Alien Relic Hunter

Chapter 564
"If you can run, what about the others? Just leave them here to die?" Ke Lan asked.

"Otherwise? Do you have a better way? The original purpose of building the ark was to preserve the fire of mankind... When we escaped from the solar system 1000 years ago, we have already abandoned tens of billions of our compatriots, so what if we abandon them again? "Pan directly responded to Ke Lan's words, "If you have a better solution, you might as well just say it, if it is feasible, we will consider it—by the way, remind you, it is still a long time before Seraphim is out of trouble." There are 2 minutes. And it will take at least 1 minute for you to put on that living body armor and get used to it. Therefore, only the last 1 minute is left for you to make a decision.”

"Can't we separate the entire module of West Second District from the ark like East Ninth District, and then destroy it with powerful weapons?" Ke Lan couldn't help but speed up his speech, "You also said that there is a limit to Seraphim's ability , I don't believe that all the weapons on the ark fired at the same time, it can stop it!"

"If the place where you confront 'Seraphim' is in the biological laboratory building of the research institute, we can indeed destroy it together with the entire module of the second west area." Panton paused and continued, "But the problem is that the underground ice The location of the library is too deep."

Ke Lan was taken aback for a moment, and he suddenly realized that the location where he and Seraphim are now is no longer within the scope of the West Second District module.

Just the vertical tunnel connecting the fourth and fifth floors is already more than 3000 meters deep.The fifth floor of the entire underground ice storage has sunk into the cooling pool of the Ark's main reactor, and the Ark's main reactor cannot be separated separately like those regional modules.

As for firing on the main reactor...it would be more straightforward and neat to let the reactor self-destruct.

Anyway the result is the same.

"So, in fact, I don't have a choice at all?" Ke Lan showed a helpless smile and shook his head self-consciously.

"Don't be so depressed, look at you, your smile is too forced." Pan said.Obviously, the other party can see Ke Lan's current expression through the monitor on the power armor - the authority of the Undead Crew Club is much higher than that of the Crisis Management Section.

"Okay, this thing...how do I use it?" Ke Lan walked to the front of the metal barrel and put his hand into the crack.

He touched the thing sealed in the metal barrel, and it felt cold and smooth to the touch. He thought it was a container made of glass material, but when he took it out, he found it was a deep red sphere.

It was an ocher red that was close to brown, like the color of congealed blood scabs, but the surface was polished as smooth as pearls.

"That's it."

As soon as Pan's words fell, the surface of the sphere suddenly "melted", and the whole sphere instantly turned into a small snake that seemed to be condensed from blood plasma, entangled Ke Lan's palm.

"Ka-cha!"

A crisp sound came from Ke Lan's hand, and the extremely hard composite armor was strangled by this "blood snake", and the cracked metal pieces splashed everywhere.

The blood snake deformed again, wrapping Ke Lan's entire hand that was exposed in the air. At this moment, Ke Lan felt as if countless sharp needles pierced his skin, muscles...even bones !

It's hard to describe the feeling in words, he felt his body tense up uncontrollably... those plasma-like things were drilling into his body along the pores, and swimming from the blood vessels in the palm to the limbs Baike.

"what--"

Ke Lan couldn't help exhaling in pain, this pain was completely different from the needle-like pain in his brain when he stopped... Ke Lan even suspected that what was swimming in his blood vessels was a hot and red molten iron.

He guessed right, the transplanting process of this living body armor...was indeed very painful.

Ke Lan felt as if his skin had been peeled off, and the bloody muscles and bones were exposed to the extreme cold of nearly [-] degrees below zero, but there was a constant burning pain in his body, and the outside world against the low temperature.

He would rather his nerves be frozen or burned like this, but at least he can blunt his own senses, but the sensitivity of every nerve ending seems to be pulled to the highest level, over and over again, tirelessly like a nerve. The center sends a signal of "extreme pain".

"Plop!" Ke Lan fell to his knees suddenly, arched his body, pressed his forehead firmly against the weight of his upper body, and hammered the ground with clenched fists with both hands, making a muffled sound of "bang, bang".

This pain has already exceeded the limit that human beings can bear. Logically speaking, the self-protection mechanism of the brain should make him faint, but this protection mechanism seems to be artificially shut down... Ke Lan's Not only did the consciousness not become blurred, but it became clearer.

He could clearly feel the feeling of foreign objects running around in his body—they kept destroying the tissues of his body, and then quickly repaired and rebuilt them, and then destroyed them again...

They reveled recklessly, as if they didn't care that the self-awareness of this body was on the verge of collapse, and it might be destroyed at any time.

"Be patient, the pain is only short-lived. At least you are much better than those volunteers before, and your fit with the living armor is almost 67%-you know, before you, a total of [-] people died of the transplanted Rejection reaction, the worst one, even the whole body exploded and turned into rain of blood... Tsk tsk, that scene was spectacular."

Pan's voice rang in Ke Lan's ears, but Ke Lan didn't have the heart to listen to what he was saying. He only felt an indescribable force pouring into his limbs—those "plasma" scurrying around every time Destroy his body and rebuild it once, and the new part will be strengthened by leaps and bounds... At this time, Ke Lan's body is like the ship of Theseus, from head to toe, there is no place that belongs to the original one. body.

It's just that this "Ship of Theseus" has replaced all the planks that were originally used to form the hull with Nino alloy armor plates...

His body had been destroyed more than a dozen times in just a few tens of seconds, and it had also been reborn a dozen times... The "living armor" had completely merged with him.

"It really succeeded?" Pan murmured softly, "It seems that they didn't lie to me...It really wasn't luck that you made it this far."

Ke Lan's body no longer twitched, he slowly got up from the ground, raised his hand, and clenched his fist twice in a daze.

From the outside, his body doesn't seem to have changed in any way compared to before, but he knows better than anyone else what kind of changes have taken place in his body during these tens of seconds.

"This counts... the transplant is successful?" Ke Lan asked in a low voice, "Apart from this power, what effect will it have on me?"

"No one knows," Pan replied, "Because you were the first one to succeed, there was only one other person who tried the transplant and survived...Of course, he didn't live long either."

"And you know this person." Pan added.

"I know? Who?"

"The previous 'Pope' Chiron. One of the mistakes he made was coveting the power of this 'living armor', and he fused with the living armor without informing the other members of the crew...but unfortunately, he I failed, so that I became like that, and I can only spend the last time of my life in a cold space station."

"Chiron? He...how could it be?" Ke Lan opened his eyes slightly, and his words were full of shock.

"Perhaps you would think that it was the puppet individuals who invaded the 'Sick Village' that caused Chiron's death, but in fact, when he was expelled from the 'Undead Crew Club', his life had already entered the countdown. The erosion of the puppet individual , just accelerated the death process." Pan said without emotion, "In my opinion, he is a complete idiot... However, the candidate recommended by this idiot is a bit interesting."

The "candidate" in Pan's mouth naturally refers to Ke Lan.

"Then I will also become... like Chiron?" Ke Lan couldn't help asking.

"Probably not." Pan said, "Chiron had a serious mutual rejection reaction at the first step of fusing with the living armor... He thought he was different from those volunteers who died tragically, but in fact, he was more Those volunteers had an even lower fit with the living armor."

"and then?"

"Then? This idiot knew he was in trouble, so he could only send us a distress signal. We spent a lot of effort to strip the living armor from his body, but his body has already suffered irreversible trauma." As Pan was talking, he suddenly sighed for the first time, "I also know that he is too anxious, and we spend too much time 'waiting'... Maybe he is tired of waiting, so he will Make that decision."

"Waiting? What are you waiting for?"

"I know that when I say this, you will definitely scold in your heart 'how come everyone in the Undead Crew Club is a riddle', but I still have to tell you that there are some things that are not suitable for you to know now. You are a pawn , is a very important chess piece, perhaps enough to determine the winner of the whole game, but before that, you just need to follow the grid on the chessboard and move forward step by step."

"Those who move forward step by step on the chessboard are pawns." Ke Lan said.

"However, when the pawn reaches the end of the chessboard, it can 'promote' into any chess piece except the 'king'. (Please refer to Baidu Chess Rules for details)"

"...Leaving this aside, since you have stripped this living armor from Chiron's body, can you separate it from me afterwards?"

"No. Chiron has not merged with the living armor, and being separated from his body is like taking out a stone that he ate into his stomach... And you, what you ate is not an indigestible stone... This armor has become a part of your body."

At this moment, Ke Lan suddenly felt a strong wind blowing towards him. Before he could dodge, he was slammed into the wall behind him, and his whole body was embedded in the alloy wall.

The communication between him and Pan was cut off abruptly.

Ke Lan raised his head with some difficulty, only to see that the beam of light covering the "Seraphim" had completely disappeared, and the opponent's six wings were burning with extremely bright flames at this moment, hundreds of them including the four faces His eyes were all staring at Ke Lan, and Ke Lan could even see his predicament at the moment from the other's pupils.

"Judgment." The four mouths spoke at the same time, and the six wings flapped violently-Ke Lan finally saw the move that just sent him flying: it was six wing-shaped phantoms separated from the wings, just like the main body , These phantoms are also burning with raging flames, which look quite magnificent.

The six phantoms directly blasted into the human-shaped groove Ke Lan smashed on the wall, and the sound of air bursting resounded throughout the underground ice storage.

But when the flames dissipated, a ochre-red figure walked out of the wall step by step.

"Haven't you... haven't you heard... the truth that there is no harm in smoke?" The ocher red figure... that is, Ke Lan, said slowly.

The power armor on his body was completely broken, but a large amount of thick "plasma" seeped out from his pores, forming a layer of "armor" similar to a blood scab on the surface of his skin.

This piece of "armor" is covered with protruding edges, corners and thorns. Large pieces of "plate armor" cover the vital parts of the chest and back, and countless tiny "blood scales" cover the joints, The parts of the abdomen that need to be bent... and at the end of Ke Lan's hands, a pair of sharp claws with a length of [-] to [-] centimeters extend out along the ten fingers. Why is there still a layer of metal-specific luster.

"These pairs of your wings are too ugly, so... I decided to tear them off for you."

[PS Regarding the depth of the underground ice storage (setting): Chapter 550, it is written that Ke Lan took nearly half a minute to pass through the secret passage at a speed "not much slower than free fall". With consistent gravitational acceleration, the length of the tunnel is at least 30 meters based on 4000 seconds of free fall... Although this value is exaggerated, it is actually no problem.

Consider the friction between the channel wall and air resistance, so I finally took the depth of 3000 meters,

According to the setting of this book, the Ark is a large cone-shaped interstellar colony ship with a diameter of more than [-] kilometers. The location of the second west area is very close to the center of the cone, so it is normal for the hull thickness of this location to exceed [-] meters.

In addition, the dozens of blocks on the Ark are not located on the same plane, but are divided into many upper and lower layers, and many areas themselves span several layers... Regarding the setting of the Ark itself, I should use the diagram in the future The Easter Egg chapter of the text merged is sent out (of course, the premise is that I can find a drawing master who understands what I mean... I almost forgot all the CAD I learned in college. Book friends who have this intention and ability can join the group Come to me. It’s not free, I’ll pay you according to the effect you make, and I’ll give you a role in the book). 】

[PPS Thanks to book friend 20210625190213650 for the 500 starting coins. 】

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