Alien Relic Hunter

Chapter 755 at 500 meters
"Aren't you afraid of death?" Ke Lan glanced at her and asked with a half-smile.

"Anyway, my brother is safe..." Mo Jue said firmly, "Since you are not afraid, then I am not afraid either."

"Actually, do you think your father might still be alive?" Ivan interrupted suddenly, "Although reason tells you that the possibility is almost infinitely close to zero, you still have a glimmer of hope in your heart... After all, you Father, he's just 'disappeared', not 'dead', and you haven't seen his dead body, have you?"

"You also hope that he is still alive, don't you?" Mo Jue asked back.

"That's right, I also hope your father is alive. To live is to see people, and to die is to see corpses...Of course, if we can't find the body, it would be nice if we could find the notebook your father carried with you." Ke Lan clicked Nodding, "By the way, I forgot to ask you one thing just now. How long has your father been missing?"

"Exactly six years and one month ago." Mo Jue replied.

"Six years... If he still stays in the foggy forest..." Ke Lan looked around the surrounding environment, "By the way, is there anything that anyone in the foggy forest can eat? I mean it can be eaten for a long time to maintain It is the kind of food that is used for life activities, not a temporary food for emergency food."

There is a big difference between food and hunger food. The latter can be irradiated flesh, poisonous fungus, or even soil, bark, and similar corpses... as long as eating it will not kill you immediately, and it can suspend hunger. Anything that brings a burning sensation in the stomach can be regarded as a hunger food.

But relying on such things, it is obviously impossible to survive in a forest for six years.

If Mo Jue's father wants to survive in the forest, he must meet at least two hard conditions: [-]. Clean, non-toxic air that can be breathed; [-]. A long-term and stable source of food.

"Unless..." Ke Lan said silently in his heart, "This guy has successfully passed through the gray fog forest, and found a site similar to the wreckage of engine No. 92 in the core area of ​​the forest."

According to the records of the 776 special team and the super dream image experienced by Ke Lan, there are a large number of cans in the engine wreckage of No. 92 that meet the human definition of food. Living on those cans.

As for the air problem, as long as Mo Zhuorui can find such a relic, then this problem will no longer be a problem.

"No." Mo Jue shook his head, "Everything in the fog forest, whether it's plants or animals, or even the soil, has been contaminated by the toxins in the fog over the years. Like the fog roost we felled back , before being processed into furniture, it is necessary to use a special reagent to neutralize the toxins soaked in the wood... and this step can only be done on the ark."

"Then when your father disappeared, how much food did you bring with you, and how many days was the oxygen generator enough?" Ivan added another question.

"In terms of food, each of us will carry enough dry food for half a month in our backpacks. If we save some food, it should be no problem to last for more than a month... As for the oxygen generator, it depends on each person's weight-bearing capacity. , some with four cans and some with five cans..."

"A can of standard-capacity oxygen generator can last for three days under the condition of 24-hour uninterrupted response. If the user engages in high-intensity physical activities and needs a lot of oxygen, it will be shortened to two to two and a half days. Be conservative. Let’s take the minimum value for two days. By the way, how many days did it take you to reach the depth of 500 meters?”

"Three days." Mo Jue replied, "But when we enter the forest, we will bring a small trailer to store food, medicines, oxygen generators, some equipment and consumables, and also to transport the felled mist The wood is transported out of the forest, so everyone's supplies will be replenished at any time."

"Well, the previous consumption is negligible. Even if your father brought four cans, he has eight days before the oxygen is exhausted." Ke Lan raised an arm, facing the direction of the forest core, " According to the straight-line distance, the distance across half of the forest to the core area is about 150 kilometers. Of course, according to the 'map' I found from the photo of the stele, the route to the core area is not straight. Multiple value, 150 kilometers. With your father's physical strength and experience, it is absolutely possible to complete the [-] kilometers in eight days with enough rest time."

Ke Lan suddenly turned her head and grinned at Mo Jue: "Maybe, your father is really not dead, and...he has already found the 'secret' he was looking for."

"Why do you think so?" Mo Jue widened his eyes slightly, "This... this is a gray mist forest, and it's impossible to travel 150 kilometers in eight days! Even if you don't multiply it by three times, I can drive [-] kilometers. I don't think it's possible!"

"Because you think you only walked 500 meters in three days, so it's impossible to walk 150 kilometers in eight days, right?" Ke Lan said with a smile, "But don't forget, your state is equivalent to crossing the river by feeling the stones, and you can't walk fast. It's normal. But suppose your father obtained the map of the foggy forest... No, to be precise, suppose your father obtained the dynamic navigation of the foggy forest?"

"What?!" Mo Jue's face was full of astonishment and confusion.

"This map... or this photo of the stele with its own 'navigation' is what we found on the body of the golden retriever." Ke Lan shook the phone in his hand, "Although it is not complete, but since it is connected Golden Retriever has something like this, so as the leader of the logger team, your father should also have it, and it should be more and more complete."

"But, but my father is not you, he doesn't know the characters of Alpha civilization!" Mo Jue said.

"When the Golden Retriever disappeared, your father and the others probably hadn't been able to 'decipher' the information on this stele, otherwise, we wouldn't have seen the Golden Retriever's bones here." Ke Lan paused, then continued, " But I have a guess that your father may have discovered some clues, so he broke away from the team and acted alone through that 500 meters deep exploration operation... and his motive for doing so is probably not to want to implicate you go in."

"My father left the team by himself?!"

"I said it, it's just a guess...but then again, as a father, I think he should hope that you can live a comfortable and stable life. You also said that he persuaded you to quit many times. 'Lumberjack' team."

"..." Mo Jue bit her lip and was silent for more than ten seconds before asking, "What do you think is the possibility that my father is still alive?"

"It's hard to say, but it shouldn't be higher than winning the first prize in a lottery." Ke Lan shrugged, "I repeat, these are all unfounded guesses, and I advise you not to have too much hope... …As the saying goes, 'the greater the hope, the greater the disappointment'."

Mo Jue nodded slightly: "I see..."

To be honest, Ke Lan can't figure out what kind of relationship Mo Jue has with her father... But no matter what, there is still a family relationship between the two that is thicker than water, even if Mo Jue No matter how much he didn't like his father, when he heard that his father might still be alive, his mood fluctuated obviously.

It's a pity that Ke Lan can't empathize with this... Whether he is a "replicant" created by the undead crew or not, for him, the thing of "relatives" has never existed.

Although I feel a little regretful, but now it seems that this is not a bad thing for Ke Lan-in many cases, the existence of parents means weakness.Assuming that he really has a pair of parents living on the ark, then whether it is the Undead Crew Association or other forces, as long as they can control Ke Lan's parents, they can use this as a bargaining chip to coerce Ke Lan into doing things he doesn't want to do .

This is definitely not the situation Ke Lan wants to see.

"It's still a cool day when one person is full and the whole family is not hungry..." Ke Lan sighed in his heart, then looked back at his companions behind him, and thought of those who stayed on the ark...

If the members of the crew know that they have come to the foggy forest, will they control the hound, Zofia and others?

No, probably not.

Those who can join the Undead Crew Club are all smart people. They know very well that even if they control these people now, it is only a remedy after a dead sheep. There is no way to stop Ke Lan from continuing to explore the gray mist forest. On the contrary, it is easy to cause conflicts with Ke Lan , leading to a rupture within the crew.

For that mysterious "Seat Zero", the internal rupture of the Undead Crew Club is probably the last thing he wants to see, right?

No matter how undercurrents are surging, members of the Undead Crew Club must "obey the rules" on the surface... Once the rules are broken, the organization will completely lose its meaning of existence.

The present Ark, present human beings, cannot withstand any civil war.

It is also very simple for Ke Lan to ensure the safety of the Hound, Zofia and others-as long as he can return to the ark alive.

No matter what secrets are discovered in the core area of ​​the foggy forest, as long as he can return alive, the Undead Crew will never attack those around him.

But if he died in the gray mist forest, then these people who stayed on the ark may become the targets of some bad-tempered guys... For the members of the crew club, ordinary people on the ark Among people, even a person with high authority such as a member of parliament is nothing more than a bug that can be crushed to death.And people like Miss Soma, who was born in an ordinary wealthy family, and Ye Yan, who is now "down in the family", are even less personal.

Before they knew it, the lives of these people had actually been tied to Ke Lan.

"I can't die, so I won't die here." Ke Lan recited silently as if giving a psychological hint, and then walked to the front of the team.

"Everyone lined up in a vertical line, the person behind puts his hand on the shoulder of the person before him, and the mecha continues to follow the self-disciplined mode." Ke Lan said loudly, "One thing you should pay attention to, the navigation route is not only not straight , Some places even need to turn back or even retreat, everyone must follow my course of action, and don't take a wrong step."

"Perhaps we can change the way of understanding." Ivan added, "Let's not think that we are walking through the forest, but treat the ground as a large enough screen to solve an extremely complicated drawing lock."

"It's a good summary." Ke Lan praised Dr. Maozi.

"Hey, I just took two gulps of vodka, and my brain suddenly brightened up." Ivan smiled and shook the silver jug ​​in his hand.

Ke Lan took a deep breath, then activated the "navigation route" that had been "stored" in his brain, and said, "Let's set off now, the first target point, at a depth of 500 meters."

The depth of the end point of this navigation line is 35 kilometers, but Ke Lan decided to explore at the depth of 500 meters, the depth of "Mo Jue's father is missing"—perhaps, Mo Zhuorui discovered some clues here at the beginning, and then Only then did he decide to leave the team and go to the depths of the foggy forest alone...

It has to be said that the efficiency is really different after having the "navigation". It only took less than 10 minutes for everyone to reach the depth of 500 meters that was previously considered an "absolute forbidden area" by the outside world.

The fog here is much thicker than that at a depth of 100 meters, and the trunks and prop roots of the fog perches are also much thicker.

Other than that, there is nothing more special about it.

"Are you sure this is the place 500 meters deep?" 33 asked with a frown. Got dizzy..."

Ivan looked at Ze Luo, and asked in a low voice, "Miss Ze Luo, do you have a way to determine our current location?"

Ze Luo shook his head: "Although I left signs along the way, I can't sense them after a certain distance."

"Then why not ask a professional." Ke Lan asked Mo Jue, "How do you loggers determine the depth of your location? Is it based on the concentration of fog?"

"It is difficult to quantify the fog concentration. We generally rely on the annual ring density of the fog roost - the deeper the place, the denser the annual rings of the fog roost, and it increases in a linear trend. This calculation method The error can be controlled within ten meters to 15 meters." Mo Jue said, and took out a tool like a vernier caliper from his backpack, "But limited by the accuracy of the tool, we can only measure the depth within 3000 meters at most , for deeper places, laser equipment is needed... we don't have that thing."

"Understood." Ke Lan beckoned to Akira Asano, who immediately drew his knife out of its sheath, and chopped off a thick Misty Roost tree directly in front of him.

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