Alien Relic Hunter

Chapter 607 The Movement Track of the Black Mummy
"I knew it." Ke Lan sighed helplessly looking at the black shadow that was less than 30 meters away from him and was falling towards the ground at high speed.

Then, he adjusted his posture in the air, stretched out his hand, waved it at the black mummy, and said with mouth shape:
"Bye-Bye--"

In the next second, a pair of gliding wings with a wingspan of more than 20 meters spread out from the back of the living armor. Ke Lan's falling momentum suddenly slowed down, while the black mummy, which was still above him, quickly passed him and continued Falling straight down.

"Didn't expect, Grandpa can fly."

After discovering that the living armor can transform itself, Ke Lan will naturally not continue to foolishly choose a hard landing—although the hard landing is faster, the buffer blood fog erupting from the living armor cannot [-]% offset The impact force when landing, even if the remaining impact force is only one percent or even one thousandth of the original impact force, it is definitely not a comfortable experience for Ke Lan.

Since it can land safely, who would directly hit the ground like a fool?
Oh... There are still some fools. Ke Lan glanced directly below. Under the action of gravity acceleration, the black mummy hit the halfway of a mountain like a shell, raising dust and gravel all over the sky. Immediately afterwards, there was a loud rumbling noise above the snow line—first, a huge snow block rolled down from above, and then there was a huge white wave like a mudslide...

From the height of Ke Lan, it seems that the snow line that was originally maintained at a fixed height suddenly collapsed and began to move down in an all-round way.

"Good guy... the avalanche has been smashed out..."

Fortunately, there is no Ark's military base or transfer station at the foot of the mountains that caused the avalanche, and the only unlucky ones who suffered from this indiscriminate disaster are probably the indigenous creatures living in the valley.

The fighter jets that followed immediately gave up the Hercules transport plane and flew towards the mountain where the black mummy "landed" - arriving faster than the fighter jets were the missiles launched by the fighter jets. Dozens of missiles dragged their blazing white tails Yan, crashed directly into the huge white waves, setting off huge "sprays".

"Boom boom boom!!"

A series of violent explosions kept hitting Ke Lan's tympanic membranes, and the turbulent aftermath pushed him to sway in mid-air, like a flat boat in a stormy sea.

Spreading along with the aftermath was a heat wave with extremely high radiation doses—the missiles launched by these fighter jets were all equipped with tactical nuclear warheads. It is estimated that it is more than enough to level this mountain.

After launching the nuclear missiles, the fighter jets of the First Fleet pulled directly to the sky, leaving Ke Lan slowly drifting towards the valley alone.

I think the pilots of these fighter jets should have obtained the permission from the Undead Crew Association before using these weapons without any scruples—as the provider of the living armor, the members of the Undead Crew Association certainly know that the aftermath of this nuclear explosion is fundamental. Will not cause harm to Ke Lan.

But Lin Qiming and the experts of the research institute, who were two kilometers away from here, were miserable—the nuclear explosion almost triggered an avalanche on the small half of the White Ridge Mountains, and the landing point of Lin Qiming's parachuting was also within the range of the avalanche.

The only thing to be thankful for is the set of life-saving equipment on them. When they encounter natural disasters such as earthquakes and avalanches, they will quickly release an elastic sphere with a diameter of two meters and filled with inert gas like an airbag in a car. Being crushed by an avalanche, they just need to huddle inside and wait for the rescue team to dig.

Casualties will definitely occur, but for the crew, at least the number of casualties is within the "tolerable range", then the rescue operation is a success.

In their eyes, a human life is indeed just a number, even for a valuable talent like a researcher, it is just a number slightly larger than that of a commoner.

"If I can't become one of them, maybe one day, I will become one of these numbers..." Ke Lan thought silently, "No... Even if I successfully entered the crew club, I may not be able to Guarantee your absolute safety... After all, my predecessor in this seat, Chiron, is a living example."

What's more, Ke Lan is not sure whether this promise to join the crew is a carrot hanging on the donkey's head.

Thinking about it this way, the Prophet's defection seems to be reasonable—after all, not everyone is willing to work for a group of people who have been hiding behind the scenes.

The reason why Ke Lan chose to cooperate with them was not because he had no chance of defecting like a prophet, but because he had not figured out the true purpose of the undead crew until now.

If what they did was really for the continuation of the human race, then Ke Lan would not mind being in the same camp with them—at least it would be better than that crazed heretical sect that had almost lost its humanity.

The gliding wing transformed from the living armor brought Ke Lan to land on a mountain adjacent to the nuclear explosion. Due to the high temperature generated by the avalanche and nuclear explosion, almost all the remaining snow on this mountain had melted and turned into a dangerous mountain. The steamy mountain spring rushes towards the valley.

At a glance, the surrounding peaks are like this - the white snow melts, exposing dark black rocks, the majestic water flows down the gaps in the cliffs of the mountain, and gathers in a lower place. A "man-made hot spring".

It's a pity that these man-made hot springs are deadly to ordinary people-the heat brought by nuclear explosions also brings dangerous radiation, even though these missiles are only equipped with tactical-grade nuclear warheads with a small impact range, but in It will take at least a few months for the radiation left by this mountain to dissipate.

The First Fleet quickly locked onto Ke Lan who was standing on the top of the mountain, and a huge "Albatross-class" command and early warning aircraft flew over and hovered directly above Ke Lan.

A floating platform used to pick up and drop off people on the plane slowly descended from the belly of the "Albatross". On the platform, besides two marines wearing dark green power armor and almost armed to the teeth, there was also a Wearing a military overcoat with a fur collar, a middle-aged man with a mechanical prosthesis on half his face.

"I am the current commander of the First Fleet, Mr. Cao Ge—Mr. Ke Lan, this is not the first time we have met." Zooming and turning—although his left eye made of flesh and blood has been looking at Ke Lan, but the prosthetic eye has looked at Ke Lan from head to toe.

"Yeah, but the last time it was just a meeting... I didn't expect to meet again on such an occasion." Ke Lan said politely.

The first fleet is the "Noah's Ark First Cruise Fleet", which is the fleet that was ordered to crusade against the prehistoric "Leviathan".

The previous fleet commander died on the ship and used the flagship "Kirin" of the First Fleet to break through the physical defense of Leviathan's energy shield. vital parts, thereby killing it completely.

And the person who took over this fleet was Cao Ge.

"In the Leviathan incident, thanks to you for sending out the information in time... Otherwise, we might have paid a higher price." Cao Ge said sincerely, he stretched out an arm, and pulled Ke Lan suspended platform.

When holding Cao Ge's hand, Ke Lan could clearly feel that the layer of skin is simulated human skin made of special silicone, and under the simulated skin are flexible fillers and mechanical joints that perfectly simulate the human skeleton.

More than half of Cao Ge's body is made up of cyborg prosthetics, and the proportion of the prosthetic body is far higher than that of Layton's big man, and it is almost as good as Victoria - the Hound once told them that this new First Fleet The commander, when he was young, was an ace fighter pilot. He went deep into the enemy line in a battle with insect-like native creatures, and directly killed the insect queen who was under heavy protection, and his car was also used by the insect swarm for air defense The acid was sprayed and crashed directly into the sea of ​​insects.

If it weren't for the fact that this swarm was a typical "hive-conscious creature" with only the brain of a "queen", and the individual didn't have any self-thinking, I'm afraid he would have been eaten away by the swarming swarm long ago.

But even so, when the reinforcements found him, there was only less than half of his body left... The word "miracle" can only be used to describe him as alive.

"We're just trying to survive." Ke Lan smiled modestly, "If the First Fleet hadn't arrived in time, I'm afraid we would have been buried there long ago."

The suspended platform quickly returned to the "Albatross class". Cao Ge didn't ask even half a word about the active armor on Ke Lan's body - with his level and authority, he still has some understanding of this kind of thing.Even if he didn't understand, he knew very well what it was okay to ask, and what it was best to pretend he had never seen it.

Cao Ge sent Ke Lan a complete set of clothes including underwear. Judging from the style of the clothes, they should be the training uniforms of fleet officers. Although they are not as handsome as ordinary clothes, they are more comfortable and practical.

"How's the situation? That thing should still be alive, right?" Ke Lan zipped up the fleece jacket and walked quickly into the command room of the "Albatross".

"Alive." Cao Ge looked at the big table in the middle of the command room and said solemnly.

On the table is a mountain model simulated by holographic projection, and Ke Lan can see at a glance that the mountain in the middle is the mountain that the black mummy just hit.

It's just that the original peak was more than 4000 meters high, and now only two-thirds of the original height remains...

And on the mountainside of this mountain peak, there is a striking red dot, which is flashing one after another.

"At the beginning, the target was smashed into the mountain about 80 meters deep. I ordered to use tactical nuclear warheads to bombard it. It almost completely consumed the power of these dozens of nuclear warheads. The body was also blasted into the depth of the mountain nearly 600 meters, but according to According to the information fed back by the detection instrument, the target did not stop moving.” Cao Ge explained to Ke Lan, “However, the magnetism on the target seems to stop increasing after reaching a certain strength. Conclusion: as long as we keep a distance of more than 300 meters, the electronic equipment on our vehicle will not be affected."

"Then what is it doing now?"

"The target is traveling in the mountain at a very slow speed...but this slowness is relative. In fact, its speed has not changed from the previous time on the Hercules transport plane. In other words, those hard mountains have not been able to Cause the slightest obstacle to the target." On the opposite side of the holographic projection, a young staff officer said.

"Even the viscous resin that can stick to the Ultralisk has no effect on this thing. You can't expect stones to stop it." Ke Lan said, "Which way is it moving?"

"There are no rules... The moving direction of the target in the mountain is constantly changing, and we haven't figured out the rules yet." The staff officer replied.

"Mark the trajectory of this thing on the holographic projection, and I'll take a look." Ke Lan looked up and said to the staff officer as if thinking of something.

"it is good."

The staff officer immediately clicked a few times on the control panel at the edge of the table, and a zigzag line that was also red, crooked, and "almost irregular" appeared behind the flashing red dot.

At every turning point, the staff officer also carefully marked the time.

According to this trajectory, the black mummy changed its direction at least a dozen times in the mountain, three of which were almost 180-degree turns, making it impossible to figure out its motives.

But Ke Lan's eyes lit up. He stretched out his hands. The index finger of his left hand moved along the trajectory, while his right hand went back and forth in the "airspace" above the mountain.

"I see." Ke Lan nodded, "The thing this guy is chasing is me."

As Ke Lan said, the reason why the black mummy changed its direction of movement several times in the mountain was because Ke Lan was floating in the sky at that time, and its position was constantly changing.When he landed, a long straight line immediately appeared in the trajectory of his movement—this line was facing the mountain where Ke Lan landed.

But now, the black mummy is moving in the direction where the "Albatross" is hovering, digging a diagonal passage in the mountain.

"Move fifteen kilometers to the west." Cao Ge frowned and ordered immediately.

As the position of the "Albatross" changed, the black mummy in the mountain immediately changed direction...

"The moment this thing was summoned, the target should have been locked... I think, if I don't kill it, it should chase me to the ends of the earth." Ke Lan said to Cao Ge helplessly.

[PS The "airbag" prototype mentioned in the article pinched him from the "G3 escape airbag ball" that appeared many times in "The Wandering Earth". 】

(End of this chapter)