Alien Relic Hunter

Chapter 266 Double-moon Eclipse (4000-word chapter)
"Sorry, I was a little too..." The hunter named Martin said with some embarrassment, "The last...in my memory seems to be an explosion and an avalanche at the end..."

"Memory? Finally?" Ke Lan narrowed his eyes, "Don't you remember what you just dreamed?"

"Dream? What dream? Do you mean when I was unconscious?" Martin said in amazement. From his very natural expression, it can be seen that he should not be lying.

Ke Lan and the hound looked at each other and nodded to each other—it seems that the spiritual attack of the bottomless sinkhole is not a "covering attack". Like this Martin and Qin Zhao, they obviously did not suffer from nightmares. It's just that he was stunned.

"You two, can you tell us what happened? Also, where is this place? Could it be... Could it be at the bottom of the tiankeng?" Martin looked at the stone room in some panic, and stood there. Qin Zhao next to him was much calmer. She lowered her head, not knowing what she was thinking about.

"We don't know where this place is, but it probably won't be far from the tiankeng." Ke Lan said, "As for what happened before-the exile's convoy attacked the observatory and your Polaris camp, and the explosion triggered a catastrophe. The avalanche, we, like you, were affected, fell into the sinkhole, and when we woke up, we were already in this place."

"In other words, we were moved into this stone room?" Qin Zhao raised his head, frowned slightly, and asked Ke Lan.

"It should be, but it's hard to say whether it's a 'human' who moved us."

"Then let's find a way to get out of here now, I always feel that staying in this place is more than auspicious!" Martin said hastily.

"We also want to leave here, but there is no exit from this place." The hound shrugged.

"There is no exit? How is it possible? Then how did we get in?" While Martin was still yelling, Qin Zhao had already walked into an adjacent stone room, and her voice came from the next door: "These stone rooms, Are all rooms the same?"

"There are nine rooms in total, all the same." The hound replied, "There is no need to waste time, we have already checked it countless times."

"Then we are trapped here to die?" Martin looked a little depressed, "I thought I was dead when I fell from the wall of the pit, but I didn't die... I didn't die, but I want to live I can't live..."

He knelt on the ground, raised his head, and said sadly, "I don't want to die... I'm still a virgin, and there are still many things I want to do that I haven't done yet..."

Hearing his lament, the hound suddenly burst out laughing. He turned his head to look at Ke Lan, but the latter glared back fiercely.

"We are trapped to death, but not completely trapped." Ke Lan glanced at his watch, "There are 25 minutes left, and the mechanism of the stone room should be activated."

"Institution? What institution?" Martin was shocked when he heard that there was hope of going out, and he straightened up and asked.

Qin Zhao also quickly returned to the stone room, staring at Ke Lan with burning eyes.

"I don't know. The only clue we have is the 'bi-moon eclipse', and there are still 24 minutes until the nearest bi-moon eclipse." Ke Lan replied.

"Just wait and see what happens - I advise you not to be too happy, no one knows what will happen... Maybe nothing will happen." The Hound added.

"Why is it a double moon eclipse?" Qin Zhao stepped forward, "How did you get this clue?"

"This involves commercial secrets. You are a member of the Polaris Hunting Group. It is impossible for us to tell you." The hound said, suddenly showing a smirk, and patted the holster on his waist, "Of course, if you really If you really want to know, I can also tell you... But, after I finish speaking, I will silence you, how about it? Do you want to be a seeker of "when you hear the truth in the morning, you can die in the evening"? "

"I don't want to know, I don't want to know at all, please don't tell me!" Before Qin Zhao could speak, Martin was already lying on the ground, his eyes were tightly closed, and his hands were covering his ears vigorously. I was afraid that I might accidentally hear the "commercial secrets" that the hound said.

"Then...then forget it." Qin Zhao showed a timid look on his face, and shook his head lightly.

After all, they are just a group of inexperienced rookie hunters, and they are too young in front of Ke Lan and the hunting dog.

"There are still 10 minutes." Ke Lan said lightly.

The hound walked over and pulled Martin who was lying on the ground up. The latter trembled with fright, thinking that he was going to be silenced.

"What are you cowardly? How dare you come to explore the S-level ruins if you are so cowardly?" The hound was furious, and smacked the opponent's butt vigorously.

"Because...because...they said...the ruins are not dangerous, the casualty rate is almost zero, and the dead people fell down due to operating errors...I...I came here..." Martin said timidly , "They also said that this ruin may be downgraded soon, so come here before it's downgraded... This way the pay will be much higher, and you can also add an S-level exploration qualification to yourself... They say it's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity..."

His articulation was not very clear, but Ke Lan and the hunting dog still got the general idea. The hunting dog sighed and shook his head with some embarrassment: "'They'...who are they? People from the Polaris Hunting Group?"

"No, it's the people I met in the Hunter's Gathering House and the bar. They said they have reliable contacts and they only need a little agency fee to introduce me here..."

"The feelings are being sold and you are still counting the money." The hound said, "You have all been deceived. There are indeed very few people who died in this ruins, but more than half of them went crazy after returning. Presumably they didn't Shall I tell you this?"

"Crazy, crazy?" Martin was taken aback, and asked in disbelief, "What's going on?"

"Spiritual attack, there should be some device in the ruins that will launch a spiritual attack on people who enter the sinkhole. This kind of spiritual attack cannot be detected by human senses, but anyone who is attacked will fall into a nightmare. I can't extricate myself..." Ke Lan said.

"So, that's why you asked us if we were dreaming just now?" Qin Zhao asked.

"Yes." In this matter, Ke Lan did not intend to hide it. Anyway, this is a dispute between Qin Zhao and others and the Polaris Hunting Group, and has nothing to do with them.

"Then they...Cao Feng and the others, have they suffered a mental attack?" Qin Zhao looked at the person lying on the ground.

"Three of them can be confirmed to have been mentally attacked, but I have injected them with Mengzao preparation and neutralizing agent, so there will be no danger for the time being." Ke Lan said, "The only problem is that they have a full ten Two hours... Oh, no, based on the injection dose, it may be more than twelve hours."

Ke Lan received another injection at the back. Based on this calculation, the sleeping time of Cao Feng, Ivan and Asano Akira will be extended to more than [-] hours.

"What about the others?"

"They should just be comatose..."

Before Ke Lan finished speaking, Layton sat up from the ground, and muttered in a dazed way: "This... where is this? Wait! Didn't I fall into the sinkhole? Old dog ? Ke Lan?!"

"Stop barking, we're all alive." The hound stepped forward, kicked Layton's ass, and pulled him into a nearby stone room.

There are some things that Qin Zhao and Martin cannot know... Otherwise, according to what the hound said, they can only be silenced.

Not long after, Zhuoligetu also woke up, and learned through communication that Layton and Zhuoligetu also didn't have any nightmares...or they didn't remember them at all.

Ke Lan glanced at his watch again. It was 2 minutes before the "double lunar eclipse".

At this time, Qin Zhao suddenly said: "Well...can you exchange our weapons for us? In case something unexpected happens, Martin and I can also provide you with some support."

"Support?" The hunting dog glanced at Martin who was standing behind Qin Zhao, "In case something unexpected happens, are you sure this kid won't accidentally injure his own people in a hurry?"

"No, no, no..." Martin hastily argued, "I got full marks in the shooting subjects in the relic hunter entry assessment..."

"It's also thanks to your perfect marks in shooting, which helped you get a lot of points, otherwise I would have doubted that you would fail." The hound complained, "With your mental quality, no matter how good your marksmanship is, it's useless... Shoot and shoot." Targeting a target is not the same thing as shooting a monster that's coming at you."

"Strange, monster... Ex-senior, have you encountered monsters in the ruins? What do those monsters... look like?"

"That's too much..."

Just when the hound was about to brag, Ke Lan interrupted him: "Stop bragging at this time, there are still [-] seconds left."

After finishing speaking, Ke Lan turned his head again, and said to Layton quickly: "Layton, return the gun to them, if something really jumps out, it is impossible for us to separate people to protect them. Give them a little bit of self-preservation."

"Hey, go on." Layton threw the two pistols in the holsters to Qin Zhao and Martin, "Rookies, remember one thing, never point the gun at your own people, even if the safety is off. Not even time!"

He only gave the two of them one magazine each. In Layton's view, if one magazine couldn't solve the problem, several more would not help, especially for such an inexperienced rookie.

The effect of giving them a gun is more courageous than self-defense.

"Five seconds." Ke Lan stared at the pointer on the dial.

Everyone held their breath involuntarily. They only felt that the last five seconds seemed extremely long. The slender second hand seemed to be stuck with glue, and it didn't jump for a long time.

……

"It seems that nothing happened?" The hound said softly, holding the gun tightly in both hands, raised his head, and carefully looked at the ceiling above his head.

"Hush... there seems to be some sound." Ke Lan made a silent gesture, but the next second, his face suddenly changed, "The sound of water! It's the sound of water!"

Although there were no cracks or holes on the floor of the stone room, a large amount of clear liquid actually came out directly from the floor, covering everyone's feet in the blink of an eye.

"Lift up the man who is lying on the ground!" cried the Hound, "and put him on the stone pedestal!"

The liquid quickly reached the height of Ke Lan's chest, almost flush with the surface of the stone platform. Just when Ke Lan was worried about how to solve the breathing problem after the stone chamber was filled, the water level finally stopped rising.

"It seems to have stopped." Martin couldn't help but said, he glanced at Ke Lan and the others, "We... what should we do?"

"Test the composition of these liquids first." Ke Lan nodded to Layton and said.

"...This thing is serious water. According to the analysis results, it contains a certain amount of mineral impurities, but it is not toxic, has no radiation, and no parasites or other microorganisms have been found... From a certain point of view Generally speaking, it is cleaner than most of the water sources on Alpha Planet, and fully meets the fourth-level drinking standard."

"Can you drink it?" The hound froze for a moment, couldn't help scooping up a handful of water, put it in front of his nose and sniffed it.

"You can drink it after a little filtering." Layton nodded.

"But that's not the point. The point is... where did the water come from." Ke Lan said in a deep voice, "It's impossible to reach this flow rate just by the gap at the junction of the stone chamber."

"You mean...a certain channel may have been opened, and the water was poured in from this channel?" The person who spoke was Qin Zhao, and Ke Lan couldn't help but glance at her—this young girl Although she is an intern hunter, she is calm in situations and has a fast thinking speed. If they can get out alive, they can consider absorbing her into the Hunting God Hunting Group.

After all, a consortium-level hunting group cannot always rely on the six of them. To grow it, it must absorb fresh blood, and this Qin Zhao is a good seed.

In contrast, the one named Martin is the normal performance that most rookies should have.

"Yes, so I suggest that everyone spread out and look for this passageway... The time for the 'double lunar eclipse' is only less than 4 minutes. After this node, the passageway may be closed, so hurry up."

As he said that, Ke Lan found a pair of breathing masks from the equipment bag and put them on his face: "Old dog, you take Layton and Zhuoligetu to that direction—"

He pointed to Qin Zhao and Martin: "You two, follow me."

……

The water is not turbid, and the visibility is not bad—but because there is no light source in the stone room, it is completely dependent on the flashlight for lighting, and it is difficult to see the underwater scene clearly through the water surface. Swim around, checking the underwater walls and ground with lights.

As for the part above the water, it was handed over to Qin Zhao and Martin who did not have breathing masks.

(End of this chapter)