Alien Relic Hunter

Ke Lan could only dodge to one side again. With the help of stimulants, his reaction speed was much faster than before. Otherwise, he would have died under the heavy naginata just now.

"...Hiss...Give it to me!" Victoria shouted to Ke Lan. Although there were only two short words, Ke Lan still understood what she meant and threw the modified rifle in her hand towards her. !

Victoria suddenly jumped up, grabbed the gun in mid-air, and then landed lightly on Zhanji's back. At the same time, her feet directly transformed into a pair of sharp hooks, which were as fast as anchors. On top of that proliferative tissue!

Immediately afterwards, Victoria pushed the muzzle of the modified rifle into the wound made by Ke Lan just now, pushed it to the deepest point and pulled the trigger!

"硡硡硡——" The dull sound of bullets tearing flesh and blood came from Zhanji's body, and the next second, the barrel of the modified rifle exploded directly!

Zhanji turned his body crazily, trying to throw Victoria off his back, but Victoria seemed to be nailed to his back, and the hooks did not loosen at all.

"And this one! Catch it!" Taking advantage of this opportunity, Ke Lan also threw the frag grenade he had collected to Victoria.

Without saying a word, the latter pulled the ring of the grenade and stuffed it into the muzzle of Zhanji's back. Then he released the hook and jumped far away with the help of the swinging force.

"boom!!"

With the muffled sound of the grenade exploding, Zhanci's movements froze, and a large amount of plasma mixed with pus from mutated tissue overflowed from its facial features. Its tall body twitched, and then hit it hard. on the ground.

"Huh... finally solved..." Ke Lan just breathed a sigh of relief. Before he could finish the sentence, he fell straight down. He only felt that every muscle in his body seemed to be cramping. His face was completely distorted by indescribable pain.

"Ah... uh... ah..." Intermittent moans came from Ke Lan's throat. He wanted to turn his head and look at Victoria, but found that his neck was completely unresponsive.

"...hiss...normal...medicine...hiss...side effects." Victoria's unique mechanical sound sounded above Ke Lan's head. He felt as if he was being dragged several meters away, and then something stuck in his head. He hit his arm, his vision went dark, and he passed out completely.

…

When Ke Lan woke up again, he found that he and Victoria had appeared at the outer edge of the residential area. The towering Arasaka Tower was less than a kilometer away from where they were.

"I...have I been unconscious for a long time?" Ke Lan glanced at Victoria who was standing next to her. She was holding a gun and maintaining a vigilant posture.

"...Hiss...only ten minutes...Hiss...I injected you with...relief medicine..." Victoria whispered.

"Relieving potion?" Ke Lan was stunned, but soon he realized what the potion did - at this moment, the severe pain caused by the side effects of stimulants on his body had disappeared, replaced by a There is an obvious feeling of fatigue, but fortunately, he is still conscious and thinking clearly.

"This is... hiss... a residential area. You have one last... chance... to choose... to go back..." Victoria glanced at him and said.

"We've come this far, there's no reason to go back." Ke Lan smiled and took the pistol handed over by the other party.

"Hiss... check... the outer residence first." Victoria nodded to Ke Lan and walked towards the residential area first.

…

This is a single apartment. The unit floor area is Ark standard 24 square meters, which is one level higher than Ke Lan's dwelling. In the outer area of ​​the Arasaka family's residential area, there are nearly thirty single-person apartments like this. If each building has ten to twelve rooms, there are about three hundred rooms.

From the information card at the door, we can learn that the occupant of this single apartment is named Arasaka Ryouya, a collateral member of the Arasaka family, and his position within the Arasaka Foundation is as a person responsible for purchasing metal raw materials. Salesperson... This position is not even considered a mid-level employee. No wonder the residence assigned to him is so simple.

The door to the apartment was not locked, or even closed tightly. Through the crack in the door, Ke Lan could vaguely glimpse the toilet and washbasin installed on one side of the entrance.

Victoria pushed the door open and walked in. She saw a corpse kneeling on the tatami, with its drooping head pressed against the kotatsu table in front of her. A black pistol fell to the side... There was a bullet hole on the temple on one side of the corpse. The blood stains on the side had solidified, but the eyeball on the side near the bullet hole bulged out due to the sudden increase in intracranial pressure, and almost came out of its socket.

On the kotatsu table, there was also a brief suicide note.

"...My package has been delivered, containing an injection and a sword.

I know what you mean...

But...I really don't want to become such a monster...

I am also afraid of the pain of seppuku...

Fortunately, the pistol I bought last month for self-defense can be used this time..."

The package mentioned in the suicide note and the sword Ke Lan were found in the corner of the room, but the injection was missing. From this point of view, after Arasaka Ryoya committed suicide, someone should have entered his residence. The injection was taken away - the door that was left open was naturally the work of a latecomer.

As for the function of the injection, Arasaka Ryo also wrote it very clearly in his suicide note: after using it, he will turn into a monster - but Victoria believes that the monster here should not refer to the radiation monster they just encountered, but the seed of erosion... ... If a human wants to mutate into a radiation monster, an injection alone is definitely not enough, but if it is a seed of erosion, as long as there is the right inducement, the transformation from the incubation period to the mature stage can be completed in a matter of minutes at the fastest .

[P.S. Regarding Japanese short swords, a little knowledge to prevent misleading (anti-collision): wakizashi (not ribs, there was a typo before, it has been corrected, ribs is a wrong way of writing, and the difference from wakizashi is the same A shotgun (the same as a shotgun) is a short knife used for close combat, not for suicide. As for another kind of combat short knife: Kaitong, it is a thick-ridged knife used for breaking armor. The weapon used for seppuku is the third There are three types of swords, which are called the sword... Generally, if conditions permit, a samurai who commits seppuku will choose the sword instead of the wakizashi. Although the wakizashi is already very short compared to tachi and katana, there are still many The length of ten centimeters is very inconvenient to use to commit suicide.

In many anti-Japanese films and TV dramas, the Japanese officers who committed seppuku directly penetrated their bodies with sabers. In fact, this was not considered seppuku at all. Samurai seppuku required an incision in the stomach, and would also arrange for the wrong person to complete the seppuku. Then cut off the head of the seppuku to reduce the pain as much as possible - here I recommend a movie "The Last Samurai". Although this movie is suspected of glorifying Bushido, it is still very good in terms of the relevant details. Yes, interested readers can take a look. 】

[P.P.S. I would like to make a suggestion to all the senior management of TEPCO. It is useless to bow. It is better to commit seppuku. 】