Alien Relic Hunter

Although the caliber of the 8.65mm HE bullet used by the MG-010S "Reaper" general machine gun is slightly smaller than the 10mm full-power bullet of the assault rifle, and the penetration and stopping effect are slightly weaker, but the rifle The bullets used are usually filled with lead cores or steel cores, while AP bullets use tungsten cores... But for this kind of HE bullets, the warheads are filled with micro detonators and high explosives.

(Anti-bargaining tips: The penetrating power and stopping effect of the warhead have nothing to do. There is no saying that the stopping effect is weak if the penetrating power is strong. The two attributes do not conflict. In addition, AP and HE are armor-piercing and high-definition respectively. Abbreviation for explosive bomb.)

When a solid warhead hits the energy shield, it will only be melted by the energy shield into molten metal, and then pushed out by the rapidly expanding air under high temperature. However, high-explosive bombs are different. Each round will explode firmly on the ground. On top of the shield, the light curtain quickly dimmed to the point where it was almost invisible.

There are currently only two effective ways to deal with energy shields: one is to use a physical weapon with a large enough mass that cannot be completely ablated by the shield in a short time to penetrate the shield and directly attack the target behind the shield. attack. Another method is to use energy shields or explosions to "reduce" the strength of the shield until the entire shield is exhausted.

A flurry of high-explosive bombs directly blew away the shields of these wolf-like creatures, followed by their fur, flesh, and bones.

When the last wolf-like creature fell, the barrels of the two machine guns had become red and translucent.

"It seems that the task of catching people alive can only be left to Valentina." Ke Lan glanced at the broken corpses on the ground and shrugged helplessly at Ivan.

Looking at another battlefield, the situation was almost one-sided. Augustus did not even use those thermal weapons with terrifying firepower. He almost killed ordinary "wolf-like creatures" by relying only on the double blades on his arm armor.

"Don't kill them all, try to catch a few alive." Ke Lan said to Valentina on the communication channel.

"Okay." After saying the good word, Augustus put away his double blades, made fists with both hands and started fighting with these wolf-like creatures - the claws of these beasts were very sharp, but they were not as strong as the Nino alloy armor. Compared to this, they are still a few notches behind. Their only result was probably scratching Augustus’s beautiful silver paint...

But every chipped paint and scratch was obtained by using some part of their limbs or even their own lives. If they didn't adopt the "fighting with wounds" method, these wolf-like creatures wouldn't even be able to touch them. to Augustus.

I saw a wolf-like creature leaping up from the ground, trying to pounce on Augustus' back, but Augustus turned around, grabbed it with a mechanical hand in the air, and slammed it to the ground.

Even though they were dozens of meters away, Ke Lan still seemed to hear the crisp sound of countless bones being broken in the wolf-like creature.

The flexibility of this mecha formed a very obvious contrast with its huge body. With the anti-gravity device and high-pressure jet air cushion installed on its feet, it is like a ballet dancer gliding on the ice, constantly walking through the gaps in the battlefield. Every time it takes a shot, it can instantly severely damage a wolf-like creature. biology.

In less than five minutes in total, no one of the wolf-like creatures watching Augustus was still standing.

"The total number of targets was thirty-one, nineteen were killed, four were severely injured and nearly dead, and eight were incapacitated." Valentina reported on the communication channel.

"well done."

"In addition, I also discovered something." Valentina said again.

"What?"

"Their teeth... although they cannot penetrate the body's armor, they can tear through the energy shield." Valentina described an astonishing and shocking news in a very calm tone - if it were placed a few hours ago, this news would have been It is indeed very shocking, but now, after everyone has discovered that these wolf-like creatures can use their bodies to release energy shields, the fact that their teeth can break the shield can only be said to be strange.

After all, if they don't have the means to break the energy shield, how can they kill their own kind?

"The teleportation point has been cleared. Thirty-three, you and the Gray Bird Hunting Group each selected four people to stay in this area. Valentina and Augustus also stayed, and the others took the captured wolf-like creatures. Return to the supply base with the body." Ke Lan ordered.

This is the correct way to explore ruins: proceed slowly and step by step. Only in this way can risks and casualties during exploration be controlled to a minimum.

After Ke Lan and others returned to the supply base at the other end of the transmission channel with their "trophies", the entire base immediately became busy——

First of all, the corpses of these wolf-like creatures must be sealed immediately to prevent them from rotting, and injured and captured individuals must be treated immediately... Ivan is responsible for this part of the affairs, so much so that Layton couldn't help but complain. "Lao Maozi has been a doctor for half his life, but now he is working as a veterinarian."

Research on wolf-like creatures must be put on pace immediately, but there are only the most basic anatomy equipment in the supply base. It would be a waste of resources if experiments were conducted here. Even Ivan, who was impatient, could only pick up a few badly damaged pieces of wreckage to satisfy his craving. As for the captured living samples, they still had to be returned to the Ark intact.

On the other side, Ke Lan asked Ye Yan to select a group of people from the logistics staff and divide them into two groups: the "engineering team" and the "survey team" to go to Block 1 for the construction of the outpost and further geological research. Environmental Survey.

In addition, he also placed a new order for the Ye Consortium: the exploration team urgently needs a drone that is lightweight, uninterrupted by magnetic fields, and can reach a flying height of at least 10,000 meters - although Ke Lan has determined that, Block No. 1 should be a "cabin" inside "Yagunaktor", but the roof that was supposed to be a solid cabin has turned into a sky dome that seems to have almost no height limit, and there is a star in the sky. The "sun" that emits light and heat is more puzzling.

In order to find out whether the sky and the "sun" in the sky really exist or are simulated by some device, an aircraft must be used to conduct vertical exploration - if necessary, Ke Lan even plans to let manned aircraft to accomplish this mission.

Not only air exploration, but ground exploration must also follow up. If Block 1 is a cabin inside "Yagunaktor", then this cabin must have boundaries. Just like the various blocks on the Ark, even if the area of ​​​​the individual blocks is so large that it takes several hours to drive across it, as long as you keep walking in one direction, you will eventually be blocked by a wall - no matter what Is this wall a fence for a certain block, or a dividing wall between blocks... or a safety wall between the residential area and the outer structure of the Ark, as long as it is a closed structure, the wall must exist .

"I need an armed convoy." Ke Lan said to Ye Yan on the other end of the video call. "I'm afraid it won't take a few days to reach the border of Block 1 with human feet. We have to use high-speed Only mobile vehicles will do.”

"It makes sense." Ye Yan nodded, the fat on his chin trembling. "These vehicles must be light and highly maneuverable, and also have certain firepower and defense capabilities. Although from previous battles, Judging from the picture, those wolf-like creatures are not very powerful, but it cannot be ruled out that there may be something else in Block 1."

"This requirement should be very simple for the Ye Consortium, right? It should be a matter of minutes to even take out an airframe like the 'Augustus' and modify a few off-road vehicles." Ke Lan said.

"Of course, let alone our Ye family, there are a lot of off-road vehicles on the market that meet this requirement... However, since Brother Ke Lan has entrusted this matter to us, then we will naturally come up with the best Products come..."

Ye Yan rolled his eyes and continued: "A new off-road vehicle with performance that surpasses most similar competing products on the market, and it bears the name of 'S-Class Ruins Yagunaktor Exploration Pioneer'." No., I think it will sell well after mass production! Our Ye family has been immersed in the military industry for decades, and it is time to enter the civilian vehicle market."

It has to be said that although this little fat guy has no talent in mecha research and development, his business acumen is not bad at all. Ke Lancai only made one request, and he immediately thought of mass production and marketization, and then came up with the idea of ​​mass production and marketization. The idea of ​​taking this opportunity to open up the civilian market - this guy is really good at doing business.

After all, most of the focus of Ark is now on the "Yagunaktor". At this time, a new vehicle is launched and put into exploration. This vehicle is estimated to be available before it is officially mass-produced. With a lot of exposure and traffic, coupled with Ye's secret hype and promotion, after the official launch, the sales data will not be ugly.

At present, the vehicle manufacturer with the largest market share on Ark is "General Motors", which has been inherited from the old era. The "Junius" series of off-road vehicles that currently rank first on Ark is his company. The product.

Relying on close cooperation with the military, General Motors successfully acquired Volkswagen and Daimler Group in the old era and became a veritable leader in the automobile industry. Divide the world.

However, in the new era, only two independent companies of Japanese cars, Toyota, owned by the Mitsui Consortium, and Mitsubishi, owned by the Mitsubishi Consortium, are left. As for the Fuji Consortium and its Nissan, they have disappeared in the long river of history.

As for Huaxia Automobile, which had developed to the point where it could almost compete with General Motors, it switched to researching more important aerospace vehicles and space battleships, and took the initiative to cede the automobile and later hovercraft markets to others.

Ye Yan's move is quite ambitious to "revive the glory of China's automobile industry."

Just as Ke Lan and Ye Yan were discussing the configuration requirements of the fleet and the replenishment of other supplies, a hunter from the Tide Hunting Group suddenly ran over in a hurry and said to Ke Lan: "Mr. Ke Lan! Doctor Ivan asked you to Go over there immediately, he said he made an important discovery!"

"Important discovery?" Ke Lan was stunned for a moment, and after briefly explaining to Ye Yan, he turned off the video communication, got up and walked towards the base laboratory.

There is indeed a biology laboratory in the frontline supply base, but this laboratory is as crude as a biology classroom used for students to do some simple experiments in the business and academic stage. It does not have advanced research equipment at all. After being transported to "Yagunaktor", there was only one dissecting table and two optical microscopes in the entire laboratory.

What can you find with this little thing...?

With this idea in mind, Ke Lan opened the door to the laboratory.

Ivan was sitting behind a table at the moment, staring at the eyepiece of the microscope attentively, gently turning the focusing knob with one hand, and carefully adjusting the position of the slide with tweezers with the other.

"Any important discoveries?" Ke Lan pulled up a chair, sat down opposite Ivan, and said straight to the point.

"You will know after you come and see for yourself." Ivan raised his head and said to Ke Lan, "Although it is impossible to see more microscopic details due to the limitations of the equipment, this alone is enough to be included in the next issue of Authority It’s on the cover of biology magazine.”

"What... are you calling it so mysterious?" Ke Lan had to stand up again before his butt got hot, walked around the table, walked to the microscope, and put his eyes up.

There is a tissue section on the slide that is about the size of a little fingernail. The thickness of the section is as thin as a cicada. The reflector on the microscope base can illuminate the entire tissue clearly.

Although Ke Lan did not have high attainments in biology or anatomy, he still discovered the problem at the first sight.

"That thing outside...could it be...the cell wall?" Ke Lan raised his head in astonishment and met Ivan's complicated eyes.

"Theoretically... yes." Ivan nodded, "But I'm not even sure whether this thing is the same thing as the 'cell wall' we know."

"But don't animal cells have cell walls?" Ke Lan wondered, "Are these creatures that look so similar to wolves actually plants... or fungi?"

He instantly remembered the "mimetic fungi" they had encountered in the wilderness. Could it be said that these wolf-like creatures were actually a combination of fungi?

That's not right. If they are combined, they are not so easy to kill - after being hit by a bullet, they should disintegrate directly.

[P.S. Thanks to King Butcher for the 200 starting coins; thanks to Seventeen and H Han Paopao on the tree for the 100 starting coins. 】