"Twin ruins? So, someone has already gone down there?" Ke Lan asked.

"Not yet. These are the results of the laser detector analysis. How about it, are you interested? You know, this kind of virgin land is the most lucrative - if you want intelligence, I have first-hand information!"

"I'm not really interested in the twin ruins." Ke Lan knew clearly in his heart that neither the A-087 ruins nor the twin ruins that had just been discovered were as simple as they seemed. The last time they were able to get out alive was purely due to luck - there was nothing wrong with what the old dog said: that damn place is very weird.

"However, if you have any information about Leviathan, you can sell me some. No matter if it's old secrets or gossip, I want it."

"Really? I haven't seen you for a few days, and you've been doing so badly recently? Have you fallen to the point of being a miner?" The other party seemed a little surprised. "Being a miner is worse than being a dog for rich people."

The dogs the other party was referring to were certainly not the canine mammals that were often kept as pets on Earth, but hunters who worked for large consortiums, like Benson and others who had previously had friction with Ke Lan and the others... To put it bluntly, they were actually a group of "dogs" raised by the Aurora Consortium.

Ke Lan remembered that he had read in a book that in the old days there was a word specifically used to describe this type of people: “social animals”.

Even... in the eyes of the Aurora Group's top executives, their lives might not be as valuable as a real pet dog...

"I'm not a miner. I just took a security assignment and worked part-time as a security guard for a few days."

"That's not so great. Besides, aren't these kinds of rough jobs done by mercenaries? You're wasting your talents doing this kind of work."

"You're just living off your savings... There aren't any suitable ruins to explore right now. If I don't take on some part-time work, I'll have no food to eat." Ke Lan replied.

"Okay, okay, considering how miserable you are, I won't charge you for the information about Leviathan. Anyway, this information itself is not of much value. Just consider it as a reward for taking care of my business... prepare to receive the documents."

Just as the other party said, most of the information transmitted can be found in the official database. Apart from this part, there are some unreliable gossip and false legends. This information can be found in various corners of the Internet with a little time... No wonder this usually stingy guy was so generous this time.

Despite this, Ke Lan still sent the other party an emoticon of "thank you", but the other party did not reply. It seemed that he was busy discussing business with other people.

Ke Lan opened the files one by one and filed them in different categories. At this moment, a photo caught his attention. It was a huge black stone tablet with a long string of Alpha civilization characters engraved on it. The description under the photo was: "When the skeleton of Leviathan was first discovered, the stone tablet was found 30 kilometers away from the main body. Scholars identified it as the tombstone erected by the Alpha people for Leviathan. Based on this, it was determined that the skeleton of Leviathan existed before the disappearance of Alpha civilization. The stone tablet is currently kept in the ancient document research branch of the core research institute, and the relic level is classified as A."

"Tombstone... This is really a tombstone." Ke Lan said to himself. Although others could not decipher the words on the black stone tablet, he could understand it. The general meaning was "the place where the giant beast that rules the sky rests."

Of course, this is the result of retelling it in Earth's language, but if we analyze it from the perspective of semantics and context, it will not deviate much.

"The giant beast that rules the sky..." Ke Lan imagined a giant whale as majestic as a mountain range floating in the sky, and suddenly felt an indescribable shock rising from the bottom of his heart... As expected, prehistoric creatures are completely contrary to human's conventional cognition.

…

As the largest carbon-based creature ever seen by humans, the existence of Leviathan has overturned many classical theories handed down from the old era. No one knows where this creature came from - whether on Earth or on Alpha, no race with similar characteristics can be found, nor can it be embedded in the evolutionary lineage of any creature.

The existence of Leviathan itself is a paradox: the substances needed to maintain cell metabolism alone are an astronomical number, and the energy required to drive such a body is so high that it would not last long even if one emptied the remains of an Alpha civilization - unlike the Ark, Leviathan is a living thing, and as long as a living thing is alive, this consumption process is ongoing all the time.

Ke Lan dragged the cursor and scrolled to the bottom of the biologist's paper.

"In short, I think that under the natural conditions of Alpha, it is impossible to give birth to or support a creature like Leviathan. Among the many sources of speculation, there are only two most likely ones: one, Leviathan is not a native species of Alpha, but an alien, just like us humans; two, it is not a creature bred in nature, but an artificial creation of Alpha civilization or a higher-level civilization. At the same time, speculation one and speculation two do not conflict in principle, that is to say..."

Most of the information related to Leviathan is speculation and inference, but no matter what, it is an indisputable fact that there are rich reserves of crystal resources in the body of this prehistoric beast. Moreover, compared with the Alpha civilization ruins with many traps, the risk of mining the crystals in the body of Leviathan is almost negligible... As for the high-intensity magnetic field in Leviathan that causes frequent failures of autonomous mining robots, this is even less of a problem... For capitalists who hold the mining rights, human labor is much cheaper than those sophisticated mechanical instruments.

"The miners are missing... I have no clue at all..." Ke Lan stretched, leaned back, and leaned on the back of the chair. "Could it be that the structure of Leviathan is too complicated and these miners are lost?"

"That's not right..." Ke Lan quickly denied his guess. In the mine, any mining point is connected by cables and ventilation pipes. Even if the miners get lost, they can always return to the safe house underground by following the cables fixed on the wall of the mine...

As for those undeveloped areas where cables and ventilation pipes have not yet been laid, they are strictly prohibited for miners to enter. Even if there is a "black sheep" among the crowd, the number of missing people will not reach 28.

Or is it that deep in the mine, there is something tempting the missing miners, causing them to plunge into the darkness one after another?

[PS Thank you for your concern. I had a comprehensive checkup yesterday. There should be no recurrence. My lungs are also fine. It was simply hypokalemia caused by inflammation and diarrhea. After rehydrating and taking antibiotics, my health has improved significantly today. Please rest assured.]

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