Alien Relic Hunter

There was a loud "stab" sound, and a large seam was suddenly torn open in the floor of the carriage. The steel plate at the tear was folded to both sides, and a skinny, blackened arm stretched out from the outside and grabbed The edge of the steel plate.

This is a human palm...but it doesn't look like a limb of a living person, but like it comes from a dried mummy.

The ends of the fingers have long, sharp and broken nails that are as sharp as claws. These nails scrape against the steel plate, making a continuous and heart-breaking sound. The engineer almost immediately thought of the sound coming from above his head not long ago. , he originally thought it was some kind of multi-legged arthropod creature similar to a centipede, but now it seems that it is probably the harsh noise made by these nails scratching the armor of the car body.

The crack in the steel plate became larger again, and a second black arm like a mummy stretched into the car... followed by the third and fourth...

Could there be more than one monster under the car... No, that's not right! These arms are from the same body! The engineer felt as if his body had lost control, and an indescribable feeling of fear seized his heart... He wanted to pull the trigger, but found that the trigger seemed to be welded to death and could not be pulled.

On the contrary, Lao Le roared immediately, picked up his two guns and shot at those arms!

But as soon as the bullets came into contact with these arms, these arms were immediately shattered - to be precise, they were not shattered, but "scattered" apart!

These arms turned into countless tiny black beetles in an instant!

These small beetles moved extremely fast, and in the blink of an eye they were all over the machine gunner's body - the latter turned into a pale skeleton before he could make any sound, and fell inside the carriage.

This speed is countless times more exaggerated than the shocking army ants on Earth!

"Insects, bugs?!" Lao Le was also dumbfounded at this time. His muzzle subconsciously followed the swarm of insects, but after these beetles gnawed away the flesh and blood of the machine gunner, they suddenly pounced on the man who had just looked at the photos of his wife and children. On top of the soldiers, Lao Le couldn't help but hesitate briefly - if he fired now, he wasn't sure how many bugs he could kill, but the teammate targeted by the bugs would definitely die.

The full power of the ten millimeter caliber bullet will tear the human body cleanly and smash the organs... If you are shot at this distance, you will not even have a chance to be rescued.

Or to put it another way, not even the whole body will be left behind.

But in less than half a second when Lao Le hesitated, the soldier followed in the footsteps of the machine gunner and was eaten up by these black beetles.

The two forest-white skeletons scattered and slid along the sloping floor to one end of the carriage - these black beetles not only ate up all the flesh and blood on the two people, but even the cartilage and tendons between the bones were not left. Down.

But...these bugs...

They don't seem to be full.

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On the other side, the First Cruise Fleet finally arrived at the anchoring airspace of Yagunaktor and completed the handover with Fleet Zero.

Those researchers who were not seriously injured were also sent to the frontline supply base and devoted to the study of wolf-like creatures - although most of the research instruments and equipment were damaged during Ke Lan's "violent unloading" process, but While Ke Lan was dealing with the hijacking incident, Ye's consortium spent a lot of money to urgently purchase a batch from Ark and sent it over... In Ye Yan's words, it can be regarded as "making up for the past".

Although compared with the mistakes made by the Ye Family Consortium due to negligence, this compensation can only be said to be negligible, but neither Ke Lan nor the Immortal Crew Association seems to have the intention to hold the Ye Family responsible. The fat man Ye Yan secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

However, before Ke Lan even got hot, he immediately received an encrypted call from the field corps.

The content of the call was probably that the field army originally planned to send a special team to dig tunnels to send Ke Lan and others into the ruins of the Ancient Bronze City. However, just a few minutes ago, this special team suddenly disappeared underground. The communication between them and the headquarters was also completely cut off.

The Field Corps immediately dispatched a reinforcement force composed of about a hundred elite soldiers and equipped with a large amount of active ammunition and various advanced weapons into the tunnel... But even when they were about to arrive at the location where the special team lost contact, this group of troops The army of hundreds of people suddenly lost all news.

With the firepower of this team, even if they encounter a powerful SP-type mutant, they can "poison" the enemy to death by pouring a massive amount of active ammunition... To put it in perspective, even if they encounter a powerful SP-type mutant that attacked Mu The "giant centipede" at the Kach base can at least send some news back before it is completely destroyed.

However, even if it was a scream before death, the command headquarters in the rear did not hear it.

One second, the communication soldiers of this unit were still conducting routine reports as usual, and the next second, the entire communication channel fell into silence instantly - as if this unit had evaporated from the world at that moment.

If you want to achieve this effect, after much deliberation, only the power of the black bishop can do it.

The commander of the field corps immediately decided to report to the Undead Crew... Apart from the prophets, the Black Bishop heretic sect is the most feared existence. Their danger does not lie in their terrifying destructive power - if we talk about destructive power alone, More than 90% of the black bishops could not keep up with the giant centipede that appeared in the Mukach base. If they had just turned into a black skeleton, their threat would not even be as threatening as an SP-type mutant.

The reason why they are feared is entirely because of the randomness, instability and uncontrollability of the sacrificial rituals.

Just as Ke Lan had imagined before, send a dozen black bishops to sneak into the Ark, wear bomb vests and go directly to important facilities such as reactors, research institutes, ammunition depots, etc. to perform sacrifices and other rituals Halfway through, detonate a bomb to interrupt the sacrifice by committing suicide. As long as one of them wins the "jackpot" and triggers a space storm, or an effect similar to a hydrogen bomb explosion, the damage caused is absolutely difficult to estimate, and it is even possible to directly blow up the entire Ark.

Although Ke Lan didn't know why the prophet didn't adopt such simple and crude tactics, it didn't mean that the Ark military would underestimate the danger of the Black Bishop - no matter where it was, in the wilderness or inside the Ark, as long as it was found Suspecting the existence of the Black Bishop, they will all rank the elimination of the Black Bishop as the highest priority mission goal.

But this time, after the headquarters submitted the combat report to the Undead Crew Association, the crew association only responded with a very brief sentence: "The original combat plan has been started in advance."

The so-called "original combat plan" refers to the combat operation in which the "Gopher Team" dug the tunnel and sent Ke Lan and others into the ruins of the Ancient Bronze City to seize control of the ruins... But now not only the tunnel is not good Eleven kilometers have not been opened, and even the gopher team responsible for digging the tunnel and the follow-up reinforcements are still alive and dead. In this case, the undead crew will start the combat plan in advance, and the meaning is obvious.

They want Ke Lan to clean up this mess.

Ke Lan listened to the officer who called him tell the whole story. A curse word brewed in his throat for a long time, but he still didn't curse it out.

He also knew that this officer...or rather, the entire field corps headquarters including this officer, was just a messenger, and scolding them was completely meaningless.

If you want to scold me, you might as well go directly to the crew members.

But when Ke Lan tried to dial the communication number Pan left for him, what came from the other end of the phone was a robotic female voice saying "The user you are calling is not in the service area."

"Fuck...isn't this a landline number? Is it not in the service area?" Ke Lan cut off the phone with some displeasure. The hound beside him patted him on the shoulder and comforted him: "I have done this before. I've seen it a lot in the army...many of the orders were thought up by the people at the top just by patting their heads - well, maybe it wasn't the patting on the head but the patting on the ass. They never consider the specific situation of the people below. , anyway, if plan A doesn’t work, there is still plan B, if plan B fails, there is still plan C... As for the life and death of those who implement these plans, who cares?”

Hound poured a glass of soda and handed it to Ke Lan, then continued: "Just think that the waiter has resigned, and the food that was originally brought to the table for you has become a buffet... Anyway, this is a rotten dish to begin with. It doesn't matter whether it looks good or not. I would say that instead of opposing this surprise attack, it would be better for the people above to cancel the entire combat plan... The storming of the ruins of the Ancient Bronze City looks like it is killing people. Push it through the meat grinder.”

"I also think the old dog is right." Layton nodded, "This combat plan was drawn up too hastily. From the discovery of the traces of the heretical sect to the decision of the entire combat operation, there was not even an hour. There is not enough time... Even if those extremist organizations from the old era wanted to launch a terrorist attack, they would have to start planning at least several days in advance."

"But we have no way to refuse." Ke Lan sighed, "This is just like Old Dog, your army has received a mission that is obviously a death mission. In addition to obeying the order, you can only choose to defect. The third option is from the beginning. It doesn’t exist... Of course, you can ignore orders, but disobeying orders on the spot is no different from defecting."

The hound suddenly fell silent. He stared at Ke Lan fiercely, breathing heavily and unable to say a word.

Ke Lan's words touched upon the past that he least wanted to mention.

Indeed, at that time, he knew that his troops were being used as bait, but he still had no choice but to obey and send his men to hell with his own hands... Even if there was trouble later, it was only because the soldiers who died did not receive the compensation and compensation they deserved. Compensation - If he had disobeyed from the beginning, he would have been shot long ago.

"There is no point in mentioning this now." Thirty-three glanced at the hound with complicated eyes, and then focused on Ke Lan, "You might as well discuss how to activate this early combat plan. "

"The situation is not optimistic...or to put it simply, the situation has gotten worse." Ke Lan said, "The gopher team and subsequent reinforcements should have been wiped out. Obviously, this tunnel has entered the ruins. The heretical sect's combat plan has been noticed by the heretic sect. Even if we eliminate the enemies in the tunnel and get through the last eleven kilometers, the entire action plan cannot be regarded as a surprise attack at all. The heretical sect in the ruins can completely wait and work. Waiting for us at the exit of the tunnel——"

"This isn't called infiltration warfare at all." The hound said angrily after his breathing became slightly calmer, "This is called throwing yourself into a trap."

"That's not necessarily true. As long as the power is strong enough - a surprise attack can completely turn into a force attack." Thirty-three shook his head, "With the two of you, I think the heretical sect will most likely misjudge the strength of the infiltration team. This It’s an opportunity.”

Thirty-three's eyes moved from Ke Lan to Ze Luo - he had never met Ze Luo, and unlike Cao Ge, he didn't have a general idea of ​​Ze Luo's abilities. He didn't even know that Ze Luo was a hunter. A member of the Divine Hunting Group or the family member of a certain member... However, his fighting instinct kept reminding him that this girl with a somewhat perfect appearance was definitely better than anything he had ever seen on the battlefield or in the ruins. Monsters are all scary.

If Thirty-Three had encountered Ze Luo alone in the wilderness, he wouldn't have even thought of fighting him - turn around, run away, maybe there would be a glimmer of hope.

It's just a glimmer of hope.

He didn't know how to describe this feeling. It was the unique sense of danger that a veteran warrior had... But he was also glad that at least this girl was on their side now.

"You mean, you want Ze Luo to participate in the operation?" Ke Lan turned his head and glanced at Ze Luo, who was playing the game console, and couldn't help but hesitate.

In fact, he was very reluctant to let Ze Luo fight the heretical sect, but with his own strength, if the enemy was a black bishop, he really might not be sure of winning.

Like the black mummy on the Hercules transport plane before, he had no choice but to rely on Ze Luo to get rid of that guy.

What's more, the black bishop in the tunnel is only the "first level", and there are more enemies and traps waiting for them later.

Before Ke Lan made a decision, Ze Luo took the initiative to put down the game console in his hand and said to Ke Lan, "I want to go."

"...This operation is very dangerous, and the chance of escaping unscathed is very low." Ke Lan said to her.

"Without me, your chance of surviving unharmed would be even lower." Ze Luo said, "Actually, you know very well that my own safety is the least thing to worry about... You are worried that I will lose control, so You don’t want me to participate in this combat operation, right?”