Alien Relic Hunter

Chapter 291 Remains
The square is covered with flat hexagonal metal floor tiles, and there is a faint white fluorescent light in the gaps between each floor tile. From Ke Lan's position, it looks like a giant honeycomb made of some kind of luminous material Grid, filled with a sense of unreality.

In Ke Lan's subconscious mind, there has always been a voice telling him: This is the real core area of ​​the "glacial relic" of No. A-087, and the location of the sarcophagus they discovered before is just a place on the upper level of the relic. Doubtful" that's all.

Fortunately, Ke Lan and the others did not conduct a further investigation of that place at that time, otherwise, it might be their turn to be buried by the collapsed ruins.

And the "bottomless tiankeng" that appeared after the glacier collapsed was actually part of the original glacier relic - this is not a twin relic at all, but a super-large-scale giant relic!

Ke Lan took a step forward and stepped on a hexagonal metal floor tile. Immediately, the circle of white fluorescent light around the tile rose up. It fell back to the ground again.

An Alfrench voice sounded in his mind: "The identity verification is complete, welcome back."

"Come back?" Ke Lan was taken aback for a moment, but before he could think further, all the white fluorescent light on the ground went out, and the next second, directly above the square, a dazzling star suddenly lit up in the sky. This luminous sphere casts light into every corner of the square, reflecting the world like daytime.

It was only then that Ke Lan saw clearly that in the center of the square, there was a huge statue more than ten meters high, made of gold and non-gold, and stone but not stone. There are even lifelike muscle lines and body joints, and even a bunch of organs between the legs that seem to be promotion tools, but it has no neck and head.

"This guy... why does he look more and more like Xing Tian in ancient mythology..." Ke Lan muttered softly, but when he moved his eyes away from this "Xing Tian Statue", he suddenly found that there was something at the foot of the statue. There are more than a dozen human remains scattered beside it!

Ke Lan immediately ran towards the feet of the statue.

He was absolutely sure that they were human bones—although these remains were severely damaged, and almost none of them were intact, but as a person who had already memorized the basics of modern medical textbooks, Ke Lan can still distinguish the names of these bones and their corresponding parts on the human body at a glance...

Ke Lan counted the number of skulls, and there were seventeen in total. In other words, at least seventeen people died here.

Could it be the mercenaries who came to fetch the jars?
That guy didn't tell the truth?In fact, the number of their team is more than 30, and most of them are lost here?
Ke Lan picked up a broken radius bone. The owner of this bone had obviously been dead for a long time... If it was really those mercenaries, the body should not have completely decomposed by this time.

Generally speaking, even if the flesh and blood of the corpse were devoured by some scavengers, it would take several years for the microorganisms to completely decompose the organic matter in the bones, and the piece in Ke Lan's hand The radius bone is as white as marble, and the broken section is full of cavities, obviously no organic matter exists in it.

Even, some of the bones have shown a sub-fossil-like texture.

But Ke Lan couldn't rule out that the special conditions in the ruins caused this to happen—those red flesh worms on Leviathan could eat up people without bones left in a blink of an eye, so if someone It doesn't seem to be a strange thing that something can absorb all the organic matter in a corpse in just a few days.

Ke Lan even suspected that these corpses were "eaten" by the puddle of pink meat...

It's just... why doesn't the pink meat paste attack herself?Moreover, why did I hear the voice of "Welcome back" after I entered this square?
I have never been to this place...

Could it be because of that stele?I "absorbed" the contents of that stele, so it is equivalent to obtaining the key to this ruin—could it be possible that I became the owner of this ruin by hitting the right way?
Although this guess sounds outrageous, it seems that it can only be explained in this way...

"This is... really... a bit too mysterious..."

Ke Lan rubbed his forehead speechlessly, he simply didn't think about these things, bent down, and searched among the bones.

As long as the relics of these deceased can be found, the identity of these deceased can be easily determined.

The clothes and personal belongings on these remains have disappeared. Ke Lan only found a rusty pistol, and a small part of the middle phalanx of the index finger was still clamped in the trigger ring of the pistol.

"Colt M1911?" Ke Lan immediately recognized the model of this pistol. This is a famous single-action semi-automatic pistol in the old era. Even today, more than 1000 years later, there are still many Imitation versions are circulating on the arms market.

"I didn't expect that there were lovers of retro firearms in this group of mercenaries..." Ke Lan said to himself, but for some reason, holding the Colt M1911 in his hand always felt a little weird.

"No... This grip feels a lot thicker than the original M1911... Besides, the muzzle is too small, right? This is definitely not a [-] caliber version."

Thinking of this, Ke Lan subconsciously pulled out the magazine of this pistol. What he didn't expect was that the reason why the grip of this gun is so fat is because it uses a double-row side-by-side magazine, and the magazine The bullet left inside is also a bullet that Ke Lan has only seen in the data...

"Six mm round-headed universal pistol bullet" - this is a pistol bullet developed in 755 of the new era. At that time, the Ark was still on an interstellar journey. Bullets were developed.

And because of its extremely weak lethality and the same caliber as the toy gun bullet, it was nicknamed "BB bomb".

But in the ninth year after the Ark landed on Alpha Planet, that is, in 909 of the new era, this kind of bullet was discarded and stopped production, and all the remaining ammunition was recycled, and the firearms using this kind of bullet were not transformed into other calibers , it was disassembled and thrown into the furnace...

The reason is simple: the power of the [-]mm "BB" bullet is so weak that even soft body armor made of Kevlar is difficult to penetrate, let alone the carbon fiber light armor that is now standard in the army. When dealing with the native creatures on Planet Alpha, the guns using these bullets are really no different from toy guns.

This kind of bullet was originally born for public security and anti-riot purposes, but after better substitutes were available, they withdrew from the stage of history, and can only be seen in some weapon museums and gun collectors' homes...

And those mercenaries are not likely to use this gun as a weapon-sell it to collectors, and the credits they sell are enough to buy several latest assault rifles.

Ke Lan suddenly realized that these people were not those mercenaries at all!And the time they came here was at the latest in 909 of the New Era!

They were at least 087 years earlier than the first batch of prospectors who discovered the remains of glacier No. A-40!
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