Alien Relic Hunter

Fortunately, there was no obvious change in the size or appearance of this crazy beast of burden. It seemed that his mind was just affected.

Before Ke Lan could raise the muzzle of his gun, Akira Asano had already drawn his sword and charged forward.

Although the size of the violent beast of burden in front of him has not changed, beasts of burden are originally large mammals. Generally, adult beasts of burden can exceed five meters in height, and the one in front of him is estimated to be close to seven meters.

As for the length of the body, it is more than ten meters - judging from the visual effects and size comparison alone, the pressure this guy brings to people is even greater than that of the mutated six-winged gray mosquito.

Seeing Asano Akira rushing toward him, the beast of burden instantly locked him as its target, lowered its head, and suddenly accelerated and crashed into him!

This is the most common attack method of long-haired beasts of burden - although this creature is docile, even the most docile animal can be aggressive when in estrus. In order to compete for mates, male long-haired beasts of burden will butt other members of the same sex with their skulls to drive them away from their chosen "mates".

Although the long-haired beast of burden does not have horns on its head, its abnormally shaped skull with four horn-like protrusions on the edge is the hardest part of its body - most of the metal elements it ingests from its food are concentrated in it. The hardness of this bone makes it difficult for even a large-caliber anti-material sniper rifle to penetrate it.

Of course, it was impossible for Asano Akira to be hit by a beast of burden like this. When the distance between the two was less than half a meter, he suddenly stopped suddenly and shook his whole body with his right ankle as the fulcrum. He ducked to the side and rear of the beast of burden, and at the same time, the sword in his hand also opened a huge gash in the lower abdomen of the beast of burden.

The long, snow-white hair was instantly dyed red with blood, and the greasy intestines fell directly out of the opening, and were then trampled to pieces by the pack animal's own hind hooves - Ke Lan suddenly discovered that the ruptured intestines were exposed What came out turned out to be corpses covered in large pieces of blood and flesh... Perhaps because the digestive system of plant-eating creatures is not suitable for digesting meat, many of these corpses still retain their original appearance, Ke Lan There was even a vaguely identifiable human arm.

"The herbivorous beasts of burden have actually begun to eat meat..." Ke Lan shook his head to himself. Compared with "memetic infection", this thing was not that strange, but it gave him a new feeling in his heart. Added a bit of gloom.

No one knows what has become of the other “collections” that are more cruel in nature.

The beast of burden did not fall down immediately because its belly was cut open. The severe pain only intensified its rage. Instead of turning its head to look for Asano Akira, it turned sideways and ran towards Asano Akira. It was quite a bit like an ancient Chinese martial arts. It means "Iron Mountain Reliance".

If Asano Akira was hit solidly by this "Iron Mountain Kick", even if he was wearing power armor, it would probably be enough. After all, the tonnage of the beast of burden is there, plus the inertia during the collision - just Even the bulletproof glass exterior wall of the institute's public restaurant couldn't withstand the impact of this beast.

This time, Asano Akira did not choose to dodge, but jumped up directly and lightly jumped onto the back of the long-haired beast of burden.

The moment his feet came into contact with the back of the beast of burden, his knees and hip joints quickly bent, and his whole body assumed a posture similar to a squat, in order to resolve the force transmitted to him. Then, Holding the sword with both hands, he stabbed straight into the back of the beast of burden!

Akira Asano did not insert the tip of the knife through the ribs to stab the soft internal organs in the beast's body - the internal organs were vital, but they could not kill a violent beast immediately, and would instead cause the dying beast to explode. produce greater power. If you want to stop its movements immediately, the best way is to destroy its central nervous system like you did with the six-winged gray mosquito.

"Crack! Crack-"

A teeth-piercing crisp sound came from the place where the sword pierced - apart from the skull, the spine was the second most metal-rich part of the beast of burden. Its spine, which is as thick as the mouth of a sea bowl, is as strong as an alloy. Even a blade made of Nino alloy cannot penetrate it for a while.

At this moment, Asano Akira's power armor had more than ten movable armor parts on the back of his hands, wrists, forearms, elbows, shoulders, etc., flipped open, revealing various sizes of movable armor. The vector thruster nozzles, after adjusting the angle, began to spray blue tail flames - Asano Akira's arms were like two mini rockets, forcibly "pushing" the sword little by little. Get in!

"It turns out that this is what the equipment department means by the 'specialized close combat' type of armor... Gee, it looks pretty cool, but if it were someone else, this device would basically be useless with two arms at once. "Ke Lan glanced at his arm armor. There were not so many hidden thrusters on his armor. Instead, there were two miniature rocket launcher nests and two foldable thermal spring knives.

The equipment of the armor is indeed very rich, but the feeling of patchwork is also obvious. For example, these two thermal energy switch knives have some functional overlap with the high-frequency particle vibration dagger Ke Lan just used - he can be sure. These two sets of armor were temporarily produced by the Equipment Department specifically for this mission.

"I guess those guys want to take this opportunity to use Akira Asano as a guinea pig to test the 'enhancement device'..." Ke Lan muttered in his heart. He had noticed before that Schroeder asked those in the equipment department to When the people dismantled the "thought enhancement device", the faces of those people showed obvious expressions of frustration.

If the guy named Smith hadn't caused such a big mess this time, I guess these people would have done something with their armor... Even if they didn't dare to install some deadly equipment on themselves, like Things like drawing some blood when injecting medicine and cutting some subcutaneous tissue when treating wounds are definitely inevitable.

In addition, various data of the wearer will definitely be collected. It is said to be used as a reference for developing new armors. In fact, what this group of people will use this data to do, Ke Lan can guess with his heels. arrive.

Ke Lan secretly decided that when this mission was completed, he would directly "appropriate" these two sets of armor... and save the madmen from the institute from causing any more trouble.

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With the blessing of more than a dozen vector thrusters, the entire sword quickly penetrated into the body of the long-haired beast, leaving only a section of the handle exposed.

The violent beast of burden could still roar in pain at first, but as the blade penetrated deeper and deeper, its roar gradually became weaker, and its huge body knelt on the ground, no longer like it had at the beginning. Struggling so violently.

Akira Asano pulled out his sword, stepped on the beast's back and took a few steps forward. He aimed the tip of the knife at the back of the beast's head and stabbed it again.

The wild and out-of-control beast of burden finally stopped moving and fell silent forever.

Akira Asano sheathed his sword, jumped down from the mountain-like corpse of the beast of burden, and said lightly: "Dead."

"I know." Ke Lan nodded. In the past, he would have dissected the corpse of the beast of burden to study the reasons for its madness, but now, Ke Lan has no such intention at all.

Seven hours have passed since the incident broke out. In five hours, the reserve power supply of the underground icehouse will be exhausted... Once the things sealed deep in the icehouse escape, it will not be easy for the two of them to deal with it. Yes.

"There is another one in the restaurant." Asano Akira added.

"Is it also a long-haired beast of burden?"

"No, the weight is much lighter than that of a pack animal, but the speed is faster." Akira Asano replied, "Also, there seems to be survivors hiding on the second floor of the building at nine o'clock."

"Since that thing didn't take the initiative to cause trouble for us, there is no need for us to waste time on it." Ke Lan thought for a while and said, "As for the survivors... as long as they hide in the building and don't come out, they will be fine. Don't stick your head out and look around blindly, it's safe for the time being, at least much safer than following us."

Asano Akira nodded. He had no intention of asking Ke Lan to rescue people - after all, even if they rescued people now, they would not have time to escort these survivors back to the third line of defense.

What's more... Schroeder emphasized at the beginning of the mission that the undead crew would have already acquiesced that the entire contaminated area had been "fallen" and there were no survivors.

However, out of humanitarianism, Ke Lan still recorded the coordinates of the building and sent it back to the command headquarters: "There may be survivors in the building marked point A. You can pay attention to it when cleaning up later, or Prioritize sending the rescue team here. In addition, traces of 'collections' that broke containment were found in the restaurant marked point B. As for how to deal with it, you will decide by yourself at that time."

"Received." Schroeder's voice came from the earphones, "But until the 'meme' itself is erased, we cannot send more manpower to the contaminated area."

"I know." Ke Lan nodded, then turned to the building where the survivors were hidden, and shouted loudly: "If there are still people alive inside, remember two things - first, never walk out room; secondly, don’t look at anything outside the room, and don’t look at the screen of a mobile phone, TV or any electronic device. If possible, I suggest you keep your eyes closed. There will be signs of death in five hours at the latest. Rescue workers are here to take you away!”

As soon as Ke Lan finished speaking, there was a sound of knocking on the windows on the second floor of the building. The windows made of bulletproof glass kept making loud banging noises, which made Ke Lan couldn't help but look up...

It was indeed a "survivor", but all the parts of this survivor's body that were exposed outside the clothes were covered with grape-shaped sarcomas. But what made Ke Lan a little strange was that none of these sarcomas seemed to be The eyes were cracked, and the eyes hidden in them were not exposed - so that this person looked more like a patient infected with some strange disease.

"Intelligence update, the person in Marking Point A is not a 'survivor', but a memetic infected person..." Ke Lan paused, but decided to tell Schroeder the actual situation, "However, this infected person is a bit strangeness."

"Strange? What a strange method?"

"His body is covered with sarcomas, but for some reason, none of the eyeballs among these sarcomas seem to be mature, and none of these sarcomas have cracked... Moreover, this man's physical strength seems to be very good. After hearing me After shouting, he kept banging on the glass window," Ke Lan said.

"His heartbeat, pulse and breathing were also stable, and his physical signs were all normal." Akira Asano added, "So I just thought he was a survivor."

Generally speaking, the energy and nutrients in the body of humans infected by "memes" will be sucked dry by those crazy eyeballs in a very short period of time, and the organs throughout the body will rapidly fail due to insufficient energy and oxygen supply, leading to infection. The patient died himself - like Professor Smith, the instigator of this incident, the whole process took less than a minute from when he discovered sarcoma on his arm to when he fell to the ground due to exhaustion and lost the ability to move independently.

The guy in front of him looked very lively, and he didn't look like he had been "sucked dry" at all.

Ke Lan even wondered if this guy really just suffered from a strange disease, right? But the symptoms of this strange disease look very similar to those of people infected by "memes"?

There seemed to be a heated debate at the headquarters. After more than a minute, Schroeder said: "Please try to communicate with the infected person to confirm whether he is conscious."

"OK."

Ke Lan raised his head and shouted again: "Stop knocking! I see you! If you can understand what I say, tell me your name and identity."

As soon as this sentence was spoken, the man stopped knocking, but he did not open the window, but shouted something inside at the top of his lungs.

Unfortunately, the sound insulation of this window was so good that Ke Lan couldn't hear what the man was shouting at all.

If it weren't for the high-power loudspeaker installed on his power armor, the other party probably wouldn't be able to hear him at all.

He could only look at Asano Akira aside, patted him on the shoulder, and asked, "What is this guy shouting inside?"

"He said that he was an engineer in the logistics department of the institute and his name was Zhou Tong. All the doors and windows in this building were locked and he was trapped and died inside."

"This guy... isn't this his own residence? Doesn't he have the authority to open the door?"

"During special periods, ordinary personnel's permissions will be revoked." Schroeder explained on the communication channel, "But the access card in your hand can open the door lock of this building."

"Ask him again how he was infected, when he was infected, and what his current condition is." Schroeder added.

[P.S. Thanks to Shuangyue Linkong for the 6,000 starting coins; thank you Souyi for the 5,000 starting coins; thank you to Kai Shuke's plane and leader noringname for the 1,500 starting coins; thank you to the 915 genius and the forgotten name for the reward The reward is 100 starting coins. 】