Alien Relic Hunter

Could it be that the third civilization that built this tunnel and the ancient battleship "Yagunaktor" was the culprit that caused the disappearance of the Alpha civilization?

But the existence of the molten mine area proves one thing: from the time line, the node of the existence of this third civilization is earlier than the Alpha civilization. The period of the existence of the third civilization is like the earth being ruled by dinosaurs. In the Mesozoic Era, by the time humans were born, these ancient creatures had already been completely extinct.

However, one difference is that the technological level of the Third Civilization is far higher than that of the Alpha Civilization, so the time difference between the existence of the two is probably far more than a few hundred million years.

Ke Lan estimated that the civilization level of this third civilization must have entered the sequence of third-level civilization...

In addition to being destroyed by a higher-level civilization, it is difficult for a third-level civilization to die on its own. Dinosaurs can only face extinction when faced with a series of disasters such as meteorite impacts and climate change, but humans can escape from the earth and destroy their species. continues to this day.

Perhaps this third civilization still exists in a certain corner of the universe, but it was just that they gave up Alpha Star due to natural disasters, resources, or population, and instead opened up territories in the vast starry sky?

Then one day, they suddenly wanted to return to their former home planet on a whim, but they discovered this group of Alpha people occupying the magpie's nest, and then wiped out the Alpha civilization in a rage?

But if this is the case, why are there so many intact remains of Alpha civilization left on this planet?

Moreover, apart from "Yagunaktor" and this tunnel, there is nothing more related to the third civilization on Alpha Planet... The term "mother planet" may not be accurate.

Ke Lan thought of another possibility: the third civilization's fleet discovered this planet while exploring the unknown star field, and then "erased" the Alpha civilization... As for this battleship, both sides During the battle, he was shot down by Alpha Civilization by chance and fell into the magma lake...

That’s not right either!

The molten mine area was obviously built for "Yagunaktor", which means that the Alpha civilization has at least "mined" Nino alloy on this ancient battleship for decades. With the gap between the two civilizations It seems that the war cannot last for such a long time...

The only explanation is that this battleship is actually just a long-distance reconnaissance ship with a low level of weapons configuration. After being defeated by the Alpha civilization, it took the army of the third civilization several decades to cross the distant time and space. , came over and destroyed the Alpha civilization?

However, if the third civilization won the war, why didn't it develop Alpha Planet into its own colony?

Could it be that he doesn’t like this planet?

Although Planet Alpha is much poorer than the Earth once was, as a planet suitable for the survival of carbon-based organisms, it is already considered to be one of the few in the universe. The Ark drifted for nine hundred years before finding such a planet... It is difficult to find such a planet... Could it be that this third civilization is not a carbon-based civilization?

There is another doubt - if a war breaks out between the Third Civilization and the Alpha Civilization, wouldn't the "great god" believed in by the Alpha Civilization intervene?

Would he...or they, watch helplessly as his loyal followers were destroyed?

At one time, Ke Lan thought that the "Great God" was just a fictitious idol, just like the God and Buddha that humans once believed in. However, after experiencing the "Holy Word", his attitude changed one hundred and eighty times. A degree of change - the "great god" believed in by the Alpha civilization is real, and he has the power to subvert the human worldview... This power, from a human perspective, is almost equivalent to a "miracle" .

What makes Ke Lan most uneasy is that when His followers pray to Him, He will respond...

In other words, this great god is very likely to be watching everything that happens on this planet.

This can't help but make Ke Lan feel creepy...

"That monster...it's stopped!" An agent shouted, and La Coran's thoughts were brought back to reality. He turned his head and saw that "Park Sangwoo" had stopped, and the front ends of its tentacles were like calyxes. It cracked open, revealing the small and dense fangs inside.

"Is this its mouth?" The hound frowned and said, "It's really disgusting. I don't want to be bitten by this thing."

Everyone stopped and stared at the monster warily. One agent tried to fire two shots. One bullet passed through the tentacles, and the hole formed was filled with mucus almost in the blink of an eye. Then it disappeared, and the other one disappeared. One bullet hit the teeth inside the "mouth", making a crisp sound like metal collision.

But these two shots made the tentacles on the monster tremble violently, especially the cracked flesh flap at the front end of the tentacles, which trembled at an alarming frequency.

Combined with what the hound said before, one can't help but feel that it was screaming.

But no one heard any sound.

"Could this be...an infrasonic attack?" One of Aya's agents suddenly said this.

"But my equipment did not detect infrasound waves..." Before Layton could finish his words, the agent suddenly changed his expression and walked straight towards the monster.

"Nicholas! What are you doing?!" Aya Breya shouted immediately.

The agent named Nicholas didn't pay attention to Aya's words. He didn't even look back and stopped when he was only ten meters away from the monster.

"Danger! Nikolai! Stay away from this monster! Come back to me quickly!"

Nikolay turned a deaf ear to Aya's order. He stood in front of the monster, motionless as if looking into the monster's non-existent eyes.

"You guys cover for me, I'll pull him back!" After Aya finished speaking, she was about to rush out, but her wrist was grabbed tightly by Ke Lan.

"Don't go! Otherwise you will become like him!" Ke Lan shouted sternly, with a solemn look in his eyes.

"You know what happened to him, right?" Aya asked anxiously, "Is this a spiritual attack? Nicholas was seduced...or, in other words, controlled?"

"Almost..." Ke Lan nodded.

"Is there any way to save him?" Aya continued to ask, speaking quickly, "How do you ruin hunters deal with this kind of situation? I can't just watch him be--"

Before she finished speaking, she was interrupted by Ke Lan.

"It's too late." Ke Lan shook his head at Aya.

Nikolai's body was seen trembling along with the monster. He slowly turned around and raised the visor of his helmet.

His expression looked extremely dull, and dark red blood slowly overflowed from his nostrils and corners of his eyes.

There seemed to be something squirming in his throat, and these things began to rise up, and then he spat it out with a "wow"——

What he spit out was not the food residue covered in digestive juices, but a large group of tentacles that kept moving... These tentacles rolled back to cover his face. Faintly, Ke Lan seemed to hear the bones being crushed. the sound of.

"That thing! How did that thing get into his body?" Layton exclaimed, "There is obviously no direct contact between him and that monster!"

With a "plop", Nikolai's body fell face down to the ground. From his body, a ball of tentacles several meters long came out. The surface of this ball of tentacles was covered with mucus, dirty blood and undigested food. Complete fragments of internal organs staggered and struggled towards Ke Lan and the others.

"Is this... the monster's larvae?" Ivan stared closely at the "newborn" tentacles and murmured, "When was the larval embryo implanted into the agent's body? Before the sacrifice ceremony. Or after the sacrificial ceremony? The method and method of implantation cannot be ascertained..."

"Don't think about it yet, this thing is crawling over!" Layton shouted while shooting at the tentacle group - however, this little guy is the same as the mother body, and the bullets can't cause effective damage to it, even if it is hit by Even if the machine gun breaks it into a sieve, it will heal as before in just one second.

"Damn it, I don't believe I can't kill you!" The hound angrily took out a large defensive grenade, pulled it open and counted for a few seconds, then threw it towards the tentacles.

"What the old dog threw is the 'HF25' type grenade. The killing radius of this thing is forty meters! Try not to use power armor to resist! Find a bunker!" Layton shouted, and at the same time opened the energy shield, knocking Ke Lan and the others protected him behind him.

Valentina also controlled the machine and jumped in front of everyone, preparing to block the shock wave and fragments.

However, before the grenade thrown by the hound hit the ground, several tentacles shot out quickly captured it in mid-air. Just when everyone was worried that the monster would throw the grenade back, those tentacles were about to explode. The grenade was tightly wrapped, and the tentacles were stuck to each other, forming a sealed space——

"boom!!!"

A muffled sound came from inside the confined space. The tentacles that were stuck together suddenly expanded to more than ten meters wide like balloons filled with high-pressure gas. Through the mucous membrane that had become thinner due to stretching, Ke Lan could even see See the fire caused by the explosion billowing inside the "balloon"...

However, the balloon did not burst. Instead, after a few seconds, it gradually deflated until it returned to its normal size. Then, the tentacles that were stuck together separated into a pile of irregular metal fragments. It fell to the ground.

An explosion with astonishing power was so easily defused, the hound was so shocked that his eyes almost fell out.

"This...is this even fucking okay?" he murmured, "I have thought of many ways for this monster, but I never thought it could resist grenades in this way...I first saw it swallowing grenades. 'After that, I thought it was dead..."

"It seems to be able to control the strength of body tissues at will." Ivan said, "When we shoot with firearms, bullets can easily penetrate its tentacles, but this grenade that exploded in its 'body', whether it is a shock wave or a metal The fragments were unable to break through the extremely thin layer of flesh membrane... This characteristic reminded me of a creature we once encountered..."

"You mean those 'sea anemone heads' inside Leviathan?" Ke Lan said.

Ivan nodded.

"There was no obvious weakness in that thing. The only head that was killed was by Akira Asano who relied on hard power to kill him head-on." Ke Lan said, "But before I figure out the cause of the agent's death, I can't let him rashly kill him." Let Asano Akira rush forward and engage in close combat with the monster."

"No, Ke Lan, you may have missed one thing. Those sea anemone heads have a weakness." Ivan said calmly, "This weakness was the first one you discovered - they are afraid of acid. When we and Chong were After the anemone head at the front enters close combat, the anemone head at the rear will no longer spit acid."

"Acid... Indeed, this method has not been tried yet." Ke Lan turned to look at Layton, "Is there any acidic corrosive liquid that can be used as a weapon? Or a strong alkaline one will work."

"There are only a small amount of concentrated hydrochloric acid and concentrated sulfuric acid, but even if they are used to synthesize aqua regia, the corrosiveness is not as corrosive as the acid secreted by the anemone heads." Leighton replied.

"At least give it a try!"

Ke Lan's eyes kept wandering around the monster's mother body and the group of tentacles. Just as Leiton was busy preparing the aqua regia, he suddenly discovered that there was a tumor-like protrusion at the tail of the group of tentacles. The outside of this thing was covered with a layer of translucent mucous membrane, and inside was a black object the size of a fist, beating continuously like a heart.

Is this the heart of this monster? Or... "nuclear"?

Ke Lan couldn't help but turn his attention to the monster mother body that Park Sangwoo turned into, trying to find a similar structure in it - but soon, he discovered a problem.

The mother body did not abandon the rescue capsule, but carried the "hard shell" behind it like a conch...

The position of the rescue capsule just covers the knob-like bulge behind it!

If it weren't for this larvae without a "shell", Ke Lan wouldn't have been able to discover that the monster had hidden this abnormal part of its body in the rescue cabin.

That's its weakness!

"Valentina! Can you see the knob-like bump at the end of the tentacle?"

"You can see... it keeps moving, and the part you mentioned is occasionally exposed." Valentina replied, "Do you want me to shoot here?"

"Yes, use an electromagnetic sniper cannon - try not to let the shells pass through its body. If this is its weakness, it will definitely try its best to block the bullets fired here." Ke Lan said.

"Okay, I understand." Valentina pulled down the scope and began to adjust the angle of the muzzle.

At this time, Leiton finally prepared the aqua regia and smashed the bottle containing the aqua regia towards the tentacle ball.

This time, the tentacle did not reach towards the glass bottle, but dodged to one side. However, it was this evasive action that directly exposed the knob-like protrusion on its tail to Valkyrie's muzzle. .

Valentina pulled the trigger without hesitation.