Alien Relic Hunter

"What the heck is this!" Layton yelled a little depressed, "There are only four people in total, and they can actually create a situation where the troops are divided into three groups... The same goes for Asano Akira, he can't even see him, he goes after him What a hammer!"

"If the radiation mutants in the 'Sick Village' are limited to the level we encountered, no one should be able to stop Asano Akira... Now I am more worried about Ke Lan. He doesn't have any equipment on him, and he My own ability is not a combat-type skill. If I encounter a strong enemy, it may be dangerous." Ivan said with some worry.

As he said, Ke Lan's skills cannot actually be regarded as serious combat skills. Let's not talk about Alpha language. Although Shi Stop is a bug-level skill that can subvert the rules of physics, this ability is also biased towards auxiliary. Nature - if the strength gap between the two sides is too big, even if they can see through all the opponent's attacks and predict all the opponent's actions, it will not be helpful to the battle situation.

This is like equipping an ace pilot with an antique mecha from the old era. No matter how quick the ace pilot's reaction is, the slow-moving old machine can't keep up with his operation. As for the firepower and armor, Not to mention that the opponent's body will be scratched when hit, and will be instantly killed if the opponent touches it. When the hardware gap reaches this level, any operation will be just a cloud.

"What should we do now?" Layton asked anxiously.

"...Find someone to ask, at least we have to figure out what happened here." Ivan said.

"Gan, I was so anxious that I forgot about this." Leighton patted his forehead hard, "There are several people here who were brought here with Ke Lan and the others. They are not like that group of people. The nagging locals are just as full of nonsense."

With that said, Layton flew directly in front of a sick miner who had arrived at the space station with them. He reached out and pulled out the guy who was about to retract into his bunk.

"You just stuck your head out to watch the fun, why are you so timid now?" Leighton looked at the sick miner. He was a young man who looked to be only fifteen or sixteen years old. The ill-fitting faux leather jacket exposed above the collar was covered with traces of healed skin ulcers, extending all the way to the chin. There were also two table-pong ball-sized tumors above the collarbone on the right side, near the neck.

Looking up, you can see a head of messy and sticky hair, and dirty, bloodless cheeks and lips.

"It's lymphoma caused by radiation... It may be in the middle and late stages." Ivan whispered to Layton, then turned to look at the boy, "Don't be nervous, we just want to ask you a few questions, if you want If you answer, we can give you a can and some painkillers."

The boy stopped struggling, but he didn't speak. His eyes shifted from Layton to Ivan uneasily, and then moved back to Layton's hand holding his arm.

"Leyton, let him go first."

"Let him go and he'll run away."

"Are you still afraid that a sick child can slip away from under your nose?" Ivan said speechlessly, and then he changed to a more friendly tone and said to the young man: "We just want to ask some things. I won’t hurt you, let me go now and don’t run away, okay?”

The young man hesitated for a moment and nodded.

Layton let go of his hand, and the young man's body subconsciously shrank back, but in the end he did not turn around and run away.

"You...what do you want to ask?"

"What just happened here, was it that a miner who was sent here with you was taken away by the locals?"

"Just now..." There was a hint of flinching in the young man's eyes, "Just now a man wearing armor came... this kind of armor... very similar to what you are wearing."

"People wearing armor? Armor similar to ours?" Layton was immediately stunned, "Does this group of people also have powered armor? Why didn't they use it just now?"

"Don't interrupt yet." Ivan patted Layton on the shoulder and said to the boy, "Continue talking."

"The man in armor, he picked a few people and let them... let them fight each other." The young man continued, "There was a man, he was very powerful... He killed three people, and then he was killed by the man in armor. People took it away.”

"He was the only one taken away?" Ivan asked.

"Well... the other chosen people are all dead, but they dragged the bodies away." The boy replied.

"Indeed, there are still undried blood stains on the ground." Leighton nodded to Ivan.

"It seems that the person who was taken away was Ke Lan." Ivan said to himself, "By the way, have you noticed another person? That is also the miner who came here on the same boat as you. He is a Blind man, holding a guide stick in his hand, have you seen this person?"

"Blind man? Never... never noticed..." The young man shook his head.

"Then which direction did the man in armor go?"

"That...over there." The young man pointed in a direction, but Ivan knew that after walking thirty meters in this direction, after turning the first corner, there were three forked roads, and further back, there were forked roads and various paths, The more branches there are, the more it becomes impossible to determine which path the "man in armor" chose.

Ivan knew that he couldn't get anything out of him if he asked again, so he took out a can and a painkiller needle and gave them to the young man. After getting the things, the latter was stunned for half a second, although he hurriedly said "Thank you" ,Thank you", as if he was afraid that Ivan and the others would take the things back again.

"Old Yi, asking is the same as not asking. The clues are completely lost here." Layton said depressedly, "Is it possible that the two of us are required to conduct a comprehensive search of this space station?"

"I think...Ke Lan may be fine now."

"Why?"

"Do you still remember what the old man said before? He said that the broadcast was an 'oracle', symbolizing that the locals wanted to select warriors and sacrifices for the 'god' they believed in... combined with the information we obtained from this boy's mouth , I infer that this fight is most likely the selection ceremony. The people who are killed are the 'sacrifice', and the ones who survive are the selected 'warriors'."

"Damn, you mean they chose Ke Lan to be a soldier?"

"It should be..." Before Ivan could finish his words, he was interrupted by a dull growl. The two of them immediately took out their weapons and looked in the direction of the sound.

"Dong, dong, dong dong..." Heavy footsteps sounded, then became faster and faster, and were quickly approaching the two people's position.

"what?"

"I don't know...but judging from the voice, it should be a big guy!"

As soon as the words fell, a giant beast with a body length of at least six meters had already crashed out from behind the scaffolding on the right side of the two people. The scaffolding made of steel pipes was directly knocked down by it. Those who were huddled in the gaps of the scaffolding Many people were thrown out and landed heavily on the ground and the scaffolding on the other side.

These people were relatively lucky. As for those who were unlucky, they were simply buried in the collapsed scaffolding. The broken and deformed steel pipes and frames pressed on them and stuck their limbs. The more they tried to break free, the more they suffered. the more serious the injury.

As for the most unlucky people who were directly hit by the giant beast, they were like tomatoes hit by a high-speed car, which exploded into a large mass of red objects that looked like paste.

"Why are there still such monsters on the space station? Have the transport ships responsible for delivering goods never discovered it?" Layton exclaimed, directly hung the Gauss rifle back to his waist, and then took out a More powerful repeating howitzers are coming.

The main body of this monster is a human torso that is on all fours and has been enlarged more than three times. However, there is no head on this torso. Instead, there is a sarcoma that has shrunk to the size of a fist and is covered with ravine-like lines on its surface. The deep black purple-red color on it looked like a large walnut under the dim light.

On the back of this monster, there is a large cluster of flesh-colored tentacles, each of which is as thick as a human thigh. One side of the tentacle is covered with dense suckers, and the other side is covered with bulging thick blood vessels. With the pulsation of these blood vessels, dark purple blood continuously flows to the end of the tentacle, and then returns to the monster from another blood vessel. in the ontology.

But except for the tumor on the neck and a bunch of tentacles on the back, the rest of the monster was completely wrapped in iron-gray scales. Layton noticed that when the scaffolding collapsed just now, there were several The broken steel pipe scratched across these scales, but not even a trace of white marks was left.

At this time, the monster put its front half close to the ground, as if it was looking at Layton and Ivan - although this thing did not have an organ like "eyes" on its body, Layton and Ivan Everyone has a feeling of being "stared".

The tentacles on the monster's back swayed slightly, and the sound it made was a "hissing" sound like a snake spitting messages. Just this sound alone made people feel a chill creeping up their spines.

"Have you seen this kind of monster?" Layton couldn't help but ask Ivan.

"Of course not..." Ivan shook his head slightly, for fear of disturbing the monster that was "looking at" them, "Especially the scales on it, compared with all known scaled earth creatures and Alpha Among the planetary creatures, no one is worthy of the number."

"But this tentacle gives me a familiar feeling." Layton continued, "Could this thing be a seed of erosion? Anyway, there is a saying that this thing has a mutant species, and it can grow into anything weird. Not surprising."

"As for the Seed of Corrosion..." Ivan stared at the monster dozens of meters away, carefully reached behind his back, and took out a black crossbow.

This is the "Specialized Killing Crossbow for Corrosion Seeds MK II" jointly developed by the Security Bureau and the Equipment Department of the Research Institute. It is an improved version of the crossbow used by the Security Bureau agents in the East 9th District - a crossbow that looks like a small harpoon. The arrow is divided into three sections. The tip is a barbed arrow forged from Nino alloy. The middle section is filled with directional high explosives and a ring of prefabricated fragments. The arrow shaft at the end is embedded with a trigger-type syringe. Inside the syringe Containing a trace of living cells from flesh-eating worms.

Compared with the "MKⅠ type", the new killing crossbow does not need to be used with an injection gun. The directional explosive in the middle of the arrow shaft can expand the wound at the arrow without damaging the arrow shaft itself, and the prefabricated fragments can also be chipped. A large amount of flesh and blood is removed, and at 0.5 seconds after the explosion, the trigger syringe will be fired directly to inject the active cells of the flesh-eating worm into the target body.

Of course, "MK II" also has a flaw, that is, it must aim at the location of the "nucleus" to shoot. Otherwise, it will be difficult to kill an erosive species in the rapid transformation stage or mature stage with just such a few active cells. .

"Don't use the killing crossbow yet." Lei Du saw that Ivan had already loaded a crossbow bolt into the chamber, and quickly stopped him, "Even if this thing is really a mutant of the Corrosion Seed, its 'core' It must be hidden deep inside the body, so don’t waste ammunition yet.”

"Then what are you going to do?"

"Try melee combat first." Layton removed the largest metal box he was carrying on his back and took out a chain sword with a total length of two meters - this chain sword was made by himself. The entire chain saw is three point four meters long and is driven by a crystal engine.

There are a total of 48 teeth on this chain saw, 40 of which are made of pure Nino alloy, and the other eight teeth are memory alloy infiltrated with stalagmite fragments - one for every five ordinary teeth. Such special serrations make this chain sword, which can be regarded as a powerful weapon, also possess the fatal power against erosion seeds.

"Lao Yi, please help me hold the battle and let me meet this monster." Layton said, immediately starting the engine of the chain sword and making the forty-eight saw teeth rotate.

I don’t know whether it was the dull sound of the engine or the high-speed rotating saw teeth that stimulated the monster. It kicked off its hind legs and rushed directly towards Layton!

But Layton moved one step faster. Several jets of compressed air suddenly spurted out from the backpack behind him, pushing him into the air and avoiding the monster's attack. Then, the propeller on the backpack shot two light blue tail flames upwards, allowing Layton to complete the change of direction directly in the air, and hit the monster below with his chain sword.

"Poof!" The half-ton chain sword drew an arc of nearly 270 degrees in the air, neatly cutting off the two tentacles on the monster's back. After completing this attack, Layton Using the propeller again, he changed the direction and was instantly more than ten meters away from the monster.

"Tsk... I seem to have guessed wrong. This thing is not a seed of erosion..." Leiton looked at the two severed tentacles. Dark purple blood was gushing out crazily from the section, and the two broken tentacles , was beating crazily on the ground.

It stands to reason that the parts of the erosion seeds that are injured by stalagmites or stone cones will quickly turn black and look like they have been roasted by fire, and then wither and become necrotic. But at this time, the monster's wound only looked like it had been injured by a sharp weapon, and there was nothing unusual about it.

From this point of view, this monster has nothing to do with the Seed of Corrosion.

"In this case, there is no need to risk close combat." Layton put down the chain sword and took out the howitzer again.

But at this moment, the scales on the monster's body opened angrily - underneath these scales, there were pimple-like glands. Before Layton and Ivan could react, they came up. Hundreds of strands of light yellow liquid had already shot out from the glands and stuck to their bodies.

These light yellow liquids solidified as soon as they came into contact with the air, just like spider threads. The two felt a huge force coming from these "threads", and they were instantly dragged to the monster.

"Fuck, what are these things?!" Layton shouted anxiously and angrily, pulling out his dagger and trying to cut off the threads, but when the blade of the dagger touched the threads, it was stuck to it. No matter how hard I pull it, I can’t pull it off!

[P.S. It’s a big chapter of 4500 words. Can I add a quarter chapter? I still owe 1,500 words, I apply for repayment in installments——]