Alien Relic Hunter

Chapter 757 "Uncle Hong"'s Corpse
Ke Lan walked up to the "walker" mecha, and directly removed the hatch cover that had been deformed by countless vines.

In the cockpit lay a white skeleton, and a large number of chaotically growing wood fibers almost completely filled the small space in the cockpit.

Apparently, the driver was also "eaten" by the fog roost.

Ke Lan split the wood fibers with an engineering shovel, and took out the pilot's belongings wrapped inside - an FMG submachine gun folded into a suitcase, an edc emergency kit (note: edc: every day carry, every day The things that I carry with me every day, and later extended to the meaning of "survival gadgets that I carry with me", the brother of Survival Crazy Bar should be very clear.) and a paper notebook.

Perhaps because he was thinking about Mo Jue's father's portable notebook, Ke Lan was inexplicably excited when he saw this notebook with an artificial leather cover and a steel stamp on the front with the field army emblem.

He quickly flipped through the notebook, but the content inside disappointed him—the pilot of the "walker" stopped taking notes on the second day after entering the gray fog forest, and the first day The content is as short as less than two hundred words.

"This damn forest, these damn fogs."

"Isn't it time for these fogs to dissipate?"

"I got lost again, why did I get lost again!!"

"The walker that opened the way actually disappeared. Such a big target disappeared from the noses of other people so quietly? This is really a ghost!"

"The company wants to choose another machine body as the pioneer. I don't want to be selected. I always feel that it is safer to stay on the flank of the formation."

On the first day after entering the foggy forest, the pilot only wrote these five paragraphs in his notes, and after that, he wrote nothing.

The FMG folding submachine gun that serves as the pilot's self-defense weapon is still in the folded state, and the bullets in the magazine are also full, which means that at least the pilot has not encountered a situation where he needs to get off the plane to fight.

However, Valentina found that the cannon and ammunition of this "walker" mecha had all been fired, the rocket launcher nest was also empty, and the mecha short combat knife used for close combat was also full of gaps. There are obvious claw marks and acid corrosion marks on the side and back armor, and the two legs are not even original, but removed from another machine body and replaced.

All this shows that this walker mecha has experienced very fierce battles - but because this armored unit was originally chased into the gray mist forest by indigenous creatures dozens of times its own, so where exactly did this battle take place? It is difficult to judge whether it is before entering the forest or after entering the forest.

At least according to the pilot's notes, before entering the forest, their entire unit had been fighting and fleeing, but on the first day after entering the forest, there was no fighting.

Immediately afterwards, Ke Lan opened the edc emergency kit again. The tools inside were basically still there, and there were two unopened energy bars that had melted into ooze stuffed in the interlayer—at least from the pilot's From a personal point of view, he has not reached the point where he has run out of ammunition and food.

As for the toxins in the fog, the cockpit of the walker mecha is fully sealed. Under the double escort of air filters and oxygen generators, a walker mecha can last at least a month in a toxic environment ... So, what was the cause of the pilot's death?

"There are still energy crystals in the power furnace that have not been exhausted." Valentina said to Ke Lan, "The main body of the mecha is not damaged. Give me two hours, and I can make this machine body work again. Get moving."

"That's strange... There is no ammunition, food, oxygen, guns have not been used, and there are no bullet casings in the cockpit to rule out suicide... Then how did this pilot die? Could it be that the cockpit was shut down while sleeping?" The tree vines were secretly pried open and then strangled to death? It’s not right. People need to sleep, but machines don’t need it. The power of the walker mech has not been exhausted. If the cockpit is pried open by external forces, the alarm will definitely be enough to wake up the sleeper The dead pilot..." Ke Lan ruled out the pilot's death methods one by one, but in the end, he found that there was none left - except for unreliable ones like sudden illness. Apart from the method of death, there is no reasonable explanation to be found.

Ivan's autopsy also found no clues - there was no residual toxin and radiation in the bones, and like the golden retriever's corpse, the bones had multiple fractures, but it was impossible to determine whether the fractures occurred before or after death.

On the other side, 33 and Mo Jue checked the "Type [-]" light tank together - from the model of this tank, we can know that this is a tank that was officially installed in [-] of the new era The light tanks of the army have long since been decommissioned. Except for a small amount left in the warehouses of military museums and some powerful collectors, people born in Ke Lan's generation can only see them in pictures and videos up.

There were only two shells left in the tank, and the smoke bombs were almost completely emptied. The machine gun on the top of the turret disappeared, leaving only a severely twisted metal base.

Due to the use of a large number of automated and intelligent equipment, the standard crew of the Type [-] light tank only needs two people: a driver and a commander who also serves as the gunner. Tanks are operated by infantry.

But inside this 33 tank, [-] actually found fifteen remains!

According to the uniforms on these remains, the identity of the deceased can be determined. Except for the driver and the commander, all the others are infantrymen of this unit.The remains of these people were curled up in the narrow and crowded compartment, tightly fitting each other...

"It's stuffed like a can of sardines," Mo Jue said.

Ke Lan shook his head and said, "I feel more like black slaves who were stuffed in the cabin of a slave ship in the fifteenth century of the old era."

The interior space of the Type [-] light tank is very small, with a height of only [-] meters. People who are slightly taller can touch their heads when sitting, and the area can only accommodate four to five people at most... These fifteen The remains were stacked and stuffed in a curled up state, like books on a bookshelf...

"It's possible that these people were already corpses when they were moved in." Ivan thought for a while and said.

"This is the only possibility. You can't even move in this position. It won't take long for the people in the carriage to die of suffocation. This tank should be specially used to store corpses." Ke Lan said, "But... ...There is a question that I can't figure out."

"What's the problem?" Ivan looked at Ke Lan with a questioning look.

"According to the records in the Ark archives and the diary of the walker mecha pilot, this troop crashed into the foggy forest when it was being chased in a panic. In that case, the surviving It is impossible for the soldiers to have time to collect the corpses of their comrades who died in battle. As for the seriously wounded, it is estimated that they cannot keep up with the high-speed movement of large troops... It is too much to abandon the remains of comrades-in-arms and seriously wounded, but in order to make more Many people survived, and the commander can only be forced to make such a decision." Ke Lan frowned.

"Is there... is there any problem with this?" Mo Jue didn't realize it for a while.

"When this army entered the foggy forest, there should have been no dead bodies or seriously injured people. That is to say, these people all died in the foggy forest." Ivan said with a serious face—obviously , He has already understood the hidden meaning in Ke Lan's words.

"What do you mean?" Mo Jue still didn't respond.

"Your team has lost so many people in the foggy forest, no matter whether these people are dead or alive now... But in terms of 'status definition', they are all 'missing', don't they? Have you seen it? Did your companion die in your sight—I mean, in this forest." Seeing that Mo Jue still didn't understand, Ke Lan could only sigh and explain to her in detail.

"This..." Mo Jue was stunned for a moment, "It seems...it seems that there is really no such thing. Although we all say that this is a 'cannibal forest', although corpses can be seen everywhere in this forest, but...it never It never really showed its 'fangs' in front of us..."

"Could it be that after these soldiers disappeared and died, the bodies were found by the survivors and then buried?" 33 said, "After all, there are [-] people in this army. There are too many people. A dead body is also much more likely."

"It's more likely, but it won't be that big." Ivan shook his head, "Looking at the total area of ​​the foggy forest, let alone 500 people, even 5000 people are only It's just a drop in the ocean. Fifteen hundred people, if they lined up normally, it wouldn't even take up a football field... Judging from the corpses that have been found, they are obviously very scattered. If one or two corpses can be found, it is reasonable ... Fifteen, I think the possibility is very small."

But before Ivan could perform an autopsy on the fifteen remains, Zelo suddenly stepped forward, pulled La Kelan's sleeve, and said, "There is another corpse, which you haven't found."

"There is one more... You mean, counting the pilot of the walker, is there still No. 17 bones here?" Ke Lan was slightly startled, and subconsciously turned his attention to the piles of bones that were moved from the tank compartment. The bones that came out—had one of the bones been broken up and mixed with the bones of the other dead?

Ivan on the side had the same thought as Ke Lan. He carefully counted the bones piled on the ground again, and then shook his head: "It's 15 corpses, that's right. I counted the skulls, pelvis, thigh bones, etc. The bones with more obvious characteristics, each of which is the number of [-] people, there is no excess."

"Under the car." Zelo said again.

"Under the car?" Ke Lan and 33 looked at each other. The latter waved his hand immediately, and a dozen black flying blades turned into mini excavators, frantically digging up the soil buried in the tank chassis.

After 15 minutes, Ivan picked up the remains of No. 17 from the bottom of the tank, between the two tracks, along with a pile of severely decomposed clothes and belongings.

However, after Mo Jue saw the messenger bag whose strap was rotten and broken, he let out a low cry of surprise.

"What's the matter? Is this corpse also someone you know?" 33 asked.

"He...he is what you are looking for... Uncle Hong." Mo Jue nodded stiffly, "I remember this satchel very clearly. It was a birthday present his daughter bought for him. He once told me ...Because I have never given my father any presents, so this matter, I am a little impressed."

"Tsk, there's really nowhere to find it. It's easy to get here..." Ke Lan asked Ivan to piece together the broken skull of "Uncle Hong", and then scanned the facial bones.

He also scanned the previous golden retriever. The man's original name was "Derich Safin". A "vagrant".

However, from the records of the ark's entry and exit every few months, we can know that he joined Mo Jue's father's "lumberjack" team at that time...just why this person became one of the core members who have the right to know the "secret" One, there are no clues at all from his personal files and resume.

As the red laser swept across the assembled face bones, a calm and majestic face appeared on the screen, and Mo Jue, who was staring at the screen, nodded immediately: "Yes, this is Uncle Hong!"

"But the file shows that this person is called Wu Feng...and, like Jin Mao, he has no military experience." Ke Lan muttered.

"Maybe their service history has been erased?" 33 said in a deep voice, "If it is a special team that performs special missions, it is normal that there is no information about them in the archives."

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