Alien Relic Hunter

Chapter 768 The embryo of...

This embryo has completed late differentiation. In terms of time, it takes a normal human embryo seven to eight weeks to complete this stage.

The embryo has begun to take on the rudimentary shape of a human fetus. Its small body is curled up in the amniotic fluid. The huge head that takes up nearly half of the body has two round black spots on it. These are the embryo's immature eyes...

In the abdomen of the embryo, there is a small and curved umbilical cord, which is connected to a placenta that is almost the same size as the embryo itself and looks like a kidney. Inside the placenta, dense capillaries can be clearly seen, accompanied by The newly formed heart in the embryonic chest beats rhythmically.

But when Ke Lan carefully observed the limbs of the embryo, what he saw with his eyes made his heart suddenly tighten. Although the limbs of the embryo were not fully developed and were tightly attached to the torso, they could still be clearly seen. It was immediately apparent that...the fingers and toes of this embryo were completely different from those of humans...its fingers and toes were actually soft and slender tentacles, with no bones at all visible inside!

This... this is not a normal human embryo!

Ke Lan imagined what the embryo would look like after it matured and grew into a "human", and his scalp suddenly felt numb - because the imaginary picture in his mind overlapped with an image in another memory.

This is not a human embryo at all! This is an Alpha human embryo!

Why do Alpha human embryos appear in the chest cavity of "Erosion"? According to the information on the file, Hruny Yang, the captain of the "Shaojiang Kai" frigate, is a 100% pure man. Even if there is no reproductive isolation between Alphas and humans, Hruny, as a male creature, is It's impossible to get pregnant? !

Could it be... that Hruni Yang's body was transformed after becoming a "corrosion"?

With this thought in mind, Ke Lan stepped forward.

He first carefully avoided the embryos on the ground, and then inserted the engineering shovel into the chest of the upturned corpse. With a slight pry, he tore the crack that discharged the "embryos" wider open.

Ke Lan carefully observed the chest cavity of the corpse - except for the tiny tentacles growing out of the flesh and organs, the chest of the skeleton was almost the same as that of a normal human being, and there was no extra "uterus". Same organs.

This vesicle enclosing the Alpha human embryo exists independently in the chest cavity of the corpse and has no connection with the body of the corpse.

But if this is the case, the embryo cannot grow to such a large size just relying on the nutrients in the placenta... In other words, the embryo will have died before the placenta appears.

"It cannot be ruled out that body fluid exchange is relied on to provide nutrients for the embryos in the vesicle..." Ke Lan thought while twirling his jaw with his index finger and thumb.

But that's not the point... The point is, why does an "eclipse skeleton" transformed from a human "super-eclipse" have an Alpha human embryo in its body?

Judging from the "destructive" way this embryo was separated from the body, it seems that it was not stuffed into the body of the corpse later... In other words, this thing was probably born from the body of the "corpse".

Ke Lan felt that his brain had fallen into an unprecedented state of chaos.

Alpha people... Earth people... Alpha civilization... Earth civilization...

Monsters resembling earthlings appeared in the remains of the engine wreckage, canned food from earthly civilizations, and Chinese character inscriptions on steel structural materials...

The more Ke Lan thought about it, the more frightened he became...

But at this moment, a burst of fierce gunfire and explosions suddenly came from outside the bridge!

The space barrier set up by Ke Lan is one-way. Sounds from inside cannot be transmitted to the outside, but sounds from outside can be transmitted in.

Ke Lan quickly took out a freezing jar used to preserve living specimens from his backpack, carefully put the vesicle containing the embryo into it, and injected a full jar of LCL liquid into it, and then closed the lid. .

When he first communicated with the corpse, Ke Lan used Ze Luo's ability to conduct an all-round investigation of the other party. Although due to the existence of that "mysterious power", Ze Luo did not discover the weapon hidden in the corpse. Although the embryo is in the chest cavity, body temperature data can still be obtained - the internal temperature of the corpse is about the same as that of a normal human being, which is also 36.5 degrees Celsius.

Ke Lan adjusted the freezing tank to a constant temperature storage mode of 36.5 degrees Celsius. Logically speaking, in the face of living samples of such alien creatures, direct ultra-low temperature freezing is the most correct way to deal with them. Under a constant temperature environment, it is likely to cause some uncontrollable changes in the sample. But this embryo is too important to Ke Lan. He is very worried that if it is frozen at ultra-low temperature, it may never be able to be revived... A dead embryo and a living embryo have so much research value. It's a world of difference.

The safest way is to maintain the environment in which the embryo was originally in the body. As for nutrition, besides LCL liquid, Ke Lan couldn't find a better way for a while.

"Let's just treat the dead horse like a living horse doctor..." He said to himself.

The firefight outside became more and more intense, and Ke Lan could distinguish the roar of the large-caliber Vulcan cannon used by the Blasphemer mecha, the charging sound of the Gauss rifle used by Ivan, and Mo Jue's TAC-50. When the bolt of the sniper rifle was pulled, the shell casings fell on the metal floor of the battleship with a crisp clanking sound.

With Ze Luo's help, Ke Lan's hearing and perception abilities are now as good as Asano Akira's.

Asano Showa and Sansansan were still guarding the entrance to the bridge at this time - according to the team's operating rules, before Ke Lan came out, no matter what happened, neither of them could leave their positions without authorization. Thirty-three could only shout loudly, asking about the situation of the three people outside.

However, the situation outside seemed to be far worse than imagined. All radio communications between team members were cut off. Valentina and Mo Jue had no time to answer Thirty-Three’s calls. Only Ivan’s intermittent voice came from outside the corridor. Passed in: "Indigenous creatures...attack...request...support!"

Aboriginal creatures? Attack?

Ke Lan took a sharp breath... Were they attacked by those biological weapons?

However, don't those biological weapons only attack intruders whose height exceeds the canopy level... For "down-to-earth" explorers, they have always been dismissive.

Otherwise, Mo Jue and his team of lumberjacks would have been buried in the gray fog forest long ago.

According to time calculation, these biological weapons should have rushed here at the moment when the corpse died and the embryo was separated from the body... Were they afraid of the existence of the corpse before?

However, judging from the physical strength, this corpse does not seem to have much fighting ability...

Ke Lan glanced at the "corroded" body on the ground. He wanted to put it away, but the increasingly fierce sound of fighting outside no longer allowed him to delay it any longer...

Ke Lan immediately canceled the space barrier, put his fingers together like a knife and opened the air-tight door nearly half a meter away with two clicks, and jumped out.

Before Asano Akira and Sansan San could speak, he had already said, "Go and support Ivan and the others!"

Compared with the caution they entered, the three rushed out much faster. In less than two seconds, they had passed through the entire corridor and arrived at the "battlefield" outside.

The Blasphemer mecha was seen holding twin large-caliber Vulcan cannons in one hand to shoot at the densely packed monsters, while the other hand kept waving the heavy armor-piercing sword to chop into pieces the fish that escaped the net and rushed forward. Mo Jue and Ivan found a ruined wall alone as a bunker, and kept shooting at the monsters rushing out of the thick fog.

After confirming that none of the three people were injured yet, Ke Lan turned his attention to the monsters emerging from the fog - these monsters were obviously the Ghost-faced Giant Owl and the Gray Mist Giant Bat that had previously attacked the two battleships in the air. But their form has undergone radical changes: the wings originally used for flying have completely degraded and turned into a dispensable layer of fleshy membrane covering the upper limbs. The pair of hind limbs have become extremely developed, giving them Due to the extremely strong ground running ability of these creatures... Although they still maintain their original appearance in general, these flying creatures that could be called the overlords of the air now have frightening ground combat capabilities.

"Such a strong mutation ability. Is it because we are on the ground now that these monsters have become like this?" Thirty-three sighed while driving the black flying blade to harvest the monsters. "But the problem is, those who entered before People in the Gray Mist Forest, as long as they don't leave the ground, have basically never been attacked by monsters, right? Who is that, Miss Mo Jue, don't you think so?"

The joining of Thirty-three and Akira Asano greatly relieved the pressure on the three people who were originally staying outside. Mo Jue finally got a short chance to breathe, picked up the empty magazines, and filled them one by one. Bullets are pressed into the ground.

"I don't know... I know too little about the Gray Mist Forest... What's more, the woodcutter has never gone to such a deep place." Mo Jue shook her head repeatedly, her expression looked a little ferocious, and her chest was filled with tears. Heaving violently. Her protective clothing and mountaineering jacket were thrown to her feet, and she wore only a tight-fitting tactical vest on her upper body.

A lot of sweat flowed down her neck, and the clothes from the collar to the waist were completely wet, outlining her toned muscle lines.

The entire right cuff of the hiking jacket she threw on the ground had been torn off. If she hadn't reacted quickly enough just now, not only the sleeve would have been torn off... but also her entire right arm.

"It would take at least tens of thousands of years of evolution for flying indigenous creatures to mutate into a form suitable for life on the ground in nature, but if it is a biological weapon, the situation is different." Ivan gasped, his The situation is not much better than that of Mo Jue. The Gauss rifle that was scrapped due to overheating of the charging array has been thrown aside by him. At this moment, he is holding a large-caliber hunting pistol and shooting at the monsters that are constantly coming.

However, due to the rough skin and thick flesh of these biological weapons, it is difficult for Mo Jue's TAC-50 anti-material sniper rifle to cause any effective damage to them without hitting their vital points. However, large-caliber hunting pistols like this type, It's completely just scraping.

"But I just can't figure out why these monsters suddenly come out to attack us now... There was obviously no movement before... If they were to attack, wouldn't it be better to choose on our way to the crash site of the battleship? At least, wouldn't it be better? At that time, we didn't have any bunkers to rely on, and it was not pleasant at all to be attacked from both sides." Thirty-three said, suddenly turning his head to look at Ke Lan, "By the way, Ke Lan, we were in the bridge just now How is that monster that can speak human language?"

"Dead." Ke Lan replied simply, "According to time, it was after the monster died that these biological weapons launched the attack."

"Is it possible that these biological weapons were inactive before because the monster that can speak human language is still alive?" Thirty-three showed a look of disbelief, "This... what is the truth... if these biological weapons If they were afraid of that monster, why did they dare to attack the battleship suspended in the air before?"

"What monster?" Ivan couldn't help but ask after hearing the conversation between the two.

"It looks a bit like a container for the Seed of Corrosion, but it doesn't seem quite like it... By the way, Ke Lan, did you kill that monster?"

"I didn't kill it, it died on its own." Ke Lan sighed, "That's not actually a monster. It was once the captain of this 'Shaojiang Kai' frigate, Hruni Yang."

"It's Hruni Yang? Then how did it become like that? Was it infected by something?"

"This is a long story. I'll talk to you slowly after the crisis is over." Ke Lan waved his hand, and an invisible space blade more than ten meters high passed through the group of monsters. Anyone who came into contact with one would The body of the monster with the sharp space blade was cut in half silently.

"Have you noticed something?" Mo Jue suddenly said, "The gray mist... seems to be getting closer to us."

"I discovered it." Ivan frowned, "In the past twenty seconds, the gray fog has moved four meters closer to us, and now it has invaded the interior of the wreckage of the battleship."

When Ivan mentioned the wreckage of the battleship, Ke Lan suddenly had a flash of inspiration and said: "I was thinking... these biological weapons will attack us. Could it be because there is no gray fog inside the wreckage of the battleship? We did it before When we are in the sky, we have to fly out of the thick fog before these biological weapons attack us."

[P.S. Thanks to the plague doctor for the 1,500 starting coins; thanks to Lvbabalovu for the 500 starting coins. 】