Alien Relic Hunter

Chapter 771 Embryos of...
This embryo has completed late differentiation, which, in terms of time, takes seven to eight weeks for normal human embryos to complete.

The embryo has begun to take the embryonic form of a human fetus. Its small body is curled up in the amniotic fluid. There are two round black spots on the large head that occupies nearly half of the body. These are the immature eyes of the embryo...

In the abdomen of the embryo, there is a thin and curved umbilical cord, which is connected to a placenta that is almost the same size as the embryo body and looks like a kidney. Inside the placenta, dense capillaries can be clearly seen, accompanied by The newly formed heart in the embryo's chest beats rhythmically.

But when Ke Lan carefully observed the limbs of the embryo, what he saw with his eyes made his heart suddenly tighten—although the limbs of the embryo were not yet fully developed and were tightly attached to the trunk, they could still be seen clearly. It can be clearly identified... The fingers and toes of this embryo are completely different from those of humans... Its fingers and toes are all soft and slender tentacles, and there is no bone inside it!
This... This is not a normal human embryo!
Ke Lan imagined the scene after the embryo matured and grew into a "human", and suddenly felt his scalp tingling - because the imaginary picture in his mind overlapped with a certain image in another memory.

This is not a human embryo at all!This is an alpha human embryo!

Why did the embryos of the Alpha Man appear in the chest cavity of the "wreck"?According to the information on the file, the captain of the "Shaojiang Kai" frigate, Hruni Yang, is a [-]% pure man. Impossible to get pregnant? !
Could it be... that Hruni Yang's body was transformed after it became a "corrosion"?

With such thoughts in mind, Ke Lan stepped forward.

He first carefully avoided the embryos on the ground, and then inserted the engineering shovel into the chest of the corpse facing upwards, and with a light pry, he tore open the gap that released the "embryo".

Ke Lan concentrated on observing the chest cavity of the corroded carcass—except for the tiny tentacles growing out of the flesh and organs, the corroded carcass' chest was almost indistinguishable from normal humans, and there was no extra "uterus" same organ.

This vesicle enclosing the human alpha embryo exists independently in the thoracic cavity of the eroded body, and has no connection with the body of the eroded body.

But if this is the case, relying solely on the nutrition in the placenta, the embryo will not be able to grow to such a large size at all... In other words, the embryo would have died before the placenta appeared.

"It cannot be ruled out that relying on the exchange of body fluids to provide nutrients to the embryos in the vesicles..." Ke Lan twisted his jaw with his index finger and thumb, thinking.

But that's not the point... The point is, why does a "corrosion" transformed from a human "super-eclipse" have an alpha human embryo in its body?
Judging from the "destructive" way of leaving the body of this embryo, it seems that it was not stuffed into the body of the erosive body... In other words, this thing was probably born from the body of the "erosive body".

Ke Lan felt that his brain had fallen into an unprecedented state of chaos.

Alpha people...Earth people...Alpha civilization...Earth civilization...

Monsters resembling earthlings, canned food of earth civilization, and Chinese inscriptions on steel structural materials appeared in the engine wreckage site...

The more Ke Lan thought about it, the more frightened he became...

But at this moment, there was a burst of intense gunfire and explosions outside the bridge!

The space barrier set by Ke Lan is one-way, the sound inside cannot be transmitted outside, but the sound outside can be transmitted in.

Ke Lan quickly took out a freezer jar used to preserve living specimens from his backpack, carefully put the vesicles containing the embryos into it, and filled it with a jar full of LCL liquid, and then closed the lid .

When communicating with the corrode just now, Ke Lan used Ze Luo's ability to conduct an all-round investigation on the other party. Although due to the existence of that "mysterious power", Ze Luo did not find that The embryo in the chest cavity, but the body temperature data can still be obtained - the internal temperature of the eclipse is similar to that of a normal human being, which is also 36 degrees Celsius.

Ke Lan adjusted the freezer tank to a constant temperature storage mode of 36 degrees Celsius. It stands to reason that direct ultra-low temperature freezing is the most correct way to deal with living samples of such alien creatures. Putting them in a constant temperature environment It is likely to cause some uncontrollable changes in the sample.But this embryo is really important to Ke Lan. He is very worried that if he freezes it at ultra-low temperature, he may never be able to revive it... A dead embryo and a living embryo are worth less research. It's a world of difference.

The safest way is to maintain the environment in which the embryo was originally in the wreck. As for the nutrition problem, apart from the LCL liquid, Ke Lan couldn't find a better way for a while.

"Let's treat a dead horse as a living horse doctor first..." he said to himself.

The sound of the firefight outside became more intense, and Ke Lan could distinguish the roar of the large-caliber Vulcan cannon spared by the blasphemer mecha, the charging sound of the Gauss rifle used by Ivan, and the TAC-50 of Mo Jue. When the sniper rifle's bolt was pulled, the shell casings fell on the metal floor of the battleship with a crisp clanging sound.

With Ze Luo's help, Ke Lan's hearing and perception abilities are no less than Asano Akira's.

Asano Showa 33 was still guarding the entrance of the bridge at this time - according to the team's operating rules, before Ke Lan came out, no matter what happened, the two of them could not leave their positions without authorization. 33 could only shout loudly, asking what happened to the three people outside.

However, the situation outside seems to be far worse than imagined. The radio communication between the team members was completely cut off. Valentina and Mo Jue had no time to answer 33's call. Only Ivan's intermittent voice came from outside the corridor. : "Indigenous creatures... attack... request... support!"

Indigenous creatures?attack?
Ke Lan took a deep breath... Were they attacked by those biological weapons?
However, aren't those biological weapons only attacking intruders whose height is higher than the tree canopy... For "down-to-earth" explorers, they have never been dismissive.

Otherwise, Mo Jue and his team of lumberjacks would have been buried in the foggy forest long ago.

Calculated according to the time, these biological weapons should have rushed towards this side at the moment when the rotten body died and the embryo was separated... Could it be that they were afraid of the rotten body before?
However, from the perspective of physical strength, this corroded skeleton does not seem to have much fighting ability...

Ke Lan glanced at the "corrupted" corpse on the ground, and he really wanted to put it away, but the increasingly fierce battle sounds outside did not allow him to delay any longer...

Ke Lan immediately canceled the space barrier, put his five fingers together like a knife in his hand, slashed open the airtight door nearly half a meter away, and jumped out.

Before Asano Showa33 opened his mouth, he had already said: "Go support Ivan and the others!"

Compared with being cautious when they came in, the three of them rushed out much faster. It took them less than two seconds to pass through the entire corridor and reach the "battlefield" outside.

I saw the Blasphemer mecha holding a double-mounted large-caliber Vulcan cannon in one hand and strafing the densely packed monsters, and waving the heavy armor-piercing sword with the other hand, smashing the fish that slipped through the net that rushed forward.Mo Jue and Ivan found a ruined wall as a cover, and kept shooting at the monsters rushing out of the thick fog.

After confirming that the three of them were not injured for the time being, Ke Lan turned his attention to the monsters emerging from the fog—these monsters were obviously the ghost-faced giant owl and the gray fog giant bat that attacked the two battleships in the air earlier. But their shape has undergone drastic changes: the wings that were originally used for flying have completely degenerated into a layer of dispensable meat covering between the upper limbs, and the pair of hind limbs have become extremely developed, endowed with The extremely strong ground running ability of these creatures... Although the original appearance is still maintained in general, these flying creatures that could be called the overlords of the sky now have a frightening ground combat ability.

"What a strong mutation ability, is it because we are on the ground now, so these monsters have become like this?" 33 sighed while driving the black flying blade to harvest monsters, "But the problem is, those who entered the gray fog before People in the forest, as long as they don’t leave the ground, have basically never been attacked by monsters, right? Who, Miss Mo Jue, don’t you think so?”

The joining of 33 and Akira Asano greatly relieved the pressure on the three people who had been staying outside, and Mo Jue finally got a short respite, picked up the empty magazines, and shot them inside one by one. Press the bullet.

"I don't know... I know too little about the foggy forest... What's more, the loggers have never gone to such a deep place." Mo Jue shook her head again and again, her expression looked a little ferocious, and her chest was full of pain. fluctuating violently.Her hazmat suit and mountaineering jacket were discarded at her feet, and she wore only a tight tactical vest.

A lot of sweat flowed down her neck, and the clothes from the neckline to the waist were completely wet, outlining her muscular lines.

The entire right cuff of the mountaineering jacket she threw on the ground was torn off by Qi Gen. If she hadn't reacted quickly enough just now, it might not only be the sleeve...but also her entire right arm.

"It takes at least tens of thousands of years of evolution in nature to mutate flying native creatures into forms that adapt to life on the ground, but if it is a biological weapon, the situation is different." Ivan said panting, his The situation was not much better than that of Mo Jue. The Gauss rifle that was scrapped due to the overheating of the charging array had been thrown aside by him, and he was holding a large-caliber hunting pistol and shooting at the monsters that kept coming.

It's just that with the rough skin and thick flesh of these biological weapons, it is difficult for Mo Jue's TAC-50 anti-material sniper rifle to cause any effective damage to them without hitting the vital point. It's just scraping.

"But I just can't understand why these monsters suddenly came out to attack us now... There was no movement before... If they want to attack, wouldn't it be better to choose on our way to the crash site of the battleship? At least At that time, we didn't have any bunkers to rely on, and the feeling of being attacked by the enemy was not pleasant at all." 33 said, and suddenly turned to look at Ke Lan, "By the way, Ke Lan, the meeting in the bridge just now What happened to the human-speaking monster?"

"Dead." Ke Lan replied bluntly, "according to the time, these biological weapons launched the attack after the monster died."

"Could it be that these biological weapons did not move before because the monster who could speak human was still alive?" 33 showed a look of disbelief, "This...what is the reason... If these biological weapons are afraid, then If there are only monsters, why did they dare to attack the battleships suspended in the air before?"

"What monster?" Hearing the conversation between the two, Ivan couldn't help asking.

"It looks a bit like a container for the Seed of Corrosion, but it doesn't look like it... By the way, Ke Lan, did you kill that monster?"

"I didn't kill it, it died by itself." Ke Lan sighed, "It's not a monster, it used to be the captain of the 'Shaojiang Kai' frigate, Heruni Yang."

"It's Hruni Yang? Then how did it become that way? Was it infected by something?"

"It's a long story. I'll talk to you slowly after the crisis is resolved." Ke Lan waved his hand, and an invisible space blade more than ten meters high slashed across the monster group. The entire body of the space blade monster was cut in half silently.

"Have you noticed something?" Mo Jue said suddenly, "The gray fog... seems to be approaching us constantly."

"I found out." Ivan frowned, "In just twenty seconds, the gray fog approached us by four meters, and now it has invaded the interior of the wreckage of the battleship."

When Ivan mentioned the wreckage of the battleship, Ke Lan suddenly had a flash of inspiration and said: "I was thinking...these biological weapons will attack us, could it be because there is no gray fog inside the wreckage of the battleship? Before we When we were in the sky, these biological weapons would attack us only after flying out of the dense fog."

[PS Thank you for the 1500 starting coins rewarded by the dead doctor; thank you for the 500 starting coins rewarded by Lvbabalovu. 】

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