Alien Relic Hunter

Chapter 239 Bottomless Tiankeng
Ke Lan can still clearly remember the news scene he saw on the TV screen of the hospital - collapsing glaciers, sinking mountains, crescent-shaped sinkholes filled with white dust and mist...

This is actually an S-rank relic?
The information merchant "ACMS_0420" in the forum had tried to sell information about this ruin to him before, but he had already accepted the commission from Leviathan at that time, so he didn't pay attention to this news.

At that time, according to the laser ranging data, the depth of this tiankeng was more than 2000 meters... From this point of view, the location of this twin ruins should be directly below the original "A-087" ruins, compared to Ke Lan and the others explored a much deeper position than before.

"How could this ruin be classified as S-level? What did the advance team find inside?" Ke Lan couldn't help asking.

"They..." The hound's eyes were fixed on the screen, and he swallowed a mouthful of saliva with some difficulty. "They found traces of suspected prehistoric creatures in the depths of 400 meters in the sinkhole."

"Prehistoric species? Is there a primordial species under here?" Layton jumped up from the chair at once, and the mechanical structure on his body made a strange "click".

After experiencing the Leviathan incident, everyone was more or less "allergic" to the term "prehistoric species"-although the hounds had planned to name the hunting group "prehistoric hunting group", in fact, they all It is clear that in the face of the existence of the prehistoric species that can almost subvert the laws of nature, human beings are too weak, and the strength of individuals is almost negligible...

If there is really a primordial species dormant under this bottomless sinkhole, then they will definitely not choose to take up this task.

Only those who have truly seen the horror of this creature can deeply appreciate the sense of despair and powerlessness.

"No...the biological detection device didn't find any signs of life under the tiankeng...all they found were traces..." The hound's face softened a little, and everyone else heaved a sigh of relief.

"That's strange. If it's just the traces left by the wild species, why wouldn't the people in the rating committee classify this relic as S-class?" Ke Lan asked with some doubts.

When he dived into the undersea city, he saw similar "traces" in the underground facility on that deserted island, and he was sure that a prehistoric creature was absolutely "imprisoned" there... But the problem is , the level of danger in that place is actually not high. The only two threats are the underground labyrinth and the seeds of erosion, but the former often appears in many C-level and B-level ruins, and the latter is caused by stalagmites and flesh-eating The living cells of the worm complete these two things.

Although the vast majority of relic hunters have never been in contact with the Seed of Corrosion, and they don't even know the existence of this monster, but the rating committee must know this information-such a monster with restraint methods will not Being rated will be regarded as a "major risk factor" and the level of the ruins will be greatly increased.

The advance team must have found other things in the ruins.

"Uh... wait a minute, I'm buying detailed payment information."

There are three historical exploration records of the "bottomless tiankeng" of the S-018 ruins. Since this newly-appeared S-level ruins have attracted the attention of a large number of hunters, the detailed content of these three exploration records has risen to the price of nearly [-] credit points .

However, compared with the average income figures of hundreds of millions in each of these three explorations, these nearly 400 credit points are completely small sums. Ke Lan noticed that the number of purchases of these contents has reached 400 more than [-] Times... In other words, at least a thousand more than [-] hunting groups or solo hunters spent nearly ten thousand yuan for these information.

"It's really... hot." Ivan couldn't help sighing.

"Look... this is the first time I have obtained spoils from exploration!" The hound said pointing at the screen, and saw nearly a hundred stone tablets of different sizes in the photo, all of which were sealed in translucent ice. But judging from the photos, it is not clear what is on the stele.

"These steles were all found on the walls of the tiankeng, with depths ranging from 150 meters to 200 meters. They were cut out of the ice by those hunters with lasers..." The hunting dog looked at the tiankeng with deep meaning. He glanced at Ke Lan—the content contained in his sight was very clear to the people present: since Ke Lan has the ability to decipher the Alpha language, as long as he can decipher the content on these stone tablets, then this ruin will be of great importance to them. There will be no secrets at all. It is no exaggeration to say that this is simply a home court specially tailored for their hunting group.

The second photo shows dozens of relic hunters wearing engineering power armor, using the transport plane hovering above the tiankeng as a fulcrum, suspending themselves into the tiankeng with steel cables, holding explosive bolts in their hands A stable bracket and a small laser cutter, while the pit wall on the other side is covered with square incisions.

"Old dog, zoom in on the photo—I want to see the details of the pit wall." Ke Lan said.

"En." The hound nodded, and dragged two fingers on the screen lightly, and the photo was instantly magnified several times.

Although the photo suddenly became a lot blurred due to the limitation of pixels, they could still see that there were more steles sealed deep in the cutout of the pit wall.

The first batch of hunters who entered the tiankeng were limited by the power of their handheld devices. They could only take out the shallow stone tablets. As for the stone tablets deep in the ice, they probably had to use the "Longinus gun" "Large drilling rigs like that.

"It seems that the number of these steles is astonishing... If we decide to choose this ruin, we have to act faster. The longer we delay, the less valuable these things will be." Layton said.

The Hound turned back a few pages, but the content of this record file was basically only the photos of the stele that was taken out, the actual picture of the cutting operation, and a few related videos, and there was very little other information.

"Damn it... didn't these hunters encounter the guards of the ruins? Even if there were no guards... then there were no traps? Why do you feel that there are two completely different styles from the ruins of A-087? Back then, we almost I was trapped to death by those organs." The hound said with some resentment.

"Maybe it was because the glacier collapsed and destroyed the mechanism in the ruins?" Ivan guessed.

"No, in my opinion... this information should be incomplete." Ke Lan shook his head, "If there is no danger, it is impossible to be rated as S-level just because of the huge number of stone tablets... Moreover, the traces left by the prehistoric creatures are mentioned in the introduction, but there is no mention of it in this exploration record, don't you find it strange?"

(End of this chapter)