Alien Relic Hunter

Chapter 766 Shaojiang Change

Meanwhile, the forest floor.

"Bombing... The bombing seems to have stopped." Mo Jue looked up at the dome and said in disbelief.

"They succeeded?" Ivan clenched his fists subconsciously, and the posture of keeping his head up made him feel sore at the back of his neck, but he didn't want to lower his head at all.

Calculated according to the time, if Ke Lan and the others hadn't succeeded, the plasma cannon of "Shaojiang Kai" should have been fully charged by now.

Even if he died, he had to watch the scene of his death clearly, instead of burying his head in the sand when danger approached like the ostriches on the earth.

In the next moment, an extremely strong white light penetrated the dense canopy of trees and the dense fog that covered the sky and the sun, and the originally dark forest glade was reflected as if it were in the daylight. The light was so strong that even wearing goggles would be difficult. to look directly at.

"Is...is it a plasma cannon? It...was fired?" Mo Jue's lips trembled slightly.

"No, if the plasma cannon fires successfully, we'll be turned into fly ash now." 33 shook his head, "I won't have time to give you my thoughts...you came out of 'Hell Paratroopers' anyway, don't you even have this Don't you have any common sense?"

"I... I just..." Mo Jue choked on 33, his face turned red and white, "I'm just a little nervous."

"'Hell paratroopers' combat rules Chapter 1 third, 'under any circumstances, you must maintain reason and rationality, even if death is ahead.'" 33 read, "Soldiers who only know how to obey orders can only be regarded as soldiers on the battlefield. Consumables, you have to know how to make judgments on the battle situation."

"..." Mo Jue pursed his lips, but did not answer.

She wanted to say that she was no longer a soldier, but she didn't say that in the end.

A humanoid body with a burnt-red shell crashed from above. It was the Blasphemer Mecha that Ke Lan and Valentina were riding on.

Under the action of the cooling device, the outer shell of the machine body gradually returned to its original color, the hatch of the cockpit opened again, and Ke Lan, who was naked from the upper body, jumped down from the cockpit and landed on the ground.

"Did it work?" Ivan asked.

Ke Lan nodded, took the spare clothes that Ze Luo handed over, and put them on his body: "After cutting off those vines, the native creatures in the foggy forest regarded the 'Shaojiang Kai' as an intruder. After watching those monsters consume the energy shield, we blasted the main gun of the battleship... It shouldn't take long before the whole battleship will fall from the sky."

"Is it that hot? Take off all your clothes?" After hearing that the "Shaojiang Kai" was about to crash, Ivan's mood improved a lot, and he also had time to tease Ke Lan.

"The Blasphemer mecha can be piloted by two people. My previous clothes were torn apart by the tentacles used for nerve connection." Ke Lan said truthfully, "But to say it was hot, for two or three seconds just now, the cockpit The temperature inside should have reached over [-] degrees Celsius, I have no problem, but I don’t know if Valentina is affected, you can go and check for her.”

"I'm fine." Valentina's voice came from the cockpit, "The heat was quickly taken away by the injection fluid in the cockpit, and I was not affected at all."

"Double driving?" Ivan was obviously more interested in another thing Ke Lan mentioned, "Isn't this mech operated by the driver's nervous system? It's like connecting two drivers at the same time, wouldn't it Is there something like a conflict of instructions? Or is it that the two of you have shared consciousness with a high synchronization rate?"

"Let's study this after we go back." Ke Lan looked up into the sky, "The 'Shaojiang Kai' is probably going to be smashed down soon, everyone is ready to resist the impact."

Although Ke Lan said that everyone should be prepared, in fact, it is enough to have Ze Luo alone—several small space barriers like bubbles wrapped up everyone and suspended them in mid-air. On the outside of the "space bubble", three flexible buffer layers were set up in succession to resist the impact that the battleship would cause when it landed.

Although Zeluo's space barrier can't withstand the plasma main gun of "Shaojiang Kai", it is more than enough to block the vibration caused by the collision between the battleship and the ground.

A warship crashing onto the ground and self-accelerating collision are two completely different concepts. The former is a free-fall movement without propeller acceleration and hull attitude control. When the angle cannot be adjusted, the warship cannot cut in with the smallest blocked area. If the angle passes through the canopy of the foggy forest, then this canopy can be used as an excellent speed bump, absorbing most of the kinetic energy of the battleship when it falls.

"I can feel that a large-mass object has entered the canopy." Ze Luo said, "but that's all...these fogs have a strong shielding effect on my perception."

Although everyone's sight cannot penetrate the dense fog, the flow trajectory of the fog is constantly telling everyone a message: a certain colossus is passing through the dense fog from top to bottom.

Or... fall.

Because the space barrier also isolates the sound of the outside world, and the gray fog itself has a strong sound insulation ability, everyone is now in a completely silent world... But in this almost suffocating silence, The ground suddenly began to shake violently, the land was cracked, the earth and rocks were flying, and countless pillar roots and the trunks of the misty perches were uprooted... A shock wave like a sea tide swept from the direction of twelve o'clock, The ground where it passed was all upturned, as if being swept by an invisible giant plow.

"Good guy, it's the first time that a warship has crashed so close to me." 33 couldn't help sighing as he looked at the tidal-like earth and rocks below.

"What are you going to do next?" Ivan looked at Ke Lan, "Should we continue heading into the depths of the foggy forest, or..."

"Explore the wreckage of the 'Shaojiang Reform' first... I want to find out some things." Ke Lan said.

"I think so too. Instead of continuing to explore the depths of the more dangerous forest without 'navigation', it is better to take this rare opportunity to collect some clues." Ivan nodded, "Since Mo Jue's father and the others can get these clues, so as one of the warships that participated in that mission, the 'Shaojiang Kai' must have preserved more valuable things."

Ke Lan and others waited until the shaking stopped completely before returning to the ground.At this time, the fog roost trees in a large area around have been uprooted or broken, which suddenly expanded the range of the forest glade by more than dozens of times, and even the originally dense gray fog has now become Much thinner.

"The recovery speed of Misty Roost is very fast, and it will be restored to its original state in less than a week."

As Mo Jue said, many new saplings have emerged from under the bark on the main trunks of the fallen Mistroost trees. They have sprung up like mushrooms after a spring rain. The original trees were used as nutrients and gradually withered. .

"One week, that's too much for us." Ke Lan walked at the forefront of the team - after being hit by the crash of the battleship, the concentration of gray fog in this area dropped to about one kilometer behind the red line The concentration and fluidity have also become much stronger, and the surrounding fog seems to be gathering in this direction... Compared with the fog perches regrown from the saplings, the fog concentration is estimated to return to the original level in a few hours .

Along the way, Ke Lan also saw many "hatching nests" originally hidden in the canopy of the Misty Roost... But after the Misty Roost fell, these "hatching nests" all stopped the cultivation of biological weapons. Those egg-shaped embryos also turned into liquid substances that were absorbed by the tree body, and then supplied as nutrients to the thriving seedlings.

For the foggy forest, filling the vacancy of this piece of woodland seems to be the highest priority task at the moment.

This is good news—at least, Ke Lan and the others don't have to worry about being attacked by those biological weapons on the ground.Although the combat power of ghost-faced giant owls and the like is not very strong, the number of them is too terrifying... Even the energy shield of "Shaojiang Kai" can be exploded abruptly. Ke Lan and the others In the face of such a battle, a small team might not be able to last even 1 minute.

The crash site of "Shaojiang Kai" is not far away, Ke Lan and the others only trekked less than 200 meters away, and the wreckage of the huge monster appeared in their field of vision.

Although in the establishment of the Ark Fleet, the size of the frigate can only be ranked at the bottom, but this is only a conclusion drawn from the comparison with those aircraft carrier battleships with a length of several kilometers... In fact, this "Shaojiang Kai" The length of the frigate has also exceeded 500 meters, which is larger than most of the sea carriers in the old era.

The hull of the "Shaojiang Kai" that crashed twice has become dilapidated, and even the thick vines can no longer connect the fragmented hull. The entire battleship was broken into four pieces, and the belly The position where the plasma main gun was located was evaporated out of thin air, not even the hardest keel part of the ship remained.

"That's good, it saves you the trouble of finding the entrance." 33 walked to a crack that was more than ten meters wide, and leaned forward to look inside.

It seems that a serious fire broke out inside the battleship, the bulkhead was burned to blackness, and the space inside the ship was filled to the brim with intricate vines.

"Where do we start to search?" Ivan looked at Ke Lan, "My personal suggestion is to search the bridge first, then the CIC and the escape pods that haven't been sent out, these are the most likely places to store intelligence .”

"Well, in this order, go to the bridge first." Ke Lan said.

The "Shaojiang Kai" frigate uses a traditional lift-type central bridge, which can be raised above the deck when not in combat, providing the command team with a good direct view.During the battle, it will sink into the interior of the hull and collect information through thousands of surveillance cameras installed on the exterior of the hull.

Of course, there is another usage of the elevating bridge, which is to allow the warship to be controlled by visual observation when the external monitors are completely destroyed or interfered with and cannot work normally-this rarely happens. It is also very dangerous to raise the bridge during the battle. It can only be said to be an extreme countermeasure in an extreme situation.

At least the crew of the battleship will not have the only option of abandoning the ship and escaping when all external vision is lost.

When the "Shaojiang Kai" crashed, the bridge sank into the interior of the hull, and the location where the bridge was accommodated happened to be located in the wreckage of the second section. Between the wreckage of the second section and the wreckage of the third section is where the main plasma gun is located— —If the bridge had been set a little further back, it probably wouldn’t exist now.

The fracture of the wreckage in the second section was also tightly blocked by vines and wood fibers. 33 and Asano Akira switched to the front of the team at this time. One of them swung a sword and the other manipulated a black flying blade. A passage wide enough for the Blasphemer Mecha was opened.

What surprised Ke Lan was that these vines did not actually completely fill the space inside the battleship, at least the corridor leading to the bridge was unobstructed, only some finger-thick vines clinging to the walls, ceiling and ground , looks like the messy wiring in those disrepair facilities.

"Actually, I'm quite curious... how do these vines control the battleship..." 33 lowered his voice and said, "Could it be possible that these woods can still be connected to the circuit board of the battleship's control system?"

"Go in and have a look." Ke Lan said.

The corridor leading to the bridge is only more than three meters high and four meters wide, and the blasphemer mechs cannot pass through, so Ke Lan had to let Valentina, Mo Jue, and Ivan stay at the entrance of the passage, Move on with Akira Asano, 33 and Zeluo.

But as they walked, they discovered another thing.

Although the air in the corridor is very turbid, the thick gray fog outside has not invaded the interior of the battleship... It stands to reason that the pervasive gray fog can seep through even a single gap, and the wreckage of this battleship has long been dead. It is full of holes and there is no airtightness at all. Why didn't the gray fog pour into the battleship?
Moreover, the vines that invaded the battleship did not seem to have the ability to generate fog.

Are these vines and fog vines two different species?But Ke Lan remembers that the vines wrapped around the controlled walker mechs can create fog, so that they can wrap the walker mechs with a layer of armor made of fog... But the previous "Shao When "Jiang Kai" was hanging in the sky, except for the vines wrapped around the ship, Ke Lan didn't see a trace of fog clinging to the battleship.

It's just a little... too clean.

This made Ke Lan feel vigilant.

"There's movement on the bridge." Asano Akira stopped and said when they walked to the middle of the corridor.

There is no gray fog here, and his "hearing" will naturally not be affected in any way.

(End of this chapter)