Alien Relic Hunter

Chapter 433 Time difference

The reconnaissance team was lucky. After walking less than a kilometer along the new route, they found a heavy truck overturned on the edge of a cliff.

The truck's bed had rolled off the cliff, leaving only the trailer head lying there alone.

Compared with the buddy in the tracked armored patrol car who didn't have time to wear shoes, the truck driver's situation is slightly better-at least he still wears a full set of high-temperature protective equipment, only a broken metal frame It pierced through his stomach and pinned him to the seat.

Although the improved airbag can protect the driver's head, it can't stop the sharp metal section.

A heavily armed soldier sat on the passenger seat of the truck. From the logo on the armband, it can be known that he is an escort soldier belonging to the third transportation squadron of the garrison base. His legs were completely deformed by the console Get stuck inside.The blood oozing from the thighs stained the fabric under the rubber layer of the thermal insulation suit purple-black, and there were a lot of scratch marks on the fabric of the trousers—he had tried many times to pull his legs out from under the console, But obviously, all failed.

His helmet mask was open, and the moisture in the entire facial tissue had been evaporated. His twisted and withered face looked a little horrifying, and a small amount of blood overflowed from his nostrils, congealing into dark brown lumps.

The cause of death of the escort soldier was a bullet shot from the mouth, piercing the palate and brain. A [-]mm self-defense pistol fell into the cab, and the muzzle was stained with strands of oral cavity carbonized by high temperature. The tissue was in pieces, and the right hand of the deceased was hanging in the air less than ten centimeters directly above the pistol.

"It's suicide." Ivan said.

"I can tell." Ke Lan nodded.

On the truck, everyone couldn't find any valuable clues—this truck received an "emergency evacuation notice" during the transportation mission, and they knew nothing about what happened at the stationed base.

However, it can be seen from the driving records that after receiving the notice, the truck turned around and drove towards the base, but turned back after driving less than two kilometers, and began to run at full speed on the road.

"They were obviously skeptical of this emergency evacuation notice at the beginning, otherwise they would not have turned to the base... It's just that they realized the seriousness of the problem before driving far, and began to follow the requirements in the notice. Fleeing abroad, I think they must have seen some horrible scene..." Ke Lan analyzed.

"Is it an earthquake?" asked the Hound.

"possible……"

As soon as the possible word "can" was said, Ke Lan's brows suddenly frowned. As if he had thought of something, he patted his helmet vigorously: "No! We missed a very important element ! This mistake is too low-level, we should not have made it!"

"What?" The hound looked at Ke Lan in confusion.

"Time difference! We ignored the time difference between this emergency evacuation notice and the earthquake!" Ke Lan said quickly, "According to the data observed by the ark, the earthquake occurred deep in the molten mine area at 22:8 am that day Ten, but the emergency evacuation notice was sent at [-]:[-] a.m., a full [-] minutes earlier than the earthquake occurred. Even if the transmission of seismic waves takes a certain amount of time, the error of the monitoring data cannot be as large as This level."

"You mean to say that the stationed base predicted the earthquake first?" Aya Breya confirmed to Ke Lan in a very serious tone.

"It can be understood literally, but my subconscious has been telling me that things may not be so simple." Ke Lan shook his head.

"Is there something wrong with this?"

"The earthquake was predicted 8 minutes in advance, and then an emergency evacuation notice was issued to all personnel and units in the molten mine area. Logically speaking, there is no problem... But what is wrong is the time difference - 8 minutes, This emergency evacuation notice was 8 minutes in advance!" Ke Lan said.

"Ke Lan, when can you keep your mouth shut? Can't you clarify the problem in one breath? Tell me, is there something wrong with these 8 minutes?" the hound complained.

"Aren't I just talking? You interrupted me, okay?" Ke Lan spit out, and then continued the previous topic, "The problem lies in the 8 minutes, although the 8 minutes are not counted. How abundant, but not so nervous, but the entire emergency evacuation notice is only two words, doesn't the person who sent the notice even have time to type an extra line of text for explanation?"

As soon as Ke Lan said this, the rest of the team, including Aya, fell into a brief moment of contemplation.

Indeed, this emergency evacuation notice, from the content point of view, is completely inconsistent with the norms.Even if the person in charge of sending the notice is in a hurry to escape, it shouldn't be just the word "run away" in the whole message.

As the Hound said previously, this is so remiss.

It doesn’t take too much time to explain the cause and effect, it only takes two sentences, and for a fast typewriter, it takes less than ten seconds... Even if it is really too late to enter text, then use the voice input method , or simply calling the emergency command template is much more reliable than this thoughtless sentence of "run away".

Just like the "emergency 039" and "emergency 000" that Ke Lan asked Layton to send in the Leviathan incident, although these codes are equally simple, at least a little comparison with the codebook will make it clear immediately. meaning.

Ke Lan and the others also saw the result of editing the emergency evacuation notice in violation of the regulations. Not only did the truck not evacuate towards the outside of the mining area immediately after receiving the notice, but it also turned around to return to the base for verification... ...This kind of announcement that is not edited according to the regulations is completely unconvincing!

Even if the person who edited this emergency evacuation notice escaped from the mining area alive, he would probably be convicted of dereliction of duty...

"There is another place where the time axis does not match up. Look at this driving record-at 22:23:25, the truck received an emergency evacuation notice, and the driver stopped the car; 5:[-]:[-] At [-]:[-]:[-], the truck turned around for the second time and increased its speed to the limit." Ke Lan continued, "At this time, there are still nearly [-] minutes before the earthquake erupts. minutes, and then, the truck drove more than ten kilometers on the highway at a speed of hundreds of kilometers per hour before being overtaken by the earthquake... Then before that, what did the truck driver see that made him change? What about the idea of ​​returning to base?"

(End of this chapter)