Alien Relic Hunter

"This seems to be a creation of Alpha civilization." Ghost Owl said.

"A mecha made by Alpha Civilization? Then... can humans drive it?" Hound couldn't help but ask.

"I don't know." Ghost Owl shook his head, "I have never heard that among the creations of Alpha Civilization... there is such a thing as a manned mecha."

"I'm quite curious, can humans sit in the cockpit of Alpha Civilization's mecha?" Layton looked eager to try, "By the way, Ke Lan, is there an explanation text for this thing sent along with it?"

"No." Ke Lan shook his head and stretched out his hand to stroke the cold mecha surface - I don't know whether it is because the "blasphemer" is a mass-produced machine and needs to control costs, or for some other reason, this machine's The external armor is not made of Nino alloy, but a special material full of "muscle". Although it is covered with rust, when the machine body moves, these hard metals will Just like the muscles and bones of living organisms, they make extremely natural movements...

Just like the black mummy summoned by the sacrificial ritual.

Rather than being a machine, it is more like a creature made entirely of metal.

"To be honest, I think this thing is like a statue... Look, look!" The hound suddenly raised his voice as if he had discovered a new world, "What is hanging under this machine? Could it be that thing?... ...Except for the fact that there is no head on the neck, this thing looks too much like a human. Even the parts are so complete... By the way, are their mechas divided into male and female ones? This one is male. , if we find Tai’s mother again, will the two mechas be able to give birth to a baby?”

"Old dog, why are you so full of yellow waste... Even the mechas developed by Ark, there will be many machines with external radiators or fire-fighting equipment installed on the crotch of the machine. In my opinion, this thing is probably what Maybe external equipment... No, external equipment doesn't seem to have such a high degree of integration. Could it be that the rust all over the armor surface gave me this illusion?" Leighton tilted his head and circled around. The God walked round and round.

"Valentina, come here and give it a test drive." Ke Lan waved to Valentina who was standing behind the crowd - even though he had personally piloted the Blasphemer mecha once, he had to make the best use of it. To gain the greatest advantage, it must be operated by an ace pilot.

What's more, if Ke Lan serves as the pilot of this "Lucifer", then he will not be able to borrow the power of the living armor... For their team, this is definitely a serious waste of combat power. .

After being called by Ke Lan, Valentina silently walked up to the Blasphemer mecha, looked up at the behemoth for half a minute, and then asked Ke Lan: "Its pilot Where is the cabin...?"

"It should be right here." Ke Lan pointed to the chest of the blasphemer.

"How to open it?" Valentina asked again, "I can't find the cockpit opening device outside the fuselage."

"The things of Alpha civilization... we probably can't think about it with our conventional thinking..." Ke Lan pretended to be stupid, "I think the pipes embedded in the gaps in the armor on the surface of the machine are very similar to the blood vessels of living organisms... …Maybe, this thing needs blood to activate.”

He remembered that when he was in the bottomless sinkhole, the Blasphemer mecha was activated after absorbing the flesh and blood of a creature called "Experimental Subject No. 153", and "Experimental Subject No. 153" was in contact with During the fight, Ke Lan gradually transformed into Ke Lan's appearance... From a certain perspective, it can also be said that Ke Lan's own flesh and blood activated the Blasphemer.

Of course, because of the "big lizard", he would not tell anyone about his experience at the bottom of the bottomless sinkhole. All he could do now was to give Valian guidance in the general direction. Jingna tried it herself.

"Activate it with blood?" Hound couldn't help but asked in astonishment, "If such a big guy were activated with blood, it wouldn't be enough to drain a living person dry, right?"

"It's possible that only one drop of blood is enough." Ivan shrugged, "In Eastern fantasy novels, many magic weapons have a similar function of 'recognizing the owner with a drop of blood'."

Valentina didn't talk nonsense. She stretched the mechanical prosthetic leg in front of her, and a short sword with a blade of nearly twenty centimeters suddenly popped out from her wrist. Her other hand held it without hesitation. He touched the blade of the dagger and wiped it hard, and bright red blood gushed out from the palm of his hand.

"Then what?" Valentina held the blood-stained blade tightly and turned to look at Ke Lan.

"Try to touch the organism... with your blood."

Valentina jumped lightly, and with the power of the prosthetic leg, she easily jumped to the arm of the Blasphemer mecha, and then used the arm as a springboard to jump to the top of the machine in one breath.

She squatted down and pressed the wound on her palm against the machine body.

People with sharp eyes can see that the blood flowing from the wound did not slide along the surface of the armor, but was absorbed by this strange metal... The liquid that was still flowing slowly in those pipes suddenly accelerated, and the liquid that was originally flowing slowly accelerated. The dim fluorescence emitted suddenly turned into bright scarlet.

"It's...really activated..." Layton muttered, looking up at the girl squatting on top of the machine.

The next second, the Blasphemer mecha that was kneeling there suddenly trembled, and everyone subconsciously took a step back. Only Valentina and Ke Lan did not move from their original positions.

"Valentina, come down!" Ke Lan shouted to the girl, "It's ready. It's probably about to stand up. Be careful not to hit the top wall of the container."

"Oh." The girl responded, jumped off the machine, and rolled on the ground, still absorbing the impact of falling from a high place.

Just like Ke Lan activated the Blasphemer last time, the machine that was originally kneeling stood up first, then took half a step forward, leaned down in a half-crouching posture, and stretched out an arm to Valentin. In front of Na.

The cockpit located on the chest and abdomen of the Blasphemer was completely opened, but when they saw the scene in the cockpit, everyone's faces showed strange expressions.

"Why do I feel... this doesn't look like a cockpit, but rather like the bloody mouth of a monster..." The hound lowered his voice and said to Layton, "Especially the fleshy seat, you see it seems to be Squirming...could this thing be the monster's tongue?"

"I...I don't know..." Layton was also a little dumbfounded. The original eagerness to try was no longer visible on his face, "Maybe... it's probably a technology that combines biochemical technology with machinery. ? With the technological level of Alpha Civilization, this makes sense..."

"What's reasonable and unreasonable!" Hound couldn't help but speak faster, "I'm just going to ask you one thing, are you willing to sit in this mecha?"

Layton didn't speak, but shook his head quickly.

No matter who it is, when they see such a cockpit for the first time, there will be some hesitation and resistance in their hearts - especially for a "fanatic believer in the Mechanicum" like Layton, the Blasphemer Machine A reveals a flesh-and-blood cockpit, which is equivalent to a Coca-Cola lover opening a can of Coca-Cola only to find that it is filled with Pepsi... Or a sweet rice dumpling lover biting into it After taking a bite of the rice dumplings wrapped in white sugar, I found that the fillings in my mouth were braised pork and salted egg yolk...

Isn't this a bull's head...ah, no, it should be said to be a blasphemy, a blasphemy against the supreme beauty of mechanical creations!

Layton felt like his heart was breaking.

Even if this machine is opened and contains a steam engine from the industrial revolution of the 19th century... how could it be meat!

"I can't accept it..." Layton shook his head and said to himself, "Now I can be sure... the Alpha people must be heretics and deserve to go to hell."

But Valentina didn't care so much. She stepped on the lowered arms of the Blasphemer mecha, and then sat on the fleshy seat that was still squirming slightly.

"I don't see anything to manipulate..."

Valentina's words stopped abruptly in the middle of her words. Her slender body trembled violently like an electric shock, her head suddenly tilted upward, and her long neck suddenly became straight.

Ke Lan, who had once experienced the Blasphemer's body, knew that the fleshy tentacles "growing" from the chair had penetrated Valentina's spine, completely connecting her consciousness to the body.

But others did not know this. Seeing Valentina like this, the hound immediately jumped up and rushed towards the blasphemer.

As he ran, he shouted: "Doctor, doctor, come here and save people! Damn, there's something wrong with this thing! If something happens to Xiaona, how will I explain to Lao Chi when he comes out..."

However, the hound failed to get close to the blasphemer. A huge mechanical arm lay in front of him, blocking his steps. At the same time, Valentina's somewhat dull voice sounded from the belly of the machine: "I fine."

"Huh?" Ke Lan looked at Valentina sitting in the cockpit. She didn't speak. It was obvious that this sentence was "said" by the blasphemer.

Can this thing also convert the consciousness in the brain into audio and play it? Unfortunately, there was no one else around when he was driving, so he didn't notice such a function at all.

"You...are you Xiaona?" Hound was stunned, "What's going on?"

"My consciousness seems to be connected to this machine." Valentina continued to "speak" with the machine, "It is like an extension of my limbs..."

The blasphemer's mechanical arm raised and drew out the heavy armor-piercing sword mounted on the back of the machine body.

The machine's wrist turned, and the tip of the sword landed on the ground, trembling slightly.

Everyone soon discovered that Valentina actually used the tip of her sword to write the name of this machine on the ground in one centimeter square font: Fallen Angel Machine No. 1 - "Lucifer".

In front of the huge sword body, this line of elegant small characters forms a sharp contrast... The operation precision required is even higher than using an ordinary carving knife to micro-carve on a material the size of a grain of rice. .

For conventional mechas, if a computer program is used to control the movement of the robotic arm, it may be possible, but this Blasphemer mecha doesn't even have an on-screen keyboard in the cockpit, let alone the kind of presets. Control program.

"I understand, it's the neural connection system!" Layton clapped his hands vigorously, "The reason why there are no joysticks or buttons in the cockpit of this thing is because it is controlled by the driver's consciousness! This control method can reduce the operation delay to a level infinitely close to zero. For the operator, the moment he sits in the cockpit, the machine becomes his second body."

"Didn't you say you can't accept it?" Hound couldn't help but roll his eyes at Layton, "Why are you so excited now?"

"Because the neural connection system is one of the most important development routes for the future mecha industry, as long as this technical difficulty can be overcome, even a person who has never been exposed to mechas or even doesn't know how to drive a car can achieve this goal. The level of the current ace pilot!" Layton explained with spittle.

"So exaggerated?" The Hound looked at Layton, then at the fully open "flesh cockpit" of the Blasphemer, and said, "But... you just said this was heresy. What's wrong? Now you have changed. Got an idea?"

"Although I still can't accept this style of cockpit, I can learn from the technical aspects. Old dog, have you ever heard of bionics? Human beings have been inspired by technological progress in many kinds of creatures... This It does not go against my original intention... For example, the neural connection system does not have to use living organisms, it can be replaced by metal electrodes..."

"Stop it, I'm not interested in hearing what you say, not to mention that I can't understand it." Hound waved his hand, "I only care about this big guy's combat effectiveness now."

"The mobility is more than four times that of Augustus. The weapons include the sword in his hand...the blade can be charged to activate a light blade similar to an energy shield, and there is also a plasma cannon." Valian. Jingna said.

Ke Lan raised his eyebrows calmly. It seemed that this Blasphemer's weapon list did not include "annihilation bombs". He didn't know whether it was not equipped at the beginning or was dismantled later...or... Yes, it has been used...

"Plasma cannon? Isn't that thing the main gun of a battleship?" Hound couldn't help but open his mouth. "This thing...if it is used in a tunnel, won't it also vaporize the surrounding teammates?"

"It should be a small plasma cannon, not as exaggerated as the one on the battleship." Leighton said, "But it is very difficult to miniaturize this thing. You know, the plasma cannon on the battleship is just The size of the cooling device is larger than the entire container."

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