Alien Relic Hunter

Chapter 381 Breaking the Cocoon (4000-word chapter)
Then the ones that are hatching in these nearly a hundred cocoons are all monsters like servants of God?

The number of residents in the entire "sick village" is only [-] people, and one percent of them can be transformed... Ke Lan suddenly felt that the laboratories in the Ark Research Institute that study human mutation and transformation are weak exploded.

Hundreds of top talents in various fields gather together, burn hundreds of millions of funds every year, and various policies and resources are prioritized. All of these are added together, and it is not as good as a "hatchery" built by a monster.If those experts saw this scene, some people would probably be so ashamed and angry that they would commit suicide?
These person-high cocoons are translucent, and Ke Lan can vaguely see human bodies suspended in them—the cocoons seem to be filled with a dense liquid, just like the amniotic fluid used to protect the embryos in the womb As for whether these fluids are used for protection or to provide nutrients to the human body in the cocoon, Ke Lan does not know.

He walked around a meat cocoon on the edge, and he found that there were many meat tubes of different thicknesses inserted into the human body wrapped in the cocoon, and these meat tubes extended to the bottom of the cocoon, and covered the The meat membranes on the ground are connected.

"These tubes... aren't they umbilical cords?"

Ke Lan pulled out a thin and thin blade from the miniature lockpicker he was carrying, and lightly poked the surface of the meat cocoon. Suddenly, a small opening opened on the meat cocoon, and there was a smell of fishy smell. The smelly liquid shot out from the opening.

Ke Lan stepped back quickly, so as not to let the unknown liquid splash on his face.

"It's so fragile during the hatching process?" He looked at the blade in his hand with some depression. This blade is used to pick locks. Although it is very thin, the front end is not considered sharp.And he didn't use much strength at all just now, even if it was the fragile and delicate skin of a human baby, it wouldn't puncture it with such a light touch.

These thin-skinned meat cocoons give Ke Lan the feeling of a balloon filled with water and the rubber material stretched to the limit of expansion; Pimples that are about to explode on their own—not to mention poking them, even if they are accidentally touched, they may explode with a "snap".

But Ke Lan remembered that the fleshy tentacles extending from the body of the servant of God before were not so fragile, and that thing could even open the armor made of "Schroder steel"-although it was the riveted part that was opened, However, one can imagine the force required to deform a six-millimeter-thick alloy plate to such an extent.

If it were the tentacles that wove these cocoons, they would probably be squeezed into a pool of sticky and thick paste, and then seep out from the gaps in the armor.

The spray of the unknown liquid only lasted about two seconds, and the surface of the pierced cocoon had already healed.

"Although the physical strength is not very good, the recovery ability is not bad..." Just as Ke Lan was about to continue observing, two cocoons on the other side suddenly began to squirm slightly.

The color of these two cocoons is relatively dark, and the "amniotic fluid" in the cocoons is not transparent but dark brown.As the squirm became more and more intense, a large number of cracks began to appear on the surface of the cocoon, and these cracks soon became a finger-wide crack, and the dark brown liquid inside the cocoon flowed along these cracks. The berth flowed out.

A faint smell of blood immediately filled the surrounding space, and Ke Lan took a few steps back, staring at the two mutated cocoons vigilantly.

"This is... going to break out of the cocoon?" Ke Lan looked around, but there was no weapon for him to use in this place, so he had to take out the only piece of clay explosives in the secret pocket, put a toothpick The thick and thin micro-detonators were inserted.

With a crisp sound of "stabbing", the top of a cocoon was torn apart from the internal test by a pair of deformed hands... Perhaps it is not accurate to describe it with hands. The limbs that appeared in Ke Lan's vision have been completely Alienated into a strangely shaped weapon.

Although the palm and the five fingers could barely be distinguished, there were many sharp, barbed bone spurs protruding from the back of the hand and the knuckles.

The nails at the end of the ten fingers disappeared, replaced by sharp claws that pierced the skin... Not only the appearance, but also the structure of the bones themselves has undergone earth-shaking changes--as we all know, human knuckles cannot be bent in reverse, But the nails of these hands are as flexible as the joints of a spider. From the most distal knuckles to the end of the torn metacarpal, they can move freely without restriction. They move rapidly and constantly expand the cocoon. The crack at the top...

Finally, the crack at the top of the cocoon was widened enough to allow it to drill out, but Ke Lan did not wait until the creature inside the cocoon poked its head out... More than five minutes passed, and even the pair The deformed hands were all retracted into the cocoon, but Ke Lan still couldn't see the true face of this thing.

"...No movement?" Ke Lan thought for a while, then shifted his gaze to another cocoon, but the cocoon was not even torn apart... Gradually, a large number of black spots began to appear on the cocoon. From a distance, the surface of these two meat cocoons looked like overripe bananas that had been placed on the table for a long time. The black spots like sesame seeds gradually expanded to the whole body of the meat cocoon. Each cocoon has completely turned black.

The black cocoon shriveled up quickly, shrinking into a hard ball the size of a watermelon... At this time, Ke Lan noticed that in the gap between the cocoon and the cocoon, there were almost everywhere something like this.

"Is this... a failure in evolution?" Ke Lan thought for a moment and came to such a conclusion.

But think about it, the success rate of biochemical modification surgery is so low, not to mention this extremely primitive hatching method... If the things in these nearly a hundred cocoons can survive, then with a force, The people on the space station have long been able to use force to snatch the transport ship, and then leave this "prison" suspended in low-Earth orbit.

"But I still have to find a weapon, otherwise it will be fun if one of them hatches successfully." The Wall of Flesh didn't show any hostility, but that doesn't mean that the creatures it hatched were also like this - just from the structure of the hands It can be concluded that this is a kind of creature specially bred for fighting, which is essentially the same as the biological weapons developed by the Alpha civilization.

Ke Lan's eyes quickly settled on a square protrusion on the wall—although Area F had been evacuated, some things that were difficult to move and of low value were left behind, and this protrusion First of all, if Ke Lan guessed correctly, it should be an emergency fire cabinet.

He tapped the ground with his toes, and floated to the front of the fire cabinet, then took out the lock pick knife, and with some difficulty cut off the meat film covering it.

The toughness of this layer of meat membrane is much stronger than those of meat cocoons, especially the fascia inside, with a single cut, there is no way to leave even a trace. Ke Lan can only use the back part of the lock knife. The one-centimeter-long sawtooth broke the fascia little by little, and then tore it apart vigorously by hand.

The cut meat membrane did not bleed, only a little egg white-like substance seeped out from the cut surface. When Ke Lan got closer and smelled it, he immediately smelled the rich fragrance, so that the movements under his hands were slow One shot.

"If this thing can be artificially concocted, I'm afraid there will be several more best-selling drugs on the black market..."

(Anti-harmony, use English words instead, everyone understands it.)
After tossing for a long time, the fire cabinet wrapped in meat film was finally exposed. Through the observation window made of tempered glass, Ke Lan confirmed that everything inside was there—although the process was a bit hard, at least it was not a waste of effort .

This is the "FC119" special fire cabinet for airships produced by "Yunshang Technology Supplies Co., Ltd." The whole body is made of high-temperature and collision-resistant explosion-proof materials. The things in the fire cabinet were not taken away by the construction team.

The so-called anti-riot material is actually composed of several layers of reinforced engineering plastics and aluminum alloy. It would take a long time to saw it with a chainsaw, and it would be impossible to tear it by hand... Fortunately, this kind of Smart fire cabinets have their own screens and a mini keyboard for maintenance personnel to register relevant data—since there is an input terminal, Ke Lan has a way to hack into the background of the unlocking program.

I have to say that the quality of the old brand "Yunshang" is still very good. It has been decades, and there is still a small half of the battery in the fire cabinet. Ke Lan quickly typed on the keyboard. After a few clicks, the fool-like registration form that was originally displayed on the screen disappeared, and it became a compilation interface with black and gray as the main color.

The encryption program of the fire cabinet still uses the old one decades ago, and this old-fashioned encryption program has already been cracked countless times by various masters on the Internet.In the era Ke Lan lives in, it has almost fallen to the point where entry-level hackers can handle it. Just enter a few keywords in the search engine, and you can find a lot of various cracking tutorials on free websites. .

It took only fifteen seconds for Ke Lan to complete the unlocking process of the fire cabinet. The red indicator light next to the cabinet door instantly turned green, and with a soft "click", the lock tongue was retracted.

There are not many things in the cabinet, only two gas masks with oxygen cylinders, an insulated cloak, a bottle of dry powder fire extinguisher and a special fire ax-these things are not used to extinguish the fire, but For people to escape.

In fact, if there is a fire on the empty ship that is difficult for automatic fire-fighting robots to extinguish, it basically means abandoning the ship. The function of these things is to allow people to pass through the passage blocked by the fire and rush to escape in time. cabin to go.

"The ax is good." Ke Lan weighed the heavy fire ax in his hand. The shape of this fire ax is very different from the general fire ax. On both sides of the back of the ax, there are two small rocket propellers, and The handle of the ax can be stretched to a length of [-] meters. By pressing the button on the handle, the four rocket propellers can be ignited, and a powerful chop can be made.

Even though there was only one chance, this blow was powerful enough to split the [-] cm thick metal airtight door on the airship, and it could be regarded as a terrifying killing move when used in battle.

As for other things, they are not as effective as this axe, but anyway, the weight of these things can be ignored in a microgravity environment, so Ke Lan simply carried them all with him.

……

At this time, somewhere in the residential area of ​​Area B.

"What's wrong, why do I feel that there are several times more eyes staring at us in the dark, is it an illusion?" Layton looked around and said to Ivan nervously.

"It's not an illusion." Ivan replied, "In the past 5 minutes, the number of living targets has increased from 35 to 17 in a circular area with me as the center and a radius of 55 meters... We are surrounded .”

"Such accurate data? Did you bring a heartbeat sensor?"

"Well." Ivan nodded, "Although there is interference, the data is not bad."

"What are they trying to do? Could it be a fight?" Layton said, "Look carefully, the locals who were wandering around just now have disappeared. They obviously know that something is going to happen."

"Well. But anyway, we can't do it first."

"I know, I know, try not to cause conflict if it doesn't cause conflict..." Layton muttered, "But what if they attack us? Don't we fight back?"

As soon as Layton finished speaking, Ivan didn't even have time to answer him. There was a sudden "swoosh" in the dark, and a blow dart hit the top of Layton's helmet, scratching out a few sparks, and then fell to the ground. .

"Grass! I was hit!" Layton immediately arched his body and put his arms on his chest. "Ivan! Someone shot me with an arrow!"

"Don't fight back yet!" Ivan shouted in a low voice, "This attack is not a threat! If we do it, the situation will be difficult to deal with!"

"Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!"

Two more blow darts, one hit the outside of Layton's shoulder armor, and the other stuck in the soft rubber protective sleeve wrapped around the elbow joint.

Layton pulled out the blow dart stuck on the protective case. This blow dart is made of a metal pen holder, and the hollow arrow is filled with some light yellow viscous substance. It is obvious that this is a blow dart. Poison Arrow.

"Damn it! These guys are using poisonous arrows. They want to kill us? Can't they fight back?" Layton yelled, "I've already turned on the safety of the weapon! If these guys dare to shoot another As soon as an arrow comes, I'll shoot straight away!"

"Calm down! Layton, calm down!" Ivan quickly grabbed Layton's arm, "Whether these arrows are poisonous or not, they can't hurt us, can they? Calm down!"

"Didn't I pull the trigger yet? Then tell me, what should we do now?"

"These people suddenly attacked us. There must be a reason... The most likely thing is that something happened to Ke Lan and Asano Akira. Aren't they equipped with trackers? Can you locate their location?"

"It's useless. From the moment the communication equipment failed, the signal from the tracker also disappeared. I can only roughly determine their previous location. But whether they are still there now, I can't guarantee it at all!"

"Then go there, find Ke Lan and the others first, and then make a decision!" Ivan said in a deep voice.

[PS Thanks to the 1500 starting coins rewarded by the demon warrior Kuang Dao. 】

(End of this chapter)