Alien Relic Hunter

Chapter 129 Mimicry

"First of all, we have to find a way to get rid of these fungi... Otherwise, as long as one spore is brought into the base...not just us, the whole base will become a dead city."

"To clean the equipment..." Youyi glanced at the tablet in her hand, "Car No. [-] and Car No. [-] are equipped with high-pressure water guns, which are specially used to wash away radioactive dust from the cars..."

"That thing won't work," Ke Lan shook his head. "The water flow can't kill these carnivorous fungi, and it can't remove the spores scattered in the air that are hard to detect with the naked eye."

"If the water doesn't work, what about the fire?" The old dog's eyes lit up, and he pointed to the flame launcher on the roof of the No. [-] car. It can also be used against native creatures rushing forward.

In the current situation, using a flamethrower to clean up these fungi and spores is probably the best solution they can come up with.

The vehicles in the convoy are all armored vehicles, and even the tires are made of high heat-resistant polymer materials. As long as the temperature of the flame and the amount of fuel are controlled, the flamethrower will not cause much damage to the vehicle itself. The temperature insulation layer equipped in the star's harsh environment can just protect the members of the car from being "stuffed" by the high temperature.

"Car No. [-], check the flamethrower and fuel, ready..."

Halfway through the speech, Ke Lan was suddenly stunned... not only him, but everyone else in the car was also stunned.

Those white hyphae... they actually moved!
As if something was ordering them, the mycelium in the corner of the carriage, under the chair, attached to the supply box...these mycelium began to gather together, forming a combination of earthworms.

Immediately afterwards, these assemblies, like real earthworms, climbed onto the skeleton of a deceased by wriggling, and then...they began to entangle and fuse with the hyphae attached to the skeleton... In just a few tens of seconds, a humanoid creature composed of white hyphae and a human skeleton appeared in Ke Lan's field of vision.

"I..." The skin on the old dog's face trembled slightly, "I don't care... this thing... what is this thing..."

"I don't know." Youyi, who was sitting next to her, couldn't maintain her original calm expression at the moment, and she shook her head numbly.

Except for the old dog and Youyi, the other performances in the car were not much better, only Ke Lan was calm... because it was not the first time he had seen a similar scene...

Back in the secret passage of the glacier ruins, he had personally witnessed the scene where a pile of meat turned into another old dog... The indescribable sense of weirdness and fear almost drove the old dog crazy …I just don’t know why, among all the people who have seen the piece of meat, he is the only one who retains those nightmare memories.

Ke Lan glanced at the old dog calmly from the corner of his eye, and then patted the roof hard.

"Boom!!"

At this moment, everyone came back to their senses, and their first reaction was to stretch out their hands to the weapons they carried with them——

Of course, except for Akira Asano who couldn't see anything.

"Everyone, don't be nervous." Ke Lan said in a deep voice, "Zoligetu, don't open the car door, and put down the gun in your hand... What, do you still want to go out and fight that thing now? "

"No... I'm just... I..." The simple and honest Mongolian man said "I, I, I" for a long time before finally admitting a little discouraged, "I'm just...too nervous."

"I know," Ke Lan nodded, "but now there are spores everywhere outside, if you open the door rashly, it will only cause everyone in the car to become similar to this monster..."

"I'm sorry." Zhuo Ligetu shrank back to the seat with some grievances.

"Ke Lan," the old dog rubbed his cheek vigorously with his hands, "this thing... don't you think it's evil? It's fine to become a human... But its face, it's impossible... look……"

The old dog handed over the tablet used by Yuyi, and the screen displayed the files of the crew members of the No. [-] car. Among the four photos, one of them was almost identical to the face of the humanoid mycelium monster in front of him. !
This thing not only turned into a human, but also perfectly simulated the original face of the deceased!

"There is nothing impossible. After all, these fungi devoured all the flesh and blood of the deceased... Using all the 'data' recorded in the flesh and blood, it is not too far-fetched to simulate the prey." Ke Lan said.

You know, to imitate the appearance of the old dog and Akira Asano, those pieces of meat only need a few drops of blood, and the genetic information contained in the flesh and blood of the whole body is much more than a few drops of blood .

"No matter what it is, in short...Car No. [-], use the flamethrower to get rid of that guy!"

"boom!!"

The tens of meters long flame column went straight to the compartment of No. [-] car, and the fiery tongue kept licking the body of that thing... Soon, the white hyphae turned into black like charcoal...

"Fire is useful!" Ivan said excitedly, but as soon as the words fell, the excitement turned into consternation, "It...it seems to be still moving!"

Indeed, under the flamethrower, the white mycelium on the outer layer was almost completely carbonized, but the carbonized layer did not peel off, but was still attached to the monster's body, forming an armor that could block the flames!

It bent down, picked up the large-caliber rifle that the security guard had dropped in the compartment, and... pulled the bolt hard.

"...impossible...it...it can use a gun?" Ivan gripped the back of the front seat tightly, not daring to take a breath.

"Could it be..." Ke Lan rubbed his frowning brows, thinking, could these fungi be able to extract the memory of the deceased from the nerve cells after they devoured the body of the deceased?Or is it just some actions that have been incorporated into instinct...such as self-walking, picking up...and the action of pulling the bolt that has been repeated tens of thousands of times?

But that doesn't make sense either!

It is said that muscle memory, muscle memory... But that also requires muscles, but right now this thing is just a posture simulated by a mass of hyphae wrapping human bones, muscles, nerves, fascia , blood vessels... This kind of human body does not have all the organs that should have, how can it inherit the instinct of the dead?
To use an idiom to describe it, it would be "extravagant", no matter how realistic the face simulation is, this thing is just a mass of hyphae!

The scorched figure jumped out of the carriage, facing the impact of the flames, it took a step or two staggeringly...

"The flamethrower stopped attacking, the No. [-] car retreated, and the No. [-] car replaced the anti-aircraft cannon with armor-piercing incendiary bombs, and fired flat on the target!"

[PS Thank you for the 15 starting point coin reward from the 50000th bionic person. There are guests at home today, so the update is a bit late. 】

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