Alien Relic Hunter

After checking and confirming that there was nothing abnormal in the basement, the team leader left a few soldiers to guard the first floor and led the remaining people into the basement.

To be precise, the parts above the ground are dispensable disguises, and the underground part is the real main body of the safe house.

There is no disguise in the underground part. The iron-black metal walls glow with a cold light, but the floor is covered with a thick silicone pad, which is anti-slip and can also minimize the sound of footsteps - even if someone is dancing in it. , the neighbors around the safe house will never hear any abnormal noise.

On both sides of the end of the passage are weapon cabinets. Various small weapons are hung in the cabinets. When the drawer at the bottom of the cabinet is opened, there are boxes after boxes of ammunition neatly stacked. There are even a few printed The small refrigeration box with the biohazard mark allows the team members to know what is inside without opening it.

"Good guy, there is such a thing." Soap carefully took out a few things that looked similar to detonators from a cabinet. Through the wall of the tube made of high-strength transparent resin, you could see inside the tube. It is filled with something similar to clay, and the surface and interior of the clay are filled with dark green crystals the size of fingernails.

A composite crystal energy bomb uses clay explosives as a fuse. After multiple low-level energy crystals are detonated, they can produce extremely terrifying "resonance"... Just the few "plastic tubes" held in Soap's hand can be bundled together. It was enough to level the entire safe house above ground level.

Of course, this thing is prohibited from being used on the Ark. The yield of this thing has seriously exceeded the standard value set in the "Regulations on Prohibited Weapons within the Ark". No matter where it is used, it may cause serious damage to the internal structure of the Ark. destroy. If these things are thrown into a reactor, it will be enough to cause a disaster that is unimaginable... Generally speaking, this kind of things should be stored in special warehouses and heavily guarded, whether for inspection, transportation or Access must be signed and approved by multiple departments and leaders with different functions. And the people from the Security Bureau actually left them in this unattended safe house?

If this kind of thing happened in the army, there would be no need for the person who did it to go to a military court, he could just be shot on the spot.

"Do the people from the Security Bureau... have so much power?" The team leader saw the crystal energy bomb in Soap's hand, and his eyelids twitched uncontrollably. "Be careful, are there any crystal energy bombs in the cabinet?" Take it all out.”

"There are twelve more sticks." Soap said, "Including the five sticks here, there are seventeen sticks in total... If these seventeen sticks are detonated at the same time... tsk..."

The biggest difference between crystal energy bombs and ordinary explosives is "resonance". The more crystal energy bombs that are detonated at the same time, the explosive power will increase exponentially. Seventeen crystal energy bombs, even for Mukah Fortress, may not be Can get it.

"Is this place really a safe house for DAS?" A ruin hunter muttered, "Isn't this some secret weapons depot?"

"Wait a minute, there is a note underneath the crystal energy bomb." Soap reached into the cabinet again and pulled out the note.

"What's written on it?" The giraffe stretched its neck and leaned over, asking impatiently.

"Well, it's a confidential items transfer order... It's strange, these crystal energy bombs were sent here three days ago." Soap handed the note to the team leader, "But the procedures on it are not complete. , the official seals of various ministries and departments, and the personal signatures of the leadership are missing a large part. In addition, this black signature that takes up several squares seems to be in Latin? Anyway, I don’t recognize it... Do you recognize it? "

Before becoming a mercenary, Soap also served as a soldier in the field corps. He was familiar with these cumbersome procedures. As far as he knew, when the battle situation was fierce, some equipment could be specially used through the "emergency response procedures". Deployment, in this case, does not need to go through all the original processes, in order to save time and prevent a certain department from losing contact, causing urgently needed supplies to get stuck in one of the transfer links.

At this time, a leader with sufficient power is generally required to make a decision and be responsible for this, and at the same time sign his or her name in the blanks of the missing review departments.

"This is not Latin..." the transport pilot glanced at the signature, "it is Greek. The name is pronounced 'Demeter', which is the goddess in charge of agriculture, grains and harvests in Greek mythology, and is the Olympian One of the twelve main gods of Sri Lanka."

"Demeter? Is there such a person in the joint parliamentary group?" Soap tried hard to recall, but at this time he realized that he knew too little about the current affairs of Ark, and even the names of the current members were Not a few came out.

"No." The transport pilot shook his head, "There is no member named Demeter in the United Parliamentary Group."

"Wait a minute." Simon suddenly said, "Demeter is one of the twelve main gods of Olympus in Greek mythology, so Zeus should be too... This Demeter, she is the same as Zeus in mythology. what relationship?"

"Demeter is the wife of Zeus," the transport pilot said, "one of them."

"Good guy, so this Demeter must be related to the big man named 'Zeus'?" Soap said, "It seems that it is not surprising that she can use crystal energy bombs with her authority. ”

"The key point is not authority, but time." The transport plane pilot said, "Three days ago, it happened to be the time when the communication between Mukach Base and Ark was interrupted..."

"There's one more thing I didn't have time to say just now." Simon said, "Before contacting Zeus, I used the public communication terminal to log in to Ark's major portals. I originally wanted to find out in the media news There are some clues, but I found that all websites stopped updating three days ago, and I couldn’t find any clues related to those invading creatures... And the strangest thing is that the internal network of Ark has always been in a normal state, The servers of those websites are still running, and anyone with a mobile phone can post online. Even if the relevant topics are prohibited from being discussed, the entire network should not become a 'no man's land' in an instant!"

"It seems that these invading creatures may have invaded the interior of the Ark in a very short period of time, so that people were almost killed without even reacting...or mutated into that kind of monster..." the team leader said. Said to himself.

"No, as long as there are survivors, there will always be..." After the transport pilot said this, his face suddenly turned very pale. He turned to look at Simon, took deep breaths several times in a row, and then continued -

"I have an idea, or a guess, which may not be accurate, but I don't think it can be ruled out..." the transport plane pilot said word by word.

"Stop being so pretentious, just say it directly." The giraffe urged.

"Just tell me." The team leader also nodded to the transport plane pilot.

"Is it possible that those intruders have controlled the network on the Ark, and what Simon saw was an 'illusion' created by them..."

"So, the call between me and 'Zeus' has been monitored by them?! Then the location of this safe house has been exposed?!" Simon's eyes widened, and he subconsciously placed his hand on hanging on the chest.

"No, there is a worse possibility... the person talking to you is not 'Zeus', but them." The pilot of the transport plane kept saying something shocking. His words suddenly made the atmosphere inside the house tense. , many people directly picked up their weapons and looked around cautiously.

"If this is the case, then this 'safe house' should be a trap." The team leader's performance was relatively calm. He walked to the table, picked up the crystal energy bomb placed on the table with a bar of soap and looked at it carefully. , "If they want to use this trap to bury us, they don't have to bother at all. They just need to detonate these crystal energy bombs when we enter the safe house. There is no way we can escape."

"It is precisely for this reason that I feel that we still have a glimmer of hope." The transport plane pilot seemed to have remembered something, and quickly walked to a computer and turned on the power.

In order to ensure that it will not be invaded, the computer in the safe room needs permission verification to connect to the external network. Looking at the password box on the screen and the constantly flashing cursor in the box, the transport plane driver couldn't help but feel a headache. He turned back and looked at the others: "Among you...does anyone know how to hack? Someone who can crack the security system of the Security Bureau."

"Try this." Simon walked up and took out the black card. "I noticed that there is a card slot on the side of this computer. Maybe it can work."

"I can only treat the dead horse as a living doctor." The transport pilot nodded and inserted the black card into the slot.

The password verification interface disappeared instantly. Not only that, all permissions of this computer have been opened - just like a woman who was tightly wrapped one second, stripped naked the next second...even holding a knife. It's like cutting open his chest and abdominal cavity, showing all his internal organs in front of you.

"It seems that the permissions of this black card are really not very high." Simon sighed, "I don't know where General Maginot got this thing from. With this thing, even the internal network of the Security Bureau can be browsed at will. ”

The Security Bureau and the military have never been easy to deal with. If the military had such authority, it would be impossible for the Security Bureau to protest in separate chambers with the military. Instead, it would become a "formally independent, In reality, it has become an agency under the jurisdiction of the military.

"Can you find the transfer records and reasons for this batch of crystal energy bombs?" the team leader asked.

The transport plane pilot sitting in front of the computer shook his head solemnly: "All records and information updates on the Security Bureau's intranet are all at the same time period three days ago."

"Damn! How the hell could this happen?" Soap couldn't help but cursed, "I can understand if ordinary people are blocked from information. If even people from the Security Bureau can't intervene, then who should be sent to solve the problem? Ark We have been invaded by those monsters to such an extent, but there are no records at all in the Security Bureau’s intranet and archives. This is not reasonable at all!”

"No..." The team leader seemed to have remembered something, and slowly shook his head, "If, as that 'clown' said, the mutation's infection route is 'memes', Ark's senior management will All information on the Internet is blocked, perhaps as a way of protecting survivors.”

"What exactly are memes? It's time to tell us now, right?" Soap asked, "By the way, where's the clown?"

"He just went upstairs with the people from Group B to find a sniper spot." Simon responded.

"Even the clown knows what memes are. I think it doesn't matter if we let us know, right?" Giraffe said, "The Ark has fallen and humans are going to be extinct. So what's the point of the confidentiality agreement?"

"Okay, since you want to know, then I'll tell you..." The squad leader sighed and told everyone the information related to the "meme", although the total of this information only lasted a few sentences. , but after listening, everyone in the team fell into silence.

After nearly half a minute, Soap was the first to break the silence: "You mean, it's possible to... take one look at that kind of thing and be infected? Even if you see the meme through photos or videos ', will you be infected by it?!"

"Then why were we not infected after seeing those monsters?" the giraffe asked.

"There are many kinds of memes, and visual contagion is just one of them...According to the intelligence at that time, the memetic contagion that broke out in the institute was only a primary meme, and the most advanced memes can achieve cognitive transmission. , in other words, when you know that this thing exists, you have already been infected.”

"...So, what we are facing now should be a rudimentary meme, right? Otherwise, our team should have been wiped out." Soap took a breath and said.

"Yes, things on the Internet have been deleted so cleanly. It should be because they are worried that this 'meme' will spread through the Internet." The transport pilot said, "There used to be a joke that the Internet can spread viruses that can infect the human body. I never thought this joke would actually become reality.”

"By the way, hurry up and check Ark's shopping website to see the purchase records and material prices." Soap suddenly said to the transport pilot as if he was remembering something, "Price is the most sensitive thing. If it lasts three days If there is any major accident on the Ark, the prices of those materials will definitely change. Especially in the early stage, before those invading creatures have occupied most of the Ark."

"It makes sense." The transport pilot nodded and entered the URLs of several shopping websites. However, the results were disappointing.

The order records and post-purchase reviews are all from three days ago. There are no obvious abnormalities in reviews, prices or purchase volumes. You can even place orders now, but the merchant may never deliver the goods again.

The last login time for all merchant accounts, including the customer service of the shopping website, was three days ago.

What happened on the Ark? Are there really any survivors?

And who is the "Zeus" they contacted through the black card?

[P.S. Thanks to SR of the Cultivation Party for the 1,000 starting coins; thank you to Fang Han 000007 for the 600 starting coins; thank you to Xiao Ayue for the 500 starting coins; thank you Qinghe Guang and book friend 20210301106490873710 for the 200 starting coins; thank you The reward for No. 5 ball is 100 starting coins. 】