Alien Relic Hunter

"Keep a distance from it! Back up! Back up! Call for support!" Guozilian shouted, and at the same time he threw the empty bullet chain box towards the exotic armadillo and took out a new one from his backpack. superior.

Guozilian used to be a soldier. Although the actual combat effectiveness of Ark's soldiers during the interstellar drifting period was about the same as that of security guards, he could still be regarded as one of the most familiar with firearms among this group of people - Lu Dan was still hurriedly unloading bullet belts. After stuffing it into the ammunition supply port, the second round of firing on the Chinese character face on the other side had already begun.

The alien armadillo turned around, used its tail to slap away an advance team member who came around behind it, and then curled up.

In the curled-up state, due to the reduction of the body surface area, the scales on the body of the alien armadillo will be stacked layer by layer, and the defense will be improved to a higher level... The more critical point is that this curled up posture is actually the alien armadillo. The starting position of the "ultimate move".

Ke Lan subconsciously wanted to shout loudly to ask the surrounding advance team members to disperse, but he found that his throat seemed to be mute and he could not make any sound... And those advance team members who were retreating saw the alien armadillos. After shrinking into a ball, he actually came closer again and used the firearm in his hand to shoot the alien armadillo at close range.

The next second, the curled-up alien armadillo rolled violently. The bespectacled lolita and the insignificant passerby were unable to dodge, and were immediately crushed into a pulp by this "big iron ball". They were proficient in close combat. The team doctor's reaction was slightly faster than the two. The moment the alien armadillo started to move, he jumped back violently. However, his body was still rubbed by the high-speed rolling alien armadillo, and his whole body suddenly felt like a kite with its string broken. It was thrown far away.

Only two minutes had passed since the alien armadillo attack. The ten-person action team had already lost seven people, with only Ke Lan, Lu Dan and Guozi Lian still alive.

Oh, from the vital sign detection device, the guy who had just been whipped away by the alien armadillo with its tail still had one breath left, but in his condition, if he couldn't get timely treatment, he might not survive for more than ten minutes.

Ke Lan glanced at the communication device on his wrist. The team status interface in the upper right corner of the screen showed that the team doctor's heart rate had returned to zero - even the doctor was killed. Even if the remaining three of them successfully killed the alien armadillo, there would be no People can perform emergency surgery on him.

"What the hell kind of monster is this?! Why have drones never photographed it?" The universal machine gun in Guozilian's hand had exploded due to overheating. He simply threw away the weapon and the heavy ammunition bag and ran wildly. While shooting at the exotic armadillo with his pistol, he cursed loudly.

"This thing probably stays underground most of the time. It's normal that the drone didn't capture it..." The alien armadillo rolled towards the direction of the Chinese character face. The pressure on Lu Dan and Ke Lan was relatively light, but they were not It doesn't mean that they are safe - after Guozixian is crushed to death by the alien armadillo, at the speed of the alien armadillo rolling, it is easy to catch up with the two people without vehicles.

Just when the three of them were desperate, a strange-looking aircraft suddenly broke into the airspace. A slender metal spike shot out from the launcher at the bottom of the aircraft, accurately hitting the alien armadillo, and a burst of bright white light shot out. An electric arc suddenly flashed across the alien armadillo's body. The next second, the alien armadillo released its curled up state and lay on the ground, its body twitching.

"Is it the paralysis effect of high-voltage current?" Ke Lan judged from the arc that just flashed, and then he looked up at the alien aircraft in the sky, "Is it a remnant of the Alpha civilization?"

However, before the three members of the advance team could react, the aircraft seemed to have suddenly lost power, fell straight from the sky, hit the ground hard, and exploded.

A deformed metal fragment flew over with a roar, and was nailed to the ground one meter in front of Ke Lan - if it flew any further, Ke Lan...ah, no, it should be the body of the Fool, I'm afraid it would It was split in two.

"Crashed?" Ke Lan looked at the pile of smoking wreckage in the distance, and a big question mark popped up in his head.

Obviously, the pilot of this aircraft is most likely an Alpha, and he is also likely to be a member of the Night Watch organization - but why did he crash on his own after rescuing Ke Lan and the other three? Is it because of mechanical failure or other reasons?

Luodan and Guozixian looked at each other, and the two quickly made a unanimous decision: to check the crashed aircraft. Although the driver's chance of survival was almost zero, this was the first time on Alpha Planet anyway. Go up and discover another intelligent and civilized individual.

Moreover, the other party just saved the three of them. Does this mean that the civilization on this planet does not regard humans as enemies?

Of course Ke Lan knew in his heart that the Alpha civilization had never regarded the humans on the Ark as enemies from the beginning. It could even be said that they were the ones who led humans to this time and space and to the Alpha planet. But all these braised eggs and national characters Face didn’t know, and Ke Lan couldn’t tell them the truth.

The two walked to the burning wreckage of the aircraft. Luodan took out an emergency fire extinguisher from his backpack. After extinguishing the flames, he started rummaging through the wreckage. The Chinese-character face stood a little while holding a gun and looking wary. A little further away.

As for Ke Lan's mission, he was to keep an eye on this exotic armadillo that had lost the ability to move due to paralysis.

"Weird... so fucking weird..." About ten minutes later, Luodan, his head covered with gray and his face covered with gray, emerged from the wreckage and shook his head at the Chinese character face and Ke Lan, "It's so weird. … No body was found in this aircraft.”

"No body?" Guozixian was stunned for a moment, "I didn't see anything popping out of the aircraft just now. This should rule out the possibility of parachuting. By the way, did you see the 'Scavenger'?"

"No." Ke Lan also shook his head.

"Could it be a drone?" Guozilian asked again.

"It's not a drone. I found a complete cockpit inside, and even a very advanced linear seat... Judging from the size of that seat, Alpha Man should be a creature with a body shape that is quite close to ours. " Braised egg said.

"Could it be that the body has been burned? After all, we have never seen what this kind of creature looks like. If it is a fragile creature like a jellyfish, maybe it will evaporate as long as the temperature in the cockpit is slightly higher. What?" said the Chinese character face.

"No... the cockpit is very well protected. After I pried open the door, I was even amazed by the safety performance of this aircraft... Even if the aircraft body disintegrated in the air, the operator in the cockpit maintained a very high level of survival. The rate...the technological level of Alpha civilization is far higher than ours."

"That's really bloody." The two thick eyebrows on the Chinese-character face were tangled together. "Could this be an aircraft that can be controlled by both humans and unmanned pilots? By the way, since the cockpit It’s well protected, can you find any clues from its control system?”

"Stop talking..." Lu Dan shook his head and said, "I can't understand those words at all. I guess even if the linguistic experts in the team read them, it would take a lot of effort to decipher them."

"Well, first take pictures of all the data and send it back to the shuttle." Guo Zilian did not ask the shuttle to send these data back to the Ark - after the shuttle passed through the atmosphere of Alpha Star, the contact between them and the Ark was Broken... The thick radiation cloud is like an ionization barrier, isolating the entire planet from the outside world.

"Even if the data can be transmitted back to the Ark, those linguistic experts will not be able to decipher the Alpha civilization's writing." Ke Lan said in his heart. At this moment, he really wanted to get into the cockpit of the aircraft and take a look... Although the Fool at that time He still doesn’t understand the language of Alpha Civilization, but Ke Lan can understand it.

But the Fool's feet seemed to be nailed to the ground, motionless... Ke Lan could only sigh in his heart. It seemed that the Fool had not entered the cockpit at that time. Even if Ke Lan forcibly broke free from the shackles of memory and rushed Entering the cockpit, you probably won't be able to see anything.

This is a world composed of the fool's memory. Anything that the fool has not seen does not exist.

It is a world of "subjective idealism".

"Sent it back, they said they would send someone over immediately." Luo Dan said, then turned his head and glanced at the alien armadillo that was still in a paralyzed state with some worry, "I just don't know how long this monster will be controlled. …Perhaps we should find a way to deal with it first?”

At this moment, Ke Lan suddenly felt that the sky and the ground were shaking violently. The braised eggs and Chinese-character faces in his field of vision, the wreckage of the aircraft, and the exotic armadillo not far away began to distort and deform. The surrounding environment began to distort. The tone gradually began to distort... The next second, he suddenly found himself back in the real world, and the hound was shaking his shoulders vigorously.

"What's the matter, old dog?" Ke Lan asked, rubbing his groggy eyes.

"I also want to ask you what's wrong. Didn't you insist that you won't be sleepy? Why are you still falling asleep on the sofa?" Hound shouted, "I originally planned to let you rest more... but now, Not only you, but everyone can’t sleep."

"Is there something going on over there at the Ark?!" Ke Lan was startled and sat upright. Although the hound hadn't told him the reason for waking him up yet, Ke Lan had already vaguely guessed something.

"There is a situation, a big situation." Hound raised his hand and pointed at the wall behind Ke Lan, "See for yourself."

Ke Lan turned his head and saw a huge, pale... tree on the projection screen?

"What's this?"

"Grown from the Ark, just five minutes ago." General Maginot added with two thick dark circles under his eyes.

Only then did Ke Lan notice that the base of this giant tree turned out to be the Noah's Ark they had been monitoring... If the size of the Ark was used as a reference, then the size of this giant tree was almost a Very exaggerated.

At this size, even Alexander, the secret army god, and even the Leviathan can only hold a candle to it.

"Did this really grow in five minutes?" Ke Lan confirmed to the hound.

"If you don't believe it, you can retrace the video." Hound threw the projector's remote control to Ke Lan and said angrily.

Ke Lan pressed the "" button to rewind the video to five minutes ago.

The Ark seemed extremely silent under the cover of night. The towers and high-rise buildings that were once brightly lit have now become dark. Only with the high-brightness searchlight on the drone, you can still vaguely see those covering the surface of the Ark. Fleshy carpet, and those egg-shaped sarcomas that breed on the carpet.

Ke Lan didn't wait long before a change happened - the egg-shaped sarcomas suddenly shrank, and even the monsters hatching inside melted into pus and dissolved into the inside of the fleshy fungus blanket. Then, the fleshy fungus blanket The blood color quickly faded and turned into a pale color, as if a corpse had been soaked in formalin solution for several days.

All of this happened so quickly that the video had to be slowed down to 0.25 times in order to fully see these changes...

The entire fleshy fungus carpet turned pale in just one minute, as if the life force in it had been completely drained. At one minute and ten seconds, the towers and high-rise buildings in the center of the ark Suddenly it began to shake, collapse, and sink into the interior of the ark.

In the center of the ark, the dome suddenly began to crack, and a pale sapling with a diameter of more than two kilometers arched out from the bottom and began to grow at an alarming rate...

"You should be more familiar with this location than we are." Hound pointed to the location where the pale saplings grew and said to Ke Lan.

"core area……"

The growth rate of the saplings can only be described as terrifying. It is difficult to imagine how the huge body is made of matter... If this is really a "tree", even if all the organic matter on the Ark is considered The nutrients it needs to grow are probably just a drop in the ocean.

"This thing...has completely violated the law of conservation of matter, right?" Maginot murmured. Although he had seen this scene more than once, when he saw it again, the shock in his heart was still difficult to express in words. .

"I suggest you forget all the laws and regulations put forward by scientists on Earth." Hound glanced at Maginot and said, "Especially anything that can be related to 'that existence'."

"The people of the Immortal Crew, what do they want to do?" Maginot took a deep breath, "I can't understand their behavior more and more."

"I don't know what they are doing now, but if they have all been eroded, I can be sure of one thing." Ke Lan put his chin in his hands and said word by word, "Their ultimate goal is to The entire human civilization is sacrificed to that existence.”