Alien Relic Hunter

With the assistance of the engineering mecha, the cargo boxes containing research equipment and instruments were quickly moved into the cargo hold of the "Hercules". Each box was firmly stuck in the shock-proof base, above Then fix it with a buffer hook to ensure that there will be no shaking or bumping during flight.

Lin Qiming, Dr. Norrison and others entered the first cabin under the guidance of several stewardesses with beautiful legs. As soon as Lin Qiming sat down, a silver trolley was pushed in front of him along the aisle between the two rows of seats.

"Hello, Mr. Lin, what kind of drink would you like? Juice or alcoholic beverage?" the flight attendant's sweet voice sounded. Lin Qiming glanced at the cart, which contained almost all high-end wines at market prices for single bottles. There is no one with less than 1,000 credit points.

"Bring me a cup of coffee, without milk or sugar - if there's no coffee, just water." Lin Qiming nodded to the stewardess.

"Okay, the coffee needs to be freshly ground and brewed. Please wait a moment and it will be brought to you right away." The flight attendant bowed slightly, then pushed the trolley and continued walking forward.

Lin Qiming turned his head slightly and stared at the flight attendant's back with squinted eyes.

The other party is wearing a pair of six-centimeter high heels, and a layer of light gray nylon stockings is wrapped around the slender and tight calves. The edge of the uniform skirt stays just one finger above the knee - it does not look too much. It is frivolous and can perfectly display the charm and beautiful figure of women.

Lin Qiming was not an LSP. He just vaguely felt that this stewardess seemed... a little strange.

There was a very obvious snag mark on the gray stockings at the knee socket of the flight attendant's right leg. Logically speaking, this area would hardly rub against surrounding things during daily activities, and should not be easily damaged. That's right. If it was accidentally torn while wearing it, then just change a pair - for flight attendants working under such a large consortium, the image can be said to be very important, and they carry it in their handbags for touch-ups. Cosmetics and spare stockings are definitely indispensable. There is no reason to appear in front of passengers wearing such a pair of stockings with such obvious hooks.

In addition, the flight attendant's high-heeled shoes seemed to be a bit too big, so that every time she raised her legs, the heels would slip slightly.

Could it be that this temporary mission was urgent, so I took the wrong shoes? Lin Qiming always felt that something was wrong, but he couldn't tell what was wrong for a while.

A strong feeling of sleepiness surged into his head, and he finally got rid of the heavy workload. Now he just wanted to lean on the soft chair and sleep for a few dozen minutes.

However, the energizing pill he took before setting off was still exerting its effect. Even though every cell in his body was groaning with exhaustion, his brain still remained awake.

Even if he closes his eyes and falls asleep, a lot of work-related things will still appear in his mind involuntarily... The so-called rest is completely deceiving himself.

With an almost imperceptible vibration in the cabin, the transport plane began to taxi on the runway.

"Your coffee." A delicate bone china cup and a saucer of the same style were placed in front of Lin Qiming. Although the plane was in the take-off stage, under the adjustment of the dynamic balance device, the first class cabin would remain the same throughout the entire journey. With the cup in a horizontal position, even if the cup is fuller, it will be difficult for it to escape.

"Thank you." Lin Qiming picked up the cup and glanced at the flight attendant's face.

The other person kept smiling, but Lin Qiming always felt that this smile was very awkward, and it felt like he was smiling but not smiling.

"Is this probably... a professional fake smile?" He murmured in his heart. He didn't fly on civil aviation many times, and he had even less contact with service personnel in this type of flight attendant industry... But today he always felt like this The flight attendant's expression seemed a little unnatural... Could it be because the plane was requisitioned?

Lin Qiming glanced down at the dark gray uniform on his body again - civilians would be a little nervous when they see people from the Security Bureau. According to this, the performance of this group of flight attendants is already quite good.

"Headache……"

He took a sip of the coffee in the cup. The coffee brewed from freshly ground coffee beans was indeed much more aromatic than the instant coffee he brewed with boiling water in the office, both in terms of the initial taste and the aftertaste in his mouth after swallowing. Gan, the gap between the two is simply heaven and earth.

With Lin Qiming's salary level, it's not that he can't afford such high-end coffee beans, but with his way of drinking coffee as boiled water, I'm afraid he still can't afford to buy high-end coffee beans even if his salary is increased tenfold.

"Let's continue drinking instant coffee when we go back...at least the department can reimburse it." Putting down the cup, he casually pulled out a magazine from under the table - as a Yip Consortium aircraft, most of the magazines provided to passengers are actually their own. Mecha advertisements, but the one in Lin Qiming's hands was obviously old. Not only were the corners of the magazine yellowed and warped, but the mechas used in the cover renderings were also old models from a few years ago.

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East 2nd District, Yongan Port.

Jimmy Garrigan, wearing a one-piece anti-fouling overalls, used a crowbar to pry open the sewer cover of the airport bathroom. Suddenly, a disgusting rancid smell surged up from the well.

"Damn...if it wasn't for the money, I wouldn't want to do this job..." Jimmy cursed, put on the gas mask, and climbed down the escalator on the shaft wall step by step.

He is the staff member responsible for the underground sewage pipeline system in Ark East District 2. Although his work certificate says "water supply and drainage engineer", the actual work he does is no different from that of a plumber in the old era.

Due to the existence of autonomous robots, the profession of plumbers has disappeared on the Ark for a long time, but this does not mean that people can completely leave the drainage and sewage system to the machine - the pipeline network on the entire Ark is intricate, and its total length Altogether, it is estimated that they can circle Alpha Star hundreds of times... Someone has even said this: In terms of complexity alone, the pipeline system inside the Ark is no less than a maze in an A-level ruins.

No matter how sophisticated and advanced the machine is, there is no way to avoid the occurrence of malfunctions. Although the probability is very low, when the overall base is large enough, things with low probability will become a daily occurrence. At this time, , staff like Jimmy are needed to take action.

"What a ghost. Four autonomous clearing robots actually got stuck at the same point. Even if they got stuck, even the automatic maintenance robot broke down at the same time... This is too outrageous."

Jimmy complained while holding a flashlight and bending down to walk deeper into the pipe. He didn't notice at all that the pipe was filled with a strong smell of blood at this time - this smell passed through the filter element of the gas mask. It smelled almost like rust, and it didn't arouse his vigilance at all.

"It's strange. This track looks quite new. There's no rust at all. It should have been replaced within a year. Even if it gets stuck, it shouldn't get stuck on this new track... Who? Who is there?"

Jimmy walked forward about fifty meters, and the reflection of the flashlight seemed to illuminate a figure lying on the ground, which immediately startled him.

"Is it a living person? Hello? If you can hear it, just squeak!" Jimmy couldn't help but tightened the crowbar in his hand, and moved the flashlight little by little to the figure.

This is a young woman, wearing only close-fitting underwear, lying almost naked in the pipe, her whole face soaked in the sewage accumulated at the bottom of the pipe, her long chestnut hair floating on the water, motionless.

"Fuck!" Jimmy's face suddenly turned pale. He didn't even need to get close to check, but he was already sure that this woman was a corpse - even if there were no fatal injuries on her body, with her face buried in the water in this position, It won't be long before she dies of suffocation... If we count the time the autonomous robot got stuck, this woman might have been lying here for half an hour.

"Why would someone come into the pipe?" Jimmy's hand holding the flashlight trembled involuntarily, and the light beam emitted by the flashlight swayed greatly. The pipes were also illuminated.

There was far more than one corpse like this... More than a dozen corpses were thrown into the sewage pipes. Several of them had been pushed under the tracks by the stuck autonomous robots and were crushed to a bloody pulp.

No wonder these robots are stuck. These corpses have already blocked the entire pipeline. It’s no wonder they are not stuck!

Most of these corpses are tall young women, and there are only about four or five male corpses. These corpses have a common feature, that is, almost all their clothes have been stripped off. They look like those that were left in the garbage dump. Just like the plastic mannequins in it.

These people did not seem to have been dead for a long time. There were no spots or swelling on the corpses. Except for the few corpses that had been crushed by the robots, the other corpses were still in good condition.

In the past, when he was bragging to people on the Internet, Jimmy had said something like "taking advantage of the heat", but now he couldn't even think of such an idea. He just wanted to run away and leave this damn place.

Jimmy felt that his legs were a little weak. He held on to the wall of the pipe and took several deep breaths before facing the direction of the pile of corpses and retreating step by step.

It wasn't until he had exited nearly twenty meters that he suddenly turned around, regardless of his head hitting the top of the pipe, and ran towards the mouth of the pipe desperately.

At this time, he could no longer care about any maintenance work. After crawling out of the well on his hands and knees, Jimmy stayed in place for two seconds, then knocked open the bathroom door and ran to the corridor.

He originally wanted to call the police, but he soon realized that it was difficult to explain the situation in the sewers in a few words on the phone. Instead of calling the police, it would be more straightforward to find the security personnel at the port and ask them to investigate.

Jimmy looked around and happened to see a tall man in a black security uniform standing in the corridor with his back against the wall, his eyes seemed to be looking towards him intentionally or unintentionally.

"Security! Security!" Jimmy immediately ran towards the other party as if he had seen a life-saving straw, "Something happened! Something happened down there!"

"What happened? What happened?" The security guard turned around and faced Jimmy with a confused look on his face - but Jimmy didn't notice that the moment he spoke, there was a sinister look on the other person's face. There was a flash in his eyes.

"The sewer... there are corpses down there! There are many corpses. The corpses blocked the pipes. The robot was stuck by the corpses -"

Before he could say "stuck" or "stuck", he felt a sharp pain coming from his abdomen. He lowered his head and found that the "security guard" had a metal cone in his hand. , stabbed into his own body.

Jimmy couldn't help but widen his eyes. He wanted to shout, but his mouth was already covered by the other party... With his thin body, he couldn't compete with the tall "security guard" in front of him.

His physical strength was draining out of his body along with the blood. The one-piece anti-fouling suit he was wearing actually helped the other party at this time - all the blood flowing out from the wound was pocketed by the anti-fouling suit, and not a single drop of it was stained. to the ground.

"You...uh...uh..."

Jimmy's struggle became weaker and weaker, and the voice in his throat became smaller and smaller. From his perspective, darkness and cold were gradually occupying the entire world...

There was a cruel smile on the corner of this "security guard's" mouth.

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At this time, on the "Hercules" transport plane——

Lin Qiming has finished his third cup of coffee, and the magazine on the table has been turned to the last page - he is actually not interested in mechas at all, but at this time he can only use it to kill time on the road.

He looked around the first-class cabin. Several flight attendants were sitting on the seats beside the front and rear doors. Apart from them, the people sitting outside were all field operators from his Crisis Management Section. As for the researchers, Is sitting near the center.

This position is arranged as if the group of researchers are surrounded in the middle, but they don't seem to care about such trivial matters at all, and are gathering together in twos and threes, talking enthusiastically about content related to the research topic.

Lin Qiming turned his head. One side happened to be the porthole of the plane. He subconsciously glanced outside, but he couldn't help but frown.

The transport plane was heading due north of the Ark at this time... This was not the direction to "Yagunaktor".

How is this going?

Lin Qiming frowned slightly. He stood up and walked towards the cockpit, but was stopped by the flight attendant at the first-class door.