Alien Relic Hunter

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On the edge of the molten mine area, the reconnaissance team support base.

After replacing the "active ammunition", after only two rounds of firing, the "corpse pieces" stopped charging.

The active cells of flesh-eating worms are extremely poisonous to corrosive species, even mutant species. The shot "corpse" squirmed and twitched, and the necrotic parts began to spread from the inside to the outside. In less than two minutes, all the tentacled flesh and blood turned into pus, and then evaporated by the high temperature on the surface. .

"Huh..." The soldier holding the sniper rifle breathed a sigh of relief, moved his eyes away from the scope, raised his head, and looked at the battlefield below.

Except for the fragments of protective suits torn apart by machine guns, the containers of erosion seeds did not leave any traces - their bodies will become extremely fragile after death, let alone in the harsh environment of molten mines. Yes, even in a sterile incubator in a laboratory, the corpse of the Corrosion Seed will decompose on its own within a short period of time.

He remembered that an expert on erosion seeds said that after the "nucleus" of cells in erosion seeds completely dies, the apoptosis program embedded in the genes will be activated.

Most of the creatures currently known to mankind, whether they are creatures on Earth or on Planet Alpha, including humans themselves, even if the brain dies, cells in other tissues of the body can still survive for a period of time. The so-called organ transplantation, tissue culture and other operations are all feasible based on this characteristic... But for the erosion seed, as long as the "nucleus" stops functioning, all the cells of the individual will be destroyed within a few days. Dead within seconds, they are as determined as the soldiers who died for their country in ancient times, and will end their lives without hesitation...

It is for this reason that experiments to study erosion seeds must use living specimens. Accidents of living specimens breaching containment occur almost every year in the institute. Just three months ago, their team completed a " Specimen cleaning tasks”.

The expert also said that the reason why this self-destruction program-like fragment was "written" into the genes of the Corrosion Seeds is that the Alpha civilization did not want this biochemical weapon to cause too much pollution to the natural environment. ...Although this explanation sounded ridiculous to the soldiers, the expert looked very serious when he said this.

The expert also told the soldier something, but the soldier could no longer remember it - he was just a soldier, and all he needed to do was obey orders, pull the trigger, and kill these monsters. As for how these monsters were created , What is the purpose of making it, this has nothing to do with him.

The soldier himself is not very interested in these things, and his talent is not enough to make him a research talent. Instead, because of his excellent shooting performance, he was assigned to the position of sniper by the army - initially in The Guards Corps was later transferred to the elite combat force of the Field Corps. His knowledge of Seeds of Corrosion may not be as good as that of an intern who had just entered the institute, but the Seeds of Corrosion who died under his gun , but there are already as many as nineteen.

If the two corpses just now could be counted as two independent individuals, they would be twenty.

"Don't let your guard down." The officer held up a telescope in his hand. "Our position has been exposed, and the firefight may attract more enemies. Stay alert and be ready to fight at any time."

Just when he finished saying this, a dozen more figures rushed out of the mining area in the northwest direction of the support base.

They were on all fours, running extremely fast, and none of them wore any protective equipment - "They are not humans! They are not containers! They are mature erosion seeds! It seems... they seem to be mutants!"

"It's Type B mutants!" the officer shouted, "Suppress them with drone fire and slow them down! Use 'active ammunition' firearms to focus fire and kill them, and attack those at the front first!"

"Type B mutant?" The soldier quickly picked up the sniper rifle and put the corrosive species rushing at the front into the crosshairs of the scope - this corrosive species was similar to the common corrosive species that was made of meat and Unlike the monsters that mainly have tentacles and whose shape is somewhere between an octopus and an anemone, they still maintain their human form, and the soldiers can even recognize the original appearance of the container.

This is a dark-skinned young man with an ocher-red birthmark on his left cheek. His nose and mouth still retain their original appearance, but two transparent tentacles protruded from the eye sockets. There are more than a dozen eyeballs of different sizes embedded inside. During the process of running at high speed, these eyeballs are constantly rotating to capture the surrounding vision - the largest eyeball even looks through the sniper rifle scope and The soldiers looked at each other briefly.

The soldier felt a sudden numbness on his scalp, and the hairs on his back stood up... He didn't know whether the thing's eyeballs could really lock onto a target several hundred meters while moving at high speed, or whether it was just a coincidence. , only then did their eyes hit each other.

These Type B mutants are almost perfectly integrated with the container. While inheriting the advantages of the human body, they have also significantly modified it, turning it into a more offensive "weapon."

The length of their hind limbs has been shortened by nearly half, but the length of the metatarsals has increased several times, forming a structure similar to a recurved joint (Note 1). This structure is characterized by extremely strong explosive force - said It is running, but in fact it is more like jumping. Every time its powerful hind limbs kick the ground, the body can fly forward nearly ten meters.

[P.S. Note 1: Regarding the recurvature joint: I used to think that the bending direction of the knee joint of the horse's hind limbs is opposite to that of humans. However, after seeing the skeletal structure diagram of the horse, you will find that the knee joint of the horse is actually very close to the hip. The length of its metatarsal bones is about the same as that of the femur and calf bones, so many people think that the horse's "reversely bent knee joints" are actually its ankles.

Humans can also simulate this posture - just stand on tiptoes, but our ankles are too low, so it doesn't look very obvious, and the advantage when exerting force is not as good as that of horses.

But even so, when running short distances, the rear soles of the athletes will not touch the ground. Only the front soles and even the toes will touch the ground. This is very similar to when a horse is running. 】

[P.S. Thanks for the 1,500 starting coins from the helper who couldn’t survive for 3 minutes; thanks to 2119233 for the 500 starting coins. By the way, if you want a supporting role, brother, you must at least leave a name...]