Alien Relic Hunter

Chapter 449 Evacuation Path (4000 words chapter)
"Damn! I was still wondering how the measured depth of the focal point would be so shallow. The earthquake was actually caused by a battleship?!" the hound whispered.

"You all know what happened later... As for the current situation of 'Yaguna Ketor', I am afraid that you can only find out if you go deep into the central area of ​​the mining area." Park Shangyou said, looking at Ke Lan nervously With a glance, "I've told you everything I know, you won't break your promise, will you?"

"Don't worry, I'm not a devil after all." Ke Lan said, "Extorting a confession is just a means, and what I want is to achieve the goal through this means. If you are willing to speak sooner, I won't waste so much money." More tongue-in-cheek."

Ke Lan gave Ivan a look, and Ivan immediately pushed the injection in his hand into the infusion tube.

"You... Didn't you say you won't break your promise?!" Seeing Ivan's actions, Park Shangyou immediately widened his eyes, "Why do you..."

"Don't panic, it's just a hormone... Our mission is to search for survivors, not to extract confessions by torture. Every gram of what we carry must be carefully calculated, so how could it contain that kind of drug? It's impossible to take it out at the beginning. Just to make a joke with you." Ke Lan said.

"...This... this joke is not funny at all." In just a few seconds, a thin layer of sweat oozed from Pu Shangyou's forehead, obviously frightened.

"Team Leader Breya, I think our mission has been completed." Ke Lan turned to Aya Breya and said, "The most urgent task is to send this news back to the ark and escort Dr. Park Shangyou out Mining area. The purpose of the heretic sect is very clear. They came here for this ancient battleship of advanced civilization. Although we still don’t know what happened inside the battleship. But what is certain is that the heretic sect has invested a lot of money in the mining area. It is impossible for us to stop them with our troops."

"We can return to the support base first, and then find a way to get in touch with Ark..." Aya Breya said.

"Don't forget what happened to the stationed base. Since the heretic sects can intercept the communications of the stationed base, they can naturally intercept ours. Doing so is tantamount to actively exposing my whereabouts to them... I even suspect that the strong They are also responsible for the interference. Except for the communication equipment we carry, the situation of those transfer stations is probably not much better."

"Then what is your plan?"

"Meet the people at the support base first, and then use vehicles to rush to the 'Mukah' military base closest to the mining area. The high-power transmitters there are difficult to intercept, and if Ark decides to send troops to the mining area,' Mukah' military base will become the forefront of this operation." Ke Lan said.

"But the problem now is, how do we bypass the control area of ​​heretical sects and withdraw from the mining area-in the previous conflicts, although they failed to catch us, our traces have been exposed. As I said, if we withdraw from the mining area from the other direction, we have to take a long detour if we want to go to the Mukahe base. And in this way, we will not be able to join the troops at the support base. Without vehicles, we can walk on our feet It will take at least fifteen days to get to the base." Ivan raised his head and said.

"And we don't have enough supplies with us." Layton said, staring at the electronic map. "The two transfer stations on the edge of the mining area were destroyed by the earthquake. Whether we can find supplies in the ruins is completely unknown." , and the nearest intact transfer station is 270 kilometers away, we can’t get there at all.”

At this moment, Park Shangyou suddenly said, "Can you show me your map?"

Layton glanced at Ke Lan, who nodded, and he projected the holographic image of the electronic map on the car window.

"The green highlighted line is our route into the mining area, the red cross mark is the point where we encountered the heretic sect, and the red dotted area shaped like a large lemon is the control of the heretic sect calculated by AI Area...Of course, this is the data a few hours ago, and no one knows what it looks like now." Layton explained, "This is the location of the support base, our supplies and vehicles are left here, and this direction is The evacuation route originally planned by Ke Lan... As you can see, it is completely in the opposite direction. Originally, we planned to search for supplies in the mining area, but now it seems that this method will not work. "

"I know a passage that can be found along the edge of the heretic sect's control area... According to the scale on the map, the distance between the evacuation point and your support base is only fifteen kilometers." Park Shangyou said.

"Are you sure? Now that the landscape of the entire mining area has completely changed, can the passage you mentioned still exist?" Layton said with some doubts.

"It's an underground passage built by the Alpha civilization. The walls of the passage are all reinforced by Nino alloy skeletons. Even if they fall into the magma, they will not be easily damaged!" Park Shangyou said.

"I think you can try it." Ke Lan thought for a while, "Can you point out the approximate location of the passage on the map?"

"I...my arm...can't lift..."

"Layton, track the focus of Dr. Park Shangyou's sight, and mark it on the map projection." Ke Lan said immediately.

As Pu Shangyou turned his eyeballs, a meandering curve appeared on the map. This curve was close to the edge of the "heretical sect control area" circled by the red dotted line. There were several prominent positions, and it even invaded into the dotted line. inside.

"Isn't this too close? If this passage has already been occupied by heretical sects, aren't we just throwing ourselves into the trap?" the hound muttered.

"No, the depth of the passage is more than 50 meters. It is difficult to be found except for the entrance and exit." Park Shangyou said.

"But the problem is that the ground in the mining area is cracked badly. The cracks are so dense that they look like chrysanthemums huddled together. Even if this passage is buried deep underground, it must have been exposed by now." The hound shook Shaking his head, "This is too risky."

"This channel is made of a ductile structure. We have tested that the channel itself can be extended to more than twice its original length. Even if the rock formation cracks, the channel will not be torn apart—even if they find the exposed channel. They can't find the entrance and they can't enter the passage." Park Shangyou continued.

"Tsk... That's what I said, but I always think it's not very reliable." The hound smacked his lips, and turned to Ke Lan, "Ke Lan, you make the decision."

"I think we can give it a try. If we walk from the ground and cross the mining area, we don't have enough supplies. If we go back the same way, we will almost [-]% encounter heretic sects. And this passage is our best choice right now."

"That's right, the dwarf is taller... According to you, the other plan sounds worse." The hound stood up straight and patted the ashes on his legs, "Then what about this guy, he can walk Yet?"

"The extracorporeal life support device cannot be dismantled for the time being. Even if it is an enhanced human, his injuries are fatal." Ivan shook his head. "We can only carry him back to the rescue cabin and carry him away."

"By the way, Dr. Park Sang-woo, what is the width and height of that passage, and can mechs pass through it?"

"The width is about ten meters, and the height... I think it is about six to eight meters, but if the passage is stretched by external force, the space should be reduced a lot." Park Shangyou recalled.

"Enough." Ke Lan said, "Check your equipment, clean up the traces on the ground, and get ready to go!"

When Ke Lan gave an order, everyone started to move immediately, while Park Shangyou was stuffed into the rescue cabin with a stretcher and a whole set of extracorporeal life support devices.Ivan pulled out the safety belt from the truck compartment, and tied Park Shangyou firmly to the bilge of the rescue cabin, so as not to cause secondary damage to him due to bumps during transportation.

A rocket launcher nest on the back of Valentina's mecha was dismantled, and the vacated bracket was just used to fix the rescue capsule. In order to reduce the bumps, Layton even removed the shock absorbers of the two wheeled drones mounted on the bottom of the stand.

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Two hours and twenty minutes later, in front of the entrance of the "passage".

"This... is this what you mean 'passable'?" Layton pointed at the entrance of the passageway, one third of which was sunk in the magma, and shouted at the rescue capsule with a straight face.

"I... I don't know..." There was a porthole on the hatch of the rescue cabin, through which, Park Shangyou naturally saw the scene at the entrance.

"Old dog, don't worry." Ke Lan pulled the somewhat irritable hound, "You see, the overall trend of this passage is upward, that is to say, only the entrance section is soaked in magma. This section, the passage behind is safe."

"Walking through this section? This is magma and not drinking water, how can it flow?" The hound asked back.

"Layton, did you modify the Valkyrie [-]-style by yourself? Tell me, can this mecha move in magma?" Ke Lan turned to Layton and asked.

"If you just trek through the magma for a short period of time, it's fine." Layton nodded, "This mecha was originally specially modified for operations in the molten mine area, and all the limbs and skeletons are made of [-]% One-hundred-purity Nino Alloy... For these four legs, I spent half a year's budget of the workshop. However, although the magma cannot melt the Nino Alloy, after a long time, a large amount of heat will be conducted to the On the main body of the mecha, once the cooling system can't cool down, something will go wrong."

"I know that." Ke Lan nodded, then stretched out his hand and gestured at the angle of the passage entrance, "Based on the height of the magma in this rift, the length of the passage penetrating into the magma will not exceed 100 meters. We can go there—everyone, climb onto the back of the mecha, adjust the cooling device of the power armor to the maximum power, and we will walk over on the lava!"

"Grass, you are crazy!" Although the hound was cursing, he was the first to climb up Valkyrie's back, sat on the side of the rescue cabin, and slapped the hatch hard Portholes on:
"This time I will trust you once, please remember, if this passage is a dead end, I will be the first to throw you into the magma!"

Others also climbed to the back of the mecha one after another. After everyone grasped it firmly, Valkyrie shot two hooks from his shoulders and fixed it on the cliff. The whole mecha began to slowly move towards the crack. The valley descends.

Suddenly, an unbearable burning sensation swept over. Even though the cooling device operating at maximum power was roaring crazily, it still couldn't offset all the heat. Inside an iron bucket, it is like being roasted outside with a flame blowtorch.

"Damn...compared with this...what a sauna, it's just a pediatric..." the hound complained while panting.

Finally, Valkyrie's legs were inserted into the magma—the magma that submerged the entrance of the passage was not too deep, only barely half a meter.

But even so, everyone still felt that the surface temperature of the body had increased a lot in an instant.

"It's a good thing I'm using carbon fiber armor that can withstand a high temperature of 600 more than [-] degrees Celsius... The thermal conductivity of this thing is much worse than that of metal. Otherwise, the back of this mech can be used as a teppanyaki." Layton Said.

"No need to estimate, it can be done now." Ivan glanced at the external temperature reading and said lightly.

[PS Thanks to the villain in the villain for the 500 starting coins. 】

[PS I just went to watch "Changjin Lake" with my parents. I don't want to say much else, it's easy to spoil, I can only say that the filming is really good.In the second half, I kept hearing faint sobbing sounds from around me. Although I didn't cry, my molars were sore from gritting my teeth... The sentence that impressed me the most was "We don't fight this war, we The descendants of the war will fight"... My grandfather was also a volunteer soldier who participated in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea. To be honest, I didn't have much impression of this battle when I was young, because most of the war-related movies and TV shows I watched at that time were filmed. The Anti-Japanese War, or the World War II filmed by the Americans, until today, I can personally experience the cruelty and hardship of this war, as well as the greatness of the volunteer soldiers...

I really want to write something for them, but I feel short of words when I write.

I always feel that words are difficult to describe those heroes. All I can do is to pay them silently in my heart.

The whole film is three hours long, and when I walked out of the cinema, I was still unsatisfied. I would like to strongly thank everyone for "Changjin Lake" and the upcoming sequel "Shuimen Bridge"-the reason why I can sit in front of the computer and code Words, the reason why everyone can hold their mobile phones to read novels, our current life is all bought by them in exchange for their lives. 】

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