Alien Relic Hunter

Chapter 574
"For logistical work... that's okay." Ke Lan nodded, and according to the original plan, explore the frontline supply base of Yagunaktor, which is located in the core power room of the battleship.

The teleportation array in the core power room connects various areas on the battleship. It is not an exaggeration to say that it is the transportation hub inside Yagunaktor - the thinking of the civilization that built this ancient battleship seems to be completely different from that of human beings. In large human vehicles, the core power structure has always been the most important thing. Not only will it be placed in the safest corner of the vehicle, but the general crew, let alone go in, are not even allowed to approach.

Yagunaktor's design idea is just the opposite. People in the ship must pass through the core power room wherever they want to go. This is like the designer of the ark directly building the main reactor of the ark in the last At the intersection with the most traffic in the bustling neighborhood.

As if afraid that others would not know that this is the most important part of the whole ship.

But then again, Ke Lan still doesn't know anything about the civilization that built Yagunaktor. The only thing that is certain is that their technological level is higher than that of the Alpha civilization on this planet. Civilization is much stronger.

If this is a hive civilization, then this design style seems to be explained - anyway, all the "worker bees" are controlled by the "queen bee", they are just an extension of the "queen bee" body and mind , does not have independent self-awareness.For the bee colony civilization, this battleship layout is the best choice.

For humans, the only threats to the core power room are the mutated lava beetles in the crystallization pit and the high-intensity radiation released when the crystallization array is activated, but the former has been completely crushed when the battleship restarts, and the latter The other is that it will only appear briefly when the crystal array is activated. As for the maintenance phase, there will be no radiation overflowing the crystal pit.

"I'm going to transfer the crew of the Pioneer back to the ark, and I'll leave it to you to arrange the daily training!" At this point, Zofia wanted to stand up from the bed, but she only did half of it. , then sat back amidst a cry of pain.

"Uh...was I that rough just now?" Ke Lan scratched her head and asked.

The eldest lady's face was flushed, but her eyes stared at him relentlessly, and she nodded vigorously: "Like a wild beast."

"...Then do you want some medicine or something?"

"The medicine box is under the closet, in the second drawer from the left." Zofia bit her lip and said, "I can't walk through..."

"Oh." Ke Lan got up quickly and walked towards the closet.

After completing the indescribable process of applying medicine, Ke Lan carried Zofia to the table. He originally wanted to put the young lady in his arms on the chair, but after thinking about it, he sat down first. Then let Zofia sit on his lap.

"Don't move around." After warning Ke Lan, Zofia stretched out her hands and tapped on the keyboard quickly - the crew on the Pioneer from the old rail, the first mate to Bartlety There are a total of two to three hundred people at the most basic level of mechanics, and the transfer of these two to three hundred people cannot be completed directly with a single order...

Changes in personnel files, various durations, vacation adjustments, salary and benefit settlements, follow-up resettlement plans, and drafting of new contracts, all these tasks must be completed by Zofia herself—since the spy incident happened last time, Zofia Fiya chooses to do many things by herself, which also increases the workload on her shoulders several times in an instant, and she has to work until late every day before she can rest.

Seeing that Zofia had entered a state of serious work, Ke Lan didn't want to bother her anymore, so she lightly hugged her slender waist with one hand, picked up the phone with the other hand, and opened the news page of the browser.

As Ke Lan expected, after the blockade of the whole ship is over, the official will always give a "relatively reasonable" explanation... It's just that this time the official didn't blame things like infectious diseases, but It was to announce to the public that a highly dangerous native creature had broken through the containment device due to a mistake in the research institute's work. At present, the creature has been killed and the body has been properly disposed of.

Although this statement will arouse dissatisfaction among some people at first, after all, bringing dangerous native creatures aboard is an extremely irresponsible matter for people's lives and safety, scolding and complaints are absolutely indispensable... Ke Lan will The announcement page was pulled to the comment section at the bottom. Sure enough, this announcement was released in less than 10 minutes, and the guy who is not afraid of death is "rushing the tower".

"These people are really brave..." Although most of these guys who rushed to the tower used "floating IP addresses", this kind of crude means of disappearing, not to mention the official network security personnel, even Ke Lan can do it. Through the traceability program written by himself, the original IP of those people was locked, and even the chip serial number of the machine he used to send the comment was found out.

The reason why the Undead Crew Club chose this argument is probably because the impact of the entire ship blockade is too great, and the theory of infectious diseases is obviously untenable. It is better to directly blame this blame on the research institute— —Anyway, the "meme incident" was originally caused by people from the research institute, so this is not wronging them.

After closing this announcement, the second news is "Yip's consortium announces that the rematch of this mecha competition will be postponed indefinitely".

"Oh? Even the rematch has been cancelled?" Ke Lan murmured in his heart. From the perspective of the official statement, the indefinite delay is basically tantamount to canceling the game, just to save a little face. That's all.

Ke Lan didn't even need to call to ask, he knew that the cancellation of the rematch must be related to this accident-even the research institute was almost given over by the "meme", so the development of the virtual immersion system and new mechs was naturally inevitable. will come to a standstill.

With the ability of Ye's consortium, without the support of the equipment department of the research institute, it is difficult to develop a new type of airframe every year, even the iterative update of the toothpaste-squeezing style is difficult to achieve... Ke Lan felt that if they failed to gain something from the exploration of Yaguna Ketor, let alone the rematch will be postponed indefinitely, it may even matter whether the next mecha competition can be held as scheduled. is an unknown.

After all, without the sale of new mecha skeletons, it is difficult to recover the huge expenses of the game by selling tickets. A game with old mechas on the stage, no matter how exciting the game is, it will be of no use to the Ye Group. meaningless.

The so-called Mech Contest is actually just to create momentum for the new product launch. Businessmen are looking for profit, so it is understandable to delay or even cancel the competition.

Just when Ke Lan was going to check other news, the mailbox was notified that a new email had been received-general spam emails would not prompt, only emails marked as "important contacts" by Ke Lan , to enjoy this treatment.

Ke Lan clicked on the email and saw that the sender was an intelligence dealer who had been cooperating with him before.Although after Ke Lan's identity was exposed, he rarely asked the other party to buy information, but the other party would provide him with some "gossip" from time to time, and most of these news were of Ke Lan's interest.

In terms of user service, this guy is at least much better than those stupid "AI big data push".

The first line of text in the email immediately made Ke Lan's body tense up, so that Zofia, who was sitting on his lap, noticed something strange and turned to look at him.

"Dr. Renee from the Institute has defected."

Renee?Defect?
What is going on here?

"What's wrong?" Zofia asked softly.

"Renee ran away." Ke Lan held the phone screen in front of Zofia.

"Dr. Renee...? Who is she?"

"It's the Dr. Renee from the research institute who sent someone to monitor you. She was originally the person in charge of the resident group of the No. My body is broken, so that you are also involved."

"What she wants...is this?" Zofia lowered her head slightly, and pressed a few jade-like fingers on her lower abdomen, "But, if she wants to clone your body, she shouldn't You must have germ cells, and you should be able to extract complete genes from normal tissue cells, right?"

"The ghost knows what she wants to do..." Ke Lan said, "If this crazy woman really gets her way, I'm afraid this time the incident would be even bigger."

"Then why did she run away? If that's all she did, given her research background, shouldn't she be punished too severely?"

"I don't know either... I don't even know what the definition of 'defection' is. Could it be that she joined a heretical sect?" Ke Lan muttered, flicking his thumb on the screen.

There is no text below, but a video. From the perspective of the video, it should be the screen of the in-ship surveillance camera of the No. [-] Fleet No. [-] flagship "Xin Dawn". You can see the entire conflict process clearly.

When Dr. Renee and another "surviving" researcher boarded the transport plane, the video ended. Seeing this, Ke Lan couldn't help but wonder—did this make her escape?
With so many large and small warships in the Zero Fleet, it can't even catch up with a transport plane, right?
Even if they are tasked with guarding "Yagunaktor" and cannot act rashly, they can shoot down this transport plane with just a few shots, right?Based on the actions of this group of research institutes, even if Renee and the aircraft were directly blasted to pieces with the main gun, the fleet would absolutely not have to bear any responsibility afterwards.

Not only do they not have to take responsibility, but they can even turn their backs on the research institute... But in the current state of the research institute, it would be miserable enough if they didn't hold their shit basin, according to the official way of dealing with it. , it is estimated that this matter should be characterized as Dr. Renee's personal behavior.

Fleet Zero is a legal counterattack, while the headquarters of the research institute is regarded as an "uninformed person" outside the incident.

But the problem is that what the intelligence dealer said was "defection"...not "killing".

Ke Lan really wanted to reply an email immediately to ask him what was going on, but after thinking for a while, he still called the person in charge of the Zero Fleet—the person whose status was second only to Ke Lan, but who had mastered the situation. The commander who holds the true command of the fleet.

When the "beep" reached No. 16, the phone was finally connected, but the person who answered the phone was not the commander of the No. [-] Fleet himself, but his secretary, a man with a poker face all day long. Iceberg Belle.

If Ke Lan remembers correctly, the secretary with the rank of captain seems to be named "Sophia", just one letter away from Zofia. (Note: Sophia is Sofia, Zofia is Zofia)

However, according to the soldiers below, this Sophia is actually not as difficult to get along with as she seems. The reason why she has a stern face all the time seems to be that she was injured during her early service and damaged her facial nerve. Left behind the same sequela as facial paralysis.

Of course, these are just rumors. Ke Lan only stayed on the "New Dawn" for a few days in total, and all the words he had with this secretary did not add up to more than twenty sentences.

"Is the commander himself not here?" Ke Lan asked - logically speaking, the No. [-] Fleet doesn't have any missions right now, and the fleet commander shouldn't be so busy that he doesn't even have time to answer a phone call.

"Commander, he's not on board right now." Sophia replied.

"Okay, is he going to deal with the defection of Dr. Renee from the research institute?"

"You already know?" Sophia's tone was slightly surprised, but she quickly regained her composure. "Yes, he did go to deal with it."

"That fellow Renee, did he really escape from under the noses of so many warships?" Ke Lan asked again.

"Dr. Renee's transport plane did not escape, but was shot down by our side, it's just..."

"Just what?"

"After our troops found the wreckage of the transport plane, they only found the body of one of the researchers, and did not find the body of Dr. Renee."

"That means... she's not dead yet, is she?"

"Currently it is tentatively classified as MIA (Missing in Action), but we found Dr. Renee's blood at the crash site. She was seriously injured and had a lot of blood loss. According to the judgment of the team doctor, if she cannot be treated, she Can't survive 24 hours."

"Have you searched the nearby area?"

"searching."

"Have you found any traces of a third party besides the two of them? Whether it is a human or an indigenous creature." Ke Lan immediately realized the problem-if Dr. Renee was seriously injured and dying, then it was impossible for her to rely on herself If the force left the crash site, there must be a third party involved.

Either she was taken away by wild beasts, or she was taken away by some people before the fleet.

[PS Thank you Zhu An for the 1666 book coins. 】

[PPS about the plot of the extra meal, I wrote a beginning and sent it to the group today, but the reader complained that "I can't get up after watching it", and I felt a big blow...]

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