Alien Relic Hunter

Before the crystallized energy of the Alpha civilization became popular, in order to increase the movement radius of combat troops, the early long-distance vehicles equipped by the army were all nuclear-powered. A 30-centimetre-long, finger-thick A1 fuel rod. It is enough to run a Class C miniature nuclear reactor for six months, and the energy it produces can enable a heavy armored vehicle to circle Alpha Star along the equator for a full circle and a half!

If it weren't for the fact that there are no abundant uranium ores and thorium ores on Alpha, crystallized energy would not have the chance to become the primary energy source for mankind - after all, humans have not yet mastered the production technology of energy crystals, and the crystallization output depends entirely on the discovery of Alpha. Civilization relics always give people a sense of crisis of being "controlled by others".

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

If this team can leave some vehicles that use nuclear energy, with only a small fuel rod, Ke Lan will have a chance to return to the human world... You must know that there are fearless warriors among them, the kind who wear heavy The big armored man 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 be frustrated, and that is that this team will be airdropped directly onto this desert island.

But this possibility is unlikely. If it was directly airdropped, it proves that the Ark's senior officials must know the existence of this desert island. Even if they did not discover the cave at the beginning, after the team lost contact, they 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 various signs, Ke Lan should be the first person to come to this desert island after them.

After passing Connelly's bones, Ke Lan walked deeper into the cave, but before going far, he found more bones.

This is a temporary camping site. The outermost perimeter is a guardrail made of 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 campfire pit - it seemed that this should be the final resting place for most of the team.

Several pistols fell beside them, but there were no signs of fighting at the scene. Judging from the distribution of bullet casings and bullets, as well as the wounds on the bones, they should have committed suicide.

Ke Lan opened one of the tents, and inside there were several boxes of supplies, including food, drinking water, ammunition, and medicine. Based on the number of remains, these things could last them at least a month... ...If you plan more carefully, two months may not be a problem.

What is the reason that makes all members of this team choose to commit suicide before they are in desperate situation?

Why don't they think of a way to escape from here, or try to get in touch with Ark?

Or should I say, they have already done all 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.

Black box is another name for flight recorder, which is used to save the flight data of the aircraft and the driver's voice record. In the Ark combat team, the commander of each unit also has something called a "black box". This black metal box is essentially a specially encrypted recording device used to record the team's activities outside. The entire operational process during combat operations.

The commander is responsible for recording the content of the black box. If the commander is killed in action, the person who takes over the commander's duties will take over the subsequent recording task - when the operation is over and the commander returns to the Ark to debrief his duties, the black box brought back will be There are dedicated personnel to decrypt and archive the content.

If this unit is completely wiped out, or if the black box is accidentally lost during a combat mission, Ark's senior management will send an elite team to perform the recovery mission - this shows the importance of the black box.

"I hope this thing isn't broken..."

Generally speaking, the security and reliability of black boxes are extremely high, but this thing has been abandoned in this damn place for so many years, and Ke Lan dare not guarantee that the data inside is still safe and sound.

Ke Lan laid the black box flat on the ground and gently turned on the switch on the right side.

"Hiss...hiss..." After a noisy electric sound, all three indicator lights on the side of the black box lit up.

"Fortunately, nothing is broken..." Ke Lan just breathed a sigh of relief. The next second, the three indicator lights turned from green to red. At the same time, a mechanized female voice came from the box: "Reading this record requires A Level or above authority, if there is no authority proof, please enter the password code."

"Oops... why did you forget this..." Ke Lan sighed inwardly. In order to keep it secret, even if ordinary people picked up the black box, they would not be able to extract the contents inside. As for violent cracking, it is even more impossible.

The encryption program of the black box was written by the mastermind of Ark. If it were just a simple recording device, it could be made smaller than a fingernail. The reason why the black box is so large is entirely due to this encryption program.

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

"Password... What on earth could this damn password be..." 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 use Class A. The key with the above permissions will copy the data inside, and one is to enter the password code set by the recorder.

But Ke Lan neither has an authority key above level A, nor does he even know what the password of this black box is!

If it is really locked, then only the mastermind of Ark can unlock this thing...

"three two……"

"...Leave the bed!" This string of English suddenly floated through Ke Lan's head, and he read it directly without thinking too much.

It’s too late anyway, it’s a dead horse but a living thing…

"The password is correct."

Damn it... this dead horse was really revived by medical treatment?

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

The two events are decades apart in time!

"...Hiss... July 11th, weather, overcast, 776 Special Forces Team, Commander, Ken." A thick male voice with an accent sounded, interrupting Ke Lan's thoughts.

"...It's been four days since we came to this place."

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

"This place is very strange... It's really strange. It's been four days... Although everyone else's electronic watches are broken, I have a mechanical watch. I can confirm that the hour hand has rotated eight times... But in In this place, time seems to stop flowing..."

"July 12th, maybe July 12th, the weather has always been cloudy..."

"There is no night here, but it doesn't feel like daylight... Time seems to always be fixed at noon... Connelly said that we might be on an island in Zhonghai, but I think he is talking nonsense. Zhonghai is on the other side of Alpha Planet. , even if you fly on an empty ship, you have to fly for several days..."

"But...except for the middle sea, there seems to be no water body of this size on Alpha Planet..."

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

"The adjutant suggested that I collect everyone's supplies and manage them in a unified way. I think he is right."

"July 13th, still cloudy, 776 Special Forces Team."

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

"Karl set off with six people. These six people are all good people. I think they can get Gino and Gary back... Even if it's two corpses, they have to bring them back."

"The kid transferred from the First Reconnaissance Company is very annoying, but I have to say that he has some unique abilities - he found an 'egg', a transparent egg... It turns out that in addition to sand and stones, this place also contains There’s something else.”

"That egg...damn it! Martin, throw away the egg! Fire! Everyone fire!"

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"On July 15th, in two days, we lost seventeen soldiers...The egg came to life, and it got into Martin's stomach, and then...Martin turned into a monster...a head full of blood all over his body. It's a tentacled monster... It's invulnerable, and a .50-caliber heavy machine gun can only repel it without causing substantial damage... Those tentacles swept away all the corpses, and it looked like a kind of hunting. Behavior, the reason why we can survive may be that that thing can't digest so much 'food' for a while..."

"On July 16th, we encountered that thing again..."