Alien Relic Hunter

At this moment, a rustle of friction between rocks came from the top of the cave. Everyone looked up and found that a new passage appeared directly above the high platform, and a ray of light was projected from the passage.

"Exit! It's the exit!" Hound shouted happily, "I can finally leave this hellish place! All the girls in the North Third District are waiting for me. I will pamper you all when I get back!"

"All of them? Old dog, are you sure? You won't even let go of those things that cost fifty points of credit once?" Layton said with a somewhat narrow smile. Thinking of being able to go out right away, everyone's nerves that had been tense finally finally It's a little more relaxed.

"Fuck! If you keep beeping for me, I won't even let you go!" While Layton couldn't move, the old dog kicked him hard on the butt.

"Just that... toothpick of yours?" Leighton was a little disdainful, "There is an old Chinese saying, 'When a tiger falls flat, it will be bullied by a dog.' Just wait for me. Believe it or not, I will give you the toothpick when I am healed." You hang it on the solar photovoltaic panel?"

"Okay... If you want to have sex, wait until you get back to Ark. I can even sponsor a free anal enlargement surgery. But now, you'd better find a way to get out of here." Ivan interrupted the two of them. He argued, pointing to the exit above his head, "There are currently two seriously injured people who cannot move, Leighton and Zhuoligetu. They cannot use climbing suction cups, so we can only go up first and then use ropes to lift them out. .”

"Also, Lao Gou and Asano Akira lost their protective suits. It's okay underground. If they reach the surface, the radiation intensity will become stronger. I'm worried that they won't be able to withstand it." Ke Lan interjected.

"Then we can only go out first and find a way to get in touch with Ark." Ivan said, "According to the original flight schedule of the transport plane, Ark may not know that something happened to us."

"Is there a radio?" Ke Lan asked.

"There is a set that was removed from the wreckage of the transport aircraft, but the power may be a little small." Hound said, taking out a metal box from the backpack whose shell had obviously suffered a serious collision. "It is the most basic model, or from Second-hand goods that have been eliminated from other vehicles... The damn logistics department just wants to save budget at this critical moment."

"Let's make do with it." Ke Lan took the metal box, "In this way, Ivan and the hounds stay here to take care of the wounded. Asano Akira and I go out to ask for help. No matter whether we can succeed or not, we will definitely be there within two hours. Come back, if we don't come back..."

Ke Lan did not continue, but everyone present knew what it would mean if Ke Lan and Asano Akira did not come back within the scheduled time.

If the accident really happens, then Ivan and Hound will have no choice but to leave Layton and Zhuoligetu behind and leave independently... The cruel test faced by the hunter profession has created an extremely rational way of thinking for them. , when it is determined that there is no hope, what they need to do is how to stop the loss in time - it is better for two people to have a chance of survival than for all four people to die in the ruins.

"Don't be so pessimistic. I have noticed before that there is a lot of moss growing in the corners of the cave. We can survive at least three or four days with that and we won't starve to death." Leighton pointed to a patch of grass in the distance. Fluorescence said.

But they all know that all plants or fungi that emit fluorescence on Alpha Planet basically contain a high dose of radiation in their bodies. Eating these things to satisfy hunger is equivalent to drinking poison to quench thirst. Layton said this, just to comfort them. That’s all.

"You can't spit out ivory from your dog's mouth, and you talk depressing words all day long." The hound scolded angrily, "Okay, you go quickly... By the way, the mission report seems to mention that there are indigenous creatures in the snow-capped mountains. There are signs of activity, it should be a large reptile, please be careful.”

"Yes." Ke Lan nodded. Of course he had read the mission report carefully. Judging from the traces captured by the drones, it should be a subspecies of earth-moving dragon called Snow Dragon. The name sounds like it It's very fantasy, but this dragon can neither use magic nor breathe fire. Its wings are highly degraded and it can't even fly. At most, it can only use the terrain to glide short distances - to put it bluntly, it is a dragon that can adapt to low temperatures and high temperatures. Just a clumsy lizard in a radiation environment.

Since the oxygen content of Alpha Star's atmosphere is much higher than that of Earth, the indigenous organisms on this planet are relatively large in size. Even bugs are dozens of times larger than similar species on Earth, such as the Schizognathus. This species is already considered one of the smallest species among indigenous creatures.

However, what makes human biologists a little strange is that the brain capacity of the indigenous creatures on Alpha Planet is not much higher than that of Earth creatures. Logically speaking, it is impossible for an environment like Alpha Planet to evolve for such a long time. Alpha civilization, an intelligent species, was born.

Assume that the Alpha civilization has wiped out all other intelligent species on the planet, but tens of thousands of years have passed since the Alpha civilization disappeared. However, according to biologists’ investigations and anatomy results, these wandering animals have disappeared during these tens of thousands of years. The indigenous creatures on Alpha Planet have not evolved at all.

This conclusion is extremely absurd, but it is indeed true. It seems that the genetic sequence of all living things on this planet has been completely locked, and everything was still frozen tens of thousands of years ago... during the period when the Alpha civilization disappeared.

...The passage at the top of the cave is very short. It takes less than fifty meters to reach the exit. The cold wind mixed with snow and hail continues to flow into the passage. Fortunately, the suction force of the climbing suction cup is strong enough, so Ke Lan and Asano Akira can strengthen it. Climb out against the strong wind.

The previous judgment was very accurate. The core area of ​​the A-087 ruins is indeed located in the heart of the snow mountain, and the exit of this passage is just a little above the mountainside, about one-third of the way to the top of the mountain.

"We have to set up a radio on the top of the mountain so that the signal can travel far enough." Ke Lan said, trying to take a few steps forward, but soon, the thick snow had already covered his thighs. Under such circumstances, it was simply impossible to move forward.

"It would be nice to have a sled, but...wait, wait, am I right? Isn't that our cargo hold?" Ke Lan complained while looking around, but when he turned his eyes to the west side of the hillside, , but the whole person was completely stunned.

The cargo hold that was torn from the transport plane was now mostly buried in the snow. Various equipment was scattered on the ground. A giant lizard with white scales was tearing at a supply made of reinforced engineering plastic with its claws. box, and behind it, there were already three identical supply boxes that had been torn apart in this violent way, leaving them in a complete mess.

"It's the 'Snow Dragon'!... That guy is stealing our supplies!" Ke Lan can be said to be extremely unhappy at this moment. Since the crash, they have to live with their belts tightened, and they only have enough money. Some supplies had to be carefully calculated and used, but no one expected that most of the lost supplies ended up in the belly of this lizard.

"Is it in that direction?" Akira Asano asked Ke Lan, facing the west hillside. "The sound of the wind and snow is very loud, and I can't hear many small noises clearly."

"Well, it should be a newly adult snow dragon, about six meters long. Can you fight in this situation?" Ke Lan glanced at Asano Akira with a little worry.

"It will be affected to some extent, but as long as I get close enough, I can hear it." As soon as he finished speaking, Asano Akira suddenly jumped up and started running quickly on the snow.

If Ke Lan hadn't been sharp-eyed and saw that Akira Asano had tied the carbon fiber plates used to support the backpack to the soles of his shoes, he would have almost thought that the light skill of "walking on snow without leaving a trace" in martial arts novels had reappeared...

"This big lizard is probably going to be in bad luck..."

However, his smile froze in the next second - "Asano Akira, be careful! There is a bigger one, it is behind the cargo hold, at your two o'clock direction!"

In the blink of an eye, Asano Akira was caught in the attack of two snow dragons, and what was even more terrible was that the second snow dragon spread its wings and suddenly jumped into the air.

It's a mutant!