Alien Relic Hunter

Chapter 187 The Opened Abdominal Cavity

But Ke Lan always felt that he seemed to have missed something...

"Manstein! I forgot about Manstein! He is also one of the survivors who came back alive from Leviathan, but after leaving Maginot's side, he separated from us... If something happened As we expected, he should also be one of the targets of the Arasaka Foundation!"

"I'll send someone to find him right away..." Zofia quickly walked to the communication terminal in the safe house, and quickly tapped ten slender fingers on the virtual keyboard formed by the holographic projection.

But just when Ke Lan poked her head over, Zofia's movements froze. After a few seconds, she sighed softly and said, "It's too late. Half an hour ago, Manstein Because he was killed in his residence, besides him, there were his wife, eldest son Martin, and the personal secretary who was also a survivor. As for his kidnapped youngest son Andrew, the body was also in the east. It was found in the sewage pipes of District [-]."

As soon as Zofia finished speaking, there was a piercing sound of brakes above her head, and then a lot of "cracking" footsteps poured into the garage, and these footsteps stopped outside the secret door, one with A panicked voice shouted from outside: "Is Miss Soma inside? I'm Anthony, the director of the security department of the consortium..."

"I'm inside." Zofia replied, and at the same time nodded to Ke Lan, who put away the assault rifle facing the door.

"We rushed over as soon as we received the distress signal, but we were attacked by a lunatic with a bomb on the way... That's why we were delayed... Miss, are you not injured?"

"I'm not injured." Zofia said to the people outside, "But there may still be remnants of attackers inside the villa. You should take someone to clean up the villa first."

"Okay, I'll leave the first group here to protect Miss. They are all people you know, Miss, and there will be no problem with their loyalty," Anthony said.

"You also know the captain of the first team." Zofia turned her head and said to Ke Lan, "It's first officer Caroline, she is actually a member of the security department of the consortium, and she followed me to the Pioneer to protect me. of."

"Well, I'm an old acquaintance." Ke Lan nodded, and then pushed the big bed that blocked the secret door a crack.

Just as Zofia said, Ke Lan saw Caroline with an anxious face at first sight. She was wearing a lightweight power armor, and she was carrying a gun on her shoulders, which was probably from a certain place. The large-caliber Vulcan cannon that was removed from the vehicle——as soon as she saw Ke Lan push the bed board away, she inserted an arm directly into it.

"Ke, Mr. Ke Lan? Why are you here?" Caroline's tone was full of guard.

"Zofia came to me to talk about something, and then was attacked by an assassin, it's that simple." Ke Lan simply pushed the whole bed board aside, allowing Caroline to get in.

"Talking about things..." Caroline seemed to suddenly think of something, and her face suddenly became extremely strange, "You and Miss... are engaged... Is it true?"

"I don't know, you ask her." Ke Lan shrugged and moved away.

"It's true," Zofia said.

"Even...Even if you hate the Arasaka family, Miss...then why did you choose him? He..." Caroline thought for a long time before finally finding a way that wasn't so ugly, "He...what does he have? Any advantages?"

"I think he looks very pleasing to the eye, what's so good about this?"

"Can this count..." Caroline looked at Ke Lan very unkindly.

"By the way, can you tell me the specific situation at Manstein's side? Your first group should be the first to arrive there, right?" Zofia changed the subject calmly.

"Manstein..." Caroline's face froze slightly, "My team members and I did indeed just rush over from there, the situation there is very bad, the scene is a mess, and almost the corpses are damaged. Powerful, and it seems that he was brutally abused during his lifetime..."

"Did you find anything abnormal..." Ke Lan asked in a deep voice, "especially in Manstein and that female secretary."

"Abnormal things..." Caroline recalled, "The female secretary died of suffocation, and there was nothing abnormal except for the obvious strangle marks on her neck... On the contrary, Mr. Manstein, His entire abdomen was cut open, and the forensic doctor in charge of the autopsy told me that in Manstein's abdominal cavity, it seemed that a considerable amount of radiation was detected..."

"Not low radiation? What do you mean?" Ke Lan's eyes lit up, and he felt as if he was about to grasp the key point of the matter.

"That's what it means... Maybe I accidentally swallowed a piece of radioactive mineral... But, how could this thing be swallowed by mistake? Mr. Manstein is not a child..." Caroline muttered.

"Could it be stuffed in by the person who killed him." Zofia asked, "For example, using this method to extract a confession..."

"No, it won't be a forced confession." Ke Lan said suddenly, "The purpose of these people is not to get something from us... Otherwise, the people who attacked us wouldn't kill us directly..."

"Well." Caroline nodded to agree with Ke Lan, "The forensic doctor also said that Mr. Manstein suffered from a chronic radiation sickness, assuming he really swallowed a piece of radiation If it is an ore, then this ore must stay in his body for at least a few days."

"That is to say, when he was at the Leviathan base, this stone was already in his stomach..." Ke Lan suddenly had a very bad premonition...

He vaguely remembered that when the group of survivors returned to the ark, during the routine physical examination, Manstein seemed to find an excuse to skip the radiology examination items...

"Zofia... Manstein reported the ultra-purity crystal to your consortium, right?" Ke Lan turned her head and asked.

"Yeah, as the top person in charge of the mining base, he was indeed the one who reported it. Is there any problem?" Zofia's expression changed slightly at this time—from Ke Lan's words, She also sensed something was wrong.

"Manstein, I'm afraid he found something even more extraordinary than ultra-purity crystals inside Leviathan... But the greed in his heart made him decide to take this thing for himself... and use this extremely In an adventurous way, I hid it in my body..."

"Is something even worse than ultra-purity crystals?!"

"Although I don't know what that thing is, it is estimated that it has fallen into the hands of the Arasaka consortium...in the hands of that heretic sect."

(End of this chapter)