Alien Relic Hunter

Picking off the remains hanging on his body, Ke Lan turned his head and glanced at the huge crack close at hand.

Back up, run up, take off.

Freeze time, observe, calculate, and then make a decision.

The freeze-frame is lifted, time passes, and everything returns to its original color.

The war blade in Ke Lan's hand drew a graceful arc in the air, cutting off all the incoming tentacles. Then at the moment he jumped to the highest point, he simultaneously unlocked all the release locks on the exoskeleton. He broke free from this heavy "shackles" - the shackles fell into the abyss, and he fell to the edge of the other end of the rift.

"This knife is beautiful!" the hound shouted loudly.

Ke Lan ignored the small talk and asked the two of them directly: "Old dog, Leighton, do you have any remaining explosives over there?"

"There are four more pieces, which add up to almost two hundred standard unit equivalents. (Note 1)" Leighton replied.

"Gather them all together, set a short-range remote control fuse, and throw it into the hole directly above!" Ke Lan said.

"Are you going to use explosives to blow up the tentacles that are pouring out?" Layton asked.

"No...I am here to blast a way out. Apart from the cracks under the ground, there is only one way directly above to leave this cave."

"Are you sure? These tentacles came out of this hole...who knows what kind of monsters there might be inside..." the hound said with some worry.

"But at least the direction is correct... As we go down, we will only get farther and farther away from the exit of the ruins." Ke Lan said, "If we drag it any longer, there will be no place for people to stand here!"

"Then blow it up!" The hound hit Layton's mechanical arm hard, "Blow it up, you're going to risk it all!"

Layton took out all the explosives from his backpack, pulled out a piece of copper wire from the damaged exoskeleton, and tied them together. Just in case, he even inserted the remaining six detonators. Go up there - the explosives have been used up anyway, and these detonators are useless if you keep them. It's better to use them all at once, which can be regarded as an insurance policy and improve fault tolerance.

"Everyone, come closer!" Ke Lan shouted. Zhuo Ligetu carried Ivan and Qian Yezhao alone, and the hound pulled Qin Zhao. They all squeezed to Leighton's side, and Leighton was pushing hard After throwing the explosives into the big hole, the energy shield was activated directly and propped up above everyone's heads——

"boom!!!"

There was a loud explosion, and those wildly twisting tentacles were blown to pieces in the blink of an eye. The diameter of the entire hole was nearly doubled, and tons of blood poured in from above, hitting the ground heavily. Above the energy shield, white water vapor rose up and filled the entire cave.

"Is this...?" Ke Lan stretched out his finger and wiped away the liquid that splashed on his face, but was shocked to find that only a small part of the red blood was stained.

This was not blood at all. These liquids did not have the disgusting smell of blood, but instead had a salty smell that was familiar to Ke Lan.

"This water... this is sea water!" the hound said in surprise, "What is pouring down from above is sea water! How can there be sea water here! It is clearly hundreds of thousands of miles away from the sea!"

"But...this seawater is not poisonous and has no radiation...this is not the seawater in the middle sea." Layton added.

"Ke Lan...could we still be in a dream?" Hound asked with some uncertainty.

"No... I can feel it. This is reality." Ke Lan said categorically. When he drew the sword before, he had also considered this issue. For a moment, he already believed that he was still in a dream. , and in the dream world, as long as his thinking is not restricted, stopping time will not have any impact on Ke Lan himself.

However, in the stagnant time, Ke Lan couldn't draw out the sword.

This is definitely reality here.

"Could it be due to changes in the earth's crust... This area used to be an ocean, and a large amount of mineral salts precipitated from seawater accumulated deep in the ice. Then part of the glacier melted for some reason, and the minerals inside the ice The salt dissolved in water again to form the sea water we see?" Qin Zhao analyzed.

"If this is the case, then we are dead - unless the entire glacier melts, otherwise this will be a completely sealed space and there will be no way to swim out!"

"No, there must be an exit above." Ke Lan said, "Because these seawaters are not naturally formed at all... These seawaters should be placed here by the Alpha people."

"Alfa people? Why do they fill the glacier with seawater?" The hound was very puzzled.

"Perhaps it is to breed some kind of creature that can only survive in the marine environment," Ke Lan said, pointing to the remains of the tentacles that were blown into pieces and floating on the water. "Like the octopus on Earth, it can only survive in the ocean." If you live in sea water and are separated from it, you will die quickly."

"Moreover, after you smashed the sarcoma, Cao Feng did not get rid of control, and those tentacles were still attacking." Ke Lan continued, "This shows that this huge deformed sarcoma is just the body of this creature. A small part of it, and most of its body should be soaked in the seawater above the cave."

The sea water has reached the instep, and many of the equipment scattered on the ground have been washed into the cracks. Fortunately, Layton had already picked up the breathing mask and body bag from the ground before that. Now, the sleeping Ivan and Akira Asano were put "again" into body bags made of black polymer.

"Then if we go up, wouldn't we just bump into this guy's body?" Hound said, "This time, we didn't bring those special underwater weapons and equipment..."

"The main attack methods of this creature are mental attacks and nightmares. Although it is huge, its physical strength is not high. Both the sarcoma and the tentacles can be easily destroyed... Moreover, after the explosion, there are no tentacles reaching out to attack us. , it should have suffered a heavy blow."

Ke Lan said and handed his breathing mask to Qin Zhao behind him: "When the sea water fills this cave, we will swim up!"

Leighton drove several nail anchors into the rock wall that had not yet collapsed. These nail anchors were connected to each other with steel cables. Everyone just grabbed the steel cables so tightly and clung to the rock wall, waiting. The sea water fills up little by little.

…

As the rock formations on the roof of the cave continued to be washed away by the influx of seawater, the water level rose faster and faster. At this time, Ke Lan suddenly discovered that the incoming seawater contained a large amount of pinkish-white minced meat. In addition, there is a special creature.

This is a small fish about ten centimeters long, as thin as a finger, and transparent all over. These small fish move quickly in the sea water. Whenever they encounter minced meat floating in the water, they will swarm up and tear it apart crazily. bite, swallow...

Although the appearance of these small fish looks very delicate and even a little cute, judging from their eating movements, they can definitely be regarded as ferocious creatures. Their mouths can expand to twice the diameter of their bodies or even Three times the size, the folded fangs are three to four centimeters long when fully opened. Each bite can tear off a large piece of meat.

Through their transparent bodies, you can clearly see how the meat passes through the mouth and throat, and is quickly digested in their bodies... What frightened Ke Lan the most was that these small transparent fish were dividing After eating the minced meat, they began to bite each other. They pierced the bodies of the same kind with their fangs, bit off the heads and tails of the same kind, and swallowed the bodies of the same kind together with the undigested food in the body... They It seems that he is always hungry and greedy... even though his slender body has been stretched to a round shape...

"What the hell kind of fish are these..." The hound also discovered these small transparent fish, and the one closest to him was less than ten centimeters... Just when he stretched out his hand to catch the fish At that moment, the transparent little fish suddenly turned around nimbly and bit off a large piece of meat from the hound's mouth!

"Ah... grass! This little beast!" The hound was in pain and quickly retracted his hand, but the little fish jumped out of the water, opened its mouth as wide as possible, and pounced on the hound's face!

Just when it was about to bite off the hound's nose, Layton finally pinched the small fish in mid-air. With a slight force on the mechanical palm, the whole fish turned into a puddle of meat paste.

"Be careful, old dog. These fish are very evil. Be careful not to let blood drip into the water, otherwise I'm afraid it will attract them all." Leighton said. He flicked hard and threw away the crushed small fish. Looking into the distance, dozens of small transparent fish suddenly swarmed up and started a new round of fighting and fighting.

"Damn, why does this thing look like a shark?" The hound cursed and took out a roll of waterproof bandage, tightly wrapped the wound at the tiger's mouth, and then put a circle of waterproof sealing film on the outside.

"I think... more like a piranha in a thriller movie." Ke Lan said.

"Damn... I think I've seen that old movie from the old era." The hound suddenly thought of a certain scene in the movie, and couldn't help but feel his lower body tightening. He quickly lowered his head and looked into the water - fortunately, those small fish were all gone. He went to chase the scattered flesh after the tentacles were blown to pieces, and did not swim towards them.

"The water level has reached the chest, it's almost there, we should go up...otherwise, after the fish have eaten all the minced meat, they will come to us," Ke Lan said.

The vanguard position was still held by Layton. He put the energy shield at the front, vaporizing all the oncoming seawater and small transparent fish in the water, and forcibly opened a channel in the rapids - a single In terms of visual effects, it feels a bit like the water droplets in "Journey to the West".

Layton turned his head and shouted to everyone: "A very strong vortex has formed above the entrance of the cave. You should all be careful, don't be swept away!"

At this time, Layton could no longer hold up the shield. The water flow was too great. Not only could the energy shield not completely evaporate it, but it would also heat the surrounding seawater into boiling water. He could only keep driving nail anchors into the rock formation one after another, and crawl forward against the water flow.

At this time, no one could speak. Everyone could only silently endure the violent force hitting their bodies... The only thing they could do was to hold on to the rope tightly...

I don’t know how long it took, but the cave below and the bottomless gaps were finally filled with sea water. The pressure difference between the inside and outside of the cave finally disappeared, and the vortex also disappeared.

Looking down under the light of the flashlight, you can see a giant octopus-like soft-bodied creature with a diameter of more than 100 meters clinging to the rock formations. Its body surface is covered with countless long and fine "hairs", and these " "Fuzz" are actually those young tentacles that have not yet formed. They move slowly with the sea water and look like completely harmless seaweed...

In the middle of this "big octopus", there is a huge and horrific wound. Ke Lan and the others just got out of this wound, and right below the wound is the cave that is filled with sea water.

This "big octopus" seemed to be dead. All its tentacles stopped moving and floated quietly in the water. More and more small transparent fish began to swim towards the wound, like maggots on carrion. Weaving in and out of the octopus's flesh and blood...

Fortunately, they had just braved the current and rushed out. Otherwise, when the vortex disappeared, they would have bumped into a large group of hungry piranhas... By then, these beautiful but ferocious transparent fish would not be picky about their food.

The hound closed his mouth tightly, and his cheeks bulged high due to the air in his mouth. From time to time, a few bubbles would come out of his nostrils - they were not a special type of modified people, and no one could survive in the water. When breathing, the only two respirators must be used in turn, but even so, the remaining amount of oxygen generator in the tank is decreasing at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Ke Lan swam to the side of the hound, patted him on the shoulder, and gave him a simple gesture - "swim up".

It is impossible for the Alpha people to dig out a huge ocean in the rock. This can only be regarded as a large reservoir. As long as you swim upstream, you can always float to the surface...

[P.S. Note 1: Ark’s explosive equivalent calculation standard: 1 standard unit ≈ 100 grams of TNT explosive equivalent; the explosive power of two hundred standard units is almost equivalent to 20 kilograms of TNT equivalent. 】

[P.P.S. Regarding the piranha movie mentioned in this chapter, the specific plot has been forgotten for a long time. The most affecting scene is only a boy and a girl, and then the piranha comes out and bites That thing for boys, in the end the boy had to chop off the thing and the piranha together with a knife... If I remember correctly, it should be the plot of the second part...]