Alien Relic Hunter

"Scati" Orca-class heavy cruiser, hangar number two.

In order to prevent fire or equipment from exploding, the Skati's hangar and ammunition depot adopt an external plug-in design, which is an independent module fixed on the hull. Although there is also a thick armor structure on the outside of the hangar, it is located on the periphery of the ship after all. It is not "buried" deep inside the ship like the bridge and power cabin, so it becomes the target of monsters hatched from egg-shaped sarcoma. Primary invasion area.

A large hole with a diameter of more than ten meters was formed on the top of the west side of the hangar due to corrosive liquid. The first batch of monsters that invaded the hangar through this hole were about thirty, most of which were between three and five meters in size. Small and medium-sized monsters, these monsters have different shapes, but they basically have one of two characteristics-either extremely strong defense and anti-strike capabilities, or high mobility for quick raids.

The human shield-type monsters began to set up defensive positions as soon as they entered the hangar, just like the bridgehead during landing operations. As for the highly mobile monsters, they penetrated directly into the unprepared crowd and massacred them using close combat methods. Personnel in Hangar Two.

After paying the price of fifty lives, the officers and soldiers in Hangar No. 2 relied on automatic defense facilities and tactical mechas to clear away the high-mobility monsters that rushed up. However, the human shield monsters behind them They succeeded in gaining a foothold, and new changes occurred - their body structures began to dissolve, but this was not a precursor to death. On the contrary, these dissolved monsters merged with each other, forming a huge overall.

They turned into a huge flesh and blood fortress that reached as high as the top of the hangar. The cuticle on the body began to crack and fall off, revealing the bloody skin. However, when the soldiers concentrated their firepower and broke this layer of skin, they were desperate. It was discovered that underneath the skin, a thick chitinous carapace had condensed into something unknown.

The defensive power of this chitinous carapace is comparable to that of composite armor. The 35mm cannon of the tactical mecha can only create a shallow crater the size of a bowl. As for individual light weapons, it cannot even hit it. Leave no obvious traces.

"Use laser! Push the engineering laser cutting machine over! Turn the power to the maximum!" A ground crew suddenly thought - the engineering laser cutting machine, as the name suggests, is not a weapon, but a specialized machine. Engineering equipment for use by logistics and rescue departments. The main purpose is to cut into the cabin of a damaged and deformed fighter jet or mecha, and rescue the pilot trapped inside. Or when the battle is intense and supplies are tight, it can be used to dismantle severely damaged aircraft and use the remaining parts as replacement spare parts for less damaged aircraft.

However, although it is said to be engineering equipment, the output power of the laser cutting machine is no less than that of cluster laser weapons. Otherwise, it would not be able to cut through the solid armor of the aircraft body.

Three laser cutting machines mounted on pallets were pushed to the front of the battle line, and several soldiers wearing powered exoskeletons followed behind holding cables thicker than their thighs - these cables contained The integrated optical fiber cannot be broken or broken. In this emergency situation, these soldiers can only be used as human supports.

The Flesh Fortress is very large, which saves the trouble of aiming. Several ground staff skillfully opened the device's safety and set various parameters, and the guy who made this suggestion smashed it with a fire axe. The limiting valve of each laser cutting machine uses "physical means" to adjust the power of the laser cutting machine to the maximum.

The risk of doing this is that excessive power will melt the equipment or even explode... But now that lives are at risk, it is obvious that no one will take the safe operating rules into consideration.

The ground crew ignored the piercing siren and the flashing red font "Safety Restriction Valve Damaged" on the screen, pressed the trigger on the side of the operator, and three extremely dazzling lasers shot out from the lens, directly hitting the A flesh and blood fortress formed by the fusion of more than a dozen monsters.

However, just when everyone thought that this flesh and blood fortress would be cut open like those abandoned bodies, the surface of the flesh and blood fortress suddenly secreted a thick layer of blood-foam-like substance. These blood-red foams expanded rapidly, and in A large amount of steam was generated when it came into contact with the laser, which obscured the view of everyone in the hangar in just a few seconds.

In less than fifteen seconds, three laser cutting machines with the safety restriction valves released were damaged one after another. After the laser attack stopped, the steam with the strong smell of blood began to dissipate... The flesh and blood fortress reappeared in everyone's sight. He successfully emphasized to everyone the iron rule that "there is no harm where there is smoke" which is unshakable in film and television works and animations - the laser that was enough to cut open the hangar was actually unable to cause any damage to the flesh and blood fortress.

Taking advantage of this period of time, the gap at the top of the hangar was expanded to a diameter of twenty meters. In addition to a group of small and medium-sized monsters that subsequently poured in, two "big guys" were also covered by the flesh and blood fortress. The ground invaded the interior of the hangar.

"These monsters... they are very intelligent, and they also know how to cooperate!" A noncommissioned officer of the aviation brigade said through gritted teeth, "The first batch of monsters that came in were here to delay time... Although we eliminated them all, they The mission has been completed. Next, more and more powerful monsters will come in... We can't stop them."

"Damn it, I should have attacked those monsters first before they could fuse... Now that they have gained a foothold, it's too late!" Another soldier who was changing the magazine didn't even look up. said.

"No, we had no choice at that time... If we focused our firepower on the monsters that formed the Flesh Fortress, the other melee monsters would kill us all." The ground crew who had previously proposed using laser cutters to attack the Flesh Fortress The staff sighed, shook their heads and said, "They must have calculated this... It would be terrible if this strategy was thought up by these monsters themselves instead of someone behind them controlling them."

"It's useless to say this now, what should we do next?" The soldier changed the magazine, and while shooting at the monsters that rushed up, he shouted at the highest volume, "Those two big guys, obviously It’s not something we can solve! There has to be a choice between fighting or retreating, right?”

"I'm contacting the bridge! You hold on! Wait for the general's order!" an officer shouted, but before he could connect to the communication, a bone spur penetrated his body and nailed him to the ground. .

What killed him was one of the two "big guys" - a monster shaped like an upright cylinder with a diameter of about five to six meters and a height of about 25 meters. It used dozens of monsters at the bottom to The abdominal legs move. There are no organs such as eyes or mouths on the body surface of this monster, and there are not even limbs used for attacking. There are only thousands of densely packed holes distributed irregularly on the body. It looks like a Like meat rolls rolled on the nail board.

But these holes are not punctured things, but the attack organs of this monster - every time it turns, hundreds of bone spurs will be shot out from these holes. In addition to the officer, there are already More than a dozen soldiers died under this long-range attack... The only good news is that the bone spurs are not very penetrating, and the armor of tactical mechas and the hand-held shields of heavy infantry can block the bone spurs. ...Otherwise, this monster alone would be enough to wipe out all the defenders in Hangar No. 2.

As for the other giant monster, its shape is more familiar...

This is a Thunder Beast that is only one-fifth of its normal size, but it is definitely not a Thunder Beast cub - anyone familiar with the indigenous creatures of Alpha Planet knows that the most important criterion for judging the age of a Thunder Beast is its body surface. Thickness of chitinous carapace. The chitinous carapace of a thunder beast will gradually become thicker as it ages, and its defensive power will become stronger and stronger... As for a newborn thunder beast cub, the chitin carapace is so thin that it can be penetrated with a rifle, and even Through this carapace you can see the flesh and bones underneath.

But the "miniaturized thunder beast" in front of me is covered with a layer of pitch black armor - in addition to thickness, color is also a very important criterion. The older you get, the darker the chitinous carapace becomes. Generally, the chitinous carapace of adult Brontosaurus is brown, and the dark brown one is considered a very rare old Brontosaurus... As for the Brontosaurus whose chitinous carapace is completely black, only one Brontosaurus has been found so far.

Based on bone age calculations, the black-shelled thunder beast lived for at least two thousand years, and the average thickness of the chitinous carapace on its body reached an astonishing thirteen meters!

The "Miniature Thunder Beast" only stayed in place for a few seconds before launching a charge towards the human defense line - this is also the usual attack method of the Thunder Beast. Most of the indigenous creatures on Alpha Planet cannot withstand the Thunder Beast's attack. Crash and trample, and a group of charging thunder beasts are enough to create a small-scale earthquake.

The ground of the hangar was shaking, and some of the body parts and parts scattered on the ground even jumped up. One unlucky guy was even knocked to the ground, and his head hit the instep of a tactical mecha next to him. He fainted directly.

"Spread out! Quickly spread out!"

Facing the miniature Thunder Beast that rushed over, no one dared to resist, not even the tactical mechas - the tactical mechas in the second hangar were all transformed from flying mechas. In order to consider the flight capabilities and deformation In terms of performance, the structural strength and armor thickness of these mechas are not as good as those of tactical mechas specifically used for land combat, and even the latter cannot stop the charge of the Ultralisk, let alone these fragile mechas.

A hole quickly opened in the middle of the defense line, and even the unconscious soldier was dragged aside by his companions - the thickest and easiest part of the Thunder Beast's carapace is the head shell and back directly in front. If you can avoid it, If you charge, attack from behind, the success rate of hunting will be a little higher...but only a little.

Everyone held their breath, clenched the weapons in their hands, and waited for the thunder beast to rush over and launch a wave of violent attacks on its "chrysanthemums"... But no one expected that just as the thunder beast rushed over, After entering the gap specially reserved for it, it suddenly braked suddenly, twisted its body directly, and used the pair of jaw-shaped giant scythes to cut off a tactical mecha at the side!

"Can the Thunder Beast's charge... be able to brake suddenly?" Everyone was shocked - with this level of weight and impact inertia, it is impossible to stop, but this Thunder Beast not only did It arrived, and it successfully changed its direction and killed a tactical mecha!

This kind of thing is as outrageous as an angry bull suddenly dancing an elegant ballet, and the dance steps are very precise... No one would believe this kind of thing, but it happened in front of everyone.

The Thunder Beast that crashed into the crowd seemed to be in an uninhabited land, overturning several tactical mechas one after another, and at the same time trampling the shield wall composed of heavy infantry into a mess... After losing the shield wall and mecha as a cover, After the cover, the soldiers who were exposed to the bone spur attack suddenly suffered heavy casualties - in this wave of attacks, the Thunder Beast only killed a dozen people at most, but because the defense line collapsed, the number of soldiers who died from the bone spur shot was Three times that number!

"Retreat! Retreat quickly! If we don't retreat, we will all die!"

Including soldiers, pilots and ground staff, there are almost three hundred people in Hangar No. 2. It has only been seven or eight minutes since the top of the hangar was broken open and monsters invaded. These more than three hundred people Already half dead.

Every second, soldiers wearing gray combat uniforms and ground staff in orange reflective vests fell in a pool of blood. The body of the cylindrical monster seemed to be filled with bone spurs, and the firing never stopped from the beginning. , the ground of Hangar No. 2 was already densely covered with tens of thousands of bone spurs, and it was difficult to find even an open space to stay.

"Retreat, everyone retreat!" an officer wearing a pilot's uniform yelled, "This is an order from the bridge, everyone retreat to the inner cabin! Use the narrow passage for defense! Abandon Hangar No. 2! Quick, retreat quickly!”

"We can't retreat!" said another soldier. He threw away the rifle with a red barrel and pulled out his pistol and fired repeatedly. "Retreat now. Once these monsters catch up, no one will survive!"

"You just retreat, I'll cut off the rear for you!" the officer yelled, "All the mechas, stay and cut off the rear! After hearing the explosion, you guys disconnected the No. 2 hangar from the ship! Do you understand?"

After the officer finished shouting, he jumped into the cockpit of a bomber and started the bomber's engine.

The ground fixing device was unlocked, the anchor hook of the aircraft body was unlocked, and the platform slowly rotated, aiming the nose of the bomber at the raging Thunder Beast.

The officer took a deep breath and resolutely pushed the accelerator to the bottom!