Alien Relic Hunter

In the case of electricity, there is not much difference between 400 meters and 650 meters. This maintenance channel, which is closer to the public communication terminal, naturally becomes the "best choice".

There are lights in the inspection passage, but in order not to startle the snake, the team did not turn on all the lighting equipment in the passage, but only lit a few lights on the elevator.

Only a section of passage less than 30 meters can be illuminated by lights, and the place further away is gradually engulfed in darkness.Everyone raised their heads, pointed the weapons in their hands directly above, and stood ready.

No one spoke, and only the sound of deliberately suppressed breathing and the sound of friction between the elevator pulley and the track could be heard in the passage. Not only Soap and the giraffe felt very depressed, but everyone else in the team was also a little breathless.

Especially in a closed space like this tunnel, once they encounter an enemy, they have no chance to escape and can only fight to the death.

There is not even any extra space to dodge here, and there are no obstacles that can cover their bodies. They can only shoot at the enemy like the line infantry in the seventeenth century of the old era-this kind of battle is impossible without skills. There is no luck at all, the soldiers are simply used as consumables, and the morale of that side will collapse first, and the soldiers on that side will start to collapse first...

However, for everyone in the squad, they didn't even have a chance to break up.

It only took 45 minutes for the lift to reach the exit, but for them, these 45 minutes felt like 45 years.

When the bright lights at the exit appeared in the distance, everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

"To be honest, when I was in the tunnel just now, the plots of the thrillers I watched before, especially those in a closed environment, those images kept flashing in my mind... I feel that if I stay in there for a while, I'm afraid I'm going to suffer from claustrophobia." Soap whispered to the giraffe.

"Sneak off? Where are you going to go?" Soap asked the giraffe with a white look.

"What kind of thief ship...don't talk nonsense!" Soap glared at his unrestrained companion, "If you want to say thieves, those monsters are thieves, and we represent the party of justice. The survivors on the ark are still waiting." Let's go save it."

"It's absolutely impossible." Soap immediately retorted, "Based on my knowledge of the Ark's senior management, if this happens, these people living in the slums will definitely be the first batch of people to be abandoned. Ark's senior management will not It is possible to protect them, and they will not distribute the precious living materials to the people who live here. Or let me put it more bluntly, in the eyes of the Ark executives, the people who live here are not human at all.”

"I hope... I hope that big man... is useful." He murmured for a while, and finally whispered in a voice that only he could hear.

"Should, it used to be a human being..." The scout looked troubled, as if he was struggling with how to describe what he saw, "It...it roughly maintains a human shape, with a head, limbs and torso...but the physical expression There are plenty of signs of mutation, just like the survivor we found out there."

The closer you are to the target, the less you can be in a hurry... The other team is estimated to be completely wiped out if they can't even enter the "shelter zone". Failed.

"I picked a few houses with fresh garbage at the door and went in, and they were all empty." The scout immediately replied, "The rooms are very messy...but the rooms in these slums are usually very messy. More details, because of time, there is no..."

Five minutes later, one of the two scouts ran back in a hurry. Before he got close, he made a gesture symbolizing "alert" to everyone from a distance.

"Don't talk so righteously. I don't know what is a thief or not. Don't let the survivors be rescued, but put their own lives in it." The giraffe said a little depressed, "Actually, now It is not impossible to find a way to escape... Let's find a way to find a reason... No, that shouldn't work... Or, when we meet the enemy, we will be in a melee..."

"Hiss..." Everyone gasped involuntarily.

"And then? Escaping from the Ark, is there any place for us to go?" Soap said helplessly, "General Maginot planned the Ark Recapture Operation, but all the military bases and strongholds in the wilderness participated, and there was no place to take them in. We... have no place to stay, no supplies, do you think we can survive in the wilderness for a few days? Even if those guys in the team who are known as survival masters are thrown in the wilderness, without logistical support, they can't last long... …A few years ago, maybe we could find an exile colony to survive for a few years, but now..."

"Are there really no traces found?" The transport plane pilot asked the scout, "Have you checked those inhabited houses?"

Giraffe's mood was obviously a bit depressed, and Soap was of course not much better... But even the soldiers of the Spear Squad didn't look very good.

Heretic sects need the exiles in these settlements to supplement their believers and combat power, and in order to prevent these exiles from becoming part of the heretic sect, Ark launched a high-intensity campaign to wipe out all the exile settlements that have been discovered—— Just like to prevent the breeding of mosquitoes, it is necessary to fill up the puddles where the larvae can breed. For the top management of the ark, these exile settlements are the soil where the seeds of erosion are born, and they are potential sources of soldiers for heretical sects.

"Strange... where will that person go?" the captain wondered.

"Improved? How much improved? Is it possible that contacting that big shot can turn the tide of battle? Not to mention, that big shot is trapped on the ark and can't even send out a distress signal. Even if we contact him , so what can I do?" Soap really wanted to use these words to refute the transport pilot, but he still held back these words abruptly - he also knew that such words were too demoralizing, saying If he said it out, he might be killed by that serious squad leader for a reason.

There was no problem with what the scouts said. The time limit given by the squad leader was 15 minutes, and they ran back and forth in 15 minutes. It was impossible to have much time to carefully inspect those houses.

Everyone's heart tightened suddenly.

The captain smacked his lips and rubbed one side of his cheek vigorously. He thought to himself, after staying in the field army for so many years, the quality of the guard army on the ark should not be so low that they even forgot to bring their weapons degree...

The radio equipment carried by the team used energy crystals as energy sources. Although no fleshy creepers and monsters were found in this area, just in case, the team leader ordered to disable all such equipment.

"What's going on? What's the situation?" When the scout ran close, the team leader asked hastily.

"Don't be so frustrated." The pilot of the transport plane said to everyone, "Actually, we are very close to completing the mission-you see, this area is lit up, and the elevators in the inspection passage can also operate normally, which means that here The power plant is still continuously supplying electricity...the public communication terminal is probably still intact, as long as we can contact the 'big man' that the general said, the situation should improve."

Soap and Giraffe have also participated in the extermination of exile settlements several times, but in recent months, fewer and fewer exile settlements can be found... According to the incomplete statistics of those intelligence websites, the current wilderness The number of exiles still existing in the world is likely to be less than a thousand, and this number will completely return to zero within the next three months to half a year.

"West [-]th District is a semi-industrial area and semi-residential area. The living conditions here are worse than many areas called slums. The air is filled with poisonous gas emitted by various factories. People with a little ability have already moved out. Let's go." A relic hunter said, "I have been to the West [-]th District once before, and many houses in the residential area here are empty, and the occupancy rate is not even one-fifth."

That is, they simply have nowhere to go.

"Just near the public communication terminal, there is a humanoid creature wandering back and forth, and Simon is staring at that guy." The scout's breath was a little unstable, half because of fast running, and the other half because of nervousness.

Soap didn't continue talking, but the two were partners in action anyway, and the giraffe naturally knew what the second half of the sentence was.

The small team marched close to the edge of the power station park. This is a fully automated nuclear power plant with a large area, and the distance around the park is several kilometers.And the nearest public communication terminal is more than 800 meters away in the direction of twelve o'clock, which is the junction of the power station park and the residential area of ​​West [-]th District-according to the design plan of Ark, each residential area, It must be equipped with a public communication terminal, but this public communication terminal is not so much for the residents of the West [-]th District, as it is for the supporting facilities of the power station... Compared with those residents, the resident personnel of the power station and Security forces use it much more often.

At this time, another scout came back from the opposite direction and reported: "There are no survivors in the residential area, and there are no corpses. It seems that all the residents disappeared directly."

Ark has always turned a blind eye to those exile settlements that did not take the initiative to provoke Ark. Some exiles even made deals with people in transfer stations or military bases.But since the war between the Ark and the heretic sects officially started, the settlements in the wilderness, counting one by one, have become "the battlegrounds for military strategists".

"There seems to be no one in the power station. There are no traces of resident personnel or security forces." With the assistance of the exoskeleton, a scout easily climbed over the three-meter-high wall of the power station park, and said to the team leader, "Security The gates of the troops' barracks were left open, but no bodies were found, and no traces of battle were found."

"The residential area of ​​West 3th District was designed with a population capacity of 6000 people. Even if it is one-fifth, there should be 6000 people. These [-] people can't just evaporate without leaving any traces?" The captain of the spear team said suspiciously.

"Could it be that after the upper level of the ark discovered the invasion of those monsters, it urgently ordered everyone to take refuge in those blocks with the first numbers and concentrate their efforts on defense?" asked a younger-looking ruins hunter .

The captain of the Spear Squad glared at Soap and flattened his mouth, but he didn't refute it—because he knew in his heart that although what the other party said was ugly, it was indeed the truth.

"Are the weapons and ammunition still there?" the squad leader asked.

"I always feel like a trap." The transport plane pilot mused, "This place has not been invaded by those monsters, and infrastructures such as power plants, lighting equipment, and gas supply equipment are still in operation, which makes no sense. Not a single person."

"I'm not much better... By the way, we... are we on a pirate ship?" Giraffe carefully glanced in the direction of the spear team, "According to our plan, shouldn't we Did you anoint the soles of your feet with oil before boarding the ark?"

"In short, let's leave the ark first... Didn't the previous survivor tell us to escape from here, as far away as possible? I don't think there is anything wrong with what he said. With our strength alone, it is impossible to complete the task .”

Basically, the possibility of the security forces being wiped out on the spot, or being transferred to other places after receiving orders can be ruled out... But, where will these dozens of people go?
Even if they ran away in a hurry, the remaining half of the people should always bring their weapons, right?

"Both of you, touch in the direction of the public communication terminal to ensure that there are no obstacles or creatures on the route. Everyone else, stay put and stand by." The captain of the spear team ordered.

"The weapon rack is half empty, and the ammunition reserves are basically untouched." The scout replied.

"Humanoid? Isn't it human?" the team leader asked again.

The security forces of this kind of power station work in two shifts, with half of them resting and the other on duty. Under normal circumstances, half of the weapon racks should be empty.Moreover, if there is an emergency, the amount of ammunition carried will be increased from one base in daily life to two bases in alert time, or even four bases in wartime-such a big thing happened on the ark, and the ammunition in reserve is even It's really unreasonable to move without being passive.

"Be cautious, you must be cautious." The team leader reminded himself over and over again.

"Captain, are we going to make contact with that person...that thing?" the scout asked.

"Are there other similar entities nearby?"

"No, it's the only one." The scout shook his head.

"Let the sniper deal with it." The team leader ordered, "The risk of contacting it is too great. I don't want what happened to Ronnie to happen to anyone in the team. What's more, from the mouths of these things, everyone There is no chance of getting any useful information, so we might as well focus on the communication terminal.”

[PS Thank you for the 5000 starting coins rewarded by the giraffe who read the book; thank you for the 400 starting coins rewarded by the photography master. 】