Alien Relic Hunter

Chapter 47 Natasha's Help
"..."

Ke Lan was silent for a full 2 ​​minutes, during which he stood up and walked around the bed, casually flipped through a few drawings on the workbench, then took out a pen from the cabinet, and was stunned for two seconds , Put the pen back again, and sat back on the edge of the bed.

"I can sense that you seem anxious."

"...Can I not be anxious?" Ke Lan scratched his hair vigorously, "By the way... Did you make a note when you returned to the Ark, and what was written on the note?"

"I did, but I didn't say it."

"That's right... After all, this matter involves your secret experiment..." Ke Lan rubbed his cheeks, trying to calm himself down.

At this moment, the PAD in Ke Lan's pocket suddenly vibrated.

(Supplementary note: The Internet of Things and WIFI in the residence are disconnected, and the PAD uses a GPRS network similar to mobile phones to send and receive information.)
He opened it and saw that it was an email from the Hound with an attachment.

"This is the confidential information leaked by the institute. After reading it, smash the document immediately without leaving any traces."

Inside the attachment is a video file, the video is very short, only in the early 1 minutes.

"The message sent by the old dog has a video in it." Ke Lan and Asano Akira said after a while, and then clicked the play button.

The quality of the video is poor, the lighting is dim, and the camera keeps shaking, but you can still vaguely see the side of the ship nearby and the sea in the distance.

This is a video shot on a boat. It should have been shot at night, and there is still a dark orange afterglow at the end of the sea level.

There are only two oceans on Alpha star. The polar sea at the South Pole is frozen all the year round, and it should be during the extreme day now. If this video was taken recently, it can only be above the middle sea.

This can't help but make Ke Lan think of the boatman he just met in the small bar...

A group of people in cold-resistant protective clothing were running around on the deck. They looked nervous. In addition to the deafening waves in the background, there was always someone shouting something. Unfortunately, there were too many noises, and Ke Lan could only barely hear it. "salvage", "rescue" and other words.

The waves dozens of meters high were mixed with broken ice and slapped on the body of the ship. When it fell, it was like a rainstorm with hail. From time to time, someone fell to the ground. The worst guy even slipped out for more than ten meters until it hit the ground. It stopped on a steel frame.

A dozen sailors pulled up a steel cable and pulled up a spherical diving capsule that had been completely deformed.

Armed men with guns surrounded the diving cabin, and a soldier in light power armor stepped forward and used an acetylene torch to cut through the jammed cabin door.

"No signs of life! Repeat, no signs of life detected in the diving cabin!"

Ke Lan finally heard these words clearly. The person who filmed the video got closer at this time, only to see the soldier in the power armor put down the tool in his hand and dragged a corpse out of it.

It was a mummified human corpse, but his abdomen was bulging like a pregnant woman who was about to give birth in September!
The video ends abruptly here.

Ke Lan took a deep breath, clicked "play again", and dragged the progress bar to the last ten seconds.

Fast forward, fast forward, pause, [-]x speed play, pause.

The picture freezes at the moment when the mummified corpse was dragged out of the diving cabin.

"It can't be that..."

Ke Lan only felt his heart tremble, and quickly deleted the video, and then sent a communication request to the hound.

In less than a second, the communication was connected. Obviously, the hound was waiting for Ke Lan to contact him.

"Has the video been deleted?" The Hound asked as soon as he opened his mouth.

"deleted."

"See what?"

"It's very similar, very similar to that priestess." Ke Lan was referring to the mummified corpse that was dragged out of the diving cabin.

"Remember how the people from the Security Bureau called that thing... It should be called 'flesh-eating worm', that's right."

"Well... 'flesh-devouring worm'." Ke Lan felt a tingling in his scalp. The first time he encountered this word was not from the investigator of the Security Bureau, but from the words in his mind. Fragments of memory of unknown origin.

"Do you know where the video was taken?"

"Zhonghai."

"Not only in Zhonghai, but also in the waters where the city under the sea is located. This icebreaker is called 'Pioneer One', which is where Bartlety works. The video was filmed half a month ago, just after discovering the bottom of the sea. when the ruins of the city."

"It seems that things are more troublesome than what Bartlett described." Ke Lan didn't mean to blame Bartlety. After all, he was just a mechanic and spent most of his time in the engine room of the bilge, not many on deck. Chances are, everyone who saw this scene must have been given a gag order, and it was impossible to tell Bartlety the truth. Bartlety knew nothing about it and it was understandable.

"The people in the security bureau must know the inside story."

"But they certainly won't tell me."

"If the guy's stomach is really a flesh-eating worm, the security bureau will definitely keep an eye on you, you have to be more careful. I hang up here first, and the risk of being monitored for too long is also high." For other things, the Hound didn't ask more, which made Ke Lan relieved.

Hound and Akano Asano are trustworthy, but he still didn't tell them these secrets - not that he didn't want to tell them, but that he couldn't explain them, and instead they would involve them, adding unnecessary risks.

As for what intelligence the Security Bureau and the military have, Ke Lan has no way to speculate, and can only take a step by step.

Since there are traces of flesh-eating worms in the undersea city, he should stay far away from that place. Anyway, there are so many ruins on Alpha star, and just exploring those less dangerous low-level ruins is enough to maintain life. .

Just when Ke Lan was thinking so, she suddenly received a request for a video call.

"Did this guy forget to mention something else? Do you still want a video?" Ke Lan muttered in his heart, but when he looked down, he found that the request was from a stranger - "Natasha".

"Hey... Natasha? Why does this name sound familiar?" Ke Lan always felt as if he had heard this name somewhere, but the name Natasha was used too frequently among female Slavs. Just among the female stars under Ursus Pictures, there are several named Natasha...

"Ivan's girlfriend seems to be named Natasha. What he told us was the three consecutive championships in the women's freestyle competition." Asano Akira, who was sitting at the table, said.

"Yes! But what is Ivan's girlfriend doing for me?" With such doubts, Ke Lan clicked the "Agree" button.

This is an extremely beautiful Slavic girl. She has sculptural three-dimensional features and pale golden wavy long hair. She wears a silver necklace on her long neck. Further down is a bottomless canyon... …

It's just that Ke Lan couldn't appreciate the beauty of the canyon at this time. The girl's face was obviously anxious and frightened, her eyes were red, and there were tears in the corners of her eyes.

"You are... Natasha?" Ke Lan hesitated for a moment, and greeted in Chinese.

Ke Lan does not speak Russian, but as the most spoken language on the Ark, Chinese has become the official default language.

"Yes, yes...you...you are Ke Lan, aren't you?" The girl's Chinese was a little stumbling, but at least it didn't affect the communication.

"Well, I am." Ke Lan nodded.

"I'm... Ivan... Ivan's girlfriend... please... help us!" the girl said with a hint of tears.

"What happened to Ivan?"

"He...he seems to be infected by something...but...but he won't let me go to another doctor or touch him...he...he asked me to come to you...if you can help us If so...you must..."

The girl moved the camera while crying, and saw that Ivan, who had just parted, was lying on an operating chair at the moment, his exposed skin turned red, like a cooked crab , his chest was ups and downs greatly, and every ups and downs was accompanied by slight twitches of his limbs. Obviously, breathing had become an extremely difficult task for him.

"Don't panic, be calm, be careful not to touch Ivan's body, and then show me the wound on his arm." Ke Lan said, Ivan's injured arm was covered with a blood-stained surgical towel Covered, but judging from the shape protruding from the cloth, it clearly does not look like a human arm.

"Okay...Okay..." Natasha walked over tremblingly and picked up the surgical towel with a pair of long metal tweezers.

"Ah..." Ke Lan couldn't help but exclaimed softly.

Ivan's entire arm has been completely alienated, and several fleshy tentacles with a thickness of one grip are entangled like coiled vines, and the original bones and muscle tissue are completely invisible. They are squirming like snakes, transparent and sticky. Thick secretions kept dripping on the ground.

"I'll rush over immediately—remember, never touch him!" Ke Lan said quickly, then opened the communication window that had just been closed, and sent a text message to the hound.

"Ivan has an accident!"

(End of this chapter)