Alien Relic Hunter

Chapter 734 Gray Fog Forest
After finishing talking with Demeter, Ke Lan turned around and headed to the Black Well.

Since the undead crew members will not be willing to tell themselves those secrets, it is a big deal to use a stupid method-looking for a needle in a haystack to check the archives of those years that may be involved in these events... mobilizing so many special forces, plus detonating The small hydrogen bomb and the movement of the engine when it died... so many traces, it is impossible for the undead crew to wipe them out.

There will always be some clues left in those black hard drives.

Ke Lan soaked in the black well for five days.

I don't know if he was lucky, but he really found a clue by using this method of finding a needle in a haystack, and it was a very important clue.

In the core area of ​​the foggy forest, there is also an "engine wreckage", the number given by the undead crew is "No.60 No. The elite troops were sent to carry out the task of blowing up the "No.776 No. 60 engine wreckage site", but none of the troops could successfully pass through the foggy forest...

Of course, none of the troops can successfully pass through the gray fog forest. People come out of the forest alive—nor dead bodies.

And the several transfer stations and military bases set up at the border of the foggy forest did not detect any vibrations in the forest at all... In other words, none of the small hydrogen bombs carried by these four troops were detonated .

Due to the secrecy of the mission, Ark did not organize a large force to enter the foggy forest for search and rescue. Instead, after the fourth special team lost contact, it dispatched a heavy cruiser, a frigate and three ships to the foggy forest. The "Special Operations Fleet" composed of high-mobility support ships.

But this fleet had just crossed the "red line" when it was attacked by a large number of flying native creatures. The frigate and a high-mobility support ship crashed in the forest, and the heavy cruiser and the remaining two high-mobility support ships were severely damaged. Do not exit the airspace of the foggy forest.

When it comes to the red line... I have to focus on the foggy forest, a very special area on Alpha Planet.

Although the foggy forest is not considered a relic of Alpha civilization, in the eyes of all soldiers, mercenaries and relic hunters, this place is no less dangerous than a relic of S.

However, they are referring to the area within the "red line".

The "red line" refers to a "dangerous warning line" after entering the gray fog forest for five kilometers...The area outside the red line is not very dangerous. You don't even need to carry many guards during the experiment...but once you cross the red line, the situation will be different...

In the area after the red line, every time you go deeper than 50 meters, the danger level will increase greatly. Everything here, even the plants and the ground under your feet, are deeply hostile to outsiders.

According to official records, there was only one expedition team composed of high-level enhanced humans and modified humans, who successfully retreated after crossing the red line 400 meters, but even so, nearly two-thirds of them appeared downsizing.

In the 14th year of the New Era, an armored force retreated from the frontal battlefield and entered the gray mist forest under the pursuit of native creatures... About 500 people, plus nearly [-] tanks and almost [-] dreadnoughts All the warrior armor disappeared into this "man-eating forest" without a sound.

More than 90.00% of the trees in the foggy forest are a kind of native woody plant called "fog roost", but the most troublesome thing is another kind of indigenous plant parasitic on these fog roost: fog vine .

When the fog vines are breathing, they will release a gray mist. The mist released by countless fog vines is connected together to form a fog that does not disperse all year round. This kind of fog can greatly obscure the vision and at the same time It contains not weak neurotoxins. Except for those organisms that live in the foggy forest all year round and whose bodies have developed resistance to the toxins, outsider organisms that enter the fog without protective measures will be poisoned in a short time... The deeper you enter the forest, the heavier the fog and the higher the concentration of toxins, especially after the red line, the concentration of the fog will increase exponentially, and the main means people use to determine the exact position of the red line is to rely on the distance. Observe the change in the concentration of the mist.

Take human beings as an example. Suppose a strong, middle-aged male soldier, who has not undergone enhancement surgery and has not received toxin resistance modification, is not wearing a gas mask or taking anti-virus drugs, and is active in the area outside the red line. He would feel seriously unwell in two hours, and would fall into a coma in four hours... Even if he was taken out of the foggy forest at this time, if he didn't receive timely treatment, he would die from organ failure within 48 hours.

In the area within the red line, the time for the toxin to accumulate to a lethal level is shortened to 6 minutes.

As for coma to death, it only takes half an hour.

Another point is visibility—beyond the red line, the visibility in the gray fog is about ten to 15 meters, but as soon as the red line is crossed, the visibility quickly drops to within five meters, and the further you go, the lower the visibility... …that expedition even flooded the records with descriptions like "blindness".

The reason why the remaining one-third of them came back alive was thanks to several high-power blowers, which blew away the gray fog nearby, so that the expedition team could find their way back.

However, the "stickiness" of the gray fog is very high, and the limit distance that the blower can blow away is less than 30 meters... This is only 400 meters away from the red line, and the center of the gray fog forest must be at least [-] kilometers away from the red line .

Although the gray fog is very viscous, its density is not high at all. They can rise to a height of hundreds of meters, covering the entire forest below, and in the central area of ​​the forest, the height of the gray fog is even More than a kilometer, from a distance, it looks like a gray mountain.

As for the chaotic magnetic field and radio interference... At least one-fifth of the surface of Alpha Star has such characteristics, and the area where the gray mist forest is located is exactly in this one-fifth.

Someone once thought of using napalm bombs to create a passable "corridor" in the foggy forest, but after actual operation, they found that the fog perches and fog vines are extremely fire-resistant... moreover, they have extremely strong resistance to fire. The flammable fog squeezed out most of the air in the forest, and it was difficult for the fire to start under the condition of severe lack of oxygen.

The wood density of fog roost is extremely high, as hard as iron, and its ignition point is between [-] and [-]. , is completely inferior to various alloy materials...

There are no relics, the resource value is not high, and the level of danger is comparable to S-level relics... Except for experts and scholars who are interested in forest ecology, almost no one is willing to come to this place, and this forest is naturally gradually hidden from the public. In view.

Ke Lan tried to search for information about the foggy forest on the public network, but apart from a small number of exploration records in areas outside the red line, there was very little information that could be found... Among these information, the most frequently appeared The first words are "labyrinth", "red line", "extremely dangerous", and... "cannibalism".

Like the Bronze City ruins, the Mist Forest is also a "forgotten" place.

As for how the undead crew knew that there was an "engine wreck" in the core area of ​​the gray mist forest, Ke Lan didn't know. "It was deduced from the clues obtained within... After all, until now, the core area of ​​the gray mist forest is still the same as the abyss at the bottom of the Zhonghai Sea, a mysterious forbidden area that has not been visited by humans.

In fact, in Ke Lan's view, there is no need for the undead crew to send someone to blow up the engine wreckage hidden in the heart of the foggy forest... If they are trying to cover up something, the foggy forest can definitely be regarded as It's an excellent barrier.

No one can pass through the foggy forest, and no one can see the wreckage of the engine hidden in the gray fog.

Perhaps it was for this reason that after the loss of contact with the fourth special team and the failure of the special operations fleet, the Undead Crew shelved the plan to blow up the "No.60 No. [-] engine wreckage".

If it is said that inside the engine wreckage... there is also an Alpha person left behind...

Thinking of this, Ke Lan couldn't help breathing quickly.

He still remembers what the alpha man who was killed by the 776 special team said before he died in the "Super Dream" video——

"I won't stop you."

"I know the purpose of your leaders...they are right...the truth cannot be made public...otherwise, everything will fall into chaos."

"Because of paradox, most of us disappear."

"A small number of survivors left this planet. At least a very small number of individuals like me stayed behind. They wanted to witness something and try to communicate with you."

"But unfortunately, there is no 'symbiont' among you. It seems that I can't communicate with you."

There is no symbiont... These are the last words of the Alpha man, and it is precisely because no one in the 776 special team can understand the language of the Alpha civilization... They can't even hear the "voice" from the other party ", which is why they mistook the alpha for trying to stop their mission and shot him dead.

But Ke Lan, who is a symbiont, is very clear that the other party is not only not hostile, but even wants to take the initiative to communicate with humans!
It probably represents the will of the entire Alpha civilization.

Assuming that Ke Lan can find a living Alpha man in the "No.60 No. [-] Engine Wreck Site", all the problems that troubled him will be solved.

But before that, Ke Lan had a question: how could he pass through the foggy forest?
The area within the red line is a restricted area for human beings. The expedition team just crossed the red line by 400 meters, and they have completely lost their direction. The distance between the core area and the red line is at least a hundred times that of the expedition team. above.

The armored troops of 500 people were swallowed up by this forest, and the heavy cruiser that could instantly kill Fusion Plus was severely damaged and had to return without success... These cases all show that the dangers of the gray fog forest on the Internet Description, not exaggeration.

Even if Ke Lan could gather a large-scale army to attack the ruins of the ancient bronze city, it is very likely that there is nothing he can do about this forest.

Hundreds of thousands of people sound like a lot, and it would look spectacular if they were gathered in a neat square formation on the plain... But if so many people are scattered in a vast forest with a depth of more than [-] kilometers, it will be like Pour a [-]-gram bag of edible salt into a freshwater lake covering several hectares, and the salinity of the lake water will not change at all.

Theoretically speaking, the best way to operate is to set fire to the mountain—of course, conventional methods such as napalm bombs cannot be used. If you want to burn it, you must burn a "big one".

For example, direct airdrops of large-yield nuclear weapons, continuous bombardment of forest areas with plasma cannons, etc...

Doing so would indeed remove the entire forest from the surface of Planet Alpha, but it would also destroy the engine wreckage hidden in the deep forest and kill the Alpha man who might have stayed inside the engine wreckage.

What's more, the undead crew may not necessarily approve Ke Lan's plan... If they will agree to transfer the command of the fleet to Ke Lan, Ke Lan doesn't even need the Ark's fleet, he just needs to drive Yaguna Kotor directly Just crash into the mountain formed by the condensed gray fog.

With Yagunaktor's armor thickness, those flying native creatures couldn't pose any threat to it at all.

[PS is not in a good state recently, the whole person is always weak, groggy, dizzy and nauseous, and I don’t know if it’s because of heatstroke or poisoning due to the high temperature (the epidemic is over recently, and a factory in a nearby industrial area has started to secretly excrete poison in the middle of the night Industrial waste gas, I was woken up in the middle of the night when I didn’t close the window a few times, and I couldn’t find any evidence if I wanted to report it...), of course, there is another possibility that I don’t want to imagine, which is the worst possibility... …

Let’s not talk about it, let’s go to the hospital tomorrow during the day. I just had a blood draw two weeks ago, and all the indicators are good... The result is that after the smell of burning plastic in the middle of the night, I started to feel uncomfortable. It's...]

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