Alien Relic Hunter

Chapter 52 Aurora Consortium Advance Team

At 35:[-], Ark, the sixth airport in East [-]th District.

"Layton, is that the transport ship?" Ke Lan asked.

The sixth airport has a total of three large berths and twelve small berths, but most of the berths are empty at this time, only a 200-meter-long high-speed transport ship is parked in a small berth near the corner, and several ground crews The final inspection work is being carried out on the suspended platform standing aside.

"It should be." Layton glanced at the "Aurora Consortium" logo on the transport ship and nodded.

A sound of friction between the rubber tires and the metal ground came from behind everyone. They all looked back and saw a heavy-duty forklift slowly approaching carrying a three-meter-square "metal box". The surface of the metal box was Wrapped in a thick layer of flame-retardant foam, wing-shaped solar photovoltaic panels fold on the sides, and eight sets of rocket thrusters are attached to the bottom of the box with removable brackets.

"This thing... can't be an artificial satellite, right?" A strange look appeared on Liao Zilang's face.

"It seems that there are still people insisting on this thing... It's a fucking waste of money..." The Hound couldn't help but scolded in a low voice.

The artificial satellite was soon loaded onto a transport ship by workers - in order to save resources, mankind has abandoned the one-time space launch vehicle and turned to airships to launch satellites.The airship will take the satellite out of Alpha's atmosphere, and then throw it out, and the satellite's own thrusters will adjust itself, and finally send the satellite into the predetermined orbit.

However, in the past 50 years, humans have launched hundreds of artificial satellites on Alpha Star, but none of them have been successfully put into use...

The earth, the hometown of mankind, was once a planet surrounded by man-made celestial bodies. Hundreds of thousands of artificial satellites, space stations, and various space platforms were running on their own orbits. Communication, positioning, and meteorological observations on the earth... ...even war is inseparable from these man-made celestial bodies, which are closely related to and inseparable from human life, although they are invisible to the vast majority of people living on the ground.

But in Alpha, the situation is completely different.

In the outermost layer of Alpha star's atmosphere, there is a circle of "ionized turbulence layer" hundreds of kilometers thick. Although this ionized turbulent layer can weaken the radiation from stars and protect the ecology on Alpha star, in the same way, artificial satellite launch The electromagnetic wave that comes out cannot penetrate this layer of turbulence at all, unless the power of the electromagnetic wave is expanded to the weapon level...

Then people have to solve the two more difficult problems of the energy supply of artificial satellites and the safety performance of electromagnetic launch devices...

At present, the main means of communication that humans use on Alpha are various portable radio devices, and long-distance communication is achieved with the help of "quasi-base stations" such as transit stations, airships or high-altitude communication hot air balloons.

"Just you group of garbage pickers, are you also worthy of discussing our Aurora Consortium's satellite plan?" A somewhat sarcastic female voice sounded not far away - the hound was stunned for a moment, his voice was already very low, but Still being listened to, it seems that either the other party has the ability to hear, or it is equipped with some kind of monitoring equipment.

The speaker was a young woman with a shaved head. She was wearing a lead-grey one-piece field training uniform, a combat vest full of pockets, and a very conspicuous Aurora Consortium LOGO printed on the front of the vest. .

"Trash picker? You seem to be a hunter too, don't you? Be careful next time, don't curse yourself in." Ke Lan glanced at the woman's equipment and said in a very calm tone.

"Haha..." The woman sneered twice, "Don't compare our professional relic hunters with the scavengers who make a living by picking up leaks. If I guess correctly, you are the group of guys who want to hitch a ride, right? Think about it. I also know that poor bastards like you can't afford an aircraft."

"Did you see? This is the so-called superiority of the cannon fodder. After all, it is a dog raised by a rich man. It is fuller and has more energy to bark." Ke Lan ignored the woman, but turned his head and smiled. Said to his partner.

"It's true, hey, look at that guy's face is so red-ha, he's in a hurry, he's in a hurry!" Compared to the yin and yang's strange skills, the old ruffian Hound is not inferior.

(PS This place originally wanted to use the word stubborn, but after typing it out, the more I looked at it, the more I felt something was wrong. Later, I checked the information and found that succumbed to the original has always been a wrong way of writing, the correct one should be no less. Let, and the meaning is completely different.)
"It seems that you don't want to get on the transport ship, don't you!" Ke Lan and the hound only said two words. The huntress who belonged to the Aurora Consortium was already on the verge of becoming angry. She pointed at Ke Lan and the others. With one hand on the holster around his waist, he almost didn't draw his gun.

"Our money is not paid to you, and you have no right to refuse us. I don't think your master will lose a lot of money in shipping for a dog, right?" Hound thought for a while, and suddenly added another sentence. , "Sorry, maybe I shouldn't say you are a dog... After all, the status of cheap cannon fodder may not be comparable to that of a dog."

"You—!!" The woman finally couldn't hold back the anger in her heart and pulled out her pistol!

"Sharon! Don't shoot in the airport!" A tall man wearing the same training uniform just caught a glimpse of this scene, strode over, grabbed the woman named Sharon, and held her up with a gun. The hand pressed down hard.

"I'm the captain of the ninth hunter team of the Aurora Consortium, Benson, and the leader of this advance team. Are you the independent hunters who contacted us before?" He glanced at Ke Lan and the others who were standing opposite. , the eyes are extremely unfriendly.

Benson's height was extremely high, even approaching Layton who had undergone a fourth-level biochemical transformation. With just a light lift of his thick and powerful arms, he picked up Sharon, who was 1.7 meters long, and threw him to the back of the team.

"Yes, the credit point has been applied to the account you provided." Layton nodded, and he was basically handling the handover matters with the Aurora Consortium.

"We did receive the money... But you said at first that there were four people, how come it has become seven?" Benson squinted, his face a little unhappy, of course, these emotions may be more derived from Just that brief conflict.

In addition to Zhuoligetu and Liao Zilang, Natasha also followed. Under her strong request, Ke Lan and the others had to bring this girl who had won the three-time Women's Free Fighting Championship—— Although from the outside, she doesn't look like that can fight at all.

"We paid half the price, so it's no big deal to bring three more people?" Ke Lan looked at the advance team members behind Benson. They were all wearing uniforms with the logo of the Aurora Consortium. There were 29 people in total, counting Including that Sharon, there are a total of four women, but the other three are all wearing orange logistics uniforms, and only Sharon is a real relic hunter.

"There may have been some misunderstandings in the exchange of information before. You have also seen that this transport ship is not leased by us, but an asset of our Aurora Consortium." Benson's tone contained a hint of arrogance. Obviously, He wanted to take this opportunity to raise the price and slaughter Ke Lan and the others again.

(End of this chapter)