Alien Relic Hunter

The bone blade finally penetrated Ke Lan's body, but it only penetrated less than half a centimeter before stopping.

The monster's body melted like heated wax, and the bone blade fell from Ke Lan's body, fell to the ground, and turned into a puddle of fine bone powder.

The melted flesh and blood flowed back to the statue along the gaps between the hexagonal floors. For a moment, Ke Lan seemed to see the statue trembling slightly.

"First phase of trial, completed." The voice rang in Ke Lan's ears again. Ke Lan breathed a sigh of relief, got up from the ground, and patted the bone powder stuck to his body.

But for some reason, he suddenly had a bad feeling...

"The second phase of the trial begins, countdown...ten..."

Sure enough, Ke Lan lamented in his heart. Since this trial has a first stage, there must be more than one stage...

He quickly picked up the pistol that fell on the ground, put it back in the holster, and then filled the empty magazine with bullets.

Because the middle finger would affect the wound on the ring finger, Ke Lan simply wrapped the middle finger together when bandaging it. Only the index finger and thumb of his right hand could move, and the speed of loading bullets was suddenly slower than usual. A lot.

After loading seven bullets, there were only four seconds left in the countdown.

The statue in the middle of the hall began to tremble, and Ke Lan realized that it was not his imagination just now.

"……three……"

In the second stage of the trial, his opponent seemed to be this statue more than ten meters high.

"I...fuck your mother..." Ke Lan couldn't help but curse.

"...Two..." The coating on the statue's surface fell off, revealing the rusty metal body inside.

This body is covered with fine lines like blood vessels, and the blood flowing back to the statue is rushing through these lines.

"……one……"

Ke Lan looked at the stone awl in his hand and couldn't help but feel a sense of despair. Even if this big guy stood there and let him poke it, even if he could easily pierce through the hard metal body, the length of the stone awl would only be just a few seconds for it. It only broke the skin and could not damage the important parts inside the statue.

Speaking of important parts, Ke Lan couldn't help but take a look at the organ between the legs of the statue - just like the body of the statue, the surface of that thing was also covered with rust, and it was obviously made of metal...

If there was a heavy combat mech like the Iron Colossus or the Cyclops, Ke Lan might have a chance to fight. But now, using only a pistol and two daggers to deal with a metal statue more than ten meters high - Ke Lan couldn't help but feel the malice of the builder of this ruins.

I am neither Dongfang Bubai who can dismantle Gundam with bare hands, nor am I a pilot who can fly over walls and pull out batteries. Arranging such an opponent is clearly meant to kill me.

The difficulty span between the first and second stages is so huge, so there is no intention of letting anyone pass this trial, right?

Ke Lan could only retreat, but before he could take a few steps back, the wall-like light curtain appeared again. This time, the combat area delineated by the light curtain was even smaller than in the first stage.

Judging from the size of the metal statue, it only takes a few steps to walk from one end of the light screen to the other. The entire area is within its attack range, and Ke Lan doesn't even have room to move and dodge.

"Play with your mother!"

Ke Lan fired at the metal colossus with some indignation. The bullets hit the body of the colossus, but they could only produce a few inconspicuous sparks. The only function was probably to remove the rust from the rusty statue. .

Ke Lan thought that it would be great if he could blow up this statue like the Tiger tank was blown up with one shot at the end of a certain movie... However, reality is reality after all, and no matter how much Ke Lan prays, it doesn't mean A miracle will surely come... What's more, it wasn't the protagonist's small pistol that killed the Tiger tank in the movie, but the aerial firepower of friendly fighter jets...

To put it bluntly, even if Ke Lan could call for air support now, his fucking fighter jets wouldn't be able to fly underground!

The metal giant took one step towards him, and then another.

Ke Lan stopped cursing, he took out the dagger and arched his body.

He wanted to try to see if there was a chance to jump onto the metal colossus - even though there was almost no place to climb on the surface of the colossus, even though he didn't have a jetpack equipped with thrusters, and even though he only did that kind of difficult action electronically. Tried it in the game...

But he was unwilling to be trampled into a pile of pulp by this thing.

His eyes were fixed on the Colossus's every move, ready to activate the ability to stop time at any time. He didn't know if there would be a glimmer of hope... Even if there was, it would be fleeting...

He must seize the opportunity that may not exist at all, otherwise, the only outcome will be death.

But at this moment, a miracle... damn happened!

The metal giant knelt down on one knee in front of Ke Lan. It stretched out a hand, palm upward, and placed it on the ground.

A hole was opened in its chest and abdomen, and a dark red seat could be vaguely seen inside.

For Ke Lan, who has watched many robot combat animations and movies and played many similar games, the meaning of this action is really obvious - it is inviting himself to "board"!

Dare you... This metal giant is not your enemy, but a weapon prepared for you? !

Is this thing... a mecha developed by Alpha Civilization?

Ke Lan didn't think much, and climbed up along the arm of the colossus, and got into the opening... However, when he saw the dark red seat, there was a trace of hesitation in his heart.

The material of the chair seemed to be made of flesh, and it was still squirming slightly... In addition, Ke Lan did not find anything like a joystick or monitoring screen in this "cockpit".

"How...how do I control this thing?" He couldn't help but ask in his mind.

"Sit up, the trial is about to begin." The voice suddenly appeared and answered his question.

"Is this thing for people to sit on? Why do I feel like this thing is like a piece of rotten meat? Who are you? Can you tell me what the purpose of this trial is? And... how to get out of this ruins? "After discovering that this voice answered his question, Ke Lan immediately asked one after another.

"The trial is about to begin." But this time, the voice ignored his question and repeated the previous sentence.

Ke Lan noticed that the outer ring of light curtain had now changed from a light ivory white to an orange-yellow color, and was also tending to change towards a deeper red color.

Does this count as urging yourself?

Forget it, let's not worry about it for now - Ke Lan made a move and sat down on this chair.

But after sitting down, he immediately regretted it...

The chair was very comfortable, and the seat fit his back without any gaps. It was not an exaggeration to say that it was tailor-made... But the next second, countless tiny tentacles stretched out from the chair, wearing It penetrated his clothes and stabbed into his back!

Ke Lan could even clearly feel that the tips of those tentacles had penetrated the two layers of ligaments on the spine and penetrated deep into his spinal cord.

But at the same time, Ke Lan suddenly discovered that his consciousness was actually connected to this metal giant!

[P.S. Electrodes are pierced into the spine and the mecha is controlled through nerve connections. I wrote about this in my last book, Wasteland Survival Guide, but at that time I never imagined that I would experience this myself in the future. a feeling of.

That's right, I'm talking about lumbar puncture surgery, which involves puncturing the spine with a puncture needle, extracting cerebrospinal fluid and injecting drugs... I still remember that the lumbar puncture failed several times when I was hospitalized, and then the old man who performed the lumbar puncture on me I said to the director with great helplessness: I could clearly feel that the obstruction (referring to the supraspinal ligament and ligamentum flavum) had been penetrated twice. The position should have been reached, but the cerebrospinal fluid would not come out... Later, the cerebrospinal fluid was penetrated again, and the cerebrospinal fluid was successful. came out, it was probably due to the low intracranial pressure during the first time...]