When Ke Lan got out of Maginot's car, nearly an hour had passed.

If Maginot's guards hadn't stopped him, the bad-tempered old dog would have smashed Maginot's car window long ago.

"What the hell is this called 'won't take up too much time'? Fuck you...If Ke Lan was a pretty girl, I would have suspected that fat pig had suddenly become attracted by her beauty." The old dog cursed and gave the middle finger to the receding hovercraft.

"Does lusting after beauty have anything to do with whether Ke Lan is a girl?" At this time, Layton suddenly interrupted with a lewd look on his face, "Well, Ke Lan, although he is not handsome, he is at least a pretty type. How do you say that? Oh, yes, 'little weakling'! That's what he's called. Hehe, maybe Lieutenant General Maginot has some unknown special fetish——"

Before Layton could even utter the word "good" in "habit", Ke Lan had already hit him in the crotch with an extremely accurate crotch kick. Even though he was a powerful Level 4 biochemical man, he still let out an inhuman scream after being hit in the vitals.

“Aaaaaaaaa——!!”

"Why are you screaming so loudly? Is it that serious?" Ke Lan glanced at Leighton, who was rolling on the ground holding his crotch, and said with a smile.

"Wuwuwu... That's my life, you guy, why did you hit me so hard..." Layton was in so much pain that he could hardly speak.

"Didn't you say I was a 'weak bottom'? Could it be that a strong man like Brother Leighton couldn't even withstand a 'kick from a weak bottom'? No way, no way?" Ke Lan even put emphasis on the three words 'weak bottom' - when it comes to weirdness, I'm afraid that except Lao Gou, no one among them can be called a rival.

Compared to his obscurity in the real world, the ID that Ke Lan used on the Internet was much more famous... Since the second year when he started hanging out in the "Ark Forum Ruins Hunter Section", his ID was basically never absent from the annual selection of the "Top Ten Trolls in the Hunter Section".

The most incredible thing is that although Ke Lan always ranks among the top ten trolls, she has never been banned from speaking... She is simply a legend.

“I…I…”

"Don't worry. If it doesn't work, Ivan can help you install a new one. Any size can be customized. This is simply the second spring of life." Ke Lan squatted down and patted Leighton's shoulder with a smile.

"That's enough," Lao Gou said to Ke Lan with a serious face, but he quickly gave Leighton, who was lying on the ground, a boost with his foot, "What did the fat guy tell you?"

"The underwater city and the 776 Special Forces Team." Ke Lan replied.

"Then you told me everything." The old dog frowned.

"They have too much information to hide, but I omitted a few details." Ke Lan gestured with her thumb and index finger, "Just a little bit."

"Anyway, it's better to be careful. Don't think that the military is easier to fool than the security bureau... They are not easy to deal with either."

"Yeah." Ke Lan nodded.

"By the way, check your mailbox. We all received a commission request from the Soma Consortium just now. It was a mass message. You should have received one too."

"Commission? No way... I just got out of the hospital. I was planning to give him a few months off this time." Ke Lan complained.

"The email is signed by the captain of the Pioneer. It seems that the beautiful girl really likes you."

"Fall in love with me? Come on, I think you want to use me as a tool... Why do I feel like I've been cheated? Didn't they say that this special consultant doesn't have to work? I just received a month's salary, why are things coming to me now?" Ke Lan said so, but after all, he still took out his mobile phone from his pocket and opened his email.

"The content of the commission is... Huh? Investigating the disappearance of miners? The location is... Leviathan's Skeleton, a mine under the Soma Group... Strange, shouldn't this kind of commission be given to mercenaries? We are hunters, and this profession is not suitable for us?" Ke Lan said in some confusion.

"Alas... but they are offering too much..." Lao Gou came over and pointed at the reward in the commission request. "4.6 million credit points per person... According to the market price, a mission of this difficulty would only earn a million or so for a team of ten at most, which means each person would get about 100,000 credit points on average. But they offered nearly 50 times the price. I don't believe you if you say that girl doesn't have any interest in you."

"Besides," the old dog continued, "look here, the woman has specifically asked you to participate. Others can choose not to go, but if you don't go, none of us will get the money."

"..." Ke Lan fell silent.

"In fact, it's not that important whether you have the right major or not. This commission is not difficult at all. A mine is not a ruin. The danger level is not comparable. Besides, the Leviathan's Wreck has been developed for decades. There are eight permanent bases alone, with a permanent population of over 10,000. In my opinion, the miners are missing... for two reasons. They are either indigenous creatures or exiles in the wilderness. You can just treat this mission as a vacation trip. It's all paid for by the government."

Just as Lao Gou said, in the email, Zofia also mentioned that the Soma Group would provide the corresponding equipment, personnel and supplies, and reimburse all expenses. In addition, when Ke Lan and his team arrived at the mining base, they would be able to temporarily obtain the highest command of the base - not only did they not have to look at the base managers' eyes, but those guys would have to do everything they could to please them, the "imperial envoys" sent by the headquarters.

To put it bluntly, there is really no difference between that and traveling at public expense.

Ke Lan knew the place called Leviathan's Skeleton - Leviathan was the name given by humans to a prehistoric-level behemoth on the planet Alpha that had been dead for who knows how many years. The appearance of this behemoth was a bit like the blue whale on Earth. The blue whale is known to be the largest animal on Earth, and the length of an adult blue whale can reach more than 30 meters... However, when the blue whale and Leviathan are put together, let alone 30 meters, even 300 meters is not enough.

Leviathan's corpse is more than 80,000 meters long. Such a huge monster stretches across the earth, like a magnificent mountain range.

Its body did not rot, but completely merged with the earth. Gray-brown rock and soil covered its surface layer by layer... and even a dense jungle grew at its tail.

Inside Leviathan's body, there are a large number of dark purple clustered crystals. According to scholars' research, these should be formed from secretions precipitated from its body tissues... But this is not the most important thing. The important thing is that people have discovered that these clustered crystals are essentially the same thing as energy crystals!

The mine built within the skeleton of Leviathan is the only source of crystal output for mankind, besides the remains of the various Alpha civilizations.

Although the output is not as good as that of high-level ruins due to the difficulty of mining, it is more stable. These mines continuously supply a large amount of high-quality cluster crystals to the Ark every day.

These crystal blanks, after only a few simple purification processes, can be directly used in various crystal engines.