Alien Relic Hunter

Chapter 576 Hard Landing

Thanks to the fact that the blockade of the whole ship has not been completely lifted, and most of the streets in the Ark are still empty, Ke Lan drove the young lady's luxury car to the nearest airport in just half an hour. area, and with the authority of the Crisis Management Section, forcibly recruited a stealth fighter from the garrison.

"Immediately ask the marines to go to the coordinates I sent, and surround this area, but remember not to startle the snake." Ke Lan adjusted the parameters of the fighter jet, and commanded the Zero Fleet with his mobile phone on his shoulder. Colonel Yevgeny, the adjutant, said, "By the way, even if someone wants to leave the blockade, don't stop them. Send a team of people to follow up if you can't be found, and report the location at any time."

The person who took away Dr. Renee was the Prophet... If not the Prophet himself, at least he was one of his substitutes.Although he may not be able to beat the marines with the fleet's long-range support, it is difficult for ordinary people to stop him if he wants to escape. It was completely broken.

"Remember, don't scare the snake by making grass." Ke Lan emphasized again. He hung up the phone and started the engine of the fighter jet after receiving the colonel's assurance.

Although Ke Lan has not received pilot training for this type of fighter jet, he has driven it no less than [-] times in realistic combat games. He also remembers the functions of the dazzling array of buttons and joysticks on the eight dashboards in front of him. It was very clear - the only thing he didn't master was how to land the plane safely on the ground.

After all, the fighter jets in the game are either shot down or choose to parachute after taking off, and there is basically no chance of landing-even if the fuel and ammunition are exhausted, the pilot player will choose to aim the plane at the enemy's important target. Go down for a higher score instead of turning around and flying back to Gene to resupply.

But this is not a problem for Ke Lan, anyway, it is impossible for him to land this plane near the gathering point of exiles-after he parachutes, the automatic cruise system of the plane will be activated... As for this " Whether the "drone" can be successfully recovered by Ark is none of Ke Lan's business.

Directly push the thruster output valve to the top, and the two thick rocket thrusters at the tail of the aircraft suddenly let out a deafening roar. into the clouds.

A strong feeling of pushing back was transmitted from the seat, and the tube connected to the oxygen mask vibrated violently, and slapped on Ke Lan's coat, making a crackling sound—he did not fly in the armor that is necessary for a high-speed fighter pilot He didn't even wear the anti-G suit with the inner lining, he just put on a casual sweater over the shirt.

However, the ground crews are no strangers to this. In the military system, the pilots and pilots are enhanced people occupy a large proportion, and many of them can rely on their bodies to resist the huge G force generated by the acceleration of the body. For them, an anti-G suit that relies on pressurizing the body to achieve overload is no different from a restraint garment, and it is a burden.

After Ke Lan's body was enhanced by the living armor, he was already considered a serious enhanced person. Although his strength had not been tested, according to his self-feeling, without activating the armor, his physical strength was at least equivalent to five. Reinforced people around level six.Moreover, compared with those enhanced humans born on the operating table, Ke Lan's state is more stable, and his physical strength, toughness, and endurance are far superior to conventional enhanced humans of the same level.

As for after activating the living body armor... even a top-level ninth-level enhanced person is almost like an ordinary person in front of him.

The power brought by the living armor is completely beyond the limits of human beings. When Ke Lan uses this power, he often has an illusion-it is not that he is manipulating the armor, but the armor itself is driving him. body.

It is difficult for him to describe this feeling. When entering the combat state, this armor will seem to come alive... It seems that there is a kind of "inertia" between self-awareness and muscle memory, or It's... "Battle Instinct".

In the battle with Seraphim, he made many movements subconsciously under the guidance of the armor. As for some movements that are not complete enough, the armor will automatically help Ke Lan to correct them to achieve zero error. .

Ke Lan even felt that even if the person wearing this armor was not himself, but a skeleton of a puppet with no power source assembled from several pieces of metal pipes that can be seen everywhere in clothing stores, it could kill Seraphim.

The power armor and humanoid mechs made by humans are more like a joke in front of this armor.

But what Ke Lan didn't understand was why the Alpha civilization had to design this weapon of war as a wearable device instead of an autonomous device like a drone... Could it be that it was worried that this thing would be unmanned? Will it get out of control?

"The current altitude is 1000 meters." The voice of the auxiliary AI brought Ke Lan's thoughts back to his eyes. At this time, the fighter jet had penetrated into the thick radiation clouds, and the energy shield on the plane had been automatically activated, which was as gorgeous as a rainbow. From time to time, colorful thin lines will appear on the surface of the colorful mask, just like the sparks dragged out by the friction of a hard object at high speed-this is the burning of the tiny metal particles floating in the cloud after hitting the energy shield. bright.Because the speed of the fighter jet is very fast, these small but bright flames will be pulled into extremely thin threads at the moment of burning, which looks quite a short-lived beauty.

But thanks to these tiny metal particles, fighter jets cannot communicate with the outside world when flying in the clouds, and the radar is completely unusable. Everything must be judged by the pilot's eyes— —In several flight simulation games that Ke Lan has played, there are similar scenes. In these scenes, even the most advanced fighter jets can only rely on dogfighting to solve the battle.

As for beyond visual range combat, unless you are lucky enough to hit blindly, it is tantamount to wasting ammunition in vain.

This kind of environment is somewhat similar to the settings in the classic machine combat anime "Gundam" series of the old era. (note 1)

However, Ke Lan has already entered the coordinates sent to him by the intelligence dealer into the navigation system of the fighter plane. Even if the positioning device and radar are not available now, as long as the aircraft's course does not deviate, the auxiliary AI can calculate the current position of the aircraft. calculated and displayed on the screen.

The fighter jet flew in the radiation cloud for less than 10 minutes, and the auxiliary AI had already started to remind Ke Lan: "We are about to arrive at the predetermined coordinates."

This coordinate is actually not very far from the ark. After all, the mooring location of "Yagunaktor" was already near the ark, and the viewing platforms on the top floor of the ark can even directly see this floating in the air with the naked eye. Behemoth - As for the small black dots surrounding this behemoth, it is the Zero Fleet responsible for protecting Yagunaktor.

The transport plane snatched by Dr. Renee was shot down before flying out of the hovering area of ​​the fleet, and the crash site was only a few hundred kilometers away from the Ark.

In addition to the 680 kilometers distance from the exile stronghold, for the fighter jet driven by Ke Lan, it is half an hour's journey at full cost.

"It has arrived at the predetermined coordinates, and the current altitude is 460 meters."

The coordinates given by the informant are just below the clouds.

Ke Lan controlled the fighter jet to circle in the air, and then pushed down the joystick significantly. The fighter jet, which was still flying horizontally, suddenly lowered its head and got out of the clouds.

The moment it got out of the clouds, the optical camouflage armor on the surface of the fuselage appeared layers of color halos like water ripples. In a blink of an eye, the entire plane changed from the original black to bluish white, and the lead gray on the back. The clouds of radiation merged into one.

Ke Lan's earphones heard a loud electric sound. Although the interference was still strong, the communication channel that had been silent for nearly half an hour finally returned to normal again.

"The Marine Corps has arrived at the scheduled combat position, and the No. [-], No. [-], and No. [-] heavy artillery cruisers have locked their targets and are ready to fire at any time." The voice of a middle-aged man who was still panting was accompanied by the sound of electricity on the communication channel. Ke Lan immediately heard that the person who was reporting to him was the commander of Fleet Zero, Captain Sophia and Colonel Yevgeny's immediate superior: Major General Alexander.

After the defection of Dr. Renee, Major General Alexander really felt the pressure like a mountain just like his name - the undead crew would order him to arrest the defector within 24 hours, regardless of life or death.However, Major General Alexander led thousands of people to search around the crash site several times, but failed to find any clues.

At this moment, the titular "Supreme Officer" of the No. [-] Fleet suddenly sent a somewhat inexplicable coordinate, which made him suddenly feel as if he had grasped a life-saving straw—no matter what was on this coordinate , At least it shows that the "Supreme Officer" wants to take over this matter, which means that he will no longer be the first person responsible for this matter.

It would be a great thing if someone is willing to take the initiative to take responsibility... What surprised the major general even more was that the reconnaissance team sent out actually found a cleverly disguised exile colony at this coordinate. point!

This settlement is built at the bottom of several natural rock ravines with a vertical depth of more than 20 meters. Compared with the depth of four or five stories high, the width of these deep ravines can only allow a small hovercar to pass through—— This was originally a fissure zone of a fractured rock formation, and after years of weathering, this peculiar landform has gradually formed.

On weekdays, neither radar nor drones can detect the settlements hidden in these rocky gullies, not to mention that the exiles here are extremely cautious when entering and leaving, and hardly leave any traces on the surface.

So much so that this exile settlement not far from the Ark has never been discovered by field troops and air force fleets.

The resources in this area are very scarce, and there are no remains of Alpha civilization nearby. It is far away from the settlements of other exiles, and even the transfer station and transportation route of the ark... Logically speaking, it is impossible for the exiles to choose this A place as a settlement - no matter how secluded it is, if the problem of filling the stomach cannot be solved, then all other advantages are meaningless.

The exiles living here must have a stable material supply channel if they want to survive, and the only ones who can provide such a channel in the wilderness, except for the Ark, are only heretic sects.

If it hadn't been for Ke Lan's repeated emphasis on not being allowed to startle the snake, I'm afraid that Major General Alexander would have already led the marines in by this time.

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"Everyone, don't act rashly, stay where you are." Ke Lan said as he opened the hatch of the cockpit and climbed out.

Looking down from his angle, the rocky ravines are not as thick as a hair, and the length is only a few millimeters, but in fact the shortest one is more than 200 meters long. A few thousand people is not a problem at all.

Ke Lan took off his oxygen mask and jacket, and the blood gushing out of his pores instantly condensed into a complete armor on his body.

The control of the aircraft was all controlled by the auxiliary AI. Ke Lan squatted on the edge of the cockpit, holding the hatch cover behind him with both hands, looked at the direction, and then jumped out!

The plane behind him quickly shrank into a blurry point, while the ground below was constantly enlarging, and the strong airflow tore away the shreds of the shirt remaining on the surface of the blood-colored armor in a blink of an eye—this was not Ke Lan's first It was his first skydive, but definitely his first "skydive" without a parachute.

And it's still at an altitude of nearly 7000 meters.

This can definitely be regarded as a real hard landing. Even wearing the "Hell Paratrooper" power armor, it is difficult to guarantee that the flesh and blood wrapped in steel will be intact when it hits the ground—but just when Ke Lan is about to hit the ground Suddenly, a cloud of blood mist exploded on the surface of the scarlet armor, which directly offset most of the impact.

It didn't even make a loud noise when it hit the ground.

Ke Lan was bounced into the air nearly [-] meters high, and then fell down again.

This time, he finally touched the ground with both feet, and firmly stepped on the ground to create a shallow pit that did not reach the back of his feet.

"I landed..."

Ke Lan said subconsciously, but he didn't realize until after he finished speaking that the Tonghua device worn on his head had been shattered long ago, leaving only a circle of metal skeletons, which were symbolically hung on his neck.

"Forget it, I don't expect them to help anyway..."

[PS Note 1: In the Gundam series, there are settings for virtual particles such as Minovsky particles. This kind of particles can not only miniaturize high-power power furnaces, but also interfere with communications and radars on a large scale, causing Long-range weapons such as missiles cannot lock the target, so that even if there is a war in the universe, the combat distance between the two warships is difficult to exceed the limit of the visual range.

And this kind of setting is also an opportunity for "MS", a humanoid mecha that has almost no advantages in real combat, to be able to enter the stage.

In addition to the Minovsky particles in the UC era, other Gundams with different worldviews basically have similar settings. 】

[PPS Thank you for watching what? I took a look at the 500 starting point coins rewarded by Yiha. 】

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