Alien Relic Hunter

Chapter 431 "Iron Coffin"

At this moment, a Security Bureau agent in charge of flank security suddenly shouted in the team channel: "Team leader! Mr. Ke Lan! At eleven o'clock, about 140 meters away, there seems to be our vehicle!"

"Our vehicle?!"

The voice of the agent immediately attracted everyone's attention. Ke Lan looked in the direction he said. There was indeed a tracked armored vehicle parked there, but it was just a boulder rolled down from a high place. Pressed on the body, the entire body of the car was severely deformed.

Neither the top cover nor the rear compartment door showed signs of being opened—the twisted and deformed outer armor and the boulders pressing on it had completely blocked the escape exits of the occupants. Whether there were any survivors among the occupants , Ke Lan has basically given up hope.

But even so, they couldn't ignore the armored vehicle. Ke Lan immediately greeted his teammates and said, "Valentina is responsible for removing the boulder that is pressing down on the vehicle body, and Layton is responsible for cutting the deformed door. Ivan, you are responsible for rescuing the wounded." The preparations for the autopsy... Uh, the preparations for the autopsy should also be done at the same time, after the carriage is opened, the corpse cannot be kept in this environment for long."

The people assigned to the task quickly got into work, while the others raised their weapons and stood guard around.

This is a "Rhino MkⅢ" all-terrain armored patrol vehicle. The logo of the garrison base printed on the side armor of the body has already explained its origin, but Ke Lan has no idea why this patrol vehicle appears here. .

This place does not belong to the daily patrol area of ​​the garrison base at all, and there are no valuable relics or mines nearby. Logically speaking, no one will come here, let alone the patrol cars of the base.

Valentina manipulated the mech to move away the stones that were pressing on the armored vehicle, but the top cover and the compartment on one side were sunken, and it was impossible to open it in the normal way, and the life detection equipment did not work. Can detect any heartbeat in the car.

"Although there are no survivors, please be careful. I don't want to pile up a pile of minced meat for autopsy." Ivan held a medical kit in his hand and told Layton.

"Don't worry, I can't handle this little thing?" The latter gave him a thumbs up, then switched the welding torch in the mechanical arm to the torch mode, and cut open the jammed compartment door little by little.

"Three corpses were found." Layton glanced into the cut compartment, "Do you want me to drag the corpses out?"

"Forget it, let me go in. In the environment outside, these corpses will probably be destroyed in a few minutes." Ivan shook his head and got into the carriage with tools.

In less than 15 minutes, Ivan came out again, with a slightly ugly face.

"One person should have died from the impact. His skull was shattered and his ribs were broken in many places. It seems that he died on the spot." Ivan said, "But compared to the other two, he was the luckiest."

"The best luck? What does that mean?" the Hound couldn't help asking.

"The air conditioner in the armored vehicle was broken, and the remaining two people were suffocated to death under the double torture of lack of oxygen and high temperature...they had no trauma on their bodies, but the nails of their ten fingers had already fallen off. There are bloodstains from scratching all over the body, and I think he must have suffered a lot of pain before he died."

"It's true...the three of them have turned into mummies, and the moisture in their bodies has been dried." Another Layton, who had seen the corpse with his own eyes, nodded.

"Actually, you can imagine this armored vehicle as a closed oven. The hopelessness of being trapped in it, with gradually decreasing oxygen and gradually increasing temperature... Sigh." Ivan sighed deeply.

After being described by him in this way, the faces of the others suddenly became paler.

This way of dying, just thinking about it makes people feel a sense of suffocation.

"If I were trapped in this iron coffin, then I would rather choose to shoot myself in the temple, at least this way of death will not feel pain." The hound whispered.

"Perhaps they still hold a glimmer of hope that the search and rescue team will find it... It's a pity that we came too late." Ivan said.

"Although what happened to them was unfortunate, we still have more important things to do." Ke Lan walked to the opened car door, "Ivan, have you found any valuable clues on these corpses? At the very least, we have to figure out why they brought their armored patrol vehicle to this place."

"Yes... these three people are not all the defenders of the stationed base, only the driver is wearing the uniform of the field force; the person who died in the impact, judging by the attire, should be the same as us, a hunter; as for the last One person, he was only wearing a set of tight-fitting clothes, barefoot... just, as if he just got out of bed."

"It looks like a person who escaped from the base in a panic." The hound subconsciously stretched out his hand to rub the stubble on his chin, but when the sound of metal bumping sounded, he realized that he was still wearing a Huge helmet.

"It looks like it to me." Ke Lan has already got half of his body into the car, "There is no high-temperature protective clothing, and there are no oxygen bottles or oxygen generators. Otherwise, they can last for a while, say It may not be possible to wait for our rescue."

"Then it seems that these three people really escaped from the base, and the situation at that time should be very urgent, otherwise, they would never have left behind these necessary survival tools in the mining area." Aya Said, "By the way, are the communication equipment and recording instruments in the car damaged? If we can retrieve the data inside, we should be able to know what happened at the stationed base."

"You don't need to tell me, I've already copied the data." Layton shook the plug in his hand with some pride, "It's being decoded, and we'll see it soon."

As Layton said, in less than twenty seconds, the task record document in the patrol car was decoded—however, to everyone's disappointment, apart from the dozens of patrol reports with similar content, the only The only valuable record is an "Emergency Evacuation Notice" received a few days ago, and the content of this notice is only two words: "Run!"

"The evacuation notice was sent from the central control tower of the garrison base, that is to say, these people are not deserters, but 'ordered to evacuate'... Fuck, the person who sent this notice is too negligent of his duty, right? The cause and effect are not clear, only the word 'run away', the ghost knows what happened!" The hound muttered.

(End of this chapter)