Alien Relic Hunter

Layton only glanced at it and couldn't help but exclaimed: "Oh! What a guy!... Isn't the internal structure of this thing too delicate? Many transmission rods are only as thick as a hair, thanks to this kind of alloy The strength is high enough. If a different material were used, this thing would be completely scrapped after being started once."

"Then can you see the function of these mechanical parts?" Ke Lan asked.

"It's too difficult... This thing is many times more precise than the differential engine. It can't be analyzed with the naked eye alone. It has to be scanned with a computer... Moreover, I don't know if there are any embedded components inside these mechanical parts. The crystal circuit structure, if any, is even more complicated." Leighton smacked his lips and said, "Moreover, I can guarantee that this kind of precision equipment is 100% equipped with anti-theft measures. If it is forcibly disassembled, it will be easy to commit suicide. Destroy, at worst... I don’t know what will happen at worst, but it’s good that nothing good will happen anyway.”

Leiton studied for a while and then decisively chose to give up - even if this thing was dismantled and transported to the research institute, experts who had been immersed in mechanical engineering for most of their lives wanted to understand the principles of this thing. Tooru, I'm afraid it will take several days.

"Can you find the metal rod that the exiles stuffed in? It should be something like a key. If there is that thing, it should be able to activate the mechanism of this base." Ke Lan said.

"No... I was also looking for the metal rods that the mercenary mentioned, but I couldn't find them at all." Layton shook his head and said, "Either those metal rods have been swallowed, or the mercenary remembered wrong."

"But we didn't find any of these things on the exiles." Ke Lan said with some disappointment. Now the clues were in front of them, but the problem was that they were helpless with this clue - it was like facing a handle. A turtle with its head and limbs retracted into its shell is helpless.

"Put this away first and check other places." Ke Lan said.

He quickly walked to the edge of the stone platform, first illuminated the surrounding ditch with a flashlight, and then climbed over it lightly.

According to the mercenary's description, the pale pink flesh that is suspected of being "soil" came up from under the stone platform. So in addition to the base, the stone platform itself must also have hidden mysteries.

With a "click" sound, the hard rubber boot soles stepped on the bottom of the ditch outside the stone platform, but before Ke Lan could bend down to check, he felt something wrapped around the instep of his feet.

Through the boots and socks, Ke Lan could feel that the thing was as tough as rubber, and it wrapped around his ankle with neither looseness nor tightness... However, the thing did not make any aggressive moves. It just rubbed against Ke Lan's boots, like a well-behaved and docile puppy...

Ke Lan slowly pointed the flashlight in his hand at his feet, and saw that the bottom of the ditch was covered with that kind of pale pink flesh in less than a second, and a tentacle-like limb extended from the flesh. , like some kind of mollusk, wrapped around his boots several times.

Leiton, who was following Ke Lan but had not yet come down from the stone platform, had also seen this scene. There was a nervous look on his face, and he subconsciously picked up the gun in his hand.

But at this moment, Ke Lan raised his hand, stopped Layton's movement, and then shook his head at him.

Bullets are useless against this thing, and this thing doesn't seem to show any hostility.

"Damn! Damn! What should I do now?... Ke Lan, tell me, what can I do to help you?" Although his words were full of anxiety, he had to keep his voice very low. , for fear of disturbing those pink "meats".

"Just stand there, don't move yet." Ke Lan said to him, and then he turned to Asano Akira, "Asano, can you find my position now?"

"Yes." Akira Asano nodded while holding the sword, "As long as you make a sound, I can find you."

"Okay, let me tell you about my plan in general..." Ke Lan said quickly, "I plan to try the method the mercenary said and feed these things with blood... but I don't know how. Is this information provided by a mercenary true or false? If something unexpected happens later, I will try to jump up. Layton, you have to find a way to catch me. Then, Asano, you are responsible for cutting off what is chasing me. ——If they catch up."

As Ke Lan said this, he slowly leaned down and took off the shoelaces from the quick buckles on the top of the boots.

"Is this...is this really okay? You...are you not afraid that the mercenary is lying to us?" Layton said with a worried look.

"So didn't I ask you to prepare secondhand?" Ke Lan glanced at him and said.

"But it's too risky..."

"Actually... I think that guy didn't lie to us. It's been a minute now, but this thing still doesn't have any aggressive behavior, and it doesn't even continue to go up my legs... This shows that it has something to do with ' The characteristics of Xi soil are completely different." Ke Lan said, "Okay, I'm going to prepare to bleed... If there is any abnormal movement in it, I will break free from my boots and jump up, and then my life will be in your hands. ."

"I...I will catch you." Layton gritted his teeth and nodded to Ke Lan.

Ke Lan took a deep breath, lifted up his sleeves, took out a dagger from his waist, and made a shallow cut on his arm.

Suddenly, a drop of blood seeped out from the incision, slid down the skin, and finally landed on the pink flesh at Ke Lan's feet.

Ke Lan and Leighton both held their breaths and stared at the blood bead with their eyes wide open, while Asano Akira had already pushed the sword half an inch out of the sheath with his thumb.

After coming into contact with this drop of blood, a small opening opened on the surface of the meat paste, and the blood droplet was swallowed in... Then, the meat paste at Ke Lan's feet slowly started to squirm, and several clusters of granules emerged from it. The flesh sprouts grew out, and these sprouts quickly expanded and elongated into slender tentacles. These tentacles surrounded Ke Lan's boots, but they did not launch an attack. They just swayed gently and touched the boots from time to time. On the surface, he looked very "curious".

No, no... Rather than being curious, Ke Lan felt... these tentacles seemed to be "acting like a baby"...

Layton was completely stunned. He didn't know if this situation was considered an "accident" as Ke Lan said. He stretched out the mechanical arm, but it froze in mid-air. He didn't know whether he should move the lower part. Ke Lan lifted him up.

"What's wrong?" Akira Asano asked softly. He couldn't see the scene below and could only rely on his voice to deduce, "There seems to be a lot more subtle noises... Ke Lan, how are you?"

"Shh... don't act rashly yet... I'm not in danger, not at the moment." Ke Lan said, "I think... it probably wants more blood..."

He raised his arm, pinched his arm with his other hand, and squeezed out a few drops of blood from the incision.

These few drops of blood fell down and were quickly swallowed by the meat. At this time, those tentacles seemed to have gained great satisfaction, squirming soothingly... This made Ke Lan couldn't help but think of those large amounts of blood. After inhaling the incense of Mengzao, the way people close their eyes and shake their heads is very similar to these tentacles...

After almost five or six minutes, the tentacles wrapped around Ke Lan's ankles reluctantly let go of him and retracted into the fleshy body. The fleshy flesh spread on the ground also quickly retracted. gather.

"I think... it should be fine. That guy didn't lie to us." Ke Lan said, taking out a bandage from his pocket and wrapping it around his wound.

"Huh--" Layton exhaled heavily the turbid breath he had been holding for a long time, and raised his hand to wipe the sweat from his forehead; Asano Akira's tight body also relaxed, and with a "pop" sound, he pulled out The small blade of the blade was also returned to the sheath.

"Are you coming up?" Leiton stretched out his hand to pull Ke Lan to the stone platform, but the latter waved his hand towards him.

"Wait a minute."

After saying that, Ke Lan walked towards the pool of shrunken flesh, which made Layton couldn't help but become nervous again: "Hey... Ke Lan, what are you going to do? You just got out of danger, don't go anymore Provoke this thing!"

"I just want to see where they came from." Ke Lan replied.

The pink flesh scattered at the bottom of the ditch squirmed and gathered together. It gradually transformed into a python-like creature, and its movement became like a snake, dragging on the ground.

Ke Lan chased after this "meat python" and walked half a circle around the stone platform. Only then did he discover that at the bottom of the stone platform, close to the bottom of the ditch, there was a cave with a diameter of half a meter.

Ke Lan watched helplessly as the "meat python" got into the cave and disappeared from sight.

"There is actually a cave entrance here!" Leighton whispered. "This location and angle are really hidden. If you stand on the stone platform, the hole is in the blind spot of the viewing angle. If you stand on the opposite side of the stone platform, the projection of the stone platform will be invisible." The shadow coming down will just cover the entrance of the hole... Unless the light is pointed directly at the entrance of the hole, it will be easily ignored by people."

Obviously, those mercenaries did not discover the entrance of the cave... They only had eyes for the jar that was the mission target, and they had no intention of carefully examining the cave.

But Ke Lan knew in her heart that there must be a passage underground, otherwise it would be impossible for these pink fleshy mud to appear and disappear out of thin air - unless it could seep directly from the ground.

Ke Lan squatted in front of the cave entrance, gestured with the size of the cave entrance with his palm, and then began to take off his equipment.

"Wait a minute...are you planning to get in?" Layton said in shock.

"Otherwise? Did you bring a remote control robot?" Ke Lan asked back. At this time, he had taken off his equipment belt and cold-proof jacket, leaving only his underwear and a fleece jacket with a little cold protection effect. .

"But...but...did that thing get in just now?"

"But that thing didn't show hostility towards me, did it?" Ke Lan tore off a few pieces of heating patches called "warm babies" and stuck them inside the fleece jacket. However, despite this, he was forced to The coldness of the person is still creeping into the thin clothes.

The temperature here is still too low, Ke Lan thought to himself. In this case, his body temperature cannot be maintained for long. If it takes too long, he will still die from hypothermia even if no accidents happen...

"Fifteen minutes, if nothing is found, I will return in fifteen minutes." Ke Lan said, including the time required to turn back, half an hour, which is almost the limit of his body.

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