Alien Relic Hunter

"No rush, let's take a look first." As he said that, Ke Lan had already released the drone and flew slowly towards the base.

The perimeter of the base was in a complete mess. The defensive positions composed of sentry towers, bunkers, and walls were torn apart like a piece of paper. There were traces of acid corrosion everywhere on the building fortifications and the ground, and the metal armor The densely packed holes are like a honeycomb... Just a single frame of the picture is enough to cause cardiac arrest in patients with trypophobia.

"Without the energy shield, these fortifications are just a pile of decorations in front of the 'Sea Anemone Head'." Hound commented from the side.

"Yes." Ke Lan controlled the drone and continued to fly forward... Until now, they have not found any monsters... not even any corpses.

Without a corpse, where does the strong smell of blood and corpse odor come from?

Until the drone flew directly above the central square of the base——

"What... what is this?!" Looking at the things on the screen, even Ivan, who had always been calm, couldn't help but exclaimed.

In the center of the square, there stands a huge cocoon-shaped object nearly thirty meters high. The surface of this thing is covered with a layer of dark pink flesh membrane, and the underside of the flesh membrane is covered with blood vessels that beat rhythmically. The blue-purple veins.

This giant cocoon is spindle-shaped as a whole, but there is a bud-like crack at the top. As the giant cocoon squirms slightly, thick and black pus and blood continuously overflows from the crack, along the giant cocoon. The surface of the cocoon slipped... There was even a large pool of blood right below the giant cocoon.

"That corpse smell...could it be emanating from this thing?" Although he only saw it on the drone's camera, the hound still felt waves of heart palpitations for no reason.

"It seems to be alive." Ivan said, "I always feel... this thing seems... like..."

"It seems like something is hatching, right?" Ke Lan added to Ivan's unspoken guess, "Do you have a feeling that those disappeared corpses are actually wrapped in this giant cocoon..."

"..." Ivan didn't respond, just nodded silently.

Ke Lan controlled the drone to fly around the giant cocoon, but unfortunately, looking in through the crack at the top of the giant cocoon, he could only see that it was filled with a viscous crimson liquid. As for the liquid soaking inside It's impossible to see clearly what he's holding.

But what surprised Ke Lan even more was that he didn't even find a "sea anemone head" around this giant cocoon... or even in this entire mining base. This was really beyond his expectation. .

Did those monsters leave after creating this giant cocoon? Isn't this too unreasonable? If this giant cocoon is really the "reproduction method" of those monsters, based on the instinct of living things, some guarding power must be left to protect the safety of the giant cocoon.

Or...they were also swallowed by this giant cocoon? A somewhat outrageous idea suddenly popped into Ke Lan's head.

"I just don't know if this thing is offensive..." Ke Lan lowered the height of the drone and aimed the crosshair at the crack on the top of the giant cocoon - the drone was equipped with a mini launcher that could be used to remotely control the cocoon. It can release tactical equipment such as shock bombs and smoke bombs at a distance. However, due to weight restrictions, it can only carry two rounds of ammunition at a time.

Ke Lan set the detonation mode to collision detonation, and then launched two shock bombs towards the giant cocoon at once.

The silver-white cylindrical projectile drew a graceful arc in the air and fell into the crack accurately. Immediately, a burst of bright light burst out from it, accompanied by a deafening buzzer——

Nothing happened, and the giant cocoon did not make any emergency response to this sudden attack.

"...How about this," Ke Lan thought for a moment and said to the others, "I'll go over and take a look first. You guys wait outside the base. If something unexpected happens, you can directly execute Plan B."

The so-called "Plan B" is actually to ask for help from the consortium stationed in several other bases. However, this plan has an obvious drawback, that is, no one can be sure whether other consortiums are willing to lend a helping hand. Moreover, if the situation is worse, , they might even be imprisoned and tortured for their words and deeds - anyway, thousands of people have died in this incident, and adding a few of their names to the list of victims is not too many...

"What nonsense are you talking about? Can't you think more about the good things?" Hound rolled his eyes at him and said.

"Be prepared for the worst in everything." After Ke Lan said this, he stood up and walked towards the base step by step.

"Beep, beep, beep..."

As soon as Ke Lan stepped into the base gate, the Geiger counter alarm sounded in his ears, which showed that the radiation in the base now exceeded the safety threshold that humans can withstand - and before the base was breached, this area The radiation concentration is almost negligible.

"Radiation? Is it caused by that big guy?"

With such doubts in mind, Ke Lan continued to walk forward slowly.

"Beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep..."

"Beep, beep, beep..."

As the distance between Ke Lan and the giant cocoon continued to shrink, the alarm sound of the Geiger counter became more and more urgent. When it was only the last 100 meters, the beeping sounds were almost connected in a series.

Even wearing a powered armor with protective clothing function, Ke Lan could feel the uncomfortable tingling sensation on his skin... The radiation concentration in this place has far exceeded the deepest part of the mine mining area.

"The inside of this thing...couldn't it be filled with radioactive materials?" Ke Lan originally thought about getting a pile of explosives to blow up the giant cocoon, but now he has completely given up on this idea—— If this thing explodes, it will be almost equivalent to a super dirty bomb. Not to mention the mountain col where the mining base is located, it is estimated that with this as the center, the area within a radius of several kilometers will become a dead land.

"The only good news is that the thing doesn't seem to have biological sensing... I've come so close, but there's still no reaction at all."

Ke Lan walked around the giant cocoon, and then got a little closer.

He could vaguely hear the sound of "gurgling" inside the giant cocoon, and the image of large chunks of flesh and blood rolling in the thick and boiling slurry appeared in his mind.

"We can't get any closer...the radiation is too strong..." In less than ten seconds, Ke Lan had already begun to feel dizzy. He quickly distanced himself from the giant cocoon and at the same time took out an antibiotic. The radiation injection was inserted into the injection port reserved in the power armor arm.

"Come here, this thing doesn't look dangerous at the moment...it's just that the radiation is very high, so don't get too close. In addition, there should be prepared protective clothing in the ruins outside. Ask Asano Akira to find one and put it on...from this place. The radiation has reached a lethal intensity," Ke Lan said into the walkie-talkie.

[P.S. I encountered something very irritating today, and I want to tell you all: My last novel "Code of Survival in the Wasteland" was stolen again on the Himalayan audio book platform. The person who stole my novel was stolen from me a few years ago. I negotiated with him and his attitude was okay at the beginning. I didn’t go into it too deeply. I just asked him to remove the VIP paid chapters and only keep the free public chapters... I thought this matter would be over. As a result, someone told me today that he was dictating an audio book, and I found out that the person had changed the title of my novel, and the author became himself. He copied the content of more than 1,000 chapters intact. The total number of views is more than 8 million, and he has also built a fan group of his own, charging novel readers three cents for a chapter... He also claims that it is not easy to update because he has to support his family...

I was confused, can stealing other people's things be considered as supporting the family? I am a person who almost died once. I have no job and no income. I don’t even think about stealing or cheating. I just want to make money by coding hard by myself. Then others plagiarize my stuff and steal it. Blatantly claiming to be the fruits of one's own labor?

Why can people be so thick-skinned?

I haven’t deleted that person’s WeChat account yet, so I went through his friends and found something even more shameless: he called a book I’d finished many years ago his “new book” and did something like “popularizing updates in one day”. Ten Chapters" activity, Double Eleven also very down-to-earthly learned what e-commerce companies do to offer discounts on paid chapters...

It almost made me laugh...

This is no longer considered piracy. The pirate will not change the name of your novel, but will also indicate the original author's ID. Now the author of the book has directly become himself. This is naked plagiarism!

I read that the reviews of Himalaya all praise him, and some even pay for updates. Judging from the number of views... I even suspect that the income of this plagiarized book will not even be lower than my original work. This world is really Fucking magic.

Calculating the time, during the time when he completed the plagiarism, I was lying on the hospital bed and being tortured by chemotherapy drugs. Fortunately, I didn't burp, otherwise he wouldn't be afraid that I would come to his door in the middle of the night?

Here is the information about the plagiarist: Himalaya ID Fart Duoduo her father 321, the title of the work is "Online Games: Strong Man of the End of the World", it is a plagiarism of my old book "Wasteland Survival Code", the chapter name is exactly the same as the content of the novel, and this person The WeChat ID is PDD0305.

I'm not a famous author. I don't think reading articles can help me with this kind of rights protection. My own personal power is very weak. I hope friends who read this chapter can help me report this book on Himalayas. Who can report it? If there are too many, maybe Himalaya will take it seriously. As for the paid chapters he sold privately in the WeChat group, I really have no control over them.

I felt very sad and angry, but there was nothing I could do. The world is so fucked up.

Finally, I still hope that everyone can support the genuine version, otherwise the genuine author will really be unable to hold on... I paid last month's royalties two days ago, and I will tell you all about it, except for a few old people who have good relations with me in the readership group. In addition to the big rewards from Brother Beiyan (especially from Brother Beiyan’s Alliance Leader and the Grandmaster of 15-A Bionic Man), Alien Relic Hunter’s subscription income last month was 270.73 yuan... What can you do with this little money in 2021... It’s almost enough to cover my medication for a week. Fortunately, medical insurance can reimburse me for blood tests and so on...]