Alien Relic Hunter

"My connection with the battleship's console has not been cut off. I can already feel the presence of the console and issue instructions to it through my consciousness... In other words, where we are now is indeed in the 'Yagunak' Thor's interior." Ke Lan said.

"Those who work in this industry should be used to it a long time ago, right?" Thirty-three's voice rang out.

Several of them arrived at Block 1 almost immediately behind Ivan and Akira Asano. As members of the former elite force, this group of people showed strong tactical literacy as soon as they landed: more than four and a half yuan The tall mobile shield was set up in the blink of an eye. Coupled with two general-purpose machine guns and a minefield in front of the shield made of rapidly deployed anti-infantry mines, a standard defensive fortress appeared in front of Ke Lan's eyes. .

"It's still too slow." Thirty-three said with some self-blame, "According to the previous requirements in the army, the time to set up the shield and assemble the machine gun cannot exceed fifteen seconds, which is almost twenty seconds. It seems that we are comfortable It’s been too long.”

"This speed is already very fast." Ke Lan said.

"But those beasts are faster." Thirty-three shook his head, "On the battlefield, as long as the speed of erecting the shield barrier is slower for one second, the defense line will be broken through several more times... You know how to be killed by those things If we enter the defense line, how many casualties will we incur?"

"Once, we jointly operated with a second-line force to intercept a migrating group of earth dragons in an open valley. As a result, they were two seconds slow in setting up a defense line, and the ground dragons at the front were slowed down by two seconds. Xinglong rushed into the position without any hindrance..." Another retired soldier from the Velociraptor team said. He kept shaking his head as he spoke, his eyes full of unbearability.

"Then what?" Ke Lan couldn't help but ask.

Although the other party said they are second-line troops, the second-line troops of the Field Corps can be regarded as real elites in other places. Their combat effectiveness is definitely not much weaker. At most, the personnel and equipment configuration are like that of the Velociraptor Squad. The small group of special operations troops is only half a chip away.

"There were three hundred and fifty-seven people in that infantry battalion. In the end, only nineteen people returned alive, and not one of the nineteen people's bodies was intact." Thirty-three took over.

"But this can only mean that the battle process is more difficult... If only a few earth dragons break in, concentrate your firepower to quickly eliminate them, and then..."

Before Ke Lan finished speaking, he was interrupted by Thirty-Three: "Everyone can talk about war on paper, but the battlefield in reality is different from real-time strategy games. After a hole is opened in the defense line, the enemy behind has already They are pouring in continuously, and this hole will only get bigger and bigger, and it won’t be long before even that part of the established defense line will collapse.”

"There was no fighting process at all in that battle. From the moment the defense line was breached, there was only a rout." The veteran who spoke earlier said, "Otherwise we could barely maintain our formation when we retreated. Use firepower to suppress the beasts that rush up, and even those nineteen people probably won't survive."

"Are there no mechas or tanks? What about air support?" Ke Lan asked.

"Heavy equipment, air and artillery support are not always available. On such a rapidly changing battlefield, even if the command headquarters issues an emergency order, it will take time for the order to be conveyed and implemented. As a soldier, your only What you can rely on is the gun in your hand and the teammates around you." Thirty-three said.

Ke Lan originally wanted to ask about the details of the battle, but Valentina's voice suddenly rang through the communication channel - "They are starting to approach me."

Ke Lan and Thirty-three looked up at the same time and saw the group of wolf-like creatures forming a semi-circle of about 180 degrees, surrounding "Augustus" inside. Several of them were relatively tall. The tall wolf-like creature was tentatively approaching the machine.

"Try to use force to scare them." Ke Lan replied.

"Okay." As soon as Valentina finished speaking, Augustus raised his left leg high and stepped on it hard!

"Bang!!"

With Augustus as the center, a large amount of smoke and dust instantly rose up. Even Ke Lan and the others, who were standing dozens of meters away, could feel a strong earthquake coming from the ground beneath their feet.

Although Ke Lan and the others' vision was obscured by smoke and dust, Valentina immediately shared the monitor screen of "Augustus" to the communication channel. Through the screen, those wolf creatures could be seen. He just took two steps back at first, but then used the cover of smoke and dust to rush directly towards "Augustus".

"Not only did it not act as a deterrent, it actually inspired the ferocious nature of these creatures." Ivan said.

"Permission to counterattack, no need to hold back!" Ke Lan immediately ordered.

The shared perspective instantly moved, and a flash of silver light was seen. Augustus had rushed out of the range of the smoke, and on the outside of its arms, there were two more crescent-shaped blades - a series of splashes of blood. Chasing behind the pair of blades, the blades themselves were not stained with any blood.

Augustus took a dozen steps back before stopping, and then assumed a defensive counterattack posture in the direction of Yanchen.

However, those wolf-like creatures did not chase them out of the smoke.

It wasn't until the smoke cleared after a few seconds that everyone could clearly see what had happened - the bodies of three wolf-like creatures had been chopped off at the waist. These three happened to be the largest "alpha wolves" that had tried to approach Augustus earlier. , and other wolf-like creatures fell on the body of the "alpha wolf", tearing and biting the flesh and blood of the "alpha wolf".

"It is clear that there is a formidable enemy, but the first reaction of these beasts is not to continue the pursuit, but to devour the bodies of their slain companions. This..." a former member of the Velociraptor Team said with a look of astonishment.

"It means these beasts are really hungry." Thirty-three nodded, "For them, eating is a priority over defending against foreign enemies."

"The carcasses they were eating before have been eaten up... If we hadn't come over, they would probably have started a new round of killing each other," Ivan said.

Although the three "alpha wolves" were strong and strong, they could not withstand the feeding of dozens of hungry wolves. In less than two minutes, their corpses had all been chewed up, leaving only the torn pieces. A torn skeleton and broken fur stained with blood.

After eating this "fast food", those wolf-like creatures finally focused their attention on Augustus and the group of ruin hunters behind the mecha.

"Let my people deal with them." Ghost Owl said, "A living beast is worth more than a dead one."

Ten hunters from the Gray Bird Hunting Group lined up, raised their tranquilizer guns, and pointed their guns at the "wolves" in the distance.

"put!"

Ghost Owl gave an order, and ten tranquilizer guns fired at the same time. This posture was somewhat similar to the "queue to kill" tactic when gunpowder guns first entered the army in the seventeenth century, but compared with the deafening gunfire and choking gunpowder guns. The muzzle smoke and the movement produced when the tranquilizer gun is fired are so small that they are almost negligible.

Not only the movement during shooting, but also the shooting effect... seems to be negligible.

Not a single wolf-like creature fell down, as if these tranquilizer guns had been fired into the air.

The distance between the two sides is only a hundred meters. Each of these tranquilizer guns is a high-end hunting tool produced by a top firearms company. Coupled with high-precision optical sights, it is impossible to miss the target.

But if a stone is thrown into the water, it will still make a splash, but when these anesthetic guns hit those wolf-like creatures, they didn't even react at all.

"Is it possible that the amount of medicine is too small?" Ivan looked at Ghost Owl and asked.

"The ammunition used is reinforced ammunition, with a dose of sixteen standard units." Ghost Owl said expressionlessly.

Anesthetic bombs, like "active ammunition", also have standard dosage units... Generally speaking, a standard unit of dosage is enough to inject a strong adult man within three seconds without any strengthening or modification surgery. Three or four units are enough to place a bull.

Sixteen units... can be considered a "lethal dose" if used on humans.

"Load the ammunition and prepare for the second round."

There was another salvo, followed by the third and fourth rounds... The reason why there was no fifth round was not because the ammunition was exhausted, but because those wolf-like creatures had already rushed in front of Augustus and were getting close to the mecha. A fight broke out.

But before that, not even a single wolf-like creature was knocked down by a tranquilizer bomb.

"The resistance of these organisms... is not generally high." Ivan said while taking notes on the device he carried.

"Change to a live ammunition gun." Ghost Owl said, his tone still maintaining a calm tone - for him, this kind of thing is not even an "accident".

Not all the wolf-like creatures targeted Augustus. Almost half of them bypassed the tall mecha and rushed towards Ke Lan and the others.

"First shoot with a small-caliber firearm to test the defense of these creatures." Ke Lan said.

The live ammunition guns equipped by the hunters of the Gray Bird Hunting Group are all modifications of the Ark series carbines, and the calibers are all ten millimeters. The bullets fired by this thing are enough to cut a person in half, but when used on Alpha indigenous creatures On his body, it can indeed only be regarded as a "small-caliber firearm."

"Three bursts of short bursts, targeting the leg joints first," Ghost Owl said.

"Boom! Boom! Boom!..." The sound of gunshots suddenly rang out, but at this moment, an unexpected scene happened - the wolf-like creatures rushing at the front, on their bodies, A faint "light curtain" actually appeared!

When the bullets fired by the hunters of the Gray Bird Hunting Group touched these "light curtains", they instantly turned into tiny sparks and splashed away, completely unable to harm the creatures behind the light curtains!

"Is this... is this an energy shield?!" Even Ghost Owl, who had seen strange events, couldn't help but frowned at this time, "How can an energy shield appear on a living body?"

Although the "light curtain" on these wolf-like creatures is much dimmer than the energy shield created by the shield generator, judging from the collision effect of the bullet, this is definitely a genuine energy shield - those The fine and bright sparks are actually metal droplets produced after the bullet is melted by high temperature. What else can this defense mechanism be but an energy shield?

"Energy shields don't necessarily appear on living things..." Speaking of the energy shields of living things, Ke Lan immediately thought of the "resurrected" ancient behemoth-Leviathan. The reason why Vitan can release an energy shield is because those bloody worms simulate the structure of a shield generator in its body... and these "wolf-like creatures" in front of them obviously cannot have such an ability.

If they had a "shield generator" in their bodies, when Augustus cut the three "wolves" in half just now, their corpses would have exploded directly instead of becoming food for the same kind of people.

"It's different, it's different from that time." Ivan shook his head repeatedly. Obviously he knew that the "creature with an energy shield" that Ke Lan was referring to was the Leviathan beast. "This is a completely different beast. mechanism……"

His eyes gradually heated up - for any biology enthusiast, this is a pioneering discovery. Ivan knows better than anyone present that the energy shield appears in the body of living organisms. body, what does this mean.

"We must capture living samples!" Ivan shouted. "I can't find the right words to describe their research value for a while, but as long as you know, the mysteries contained in these creatures are probably no less than those of a wild animal." kind!"

"Is this too exaggerated? Can these guys compare with prehistoric species?" Thirty-three pinched his nose and asked. Unexpectedly, he had already clamped several flying knives made of Nino alloy between his fingers. , if Ivan hadn't spoken, he would have thrown the flying knife away at this time.

The wolf-like creature had already rushed into the minefield, and the anti-infantry mines were activated one after another - hundreds of metal balls the size of broad beans spun at high speed and jumped up from the ground, then exploded one after another, ejecting even smaller steel balls inside. .

The hunters noticed that only some of the steel balls were intercepted by the "energy shield" on the wolf-like creatures, and some of them were actually shot onto their bodies - but the small steel balls did not hurt these skins. The only effect of the rough and thick beasts is probably to slightly slow down their charging speed.

"They seem to be unable to control the energy shield... Is it an adaptive triggering mechanism? Or is it a stress response of the organism? No, no, it may be more complicated than I thought... Could it be at the cellular level... ..." Ivan is still "brainstorming" on his side, while on the other side, the two machine guns behind the shield have begun to roar.

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