Alien Relic Hunter

Chapter 189 Living Cells
"Are you going to the East Ninth District?" After Ke Lan hung up the phone, Zofia walked up to Ke Lan, her tone full of worry, "That's where the headquarters of the Arasaka Consortium is located... you go now, isn't it equal to Send it to the door by yourself?"

"I think the Arasaka consortium would not have the guts to attack me under the watchful eyes of the guards...Of course, if they really dare to attack me in this situation, then I don't think there is any safe place on the ark. Hiding in XZ, I might as well go directly to meet with General Maginot’s troops... Now the outskirts of the East Ninth District should be regarded as the place where the military forces on the entire Ark are concentrated except for the core area.” Ke Lan laughed Laughing, "With so many guns standing in front of me, I feel more confident."

"Then you must be careful... By the way, wait a moment." Zofia said, and suddenly walked to an empty wall. She stretched out her hand and printed her palm on the wall.

Accompanied by the sound of mechanism moving, a mini safe embedded in the wall was revealed. Zofia took out a delicate metal box from the safe and handed it to Ke Lan.

"You bring this, it may be useful."

"What is this?" Ke Lan opened the metal box with a hint of curiosity.

Inside are five well-made transparent syringes. The needle tubes are made of high-quality energy crystal shells, and the outer layer is wrapped with a circle of special engineering plastics for anti-slip and heat insulation. Part of it is mixed with a large amount of Nino alloy, let alone human skin, even the chitinous exoskeleton on Ultralisk can pierce.

Inside the syringe, there is a hair-thin pale pink fleshy fiber, quietly suspended in the clear filling liquid...

Every few seconds, this strand of fleshy fiber would twitch slightly. Although the magnitude of the twitch was extremely difficult to detect, Ke Lan still noticed it... This thing is alive.

"The living cells of the 'flesh-eating worm'... are produced by the Security Bureau, and are specially used to deal with the erosive seeds in the catastrophic stage or the mature stage. Each cell has a unique number. Whether it is transported, stored or used, it must be Report to the Security Bureau..." Zofia said.

"The living cells of flesh-eating worms..." Ke Lan picked up a syringe and looked through it. Sure enough, there was a string of digital codes etched with lasers on the glass bubble at the end used to store compressed gas.

"Because the number of living cells contained in each branch is very small, only direct contact with the 'nucleus' of the Seed of Corrosion can kill it..." Zofia added.

Maginot told Ke Lan before that there are four main classifications of Ark's official classification of the seeds of erosion, which are divided into "incubation period", "parasitic period", "blast change period" and "mature period". The incubation period mainly refers to the human body. The cells have been invaded by the Seed of Corrosion, but there is no period of tissue variation. For example, when Ivan was just infected, it was in the incubation period, and when the alienated tissue appeared, it indicated that the Seed of Corrosiveness had grown to a "parasitic" stage. period", the "container" missionary and Ivan when his arms became tentacles, they belong to this "parasitic period".

The erosion seeds in the "latent period" and "parasitic period" do not have a "nucleus". During these two periods, they are still part of the host's body tissue and are not considered an independent living entity.

The "rapid change period" is the shortest period among the four levels of classification, the shortest is only a few seconds, and the longest will not exceed 15 minutes-when the "container" dies (whether it is sucked dry by the erosive seeds in the body) All the nutrients, or the "container" committed suicide or was killed, or accidental death caused by other circumstances), will cause the "parasitic stage" erosion seeds to mature rapidly, and separate from the body tissue of the "container", and During this process, a "nucleus" will be produced in the Seed of Corruption's body. At this time, the Seed of Corrosion can be regarded as an independent living entity.

As for the "maturity period", it is the independent form after the "rapid change period", which is the monster Ke Lan encountered on that weird desert island.

In Ke Lan's memory, there is also a detailed description of the growth process of the Seed of Corrosion, which is basically the same as the information analyzed by the Ark official—except that the containers chosen by the Alpha people are all kinds of indigenous people on this planet creatures, not humans.

"Speaking of which, the conditions of use are quite harsh...but thank you." Ke Lan thought for a while, and still accepted the box of living cells.Although he already has a prop such as the "Stone Cone" that can restrain the seeds of erosion, it is really difficult for him to explain this thing out in full view. Compared with it, the flesh-eating worm's Living cells are much more convenient to use.

"You don't need to thank me, but you have to promise me one thing." Zofia looked directly into Ke Lan's eyes and said, "Don't die easily."

"En." Ke Lan nodded, but when he realized that Zofia was about to speak, he suddenly made a stop gesture, "Okay, stop talking."

"What's wrong?" Zofia blinked in confusion.

"I'm afraid if you say something like getting married when I come back this trip, then I'm afraid something will happen if nothing happens..." Ke Lan scratched her head with a smile, "I'm actually quite superstitious."

"..."

Hearing what Ke Lan said, Zofia gave him a very speechless look, but Caroline on the side muttered in a low voice: "This self-proclaimed sentimental guy..."

"Mate Caroline, I'm not being self-indulgent, I just don't like being flagged." Ke Lan turned her head and said.

"Flag?...a flag? A flag? What does that mean?" Caroline asked.

"I'm curious how you spend your leisure time after work?"

"Target shooting, physical training, training new employees in the security department... What's the matter, is there a problem?"

"That's all right..." Ke Lan walked to Caroline's side, patted the shoulder pads of her power armor, "I'm leaving, Zofia's safety is in your hands."

"Of course, this is my job... But, what does the flag mean?"

"I'll wait until I come back..." Ke Lan just wanted to say, but suddenly he changed his mind and said, "Even if I come back, I won't tell you. By the way, can you lend me one of your cars?"

"...Take it." Although Caroline wanted to have a fit, she was stopped by Zofia's eyes in time, so she took out a key card from her pocket and threw it to Ke Lan.

"Thank you!"

After catching the key card thrown by Caroline, Ke Lan glanced at his watch. It has been a full ten minutes since the power outage. If the Arasaka Consortium has made any moves, it should have started by now.

And the voice that had been calling him in the back of his mind became more and more urgent...

(End of this chapter)