Alien Relic Hunter

"This is impossible...even if it is an SP-type mutant, the active ammunition cannot be completely ineffective!" Aya's face was full of confusion and surprise, "Is this monster...not a seed of erosion?"

"Be careful." Ke Lan's expression suddenly became serious. He held guns with both hands, and his crosshairs followed the "corpse" staggering in the corridor.

Not only Ke Lan, but also many military soldiers, security agents, and even armed personnel from some civil organizations who had come into contact with the Seed of Corrosion began to have a feeling that this kind of disease was completely helpless when it first appeared. The terrifying monster does not seem so scary now... In the eyes of these people, the Corrosion Seed is no longer an invincible monster, but a biochemical weapon created by the Alpha Civilization and abused by the heretical sect.

Even in the eyes of some veterans, the Seed of Corrosion is just a beast with relatively powerful combat capabilities...

But this understanding is based on the premise that humans have perfect restraint methods against the seeds of erosion. Whether it is active cells extracted from flesh-eating worms or stalagmites brought back by Ke Lan from the underwater caves of Wuming Island, these monsters can be easily killed... This is like a primitive man who is also a tiger but only has simple stone tools in his hands. They will be afraid of it, but for modern people with advanced fully automatic firearms, killing this tiger is just a matter of gently pulling the trigger... As long as you don't let the tiger get close, no matter how fast it moves , No matter how sharp the claws are, they cannot pose any threat to humans.

Another point is that as the research on erosion seeds becomes more and more in-depth, people know more and more about this kind of biological weapons. The biggest source of fear is the unknown... Without knowing anything, a An elusive mouse hiding in the dark can bring far more fear to humans than a venomous snake exposed to bright light.

But if one day, the monster that is already known to humans mutates, and the restraint methods that could easily kill it are no longer effective, then everything will return to the original starting point.

Just imagine, smallpox breaks out again in the human world. Humans use vaccines to fight it according to the method thousands of years ago, but they are horrified to find that people who have been vaccinated cannot acquire any immunity... When the building built by experience When it collapsed, all that was left to people was helplessness and panic.

At this time, the manipulated corpse suddenly staggered and pounced on the corpse of another guard. After the squirming tentacles reached the other corpse, they immediately went crazy like a shark smelling the smell of blood. The ground jumped up and started eating...

The feeding process of these tentacles made Ke Lan and Aya feel numbness in their scalps - the tentacles' surface first split into many tiny tentacles, and then these tentacles penetrated the skin of the corpse like steel needles and penetrated deeply. Into flesh and blood.

Immediately afterwards, a highly corrosive digestive juice was secreted from the surface of these small tentacles, turning the corpse's flesh and blood into balls of purple pus, which was finally absorbed by the mucous membranes on the tentacles and tentacle surfaces.

In the blink of an eye, one arm of the corpse was "swallowed" by these tentacles, and not even the bones were left.

"It's... eating?" Aya said with some uncertainty, "Is it because the original 'container' didn't provide enough nutrients?"

"I don't know." Ke Lan shook his head.

"If the special weapons and active ammunition in your hands can't have an effect on it...does it mean that we can't kill it at all?" Aya's eyes showed a trace of unwillingness.

"That's not necessarily true...perhaps this is a mutant species that we have never discovered before." Ke Lan whispered, "When Asano Akira killed it just now, it may have triggered some kind of stress effect, which caused It produces an 'antibody' that can resist the active cells of the flesh-eating worm...but if it is still an erosive species, I think the active cells are still toxic to it, it's just a matter of dose."

"I have two hundred and sixty units of active bullets left... Do you want to give it a try?" Aya asked.

"Don't worry...try to figure out the location of this mutant's 'core'...directly firing active bullets into the 'core' will definitely have a better effect than hitting those tentacles."

"That's right." Aya nodded, "But how can you find the location of its 'core'... Is it possible to cut it open with a knife?"

Speaking of this, Aya couldn't help but look at Asano Akira who was holding a knife on guard.

Aya knew Asano Akira's strength, and she even suspected that this man who looked delicate and frail had the ability to fight against SP-type mutants.

"Can you hear it?" Ke Lan also looked at Asano Akira, "The 'core' of the erosion seed is equivalent to the human heart. Although there will not be such an obvious beating sound, the nutrients it takes in from outside the body will Gathering in the 'core'... Especially in the 'eating' state, you just need to find the place with the highest density in this guy's body..."

Akira Asano's special ability can not only be used as a human radar and sonar, but can also be used as a substitute for B-ultrasound or even nuclear magnetic resonance.

However, Asano Akira slowly shook his head and said: "I... didn't find it. The density of every part of its body is almost the same... The blood flow absorbed by the tentacle mucous membrane flows throughout its body... …”

"The density is the same? It flows all over the body?" After hearing this result, Ke Lan couldn't help but be stunned for a moment... Could this mean... that there is no "core" in the body of this corrosive seed?

After the death of the host, regardless of whether the erosion seeds in the body are fully developed or not, they will quickly change from the parasitic stage to the acute transformation stage. As an independent living entity, the erosion seeds in the acute transformation stage and mature stage must exist in the body. "nuclear".

Perhaps some of the seeds of erosion will stay in the "container" after entering the maturity stage out of disguise, and continue to maintain a "symbiotic" relationship, but there will never be any seeds of erosion that will remain after the death of the "container". It has not entered the "emergency period" for a long time - if it fails to condense a 'nucleus' within fifteen minutes, it will be equivalent to a fetus that died during childbirth and will die together with the 'container'.

This probability is very low, at least there are no more than five recorded examples in the files of the Security Bureau... From a certain point of view, the seed of erosion cannot enter the acute transformation stage from the parasitic stage, and the probability is even higher than that of pregnant women in this era having dystocia. The probability is still small.