Alien Relic Hunter

"I feel something is wrong..." Due to the influence of environmental radiation, Layton's voice contained a trace of electrical noise. "The life detector showed... that there was no living person in the car, not all three."

In a "car accident" of this magnitude, even if there are no protective devices in the car, all the occupants in the car will not be killed - unless they are really unlucky.

"Be careful and keep a safe distance." Ke Lan said, letting the drone slowly approach one of the modified cars.

But the scene captured by the camera made everyone in the car take a breath of cold air - through the rusty barbed wire and scratched window glass, only two people wearing exile attire were seen. The skeletons fell crookedly on the car seats. Their clothes were still stained with fresh blood, but there was not even a bit of flesh and blood left on the bones.

It is replaced by a layer of fine white hair that grows on the bone surface.

"What the hell is this?" The old dog's eyes widened, staring at the screen in Ke Lan's hand.

"It looks like a fungus..." Ke Lan felt that the corners of his eyes were beating wildly, and he suddenly had a very bad premonition.

"Are mushrooms growing? How long have these people been dead? Are these the dead people who just chased us?" The old dog's expression was very ugly.

"No... they just died. You can tell by the blood stains on their clothes that they were eaten by this fungus..." Ke Lan paused, glanced at Yu Yi, and then continued, "This thing, It’s similar to the bloodthirsty carpet we encountered at the sarcophagus before.”

"Then how did this thing get to them? Could it be that these people haven't bathed for a long time?" The old dog rubbed the stubble on his chin vigorously, but accidentally broke a pimple. , and suddenly grinned in pain, "Hiss... But that's not right. If they were parasitized by this fungus, they would have died long ago... How could they live to be eaten until only their bones are left!"

Ke Lan shook his head: "I'm afraid they have been parasitized not long ago... This fungus can eat flesh and blood at a much more terrifying speed than the bloodthirsty carpet... It seems that we are in trouble - all vehicles, stop immediately, All personnel are not allowed to act rashly without my order. It is strictly forbidden to open car windows and doors. Layton, please come back quickly and stay as far away from those three modified cars as possible!"

In addition to direct contact, the spread of fungi mainly relies on spores floating in the air. Ke Lan guessed that not long ago, they and the following exiles probably passed through a field scattered with spores. In the area where the exiles' modified cars were not as well sealed as theirs, the spores of these flesh-eating fungi were able to enter the cars and eat up all the unlucky guys.

All the cars in the convoy stopped - except car No. 10.

It was a large-tonnage box armored truck. It seemed to have turned a deaf ear to Ke Lan's order, and it still maintained its original speed and kept driving forward.

"Car No. 10? Car No. 10? Can you hear my voice?" Ke Lan shouted into the intercom. He glanced at the team communication channel. The green light representing Car No. 10 kept flashing every three seconds. Frequency, this shows that car No. 10 is still within the channel at this time, and there is no communication failure.

Ke Lan and Lao Gou looked at each other, and both sides saw a trace of anxiety in each other's eyes.

There was no response. Ke Lan called the No. 10 car three times in a row without answering. Looking at the armored truck driving farther and farther, Ke Lan had to issue a second order: "Leiton, catch up and stop the No. 10 car." ...Prioritize attacking the tires and try not to damage the carriage.”

"receive!"

The speed of the armored truck was not slow, but the speed of the "Tarantula" all-terrain mecha was faster. In less than a minute, Layton had already circled to the front of the truck and aimed at the tires of the truck.

If the large-caliber railgun equipped with the "Tarantula" hits, no matter where it hits, one shot is enough to destroy the entire truck. Layton chose a secondary weapon - two guns located on both sides of the mecha's cockpit. Thirty millimeter cannon on the side.

"Ta-da-ta-da-bang!! Bang!!"

The two front wheels of the armored truck exploded in response, and the entire vehicle immediately lost its balance and drifted diagonally to one side. It was about to roll over. The "wolf spider" that arrived in time happened to stop one side of the carriage. On the side, the hooks at the end of the eight robotic arms grabbed the ground at the same time... After plowing a deep trench nearly thirty meters long on the ground, the mecha and armored truck finally stopped.

The drone also flew directly above the truck under Ke Lan's control.

Like the three exiles' modified cars, the driver in the car and the security guard sitting next to him had turned into two white bones, and their bones were also covered with white fluffy bacteria. Silk.

"Sure enough..." Ke Lan flew the drone around the cab and found that there seemed to be a glitch in the right window, which could not be fully closed, leaving a gap of less than two millimeters.

Generally speaking, if it is just radiation, this gap will not have much impact on the human body. At most, after the mission is over, you can go to the medical point and hang a small bag of Xiaofu Ning Injection to remove the accumulated radiation in the body. It is precisely for this reason that the driver of the truck ignored the warning that "the window is not completely closed"... But this gap of less than two millimeters gave flesh-eating bacteria spores an opportunity...

"Everyone should put on protective clothing, and then check again whether the compartment they are in is completely sealed!" Ke Lan ordered, "Leiton, open the compartment... Don't move too much, don't cause spores to scatter everywhere."

"Hmm..." The "Tarantula" mecha raised a robotic arm, and a small laser cutting knife popped out from the mezzanine of the robotic arm. As the robotic arm moved, the laser cutting knife tightened the truck little by little. The locked compartment door was cut open...

As Ke Lan expected, the other two security guards who were sitting in the carriage guarding the supplies have also been killed. The combat uniforms and armors are still on the skeleton, and the helmets and weapons have fallen aside... Not only It was them, and even the materials in the carriage did not escape this disaster - this carriage transported food, including two large fans of frozen pork specially supplied to the base management personnel... At this moment, the two fans of pork Only dense white bones were left, and white mycelium was almost everywhere in the carriage.

"Is this carnivorous fungus... recorded in Ark's database?" Ivan asked.

"There are at least a dozen similar species, but none of them can be completely identified." Ke Lan shook his head.

"I really don't know if we are lucky or unlucky. Every time we go out, we encounter new species of indigenous creatures." The old dog smiled bitterly, somewhat self-deprecatingly.

"It's not necessarily a new species, it can't be ruled out that it's a variant of a known species." Ke Lan bit his lip, "I've sent the photos and videos back to Ark, but if there are no physical specimens, I'm afraid I'll have to What will be the result... All in all, we can only clean up this mess by ourselves."

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