Alien Relic Hunter.

Chapter 537 Curiosity

"I forgot to introduce myself, I'm the leader of the Hunting God Hunting Group, Ke Lan." Ke Lan stretched out his hand towards the other party, "This is the chief pilot of the Hunting Group, Valentina; this is A trainee hunter who just joined the job recently, Qin Zhao."

"Ke Lan? You... are you the person in charge of the development of this new S-level ruin?" 33 finally showed a look of astonishment on his face. He first wiped off the oil and blood stains on his hands with his apron, and then Hold Ke Lan's hand.

"Correct."

"The first time we met, you are much younger than I imagined." 33 said, "Using our Chinese old saying, it is true that a hero makes a boy!"

Like Ke Lan, he is also an Asian with black hair, black eyes and yellow skin, and he is also the Chinese descendant who accounts for the highest proportion among Asians.

"Hey, congratulations."

"Although I have seen the news about you, there is still a big gap between the real person's appearance and the video." 33 said seriously.

The video he mentioned naturally refers to the "black material" secretly filmed by the Morgan consortium.

"As far as the clarity of the video is concerned... the AV quality is not an exaggeration, haha." Ke Lan said.

Official channels have never released his personal information, and all the leaked news came from the Morgan Consortium in the form of "rumors". Although most people on the Ark have watched that video, but There are really very few shots of Ke Lan's face, and even if there are, they are basically fleeting. Coupled with the blurred picture quality after video compression, if you are not an acquaintance, you will not recognize him at all.

"Shouldn't you be in Fleet Zero? Why did you come back?" 33 suddenly asked——as a relic hunter, he still pays more attention to news related to Yagunaktor, especially this "sudden" A new S-class relic that appeared next to the Ark.

"I came back to do some errands, and I just passed by here. I was too busy on the road and didn't have time to eat, so I thought about solving it nearby." Speaking of this, Ke Lan suddenly laughed, "By the way, where's our fried rice?"

"Do it now." 33 said, took the piece of bacon off the hook, pulled out a sharp kitchen knife, and smoothly cut off a strip of meat with a cross-section close to a square.

"By the way, is this meat really that expensive?" Ke Lan sat on a chair and asked curiously.

"Hmm." 33 nodded, "You know Zhuo Ligetu, so of course you know that I am not a completely alone relic hunter. I have a fixed small team, which are all brothers who survived together back then. One of them I personally opened a breeding farm, specializing in raising high-end livestock for dignitaries, where a live pig can be sold for more than 40 credits."

"How much profit is there? If the profit is high, why don't I raise pigs too!" Ke Lan said half-jokingly.

"The venue, equipment and feed are not cheap, and the profit of a pig is only about 5.00%."

"That pig can earn more than 20,000. Isn't that much more comfortable than exchanging his life for money outside... By the way, your piece of bacon comes from his farm."

33 nodded: "According to my method, about two catties of fresh meat can be used to make one catty of bacon, and it must be the best plum meat from pigs, plus various seasonings and processes... At this price, Not too expensive."

"This uncle is right...Although it is really expensive, if we go to the slaughterhouse to buy it ourselves, the same amount of black pork plum meat will cost about the same price." Qin Zhao, a senior foodie, whispered Said to Ke Lan.

"You have eaten?"

"No..." Qin Zhao suddenly shook his head like a rattle, "I have never eaten black pork, but I have seen black pig run... I used to like to watch all kinds of food videos when I couldn't sleep at night , then unpack a pack of spicy sticks or potato chips, and imagine them as the delicacies in the video..."

Plum blossom meat is actually the meat from the shoulder blade of a pig. There is only one piece of plum blossom meat on a pig, and the total weight is only five or six catties. Interlaced fat texture, the top plum meat looks like expensive snowflake beef, and the marbled white lines are like a work of art.

If a black pig raised according to the "traditional method" can sell for 400,000 credits, then the small piece of plum meat above its neck is estimated to account for one-tenth or even more of the value of the whole pig.

After all, in the eyes of those rich people, if you want to eat, you have to eat the best.

The price given by 33 is indeed not expensive, and it can even be said to be quite affordable.

"But this meal, I can treat you." 33 said, raising the knife in his hand, the dark brown bacon was cut into countless squares of the same size in an instant, and poured into a white porcelain bowl, "but I also have a request-"

"You want to participate in the exploration of 'Yagunaktor'?"

"Correct."

"I planned to invite you, but I didn't expect to have a big meal for nothing." Ke Lan tapped the table in front of him lightly with her nails, "What about your old comrades in arms? Do they want to come together? ?”

"I will contact them later. If anyone is interested, I will bring them along. If you don't want to come, I won't force you." 33 replied, "Our team formation is all voluntary, there is no mandatory one." Say."

He wiped the inside of the big iron pot with a thick piece of fatty meat, covering the inside of the pot with a layer of crystal oil film, then poured the rice that had been refrigerated and hardened in advance into the pot, and quickly turned it over. Fried up.

"You have to use cold rice for fried rice. If you use hot rice just out of the pan for frying, it will be difficult for the rice grains to be separated, and instead they will stick together, and the taste will deteriorate." He also seemed like Speaking to Ke Lan, it seems to be talking to himself.

"I've heard of this trick, but I haven't cooked rice myself, let alone fried rice." Ke Lan said, "Although I invited you to participate in this exploration operation, I still have one thing, I want to to ask you."

"What's the matter?" 33 didn't raise his head, but focused all his attention on the ingredients in the pot. Onion, ginger, garlic, monosodium glutamate, soy sauce and other seasonings were added one by one. floated out of the window.

"Why do you want to be hunters?" Ke Lan stared at 33's side face and said word by word, "You spent the first half of your life in the wilderness, and you have been fighting with those ferocious indigenous creatures and Alpha people. All kinds of biological and chemical weapons left to fight... The Velociraptor Squad, the original establishment should have 85 people? But in the end, including you, only eleven people survived to retire."

The corners of 33's eyes twitched imperceptibly. He didn't answer the question immediately, but continued to concentrate on stir-frying the ingredients in the pot.

"The rest of your life can be spent safely on the ark... I have investigated your background, and you are completely different from the two people I know. The entire Velociraptor team has been chased as a battle hero, and no one It was judged to be 'missing', and the pensions issued by the military were not deducted or delayed at all... Even if you don't work, with this honor and this money, you can live a very comfortable life."

Ke Lan continued: "But why do you want to become relic hunters? I'm curious... Logically speaking, after fighting for most of your life, it's time to take a break, but you actually ran into the wilderness again... Could it be, really? Is it because you're bored?"

"Aren't I resting like this now?" 33 didn't get angry because of this question, but laughed instead.

He picked up the heavy wok. Compared with the huge volume of the iron wok, the fried rice at the bottom of the wok looked like a small lump—of course, this was just an optical illusion. When it was shoveled out, it was still full of three large iron basins.

Most of the people who come to this place to eat are rough people who do physical work, and their appetites are not small. Naturally, the tableware is several times larger than the restaurants in residential areas and commercial areas. Ke Lan conservatively estimated that this pot of fried rice, if used If you put it in the exquisite bone china rice bowl in the house, it can hold at least five or six bowls.

It is said to be tableware, but it is actually three small washbasins for washing...

Fortunately, the two girls brought this time, one is from the military and the other is a foodie, so there will be no waste of food.

"Here, you guys ordered fried rice." 33 handed three iron basins out of the window, "To tell you the truth, I am a soldier. Apart from fried rice, I only know how to fight, and I have nothing else to do."

"Is it true that the fate of a soldier must be to die in battle? There are also many soldiers who returned to their hometowns in history." Ke Lan said, "Besides, frying fried rice well is also a craft. There are so many people who have nothing to do. It’s not like living and working on the ark. There’s absolutely no need for you to engage in such dangerous work.”

Ke Lan is still trying. Although 33 gave him the first impression that he is not the kind of person who is easily stimulated and loses his mind, he still needs to ask some questions clearly... When he finds problems in the ruins, everything will be solved. It's too late.

"You really want to know?" 33 turned off the fire, turned around, and faced Ke Lan.

"think."

"Well, you're right, after fighting with those things for half our lives, we are indeed tired and tired." 33 said slowly, "But we are also curious... what is this star? What kind of planet is it, what kind of problem is the Alpha civilization, and what kind of enemies are we facing. "

"..."

"We want to know the answers to these things, but Ark can't give us the answers, so we can only find them ourselves." 33 paused and said, "So we became relic hunters."

"Because of curiosity?"

"Yes, apart from being curious... there is also some unwillingness." 33 sighed, "Since you have investigated our background, you should also know that we were almost wiped out in the last mission."

"Ok, I know."

"The mission record has been revised. We are not facing a group of mutated native creatures at all... Although the Velociraptor team is not the strongest force on the ark, it is not forced into such a predicament by a group of wild beasts." When he said this, 33's momentum changed for a moment, but he quickly returned to his original state, "Our enemies are a group of monsters created by the Alpha civilization."

"Seed of Corrosion?"

"No, not those things." 33 shook his head, "Because of the confidentiality regulations, I can't tell you more details. But since then, I have become very curious about this extinct civilization... It's not hatred, nor resentment... I just want to know how the civilization that created such powerful monsters is going to perish."

"So it is."

"Curiosity kills the cat, I know. But to retire in an ark before I can't walk, I don't feel like I can."

"It's understandable," Ke Lan nodded approvingly, "A large part of the reason why I chose the career of relic hunter was out of curiosity... Ha, of course the main reason is that the income is higher than being a wage earner."

"Then with your current wealth and income, why do you still stay on the front line?" 33 suddenly turned from defense to offense, and asked Ke Lan, "Your resources and choices are much more than ours...you It is perfectly possible to be a 'general' rather than a pawn."

"Ha... I have no other choice, I don't have many choices." Ke Lan pulled out a wry smile, "Forget it, let's not talk about this, you clean up the store After a while, I will take you to the hunting group headquarters first to register for the corresponding procedures... Just filling out the pile of documents and forms will take you an entire afternoon, and this is something you have no choice about."

……

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Research institute, headquarters, a biochemical laboratory.

A young researcher wearing a full protective suit is carefully using a syringe to extract the contents of a sealed test tube. On the laboratory table in front of him is an experimental glove box, and the petri dishes in the box There is a mass of irregular flesh wriggling slightly on it.

Behind him stood a senior researcher also wearing a full protective suit, and a little further away, there were two "security personnel" holding shields and automatic guns in their hands.

"Teacher, professor...do you really want to do this? This...this is against the regulations!" After completing the previous operation, the young researcher turned his head and said to the person standing behind him with some embarrassment .

"We have tried all the attempts that did not violate the regulations, and there has been no progress." The person called "Professor" said, "Science must have an adventurous spirit, otherwise, both mankind and the times will stagnate."

"But……"

"Don't waste time, the survival time of this specimen is at most 4 minutes left, don't waste it!" The professor emphasized his tone and snapped.

"Yes... yes..." The young researcher put the syringe into the glove box and clamped it with the mechanical arm.

"For the... first time, the experiment of implanting the active cells of the "special sample clone" into the 'special sample clone culture medium' began..."

The mechanical arm moved slowly, aiming the needle of the syringe at the squirming lump of irregular flesh.

The young researcher held his breath, found the correct position, stabbed the needle into the meat at an even speed, and then began to push the plunger of the syringe.

The professor standing behind him opened his eyes involuntarily, and tightly grasped the back of the chair with both hands.

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