Alien Relic Hunter

Chapter 877 Bloody Game

The hem of the male youth's clothes, trousers and boots were all splashed with mud spots, and the dark brown stains were particularly conspicuous on the pure white fabric. As well as the position of the trouser legs, the number "No. 32" is printed in the characters of the hive city civilization.

Although Ke Lan can't see his back from this angle, the picture unlocked by the memory fragments can generate a 360-degree picture with no dead ends in Ke Lan's mind-on the back of this male youth, the same imprint With a huge "No. 32".

The wrist holding the hunting knife trembled slightly, and there was still blood on the blade that hadn't dried up. Judging from the color and viscosity of the blood, it didn't seem to belong to human blood.

"A hunter who participated in the hunt?" Ke Lan thought in his heart, "But this appearance seems a bit embarrassing..."

In Ke Lan's impression, the nobles who participated in hunting were basically riding tall horses, wearing expensive and elegant windbreakers or hunting suits, holding bows and arrows or shotguns in their hands, chasing running prey in the forest, plus A large group of servants surrounded the front and back...

Speaking of which, people with insufficient authority levels should not be able to enter the upper city, right?Then where do the servants and servants that these powerful and powerful people usually need to use come from?Is it a robot or an armed person with clearance level four?
Or... servants are only considered as "items" owned by the dignitaries, not as "people", so they are not counted in the hierarchy system of the hive city's residents?

The young man in front of Ke Lan doesn't feel like a high-ranking resident of the third level. From him, Ke Lan can't feel the temperament that a superior person should have at all... Ke Lan even in this male youth There was fear in his eyes.

Could it be that something unexpected happened to the hunting activities?

As for the number on his body... Could this be a "hunting game"?
At this moment, the male youth seemed to have sensed something, and immediately left the tree trunk he was leaning on, lay down on the ground, and swept the fallen leaves next to him on his body, creating a simple but But an extremely effective camouflage.

Although it is an artificial forest, the environment in the forest is extremely complicated. The pitted ground is covered with a large amount of fallen leaves and humus. This young man happened to be lying in a shallow pit at a low level, and he was in contact with the surrounding people almost in a blink of an eye. The environment is integrated into one, and at first glance, it is impossible to find that there is a big living person hidden in this place.

"This guy's camouflage skills are very proficient... he should be a veteran of hunting..." Ke Lan commented in his heart.

But when a beast that was suspected to be a feline appeared in the picture, Ke Lan knew that this guy's disguise was useless at all.

This beast tracked it all the way by sniffing the scent left on the ground. Even if the male youth buried himself in the soil, remained motionless, and temporarily blocked his heartbeat and breathing, he could not escape the pursuit of the beast.

This is a giant cat with brown hair all over its body. It looks very similar to the saber-toothed tiger that has long been extinct on the earth. The shape of the beast is even more exaggerated. Its shoulder height exceeds two meters, and its body length is close to ten meters. The pair of iconic fangs are like two long swords, which can easily penetrate the chest of a human being—even as There is no pressure to string two or three people on it like candied haws.

Ke Lan doesn't know the power of the giant beast for the time being, but he can imagine its lethality when it pounces just based on its weight of several tons... If the weapon in the male youth's hand is only a hunting knife, no matter what, he will It is impossible to be the opponent of this giant beast.

The male youth seemed to have realized that his disguise was ineffective against the giant beast. Before the giant beast approached, he violently jumped up and jumped onto a tree branch that was five meters high from the ground!
This scene suddenly made Ke Lan feel a little outrageous-unless the gravity of this forest is set to only a fraction of the normal environment (referring to the gravity coefficient of Alpha Star and Earth), otherwise, this person will have to say the least. An enhanced person above level seven.

There are no traces of transformation on his body, and apart from the muscle lines protruding through the fabric of the pants, the legs cannot see the outline of any mechanical device... In other words, this person is completely relying on With his physical strength, he jumped onto a tree branch five meters high.

"Is the physical body of the residents of the hive capital so strong? In contrast, those 'tunnel dwellers' in the fourth passage have degenerated in terms of physical ability?" Ke Lan frowned, "Or... Because this young man belongs to the third-level elite class, he can enjoy the treatment that ordinary people don't have...for example, enhanced surgery?"

The moment the man jumped up, the giant beast also rushed over, but the height of the giant beast's pounce was not high, and the speed was not as fast as that of the young man. one empty.

But the failure of the pounce does not mean that the giant beast has no way to take the young man—the next second, the giant beast suddenly rose up with manpower, and the tree branch that was originally above its head reached its chest in an instant.

It opened its bloody mouth and bit the young man squatting on the tree branch, only to hear a loud "click", the tree branch that was as thick as an adult's thigh was bitten off in an instant, and the young man At this critical moment, the man jumped up from the tree branch again and jumped on top of the giant beast's head.

A stern look flashed in the young man's eyes, he held the hunting knife tightly with both hands, and stabbed straight down!

Under the dual effects of arm strength and falling inertia, the blade of the hunting knife sank into the back of the giant beast's neck without hindrance, and then quickly cut down along one side of the spine!
The viscous and hot plasma shot out crazily. Although it was only memory fragments, Ke Lan seemed to smell the strong smell of blood, and the young man's original white clothes were also dyed in just one second. dark red.

He rolled on the back of the giant beast and fell back to the ground, but the giant beast whose central nervous system was severely injured couldn't fight back at all, and fell straight to the ground.

It's not dead yet, but the body has lost control, and it can only lie on the ground and twitch and struggle in vain.

The young man gasped heavily, his chest heaving violently—he didn't kill the giant beast immediately, but looked around vigilantly, as if he was worried that there were other beasts lurking nearby waiting to reap the benefits.

"Very precise timing control... The position and angle of the blade piercing are also impeccable..." A layman watching the excitement, an expert watching the doorway-although Ke Lan has not participated in this kind of hunting activities, but with his high With the level-enhanced human ability and rich combat experience, he can clearly see that this young man has quite high combat skills, and... he is very familiar with the body structure of this giant beast.

"This is strange..." Ke Lan muttered in a voice that only he could hear, "If he is familiar with this giant beast, he should know that the giant beast mainly relies on the sense of smell to search for targets. Why do you need to find a hole to hide? Isn't this kind of camouflage useless?...Could it be...could it be to avoid other beasts?"

Just when Ke Lan was puzzled, the forest floor in the memory fragments suddenly trembled slightly. It seemed that there was such a huge monster with a tonnage much larger than that of the mutant saber-toothed tiger running at high speed in the forest. At the same time, The fear and tension in the young man's eyes reappeared, and it was much stronger than before.

"Pause." Resisting the curiosity to continue watching, Ke Lan seemed to have thought of some details that he hadn't noticed just now, paused the screen that was being played, and pulled the "progress bar" back for a while.

Different from "instant sight", memory fragments are like videos stored in Ke Lan's brain. As long as he wants to, he can do a series of operations such as pause, playback, and replay.

The picture rewinds to the time when the young man buried himself with fallen leaves. His whole body was pressed against the bottom of the pit, and only a pair of eyes were exposed through the gaps between the fallen leaves. When it was the giant saber-toothed tiger instead of anything else, the nervous look in the young man's eyes obviously faded a lot.

"Fast forward five seconds."

The scene returned to the moment when the giant saber-toothed tiger bit the tree branch, and the young man leaped up to attack. At this moment, only determination remained in the young man's eyes, and he could not see the expression of nervousness and fear before.

But when the screen played until the ground began to tremble, the tension and fear returned.

"Could this vibration be some kind of monster more terrifying than a giant saber-toothed tiger?" Ke Lan thought to himself, "This young man can easily hunt and kill a giant saber-toothed tiger, but in front of this giant saber-toothed tiger, he has no way of resisting at all. Li...so what he was avoiding...was actually not a giant saber-toothed tiger, but this giant beast?"

Perhaps the sight of this behemoth in searching for its prey makes perfect sense for him to hide in the pit and bury himself in fallen leaves.

"continue."

Perhaps it was because the giant half-dead saber-toothed tiger on the ground was too conspicuous. This time, the young man didn't try to disguise again, but quickly chose a direction and ran away.

But before he could take a few steps, an arrow shot out from the forest, accurately pierced his calf, and nailed him to the ground.

The arrow arrived first, and then the crackling of the bowstring came from the forest.

The slight vibrations came from far to near, until Ke Lan saw the source of the vibration with his own eyes, Ke Lan didn't know why a young man who could hunt and kill a giant saber-toothed tiger by himself felt so frightened.

Those were three young men who were about the same age as him, but what they were wearing was not the kind of white clothes with numbers printed on them, but a set of high-end hunting clothes that could be seen to be expensive at a glance.They hold hunting crossbows with complex mechanical structures, quiveres at their waists filled with arrows, top hats with beautiful feathers on their heads, and retro shotguns carved with golden hollow decorative patterns on their backs—and Compared with the young man in white clothes and white trousers holding a hunting knife just now, the attire of these three people is in line with the consistent image of "the sons of the rich and powerful participating in hunting activities" in Ke Lan's cognition.

But what attracted Ke Lan's attention the most was the mount under the crotch of the three of them - it was a three-meter-high horse... To be precise, it was a mechanical vehicle made in the shape of a horse, with streamlined muscle lines The torso is all made of alloy casting, and on the inside of the leg bends, you can also see the nested structure of the hydraulic rod and the composite bearing used to reduce friction...

According to Ke Lan's estimation, such a mechanical horse may weigh three times as much as that giant saber-toothed tiger. It is not surprising that the ground will vibrate to such a degree if it gallops at full speed in the forest.

On the hips of each mechanical horse, the emblem of the thorn gear shield is printed, and the identity of the three young people riding the mechanical horse is naturally ready to be revealed—the big family that ruled the western half of the upper city of the hive. children.

"The harvest is good." The youngest of the three manipulated the mechanical horse and walked up to the young man who was shot down, "This guy is No. 32, the guy who ranked first in the bottom nest qualifiers, plus With the points of this gamma-level mutant, our position in the top three of this group should be stable."

"What's the use of the top three? I only want No.1." The young man in the lead said sullenly, and while talking, he loaded an arrow into the hunting crossbow—Ke Lan noticed that this crossbow Most of the mechanical parts of the hunting crossbow, as well as those arrows, are all made of nino alloy. As for the bow string, it is made of a polymer material with excellent ductility.

With the technical level of the hive capital, even weapons such as gravity guns can be made. Such exquisite but somewhat primitive hunting crossbows may have been manufactured simply to satisfy the interests of the rich and powerful...

Even so, Ke Lan will not underestimate this seemingly simple hunting crossbow—the arrow just now pierced through two tree trunks with a diameter of several meters before hitting the "No. 32", and then hit it at supersonic speed Aiming at the target... Not to mention how he aimed at the target when his vision was blocked, the penetrating power of the arrow alone has already defeated most of the individual guns on the ark.

"It's a pity, these selected bottom hive people have been hunted down to the point... Only the disguise ability of 'No. 32' is good enough to be able to hide until now... If it is not for the rule that other people participating in the competition cannot If I shoot, I want to shoot those guys through their heads."

It wasn't until this time that Ke Lan realized that this "No. 32" in white clothes and white trousers was not the hunter in this hunting activity, but the same prey as the saber-toothed tiger.

[PS Thanks to Xiao Jingjing for the 100 starting coins. 】

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