Alien Relic Hunter

Chapter 92 The Black Box

When the crystalline energy of Alpha civilization was not yet popularized, in order to improve the movement radius of combat troops, the long-distance vehicles equipped by the army in the early days all used nuclear energy, an A1 fuel rod [-] cm long and the thickness of a finger. That's enough to run a C-class miniature nuclear reactor for six months, and the energy it produces can make a heavy armored vehicle circle Alpha a full circle and a half along the equator!

If it weren't for the lack of abundant uranium and thorium ore on Alpha, crystalline energy would not have the chance to become the primary source of energy for human beings - after all, human beings have not yet mastered the production technology of energy crystallization, and the output of crystallization depends entirely on the discovery of Alpha. Relics of civilization always give people a sense of crisis of "being controlled by others".

Fortunately, the number of energy crystals left by the Alpha civilization is extremely large. With the joint efforts of the relic hunters and the exploration and mining troops, the output of the crystals has always been stable, which has prevented mankind from falling into the energy crisis again.

If this team can keep some vehicles that use nuclear energy, it only needs a small amount of fuel rods, and Ke Lan will have the opportunity to return to the human world... You must know that there are fearless warriors among them. Those who wear heavy A large man with armor must be equipped with a vehicle if he wants to carry out long-distance combat. There is only one possibility that Ke Lan's wish will fail, and that is that the team was dropped directly onto this deserted island.

But this is unlikely. If it was dropped directly by air, it would prove that the top management of the Ark must know that this deserted island exists. Even if they did not discover the cave at first, after the team lost contact, they would also It is fully capable of sending a search and rescue team here, and this map will not fall into Ke Lan's hands at all.

Judging from all the signs, Ke Lan should be the first person to come to this deserted island after them.

After passing Connelly's remains, Ke Lan walked into the depths of the cave, but before he went far, he discovered more remains.

This is a temporary campsite. The outermost is a fence surrounded by folded alloy plates. Two collapsed marching tents are spread out on the ground in the center of the camp. Next to it is a bonfire pit that has been extinguished for decades. More than a dozen skeletons surrounded the bonfire pit - it seems that this should be the final destination of the vast majority of the team.

There were several pistols falling beside them, but there was no sign of fighting at the scene. Judging from the distribution of shells and bullets, as well as the wounds on the bones, it should be suicide.

Ke Lan opened one of the tents. There were several boxes of supplies, food, water, ammunition, and medicine. According to the number of skeletons, these things could last them at least a month... …Two months might not be a problem if you’re a little more careful.

What is the reason for this team to choose to commit suicide by drinking bullets before they are in a desperate situation?
Why didn't they try to get out of here, or try to get in touch with the Ark?
Or, they have already done these things...

Ke Lan walked back to the middle of the pile of bones. He bent down and picked out a black metal box from the pile of bones.

The black box, another name for the flight recorder, is used to save the flight data of the aircraft and the voice recording of the pilot.In the Ark combat team, the commander of each unit also has something called a "black box". The essence of this black metal box is a special encrypted recording device used to record the team outside. The entire flow of operations during combat.

The contents of the black box are recorded by the commander. If the commander is killed, the person who takes over the commander's post will take over the subsequent recording tasks - when the operation is over and the commander returns to the ark for reclassification, the black box brought back will be A special person will decrypt and archive the content.

If the entire army is wiped out, or if the black box is accidentally lost during a combat mission, the top management of Ark will also send an elite team to perform the recovery mission - the importance of the black box, which is evident.

"I hope this thing is not broken..."

Generally speaking, the safety and reliability of the black box are extremely high, but this thing has been abandoned in this ghost place for so many years, and Ke Lan does not dare to guarantee that the data in the ticket is still safe.

Ke Lan placed the black box flat on the ground and gently flipped the switch on the right.

"Hissssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss..." After a loud electric sound, all three indicator lights on the side of the black box turned on.

"Fortunately, things are not broken..." Ke Lan just breathed a sigh of relief, the next second, the three indicator lights turned from green to red, and a mechanized female voice came out from the box: "Reading this record requires A level or above, if there is no permission certificate, please enter the password."

"Damn...why forgot about this..." Ke Lan sighed inwardly. For the sake of confidentiality, even if ordinary people picked up the black box, they would not be able to extract the contents at all. As for brute force cracking, it was even more impossible.

The encryption program of the black box is written by the main brain of Ark. If it is just a simple recording device, it can be made smaller than a fingernail. The reason why the black box is so large is entirely thanks to this encryption program.

"Please enter the passcode...if the correct passcode is not entered within five seconds, the device will lock itself...five...four..."

"Password...what the hell is this damn passcode..." Ke Lan scratched his hair a little irritably. There were only two ways to crack the black box. One was to connect it to a computer and then use A-level The key of the above authority will copy the data inside, and one is to enter the password set by the recorder.

But Ke Lan does not have a permission key above Grade A, and he doesn't even know what the password of this black box is!
If it is really locked, then only the main brain of the ark can unlock this thing...

"three two……"

"...Leave the bed!" This string of English suddenly floated through Ke Lan's head. He didn't think about it at all, and just read it out.

It's too late anyway, let's just live...

"Password is correct."

Grass... This dead horse really gave life to the doctor?

This "warning" is actually the password of this black box?But... if this sentence is a password, why does it appear on the inner wall of the spherical diving cabin?

Two things, the time difference alone is decades!

"...hiss... July 776th, weather, overcast, [-] special team, commander, Ken." A thick male voice with an accent sounded, interrupting Ke Lan's thoughts.

"...We've been here for four days."

Hearing this sentence, Ke Lan was a little frustrated. The record was obviously not complete. The part he wanted to know most was how the team came here, but the recording was already "the fourth day" from the very beginning. ".

"This place is weird... Really weird, it's been four days... Although everyone else's electronic watch is broken, I have a mechanical watch, and I can be sure that the hour hand has turned eight times... This place, time doesn't seem to flow anymore..."

"July [-], maybe July [-], the weather is always cloudy..."

"There's no night here, but it's not like polar day... The time seems to be always fixed at noon... Connelly said we might be on an island in Zhonghai, but I think he's talking nonsense, Zhonghai is on the other side of Alpha. , even on an empty ship, you have to fly for several days..."

"But...except for Zhonghai, there doesn't seem to be a body of water of this size on Alpha..."

"There are no creatures on the beach, there is no wind, and the ambient radiation concentration is high. Fortunately, we have protective clothing and enough anti-radiation drugs."

"The adjutant suggested that I gather all the materials and manage them in a unified manner. I think he is right."

"July 776th, still cloudy, [-] special team."

"On the sixth day, Jino and Gary, who went to the Gobi Desert to explore, still haven't come back. It's been three days, and I think they may be in trouble... But no one saw the flare, so I decided to organize a second group of people to find them. "

"Carl set off with six people. These six people are all good players. I think they can get Gino and Gary back... Even if it is two bodies, they have to be brought back."

"The kid who was transferred by the first reconnaissance company is very annoying, but I have to say that he has some unique skills - he found an 'egg', a transparent egg... It turns out that in addition to sand and stones, this place also something else."

"That egg… damn it! Martin, drop the egg! Fire! Fire everyone!"

……

"On July [-], in two days, we lost seventeen soldiers... The egg came to life, it got into Martin's stomach, and then... Martin turned into a monster... with a whole body. It's a monster with tentacles... It's invulnerable, and a .[-] caliber machine gun can only knock it back without causing substantial damage... Those tentacles swept away all the corpses, looking like a kind of hunting Behavior, the reason why we can survive may be that the thing can't digest so much 'food' for a while..."

"On July [-], we encountered that thing again..."

(End of this chapter)