Alien Relic Hunter

Chapter 341 Go to Xiacheng

The entire deserted sandstone city was built around this great rift valley on the wasteland, which is nearly 300 kilometers long and over [-] meters deep. Compared with the "suspended city of Deval", the ruins of this Alpha city are larger. Much bigger, but with very little of value in it.

If the "suspended city of Deval" is a high-end residential area of ​​Alpha civilization, the abandoned sandstone city is equivalent to a large slum. The living conditions here are not good, and there are no high-tech appliances like the former. The buildings are still made of rough stones. There is neither electricity nor water in the house. The doors and windows are narrow and the space is cramped. The living comfort is not even as good as the human cities on the earth 1000 years ago.

Taking the lip-shaped great rift valley from south to north in the center of the city as the dividing line, the whole city is divided into three major areas-two upper urban areas on the east and west sides of the rift valley, and the lower urban area at the bottom of the rift valley.

The organizers of the event have set up a super resource point in these three areas, but the resource point in the lower city has the fewest jumping teams - one reason is that the terrain of the lower city is more complicated, except for the flat blocks at the bottom of the valley , there are also a large number of building debris in the vertical space. Various cableways, bridges, and aerial platforms constitute an extremely dangerous three-dimensional battlefield, not to mention that there are a large number of excavated caves in the valley walls on both sides. At a glance, almost everywhere They are all places where you can set up an ambush.

As for the second reason, it is because the lower city is right in the middle of the safety zone. Even if the teams that fall here are killed from the super resource point, no matter which direction they develop, they will be flanked by multiple teams. If you hang up at a distance, you will not be able to collect more supplies.

"I have been observing when I parachuted before. There are only three teams that landed in the rift valley, and they are all very close to each other. Obviously, they are going to the super material point... The downtown area is like a maze. The battle will not end as quickly as above, so I think that the three teams that jumped to the lower city may not have ended the battle yet... Taking advantage of this opportunity, we can first put those high-level and intermediate resource points in the lower city Loot first." Ke Lan said to the two.

"But... if you want to go to the rift valley, you have to pass through these blocks, and these places are full of people. If you walk from here, we may encounter them. We have no weapons. The winning rate will not be too high." Valentina said a long series of words for the first time, which surprised Ke Lan.

It seems that this girl is still the kind of girl who is completely hopeless and can communicate normally.

"Let's go underground. There is a well near here, which can go directly to the lower city." Ke Lan said.

"How do you know?" This time, it was Valentina's turn to be surprised. "Have you been here before?"

"Don't forget that our job is to be a relic hunter." Ke Lan said with a smile - but in fact, he has never been to this relic, the reason why he knows that there is a direct line nearby The shaft in the city, that’s because a fallen road sign next to it says...

It has to be said that being able to understand the text of the Alpha civilization has a natural advantage in the ruins. Otherwise, Layton, who was originally in the starting position, would not be reduced to a substitute.

The three of them quickly found the entrance of the well. Due to years of disrepair, the anti-gravity freight elevator in the well was useless. Fortunately, there was a purely mechanical lifting platform beside it that could be used.

The two mechas turned the huge winch together, and with the sound of "creaking" the cables, the lifting platform began to slowly descend.

"We have to move quickly. If the three teams in the downtown area are finished, I'm afraid it will be bad." Ke Lan said, but this lifting platform seems to be equipped with something like a limiter, no matter how they turn the winch No matter how fast it is, the speed of the decline has not changed.

This was originally designed for safety considerations, but at this time Ke Lan wished that these safety devices would also be scrapped due to disrepair.

There are many chiseled marks on the four walls of the well, some of which even formed complete characters. Ke Lan tried to read it in his mind, but found that they were all meaningless and could not even be connected into short sentences. Fragmentary text - In the language system of Alpha civilization, a single character has no meaning, and only when the strings are combined to form a certain vocabulary or sentence, the corresponding content will be generated... This is different from English The 26 letters in the alphabet are somewhat similar... However, there are more than 20,000 such basic characters in the Alpha language alone. into graffiti.

"I don't know the purpose of the Alpha people carving these characters on the wall of the well... Could it be that there is a non-mainstream art form of 'graffiti' among them?"

While Ke Lan was muttering to himself, Asano Akira, who was sitting on the shoulder of his mecha, suddenly knocked on the shell of the cockpit with a scabbard, and said in a low voice: "There are things under the lifting platform, and the number is at least one hundred. It’s just above, and it’s rapidly approaching.”

"More than a hundred?" Ke Lan was taken aback. Since there are so many, it must not be other participating teams... Could it be an indigenous creature wandering in the abandoned sandstone city?Didn't the organizers of the event clear the ruins when they put in supplies?
"Asano, can you tell what kind of creatures these things are?"

"It's hard to distinguish, but there are the sounds of skin vibrating, and the sound of claws scraping against the rock wall... Some are flying, and some are climbing on the rock wall... They are not large in size, but they move very fast. Quick, now we are less than 20 meters away."

"I heard it too," said Valentina, "like a swarm of rats passing through a sewer."

"Forget about the winch, get ready to fight." Just as Ke Lan said it, Valentina had already drawn out her dagger and stood in front of him.

"You said it yourself, we have to hurry up...Leave these things to me, and you continue to turn the winch."

"I'll help you clear the surrounding area." Akira Asano jumped off the mech and grabbed the handle of the saber.

Two seconds later, Ke Lan finally saw these creatures coming up from the bottom of the well—this kind of indigenous creature with short gray hairs is like a mixture of bats and mice on the earth. They have a pair of slender The thin wing membrane can glide in the air for a short time. The front ends of the three pairs of short limbs have sharp claws, which can be easily inserted into the hard rock wall. The four mung bean-sized eyes glow red in the dark. Light - when they move at high speed, these four points of crimson light will be dragged into four streamer-like trajectories.

"Four-eyed and six-legged bats and mice..." Ke Lan recognized these creatures, "Individual strength is very weak, but they are social creatures. Every time a group looks for food, hundreds of bats and mice will be dispatched together. Their attacks There is no threat to the mecha, but be careful of the blood in their bodies, this thing has certain radiation and corrosion, try not to let the joints of the mecha be contaminated with their blood."

While speaking, Valentina had already rushed out, swinging her two fighting daggers airtightly, and instantly cut through dozens of bats and rats that rushed forward, splashing around with dark green fluorescent blood, and the whole body immediately The platform was shrouded in a green light.

"There are more...there are more and more...they are far more than a hundred." Asano Akira said.

(End of this chapter)