Alien Relic Hunter

Chapter 160 Emergency 000
Ke Lan pushed the switch up with all his strength, and suddenly, there was a rumbling sound from inside the two water pumps that were as tall as a person. It was the sound made by the high-speed rotation of the centrifugal pump blades.

Two suction pipes made of high-strength polymers are fixed with brackets, one end is directly inserted into the blood pool, and the other end extends to a waste water pool in the base. That pool was originally used to store crystallized ore after secondary refining. For the radioactive waste water produced, there are also complete protective measures at the bottom, surrounding and periphery of the pool.

The blood plasma Ke Lan in the blood pool has passed preliminary tests, and it is corrosive to a certain extent, but it is far less perverted than the monster's acid. What kind of damage is caused, the only problem is that there are a lot of agglomerated scabs in the blood plasma, which will wear the blades of the water pump and easily cause pipe blockage.

Ke Lan had to stop the water pump every 5 minutes or so, and then went up against the radiation to clear the pipes.

After dredging back and forth four times, the water level of the waste water pool has reached the warning line, but the height of the blood pool has only dropped by less than half a meter...

"The capacity of this blood pool...is not quite right..."

When Ke Lan stepped forward to clear the pipe for the fifth time, he finally saw the root system exposed under the giant cocoon.

Although I had already made psychological preparations, when I saw the root of the giant cocoon, an unspeakable fear surged from the bottom of my heart...

Countless thick tentacles are intertwined, twisted and weird. Their tops are connected to the bottom of the giant cocoon, and their bottoms are soaked in thick magma-like blood. These tentacles have dark brown skin that is almost dark red. , there are many tiny crystal particles scattered on it... And looking in from the gaps of these tentacles, you can vaguely see many human limbs slowly wriggling in it... The folded thighs, the palms without fingers , Crowded eyeballs... Ke Lan even saw a bra with black lace trim soaked in dirty blood...

"Is this the collected corpses...?"

Ke Lan also noticed that these limbs were not only wriggling along with the tentacles, but also seemed to be sinking slowly... The black lace bra just now was about four or five centimeters above the water, and it was almost sinking now. Into the pool of blood below.

For some reason, Ke Lan suddenly thought of the picture of chewed food passing through the esophagus when humans are swallowing...

At this moment, Layton's voice suddenly came from the earphones: "Ke Lan, the communication device has been fixed, and Ivan also found four injured survivors, but it's a pity that Liao Zilang was not found... now my side Everything is ready, but... are we really going to send a distress signal to the Mitsui Foundation?"

"Send, send it now, send a distress signal according to the standard format, the additional information is emergency 039, and if you sign it... use Manstein's ID." Ke Lan said.

The meaning of "emergency 039" refers to "being attacked by a large number of indigenous creatures in an organized way, and there are new species that have never been recorded in the files and have a great threat." According to the regulations of the Ark, if any individual Or an organization that receives a distress message mentioning "emergency 039" must report it to the headquarters of the Ark as soon as possible, and make the greatest rescue of the target within the scope of its ability.

"No...wait a minute, change 'emergency 039' to 'emergency 000', don't use Manstein's ID, use mine." Ke Lan stared at the blood pool and said slowly.

"000? Are you sure...?" Layton's voice in the headset seemed hesitant.

"Yes, it will be issued at 000, and I will bear all the responsibilities." Ke Lan made up his mind.

"Emergency 000" does not specifically refer to a special time. It has only one meaning, that is, "an event that is sufficient to directly threaten the Ark and is serious enough to cause the extinction of mankind."

In the few years since humans first landed on Planet Alpha, "Emergency 000" has occurred 46 times in total, each of which was resolved only after humans paid a lot of money, and in the last 20 years, can be called The so-called "emergency 000" incident has never happened.

On Earth, the penalty for falsely reporting the fire alarm is only five to ten days of detention and a fine of several hundred yuan, but on the Ark, the consequences of falsely reporting "emergency 000" are enough to make the person spend the rest of his life in prison... ...This still refers to the situation where the plot is relatively minor and the loss is relatively small... If there is a major loss, even if it is directly executed on the spot, it is not an exaggeration.

"What if..." Layton still hesitated.

"As I said, I will bear all the responsibilities." Ke Lan emphasized again, "If possible, I even hope that Fang Zhou can fly over and directly use the main gun to shoot this big guy under his feet."

"Could it be that you found something?" Layton asked nervously.

"Those monsters... seem to be performing some kind of strange sacrificial ceremony, they use human corpses and themselves as sacrifices..."

"Sacrifice ceremony?" The hound's voice also appeared on the communication channel.

"Hmm... very similar... I suspect that they are to wake up this wild beast."

"Ke Lan, what did you see?!"

"I saw it..." Ke Lan hadn't finished speaking, but suddenly there was a beep in his ears without warning, and he felt as if his whole body was floating and flew into the air...

"...?"

He wanted to stretch out his hand, but found that he had lost the sense of his arm...not just his arm, he couldn't even feel his body, he was like a soul out of its sheath, a mass of pure The conscious body is constantly floating towards the sky.

"What's the matter?"

Ke Lan only felt a burst of drowsiness in his brain. He was even deprived of the ability to think, and his vision gradually began to become cloudy.

"Could it be...an illusion? In this case...triggered?"

"The triggering condition... what is it?"

He vaguely remembered that he was talking to Layton and the hound just now, when he turned around, he saw something emerging from the pool of blood...

It seemed to be a long, pitch-black crystal...

When Ke Lan's dispersed consciousness gathered again, he saw a creature shaped like a giant whale hovering in the air directly below. It was so huge that it was like an island floating in the air...

"... Leviathan! This is... Leviathan!"

However, why would he appear here?
Ke Lan looked around, but there was nothing, then he lowered his head and glanced at the place where his body should have been——

Equally empty.

Although his thinking has returned to normal, he is still in that "consciousness" state.

"Is this also... one of the memory fragments hidden deep in my head? Text, sound, video... have they finally been upgraded to VR images now?"

Ke Lan tried to narrow the distance between him and Leviathan. As soon as the idea came to him, he found himself on Leviathan's back in an instant, less than ten meters away from this prehistoric beast.

At this time, Leviathan's body was not covered with rock formations hundreds of meters away... Instead, there were large areas of earth-gray scales, and between the scales, there were a large number of long strips of jet black. crystals.

(End of this chapter)