Alien Relic Hunter

Chapter 557 Breaking into the Laboratory Building

"So... you took it back to the Ark?"

"This is a very precious research sample. Neither the Undead Crew Association nor the research institute can ignore it... Rather than throwing it in the abyss, it is better to control it..."

"Control it?" Ke Lan interrupted Schroeder directly, "Can you control it?"

"..." Schroeder didn't reply. He knew very well that it was meaningless to continue arguing on this kind of issue—it had already happened, and what they had to do was to deal with the current situation as much as possible and minimize the loss. "lowest".

This was originally the job of the crisis management department - to wipe the ass of the group of research fanatics who don't have a B number in their hearts.

While Ke Lan was communicating with the headquarters, he and Asano Akira did not stop. Finally, after running for nearly 15 minutes, the pure white biological laboratory building of the research institute appeared in their sight.

Of course, this all-over pure white is only for the laboratory building itself, and does not include those things that are currently wrapped outside the building.

"I figured out why the laboratory building and the underground freezer were cut off..." Ke Lan murmured.

At this moment, the outside of the entire laboratory building is wrapped in twisted branches and vines. The thinnest of these vines is as thick as a human thigh, and the thickest ones cannot be hugged by two or three people. The walls and ground of the experimental building were smashed, the solid concrete was easily crushed, and the exposed steel bars were bent into strange angles under the huge force - if these vines were pulled away at this time, The entire shattered laboratory building will inevitably collapse into ruins in an instant.

Even the exposed surface of the parking lot in front of the laboratory building was lifted up by the roots of the vines, not to mention the power supply lines buried underground. Looking in along the cracks in the ground, you can even vaguely see them. A layer of metal sealing plate——under this layer of sealing plate is the underground freezer that has sealed a large number of dangerous specimens.

There was obviously a battle in front of the laboratory building. Ke Lan saw at least [-] corpses in the uniform of the crisis management department... As for the corpses of researchers in white coats, there were even more corpses, covering almost from the gate of the laboratory building to the bottom of the steps. Lowest level.

Most of these researchers were shot dead by the operatives of the crisis management department, but from the corpses, the proportion of infected people was less than one-tenth. On the contrary, the operatives who shot were almost all killed by "Meme Contagion".

Without Schroeder's explanation, Ke Lan guessed that this group of people were the first to enter the polluted area—at that time, the polluted area had not yet expanded to the entire headquarters of the research institute, and it was just the block where the biological laboratory building was located—in order to To block the route of infection, they had to shoot those who violated the regulations and rushed out of the laboratory building... At that time, no one knew that this "horrible virus" was actually transmitted by looking at each other...

"Command, I have already arrived at the laboratory building, but the entrance of the laboratory building is blocked by a kind of rattan plant... These plants almost wrap the whole building into a gigantic rattan cocoon. "

"Vine plants?" Schroeder said to Ke Lan in less than two seconds, "We have searched the collection list of the underground ice storage, and there is only one kind of vine plant called 'Blood Corrosion Vine'. The plant, like the six-winged gray mosquito, is only found in the stucco swamp area, and its juice is like dark red blood, and it is extremely corrosive, so it was given such a name."

"But the normal 'Blood Erosion Vine' must not be so thick...Moreover, at the end of these vines, there are bloodshot eyeballs hanging... It seems that apart from animals,' Memes' can also infect plants." Ke Lan took a photo of the rotten vines entangled in the experimental building, and then manually coded those eyeballs, and only sent the photo back to the commander after confirming that there were no omissions department.

"The rotten blood vines that grow in a normal environment are actually only the thickness of a finger..." Schroeder quickly replied, "Although these rotten blood videos have mutated, some of its original characteristics should not disappear. Don't be careless."

"Original characteristics? Are you talking about those corrosive juices?" Ke Lan glanced at the power armor on his body, "Didn't the guys from the equipment department praise this suit to the sky? Even the sap from this vine can't bear it?"

"The sap of rotten blood vine has a particularly strong corrosion effect on metals. Its sap contains an active substance named 'B159' by the research institute. From a microscopic point of view, this active substance can replace the electrons of metal atoms , so that the metal is oxidized in a very short time..."

"Then just add a layer of anti-oxidation coating?" Ke Lan said immediately, "To put it simply, just spray the protective paint once."

"Except for 'B159', the juice itself will ablate everything it comes into contact with, and the effect of the anti-oxidation coating is not ideal." Schroeder said, "With the thickness of the armor on your body, at most it can withstand the corrosion of this juice. Hold on for two 10 minutes."

"Okay, can this thing be burned?" Ke Lan thought for a while, if these rotten blood-etched vines can be burned, then the experimental building will collapse, anyway, the real target should have gone underground by now The icehouse has gone, and the ruins formed by a pile of concrete fragments are much easier to deal with than this mutated plant.

"It's very difficult... the sap of the rotten blood vine itself can burn the things it touches. If it is afraid of fire, it will be burned by its own juice... In fact, the people of the research institute put the rotten blood vine The purpose of bringing it back from the stucco swamp is to study its fireproof performance and use it to develop new fireproof materials, as for the corrosive juice and the active substances in it, it is secondary."

"Then what can you do?" Ke Lan asked, "You can't cut it, you can't burn it, and you can't burn it. We can't just stare at the door."

"You can only force your way in." Schroeder said, "Break in with the energy shield... Although the rotten blood vine is not afraid of fire, the energy shield can still burn it, along with the juice in the vine .”

"It's the same as if you didn't say it."

The maximum duration of the shield generator equipped with the power armor on Ke Lan and Asano Akira is 5 minutes, and the cooling time is 10 minutes. Persist for 35 minutes under the erosion of vines
First turn on the shield for 5 minutes, then cool down the hard resistance for 10 minutes; after the shield is cooled down, turn it on for 5 minutes; then enter the cooling time of 10 minutes for the second time and continue hard resistance. At this time, the armor has almost been eroded; After the third shield duration of 5 minutes expires, he and Asano Akira will lose all means of protection and be directly exposed to those highly corrosive substances.

The biological laboratory building of the research institute has a total of 36 floors, and each floor covers an area of ​​more than 35 square meters. Even if everything in the laboratory building, including personnel and equipment, is emptied, leaving only the walls and aisles, you want to walk through the entire building , [-] minutes is not enough.

Although Ke Lan doesn't really need to check every room in the laboratory building, but in the current situation, it will only take more time.

Except for the rotten blood-corroded vines blocking the way, no one can say for sure what else is waiting for them in the laboratory building-but one thing is certain, since the "meme subject" will let those pretenders delay their It is impossible for it to give up such a "home field" as the laboratory building.

Ke Lan could predict that the next battle would be extremely difficult.

To be precise, it was countless, almost uninterrupted, extremely difficult... battles.

"Professor Smith's laboratory is located in Area A of the No.11 floor, the No. 9 biochemical laboratory, and it is also the birthplace of 'meme infection'. The fusion experiment of your cloned tissue and erosion seed cells is in this laboratory in,” Schroeder said.

"Actually, I don't think it is necessary for me to go to the laboratory. It may be easier to go directly to the underground ice storage." Ke Lan raised his head and looked at the nearly 200-meter-high building.

"But if you want to go to the underground freezer, you have to go to the top floor of the laboratory building first...Professor Smith's laboratory is just on the way." Schroeder said.

"To get to the underground freezer, you have to go to the 36th floor first? What kind of ghostly design is this?" Ke Lan was stunned for a moment, and couldn't help complaining... If the architect who designed the laboratory and the underground freezer stood now If it was in front of him, he felt that he should directly throw his bag over...

"This is also for safety reasons. The shell of the entire underground ice storage is cast from a 25-meter-thick alloy. Only the elevator on the top floor can directly descend to the inside of the ice storage...even if there is something to be sent to the ice storage before. When going there, they were first transported to the top floor by helicopter, and then took the elevator..." Schroeder explained.

"Then can't I just dig the elevator shaft on the first floor?"

"The walls of the elevator shaft are four meters thick, and the Nino alloy content reaches 19%. Even if the entire laboratory building is blasted into powder with artillery, the elevator shaft will not be damaged."

"Fuck...crazy..." Ke Lan said cursingly. He found that since he started dealing with the guys from the research institute, his temper has become closer and closer to that guy from the hound.

Of course, if the hound had been the person involved, he would have raised the butt of his gun and yelled to shoot the researchers one by one.

"There is no way around this. In addition, Professor Smith's laboratory may be able to find some important clues. This information may be helpful when dealing with the subject of the 'meme'..."

"Fart." Ke Lan vetoed, "Don't forget, our opponent is an intelligent creature. Since it knows how to send monsters to intercept us, it will definitely clean up the scene. Even if there is such information as you mentioned, it must be It has also been removed."

"But this is our only chance. I think it is still necessary to try it. Check the laboratory, and it won't waste too much time..."

Before Schroder finished speaking, Ke Lan interrupted him: "I suddenly thought of a way to save time."

"any solution?"

"Since the target is the laboratory on the eleventh floor and the elevator shaft on the top floor, there is no need for me to enter the laboratory building, just climb up from the outer wall... Isn't this much easier than walking through narrow and dangerous corridors?"

"..." Schroeder was stunned, and the experts in the countermeasure team were also stunned. This is obviously a very simple idea that even a child can think of, but they are academic elites with an average IQ of 190 or more. But this route was completely ignored.

Almost everyone is thinking about how to enter the building and how to face the blocking of the mutated native creatures in the building - they have been thinking about how to pass through this maze full of monsters in the shortest time, but they are completely unconscious It turns out that if you just want to reach the exit of the maze, you only need to walk half a circle around the outer edge of the maze.

Even Ke Lan fell into this misunderstanding at the beginning. It wasn't until Schroeder said that he sent the specimens to the top floor by helicopter before he realized that he had to go into the elevator shaft at all. No need to enter the building.

"Theoretically speaking... this... this is indeed the fastest and safest route..." Schroeder said somewhat unnaturally.

"Then let's stop talking nonsense." After Ke Lan finished speaking, he raised his arm, pointed the claw gun at a seemingly intact outer wall between the eighth and ninth floors, and pulled the trigger.

The sharp claws were nailed into the concrete in an instant. Ke Lan pulled the cable a few times, and after making sure that it was not loose, he started the engine of the rotating shaft and began to recover the cable.

And he himself stepped on the outer wall and began to walk up step by step following the tightened cable.

But just when Ke Lan reached a height of ten meters, the rotten blood vines around him suddenly moved!A few vines that were as thick as a water tank let go of the wall, swung a big circle in mid-air, and then slammed towards Ke Lan who was stepping on the wall; It spread rapidly along the wall, wrapping around Ke Lan's legs!
"I knew it would come." Ke Lan showed a mocking smile on his face, and cut off the cable directly. The fixed claws from the shotgun before shot out from his footsteps again, grabbing the wall... ...then, directly pull the power of the energy shield to the maximum!
The dozens of vines turned into fly ash the moment they came into contact with the energy shield, and even the concrete wall in front of Ke Lan was vaporized to lose a layer of nearly half a meter, and Ke Lan, who lost his support, immediately began to fall ——

"Whoosh-"

The second hook flew out, and Ke Lan, who had just fallen less than three meters, flew up again. Without the obstruction of those vines, he jumped directly to the outer window on the eleventh floor, and smashed the bulletproof glass with his fist. Opened the window, turned over and jumped into the corridor.

(End of this chapter)