Alien Relic Hunter

Chapter 128 Deadly Spores
"I don't feel right..." Due to the influence of environmental radiation, there was a trace of electric noise in Layton's voice, "The life detector shows... There is no living person in the car, not in the three cars."

In a "car accident" of this level, even if there is no protective device in the car, all the occupants in the car will not be killed-unless they are really unlucky to the extreme.

"Be careful and keep a safe distance." Ke Lan said, letting the drone approach one of the modified cars slowly.

But the picture captured by the camera made everyone in the car gasp—through the rusty barbed wire and the scratched window glass, two people in exile costumes could be seen. The skeletons fell crookedly on the car seat, their clothes were still soaked with fresh blood, but there was not even a little flesh and blood left on the bones.

Instead, a layer of fine white down grows on the bone.

"This... what the hell?" The old dog stared at the screen in Ke Lan's hands with his eyes widened.

"It looks like a fungus..." Ke Lan only felt the corners of his eyes twitch wildly, and he suddenly had a very bad premonition.

"Mushrooms are growing? So how long have these people been dead? Could it be that these dead people chased us just now?" The old dog's expression was very ugly.

"No... they just died. You can tell by the blood on the clothes. They were eaten by this fungus..." Ke Lan paused, glanced at Youyi, and then continued, "This thing, It's similar to the bloodthirsty creep we encountered at the sarcophagus before."

"Then how did this thing parasitize on them? Could it be that this group of people haven't bathed for a long time?" The old dog rubbed the stubble on his chin vigorously, but accidentally broke a pimple , Grinning his teeth in pain, "Hiss... But that's not right, if they were parasitized by this fungus, they should have died long ago... How can they live until they are eaten to nothing but skeletons!"

Ke Lan shook his head: "I'm afraid they haven't been parasitized for long... The speed at which this fungus devours flesh and blood is much more terrifying than bloodthirsty creep... It seems that we are in trouble—all vehicles, stop immediately, All personnel are not allowed to act rashly without my order, and it is strictly forbidden to open the windows and doors, Layton, come back quickly, and stay as far away from those three modified cars as possible!"

In addition to direct contact, the fungal transmission route mainly relies on spores floating in the air-Ke Lan guessed that not long ago, they and these trailing exiles probably passed through a land scattered with spores. In the area where the exiles' modified cars were not as airtight as theirs, the spores of these flesh-eating fungi were able to enter the car, eating up the hapless ones.

All the cars in the convoy stopped - except car number ten.

It was a large-tonnage van armored truck. It seemed to be deaf to Ke Lan's orders, and kept driving forward at the original speed.

"Car No. [-]? Car No. [-]? Can you hear me?" Ke Lan shouted into the intercom. He glanced at the team communication channel, and the green light representing car No. [-] kept flashing every three seconds. Frequency, which shows that car No. [-] is still in the channel at this time, and there is no communication failure.

Ke Lan and the old dog looked at each other, and both of them saw a trace of anxiety in each other's eyes.

There was no response. Ke Lan called the No. [-] car three times in a row without answering. Seeing the armored truck driving further and further away, Ke Lan had to issue a second order: "Layton, catch up and stop the No. [-] car. ... Prioritize the attack on the tires and try not to damage the carriage."

"Roger that!"

The speed of the armored truck wasn't too slow, but the speed of the "Tarantula" all-terrain mech was even faster. In less than a minute, Layton had already circled to the front of the truck, aiming at the truck's tires.

If the large-caliber railgun equipped by the "Tarantula" hits, no matter where it hits, one shot is enough to destroy the entire truck, and Layton chooses secondary weapons-two guns located on the two sides of the mecha cockpit. Side thirty millimeter caliber cannon.

"Dada-da-da-boom!! Boom!!"

The two front wheels of the armored truck exploded at the sound, and the whole vehicle suddenly lost its balance and drifted sideways. It was about to roll over, and the "Tarantula" that arrived in time just hit a part of the carriage. On the side, the claws at the end of the eight mechanical arms grabbed the ground at the same time... After plowing a deep trench nearly 30 meters long on the ground, the mecha and armored truck finally stopped.

Under the control of Ke Lan, the drone flew directly above the truck.

Like the three modified cars of exiles, the driver in the car and the security guard sitting next to him have been reduced to two bones, and their bones are also covered with white fluffy fungus Silk.

"Sure enough..." Ke Lan let the drone fly around the cab, and found that there seemed to be a small malfunction in the right window, which could not be completely closed, leaving a gap of less than two millimeters.

Generally speaking, if it's just radiation, this gap won't have much impact on the human body. At most, after the mission is over, go to the medical point and hang a small bag of Xiaofuning injection to get rid of the accumulated radiation in the body.It was precisely for this reason that the driver of the truck ignored the warning that the "windows are not fully closed"... But the gap of less than two millimeters gave the flesh-eating fungus spores an opportunity...

"Everyone put on the protective clothing, and then check again whether the compartment they are in is completely sealed!" Ke Lan ordered, "Layton, open the compartment...don't move too much, and don't make the spores splash everywhere."

"Hmm..." The "Tarantula" mech raised a mechanical arm, and a small laser cutting knife popped out from the interlayer of the mechanical arm. With the movement of the mechanical arm, the laser cutting knife tightened the truck little by little. The locked carriage door was cut open...

Just as Ke Lan expected, the other two security guards who were sitting in the compartment guarding the supplies were also killed. The combat uniform and armor were still on the skeleton, and the helmet and weapons had fallen aside... Not only It was them, even the materials in the carriage did not escape this disaster—this carriage was full of food, and there were also two large fans of frozen pork specially supplied to the management personnel of the base... At this moment, the two fans of pork There were only dense bones left, and white mycelium was almost everywhere in the carriage.

"Is this carnivorous fungus... recorded in the Ark's database?" Ivan asked.

"There are at least a dozen similar species, but none of them can be completely matched." Ke Lan shook his head.

"I really don't know if we are lucky or unlucky. Every time we come out, we meet new species of native creatures." The old dog smiled wryly.

"It doesn't have to be a new species, and it cannot be ruled out that it is a variant of a known species." Ke Lan bit his lip, "I have sent the photos and videos back to the ark, but if there are no physical specimens, I'm afraid I have to To what end... All in all, the current mess can only be cleaned up by ourselves."

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