Alien Relic Hunter

ten minutes later.

Ke Lan and Victoria had passed through the residential area and arrived directly below Arasaka Tower.

During this process, they did not encounter any enemies - neither the rebels of the "Rangers" company nor the radiation monsters that were generated in batches appeared. The entire residential area seemed to be completely undefended.

"Did you smell it..." Ke Lan said in a deep voice, "It's such a strong... putrid smell."

"My olfactory system... is damaged." Victoria shook her head, "But according to the thermal... hiss... camera display, the entire Arasaka Tower... hiss... inner wall... seems to be covered with a layer... …Substances with high caloric content…”

She paused and continued: "This tower... is like... hiss... some kind of creature..."

"You mean this Arasaka Tower is alive?" Ke Lan glanced at Victoria in surprise, and then focused his attention on the tall tower in front of him - however, looking from the outside, he couldn't find it at all. Something unusual happened.

"Help me...save me..." The weird voice sounded in Ke Lan's ears again, getting clearer every time. Ke Lan was basically sure that the source of the voice was on the top floor of Arasaka Tower, where the strong voice had just come out. That place of light.

"Get ready..." Victoria gestured to Ke Lan, then stepped forward and kicked open the door of Arasaka Tower!

Ke Lan only glanced into the open door and knew where the putrid smell came from——

The entire interior of Arasaka Tower is covered with a layer of carrion-like biological tissue. You can vaguely see blood vessel-like structures underneath these tissues. They are squirming and constantly pumping some unknown liquid toward the top of the tower. .

"This tower... is really alive..."

Ke Lan and Victoria still carried some explosives with them, but it was absolutely impossible to blow up the entire Arasaka Tower with this amount of explosives. Even trying to blow a big hole in the alloy structure of the tower was a bit reluctant.

If this tower were built on the wasteland, Victoria would only have to place a laser beacon and wait for the fleet's missiles... But this tower is located inside the Ark... And, directly below the East 9th District, is It was one of the four main power furnaces of the Ark. If the missile did not affect the main power furnace, it would be easy to say. If the main power furnace detonated, the death toll would probably have to be counted in the unit of 10,000.

"These tissues...are they part of that 'creature'?" Ke Lan took off the plastic holster from his waist, and then tentatively threw it in... However, when the plastic holster landed on the carrion, it was... Nothing happened.

"This thing looks very similar to a bloodthirsty carpet. I think it's better not to step on it rashly..." Before Ke Lan could finish speaking, Victoria had already raised her hand and fired at the carrion on the ground. The bullets hit the carrion. Several large holes were opened on it, and smelly pus and blood immediately gushed out, but nothing happened.

"There is no time... to waste..." Victoria said, already striding into the front hall on the first floor of Arasaka Tower.

The decoration of the front hall on the first floor of Arasaka Tower can be said to be extremely luxurious. The floor is all made of water-polished marble that is as moist as white jade. Four red lacquered wooden pillars as thick as three people can hug each other stand on both sides of the entrance. There are also There are Japanese-style decorative carvings, and the hollow space inside the pillars is designed as a display cabinet, which contains samurai swords with gorgeous scabbards... But now, these priceless decorations have been covered with carrion, with only a small Part of it was exposed.

In the corner of the front hall, there was a female corpse sitting on her knees in a suit and skirt. More than half of the body was wrapped in carrion... But what made Ke Lan feel strange was that the carrion did not affect the body. No damage was caused, and even the clothes worn by the corpse were still intact.

"These things don't seem to be interested in human flesh and blood..." This discovery made Ke Lan relieved at first, but then made him nervous - combined with the previous speculation, could it be that the "nourishment" they are pursuing is really Is it a seed of erosion cultivated using human flesh as a "container"?

Ke Lan tried to cut off a piece of rotten flesh with a knife, but in less than three seconds, the rotten flesh on the tip of the knife "melted"... the pus and blood dripped to the ground, and was quickly absorbed by these tissues.

"Carrion tissue cannot survive without the body, and will dissolve quickly..." Ke Lan silently wrote it down in his mind, then took out a few pieces of test paper from his small bag and dipped a little pus and blood on the tip of the knife.

"The pH value tends to be neutral...non-corrosive...no biological toxicity has been found...and the Geiger counter did not sound, indicating that it is not radioactive..." He suddenly discovered that these carrion besides looking disgusting In addition to having an unpleasant smell, it is actually harmless to the human body - of course, this conclusion is limited to the few basic tests he is currently conducting. As for whether it is really completely harmless, more sophisticated analytical instruments are needed. .

"The elevator...hiss...still works..." Victoria's voice came from the other end of the lobby. Ke Lan turned around and saw that she had used violent means to open the elevator door, and a wire was connected from her The prosthesis extended out, passed through the touch screen used to control the elevator, and was connected to the circuit board behind it.

"Are we just going to go up there?" Ke Lan said hesitantly... Even so, he quickly walked into the elevator car.

"Otherwise... you want to... hiss... take the stairs?"

"Then let's take the elevator..." Ke Lan looked around, "At least there aren't those...disgusting things in the car."

The elevator rose very quickly. In less than twenty seconds, the elevator had reached the twenty-ninth floor - there were still four floors away from the thirty-third floor on the top floor, and the last four floors could not be reached by this elevator. If you want to go up, you have to either take the core elevator located in the main office of the consortium's board of directors, or you can only take the stairs.

"I suddenly realized that we seemed to have missed a very important clue." Ke Lan walked out of the elevator and said to Victoria while alerting the surroundings.

"What's the matter...hiss...?"

"At the izakaya, the brain tissue of all the victims was removed, but we still haven't figured out where the removed brain tissue went?"

Ke Lan originally thought that Arasaka Ryo might have been an accident, but then he thought about it. He put the pistol to his temple and shot himself. His brain tissue had been completely destroyed... In other words, what the heretical sect needs is to be intact. The lossless human brain…

Leviathan's "holy relic" plus the flesh and blood of the Seed of Corrosion plus a large amount of human brain tissue...

What happened on the top floor of Arasaka Tower?