Alien Relic Hunter

"Do you have any good ideas?" Ke Lan turned his head and glanced at Victoria next to him, with a wry smile on his face.

"No." Victoria answered simply.

"I think we can choose to retreat." Ke Lan said. The Gauss assault rifle in his hand still had two and a half magazines of bullets, and the remaining three magazines of the large-caliber hunting pistol in the holster on his waist were full. , four defensive fragmentation grenades were hung next to the holster. In addition, there were weapons scattered everywhere around the feet, which could be picked up and used. However, none of these things could cause fatal damage to the monster. harm.

Even with the large-caliber cannon mounted on the "Bloodhound" mecha, the effect of a direct hit is only to damage it. The 25-mm-caliber high-explosive bomb can't even interrupt that monster, which looks so skinny. arms.

"I won't laugh at you if you just say run away." Victoria said, her eyes fixed on the monster that was constantly crawling towards them, "It's just... you think we can escape." ?”

"If you can hold on under this thing for more than twenty minutes, my chances of escaping are quite high." Ke Lan said sincerely.

"...Should I praise you for your honesty, or scold you for being shameless?" Victoria glanced at Ke Lan from the corner of her eyes, and then immediately looked back.

"Thank you for the compliment." Ke Lan raised his gun and pointed it at the biochemical monster dozens of meters away, with his finger close to the trigger guard. "When I am too nervous, I always talk a lot of rubbish involuntarily, probably This can help me ease my mood... maybe..."

"But in fact, even if I decide to sacrifice myself to help you cut off the queen, I won't be able to last that long." Victoria shook her head slightly, "The equipment I configured today is specially designed to deal with the Seed of Corrosion... If it's like you said As I said, if this monster doesn’t respond to the flesh-eating worm active cells, then all the trump cards in my hand will be useless.”

"If I had known earlier, I should have asked you to bring some heavy weapons in... That weapons restriction law shouldn't have any binding force on your security bureau, right?" Ke Lan said.

During the conversation, he and Victoria kept retreating slowly, and the monster that emerged from Yui Arasaka kept approaching... It didn't seem to be in a hurry to hunt the two of them, as if it was enjoying this The feeling of letting the prey fall into despair step by step...

The distance between Ke Lan and the monster has been shortened to less than thirty meters.

"Heavy weapons may not be able to hit it... At the speed it was at when it took out the two Bloodhounds just now, even precision-guided missiles can dodge it," Victoria said in a low voice.

The only thing that can guarantee a hit is a large-area covering strike method, but in this way, not only Ke Lan and Victoria will also be affected, but it will also cause immeasurable damage to the Ark itself.

Of course, the biggest problem is that they don't have such heavy weapons at all now.

"Hey, Ke Lan." Victoria suddenly called out Ke Lan's name.

"If you want to leave a last message, I'll turn on the recording function on my phone right now."

"No, I just want to ask, do you have any other hidden methods?"

"Huh? Hidden means? Why do you think so?" Ke Lan asked with some confusion and some vigilance.

"Actually, I have always been very curious about you. There are too many suspicious things about you... Was it you who unlocked the seventh-level mercury lock under the glacier ruins?"

"No...actually I didn't do anything at all..." Ke Lan shook his head, "If you unlocked it by yourself...it doesn't seem to be locked at all."

"Then how did you achieve the miraculous survival of the underwater city?"

"I told you that I was washed to the surface by the turbulence... Why don't you believe it?" Ke Lan explained helplessly... In fact, he didn't lie about this. He did fall directly. After entering the sea water, when his consciousness broke free from the chaos, it was already floating on the surface of the sea.

"...To be honest, until today, you are still the main suspect of the security bureau. Some intelligence personnel even believe that you may have a very high status within the heretical sect." Victoria said, her words made her Ke Lan remembered the time when he was mistaken for a "prophet" by the believers in the exile camp, but that was entirely because of the stone tablet. Before that, he had never even heard of the existence of heretical sects.

"Then are you still doubtful now?"

Victoria nodded.

"... If only I were really a senior member of the heretic sect, at least I wouldn't have to die here with you." Ke Lan said. He carefully thought about his "hidden means"... I'm afraid it's just the ones in his pocket. The stone cone is the language of the Alpha civilization, but since this monster is immune to the active cells of the flesh-eating worm, the stone cone will probably not have any effect. Moreover, Ke Lan has no way to stab it with the stone cone... As for the language of Alpha Civilization, in this case it will not help the situation at all - although it can be used as a code to detonate the bomb installed in the heads of the Six Warriors, Arasaka Yui's head has already fallen to the ground. Even if there is a bomb inside, it can't kill this monster!

But if this monster has a certain IQ and can understand Alpha's language, maybe I can use this method to trick it into thinking that I am a "lurker" of my own sect...

Ke Lan glanced at Victoria again and saw that she was not paying attention to him. He simply changed his mind and "said" to the monster in Alpha language: "I am not your enemy."

There was no reaction. The monster seemed to be just like humans, unable to hear the language of Alpha civilization at all.

"Stop! I'm not your enemy!" Ke Lan repeated again.

It still had no effect. The monster was still approaching, only twenty meters away from them... Ke Lan and Victoria were already within its jumping range, and it could attack them at any time.

"Get ready to run away." Victoria said solemnly, and Ke Lan couldn't hear any emotion in her tone.

"What did you say?" Ke Lan asked in shock, almost wondering if he heard wrongly.

"I will try my best to delay you as long as possible. You can seize this opportunity and escape."

"...I was just joking."

"But I'm not joking with you. Instead of the two of us being killed here for no reason, it would be better for you to escape... At least, you can take the news out of here." Victoria said to Ke very seriously. Lan said.