Alien Relic Hunter

Chapter 64 Cargo Hold No. [-]
"Can you show me?" Ke Lan asked immediately.

"Of course, but I hope you don't have high expectations..."

"why?"

"The reason why the diving cabin is still on the boat is because it is too bulky and cannot be carried by the security bureau's plane, but they have dismantled the equipment and lining of the diving cabin, and the only thing left is a piece of iron. It's a shell." Caroline replied for Zofia.

"...Even if it's an iron shell, I want to see it."

"Since you are so insistent, then let First Officer Caroline take you there." Zoffia handed the key card to Caroline, "I still have to deal with the aftermath of the battle just now, so I won't accompany you for the time being. already."

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The No. [-] cargo compartment is located at the bottom of the Pioneer icebreaker. The front and rear are completely sealed drainage compartments. Only one lift freight elevator can reach it. However, what makes Ke Lan speechless is that even this freight elevator has been stopped. Used, they can only climb down the elevator shaft step by step...

"It was done by the security bureau. They not only dismantled the power supply system, but also sealed up the entire No. [-] cargo hold. This key card is the backup card that the captain secretly hid," Caroline said.

Her power armor has not been taken off until now. Fortunately, in order to transport goods, the elevator shaft was originally designed to be very spacious. Not to mention power armor, even a small mecha can easily pass through it.

"Just for such an iron shell?" Ke Lan couldn't help but complain again in his heart: These people from the Security Bureau are really too cautious, right?

"That's more than that... There are also many rock samples collected from the seabed by the security bureau's robots in the No. [-] cargo hold, but I really don't know the use of those things, and they take up too much space. I really want them. Immediately send a transport ship to transport all this garbage." Caroline inserted the card into the card slot on the cargo door, and the three red indicator lights on the side turned green one by one, and in a harsh metal friction sound, The heavy hatch slowly rose - fortunately, the group of people from the Security Bureau hadn't been so mad that they welded the entire cargo hatch to death.

"Didn't you say there is only one diving cabin? Those rocks...what's going on?" Ke Lan was a little puzzled. Just now in the captain's room, Zoffia didn't mention these rocks at all. There was nothing in Caroline's mouth. Useful garbage, in the eyes of knowledgeable people, it is a precious environmental specimen!
"Oh, those rocks were not collected on the seabed of this sea area, they should have nothing to do with the ruins of the underwater city... Of course, if you are interested in these things, just pick them up, there are a lot, a few less. The people from the security bureau won't find out." Caroline said as she walked into the cargo hold first.

The space in the cargo hold is almost the size of two basketball courts, and the air is filled with a strong smell of rust and oil, mixed with a hint of the fishy smell unique to Alpha star seawater.

"Have the seabed rock samples around the underwater city been transported away by the security bureau?"

"It's not that they took it away," Caroline shrugged. "It's that they didn't get that thing at all. The ruins are very evil. As long as the robot gets close, various failures will occur, such as sensor failure, engine stall, etc. It's still relatively light, and some simply give you a signal interruption, the cable is disconnected, and you can't even recycle it... As for the living people... Alas, no one can return to the water alive. ."

"This is not an evil," Ke Lan explained, "Abnormal magnetic fields will appear around and inside many Alpha civilization relics, which has a great impact on sophisticated electronic equipment. Otherwise, at least [-]% of the hunters' jobs will be taken away. Robots took it."

"Huh? What about [-]%?" Caroline asked with interest.

"The mechanical robots of some ruins can't be dealt with. They are dead objects after all, even if they are manipulated by someone behind them. There is another aspect, that is the cost issue... In many cases, human life is much cheaper than those top robots." Colin replied.

"That's right, otherwise all the sailors and boatmen on our ship can be replaced by robots, and it will save me shouting all day long." Caroline nodded in agreement.

Chatting and chatting, the four of them had already walked to the center of the cargo hold. On one side, there was the almost completely deformed spherical diving cabin that Ke Lan had seen in the video, and on the other side, it was piled up as deep as a hill. Black rocks.

"Be careful." At this moment, Asano Akira suddenly stepped forward and protected Ke Lan in front of him.

"What's the matter?" Ke Lan frowned slightly, but out of trust in Asano Akira, he also pulled out the pistol inserted under his rib and opened the safety.

"There is something moving in that pile of rocks." Asano Akira had already pushed the warblade out of its sheath by three inches.

"How is that possible? The people from the Rock Security Bureau have been screened several times!" Caroline shook her head again and again, "This... Could it be that you are too nervous and misread it?"

"I heard that." Asano Akira replied.

"Then... I heard it wrong?" Caroline's smile was a little stiff. She was surprised to find that the three people she brought down had already entered a fighting state just because of this sentence. Another hunter with Chinese looks even They have already held the shock grenade in their hands.

"Don't be impulsive... Don't use weapons here. If the sealed partition of the drainage compartment is damaged, the entire Pioneer will be in big trouble." Caroline discouraged.

"Ms. Caroline... You'd better put on your helmet." Ke Lan said to Caroline without turning his head, because he noticed that Akano Asano's war blade had been unsheathed to five inches. The starting style of the improved version of Iaizan.

"There's nothing there!" Caroline said with a hint of anger, "My power armor has a bio-scanning device, and there is no sign of life in that pile of rocks!"

"If it can't be scanned, it doesn't mean there must be none." Ke Lan pulled the sleeve and loaded the bullet.

"But those stones have been browsed one by one by the people from the Security Bureau. If there was anything in it, they would have been discovered long ago!" Caroline shouted.

"What if they were negligent?" The first thing Ke Lan thought of was the flesh-eating worm. When he saw the priestess for the first time, he couldn't see any abnormality at all. As long as the flesh worm has not started to devour the flesh and blood of the host, it will be difficult for outsiders to find it - by the same token, if there are some inconspicuous little things embedded in the crevice of a certain rock...

"Come out!" Asano Akira had not finished his words, he had already rushed up with a stride, and at the same time the war blade was unsheathed, and an arc-shaped crescent formed by the blade light appeared in front of him.

"Qiang!" The sound of the symphony of gold and stone reverberated in the cargo hold, and a gray-black shadow almost the same color as the rock collided with Asano Akira's blade, then quickly retracted, dodged behind the pile of rocks.

"Then... what is that?!" Caroline looked incredulous.

"It's too fast, I didn't see it clearly." Ke Lan shook his head.

"It seems... it seems to be a person," Liao Zilang said with some difficulty, "but... but it seems to have only the upper body..."

(End of this chapter)