Alien Relic Hunter

Chapter 434 Leftovers

"After what you said, I also feel that things are strange..." The hound said, holding his chin, "What is that Bu... What is your name Bu?"

"Breya." Aya Breya glanced at the hound, knowing that the other party was deliberately teasing herself, but she did not show such a tough attitude before, "Can you be a little more serious?"

"I'm serious!" The hound deliberately put on a dignified expression, "Then, Team Leader Breya, what do you think about this matter?"

"The person who edited the emergency evacuation notice has committed serious malfeasance." Aya Breya hesitated for a moment, then said.

"We all know this, so you don't need to tell me. What I want to ask is, what do you think of this obviously problematic timeline?" said the Hound.

"Without solid evidence, I will not jump to conclusions."

"I didn't ask you to make a conclusion, just guess." The hound smiled and looked at her, "Don't you even dare to guess?"

"What do you want me to say?" Aya asked back.

"It's because I'm stupid and can't think of a reason why I asked Team Leader Breya for advice." The hound said and looked at Ke Lan, "Then Ke Lan, what do you say?"

"I suspect that the earthquake has something to do with the stationed base," Ke Lan said.

"Do you think the earthquake was caused by the garrison base?" Layton said, "But... didn't we have this assumption before? The conclusion is that the garrison base is not capable of triggering an earthquake of this magnitude."

"The absence of a garrison base does not mean that there are no remains of the Alpha civilization." Ivan shook his head.

"Why are the relics of the Alpha civilization involved again? There is no direct relationship between the two, right?" Layton said with some puzzlement, "If the mechanism in the relics is triggered, it is impossible for the garrison base to get it in advance. Forewarning? We are all old hunters, and we have not been in contact with the traps of the Alpha civilization, let alone 8 minutes, and it is estimated that we will not even have an eight-second reaction time."

"Then what if they deliberately want to trigger this mechanism? This makes sense..." Ivan analyzed, "Assuming that there is something very important in the ruins, but getting that thing will inevitably trigger the mechanism , so the person in charge of the operation asked the people stationed at the base to evacuate before entering the ruins..."

"That's not right." Ke Lan shook his head, "If this is the case, you can evacuate a few days in advance, and wait until all the personnel and property stationed in the base are evacuated from the mining area before exploring the ruins. Reduce losses. It is not like now, until a few minutes before the earthquake erupts, a two-word emergency evacuation notice is issued in a hurry-and, this level of action, no matter what the reason, must be Did you report it to Ark for filing?"

"It's true..." Ivan nodded, "But in this way, the logic of the whole thing becomes an endless loop."

"I think that whether it is triggering an earthquake or issuing an emergency evacuation notice, it should be the temporary intention of the 'disaster trigger'-they may not have planned to trigger the mechanism at the beginning, but they encountered difficulties in the ruins and had to The conditions that triggered it."

"It's hard to get off a tiger?"

"Assume that this group of people is trapped in a closed passage, and behind them is an approaching solid wall covered with spikes. This wall gradually compresses their activity space, and they want to avoid being pierced by spikes or It is the fate of being crushed into meat paste, so they can only move forward, but moving forward will trigger another mechanism and cause an earthquake, but at least there is a chance of survival, what will you choose?" Ke Lan said.

"I will kill other people in the ruins, and then commit suicide." Aya Breya said without hesitation, "Compared with the entire garrison base and all the property in the molten mine area, the lives of a few people are not important .”

"Extremely sensible." Ke Lan nodded to Aya, "It seems that when faced with the tram problem, you should also be the one who can pull the lever without hesitation."

"If you have to suffer losses anyway, you should do everything you can to minimize the losses. This is the first thing to consider." Aya said awe-inspiringly.

The trolley problem is originally a question of human nature and morality. Although pulling the lever can change the number of people killed by the tram from five to one, it means that the person pulling the lever has become a murderer. Killing the person who didn't have to die with his own hands-this is just looking at this issue from the perspective of a bystander, but what if the person who has the decision-making power is himself tied to the track?
"I have no doubts about Team Leader Breya's lofty spirit of sacrifice and resolute execution. These two things are necessary for an excellent Security Bureau agent." Ke Lan said in a deep voice, "Even if those people are Someone as noble and self-sacrificing as you...but what if...all the personnel and property in the base and the Molten Mine are the ones who are tied up alone on the other track?"

"What do you mean?" Aya Breya asked slightly startled.

"Being forced to trigger the mechanism does not necessarily mean that the lives of the people in the ruins have been threatened... It may also be that they have endured an unimaginable temptation." Ke Lan said word by word.

"Unimaginable temptation?" Aya repeated the seven words, "For valuable relics, they can ignore the lives of everyone in the entire mining area?"

"Then it depends on the value of this 'relic'. Assuming that this thing is enough to change the fate of all mankind, let alone sacrificing the people in the entire Molten Mine Area, even if you have to pay the price of half the population on the ark, it must be People in power will make the same decision," Ke Lan said.

"Then can't they wait for all the people in the mining area to evacuate before taking measures?" Aya asked puzzled.

"As a person who has not participated in the exploration of the ruins, you can understand the thoughts of Team Leader Breya." Ke Lan said calmly, "But in many cases, opportunities are fleeting. As long as there is a little hesitation, the hunter They may miss the 'prey'."

"...You are sophistry!"

"But judging from the clues we have so far, it seems that only this 'sophism' makes sense." Ke Lan shrugged helplessly, turned around and continued to check the cab of the truck.

……

In addition to some tools, a deck of cards and half a pack of cigarettes in the glove box, he found a small locked box in the dark compartment under the driver's seat.

However, after everyone opened the small box with a hint of excitement, what they got in exchange was another disappointment—there were only some Nino alloy scraps cut during rough processing, and most of these things would be Lost to the black market and become part of the driver's gray income...

However, when Ke Lan picked up one of the leftovers, he let out a small sigh.

"Strange? Layton, come here."

"What's wrong? Did you find anything?"

"Look at this piece of leftover material, the small octagonal hole on it, the edge is very flat and smooth... Will the equipment that processes Nino alloy leave such marks on the leftover material?"

(End of this chapter)