Alien Relic Hunter

The navy of Ark. Thirty-three nodded, This can be regarded as a piece of 'black history'. People outside the military system will never know about it... and even within the military, only a handful of people will know about it. Know this 'black history'. Well, Lao Gou must know it, but he probably hasn't mentioned it to you.

I never mentioned it, Ke Lan said.

When Ark first landed on Alpha Star, the people above also thought about forming a naval fleet... Although the extreme sea cannot be sailed, the area of ​​​​the middle sea is so large. If you want to control this sea area, a powerful fleet will definitely not be able to Less.

But in the first few years after landing, Ark was tired of dealing with attacks from indigenous creatures and had no intention of exploring the sea... This plan was shelved for several years until after New Era 905, when the war slowed down and the military The decision to formally form a navy has just begun.

The two 'Oberon' class heavy cruisers of the Air Force fleet were transformed into sea and air dual-purpose warships and were renamed the 'Zhenhai' class, namely the No. 1 ship 'Zhenhai' and the No. 2 ship 'Dinghai' ...This gun barrel comes from the naval gun on the Zhenhai.

But the plan to form a navy was cut in half after only half a year. According to the news circulated within the army, the two 'Zhenhai-class' cruisers seemed to have been renovated too hastily, causing accidents one after another and sank... Unexpectedly, they sank... Here. Thirty-three glanced at the barrel with some emotion.

Although the 'Oberon' class heavy cruiser is a bit older, it is still a warship that can go into space. The hull structure can go into space and can naturally be launched into water, so the transformation project does not take much time at all, and there is no rush at all. Said. All you need to do is replace the jet thrusters with propellers and the missiles with torpedoes. Moreover, it was very common in that era to install anti-gravity devices on warships. They didn’t even need a drainage tank, and the warship could be used directly as a submarine... ...The cause of the sinking seems not to be an accident. Ke Lan analyzed.

It's a battle. Thirty-three held the gun barrel, looked in from the muzzle, and said, The inner bore of this gun barrel has very serious signs of wear and tear. You have to know the Nino of this gun barrel. The alloy content is more than 90%. If it can be worn like this, you can imagine how intense the battle the 'Zhenhai' encountered before it sank... This is still a smoothbore cannon used to launch artillery-launched missiles. If If it was a conventional rifled gun, the rifling inside would probably have been smoothed.

Thirty-three turned the gun barrel over again. The structure at the other end opposite to the muzzle showed obvious signs of expansion and deformation. The fracture was very rough, showing that it was torn from the gun base by a huge force. .

And here, how do you think this barrel broke? Thirty-three looked at Ke Lan and asked.

Exploded barrel? Ke Lan stretched out his hand, touched the rough fracture of the barrel, and answered tentatively.

Although Ke Lan is considered a half-military fan, he has never been a soldier or participated in actual combat. All military knowledge comes from information on paper. He cannot compete with professional soldiers like Hound and Thirty-Three. To compare.

For the question Thirty-Three is asking now, even if you search the entire library of military books, you may not be able to find a standard answer. The knowledge it involves is too broad and complex. It requires not only understanding of weapons manufacturing, but also materials science, physics, and even the history of Ark wars, indigenous biology, etc. Only by integrating the knowledge of these disciplines can we Through such a broken gun barrel, the battles that the Zhenhai experienced can be restored.

But Thirty-Three and the others don't need this knowledge... they rely on experience, the experience accumulated in countless battles filled with the smell of gunpowder smoke and blood.

This barrel has indeed exploded, but the barrel is made of N90 grade Nino alloy and is formed in one piece by forging. Even if the barrel is exploded, it will not break like this... Thirty-three said, Turning the barrel over, there was an obvious depression in the middle of the barrel. He gestured with his palm and continued, In my opinion, this barrel should have been affected by the force in this direction. The attack was broken by force. And the thing that broke it was not an angular hard object, but something smooth and flexible... I am more inclined to think it is the offensive organ of an indigenous creature, for example, a tentacle.

(Note: N90 grade Nino alloy means that the Nino alloy content in a certain material reaches more than 90%. Generally, the material label mixed with Nino alloy is prefixed with N+ number (Nino alloy content percentage), and then Add the label of other metal elements or man-made alloys, for example, a boiling steel mixed with 0.03% Nino alloy and with a carbon content of 80000, the label is N003-08F , as for some materials with more complex ingredients, a single label can even fill half a piece of paper.)

I understand what you mean. Ke Lan answered, Maybe the person who sank the Zhenhai... was the fusion in the abyss hatchery.

Thirty-three nodded in agreement: It seems that the Undead Crew has actually discovered this underwater city long ago. The two heavy cruisers that were transformed into 'Zhenhai-class' were not actually used to form a navy. Yes, the navy is just a cover, this undersea city is their real goal.

He continued: Moreover, you and those on the Pioneer icebreaker are not the first people to enter the underwater city. This place has been explored as early as 950 years ago in the new era.

I think we can now make searching for the wreckage of the Zhenhai and Dinghai our primary goal. Thirty-three said, throwing the barrel to Ke Lan, Ze Luo, please use this as a material. Help me build a weapon of sufficient weight.

Weapon? What shape do you want? Ze Luo's voice, who was regarded as a human flesh forging machine, sounded in Thirty-three's ears.

A long-handled battle axe. The center of gravity should be as forward as possible. It is best if you can swing it like a hammer... The edge does not have to be very sharp. Even if it is a blunt instrument, with the blessing of weight, the destructive power is completely enough. I only have one The hard requirement is that it must be strong enough.”

Thirty-three knew very well that the enemy they needed to face was probably the monster that broke the barrel...

You are right, but the problem is that the main wreckage of Zhenhai and Dinghai are not in this city. Ke Lan sighed, There are only three situations. In the first case, Zhenhai and Dinghai The No. 1 did not sink, but was secretly transferred to another place by the Immortal Crew after the mission. In the second case, the Zhenhai and Dinghai did sink, but the wreckage was salvaged by the personnel sent by the Immortal Crew. In the third case, the wreckage of the two battleships is indeed still on the seabed, but they have either sunk into the abyss hatchery, or they are in other places outside the sea platform. The former is a restricted area for us, while the latter , it’s like looking for a needle in a haystack…oh no, looking for a boat.”

Even if the main body of the wreckage is not here, there must be some scattered parts, like this barrel... Oh, now it is an axe. Thirty-three took the tomahawk that Ze Luo had processed and waved it A few times. Zeluo removed all the impurities from the barrel, and then used space power to forge the remaining pure Nino alloy, transforming it into a long-handled battle ax with an extremely rough shape.

The blade radius of this battle ax alone is 1.5 meters, and the overall weight is a full 900 kilograms, which is more than 20 times heavier than the Eighty-two Jin Qinglong Yanyue Sword exaggerated in the novel The Romance of the Three Kingdoms ...If Thirty-Three hadn't had the ability to manipulate Nino Alloy, even if he underwent three more strengthening surgeries, he still wouldn't be able to carry the axe.

Well, you can search a little more carefully...be careful! Before Ke Lan could finish his words, he suddenly turned around, raised his hand and shot a spatial blade.

The space blade that was originally invisible to the naked eye drew a crescent-shaped vacuum trajectory in the water, and instantly cut an indigenous sea snake-like creature into two pieces - this sea snake had been dormant among the ruins of the building. , not only did the color and pattern of the body surface become almost consistent with the surrounding environment, but even the heartbeat and blood flow stopped completely, plus the body temperature was exactly the same as that of sea water... Although Ke Lan had glimpsed this sea snake before figure, but he regarded the sea snake as a corpse or a snake slough left behind, until the sea snake suddenly burst out and attacked Thirty-Three who turned around.

The space blade happened to hit the three inches of the sea snake, but the cut off snake's head still opened its mouth wide and bit it towards Thirty-three. Fortunately, Ze Luo solidified the space barrier in front of Thirty-three in time, and the head of the sea snake was cut off. The snake head was blocked.

The head of the snake that hit the wall was bounced away, but the mouth full of venomous fangs continued to bite. A large amount of light blue toxins ejected from the venom glands in the mouth and spread in the sea water.

This toxin is highly toxic and corrosive. If humans come into contact with it, the central nervous system will be completely paralyzed within fifteen seconds. Even a ninth-level modified person who has received enhanced toxin resistance cannot survive for one minute. Ze Luo said to Ke Lan and Thirty-Three, Furthermore, this kind of poison cannot be prepared with an antidote or treated at the level of human technology. It is a poison that will kill you if you touch it.

I didn't expect such an inconspicuous little snake to have such terrifying venom? Thirty-three sighed in a low voice. Although the venom had been isolated by the space barrier, when he saw the venom spreading toward him, , Thirty-three still subconsciously took two steps back.

Although Ke Lan really wanted to try to see if his special physique could withstand this toxin, his reason successfully prevented him from this meaningless act of seeking death - the toxin directly acts on the central nervous system. Ke Lan is still not sure whether his recovery ability can have an effect on the brain... He can also conduct experiments on other parts of the body, but he will never dare to touch the brain.

There is a familiar smell in the toxin. Ze Luo said again.

Familiar taste? Thirty-three was stunned for a moment, You...you tasted it?

You can understand that I have tasted it. Ze Luo continued, This poison should come from a primitive species, and this primitive species encountered Ke Lan in some special form.

The primitive species I encountered? Leviathan? Or... Ke Lan subconsciously thought of the primitive species that was once trapped in the underground laboratory on an unknown desert island.

But the problem is that he only saw the image of the primitive species in his memory, and it is not considered to have been encountered in the true sense...

It's Yinglong. Ze Luo said, I tried to analyze the genetic sequence of this toxin and found that it is highly similar to the gene of Yinglong's egg... Moreover, according to relevant literature, the sea area around Yinglong's body , are also contaminated by the highly toxic poison it releases. That toxin should be very similar to the toxin secreted from the venom glands of this sea snake.

Yinglong...you mean this sea snake is Yinglong? Thirty-three looked at the still moving snake head in astonishment and exclaimed.

No, it can only be said that it has a very small amount of Yinglong's blood... It is also possible that the original genes were contaminated by Yinglong genes. The toxin secreted by this sea snake is only a weakened version of Yinglong's poison, but the toxicity is still the same Don’t underestimate it,” Ze Luo said.

Isn't Yinglong's burial ground in the Central Trench of the Extreme Sea, the 'Eye of Hell' abyss? If you want to say that Yinglong died in the middle sea, then this sea snake will be contaminated by Yinglong's genes, so what's the point? It makes sense, but the problem is that the extreme sea and the middle sea are fundamentally different, and Yinglong's genes cannot be passed on at all. This sea snake, or its ancestors, cannot break through the permanent ice cap of the extreme sea and cross most of the Alpha Planet land , run here.”

Yinglong has wings, it can fly... Ke Lan shook his head, Besides, we are not necessarily still in Zhonghai now.

Tsk...you don't want to tell me that this is the Extreme Sea, right? Thirty-three sighed, The temperature of the sea water is wrong, and the salt content and composition are not right. This cannot be the Extreme Sea.

Ke Lan did not answer, but picked up the body of the sea snake. With a slight stroke of his fingernail, the space blade extending from the front of the nail cut open the body along the sea snake's spine.

The meat inside the sea snake has a transparent and shiny texture. If this thing is not poisonous, the appearance alone will probably fetch a sky-high price in a high-end restaurant... However, the most eye-catching thing is not the meat quality. , but its bones.

The bones of this sea snake have been completely crystallized, with a hint of lavender luster, like gems. However, when Ke Lan stretched out his fingers to touch, the crystallized bones quickly melted away.

Ke Lan was stunned for a moment, this scene seemed similar.

The creatures captured in Yagunaktor Block 1 also had similar crystalline tissue in their bodies... and they would also rapidly degrade themselves after their death.