Volume 5: Bottomless Sinkhole Chapter 285 Remains
The square was paved with smooth hexagonal metal tiles. There was a faint white fluorescence in the gaps between each tile. From Ke Lan's position, it looked like a giant honeycomb grid made of some luminous material, giving off an unreal feeling.
In Ke Lan's subconscious mind, there has always been a voice telling him: This is the real core area of the A-087 "Glacier Ruins", and the location of the sarcophagus they found before is just a "suspected tomb" located on the upper level of the ruins.
Fortunately, Ke Lan and his team did not conduct further exploration of that place at that time, otherwise, it would be their turn to be buried by the collapsed ruins.
The "bottomless sinkhole" that appeared after the glacier collapsed is actually a part of the original glacial ruins - this is not a twin relic at all, but a giant relic of an extremely large scale!
Ke Lan took a step forward and stepped on a hexagonal metal floor tile. Suddenly, the circle of white fluorescence around the tile rose up, circled around Ke Lan's body, and then fell back to the ground.
A voice speaking in Alpha French sounded in his mind: "Authentication completed, welcome back."
"Come back?" Ke Lan was slightly stunned, but before he could think further, all the white fluorescent lights on the ground went out. The next second, a dazzling white ball of light suddenly lit up in the sky directly above the square. This glowing sphere projected its light into every corner of the square, illuminating the world as if it were daytime.
Only then did Ke Lan see clearly that in the center of the square, there was a huge statue more than ten meters high, made of a material that looked like gold but not gold, and stone but not stone. The statue looked very similar to a human - it had a human-like torso and limbs, and even lifelike muscle lines and body joints. There was even an organ between its legs that looked like a promotion device, but it had no neck or head.
"This guy... the more I look at him, the more he looks like Xing Tian from ancient mythology..." Ke Lan muttered softly, and when he shifted his gaze away from the "Xing Tian statue", he was shocked to find that at the feet of the statue, there were more than a dozen human remains scattered around!
Ke Lan immediately ran to the foot of the statue.
He was definitely not mistaken. They were human skeletons. Although these bones were severely damaged and almost none of them were intact, as someone who had memorized the introductory textbooks of modern medicine, Ke Lan could still tell the names of these bones and their corresponding parts on the human body at a glance...
Ke Lan counted the skulls, seventeen in total, which meant that at least seventeen people died here.
Could it be the mercenaries who came to take the jar?
That guy didn't tell the truth? In fact, there were more than 30 people in their team, and most of them were killed here?
Ke Lan picked up a broken radius. The owner of this bone had obviously been dead for a long time... If they were really those mercenaries, the bodies should not have been completely rotten by now.
Generally speaking, even if the flesh and blood of a corpse has been eaten clean by some kind of scavengers, it will take several years . The radius in Ke Lan's hand was as white as marble, and the broken cross-section was full of holes. It was obvious that there was no organic matter in it.
Some of the bones even have a sub-fossil-like texture.
But Ke Lan could not rule out the possibility that the special conditions within the ruins caused this situation to occur - the red fleshworms on the Leviathan could eat a person without leaving even a bone in the blink of an eye, so if there was something that could absorb all the organic matter in a corpse in just a few days, it didn't seem to be a strange thing.
Ke Lan even suspected that these corpses were "eaten" by the pink meat paste...
But... why didn't the pink meat paste attack me? And why did I hear the voice of "Welcome back" after entering this square?
I have never been to this place...
Could it be because of that stone tablet? I "absorbed" the contents of that stone tablet, so it was equivalent to obtaining the key to this relic - could it be that I accidentally became the owner of this relic?
Although this guess sounds outrageous, it seems that this is the only explanation that can make sense...
"This... is really... too fantastic..."
Ke Lan rubbed his forehead speechlessly. He simply stopped thinking about these things for the time being. He bent down and began to search among the pile of bones.
As long as the remains of these deceased people can be found, their identities will be easy to determine.
All the clothes and personal belongings on the remains were gone. Ke Lan only found a rusty pistol with a small piece of the middle phalanx of the index finger stuck in the trigger ring.
"Colt M1911?" Ke Lan recognized the model of the pistol at once. This was a single-action semi-automatic pistol that was very famous in the old era. Even today, more than a thousand years later, there are still many imitation versions circulating in the arms market.
"I didn't expect that there would be a fan of retro guns among this group of mercenaries..." Ke Lan said to himself. He didn't know why, but when he held the Colt M1911 in his hand, he always felt a little weird.
"No... This grip feels much thicker than the original M1911... Also, the muzzle is too small, isn't it? This is definitely not the 0.45 caliber version."
Thinking of this, Ke Lan subconsciously pulled out the magazine of the pistol. What he didn't expect was that the reason why the grip of this gun was so thick was because it used a double-row parallel magazine, and the bullets remaining in the magazine were also a kind of bullet that Ke Lan had only seen in the information...
"Six-millimeter round-head universal pistol bullet" - this is a pistol bullet developed in the year 755 of the New Era. At that time, the Ark was still on an interstellar journey. In order to save precious metal materials, this mini-model pistol bullet was developed.
Because of its extremely weak lethality and the same caliber as a toy gun bullet, it is nicknamed "BB bullet".
But in the ninth year after the Ark landed on Alpha, that is, in the year 909 of the New Era, this type of bullet was abandoned and stopped being produced. All the remaining ammunition was recycled, and the firearms that used this bullet were either converted to other calibers or disassembled and thrown into the furnace...
The reason is simple: the power of the 6mm "BB" bullet is too weak. Even the soft bulletproof vests made of Kevlar are difficult to penetrate, not to mention the carbon fiber light armor that is now standard in the military. When facing the indigenous creatures on Alpha, guns using these bullets are really no different from toy guns.
This type of bullet was originally created for both public security and riot control purposes, but after better alternatives were available, they withdrew from the stage of history and can only be seen in some weapon museums and the homes of gun collectors...
And those mercenaries are even less likely to use this kind of gun as a weapon - if they sell it to collectors, the credit points they get are enough to buy several of the latest assault rifles.
Ke Lan was suddenly shocked - these people were not the mercenaries at all! And the time they came here was at least 909 years in the new era!
They were at least forty years earlier than the first group of explorers who discovered the remains of Glacier A-087!
