Alien Relic Hunter

Military background? Ke Lan subconsciously wanted to call Maginot, but after thinking about it, he put down the phone.

There are many factions within the military, and the extremely complicated interest relationships between different factions. Hound has mentioned this to them countless times, and Maginot, who holds the rank of lieutenant general, is actually just a It's just a messenger introduced by one of their factions to contact them. If you ask Maginot about something like this, you will most likely not be able to get anything out of it.

But if it were the guys from the Undead Crew, they would definitely be able to find out the background of this Dark Crow Professional Club. But the problem is that Ke Lan doesn't have the contact information of the members of the Undead Crew... Even if he did, he wouldn't Maybe bothering those at the peak of Ark's power for such a trivial matter...if they were still human.

The clues were basically broken at this point, and Ke Lan had no choice but to give up.

However, what makes Ke Lan a little confused is that since the Dark Crows have a military background, why are their ace players all civilian pilots with no service experience? Their coach, as the only ace with a military background, They were also traded to this club through normal transfer methods - if they really have a military background, it shouldn't be difficult to gather three real aces, even if the Steel Blade issued in recent years There are much fewer medals than there were more than ten years ago, so finding pilots like Chi Hanfeng who have rich practical experience will definitely be much better than such professional competitive pilots who have never seen blood.

Even with a large amount of sponsorship, to run a wealthy mecha club and feed so many people plus those mechas that are more valuable than people, the amount of money that needs to be spent every year is absolutely an astronomical figure. Even taking this money Come to think of it, can't we mobilize a few ace pilots to play a few games?

Thinking of this, Ke Lan couldn't help but make a bold guess...

Could it be that the Dark Crows did this to deceive others and distance themselves from the so-called military background? Doesn't the owner of this club want others to find out his true identity?

This is too weird...

Ke Lan clearly remembers that there is no regulation in the military regulations of the three major branches of Ark that prohibits retired or active military personnel from participating in commercial competitions, let alone cooperation with officials such as the Ark Mecha Competition, which can be called the World Cup in the new era. The top competition. In the third, fourth and ninth editions, there was even a precedent for the military to directly participate. The championship team of the fourth edition even came from the Air Force's First Fleet Carrier-based Mechas The Red Baron Squad of the Force.

Could it be that...this guy, like Manstein, embezzled military funds to play in the club? Then this person is really audacious... If he embezzles company funds, the most he can do is to lose everything and be blacklisted, and then pay back the money for the rest of his life. But if he embezzles military funds privately, if he is discovered... even if the amount is not No matter how big the situation is, the military court will only give one verdict: confiscation of the home and execution, and it will be executed immediately.

But after careful analysis, this speculation is obviously untenable-that guy Manstein embezzled public funds just to buy some mecha accessories like shield generators for his youngest son. For an entire In terms of the operating expenses of a wealthy club, this amount of money can only be regarded as a drop in the bucket... If this guy really embezzled military funds to invest in the club, there is no way this kind of money flow based on hundreds of millions of dollars can escape supervision. The eyes of the system.

Rules are rules. Even if this person has made a lot of money in the club and has made up for all the accounts, as long as he embezzles military funds without permission, it is a capital crime... unless he can prove it afterwards to convince both the judge and the jury. There must be a legitimate reason, otherwise a peanut will definitely not be able to escape.

There must be something wrong with this Dark Crow, but Ke Lan couldn't tell what the specific problem was.

Even the powerful intelligence dealer could only find out that the other party had a military background, but knew nothing about other information. With Ke Lan's existing resources, they couldn't find anything.

Forget it. Ke Lan walked to the computer, pressed the ESC key, and turned off the search engine. It's just a game anyway. At the beginning, we just had a fun mentality. Even if we were If it’s already launched, then at least we’ll reach the top 16... After all, we are a professional hunting group, not a professional mecha competitive club. If we continue like this, we will put the cart before the horse.

That makes sense. Hound nodded and threw a can of chilled beer to Ke Lan, Anyway, Valentina's medical expenses have been settled, and Lao Chi you have nothing to worry about. As for us...at the beginning It’s just for fun.”

As he spoke, the hound suddenly clasped his hands together and made an action that seemed pious, but made others feel very funny: In Buddhist terms - donor, you are possessed.

To be honest, old dog, I think that when you are too old to walk, you can shave your head and put on a cassock. Then you can compete for jobs with those guys from heretical sects. You have great potential. , I'm optimistic about you. Layton leaned back on the sofa and laughed while drinking.

Fuck you! I actually think that your fucking bald head is much more suitable than mine. It's just missing a few ring scars. How about you use the welding gun in your robotic arm to click it twice? Hound immediately replied.

The originally tense atmosphere in the private room suddenly relaxed again. Even Song Shiyun, who was following Ye Yan, put down her pretense of being a wealthy daughter and joined in the drinking. After a while, someone appeared on the coffee table in front of the sofa. It was already filled with empty cans.

It's not strong! This beer is not strong at all! It's tasteless! It's as bland as water! the hound yelled, pulling his neck, but at this time, what he was holding was no longer a can filled with beer. It was a 700 ml bottle of strong whiskey. The huge wine cabinet in the private room was half empty, and glass bottles were scattered everywhere under the sofa.

There were only four people left in the private room who were not drunk - Ke Lan, Zofia, Ivan and Akira Asano: Ke Lan and Zofia didn't drink much, and Ke Lan didn't even drink what the hound threw to him. The can of beer was not finished, but Zofia just poured a glass of white wine in her hand and drank less than three sips in total, while Asano Akira sat cross-legged on the sofa and ate melon seeds without even drinking a sip of wine... …As for this guy Ivan, he can’t get drunk at all.

These guys, they can't drink so much but still want to drink... Ke Lan looked helplessly at the drunken people and said to Ivan, Give me a hand and drag these guys back to their beds.

Compared with the base built on the ground, the space on the Zulong super airship is tighter, but because only the participating teams that have entered the knockout stage and the spectators in the VIP viewing area can board the ship, the per capita space is actually It's much bigger than when we were at the base, and all the facilities are equipped according to the standards of a five-star hotel.

Sitting on the bedside, Ke Lan looked at the scenery outside the side window - night had just fallen, but the temperature outside had dropped sharply below zero, and the vast wasteland was gradually covered with a thin layer of frost. Under the light refracted by the moon, the originally white thin frost showed a dreamy deep blue... Although Ke Lan knew that the outside environment at this time could be described as harsh for humans. , but I have to admit that the night view in the wasteland is really beautiful. This is a sight that people living in the Ark residential area will never see in their lifetime.

More than 70% of the humans on the Ark will never leave this fortress-like interstellar colony ship throughout their lives. Their understanding of Alpha Planet is only limited to pictures and videos on the Internet... I don’t know why, Ke Lan I always feel that these people are very pitiful. They are like a group of prisoners who voluntarily imprisoned themselves in this prison that symbolizes safety... For them, Alpha Planet is no different from the Earth in the old era. Every day life is different. On the front line, they work, earn wages, buy food and other daily necessities... They are unwilling to know anything that has nothing to do with them, and they watch news programs just to pass the short leisure time after meals.

The vast majority of people are like this... No, it may not be accurate to describe them as prisoners. They are more like livestock in captivity, obedient and numb.

Ke Lan remembered that in the old era there was a special word to describe such people: social animals.

But they don't feel that they are being held captive - in the eyes of many people, working outside the Ark is dangerous and dishonorable, even though the income of a profession like a relic hunter far exceeds the average income of ordinary residents of the Ark. , but in their view, the ruin hunter cannot be regarded as a normal profession at all.

Just like those mercenaries who were active in war-torn areas in the old era and worked for money, there may be some passionate young people who yearned for such a career when they were in the second grade of middle school, but when they grew up and entered the society and started working, they No one wants to be a mercenary anymore. In the final analysis, summer job in Syria is just a joke.

It is the nature of ordinary people to be content with the status quo; and the vast majority of people are ordinary people.

Those who were able to board this ark were, without exception, the elites among human beings. These people had been carefully selected. Whether it was ability, character, morality or genes, they were the best among human beings... However, in Over the past nine hundred years, the descendants of these elites have all become mediocre people.

In the eyes of the big lizard, both the human elite and the vast majority of ordinary people can only be regarded as bugs. Even Ke Lan is just a more interesting bug.

Ke Lan suddenly understood those believers who converted to heretical sects.

The gap between civilizations is really too huge. This gap is so despairing that people cannot even think of fighting against it... And for some of them, their despair has turned into worship... and even It's faith.

It is understandable that it is biological instinct to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages. Otherwise, there would not have been so many traitors during the war years. However, these believers did not betray their own country and nation; It's one's own race.

If Alpha civilization still exists in a corner of the universe and returns to this planet one day in the future...how will they treat humans, and how will they treat these 'traitors' among humans?

war? conquer? Slavery? massacre?

As for equal dialogue, Ke Lan does not think that when there is a huge disparity in power between the two civilizations, humans will have the opportunity for equal dialogue - perhaps, humans will be treated as some kind of rare biological specimens by the Alpha people and kept in captivity somewhere. A fixed-size area is like a protected animal in a cage in a zoo.

Could it be that... this planet is just a huge zoo?

Ke Lan shuddered.

He suddenly felt that the gaze he felt in East Ninth District was like humans observing microorganisms in a petri dish - two bacteria were fighting each other, and one of the bacteria suddenly sent a request for help to humans. signal, this move aroused the surprise and interest of humans. They dropped a certain reagent into the petri dish, which easily helped the bacteria seeking help kill another bacteria. At the same time, they began to observe the former more frequently. .

After all, there are not many bacteria that can send out help signals like humans.

Perhaps even Alpha Man is just a type of bacteria that once multiplied in this petri dish.

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Thinking about these things, Ke Lan couldn't help but fall asleep... He obviously didn't drink much, but the sleepiness that came over him was much stronger than usual...

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He didn't dream, maybe he had dreamed but had forgotten it. When Ke Lan woke up the next day, he always felt as if he had forgotten something important. It was as if it was not the hounds and the others who drank the fragments yesterday, but him. Same.

Everyone else was still sleeping. Ke Lan took a sip of water and wiped his face carelessly a few times, then opened the door to the private room and walked straight out - he wanted to go to the restaurant on the ship to see what special breakfasts there were, but instead He happened to bump into the two Dark Crows from before standing outside the corridor.

Why...it's you again? Is something wrong? Ke Lan subconsciously put his hand into his pocket and grasped the handle of the pistol.

Well, I was passing by. I was really passing by this time. The two of them seemed to notice Ke Lan's sleepy look. They said something casually and turned around to leave. They were unaware of the sleepy look on Ke Lan's face after they turned around. The meaning has been swept away.

He closed the door and waited for the two of them to walk out nearly fifty meters away before slowly following them.

This is the way to the restaurant anyway, but Ke Lan wants to see what these people are sneaking up on...

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