Alien Relic Hunter

Chapter 595 Sewers

With the assistance of engineering mechs, the cargo boxes containing research equipment and instruments were quickly moved to the cargo compartment of "Hercules", and each box was firmly inserted into the shockproof base. Then fix it with a buffer hook to ensure that there will be no shaking or bumping during the flight.

Lin Qiming, Dr. Norrison and others entered the number one cockpit under the guidance of several stewardesses with beautiful legs.As soon as Lin Qiming took his seat, a small silver cart was pushed in front of him along the aisle between the two rows of seats.

"Hello, Mr. Lin, would you like some drinks? Fruit juice or alcoholic drinks?" The flight attendant's sweet voice sounded, and Lin Qiming glanced at the trolley. Almost all of them were high-end wines, with a single bottle of market price. There is no less than [-] credit points.

"Give me a cup of coffee, no milk or sugar - if there is no coffee, just water." Lin Qiming nodded to the stewardess.

"Okay, the coffee needs to be freshly ground and brewed, please wait a moment, and it will be brought to you soon." The flight attendant gave a slight bow, and then continued to walk forward with the small cart.

Lin Qiming turned his head slightly, squinting his eyes and staring at the flight attendant's back.

The other party was stepping on a pair of six-centimeter high heels, her slender and tight calf was wrapped in a layer of light gray nylon stockings, and the edge of the uniform skirt just stayed one finger above the knee—it would not look too much Frivolous, it can perfectly show the charm and good figure of women.

Lin Qiming is not an LSP, he just vaguely felt that this stewardess seemed... a bit strange.

At the knee socket of the flight attendant's right leg, there is a very obvious snagging mark on the gray stockings, but logically speaking, this part will hardly scratch the surrounding things during daily activities, so it should not be so easily damaged That's right.If it is accidentally broken while wearing it, then just change a pair - the image of a flight attendant working under a large consortium like this can be said to be very important, and the handbag is used to touch up makeup. Cosmetics and spare stockings are definitely indispensable. It makes no sense to appear in front of passengers wearing such a pair of stockings with such obvious snags.

In addition, the flight attendant's high-heeled shoes seem to be a bit too big, so that every time she lifts her legs, the heel will slip slightly.

Could it be that he took the wrong shoes because of the urgency of this temporary mission?Lin Qiming always felt that something was wrong, but he couldn't tell what was wrong for a while.

A strong sense of drowsiness flooded his head, and he finally got rid of the pile of heavy work. Now he just wants to lean on the soft back of the chair and sleep soundly for a few 10 minutes.

However, the refreshing pill that he took before departure was still exerting its effect. Even though every cell in his body was moaning tiredly, his brain remained awake.

Even if he closed his eyes and fell asleep, a lot of things related to work would still involuntarily appear in his mind... The so-called rest is completely deceiving himself and others.

Accompanied by an almost imperceptible vibration in the cabin, the transport plane began to taxi on the runway.

"Your coffee." An exquisite bone china cup and a saucer of the same style were placed in front of Lin Qiming—although the plane is in the take-off stage, under the adjustment of the dynamic balance device, the first-class cabin will remain In a horizontal state, even if the coffee in the cup is full, it is difficult to be shaken out.

"Thank you." Lin Qiming picked up the cup and glanced at the flight attendant's face again.

The other party kept smiling, but Lin Qiming always felt that this smile was very awkward, a kind of superficial smile.

"This is probably... a professional smirk?" He murmured in his heart, he hadn't flown many civil aviation planes, and he had very little contact with service personnel in this kind of flight attendant industry... But today he always felt that these The flight attendant's expression seemed a little unnatural... Could it be because the plane was requisitioned?

Lin Qiming looked down at the dark gray uniform on his body again—common people would feel a little nervous when they saw the people from the Security Bureau. According to this, the performance of this group of flight attendants is already quite good.

"Headache……"

He took a sip of the coffee in his cup, and the coffee made from freshly ground coffee beans was indeed much more mellow than the instant coffee he brewed with boiling water in the office, whether it was the first taste or the aftertaste in his mouth Gan, the gap between the two is simply one sky and one earth.

With Lin Qiming's salary level, it's not that he can't afford this kind of high-end coffee beans, but with his way of drinking coffee as plain water, I'm afraid he can't afford to buy high-end coffee beans even if his salary is increased tenfold.

"Let's continue to drink instant coffee when we go back...at least part of it can be reimbursed." Putting down his cup, he casually pulled out a magazine from under the table—as the Yep Consortium's planes, most of the magazines provided to passengers are their own. The mecha advertisement, but the one in Lin Qiming's hand is obviously old. Not only the corners of the magazine have turned yellow and warped, but the mechas used in the cover renderings are also old models from a few years ago.

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East Second District, Yongan Port.

Jimmy Garrigan, wearing a one-piece antifouling overalls, used a crowbar in his hand to pry open the sewer cover of the airport bathroom, and suddenly, a disgusting rancid smell came up from the well.

"Damn... If it wasn't for the money, I wouldn't want to do this job..." Jimmy put on the gas mask cursingly, and climbed down the escalator step by step along the shaft wall.

He is a staff member in charge of the underground sewerage system in the East Second District of the Ark. Although the work certificate says "water supply and drainage engineer", the actual work he does is no different from that of a plumber in the old era.

Due to the existence of autonomous robots, the profession of plumber has disappeared on the Ark for a long time, but this does not mean that people can completely hand over the drainage and sewage system to machines - the network of pipes on the entire Ark is intricate, and its total length Together, it is estimated that it can circle Alpha Star hundreds of times... Someone even once said that: In terms of complexity alone, the pipeline system inside the Ark is no less than a maze in an A-level relic.

No matter how precise and advanced the machine is, it is completely impossible to avoid the occurrence of failures-although the probability of this is very low, when the overall base is large enough, things with the lowest probability will become daily routines that are performed every day. , You need staff like Jimmy to step in.

"It's really a ghost. The four self-disciplined dredging robots are all stuck at the same point. It's fine to be stuck, and even the automatic maintenance robot is malfunctioning at the same time... This is too outrageous."

While complaining, Jimmy held a flashlight and bent over to walk deep into the pipeline. He didn't notice at all that there was a strong smell of blood in the pipeline at this time - this smell was passed through the filter element of the gas mask It became almost like the smell of rust, and it didn't arouse his vigilance at all.

"Strange thing, this track looks quite new, there is no rust at all, it should have just been replaced within a year, even if it is going to get stuck, it shouldn't get stuck on this new track... Who? Who is there?"

Jimmy walked forward for about 50 meters. The reflection of the flashlight seemed to illuminate a figure lying on the ground, and he was shocked.

"Is it a living person? Hello? Squeak if you can hear it!" Jimmy couldn't help clenching the crowbar in his hand, and moved the flashlight to the figure little by little.

This is a young woman, wearing only close-fitting underwear, lying almost naked in the pipe, her whole face soaked in the sewage accumulated at the bottom of the pipe, her long chestnut hair floating on the water, motionless.

"Damn it!" Jimmy's face suddenly turned pale, and he didn't even need to go closer to check, he was already sure that the woman was a corpse - even if she didn't have any fatal injuries on her body, burying her face in the water in this position, It won't be long before she dies of suffocation... If you count the time since the self-discipline robot got stuck, this woman may have been lying here for half an hour.

"Why did someone run into the pipeline?" Jimmy's hand holding the flashlight trembled involuntarily, and even the beam of light emitted by the flashlight shook greatly--it's okay if it doesn't shake, and it will go farther away when it shakes. The pipes were also illuminated.

There were far more than one corpse like this... More than a dozen corpses had been thrown into the sewage pipes, and several of them had been pushed down the track by the stuck autonomous robot, and were crushed to a bloody mess.

No wonder these robots get stuck, these corpses have already blocked the entire pipeline, it's no wonder if they don't get stuck!

Most of these corpses are tall young women, and there are only four or five male corpses. These corpses have a common feature, that is, almost all the clothes on their bodies have been stripped. It looks like those who were left in the garbage dump Like the plastic mannequins in it.

These people didn't seem to have died for a long time. There were no corpse spots or swelling on the corpses. Except for the few corpses that were crushed by the robot, the other corpses were still in good condition.

When he was bragging with others online, Jimmy used to talk about topics like "while it's hot", but now he can't think of that at all, he just wants to run away and leave this damn place.

Jimmy felt that his legs were a little weak. He supported the wall of the pipe and took several deep breaths before facing the direction of the pile of corpses and stepping back step by step.

It wasn't until he exited nearly 20 meters that he turned around abruptly, and ran towards the mouth of the pipe without slamming his head heavily on the top of the pipe.

At this time, he couldn't care about any maintenance work anymore. After climbing out of the wellhead with hands and feet, Jimmy was stunned for two seconds, and then he slammed open the door of the bathroom and ran to the corridor.

He originally wanted to call the police, but he soon realized that it was difficult to explain the situation in the sewer clearly in a few words on the phone. Instead of calling the police, it would be more straightforward to find the security personnel at the port and let them go down to investigate.

Jimmy looked around, just in time to see a tall man in a black security uniform standing in the corridor with his back against the wall, his eyes seemed to be looking towards him intentionally or unintentionally.

"Security! Security!" Jimmy immediately ran towards the other party as if seeing a life-saving straw, "Something happened! Something happened down there!"

"What happened? What happened?" The security guard turned around and faced Jimmy with a puzzled expression—but Jimmy didn't notice that at the moment he opened his mouth, there was a sinister look on the other side's face. There was a flash in his eyes.

"The sewer... there are corpses below! There are many corpses, the corpses blocked the pipes, the robot was stuck by corpses—"

Before he could say "stuck" and "hold", he felt a piercing pain coming from his abdomen. He lowered his head and found that the "security guard" had a metal cone in his hand at some point , pierced into his body.

Jimmy's eyes widened involuntarily. He wanted to shout, but his mouth was already covered by the other party... With his thin body, he couldn't compete with the tall and burly "security guard" in front of him.

The physical strength was flowing from the body along with the blood, and the one-piece anti-fouling suit he was wearing was actually helping the other party at this time - all the blood flowing out of the wound was caught by the anti-fouling suit, without any stains to the ground.

"You... um... um..."

Jimmy's struggles are getting weaker and weaker, and the voice in his throat is getting smaller and smaller. From his perspective, darkness and cold are gradually occupying the whole world...

And this "security guard" had a cruel grin on the corner of his mouth.

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At this time, on the "Hercules" transport plane——

Lin Qiming had already finished his third cup of coffee, and the magazine on the table was turned to the last page—he was actually not interested in mechs at all, but at this moment he could only use this to pass the time on the road.

He looked around the first-class cabin, and several stewardesses were sitting on the seats by the front and rear cabin doors. Except for them, the people sitting outside were all field officers from his crisis management department. As for the researchers, It is sitting near the center.

This position arrangement is like surrounding this group of researchers, but they don't seem to care about such trivial matters at all, and they are gathering together in twos and threes, talking enthusiastically about the content related to the research topic.

Lin Qiming turned his head away, and one side happened to be the porthole of the plane. He subconsciously looked out twice, but frowned involuntarily.

At this time, the transport plane is heading towards the north of the ark... This is not the direction to "Yagunaktor".

How is this going?

Lin Qiming frowned slightly. He stood up and walked towards the cockpit, but was stopped by the stewardess next to the first-class cabin door.

(End of this chapter)