Volume 10: Ancient Battleship Chapter 510: Invitation to the S-019 Ruins
From the perspective of "making the best use of everything", Ke Lan feels that the last guess is the most likely. Compared with using death row prisoners for live experiments, this method will be much less condemned by public opinion, but the results that can be obtained will not be too bad.
Ark only needs to send out drones to track these prisoners exiled to the wilderness, and naturally they will be able to gain a lot of valuable information and data.
But the fact that things would develop to the current situation was probably something that the Ark's top management had not considered at the beginning - in just fifty years, the number of exiles had increased to a point that was difficult to track, and was taken advantage of by heretical sects. Ke Lan couldn't help but think of the phrase "a tail that is too big to be cut off".
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Demeter did not stay on the warship for long. After telling Ke Lan that when the " Aguna Tor" arrived near the Ark, a special fleet would guide it to the preset anchorage, she left the "Aguna Tor". As for the operation of the ruins, she did not even make a single request.
From this moment on, Ke Lan truly became the highest authority controller of "Yaguna Kotor".
However, he soon realized that the undead crew was playing a word game with him - he had the highest authority of the "Aguna Tor" as the S-019 relic, not the highest authority of the ancient battleship "Aguna Tor".
In other words, when it was a relic, Ke Lan was the owner of the relic, but when it was regarded as a warship, Ke Lan's identity became the captain.
The captain needs to obey the orders of the Ark's top management, that is, the undead crew.
"These old foxes played a very fancy move." Ke Lan muttered, "But think about it, it makes sense. Let alone a super battleship like the 'Aguna Tor', even a 100-meter-long gunboat, the captain can't have complete autonomous control... Judging from the obsessive-compulsive personalities of those people, they will never allow a battleship to appear without obeying the orders of the crew."
To put it simply, if Ke Lan wanted to use the "Aguna Tor" as a piece of real estate to "collect rent", they would allow it; but if Ke Lan wanted to use this battleship as a weapon, he must first obtain permission from the crew's council.
"It would be better to give me a credit card with unlimited limit..."
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After unloading, the transport fleet and Demeter left Mukach that night. The engineering troops that arrived with the fleet stayed and started emergency repair work together with the garrison at the base.
Although many people initially looked at the "Aguna Tor" floating in the air with surprise, as time went on, the fear in everyone's hearts gradually faded and they focused their attention on their work.
Hound and others also returned to "Aguna Kotor" twice. They told Ke Lan that the Ark's top management had no intention of concealing "Aguna Kotor" - on the same day the transport fleet arrived, the super battleship "Aguna Kotor" had already made headlines in major media, and terms such as "S-019 Relics", "Super Ancient Battleship", and "Aguna Kotor" firmly occupied the top spot on the hot search list, and were dozens of blocks ahead of other news in terms of popularity.
However, what made Ke Lan slightly relieved was that the Undead Crew did not announce the God Hunters and his name, nor did they mention anything related to the "Third Civilization". The media reports also focused entirely on the amazing size and technical level of "Aguna Kotor", and only briefly mentioned its origin.
Ke Lan remembered very clearly that there were no media personnel who arrived at Mukach with the transport fleet, and there were no media personnel stationed at the Mukach base except for military media. The reason why those media were able to obtain this information was probably because the official authorities took the initiative to provide it to them, and the content and topic of the news were naturally controlled to perfection.
"That day, that guy Machino called out your name on the public channel. Fortunately, a gag order was issued in time, otherwise there should be a few more of these hot search terms: 'The discoverer and operator of the ancient warship turned out to be a poor boy who was favored by the daughter ', 'The legendary journey of the relic hunter Ke Lan', 'Miss Zofia Soma's amazing vision in choosing a son-in-law' and so on." The hound picked his teeth with the nail of his little finger and joked, "It's a pity that our God Hunter Group has not yet gone public, otherwise the stock price would have been at the daily limit for at least half a month."
"Then the entrance of the hunting group headquarters will probably be crowded with paparazzi. Don't you find it annoying?" Ivan said, "Don't forget, Ke Lan's secrets cannot be made public. It's better for us to keep a low profile."
"But the problem is that we can't keep a low profile now." Ke Lan shrugged helplessly, "Although the mass media didn't announce our identities, the upper class in the Ark must have gotten the news... After all, if you want to spend money to buy tickets, you can't not even know who is selling them."
"Although I don't know why the Ark executives chose to hand over this battleship to you." Ivan said, "But this is undoubtedly a hot potato, Ke Lan, you have to be careful."
"I know it's a hot potato, but it's already been thrown to me, I can't just ignore it." Ke Lan nodded, "I've thought about the exploration authority for a long time-"
"Are you really planning to sell tickets?" The Hound curled his lips. "Although I like money very much, there is an old saying in China: A gentleman loves money but gets it in a proper way... This is not the way to make money. What if, I mean what if, the tickets really fall into the hands of a heretic sect, that would be bad."
"Of course not. Selling tickets was just a joke. I used it to test the bottom line of those people." Ke Lan smiled, "In the end, they didn't care at all."
"Don't care at all?" The Hound asked, stunned.
"Well, what they mean is that as long as I can ensure that the tickets will not fall into the hands of the heretical sects, even if I really take the money and release the people, it's okay..."
"Well, as long as we raise the review threshold, it seems that selling tickets is not impossible..." The Hound murmured, gently rubbing the stubble on his chin with his fingers.
"But I thought of another way. Compared to tickets, invitations would be more important, wouldn't they?" Ke Lan said, "Just like the invitation to the VIP viewing area that Ye Yan gave us... This thing is much harder to get than tickets that can be bought with money."
