Alien Relic Hunter

Thirty-three fell into the pit and seemed to have broken his bones. After struggling a few times, he finally failed to stand up.

"Breaking a few bones is better than dying." Ke Lan glanced at Thirty-three lying at the bottom of the pit. After making sure that the other person's breathing and heart rate were still stable, he turned and walked towards the jungle.

"Oh, I didn't expect that I would be the only one left in the end." Ke Lan sighed and rubbed the newly healed incision on his abdomen.

When Ke Lan returned to the place where he killed the Epsilon-level mutant, the area that had been cleared had gradually become lively, and some larger mutant creatures also began to appear in Ke Lan's area. within the field of vision.

These mutants showed obvious hostility towards Ke Lan at first, but after Ke Lan killed several ungrateful "thorns" with a completely crushing attitude, the remaining mutants obviously learned a lot. , seeing that Ke Lan was basically walking around, even if he had the courage not to run away, he would just hide in the dark and observe, not daring to come forward to provoke Ke Lan.

The IQs of these mutants are not low. In this small and highly competitive jungle hunting ground, creatures that can last for half a million years without being exterminated must have unique survival wisdom even if they do not have strong physical strength.

However, this way, it reduced many unnecessary battles for Ke Lan... This time, it took him less than fifteen minutes from the time he entered the jungle to reach the center.

The gunshot he and Thirty-three heard just now came from the center of the jungle.

In other words, the person who shot...or the "thing" should be not far from Ke Lan...if "it" hasn't moved during this time.

Ke Lan began to become cautious. He used the cover of tree trunks and bushes to move in an "S" shape. In this way, he could cover his body and search the area to the maximum extent. Fan.

Ke Lan is more inclined to think that some kind of inanimate mechanism triggered the pistol. This is most likely a little trick of Nieto. The purpose is also very simple - if a normal person hears the sound of gunshots in the forest with poor vision, the first The first reaction is probably to look up into the air: although the flames and smoke from the muzzle cannot rise to such a high place, as long as you find a place where birds are frightened and flew up, you can basically determine the location of the shot.

If Ke Lan and Sansan San had looked up at that time, the first thing they would have seen would not have been the birds that were frightened by the gunshots in the forest, but the bird that Nieto had tried so hard to get them to see. "Dome".

No...that's not right...

Ke Lan carefully recalled the details of when he heard the gunshots earlier, and overturned this guess in just a few seconds: If Nieto's purpose was really to trick him into raising his head, let alone the success rate of this little trick. Its timing was simply a mess - at that time, Ke Lan and Thirty-three had already gone deep into the jungle hunting ground, and the tree canopy was so dense that it completely obscured the entire hunting ground. Even at that time, Ke Lan and Thirty-three Thirty-three looked up and could only see dense branches and leaves.

Although Ke Lan showed disdain for Nieto, he also knew very well that it was impossible for a biological computer with super intelligence to make such a low-level mistake.

There was another reason for the gunfire.

Ke Lan suddenly squatted down and carefully observed the ground in front of him. The soil about five meters away from him had traces of being recently turned over, but the traces were not obvious. The person who turned over the soil was backfilling the soil. It was obviously a cover-up... Could it be some kind of mutant map's lair? Ke Lan thought in his heart.

Since the "shooter" was probably lurking nearby, Ke Lan followed the principle of doing more than doing less and did not intend to alarm the mutant in the lair... But just as he looked away At this time, Nieto's voice suddenly rang.

"You actually discovered it...are you really not going to dig it up and take a look?"

"What is buried in the soil?" Ke Lan asked in a low voice, "A high-level mutant? A bomb that can blow up half of the upper city? Or a side that can reflect the scene of the dome through the leaves? mirror?"

"No, I assure you in the name of the great god that there is no danger in the things buried here." Nieto said, "And, according to your memory, you should know him."

"Him? There is a person buried inside?" Ke Lan's heart skipped a beat. If the person buried in the soil is really an acquaintance of his, then there is a high probability that he is his teammate who entered the Gray Mist Forest with him...

Valentina? Akira Asano? Ivan? Or is it the "lumberjack" Denning who disappeared earlier?

Could it be that some of them have already been killed...

Although Ke Lan knew that the man buried in the ground was most likely a corpse, he couldn't help but walked closer and inserted the engineer shovel into it.

"Huh? Don't you suspect this is a trap?" Nieto asked strangely.

"If you dare to swear in the name of that bullshit god, I will believe you just once." Ke Lan said.

But after all, while Ke Lan was digging the soil, he quietly pulled away the tab of a high-explosive grenade and held it in his hand. At the same time, he also moved his eyes elsewhere, using the corners of his eyes as much as possible. Use your peripheral vision to observe the excavation work, in case there is really a huge mirror or a display screen underneath.

However, this probability should not be high - if Nieto can really get a display screen that can display the real scene of the dome, then there are more than a hundred ways to make this display screen appear in front of Ke Lan's eyes. There is no need to use such lame means to trick Ke Lan.

The soil was deliberately compacted, but it was still much looser than the surrounding ground. The excavation process was very easy. After a while, two white leg bones appeared in Ke Lan's field of vision.

"..." Ke Lan took a deep breath and continued digging.

Judging from the length of the leg bones, the deceased should be a man or a tall man. Valentina and Asano Akira can basically be ruled out. The only remaining options are Ivan and Danning.

This is not far from Ke Lan's expectation. It is not difficult for Valentina, who has the Blasphemer Mecha, and Akira Asano, who is extremely powerful, to survive in the gray fog forest. In comparison, Ivan and Danning's fighting power is much weaker than the two of them.

Putting aside the weird gray fog forest, if Ivan and Danning were left in this jungle hunting ground, they would probably be killed by the mutants in the jungle within a few hours.

"Don't be Ivan...Don't be Ivan..." Ke Lan muttered silently in his heart while speeding up the movements of his hands. After a while, he dug out a complete human skeleton from the soil. come out.

But at this time, Ke Lan fell into confusion.

The height of this skeleton is between 1.83 and 1.85 meters, while Ivan's height is 1.78 meters, which doesn't match up at all.

If anyone in the hunting group is this tall, it is probably Zhuoligetu who is only 1.85 meters. But the problem is that Zhuoligetu is not in the team for this operation at all.

As for the guy named Danning in the "Lumberjack Team", although Ke Lan's memory of Danning has been a little blurry, he can still be sure that this skeleton is definitely not Danning.

Dan Ning's height is just over 1.8 meters which is not bad, but Dan Ning has one very striking feature, which is so prominent that Ke Lan will not forget it even if he forgets his appearance - Dan Ning's right little finger is only half-length.

According to his own words, he accidentally made a mistake while operating the woodcutter and was cut off by the saw blade. Later, because the impact was not big, he did not install the expensive and frequent maintenance CyberGate machine. body.

As for the skeleton in front of me, the little finger of the right hand is intact.

It is impossible for Denning to be treated by bone-setting surgery in this place. Even if it were possible, there would be obvious traces of growth and healing between the attached phalange and the original bone. However, there are no such traces on the phalanges of this corpse— —Until it dies, all ten of its fingers are “original goods” brought out of its mother’s womb.

"It's not Ivan...it's not Danning...who could it be?"

Ke Lan checked the corpse and found no clues, so he had to focus on the excavated soil and the pit where the body was buried.

Ke Lan soon discovered some fabric fragments mixed in the soil. These fabric fragments should be the clothes worn by the deceased - but these fabric fragments were strongly corroded and did not look like they had just been buried. The way it was buried in the soil... If Ke Lan hadn't dug this hole with his own hands, he would have even doubted whether the corpse had been buried here for more than ten years...

He held the fabric fragments between his fingertips and rubbed them gently. The fabric whose fiber structure was destroyed quickly turned into crumbs. However, Ke Lan got some important clues from the texture of the fiber crumbs.

This is a kind of polymer fabric that is very common on the Ark. This kind of fabric has good performance but is not expensive. It is very popular with mercenaries and ruin hunters... But Ke Lan and his hunting group People would not wear clothes made of this kind of fabric.

There is no shortage of money anyway. The equipment Ke Lan and the others choose are all top-notch, and they don’t consider cost-effectiveness at all. For them, even if they spend a hundred times the money, as long as the performance can be improved by 1% , it’s all worth it... If nothing else, the price of Ke Lan’s mediocre windbreaker, which has been torn into broken fishing nets, is worth the price of this year’s new product from “Anaheim Electronics” The flagship supercar launched - and it's the top-of-the-line model.

As for consumers who pay the most attention to cost-effectiveness... Ke Lan couldn't help but think of two words: "Army".

Is this man a mercenary? A relic hunter...or a soldier?

Ke Lan's brain was spinning rapidly as he rummaged through the soil to find more fabric fragments... Finally, at the bottom of the pit, he found a rusty ring buckle - even though the buckle had The inscriptions can no longer be seen clearly, but Ke Lan still recognizes the interlocking pattern...

This is the safety buckle on the Ark Air Force fleet pilot's uniform. It is a device used to fix the pilot and the seat together. When encountering an unexpected situation, just pull the buckle gently to quickly release the seat belt. It is A very important safety design.

The design of this safety buckle has a long history. At first, the safety buckle was only found on driving uniforms, but later it became a practical decoration on pilots' uniforms.

Is this man an air force fleet pilot? But...do you know such a person?

If it was someone he knew, then this person must have nothing to do with Hruni and the others - he might not even have been born when Hruni and the others found the nest.

How did the pilots of the air force fleet appear here? Who killed him?

If he was killed and buried here, why did the body and clothes decay so quickly?

A series of questions emerged from Ke Lan's heart, but just when Ke Lan was extremely puzzled, white mist gradually seeped in from all directions and filled the forest.

"What's going on with all this fog?" Ke Lan stood up warily, took a few steps back, leaned against a tree trunk as thick as a dozen people's arms, and looked around - the jungle hunting ground filled with fog and " The "grey mist forest outside" is actually very similar, and the only difference is that the fog in the gray mist forest is gray, very thick, and extremely toxic and corrosive, but the current fog is just It's just mist, and the color is closer to white.

"Do you like hunting games?" Nieto said with a hint of smile.

"I don't like it." Ke Lan objected casually.

"But the people who lived here at that time loved it very much," Nieto said. "This hunting ground was the best entertainment project in their boring lives, bar none. They cloned all kinds of The creatures were put here and hunted to their heart's content... Later, they felt that hunting wild beasts had lost their fun, so they began to genetically modify the beasts to turn them into powerful monsters... Later, even the monsters began to make these people feel When they get bored, they turn their attention to their own kind. Hunters...hunt 'people'."

"I'm not interested in hearing what you said. What's going on with this fog?" Ke Lan knew what Nieto said - in the memory fragments, he had seen with his own eyes that the powerful children living in the upper city would The "contestants" selected by the Bottom Nest are hunted as prey. In their eyes, there is no difference between those Bottom Nest people and beasts... Perhaps, the Bottom Nest people have more points.

"In order to satisfy those people's fun, the hunting ground can simulate many kinds of weather, including foggy days." Nieto said, "Now, the hunting begins... I wish you a happy game."