Alien Relic Hunter

At this moment, Martin suddenly let out a sharp scream: "It...it, its fingers seemed to move!"

"Don't fucking talk nonsense!" The hound glared at Martin fiercely, but when he looked back at the hand under the ice, he found that the middle finger and ring finger of the hand seemed to really beat.

The amplitude of the beating is very small, so small that it is almost negligible, but the hound can be sure that it is really moving!

"Get the hell away! This damn thing is still alive!" he yelled, raising his gun and pointing it at the ice. He flicked his thumb and opened the pistol's safety with a click.

"What should we do?" Leighton glanced at Ke Lan, then turned to look at the hound. "We...should we strike first?"

"Wait a minute." Ke Lan raised his palm and made a "stop" gesture, "This thing... may not be able to break through this layer of ice. If we take the initiative to fire, we will actually be helping it."

While they were talking, the top joint of the finger suddenly bent about twenty degrees. Then, a burst of fine cracks spread from the fingertips and quickly reached the surface of the ice!

"It...it seems to want to crawl out..." The hound held his breath and said to Ke Lan in a very low voice.

The tenacity of a monster that can survive in such an ice layer is simply unimaginable, and the strength required to break through this layer of ice is even more terrifying. If such a monster enters this ice tunnel, If so, the outcome of their team can be imagined.

"Crack..." The sound of the ice cracking could be heard clearly... At this moment, Ke Lan remembered the scene when he and Leighton encountered the giant eyeball in the ice tunnel...

"Everyone, be silent, don't move, turn off all light sources." Ke Lan said quickly. He took the lead in turning off the tactical gun light mounted on the pistol, while Hound and Zhuoligetu also immediately extinguished their flashlights. Immediately, even the laser transmitter used for auxiliary aiming on the weapon was turned off.

In contrast, Qin Zhao and Martin's movements were slightly slower by half a beat.

The ice tunnel suddenly became invisible, and Ke Lan could only hear his own rapidly accelerating heartbeat... and the "click" sound of the ice breaking.

But soon, the "click" sound disappeared...the ice layer was not broken, and the owner of the hand did not climb up from below.

This state had been in a stalemate for more than ten minutes. Just when everyone felt their ankles starting to go numb, Ke Lan finally turned on the gun light again, adjusted the brightness to the lowest level, and shined it on the palm of his hand. location.

The hand had disappeared, leaving only a few small cracks on the ice. A mist-like white cold air was constantly emerging from the cracks, and then quickly melted into the relatively high temperature in the ice channel.

"The hand... the hand disappeared..." Martin shrank his shoulders and held the gun tightly with both hands. "Could that thing have crawled out?"

He didn't dare to look back at all. He always felt that something was lying behind him. As soon as he turned around, that thing would immediately pounce and pierce his throat with its five slender fingers.

"This crack... not even a bug can get through, let alone that thing just now." Hound said, "On the contrary, I think that thing might have sunk."

Ke Lan didn't speak. He looked deep into the ice beneath his feet, where there was nothing but endless darkness.

"It's better to be careful... The visibility of the ice is less than half a meter. Maybe the thing is less than one meter away from us, but we can't see it at all..." Ke Lan said, "Leiton, Leave a warning beacon here and we'll move on."

"Got it." Layton dug out a small piece of special explosive like plasticine from the equipment box, stuck it on the crack, and then carefully inserted a finely crafted metal tube on top of the explosive.

It was a highly sensitive trigger detonator. As long as the shaped explosive deformed under the influence of external force, or the cracks under it expanded again, the fuse in the detonator would detonate the explosive.

The yield of this explosive is very small. Even if someone accidentally steps on it, as long as the unlucky guy wearing the protective gear is of a slightly better quality, he will basically not be missing an arm or a leg - its warning effect is far greater than its killing effect. , Ke Lan asked Layton to set up such a warning beacon, also to prevent the monster under the ice from expanding the cracks and sneaking out again after they left here.

No one would want an inhuman monster to follow the team unnoticed, let alone this monster with the power to easily kill the entire team.

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The team started to move forward, but before they got a hundred meters away, they had to stop again...

The ice path ahead suddenly became narrower, and the surrounding ice walls were no longer as flat and smooth as before. Instead, they were covered with a large number of growths. These growths were piled on top of the ice walls in layers, which reminded Ke Lan of something. Lipid deposits attached to blood vessels in patients with atherosclerosis.

After they got closer, they discovered that these growths were dark brown oval objects the size of fists. These objects were sticky to each other and tightly adsorbed on the ice wall, and their surfaces were covered with a thick layer of ice. Thick hoarfrost.

"What is this?" Layton stared at the growths in front of him with fear, "They look... disgusting to me."

"To be honest, I think it looks a bit like...a bit like a cockroach's egg case...but this thing is hundreds of times larger than a cockroach's egg case." The hound said solemnly.

"C-could it be...a giant mutated cockroach?" Martin suddenly interjected, "I heard people say that after some earth cockroaches escaped from the Ark, they strayed into high-radiation areas and mutated. Not only have their bodies grown larger, they have even evolved the ability to walk upright. They also have hands like humans and have high IQs..."

"I know the story you're talking about. It's an old-era science fiction comic, and it seems to be the work of a Japanese cartoonist, but that story takes place on Mars in the solar system, not Alpha." Ke Lan said, " There are indeed examples of cockroaches that were brought to Alpha Planet from the solar system by humans, but they have not reached such an exaggerated level... Fifty years have not yet allowed such a low-level creature to evolve into the kind of thing in the comics. degree."

"However," Ke Lan changed the topic, "if the size only increases hundreds of times, it is still very possible."