Alien Relic Hunter

Chapter 949 Suspicion of Soap

Although the team's morale was very low, no one raised any objection to the team leader's order. After simply disposing of the survivor and Ronnie's body, everyone continued to head towards the ark.

"Hello...clown." On the way, Soap quietly leaned towards the side of the clown, and asked in a low voice, "By the way, are you not infected? You had the most contact with that survivor just now."

"As I said, this symptom is not transmitted by direct contact," said the clown, pulling the scarf over his face again.

Only then did Soap notice that the clown's movements were a bit weird. The look in his eyes changed several times in just a few seconds, and then he asked in a lower voice, "Are you already infected, afraid of being abandoned or Being 'handled', that's why I don't want to say it."

"I'll say it again for the last time, that kind of symptom is not spread by direct contact, believe it or not." The clown's tone became a little cold, "These symptoms are spread through a medium similar to 'meme', as for This 'meme' is such a thing, this is the top secret officially recognized by the Ark, and anyone who knows about it must sign the highest level of non-disclosure agreement. You can ask the squad leader of the spear team if he wants I have no problem with telling you at the risk of leaking the secret."

"But if you are not infected, why do you cover yourself up so tightly?" Soap said in a voice that only the two of them could hear, and one of his hands was already under the hem of the clothes, sticking On the pistol holster on the outer thigh, "It's night, you can't even see the moonlight, your skin is impossible to be burned... As for the light of the lighting equipment, it should not cause you any harm , Otherwise, you should be dressed like this in the lobby of the Trigger Bar. As for hiding your appearance, it is even more nonsense. Both me and the giraffe have seen your face in the Trigger Bar. Except for us, I have seen your face There are at least a dozen people, and their real identities must be verified when entering and exiting the Mukahe base, the guards are absolutely impossible to let a person cover his head and face."

"..." The clown didn't answer his words, which made Soap more convinced that his guess was correct, but it made him even more nervous—being so close to a highly contagious mutant, even To pierce the opponent's disguise, it is absolutely impossible without a big heart.

If it were the giraffe guy, he would probably be calling someone by now, Soap thought secretly.

"Your body has mutated, right?" Soap said, "It's just that your mutation speed is not as fast as that survivor and that female medical soldier... I guess right?"

"It's just a temporary teammate, but those few flash bombs failed to save his life. In the next second, his head was gnawed off by the native creatures that rushed up." The clown said casually.

"I choose the second passage." Soap said immediately, "I'd rather climb 200 meters in the elevator shaft, and I don't want to walk that far inside the ark. Now the outer frame is almost completely collapsed, who knows what's there thing."

"The scout team goes up first, and after entering the maintenance channel, check the power supply first. If there is still power, put the elevator down. If there is no power, then they can only climb up one by one."

"I also choose the second option." The transport plane pilot said, "The longer the route, the more variables that may occur. The most urgent thing is to contact the survivors on the ark immediately to find out the situation."

If it can be predicted, wouldn't it be a prophet?If he can predict the future, then he should not operate on the survivor, and hide as far away as possible.

"There is still a difference," said the team leader. "The length of the W193A maintenance passage is 400 meters, and the W257C maintenance passage is 650 meters long. We need to climb 250 meters more to choose the latter, but the exit of the latter is located in Xishi. Near the power plant in District [-], the distance to the nearest public communication terminal is less than one kilometer. The exit of the first passage is on the edge of the outer frame, where there is a 'no man's land', and the nearest public communication terminal is even a car It will take nearly half an hour."

After getting close to the ark, they determined that the ark was not completely covered by the fleshy creep, or that part of the structure was exposed outside.

"I don't think so." The clown said, "As long as I'm outside, no matter day or night, I'll cover every inch of my skin. It's become a habit. There was a night operation before, and I didn't take proper protection. As a result, my teammates didn't remind me. I threw multiple flash bombs in a row, and my eyes were almost permanently blinded."

But for some reason, even if this "misunderstanding" was resolved, Soap always felt that the "clown" in front of him seemed to be different from the intelligence dealer he had seen in the trigger bar.

The most vulnerable part of people with albinism is not the skin, but the eyes.Generally, patients with mild albinism can go out on sunny days with sun protection. The only thing they need to pay attention to is to protect their eyes and wear sunglasses and not look directly at the sun.And the strong light that a flash can release in an instant is much stronger than the bright light that looks directly at the sun. Even if you close your eyes and cover your eyes with your hands, the strong light will penetrate through your fingers and pass through your eyelids. , Straight into the eyes.

On the other hand, the female medical soldier named Roni was rough and rough, and even stained her wrist with the survivor's blood... It's not surprising that she would be infected.

"It's true." Soap echoed repeatedly, "There's nothing to be suspicious of, I'm just a little curious, and there's no sun now, why do you have to cover it up so tightly? Ah, I don't mean anything else, just wondering, you don't feel bored like this ?"

"The 180-meter-long suspended ladder... Tsk, if it shakes, it will be difficult." Soap glanced at the ladder hanging down from the cabin door, and couldn't help but feel a little uneasy.

The white hair and pale skin without a trace of blood, and the eyes under the sunglasses, are exactly the same as the guy in the trigger bar who trades information for drinks. If this is another person, it can only be The informant's twin.

"Now there are two routes." The team leader marked the two routes in red on the drawing, "They are the maintenance channel W193A and the maintenance channel W257C. These two maintenance channels are used for each large-scale maintenance. Maintenance personnel use it when they enter the frame, and there is a built-in electric lift, but we cannot confirm whether the power supply is normal, and if the circuit is cut off, we can only climb up with bare hands."

"This is the structural diagram of the ninth area to the No.20 area of ​​the outer frame on the west side of the ark, which is what we can't do above our heads. Since we can't enter the ark from the conventional entrance, we can only choose unconventional passages." said the captain.

Is it because of the abilities he has shown?Or his weird attire?Or was it the black card of "unknown origin" in his hand?

The fleshy creep only covered the upper half of the ark, and about one-third of the bottom of the ark was exposed. Those fleshy creeps fell to the ground in the shaded area like the aerial roots of a big banyan tree... But due to The size of the ark is very large, and the seemingly dense "aerial roots" are actually more than ten meters away from each other, allowing everyone to walk through it.

Soap resumed its normal speed, followed up, and asked, "Sorry, I was thinking too much just now. What happened just now made me a little nervous. When I think about it carefully, you are more wrapped up than anyone else." Yan Shi, I had no direct contact with that survivor at all, and the probability of being infected is much higher than yours."

As long as he thinks about this matter carefully, the more he thinks that this idea is wrong, but when he focuses on other places and lets his thoughts run wild in his head like a wild horse, he feels It can be noticed that there seems to be something wrong with the clown.

"Totally wrong." The clown glanced at him out of the corner of his eye. "If I was infected by that survivor, why did I have to cover my body in the first place? Your conclusion doesn't stand at all."

The entrance of passageway W257C is 180 meters away from the ground. During maintenance, the maintenance personnel will take a suspended platform or an elevator to reach the entrance, but now everyone in the team does not have such conditions, so they can only use another " emergency measures".

Except for the sentinels and scouts, the captain of the spear team gathered everyone together, took out a tablet, and displayed a blueprint on the screen.

"I've checked, and all the passages for personnel, goods, and vehicles have been blocked. Although these fleshy creeps have been quiet until now, I don't think it's better not to fight them unless it's absolutely necessary. any direct contact."

The center of the ark is only a dozen meters away from the ground, while the edge is hundreds of meters or even thousands of meters away from the ground. The area below is called the "shade area", which means that it is always under the shadow of the ark. covered area.

Not only him, many people in the team still believe that these fleshy creeps are a kind of mutated species of erosion, as long as they come into direct contact with them, they will be infected, and the survivor and Ronnie died of this. kind of infection.

Soap deliberately slowed down his pace, a few steps behind the clown, observing the clown's body shape and body contours from behind... Although the clown's attire was completely different from when he was in the trigger bar, his body shape was still comparable of.

Although the bottom of the ladder can be nailed to the ground, the length and the texture of the ladder doomed the stability of this thing to be low.

The so-called emergency method is to point the laser transmitter at the receiving device next to the entrance, and input the emergency command, so that the hatch at the entrance will automatically open, and a roll of soft ladder will be thrown down.

"Yes, I don't want to touch those things even if I'm killed." The giraffe nodded hurriedly.

None of this seemed to be enough reason to doubt him.

"Illusion, it must be my illusion." Soap said silently in his heart.

Soap was a little depressed inside, but at the same time he breathed a sigh of relief—this clown was so tightly wrapped that no inch of his body was exposed, even though he used all his fingers to operate the scalpel precisely when he operated on the survivors. He took off his tactical gloves, but he immediately put on a pair of medical nitrile gloves. Logically speaking, he did not have any direct physical contact with the survivor.

"No...it should be my illusion, illusion..."

"Damn! This kind of teammate, I wish he would sacrifice to the sky." Soap replied.

"Yeah." The clown nodded, "Just figure it out. This mission is dangerous, and we shouldn't be suspicious of each other."

"It's better to prepare for the worst." The transport plane pilot folded his hands and said with a frown, "The power supply lines used by these two channels should be the same. If the power is cut off, both should be cut off. There is not much difference .”

The team leader looked at the others, and from the expressions on everyone's faces, he could tell that everyone had basically the same idea—choose the longer passage but closer to the mission goal.

"Then choose W257C."

The general shape of the Ark is a disc-shaped "flying saucer", thick in the middle and thin at the edges, which is "suspended" above the ground by tens of thousands of support columns and an equally astonishing number of anti-gravity devices.

Moreover, during the process of traveling, these "roots" did not produce any stress response-they did not seem to have any "spotting" ability, or they only responded to energy crystallization.

"Oh... so it's like this, I understand, I understand." Soap nodded repeatedly, "It's really wicked to be aggressive, there are obviously albinos in the team, and they use flash bombs without warning in advance."

Afterwards, there were some unhealthy chats. The two chatted one after another, and the team finally arrived directly under the ark at the scheduled time.

"Uh..." Soap was stunned, and he thought about it carefully, and what the other party said was indeed true... Before meeting this survivor, this guy named "Joker" had already wrapped himself up from head to toe , but at that time he probably didn't know that he would meet this survivor, and he didn't know about the infection...

The emergency opening device uses a built-in power supply. This power supply is not bad for opening the door, but it is far from enough to drive the elevator.

The two scouts climbed up carefully. Under the constant shaking of the ladder, the two climbed very slowly, but fortunately they got into the inspection passage without any risk, and successfully put the elevator down.

"Phew, isn't this the only good news since we started?" Standing on the smooth lift, Soap sighed, "To be honest, I have already prepared to climb the 180-meter soft ladder first, and then climb the 650-meter tunnel get ready."

"Probably." The giraffe nodded, "People can't be unlucky all the time, can they?"

(End of this chapter)