Alien Relic Hunter

Chapter 559 Refrigerator Elevator
Under the impact of Ke Lan, who was wearing heavy armor, the already riddled wall instantly shattered like crispy cookies. He staggered and entered a spacious space.

Of course, this spaciousness is compared to the corridor outside that is blocked by rotten vines—in this laboratory with an area of ​​more than 300 square meters, half of the space is still rotten vines. In the territory, thick and twisted vines squeezed together, filling half of the laboratory to the brim, making Ke Lan think of the "Shaqima" stuffed in the mold.

This is a kind of pastry handed down from the old era. Ke Lan only saw it in the information. As a refined food that needs to use fine flour, eggs, honey and a lot of dried nuts, it is undoubtedly a kind of pastry in this era. It is difficult for ordinary people to enjoy high-end snacks.

Originally, Ke Lan planned to try this kind of exquisite snacks that he was reluctant to buy when he was free, but now after seeing this group of vines tied together, he suddenly lost his appetite for "Shaqima".

The eyeball-shaped organ that "grows" from these vines is much larger than the eyeball of an infected animal, and its diameter is slightly smaller than a bowling ball.If you ignore the fleshy fascia that should not appear on the plant, the instant noodles look like heavy fruits hanging on the branches.

There are many such "big eyeballs" stuffed in the gaps between vines, which makes Ke Lan think of those nuts embedded in the surface and inside of Shaqima...

Ke Lan felt that he would never touch this snack called Shaqima again in his life, and even just thinking about it was enough to make him feel sick for a while.

But disgusting is disgusting, Ke Lan didn't look away, but concentrated on looking at these rotten vines—he wondered why these rotten vines could obviously fill the entire laboratory space To spare half?

Moreover, there is an obvious arc-shaped boundary line between these rotting vines and the empty space, as if separated by an invisible air wall.

Whether it was the vines that were thicker than thighs and covered with bumps on the surface, or the slender shoots that had grown out, they didn't dare to cross the thunder pond half a step.

For some reason, Ke Lan thought of Shaqima again—these rotten blood-etched vines crowded in the corners, as if a pastry in a square mold was cut out of a round piece with a cake knife, and what remained It is the same as the leftover material with a radian.

"Circular...arc...Why is it in this shape?" Ke Lan couldn't help turning his head, looking at the half-empty laboratory behind him.

Before the disaster broke out, some experiments should have been going on here. There were many bottles containing reagents on the table, and a dozen or so mice were kept in the observation box on the side—most of these mice used as experimental subjects had already died. Turned into corpses, only the top two are still alive, but all the hair on their bodies has fallen off, and their naked bodies are covered with eyes the size of rice grains...

These two "meme"-infected mice were hitting the observation box made of reinforced glass... Fortunately, the glass used to make the observation box was extremely strong, which prevented them from running out of the box.

Could it be that the vines are afraid to approach because of these two mutated mice?
Ke Lan thinks it is unlikely.

The focus of his sight could not help but move to the bottles containing the reagents.

The researchers who were doing experiments in this laboratory seemed to be in a panic when they fled. Many reagent bottles were knocked over, toppled over, and some rolled to the ground, breaking into glass shards all over the place.

In the area where the glass shards were scattered, some liquid traces left after the dried reagents added with dye could still be vaguely seen.

"The circular area... Could it be the smell produced by the volatilization of some kind of reagent, which makes the rotten blood vine afraid to approach?"

Ke Lan looked back at the arc of the "boundary line", and then looked at the location where the glass bottle broke on the ground - if this arc-shaped boundary line is regarded as a part of the circle, then this position is just above the center of the circle !

"Rotten blood vines are afraid of this thing?" Ke Lan squatted down and picked up a piece of glass shards on the ground.

There was a waterproof label attached to this fragment... but the label did not state what the ingredients of the reagent were, but a series of serial numbers mixed with numbers and English.

If the communication has not been interrupted, Ke Lan can still send this serial number back to the headquarters for Schroeder to check for himself, but now, everything can only be done by himself.

"It should be this reagent...it evaporated into the air, forcing back the rotten blood vine..."

He didn't take off his breathing mask to smell the air - firstly, it was for safety reasons, who knows if something even rotten blood and vines are afraid of is poisonous to the human body; secondly, even if Ke Lan was let go Even if he smelled it, he couldn't smell the ingredients of the reagent.

Let alone him, even a hound couldn't smell it.

Ke Lan took two cotton balls from the experimental table, wet them with water and alcohol, the two most common reagents, and rubbed them on the liquid traces on the ground a few times—the cotton balls dipped in water were not stained purple The reagent, and the cotton ball dipped in alcohol easily dissolves the traces on the ground.

Holding the alcohol cotton ball, Ke Lan tentatively approached the rotten vines.

The rotten blood vines suddenly became agitated, but they did not attack Ke Lan, but retreated uncharacteristically, and there was a tooth-piercing friction sound between the vines...

Really useful!

But the amount dipped on a cotton ball is definitely not enough. Ke Lan took this label and ran to the reagent rack with many glass tubes, and compared them one by one.

Finally, on the far left side of the second row, he found a tube of light blue reagent with the same label as the one he held in his hand.

Ke Lan immediately took out the tube of reagents, and once again got the rotten blood vine near him.

He pulled out the plug, and gently slapped the mouth of the tube in the direction of the rotten blood vine with his hand a few times—however, this time, the rotten blood vine did not respond.

"Huh?" Ke Lan compared the two labels again. The English letters and numbers on them were exactly the same, and there was no deviation in the order.

There must be something missing...

"Did you find anything?" Akira Asano couldn't help asking when he noticed Ke Lan walking back and forth in front of the test bench.

"There are some discoveries, but there seems to be something wrong." Ke Lan shook his head and said, "If we can find the source of the problem, maybe these rotten blood-etched vines will not become an obstacle on our way forward."

As he said that, he walked back to the shards of glass again, squatted down to examine it carefully—it was only at this time that Ke Lan noticed that there was still a shard of glass with a label under the experimental table.

Previously, because of the angle, this fragment was blocked by the edge of the experimental table, and when Ke Lan squatted down to wipe the reagents, he did not look up under the table.

"Is it a mixed reagent?"

Ke Lan quickly found a second reagent on the shelf. The dye added to this reagent was pale pink—the two reagents mixed together turned into the purple color of the dried up marks on the ground.

When the two reagents were mixed together, a large number of bubbles poured up from the bottom of the test tube, which looked like some kind of grape-flavored soda that had been shaken vigorously.

Before Ke Lan even got close, the rotten blood vines wriggled and struggled violently... In less than 10 minutes, they all retreated from the laboratory.

The rotten blood vine is more afraid of this mixed reagent than the erosion seed is afraid of stalagmites!
"Simply effective!"

Ke Lan was overjoyed. Although he was not sure whether the appearance of this reagent was a coincidence or a part of the research institute's related projects, as long as it can be used, it is a good thing!

"Asano, follow!"

Ke Lan greeted Akira Asano, and rushed out holding the bubbling test tube.

Wherever Ke Lan went, the rotten blood vines retreated one after another. For a while, it seemed that he was chasing these vines.

Running all the way, Ke Lan finally rushed to the door of Professor Smith's "Laboratory No. [-]" before the mixed reagents in the test tube volatilized.

The door of the laboratory was ajar, and there were some extremely obvious traces of violent opening on the lock, and the wall was even covered with mottled blood.

"There is no movement inside." Asano Akira said.

"En." Ke Lan responded, and then kicked open the door of the laboratory.

Except for the three corpses that fell to the ground, there were no living things inside, not even the rotten blood vines had ever invaded this room.

Ke Lan focused his attention on the table immediately. The transparent experimental operation box had been shattered into several pieces, and the contents inside were gone.

"I knew it... since that thing has wisdom, it is impossible to stay here obediently and wait for me to come to the door..." Ke Lan turned around and applied the remaining mixed reagent on the door frame and wall to prevent the rotting blood outside Erosion vine squeezed in, and then began to check every corner of the laboratory.

First of all, there are three corpses. The one near the table should be Professor Smith's assistant, that is, the unlucky guy called "Infected Person No. [-]" in the official documents. He looks like a mummy now. , the shriveled skin clings to the bones, the flesh and blood underneath seems to have been completely drained, the skin membrane that lost its support collapsed, and even the "eyeballs" that grew out became dry and hard at this time. Shrunken hard meat balls—the Crisis Management Department has conducted experiments, and the "eyeballs" in this state have lost their activity, so it is possible that they do not have the ability to transmit memes.

On the contrary, it is the kind of photos and videos that can be preserved forever, which are more far-reaching and threatening than these real objects.

The other two bodies were security personnel with guns. Their bodies were similar to the assistants, but they had several additional gunshot wounds.

It wasn't the "memes" that killed them, it was these fatal gunshot wounds.Judging from the location of the wounds, these gunshot wounds should come from the weapons in the hands of their companions—before the two were sucked dry by these eyeballs, they took the first step and helped each other out.

There are no valuable clues on the corpse, even the "infected person No. [-]" who was initially infected with the "meme", the corpse is exactly the same as the infected person who appeared in the later large-scale infection incidents - in terms of research value, it is estimated that it is less Not those "pretenders" like zombies.

Ke Lan has neither the corresponding knowledge and technology, nor professional tools and equipment, nor enough time. He knows that it is meaningless to continue to spend time with these corpses, so he resolutely gave up checking the corpses and walked to the computer next to him.

However, what made Ke Lan speechless was that the mainframes of the six computers in this laboratory were all corroded by strong acid into a pile of scrap metal, and there was only one large server used to store data. Horrible skeleton.

Looking at this pile of rubbish, Ke Lan sighed, even if it is a skilled technician, it is impossible to restore the data in it.

"There is really no clue left..."

The rotting blood vine had never entered this laboratory, and it was even more impossible for the three dead people to destroy the mainframe computer and server.After the "meme infection" incident, no one has been to this place again.

This was not an accident, but deliberate sabotage, and the identity and intention of the saboteur could not have been more obvious.

This proves once again that the subject of the "meme" really has extremely high intelligence.

"Let's go, this place is for nothing." Ke Lan said to Akira Asano.

Although a little disappointed, this was Ke Lan's expected ending, and it didn't make him feel too frustrated.

Since he entered the experimental building, the biggest discovery may be this mixed reagent that can expel rotten blood and vines, but this thing is only useful for dealing with mobs blocking the way in the early stage. ", I'm afraid it won't work at all.

Ke Lan returned to the previous laboratory, prepared two bottles of mixed reagents, and smeared them on the power armor of himself and Akira Asano. Immediately afterwards, the two of them went out through the window and climbed along the outer wall of the laboratory building. On the rooftop apron.

Without the interference of rotting blood and vines, everything went very smoothly. In less than 5 minutes, Ke Lan had already found the entrance to the ice storage elevator.

The elevator car has disappeared, leaving only an empty elevator shaft, and the white cold mist from the underground ice storage is constantly pouring up from the depths of the elevator shaft.

[PS Thanks to jbzd for the 100 starting coins. 】

[PPS If any readers are eating Shaqima when reading this chapter, please allow me to extend my sincerest apologies to you... I have to say, I always think that the shape of Shaqima has the potential of restraint cuisine , the noodles are like tentacles, and the nuts like raisins are the eyeballs. Just change the color and sprinkle the dark green syrup on the surface... Please imagine the specific picture by yourself. 】

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