Alien Relic Hunter

Chapter 342 Misfortunes Never Come Alone
"If it's just bats and mice, this number can still handle..." Ke Lan said, at this time, Valentina no longer used the dagger to chop the bats and mice pouring out from the bottom of the lifting platform, she directly manipulated the The mech rushed up - the efficiency of crushing is much higher than that of slashing.

In less than ten seconds, Valkyrie's outer armor was covered with green bat-mouse blood, which looked like a cyberpunk-style fluorescent graffiti, but even so, there were still countless bat-mouse blood Fearless, they pounced on the machine body, stepped on the corpses of their companions, and continued to climb up. Soon, Valkyrie's body was covered with layers of bats and mice...they used their sharp teeth to bite Looking at the outer armor of the airframe, even Ke Lan, who was sitting in the cockpit of another airframe, could hear the tooth-piercing, dense scratching sound.

Valentina simply let the machine squat down, and then directly activated the energy shield.

A brilliant light curtain in the darkness flickered, and with Valkyrie as the center, a blank area with a radius of several meters was instantly emptied.

Including those bat mice that climbed onto Valkyrie, at least [-] bat mice and more corpses were vaporized in this short moment, and a disgusting burnt smell filled the air immediately the entire shaft.

"This is not normal... Although small rodents like bats and mice are fierce by nature, they are still fundamentally different from low-level creatures without brains, such as cleft-jaw worms...Take advantage and avoid it Harm is the nature of living things, if so many companions were killed, the remaining bats and mice should have scattered and fled long ago..." Ke Lan thought with some doubts.

"Is it because something is driving them? A mind-controlling rat king? Or some kind of pheromone that drives them crazy?"

"No... these hypotheses are not valid... the four-eyed six-legged bat-mouse is one of the indigenous creatures of Planet Alpha that has been thoroughly studied by humans. There is no rat king or mad pheromone at all. something exists..."

"Then why are they trying their best to stop us? Could it be... this is the nest of this group of bats and mice?" Ke Lan's expression froze for a moment, and the corners of his mouth twitched a few times unnaturally, "This luck... Is it too far behind?"

Creatures such as bats and rats belong to the bottom of the food chain of the Alpha natives, and their individual strength is very weak. Even if they appear in groups, they cannot pose a great threat to humans with advanced weapons-it is no exaggeration to say that only by A Valkyrie machine body, even without weapons, can easily kill tens of thousands of bats and rats in a large nest.

but--

If there is a nest of bats and rats under this well, it means that the underground passage with only one straight path may have turned into a super complicated underground labyrinth at this time... The ability of these inconspicuous little things to transform the terrain It's terrifying, as long as they are given enough time, even a whole rock formation can be completely hollowed out.

"No, we have to go back to the ground!" Ke Lan, who was suddenly startled, grabbed the winch, but when he pushed the winch again in the opposite direction, there was a sudden "click" sound from the bottom of the lifting platform. There was a crisp sound——Ke Lan only felt that the winch in his hand suddenly lost its unique sense of resistance, and the entire lifting platform fell rapidly to the bottom of the well.

"Fuck, what kind of broken safety device is this? It doesn't break when it should be broken, and it doesn't break when it shouldn't be broken..." Cursing, Ke Lan opened the door of the cockpit and shouted to Akira Asano: "Go to the cockpit Come in! Get ready for the shock!"

"What's going on, aren't we going down?" Valentina clung to the edge of the lifting platform and asked in the team channel.

"The reason why these bats and rats attacked us desperately is because their lairs are underneath... the underground passage of the deserted sandstone city must have been riddled with holes by these guys, and we strayed into it If not, it may not be possible to get out in a short time!"

"You mean we're going back the way we came?" Valentina asked aloud.

"Correct."

"Understood." After finishing speaking, her body turned around and grabbed Ke Lan's body, "You also hold on to me, and I will fly you up."

Ke Lan’s is still a whiteboard skeleton at this time. The output of the propellers of the skeleton is not enough to support the body to fly to the wellhead, but Valkyrie is equipped with external propellers. Although this thing is a consumable, the internal After the filled fuel is used up, it cannot be replenished, but its output is more than ten times that of its own propeller, which is enough to fly out of the well with two aircrafts.

There was a muffled "bang", and the hot tail flames shot out from the jets of the propellers, but just after the two airframes had just been pulled up a few meters, the thrust suddenly changed in one direction, causing the two airframes to move towards each other. It hit the wall of the well!

"What, what's going on...?" Ke Lan asked hurriedly. Just now, he seemed to have glimpsed from the monitor screen that one of the two thrusters fell off Valkyrie's back, as if launched The missiles generally flew towards the mouth of the well...

The other remaining propeller is completely out of control, and the tail flames are flying around. In this case, even an ace pilot like Valentina can't maintain it. Keeping the balance of the body, Ke Lan bumped around in the shaft.

"It seems that...the connection of the thruster...is broken...I don't know why...this kind of thing happened..." The successive bumps and collisions made Valentina even speak intermittently …As for Ke Lan, he simply let go of the joystick and closed his eyes—anyway, as long as he doesn’t get thrown out of the magnetic levitation seat by inertia, he won’t die if he falls.

Akira Asano was also holding on to the back of Ke Lan's chair... He should be in the best condition among the three, but the problem is that he can't help in this situation.

"I... I know... It's the blood of those bats and rats... Corroded the connecting parts of the propeller... Then under the maximum output, the corroded connecting parts were overwhelmed..." Ke Lan said with eyes closed, although Figured out why, but it didn't help anymore——

Valentina reversed the elbow joint of the mech's right arm, and cut off the connecting piece of the remaining thruster with a dagger, and the unbound thruster flew out instantly, and after several collisions with the well wall , exploded more than 20 meters above their heads.

The two machine bodies finally fell back onto the lifting platform...but before they could recover, the lifting platform fell heavily to the bottom of the shaft!

(End of this chapter)