Alien Relic Hunter

Chapter 81 The Giant Nautilus
Finally, with the last bit of energy from the torpedo, Ke Lan finally crossed the edge of the undersea plain... However, the fusion body did not stop there, the huge tentacles directly crossed the boundary and continued to catch up.

All the propellers on the diving suit have been scrapped, and Ke Lan does not have a third vortex torpedo. Having lost all power, he has no choice but to watch the fusion body's tentacles getting closer...

The last hole card has also been used up, but he still can't escape the danger.

"...It looks like it's really over this time." Ke Lan looked up at the sea above in despair and made a final decision.

He let out all the air in the diving suit's bladder.

With the sharp drop in overall buoyancy, Ke Lan quickly sank toward the deep sea—this was his only means of movement at the moment. Although it was a one-way ticket with no return, it was better than now. It's better to be dragged back to the hatchery by tentacles.

He would rather be crushed to death by the water pressure of the deep sea than become food for that monster.

Along the edge of the submarine plain, Ke Lan fell straight down. Looking at the cliff not far away, Ke Lan felt as if he had jumped off a cliff. In the martial arts novels of the old era, the protagonist Jumping off a cliff basically won't die, either by being accepted as an apprentice by a world master who lives in seclusion under the cliff, or by meeting a girl with a beautiful figure and a low IQ who likes to post backwards, no matter how bad it is, at least Can pick up a few peerless secrets and the like...

But the problem is...the cliffs where the protagonist jumped, there is no water pressure thousands of times the atmospheric pressure below...

There are no masters of the world, no stunning beauties, and no secrets of physical attack... There is only despair and death here.

"...still can't escape?"

The sinking speed is very fast, but it is still much slower than the tentacles of the fusion body. The distance between the two sides is getting closer and closer... Ke Lan can't wait for himself to be crushed to death by the water pressure, and he will be killed by the tentacles. captured.

At this moment, many giant creatures appeared in Ke Lan's field of vision. These creatures had spiral carapaces with a diameter of more than 30 meters on their backs. With dozens of strong and powerful tentacles protruding from the carapaces, they Climbing on the cliffs outside the sea platform, it formed an extremely spectacular scene - there are more than a hundred individuals within the reach of the searchlight light alone.

"Hey...there are so many giant nautilus here?!"

Although Ke Lan saw this kind of creature for the first time, it is no stranger to human beings—during the past 50 years, human beings have sunk more than [-] ships in the middle sea, causing more than half of them to sink. The culprit of the incident is this giant cephalopod creature that looks like a magnified nautilus.

This kind of creature usually lives in waters with a depth of 1000 to [-] meters, but sometimes it goes to shallow sea areas to hunt. They have an extremely ferocious personality, and they especially like to attack human ships, and they will stick to the bottom of the ship to launch attacks unless the ship is destroyed together Otherwise, most of the weapons will have nothing to do with them.

In human records, giant nautiluses often appear alone, but this place is home to such a huge group that even Ke Lan couldn't help but let out an exclamation...

Perhaps because the target was too small, Ke Lan did not attract the attention of the giant nautilus, but the fusion tentacles that broke into their habitat alarmed these creatures, and they quickly gathered, almost frantically towards the fusion body. The tentacles attacked!
"This... this is also possible?" Ke Lan watched in amazement as these giant nautiluses rushed up. Their tentacles were covered with barbed spines. In the blink of an eye, black blood mists filled the sea water.

"These giant nautiluses have actually dried up with the fusion body... It seems that I should not die..." With a sigh in his heart, Ke Lan quickly took out a few spare compressed gas cylinders, and put the valve and diving suit together. The airbag docked - as the gas filled, his sinking momentum gradually stopped.

Attacked by the giant nautilus, the fusion body naturally cannot fail to fight back. A tentacle pierced directly into the shell of a giant nautilus, and with a strong pull, the body of the giant nautilus was directly removed from the shell. It was pulled out, and along with it, there were many broken internal organs...

The fissure at the front of the tentacles of the fusion body suddenly expanded several times, swallowing the entire body of the giant nautilus. In less than five seconds, the tentacles that had been stretched out returned to their original shape, and on the surface of the tentacles. , it is the growth of many barbed spines that are very similar to the giant nautilus...

"Devouring... digesting... merging each other's genes, mutating rapidly... what kind of monster did the Alpha people come up with..." Ke Lan, who was hiding from the sidelines to watch the battle, couldn't help taking a deep breath.

But these giant nautiluses that are not afraid of death are not at all cowardly because of the death of their own kind. More giant nautiluses are constantly gathering in the distance. In addition to their tentacles, they also have hard and sharp beak-like mouthparts. , every attack can create shocking and terrifying wounds on the tentacles of the fusion body.

"Desperate fight between deep-sea beasts... This scene is really rare..." Ke Lan shook his head regretfully. If the camera equipment was not available, otherwise, just filming this scene would be enough to kill in seconds. All monster science fiction films made by humans.

As the battle continued, the tentacles of the fusion gradually gained the upper hand. More than fifteen giant nautiluses have been killed and devoured by it in a similar way, but the number of giant nautiluses seems to be endless, and these behemoths almost occupy The whole cliff and the rich bloody smell in the sea are constantly stimulating these irascible meat eaters.

Ke Lan began to slowly swing his arms and swim in the opposite direction to Haitai—there is no doubt that the final winner must be the fusion dormant in the abyss, and he must be killed in the giant Nautilus. Escape from here before the light, the farther the better.

Judging from the tentacles' current killing efficiency, these giant nautiluses can at least drag Ke Lan for several hours... But with Ke Lan's current movement speed, it is still unknown whether they can swim to a safe area in these few hours. question.

This submarine plateau itself has a lot of doubts - the Pioneer has been patrolling this sea area for at least a week, but all the detection equipment on the ship has not found the existence of the submarine plateau. This situation is too strange. , Ke Lan couldn't find a reasonable explanation at all, and he couldn't even be sure whether he was still in the original sea area.

If so, the Pioneer... Wasn't it always within the attack range of the fusion?

(End of this chapter)