Alien Relic Hunter

According to the known information, the composition of the egg shell is very different from the body of the flesh-eating worm - this is actually a "culture medium" created by the Alpha aliens, specially used to provide protection and early stage for the larvae of the flesh-eating worm. After the flesh-eating worm larvae enter the second stage, they will be removed from the egg shell and implanted into the host called a "meat animal".

There are a large number of broken cysts distributed on these membranous egg cases. Each cyst means that there once was a larvae of flesh-eating worms... Estimating from the density of cysts and the area of ​​​​the egg cases, only This area is only one hundred meters deep, and there must be more than one hundred thousand flesh-eating worms.

"The scale of this hatchery is really amazing." Ke Lan hung the machine gun on his waist and controlled the thruster to approach the rock wall.

The photosensitive white flocs on the egg shell are actually a very special kind of algae. They can separate and filter various organic substances from seawater, store them in the body, and then convert them into nutrients to supply the egg shell. flesh-eating worm larvae.

"If the larvae of flesh-eating worms will leave the egg shell after entering the second stage...where will they be sent? Is it somewhere else, or deeper in this hatchery?"

Ke Lan had already dived 700 meters below the abyss. The reaction caused by the high pressure gradually began to show up on him. He could clearly feel the terrifying force coming from the outside of the deep diving suit, which was constantly squeezing his body. Every time he inhales, his body, especially his lungs, becomes extremely difficult - his lungs seem to have become a balloon flattened by a heavy object, trying to force the balloon to push the weight on top. Hold it up unless there is pressure inside the balloon to compete with it.

"I hope... the injection system doesn't malfunction..."

Ke Lan did not hesitate and directly turned on a red switch on the inside of his wrist. In an instant, two thick needles protruded from the inside of the deep diving suit and pierced Ke Lan's forearm.

"Um...uh..."

The feeling of the high-pressure injectable supercharger entering the body cannot be said to be comfortable. It can even be described as painful. Ke Lan felt that the blood vessels in his body were about to burst in the next second, but just as he was about to reach the "collapse" "At the critical point, as the enhancer took effect, the body's endurance was forcibly increased by a large margin, and this high pressure was forcibly withstood.

However, although the potion could strengthen Ke Lan's body, it could not eliminate the pain that almost penetrated into the bone marrow... He couldn't help but regret. If he had known better, he should have mixed a few more painkilling needles into the mixed potion...

Fortunately, this process only lasted about a minute. After the injection of the booster stopped, the pain was greatly reduced, and Ke Lan finally became able to breathe freely again.

"What kind of injection booster... is clearly a cram-feeding booster..."

Complaining secretly in his heart, Ke Lan once again focused his attention on the abyss below.

It is almost 800 meters away, and the bottom of the abyss has still not been observed. How deep is this hatchery...

"Successful! Finally successful!!"

In this silent darkness, a sudden cheer suddenly sounded, as if a huge boulder had been dropped in the calm lake. Ke Lan was suddenly shocked and almost blasted the torpedo in his hand. Got out——

"who is it?!"

"The 1,751st fusion experiment was finally successful!" The voice appeared again, with a tone that sounded like madness.

Only then did Ke Lan realize that the voice did not come from the outside world, but came from the depths of his mind.

And...it's the language of Alpha civilization.

Is this also something that has been instilled in my memory? In addition to text messages, there are also audio files?

"After increasing the number of seedlings to 640 million, we finally cultivated individuals that can successfully merge with the Seed of Corrosion...Thank you to the True God for your guidance..."

The previous sentence was still praising the true god of Alpha Civilization, but the next sentence was suddenly filled with indescribable fear——

"It's out of control! It's completely out of control-" The "recording" stopped abruptly here. Although there were only a few short sentences, the amount of information contained in it shocked Ke Lan greatly.

Fusion with the Corrosion Seed... Does that sound refer to the fusion of flesh-eating worms and Corrosion Seed?

Isn't this kind of bug extremely poisonous to the Corrosion Seed? Ke Lan still remembered how the Corrosion Seed was killed in the Exile Settlement, but now, this voice actually told him that the Alpha successfully fused the two creatures? !

The number of 640 million seedlings...could it be referring to this abyss hatchery? Was the "1,751st fusion experiment" mentioned by that voice completed here?

No wonder...no wonder this recording suddenly appeared in my mind. It must be because I entered this experimental area and met certain triggering conditions that this information was "unlocked"!

It mentions fusions, and the last sentence means - "The fusions are out of control!"

"Oops!"

Ke Lan suddenly had an extremely ominous premonition. He activated all the propellers on his body without thinking, trying to escape from the abyss - but at this moment, an irresistible huge suction force came from the bottom of the abyss. Coming over, this suction force was so terrifying that a large vortex composed of seawater undercurrents was directly formed in the abyss!

This force grabbed Ke Lan's body and dragged him downward...

That fusion is hiding at the bottom of the Abyss Hatchery!

"It's too late...to escape..."

In the blink of an eye, the bodies of Ke Lan and the Security Bureau agent were swept into the vortex. In the face of such power, any struggle was meaningless. It was as if he was thrown into a giant drum washing machine. I can only let the water flow drive my body to spin crazily...

"It's over...it's over..."

…

I don’t know how much time passed, but the undercurrent finally stopped. Ke Lan, who was so turned around, struggled to open his eyes. Everything he saw was blood red...

The white flesh membranes on the surrounding rock walls have been replaced by dark red bloated flesh. This is the shape of the egg shell when the nutrients have not been exhausted. Countless cysts are slowly squirming through the translucent outer shell. Membrane, you can vaguely see the body curled up in it.

But these things are definitely not flesh-eating worms - they are composed of a group of transparent tentacles, and in the center of the group of tentacles, there is a dark "core".

However, Ke Lan had no time to pay attention to these things at the moment. Less than twenty meters directly below him, countless tentacles as thick as a person's arms extended out from the darkness. They had "captured" the agent's body. A large number of tiny tentacles "grew" out from the ends of the tentacles, wrapping the entire corpse and the deep diving suit on it into a huge "cocoon".