pages were filled with scrawled lines, and some pages were even penetrated by the pen tip due to excessive force. , the leaked ink smudged on the paper, forming a black patch the size of an old-era coin.

Ke Lan flipped through page after page, and the content of each page was similar. Collins seemed to be just venting... Ke Lan could even imagine the other person holding the pen tightly, gritting his teeth, and writing anxiously on the paper. The look of scribbling...

These lines have no rules and no beauty at all. Ke Lan tried to compare them with the coastline, but he couldn't get it right.

Not code words, not maps, they are nothing, they contain no information... at least that's what it seems for now.

It was not until page 15 that a line of text finally appeared.

"I AM SORRY."

sorry? Why did he say sorry? Who is he saying sorry to?

Although the content finally appeared that Ke Lan could understand, such a meaningless apology made him feel even more confused.

Presumably, Sergeant Collins must have had some mental problems during the last period of his life, but what exactly caused him to become like this?

Ke Lan could only continue to turn back, but after this sorry sentence, there were several blank pages... Finally, on page 22, some valuable information appeared again.

This is a simple drawing. It is a long object that looks like a stick, and on one end of the stick, there is an eye...

one eye!

Ke Lan took a deep breath - this was not a stick, but a stone pillar, the same stone pillar he saw under the sea! That stone pillar with a giant eye carved on the top! !

Those stone pillars are everywhere in that underwater city, and they have never appeared in the Alpha ruins elsewhere.

Collins has also seen such stone pillars. Like himself, he has also been to that place!

Ke Lan's breathing quickened slightly.

"No, this isn't right..." Ke Lan glanced at Collins' body and shook his head vigorously.

The equipment worn by the corpses were all land warfare equipment. Without equipment such as deep diving suits, it would be impossible to reach the underwater city. One hundred meters is not too deep, but it is deadly enough for humans without equipment to protect them... In Collins' time, biochemically modified people had not yet received official written approval and could not join the army.

To put it bluntly, even if Collins is a one-of-a-kind diver, he doesn’t even have a fully enclosed water-proof suit. The poison in the sea water alone can easily kill him— - It is difficult to find one in a hundred thousand people with a special physique like Liao Zilang's. What's more, if this Collins can be immune to the toxicity and radiation in seawater like Liao Zilang, his skin surface will not have these radiation diseases. Festering sores.

"It's impossible for him to have been to the Undersea City... At least, he can't have come here from the Undersea City..." Even Ke Lan began to become a little incoherent, and his head was simply a mess. paste.

"Nothing can be explained by common sense... Damn it... even a normal person has to be driven into a lunatic." He curled his lips helplessly and continued to read back.

Blank, blank, scribbling lines, blank, a page full of circles, scribbling lines, blank, still blank... Finally, the mission log was turned to the last page, and when Ke Lan saw clearly what was on the last page When he wrote something, his whole body couldn't help but trembled slightly.

“LEAVE THE BED”

This is not the first time he has seen this text. The last time was on the inside of the shell of the salvaged diving cabin on the Pioneer...

Exactly the same content... Is this really a warning from the dead?

Ke Lan fell into deep thought.

Off the seabed? First of all, he has not reached the seabed. The undersea city was built on the undersea plateau. Strictly speaking, it is not the seabed. As for the abyss hatchery... although it is very deep, it has definitely not hit the bottom yet. , otherwise, Ke Lan’s deep diving suit would not be able to withstand the water pressure at that depth on the seabed...

Or does this "BED" not refer to the seabed?

"If you use Chinese... it will definitely be much easier to understand..." Ke Lan tried hard to recall the several meanings of the word "bed" in Chinese: bed, sea bed or river bed, flower bed or nursery, etc... In addition to being a noun, this word can also be used as a verb, meaning to sleep, place, embed or plant.

"Huh? Plant... seeds?"

Ke Lan suddenly recalled that in the exile settlement, the "Apostle of the Prophet" uttered a mantra-like sentence in Alpha language before turning into a seed of erosion - "I would like to dedicate my body as a hotbed, Let the seeds of erosion awaken and sprout.”

hotbed! This is what this bed means! Ke Lan was startled, and he immediately realized that this warning told him to stay away from the hatchery under the abyss!

There is an out-of-control fusion entrenched there, which is unimaginably dangerous. If it is aroused, it will be an unimaginable disaster for humans!

"But...it still doesn't seem right..."

Ke Lan bit his lip and rubbed his fingers on the crumpled page. No matter from any angle, the explanation just now was flawless, but subconsciously he felt that something was wrong... Assume that he As for Collins, after seeing the terrifying monster in the hatchery, would he leave such a warning?

"Leave the bed...away from the hatchery?"

No, if it were him, he would definitely write it differently: "A MONSTER IN THE BED" - a big monster entrenched in the hatchery.

Leaving aside who left the warning in the diving cabin, Collins obviously had enough time when he wrote this paragraph, so why didn't he write it more clearly?

Or is it that Ke Lan misunderstood from the beginning... This sentence is not a warning at all?