Alien Relic Hunter

Chapter 287 Find a way out
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The dry rations that Ke Lan and the others carried together with the supplies looted from the mercenaries were enough for the seven of them to last for about seven days. As for the drinking water, after filtering and purifying the water in the saltwater lake, it could barely meet the minimum drinking standard ——In other words, after deducting the two days that have passed, they still have five days... If they can't find a way to leave the ruins within these five days, they can only eat...

The hound turned his head to look at the piles of mercenary corpses in the distance, and tried his best to let his nose ignore the rotten smell floating in the air—to be honest, if he really had to go to the point of no return, he would rather go eat the meat from the bottom of the lake. the big octopus.

Hope those piranhas haven't eaten up that big octopus yet...

Throwing the corpses of the exiles into the lake to feed the fish is to prevent some strange things from parasitizing their bodies. As for the corpses of these mercenaries, the hounds don't know why Ke Lan keeps them... This guy is always impossible Are you really going to use the dead as emergency food reserves?

"Ke Lan... What are you planning to do with those corpses?" The hound couldn't help but ask, "The smell is so bad, my nose can't stand it."

"Be a bait." Ke Lan replied immediately, "Let those piranhas go."

"As bait? Are you going to go into the water again? You don't want to go to the cave that the mercenary said, do you?" The hound frowned. Know what's in that cave."

"But in the past two days, we have searched all over the part above the water surface, but we haven't found any exit, and the secret passage has been completely blocked. That cave is our last chance." Layton Said, pointing to the corpses in his voice, "Even if that guy is lying, at least they have been to that place and walked out alive...Since they can come out, then we shouldn't have a problem."

"Are you a single-minded person? Haven't you thought that after those gangsters took out the jar, they might trigger the hidden mechanism of the ruins? Don't you think that the cave will still be the place where they went in? What does it look like?"

The hound's words immediately choked Layton. What he said was not wrong. When the relic mechanism is activated, even the place originally judged to be a safe area will be instantly covered with traps. The first batch and the second batch of people who entered it will enjoy completely different treatment-not to mention, this is the case with the glacier relics that are close at hand: they came out of the core area alive, but the follow-up exploration teams were killed Completely buried under the rubble and ice.

"How about this," Ke Lan said, "Me, Asano Akira, and Layton, the three of us are currently the most capable people in the team. The three of us will explore the cave, and the others will stay in the cave." Stand by on shore. In this case, even if something happens, the entire army will not be wiped out."

"I don't agree. We want to go with you. It doesn't make sense for us to watch you go on the shore and try yourselves." The hound vetoed it.

"Now is not the time to act impulsively." Ke Lan said in a very calm tone, "Old dog, you are injured, and we can only be regarded as a burden for us to take you. If something unexpected happens, we will have to pay a part of it." Energy to take care of you... Or, if we decide to retreat, but you fall behind, do you think we should take the risk of destroying the group to save you?"

"But..." The hound wanted to refute, but found that Ke Lan was right. In this situation, not only him, but also Ivan and Qin Zhao can be regarded as "cumbersome". As for Zhuolige Figure, barely on a passing line.

Their abilities are useless underwater, and bringing them will only make the team extremely bloated.

"The three-person team is the best choice. The smaller the scale, the higher the flexibility in action. Even if we really encounter a monster, we can make the decision to fight or flee in the first place." Ke Lan Said.

"...Okay." The hound finally nodded, "Be careful, don't be brave, if you can't do it, run away, life-saving is the most important thing."

"Don't worry, I'm sure I'll die later than you!" Layton had just finished speaking, and Ke Lan had already kicked Ke Lan on the butt before the hound could do anything——

"I've never seen someone set a death flag for himself like this...you are the first." Ke Lan complained.

"Damn, the old dog keeps saying that I'm a crow's mouth, so isn't it true that I'm wrong?" Layton rubbed his buttocks and said with a smile.

"What about you, Asano? You just woke up, so there's nothing wrong with your physical condition?" Ke Lan looked at Akira Asano and asked.

"I'm fine." Akira Asano said.

The main reason why Ke Lan made this decision was because of Akira Asano's return. This is a combat force so powerful that it is almost unreasonable. It is completely impossible to measure this taciturn guy by the standards of ordinary humans... Even if it is Ke Lan, who has the ability to "stop time", is by no means an opponent of Akira Asano.

Even if he could clearly see the trajectory of Asano Akira's knife, he couldn't avoid the swift and windy attack at all, not to mention, Asano Akira also has that kind of explosive move that can overdraw his mental power, and he can instantly kill Drop the powerful "sea anemone head".

In the dark and deep underwater environment, Akira Asano's only disadvantage: blindness, can be almost ignored - even a person with normal vision, with the help of lights, has a very limited field of vision. No fingers.

But Akira Asano is different. Apart from eyesight, other senses are much more sensitive than ordinary people. The sound transmitted through the water body, the subtle fluctuations and undercurrents in the water...all of these can provide him with enough information, yes For him who has adapted to the darkness, the strength he can display in this environment is far superior to those of Ke Lan and others who use eyes as their main receptors.

As for Layton, the reason why Ke Lan chose him is even simpler: propeller propellers that can move quickly underwater, miniature rockets that can be used as torpedoes, and chainsaws and anchors that can be used as tools and weapons Wait... To sum it up, it can be accurately summed up in six words: the perfect tool man.

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The three put on the diving equipment brought by the mercenaries. In addition to the diving suits and scuba, the mercenaries were also equipped with several harpoon guns.Although the harpoon gun is not as good as a professional underwater weapon, it is cheaper. An alloy harpoon only costs less than [-] credits, which is about the same as a bullet of the "Shark Hunter" underwater machine gun. ——If all these mercenaries were equipped with "shark hunters" and "vortex torpedoes", that would be a really strange thing.

Even for those top relic hunters, such expensive cutting-edge equipment is still a huge burden. To get these things, in addition to enough credit points, contacts and channels are also indispensable.

"Single-shot harpoon gun, one-time consumables...the power is not bad, but the hit rate is really poor." Layton commented, he didn't have a harpoon gun himself, he already had enough equipment, On the contrary, it was Ke Lan who planted six harpoons behind him. From a distance, he looked like an old general on the stage of an old era.

"You said just now that I set up a flag, so you planted flags behind your back?" Layton couldn't help complaining.

"Isn't it the same as pulling out the flag after shooting them all?" Ke Lan said, then picked up two submachine guns and a dozen magazines, and stuffed them into the backpack.

Although the mercenary said that the cave had been filled with sea water, he also said that the relative position of the cave was higher than the water surface of the saltwater lake—if the cave was not completely closed, the water level would be lower under the action of gravity. Eventually it will fall back to the level of the lake.

This is like turning a cup full of water upside down on the water surface. Due to the atmospheric pressure, the water in the cup will not flow out, but if a small hole is made at the bottom of the cup, the situation will be completely different.

Therefore, it is still necessary to carry some weapons used on land.

The mercenaries also had two inflatable kayaks in their equipment. The three of Ke Lan took one of them to the connection between the cave and the underground lake, while the hound and the others carried the remaining corpses to the underground lake the other end.

They will throw the rotting corpses into the lake, and try to lure those piranhas to the other end of the lake. Ke Lan and the others can take this opportunity to dive directly.

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Three 10 minutes later.

Ke Lan sat on the edge of the kayak, glanced at his watch, and said, "It's been 10 minutes since the scheduled time for putting the bait in. All the piranhas in the lake should have been attracted. It's time for us to act."

"Understood." Layton gave Ke Lan a thumbs up, jumped into the water first, and dived down quickly.

Ke Lan and Asano Akira also put on their scuba lungs, leaned back, and dived into the lake with their heads down.

"Test communication." Ke Lan said in the short-distance communication channel.

"13 meters away from you, the communication quality is good and there is no interference." Layton replied from below, "To be honest, this group of mercenaries really gave us a big gift. The shore stared blankly."

This sound wave communication device was also found from the backpacks of the mercenaries. They knew in advance that the mission would require diving, and they were much more prepared than Ke Lan and the others.

"Well, continue to dive and pay attention to the surrounding environment." Ke Lan said.

"The water flow is normal, and there is no abnormal sound source approaching. I only heard the sound of the propeller blades." Akira Asano said in the communication channel. Now he is like a humanoid living sonar, every move within tens of meters. Can't escape his ears——In order to improve the monitoring accuracy as much as possible, Akira Asano didn't even wear a diving suit, his entire upper body was naked, and the scuba only chose a half-covered style.

Ke Lan stared closely at the mechanical depth gauge in his hand. The dial of the depth gauge was coated with fluorescent coating, emitting a faint light in the dark environment. The slender metal pointer was moving little by little, which meant that Their diving depth is constantly increasing...

20 meters...25 meters...

30 meters...35 meters...

Finally, when the pointer was about to point to 39 meters, Layton's voice came from the earphone: "I found it, the stone gate that guy said...but the stone gate is open."

"Understood, you are on standby at Shimen. Akira Asano and I will be there soon." After Ke Lan finished speaking, he accelerated his dive speed, and after a while, he was already beside Layton.

A three-meter-high stone door suddenly appeared on the rock wall, and the two doors opened inwards, clinging to the two walls of the passage, and there were several extremely obvious scratches on the inside of the passage.

Ke Lan glanced at the depth gauge again, it was exactly 50 meters.

"Ke Lan, there are words on this door...it seems to be in alpha characters, come and have a look, what is written here?" Layton put his hands on the door on the right, and shouted in a low voice.

Ke Lan leaned over and took a look, and it was indeed a string of alpha characters. Although the stone gate was severely eroded due to long-term immersion in salt water, the shapes of these characters could barely be discerned.

"What does this mean?" Layton couldn't help asking again.

"This is a series of serial numbers..." Ke Lan said, with a hint of doubt in his words, "Just like numbers or letters in human language, there is no specific meaning, and the only function is to sort."

"Sort? Number?" Layton was taken aback, "Does that mean that there is more than one stone gate like this and this passage?"

"It's hard to say, but now we don't have time to look for other stone gates." Ke Lan took a harpoon gun from behind and held it in his hand, nodded to Layton and Akira Asano, "Let's go, hurry up time."

"Hmm." Layton was still the vanguard, with a light turn of the propeller, he had already floated into the passage.

Ke Lan and Asano Akira followed immediately.

The three of them walked less than 20 meters before Layton stopped again.

"There are also alpha characters here." He said, "The left side, the right side... and the top and bottom. The amount of text is quite large. This time, it won't just be a series of numbers, right?"

As he said, from here, a large number of alpha characters began to appear in the passage, and even the floor under his feet was paved with stone slabs full of characters.

But Ke Lan only glanced at it, and there was still a strong sense of vigilance in his heart. He quickly turned his head away, and said to Layton, "Don't look at those characters!"

"What do these words mean? Why can't I read them? Besides, I can't understand them even if I read them..." Layton said with some puzzlement. The text has been removed.

"It is difficult for me to translate the meaning of these words to you in human language, but I can tell you their function... just now, I just tried to understand the meaning of these words, and a wave of Irresistible drowsiness... There are problems with these words themselves! I suspect that the mercenary's trance phenomenon must have something to do with them."

"They must be staring at these words because they are curious." Ke Lan continued, "Whether they can understand these words or not, these words will have a certain effect on the people who look at them—"

(End of this chapter)