Alien Relic Hunter

The situation in the corridor was very different from what Ke Lan had expected. The intricate tangle of rotten blood and corroded vines occupied almost every inch of space in the field of vision. Fragments of tiles, cement and glass were scattered all over the floor. A door near a door The thirty-centimetre-thick, severely deformed air-tight door was pushed to the corner by vines. There were still several dried bloody fingerprints on the valve of the air-tight door.

This airtight door was "torn" from the wall by the corroded blood vines. As for the original metal door frame, it was torn into several pieces by the vines, and the sharp metal fractures cut through the corroded blood vines. The skin of the vine - wherever the blood-red juice flows, the metal material has turned into a grid pattern full of holes, as if it had just been fished out of aqua regia.

The concrete wall used to fix the door frame has long been in pieces. There was a shaky door sign hanging on a concrete block strung with steel bars. Ke Lan glanced at it and it read: "Eleventh Floor, Area A, Temporary Storage Refrigerator for Class C Medicines and Consumables."

"Eleventh floor, Area A... It seems that I was lucky. I randomly picked a window and came in to Area A." Ke Lan murmured. Each floor of the biological laboratory building is divided into A, There are four major areas B, C, and D. If he came in from the other three areas, he would have to go through at least half of the eleventh floor to get to Professor Smith's laboratory.

As for Class C, it refers to the safety level of medicines, reagents and experimental consumables. It is also divided into four levels, A, B, C and D. Class A is the most dangerous. Basically, they are things that will kill you if you touch them and seal your throat at the sight of blood. Then the degree of danger decreases in descending order according to the level. Those that can be classified as Class C are completely harmless reagents, such as glucose and physiological saline, which can be purchased at vending machines in residential areas.

This level classification is very similar to the biosafety level, but this set of standards only uses drugs, reagents and experimental consumables. Except for those working in research institutions, most ordinary people have never heard of this thing.

Along the gaps between the vines, Ke Lan glanced into the cold room and vaguely saw several bloody corpses squeezed by the vines - these corpses should be the bloody handprints on the airtight door. Master.

These people probably hid in this relatively safe cold room immediately after the incident, but they didn't expect to escape the most difficult-to-prevent memetic infection, and ended up dying at the hands of the mutated rotten blood vine.

Compared with those who were infected or died at the gunpoint of the crisis management department, they could be regarded as the luckiest people in the whole building, but this luck only allowed them to live for a few hours longer.

There were no survivors or lucky ones in the entire experimental building—just as the crisis management department’s report document said: no survivors.

There was another sound of glass being smashed behind him - Akira Asano climbed up along the outer wall of the laboratory building and entered the corridor through another side-by-side window.

"The road ahead has been blocked by corroded blood vines... Be careful, even though they are very quiet now, it is estimated that as soon as we get close, these vines will immediately pounce on us like mad dogs." Ke Lan stopped him and wanted to go forward. Asano Akira walked forward and said.

"I can feel them... they are not still, but are squirming slightly." Akira Asano said softly, "The sound of the juice flowing through the blood vessels is like blood passing through the blood vessels..."

"It's best if you can hear it." Ke Lan nodded. Asano Akira's detection ability was so ridiculously strong that many times people around him would subconsciously forget that he was blind.

The newly restored communication was interrupted again - the energy shields equipped on Ke Lan and Asano Akira's power armors are all full-coverage. When activated, a protective shield similar to an eggshell will be formed to cover the whole person. Compared with a restrained partial shield that can only defend a single direction, the advantage is that there is no blind spot for protection... As for the disadvantage, when the shield is opened, all connections between itself and the outside will also be cut off.

Only some specific energy weapons can pass through the shield to conduct one-way attacks on enemies outside the shield. Physical warheads will be intercepted by the shield no matter which direction they are shot in. As for the communication cables dragged behind them, then Not to mention.

But from another perspective, even if the energy shield did not damage the communication cable, after entering the experimental building, the vines and infected monsters would have almost no difficulty cutting off the unprotected cable behind them... the communication can be maintained all the time. It was only after entering the experimental building that Ke Lan felt it was very incredible.

The "meme" itself has a very high IQ, and it has absorbed the memories of so many infected people. Even if these memories are not very complete, it should have a good grasp of human information... After all, death The number of people infected by the meme has exceeded five figures, both inside and outside. Even if the memories of those people are incomplete, if you put them together, you can get a complete puzzle.

Judging from the way the "pretender" attacked the communication cable, the subject of the "meme" obviously knew the function of this thing.

This made Ke Lan feel very confused - the other party obviously had much more resources to use than him, and even time was on its side, but Ke Lan and the others' only advantage as humans, "wisdom", was In this case, it was wiped out... It's like the three major elements of "the right time, the right place, and the right people" are occupied by the other party. As for "the right time, the right place, and the right people," the two sides are temporarily fighting Tie.

But this "battle" is related to the life and death of all mankind. Even if the chance of winning is small, Ke Lan can only bite the bullet and fight.

Until the "meme" is eliminated, he won't have any backup and he can only rely on himself.

Now, he still has two trump cards left in his hand——

"Zeluo" and "Holy Word".

He has no intention of using the former, let alone the consequences once Ze Luo's identity is exposed... If Ze Luo is not immune to the "meme" infection, then this trump card will instead send a powerful weapon to the opponent. Such as the help of cheating... Ke Lan didn't dare to bet. If he lost the bet, there would really be no chance of winning.

And the latter... Although it has not shown any negative effects yet, Ke Lan's subconscious has been resisting this power. For some reason, he vaguely feels that the price to pay for this trump card is even higher than It's even more terrifying for Ze Luo to be infected by "memes".

The villain in Ke Lan's mind couldn't help but laugh bitterly: "Other people's trump cards are all magic weapons that can win with one blow and turn the tide, but my trump cards are all double-edged swords that rush to perish together... What the hell are you looking for?" Who can reason?"

"Let's go to the laboratory called Smith's Shabi first, and then go to the top floor." Ke Lan said to Asano Akira. Although the chance of finding useful information is low, considering that they can take the shortcut "outside the wall" Under such circumstances, the laboratory still has certain search value.

"Let me open the way." Asano Akira took a step forward, pushed the sword gently from the sheath a few inches with his thumb.

He leaned down, his whole body was like a taut bow, and all the strength of his body was concentrated on his waist and back, and then passed out along his shoulders and arms - Ke Lan had no doubt that Asano Akira's Iai move Slashing can definitely cut through the large mass of corroded blood-corroded vines blocking the road in front of him.

However, Ke Lan patted Asano Akira on the shoulder and said, "There is no need to use the knife."

"I can cut it."

"I know you can, but after you cut through all the corrosive blood-corroding vines blocking the road, your sword will be useless... Although Nino alloy is not difficult to get, the ones that are melted into the blade There's nowhere to get the stalagmite fragments. If you trade this knife with these minions, you'll lose a hundred blood at a time." Ke Lan said, "Besides, you can't open the shield when you draw the knife. Yes, those corrosive juices will contaminate the body, so it’s not worth it no matter what.”

"What should we do?"

"Open the shield and burn it all the way in." Ke Lan said, activated the energy shield together, and walked directly towards the rotten blood vines.

"Follow me. When my shield cools down, we will change positions and you go to the front to open the way. In addition, we have to speed up our pace. If the shield melts through the ground under our feet, we will fall. Went to the next level."

This is also one of the key flaws of full-coverage energy shields: This type of shield is perfect if installed on an aircraft that does not touch the ground, but if installed on a mecha or ship, the former will burn directly when activated. If the ground is eroded, the latter will directly evaporate the surrounding seawater, forming a huge vortex...

Therefore, more than 99% of the full-coverage shields currently held by Ark are allocated to the air force fleet, army aviation units and carrier-based aircraft. As for ground vehicles, they basically use partial shields.

At this time, the ground under Ke Lan's feet had begun to reach its limit - the ceramic tiles and cement were instantly vaporized, exposing the metal interlayer inside, and this metal interlayer also became red and bright in the blink of an eye, and was about to be melted through. .

Ke Lan quickly ran and ran into the vines.

"laugh--"

Just as Ke Lan had just predicted, as soon as he got closer, the corroded blood-corroded vines that were still as quiet as virgins immediately switched to the mode of moving like a rabbit... No, the word "moving like a rabbit" can no longer be used to describe the vines The level of agitation has reached such a level that it needs to be changed to "moving like a mad dog".

The space section of the corridor, which was less than 30 square meters, was instantly covered with vines that surged out. The already shaky door sign was directly crushed into several sections. These vines were like the tentacles of an octopus. Lan swept over, but when they came into contact with the light curtain covering his body, they all turned into flying ashes.

Even the corrosive juice in the vines was vaporized at the same moment, with no chance of splashing out.

For a moment, the corridor was filled with a choking burnt smell and a strong pungent sour smell. Fortunately, the two of them had already closed their masks in advance, and a gurgling sound came from the metal tube of the oxygen supply device.

"It's a bit like playing a game with the invincible hanging on and pushing all the way. It's quite refreshing, but it's a pity that it only lasts for five minutes." Ke Lan muttered while paying attention to the house numbers on both sides - behind the refrigerator room It's Biochemical Laboratory No. 1, followed by No. 2, No. 3...

The numbers in the serial number are increasing, which shows that Ke Lan is looking in the right direction.

"It went a little too smoothly..." Before Ke Lan could finish saying this, the end of the corridor had already appeared in front of him.

And the number of the last laboratory in this corridor is... No. 8.

"Fuck, pretend I didn't say that!" Ke Lan then discovered that, including the cold storage room, there were only eight laboratories in one corridor, and Professor Smith's "Laboratory No. 9" was on another corridor.

Ke Lan had seen the structural diagram of the biological laboratory building, but the structural diagram was too sloppy. It only showed a rough outline of the interior of the building. As for which laboratories those rooms were, there was no information at all. Mark it out.

Schroeder's explanation for this is that they obtained the construction design drawings of the experimental building, and the specific functions of each room were determined after the building was completed. The interior of the building has undergone many renovations-the latest and most recent Detailed drawings are stored in an offline database at the institute's headquarters. In order to maintain confidentiality, this database is not connected to the Internet and does not have cloud backup. Therefore, when the institute's headquarters loses power, the data inside is completely locked.

Ke Lan had to stop and turn his head - the rotten blood vines spreading from elsewhere were reoccupying the corridor that he had burned down. They were climbing quickly along the ceiling and walls, and the farthest end had been destroyed again. It was blocked, and from where Ke Lan and the others were, the outer window and the air-tight door of the refrigerator could no longer be seen.

If the vines were given another half minute, they would probably be able to fill the entire corridor again.

It only took Ke Lan less than two minutes to run from one end of the corridor to the other. The overheating progress bar of the energy shield had not reached half yet - he could completely burn this corridor clean for the second time, but the problem was , the ground beneath his feet could no longer support him from running again.

The space on the next floor can already be seen from many places. If he runs back now, he probably won't be able to reach the corner, and he will fall directly to the tenth floor.

what to do?

Ke Lan's gaze couldn't help but shift to the wall on the left hand side.

These walls were already dilapidated by the Corrupted Blood Corroded Vine, and now he burned all the Corrupted Blood Corroded Vine that was originally inserted into the wall as a support. He didn't even need to hit it, he only needed to kick it. If you go down, you can make a hole in the wall big enough for someone to pass through.

Since there is no way to rush back to the corner, just create a passage yourself!

With this thought in mind, Ke Lan rushed directly to the wall in front of him and slammed into it!

[P.S. Thanks to HAKU for the 1,500 starting coins for Weak Yin and Soap Has Great Use; thank you to book friend 160830085925711 for the 100 starting coins. 】