Alien Relic Hunter

"This injury... was not caused by the autonomous robot," Schroeder said.

"You said nonsense." Ke Lan said coldly, "It seems that something escaped from the underground icehouse of the institute."

Although they had been mentally prepared for this before entering the contaminated area, they only encountered the traces left by these things at the first street intersection, which made Ke Lan feel a little uncomfortable. premonition.

The situation in the polluted area seemed to be more severe than expected - this was only the outermost part of the polluted area. He simply didn't want to think about what the experimental building and underground icehouse in the central area would look like now.

"There is movement!" At this time, Akira Asano suddenly reminded, "In our three o'clock direction, the distance is 81 meters and the height is 45 meters!"

Ke Lan immediately turned off the picture synchronization and looked up in the direction indicated by Asano Akira - he saw a giant mosquito-like crustacean landing on the top of a tall building. This "big mosquito" had three pairs of unfolded lengths The wings were over ten meters long but almost transparent. If it weren't for the slender blood vessels inside the wings that were like veins on leaves, Ke Lan wouldn't even be able to see clearly the outlines of the three pairs of wings.

On its head, there are two huge compound eyes that occupy more than half of the head. The two-meter-long spike-like mouthparts below the compound eyes are not so much "needles" as they are a sharp spear. There are also serrated spines on both sides of the mouthparts.

After seeing the mouthparts of this shape, Ke Lan was almost certain that the body that was cut into two parts should be thanks to this "big mosquito".

The purpose of this thing should be similar to that of mosquitoes on Earth. It is used to pierce the body of prey and suck blood... but for it, the size of "prey" like humans is really too small, even with the spiked mouthparts. It can penetrate the body of the prey. As long as the prey struggles a little, it will penetrate from the other end of the body, or simply cut the entire body into fragmented pieces of meat...

If he had to find a blood-sucking partner with a "matching body shape" for this big mosquito, Ke Lan felt that a big guy like Leviathan would be quite suitable.

Because he was not sure whether the big mosquito was infected by a "meme", Ke Lan did not dare to transmit the real-time picture back to the command center, so he could only describe its characteristics in words.

"This thing should be the 'collection' of the institute, right?" Ke Lan pointed the gun in his hand at the big mosquito on the roof and asked, "What is its weakness?"

"According to your description, what you encountered should be the 'Six-winged Gray Mosquito', an indigenous creature captured from the 'Grey Mud Swamp'. However, according to the information provided by the institute, the adult Six-winged Gray Mosquito has the largest wingspan. It will not exceed half a meter... As for the underground icehouse, there are indeed a batch of six-winged gray mosquito specimens sealed, but the largest one among them is only 35 centimeters long." Schroeder said .

"I understand, it's a mutant." Ke Lan replied, "It seems that the big mosquito either ate something it shouldn't have eaten, or was infected by some weird virus or gene... The question now is, This thing is staring at me and Asano Akira, I feel that as long as we make any move, it will pounce on us immediately."

"The six-winged gray mosquito itself is not very aggressive. It will only hunt when it feels hungry. As long as you don't disturb it, maybe..."

"You also said that this guy will only hunt when he is hungry. You have frozen him in the icehouse for so many years. His digestive system should be cleaner than a pauper's wallet, right?" The hound's voice suddenly intervened. . Schroeder was interrupted - at his strong request, everyone in the God Hunting Group also gained access to the command center.

"No, old dog, I don't think it's a question of whether it's hungry or not." Ke Lan lowered his voice, "There are so many corpses here, and blood is flowing all over the floor, but it has no expression for these things. The desire to eat... Chief Schroeder, this kind of mosquito shouldn't only eat 'fresh food', right?"

"In addition to sucking the blood of prey, the six-winged gray mosquito can also be regarded as a 'scavenger'. In areas where a large number of six-winged gray mosquitoes gather in the gray mud swamp, nine out of ten there will be large indigenous species. Compared with fresh blood, they even prefer to suck corpse fluid after being corrupted by microorganisms, because it is richer in nutrients than blood, and they are immune to most viruses and bacteria produced by corpse decay. "A voice that Ke Lan had never heard before said.

"Who are you?"

"Dr. John Norrison, a member of the countermeasures team and an expert on indigenous biology on Alpha Planet." Lin Qiming introduced.

"The six-winged gray mosquitoes in the underground icehouse were basically captured by my team in the mud swamp." Dr. Norrison continued - judging from the sound of his voice, he should be an old man in his twilight years. .

"Okay, Dr. Norrison, since this is your 'collection', can you tell me what is the weakness of this mosquito?"

"The six-winged gray mosquito has no weaknesses...because its whole body is very fragile. We must be very careful when capturing it to ensure that its body will not be damaged...a small-caliber fully automatic self-defense weapon can kill it. The only time these indigenous creatures can pose a threat to humans is probably when there are more than 10,000 of them at the same time," Dr. Norrison said.

"Okay, then I will try to attack its torso..." Ke Lan set the Gauss assault rifle in his hand to the overload charging mode. In a short period of 1.5 seconds, a row of blue indicators on both sides of the barrel The lights turned on one after another, and the big mosquito parked on the roof of the building was locked by the intelligent fire control system of the power armor.

Ke Lan didn't even need to aim manually, all he had to do was pull the trigger.

"Buzz——"

A buzzer sounded inside the barrel of the gun, and the magnetic warhead that escaped the shackles turned into a stream of blue light and headed straight for the target. Although the mutated six-winged gray mosquito flew up the moment the shot was fired, it was still smaller than the original one. Even with a charged shot at a speed of over four thousand meters per second, its reaction speed was still half a chip too slow.

"Bang!"

After the blue streamer hit the abdomen of the mutated six-winged gray mosquito, Ke Lan heard the popping sound caused by the high-speed flying warhead tearing the air to form a vacuum - however, after he saw the actual hit effect, the old saying couldn't help but Coming out of my head.

"Thunder, little rain."

This powerful shot only left an inconspicuous groove on the six-winged gray mosquito's carapace. The warhead did not penetrate the hard carapace, but slid along the arc of the carapace. , blasting into the elevator machine room on the roof of a nearby building.

On the contrary, two large irregular holes with a diameter of more than two meters were blasted out in the wall of the elevator machine room.

Ke Lan knew the power of the shot just now - although the charging time was only a short period of 1.5 seconds, the voltage was already overloaded to more than fifteen times the rated load within 1.5 seconds. , this charging mode may even cause permanent damage to the coil acceleration array in the barrel, but in exchange it is a "charged blow" that is several times more powerful.

The "charged blow" of this gun was powerful enough to penetrate the frontal armor of all main battle tanks currently in service in Ark, but it was bounced off by the carapace of this mosquito...

"Dr. Norrison, this guy's mutation seems... a bit beyond belief." Ke Lan said, "The charged shot of the Z-79 Gauss assault rifle cannot even penetrate its exoskeleton."

Before anyone from the command center could respond, the flying mutated six-winged gray mosquito had already swooped down towards Ke Lan. Ke Lan quickly turned his Gauss rifle back to rapid-fire mode and aimed at the giant thing that jumped down. Spilled out——

This time, Ke Lan aimed at the three pairs of high-frequency vibrating wings on its back.

In an instant, dozens of light blue streams of light penetrated the wings of the six-winged gray mosquito—compared to the exoskeleton, which was far stronger than tank armor, the wings were not that metamorphosed yet... However, shooting through the wings did not have any impact on the attack of the six-winged gray mosquito. Seeing that the spear-like mouthparts had already pierced the front, the next second, Ke Lan was nailed to death with his armor on. on the ground.

At this critical moment, Ke Lan simply threw away the Gauss assault rifle in his hand. The energy shield generator in his left hand directly output the full power, and with his right hand, he flicked a "high-frequency particle vibration dagger" from It was thrown out of the hidden groove of the arm armor and held upside down in the hand.

The spike-like mouthparts of the Six-winged Gray Mosquito burst into flames the moment it came into contact with the energy shield. By the time it pierced the energy shield, the hardest layer of carapace on the surface had almost been ablated away. , Ke Lan raised the dagger and swung it forward, and immediately cut off most of the mouthpart!

Then, he jumped up directly and hit the six-winged gray mosquito in mid-air with the energy shield. The flames immediately burned along the mouthparts and head of the big mosquito to the torso, along with the transparent The wings were burned black and curled up.

One of the six-winged gray mosquito's jointed limbs was swept hard, and Ke Lan was sent flying directly. However, a second before being thrown out, Ke Lan inserted the vibrating dagger into its huge compound eye with his backhand. middle!

"Bang!!" Ke Lan fell firmly into the pile of corpses, but fortunately the protective measures of this suit of armor were pretty good. Apart from the severe pain all over his body, he didn't even fall to one bone. Break.

On the other hand, the situation of the Six-winged Gray Mosquito is much worse than that of Ke Lan - the vibrating dagger penetrated its compound eyes, almost turning its brain into a ball of paste, and a large amount of dark green mixed with dark red liquid continued The ground spurted out from the wound, and after the liquid came into contact with the flames on its body, it burned more violently. Soon, half of the six-winged gray mosquito's body was wrapped in raging flames.

The six-winged gray mosquito with its brain destroyed was struggling desperately on the ground, its jointed limbs were constantly pulling on the ground, and the corpse nearby was stirred up until it was bloody and bloody. Its fat abdomen was raised high, and a large amount of filth seemed to be escaping. It sprayed out and stuck to the building on the side of the street.

Ke Lan took a closer look and saw that these things that were sprayed out like diarrhea were also mixed with a large number of soybean-sized particles, which looked a bit like a top delicacy called "caviar" in the old era - although Ke Lan had always been I can't understand why people from the old era admire this kind of disgusting-looking "food" so much.

"When death comes, you must try your best to leave offspring. This should be regarded as an instinct of living things..." Ke Lan, who was lying on the ground, glanced at the insect eggs that were all over the wall and shook his head. He took out an incendiary bomb from his backpack, pulled the tab, and threw it hard.

"Asano Akira, get rid of this big mosquito. We have wasted too much time on this guy." Ke Lan said.

Asano Akira nodded, and rushed towards the building where the six-winged gray mosquitoes were originally stationed. The propellers on his back and the universal suction cups on the soles of his boots were activated at the same time. He moved along the path as if performing an acrobatic performance. He ran up the vertical glass wall for tens of meters, then kicked hard, and rolled backwards in the air, falling towards the six-winged gray mosquito dying in the middle of the road——

"bass."

The long knife was unsheathed, and the tip of the knife penetrated directly into the back of the Six-winged Gray Mosquito's head. Akira Asano, who landed on the Six-winged Gray Mosquito's back, just bent his knees slightly to resolve the falling momentum, and held the handle of the knife tightly with both hands. , without pulling out the blade, he just ran towards the tail of the six-winged gray mosquito.

The blade of the Nino alloy sword cut open the body of the six-winged gray mosquito directly along the center line. Although this insect-like indigenous creature does not have a spine, the nerve center hidden under the hard exoskeleton was discovered by Akira Asano. This knife was completely destroyed, and the six-winged gray mosquito that was still struggling suddenly stopped moving, leaving only its jointed limbs drooping on the ground that were still twitching from time to time.

"The sword technique is very precise." Ke Lan, who got up from the ground and gave a thumbs up to Asano Akira, not caring whether Asano Akira could see it, "The nerve center of this insect was destroyed with one knife. Those who play anatomy are quite skilled."

"I don't understand the physical structure of this creature..." Akira Asano shook his head, "I just could feel that something special was flowing and passing there, so I chose those places as targets for attack. "

"What you feel should be the bioelectrical signals transmitted in the nervous system... Can you also see the nervous system in the human body?"

"Yes, but it's very blurry, not as clear as this insect." Asano Akira said.

"Yes, this guy is so big, the voltage is much stronger than that of humans... Hey, wait a minute." Ke Lan suddenly stopped in the middle of speaking, "Stand there first, don't come over... This The big mosquito... seems to be the infected person of the 'meme'!"

At this moment, the "six wings" of the six-winged gray mosquito had been almost completely burned, and at the base of its wings and in the gaps between its carapace... Ke Lan actually saw dozens of densely packed particles of various sizes. One's eyes were squeezed together and kept squirming.