Alien Relic Hunter

Chapter 637 The Opened Tower Gate

"Dragging like this is not an option." Ke Lan immediately ordered, "Valentina, you and Layton go around to the enemy's right side, and Asano Akira and I go around to their left side, and cooperate with the mobile unit to carry out a three-way encirclement. , give priority to killing the guy who can use the energy shield! Zero, 33, and Ivan, the three of you stay where you are and prepare for emergencies at any time!"

The energy shield released by the opponent is not fully covered, it can only block the firepower in a general direction, and there is no way to resist the attack from the side and rear. There is a very familiar name among gamers: "Pull the gun line".

The distance between the loyal descendants guards and them was only a hundred meters, and at Ke Lan's speed, they had rushed to the side of this group of reformers almost in an instant.

The first attack was the plasma-charged cannon of the Blasphemer Mecha. A ball of plasma was spit out from the muzzle. It seemed that the flying speed was not fast, but it exploded among the crowd of loyal descendants in the blink of an eye.The dozen or so reformers in the core area of ​​the explosion were instantly vaporized, leaving no traces behind.Those reformers who were a little farther away from the explosion site could barely leave behind a charred remains, or some transplanted parts with relatively strong heat resistance.

With this cannonball, almost half of the cyborgs were wiped out... Although the visual effects were extraordinary, Ke Lan didn't relax at all.

First of all, the primary target of the plasma-charged artillery-the cyborg who can release the energy shield was not killed.When the plasma shot into the crowd, it instantly withdrew its energy shield, turning it into an extremely thick cocoon-shaped shield, completely covering its body inside.

Even though he was also in the core area of ​​the plasma explosion, the raging energy storm and the high temperature of millions of degrees failed to break through its protective shield in the first place, but the subsequent shock wave knocked it from the explosion. The core area was "pushed" out.

Secondly, although this plasma cannon killed more than 100 reformers, Ke Lan could tell at a glance that those who were killed were all weaker guys. In the core area of ​​the explosion, at least [-] reformers rushed to the electric field. They escaped before the pulp exploded—whether it was in terms of reaction ability, maneuverability, or physical strength of the body, these surviving reformers were completely on a different level compared to their instant-killed accomplices.

If you want to make an intuitive comparison, it is equivalent to the gap between Ke Lan, an ordinary person with special abilities, and an ace pilot of the actual combat department like Valentina in the field of mech manipulation.

Although the number of reformed people who were killed accounted for half of this loyal heir guard, their actual combat strength may only account for one-fifth, or even less.

"Valentina, how long is it until the next plasma cannon cools down?" Ke Lan immediately asked in the team channel.

"About three hundred seconds."

Three hundred seconds?Ke Lan was slightly taken aback. In his memory, the cooling time of the plasma-charged cannon of the Blasphemer mech he drove was about [-] seconds, while the cooling time of the one he handed over to Valentina was [-] seconds. It has been expanded to six times the original size, and it is not known whether it is due to the wear and tear of the barrel itself, or some other reason.

But no matter what the reason is, the second plasma cannon is temporarily hopeless. The time of 5 minutes is long enough for them to go back and forth in the formation of the loyal heir guard several times.

"Layton is in charge of covering the fire, and the others are ready for hand-to-hand combat." After Ke Lan finished speaking, the blood-colored giant claw in his hand had turned into a heavy blunt sword without a sharp edge—his primary target of killing was still that man. A cyborg who can release energy shields, and in the face of energy shields, which mainly rely on ablation to resist physical attacks, the heavy and thick blunt weapon attack effect is much better than the thin and light blade.

Except for Augustus, the other three rushed directly into the formation of the loyal heir guards.

Ke Lan swung the blunt sword in his hand and smashed it, directly flying several reformers who wanted to pounce on them.However, he turned his head and saw that behind Asano Akira was already densely packed with corpses all over the ground... All the reformed people who rushed towards him were like tofu bumps hitting the blade, and the moment they passed by, they were gone. Split into four or five...

But the most exaggerated is the blasphemer mech manipulated by Valentina. Although the plasma cannon has entered the cooldown time, she has been killed in just a few seconds by just relying on the armor-piercing sword. Nearly [-] reformers were cut down, twice as many as Akira Asano.

On the contrary, Layton's mid-range fire covered almost no kills, and the two multi-barreled Vulcan cannons completely swept away a lonesome.

Of course, he was no wonder. Most of the reformers rushed towards Ke Lan and the others. In order not to accidentally injure allies, Layton could only target those reformers wandering around the edge of the battlefield.But these cyborgs who dare to stand alone are very mobile, and it is difficult to lock the target. Even if they are injured occasionally, it is difficult to affect the recovery ability of these cyborgs parasitic with the seeds of erosion.

"Layton, don't worry about our side, you concentrate your firepower and suppress the cyborg who can release the energy shield!" Ke Lan quickly discovered this and said in the communication channel.

"Okay." Layton replied dully, turned his head and pointed the muzzle at the cocoon-shaped energy shield, and poured out his depression on the warhead.

Not only Layton, but also the firepower from the mobile unit was also concentrated on the energy shield of the reformed man—it's just that after he shrank the energy shield, the strength of the shield also doubled several times to the extent visible to the naked eye. Times, the colorful transparent shield that was originally like soap bubbles now looks like a thick piece of amber. It is easy to give people the illusion that this energy shield has been materialized.

"I can't see any signs of weakening the energy shield at all... This thing can't be so perverted?" Layton pressed the "fire" button on the top of the joystick tightly with both hands, and he was still thinking about it. He said, "The shield strength of this thing is already comparable to a fortress-level shield generator, but that thing only covers an area of ​​hundreds of square meters. How can an indigenous biological organ that can be stuffed into a person's stomach be so powerful?" Has such a high conversion efficiency and output power?"

"Actually, this energy shield was not released by the reformer." Ze Luo suddenly said in surprise, "I have observed it for a long time, and I have not noticed any energy fluctuations on it."

"What do you mean?" Layton asked in amazement, "It didn't release the energy shield, so who else could release it?"

"I can only be sure that his body is not the energy source of this shield." Ze Luo said.

"I seem to have vaguely guessed the truth..." Ke Lan made a 180-degree gyration, smashing the head of a reformed person whose skin was covered with thick stratum corneum directly with the blunt sword in his hand, and said, "This name Transforming people... The transplanted organs in his body may only serve as a guide... In other words, he is just a 'remote control'."

"Then where did this shield come from? This guy doesn't carry any other equipment!" Augustus threw the two Vulcan cannons that had been shot out of all the bullets on the ground, and pulled out his back The famous electromagnetic sniper gun - this sniper gun is the one used by Valkyrie in the molten mine area, but after many improvements and connected to Augustus's reactor, its power is greater than It is nearly fifteen times higher than in the hands of Valkyrie... Not to mention piercing through the wreckage of the building, even if it wants to interrupt the entire intact building in the middle, it will be no problem.

However, the first shot of this sniper cannon fully charged was directly melted into the energy shield, without even causing a little bigger ripple.

"The shield it controls should come from the ruins of the ancient bronze city itself." Ke Lan said, "What we have been bombarding should be the energy shield from the ruins."

"Fuck? Isn't it?" Layton subconsciously glanced at the top of his head - so many battleships couldn't break through the shield, not to mention their firepower. Compared with the "fierce battle situation" above, their attack might be Not even scraping.

"Didn't it mean that the energy shield only intercepts flying objects in the air? Why does it appear on the ground?" Layton still couldn't believe it.

"No one said that the energy shield of the ruins cannot appear on the ground. We just had a wrong understanding because of our preconceived notions..." Ke Lan said, "Ghost owls and the others in the outer ring area of ​​the ruins can Encountering a wall of light that moves close to the ground, let alone this is the core control area of ​​the ruins."

"No, that doesn't make sense." Layton seemed unbelieving, and fired another shot at the energy shield, "If the energy shield in the core control area can be activated on the ground, then stop us directly." It’s okay to be outside, why let us in, and then snipe, and send these modified monsters to stop us?”

"Then I don't know. Maybe there is a limitation in this thing, and it must be activated by a 'guide' - and the thing in the stomach of the reformed person should be a 'guide'."

"Then what should we do now? The shields that the three fleets can't blast, we can't even blast."

As Layton said, he lowered the muzzle of the cannon in despair.

"Leave this guy alone, clean up the other remodelers of the Loyal Heir Guard... At least judging from the current performance, the 'Guide' can only use these shields for defense, but cannot use them for attack. It's just a hard-shelled tortoise, if it can't be broken, we'll go around it." Ke Lan said.

"That makes sense, so can I choose close combat? Seeing you hacking and killing for so long, I've already felt itchy." Layton said.

"You're out of ammo?"

"There are fourteen rounds left of the electromagnetic sniper gun, but this thing's penetrating ability is too strong, and you guys move so fast, I'm worried about accidental injury."

"Are you okay with close combat?"

"Hey, Ke Lan, do you look down on me? Anyway, I have recently obtained an M9 license, and I am only a hair away from the ace." Layton yelled.

"There is only a thin line between M9 and ace pilots? Can you fit several galaxies in this line?" Ke Lan complained. In the mech competition, those M9-level pilots were almost defeated by ace Pilots rubbing against the ground, not to mention actual combat aces like Valentina, even an ace pilot from a sports club, and an M9-level pilot still has an insurmountable gap.

"I just don't have time to participate in the promotion assessment—"

"Okay, pay attention to safety." But Ke Lan finally agreed to Layton's request. With Augustus's performance and armor strength, even if he just stood still, those reformers might not be able to hurt the sitting man. Layton in the cockpit.

"Okay!" After getting the approval, Layton immediately swallowed a lot of complaints in the back, grabbed the two fighting daggers that popped out from the hidden grooves of the arm armor, and directly entered the battle group.

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The zerg-type reformer seems to be the most powerful one among the loyal descendants of the guards. Among the remaining reformers, although there are many tricky guys, the two of them, Asano Akira and Blasphemer Mecha, In the face of unreasonable threats, they have been cut off before they can show their strength. When they are hit behind, Ke Lan and Layton can only pick up those small fish and shrimps that slipped through the net. Most of the reformers died at the hands of Asano Show and Valentina.

"Okay." Layton pulled out the fighting dagger from the chest of a crustacean cyborg, and then used the short-range machine gun mounted on Augustus's shoulder to replenish a few rounds of active ammunition at zero distance, eroding the opponent's body. The seed was killed, "there is only the last one left."

As he said, at this moment, the only cyborg existing on the battlefield is the "big belly" wrapped in a cocoon-shaped energy shield.

"The battle lasted for 25 minutes." Ke Lan said to the commander of the mobile unit, "We shouldn't waste any more time on this guy. My suggestion is to ignore it and go directly to the core tower."

"Well," the commander nodded, "do you need to leave a few people to watch it?"

"No need, this guy hasn't shown any means of attack since the beginning of the battle. Without other reformers, he doesn't pose a threat to us. If you keep people here, you will be easily attacked by other enemies. Attack." Ke Lan said, "It's better to concentrate on breaking through the core tower, which is the key point of the whole battle."

"understood."

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After destroying the loyal heir guards, the airborne team never encountered any obstacles and reached the base of the core tower very smoothly.

Like the tower body, the base is also a hexagonal cylinder, each side is about 50 meters long, and in the center of each side, there is a gate 15 meters high and ten meters wide.

These six gates are all open, but nothing can be seen from the outside, even if the light of the searchlight shines in, it will be completely swallowed by darkness in an instant.

"Should we... want to go in?" Layton said first, "I always feel... that it's not a good place inside."

"I have the same feeling." 33 continued, "To be honest, just looking through these doors, I feel as if something is crawling up my back..."

"It's just psychological factors at work." Ivan glanced at him and said.

"What about you? Do you feel this way?" 33 asked immediately.

"...Yes." After a moment of silence, Ivan also nodded.

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