Alien Relic Hunter

Chapter 460 Supply Crisis
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Finally, Ke Lan and the others returned to the place where the bodies of the three experts were found earlier.

Previously, due to the load problem, they only took away the usable supplies from the three corpses, and did not take the corpses away. This time, when they came back, the corpses were still in their original positions, and there were no signs of being moved.

Ivan stepped forward, leaned over to check, and nodded to Ke Lan: "The marks left before are still there, no problem."

"Huh... Fortunately, there is no problem." The hound heaved a sigh of relief, "If the corpse is gone, or the posture is changed, then the plot will start to become horrifying."

"The appearance of these three corpses here is already horrifying. I was so scared by Park Shangyou before that I couldn't finish my words." Layton said half-jokingly.

"But then again, Ke Lan, you said you want to verify a conjecture, what exactly is it, can you tell me now?" the hound asked.

Not only the hound, but even Aya Breya, who came over, stared at Ke Lan with a puzzled expression, waiting for him to speak.

Ke Lan turned the corpse over, and then groped for a while on the back of the corpse. With a soft "click", he pulled out a silver-white metal tube the thickness of a finger from the corpse's protective clothing.

"This is... a portable distress signal transmitter?" Aya recognized the name of this thing.

"Yeah." Ke Lan nodded, and threw the metal tube to Layton. Layton cut a small hole in the metal tube, and then inserted a metal wire pulled out of the mechanical arm.

Two seconds later, the high-frequency signal light at one end of the metal pipe began to flash, and everyone present also received the distress signal from the metal pipe.

"This thing has never been used, and the battery inside is full." Layton said.

Ke Lan pulled out the signal transmitters on the protective clothing of the other two corpses, and the result was exactly the same as the first one.

These signal transmitters have not been activated.

"My previous judgment was wrong, they did not escape from 'Yagunaktor'." Ke Lan sighed, "They knew that the distress signal could not be sent out in this place, so they did not activate this thing."

"What do you mean?" Aya asked in amazement.

"Where we are now, here—" Ke Lan pointed, "I think it should be the interior of 'Yagunaktor'."

"How is it possible?" Aya couldn't help raising her voice a few degrees, "Do you think this joke is funny?"

"Although...Although I am very surprised why their bodies appear here, I think Team Leader Aya is right." Park Shangyou in the rescue cabin said, "The signal transmitter can't explain anything, maybe They forgot in a hurry, or they found traces of heresy sects nearby, so they must keep silent-but it is absolutely impossible to be 'Yaguna Ketor' here, this tunnel was discovered earlier than 'Yaguna But Thor' was several years earlier, and we have conducted many investigations, and found no problems... Your point of view is so ridiculous, it doesn't make sense at all!"

"The entrance of the tunnel is not far from here, Team Leader Breya, you can send your men over there to see if the entrance we entered is still there," Ke Lan said.

"You two, go to the entrance and have a look." Aya immediately assigned two agents.

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After 15 minutes, the two agents ran back with horror on their faces.

"The entrance...the entrance has disappeared!"

"What did you say?" Aya's eyes widened.

"The entrance has disappeared. Where the entrance should have been, it has become a passage exactly like this one. Even the magma on the ground is gone... We even walked forward 200 meters..." The agent looked at Aya With a glance, he shook his head.

"One-way teleportation nodes, it is basically impossible to go back the same way." Ke Lan said, "16 years ago, a team of relic hunters encountered a similar situation when exploring the A-044 relic. The hunters entered a narrow corridor and lost consciousness instantly. When they woke up, they found themselves in a wilderness more than 600 kilometers away from the ruins. Unfortunately, the teleportation device seemed to be malfunctioning. Only the upper body of a person was sent out, and the lower body remained in that corridor. Later, the people sent by the research institute conducted hundreds of experiments on that corridor, and they found that everything that entered the corridor would be completely destroyed. Or incomplete teleportation to a random location on that wasteland, the maximum difference between teleportation destinations will not exceed three kilometers, but no space nodes such as wormholes can be found in the wilderness."

"Do you want me to use the drone to explore the road?" Layton asked.

"No need, the farthest control distance of the drone is only 200 meters. Since we are no longer in the original tunnel, let alone 200 meters, even if we go back [-] meters, we will not be able to go back." Ke Lan shook his head.

"Could this tunnel be a closed loop?" The hunting dog suddenly said, "Didn't we encounter a circular ice passage in the ruins of the bottomless sinkhole before?"

"No. It was in a dream that time. Even if there is such a seemingly straight but actually closed-loop channel in reality, it is probably realized by some means to interfere with our perception, but this means is essentially A blinding method, just like 'ghost hitting the wall', will not work for sophisticated mechanical measuring equipment." Ke Lan said, "Unless they use a transmission device to connect the passage end to end when building this passage, it will work. to a similar effect."

"If that's the case, then what's the difference between going forward and going backward?" Layton said, "We shouldn't be trapped here, right?"

His eyes couldn't help but stay on the three corpses... "These three people, couldn't they be trapped to death like this?"

"The inclination angle of the tunnel has not changed, and the size, texture, lighting equipment specifications and spacing are all the same, as well as the energy crystals we put in..." Ke Lan suddenly turned to the agent who ran back, "Say, Did you feel the temperature rise as you approached the entrance... I mean where the entrance should have been?"

"Uh...no." The agent shook his head.

"According to this calculation, the space node should be located at a certain point between the entrance and the three corpses. When we passed that point, we were unknowingly teleported... But when we tried to return to the entrance, the temperature in the tunnel But there is no change..." Ke Lan quickly analyzed, "At least we can't go back to the tunnel at the entrance... As for whether this tunnel is connected end to end, we will know as long as we keep walking... ...if it's a closed loop, then we'll end up seeing these three bodies anyway."

"But the biggest problem we are facing now is." Ke Lan turned around and said seriously, "Our supplies won't last long."

If you drink water, you can use urine to purify the cycle for a long time, but there is no way for food-there is indeed a device on the ark that can recycle feces and extract the protein, and then process it into food, but that kind of The volume and energy consumption of the thing are huge, and it is impossible to carry it with you.

"I still have two bags of self-heating rations, six energy bars, and two compressed biscuits left." The hound opened the backpack and checked, "What about you?"

(End of this chapter)