Alien Relic Hunter

"These vines... are they attacks from the Crown of Ashes? Isn't this too fragile?" Without the suppression of gravity, Ke Lan's speed of wielding the armor-piercing sword suddenly became smoother, cutting through the mess like a sharp knife. The vines emerging from the ground were cut into dozens of sections.

If the physical strength of the Crown of Ashes were the same as those of these vines, Ke Lan felt that he wouldn't even need to support the fleet's bombardment to clear the way. The heavy armor-piercing sword in his hand could dig a hole in the Crown of Ashes' body.

"No." The trial program still maintained the tone without any emotion. "This is an ancient plant 'Lava Vine' that is parasitic on the root system of the Crown of Ashes. They will attack all those who are close to the Crown of Ashes. Foreign creatures, the closer they are to the Crown of Ashes, the higher the density of the lava vines.”

"What about the change in gravity? Can this parasite control gravity?" Ke Lan asked.

"It's not the lava vines that control gravity, but the Crown of Ashes that controls gravity that drives the lava vines," the trial program corrected.

As he spoke, dozens of vines burst out of the ground and headed towards Ke Lan. Ke Lan simply ignored these things and only crushed the vines blocking the way forward before taking steps towards it. Run forward...

However, before he ran a few steps, the surrounding scene suddenly disappeared, and his vision suddenly fell into darkness.

"What's going on?" Ke Lan wanted to control the mecha to move forward... But he suddenly discovered that it was his own hand that was raised... The connection between him and the "blasphemer mecha" was now gone was disconnected.

He reached out and touched his back. The tiny tentacles that pierced the spinal cord had retracted into the fleshy seat. The egg white liquid filling the cockpit was also rapidly decreasing. Soon, Ke Lan felt a wave of pain. A feeling of suffocation.

After he vigorously blew away the remaining liquid in his nose and respiratory tract, his breathing finally returned to normal - unlike LCL liquid, although this thing can supply oxygen, it cannot dissolve the oxygen in the air. If it is different from the supply device in the mecha, If it is disconnected, the remaining liquid remaining in the human body can even suffocate the person to death.

"What happened? Hello?" Ke Lan kicked the inside of the cockpit door, but the entire "blasphemer" mecha did not move at all, as if the power was suddenly cut off.

Ke Lan took out a lighting rod from his bag and lit it, and immediately he could see all the details in the cockpit - instead of saying that this was the cockpit of a mecha, Ke Lan felt like he was in a mecha. In the stomach of a giant monster.

Although he had already glanced at the entire cockpit when he boarded the plane, it was a completely different feeling when he was really "locked" inside.

Except for the rusty metal material at the hatch, everything else is covered with a layer of dark red flesh film, and cyst-like glands grow on the surface of the flesh film - those egg white-like buffer liquids. It is secreted from these glands.

"Besides linking consciousness, is there no other way to control this mecha?" Ke Lan searched the cockpit, but after searching for a long time, he still found nothing.

The development path of the Alpha civilization's mechas is obviously completely different from that of the people on Earth. The mechas of human civilization are purely mechanical structures: with a micro-reactor or energy crystal converter as the power core, a computer composed of precision circuits as the control center, and a product made of a variety of metals and polymers... while the machines of the Alpha civilization A, the obvious thing is that the technology tree is more on the biochemical technology side.

Although judging from paper data, the technological level of Alpha civilization is indeed many years ahead of human civilization, but compared with mechanical structures, the products of biochemical technology have a fatal flaw.

Organisms do not possess the so-called "standardity".

When a machine fails, as long as the cause of the failure is understood, a qualified mechanic can easily repair it - whether it is an electrical or mechanical problem, one is one, two is two, the standards on the drawings Can be applied to every device...

But organisms are different. For the same disease, some people can use targeted drugs, while others cannot... Even if it is a cloned organism with an identical genetic sequence, there is still the possibility of mutation.

This is the difference between dead things and living things.

No one knows whether, after so many years, this "blasphemer" mecha is still exactly the same as when it came out of the factory.

"This crappy thing...could it be that it was in disrepair and broke down?" Ke Lan muttered, "This...isn't this really bad luck?"

Apart from anything else, if the malfunction was a "Tarantula" mecha, Ke Lan had at least six ways to escape: pull down the manual escape valve above his head, or simply take out the tool box under the seat and remove it. Remove the safety screws that fix the hatch, or use a one-way blasting patch to blow out the safety bolt...

But this thing doesn't work... Ke Lan can't even find the gap in the cockpit door, let alone use violent means to remove the door.

Just as he was thinking hard about how to escape, the mecha suddenly trembled slightly, and then the head-up display lighted up again.

"An emergency situation has been detected, and the trial process has been suspended." The voice from before said in Ke Lan's mind.

emergency? What emergency?

"Experimental Subject No. 1197 broke through the containment device, and the threat level is being assessed..."

When Ke Lan wanted to ask what Experimental Subject No. 1197 was, several powerful tentacles suddenly grew out of the driver's seat and pulled him back. Then, Ke Lan A "consciousness link" that has already been experienced once.

But Ke Lan knew that this time, what he had to face... was not a virtual enemy.

He once again gained the sight of the Blasphemer Mecha - just as he expected now, he was still standing in the center of the square, with the remains of those explorers from more than forty years ago scattered at his feet.

"What are you going to ask me to do? Take that experimental subject back?" Ke Lan tried to move his hands and feet and asked the trial program.

However, there was no reply from the trial program this time. Ke Lan only heard the sound of wind that seemed to be coming from a very far away place, and among the sound of wind, there was a strange and low breathing sound...

"Hello? Hello?" Ke Lan continued to shout, but the trial program was completely silent, and there was no more sound.

"Could it be..." Ke Lan suddenly thought of something very bad: Could it be that the No. 1197 Experimental Subject that broke through the containment device had invaded the core control center of the ruins?

If that thing has no sense and can only wreak havoc, then the situation is not too bad... But if it has wisdom and knows how to seize control of this ruins... then the problem will be big.

Not only Ke Lan, but also Layton and Asano Akira in the funnel cave, as well as the hounds and others by the underground lake, will be turned into fish and meat at will in an instant... Ke Lan has no doubt that the people in this ruins The agency can easily kill everyone.

Perhaps, he should find a way to stop this "Experimental Subject No. 1197" who escaped.

The trial system left by the Alpha man gave him the control authority of the "blasphemer mecha" before going "offline", and he obviously placed his hope on himself...

only……

"This mecha...has no weapons?!"

Be it heavy armor-piercing swords or plasma-charged cannons... these weapons and equipment, like the Crown of Ashes, are all virtualized by the trial program. In reality, except for a pair of fists, the weapon list of this Blasphemer mecha is completely empty!

Are you asking yourself to fight hand-to-hand with "Experimental Subject No. 1197"?

In the "Mecha Competition" of Ark's upper class society, there is indeed such an event as "unarmed combat", and the fierce collision of fists and iron is indeed enough to stimulate the audience's adrenaline to the greatest extent, but the problem is...unarmed combat The fighting opponents are basically all mechas of the same specifications - according to the requirements of the competition committee, the body weight, power furnace power, and frame model of both sides must be exactly the same. The only detail that the players can adjust is the armor material. And some icing on the cake accessories... After all, it is a fighting match. If the gap between the two sides is too big, then the match will be unspectacular.

But what Ke Lan has to face is not a fair and just fighting match... He doesn't even know what "Experimental Subject No. 1197" is... But if he can break through the containment device of Alpha Civilization, he must not have the same strength. How weak.

At this time, the fluorescence between the hexagonal floors in the square turned into a dazzling bright red, and flashed at an increasingly faster frequency, giving people the feeling that it was about to explode...

"boom!!"

Just when Ke Lan was thinking this, several floors dozens of meters away actually exploded, revealing a diagonally downward passage.

"Does this mean you want me to leave from here?" Ke Lan turned his head and glanced at the passage he came in - with the size of the Blasphemer's mecha, it was obviously impossible to get out from there, and after obtaining the machine After A took control, he also tried to open the cockpit, but the mecha did not respond.

Although he was able to control the mecha, he was still locked within the body of this metal colossus.

"It's like an online game with a lot of freedom. You can do anything in it, even make love with a pretty girl...but there is no fucking logout button." Ke Lan couldn't help but complain. One sentence.

Although the trial program gave Ke Lan the authority to use the Blasphemer Mecha, Ke Lan could only continue the "game" according to the opponent's will.

Ke Lan walked around the hall. After confirming that there were really no weapons for the mecha to use, he had no choice but to bite the bullet and get into the downward passage.

The passage wall of this passage is the same as the floor of the hall. It is also made of hexagonal metal plates. The dazzling red light is also constantly flashing in the passage, just like the constant flashes in a battleship about to crash. Like a flashing warning light.

Not long after walking into the passage, Ke Lan discovered that a series of alpha words appeared on the head-up display in the cockpit: approaching the core control center...trying to connect with the core control center...

Connection failed, ready for second attempt...

Connection failed, getting ready for the third try...

…

After the sixth failure, the Blasphemer mecha finally gave up the connection and turned to Ke Lan to tell him: all the external connection ports of the core control center have been closed. It is initially determined that the core control center has been invaded and automatic protection has been triggered. mechanism.

The core control center will be completely locked after 1,200 seconds. If you need to release the lock countdown, you need to enter the core control center to eliminate intrusion factors.

"Locked?" This word immediately touched Ke Lan's sensitive nerves. If the core control center was locked, wouldn't he be unable to get out of this mecha?

Even if I can escape from this ruins with the hounds and the others in the end, and return to the Ark like this, I am afraid that I will be sent to the research institute in a matter of minutes, both human and shell...

"Turn left ahead, 200 meters away from the core control center." At this time, the heads-up display has completely turned into a navigation device. However, in this passage without forks, the role of this navigation device is indeed somewhat redundant. .

Ke Lan moved on.

…

"100 meters away from the core control center."

From this distance, Ke Lan could vaguely see a giant circular door more than thirty meters high at the end of the passage, but his attention was completely attracted by another thing on one side...

In the passage on the right, a large irregular hole was torn out of the hexagonal alloy plate. Looking along the large hole, Ke Lan saw a smooth tunnel that extended towards the black ice. of depth.

Only now did he realize that the area directly beneath the underground square was not a rock formation, but a huge block of black ice. This passage and the core control center in front were both buried deep in this black ice.

"The 'containment device' mentioned in the trial program...could it be this piece of black ice?"

Ke Lan stretched out one arm of the Blasphemer mecha, put his fingers together into a knife shape, and stabbed hard at the black ice near the hole——

"Ding!"

A sound like the clash of gold and iron came, and the tip of the finger of the Blasphemer's mecha only penetrated half a centimeter into the ice, making it difficult to take another half step forward.

The hardness of this piece of ice is much harder than the walls of the bottomless sinkhole and the ice channel in the A-087 ruins!

And the guy called "Experimental Subject No. 1197" actually dug such an exaggerated tunnel inside. Ke Lan could even use his heels to imagine how terrifying the power of this thing was...

Are you afraid that this trial procedure is setting yourself up for death?

[P.S. My health has been really bad recently. I wanted to take leave several times, but I gritted my teeth and persevered. I don’t know if it’s due to the heavy rainy weather or something else... I’m going to have blood drawn for nucleic acid testing next Monday, but the bone puncture relapsed on Thursday. ...I hope I won’t relapse. I really want to finish writing this book. 】