Alien Relic Hunter

Chapter 252 The Stone Tablet Test
"It can't be helped. If you know that half of the people who have entered the ruins will suffer from madness, with this little reward, who else would want to go there!" Dana said, "Any big hunting group who knows this will almost It’s all done like this, everyone has already tacitly accepted this unspoken rule, otherwise, how can there be any money to be made.”

"Besides," Dana continued, "Actually, this is not a lie. After all, this is also an S-level ruins. Anyone in our business knows how dangerous an S-level ruin is. Half of the people who enter will come out alive." It’s not easy, let alone just suffering from madness... say, maybe those crazy hunters will suddenly return to normal at some point, right?”

Dana glanced at the hound, then at Ke Lan standing behind, and said: "If you also plan to mine the steles in the tiankeng, you'd better choose this kind of operation mode-these jobs are not high-tech, Those rookies who have just entered the industry can also complete it. It just so happens that these newcomers are eager to get the exploration records of high-level relics to improve their qualifications, and the hunting group can save personnel expenses to the greatest extent. Isn't that right? Is it the best of both worlds?"

"..." The hound really wanted to reprimand the other party, but couldn't think of the right words for a while—it is true that these big hunting groups concealed the risks in the ruins, but the level of the S-class ruins was clearly there Well, any hunter who has received basic training courses knows what S-level means. They dare to choose this level of tasks, which naturally means that they are willing to bear the corresponding risks.

In fact, Ke Lan and the others are the same. Although they already know that more than half of the people who entered the bottomless sinkhole have gone crazy, compared to other S-level relics with a death rate of [-]%, this place is considered the safest An S-rank relic of...

"Using the loopholes in the industry rules and the mentality of rookie hunters who are eager for quick success..." Ke Lan said, "This is very immoral, but it does not violate the relevant regulations, and it can also maximize the interests of the hunting group... From the official Considering it from a different perspective, they need enough relic steles to study the secrets of the Alpha civilization, and to obtain such steles, someone has to take risks... These crazy hunters, in their eyes, are completely acceptable cost'."

In the business of relic hunters, the life of a rookie is actually very cheap. More than half of the hunters who die in the relics every year are newcomers who participated in the mission for the first time... To put it bluntly, they are actually a batch of consumables Well, if these people's lives can be exchanged for spoils of sufficient value, then this "sale" is not a loss.

Ke Lan and the others have also come from rookies step by step. They know better than anyone how cruel the reality is.

It is precisely because of this that even if it is only a temporary team, they will never abandon their teammates easily when they are not in a real desperate situation-no one knows if they will be injured next time. If the injured teammate is abandoned, then the person who is abandoned tomorrow may be his turn.

"Yeah, you're right!" Dana nodded again and again, "If these rookie hunters explore other ruins instead, they might just get in for nothing. Here, there are at least half-open Opportunity isn’t it! If you’re lucky and have nothing to do when you go back, you can earn money and get the qualifications to explore S-level relics, and you won’t be able to find such a good thing anywhere else with a lantern!”

"Mr. Dana, do you still remember the hunters under your command? How many of them went crazy after returning?" Ke Lan changed the subject and asked.

"These batches of hunters sent here were taken away by the headquarters after returning. I don't know how many were crazy, but I do know the first batch of people who went down... Counting myself, there are a total of ten hunters. Seven people are all experienced hunters, exactly ten are crazy." Dana recalled, wringing his fingers.

"Have you been down there too?" Ke Lan hurriedly asked after hearing Dana claiming that he was also among them.

"At that time, we knew nothing about this ruin, and half of the people who didn't know that going down would go crazy...Of course, if I were to let me go down now, I wouldn't dare. This thing is like a lottery, with a 50.00% chance, It's so evil... However, I think it's worth taking this risk - as an insider of this incident, the headquarters directly promoted me to two levels, my salary and bonus were increased several times, and I was also in charge of the management Those newcomers who will be added later." Dana smiled, "This is the benefit of my life in exchange for it."

"Then do you know why half of the people go crazy? When you were in the tiankeng, did you feel anything unusual, or did you hear some strange sounds?"

"Strange sound? To be honest, there is a whistling wind inside the tiankeng, and there is no other sound at all. Not to mention the abnormal feeling. When I went down, I was thinking about how to maintain the suspension rope. Who has the mind to take care of other things." Dana said.

"Then after you came out of the sinkhole, did you have any nightmares?" Ke Lan asked again.

"Nightmare? Tsk... It seems that you have a lot of things." Dana couldn't help but glance at Ke Lan, "Those brothers who went crazy did tell me that they have been having nightmares recently. I often wake up in the middle of the night. But I am different, I sleep until dawn every day, and I don’t even remember what I dreamed the night before.”

"What about the other six hunters who haven't gone crazy? How are they doing now?"

"Five people went on a long vacation, and there is one unlucky guy who has a strong sense of justice and wants to... Oh, forget it, let's not mention him." Dana waved his hand as he said, "I know That’s all there is to it. As for the actual situation under the tiankeng, you can use the drone to go around and go around. By the way, I remind you that the drone must not go deep into the position below 300 meters. The magnetic field interference is relatively strong, and electronic equipment will fail.”

……

After asking some irrelevant things, Ke Lan and the others returned to the "Greece" with the stone tablet they bought.

"How about it, what's written on those steles?" The hound asked Ke Lan impatiently as soon as his butt sat down.

"It's all experimental records." Ke Lan's face was a little dignified.

"What experimental records?" It was Ivan who spoke this time. As a doctor and biologist, he is also a "container" parasitized by eroded seeds. He is naturally the most sensitive to such things.

"Experimental records of biological weapons, among them there are some things similar to the Seed of Corrosion... However, except for the one we bought back."

"Is there anything special about this stele?" Layton asked after looking at the big ice lump packed in a foam box.

"What is written on this stele is a prayer, and the content is very similar to the one we found in the sarcophagus." Ke Lan said word by word.

Everyone couldn't help but suffocate, and after a few seconds, the hound opened his mouth and said, "You mean, this stele...maybe also has that...that special function, which can allow one of us...to master The language of the Alpha civilization?!"

"Not sure, but give it a try."

(End of this chapter)