Alien Relic Hunter

Chapter 550: Experimental Specimen Breaking Through Containment

"This injury...was not caused by an autonomous robot," Schroeder said.

"You said something nonsense." Ke Lan said coldly, "It seems that something has escaped from the underground ice storage of the research institute."

Although they had already made this psychological preparation before entering the polluted area, but now they only encountered the traces left by these things at the first intersection, which made Ke Lan feel uneasy premonition.

The situation in the polluted area seemed to be more serious than expected—this was only the outermost part of the polluted area, and he simply didn't want to think about what the laboratory building and underground ice storage in the central area would look like now.

"There is movement!" At this time, Akira Asano suddenly reminded, "At our three o'clock direction, the distance is 81 meters and the height is 45 meters!"

Ke Lan immediately turned off the screen synchronization, and looked up in the direction indicated by Akira Asano—a giant crustacean shaped like a mosquito landed on the top of a tall building. This "big mosquito" had three pairs of extended lengths. The wings, which are more than ten meters long, are so thin that they are almost transparent. If it weren't for the slender blood vessels inside the wings, Ke Lan wouldn't even be able to see the outline of the three pairs of wings clearly.

On its head, there are two huge compound eyes that occupy more than half of the head. The two-meter-long spike-like mouthparts under the compound eyes are not so much "needles" as a sharp spear. On both sides of the mouthparts, there are jagged spines.

After seeing the mouthparts in this shape, Ke Lan can almost be sure that the corpse that was cut in two should be thanks to this "big mosquito".

The purpose of this thing should be similar to the mosquitoes on the earth, it is used to pierce the prey to suck blood... But for it, the "prey" of human beings is too small, even if the spike-shaped mouthparts It can penetrate the prey's body, and as long as the prey struggles a little, it will penetrate from the other end of the body, or simply cut the whole body into pieces...

If one were to insist on finding a blood-sucking object that "matched the body shape" for this big mosquito, Ke Lan felt that a big guy like Leviathan would be quite suitable.

Ke Lan didn't dare to transmit the real-time footage back to the headquarters because he wasn't sure whether the big mosquito had been infected by the "meme", so he could only describe its characteristics in words.

"This thing should be the 'collection' of the research institute?" Ke Lan pointed the gun in his hand at the big mosquito on the roof and asked, "What is its weakness?"

"According to your description, what you encountered should be an indigenous creature 'Six-winged Gray Mosquito' captured from the 'Sludge Swamp', but, according to the information provided by the research institute, the adult Six-winged Gray Mosquito has the largest wingspan It will not exceed half a meter...As for the underground ice storage, there are indeed a batch of specimens of the gray mosquito, but the largest one is only 35 centimeters long." Schroeder said.

"Understood, it's a mutant." Ke Lan replied, "It seems that the big mosquito either ate something that shouldn't be eaten, or was infected by some weird virus or gene... The problem now is, This thing is staring at me and Akira Asano, I think as long as we make any move, it will immediately rush towards us."

"The six-winged gray mosquito itself is not very aggressive. It will only hunt when it is hungry. As long as you don't disturb it, maybe..."

"You also said that this guy only hunts when he's hungry. You've kept him in the freezer for so many years. His digestive system should be cleaner than a poor man's wallet, right?" The hound's voice broke in suddenly. .Schroeder was interrupted - at his strong request, everyone in the Hunting God Hunting Group also obtained permission to enter the control center of the command headquarters.

"No, old dog, I don't think it's a matter of whether it's hungry or not." Ke Lan lowered his voice, "There are so many corpses here, and the blood is flowing all over the ground, but it doesn't show any signs of it. Out of the desire to eat... Chief Schroeder, this kind of mosquito shouldn't only eat 'fresh food', right?"

"In addition to sucking the blood of the prey, gray mosquitoes can also be regarded as a kind of 'scavenging organisms'. In the areas where a large number of gray mosquitoes gather in the stucco swamp, there are likely to be large indigenous The corpses of living things, compared to fresh blood, they even prefer to suck the corpse liquid that has been corrupted by microorganisms, because the nutrients in it are richer than blood, and they are immune to most of the viruses and bacteria produced by the decay of corpses. "A voice Ke Lan hadn't heard before said.

"who are you?"

"Dr. John Norrison, a member of the countermeasures team, an expert in the indigenous biology of Planet Alpha." Lin Qiming introduced.

"The six-winged gray mosquitoes in the underground freezer are basically caught by my team in the stucco swamp." Dr. Norison continued - judging from the sound, he should be an old man in his twilight years .

"Well, Dr. Norison, since this is your 'collection', can you tell me where the weakness of this mosquito is?"

"The gray mosquito has no weak point... because its whole body is very fragile, we must be very careful when capturing it to ensure that its body will not be damaged... a small-caliber fully automatic self-defense weapon can kill They, these indigenous creatures, are the only ones that can pose a threat to humans, probably only when there are more than [-] of them at the same time." Dr. Norison said.

"Okay, then I'll try to attack its torso..." Ke Lan set the Gauss assault rifle in his hand to the overload charging mode. In a short period of [-] seconds, a row of blue indicators on both sides of the barrel The lights turned on one by one, and the big mosquito parked on the roof had also been locked by the intelligent fire control system of the power armor.

Ke Lan didn't even need to manually aim, all he had to do was pull the trigger.

"Om-"

Buzzing sounded inside the gun chamber, and the magnetic warhead that had escaped from the shackles turned into a blue streamer and went straight to the target—even though the mutated six-winged gray mosquito flew up the moment it fired the shot, it was still more powerful than it was at the beginning. Its reaction speed is still half a chip slower when it comes to charging shots with a speed as high as 4000 meters per second.

"Oh!"

After the blue streamer hit the abdomen of the mutated gray six-winged mosquito, Ke Lan heard the bursting sound produced by the high-speed flying warhead tearing the air to form a vacuum—however, after he saw the actual hit effect, an old saying could not help but Popping out in the head.

"Thunder, little rain."

This mighty shot left only an inconspicuous groove on the carapace of the gray mosquito. The bullet failed to penetrate the hard carapace, but slid along the curved surface of the carapace. , and blasted into the elevator machine room on the roof of the building next to it.

On the contrary, two large irregular holes with a diameter of more than two meters were blasted out on the wall of the elevator machine room.

Ke Lan was very clear about the power of the shot just now—although the charging time was only [-] seconds, the voltage was overloaded to more than [-] times the rated load within [-] seconds , This charging mode will even cause permanent damage to the coil acceleration array in the barrel, but in exchange for a "charged blow" that is several times more powerful.

The "charged blow" of this gun is powerful enough to penetrate the frontal armor of all types of main battle tanks in Ark's active service, but it was bounced off by the carapace of this mosquito...

"Dr. Norrison, this guy's mutation seems... a bit beyond belief." Ke Lan said, "The charged shots of the Z-79 Gauss assault rifle can't even penetrate its exoskeleton."

Before the people in the headquarters gave a response, the flying mutated six-winged gray mosquito had already swooped down towards Ke Lan. Ke Lan hurriedly switched the Gauss rifle back to the rapid-fire mode, aiming at the giant that fell down with a shuttle. spilled out—

This time, Ke Lan aimed at the three pairs of high-frequency vibrating wings on its back.

In an instant, dozens of light blue streamers had penetrated the wings of the six-winged gray mosquito—compared to the exoskeleton whose strength far surpassed that of tank armor, the wings were not so perverted... only However, shooting through the wings did not have any effect on the pounce of the six-winged gray mosquito. Seeing that the spear-like mouthparts had already pierced the front, Ke Lan would be nailed to death in the next second on the ground.

Just at this critical moment, Ke Lan simply threw away the Gauss assault rifle in his hand, the energy shield generator in his left hand directly outputted full power, and with a forceful flick of his right hand, a "high-frequency particle vibration dagger" was pulled from the The arm armor was thrown out of the dark groove and held upside down in the hand.

The sharp mouthparts of the six-winged gray mosquito blazed up the moment it touched the energy shield. After it pierced through the energy shield, the hardest layer of carapace on the surface was almost completely ablated. Yes, Ke Lan swung the dagger forward, and immediately cut off most of the mouthpiece!

Afterwards, he jumped up directly, and with the energy shield, he slammed into the six-winged gray mosquito in midair. The flames immediately burned along the mouthparts and head of the big mosquito all the way to the torso, with transparent His wings were scorched black and curled up.

One of the limbs of the six-winged gray mosquito swept hard, and Ke Lan was directly thrown out, but a second before being thrown out, Ke Lan inserted the vibrating dagger into its huge compound eye with a backhand. middle!

"Boom!!" Ke Lan fell firmly into the pile of corpses, but fortunately, the protective measures of this suit of armor are not bad. Apart from the excruciating pain all over his body, he didn't even break a single bone. broken.

On the other hand, the situation of the six-winged gray mosquito is much worse than that of Ke Lan - the vibrating dagger penetrated its compound eyes, almost turning its brain into a paste, and a large amount of dark green mixed with dark red liquid kept coming. The ground spewed out from the wound, and these liquids burned more violently after touching the flames on its body surface. Soon, half of the six-winged gray mosquito's body was wrapped in raging flames.

The six-winged gray mosquito with a damaged brain was struggling desperately on the ground, and its jointed limbs were constantly scratching and pulling on the ground, turning the nearby corpses into a bloody mess. The fat abdomen was raised high, and a large amount of filth seemed to be thinning out. It sprayed out and stuck to the buildings on the side of the street.

Ke Lan took a closer look, and there were a lot of soybean-sized particles mixed in these things that sprayed out like diarrhea, which looked a bit like a top-level delicacy called "caviar" in the old era-although Ke Lan has always been I can't understand why people in the old era would so admire this disgusting looking "food".

"When death comes, it should be considered as an instinct of living beings to try their best to leave offspring..." Ke Lan lying on the ground glanced at the insect eggs that had covered the wall, shook his head, and from He took out an incendiary bomb from his backpack, pulled the tab, and threw it hard.

"Asano Akira, get rid of this big mosquito. We have wasted too much time on this guy." Ke Lan said.

Akira Asano nodded, and rushed to the building where the six-winged gray mosquito was originally parked in two steps in three steps. The propeller on the back and the universal suction cup on the sole of the boot were activated at the same time. Running up the vertical glass outer wall for dozens of meters, and then kicking hard, the whole person rolled backwards in the air, and fell towards the dying gray mosquito in the middle of the road——

"bass."

The long knife was unsheathed, and the tip of the knife directly penetrated the back of the gray mosquito's head, and Asano Akira, who landed on the back of the gray mosquito, just bent his knees slightly to defuse the momentum of the fall, holding the handle of the knife tightly with both hands , without pulling out the blade, just ran towards the tail of the six-winged gray mosquito.

The blade of the Nino alloy war knife cut open the torso of the six-winged gray mosquito directly along the midline-although this insect-like indigenous creature does not have a spine in its body, the nerve center hidden under the hard exoskeleton was discovered by Akira Asano. This knife was completely destroyed, and the gray mosquito that was still struggling suddenly stopped moving, only the jointed limbs hanging on the ground twitched from time to time.

"The knife technique is very precise." Ke Lan, who got up from the ground, gave Akira Asano a thumbs up, not caring whether Akira Asano could see it, "It destroyed the nerve center of this bug with one knife. Those who play anatomy are still proficient."

"I don't know the body structure of this creature..." Akira Asano shook his head, "I can just feel that some special things flow and pass there, so I chose those places as the targets of the attack. "

"What you feel should be the bioelectrical signal transmitted in the nervous system... Can you also see the nervous system in the human body?"

"Yes, but it's very blurry, not as clear as this bug." Akira Asano said.

"That's right, this guy is so big, and this kind of voltage is much stronger than that of a human being... Hey, wait a minute." Ke Lan stopped suddenly in the middle of speaking, "You stand there first, don't come here... Big mosquitoes...appear to be 'meme' infected!"

At this moment, the "six wings" of the six-winged gray mosquito have almost been burned clean, and at the base of its wings and in the gaps in the carapace... Ke Lan actually saw dozens of densely packed insects of different sizes. Yi's eyeballs were crowded together, wriggling non-stop.

(End of this chapter)