Alien Relic Hunter

Ke Lan only felt that a lot of plausible clues were tangled together in his mind, like a ball of yarn with no thread. He wanted to analyze it, but he couldn't find a place to start.

Every clue seems to point to the city on the bottom of the sea, but for that city, the information currently available is basically zero... As for the hatchery that Ke Lan accidentally entered, it is even more covered by heavy fog.

What happened to the advance agents of the Security Bureau, what happened to these exploration force soldiers decades ago, and what happened to me when I was in a coma... As long as these three things can be understood, many problems can be solved, but The problem is... the dead can't speak, and the unconscious person is not much different from the dead.

Stuffing Collins's mission log and the blank photo into his pocket, Ke Lan took away the bottle of anti-radiation medicine that had expired for a long time, and continued along the coastline - wanting to understand the situation of the place he was in, and finally The best way is to find a place that is high enough. However, Ke Lan's field of vision is filled with endless desolate Gobi desert. There is not even anything that can be used as a marker. If he walks inward, he will easily lose his way.

The light from the star fell through the layers of clouds, forming a faint shadow under Ke Lan's body - Ke Lan's watch was also broken, but at least more than a month had passed since he woke up. For hours, the angle of the shadow has never changed. Trying to rely on the shadow to determine the direction is completely unworkable in this weird place.

Why does it always seem to be noon... It's impossible to have a daylight phenomenon in this place, right? Ke Lan looked up at the sky and murmured to himself.

The compass failed, the positioning device failed, and there were no plants in this place - none of the conventional methods of direction identification worked.

The coast... the Gobi Desert... the vertical distance is at least twenty kilometers, and the horizontal distance is unknown, but it will only be greater than twenty kilometers... Ke Lan tried his best to recall the Alpha star topographic map he had seen, but In his impression, there seemed to be no such large Gobi Desert in the coastal areas of China...

First of all, we can exclude the north coast. About one-third of the northernmost sea area of ​​​​the Central Sea is a permanently frozen area. Thousands of kilometers of glaciers extend to the land. The thick ice surface cannot even be broken by the collision angle of the Pioneer. .

The south bank is also unlikely. It is the largest swamp on the entire Alpha Planet, and is home to a large number of dangerous indigenous creatures. For this swamp area, human exploration progress is less than 5%.

As for the west bank and the east bank, although the environment is not as extreme as the north and south, it is still a undulating hilly area. If such a large area of ​​wilderness is embedded in the middle, it will be very conspicuous on the map, but I have seen it in Ke Lan There is no such embedded wasteland on any map.

And... judging from the distance between the Pioneer's anchor point and the coast, Ke Lan has no chance of reaching any coast in just a few hours relying on the current, not even the nearest west coast.

Ke Lan estimated that he had probably drifted to a deserted island.

After walking for about twenty minutes, a second human remains appeared in Ke Lan's field of vision... But compared to Sergeant Collins, the appearance of this remains was more horrifying - all the limbs of this remains had been removed. When he fell down, a half-meter-long stalagmite penetrated his chest and nailed his torso to the ground.

The top of the stalagmite was covered with an old-style tactical helmet. This scene was familiar to Ke Lan. Many soldiers who died outside and whose bodies could not be cremated or transported back to the Ark were usually buried on the spot. A simple tombstone looks like this - a wooden board or a stone pillar. If you don't have one, you can stick a gun in the ground instead, then cover it with the deceased's helmet, and carve the deceased's name and date of death on the side of the helmet. , as well as information such as the unit to which it belongs.

But the body exposed in the wilderness before him could not be buried at all. Instead, the tombstone nailed the body to the ground. This behavior seemed to be done by the enemy of the deceased.

I feel a bit unwell today, so I went to bed early. This chapter is a bit short. I hope you can understand it.