Alien Relic Hunter

"Plasma cannon?" Ivan showed a trace of hesitation on his face, "If we use it in such a narrow space, we will all be evaporated by the heat released by the plasma, right?"

"I think this can work." Layton said, "Let Ozawa gather those insects together, and 'Lucifer' uses the minimum power plasma cannon to carry out precise strikes. As for the residual heat that escapes, Augustus' The energy shield should be able to absorb it all."

"Just do what Lao Lei said." Ke Lan made a decision.

Ze Luo repeated his old trick, gathering the scattered black beetles together again with invisible barriers, and then "crushed" them into a solid black ball. Layton controlled Augustus to stand in front of everyone, and the energy shield was deployed at full power, covering the entire mine cart.

A simple-looking, jet-black gun barrel stretched out from the head of the Blasphemer mecha and aimed at the solid ball suspended in mid-air.

"The plasma-charged cannon is ready to fire," Valentina said.

"Fire directly." As soon as Ke Lan finished speaking, a ball of blazing white plasma was spat out from the muzzle - the flying speed of the plasma did not seem to be very fast, but in an instant it was "sticky" to the black ball. Together, an indescribable burning smell spread along with a terrifying heat wave, and even the rock wall of this section of the tunnel was melted into red magma and flowed down.

Although Augustus' energy shield has absorbed most of the thermal radiation in this direction, the residual heat escaping through the shield is still terrifying. Ivan, Thirty-three and Asano Akira The faces of those who were not wearing heat-insulating protective gear were burned red, and the ends of their hair curled up under the high temperature, emitting a unique smell of burned proteins.

As for the metal frame of the mine cart, it has been hot enough to be used directly as a teppanyaki cooking utensil. Fortunately, the soles of the boots under everyone's feet are made of special rubber and have not been melted by the high temperature yet.

The energy of the plasma was released for more than ten seconds before it was exhausted - even though this was already the minimum power of the plasma-charged cannon, the surrounding rock formations still showed vitrification. Augustus' energy The shield was also directly scrapped due to severe overload. Fortunately, this machine body is also equipped with two spare shield generators, so the impact of scrapping one will not be too great.

Ke Lan and Ze Luo had their own ways to protect themselves and were not harmed. Naturally, Valentina and Layton sitting in the cockpit of the mecha were also unscathed, but Asano Akira and the other three were in a worse situation. , not only was part of the exposed skin burned, but the hair on his head was burned completely, and three shining bald heads suddenly appeared in the crowd.

While Ivan was treating the burns of the three people, Ke Lan stepped forward and looked at the residue in the glass pit - the original black solid ball now only had some powdery ash left. Ke Lan just walked away. After taking a few steps closer, a blast of hot air hit my face... Even though it was just some ashes, the temperature remaining inside these ashes was still as high as thousands of degrees.

"The signs of life in these things have completely disappeared." Ze Luo followed and said to Ke Lan, "They are completely dead."

"Yeah." Ke Lan nodded and turned back to the mine cart.

Although the minecart itself was not seriously injured under the protection of the energy shield, the rails on the ground had long since melted into molten steel and mixed with the glassy tunnel section.

Ke Lan thought for a while and simply let the Blasphemer mecha carry the mine cart forward - anyway, with the power of this thing, even if a few tons of load are added, the speed will not be affected at all.

Compared with before, the team's advancement speed was actually much faster. Many times, Valentina even had to stop and wait for Layton and Augustus who were lagging behind.

"Damn it, what kind of engine does this thing use?" Layton's complaint came from the team channel, "It doesn't matter if it's fast, the agility and braking performance are beyond Augustus... …”

There was a sour taste in his words... Originally, Layton was still happy to be Augustus' pilot, but in comparison, he suddenly felt that the so-called "high-end customized machine" he was driving was not enough. It smells good - it's still the old saying: "People will die when comparing with others, but goods will be thrown away when comparing goods."

"The technology of Alpha Civilization is of course incomparable. Although the materials and equipment used by Augustus are no worse than Du... or worse than this 'Lucifer', the core technology still uses the frame of the human mecha. Just like in a race, you don't lose at the starting line, but people are waiting for you at the finish line from the beginning," Ke Lan said.

"Sigh... That's right. Even if Augustus has the same performance and does not have a control system directly connected to the human body's nerves, it will be difficult to control it with human reaction capabilities... Just like the thirty-degree corner just now , if it were operated by my hand, I'm afraid it would have crashed directly into it." Layton sighed, "By the way, isn't the model of this thing called 'Fallen Angel Unit No. 1: Lucifer'? Then do you think the Ark can do it? Is there more than one fallen angel? Since there is Unit 1, there might be Unit 2, Unit 3 or something?"

After Layton said this, Ke Lan also fell into thinking - obviously, for the Alpha civilization, the Blasphemer mecha is just a mass-produced weapon. There are currently two known Blasphemers. , one was abandoned by him in the abyss of the bottomless sinkhole, and the other was delivered to Valentina's hands by the Undead Crew. And judging from the name "Unit No. 1" given to it by the undead crew, they might actually have several Blasphemer mechas hidden away.

Ke Lan has always known that the Immortal Crew Association has a strong family background. Even if they now pull out a combat formation composed entirely of Blasphemer mechas, he will not be surprised at all.

The only thing he cared about was the "annihilation bomb" carried on the first Blasphemer mecha.

Of course, the Blasphemer mecha he abandoned was not armed. Not to mention the "annihilation bomb", even the basic "heavy armor-piercing sword" and "plasma-charged artillery" had been removed. Ke The weapons that Lan could see were all simulated through the so-called "trial program" - although it was a simulation, it directly proved that this weapon has the ability to carry and deliver "annihilation bombs" of.

Judging from the task description of the trial program, the power of that thing is probably even higher than that of the death ray cannon - one "annihilation bomb" is enough to destroy a creature like the "Crown of Ashes" that is comparable to the prehistoric species. But originally The Alpha civilization hunted Leviathan, but it continued to bombard it with more than a dozen death ray cannons for nearly a minute before killing it...

No, it was more than one minute. The "video" Ke Lan saw at that time was in fast forward, and one minute in it was equivalent to a week at the normal time flow rate.

"Annihilation bombs", even if they are not classified as "annihilation star" weapons, are still close to the threshold of "annihilation star".

If the undead crew really had this thing, perhaps with just one shot, the ruins of the ancient copper city could be razed to the ground.

Just as Ke Lan was thinking about these things, a vibration stronger than any before came over. The entire tunnel began to shake violently with the rock formations. Exaggerated cracks instantly covered the cave wall, and large chunks A piece of broken rock fell down and instantly buried Augustus who was following behind.

Valentina's Blasphemer mecha pushed forward nearly a hundred meters against the falling rocks, but was eventually blocked by the completely collapsed tunnel.

"What's going on..." Layton's communication came from the earphones mixed with the sound of electricity, "This vibration... is simply more exaggerated than the one in the molten mine area!"

The "that time" that Layton mentioned was naturally referring to the massive earthquake in the molten mining area caused by "Yagunaktor" falling from high altitude into the magma pool. That earthquake almost destroyed the surface of the entire mining area. The mining bases in the mining area also suffered.

"According to the sensor, the direction of the earthquake source is the same as the previous height, and it came from the front battlefield of the ancient copper city ruins." Valentina said while controlling the Blasphemer mecha to dig in the rubble.

"This movement...are they really feigning an attack?" Leiton shouted, "Did they really throw a big Ivan towards the Bronze City?"

"Is there a hydrogen bomb of Ivan's level on the Ark?" Ivan couldn't help but ask.

"According to official public information, there should be none. The only thing that can reach that level of magnitude is the Ark's own power source... Bundle those dozens of main reactors and thousands of secondary reactors together, It should be able to reach the power of the Big Ivan's original explosion." Leighton said, "But who knows if the people above will secretly build a few Big Ivans without telling the people... Although this kind of thing is not only used to deal with Except for the prehistoric creatures, they are of no use on Alpha Planet... Damn it, I even wonder if there are really a few Big Ivans stored in a secret weapons arsenal in the Ark."

"But if we use Big Ivan on the frontal battlefield, our own troops will also be affected by the nuclear explosion, right?" Thirty-three took over the words, "Unless all those hundreds of thousands of people retreated to the south of the White Ridge Mountains, we would have to Otherwise, if one big Ivan goes down, the main force of the field force will probably be wiped out."

"Then what else besides Big Ivan can have such exaggerated power?" Layton said as he dug the tunnel and joined Ke Lan and the others. "Wait a minute... I remembered something. thing."

"What?" Thirty-three and Ivan asked in unison.

"Crystal energy bomb!" Leiton said loudly, "It must be this thing! Only this thing can increase the power to the limit while accurately controlling the explosion range. Ke Lan, do you remember Yagu Are those crystallized lava beetles in the Nakotor power room? Those things are actually equivalent to small crystal energy bombs. One or two of these things are not very powerful, but if hundreds or thousands of crystal energy bombs are stacked Together, the 'resonance' caused can even surpass the power of Big Ivan's instant burst!"

"They all used crystal energy bombs... Could it be that they have already invaded the ruins of the Ancient Bronze City?" Ivan stretched out his hand and subconsciously touched the hair that no longer existed on his head, "Or should I say, they started We encountered extremely strong resistance and had to play such a trump card?"

"Leiton, can you contact the main force?" Ke Lan asked.

If the progress of the main force's "feint attack" cannot be controlled, then Ke Lan's infiltration operations will become very dangerous. If they cannot advance simultaneously with the frontal battlefield, the special operations team will become a lonely force - they will They will face...all the enemies in the entire ruins.

"We can't contact you at all. The interference is too strong." Leighton said angrily. "The signal was originally very weak. Now coupled with the interference caused by the explosion of the crystal energy bomb, the communication is completely interrupted. I can only force it now." Maintain communication with the troops at the mining base."

"Ask them, can they contact the front battlefield?"

"I just asked. They said that the communication between the frontal battlefield and the mining base was interrupted two minutes ago. However, judging from the last communication, the frontal troops may not have been able to get close to the ruins of the Ancient Bronze City." Leighton accelerated. Speak faster, "It is said that the main force encountered huge obstacles during the attack - there was an extremely large erosion seed buried under the plain in front of the ancient copper city ruins. They were locked in a bitter battle with this erosion seed. The propulsion speed is almost zero.”

"So it seems that the movement just now was in response to that giant erosion seed?" Thirty-three said, "Even the prehistoric species cannot withstand an explosion of this magnitude."

"It's hard to say." Ke Lan shook his head and continued to ask, "Lao Lei, how long will it take for the communication to be restored?"

"A conservative estimate of ten to fifteen minutes...I can't say for sure, because the application of such a large-scale crystal energy bomb has never appeared in either simulation experiments or actual combat. How long the interference will last is difficult to solve through linear Calculate it using the formula..." Layton said with some difficulty, "It's not impossible even if it lasts for half an hour..."

"Then let's slow down the advance first. The tunnel just happened to collapse. Just maintain the current excavation efficiency." Ke Lan said, "Wait until the communication with the main force is restored, and then decide on the next action plan."

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North of the White Ridge Mountains, frontal battlefield.

Almost the entire rock formation hundreds of meters thick was lifted open, revealing the flesh-like body of the eroded species beneath the ground. Countless squirming tentacles were entangled with each other, and the wounds torn apart by the crystal energy bombs on the tentacles' surfaces bite and melted with each other... Dozens of "slightly smaller" tentacles merged into one giant tentacle with an astonishing size in a short time. Immediately afterwards, the giant tentacles also began to merge - until finally, there were only less than twenty of the hundreds of thousands of tentacles left on this corrosive species, but the length of each of these twenty tentacles It's enough to wrap around the main peak of the White Ridge Mountains.

One of these tentacles suddenly raised high, and then fiercely pulled it down towards the armored troops assembled ten kilometers away——

In the eyes of these soldiers, the sky suddenly darkened, and an indescribable sense of fear suddenly arose... But the fear had not yet completely taken over their minds, and they did not even have time to see the huge black shadow clearly. What, death came first from directly above the head - this tentacle was like a toppling mountain, instantly smashing these soldiers and thousands of armored vehicles to pieces!

There is no way for them to avoid this attack range!