Alien Relic Hunter

"He said that today was his day off. He was resting in the dormitory, but he heard gunshots outside. He took a look and found that there were robots killing humans, so he hid in the dormitory, but he didn't pass. After a while, I started itching all over my body, and those sarcomas also grew out." Akira Asano simply acted as the messenger.

"It seems that this guy accidentally saw the 'meme' when he stuck his head out to look around... so he was infected." Ke Lan analyzed, as to why the engineer did not die, the "eyeball" on his body Didn't open it, maybe because of personal constitution?

You know, even for those horrific plagues in human history, there will definitely be a very small number of natural immunes among the population... Perhaps, this engineer named Zhou Tong is such an "immune" "?

It's just that he's not completely immune, otherwise, he wouldn't be like this.

Ke Lan couldn't help but be curious. If those "eyeballs" on his body are not mature yet, can they be considered a carrier of "memes"? If ordinary people saw those sarcomas on his body, would they be infected?

Ke Lan did not express this idea immediately, because he knew that if this matter was solved by the Crisis Management Department, there would most likely be another person to be a "guinea pig". For them, Efficiency is crucial, and the cost of a human life is completely within the acceptable range.

"Wait a minute-" Schroeder said suddenly. Faintly, Ke Lan seemed to hear someone saying something quickly next to him in a very nervous tone.

"There's one thing I have to tell you...Ke Lan, don't move yet, don't alert the 'survivor'." Schroeder said again.

"What? Is there something wrong with this survivor?" Ke Lan raised his head and looked at the other person with squinted eyes... The other person was also looking at him - with only two slender legs left behind when his face was almost covered with tumors. sewed eyes.

"We have reviewed the archives of the entire institute and have not found an engineer named Zhou Tong... Even among the personnel dispatched abroad and the institutions that have cooperated with the institute, there is no such person." It seems that he is afraid. As if being heard by the survivor, Schroeder lowered his voice very low, "The only person named Zhou Tong is a female researcher. In the video you saw at the beginning, he was the first to be ' The person the meme' infects."

"Oh, I have an impression..." Ke Lan nodded. In the video, the female researcher's face was directly blocked by a black mosaic, and the part above her neck never appeared in the video. In the unprocessed picture she looked at later, her real appearance had been completely destroyed by sarcomas and eyeballs, making it impossible to see her true appearance clearly.

But what is certain is that "Zhou Tong" and this "Zhou Tong" are definitely not the same person.

The former is a slender woman. Compared with others and the door frame in the corridor, her height is definitely not more than 1.6 meters, and she is relatively petite even among women. As for the big man lying behind the window in front of him, even if you ignore his extremely thick torso and limbs due to "sarcoma", his height is already over 1.8 meters.

Even if we take a step back, "she" is really Zhou Tong, and the changes in her body are caused by being infected with the meme - just like the ridiculously large six-winged gray mosquito, so why would "she" lie? Woolen cloth?

The person most responsible for this incident is Professor Smith. Researcher Zhou Tong is just an unlucky passerby. Before being infected by the meme, she had nothing to do with Professor Smith's experiment, so there is no way to evade responsibility.

As for concealing the identity of the infected person, that's even more impossible - the dense sarcomas on the body can be seen by anyone who is not blind, so what's the point of lying?

What's more, as an insider of the institute, it is impossible for "she" not to know how complete the institute's information files are. It only takes a few seconds to check a person. To fabricate such a lie that can be exposed at a glance, Besides wasting their time, what else...

etc!

waste time!

Ke Lan was suddenly shocked. The only purpose of this "survivor"'s appearance was to delay their time!

As for how to verify this guess, it's very simple - as long as Ke Lan and Asano Akira ignore him and just move forward.

"Command, I decided to ignore the 'survivor' and continue to move forward, but I judge that the 'survivor' may try to stop us. If it really does that, then my guess should be correct." Ke Lan said in the communication Said Schroeder in the channel.

"Your guess? What guess... Do you suspect that this person is here to stop you? Is he controlled by the 'meme' body?" Although Ke Lan did not speak clearly, Schroeder still immediately I understood what he meant.

"Yes. If this is true, then another guess can be verified." Ke Lan's tone gradually became serious.

"The meme's identity...has self-awareness and intelligence." Schroeder said "another guess" in the same solemn tone.

A simple monster is not scary. No matter how powerful, terrifying, or incredible its abilities are, it is just a monster and can always find a suitable countermeasure.

But a monster with intelligence no less than human beings would be terrifying.

Because when Ke Lan and the others are thinking about ways to deal with it, it is also thinking about countermeasures. It can also think of any strategy that humans can think of. This is the most troublesome part.

"Permission to move..." Schroeder nodded, "If there is any change on the other side, please report it to the command center immediately."

Ke Lan took one last look at the "survivor" and then looked away.

"We still have a special mission. Just wait here and don't leave this hiding place. The next batch of rescuers will come to you."

After saying that, Ke Lan made a move to move forward.

"Boom, boom, boom!!"

Suddenly, the "survivor" began to knock on the glass window hard again, danced and shouted to Ke Lan.

"He said, let me not leave him. There are monsters wandering in this area and he will be killed." Asano Akira said.

"As long as you don't make too much noise, you'll be safe there." After Ke Lan said a few words, he patted Asano Akira on the shoulder, "Okay, don't pay attention to him. No matter what he says, it's okay." Leave it alone."

Immediately, the two of them walked forward without looking back.

They hadn't taken a few steps when there was the sound of glass breaking behind them. Ke Lan turned around and saw that the "survivor" who had just said he was trapped indoors had smashed the solid bulletproof glass with one punch and jumped from a four-story building!

He fell heavily to the ground, and when he landed, the joints of his legs were bent in the opposite direction, and the white bone stubble pierced directly from under the skin.

"He smashed the bulletproof glass, jumped from the building, and broke his leg." Ke Lan reported to the headquarters with an expressionless face.

"Don't come forward for help. I repeat, never come forward for help." Schroeder quickly replied.

"I know, I'm not stupid." Ke Lan stared at the "survivor" lying on the ground. "Being able to smash bulletproof glass with your fists must be at least a Level 2 enhanced person..."

"In the case of extreme anger, a first-level enhanced person should be able to do it reluctantly." Lin Qiming added, "But if he is really a survivor, he does not need to do this."

"He is crawling on the ground with his hands... his speed is accelerating... now he is walking faster than normal." Ke Lan said as he stepped back, "This look looks like it was interrupted in a doomsday movie. The legs are like zombies.”

The "survivor"'s legs were dragged on the ground, and his two arms alternately reached out, scratching the ground, dragging his body quickly towards Ke Lan - this was simply not something that a sane human being could do. His movements are more like that of a madman, or... a monster.

Just when he was still five meters away from Ke Lan, hundreds of sarcomas all over his body "bloomed" at the same time, and hundreds of scorching eyes suddenly focused on Ke Lan.

In these eyes, Ke Lan felt extremely obvious anger.

The idiom "glaring" suddenly popped into his mind, but being glared at by hundreds of eyes on the same creature probably couldn't be expressed in just four words.

"All the eyes on the target's body have been opened. It is not a 'survivor'!" Ke Lan tapped the ground with his toes, using the reverse thrusters on his legs and waist to float away while speaking quickly in the communication channel, "If I had to give this thing a name, I think 'Pretender' is a good one."

"If the other party shows intention to attack, you are allowed to kill--" Before Schroeder said the word "kill" in "Allowed to kill", the communication was suddenly interrupted-the "pretender" caught the dragging The communication cable on the ground was torn apart with a tug of both hands.

If smashing a bullet-proof glass window with a fist requires the strength of a Level 2 enhanced person or a Level 1 enhanced person in a state of "extreme anger", then it will be protected by a three-layer high-strength and high-toughness shell, itself wrapped in a If the communication cable of the layer of Nino alloy wire mesh is torn off, then this power is already at the level of an enhanced person of level 8...or even level 9.

"It's a tough one." The thruster on the waist ejected a faint blue tail flame again, but this time the angle of the nozzle changed slightly. The tail flame was not parallel to the ground but changed to a forty-five-degree angle. . With this diagonal upward thrust, Ke Lan jumped directly into the air several meters high, and the mechanical arm on the backpack handed a large-caliber rapid-fire shotgun to him in time.

Ke Lan grasped the hand that was a little too big and put the butt of the gun on his shoulder. At this distance, he didn't even need to aim, so he directly pulled the trigger. The huge recoil even pushed him several meters further in the air, and the dense shotguns instantly knocked the "pretender" away. Cover thoroughly.

This shotgun was originally designed for four-meter humanoid mechas. The recoil and power are extremely terrifying, and the ammunition used is completely different from conventional shotguns.

This thing is filled with submunitions. One shot can shoot eight "submunitions", and each "submunition" is also equipped with an additional directional explosive. 32 steel balls perform "secondary acceleration". The eight "bullets" add up to 256 steel balls, and at least half of these 256 steel balls hit the "pretender".

If the target is a human, even if it is an eighth-level or ninth-level enhanced person, if he is shot at this distance, his entire body will be beaten to pieces, and there is basically no chance of rescue - after all, this thing is for mechas The imaginary targets used in the design are also those huge, rough-skinned and fleshy indigenous creatures. It is not used to hit people at all.

The accident that Ke Lan imagined did not happen. The "pretender"'s body was immediately beaten into minced meat, and the blood-red powder splashed out dozens of meters away. Looking down from directly above, it looked like someone had smashed it into pieces. A tomato was thrown from a ten-story building and hit the ground firmly.

"Dead?" Ke Lan raised his eyebrows. He didn't know why, but he always felt that this result was a bit unbelievable - he stared closely at the pile of rotten meat on the ground, which was not much different from a mosaic. He always felt that they were still They can squirm together and change back to their original appearance...or turn into some kind of monster that is completely different from the human form.

But they didn't move.

This "pretender" was really dead, so completely that even the few remaining "eyeballs" that had not been blown out had dilated pupils and lost the ability to spread "memes".

This is like playing an RPG game. You have passed all levels and killed many powerful monsters. You are about to reach the door of the BOSS, but an elite monster pops up blocking the way. This elite monster looks like a It was not easy. A rather tricky battle was about to begin. As a result, the player casually used a small skill, and the elite monster was completely defeated...

Any player with some game experience will think that this elite monster will definitely be resurrected, or there will be a second blood tube, a second-stage mode, etc., but it just has nothing.

Death is death, clean and tidy.

As for the players sitting in front of the screen, in addition to cursing "crazy", they would at most wonder whether there was a bug in the game or a mistake in the developer's numerical design.

But the problem is...this is not a game.

"Forget it, never mind." Ke Lan put away the gun. He originally wanted to check the body, but if he really spent time on this, wouldn't he be fulfilling the other person's wish?

Could this be the other party's purpose? Designing the "elite monster" too simple will make "players" suspicious and spend a lot of time verifying it?

What kind of bad taste is this?

Ke Lan took a deep breath and planned to repair the communication cable first, but Asano Akira beside him suddenly pulled out his sword.

"There are a lot of people approaching here," he said.

"Many people? Human beings? Or humanoid things?" Ke Lan was stunned and couldn't help but focus on the bloody thing on the ground.

[P.S. Thank you to the Templar for the 10,000 starting coins for showing the light blade. 】