Alien Relic Hunter

Chapter 42 Record Office

"They can't send agents to assassinate me, right?" Ke Lan suddenly grimaced at the investigator, causing the latter to tremble again.

"Who knows, they have too many privileges, and they're not used to it. If they really want to be irritated, they can do anything." Get you into the military system? Assassination of active duty soldiers, presumably they don't have the courage."

"I appreciate your kindness, old dog, but if they really dare to ask for trouble, I'll take a long-term mission and go out to avoid the limelight... It's like clearing the wasteland, stationing in the mines, etc., come back in a few years. already."

"You guy, I thought you were quite calm..." The Hound shook his head helplessly, "Hey, let's deal with the next trouble first."

……

As the height of the aerial platform continued to drop, Ke Lan and the others could already see dozens of heavily armed soldiers surrounding the entire apron.

As soon as the door of the transport plane was opened, the four of them were immediately "arrested".

But what puzzled them was that the people who arrested them were not affiliated with DAS, but soldiers of the regular army.

The transport plane was pulled into the special hangar of DAS, and the group of soldiers drove them in a completely different direction.

"What's the matter? Old dog, have you used your relationship?" Layton turned his head in confusion and asked.

"No..." The Hound was also stunned.

DAS was supposed to be solely responsible for this incident, and the person who was beaten by Ke Lan was also a DAS investigator, but now the plot suddenly took a turn - they were supposed to be sent to the DAS interrogation room. People were taken over directly by the military.

"Anyway, it's a good thing." The Hound narrowed his eyes, "The military and DAS have always been at odds with each other. Maybe Ke Lan's fists were appreciated by a certain boss, so we were saved. already."

Although the sentence of the hound is a joke, the confrontation between DAS and the military is a "secret" that everyone in Ark knows well. When the two groups of people carry out their respective tasks, there will often be some small frictions, even if it is some parties. The task of cooperation will inevitably lead to some bumps. It is not impossible to say that the military intercepted Ke Lan and the others for the purpose of targeting DAS.

"Brother, where are we going?" The Hound asked the soldier next to him.

"I don't know." The soldier's tone was stiff.

"But you're the one leading the way? Brother, are you planning to take a few of you for a drink? Find a few more pretty girls to be cool?"

"Shut up!" The soldier became impatient.

"Brother, it's boring, the boys under my command back then..."

Just as the hound's spittle began to splash around, they finally stopped in front of a door at the end of the corridor.

The door is a bulletproof door made of alloy material, without a house number or a number.

"Go in." The soldier opened the door.

Inside are several compartments separated by acrylic, and each compartment has a table and a chair. On the opposite side of the table is a small window that looks like a bank counter, through the transparent acrylic sheet. A civilian officer can be seen sitting behind each window.

"What kind of battle is this?" Ke Lan found that the expressions of those civilian officers were relatively relaxed, and they didn't look like they were coming to interrogate prisoners. None of the soldiers followed.

"...It's weird, this is the filing office? Why did you send us here?" Hound said, he and Layton obviously knew what this place was for, but there was also a trace on their faces. confused.

"Recording Office?" Ke Lan has never been a soldier, so naturally he doesn't know what kind of organization this "Recording Office" is.

"The full name is 'Task Handover and Periodic Reclassification Recording Office', which is generally referred to as 'Recording Office' in the army. In fact, it is similar to the handover office of the Hunter Management Organization...but why did you send us here? Here is the The place where the front-line commanders hand in combat reports, we are not soldiers..."

"You are now..." A man wearing a military uniform but without a military rank flashed out from behind the compartment, "Because of some confidentiality reasons, the personnel involved in the exploration of the ruins have been assigned to the army. In other words, you are all people with military status now."

"What do you mean?" There was a trace of indescribable resistance in the Hound's tone.

"In order not to let the DAS people continue to intervene in this matter, we can only use this method of drawing wages from the bottom of the pot-the reason why you appeared in that exile settlement is because your superiors assigned you corresponding investigation tasks." The man said.

"Heh... that's okay?" The Hound sneered.

"Why?" Ke Lan stared at the man and asked. The military's intervention completely disrupted his original plan, and it also gave him an indescribable sense of crisis.

"I don't know, I'm just doing my job."

Ke Lan looked this man up and down. He was about 35 years old, wearing a pair of gold-rimmed plain glasses for decoration. Judging from his height and appearance, he should have undergone a certain degree of genetic modification. His skin was smooth and delicate, not Like personnel who often perform field missions, their uniforms are neat and obedient, and they do not wear guns on their bodies. On the contrary, there are some small wounds on the pads of their fingers—they were cut by the sharp edges of brand new paper, not because of fighting .

This is a standard high-ranking civilian officer, or more precisely, the confidential secretary of a senior military figure.

But for Ke Lan, the higher the level of people who care about them, the more trouble he may face...

Immediately after they left the A-087 ruins, more hunters, prospectors and researchers would enter the core area of ​​the ruins along the exit they escaped from. The group of people will find some clues from the mess...

The sarcophagus placed on the high platform is too conspicuous, and it will definitely be regarded as the key research object. Maybe they will find a way to expand the export, and then transport the entire sarcophagus back to the research institute on the ark.

Ke Lan can only hope that the stele cannot be restored, otherwise, if a person who can read the text of Alpha star pops up again, he will definitely not be able to escape.

"You don't have to be nervous. Although you are classified as a military, you are still independent relic hunters on the bright side. We will not restrict your personal freedom, nor will we force you to perform any tasks... However, if you accept it yourself If you go on an exploration mission, the files will also be backed up on the army side."

The officer continued: "Okay, now you only need to make a record related to 'this mission' and you can leave. It's just a routine matter, please cooperate with me."

Ke Lan randomly chose a cubicle and sat down. On the opposite side was a fairly beautiful female officer. She was holding a voice recorder in one hand and the other hand on the keyboard. She glanced at the screen. , nodded to Ke Lan and said with a smile: "You are Ke Lan, right? They are all routine questions, just answer them according to the actual situation."

The questions were indeed simple questions, similar to when the hunter management agency handed over tasks each time, but the other party obviously already knew the whole process of the matter, and all Ke Lan could do was to add some not-so-critical details.

It's just that about the hallucinations that Ke Lan saw, the question was taken over, and the other party didn't ask any further questions.

Their point of view should be the same as that of the Hound and others, which is completely an "illusion" after Ke Lan's spirit was affected.

If the other party didn't ask, Ke Lan naturally wouldn't choose to "expose himself".

The only thing that made Ke Lan spend a little more time was explaining how he "relied on luck" to break the seventh-order mercury lock, but it was just a few more questions.

"...You really just wrote it like that?" Ke Lan was speechless.

"What do you mean?" The female officer blinked her big eyes.

"Uh, that... 'Because of good luck, I cracked the seventh-order mercury lock with a few random attempts', did you just write it like that?"

"Otherwise? Or were you kidding me just now?"

"No no no... It's really good luck, but I don't think anyone will believe me if I write it like this?"

"I'm only in charge of the records. Believe it or not, it's not something I need to care about." The female officer said solemnly.

"All right……"

"Then the record here is finished... If you have no questions to add, you can leave..." The female officer said halfway through, as if she was attracted by something, her eyes suddenly turned to one side—

Ke Lan also turned his head and looked over, and saw that in the compartment on the far left, the hound was propped up on the table, slapped the window frame with his hands, and was arguing about something angrily.

This old dog... He said that he was not calm enough before, why is it his turn to quarrel with others again?
The acrylic panels are all double-layered and hollow, and the sound insulation is very good. Ke Lan couldn't hear what the hound was shouting at all, so he could only say hello to the female officer and hurriedly ran out of the compartment.

Just at this time, Leighton had dragged him out of the inside with the hound...

"What's the matter?" The hound was still scolding in a dirty manner, and Ke Lan could only ask Layton.

"It's not a big deal, Jiang Lian... It's the parasitized female hunter, you remember, because the body was not found, so she was classified as MIA, you should know what MIA means? It's missing, he thinks the old dog This is unreasonable, I want to change it to KIA."

"Does this make any difference?" KIA's meaning is also clear to Ke Lan, which is generally used to describe someone who "died in action".

"If you are just a hunter, there is no difference between disappearance and death, but if you are classified as a military, the difference is big... At least the pensions are different..."

Leighton said and suddenly sighed: "Do you know how the old dog retired? In fact, offending people is just a cover. He commanded a combat operation before, and the casualties of the troops were huge... At least a hundred people died. Come on brother, but because no body was found and no dog tag was recovered, many people were defined as 'missing'. The old dog had been making trouble for this matter for a long time, the conflict intensified, and almost caused a mutiny. out..."

"Te Niang's group of dogs still has this virtue. I clearly saw people die, so why did they disappear!" The hound spit out viciously, "In the past, many of those brothers were directly swallowed by wild animals, why? There may be corpses... Those beasts still have strong acid in their stomachs, even if I pick up their dung, I won't be able to pick up half a dog tag... This fucking disappears? Bah!"

"It's alright, old dog, calm down..." Seeing the hound swung up the chair and wanted to smash it at the window, Layton hurriedly hugged him by the waist.

"No, Jiang Lian has to be cleared up, even if it's only 10 minutes, then this bitch is still my teammate!"

(End of this chapter)