Alien Relic Hunter

At this moment, a Security Bureau agent in charge of flank security suddenly shouted on the team channel: "Team leader! Mr. Ke Lan! There seems to be our vehicle at the eleven o'clock direction, about 140 meters away. !”

"Our vehicle?!"

The agent's voice immediately attracted everyone's attention. Ke Lan looked in the direction he said. There was indeed a tracked armored vehicle parked there, but it was just a huge boulder rolled down from a high place. Pressed on the car body, the entire car body was severely deformed.

There is no sign that the top hood or the rear compartment door has been opened - the twisted and deformed outer armor and the boulders pressing on it have completely blocked the escape exits of the people in the car. It is unclear whether there are any survivors among the passengers. , Ke Lan basically gave up hope.

But even so, they could not ignore this armored vehicle. Ke Lan immediately called to his teammates: "Valentina is responsible for moving away the boulder that is pressing down on the vehicle. Layton is responsible for cutting the deformed door. Ivan, do your best to rescue the wounded." Preparations for...well, preparations for the autopsy should also be done. After the carriage is opened later, the body cannot be preserved in this environment for long."

Those assigned to the task quickly got into work, while others raised their weapons and stood guard around them.

This is a "Rhinoceros Mk III" all-terrain armored patrol vehicle. The garrison base logo printed on the side armor of the vehicle has already explained its origin. However, Ke Lan has no clue as to why this patrol vehicle appears here. .

This place does not belong to the daily patrol area of ​​the garrison base at all, and there are no valuable ruins or mines nearby. Logically speaking, no one would come here, let alone the patrol car of the base.

Valentina controlled the mecha to move away the rocks that were pressing on the armored vehicle. However, the top cover of the vehicle and the compartment on one side sank, making it impossible to open it in the normal way, and the life detection equipment also could not be opened. Can detect any heartbeat in the car.

"Although there are no survivors, you should be careful. I don't want to pile up a pile of minced meat for autopsy." Ivan held the medical tool box in his hand and told Layton.

"Don't worry, I can't handle this little thing?" The latter gave him a thumbs up, then adjusted the welding gun in the robotic arm to cutting torch mode, and cut open the stuck compartment door bit by bit.

"Three bodies were found." Layton glanced into the cut-out carriage, "Do you want me to drag the bodies out?"

"Forget it, let me go in. With the environment outside, these corpses will probably be completely destroyed in a few minutes." Ivan shook his head and got into the car with the tools.

In less than fifteen minutes, Ivan came out again, his face looking a little ugly.

"One person should have died from the impact. His skull was shattered and his ribs were broken in many places. It seems that he died on the spot." Ivan said, "But compared to the other two people, he was the luckiest."

"The best luck? What does this mean?" The hound couldn't help but ask.

"The air conditioner in the armored vehicle was broken, and the remaining two people were suffocated to death due to the dual torture of lack of oxygen and high temperature... There were no external injuries on their bodies, but the nails on their ten fingers had been folded and fallen off, and the inner walls of the vehicle were There were blood marks left by scratching all over the body. It must have been a huge pain before death."

"Indeed... all three of them have turned into mummies, and all the moisture in their bodies has been dried." Layton, another man who had seen the corpses with his own eyes, nodded.

"Actually, just think of this armored vehicle as a sealed oven. The despair of being trapped inside, with the oxygen gradually decreasing and the temperature gradually increasing... Sigh." Ivan sighed deeply.

When he described it like this, other people's faces suddenly became a little pale.

Just thinking about this way of death makes people feel suffocated.

"If I were trapped in this iron coffin, I would rather choose to shoot myself in the temple. At least I won't feel the pain of this way of death." Hound said in a low voice.

"Perhaps they still have a glimmer of hope that they can be discovered by the search and rescue team... Unfortunately, we arrived too late." Ivan said.

"Although what happened to them is unfortunate, we still have more important things to do." Ke Lan walked to the cut car door, "Ivan, have you found any valuable clues on these corpses? At least we have to figure out why they brought the armored patrol car to this place."

"Yes... these three people are not all defenders stationed at the base. Only the driver is wearing the uniform of the field force; the person who died in the collision, judging from his attire, should be a hunter like us; as for the end One person, he was only wearing a set of close-fitting clothes, and his feet were bare... It was as if he had just climbed out of bed."

"It looks like someone escaped from the base in a panic." The hound subconsciously stretched out his hand to rub the stubble on his chin, but when the sound of metal clanking sounded, he realized that he was still wearing a hood. A huge helmet.

"It looks like it to me." Ke Lan had already got half of his body into the carriage. "There are no high-temperature protective clothing, and there are no oxygen bottles or oxygen generators. Otherwise, they can hold on for a while longer." Maybe we can really wait for our rescue.”

"It seems that these three people really escaped from the base, and the situation at that time must have been very urgent. Otherwise, they would not have left behind these necessary survival tools in the mining area." Aya Said, "By the way, are the communication equipment and recording instruments in the car damaged? If we can retrieve the data inside, we should be able to know what happened at the base."

"You don't need to tell me, I've already copied the data." Layton shook the plug in his hand proudly, "It's being decoded, you'll see it soon."

Just as Layton said, in less than twenty seconds, the mission record document in the patrol car was decoded. However, what disappointed everyone was that, except for the dozens of patrol reports with similar contents, the only one The only valuable record is an "Emergency Evacuation Notice" received a few days ago, and the content of this notice only has two words: "Escape!"

"The evacuation notice was sent from the central control tower of the garrison base. In other words, these people are not deserters, but are 'ordered to evacuate'... Damn it, the person who sent this notice was too negligent in his duty. The cause and effect are not clearly explained, only the word 'run away', who knows what happened!" the hound muttered.