Alien Relic Hunter

Ke Lan immediately understood that this "pretender" was not an elite monster at all, but a "sea of ​​monsters tactic" chosen!

In less than ten seconds, the source of the noises Asano Akira heard appeared in front of the two of them - these people (assuming they can still be called "people"), their bodies were all covered with The large and small sarcomas, in terms of appearance, are almost the same as the pretender who calls himself "Zhou Tong".

They jumped out of various side streets, entrances and exits of various buildings, and even from high-rise windows... Their movements seemed clumsy and extremely uncoordinated, but their speed was quite fast. In the blink of an eye, Ke Lan and the others were here. The streets were already blocked by dense crowds of pretenders.

"What's wrong with learning? Student crisis, right..." Ke Lan sneered contemptuously in a nasal voice and inserted a fifty-four-round large-capacity drum into the shotgun.

"All fear comes from insufficient firepower." This sentence has been emphasized many times. Every time Ke Lan watches a movie in the Resident Evil series, he will feel that the plot is outrageous - those hordes of zombies have no single combat power. Strong, even the "Executioner" who existed as a BOSS in the early stage could not get up again after being shot in the head by the protagonist's homemade coin shotgun.

And the most puzzling thing is that although zombies are obviously very easy to kill, the weapons of the protagonist team always only have small pistols and submachine guns that are difficult to penetrate even a body armor, like the standard equipment of Umbrella Company soldiers. Assault rifles appear so rarely in the movie that just getting a Minigun and mounting it on a vehicle or carrying it in the hands of a big guy can be regarded as the most powerful "heavy weapon" in a movie.

Ke Lan couldn't help but wonder - in the world view of Resident Evil, don't each country have its own military besides the private army of the Umbrella Company? Even if more than 90% of the soldiers are infected, won't the army's armed forces be able to defeat ten times the enemies who can only bite with their teeth and scratch with their fingers?

You need to know the zombies that appeared in the early stage. These monsters can't even run. They move extremely slowly. Even the moving targets on the shooting range are faster than them. After the initial commotion, the vast majority of zombies will inevitably be attacked. Suppression, as long as one unit can complete self-clearance, it can also help more units to liberate themselves from chaos. Not to mention one tenth, as long as one percent of the original soldiers are organized, with the weapons and equipment of the old era, there will be no biological crisis to fear.

This is still taking into account the direct spread of the virus among the military, but in fact, when the zombie wave first appeared, the war machines of various countries should have already been activated, and it would be difficult for the virus to even cross the borders between countries. boundaries between.

Ke Lan always feels that the screenwriters of the Resident Evil series, for the sake of the plot, seem to directly treat the governments of various countries as a group of retarded people.

Even civilians were able to survive so many people and form various groups of survivors, but the army collapsed as soon as the crisis broke out. It is difficult not to doubt the IQ of the screenwriter and director.

Seven steps away, the gun is fast; within seven steps, the gun is not only fast but also accurate - how can zombies defeat an army armed with modern weapons?

In Ke Lan's view, facing the zombie wave, there is no need to use nuclear weapons to arrange more than a hundred ways for these monsters to die.

He switched the repeating shotgun to fully automatic shooting mode, and then locked the elbow and shoulder joints of his right arm that were responsible for the main recoil. Two pairs of hooks popped out from the heels and plowed deeply into the concrete road. .

The next second, a storm of steel balls hit the pretenders who were rushing over.

In many movies, TV series or games, the effect of using fully automatic weapons to shoot large groups of enemies is often that the enemies fall down one after another like wheat harvested by a scythe, but under the muzzle of Ke Lan's gun However, the pretenders couldn't even leave a complete body behind.

The pretenders in the front row were directly smashed to pieces by the dense steel balls - they were like fresh meat thrown into a wall-breaking machine, and in the blink of an eye they turned into mincemeat flying everywhere.

The fifty-four-round large-capacity drum was emptied in just ten seconds, and the barrel of the shotgun had turned red. As for the group of pretenders, not even a single intact limb was left. Nothing left.

Asano Akira, who was standing in front of Ke Lan, was stunned for a moment, and sheathed the battle with some disappointment - none of these pretenders could rush within ten meters of the two of them.

Ke Lan grabbed the red and deformed barrel and removed it. The auxiliary mechanical arm mounted on the backpack worked very cooperatively to insert a brand new barrel.

He still has seven replacement barrels like this in his backpack, and although there are only two spare drums, as long as the empty drums are stuffed back into the backpack, the automatic loading device will reload the drums within half a minute. Fill it up - even if all the infected people in the institute turned into such monsters, they would not be able to get close to Ke Lan.

"Asano, stay alert." Ke Lan said, then removed the anchor hook used to fix his body, turned around and walked back to the broken communication cable.

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"Test, whether the communication is restored... sizzling... test again... sizzling..." Ke Lan kept repeating into the microphone.

However, even after connecting the broken cables, his communication equipment was still unable to contact the headquarters.

"Forget it, let's just do this..." Ke Lan walked behind Asano Akira, unplugged the communication cable from his back, and plugged it into his power armor.

Anyway, Akira Asano, a boring gourd, cannot take the initiative to talk to the people at the headquarters. In addition, he is still in a close combat position. Dragging a cable behind him can easily affect his position in the battle, and may even become a flaw in the eyes of the enemy—— For example, although the opponent has clearly dodged the attack, the opponent grabs the cable behind his back and pulls the person back - in a close fight, such a flaw is almost fatal.

As soon as he entered the communication channel, Schroeder's anxious voice rang in Ke Lan's ears: "What's going on? Why was the communication suddenly interrupted? Why did it suddenly go offline just now? Also, there was a message from Akira Asano. What's going on with the deafening gunfire? I've been asking just now, but Akira Asano didn't reply to me... Now he suddenly went offline again, and then you came online again... What happened? "

The young chief of the crisis management department was obviously not calm, and he fired a series of questions at Ke Lan like a barrage of questions.

"The pretender just tore off the cable, so the communication was interrupted. At this location, there is no unobstructed communication pile nearby, so laser communication cannot be used. I can only unplug Asano Akira's cable and plug it into myself. ." Ke Lan replied.

"What about the gunshot? What happened to the gunshot?" Schroeder continued to ask, "Is that the gunshot of a mecha using a rapid-fire shotgun? You emptied a full magazine - is the pretender Is it so difficult to kill? Is it still alive now?"

"It's dead. It's not difficult to kill...it's just that there are a lot of them."

"More? There's more than one pretender?" Schroeder obviously paused.

"Although there was not a whole corpse left, I did a rough count just before I opened fire. There were about two hundred pretenders who appeared in the field of vision."

"Two hundred people...can you describe their condition and attire?" Schroeder asked in a deep voice.

At the same time, after hearing the news, the experts from the countermeasures team in the headquarters immediately started whispering among themselves. As the discussion progressed, some people's faces quickly became ugly.

"In terms of condition, they are all similar to that 'Zhou Tong', with tumors all over his body." Ke Lan recalled, "As for the attire, most of them are wearing researcher's standard white coats, and some are wearing formal and casual clothes... Oh, also There were several people wearing heavy hazmat suits.”

"...This group of people should have been staff of the institute during their lifetimes." Lin Qiming said something that sounded like nonsense.

But even if it was nonsense, what he said was still wrong.

"They are not dead, they are just controlled." Ke Lan said, "Asano Akira can hear their pulse and heartbeat. Their bodies are obviously alive. As for the brain... I am not sure whether the brain is dead or alive. But the functions of the cerebellum and brainstem must be intact."

Ke Lan continued: "I believe that the body of the 'meme' not only has self-awareness and intelligence, but has also mutated...or evolved. The earliest infected people will be infected by the 'eyes' that opened on their bodies in a short period of time. They died after sucking up nutrients. As for these "pretenders", their "eyes" have always been in an immature state, so their body functions have not been too seriously affected. Originally, I thought this was just An accidental case, but now it seems that this was obviously intentional by the subject of the 'meme'."

"The result discussed by the countermeasures team is almost the same. 'Meme' not only has the ability to infect the human body, but can even invade the brain and control the behavior of the infected person. In addition, experts also believe that it may also have the ability to It has the ability to read the memories of infected people." Schroeder said, "Otherwise, the behavior of the first pretender cannot be explained."

"There is no point in explaining its behavior now." Ke Lan said flatly, "You might as well think about the motivations of these pretenders - why do the subjects of the 'meme' do this? What is its purpose?"

"To... stall for time."

"Have you ever thought about why it's delaying time?" Ke Lan couldn't help but speed up his speech. "For us, time is tight because we are afraid of two things. One is that the 'meme' will mutate again; the other is that those underground The 'collection' deep in the icehouse resurrected and then broke out of containment... But from the perspective of the 'meme' subject, why did it delay? To mutate itself? Or to release more contained objects to expand the chaos?"

Ke Lan didn't wait for Schroeder to speak, and continued talking to himself: "None of them! Its real purpose is actually the things on the fifth floor of the underground icehouse!"

The words are not shocking, but the death will last forever. As soon as these words came out, there was an uproar in the command headquarters.

"The things on the fifth floor of the underground icehouse... should not break through the containment... they are... very safe." For some reason, even Schroeder felt that he had no confidence when he said this. .

"Since you think that the 'meme' subject can read the memories of infected people, then with so many leaders and professors at the institute, plus those from the Security Bureau and the Crisis Management Department, the memories of all infected people have been brought together. ...I think, for it, there should be no secrets on this ark, right?"

"This..." Schroeder subconsciously clenched his fists and his lips moved slightly.

"Although it is difficult to explain the origin of 'meme' based on human technological standards, at least this thing is mutated from a lump of meat, and its carrier can be completely classified as a living thing - Since it is a living thing, it has the instinct of 'survival', and in order to survive, it certainly does not want to be wiped out by us."

"You keep talking..."

"If it doesn't want to be eliminated, it must become stronger - if it doesn't have intelligence, then it may rely on its own further mutation... But now, since we have confirmed that it has intelligence, then we You can't treat it as a monster that only acts on instinct. My suggestion is that you'd better treat this thing as an opponent on the opposite side of the chessboard. When we move the chess pieces, it is also thinking about countermeasures to crack it.

In the current situation, combined with all available resources and intelligence nearby, the fastest and most reliable way for it to become stronger is to find a new, more powerful host.

It delays time just to do this - so what you should be worried about now is not whether the things in the fifth floor will escape... but how long it will take for this guy to break through the blockade and invade the third floor of the underground icehouse. Go to the fifth floor. "

"..." There was a brief silence in the command headquarters. Even the group of experts who were arguing just now fell silent.

They no longer argued, but looked at each other silently. From each other's eyes, all they could see were fear and despair.

"It's already here, but you still don't want to tell me what's sealed on the fifth floor of the underground icehouse?" Ke Lan asked, "Chief Schroeder?"

"The fifth floor of the underground icehouse...the fifth floor..." Schroeder said word by word with a trembling voice, "What is sealed is...a prehistoric species."

"Prehistoric species? Is it a part of the remains or a genetic fragment extracted from the tissue?"

"None of them... There is a complete prehistoric species in the container on the fifth floor."

"A complete prehistoric species?" At this time, even Ke Lan was shocked, "You mean, there is a complete prehistoric species inside the Ark?!"