Alien Relic Hunter

Chapter 212 Central Industrial Park
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Passing through the fan-shaped square is the entrance to the Central Industrial Park of the Arasaka Foundation.

There were still some fleeing rebel stragglers here, but they were quickly wiped out by Victoria—she seemed to be venting, and her fighting style became extremely rough: first, relying on her high mobility to quickly approach the target , and then opened fire with a large-caliber hunting pistol at a distance close to their heads... As the heads were blasted one by one, the brand-new prosthetic body that Victoria had just put on was soon covered with red and white filth... …

"Prepare to explode, count down to ten seconds, ten—" Ke Lan fixed a time bomb on the main gate of the Central Industrial Park, and then quickly ran back behind the building used as a shelter.

"Nine, eight, seven...two, one."

"boom!!!"

There was a loud bang, and the electronic lock of the gate was blown to pieces, and the piercing siren sounded... If it was normal, a large number of security personnel would have rushed out of the park long ago, but this is just now , the entire industrial park looked around and there was no one at all. The sirens kept echoing in the empty and quiet park, but it seemed a little out of tune.

"It has been confirmed that all the automatic defense systems have been disarmed, and you can move on." Victoria walked out from the guard post where the security guards were stationed. She had just directly used violence to invade the defense system of the industrial park, but found that the park's backup energy source had not been activated. , when the power outage accident occurred, all monitoring equipment and automatic defense weapons in the entire park had stopped operating, and they have not been restored until now.

At the entrance of the industrial park are two technology companies wholly owned by the Arasaka consortium. The research and development departments and production departments are all set up in the same factory area. One specializes in the production of computer chips, and the other has one of the best reputations in the field of Nino alloy applications. .

"The security bureaus of these two companies have checked dozens of times and found no problems," Victoria said.

"Of course there will be no problem... Whether it is computer chips or alloy materials, these things are basically produced for export. If there is a problem, it has been noticed long ago... On the contrary, security companies like 'Ranger' , is the problem.”

"It's true...every time the 'Rangers' are found, the person in charge will always use the excuse that most of the staff are performing tasks outside the ark... Even if we insist on investigating, those who stay are all The low-level staff they hired specifically to cope with the inspection, these people are doing peripheral work that cannot touch the company's secrets, and they can't find anything at all." Regarding Ke Lan's words, Victoria quite agrees this time.

"But no one thought that these mercenaries would become believers of heresy sects... maybe their 'task' outside the ark was to disguise themselves as exiles and attack the transfer station and field troops. Do you still remember how we Was it exiled to the settlement of exiles?"

"I know that those 'exiles' who attacked the battleship should be the mercenaries. Moreover, those black households who did not keep files in the ark were specially selected. Even if the bodies of those attackers were brought back, they would not be found. their identities."

"By the way, the high-level members of the Arasaka Consortium should all be in that high tower now, right? Don't tell me they have escaped from the ark...I can't wait to tear these people alive." Ke Lan said bitterly—— If the attack on the battleship was also done by the Arasaka consortium and the heretic sect, then the crash of the transport plane he and the Hound and others took is almost indistinguishable. The culprit for everything that happened from the glacier ruins to now is actually the same family. If the hound's violent temper knew this, he would definitely be jumping to greet the ancestors of the Arasaka family by now.

"As the key monitoring targets of the Security Bureau, members of the board of directors of the Arasaka Foundation and important members of the Arasaka family, except for the second person Arasaka Ryuichi who disappeared two years ago, all of them live in the residential area around the Arasaka Tower. As of the power outage accident, there is no record of going out." Victoria said.

"That's good..." Ke Lan touched the holster on his waist, but at this moment, the Geiger counter on his body suddenly beeped.

"There is radiation here." Ke Lan reacted immediately, and he glanced at the screen of the counter. Fortunately, the radiation intensity was not high enough to require wearing protective clothing. It's in a relic hunter's carry-on bag, but it's always on hand.

"I also detected it, and the direction is there." Victoria said, pointing to the chip company not far away.

"Could it be a leakage accident?" Ke Lan swallowed two pills, "But... there should be no radiation source of this intensity in the factory that manufactures calculator chips, right?"

"Go and have a look... If the radiation intensity continues to increase, don't follow, just stay where you are." Victoria said, walking towards the factory first.

It didn't take long for the two of them to determine the location of the radiation source based on the intensity of the radiation—workshop No. [-] of this chip factory.

The radiation intensity here was three times higher than what was detected at the beginning, and Ke Lan had to take two more anti-radiation pills.

"There are no protective measures in the structure of the factory building. It doesn't look like a place specially used to deal with radioactive materials..." Ke Lan walked around the workshop and said.

Victoria, on the other hand, had forcibly opened the fire door on one side with a mechanical hand, and walked in with a gun.

"There is a situation here."

Hearing Victoria's voice, Ke Lan quickly followed in, but as soon as he stepped into the factory building, he realized... This is not a building for the production of calculator chips at all.

The external structure of the factory building is a cuboid, but the interior is a circular hall. On the edge of this hall, dozens of tall glass jars are displayed. These jars are filled with orange-yellow turbid liquid. In these liquids, Immersed in human-like and non-human remains, their limbs are extremely distorted-only the remains in the jar closest to Ke Lan: this remains has a human-like torso, but the ribs in the chest cavity are arranged very Chaos, these bones are intertwined with each other, and some even pass directly through the shriveled organs. Just looking at it is enough to make people feel scalp numb... The upper limbs of the remains are very short, as if underdeveloped The deformed fetus, but the lower limbs were abnormally hypertrophied and swollen, like cancer cells growing uncontrollably and randomly, occupying more than three-quarters of the volume of the entire remains.

Even the elephant leg syndrome that Ke Lan has seen in medical literature is not so exaggerated.

"These people... are they all the products of the failure of the 'experiment' that Arasaka Yui said?" Ke Lan couldn't help but ask.

But Victoria shook her head solemnly: "These remains... probably have a history of more than a thousand years..."

"Thousands of years?! Are these things... left over from the old era?" Ke Lan was a little stunned. Following Victoria's gaze, he noticed that there was a brass-colored nameplate embedded on the ground in front of each glass jar. This one reads: "Ghoul sample No. 1332, collected in 2147 of the old era, in the area around the island of disaster."

Ghoul is a collective term for people who suffered from severe radiation sickness but survived, and eventually mutated into terrifying monsters... As for the name of the place, it would be a long story.

In the old era of 2111, the Fushima Nuclear Power Plant was hit by an earthquake and a leakage accident occurred... This was an accident that could have been controlled, but because of the extremely irresponsible attitude of the Tokyo Electric Power Company to which the nuclear power plant belongs, the accident took place in a very short period of time. It has risen to level [-], the highest level of nuclear accidents... and ten years after the accident, due to a series of problems such as the cost of aftermath, the Tokyo Electric Power Company and the brazen Japanese government colluded and decided to discharge millions of tons of polluted nuclear wastewater into the ocean...

[PS has some private goods, I am afraid that Harmony will change a few words, everyone understands, a certain country is Cancer of Asia...]

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