Alien Relic Hunter

Chapter 376 I can tell at a glance that you are not human
Ke Lan looked again at the power armor on the "God Servant". It was indeed the "Bronze Hammer VI" that was discontinued 40 years ago. It's because the iconic spherical shoulder armor looks like a pair of huge copper hammers embedded on both sides of the head from a distance.

Although it is named "Bronze Hammer", the armor is not cast from a copper alloy, but a material called "Schroder Steel".This material is developed from WC cemented carbide. The main components are tungsten carbide and cobalt as a binder. It is an alloy with excellent hardness and toughness... However, this material has a fatal shortcoming.

That is, it is heavy. The density of this alloy is extremely high. Even the armor plate on the chest of the "Bronze Hammer VI", which is only [-]mm thick, weighs nearly [-] kilograms, not to mention that the whole body is more than [-]% The protective armor is all made of Schroeder steel.

If these Schroeder steels are replaced with composite armor made of special ceramics and titanium alloys with comparable defensive capabilities, the overall weight will be reduced to one-third of the original, and people later discovered in the ruins of the Alpha civilization. A large number of Nino alloys and Schroeder steel have basically withdrawn from the field of armor manufacturing. It is precisely for this reason that the production of the "Bronze Hammer" series of power armor has been discontinued.

But Schroeder steel has not completely withdrawn from the field of military manufacturing—on the Ark, whether it is the armor-piercing bullets used by individual firearms or the armor-piercing shells used by mechs and tanks, more than 90.00% of the types are used for warhead materials. All of them are Schroeder steel, which is commonly known as "tungsten-core armor-piercing bullets".

Ke Lan and the others had shot the Seed of Corrosion with this kind of bullet, but it had no effect at all.

And the guy in front of him who is called "Servant of God" by the locals, his gauntlets are also made of Schroeder steel. Why can he kill this seed of erosion? !
Ke Lan's gaze shifted to those withered and festering tentacles. The seed of erosion is indeed dead, but physical means alone cannot kill this monster...

The transparent sphere called the "nucleus" is indeed the vital point of the Seed of Corrosion, just like the human heart, but it is impossible to kill the Seed of Corrosion simply by crushing it—the countermeasures equipped by the Security Bureau The seed's special weapon uses explosives and fragments to tear apart the body of the seed of erosion, exposing its "nucleus", and then pierces the shell of the "nucleus" with a nino alloy needle to kill the living cells of the flesh-eating worms. Inject into the "nucleus".

Whether it is the stalagmites and stone cones that Ke Lan found from the seabed caves, or the flesh-eating worms made into "special effects weapons", they essentially use an effect similar to "toxicity" to kill the seeds of erosion of.

As for physical means... Even if a seed of erosion is bombarded to slag with a missile, as long as there is still one cell that is not completely destroyed, it can be revived.

After the incident in the East Ninth District, Ke Lan had "borrowed" Victoria's authority to access the archives of the Security Bureau. In the confidential document called "Seed of Corrosion Research Report", "the impact on conventional physical attacks "Defense capability and adaptability" is filled with only two words.

"immunity".

In this erosion, just "pinching" and being crushed by someone, all the cells showed a similar appearance to "poisoning", and they disintegrated and died in just a few seconds. Ke Lan would never believe the effect achieved by purely physical means.

That can only mean one thing.

What "poisoned" the Seed of Corrosion was the creature hiding in this heavy armor.

Ke Lan no longer uses the word "human" to describe the servant of God... In his eyes, the body of this thing has become a monster that is more threatening than the Seed of Corrosion.

This ton of armor may not be its armor, but some kind of device similar to a "restraint device", just like the "armor" on EVA's biological body.

Ke Lan once again cast his gaze on the body of the god servant, but at this moment, the body of the god servant and the "Bronze Hammer VI" power armor it was wearing suddenly appeared distorted and blurred... Countless details Long, root-like fleshy tentacles drilled out from every gap in the power armor, these tentacles quickly extended and became longer, and in the blink of an eye, the entire armor had been wrapped into a spindle-shaped cocoon.

But when Ke Lan blinked his eyes, the cocoons and tentacles disappeared without a trace, and the servant in power armor returned to his original appearance, standing motionless in front of the missionary's mutilated corpse.

"...Is it a hallucination?" Ke Lan quickly realized that the scene just now was the same thing as the hallucinations he had seen many times in the exile colony and on the weird desert island—these pictures came from In the depths of his mind, those broken memory fragments...

Illusions are false, but what appears in the illusion is real!
Ke Lan looked at the "restored" servant of God, and subconsciously took half a step back. He couldn't help but think of a famous line from an old movie in the old era——

"I can see at a glance that you are not human!"

Ke Lan is no stranger to those long, cocooned tentacles. There are also many such tentacles growing on the body surface of the flesh-eating worm, but the length is not so long.

Could it be that a humanoid flesh-eating worm is covered under this armor?

In this way, it barely makes sense for the Seed of Corrosion to be killed in seconds... But at the same time, another problem popped up.

Leaving aside whether there is a humanoid subspecies of flesh-eating worms, Ke Lan clearly remembers that among the information he obtained from the memory fragments, one clearly stated, "The cells of 'meat-eating worms' are very important for the 'corrosion'. This kind of 'has an irresistible temptation." In the combat operations in the East Ninth District, the Security Bureau and Ke Lan also used "flesh-eating worms" as bait many times to decoy those eroding creatures hiding deep in the streets and alleys. The seeds are brought out to kill...

It only needs a little active cells exposed to the air to make those "Seeds of Corrosion" flock to them. However, now, such a big "meat-eating worm" stands here, even if it is covered with a thick layer of armor, it can't be destroyed. It is enough to drive the seeds of erosion in these two "containers" crazy.

But they didn't have any reaction to it.

It wasn't until the missionary suffered an electric shock and chose to commit suicide that the erosive seeds in his body completely lost control. Before that, they had been in a very stable state.

Ke Lan glanced at another missionary out of the corner of his eye... If the body of the "God Servant" is really a flesh-eating worm, then the seed of erosion in his body would smell the flesh-eating worm as soon as he smelled it. , will enter a period of rapid change...

It's not like it is now, there is no movement at all.

(End of this chapter)