Alien Relic Hunter

Under the impact of Ke Lan, who was wearing heavy armor, the already riddled wall instantly shattered like crispy cookies. He stumbled and entered a spacious space.

Of course, this spaciousness is compared to the corridor outside that is blocked by the Corroded Blood Vine - in this laboratory with an area of ​​about 300 square meters, half of the space still belongs to the Corroded Blood Vine. In the territory, thick and twisted vines squeezed together, filling half of the laboratory. Ke Lan couldn't help but think of "Shaqima" stuffed in the mold.

This is a pastry passed down from the old era. Ke Lan has only seen it in the information. As a highly processed food that requires the use of refined flour, eggs, honey and a large amount of dried nuts, it is undoubtedly a kind of pastry in this era. High-end snacks are difficult for ordinary people to enjoy.

Originally, Ke Lan planned to wait until he had time to try this kind of exquisite snack that he was reluctant to buy before, but now after seeing this bunch of vines tied together, he suddenly lost his appetite for "Shaqima".

The eye-shaped organs "growing" from these vines are much larger than the eyeballs of infected animals, and their diameter is slightly smaller than a bowling ball. If you ignore the fleshy fascia layer of instant noodles that should not appear on the plant, it will look like heavy fruits hanging on the branches.

There are many such "big eyes" stuffed in the gaps between vines, which reminded Ke Lan of the nuts embedded on the surface and inside of Shaqima...

Ke Lan felt that he would never touch this snack called Shaqima again in his life. Even just thinking about it was enough to make him feel sick.

But it was disgusting. Ke Lan did not look away. Instead, he looked at these rotten blood vines attentively. He was very puzzled. These rotten blood vines could obviously cover the entire laboratory space, so why did they stop there? Want to leave half of it empty?

Moreover, there is an obvious arc-shaped boundary between these corroded blood vines and the vacant space, as if separated by an invisible wall of air.

No matter the vines thicker than thighs and covered with pimples on the surface, or the slender young branches that have grown out, they dare not go beyond the limit.

For some reason, Ke Lan thought of Shaqima again - these rotten blood-corroded vines crowded in the corners were like the remaining pieces of pastry in a square mold after someone cut a round piece out of it with a cake knife. It’s the same as the leftover scraps with curvature.

"Circle... arc shape... why is it this shape?" Ke Lan couldn't help but turn his head and look at the empty half of the laboratory behind him.

Before the disaster broke out, some experiments should have been carried out here. There were many bottles containing reagents on the table, and there were more than a dozen mice in the observation box on the side - most of these mice as experimental subjects had already Turned into corpses, only the top two are still alive, but all the hair on their bodies has fallen off, and their naked bodies are covered with eyes the size of rice grains...

These two mice infected by the "meme" were hitting the observation box made of tempered glass hard... Fortunately, the glass of the observation box was extremely strong, so they were not allowed to escape from the box.

Could it be that the vines are afraid to approach because of these two mutated mice?

Ke Lan thinks it's unlikely.

The focus of his eyes couldn't help but move to the bottles containing reagents.

The researchers who were conducting experiments in this laboratory seemed to be in a panic when they fled. Many reagent bottles were knocked over and dumped, and some even rolled to the ground, breaking into glass shards on the ground.

In the area where the glass fragments are scattered, you can still vaguely see the traces of liquid left by some reagents containing dyes after they have dried.

"The circular area...could it be the smell produced after some kind of reagent volatilizes, which makes the Corrupted Blood Corrosion Vine afraid to approach?"

Ke Lan looked back at the arc of the "boundary line", and then looked at the position where the broken glass bottle was on the ground - if this arc-shaped boundary line is regarded as part of the circumference, then this position is exactly at the center of the circle. !

"Are you afraid of this thing?" Ke Lan squatted down and picked up a piece of glass shard on the ground.

There is a waterproof label attached to this fragment...but the label does not indicate the ingredients of the reagent, but a series of numbers mixed with numbers and English.

If the communication was not interrupted, Ke Lan could still send this serial number back to the headquarters and ask Schroeder to check it for him, but now, he could only rely on himself.

"It should be this reagent... that evaporated into the air and drove back the Corrupted Blood Corrosion Vine..."

He did not take off his breathing mask to smell the air - firstly for safety reasons, even rotten blood and corroded vines are afraid of something, who knows if it is toxic to the human body; secondly, even if he let Ke Lan go, Even if he smelled it, he couldn't smell the ingredients of the reagent.

Not to mention him, even a hound wouldn't be able to smell it.

Ke Lan took two cotton balls from the experimental table, moistened them with water and alcohol, the two most common reagents, and rubbed them on the traces of liquid on the ground a few times - the cotton balls dipped in water were not stained with purple. reagent, and cotton balls dipped in alcohol easily dissolved the traces on the ground.

Ke Lan held up the alcohol cotton ball and tentatively approached the rotten blood-corroded vines.

The rotten blood-corroded vines suddenly became restless, but they did not attack Ke Lan. Instead, they shrank back uncharacteristically, and the vines continued to make a tooth-gripping sound...

It really works!

But the amount dipped on a cotton ball was definitely not enough. Ke Lan took this label and quickly ran to the reagent rack with many glass tubes, comparing them one by one.

Finally, on the far left side of the second row, he found a tube of light blue reagent with the same label as the one he was holding.

Ke Lan immediately pulled out the tube of reagent and took it to the Corrupted Blood Corroded Vine again.

He pulled out the stopper and gently slapped the mouth of the tube in the direction of the rotten blood corroded vine a few times - however, this time, there was no reaction from the rotten blood corroded vine.

"Huh?" Ke Lan compared the two labels again. The English letters and numbers on them were exactly the same, and there was no deviation in the order.

There must be something missing somewhere...

"Have you discovered anything?" Asano Akira couldn't help but asked when he noticed Ke Lan walking back and forth in front of the experimental table.

"There are some discoveries, but it seems that there is something wrong somewhere." Ke Lan shook his head and said, "If we can find the root of the problem, maybe these rotten blood and corroded vines will not be an obstacle on our way forward."

As he spoke, he walked back to the glass shards again, squatted down and took a closer look - only then did Ke Lan notice that there was a labeled glass shard under the experimental table.

Previously, due to the angle, the fragment was blocked by the edge of the experimental table, and Ke Lan did not raise his head to look under the table when he squatted down to wipe the reagents.

"Is it a mixed reagent?"

Ke Lan quickly found a second reagent on the shelf. The dye added to this reagent was light pink - when the two reagents were mixed together, it turned into the purple color of the dried traces on the ground.

When the two reagents were mixed together, a large number of bubbles continued to rise from the bottom of the test tube, looking like some kind of grape-flavored soda that had been shaken vigorously.

Before Ke Lan even got close, the rotten blood-corroded vines began to squirm and struggle violently... In less than ten minutes, they all retreated from the laboratory.

The Corrosion Seed's fear of this mixed reagent is even greater than the Corrosion Seed's fear of the Stalagmite!

“The effect is simply outstanding!”

Ke Lan was overjoyed. Although he was not sure whether the appearance of this reagent was a coincidence or part of the institute's related projects, as long as it can be put to use, it is a good thing!

"Asano, follow me!"

Ke Lan greeted Asano Akira and rushed out holding the bubbling test tube.

Wherever Ke Lan went, the rotten blood and corroded vines retreated. For a moment, it seemed as if he was chasing these vines.

Running wildly, Ke Lan finally rushed to the door of Professor Smith's "Laboratory No. 9" before the mixed reagents in the test tube evaporated.

The door to the laboratory was ajar, there were extremely obvious signs of violent opening on the door lock, and the wall was covered with mottled bloodstains.

"There is no movement inside." Asano Akira said.

"Yeah." Ke Lan responded, then kicked open the door to the laboratory.

Except for the three corpses lying on the ground, there was no living thing inside, not even the rotten blood vines had invaded this room.

Ke Lan immediately focused his attention on the table. The transparent experimental operation box had broken into several pieces, and the contents inside were missing.

"I knew...since that thing is intelligent, it can't just stay here and wait for me to come to the door..." Ke Lan turned around and smeared the remaining mixed reagent on the door frame and wall to prevent the rotten blood outside. Xi Teng squeezed in and began to inspect every corner of the laboratory.

The first is the three corpses. The one near the table should be Professor Smith's assistant, the unlucky guy known as "Infected Person No. 1" in official documents. He now looks like a mummy. , the shriveled skin clung to the bones, and the flesh and blood underneath seemed to have been completely drained, the skin membrane that had lost its support collapsed, and even the "eyeballs" that had grown out had turned into dry and hard pieces at this time. Shrunken hard flesh balls - the Crisis Management Department has done experiments before. The "eyeballs" in this state have lost their activity and will not be incapable of memetic infection.

On the contrary, the kind of photos and videos that can be saved permanently are more profound threats than these physical objects.

The other two corpses were security personnel with firearms. Their corpses were similar to those of their assistants, but they had several more gunshot wounds.

It wasn’t the “memes” that killed them, it was these fatal gunshot wounds. Judging from the location of the wounds, these gunshot wounds should have come from the weapons in the hands of their companions - before the two of them were sucked dry by these eyeballs, they took the lead and helped each other free themselves.

There are no valuable clues on the corpse. Even if it is the "Infected Person No. 1" who was originally infected with the "meme", the corpse is exactly the same as those infected people who appeared in subsequent large-scale infection events - in terms of research value, it is estimated to be less than Not as good as those zombie-like "pretenders".

Ke Lan had no corresponding knowledge and technology, no professional tools and equipment, and no ample time. He knew that there was no point in continuing to waste time with these corpses, so he decisively gave up examining the corpses and walked to the computer next to him.

However, what made Ke Lan a little speechless was that the mainframes of the six computers in this laboratory had been corroded by strong acid into a pile of scrap metal, and only one large server used to store data was left. A horrible skeleton.

Looking at this pile of garbage, Ke Lan sighed. Even the most talented technicians would not be able to recover the data.

"There really aren't any clues left..."

The Corrupted Blood Vine had never entered this laboratory, and it was even less likely that these three dead people had destroyed the computer host and server. After the "memetic infection" incident, no one has been to this place again.

This was not an accident, but a deliberate sabotage, and the identity and intentions of the saboteur could not have been more obvious.

This once again proves that the subject of the "meme" really has extremely high intelligence.

"Let's go, this place is for nothing." Ke Lan said to Asano Akira.

Although he was slightly disappointed, this was the ending that Ke Lan had expected, and it did not make him feel too depressed.

Perhaps the biggest discovery since he entered the laboratory building is this mixed reagent that can expel the corrosive blood vines. However, this thing is only useful for dealing with the mobs blocking the road in the early stage. It is also useful for the "BOSS battle" he will face next. ", I'm afraid it won't have the slightest effect.

Ke Lanzhe returned to the previous laboratory, prepared two more bottles of mixed reagents, and applied them to his and Asano Akira's powered armors. Then, they both climbed out of the window and climbed along the outer wall of the laboratory building. Go up to the helipad on the roof.

Without the interference of the Corroded Blood Vine, everything went very smoothly. In less than five minutes, Ke Lan had found the entrance to the icehouse elevator.

The elevator car has disappeared, leaving only an empty elevator shaft. The white cold mist from the underground icehouse is constantly rising from the depths of the elevator shaft.

[P.S. Thanks to jbzd for the 100 starting coins. 】

[P.P.S. If any readers are eating Shaqima while reading this chapter, please allow me to express my sincerest apologies to you... Let me tell you something, I have always felt that the shape of Shaqima has great potential for grammatical cuisine. , the noodles are like tentacles, and nuts such as raisins are eyeballs. Just change the color, and then drizzle dark green syrup on the surface... Please imagine the specific picture. 】