Alien Relic Hunter

Chapter 1000 Root Hair
Before Soap and Noir continued to ask questions, there was a slight but clear "click" sound above their heads, and in the next second, a few broken concrete particles fell on their heads and shoulders.

"Huh?" Soap immediately pointed the flashlight directly above, and saw many tiny cracks in the top wall made of reinforced concrete, and some pale roots came out of the cracks, and quickly spread towards the surroundings. Come.

These slender roots look very fragile, as if they would break off with a finger pinch, but in the process of their growth, they exploded with amazing strength and toughness-soap watched a piece of concrete being crushed by roots Wrapped, strangled to pieces.

All the high-grade super-hard concrete is used here, and a [-]mm caliber Zero-[-] rifle can only hit a few fist-deep craters on it. If you want to crush it, the force required is extremely terrifying... But in front of these pale roots, concrete is as vulnerable as soft sand.

Even the steel bars wrapped in the concrete have been completely deformed... This was not caused by the earthquake, but was bent forcibly under the pull of the roots.

"Good guy, is this...a mutated plant?" Soap murmured, "What did you mean, clown, when you said it wasn't a monster? I think the scope of monsters should also include plants, right?"

"I mean... this thing is not a monster in the underground labyrinth." The clown took two steps back vigilantly. Although he couldn't see the expression on his scarf-wrapped face, he could see through the eyes under the sunglasses. , but one could see fear in his eyes.

"Isn't it a monster in the underground labyrinth? You know this thing?" Noir couldn't help asking, "What are we going to do now?"

"Like other monsters, lure it to the ground?" Soap took over the words, and shook his head immediately after finishing the first sentence, "No... plants can't move, and they can't be lured even if they want to... ..."

"No." It wasn't the clown who spoke, but Noir. He patted Soap's shoulder with a serious face, "Its roots will appear here, which means its body is already on the ground."

The resting place chosen by the four of them was only two or three meters deep from the ground. Based on the area occupied by the roots, the body of this "plant" would definitely not be small, at least a dozen meters high.

Then most of its torso must have been exposed to the ground.

"Uh." Soap was slightly taken aback, then nodded in a daze, "No wonder, the clown said that this thing is not a monster in the underground labyrinth... Then don't we need to worry about it? Anyway, the more trouble this thing creates , the more beneficial it is to us?"

"This thing is part of the plan of 'Zeus', for him, this is not a 'disorder'." The clown's voice became extremely cold, "He has spent decades cultivating this thing ...now, the seed has finally germinated."

"What? Could it be that the bastard 'Zeus' planted this plant? What is his purpose?" Soap asked in amazement. At this moment, a few pale roots seemed to have sensed something, and slowly extended to him. Less than half a meter away.

Soap naturally wouldn't let these roots touch him, but just as he pulled out the dagger to cut off these roots, the clown grabbed his collar and pulled him back ten feet. A few steps away.

"You...what are you doing?" Soap was a little confused when he was dragged out so violently by the clown, "I know that thing can't be touched, but you don't have to be so careful, right?"

The clown didn't speak, just took the dagger in Soap's hand, and threw it vigorously towards those roots.

The clown's throwing power was extremely fast, and the tip of the dagger even made a whistling sound of cutting through the air—Soap had no doubt that, according to this momentum, the dagger would be directly nailed into the opposite metal pipe wall, leaving only the knife behind. until the handle is exposed.

However, when the dagger brushed against those roots, the seemingly fragile white roots shot out together like a poisonous snake, and instantly captured the dagger flying at high speed in mid-air, holding it tightly tangled up.

In the next second, the dagger, which was made of tungsten alloy and mixed with a little Nino alloy, turned into dozens of metal fragments, which were scattered on the ground with clangs.

"Mom...dammit," Soap couldn't help but widen his eyes, "this...what the hell is this monster?!"

Although he already knew that the power of these roots was terrifying, he didn't expect the other party to have such a fast reaction and speed... He couldn't help but be filled with fear—if the clown didn't pull him away just now, but let himself swing If the dagger cuts over, it is estimated that these roots will cut his whole body and the dagger into pieces.

"What the hell is this?" Noir also took a breath, looked around subconsciously, and distanced himself from these growing roots, "You seem to know this thing very well, can you give us some information? "

"I can only tell you that when this 'plant' is fully mature, it will turn the ark...no, it will turn all the substances on the entire planet into its nourishment."

"Hiss...is that exaggerated?" Soap bared his teeth, "What is the purpose of Zeus? According to what you said, wouldn't he himself become the nourishment for this thing?"

"He doesn't care about this thing. He just wants to dedicate everything to that existence... that is, the 'great god' mentioned by the heretical sect. This 'plant' is the carrier of the sacrificial ceremony. I can even assert that, Zeus has merged with it at this time." The clown said, "We were still a step too late, and we couldn't stop him before that."

"Is this thing really that scary? Is there any way to destroy it?" Soap asked.

"If you want to destroy it, you have to do it as soon as possible... Its growth potential is unlimited. It will first devour everything on the ark, and then put its roots into the land of Alpha Star. When absorbing the material of this planet as nourishment, It will also drive the Alpha star out of orbit, to hit and devour other celestial bodies in this galaxy, and the ultimate goal is the stars in this galaxy.” The clown said, “Before it puts its root system into the Alpha star, human means still have There is a chance to destroy it...but after its roots go deep into the core of the earth, it becomes a part of Alpha Star...or in other words, Alpha Star becomes a part of it, and if you want to destroy it, you must destroy it Drop the whole Alpha star."

Because the No. 1197 test subject broke through containment, Ke Lan was unable to see the content of the second half of the second trial procedure... But in the historical documents of Alpha civilization, the "Crown of Ashes" incident is recorded in detail. Inscribed on a stone tablet stored in an underground freezer.

In the beginning, the Alpha Civilization did send hundreds of Blasphemer Mechas equipped with "Annihilation Bombs" to the "Ash" asteroid. Fifteen planes can reach the root system of the "Crown of Ashes", set up the annihilation bomb and detonate it, and then the Crown of Ashes can be destroyed-as for Ke Lan's trial, it was designed based on this task.

In fact, the number of blasphemer mechas that reached the root system of the crown of ashes far exceeded expectations - a total of fifty blasphemer mechas broke through numerous obstacles, went deep into the root system of the crown of ashes, and set the annihilation bombs on target location.

These target locations were also calculated rigorously—the Alpha Civilization paid a huge price to scan the data of the entire Ash Asteroid and Crown of Ashes, and established a sophisticated model.These places where the annihilation is set are basically the intersections where the root system of the crown of ashes is the most dense. If the crown of ashes is compared to humans, these places are equivalent to the heart and aorta... except that the heart and aorta transport blood, and the ash The root system of the crown transports energy and matter absorbed from the asteroid's core.

As long as these places are blown up, the overflowing frenzied energy will cause secondary damage, just like the explosion of a bomb... The annihilation bomb is just a fuse, and the huge energy contained in the Crown of Ashes is what the Alpha people really want. The big bomb about to go off.

Fifty annihilation bombs were successfully detonated at the target position, and all the warriors who set up the bombs were sacrificed. As the scientists calculated, the internal energy cycle was completely disrupted by the annihilation bombs, and an earth-shattering event occurred. Self-destruct.

The self-explosion lasted for six hours, and the crown of ashes was completely reduced to "ashes" in the literal sense... However, before the Alpha people began to celebrate, a new crown of ashes broke through the big hole left by the previous one. It grew out of it.

The two fleets responsible for pulling the ash asteroid were swallowed up by the asteroid in a flash. In just three to ten minutes, the new crown of ash grew to the size that destroyed 10% of the plant.

Only at this time did Alpha understand one thing—the asteroid of ashes and the crown of ashes are actually the same thing.

In desperation, the Alpha Civilization could only activate a backup plan, using star-killing weapons to completely destroy the entire asteroid of ashes.

Ke Lan didn't know about these things, and few people in the Undead Crew Club knew about it—the stele was sealed and kept as the highest secret, and the only people who had seen it were the Fool and the stone stele discovered by the relic hunter at that time At that time, Zeus was responsible for the relevant "handover matters".

When relic hunters find valuable relics in the ruins of Alpha civilization, they have two options. One is to sell them to Ark officials; the other is to sell them to civil organizations—of course, Ark officials can also bid with civil organizations. Under such circumstances, the government has the power of priority to purchase.

However, this only refers to ordinary relics. Almost 90.00% of "documentary" relics such as steles engraved with alpha characters have been taken down by the authorities, and less than [-]% have flowed into the world through various gray channels. folk.

After the literature relics are officially acquired, there will be a mysterious "identification procedure"-this identification procedure is only known to the undead crew members, and the content is very simple, which is to let the "symbionts" who have the ability to understand the language of the Alpha civilization "A simple translation of the document content.

After it is determined that the content of the document does not involve important secrets and will not cause erosion and spread, it will be thrown to the research team of the research institute for research, and once a document relic is classified as "dangerous goods" or "core secrets" After that, it will be sealed immediately, and even the people in the research institute will not have a chance to take a look.

Since this identification procedure requires the use of shady "humanoid consumables" such as "symbionts", the entire process must be personally supervised by members of the Undead Crew Club - this stone tablet recording the "Crown of Ashes" incident was When it was delivered, the person in charge of supervision that day happened to be Zeus.

"I'm afraid that at that time, Zeus had already had this idea in his heart..." The clown muttered to himself, "Assuming that he had been corrupted at that time... Four years later, in the year 917 of the new era...he sent I sent an army, went to the ruins to retrieve the gene sample of the crown of ashes... His degree of erosion broke through the critical value, it should be during that time..."

"What are you talking to yourself?" Soap couldn't help asking.

"It's nothing." The clown shook his head, "I just feel a little pity."

"What a pity?"

"My memory is not complete, there are too many vacancies in it, it is difficult for me to recall the whole picture of the coping plan I made before, I can only implement step by step according to the steps I remember... But in the end I don't even know what the result will be." The clown's tone sounded very strange, his eyes were fixed on the roots that were still growing and spreading, his lips moved slightly, murmuring words as if he was saying something , but Soap and the others could only hear the first few sentences, and the rest of the sentence was completely unclear.

"The memory is incomplete? Have you lost your memory?" Soap narrowed his eyes and looked the clown up and down, "Is it because of... the sequelae of that power?"

"Amnesia... No, I haven't lost my memory. My memory was incomplete from the very beginning. I just need to let myself know what I should know. Someone will complete the rest." The clown said again .

At this moment, a mutated centipede with a body length of more than three meters crawled out from a crack above the head, but before it could completely leave the crack, it was dragged back by an irresistible force.

In the process of being dragged back, countless pale roots wrapped around its body... Before the mutated centipede was dragged into the crack again, its body was left with only a scarred body. empty shell...

[PS Thanks to Lao Li for the 8800 starting point coins rewarded by Dust. 】

【PPS In a few days, it will be time for half-year regular review, and I will go to the hospital for bone marrow puncture again, and I may ask for a leave of absence at that time (if the back pain is not obvious after the operation, and if you can sit for a long time, then it should not be interrupted. ), and report to everyone in advance. 】

(End of this chapter)