Alien Relic Hunter

"We have wasted too much time just for a can." Sergeant Ken said a little irritably, "Put this can away, and when we get back to the Ark, let the big white coats at the institute have a headache."

"But...Boss, I always feel like something is not right about this place..." Connelly whispered, "Whether it's the monster or this empty can, there's something weird about everything..."

"What's weird?" Sergeant Ken glanced at him and asked.

"I...I can't say it for a while...but I just feel uncomfortable all over, and the hairs on my back stand on end...I don't want to move forward unless I figure these things out. ..." Connelly nervously touched the charging handle of the machine gun in his arms.

"You feel uncomfortable because you are cowardly." Sergeant Ken said loudly, "We shouldn't waste too much time on things that have nothing to do with the mission. Let's move on!"

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Under Sergeant Ken's order, the 776 Special Forces Team could only continue moving forward. Fortunately, the downward staircase was not too long. They only walked for about twenty minutes before entering a level corridor.

There are many rooms locked by automatic doors on both sides of the corridor. Only the third automatic door from the left side was damaged and stuck in the middle.

The dark space under the door is like the huge mouth of a monster that has not been completely closed. Normal people will instinctively feel a sense of resistance after seeing it.

"I found something!" the sharp-eyed Martin said in a low voice. He walked forward, stretched out his hand to fumble around the lower edge of the automatic door for a while, and then ran back.

In the palm of his hand, there were some irregular white fragments, and some of them were dark brown, like blood stains.

"It's dried dead skin debris." Liao Xing immediately made a judgment, "Judging from the texture, it should come from the monster I just dissected...or its kind. One of them, When I entered this room, I accidentally scratched my back on the edge of the automatic door, so these things got rubbed on it.”

"Did those monsters run out of this room?" Martin took a deep breath. He looked back at the shadow under the automatic door, and couldn't help but feel a little scared in his heart - he always felt that as long as he approached the door again, he would say in the darkness Maybe a few pale, bony, but terrifying hands would stretch out and drag him into the darkness.

"Not sure, but they must have been in and out of this room." Liao Xing said.

"Martin, Collins, you two go in and take a look." Sergeant Ken ordered.

"Huh?" Martin suddenly had a bitter look on his face. Although Collins' performance was better, judging from the way he involuntarily clenched the grip of his rifle, he was obviously extremely nervous inside.

"Be careful, there may be humanoid monsters left inside." Liao Xing reminded.

"Boss, can't you send a drone in to take a look?" Martin asked.

"The power of the drone is limited, and we cannot charge the battery through solar energy in the ruins, so we cannot waste it," Sergeant Ken said.

In this era, although energy crystals have been discovered by ruin hunters, their practical applications are still in the theoretical stage, and the technology of small nuclear reactors has not yet matured. Equipment such as drones and mechas can only use two types of energy. : Electrical energy and chemical fuels.

"Okay, okay..." Martin shook his head helplessly, then took two deep breaths, turned to Collins, and said, "Collins, I'll go in first. If anything happens, you can pull me out quickly from behind. Understood. without?"

"Don't worry." Collins patted Martin on the shoulder.

The opening gap of the automatic door is not large, only about thirty centimeters. It may not be narrow for the scrawny humanoid monster, but it is a bit difficult for the fully armed soldiers to pass through.

Martin first took off his backpack, and then took off his protective armor and tactical equipment. Then he lay on the ground, leaning sideways, supporting the ground with one hand, holding the pistol in the other hand, holding the tactical flashlight between his teeth, bit by bit. Moved under the automatic door.

"Holy shit...I even took off my body armor. This military uniform can't stop the claws of those monsters..." Martin cursed in his mind, slipped through the automatic door, and then immediately squatted up from the ground. , holding the gun in both hands, he quickly scanned the inside of the room.

Of course, he did not miss the ceiling above his head and the blind spots on both sides of the automatic door.

After confirming that there were no living things in the small room, he breathed a sigh of relief and said outside: "It's safe inside... There are only a bunch of polymer boxes... and... and dried shit on the floor. ."

Soon, Collins also got in, followed by Sergeant Ken, Jinuo and Liao Xing.

"It's really full of shit..." Sergeant Ken rubbed the soles of his boots on the ground with some disgust, "Military doctor, these things should be the excrement of those humanoid monsters, right?"

"Yeah." Liao Xing nodded and walked to the boxes.

Most of these boxes have been opened, and the lids are scattered on the ground in a mess. In the farthest corner, there are piles of empty cans that are exactly the same as the one they just picked up.

"These boxes are all used to hold cans," Liao Xing said. "The cardboard padded at the bottom of the boxes still has impressions from the round cans...but there are not many cans left."

As he spoke, he picked up the few cans and looked at them.

As expected, the bottoms of these cans also have Arabic numerals printed on them.

"Such a large number of cans full of the characteristics of the old era...Ken, you don't think they were strayed from the Ark, right?" Liao Xing looked at Sergeant Ken with a solemn expression.

Sergeant Ken held a can and looked at it, silently.

"Ken, everyone trusts you and will follow you through life and death. If there is anything hidden in the mission content... I hope you can tell us." Liao Xing added, "As executors, brothers should not be Always kept in the dark.”

"About this mission, I have told you everything I know before I entered this ruins." Sergeant Ken's voice was heavy, "I am not a fool, and I also know that there are problems with these things... There are big problems. question...but we are soldiers, and soldiers' orders are to obey their vocation. Don't ask about things that shouldn't be asked, and ignore things that shouldn't be dealt with. We...just need to complete the task."

"Even if there is a secret in this ruins that could change everything, we still have to blow it up?" Liao Xing asked again.

"Maybe it's because of these secrets that we need to blow it up."