Alien Relic Hunter

Chapter 76 Hatchery

Want to chase?
If that human figure was Liao Zilang, why did he flee the area lit by the flares?

And those slender black tentacles... those tentacles...

Ke Lan knew very well in his heart that if the figure was Liao Zilang, there would be almost no possibility of survival... It might just be a "body", as for the thing occupying this "body"...

"Crack."

The bullet was loaded, and Ke Lan plunged into the waters swallowed by darkness.

"The 'Seed of Erosion' has strong physical resistance to strikes, as well as regeneration ability..." This is unknown information from the depths of memory, but what happened before has proved the accuracy of this information - this is from Regarding the internal information of Alpha Civilization, although Ke Lan did not know why they appeared in his head, but in these information, it mentioned a point...

The Seed of Erosion is not inextinguishable.

This is a creature with extremely tenacious vitality, but no matter how tenacious it is, it is just a creature. The shark hunter machine gun in Ke Lan's hand is equipped with 150 powerful explosive bombs, and there are 1000 taels in the backpack of the deep diving suit Ammunition preparation, in addition to this, there are two depleted uranium warhead torpedoes hanging on both sides of the backpack, and 36 special incendiary bombs...

The armament he carries is no less powerful than a heavy combat mech!
No matter how strong the regenerative ability of the Seed of Erosion is, as long as it is blasted into pieces and then completely burned, Ke Lan will not believe that it can be reborn from a pile of ashes——

This is just a bunch of disgusting tentacles, not something like Phoenix that only exists in human mythology!

Five meters, ten meters, 20 meters...

Ke Lan gradually penetrated into the shadowed area, and the visibility of the surrounding environment was declining sharply. With the low-light night vision and infrared night vision devices all malfunctioning, he was almost groping forward in the dark, every step he took. Step by step, you must be careful.

The indescribable fear was growing frantically, and Ke Lan's breathing gradually became more rapid. Every time he exhaled, a thin layer of white mist formed on the glass mask, and then quickly melted...

A non-human creature with the ability to kill instantly is dormant in an unknown dark corner. Every step Ke Lan takes is approaching the trap set by that thing... The other party is a predator. And I am the prey... This feeling is enough to drive people crazy. If you change to a person with poor psychological endurance, I am afraid that he has already thrown away his weapon and turned around and ran away.

With every step, he felt that he was getting closer and closer to death... In the darkness, it seemed that there were things peeping at him from all directions, they were approaching silently, waiting for an opportunity...

The attack that may come at any time has made Ke Lan tense at every moment. The fingers holding the trigger have become sore and swollen, and the muscles all over the body have gradually stiffened due to the prolonged tense state...

Each step he took was heavier and slower and slower.

No, I'm afraid I haven't encountered that thing yet, and I can't hold it anymore...

Ke Lan stopped and closed his eyes.

That thing has the ability to easily kill itself, but it is also armed to the teeth - it is its prey, and it is also its own prey.

The reason why he stepped into this place with a machine gun was to hunt and kill each other.

Being in the dark is a huge disadvantage for oneself, and if a flare is fired, the thing will escape into the shadows again. The only way... is to turn yourself into a light source, so that the other party can't avoid it!

This is a taboo in the underwater diving code, but in this case, it is Ke Lan's only choice.

"Boom!"

The two high-lumen searchlights mounted on both sides of the helmet instantly turned on, illuminating the area directly in front of Ke Lan. At this moment, two extremely long black tentacles pierced from the shadow on the left and went straight to Ke Lan's. The door is coming!

"I knew it!"

Ke Lan opened his eyes suddenly, the propellers on the right shoulder and the elbow of the right arm rotated wildly, the compressed air was ejected from the small holes, and the strong reaction force immediately pushed Ke Lan to the left by a distance of one meter. distance, turning his body nearly 45 degrees to the left while avoiding the attack of the tentacles.

"Puff puff-"

The sound of the underwater machine gun firing was dull and indistinct. The arrow-shaped blasting bomb mixed with Nino alloy directly shredded the two tentacles that attacked Ke Lan, and incidentally smashed a low wall at the left alley... And that The black figure who was chased by Ke Lan was finally exposed in his field of vision, and he saw it clearly!
It was indeed a human being, or, in other words, a human being...

But not Liao Zilang.

Nor was it parasitized by the Seed of Erosion.

He was wearing an orange diving suit, with a lot of black seaweed wrapped around his limbs, and the "tentacles" that had just attacked Ke Lan were actually part of these seaweeds.

"It turned out to be seaweed..."

Ke Lan released the trigger, swam in front of the corpse, chopped the remaining seaweed with the propeller blades, and then turned the corpse with its back to him...

"This!!"

What appeared in front of Ke Lan's eyes was a very terrifying face - it had no eyeballs, only two dark holes were left in the eye sockets, and the blue-grey skin on the face collapsed in large swaths, tightly sticking to the bones. Above, the flesh and blood under the skin has been completely drained, and the shriveled lips are turned outward, revealing two rows of white teeth...

This is a mummified corpse.

Moreover, there is a large torn hole in the abdomen of the corpse and the abdomen of the diving suit...

"...Flesh-devouring worms..."

Ke Lan tightly grasped the arm of the corpse, his heart was beating wildly - the appearance of this corpse was exactly the same as that of the dead priestess!
Whether it was the footage in the video or the dictation from others, Ke Lan had been guessing all the time... But now, when he saw the corpse with his own eyes, he was [-]% sure that it was definitely parasitized by flesh-eating worms The past "host"!
"really……"

Judging from the logo on the chest of the diving suit, the deceased was named Bren, an elite agent of the Security Bureau, and he should be one of the missing in the previous underwater exploration operations.

The flesh and blood on the corpse was almost completely sucked dry, and the flesh-eating worm parasitic in his body had burst out of his body, and he did not know where to go... But since there is a second one, there will definitely be a third and a fourth...

This trip is not in vain, as long as they can capture a flesh-eating worm - no, they don't even need to capture a complete living body, they only need to get a part of the flesh-eating worm's body tissue, they can neutralize Ivan's body. The Seed of Erosion invades the alienated cells.

Ke Lan suddenly felt that the goal of their trip seemed to be close at hand.

With the corpse tied to his back with a rope, Ke Lan decided to move on.

If it is just those black seaweeds, although this underwater city is very strange, it is actually not dangerous.

He had a hunch that if he missed this opportunity, he might not be able to find this relic again next time.

……

After walking forward for about half a kilometer, after passing through the dense building complex, an abyss-like fissure suddenly appeared in front of him.

This crack is 300 meters long, nearly ten meters wide at its widest point, and bottomless. There is a fence more than three meters high around the crack. The top of the fence is covered with a huge metal mesh, covering the entire crack. They were all sealed up, but the metal net was already full of torn holes, and it had lost its original function.

Next to the fence stood a stone tablet with a string of Alpha civilization written on it.

"Hatch... turn... field?"

(End of this chapter)