Alien Relic Hunter

Chapter 724 Injecting Protoembryos
The first time he saw this monster, a term from ancient Greek mythology popped out of Ke Lan's mind.

"Chimera".

In fairy tales, this is a monster made of lions, goats and pythons... Later, this word was also used to describe those strange hybrid creatures or chimeras, of course, only limited to the fictional world view among.

And the monster in front of him is even more Chimera than the ancestor Chimera—a colossal monster was randomly put together from the limbs of various earth creatures and indigenous creatures on Planet Alpha. On the top of its body, It is a female head with wheat-colored skin and long messy white hair... Although the appearance of this head has undergone earth-shaking changes, Ke Lan still recognizes that this face is the founder of the New Star Chamber of Commerce, that is called Camilla Claudia's woman.

Regardless of whether this woman is a believer in a heretical sect or not, it is obvious that she has been fed to this monster by that "BOSS" long ago.

And what Ke Lan cares about the most is not this... The body surface of this fusion body is densely covered with a layer of white fluff—these are not the hairs of the fusion body, but the hyphae of the mimic fungus, the fusion body Every time it hits the cage wall, a large number of spores will be scattered from between the hyphae and fall to the ground.

"It seems that these people are trying to chimerize the mimic fungus with the fusion body... But it seems that the mimic fungus is only parasitic on the body surface of the fusion body... I just don't know what the inside of this monster looks like. "Ke Lan muttered softly, not to mention Ivan, even Ke Lan had the urge to dissect this thing.

But one thing is certain, the mimic fungus on this fusion body is somehow related to the mimic fungus in the "BOSS"... After the latter died, the fusion body began to hit the cage frantically, and in this Before, it had been in a very quiet state.

"Could it be possible that this thing can also be used as a communication device?" A strange thought popped into Ke Lan's head.

Another layer of cage wall was shattered, less than [-] seconds had passed since the previous layer of cage wall was shattered.

There are still twelve floors left in the remaining cage walls, which means that this cage can help Ke Lan and the others win 4 minutes at most.

In fact, as long as this monster is willing, it can rush out at any time... This beautiful transparent cage can't trap it at all. It seems that the "BOSS" should have the means to control the fusion body.

It's a pity he's dead.

"Hello? Aya? How is the evacuation of the people going?" Ke Lan pressed the communicator hanging on the ear and asked.

"The garrison has entered the economic development zone, but the previous gunshots and the sudden appearance of the army have caused a new wave of riots... at least... at least 45 minutes!"

"I can only give you half an hour at most." Ke Lan said.

"It's impossible to evacuate all the people in half an hour!" Aya hissed, the background noise on her side was extremely chaotic, and all kinds of sirens and shouts rang together.

"There are still many people hiding in the building, they are unwilling to cooperate with us, and some people even locked the door directly... 45 minutes is still the time required in the most ideal situation... In fact, even if there is an hour, We can't evacuate people!" Aya added.

"There are 4 more minutes..." Accompanied by a loud "bang", another layer of transparent cage walls shattered to the ground, "Okay, now it is three minutes and forty seconds, and there are three minutes and four seconds left." In ten seconds, this big guy will be out of trouble."

"But……"

"Don't worry, to be honest, I don't think I can hold this thing for you for an entire hour." Ke Lan sighed, "It's only three 10 minutes, not even a second more. You just use a high-power speaker to tell All citizens, this block will be hit indiscriminately by artillery fire in 10 minutes, and everyone will immediately follow the guidance of the military to evacuate here in an orderly manner, and those who stay will bear the consequences."

"This will cause panic! There may be a large-scale stampede!" Aya exclaimed.

"What about the army, do they eat dry food?"

"There are too many people. There are too many people in this block...Even if the soldiers of the 24th Regiment are counted, we cannot control everyone and all places." Aya replied.

"But if we don't do this, more people will die." Ke Lan said, "We have no choice... As for the agents and soldiers, we only need to be responsible for maintaining order at the main intersection... If someone disturbs the order and does not obey Guidance, soldiers are allowed to use non-lethal weapons... If someone maliciously obstructs the evacuation operation, or drives a vehicle to crush the people or hit the checkpoint, there is no need to report and kill them directly!"

Ke Lan paused for a moment, and added: "Remember, if you can't save everyone, then save as many people as you can...Save those who can!"

"I know..." Aya gritted her teeth and replied.

The cage wall on the 11th floor from the bottom was also shattered—Ke Lan noticed that at the front end of this fusion body, at some point there grew a body completely wrapped by an exoskeleton, with a diameter of about two meters and a length of five meters. , The front end is blunt, and the end is an organ that involves a lot of muscles... This thing hits the cage wall again and again, which greatly accelerates the cracks on the cage wall.

The time for the penultimate tenth cage wall to be breached was shortened from twenty seconds to thirteen seconds.

"Whether in terms of appearance or function, this thing is clearly a battering ram..." Ke Lan frowned and whispered to himself.

Could it be that the remnants of the heretic sect fed a "battering ram" to this monster?But the fusion body should only treat non-living things as food, right?And... the battering ram doesn't have the genetic sequence for it to reproduce, does it?

Ke Lan began to search for creatures with organs that resembled battering rams in his mind, but no matter which one it was, it was quite different from the organ that grew out of the monster in front of him.

Moreover, this organ only appeared not long ago. During this period of time, no one should have come to feed this fusion body.

Could it be that this is adaptive evolution?Because of the need to break open the cage, he pieced together such a battering ram-like organ from the complicated genetic sequences in his body?

If this is the case, then this monster will be difficult to deal with.

It's like playing cards - every piece of "feed" it eats and every set of "genes" it fused is equivalent to a series of incomplete cards... Originally Ke Lan thought what card it got You can only play any cards, but now, this fusion body seems to be able to rearrange and combine the cards one after another, and then make up the required cards to play... As long as you collect enough cards, you can even form a dozen decks It's not a problem for Wang Bo to come.

Of course, it's not a problem for the fusion body, but for Ke Lan, it's a big problem.

It is an exaggeration to say... this monster has almost "infinite" possibilities.

The ninth-to-last floor, the eighth-to-last floor, the seventh-to-last floor... The speed at which the cage wall was breached can be described as overwhelming. Ke Lan even felt that he could already smell the stench emanating from this monster.

Let alone three 10 minutes... He felt that he might not be able to hold on to 5 minutes.

If the living armor is still there, maybe there is still a chance, but now...

Ke Lan looked at the engineer shovel in his hand and the light machine gun he snatched from the man in black, and then at the fusion body with a height of more than 20 meters... Reason told him that turning around and fleeing from this place immediately is the way to go. The most correct choice.

"Do you want me to play Wang Bo at the beginning of the game?" Ke Lan reached into his pocket subconsciously, holding the two syringes, "But the problem is, I only have this pair of Wang Bo... and this big guy hands full of king bombs."

"My only chance of winning is to make a fatal blow before the opponent has finished playing the cards."

but……

The question is back to the original point: can these two "seed embryos" really be regarded as king bombs?

Ke Lan couldn't help but think of the "meme crisis" that almost completely destroyed the entire research institute. The cause was that Professor Smith tried to inoculate the cells of the seed of erosion into his own cloned tissue, and inadvertently created the "meme crisis". A monster like Seraphim.

But now, the original seed embryo is equivalent to the ultimate enhanced patch version of the erosion seed cells, and the self transformed by the living armor is much stronger than a mass of meat that cannot survive without the nutrient solution. When those two things come together...

Ke Lan has no doubt that he will gain incomparably powerful power... But he is more worried about whether his consciousness can remain awake after being injected with the original seed embryo.

According to the remnant party instructor of the heretic sect, the container after being parasitized by the original seed embryo will fall into a "crazy period" of insanity... If he also becomes like that by then, I am afraid that he will be killed soon. Will the members of the Undead Crew be wiped out?
But at the same time, another voice in his mind kept telling him: Inject it, inject it quickly, don't hesitate anymore... This is the crystallization of the tens of thousands of years of science and technology of the Alpha civilization, which condenses the supremacy of the biological science of the Alpha civilization. The resplendent fruit... As long as you fuse it, you will be able to gain the power to rival the gods...

"Against the gods?"

Isn't it the prophet's obsession to match the gods?Why...why would I want to fight the gods?

Could it be that this is the sign shown after the consciousness has been deeply eroded by "His"?

Ke Lan shuddered violently, and loosened his grip on the syringe slightly.

He couldn't help but feel a bit of fear. Just now, what he was thinking about was not whether to inject this thing, but how to deal with it in case of side effects after the injection—this shows that his mind has been severely affected. influences.

Before it is determined whether this thing is really effective, it is undoubtedly a dangerous item... Even if this kind of thing is used, it should only be used when it is desperate, but now, what Ke Lan has to do is just Hold this fusion body for three 10 minutes instead of being forced into a desperate situation by this fusion body.

If it's not possible, he can quickly get out of here with the speed of a high-level modified person, and then call the battleship to attack... Although doing so will cause tens of thousands of civilian casualties, at least it is better than triggering another "meme crisis" okay?

"Why do I have such thoughts?"

Ke Lan panted heavily, staring at the fusion body tens of meters away—at this moment, there were only the last three layers of the transparent cage wall, and this monster would break out at any time.

"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

The sound of the fusion body hitting the cage wall was like beating a giant drum. Ke Lan only felt his brain go numb, and a strange high temperature spread along his limbs and bones.

His consciousness, which had just been clear for a moment, suddenly became chaotic... The ability to think for himself seems to be gradually losing...

He felt that another consciousness seemed to emerge from the depths of memory and take over this body.

That voice no longer induced him to inject the original seed embryo, but used the language of the Alpha civilization, constantly chanting something...

Ke Lan was very familiar with those words, but when each syllable was connected together, it turned into words that he couldn't understand at all... He felt that his self-awareness was being stripped from this body, and darkness was gradually descending.

At this moment, Ke Lan heard a deep sigh.

Everything returned to normal in an instant.

"what happened?"

If I had to describe the feeling just now, Ke Lan felt as if his soul had been out of his body for a few seconds, and then he was stuffed back into his body.

He wiped his face with his hand. There were fine beads of sweat on his forehead, cheeks, and neck, and the skin on his body was terribly hot.

As if he suddenly remembered something, he took out his other hand from his pocket——Ke Lan suddenly discovered that the hard shell of the syringe had been crushed by his hands, and the seeds contained in it were originally The embryo seeped into his body from his palm.

His eyes widened slightly involuntarily, and he didn't even realize that the fusion body not far away had finally smashed the last barrier.

"But... it seems... there is no response?" Ke Lan turned the palm over and over several times, but found nothing unusual.

Even the abnormally elevated body temperature just now subsided.

Ke Lan raised his head and bumped into a wheat-colored face.

The fusion body stopped in front of him, and the head that originally belonged to Camilla Claudia bowed down, staring straight at Ke Lan.

Ke Lan stared at the pair of cloudy eyes, and a somewhat absurd idea popped up in his heart.

"This Camilla...won't she still have self-awareness and memories of her life?"

Just when Ke Lan decided to try to have a conversation with the other party, "Camilla" spoke first——

"You... are... the same kind?"

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