Alien Relic Hunter

Chapter 284
"This assignment was actually private work by Ryan, and the company didn't know about it... Maybe they thought that Ryan and I were on vacation... That bastard Ryan, he seems to have signed another agreement with his employer, we get The money of the buffalo mercenary group is more than that of the buffalo mercenary group, but because of this, we have to do more than those buffalo people."

"Using money to do things, isn't this the professional code of your profession?" Ke Lan said.

"I know, that's not what I mean... I just... just regret why I listened to Ryan and came to this goddamn place for this goddamn mission...damn Ryan... oh he's dead... ...Damn it!" the mercenary said bitterly.

"It's useless for you to complain about these things. You might as well tell us everything you know. Only when we find a way out can you return to the ark alive. It's better here." Ke Lan said, "Continue to talk about what happened after you went into the water."

"We got our gear on and started to dive...but me and Ryan and the other bison, we had no idea where we were going, we just followed the two exiles... Let me think about it...it should be towards the southwest, and I swam about more than 100 meters. As for the depth, I remember looking at the depth gauge halfway, it was 37 meters, and then I dived a certain distance, but it should not be More than 50 meters deep."

He took a breath and continued: "That location... There is a closed stone door on the rock wall, but the exile who took the lead just groped on the stone door, and the door opened... Then we walked along the door behind the door. I can't remember how far I walked in the passage, and my consciousness seemed to have become a little dazed at that time, until I surfaced..."

"Trance?" Ke Lan repeated the word. As someone who has personally experienced those nightmares, he naturally understands why the mercenary's consciousness appears in a trance-obviously, this is also related to mental attacks, which should be relics A defensive method... But the problem is, after the mercenary suffered a mental attack, it is hard to say whether the things he saw were real or illusory...

"That cave is very big, about the same size as this place." The mercenary said, "But there is no water in it, and the location should be higher than the lake surface... because after we surfaced, we still walked a long section of stone steps to get to the place." Go into that cave."

Ke Lan looked to the southwest, but he could only see a stone wall covered with fluorescent fungi. As for the stone gates, passages and steps mentioned by the mercenaries, he could only rely on imagination to complete them.

There is a complex architectural structure inside the mountain, which they already knew before they came to Tiankeng... It is for this reason that Ke Lan felt that it was a real building when he was in the nine stone rooms. The world—after all, with the technology of the Alpha civilization, it is easy to build such a mechanism. He subconsciously associated the nine stone chambers with the mechanical structures found in the ice layer, completely unaware that they were just Unreal dream world.

"The shape of that cave... how should I say it... looks like... a big funnel..." the mercenary said.

"Funnel? You mean... like a stepped auditorium? It's low in the middle and high around it?" Ke Lan tried to describe the appearance of the cave he imagined.

"That's right! That's what it looks like. I originally wanted to say the auditorium, but I didn't think of the word for a while, so I used the funnel to describe it..." The mercenary nodded repeatedly, "In the lowest part of the cave center , there is a platform, and the jar is placed on the platform... By the way, the platform is very regular, with some obvious cutting marks on the edge, which is not naturally formed at first glance."

"Of course it wasn't formed naturally," the hound couldn't help interjecting, "In my opinion, this underground lake and this seemingly natural erosion cave were all created by the Alpha people—this area does not belong to karst. Landform, how could there be such a large volume of natural water inside the mountain!"

"What is karst landform?" The mercenary asked in a daze.

Unlike relic hunters who need to master a lot of knowledge and various special skills, the entry requirements for mercenaries are simply frighteningly low.It is exaggerated, anyone who can pull the trigger can become a mercenary. There is no such thing as entry assessment in this industry, and the quality of the employees is also uneven, and the guy in front of him is obviously It is because they have almost forgotten all the things taught in the compulsory education stage on the Ark.

"Karst landform refers to the general term for the surface and underground forms formed by soluble rocks under the erosion of water. It mainly refers to karst caves, underground rivers and dark lakes. Karst landforms are generally located in areas with high temperature and abundant flowing water resources. The geological composition is dominated by calcium carbonate rock formations... and the area where this glacier is located is called periglacial landform, or permafrost landform. Although ice and snow can also erode rocks, the eroded appearance is quite different from karst landform. Ke Lan explained, "Moreover, the most important point is that fresh water is formed after the melting of glaciers, and this is a saltwater lake."

"No... I remember I accidentally choked on water in that passage. It's fresh water... not salty!" the mercenary said in surprise.

"Then you have another sip?" The hound took a coat that was spread on the stone, and wrung it hard on the mercenary's head. The water dripped on the mercenary's face immediately, and the mercenary stuck out his tongue. I went to lick it, and immediately spit it out with a bitter face.

"It's so strange, you have been staying by this lake for so long, and you don't even know whether the lake is salty or light?" the hound complained.

"No, old dog, you can't blame him." As if thinking of something, Ke Lan stretched out his hand and patted the hound's leg, motioning him to sit down first, "He said just now... he was walking through that passage , had symptoms of trance."

"You mean... he also fell into a dream at that time? So the lake water he tasted was fresh? Doesn't this mean that the funnel cave is also an illusion and doesn't exist at all?"

"The cave may be an illusion, but the jar is real... After all, the people who stayed on the shore were not attacked mentally." Ke Lan analyzed, "We can try to change our thinking: Is there a possibility... that The place where the pot is, can only be reached in a half-dream and half-awake state?"

(End of this chapter)