Alien Relic Hunter

Chapter 289 Feeding
Layton only took one look, and couldn't help exclaiming: "Hey! Good guy!... The internal structure of this thing is too fine, right? Many transmission rods are as thick as a hair, thanks to this alloy. The strength is high enough, if it is changed to a different material, this thing will be scrapped once it is activated."

"Then can you see the function of these mechanical parts?" Ke Lan asked.

"It's too difficult... This thing is many times more sophisticated than the difference engine. It can't be analyzed by the naked eye alone. It must be scanned by a computer... Moreover, I don't know if there are any embedded parts inside these mechanical parts. If there is any crystal circuit structure, it will be more complicated." Layton smacked his lips and said, "Also, I can guarantee that this precision instrument is [-]% equipped with anti-theft measures. If it is forcibly disassembled, it will automatically If it’s ruined, if it’s more serious… if it’s more serious, I don’t know what will happen, but it’s just that nothing good will happen anyway.”

Layton studied it for a while, and then decisively chose to give up—even if this thing was disassembled and shipped to the research institute, those experts who had spent most of their lives in mechanical engineering wanted to understand the principle of this thing. Tou, I'm afraid it will take several days.

"Can you find the metal sticks that the exiles stuffed in? That should be something like a key. If there is that thing, it should be able to activate the mechanism of this base." Ke Lan said.

"No... I'm also looking for the metal rods that the mercenary mentioned, but I can't find them at all." Layton shook his head and said, "Either those metal rods have been swallowed, or the mercenary remembered wrong."

"But we didn't find these things on the exiles." Ke Lan said with some frustration, now the clues are in front of them, but the problem is that they are helpless to this clue - just like facing a It is as helpless as a turtle with its head and limbs retracted into its shell.

"Let's put this away first, and check other places." Ke Lan said.

He quickly walked to the edge of the stone platform, first illuminated the surrounding ring ditch with a flashlight, and then jumped over it lightly.

According to the mercenary's description, the pale pink meat paste that is suspected to be "breathing soil" came up from the bottom of the stone platform, so in addition to the base, the stone platform itself must also have hidden secrets.

With a "click", the hard rubber sole of the boot stepped on the bottom of the ditch around the stone platform, but before Ke Lan bent down to check, he felt something wrapped around his instep.

Through the boots and socks, Ke Lan could feel that the thing had rubber-like toughness, wrapping around his ankle with a moderate force... However, the thing did not make any aggressive moves. It just rubbed against Ke Lan's boots, like a cute and docile puppy...

Ke Lan slowly pointed the flashlight in his hand to his feet, and saw that the bottom of the ditch was already covered with that kind of pale pink fleshy paste in less than a second, and a tentacle-like limb extended from the fleshy paste , like some kind of mollusk, wrapped around his boot several times.

Layton, who was following Ke Lan but hadn't come down from the stone platform, had already seen this scene. He had a nervous look on his face, and subconsciously raised the gun in his hand.

But at this moment, Ke Lan raised his hand to stop Layton's movements, and then shook his head at him.

Bullets are useless against this thing, and this thing doesn't seem to be hostile either.

"Damn! Damn! What should I do now?...Ke Lan, tell me, what can I do to help you?" Although the words were full of anxiety, he had to lower his voice very low , for fear of alarming those pink "meat paste".

"Just stand there, don't move yet." Ke Lan said to him, and then he turned to Akira Asano, "Asano, can you find my location now?"

"Yes." Akira Asano nodded while holding the saber, "As long as you make a sound, I can find you."

"Okay, let me tell you roughly my plan..." Ke Lan said quickly, "I plan to try the method that the mercenary said, to feed these things with blood... But I don't know Is the information provided by a mercenary true or false? If something unexpected happens later, I will try to jump up, Layton, you have to find a way to catch me, and then, Asano, you are responsible for cutting off the things that are chasing after me —if they catch up."

As Ke Lan said, he slowly bent down and took off the shoelaces from the top quick buckles of the boots.

"Is...is this really all right? You...are you not afraid that the mercenary is lying to us?" Layton said worriedly.

"So didn't I tell you to prepare second-hand?" Ke Lan glanced at him and said.

"But it's too risky..."

"Actually... I don't think that guy lied to us. It's been 1 minutes now, but this thing still doesn't make any aggressive moves, and it doesn't even continue to go up my leg... This shows that it has nothing to do with it. The characteristics of 'Xi Soil' are completely different." Ke Lan said, "Okay, I'm going to bleed... If there is any abnormality in it, I will break free from my boots and jump up, and then my life will be in your hands gone."

"I...I will catch you." Layton gritted his teeth and nodded to Ke Lan.

Ke Lan took a deep breath, lifted his cuffs, pulled out a dagger from his waist, and slashed his arm lightly.

Immediately, a bead of blood oozed out from the incision, slipped down the skin, and finally landed on the pink meat paste at Ke Lan's feet.

Both Ke Lan and Layton held their breath, stared at the blood bead with their eyes wide open, while Asano Akira had already pushed the saber out of the sheath half an inch with his thumb.

After coming into contact with this drop of blood, a small opening split open on the surface of the meat paste, swallowing the blood drop... Then, the meat paste at Ke Lan's feet wriggled slowly, and several clumps of granulation sprouted from the The granulation grew out of the meat paste, and these granulation sprouts quickly extended and elongated into slender tentacles. These tentacles surrounded Ke Lan's boots, but they did not attack. They just swayed gently, touching the boots from time to time. On the surface, a very "curious" look.

No, no... Rather than being curious, Ke Lan felt...these tentacles seemed to be "acting like a baby"...

Layton was completely stunned. He didn't know if this situation was considered an "accident" as Ke Lan said. He stretched out the mechanical arm, but froze in midair. Ke Lan lifted it up.

"What's the matter?" Akira Asano asked softly. He couldn't see the scene below, so he could only speculate based on his voice. "It seems that there are a lot of subtle noises...Ke Lan, how are you?"

"Hush...don't act rashly...I'm not in danger, not for the time being." Ke Lan said, "I think...it probably wants more blood..."

He raised his arm, squeezed his own with the other hand, and squeezed a few more drops of blood from the incision.

These few drops of blood fell down and were quickly swallowed by the meat paste. At this time, those tentacles seemed to be greatly satisfied, and they squirmed slowly... This reminded Ke Lan of those large numbers of people. After inhaling the incense of dream jujube, the way they shake their heads with their eyes closed is similar to these tentacles...

After about 6 minutes, the tentacles wrapped around Ke Lan's ankles reluctantly let go of him, and retracted into the body of the meat paste, and the meat paste spread on the ground was also quickly closing, gather.

"I think... it should be fine, that guy didn't lie to us." Ke Lan said, took out a bandage from his pocket, and wrapped it around his wound.

"Huh——" Layton exhaled heavily, and wiped off the sweat on his forehead with his hand; The small blade also returned to the sheath.

"Do you want to come up?" Layton stretched out his hand, trying to pull Ke Lan to the stone platform, but the latter waved his hand at him.

"Wait a minute."

After finishing speaking, Ke Lan walked towards the shrunken meat mud, which made Layton nervous again: "Hey, hey... Ke Lan, what are you doing? You just got out of danger, don't go there again Provoke this thing!"

"I just want to see where they came from." Ke Lan replied.

The pink fleshy slime scattered at the bottom of the ditch wriggled and gathered together. It gradually transformed into a python-like creature, and its movement became like a snake, dragging along the ground.

Ke Lan chased after this "meat python" and walked around the stone platform for half a circle, only to find that at the bottom of the stone platform, close to the bottom of the ditch, there was a cave with a diameter of half a meter.

Ke Lan watched helplessly as the "meat python" got into the cave and disappeared from sight.

"There is actually a hole here!" Layton whispered, "This location and angle are really hidden. If you stand on the stone platform, the hole is in the blind angle of the angle of view just now, but if you stand on the opposite side of the stone platform, the stone platform projects The shadow that comes down will just cover the hole...unless the light is aimed directly at the hole, it will be easily overlooked by people."

Apparently, those mercenaries didn't notice the cave entrance... They only had the jar as the mission target in their eyes, and they didn't have the heart to examine the cave carefully.

But Ke Lan knew in his heart that there must be a passage underground, otherwise these pink meat pastes could not appear out of thin air and then disappear out of thin air—unless it can seep directly from the ground.

Ke Lan squatted in front of the hole, gestured for the size of the hole with his palm, and then began to take off his equipment.

"Wait...you don't intend to get in, do you?" Layton said in astonishment.

"Otherwise? Did you bring a remote control robot?" Ke Lan asked back. At this time, he had already taken off his suit belt and cold-proof jacket, leaving only his underwear and a fleece jacket with a little cold-proof effect. .

"But, but...that thing got in just now, didn't it?"

"But that thing didn't show hostility to me, did it?" Ke Lan tore off a few pieces of heating stickers called "warm babies" and pasted them on the inside of the fleece jacket. The human chill is still constantly burrowing into the thin clothes.

The temperature in this place is still too low, Ke Lan thought in his heart, under such circumstances, his body temperature cannot be maintained for a long time, if it takes too long, even if no accident happens, he will still die from the low temperature...

"15 minutes, if I don't find anything, I will return in 15 minutes." Ke Lan said, counting the time required for turning back, half an hour, which is almost the limit of his body.

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