Alien Relic Hunter

Chapter 558: Clearing the Corridor
The situation in the corridor was quite different from what Ke Lan expected. The intricate rotten blood-etched vines occupied almost every inch of space in the field of vision, and fragments of tiles, cement and glass were scattered all over the floor. Thirty centimeters thick, the severely deformed airtight door was squeezed to the corner by vines, and several bloody fingerprints remained on the valve of the airtight door.

This airtight door was directly "torn" from the wall by the rotten blood vines. As for the original metal door frame, it was torn into several pieces by the vines, and the sharp metal fracture cut through the rotten blood vines. The skin of the vine—where the blood-red juice flowed, the metal material turned into a grid full of holes, as if it had just been fished out of the aqua regia.

The concrete wall used to fix the door frame has long been fragmented.On a concrete block strung with steel bars, there was a crumbling doorplate. Ke Lan glanced at it, and it read: "No. 11th Floor, Area A, Grade C Medicines and Consumables Temporary Refrigerator."

"Eleventh floor, Area A... It seems that I was lucky. I chose a window at random and entered Area A." Ke Lan murmured. Each floor of the biological laboratory building is divided into A, A, The four major districts B, C, and D. If he entered the other three districts, he would have to go through at least half of the eleventh floor if he wanted to get to Professor Smith's laboratory.

As for the grade C, it refers to the safety grade of medicines, reagents and experimental consumables. It is also divided into four grades, A, B, C, D, and grade A is the most dangerous. Then the degree of danger decreases in order according to the level, and those that can be classified as level C are completely harmless reagents, such as glucose and normal saline, which can be bought from vending machines in residential areas.

This classification is very similar to the biosafety level, but this set of standards only uses medicines, reagents, and experimental consumables. Except for those who work in research institutions, most of the general public have never heard of this thing.

Along the gap between the vines, Ke Lan glanced into the cold room, and vaguely saw several bloody corpses squeezed by the vines—these corpses should be the bloody fingerprints on the airtight door. master.

These people probably hid in this relatively safe cold room immediately after the incident, but they didn't expect to escape the most difficult to prevent memetic infection, but died in the hands of the mutated rotten vine.

Compared with those who were infected or died at the gunpoint of the crisis management department, they could be regarded as the luckiest people in the whole building, but this luck only allowed them to live an extra hour or so.

In the entire laboratory building, there are no survivors, and no lucky ones—as written in the report document of the crisis management department: no survivors.

There was another sound of glass being smashed behind him—Akira Asano climbed up along the outer wall of the laboratory building, and entered the corridor through another side-by-side window.

"The road ahead has been blocked by rotten blood vines... Be careful, don't look at them being quiet now, I guess as soon as we get close, these vines will immediately rush over like mad dogs." Ke Lan stopped and wanted to go Akira Asano, who was walking forward, said.

"I can feel them...they are not standing still, but wriggling slightly." Akira Asano said softly, "The sound of those juices flowing through the blood vessels is like blood passing through the blood vessels..."

"It's best if you can hear it." Ke Lan nodded. Asano Akira's detection ability is so strong that many times the people next to him will subconsciously forget that he is a blind person.

The communication that had just been restored was interrupted again—the energy shields equipped on Ke Lan and Asano Akira's power armor are all full-coverage, and after activation, they will form a protective cover similar to an eggshell to envelop the whole person in it. Compared with the constrained partial shield that can only defend in one direction, the advantage is that there is no dead angle of protection... As for the disadvantage, when the shield is opened, all connections between itself and the outside will also be cut off.

Only some specific energy weapons can pass through the shield to attack enemies outside the shield in one direction, and the physical warhead will be intercepted by the shield no matter which direction it is fired from. As for the communication cable trailing behind, that Not to mention.

But from another point of view, even if the energy shield does not damage the communication cables, after entering the laboratory building, those vines and infected monsters will have almost no difficulty in cutting off the unprotected cables behind them... The communication can be maintained all the time Ke Lan felt that it was very unbelievable that it was interrupted after entering the laboratory building.

The IQ of the "meme" body is very high, and it has absorbed the memories of so many infected people. Even if these memories are not complete, it should already have a good grasp of human information... After all, death The number of people infected by the meme has exceeded five figures inside and out. Even if the memories of those people are incomplete, if they piece together with each other, they can get a complete jigsaw puzzle.

Judging from the behavior of the "pretender" attacking the communication cable, the subject of the "meme" obviously knows the function of this thing.

This made Ke Lan feel very dizzy - the other party obviously has much more resources than himself, and even time is on its side, but Ke Lan and the others' only advantage "wisdom" as human beings is in In this case, it has been smoothed out... This is like the three major elements of "time, place, and harmony", and the opponent occupies the two items of "time" and "geography". tie.

But this "battle" is related to the life and death of all mankind. No matter how small the chance of winning is, Ke Lan can only bite the bullet.

Until the "meme" is eliminated, he will not have any backup, he can only rely on himself.

Now, there are two hole cards left in his hand——

"Zero" and "Holy Word".

He didn't plan to use the former, not to mention the consequences once Ze Luo's identity is exposed... If Ze Luo is also unable to be immune to the "meme" infection, then this hole card has sent the opponent a strong Such as the help of cheating... Ke Lan didn't dare to gamble, if he lost the bet, there was really no chance of winning.

And the latter... Although it has not shown any negative effects yet, Ke Lan's subconscious has been resisting this power. For some reason, he always vaguely feels that the price that this hole card needs to pay is even higher than Zelo's infection by "memes" is even scarier.

The villain in Ke Lan's mind couldn't help but wryly laughed: "Others' hole cards are all magic weapons that can win with one blow and turn the world around, but mine are all double-edged swords that can lead to the same end... What the hell is that?" Who makes sense?"

"Let's go to the laboratory of the Shabi named Smith first, and then go to the top floor." Ke Lan said to Akira Asano, although the chance of finding useful information is not high, but considering that they can take the shortcut "outside the wall" Under certain circumstances, the laboratory still has a certain search value.

"Let me open the way." Asano Akira took a step forward, and with a light tap of his thumb, he pushed the saber out of the sheath a few inches.

He bent down, his whole body was like a taut bow, the whole body's strength was concentrated on the waist and back, and then passed along the shoulders and arms--Ke Lan had no doubt that Akira Asano's Iaihe Slashing can definitely cut through the big pile of rotten blood and vines blocking the way in front of him.

However, Ke Lan patted Asano Akira on the shoulder and said, "There is no need to use a knife."

"I can cut through."

"I know you can, but after you cut all the rotten blood and vines blocking the way, your sword will be useless...Although the Nino alloy is not difficult to get, but the ones that melt into the blade There is nowhere to go for stalagmite fragments. If you use this knife to exchange these minion-level mobs, it will be a blood loss if you exchange one hundred." Ke Lan said, "Besides, you can't open the shield when you use the knife. Yes, those corrosive juices will contaminate the body instead, so it’s not worth it.”

"What should I do?"

"Open the shield directly and burn it all the way in." Ke Lan said, activated the energy shield together, and walked directly towards the rotten blood vines.

"You follow me, wait until my shield enters the cooldown, we will change positions, you go ahead to open the way - in addition, we have to speed up, if the shield melts through the ground under our feet, we will fall to the ground Going to the next floor."

This is also one of the key flaws of full coverage energy shields: if this type of shield is installed on an aircraft that does not touch the ground, it is indeed perfect, but if it is installed on a mech or a ship, the former will burn directly when it is activated. The ground that is stepped on by the eclipse, the latter will directly evaporate the surrounding seawater, forming a huge vortex...

Therefore, more than 90.00% of the full-coverage shields that Ark currently holds are allocated to the air force fleet, army aviation units, and carrier-based aircraft. As for ground vehicles, they are basically partial shields.

At this time, the ground under Ke Lan's feet had begun to lower its limit—the tiles and cement were vaporized in an instant, exposing the inner metal interlayer, and this metal interlayer became red and bright in a blink of an eye, and it was about to be melted through up.

Ke Lan hurriedly ran and crashed into the vines.

"laugh--"

Just as Ke Lan had predicted, as soon as he approached, those rotten blood-etched vines that were still as quiet as a virgin immediately switched to the mode of moving like rabbits... No, the word "moving like rabbits" can no longer describe the vines The level of agitation is too high, it has to be changed to "moving like a mad dog".

The space section of the corridor less than [-] square meters was instantly covered by vines gushing out, and the already crumbling house number was directly crushed into several sections. These vines were like octopus tentacles towards Ke Lan swept over, but when he came into contact with the light curtain covering him, they all turned into fly ash.

Even the corrosive juice in the vine was vaporized at the same instant, there was no chance of it splashing out.

For a while, the corridor was filled with a choking smell of burning and a strong pungent sour smell. Fortunately, the two of them had closed their masks beforehand, and there was a thumping sound from the metal tube of the oxygen supply device.

"It's a bit like playing a game with Invincible hanging all the way. It's very cool, but it's a pity that it can only be cool for 5 minutes." Ke Lan muttered, while paying attention to the house numbers on both sides-the back of the refrigerator It is the No. [-] biochemical laboratory, followed by No. [-] and No. [-]...

The number of numbers is increasing, which shows that Ke Lan's direction is not wrong.

"It's a bit too smooth..." Before Ke Lan finished speaking, the end of the corridor had already appeared in front of his eyes.

And the number of the last laboratory in this corridor is... No. [-].

"Fuck, pretend I didn't say it!" Only then did Ke Lan realize that, including the refrigerator, there were only eight laboratories in one corridor, and Professor Smith's "Laboratory No. [-]" was on another corridor.

Ke Lan has seen the architectural structure diagram of the biological laboratory building, but the structural diagram is too sloppy. It only draws a general framework inside the building. As for which laboratory those rooms are, there is no clue at all. Mark it out.

Schroeder's explanation for this is that what they got was the construction design drawing of the laboratory building, and the specific functions of each room were determined after the building was completed, and the interior of the building has undergone many renovations—and the latest and most The detailed drawings are stored in the offline database of the research institute headquarters. For the sake of confidentiality, this database is not connected to the Internet or cloud backup, so when the power of the research institute headquarters is cut off, the data inside is completely locked.

Ke Lan had to stop and turn his head - the rotten blood-corroded vines spreading from elsewhere were reoccupying the corridor that had been burned by him, and they were quickly climbing along the ceiling and walls, and the farthest end had been re-occupied. It was sealed up, and from where Ke Lan and the others were, the outer windows and the airtight door of the refrigerator could no longer be seen.

Give the vines another half a minute, and they'll refill the entire corridor.

It took Ke Lan less than 2 minutes to run from one end of the corridor to the other, and the overheating progress bar of the energy shield has not yet reached halfway—he can burn this corridor clean for the second time, but the problem is , the ground under his feet could no longer support him to run again.

The space on the next floor could already be seen in many places. He ran back now, probably before reaching the corner, and fell directly to the tenth floor.

How to do?
Ke Lan's gaze could not help but shift to the wall on the left hand side.

These walls were already ruined by rotten blood vines, and now he burned all the rotten blood vines that had been inserted into the walls as supports, so there was no need to hit them, just a kick If you go down, you can make a big hole in the wall that is big enough to pass people.

Since you can't rush back to the corner, just make a passage yourself!

With this in mind, Ke Lan rushed directly to the wall in front of him, and slammed into it!
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