Alien Relic Hunter

Chapter 16 Crystals in a Jar
Perhaps the big eyeball was really attracted by the light, but when the lights were all turned off, it never appeared again.

Naturally, Ke Lan and the two of them would not kill themselves again. The brightness of the flashlight was only kept at a level where they could clearly see the road, and they were safe along the way.

Passing through this strange ice road, at the end is a rectangular stone room. The area of ​​the stone room is about one hundred square meters. There is a metal platform in the middle of the stone room, which looks like a table or a bed. , except that it was empty, with neither bedding nor tableware.

However, there are a lot of marks of being chopped on it - not only this platform, but also the entire stone room. There are similar marks everywhere. Most of the dozen or so pots in the corners have been smashed, and there are bloodstains that have not dried out. Spilled on the wall, it looks particularly scary.

Obviously, as long as you are not blind, you can see that a fierce battle has just happened here.

Moreover, the battle traces left on the scene easily reminded them of the lonely teammate.

"Is it Asano Akira? He's not dead!" Leighton exclaimed in a low voice with excitement. If a powerful teammate like Asano Akira can join him, the combat effectiveness of the entire team will instantly increase several times. level!

"It should be him... Except for the Nino alloy war blade that cuts iron like mud, it is difficult for other weapons to leave such deep knife marks on this metal platform." Ke Lan said, squatting down, " Also, look at the footprints on the ground... these are left by humans, if I remember correctly, these should be Type 105 universal protective boots?"

"It's a No. 105 shoe." Layton, a former soldier, nodded. This is one of the standard field equipment of the Ark Army. Many people also like to call this type of shoes No. 105 military boots.

"That should be him. The first few advance teams are all sponsored by big financial groups or big families. They are not bad for money. They use custom goods, but they don't look down on this kind of standard military boots." Ke Lan said.

"Then how did he get down..." Leighton looked around the stone room, however, except for the passage they came in, the other three sides were walls, and it didn't look like there was a hidden mechanism.

"Just above." Ke Lan pointed to the ceiling.

There is a hole more than two meters in diameter, and there is a lot of blood around the hole, but I don't know if the blood came from Asano Akira or something else.

"Should we go up and find him?"

"He didn't necessarily leave through this passage, there must be a third exit in this room." Ke Lan said suddenly.

"Why?" Layton was a little confused.

"Imagine, if you were Asano Akira, you jumped down from the hole above and fought a battle in this stone room—" Ke Lan pondered for a while, and continued to analyze, "If Asano Akira is still alive, then The results of the battle are nothing more than three, the first, Asano Akira easily wins; the second, Asano Akira wins with difficulty and is seriously injured; the third, Asano Akira loses to his opponent and flees."

"Then what does this have to do with the third exit?" Layton was even more puzzled.

Ke Lan: "If it's the first case, as a hunter, do you think Asano Akira will go back the same way, or go the way we came to that 'icehouse'?"

"Uh... If you say that, then it's really unlikely that he will go back the same way."

"But we didn't hit Asano Akira, and there were no traces of battle left on the icehouse, so it means that he didn't choose this path - well, now let's analyze the second and third situations, these two situations are actually It can be said together that whether it is seriously injured or fleeing, the priority will not be returning to the original road, because this hole is a vertical passage, and it is easy to get down without carrying any coping equipment. It's much more troublesome, but he still didn't choose the passage to the icehouse in that situation - to sum up, there is definitely a third exit here."

"However, this stone room can be seen at a glance. Even if there is any mechanism, it is estimated that it has been chopped up by Asano Akira... This guy, I didn't expect such a violent fighting style." Leighton looked at the scarred faces in front of him. Wall sighed.

"The organ is not necessarily on the wall, let's look for it." Ke Lan said.

"That's the only way to do it. If it really doesn't work, just smash everything here, and you can always find that exit."

Many laymen on the Ark always like to associate hunters with occupations such as explorers and archaeologists in the Old Era, but in fact, another gray occupation of the Old Era has more similar characteristics to the relic hunters.

That profession, to put it nicely, is called "Chao Jin Xiaowei", or to say it badly, it is a tomb robber...

In the process of exploring the remains of the Alpha civilization, destruction is unavoidable... In other words, most of the remains were destroyed during the excavation process, and only a small part of things were preserved, but despite the fact that In this way, this small part, the humans on the ark have not yet digested all of it.

Less than 5 minutes later, Layton suddenly yelled: "Ke Lan! Let's get rich! I finally found this treasure!"

He was holding a clay pot in his hand, the mouth of the pot was slightly tilted, and he saw crystal clear energy crystals inside, and the quality was not low!
"Half of the remaining intact jars are empty, and half are filled with crystals. I estimate that there are five or six thousand units at least!" Layton's excitement is beyond words, and energy crystals are not only for him. It is also used to exchange for credit points, and it is also a life-saving capital - that amazingly heavy mechanical prosthesis is completely a monster that eats energy. If there is no worry about energy consumption, then the fully powered Layton can definitely be regarded as one. A terrible war machine.

"The ones that were emptied should have been taken by Asano Akira, these are what he left for us - but I'm a little curious, what did he do with so many energy crystals? He didn't use crystal equipment on him. ." Collan said.

"Sell for money!"

"The quality of these crystals is really good, but if I want to exchange credit points, I will never choose them. Whether it is a metal bug that can control a human corpse or a blood sample that can deform a piece of meat, the value is much higher than the crystal. …”

It's like a thief entering a mansion, and there are two kinds of treasures in front of him, one is a bulky gold brick, and the other is an art that is more valuable and weighs less than one-tenth of the gold brick. Even a fool knows which choice to make without considering the difficulty of selling artworks.

(End of this chapter)