Alien Relic Hunter.

Chapter 458 Stable Tunnel

"Huh... To be honest, this section of the road is the most comfortable one I have traveled since I got off the cruiser. Although I hate Alpha civilization, I have to admit that this tunnel is really well built. Here, it’s like wandering on the streets of the Ark.” The hound said while stomping the ground twice with the sole of his foot, “Oh, what a pity... If so much Nino alloy can be dug out and taken outside the mining area, then The assets of our hunting group can be multiplied several times."

"Wait a minute." Ke Lan stopped suddenly, "Old dog, what did you just say?"

"I said that if we can take out the Nino alloy that made the tunnel, we will make a fortune." The hound was a little stunned by Ke Lan's startled behavior, "What's the matter? I was just joking, you Why do you look so nervous?"

"Not this sentence, but the previous sentence." Ke Lan said, staring at the hound.

"The previous sentence... the previous sentence is... oh, I said that the alpha man tunnel was well repaired, it was stable...stable..." the hound paused after speaking halfway, he stared wide-eyed as if he had discovered something unbelievable. He closed his eyes and looked at Ke Lan.

"This... this is not right!" The hound let out a low cry, as if the floor was scalding his feet, he suddenly jumped up and jumped a few times vigorously, the sound of "boom bang" echoed in the tunnel, and gradually spread to the distance.

Immediately afterwards, the hound seemed to go crazy again, ran to the side of the tunnel, stuck its body against the tunnel wall, and beat it with its fists.

"What's wrong? What's wrong with the old dog?" Zhuo Ligetu bowed his waist cautiously, held a recoilless gun in his arms, and looked around suspiciously, "This tunnel seems... It seems to be always Nothing has changed, it's exactly the same as when we first came in."

"What's wrong is that there is no change." Ke Lan said in a deep voice, "We all know that because of the earthquake caused by 'Yagunaktor', the entire molten mine area has become torn apart. When we came in, see The largest complete land that I have ever been to is only five kilometers square."

Ivan nodded, "But...we have already walked more than ten kilometers in the tunnel."

"If the plate on the surface cracks like that, it is impossible for the tunnel buried in the rock to not be affected. Even if the tunnel has good ductility, it will not be torn apart, but it shouldn't be like this." Ke Lan took over the conversation and said, "Just like the old dog said, everything is stable."

"It's as if the earthquake never happened," Aya added.

"Before we decided to enter the tunnel, we were all mentally prepared that it would be a difficult journey, but now, not only did the various obstacles and dangers imagined not appear, the horizontal angle of this tunnel did not even appear. Obvious changes." Ke Lan took the electronic map from Layton's hand, "This is the route we traveled, it's a straight line."

"No wonder, I always felt that there was something wrong just now, but I just couldn't figure out why, so I didn't have the nerve to speak." Layton muttered.

"The easy journey has paralyzed our nerves. Although everyone is still vigilant, in this environment, the condition of the tunnel itself is the most easily overlooked factor." Ivan sighed, "It seems , We should have triggered some unknown mechanism again... The end of this tunnel may not be the exit we imagined."

"As senior relic hunters, how do you usually deal with such a situation when exploring the relics?" Aya Breya set her sights on Ke Lan.

"Relic hunters are not capable of handling this situation. You think too highly of us. All we have is the freedom to choose." Ke Lan shook his head, "Go ahead, or go back the same way."

"...Is there no way to crack the mechanism?" Aya frowned and asked, "Could it be that in the previous missions, you were all like this..."

She didn't continue to speak, but the hound who came back said the word she didn't say: "You mean to bet on your life, right? You are really right, the people you can see are alive The hunters are all betting right. As for the losers, there are nine out of ten that even the bones will not be left behind... Hehe, how do you think our industry has such a high elimination rate?"

"It's not a question of whether we can crack the mechanism." Ke Lan raised his hand, signaling the hound to stop talking, "We now know what mechanism we've hit, and that's the most troublesome thing. The only information we have is this The tunnel... is too smooth, it's a place that's out of touch with reality, but we don't know anything about it other than this anomaly."

"Then... go back?" Aya said, "Just go back to the exit..."

"Although I can't be sure, my experience tells me that when encountering this kind of thing, going back is generally the wrong option-since the designer of the tunnel did not cover up the abnormality, it means that it is not worried that these problems will be discovered by us." Of course, it will also take into account that people who enter the tunnel will choose to return the same way, do you think that the designer will not take any measures against this?" Ke Lan said, "Since it didn't choose to directly kill us, it means , as long as we act according to the 'rules', we will not be in danger."

"You mean that we can only go forward according to the designer's thinking, and go where it wants us to go? Isn't that just a puppet at its mercy? Are you absolutely sure that it will show mercy and take us all Let it out?"

"Of course not, but at least we must ensure our own safety first." Ke Lan lowered his voice slightly, "At least on the surface, we should 'obey the rules'."

"What's more, if we go back the same way, our supplies can't support us to waste this round trip." He said again.

"What if going forward is a dead end?" Aya asked.

"Then going backwards is definitely a dead end." Ke Lan pointed to the end of the straight line on the map, "I even suspect that we are no longer in this position."

"Not at this location?" Layton said with some puzzlement, "But... this route was drawn by me, and we walked this road step by step. I can guarantee that the overall error will not exceed ten meters. "

"No, what I mean... is not our position in the tunnel, but our position in the mining area." Ke Lan said in a deep voice, "Although we have been walking in a straight line, in fact, we are not along the same line. It is moving along the straight line on this map."

"what?"

"Although it sounds convoluted, it's actually very simple to put it bluntly—I suspect that we were teleported to another place during the march."

As early as when he was in the city under the sea, Ke Lan had experienced a mechanism similar to "teleportation". He had no doubt that the Alpha civilization had the ability to create a wormhole-like device that could directly teleport creatures over short distances. It is possible to fold two pieces of space that were not originally connected together. One step in this device may cover a distance of tens of thousands of kilometers in the original three-dimensional space.

[PS Thanks to Tian Qingse and others for the 300 starting point coins rewarded by Aventure. 】

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