Alien Relic Hunter

Chapter 279 Water Bodies (4000-word chapter)
Taking off the wreckage hanging on his body, Ke Lan turned his head and glanced at the huge crack that was close at hand.

Back up, run up, jump up.

Freeze the time, observe, calculate, and then make a decision.

The freeze frame is released, time flows, and everything returns to its original color.

The war blade in Ke Lan's hand drew a beautiful arc in the air, cutting off all the incoming tentacles, and then at the moment he jumped to the highest point, he unlocked all the release locks on the exoskeleton at the same time, from He broke free from this set of heavy "shackles" - the shackles fell into the abyss, and he fell to the edge of the other end of the crack.

"This knife is beautiful!" the hound shouted.

Ke Lan didn't care about chatting, and asked the two directly: "Old dog, Layton, do you have any leftover explosives?"

"There are four more yuan, and the total is almost two hundred standard unit equivalents. (Note 1)" Layton replied.

"Gather them all together, set up a short-distance remote control fuze, and throw it into the hole directly above!" Ke Lan said.

"Are you going to use dynamite to blow up the tentacles that come out?" Layton asked.

"No... I'm here to blast a path. Apart from the cracks under the ground, there is only one path directly above to leave this cave."

"Are you sure? These tentacles came out of this hole... who knows what monsters might be inside..." the hound said worriedly.

"But at least the direction is correct... Going down, we will only get farther and farther away from the exit of the ruins." Ke Lan said, "If we drag it on, there will be no place for people to stand here!"

"Then blow it up!" The hound thumped Layton's mechanical arm hard, "Fuck it up, let's go!"

Layton took out all the explosives from his backpack, pulled out a length of copper wire from the damaged exoskeleton, and tied them together. Just in case, he even inserted the remaining six detonators Going up——Anyway, the explosives have been used up, and it is useless to keep these detonators. It is better to use them all at once. It can be regarded as an insurance method to improve fault tolerance.

"Everyone come here!" Ke Lan shouted, Zhuoligetu was carrying Ivan and Akira Asano alone, and the hound was pulling Qin Zhao, and they squeezed together to Layton's side, and Layton was pushing After the explosives were thrown into the big hole, the energy shield was directly activated and propped up above everyone's heads——

"boom!!!"

There was a loud explosion, and those frantically writhing tentacles were blown to pieces in an instant. The diameter of the entire hole was nearly doubled, and tons of blood poured in from above, hitting the ground heavily. Immediately, white water vapor rising from above the energy shield filled the entire cave.

"This is...?" Ke Lan stretched out his finger and wiped the liquid splashed on his face, only to find that the red blood was only a small part of it.

This is not blood at all. These liquids do not have that disgusting smell of blood, but instead have a salty smell that Ke Lan is somewhat familiar with.

"This water...this is sea water!" The hound said in surprise, "The water pouring down from above is sea water! How could there be sea water here! It's clearly a hundred and eight thousand miles away from the sea!"

"But...the seawater is not poisonous, nor is it radioactive...this is not the seawater in Zhonghai." Layton added.

"Ke Lan... Are we still in a dream?" the hound asked uncertainly.

"No... I can feel it, this is reality." Ke Lan said firmly. When he drew his sword before, he had also considered this issue. For a moment, he believed that he was still in a dream. In the dream world, as long as his thinking is not restricted, the stop of time cannot have any impact on Ke Lan himself.

However, in the stagnant time, Ke Lan couldn't pull out the knife no matter what.

It's definitely reality here.

"Could it be due to changes in the earth's crust... This area used to be an ocean, and a large amount of mineral salts precipitated from seawater were accumulated deep in the ice layer, and then part of the glacier melted for some reason, and the minerals inside the ice layer The salt dissolves in the water again, forming the seawater we see?" Qin Zhao analyzed.

"If this is the case, then we are dead—unless the entire glacier melts, otherwise this is a completely enclosed space, and we cannot swim out at all!"

"No, there must be an exit above." Ke Lan said, "Because the sea water is not formed naturally at all... These sea water should be set here by the Alpha people."

"Alpha people? Why are they pouring seawater into the glacier?" The hound was puzzled.

"Maybe it's to keep some kind of creature that can only survive in the ocean environment," Ke Lan said, pointing to the remains of tentacles that were blown into pieces and floating on the water. "Like the octopus on the earth, it can only Living in sea water, out of sea water, will die soon.”

"Furthermore, after you smashed the sarcoid, Cao Feng did not get out of control, and those tentacles were still attacking." Ke Lan continued, "This shows that this huge deformed sarcoma is just the body of this creature. A small part of it, and most of its body should be soaked in the seawater above the cave."

The sea water has spread over the insteps of the feet, and many equipment scattered on the ground have been washed into the cracks. Fortunately, Layton has already picked up the breathing mask and body bag from the ground before that, and now, the sleeping Ivan and Akira Asano were "again" packed into a black polymer body bag.

"Then if we go up, won't we just bump into this guy's body?" said the hound, "This time, we didn't bring those special underwater weapons..."

"The main attack methods of this creature are mental attacks and nightmares. Although it is huge in size, its physical strength is not high. Both the sarcoma and those tentacles can be easily destroyed... Moreover, after the explosion, no tentacles came in to attack us. It should have been hit harder than it should have been."

Ke Lan said, and handed his breathing mask to Qin Zhao who was behind him: "When the sea water fills this cave, we will swim up!"

Layton drove several nail anchors into the rock wall that had not yet cracked, and these nail anchors were connected with each other with steel cables. Everyone just grasped the steel cables tightly, clinging to the rock wall, and waited. The sea water fills it up little by little.

……

As the rock formations on the top of the cave were continuously washed away by the influx of sea water, the water level rose faster and faster. At this moment, Ke Lan suddenly discovered that in the sea water that poured in, apart from a large amount of pinkish-white minced meat In addition, there is a special creature.

This is a small fish about ten centimeters long, finger-thin, and transparent all over. These small fish move quickly in the sea water. bite, devour...

Although the appearance of these small fish looks exquisite and even a little cute, judging from their feeding movements, they can definitely be regarded as a kind of cruel creature by nature. Their mouths can expand to twice the diameter of their bodies or even Three times, the folded fangs are three to four centimeters long when fully opened, and each bite can tear off a large piece of meat.

Through their transparent bodies, you can clearly see how the meat passes through the mouth and throat, and is quickly digested in their bodies... What surprised Ke Lan most was that these small transparent fish were dividing After eating the minced meat, they began to bite each other. They pierced their fangs into the bodies of the same kind, bit off the heads and tails of the same kind, and swallowed the bodies of the same kind together with the undigested food in their bodies... They It seems that he is always hungry and greedy... Although his slender body has been stretched out...

"What the hell kind of fish are these..." The hunting dog also found these transparent small fish, and the one closest to him was less than ten centimeters... Just as he stretched out his hand to catch that fish Suddenly, the transparent little fish turned around nimbly, and bit off a large piece of meat on the hound's tiger's mouth!

"Ah... Grass! This little beast!" The hound felt the pain, and quickly withdrew its hand, but the little fish jumped out of the water, opened its mouth to the maximum, and pounced on the hound's face!
Just when it was about to bite off the hound's nose, Layton finally pinched the small fish in mid-air. With a little force from the mechanical palm, the whole fish had already turned into a puddle of meat sauce.

"Old dog, be careful, these fish are very evil, be careful not to let the blood drip into the water, or you may attract them all." Layton said, and he threw the pinched fish In the distance, dozens of small transparent fishes swarmed up and started a new round of scrambling and fighting.

"Damn, why is this thing like a shark?" The hound cursed and took out a roll of waterproof bandages, wrapped the wound on the tiger's mouth firmly, and then pasted a water-proof seal on the outside.

"I think... it's more like a piranha in a horror movie," Ke Lan said.

"Damn...that old movie from the old era, I think I've seen it." The hound suddenly thought of a certain scene in the movie, couldn't help but feel his lower body tighten, and quickly lowered his head to look into the water—fortunately, those little fish He went to chase the scattered flesh after the tentacle was blown up, but he didn't swim towards them.

"The water level has reached the chest, it's almost there, we should go up... Otherwise, those fish should come to us after eating up the minced meat." Ke Lan said.

The vanguard position was still taken by Layton. He put the energy shield at the front, vaporized the oncoming sea water and the transparent small fish in the water, and forcibly opened a passage in the torrent—— In terms of visual effects, it feels a bit like the water drops in "Journey to the West".

Layton turned his head and shouted to everyone: "A very powerful vortex has formed above the entrance of the cave. Be careful, don't be swept away!"

At this moment, Layton could no longer support the shield. The water flow was too large. Not only could the energy shield fail to completely evaporate it, but it would also heat the surrounding seawater into scalding boiling water.He could only drive one nail anchor into the rock formation continuously, and crawl forward against the current.

At this time, no one could speak anymore, and everyone could only silently endure the berserk force hitting their bodies... The only thing they could do was to tightly hold on to the ropes in their hands...

I don't know how long it took, but the cave below and those bottomless gaps were finally filled with sea water, the pressure difference inside and outside the cave finally disappeared, and the vortex also disappeared.

Looking down from the light of the flashlight, you can see a giant octopus-like soft-bodied creature with a diameter of more than [-] meters clinging to the rock formation. There are countless long and fine "fluff" on its body surface, and these " "Fluff" are actually those young tentacles that have not yet formed. They move slowly with the sea water, looking like completely harmless seaweed...

In the middle of this "big octopus", there is a horrible and huge wound. Ke Lan and the others drilled out of this wound just now, and directly below the wound is the cave filled with sea water.

This "big octopus" seemed to be dead, all its tentacles stopped moving, and it was quietly floating in the water, while more and more small transparent fish began to swim towards the wound, crawling on the big octopus like maggots on carrion. Drilling in and out of the flesh and blood of the octopus...

Fortunately, they rushed out against the current just now, otherwise, after the vortex disappears, they will probably bump into a large group of hungry piranhas... By then, these beautiful and fierce transparent fish will not be picky eaters.

The hound's mouth was tightly closed, his cheeks were bulging high due to the air in his mouth, and a few air bubbles would come out of his nostrils from time to time-they were not special types of modified humans, and no one could survive in the water. Breathe down, the only two breathing masks must be used in turn, but even so, the remaining amount of oxygen generator in the tank is decreasing at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Ke Lan swam to the side of the hound, patted him on the shoulder, and gave him a simple finger - "swim up".

It is impossible for the Alpha people to dig a huge ocean out of the rock. This can only be regarded as a large reservoir at best. As long as you go upstream, you can always float to the surface...

[PS Note 1: Ark explosives equivalent calculation standard: 1 standard unit ≈ 100 grams of TNT explosive equivalent; two hundred standard units of explosive power is almost equivalent to 20 kilograms of TNT equivalent. 】

[PPS Regarding the piranha movie mentioned in this chapter, the specific plot has been a long time ago and I have forgotten all. The most influential picture is only a boy and a girl, and then the piranha came out and bit The boy’s thing, in the end the boy had to chop off that thing and the piranha with a knife... If I remember correctly, it should be the plot of the second part...]

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