Alien Relic Hunter

"The patriarch in the suicide note should refer to the head of the Arasaka family. It seems that the heretical sect has completely controlled the entire Arasaka consortium and used the resources at its disposal to transform most of the residents in the residential area into seeds of erosion. 'Container'... But the question is, what are they doing cultivating so many seeds of erosion?"

Ke Lan thought for a while and listed the clues he had now one by one: "When you were at the blockade earlier, you used the pheromones of the flesh-eating worms to attract only a few erosion seeds. This means that Dong The vast majority of the Seed of Corrosion containers in District 9 should be under the control of the heretical sect. At first, I thought they were planning to concentrate the Seed of Corrosion to attack the outer blockade, but obviously, they did not do that. Do."

If the peripheral blockade is attacked by a large number of erosion seeds, the garrison will definitely release flares. Now the power lines of the entire East 9th District have been cut off, and the lighting can only rely on the light refracted from several surrounding districts. In such a dim environment, the flares will become extremely eye-catching - but, except for the one launched by Major Ashkarni, Ke Lan and the others have never seen a flare explode above the East 9th District. Pass.

This means that the blockades in all directions have not been attacked by more than thirty people or by super powerful individuals like Arasaka Yui and Zhanji.

"It's not like it's for defense..." Ke Lan played with a bullet casing he picked up casually in his hand, "The enemies we encountered along the way, except for the three boss-level units of Black Skeleton, Arasaka Yui and Zanji Other than that, there are just some trash fish like mercenaries and radiation monsters... If all these trash fish are replaced by erosion seeds, let alone the residential area, the investigation team may not even be able to get out of Kabukicho 1st Street. ...So this guess can basically be ruled out.”

"..." Victoria lowered her head without saying a word, seeming to be thinking about something.

"Hey... I've said so much, can't you tell me what you think?" Ke Lan glanced at her with some dissatisfaction and threw the bullet casing in his hand.

"Bang." Victoria reached out and grabbed the thrown bullet case. With a slight squeeze of her fingers, the bullet case turned into a thin piece of metal.

"...hiss...your analysis is right...hiss...I agree with your point of view."

"It's really rare for you to say this..." Ke Lan sighed, "But I do have a bold guess... I'll put it here first. This is just a guess, without any evidence. ."

"You can...hiss...tell me."

"First of all, it can be determined that the rituals of the heretical sect are related to the 'holy object' mentioned by Arasaka Yui, and this 'holy object' was brought out of Leviathan's body by Manstein. In other words, this thing actually originally belonged to Leviathan's... If you are bolder, you can completely assume that it was precisely because Manstein took out this thing that Leviathan woke up early before the resurrection progress was completed..."

Ke Lan took a breath and continued: "The resurrection of Leviathan requires a lot of flesh and blood. In order to achieve this goal, those red flesh worms devoured all the human corpses in each base... If this element is translated to If we take the incident in East Ninth District and replace the key word 'human flesh' with the seed of erosion..."

He lowered his voice slightly and said: "The 'holy object' from Leviathan, plus a large amount of flesh and blood as 'nutrients' from the seeds of erosion, these two things added together... you can think about it with your toes. I understand the seriousness of the problem.”

"Do you think... hiss... the heretical sect... hiss... is creating... prehistoric species?"

"Yes, that's what I think... Even if the things they create are not as good as the ancient behemoths like Leviathan, at least they are many times stronger than rotten fish and shrimps like Arasaka Yui. ’s... Moreover, this is not in the wilderness, but inside the Ark... If we carry out a prehistoric battle inside the Ark, even if we can win, our losses will probably be incalculable."

"If...hiss...that's really the case...then...it must be stopped..."

"I'm afraid it will be difficult for just the two of us... It's really strange, why haven't reinforcements arrived at this time?"

Since there was no signal flare and reinforcements had not arrived, Ke Lan really couldn't figure out what was going on outside.

"We...hiss...have to go there..." Victoria raised her head and looked at Arasaka Tower not far away and said.

"...Why don't you wait first?" Oddly enough, since entering the industrial park, Ke Lan and Victoria have never heard those weird cries or screams, and they have always been in the back of Ke Lan's mind. The voices calling him everywhere suddenly fell silent.

Could it be another trap? Just when Ke Lan was thinking this, a circle of dazzling bright light suddenly emitted from the top of Arasaka Tower. Then, the entire East 9th District was restored to power, and large swaths of lights were illuminated by From inside to outside, it lights up one by one!

"The power has been restored?!" Ke Lan quickly took out his mobile phone, but the signal grid still showed "Not in the service area".

Victoria inserted a metal finger into the wired network interface in Arasaka Ryoya's residence. After two seconds, she shook her head and said: "The wired network... hiss... is still disconnected..."

"It seems that the reserve energy in East Nine District has been activated, but the connection with the outside world has still not been restored." Ke Lan said, "But I don't know what their intention is..."

If we really want to determine the purpose of the heretical sect, I'm afraid we can only know it by entering Arasaka Tower as Victoria said...

At this moment, the long-lost sobs sounded in Ke Lan's ears again, but this time, Ke Lan clearly heard the words mixed with the sobs!

"Help me...save me..."

This was a weak female voice, which did not sound very old... However, although she spoke human language, for some reason, Ke Lan always felt that the creature making this voice did not seem to be human.

That kind of vague and hoarse voice is not like what human vocal organs can produce. Even Victoria's electronically synthesized voice sounds more normal than this voice.

"Did you hear...that cry?" Ke Lan turned around and asked.

"...hiss...heard...wails, screams, wailing...hiss..." Victoria pointed at Arasaka Tower, "That's where the sound came from."