Alien Relic Hunter

Chapter 721 See also Mimic Fungus

"Put away the corpse... I hope I can find some useful information from this person." Ke Lan said with a sigh.

With the rigorous behavior of the members of the Undead Crew, this possibility is extremely small... This corpse is probably the same as the men in black outside, and no clues can be traced.

Ke Lan walked around the room twice again - this room is not like a "bedroom" at all, except for the small compartment where the sleeping cabin is placed, the rest of the space is full of rows of shelves, The shelves are full of bottles and jars of all kinds.

These containers are filled with liquids of different colors. Under the dark red light, it feels like an alchemy laboratory in a magical world... Most of the containers have no labels, but none of the ones with labels Chemicals and biological agents are not strictly controlled by the Ark, and even some of the highest-standard contraband items are absolutely not allowed to be held by private individuals or organizations.

Among them is the "tissue culture fluid containing active cells of meat-eating worms" - although active ammunition has almost become the standard supply of various legions of the Ark, there are also many non-governmental organizations that have obtained some small doses of active ammunition from various sources , but these can only be regarded as "finished products". Once such "finished products" are unpacked from the frozen state, they will become invalid within a short time.But the tissue culture fluid is different... This is not only a raw material for making active ammunition, but also an extremely dangerous experimental specimen.

As for what is stored in those unlabeled containers, one can imagine.

It is no exaggeration to say that the number and types of medicines stored in this "bedroom" have completely exploded the biochemical laboratory on the sixth floor of the building.

These medicines...are all the personal collections of this "BOSS"?

What is he collecting these things for?The "pet" used to feed him?

While Ke Lan was checking the shelves, there was a loud noise from the direction of the dormant cabin!
what happened? !
Ke Lan was startled suddenly, why would something happen to this woman as long as she didn't look at her for a while-this kind of plot happened once when the main house of the Williams family was copied before, why did it happen again?
Could it be that she was too unlucky?
Ke Lan quickly bypassed a row of shelves, and rushed to the place where the "BOSS" blew up just now, and saw that Aya had already retreated to the wall, her entire right arm was torn off, and her chest was even cut open. There are several large holes running through the front and back.

Fortunately, her body has been replaced with a cyborg prosthesis, otherwise, she would be a corpse now.

Ke Lan's gaze turned to the other side—the headless corpse had already climbed up from the ground, and a large number of tentacles, like earthworms, with rings of links on the surface of the mucous membrane drilled out of the fracture of the neck, these tentacles and the seeds of erosion Or the tentacles of the fusion body are different, showing a dark brown color like carrion, and at the same time exuding a disgusting strong rotten smell.

"Where did this thing come from?"

Ke Lan was very sure that when he was inspecting the headless corpse just now, the corpse had lost all signs of life, and there was no parasitic corrosion species inside the corpse——when he first approached the corpse, So he was so cautious because he was worried that something hidden in the corpse would suddenly jump out and attack him.

"I was just about to wrap the body in a body bag...it suddenly sat up from the ground...These tentacles rushed out from the cut in the neck in an instant, and attacked me." Aya said .

Her condition is very bad. Although she still has a certain fighting ability, the artificial lung has been seriously damaged. Once the oxygen supply to the brain is affected, it will cause irreversible consequences-the prosthetic body must be repaired immediately.

"Understood...you try to repair the prosthetic body first, at least don't let the brain die from hypoxia and necrosis, leave this thing to me."

Ke Lan took out his spare weapon from his trouser pocket - a folded miniature engineer shovel.

This shovel is also made of Nino alloy, and part of the stalagmite fragments are melted into the blade, and its material is even a little more than the previous deer hunting knife.

"I've never seen this kind of monster." Aya added, "There has never been such a thing recorded in the archives of the Security Bureau."

"To be honest, I haven't seen it either." Ke Lan replied——As for whether there is a file about this thing under the black well, then he doesn't know, there are no two keywords, and he wants to find it in so many hard drives The information related to this thing is really too difficult.

Ke Lan slowly approached the headless corpse, with the engineering shovel in his hand in front of him, making a posture that could attack and block at any time.

weird...really weird...

It was obvious that he was already dead...I even used my fingers to dig out the spinal cord of this corpse. Logically speaking, it is impossible to cheat the corpse?
And what makes Ke Lan feel the most weird is that although those tentacles are still wriggling, tearing and dismantling the arm that was pulled from Aya's prosthetic body, from his perspective, these tentacles don't show No breath of life.

The breath of life is a relatively metaphysical term... In short, in his opinion, this thing is clearly a dead thing... even though it is still moving.

Ke Lan's mind suddenly popped up a term that has been used in various novels and film and television dramas: Zombie.

Soon, Aya's severed arm was torn into countless tiny pieces... Immediately afterwards, the headless corpse began to stumble towards Ke Lan.

The movement of the headless corpse was very slow, but those earthworm-like tentacles were not slow at all—when the corpse was about three meters away from Ke Lan, these tentacles had already shot out from a dozen directions towards Ke Lan struck.

The speed of the tentacles is very fast, but in front of Ke Lan who has the ability to stop, he can clearly see the number of their attacks.

In the past, Ke Lan often felt that the time-stop ability was a bit weak-for example, if someone shot at him, even if he could stop and see the trajectory of the bullet clearly, it would be difficult for him to dodge after the time-stop was removed. For these high-speed flying bullets, unless the opponent can see the direction of the muzzle a moment before the opponent shoots, they can perform predictive dodge in advance.

The reaction of the body cannot keep up with the speed of the consciousness, and it is easy to feel frustrated... This is like a professional player, with the top consciousness and operation skills, but using a very slow and worn-out machine. , and an antique machine that freezes from time to time, the hardware conditions simply do not allow him to complete any slightly difficult operations.

However, after the body is greatly strengthened by the living armor, this problem has been greatly improved. Although it cannot be said that it can completely match the reaction speed of consciousness, at least it can barely dodge bullets like in "The Matrix".

Ke Lan's upper body leaned back violently, and made a movement called "Iron Bridge" in Chinese martial arts, which made the first wave of attacks from the tentacles come to nothing.

When these tentacles changed direction, the engineering shovel held in Ke Lan's right hand swung upwards violently, and the sharp shovel edge cut off a dozen earthworm-like tentacles in an instant.

Ke Lan quickly drew back and dodged to the side to prevent the severed tentacles from falling on his body, and at the same time kicked the headless corpse away forcefully.

The power of a nine-level enhanced person's full kick is terrifying. The chest of the headless corpse was sunken directly, and the whole corpse flew out, knocking over four or five rows of cabinets in a row.

The severed tentacles twitched on the ground and stopped moving—this made Ke Lan heave a sigh of relief: Although this thing looks like an earthworm, it doesn't have the tenacious vitality of an earthworm... If these tentacles are cut The tentacles that came down grew another head, which would be troublesome.

The bottles and cans placed on the overturned cabinets were scattered all over the place, but fortunately, the materials used for these containers are relatively high-end, except for those directly hit by headless corpses, none of the bottles fell. broken.

But even so, at least dozens of different medicines were sprayed on the headless corpse that fell on the shelf—these medicines were being absorbed by the mucous membranes of the tentacles at a speed visible to the naked eye, and the tentacles themselves were also absorbed. It's starting to change gradually...

"I knew I wouldn't kick this kick... I actually added a buff to the other party." Ke Lan murmured to himself, rushed forward with a stride, swung the engineering shovel and slapped it indiscriminately.

The tentacles hadn't completed their evolution—not only did the potions not provide it with any positive buffs, but they severely corroded the tentacles themselves. Even if Ke Lan didn't add follow-up attacks, these tentacles would probably be completely necrotic in a short time.

"Remember to ask the biochemical hazard disposal team to clean this room afterwards." Ke Lan said to Aya not far away, then picked up a pair of pliers on the cabinet shelf, and grabbed a still intact The tentacles pulled it out from the headless corpse.

Each of these tentacles is independent and does not seem to be connected to each other. At the end of the tentacles, there is a mass of flesh like a tumor.

Ke Lan cut open the meatball with the blade of an engineer shovel, and suddenly found that the inside of the meatball was covered with white mycelium.

It's just that these hyphae are dead at this time, and many of them have begun to turn gray and black.

Ke Lan took a deep breath, almost at the same time he saw these white hyphae, he had already recognized this thing.

Isn't this the kind of mimic fungus they encountered on the way to Leviathan with the Soma Consortium's convoy? !
After the Leviathan mission was over, Ke Lan handed over the corresponding reports and samples to Lieutenant General Maginot, and Lieutenant General Maginot handed them over to the authorities on his behalf. I didn't expect to see this fungus again in the body of this BOSS today.

Moreover, this fungus seems to have undergone a considerable degree of variation, and it is not known whether it is the result of natural variation or artificial improvement...

"Does this count as shooting yourself in the foot?" Ke Lan showed a rare wry smile.

In his impression, after the institute was destroyed and rebuilt due to the "meme incident", many original subjects and research projects were cut off, and the subjects related to this mimic fungus should also be shelved... But I didn't expect The ghost took out a sample of this thing and handed it to the "BOSS" of the New Star Chamber of Commerce.

"Wait a minute, something seems wrong..."

Ke Lan glanced at the corpse on the ground, then at the bottles and cans on the shelf, and some thoughts in his mind suddenly began to overlap...

After the mimic fungus eats up the prey, it will simulate the shape of the prey... After the fusion body devours the prey, it will also embed the prey's gene fragments into its own gene sequence, and grow a variety of strange Limbs and organs... Both of these two creatures have the ability to "change what they eat". Although there is a big gap in principle, it is intriguing to appear in one place at the same time.

In addition to these two, the red worms on Leviathan also have a very strong mimicry ability... They can not only mimic living things, but even mechanical inorganic objects such as battleships, airplanes, and mechas. Shield generators can be simulated perfectly.

They are obviously better than this mimic fungus - except for the shape, even the function can be perfectly copied.

Will there be any connection between these three?Ke Lan couldn't help but fell into deep thought.

[PS The plot will start to accelerate soon. My personal plan is to end it during the National Day. There are about [-] chapters left in the plot. Judging from the discussions in the group, some readers’ comments, and this chapter, some people Maybe I have already guessed the truth of this world and the true identity of the protagonist... But in order to ensure that the plot does not collapse, I will not modify the outline or modify these important settings, you can rest assured.

In fact, I have laid the foreshadowing of these things from a very early age. People who read more carefully, have a big brain and think in a way closer to mine, I think they should be able to see some clues...

As for the pits I dug one after another in the early days, as long as I still remember and recorded them in the outline, I will fill them in one by one... As for the small pits dug at random... If If I forgot, you can remind me in this chapter... After all, I have been writing this book for a year and a half. I have repeatedly changed the outline, plot direction and final ending for several versions. It was only when I wrote the volume of the sick village that it was finalized, and it has been fine-tuned and improved many times in the follow-up. I don’t remember many pits and settings I dug in the early days... If you have any obsession with the plot It can also be raised here. I will try my best to be satisfied without affecting the main plot. 】

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