Alien Relic Hunter

Chapter 295 Purgatory Asteroid

Ke Lan subconsciously wanted to raise his arm, but found that his body was motionless, but the arm of the metal colossus was raised instead.

It's those tentacles!Ke Lan reacted immediately... Those tentacles that pierced into his body intercepted the nerve signals from the brain at the spine, and then transmitted them to the operating system of the metal colossus.

This colossus does not need to be manually operated by Ke Lan at all. It is an extension of his limbs. For him, controlling this colossus is like manipulating his own body.

The "hatch door" in front of him began to close, and a liquid substance like egg white poured out from under the seat, gradually filling the "cockpit"... Ke Lan was worried about breathing at first, but soon he Just realized... This fluid is the same as the LCL fluid used in the medical cabin, allowing him to breathe in it like a fish.

Ke Lan felt like a fetus wrapped in amniotic fluid, but unlike amniotic fluid, this egg white-like liquid would enter his lungs along the respiratory tract and seep into every alveoli, Provide him with oxygen directly.

"If this cockpit is made into a long cylindrical insertion plug, it would be even better." Ke Lan couldn't help but complain.

"The consciousness link has been completed, ready to launch." With the sound of this voice, Ke Lan suddenly felt a sense of weightlessness, and then, a gleam of light appeared in the dark cockpit...

He found that he was surrounded by lead-gray clouds, and several streaks of thunder would flash inside the clouds from time to time. The dull thunder sounded from far to near, and occasionally a few streaks of light would flash across the edge of his field of vision.

send?
No, no, this should be a virtual environment, similar to the simulated cockpit used to train pilots...

But I have to say that this environment is simulated very realistically. Through the link of consciousness, Ke Lan can even feel the strong high-speed airflow constantly slapping on the body, and the shoulders, knees and toes have been covered with a thin layer. Thin hoarfrost.

"This is... high in the sky?" Ke Lan lowered his head and glanced, there was also thick clouds below, and he couldn't see anything.

Two crisp sounds of "Kaka" came from behind, Ke Lan's perspective suddenly turned, and then he began to fall rapidly, and the dark clouds around him began to recede upwards. In less than ten seconds, he had penetrated the clouds , and the "battlefield" directly below finally appeared in his field of vision.

"This... what is this place?!"

It was a purgatory-like scene: bright and hot magma was flowing on the ground, thick black smoke mixed with gravel and sparks spewed out from cracks and pores in various rocks, and a raging fire was burning on the furnace-like volcano. Flames, raging tongues of flames soared straight into the sky, reminiscent of prominences suddenly erupting on the surface of stars.

It was difficult for Ke Lan to find suitable adjectives to describe what he saw... The "purgatory" described in the "Bible" probably looks like this...

But in this sea of ​​flames, there is a unique plant growing. This is a flower... a flower that blooms in purgatory.

The diameter of its flower stem far exceeds the craters of the surrounding cone-shaped volcanoes, and its height even reaches the clouds, and it is covered with layers of leaves that have degenerated into scales, and the gaps in these leaves are flashing dark firelight.

The five radially symmetrical fleshy petals are like five islands suspended in the sky. The color of the petals is an extremely magnificent bright red. Numerous blood vessel-like dark purple veins spread out from the petals and extend to the edge of the petals.

Ordinary plants absorb water and nutrients from the soil, but this huge flower directly absorbs the flowing magma from the ground. The thread keeps going up...

Soon, Ke Lan realized another problem: this place is definitely not Alpha Star!

Judging from the curvature of the edge of the horizon, the diameter of this planet is much smaller than Alpha Star, at best, it is just a slightly larger asteroid.

"Is this the battlefield where Alpha Civilization used to be..."

The height of the metal colossus was still dropping sharply. Ke Lan estimated that he would land on one of the petals in less than thirty seconds.

But after five seconds, Ke Lan changed the angle of his fall and chose a landing place about four or five kilometers away from the flower.

Obviously, this flower is the target of the second stage of the trial. Landing directly on the petals is no different from delivering food - the diameter of each petal is more than 500 meters. The metal colossus, which can be regarded as a behemoth, fell on it, just like a small bug.

And it was the kind of bug that landed on Rafflesia flowers.

In addition to this huge flower, there is another kind of creature on the ground - that is a giant beetle with a body length of three to five meters. They have four pairs of transparent wings vibrating at high speed, and they are entrenched near the crater... …Whenever lava is ejected from the crater, they will swarm up and compete for the rubble that was ejected with the lava.

These beetles don't seem to be afraid of high heat. Their powerful mouthparts can easily crush those hot stones and swallow them into their stomachs... Occasionally, those who are splashed by magma just shake their bodies nonchalantly, dispelling the stains on their bodies. The magma was thrown down, but as for their shiny black carapaces, they were not damaged at all.

The magma that has just been ejected from the crater emits a dazzling white light, just like molten steel poured from a blast furnace. Their temperature is at least [-] degrees Celsius. In other words... the melting point of the carapace of these beetles is even Taller than steel!

Ke Lan chose to land at the foot of a small volcano, where there is a circular island standing in the lava river. The diameter of the island is about [-] meters, the terrain is flat and open, and the edge of the island is higher than the surrounding lava Nearly ten meters, it is a relatively safe foothold.

But as soon as Ke Lan landed, the dozens of black beetles patrolling around the crater seemed to have been summoned, but they gave up looking for food and flew towards Ke Lan.

"Tsk...it's really troublesome..." Ke Lan muttered a little irritably. He had chosen a remote enough location, but he still couldn't avoid the battle.

The beetles flew very fast, and within a short while, they had already arrived directly above the isolated island.

(End of this chapter)