Alien Relic Hunter

Chapter 684 Sleeping Pod

After leaving the "warehouse" where a large number of food cans were stored, members of the 776 special team continued to walk along the corridor.

Finally, when the end of the corridor could be seen, automatic doors appeared on both sides at the same time—these two automatic doors were completely open, unlike the one stuck in the warehouse just now.

Moreover, the two rooms are not completely dark. Standing in the corridor, you can still vaguely see the faint blue fluorescence shining through.

Sergeant Ken did not hesitate, and directly ordered: "The second group stays in the corridor, and the first group and I check the room on the right first."

Several soldiers held their guns in one hand, put the other on the shoulders of their teammates in front, and entered the room in a standard CQB combat formation.

This room was much larger than that warehouse, and there were a lot of equipment of unknown use embedded in the walls, and the dots of faint blue fluorescence were emitted by the indicator lights on these equipment.

Near the base of the wall, there are many coffin-like metal cabinets neatly arranged. The interval between each metal cabinet is about [-] meters. There are a large number of pipes and cables on the top of the cabinet, and those on the wall. The device is connected.

"What... what is this? Alpha's coffin?" Martin muttered softly.

Due to the scarcity of land resources, in the old era, urns have completely replaced the status and role of coffins in funeral affairs, but because the image of coffins is so classic, many film and television works and literary works often mention this The container used to place the corpse, so even though people in reality can hardly see the actual coffin, they will still subconsciously associate it with the coffin for utensils with similar shapes.

Especially under some mysterious, gloomy and weird atmosphere.

"It's not a coffin..." Liao Xing frowned and shook his head, "That thing is used to release living people... Look at those pipes and cables, the equipment on the wall is probably some kind of life support device, this thing should be Similar to the medical cabin on the ark."

"These things seem to be still in working condition." Collins said, "Isn't there... still alive inside?"

"Go and have a look." Sergeant Ken ended the discussion among several people with one sentence.

Samuel, the most courageous, carried the mobile Vulcan cannon specially equipped for fearless fighters, walked step by step to the "coffin" on the far left, took a closer look, and then said in a low voice on the team channel Said: "Report to the boss, it is empty inside."

"Empty? What about the others?"

"The second and third 'coffins' are also empty." Samuel replied, "There is nothing inside except for some scattered infusion tubes and things like electrode patches."

"Oh, I'm so happy!" Martin said with a hint of disappointment in his tone, but also with an inexplicable sense of relief, "I thought...we would be the first people on the Ark to discover the true body of the Alphas. "

He walked over quickly, but just before he ran to a "coffin", a sudden brake came under his feet, and he froze in place.

"Mom, damn...boss! There is a mouth here that is not empty!"

Including Sergeant Ken, several people immediately gathered towards him.

These coffin-like chambers have transparent polymer hatches so you can see what's inside at a glance.And in the mouth in front of Martin, there is a pale skeleton curled up inside. Those infusion tubes and patches connected to the wires are scattered around the skeleton, and only a few needle-shaped electric shocks at the end of the wires are still stuck in the spine of the skeleton. inside the gap.

"This skeleton... looks exactly like a human skeleton." Collins said, a flash of electricity suddenly flashed in his head, and the corner of his eye subconsciously glanced at the body bag on his back. "These medical cabins...couldn't they be prepared for those humanoid monsters?"

Are these monsters really Alpha people?
Didn’t the authoritative scholars of those research institutes say that there will be a big difference in body shape and appearance between Alpha people and humans?However, apart from being thinner, paler, and hairless, these humanoid monsters are obviously similar to humans, right? !
"This is not a medical cabin...these devices should be cryo-hibernation cabins." Liao Xing suddenly said, "Look."

He raised his hand and pointed to the device on the wall facing the "coffin" - this device was exactly the same as the other devices beside it in appearance, the only difference was that its operation panel was dark, and all The indicator light is off.

"The life-support device of this dormant cabin failed, so this 'person' died in the dormant cabin... As for the other empty dormant cabins, the 'people' inside should have left the room after being awakened .”

He paused, and continued: "The noises we heard outside, as well as this humanoid monster we encountered, should have crawled out of this room, these hibernation cabins... As for the one who awakened them is someone Whether it's a timed program or something else, that's unknown."

"Then it seems that there are quite a few of these monsters..." Samuel said.

In this room alone, there are nearly a hundred such dormant cabins, plus there is another room like this on the other side of the corridor... Even if there are only two rooms with dormant cabins in the entire ruins, it would be "sealed" "The number of humanoid monsters is also two hundred.

Fortunately, the fighting power of these humanoid monsters is not strong, and their physical strength is far inferior to those native creatures in the wilderness with rough skin and thick flesh that cannot even be pierced by bullets. With the fighting level of the 776 special team, two hundred of these monsters It's a bit tricky, but not too much of a threat.

"This makes sense..." Liao Xing dragged his chin in thought, and said to himself.

"What's reasonable?" Martin couldn't help asking.

"The bone age of the corpse that Collins is carrying." Liao Xing said, "Although this kind of dormant cabin can allow the creatures inside to survive for a long time in a dormant state, judging from these tubes, the creatures in the dormant cabin They still need nutrients from the outside world, so their bodies will naturally continue to grow and develop in a dormant state...Although it is very slow, it does not stop completely. In this way, a bone age of over [-] years old is completely reasonable Now... the real age of this humanoid monster will only be older than four hundred years old, and much older."

"Over a thousand years old?" Martin asked tentatively.

"It's possible for [-] years." Liao Xing glanced at the faint blue fluorescent lights flickering on the wall. Of the nearly a hundred life-support devices in the dormant cabin, only the one in front of him had malfunctioned. Combined with the existence of this ruin, In terms of time, such a long battery life and such a low failure rate may only be achieved by the technology of the Alpha civilization.

(End of this chapter)