Alien Relic Hunter

But from another perspective... the "hard drive" carrying these data is actually Ke Lan's brain... If Ke Lan chooses to drink a bullet and commit suicide in the dream, there is a high probability that Ke Lan in the real world will also be shot. You can indeed escape from the dream by cutting off your forehead, but the price paid is really a little bit high...

Ke Lan must find a way to "heat shutdown"... He feels like he is trapped in an immersive game now. He is the god of this game world and can do anything here... The only thing I can't find is the "Exit Game" button.

Moreover, this game also has a serious BUG, ​​and resources related to hounds and others cannot be called out...

Wait a moment? Can't be called?

Ke Lan was very keenly aware of something unusual: If this dream world is really regarded as a game program, are these resources that cannot be retrieved already occupied?

A running program cannot be deleted... In other words, the Hounds and the others are also in this dream now. They are also "players" in this "game world", so all the memories related to them are Can't appear in this dream?

"Computers can connect to the Internet...could they be able to connect to the Internet in dreams?" Ke Lan said to himself in disbelief, but other than that, it was difficult for him to come up with another more reasonable explanation.

Just when Ke Lan was thinking this, the surrounding environment changed drastically... Before he could even see clearly where he was, the sound of dense gunfire penetrated his ears one after another.

Ke Lan found that his consciousness was suspended hundreds of meters in the sky. He looked down and saw a human army surrounded by countless armored beasts in a fortress-like fortification with a diameter of less than a hundred meters. It's almost unbearable.

The Prisma Beast is a relatively rare social creature on Alpha Planet. Although rare, the number of each group is very large. The number of "worker ants" alone exceeds one million.

Speaking of "worker ants", we have to talk about the characteristics of this creature: the social structure of the ants is very similar to that of ants on the earth, except for the "queen" and the "male ants" who are responsible for breeding. In addition, the most numerous ones are "soldier ants" and "worker ants" that have no reproductive ability.

The size and appearance of these four kinds of armored beasts are very different - the "soldier ant" armored beast is like a huge tortoise, with a body length of 20 to 30 meters, a height of about 15 meters, and six It has short, powerful legs and a solid back. It moves slowly but has amazing defense. Its main attack methods are hitting, crushing and spitting out "plasma balls" from its mouth. Although the attack power of plasma balls is not as good as the plasma on human battleships. Cannon, but if ordinary people accidentally touch it, it will vaporize instantly...

The "worker ant" armored beast is almost the same size as an adult man. It uses six arthropods wrapped in an exoskeleton to move very quickly. However, its attack methods are relatively simple. It can only use its arthropods or sharp beak-like mouthparts for close combat. Generally speaking, as long as a sufficient distance can be maintained, a human soldier with moderate marksmanship can easily kill a "worker ant" one-on-one.

However, the biggest characteristic of worker ants is that they are numerous and fearless of death... When worker ants all over the mountains and plains are rushing towards the human army, if there are not enough hard fortifications or heavy firepower... even the most elite among humans The troops cannot last long.

There are about 100,000 armored beasts besieging the fortress, most of them are "worker ants". The number of "soldier ants" is only about twenty. Despite this, the plasma cannon with a cooling time of only about half a minute still gives The human side has created huge pressure - with the bombardments again and again, the luster of the energy shield covering the fortress is quickly dimming. It won't be long before the shield will completely collapse due to insufficient energy supply. .

Under the energy shield, countless "worker ants" were still charging towards the outer wall of the fortress in waves. The cannons on the wall roared crazily, and there were piles of cannons next to the base. Empty cartridge cases and discarded gun barrels were found.

Ke Lan could completely foresee that if there was no air support, it would only be a matter of time before the entire army was wiped out... But what made Ke Lan puzzled was - why did this battle occur in his dream world?

At this moment, a familiar figure appeared in his field of vision, Hound - no, to be precise, he was still called Nick at this time, and he was a field force commander with the rank of colonel.

Nick stood at the entrance to the temporary command post in the center of the fortress, holding a high-power military communicator in his hand and yelling into the microphone: "Why are the reinforcements delayed! I'm about to run out of fucking men!" Why can’t we still see our warships in the sky! Are your reinforcements planning to come to collect my body?!”

"Ten minutes! Ten minutes! How many fucking ten minutes have I been waiting! When you first said this, I still had twenty-five tanks and more than a thousand soldiers - now ?I have three tanks left and less than a hundred and fifty men!"

The more Nick spoke, the angrier he became. He raised his hand and wanted to smash the communicator, but when he glanced at the soldiers who were still resisting on the wall, he sighed imperceptibly and put his hand down again. .

"No matter what your reasons are, I need reinforcements. The sooner the better. Even if there are no battleships, get me a few transport planes... I can rescue one by one. I can't let them all die here!"

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Ke Lan finally understood, this was the hound's nightmare... As for why the hound retired from the army, he had never told anyone the details. Ke Lan only heard some rumors from Layton. It is said that, In addition to the pension issue, it was also related to a tragic defeat commanded by him... From this point of view, this matter should be the shadow hidden deep in the heart of the hound.

Ke Lan wanted to wave his hand and wipe out all the armored beasts besieging the fortress, but he found that he had no influence on the world at all - this was the hound's dream, not his... He just Just a spectator.

What made him wonder was why his consciousness could travel into the hound's dream. Could it be that their dreams were connected together by something, just like a computer's local area network.

But judging from the behavior of the hound, he seemed to be deeply involved in it, completely unaware that it was just a dream.