Alien Relic Hunter

Chapter 383 Blockers

"What's all this?" Layton yelled depressingly, "There are only four people in total, and they managed to split the troops into three groups... This is also the case for Akira Asano, he can't even see, he went to chase A hammer!"

"If the radiation mutants in the 'Sick Village' are limited to the level we encountered, there should be no one who can stop Akira Asano... Now I am more worried about Ke Lan. He doesn't have any equipment on him, and he Its own ability is not that kind of combat skill, if you encounter a strong enemy, it may be dangerous." Ivan said with some worry.

As he said, Ke Lan's skills are actually not considered serious combat skills, let alone the Alpha language. Although Time Stop is a BUG-level skill that can subvert the rules of physics, this ability is also biased towards assisting Nature——If the strength gap between the two sides is even greater, even if they can see through all the opponent's offensives and predict all the opponent's actions, it will not help the battle situation.

This is like equipping an ace pilot with an antique mecha from the old era. No matter how quick the ace pilot's response is, the slow and old mecha can't keep up with his operation. As for the firepower and armor If there is a gap in the hardware, let alone - it is scraping on the opponent's body, and if the opponent touches it, he will be instantly killed. When the hardware gap reaches this level, any operation is just a cloud.

"What should we do now?" Layton asked a little anxiously.

"...Ask someone, at least we have to figure out what happened here." Ivan said.

"Hey, I was so anxious that I forgot about this." Layton patted his forehead hard, "Several people here were brought here with Ke Lan and the others. It’s like talking nonsense to the locals.”

As he said that, Layton flew directly to a sick miner who arrived at the space station with them, stretched out his hand, and dragged out the guy who was about to retract into the bunk.

"You poked your head out to watch the fun just now, why are you being cowardly now?" Layton looked at the sick miner. An ill-fitting artificial leather jacket, the exposed part of the neckline is full of signs of skin ulceration and healing, extending to the chin, and there are two ping-pong ball-sized sarcoids on the right side above the collarbone and near the neck.

Looking up, there is a mess of matted hair, and dirty, bloodless cheeks and lips.

"It's lymphoma caused by radiation...it may be in the middle and late stage." Ivan whispered to Layton, and turned to look at the boy, "Don't be nervous, we just want to ask you a few questions, if you want If you answer, we can give you a can and painkillers."

The boy stopped struggling, but he didn't speak either. His eyes shifted from Layton to Ivan with some unease, and then back to Layton's hand holding his arm.

"Leighton, let him go first."

"Let him go and he's gone."

"Are you still afraid that a sick child will slip away from your nose?" Ivan said a little speechlessly, then put on a more friendly tone, and said to the boy: "We just want to ask something, It won't hurt you, let me go now, don't run, okay?"

The boy hesitated for a moment, then nodded.

Layton let go of his hand, and the boy subconsciously shrank back, but he ran away without turning around.

"You... what do you want to ask?"

"What happened here just now, is there a miner who was sent here with you and was taken away by the locals?"

"Just now..." The boy's eyes showed a hint of shrinkage, "A man wearing armor just came here... It's this kind of armor... very similar to yours."

"A person wearing armor? An armor similar to ours?" Layton was taken aback immediately. "Does this group of people also have power armor? Then why didn't they use it just now?"

"Don't interrupt." Ivan patted Layton on the shoulder and said to the boy, "Go on."

"The man in the armor, he selected a few people, let them... let them fight each other." The boy continued, "There is a man, he is very powerful... He killed three people, and then he was killed by the man in the armor People took it away."

"He was taken away alone?" Ivan asked.

"Well... the other selected people are all dead, but they dragged away the corpses." The boy replied.

"Indeed, there is still blood on the ground." Layton nodded to Ivan.

"It seems that the person who was taken away is Ke Lan." Ivan said to himself, "By the way, have you noticed another person, that is also a miner who came here on the same boat as you, a Blind man, with a guide stick in his hand, do you see this man?"

"Blind? No... haven't noticed..." The boy shook his head.

"Which direction did the man in armor go?"

"That... over there." The young man pointed in a direction, but Ivan knew that after going 30 meters in this direction, after turning the first corner, there would be three forks. More so, there's simply no way to be sure which path the "man in armor" chose.

Ivan knew that he couldn't find anything if he asked again, so he took out a can and a painkiller needle and stuffed them into the boy. , Thank you", as if I was afraid that Ivan and the others would take the things back.

"Old Yi, it's the same as if you didn't ask. The clues are completely cut off here." Layton said depressedly, "Could it be possible for the two of us to conduct a carpet search of this space station?"

"I think...Ke Lan may be fine now."

"why?"

"Do you remember what the old man said before? He said that broadcast was an 'oracle', which symbolized that the local people would choose soldiers and sacrifices for the 'god' they believed in...Combined with the information we got from this young man , I deduce that this fight is most likely the selection ceremony. Those who are killed are the 'sacrifices', and those who survive are the selected 'soldiers'."

"Damn, you mean, they chose Ke Lan to be a soldier?"

"It should be..." Before Ivan finished speaking, he was interrupted by a dull growl. The two took out their weapons in an instant and looked in the direction of the sound.

"Boom, boom, boom..." The heavy footsteps sounded, and then became faster and faster, and were rapidly approaching the two people's positions.

"what?"

"I don't know...but from the sound, it should be a big guy!"

As soon as the words fell, a giant beast with a body length of at least six meters had already bumped out from behind the scaffolding on the right side of the two of them. The scaffolding made of steel pipes was directly knocked down in half by it. Many people were thrown out and landed heavily on the ground and the scaffolding on the other side.

These people were lucky. As for those who were unlucky, they were simply buried in the collapsed scaffolding. The broken and deformed steel pipes and frames pressed on them and stuck their limbs. The more they tried to break free, the more they suffered. the more serious the injury.

As for the unluckiest people who were directly hit by the giant beast, they exploded into a large mass of paste-like red objects like tomatoes hit by a high-speed car.

"Why is there such a monster on the space station? Haven't the transport ships in charge of delivering the goods never found it?" Layton exclaimed, hanging the Gauss rifle in his hand back to his waist, and then took out a door A more powerful continuous-fire howitzer is coming.

The main body of this monster is a four-legged human torso that has been magnified more than three times, but there is no head on this torso. Instead, it is a sarcoma that has shrunk to the size of a fist and is covered with gully-like lines on the surface. The deep blackish purple on the top, under the dim light, looks like a large walnut.

On the back of this monster, there is a large cluster of flesh-colored tentacles, each of which is as thick as a human thigh.One side of the tentacles is densely packed with suckers, and the other side is covered with raised and thick blood vessels. With the pulsation of these blood vessels, dark purple blood continuously flows to the end of the tentacles, and then returns to the monster from another blood vessel. in the body.

But except for the tumor on the neck and a bunch of tentacles on the back, the rest of the monster was completely covered under the iron-gray scales. Layton noticed that when the scaffolding collapsed just now, there were several tentacles. The broken steel pipes slid across these scales without leaving even a trace of white marks.

At this moment, the monster pressed its front half to the ground, as if it was sizing up Layton and Ivan—even though this thing didn't have any "eyes" on its body, Layton and Ivan could Fan has a feeling of being "stared".

The tentacles on the monster's back swayed slightly, but the sound it made was a "hissing" sound like a snake spitting out a message. Just this sound alone made people feel a chill creeping up their spine.

"Have you ever seen this kind of monster?" Layton couldn't help asking Ivan.

"Of course not..." Ivan shook his head slightly, for fear of disturbing the monster who was "staring" at them, "especially the scales on its body, compared to all known scaled earth creatures and Alpha Among the star creatures, there is no one that is worthy of the title."

"But this tentacle gives me a familiar feeling." Layton continued, "Isn't this thing a seed of erosion? Anyway, there is a saying that there are mutants of this thing, and it doesn't matter what kind of weird it looks. Not surprising."

"For the seed of erosion..." Ivan stared at the monster tens of meters away, carefully stretched his hand behind his back, and took out a black crossbow.

This is the "Seed of Corrosive Killing Crossbow MKⅡ" jointly developed by the Security Bureau and the Equipment Department of the Research Institute. It is an improved version of the crossbow used by those Security Bureau agents in the East Ninth District - a crossbow that looks like a small harpoon The arrow is divided into three sections, the tip is a barbed arrowhead forged with nino alloy, the middle section is made of directional high explosives and a circle of prefabricated fragments, and the arrow shaft at the end is embedded with a trigger-type syringe. Living cells containing a trace of flesh-eating worms.

Compared with the "MKI type", the new killing crossbow does not need to be used with an injection gun. The directional explosive in the middle of the arrow shaft can expand the wound at the arrow shaft without damaging the arrow shaft body, and the prefabricated fragments can also cut Remove a lot of flesh and blood, and at [-] seconds after the explosion, the trigger injector will be fired directly, injecting the living cells of the flesh-eating worm into the target.

Of course, the "MK II" also has a flaw, that is, it must aim at the location of the "nucleus" to shoot, otherwise it is difficult to kill a erosive species in the blast phase or mature stage with only such a few active cells. .

"Don't use the killing crossbow yet." Seeing that Ivan had pushed a crossbow into the chamber, Lei Du hurriedly stopped him, "Even if this thing is really a mutant of the Corrosion Seed, its 'core' It must be hidden deep in the body, so don't waste ammunition."

"What are you going to do?"

"Try close combat first." Layton removed the largest metal box on his back, and took out a chainsaw sword with a total length of two meters from it—this chainsaw sword was forged by himself. The entire chain saw is [-] meters long and is driven by a crystallization engine.

There are a total of 48 teeth on this chainsaw, 40 of which are made of pure Nino alloy, and the other eight teeth are memory alloys infiltrated with stalagmite fragments-every fifth ordinary saw teeth have one This kind of special sawtooth makes this chainsaw sword, which can be regarded as a big killer, also possess the lethal power to kill the seeds of erosion.

"Old Yi, help me hold the line, let me meet this monster." As Layton said, Dang even started the engine of the chainsaw sword, causing the 48 teeth to rotate.

I don't know whether it was the dull engine sound or the high-speed rotating sawtooth that stimulated this monster. With a kick of its hind legs, it directly rushed towards Layton!

But Layton's movement was one step faster, several gusts of compressed air burst out from the backpack behind him, pushing him into the air, avoiding the monster's pounce.Afterwards, the propeller on the backpack shot two light blue tail flames upwards, allowing Layton to change direction directly in the air, and smashed the chainsaw sword at the monster below.

"Puchi!" The half-ton-heavy chainsword slashed a nearly 270-degree arc in the air, cutting off the two tentacles on the monster's back neatly. After completing this attack, Layton once again used the push The device turned its direction, and instantly opened a distance of more than ten meters from the monster.

"Tsk... It seems that I guessed wrong, this thing is not a seed of erosion..." Layton looked at the two severed tentacles, deep purple blood was gushing out from the cut surface, and the two severed tentacles , it was beating crazily on the ground.

It stands to reason that the part of the Seed of Erosion that is injured by a stalagmite or a stone cone will quickly turn into a scorched black appearance, and then wither and die.But at this time, the monster's wound only showed the appearance of being injured by a sharp weapon, and there was no abnormality.

From this point of view, this monster has nothing to do with the Seed of Corrosion.

"Since this is the case, there is no need to risk melee combat." Layton put down the chainsaw sword and took out the howitzer again.

But at this moment, the scales on the monster's body opened up one after another—there were lumpy glands growing under these scales. Before Layton and Ivan could react, they went up A hundred streams of pale yellow liquid have been shot out from the glands, sticking to the bodies of the two of them,
The pale yellow liquid froze as soon as it came into contact with the air, just like spider silk. The two of them only felt a huge force coming from these "silk threads", and they were dragged to the monster in an instant.

"Grass, what are these things?!" Layton shouted anxiously and angrily, pulling out his dagger to cut off these silk threads, but when the blade of the dagger touched the thread, it was also stuck by it No matter how hard you pull it, you can't pull it off!

[PS4500 word big chapter, can I add a quarter of the chapter?I still owe 1500 words, I apply for repayment in installments——]

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