Will the kemonomimi encounter Alien Ranch Story?

The eyes are not symmetrically distributed; instead, one large eye is on the back, and a cluster of smaller eyes are on the abdomen. The rear half of the body is covered with clusters of tentacles of varying sizes, each of which is forked, perfectly illustrating the principle of "since you can't see them, they can just grow however you want."

"The giant beasts, the earliest inhabitants of the ocean, are the true offspring of the sea. They are the true children of this ocean, not those monsters." The giant beasts conveyed information and emotions through songs, roaming in the dark crevices of the rocks, until they were discovered by the Agor people. They captured the giant beasts, studied them, and eventually merged the giant beasts with the original offspring of the sea, creating the earliest sea monsters.

From that moment on, the "music" in the ocean was replaced by disgusting and chaotic whispers, and the remaining descendants of the behemoths and those Agor who chose to make peace with the behemoths were forced to flee to land, while this history was passed on in an cryptic manner.

Kal'tsit knew several Agorians like this, and thus knew some inside information. Just as Carmen said, she knew how many leaves were on the trees outside the known high walls, but she didn't say anything. Some things only have meaning when you see them with your own eyes.

In this respect, the Doctor and Xia are the same. Xia is unwilling to talk much about his world and those things that are unimaginable to the Terrans, while the Doctor is also unwilling to mention the era of the First Men, because for the Terrans of today, these things will eventually become myths and legends, packaged in a way that they don't want to be packaged in.

They are only willing to explain what these things are when they are presented to them. It's just that Kal'tsit's symptoms are particularly severe. The world in her eyes is full of taboos and unspeakable things, so it is naturally difficult for her to learn to speak normally. Well, being the head of the laboratory is probably the main reason for this phenomenon.

How to use a bunch of unspeakable things to fool investors into not withdrawing their funds, and how to explain to the public what you are doing and that you are not scamming people, is a very profound art.

“This behemoth has gone mad.” Kal’tsit could see the stitches and old wounds remaining on the old and enormous monster’s body on the external monitor. “It’s entrenched beneath this experimental facility, treating it as its lair and refusing to leave. It’s probably not just out of simple hatred.” Otherwise, the laboratory should have been completely demolished, instead of still standing here intact.

"Could it be its child in this laboratory?"

"It could also be a child's corpse. Hey, can you two judges hear me?"

"Hmm?" The Grand Inquisitor looked at the monitor in the corner. "Was that tremor you caused?"

"No, but the plan has changed. There's a huge monster outside that's going to kill us. You need to search the upper level of the laboratory for items or information related to the behemoth, otherwise we won't be able to leave this building." The behemoth is temporarily unable or unwilling to destroy the laboratory, even if it disturbs its rest, but it won't let the submarine that leaves from inside go.

"Or do you two have some means to get rid of that thing?"

"A sea monster? How big is it?"

"About the same size as this building," the Grand Judge decisively swallowed the rest of his words. "Fine, I'll search the labs upstairs."

"I'm here to help you, and I'll also send a small team over." Although most of the people still have to repair the damaged lines and pipes, drain the water, and search the lower levels, a small number of combat personnel can still squeeze out.

The laboratory plus one floor, which is one floor above the entrance, seems to be some kind of pharmaceutical laboratory, with a large number of bottles and jars, as well as experimental records. Unfortunately, neither the judge nor Huang, who came to reinforce, could understand the Argol script on it, so they could only organize the records and put them into the recycling bin.

The remaining drug samples were difficult to carry and had to be left in place, with the hope of having another opportunity to retrieve them from the deep sea.

"I'm opening the door now. Be careful, the security cameras are covered by the Netherworld Mark. There should be quite a few monsters waiting for you." The isolation door slowly opened, revealing a corridor severely corroded by the Netherworld Mark. A sonic cannon hung from the ceiling, its muzzle pointed deep into the corridor.

Seemingly sensing the opening of the door, several dinosaurs squeezed out from behind the airtight door that had been torn open at the end of the corridor and pounced on the judge.

These dinosaurs were completely different from their other close relatives. First, their shells were covered with a thick layer of dark blue necrotic tissue. Then, they had shield-shaped heads that shone with a metallic sheen, and mechanical structures fused to the sides of their bodies.

"Cover!" The sonic cannon blasted into the Terrorfish, blasting its Netherworld Trace tissue into countless fragments. However, the thick tissue itself shattered, greatly consuming the energy of the focused sonic wave, and barely hindered the Terrorfish.

"Bang bang bang!" The sounds of fire from firearms rang out alternately as mechanical devices fired scorching projectiles at the sonic cannons and the inquisitors.

"I knew those Agorians weren't telling the truth!"

They claimed they wanted to prevent the Sea Kings from abandoning ranged weapons due to the evolution of advanced weaponry, but after all that, they've already created these ranged attack monsters and sea monsters, which seem to be integrated with the research institute's security personnel and their armor and weapons.

"What's even more terrifying is yet to come. However, this floor was the hardest hit area before the research institute fell. Security personnel fought here until the very last moment, so you will encounter quite a lot of Agor war equipment."

"Could you tell me if there's anything I should be aware of?"

"You'll see when you get there," Kal'tsit said, hanging up the communication and rummaging through old documents and records in the security control room, searching for something crucial.

"Alright, now we're on our own." The sonic cannon distracted the fused dinosaurs, allowing Huang and the Inquisitor to approach their target in time. Then, chainsaws and blades clashed down, piercing through the gaps in the armor and taking down the two dinosaurs.

After passing through the narrow but relatively safe purification corridor, you are greeted by a series of laboratories divided into four sections by the corridor.

The +2 floor laboratory appears to be used for some kind of dissection. In the four main laboratories, you can see strange corpses that look like something between a sea monster and a human, as well as specimen jars, which look quite eerie.

Here, the Netherworld Marks also crisscrossed and covered the corridors and walls. These Netherworld Marks spread out from the room at the end. The little helper who came up used high-powered sound waves to clean up the traces of the Netherworld Marks little by little, clearing a barely safe path for the team.

In the room at the end, the huge culture tube was completely broken, and a giant was kneeling in the room.

"This looks like some kind of deep-sea armor?"

"The Mk3 combat diving suit is used by the Agorians to deal with giant sea monsters and other dangerous creatures. It can withstand water pressure and is covered with the highest-grade high-tensile armor material. Its weapons are a pneumatic harpoon launcher on the right arm and an underwater submachine gun on the left arm. The shoulder device can emit sonic shocks to detect the environment or stun sea creatures."

Kal'tsit quickly found information on this security-specific combat diving suit. "By the way, you'd better find some cover; there are very obvious signs of infection on it."

"Just a piece of clothing?" Elena looked curiously at the steel giant-like garment. "Step back!" The Grand Inquisitor grabbed her by the neck and threw her behind him. Then a saw disc slammed into her original spot, the circular saw, like the Ghost Shark's weapon, spinning wildly.

Unlike Blaze's chainsaw, this was more like some kind of mining tool. Hot air blasted from its arm, and then the giant swung its weapon at the nearest operator.

Through the mask pierced by something, writhing, dark blue biological tissue could be seen. "It has been completely taken over by the Sea Siege organization, fused with the pilot's corpse inside, and its core is hidden under the armor's protection."

"Does this thing have any weaknesses?" A harpoon swept past the judge, tearing a large rip in his trench coat.

"The mask on the head is the only weakness, but if you're referring to this assimilated corpse, then there are no weaknesses."

"Damn it!" The judge rolled again, outmaneuvering the opponent's shovel and circular saw, his weapon only producing meaningless noise against the solid metal shell.

"Is it really without any weaknesses?"

"No," Kal'tsit said, flipping through the data. Indeed, there were no weaknesses, at least not for the time being.

They don't have weapons that can penetrate this level of protection, nor can they attack through the mask like they would with humans. So, as long as they can't inflict enough damage on Hai Si, this steel giant is invincible.

"If I had to point out a weakness, it's not really a weakness. It hasn't been maintained for many, many years, so its power source should have been dead long ago. Now, Hai Si is using muscle power to drive it. Not only that, but ammunition and spare gas are limited. You can try to wear it down until it's exhausted."

"I'm almost exhausted." The humans are the ones with worse endurance, not to mention that they've hardly had any proper rest along the way, and their physical strength and willpower are almost at their limit.

"Well then, good luck," Kal'tsit said, having no more help to offer, her attention entirely focused on the massive structure beneath the abyss.

As more lines and pipes were repaired and more lights were turned on, the behemoth outside seemed to temporarily calm down from its awakened rage. The monster then circled the experimental facility, looking for an opportunity to destroy the abominable light and tear the intruder apart.

Under the underwater lights, the outline of the enormous object gradually became clear. It was an artificial structure about 300 to 400 meters long, shaped like an iron, with its outer shell covered by barnacles. It resembled a huge reef, yet the writing and markings that had once been on its surface were still visible.

"It seems to be quite complete." The Agorians didn't know what it was either. They called this structure "the Fallen Object." It was already in this abyss before the Agorians, and it might even have been there before the civilization of their ancestors.

Water pressure and rock protected it, or perhaps it was simply so solid that neither time nor the deep sea could erode it. Kal'tsit examined the Agorians' research on it, as well as the artifacts collected by W Squad from inside and around the "fallen object" in the lower laboratory.

"First, let's rule out the creations of the ancients." When they first heard about it, Kal'tsit and the Doctor both thought it might be a transport ship made by the ancients. When the disaster happened, many of them fell into the sea. However, Grandia thought it was more likely that it was a ship from Xia's side, which is why she had the most crucial motivation for this trip.

"Secondly, exclude the creations of Xia Lin's civilization." Because Old Xia had mentioned that the biggest characteristics of Star Alliance ships and creations are that they lack armor protection. They are good at active defense, deflection shields, and using various methods to achieve better protection than armor.

This is because their technology has a significant leap forward. Before the working propellant engine or conventional aerospace technology reached its peak, they entered the next stage ahead of time. It's like when the steam engine was still in the era of triple expansion, someone had already proposed the complete theory of the electric motor, and entered the electric age or even the nuclear energy age.

Thus, the pure steam engine remained almost forever in that era, and the resulting civilization experienced a significant precipitous drop. This precipitous drop did not restrict the growth of civilization, but it certainly made their creations appear less... balanced.

They may still be using steam to generate electricity, just as the Covenant ships still have propellant engines and jet rocket braking systems, but it is no longer possible to use such an ancient steam engine as a direct power source. Even if it is equipped on the ship, it is in a way that seems unbelievable to outsiders, like nuclear power boiling water.

According to archaeological data from Agor, this artifact did not have a clear working fluid propulsion structure, and its armor was incredibly sturdy, leading Agor's research department to believe that it might be a space station of the early inhabitants that had crashed.

"The armor is sturdy, there is no propellant power, and no acceleration system for gravity-constrained nuclear explosion propulsion was found inside, so it can't be the civilization of Boss Xia's side."

Just as nuclear energy is used to boil water and drive a steam engine, the Covenant's conventional navigation methods generally use a propellant method that uses gravity-confined nuclear explosion propulsion.

The advantage is greater flexibility, allowing the spaceship to change course or undergo significant acceleration or deceleration changes in a very short time. The disadvantage is that... the maximum speed is basically only enough to barely fly out of the star system.

After all, long-distance travel already has a warp drive, so there's no need to develop a long-distance ion acceleration system or any other propulsion system to break free from the constraints of spacetime through acceleration that can take weeks.

"After eliminating those two possibilities, only two possibilities remain. First, this is not a space creation; it is simply some kind of sunken ancient water surface or underwater fortress, or even a facility left behind by a civilization before our ancestors, which simply looks like a spaceship."

After all, the archaeological data of the Agorians is full of conjecture and speculation. Who can prove that what they call the cockpit is actually a cockpit, and not a uniquely designed toilet?

The analysis of the creations of an ancient civilization that has left no skeletal remains or further evidence is often filled with unfounded conjectures and judgments that are far removed from the facts.

It's like if humanity went extinct, the next civilization, upon seeing the Apple phone icon, might confidently guess that it was an ancient tool used by humans to test fruit (although after downloading the app, it seems to actually have that function).

They might even have huge misunderstandings about modern human life and culture, viewing humans as some kind of hermit crab-like creatures who spend their entire lives wasting all their time and effort searching for a stone-built nest, occupying it, and then using it to find mates—and you can't say that their conjecture is completely unreasonable.

Therefore, the Agorians' analysis of this ancient artifact may be completely wrong. It is not a flying machine, but something else left behind by an earlier civilization of their ancestors, or even some kind of secret structure left behind by their ancestors.

"The second possibility is that this thing, which may be a spaceship, comes from a third civilization. It doesn't belong to Boss Xia's Covenant, nor to the First Men, nor to Terra. So where did its owner go? Why is it the only one that exists? Is there some kind of connection between it and the primordial behemoths in the deep sea?"

These questions lingered in Kal'tsit's mind, and most of the recovered relics were strange and difficult to identify their purpose. Even with analysis reports, she felt that their credibility was no more than 30%.

Most of these artifacts have structures similar to synthetic jade, including block-shaped objects that look like circuit boards, two regular octahedrons strung together, and many more random shapes and structures. The analysis report named these things and speculated on their uses based on the locations where they were found and subsequent tests, but none of this can explain what these things are really.

"Looks like I'll have to go ask Boss Xia again." He's the only one here who truly understands extraterrestrial races. "Hopefully, they're not some kind of hostile species."

Chapter Twenty-Seven: Collapse

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"Smack!" A large bottle of corrosive agent was smashed onto the armored fusion monster. Strong acid seeped through the wound, constantly emitting white smoke. The sea monsters were not very afraid of acid corrosion, but that was based on the premise that they had enough time to regenerate and heal. As more and more corrosive, highly toxic and flammable chemicals were smashed on it, the diving armor gradually became sluggish.

The muscle fibers break under high-intensity exercise and load before they can regenerate. When a certain threshold is reached, the arm and helmet fall off the main body, revealing the broken tentacles inside that are constantly waving and tangling.

"Pfft!" The judge's sword pierced through both armpits, accurately shattering the monster's core. After a long struggle, the armored monster finally collapsed in defeat.

"Huff...Huff...Doctor, are there any other monsters up there worth noting?" The Inquisitor plopped down on the ground, so tired he could barely lift his fingers, and the other operators were in a similar state.

“I’m reviewing the surveillance footage. Above that is the administrative district, where there are a lot of sea monsters and terror fish. However, I haven’t found any large fusion creatures or spitting creatures.” Kal’tsit looked around through the still-usable surveillance cameras. “But the top-level classified laboratory doesn’t have a surveillance system, or the surveillance lines are independent. I can’t be sure what’s inside.”

“Great,” the judge said, his hands trembling as he pulled out a cigarette, lit it, and exhaled a long breath through the smoke. “After this is over, I should start thinking about retirement.”

Outside Hai Si's lair, an infected deep-sea behemoth roams, with 3500 meters of water pressure overhead, enough to crush steel into a sheet. Inside the building, danger lurks everywhere, with not only monsters but also piles of security equipment.

Although Kal'tsit closed the facility's emergency status, her authority only allowed her to shut down the basic laboratories on the lower floors. She couldn't close the administrative area, the classified laboratories above, or even the antiquities research institute at the very bottom. Therefore, the higher up the facility went, the denser and more powerful the security equipment would become, provided that it hadn't been destroyed by Hai Si.

"Doctor, is everything finished over there?"

“No,” Kal'tsit’s voice was accompanied by a terrible metallic creaking sound, as if she were struggling with some kind of device. “I’m opening the door. If I’m lucky, I should be able to… well, it’s best not to get your hopes up.” The premise is that the cockpit really is a cockpit, and not a uniquely designed toilet, and besides, that design is hard to say whether it’s a toilet or a cockpit.

"Sizzle sizzle sizzle!" M3 slowly tore open the sealed gate to the ancient research institute and the area leading to the structure below with its high-temperature molten flow and superhuman strength. The gate was made of three layers of resistant steel and high-strength ceramic alloy, which was even more robust than the protective gate of the polar missile base that she had heard the doctor talk about.

Frankly, something so sturdy means that what lies behind it might be more terrifying to the early inhabitants and the Agors than a whole bunch of nuclear warheads and reactors.

"It's open, be careful." M3 squeezed through the small tear and entered. Behind it was a huge exhibition hall, where various relics and artifacts collected from "The Fall of the Sky" were displayed. These were all preliminarily determined to have uses and added value after research. The unknown things were in the separate research rooms and artifact storage rooms surrounding the hall.

Judging from the doorplates, the Agor people divided these artifacts into three types and four levels. The three types are: technological products, daily necessities, and mysterious creations. The four levels are: safe, dangerous, high-risk, and forbidden. The surrounding research rooms are basically at the dangerous level.

A sign next to the elevator at the end of the hall reads that the high-risk and prohibited storage rooms are further down, while the hall contains only safe-level artifacts. Technological artifacts refer to those that the Agorians can understand, products derived from a certain technology, and artifacts from which certain technological achievements can be reverse-engineered; these are generally classified as dangerous.

Everyday items refer to things that have been initially identified as ordinary household objects with little reverse engineering value and are generally classified as safe. Mysterious creations are things whose principles, uses, and functions are completely incomprehensible and cannot be used, and are generally classified as high-risk.

These artifacts have very unique shapes. First of all, they are not from Boss Xia's system. In fact, their style is immediately recognizable. They are mostly made of some kind of black material and a red material similar to synthetic jade. Obviously, Boss Xia's side does not have synthetic jade. Therefore, they were not made by them.

Secondly, it is not a creation of the ancient people's technology. Kal'tsit is very clear about this point. Whether it is the design style, shape, or even the material, the ancient people's technological creations are mostly metal and crystalline structures, rather than this stone-like structure.

"Could it be a creation of the ancient pioneer civilization that Boss Xia and his team discovered?" The answer is a 50/50 chance, because according to Lao Xia, this kind of shape and structure is not very similar to the collections in the ancestral artifacts museum he has visited, mainly due to issues with the writing.

Our ancestors' writing system was a three-dimensional script based on five-dimensional perception. It appears as a QR code on a flat surface, but it is actually a three-dimensional structure.

During the recognition process, many smaller dots need to be pulled up to form a three-dimensional cube structure. Then, a four-dimensional space model is built from the outside in. Then, it is rotated at a certain angle according to the current time. Finally, when the two four-dimensional cubes intersect at 45 degrees, the text content of the ancestors can be completely constructed.

To put it bluntly, it's a jumble of random lines of different colors and pixels of different sizes forming a matrix of text. Normal people shouldn't try to understand it with their brains. Moreover, a single piece of this text could be printed out as a whole 10-centimeter-thick instruction manual.

Not to mention that by using high-strength construction to create such a three-dimensional structure on the buildings and ruins themselves, in order to describe the function, explanation and effect of the ruins themselves, it means that if the ancestors did not deliberately disguise and refuse to explain, then the Covenant would have obtained an explanation of what the ruins were used for while scanning the structure of the ruins.

The parts of the artifacts that appear to have writing on them are actually rounded objects, like seals. Why then is it said that the probability is fifty-fifty?

That is, who can guarantee that that ancient civilization only had one kind of writing system? The difference between the writing systems of the Great Yan and Victoria is no smaller than this difference.