Alien Relic Hunter

Chapter 513
"Don't worry about your broken curvature engine," the hound interrupted the excited Layton, "if you have time, why not think about how to solve the big hole in front of you."

Although the seeds of erosion and the giant centipede that invaded the Mukakh base have all been wiped out, the big hole drilled out still exists. No one is sure whether the heretic sect will use this "channel" to launch a second wave to the base attack.

"Do you want to chase into the hole?" Layton was stunned for a moment and asked.

"Idiot." The hound kicked his ass with a very skilled movement, "Qian Koumo chases you, do you understand? Besides, if we run into this tunnel, without the support of this big guy in the sky, How many Seeds of Corrosion do you think you can fight alone? Five? Ten?"

"Then what should we do? We can't keep guarding this place all the time, can we?" Layton muttered, raised his head and glanced at the "Yagunaktor" floating above the base, "It's impossible for this battleship to stop forever." In this place?"

"Everyone, please rest assured that the superior has already given a solution." A hound's familiar voice came from behind, and they turned their heads to take a look, only to find that Lieutenant General Maginot was already surrounded by dozens of guard battalion soldiers and two Guarded by the "Heavy Shield Tie Yu" mecha, they rushed to the edge of the huge pit.

"Magino? To be honest, when I was still on the battleship, I wanted to ask, why are you here?" The hound looked at the other party with some doubts.

"Nick, you're here too, this matter...it's a long story..." Magino's eyes swept over everyone one by one. As the "connector" between the military department and Ke Lan, Hunting God He can still recognize the members of the regiment. As for the few people in dark gray uniforms beside them, they should be members of the Security Bureau.

"Didn't the Security Bureau have some friction with Ke Lan and others? How could they get involved now? Could it be that the battleship in the sky is still related to the Security Bureau?" As a high-level guard, he was completely unaware of the reconnaissance mission in the mining area.

"I've said it many times, don't call me that name!" The hound said angrily, "Since it's a long story, let's make it short... I'm really puzzled, you can run a 200 meters sprint like this Panting fat pig, why don't you just sit in your office and come to Mukakh? Lose weight?"

"I don't know either!" Machino said with a bitter face. "A transfer order from above directly threw me to the Mukahe base. Now I am the highest military officer of this base."

"You? Have you been transferred to the field force?" The hound suppressed a smile and looked at Lieutenant General Maginot's figure, "This... When you are marching in the field, if the car breaks down, the soldiers under you will be able to recite move you?"

"Don't make fun of me..." Machino waved his hand and said helplessly, "What can I do about the order from above? You know, I am neither good at running nor good at fighting. I I don’t know why I was transferred to such a strategic location. Ni...uh, hound, I think you have a good relationship with Ke Lan. If you have a chance, can you drag him to help me ask the people above... ..."

As he was talking, Machino suddenly lowered his voice and leaned into the hound's ear: "I know that Ke Lan has a lot to do with the crew. If he is willing to speak, he should be able to ask something."

Maginot's face was full of flattery - logically speaking, given his status, his posture should not have been so low.

Taking a step back, even if the hound is still serving in the army, no matter how good he is at fighting, with his stubborn temper and history of disobeying orders many times, he will be a lieutenant general if he dies. They are at the same level, and Magino doesn't have to put on such a groveling look when he sees the hound.

But now it’s different, Ke Lan seems to have connected with the Undead Crew Club, and the hound who has a close relationship with Ke Lan naturally has a different status than before...Magino knows very well that the title of general should not be used. It's okay to scare ordinary people, but in the eyes of the undead crew... this is a fart.

...perhaps worse than a fart.

If he could transfer himself back to the garrison in this way, let alone pretending to be a grandson, he would just let Machino lie down and help Ke Lan lick his boots.

Of course, the premise is that no one can see it.

This time, he almost lost his life, and Magino didn't want to have a second time.

But what he didn't expect was that there was a puzzled expression on the hound's face: "The crew will... what crew will?"

"Eh? You didn't know that the crew would..." Machino was stunned for a moment, then realized that he seemed to have made a serious mistake, and quickly changed his words, "It is an organization formed by the United Parliamentary Group and the heads of those financial groups. That is what we often refer to as the 'people above'."

The instructions of the Undead Crew Association are basically issued through the joint parliamentary group. It is actually true that Maginot explained it this way... From this point of view, Ke Lan is probably the only person in the Hunting God Hunting Group, and there will be a relationship with the Undead Crew. through direct contact...

"Then I'm afraid we won't be able to help you." The hound squinted his eyes and looked at Maginot meaningfully, "Because we can't see those big people at all, and they only order us—oh yes, The use of 'Yagunaktor' to support the Mukah base this time is also an order from above."

"Oh..." Magino, who was thinking about quickly changing the subject, nodded repeatedly, "So that's how it is..."

"By the way, what is the solution you just mentioned?" Seeing that Magino seemed to have lost interest in this topic, the Hound also cut the conversation back to the main topic in a very good way.

"Oh, that's right. I just received news that the Ark has organized a transport fleet to transport a large amount of building materials to the Mukah base within three days to fill the big hole. So count Including the construction time, you only need to assist in the defense for about a week before you can return to the Ark." Machino said, "Including the battleship Ke Lan is operating."

"Okay, one week is one week. By the way, is the base responsible for our meals?" The hound nodded.

"Yes." Levi replied from the side, "Except for food, all the supplies of the reconnaissance team in the molten mine area are provided by the Mukahe base. If you have any special requirements, as long as they are within the scope of our ability to meet You can bring it up to us."

"That's good, eat compressed biscuits every day... I feel sick to my stomach when I smell the smell of peanut butter now, I must have something good to comfort my stomach." The hound said.

"Uh... hound, you probably don't know that what I, the military chief officer of the base, ate these two days was also canned synthetic meat and bean sprouts..." Magino said with a wry smile, "the fresh ingredients delivered in the last batch It's already exhausted. Today was the day when the transport convoy arrived, but the convoy was attacked by a heretic sect before the base... To tell you the truth, we can only rely on emergency supplies before the next batch of supplies arrives It's time to spend the day."

"As the emperor here, don't you have any personal inventory?" The hound looked at him suspiciously.

"Today is my second day in office, what do you think?" Magino shrugged.

"Okay, canned food is better than compressed biscuits that are so hard that they can knock your teeth out." The hound nodded, "Then arrange a place for us to live in."

"The residence has been arranged, everyone please follow me." Levi stood up.

"The intruder has been wiped out, but there are still a lot of things to deal with in this endgame, so I won't accompany you." Machino pointed to Levi, "This is my adjutant, just talk to him directly if you have anything to say That's it."

"Row."

The hound watched Maginot leave in the car, then quietly retreated to the end of the team, away from Levi and Ayala.

Then, he opened a one-on-one communication channel with Ke Lan.

"Ke Lan, just now I met that fat man Maginot, he was transferred to the field force, and he is also the military chief officer of this base - of course, these are not the point, the point is that he said that you and a crew member will meet The relationship is very close, and I want you to help him say something nice to the crew and transfer him back to the garrison."

"The crew will... what did Maginot say?"

"He said that the Crew Union is an organization formed by the United Parliamentary Group and the heads of those financial groups, but when he said this, his eyes kept looking away, and he looked very guilty. I suspect that he is not telling the truth."

"The crew association he mentioned should be the undead crew association." Ke Lan was silent for a few seconds, then said.

"Undead crew?"

"Well... as far as I know, the highest power organization of the Ark, even the United Parliamentary Group or the Business Alliance, must obey the orders of the Undead Crew. In other words, they are the highest controllers of the Ark."

"I knew that guy Magino was lying to me... By the way, have you really come into contact with this undead crew?"

"Well." Ke Lan didn't deny it, "I have had several contacts. The reconnaissance mission in the Molten Mine this time was actually entrusted by them, but I can't talk about having a close relationship with them... I Haven't even seen the real face of any of them."

So far, Ke Lan and the undead crew have had several contacts, either through the Internet, or through channels such as cyborg prosthetics or remote-controlled biochemical humans. The only person who has seen the "deity" is the "Pope" Chiron , but by that time Chiron was no longer a member of the Undead Crew.

So strictly speaking, he has never seen any members of this mysterious organization.

"Then do you know their identities? Could it be that a few members of the United Parliamentary Group with relatively high voices have made such a thing? It is used to suppress other members of the parliament who have different opinions from their own? According to me, it is really possible for them to do it. This kind of thing happened." The hound guessed.

"If this is the case, then Magino is not lying." Ke Lan replied, "I don't rule out the existence of members of the Undead Crew Club in the United Parliamentary Group, but I think that the United Parliamentary Group is just A puppet they put on the surface, a vest used to give orders."

Ke Lan also had a lot of thoughts about the conjectures of the members of the Undead Crew Club—combined with the existing information, in his opinion, the reason why this group of people are unwilling to stand on the stage may be inseparable from their own reasons .

Magino once told Ke Lan that every member of the Undead Crew Club has lived a long time—although they are not "immortal" in the true sense, their life span is at least several times that of ordinary humans.Coupled with Chiron's huge and weird body like a "mountain of meat" and incredible special abilities, Ke Lan has every reason to believe that the members of the Undead Crew... are not human beings.

Maybe they used to be human beings, but now, in their state, if you look at them from the perspective of ordinary people, you will definitely not recognize them as your own kind.

Even Ke Lan himself, when he first saw "Pope" Chiron, subconsciously regarded him as a monster fused with human beings and biochemical weapons, similar to Seed of Corrosion.

Ke Lan couldn't help guessing, what would the other members of the undead crew and their bodies... look like?
If they were all such monsters, then everything would make sense.

Because of abandoning their human bodies, they gained a lifespan far exceeding that of humans, and it is precisely because of this that they cannot go under the light—people can accept that they are ruled by their own kind, but they absolutely cannot accept their own rule The latter is a monster completely different from itself.

Especially when it comes to the stance against heretical sects, some people will definitely have doubts—since our own ruler has abandoned the human body and turned into a "monster", why should we suppress another attempt to take advantage of Alpha civilization? What about people who "evolve" human beings through technology?

All kinds of conspiracy theories and suspicions will rapidly spread and ferment among the people, the order will be subverted, and the rules will be broken... When the human race falls into self-doubt and madness, it is not far from destruction.

No matter what the purpose of the Undead Crew Club is, at least they are still maintaining the stability of human society... and the actions of heretical sects are obviously more likely to push human beings to the extreme of destruction.

Ke Lan is not an immature child, he will not think that the upright must be "good" and the villain must be "bad". The world is not black and white... There is nothing wrong with the prophet's words : Humans must evolve and become stronger in order to survive in this universe.

Ke Lan did not deny this sentence, but what the Prophet did was too radical and too egotistical—he didn’t put ordinary people in his eyes at all, and all he was thinking about was how to detach himself from race Limits to become what is called a "god".

In his eyes, the human race is not important at all, as long as he can "become a god", everything can be discarded...

Ke Lan didn't know if the Prophet himself had activated the "Holy Word". If he really had contact with that distant vision, he should have discovered that his current power is far away from the "God" mentioned in the Alpha civilization. , There is a gap that cannot be described in words.

This gap cannot be bridged by individual organisms, not even the prehistoric species with a nearly infinite lifespan.

"Old dog." Thinking of this, Ke Lan suddenly said seriously, "Don't mention this undead crew member in front of other people in the future."

"What's the matter, is there any danger?" The hound was startled, and immediately said, "If there is danger, you should tell us, rather than bear it alone."

"This matter becomes dangerous precisely because more people know about it...the less people know about it, the safer it is."

【PS Thank you Emperor Tujian and The Sound of Rain for tipping 100 starting coins. 】

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