Alien Relic Hunter

Chapter 756 The Missing Armored Unit

"One tree is not enough. Generally, in order to reduce errors as much as possible, it is necessary to detect the annual ring density of at least three to five fog perches, whether it is the trunk or the prop root." Mo Jue said.

Swish, swish, and with the tooth-stinging sound of wood fibers breaking, four thick mist-roost trees fell down in response.

Mo Jue immediately measured the annual rings of the cross-sections of these misty roost trees with a tool that looked like a vernier caliper, then took out a pen and a notebook for simple calculations, and finally nodded to Ke Lan: "No Wrong, where we are now, the depth is exactly 500 meters, and the up and down error is no more than ten meters."

"It's really 500 meters?" 33 muttered, "Just now I feel that we have walked at least three or four kilometers. Even if these twists and turns are not counted, there is still at least one or two kilometers?"

"We have spent several years verifying this method of determination, and we have never missed it." Mo Jue said confidently.

"Let's not talk about this first," Ke Lan raised a hand, "By the way, during that exploration operation, your father and that Uncle Hong disappeared here, right?"

"The depth is 500 meters, but not in this direction." Mo Jue spread out a somewhat crumpled, hand-drawn map. On this map, the outline of the entire foggy forest was outlined with a bold black pen. out.

Looking down from a high altitude, the shape of the foggy forest is like an old rag that has been thrown on the ground with irregularly crumpled edges. Ke Lan, who saw the real map taken by the drone, had to admit that this hand-painted The map was drawn so accurately that he even suspected that the person who drew the map had drawn paper on the electronic map and traced it.

At the top of the map is a scale, which is a map with a scale of 1000:[-], that is to say, one centimeter on the map is equivalent to [-] meters in reality.

On the edge of the gray mist forest, blue dots are used to mark the camping sites and forest entry positions frequently used by several logger teams, and within five centimeters of the edge, they are surrounded by striking red lines along the border of the forest. One circle - this circle of lines is naturally the famous "red line".

This map is indeed well drawn, but the "accuracy" is only limited to the edge and outer areas of the foggy forest, while the interior of the forest is blank.

"The location where we entered the forest is Camp No. 11." Mo Jue pointed to a blue dot in the southwest direction, and then moved his finger to the upper right, which is the northeast direction, by nearly 20,000 centimeters. The location to enter the forest is Camp NO.[-], and the straight-line distance from here is more than [-] meters.”

"In other words, even if we just walked in a straight line, we still can't reach the place you explored, right." 33 concluded.

Mo Jue nodded: "Well, that's right."

"But maybe the corpse will 'come by itself'... The place where the golden retriever disappeared is also far away from where we entered the forest, but we still ran into it." Ke Lan smiled, "Be optimistic, at least we Now there is no danger, there is no need to worry about getting lost, and there is plenty of time."

"It's true that there is plenty of time, but I want to find the traces left by the lumberjack team in such a large forest... It's a needle in a haystack." Ivan sighed, and subconsciously took out the compass from his pocket, but The magnetic needle on the dial was spinning around and couldn't stop at all.

"The method of judging the direction by the density of annual rings is useless here." 33 looked at a tree stump cut by Akira Asano just now, "The fog perches here, the annual rings in all directions are not visible at all. Density, even if there is an extremely slight gap, the arrangement of density and density is all chaotic."

Ke Lan raised his head and looked directly above. Above the dense canopy of the Misty Roost, there was a thick gray mist that was so thick that the sunlight could not penetrate it-obviously, this kind of plant can synthesize it even if it does not perform photosynthesis. Nutrients, on the outskirts of the foggy forest, sunlight and rain may still play a guiding role in the growth of foggy trees, but in the area behind the red line, these external factors are completely isolated from the foggy miasma.

"We can't even determine a direction, and we can't even get closer to the direction that the loggers were exploring." Ivan sighed, "It is said that we are looking for a needle in a haystack, but we can't even determine whether we are sinking or floating. "

"Like a headless chicken," 33 added.

"Ke Lan, can your 'navigation' determine the direction in the forest?" Mo Jue looked at Ke Lan with a hint of expectation.

"No, I can only take you along the route given by the 'Navigation', but if we leave the 'Navigation' where we want to go, it won't be of much help." Ke Lan said.

"Then I think it's a bit dangling... The fact that we don't lose our way is based on the premise that Ke Lan has obtained the 'navigation', but if we get out of the navigation..." Ivan pondered.

"No, no, you misunderstood what I mean." Ke Lan shook his head again and again, "This 'navigation' is actually equivalent to a hard insurance—whether we are within the scope of navigation or not, as long as I want, we can Be guided back to the original route. Although it is not useful to navigate to other places, if you want to go back, you can do it anytime and anywhere. As long as we are not deeper than 35 kilometers."

"So it's like this?!" Ivan's eyes lit up—for him, the words on that stone tablet were just a string of undecipherable "ghost symbols", but for Ke Lan, with this thing, It is equivalent to getting a switch that can be restarted infinitely... No matter if you lose your way or encounter other obstacles, as long as no one gets separated from most of them, Ke Lan can bring everyone back to the navigation route at any time.

"You are right, this is indeed a hard insurance." Ivan nodded, "With this thing, we can explore places beyond 35 kilometers in depth."

"Then let's pick a random direction now and go straight forward?" 33 raised his eyebrows.

"Hmm." Ke Lan took out a game coin from his small bag, tossed it up, grabbed it, and spread his palm.

The pattern on the game currency is a cartoon-shaped zero-one rifle, and the muzzle is aiming at Ke Lan's one o'clock direction at the moment.

"It's here, let's explore in this direction first." After speaking, Ke Lan did not forget to drive a steel pile with a direction arrow on the spot. If there is nothing in this direction, he will The 'navigation' will be activated to bring everyone back here, and then find another direction to explore.

This method is stupid, but it is very stable... Anyway, they have plenty of time, and the supplies they carry are enough for everyone to stay in the foggy forest for three months.

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"I don't feel like we are out to explore, but rather like outing." 33 grabbed the safety rope with one hand, and rested the other hand on the back of his head, "People always do this, when they hear that there is a hard insurance After planting something, the mood will be involuntarily relaxed, and it will no longer be as tense as before."

"Many of the ruins you have explored should be more dangerous than here?" Mo Jue asked Ke Lan, "I heard that those A-level and S-level ruins, among the first few advance teams that entered, ten of them Is it true that no one can come out alive? I always feel a little exaggerated..."

"It's not an exaggeration at all." 33 put away his relaxed expression and said seriously, "On the contrary, in order to get more people to join the industry of relic hunters, Ark has always been trying to exaggerate the treasures in the relics and downplay the exploration. The dangers of the ruins... There are a lot of stories about the poor boy who became rich overnight, and the person who owed a huge debt and paid off the debt in one trip and made a fortune. There are a lot of stories on the Internet, but those who entered the ruins never People who don’t come out rarely enter the public eye.”

"There are a lot of overnight riches, but compared to the number of hunters buried in the ruins, they can only be regarded as rare. But the public media will hardly report this kind of data. You want to know the specific inside story You can only find it on a professional relic hunter website or forum." Ivan explained to Mo Jue, "But this kind of website registration account needs to be paid, and those relatively high-end and professional websites are basically It is invitation-only, and it is impossible for non-industry personnel to obtain accounts...Of course, ordinary people prefer artistically processed stories rather than cold data and report records."

"Not one out of ten people may survive. This sentence is not an exaggeration at all, but the reality is even crueler than this... But as far as I know, there is a legendary hunting group in the relic hunter circle, which is an exception. exception." After 33 finished speaking, he showed a meaningful smile.

"The Legendary Hunting Group you are talking about... is your 'God Hunting Group'?" Mo Jue's expression was a bit complicated. She really wanted to complain about the other party's boastful approach, but the actual situation made her unable to find a suitable one. Come to the point of rebuttal.

The Hunting God Hunting Group can indeed be regarded as a "Legendary Hunting Group". The legend lies not only in its rocket-like rise in the rankings, but also in the fact that they have created a record that no hunting group has ever created.

Since the establishment of the Hunting God Hunting Group, a total of two S-level relics (Yagunakotol and the bottomless sinkhole) have been explored, and one A-level relic (the molten mine area after the earthquake) is as difficult as the S-level relic. There are also gossip claims that they even participated in the battle of the ancient bronze city ruins between the Ark and the heretic sects, and played a vital role in the process of destroying "Alexander"... The degree of danger of this battle is completely It can be equivalent to exploring three S-level ruins...

And all of this was accomplished in just one year.

This is not the most outrageous thing... The most outrageous thing is that after exploring so many high-level ruins and even participating in the battle of the Bronze City ruins, the Hunting God Hunting Group did not lose any members!
This can definitely be called a miracle for anyone in the industry who is familiar with the level of relics!
The first casualties among the official members of the Hunting God Hunting Group appeared after "Alexander"'s "Ultimate Judgment" hit the ark, but those dead and injured were only the logistics staff staying at the hunting group's base, and the real core personnel were alone. None were damaged.

With this record alone, no hunting group that appeared in the history of the Ark can match it.

"Then how did you get involved with the Ark official?" Mo Jue couldn't help asking.

"If you know about this matter, even if we don't silence you, you will be 'physically erased' by the higher-ups of the Ark after you go back." Ke Lan made a silent movement, "You just need to Just know that what we're doing right now is critical, and that's it."

Just when Mo Jue was about to ask something, Ivan, who was holding a pile of detection equipment that most of them had failed, suddenly stopped and said, "A massive metal reaction was detected ahead."

"Massive metal reaction?" Ke Lan also stopped, "There should be no mineral veins under the ground of the foggy forest, right?"

"At least no mineral veins have been found in the places we have explored." Mo Jue said immediately.

"Go and see."

Everyone walked forward, the space barrier pushed away the fog, and a rusty "Type [-]" light tank half buried in the soil appeared in everyone's field of vision. Beside the tank, a "walking The "Pedestrian" bipedal tactical mech leaned obliquely on a thick pillar root, and most of the cockpit of the machine body was "swallowed" by the pillar root, and countless slender vines pried the cockpit cover of the "Pacer" Opened a finger-wide gap and got into the cockpit.

"This should be the equipment of the armored unit that was buried in the gray fog forest." Mo Jue said, "We have found a broken leg of a mecha before, abandoned in the forest... But to be honest, we have never No trace of this force has been found at a depth of 500 meters."

"Where is the deepest place where traces of this troop were found before?" 33 asked casually.

"It's less than 300 meters deep." Mo Jue said, "For someone who is not familiar with the gray fog forest, being able to penetrate 100 meters behind the red line is already a remarkable thing."

"By the way, didn't you find anything wrong?" Ke Lan walked around the wreckage of the tank, "Although the Type [-] tank is a light tank, the width of the body is still [-] meters, and this place is forest The gap between them is simply not wide enough for this tank to pass through...how did it get here?"

"It's true... If the bodies of the soldiers who died were moved by native creatures or fog roosts... who would move heavy and inedible things like tanks?" 33 Ye Ivan also fell into Thinking about it.

[PS Thanks to Aedes for the 10000 starting point coins, the No.80 of this book is the birth of the two rudder masters - the author Baimeng, the big guy, is just starting, if I am like me, I can gather a hundred rudders before the end , I am very satisfied...]

[PPS is going out to play rafting with friends tomorrow, it should be very late when I get home, if I don’t have time to code, I should ask for a leave of absence (as we all know, the B of the dark dust is not saved...)]

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