Alien Relic Hunter

Chapter 300 Trial Suspension (4000-word chapter)
"These vines... are they from the attack of the crown of ashes? Isn't this too fragile?" Without the suppression of gravity, Ke Lan's speed of waving the armor-piercing sword suddenly became smoother, cutting these from the mess like a sharp knife. The vines that emerged from the ground were cut into dozens of sections.

If the physical strength of the crown of ashes is the same as that of these vines, Ke Lan feels that he doesn't even need to support the fleet's shelling to open the way, and can dig a hole in the crown of ashes with the heavy armor-piercing sword in his hand.

"No." The trial program still maintained the tone without the slightest emotion, "This is an ancient plant 'lava vine' that parasitizes on the root system of the Crown of Ashes, and they will attack all those who are close to the Crown of Ashes. Foreign creatures, the closer they are to the Crown of Ashes, the higher the density of lava vines."

"What about the change in gravity? Can this parasitic creature control gravity?" Ke Lan asked.

"It's not the lava vine that controls gravity, but the crown of ashes that controls gravity is driving the lava vine." The trial program corrected.

While speaking, dozens of vines broke out of the ground and attacked Ke Lan. Ke Lan simply ignored these things, and after crushing the vines blocking the path of progress, he started to walk towards the ground. run to...

However, before he ran a few steps, the surrounding scene suddenly disappeared, and his vision suddenly fell into darkness.

"What's going on?" Ke Lan wanted to manipulate the mecha to move forward... But he suddenly found that it was his own hand that was raised... The connection between him and the "blasphemer mecha" has been broken at this time. was disconnected.

He reached out and touched his back, and the tiny tentacles that pierced the spinal cord had retracted into the fleshy seat, and the egg white-like liquid filling the cockpit was also rapidly decreasing, and soon, Ke Lan felt a burst of pain. A feeling of suffocation.

After he vigorously blew off the residual liquid in his nasal cavity and respiratory tract, his breathing finally returned to normal. Unlike LCL liquid, although this thing can supply oxygen, it cannot dissolve oxygen in the air. If it is the same as the supply device in the mech If it is disconnected, the remaining fluid in the human body can even suffocate the person to death.

"What the hell happened? Hello?" Ke Lan kicked the inside of the cockpit door, but the entire "blasphemer" mecha didn't move at all, as if the power was cut off suddenly.

Ke Lan took out a lighting stick from his bag, turned it on, and immediately had a panoramic view of the details in the cockpit—not so much the cockpit of a mech, but Ke Lan felt like he was in a mecha. In the stomach of a gigantic monster.

Although he had already glanced at the entire cockpit when he boarded the plane, when he was actually "locked" in it, it was a completely different feeling.

Except for the rusty metal material at the cabin door, the other places are covered with a layer of deep red meat film, and cyst-shaped glands grow on the surface of the meat film—those egg white-like buffer liquids. It is secreted from these glands.

"Is there no other way to control this mecha other than the consciousness link?" Ke Lan's eyes searched the cockpit, but after searching for a long time, he still found nothing.

The development route of the mechs of the Alpha civilization is obviously completely different from that of the people on Earth.The mecha of human civilization is a purely mechanical structure: a micro-reactor or energy crystal converter as the power core, a computer composed of precision circuits as the control center, and a product made of various metals and polymers... and the machine armor of the Alpha civilization A, the obvious point is the technology tree that is more inclined to the side of biochemical technology.

Although judging from the paper data, the technological level of the Alpha civilization is indeed ahead of the human civilization by an unknown number of years, but compared with the mechanical structure, the products of biochemical technology have a fatal flaw.

Organisms do not possess what is called "standardity."

If a machine breaks down, as long as you understand the cause of the failure, a qualified mechanic can easily fix it—whether it is an electrical or mechanical problem, one is one, two is two, the standard on the drawing Can be applied to every device...

But organisms are different. For the same disease, some people can use targeted drugs, while others cannot... Even cloned organisms with completely identical gene sequences still have the possibility of mutation.

This is the difference between the dead and the living.

No one knows, after so many years, whether this "blasphemer" mech is still exactly the same as when it came out of the factory.

"This shit...could it have been in disrepair for a long time and broke down?" Ke Lan muttered, "This...this luck is too bad, right?"

Among other things, if it was a "Tarantula" mecha that broke down, Ke Lan had at least six ways to get out: pull down the manual escape valve on the top of his head, or simply take out the toolbox under the seat, and put the Remove the safety screw that fixes the hatch, or use a one-way blasting patch to blow up the safety bolt...

But this thing doesn't work... Ke Lan couldn't even find the gap in the cockpit door, let alone use violent means to remove the door.

Just as he was thinking hard about how to get out, the mecha suddenly trembled slightly, and then, the head-up display turned on again.

"An unexpected situation has been detected, and the trial process has been terminated." The voice from before said in Ke Lan's mind.

emergency?What emergencies?
"Experiment No. 1197 broke through the containment device, and the threat level is being evaluated..."

When Ke Lan wanted to ask what the No. 1197 experimental body was, several powerful tentacles suddenly grew on the driver's seat, pulling him back at once, followed by Ke Lan The "consciousness link" that has been experienced once.

But Ke Lan knew that this time, what he was going to face... was not a virtual enemy.

He once again gained the vision of the Blasphemer's mecha—just as he expected now, he was still standing in the center of the square, with the remains of those explorers who were more than 40 years ago scattered at his feet.

"What do you want me to do? Take that experimental subject back?" Ke Lan tried to move his hands and feet, and asked the trial program.

However, there was no reply to the trial procedure this time. Ke Lan only heard the sound of wind coming from far away, and in the sound of the wind, there was a strange and deep breathing sound...

"Hello? Hello?" Ke Lan continued to shout, but the trial procedure was completely silent, and there was no more sound.

"Could it be..." Ke Lan suddenly thought of a very bad thing: the No. 1197 experimental body that broke through the containment device must have invaded the core control center of this ruin, right?
If that thing has no reason and only wreaks havoc, then the situation is not too bad... But if it is intelligent and knows how to seize control of this ruin... then it will be a big problem.

Not only Ke Lan, but even Layton and Asano Akira in the funnel cave, as well as the hounds by the underground lake and others, will instantly become fish to be slaughtered... Ke Lan has no doubt that the people in this ruins Organs can kill everyone with ease.

Perhaps, I should find a way to stop this escaped "Experiment No. 1197".

The trial system left by the Alpha man gave himself the control authority of the "blasphemer mech" before going "offline", obviously betting his hope on himself...

only……

"This mecha... has no weapons?!"

Whether it's a heavy armor-piercing sword or a plasma-charged cannon... These weaponry, like the crown of ashes, are virtual things created by the trial program.Except for a pair of fists, this blasphemer mecha in reality has nothing in its armed list!
Is this going to let me fight hand-to-hand with that "Experiment No. 1197"?

In the "Mecha Competition" in the upper class of the Ark, there is indeed such an event as "unarmed combat". The fierce collision of fists and irons is indeed enough to arouse the audience's adrenaline to the greatest extent, but the problem is... Unarmed The opponents in the fight are basically mechas of the same specification. According to the requirements of the competition committee, the weight of the mechas, the power of the power furnace, and the model of the skeleton must be exactly the same. The only detail that the contestants can adjust by themselves is the material of the armor. And some accessories for icing on the cake... After all, it is a fighting match. If the gap between the bodies of the two sides is too large, then the match will be useless to watch.

But what Ke Lan is going to face is not a fair and just fighting match... He doesn't even know what "Experiment No. 1197" is... But the containment device that can break through the Alpha civilization must not be strong Where is the weakness.

At this time, the fluorescence between the hexagonal floors on the square turned into a dazzling bright red, and flashed at an increasing frequency, giving the impression that it was about to explode...

"boom!!"

Just when Ke Lan was thinking this way, several floors tens of meters away actually exploded, revealing a diagonal downward passage.

"Is this what you mean to let me go from here?" Ke Lan turned his head and glanced at the passage he came in - with the size of the Blasphemer Mecha, it is obviously impossible to go out from there, but after getting the mech After taking control of the armor, he also tried to open the cockpit, but the armor did not respond.

Although he was able to manipulate the mecha, he was still locked in the body of this metal colossus.

"It's like an online game with a lot of freedom. You can do anything in it, even flirting with beautiful girls...but there is no fucking logout button." Ke Lan couldn't help complaining One sentence.

Although the trial program gave Ke Lan the right to use the Blasphemer Mecha, Ke Lan could only continue this "game" according to the opponent's will.

Ke Lan turned around in the hall, and after confirming that there were really no weapons for the mechs, he had no choice but to bite the bullet and sneak into the downward passage.

The passage wall of this passage is the same as the floor of the hall, and it is also made of hexagonal metal plates. The dazzling red light is also constantly flashing in the passage, like a warship that is about to crash. Like a flashing warning light.

Not long after entering the aisle, Ke Lan found a series of alpha texts appearing on the head-up display in the cockpit: approaching the core control center...trying to connect with the core control center...

Connection failed, ready for a second attempt...

Connection failed, ready for third attempt...

……

After failing for the sixth time, the Blasphemer Mecha finally gave up the connection, and turned to inform Ke Lan that the external connection ports of the core control center have all been closed. It is preliminarily judged that the core control center has been invaded, and automatic protection has been triggered. mechanism.

The core control center will be completely locked after 1000 taels. If you need to unlock the countdown, you need to enter the core control center to eliminate intrusion factors.

"Locked?" The word immediately touched Ke Lan's sensitive nerves. If the core control center is locked, wouldn't he be unable to get out of this mecha?
Even if they can finally escape the ruins with the hounds and return to the ark in this state, they will be sent to the research institute with their shells in minutes...

"Turn left ahead, 200 meters away from the core control center." At this time, the head-up display has completely become a navigation device, but in this passage without forks, the role of this navigation device is indeed somewhat redundant .

Ke Lan moved on.

……

"100 meters from the core control center."

From this distance, Ke Lan could vaguely see a giant round door more than 30 meters high at the end of the passage, but his attention was completely attracted by another thing on the side...

In the passage on the right, a large irregular hole was torn open in the hexagonal alloy plate. Looking in along the large hole, Ke Lan saw a smooth tunnel extending all the way to the black solid ice. the depths.

Only now did he realize that the ground directly below the underground plaza was not a rock formation, but a huge block of black solid ice, and this passage and the core control center in front were deeply buried in this black solid ice.

"The 'containment device' mentioned in the trial program...could it be this black solid ice?"

Ke Lan stretched out one arm of the Blasphemer Mech, put his fingers together into a knife-like hand, and poked hard at the black ice near the hole——

"Ding!"

There was a sound like the clanging of gold and iron, and the fingertips of the Blasphemer's mech only penetrated half a centimeter deep into the ice layer, making it difficult to take another half step.

The hardness of this piece of ice is much harder than the wall of the bottomless sinkhole and the ice passage in the A-087 ruins!
And that guy called "Experiment No. 1197" actually dug such an exaggerated tunnel inside, Ke Lan could imagine how terrifying the power of this thing is with his heels...

This trial procedure, I'm afraid I'm sending myself to death?

[PS Recently, my physical condition is really bad. I wanted to ask for leave several times, but I still gritted my teeth and persisted. I don’t know if it’s because of the rainy weather or something else... Next Monday, I will have my blood drawn for nucleic acid, and I will relapse on Thursday. ...I hope I don't have a relapse, I really want to finish writing this book. 】

(End of this chapter)