Alien Relic Hunter.

Chapter 488 Power Room (4000 words chapter)
Exclamations came from Layton's side—after approaching, they also saw these giant crystal pillars erected in the pit.

"These pillars...are they made of energy crystals??" Layton had difficulty controlling his facial expression, "Look, look at the color...it seems that they are all nine-level energy crystals!"

"If the volume and quantity of this crystal pillar are converted into standard-sized crystal blocks, there must be millions of them?" Zhuo Ligetu said in a daze.

"More than that! There are hundreds of millions of energy crystals in just one stone pillar! With so many crystal pillars gathered together, the energy contained in them is more than enough to blow up the planet!" Layton said quickly, At the same time, the laser ranging equipment was started again.

"The cross-section of each crystal pillar is a square of 15 meters by 15 meters, and the depth of the bottom of the pit is the same as the height of the dome is 350 meters. If the base is not considered, if these crystal pillars are all solid..." Layton said There was a brief pause. From Ke Lan's perspective, he seemed to take a few deep breaths before continuing, "The energy crystal reserve in this pit alone is the total amount of crystals that have been proven in all the Alpha ruins so far. More than two thousand times the amount."

"Including Leviathan?" The Hound couldn't help asking.

"Including Leviathan."

"Then we got rich?" After the hound finished speaking, even he himself was taken aback for a moment, and then he spat forcefully, "Damn it, I almost forgot, we can't take out the things from this place at all. "

If the way to get in and out of the ancient battleship can only rely on teleportation, then these crystal pillars may only sleep in this huge pit forever-if you want to teleport an object with such a large mass to other places, you just need to open and maintain the insects. The energy required for a hole is an incalculable number...

What's more, with the level of human technology, it is impossible to create artificial wormholes.

"These crystal pillars are arranged here on purpose, right? This space can't be a storage room, right?" the hound held his chin and muttered.

"It's the power room." The person who spoke was Layton, "I think this big pit and these crystal pillars are the core energy supply array of 'Yagunaktor'... and the space we broke into, It is the power room of this ancient warship!"

"Power room? Then the energy required by this thing is terrifying, right?" The hound licked his chapped lips with his tongue, "Even if the density of Nino alloy is higher than that of many metals, the volume of this thing is not limited to the Ark. Is it one-sixth of that? I don't think the main reactor of the Ark is that exaggerated..."

"It can't be counted like this." Layton shook his head, "The Ark is essentially a colonial ship, and this thing, it is a battleship... This is a weapon, this energy supply array is not only its power room, but also It is also its ammunition depot!"

Ke Lan turned his head and glanced at Aya Breya who was standing aside, the latter's eyes were full of solemnity.Ke Lan immediately guessed what she was thinking - if this ancient battleship fell into the hands of a heretic sect, the end of the Ark would not be far away.

On Alpha Planet, nothing can compete with this battleship.

Ke Lan squatted down suddenly, and he found some inconspicuous wear marks on the edge of the giant pit. It seemed that someone had installed some heavy equipment on the edge of the giant pit.

Is it the trace left by the construction of this "power room"?Or is it left behind by the Alpha civilization that later explored this ancient warship?Ke Lan stretched out his hand and gently stroked the worn marks—whether these marks were left by the civilization that built "Yagunaktor" or the Alpha people, the latecomers. Thousands or even tens of thousands of years of history, one can imagine the difficulty of finding any clues from these traces.

"Even if these traces are left by the Alpha civilization, for some reason, I can't activate the corresponding memory fragments inside 'Yagunaktor'." Ke Lan thought, "But there is a way that may temporarily You can try to release the third civilization's suppression of memory fragments."

Ke Lan didn't hesitate, he sat cross-legged on the ground, locked all the joints of the power armor, to prevent himself from falling due to headache sequelae or making some actions that would easily make Aya suspicious, and then directly activated the power armor. time stop.

The picture freezes, and the surrounding scene once again turns into black and white.

Ke Lan subconsciously glanced at Aya Breya from the corner of her eye. At this moment, the agent leader was walking forward. Her figure was frozen in place, and her upper body leaned forward slightly.

"Unfortunately, wearing heavy armor, you can't see such a good figure at all." Ke Lan complained silently in her heart. Team leader Breya, like Zofia, is a young white woman with a proud figure. The figure is slender and tall, and the two long legs with golden ratio are even more eye-catching.

In fact, they are not very thin, but the fat is growing where it should be.

If this kind of figure was placed in the old era, some people would definitely say that it has an inseparable relationship with their natural genes, but in this era, as long as they have money, no matter how ugly a woman is, she can be transformed into a peerless beauty.

Moreover, this kind of transformation is interference from the genetic level, not the kind of plastic surgery that only bruises the skin in the old era, so if you marry an artificial beauty and go home, you don't have to worry about the offspring that will grow into crooked melons and jujubes look like.

Unless the man's genes are too hip - but, a man who can afford to marry such a beautiful woman will not be stingy about investing in himself.

I don't know why, but when he came out this time, Ke Lan suddenly missed the young lady from the Soma Consortium.

It would be a lie to say that Ke Lan didn't feel this kind of stunning beauty, but he couldn't accept the marriage relationship bound by interests in the upper class.He is a person with a slight mental cleanliness, and he doesn't like Zofia being with him purely for profit, which makes him feel more like a tool than a partner.

Ke Lan originally wanted to refuse with righteous words, but in the end he agreed half-heartedly - not because he was dazzled by the beauty, but simply because the other party gave too much.

As a relic hunter, he needs money; and as a person carrying a heavy secret to survive in the cracks, he needs more money, and there are many things that are difficult to buy with money.

Not only him, but everyone else in the hunting group is also short of money.

Hound needs a lot of money to support the families of his subordinates who died in battle; Layton needs a lot of money to pursue better equipment and machinery; Ivan also needs money, he wants to open a bigger clinic for Nata He wants Sha to have a better life, and if possible, he also wants to be admitted as a researcher.

Talking about money is clichéd and hurts feelings, but in human society, no one can survive without the economic system. Even in the wilderness, the gray potatoes and slaves in the exile camps are clearly marked.

There probably was no love between the two at the beginning. The so-called engagement is essentially more like a cooperation and a transaction.

Or to put it another way, an investment.

But with the gradual increase in contact with each other, the relationship between the two is also undergoing subtle changes. At least for now, Ke Lan does not reject this marriage contract very much.

It's just that things like love and marriage are a bit too low priority in front of what he has to do.

……

These messy thoughts flashed in Ke Lan's mind, and his attention stayed on the traces on the ground again.

In the stop state, these traces exude a faint gray light, and there is a circle of white outlines on the outer edge of the outline, which looks extremely eye-catching.

This can't help but remind Ke Lan of the game "Gwent 3: Gamble" that was just released last month. Although this is a card game, it also comes with a part of RPG content. The glowing traces on the ground are quite like The screen after the protagonist in the game opens the "Witcher Vision".

However, if a demon hunter wants to obtain this ability, he needs to drink a special decoction in a ceremony called "Trial of Green Grass". The process of this ceremony is as cruel as the sacrifice of heretic sects The survival rate of those who participated in the trial was only about one-third, and among these one-third, very few would eventually become demon hunters.

But then again, the experience of this ability in the game is that it can mark those clues that are difficult to find with a highlighted outline, especially in some "solve crime" tasks. You need to follow the clues found by the witcher's vision step by step, and you can easily find the culprit.

"Is this gray light a kind of 'task guidance' in disguise?"

In the time-stop state, Ke Lan could no longer feel the suppression of the memory fragments in the ship. Almost at the moment when he cast his gaze on these traces, a large amount of information poured into his memory. mind.

"The first energy storage crystal imitation test record:
We have analyzed the specific composition of the crystal column. As an energy carrier, it is undoubtedly a very excellent object, but it does not seem to be a pure crystal.We decided to start with the shell first..."

"No.16 energy storage crystal imitation test record:
It still failed. Although the crystals were successfully condensed and formed, an explosion occurred during the process of injecting energy.Seventeen lost their lives because of this—the next time we make an experimental model, maybe we should make a smaller one, but if it is too small, it will not be convenient for subsequent operations..."

"No.19 energy storage crystal imitation test record:
...We finally figured out the reason for the explosions in the past few times, it was a problem with the ratio of the formula for crystallization!We overturned the ratio formula obtained in the fourth experiment and started again from the first step. "

"No.70 five energy storage crystal imitation test records:

Finally, sixty units were successfully injected into this trial product. There was no explosion or energy leakage, but the state of the crystal was very unstable, and violent shaking or bumping could lead to unpredictable consequences.This prototype was undoubtedly a failure, it has no practical value, but it is also our first step on this road. "

"No.70 six energy storage crystal imitation experiment records:

Success in the true sense!We have created energy storage crystals that can be used for practical purposes!

We have reduced the amount of energy injected, and added more metal materials used as stabilizers and structural reinforcements inside the crystal, it is no longer a bomb, but a reliable and convenient energy storage device.

But it still has very obvious shortcomings: the production cost is too high, but the energy that can be stored is not much..."

"Record of the 110th third energy storage crystal imitation experiment:
We took over this task from the previous research team, and just yesterday, the last researcher in the first research team also passed away, this project has spent 65 years, short of the 100 years time limit required above , only the last 35 years left.

The first-level energy storage crystal has been put into mass production, and it can be used in many small devices that do not consume a lot of energy, but compared with these crystal columns, the difference is still too much.

Under the same volume, the energy storage efficiency of the sample cut from the crystal column is 250 six times that of the first-level pure energy crystal..."

……

This time, the time stop only lasted half a second before it ended. During this half second, Ke Lan kept seeing the "Energy Storage Crystal Imitation Test Record" written by unknown generations of Alpha people until the first time. 110 three chapters.

Energy storage crystal is the name of the Alpha civilization for energy crystals, but this name is limited to the energy crystals produced by the Alpha civilization itself. As for the irregular crystals in Leviathan's body and the giant crystal pillars in front of us, there are other names. .

"It turns out that the energy crystals were not invented by Alpha Civilization itself, but imitated from these crystal pillars." Ke Lan secretly said, "Up to the 110th test record, they can only produce first-level energy crystals .But before the Alpha civilization disappeared, energy crystals had already spread in this civilization and became their main energy storage device."

"It seems that the imitation process of energy crystals is relatively smooth, as long as the Alpha civilization has produced nine-level crystals equivalent to these crystal pillars. Unlike Nino alloy, it has not been possible to implement self-production, as long as it is dismantled Get this ancient battleship."

"In other words, the time when this battleship crashed on this planet may be much earlier than I thought at first?"

Ke Lan raised his head and looked forward, and there were still some cutting marks on a crystal pillar not far from the edge of the pit, but these marks were almost too faint to be seen at this time.

Alpha civilization must collect a large number of samples for experiments, and it is possible to dig out an entire crystal pillar, but the array of crystal pillars in front of Ke Lan and the others does not seem to have suffered much damage.

Judging from the faded marks on the pillars, could it be...these crystal pillars still have the ability to repair themselves?
Ke Lan recalled... It seems that in the Alpha ruins, no one has ever found a defective energy crystal. Every "newly unearthed" energy crystal is intact, and at most there is a residual amount of energy inside. It's just different.

Those shattered energy crystals were artificially smashed after the energy was exhausted.

"It is basically certain that this thing has the ability to repair itself, but the speed of repair is very slow. The traces on these crystal pillars have been at least 10,000 years old, and they have not completely disappeared..."

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