Alien Relic Hunter

Chapter 77 Eggshell
hatchery?
Could it be the hatchery of flesh-eating worms?

But don't flesh-eating worms hatch inside the host?This is a hatchery... Could it be used to keep meat animals as hosts?

However, the metal mesh used to seal the abyss is full of holes, and it is difficult to say what will be underneath.

It's just that after the hatchery has been abandoned for so long, there are still living flesh-eating worms, which makes Ke Lan a little strange.

He once killed a flesh-eating worm with his own hands. Compared with the erosive seed, the flesh of this fat worm is extremely fragile, and it is absolutely impossible to survive in such an extreme environment...

"If only I could know where the worm in this guy's stomach went..." Ke Lan glanced at the corpse behind him, feeling a little regretful.

"I hope I can find something in this hatchery." Ke Lan swam to the top of the metal mesh and fired the last flare into the abyss.

The flare fell quickly, and after a few seconds, a strong light burst out, dragging a long trail in the abyss like a shooting star.

"...It's too deep." Around Ke Lanwei, the flares have been falling for more than ten seconds, but they still haven't bottomed out. The depth that can be observed now exceeds 200 meters.

The rock walls on both sides of the abyss are very smooth, and the surface seems to be specially treated, with the unique reflection of metal materials. The purse of the bundle mouth is general. Although the upper gap is very narrow, the space below is unimaginably large.

Just when Ke Lan decided to go through the metal mesh and enter the abyss, the incendiary bomb that was shot down suddenly went out.

This made him immediately alert - this underwater flare can burn for three to five minutes in an oxygen-free environment, and it will not go out even if it is hit by a violent collision or strong water flow, but it is less than one minute now. It suddenly went out, which is definitely not normal.

Rather than extinguishing, it is more appropriate to use disappearing to describe it.

It was as if something hidden in the darkness suddenly swallowed the whole flare.

If I choose to dive rashly, I am afraid that I will disappear suddenly like this flare...

It was the last flare on Ke Lan's body just now. Apart from the flare, the only remaining lighting equipment were the two searchlights mounted on both sides of the helmet.

No... There are more than two searchlights in his hand!

Ke Lan looked at the body of the security agent. Although the diving suit the other party was wearing was not the same style as his own, there was still some standard equipment such as searchlights.

Putting the corpse down, Ke Lan turned on the switch of the searchlight, and two snow-white beams of light shot out from the lamp. Although the remaining battery capacity could not be seen, judging from the light intensity, it should still be usable. on for a while.

"I'm sorry, I originally wanted to bring you back to the ship, but in this situation, I can only use your body..." Ke Lan apologized to the corpse, and then pushed it into the abyss among.

The damaged diving suit was wrapped in mummy and slowly sinking, Ke Lan stared at the bottom of the abyss - the disappearance of the flare was only a moment, and the volume of this corpse was much larger than that of the flare. What you swallow may not be able to swallow such a corpse in a diving suit.

In addition, he also hung several special incendiary bombs and a piece of plastic explosive on the corpse. The explosive uses a trigger fuze. When squeezed and collided by an external force other than water pressure, it will explode directly, and Detonate incendiary bombs together.

No matter what's under the abyss, these amounts are enough for it to drink a pot.

Check your equipment one last time.Ke Lan himself also jumped into the abyss, keeping a relatively safe distance of about 50 meters between him and the corpse, so that even if the corpse below encountered something, he would have enough time to escape.

The corpse is still sinking, and this time the depth of the arrival has exceeded the incendiary bomb just now. It is precisely because of this that Ke Lan was able to see something that he had not seen before:

At a depth of about 300 meters, the rock walls on both sides are no longer as smooth as the upper part. With the penetrating light, a pale film of flesh can be vaguely seen covering the rock , this layer looks like rotten meat that has been soaked in water for a long time, and large pieces of cotton-like objects grow on the swollen surface.

These flocs seem to be extremely sensitive to light. When the light beam of the searchlight swept from above, they shrank into a ball one after another. This scene made Ke Lan think of what he saw in the Ark Botanical Museum when he was a child. Mimosa, that kind of peculiar plant leaves will shrink and close immediately after being touched by external force, which is very similar to the current situation.

"This thing should be a kind of creature, right?" For these deep-sea creatures of Alpha, humans have very little information. The deep-sea giant eel is already a relatively common deep-sea species, but even so, this kind of Creatures are still full of mysteries, not to mention things that have never been seen before.

"I just don't know if these things are an individual... or a group... eh?!"

Just as Ke Lan was thinking about it, the long-lost peculiar feeling appeared again—a large number of pieces of information emerged from the depths of his memory, gradually changing from vague to clear, like a slideshow in his mind one after another. flashed!
"This thing is actually... the eggshell of a flesh-eating worm?!"

In this way, this hatchery is indeed a hatchery of flesh-eating worms, but I don't know what the Alpha people are for cultivating this big meat worm. Is it used as food or medicine?Or have other uses?
There is a lot of new knowledge in his head, all of which are related to the egg shell of the flesh-eating worm, but what makes Ke Lan speechless is that there is not even a word in it that mentions this abyss on the sea floor, and even the hatchery. The word never appeared.

On the contrary, one of the messages mentioned that "Flesh-devouring worms are difficult to cultivate in a concentrated manner, and larvae and larvae will devour each other. For them, the same kind of flesh and blood is far more attractive than heterogeneous hosts. ."

Difficult to concentrate cultivation... No wonder the hatchery is not mentioned, but if cultivation cannot be concentrated, what is going on in this abyss?

Isn't this inconsistent?

wait, something doesn't seem right...

"The larvae and the larvae devour each other..."

Ke Lan repeated this sentence, and he was suddenly shocked, and a somewhat bold assumption appeared in his mind.

Shouldn't this hatchery be used to "raise Gu"?
Let hundreds of larvae kill each other, devour each other, and finally get the most powerful "gu king"... Just thinking about it is enough to make the scalp tingle...

The corpse had sunk to a depth of 500 meters. Wherever the light reached, there were layers of white eggshells...but there was nothing but eggshells.

(End of this chapter)