Alien Relic Hunter

Chapter 145 Rotten Head
It was a creature covered with black-brown bristles. Its appearance resembled the prototype creature of the "Tarantula" all-terrain mech, but it had eight pairs of arthropods on both sides of its body, exactly twice as many as that of a tarantula.

"... Phew, it was a false alarm." The old dog let out a long breath, and turned off the energy shield.

They are no strangers to this kind of creature. Apart from Leviathan, it can often be seen in some ruins with a dark and humid environment-this kind of creature is named "Dark Spider" by biologists, dark Spiders are photophobic and afraid of people. Although the setae covering the body surface contain paralytic toxins, and the jaws and teeth used as mouthparts have a strong bite force, but their aggressiveness is very weak. It has been decades since the discovery of this creature. , There has never been an incident of dark spiders actively attacking humans.

This terrifying-looking bug is actually one of the most docile creatures on Planet Alpha. They mainly feed on fluorescent moss that grows in the radiation area, and rarely hunt live animals. They belong to the bottom of the food chain on Planet Alpha.

After the dark spider was startled by the bright light of the flare, it quickly fled to the depths of the tunnel.

"Strange." Ke Lan said.

"What's so strange?" The old dog turned his head and gave him a puzzled look.

"If the front is the territory of those unknown creatures, why are there dark spiders here? Is this kind of bug not in their diet?"

"Maybe it's because you don't like these two meats?"

"No, the food in the depths of the mine must be very scarce, otherwise those unknown creatures would not have taken away all the dead bodies." Ke Lan shook, "Unless... those corpses are not for eating... "

"Don't eat it, could it be..." The old dog swallowed with some difficulty, "Okay, stop talking, I know, I'm afraid I'll spit out what I just ate."

Apart from food, one of the most common uses of corpses is as a "reproductive resource".

There are many alpha native creatures that will lay their eggs in the body of carrion corpses, using the temperature generated by the fermentation of carrion corpses to help hatch, and when their next generation emerges from the egg shells, the heavily decayed corpse tissues are just right Can be a source of nutrition for these larvae to grow rapidly...

Except for the old dog, the faces of the other people were also a little pale... Obviously, a similar picture also appeared in their minds.

"I don't want to be like that. If I accidentally die, please burn my body." Layton muttered in a low voice.

"Don't talk bad words, I don't have time to cremate you for you." The old dog scolded sharply.

"Go ahead, stop guessing, it's no fun to scare yourself." Ke Lan took a deep breath and continued to walk to the front of the team.

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The tunnel in the last 50 meters of the mining area has been almost blocked by various sundries. These obstacles were all created by the third batch of exploration teams. Everything that could be moved was moved here: ore cutters, discarded gas cylinders, bundles of polymer pipes and cables, and small carts used to carry ore... Ke Lan and the others walked forward every step of the way. Rice, it takes a lot of time to clear the roads, especially those discarded gas cylinders. No one knows whether there are unused combustible gases left in them. This thing feels like it's carrying a bomb..."

"I don't know how that crazy guy got out of here..." Layton said while cutting the metal frame of a heavy machine with a welding torch on his robotic arm, "Why is there no place here?" A gap for a person to pass through."

"It might have been there before, but that person reinforced the obstacle after he came over, and it became what we see now." Ke Lan raised the arm of the power armor, and at his fingertips It is stained with some iron-gray debris-this is a common quick-drying metal glue, usually installed in the sprinkler, it can quickly harden after being oxidized in contact with air, and is used for bonding between metal parts, although the strength It is not as good as welding, but it is more convenient and quick.

And the large metal frame in front of the tunnel that tightly blocked the tunnel is the outer frames of several instruments glued together. Iron-gray glue stains are splashed everywhere, which shows how flustered the man was when spraying the glue. nervous.

"In my opinion, the pile of obstacles they made is useless except for causing trouble for us... The acid in those things is so strong, if you just spray a few mouthfuls, I will count them as long as they last ten seconds It's - Kurwa!!"

The old dog's "powerful" "harm" has not yet been said, but it is replaced by a national curse from Polish!
If it weren't for the power armor supporting his back, he might have sat backwards and fell to the ground at this time...

"What's wrong?" Ke Lan hurriedly looked towards the old dog, only to see a badly decomposed head was pressed under a bundle of heavy cables, the entire facial bones were severely deformed, and the two eyeballs had disappeared. There are two black eye sockets left - due to the weird angle of the head, it looks like they are turning their heads to stare at them...

"Grass!" Although he was prepared in advance, Ke Lan was so frightened that he couldn't help spit out a cursive word. It was indeed a bit scary for this thing to appear in front of him suddenly, no wonder the old dog was scared out of his mother tongue.

"I fucked his grandma! Who the hell stuffed a dead man's head in there??" Scared by a head like this, the old dog couldn't help but grab the head out. , when he wanted to throw it behind, Ke Lan grabbed his arm in time.

"Calm down, old dog," Ke Lan spoke quickly, "...this may be the only body left by the victim! Ivan, come and have a look, what killed this guy?"

"Wait a minute." Ivan nodded to Ke Lan, took out a pair of gloves from his pocket and put them on, took the horrible head from the old dog, and examined it carefully.

"There are multiple fractures in the skull and facial bones, which should be caused by a blunt instrument...or it may be due to the extrusion of a heavy object, and there are lacerations in the eye sockets, which shows that his eyes were caused by something like claws or claws. It was dug out...the cervical spine was stretched and fractured, and the muscles and skin on the neck were severely rotted, but the tearing marks could still be discerned..." Ivan suddenly took a breath and said, "This head, was taken Brute force tore it from the neck!"

(End of this chapter)