Alien Relic Hunter

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If the humanoid shadow was Liao Zilang, why did he escape from the area lit by the flare?

And those slender black tentacles...those tentacles...

Ke Lan knew very well that if that figure was Liao Zilang, there would be almost no possibility of survival... It might just be a "body". As for what occupies this "body"...

"Click."

With the bullet loaded, Ke Lan plunged into the waters swallowed by darkness.

"'Seed of Erosion' has strong physical resistance to blows, as well as the ability to regenerate..." This is unknown information from the depths of memory, but what happened before has proven the accuracy of this information - this is from Regarding the internal intelligence of Alpha Civilization, although Ke Lan did not know why they appeared in his head, there was something mentioned in this information...

Seeds of erosion are not invincible.

This is a creature with extremely tenacious vitality, but no matter how tenacious it is, it is still just a creature. The Shark Hunter machine gun in Ke Lan's hand is equipped with one hundred and fifty rounds of powerful explosive bombs, and there is another one in the backpack of the deep diving suit. There are 1,200 rounds of prepared ammunition. In addition, two depleted uranium warhead torpedoes are hung on both sides of the backpack, as well as 36 special incendiary bombs...

The firepower of the weapons he carries is no less than that of a heavy combat mecha!

No matter how strong the regeneration ability of the Seed of Corrosion is, as long as it is blasted into pieces and then burned completely, Ke Lan does not believe that it can be reborn from a pile of ashes——

This is just a bunch of disgusting tentacles, not something like Phoenix that only exists in human mythology!

Five meters, ten meters, twenty meters...

Ke Lan gradually went deep into the shadow area, and the visibility of the surrounding environment was declining sharply. With both the low-light night vision device and the infrared night vision device malfunctioning, he was almost groping forward in the darkness, taking every step he took. Every step must be taken with caution.

Unspeakable fear was growing crazily, and Ke Lan's breathing gradually became rapid. Every time he exhaled, a thin layer of white mist would form on the glass mask, and then quickly disappear...

An inhuman creature with the ability to cause instant death is dormant in an unknown dark corner at the moment. Every step Ke Lan takes is getting closer to the trap set by that thing... The opponent is a predator, And I am the prey... This feeling is enough to drive people crazy. If it were any other person with poor mental endurance, I am afraid that he would have thrown away his weapon and ran away.

With every step he took, he felt that he was getting closer and closer to death... In the darkness, there seemed to be something peeping at him from all directions. They were approaching quietly, waiting for an opportunity to move...

The attack that could come at any time forced Ke Lan to tense up his nerves all the time. The finger holding the trigger had become extremely sore and swollen, and the muscles all over his body had gradually become stiff due to the long-term tension...

Each step he took was heavier than the previous one, and his advancement became slower and slower.

No, if this continues, I'm afraid I won't be able to hold on even before I encounter that thing...

Ke Lan stopped and closed his eyes.

That thing has the ability to easily kill itself, but it is also armed to the teeth - it is its prey, and it is also its prey.

The reason why he stepped into this place with a machine gun was to hunt the opponent.

Being in the dark is a huge disadvantage for you, and if you fire a flare, the thing will escape into the shadows again. The only way... is to turn yourself into a light source, making it inevitable for the opponent to avoid it!

This is taboo in the rules of underwater diving, but in this case, it is Ke Lan's only choice.

"Bang!"

Two high-lumen searchlights mounted on both sides of the helmet were turned on instantly, illuminating the area directly in front of Ke Lan. At this moment, two extremely long black tentacles pierced out from the shadow on the left side and headed straight for Ke Lan. Here comes the facade!

"I knew it!"

Ke Lan opened his eyes suddenly. The propellers on his right shoulder and right elbow rotated wildly. The compressed air spurted out from the small holes. The strong reaction force immediately pushed Ke Lan one meter to the left. The distance caused his body to twist nearly forty-five degrees to the left while avoiding the tentacle attack.

"Puff puff puff puff——"

The sound of underwater machine gun fire was dull and unclear. The arrow-shaped explosive shells mixed with Nino alloy directly shredded the two tentacles that attacked Ke Lan, and incidentally shattered a low wall at the left alley... And that The black figure that Ke Lan had chased all the way was finally exposed to his sight, and he could see it clearly!

That is indeed a human being, or rather, he was a human being during his lifetime...

But not Liao Zilang.

Nor was it parasitized by the seeds of erosion.

He was wearing an orange deep-diving suit, with a large amount of black seaweed wrapped around his limbs. The "tentacles" that just attacked Ke Lan were actually part of these seaweeds.

"It turns out to be seaweed..."

Ke Lan released the trigger, swam to the body, chopped up the remaining seaweed with the propeller blades, and then turned the body over with its back facing him...

"this!!"

What appeared in front of Ke Lan's eyes was a very terrifying face - it had no eyeballs, and only two dark holes were left in the eye sockets. Large areas of the blue-grey skin on the face collapsed, sticking tightly to the bones. Above, the flesh and blood under the skin has been completely drained, and the withered lips are turned outward, revealing two rows of white teeth...

This is a mummy.

Moreover, there was a large hole torn open in the abdomen of the corpse and the abdomen of the deep diving suit...

"...Fleiss-eating worms..."

Ke Lan held the corpse's arm tightly, his heart beating wildly - the corpse looked exactly like the dead priestess!

Whether it was the scene in the video or the dictation from others, Ke Lan had been guessing before... But now, when he saw the corpse with his own eyes, he was 100% sure that it was definitely parasitized by flesh-eating worms. A wonderful “host”!

"really……"

Judging from the logo on the chest of the deep-diving suit, the deceased's name was Bren, and he was an elite agent of the Security Bureau. He should be one of the missing persons during the previous underwater exploration operations.

The flesh and blood on the corpse had been almost completely sucked dry, and the flesh-eating worms parasitic in his body had burst out of his body and disappeared... But since the second one appeared, there must be a third and fourth one...

This trip was not in vain, as long as they could capture a flesh-eating worm - no, they didn't even need to capture a complete living body, they only needed to get a part of the body tissue of the flesh-eating worm to neutralize Ivan's body. Seeds of erosion invade alienated cells.

Ke Lan suddenly felt that the goal of their trip seemed to be very close at hand.

After tying the body to his back with a rope, Ke Lan decided to move forward.

If it were just those black seaweeds, although this underwater city would be very strange, it would actually not be dangerous.

He had a hunch that if he missed this opportunity, he might never find this ruins again next time.

…

After walking forward for almost half a kilometer and passing through dense buildings, an abyss-like crack suddenly appeared in front of him.

This fissure is three hundred meters long, nearly ten meters wide at its widest point, and bottomless. There is a fence more than three meters high around the fissure. The top of the fence is covered with a huge metal mesh, which connects the entire crack. The cracks have been sealed, but the metal mesh is full of torn holes and has lost its original function.

There is a stone tablet standing next to the fence, with a string of Alpha civilization words written on it.

"Incubation...incubation...field?"