Alien Relic Hunter

Chapter 94 The Underground Labyrinth
"We're lucky. Alpha civilization relics of this scale are generally very complicated, but there seems to be no trap here..."

"Maybe it's because of the existence of that kind of monster that Alpha has relaxed his defenses here..."

After about 2 minutes of silence, an exclamation suddenly sounded——

"Jesus!...this...what is this?!"

The recording ends here, and the indicator light turns orange.

Ke Lan's cheeks twitched slightly, and a classic national scolding was held in his throat - he hated two kinds of people in his life, the first one is the one who only speaks half, the second...

"It's really beeping a dog, why is all this information lacking!"

The information Ke Lan wanted—including how the team came to the island, how they discovered that the stalactites in the caves could restrain the Seeds of Erosion, and why they chose to commit suicide—these things are Nothing was mentioned in the recording, and the information mentioned in it, even if Ke Lan didn't get the black box, he could basically guess something...

Not only that, about the seabed stone pillar with giant eyes carved on Collins' diary, the same sentence "leave the bed" that appeared in three different places at different times... These things have no clue at all, even if Ke Lan wants to explore , he didn't know where to start.

"No clue at all..." Ke Lan squatted down in frustration, but when his eyes swept over the bones again, he found an abnormality that he hadn't noticed before——

Ke Lan suddenly jumped up from the ground and subconsciously pulled out the gun!

Among the piles of bones, there is one… The bones in the sternum position are completely black!
Although the toxic and side effects of some drugs can also cause the bones of the deceased to turn black, the blackness is not so complete... The black bones seem to be dipped from the ink...

Ke Lan has only seen the same black skeleton in one place, and that is in the bottom cargo hold of the Pioneer icebreaker!

But the black skeleton lay so quietly on the ground - it didn't "live", which made Ke Lan a little relieved, and couldn't help but feel a little scared: if this black skeleton and the one encountered in the cargo hold It is the same, I am afraid that he has already been killed by the sneak attack.

The black skeleton...the city under the sea...the secret words of unknown meaning...the visions are connected by an invisible thread, Ke Lan feels that he is constantly getting closer to the truth...but the closer he gets, the kind of source The more self-instinctive the unease...

He walked over to the black skeleton, bit the flashlight in his mouth, put on a pair of gloves, and carefully pulled the skeleton out of the pile of bones.

Only the sternum, ribs, and two-thirds of the spine of this skeleton turned black. Its skull, limbs, and pelvis remained pale, and the phalanges did not mutate into those terrifying claws.

"Why does it feel very similar to the second remains on the coastline... The mutation process was also stopped in the middle of the process..."

Ke Lan checked the scene several times, but did not find anything similar to stalagmites.

"It's not the same as the cell assimilation mechanism of the Seed of Erosion... This kind of mutation should be interrupted by the death of the infected body. It does not have a 'core' as the body like the Seed of Erosion... only However, the black skeleton that I encountered before is also incomplete - the head was cut in half, and as a human being, it must be completely dead, but why is the situation of the skeleton so different..."

Ke Lan rubbed his temples vigorously.

"Is it because of individual differences? Or is it that the previous black skeleton was damaged after the mutation was completed, and it became like that?"

"It feels like the second possibility is more likely..."

"If only there were those analytical instruments in the biological laboratory..." However, Ke Lan thought about it, and it seemed that even if he was given the instruments, he wouldn't use them—that kind of high-tech precision instruments, which were not trained for many years Professionals, most people probably have to grope for a long time even how to start.

He used a knife to cut down a few pieces of bones as samples, put them away with the black box, and then walked around the camp twice. After confirming that there was nothing new, he continued to walk towards the depths of the cave.

Due to the sudden interruption of the recording, Ke Lan is now unable to determine whether the cave leads to the remains of the Alpha civilization that is suspected to be a biological laboratory... After all, judging from the information disclosed in the recording, the Iwai they discovered is not there. This end of the island... If the ruins and the cave are connected, then the length of the cave is too exaggerated.

If it is calculated according to the distance on the ground, it must be more than [-] kilometers at least.

And this is still a straight-line distance. If the underground situation is a little more complicated, this number is far from enough to see...

Finally, what Ke Lan was most worried about happened - at a place more than 300 meters away from the camp, four forks appeared in his vision.

Underground labyrinth... This is really common in karst landforms, but it is also the last thing Ke Lan wants to see...

He walked one by one in front of the four forks, but he couldn't find a sign like the entrance to the cave.

If this was an ordinary cave, he might still be able to judge from the traces that the entrance of the cave was the one that the team walked through, but this is a karst cave, decades have passed, and the surface of the rock formation has long been eroded It was beyond recognition, even if there were footprints, it was impossible to see at all.

Getting lost underground is not a trivial matter, the dark and cramped space will greatly weaken your sense of direction, and at the same time eat away your physical strength, patience and reason... With the passage of time, you will soon be You will fall into an atmosphere of anxiety and fear... The more you do, the harder it will be to find a way out.

Even the most experienced relic hunter would never dare to take it lightly when facing the underground labyrinth.

Many hunters walk into the labyrinth and never come out again.

(End of this chapter)