Alien Relic Hunter

But when Ke Lan moved his eyes to the faces of these corpses, he discovered something chilling - except for one of the corpses with a severely damaged face, all the other corpses had An identical face.

This is a face that looks ordinary, the kind that is so ordinary that you will forget it after just one glance...but it also makes people feel a strange sense of familiarity, as if they often encounter this kind of face in daily life. Intersect with one person.

He could be the security guard at the entrance of the hunting group headquarters, he could be the vendor selling skewers across the street, or he could be the ground staff who Ke Lan and the others met at the airport before departure... Ke Lan can be sure that this This face must have appeared in his memory, but when he wanted to think about who it was, he couldn't remember it.

This face seemed to fit on many people without any sense of inconsistency... Ke Lan discovered with some horror that when he started to look back on his memories, many people with different identities but almost the same appearance appeared.

Is it an illusion? Or is it that his memory has been tampered with inadvertently?

Not only the faces, but also the body shapes of these corpses were exactly the same, as if they were dolls pressed out of the same mold.

These people... are replicants?

Is it a clone made by the undead crew, or a clone made by this Tower of Babel?

The mysteries follow one after another, like a long string of knots... As long as the first knot can be untangled, the rest can naturally be solved easily... But the problem is which knot Ke Lan is connected to. I can’t figure out the first one.

"By the way, is this the second trial?" Thirty-three pulled a suspended corpse close to him and looked through it carefully.

Except for the tattered field regiment uniform that was worn on the body, the body did not carry any personal belongings, and there was no trace of weapons or ammunition.

"Not sure...by the way, do you have any thoughts about these corpses?" Ke Lan asked.

"To be honest, I think these dead people... are probably the kind of 'replicas' you mentioned before. They are like being carved from the same mold, maybe using the same set of genes."

"I think so too." Ke Lan nodded, "But if these are clones created by the undead crew, if so many clones with the same faces join the army, it will probably cause panic and unrest, right?"

"Then what do you mean...?" Thirty-three glanced at Ke Lan. He dared to vouch for it. The guess in Ke Lan's mind should be the same as his own, but he couldn't express this guess.

There is no other reason than that even Thirty-Three himself feels that this guess is outrageous.

"Could these clones be made in this tower?" Ke Lan said.

"If this tower was made, why are they wearing the uniforms of the field corps?" Thirty-three nodded first, then slowly shook his head, "If the Alpha civilization wants to copy humans, just copy the original body. , there is no need to put these field army uniforms on them that are almost the same as the real ones, right? This is not an imitation show."

Thirty-three rubbed a uniform taken off a corpse with his fingertips. No matter the materials or workmanship, it was exactly the same as the real field army uniform. The two layers of special non-woven fabric were anti-puncture, anti-corrosion, and high-temperature resistant. It also has a multi-functional interlayer with radiation - but most imitations on the market do not have this interlayer.

Because the cost of this interlayer accounts for at least two-thirds of the total cost of this dress.

He was very familiar with this uniform that Thirty-three had worn for at least twenty years.

He didn't even need to look at the label sewn on the inside of the jacket. Just from some details, he could tell that it was a sixth-generation field corps combat uniform produced in 937 of the New Era. It was even accurate that it was owned by the Lee Consortium. The textile factory OEMs that batch of goods, because only they use their own zippers for production, while the goods from other production lines use zippers purchased through bidding, which are cheaper but of worse quality. It's easy to get stuck.

The zipper will get stuck, which is one of the main shortcomings of the sixth-generation combat uniforms, but this problem does not exist in this batch of goods processed by the Lee Consortium. This batch of uniforms is generally supplied to front-line combat troops, while other troops If soldiers want to get this suit, they have to spend extra money to find the person in charge of the logistics department to exchange it privately.

The combat uniforms worn by these corpses were all in tatters. It seemed that they had experienced extremely fierce battles during their lifetimes. Combined with the damage and wounds on the corpses, it could be basically concluded that they had experienced a "pure hand-to-hand combat."

Yes, it was purely bare-handed. Not only were there no firearms, but even weapons such as daggers and engineer shovels were not used in combat.

This is quite consistent with the clue that "no weapons were found at the scene, or even anything that could be used as a weapon"...

For example, on the corpse that was stripped of its combat uniform by Thirty-Three, at least half of the twelve pairs of ribs were broken by the huge force, and the entire chest was sunken. Combined with the wear and tear marks on the clothing fibers on the chest of the combat uniform, it was probably It was the enhanced person who kicked him in the chest with all his strength.

As for the corpse closest to Ke Lan, there were a lot of nail scratches on the face, the bridge of the nose was collapsed, the eye sockets were torn, and even the eyeballs were gouged out... And in the mouth of this corpse, there was death. He bit into a large piece of "meat" with fragments of combat uniform, and found a large amount of naturally dried flesh and blood in the gaps between his nails.

"Hand-to-hand combat with such a brutal level...even in my service career, I have never seen it a few times." Thirty-three sighed.

The last battle that happened to these people was not ranked among the many battles of mankind in the new era in terms of scale and casualties, whether it was the battle to suppress the rebellion inside the Ark or the battle against the indigenous creatures and heretical sects after landing on Alpha Planet. , there are many scenes that are more intense than this - but intensity and tragedy are not synonymous.

There is no heavy firepower, no guns and ammunition, no sharp daggers and swords, not even stones and sticks... These people are like wild beasts, using their hands, feet, teeth and everything they can use to attack. The parts are fighting each other...

Even the ancient gladiatorial arenas, which were famous for their bloody cruelty, at least provided some crude weapons to the gladiators instead of allowing people to fight each other in such a primitive way - the bloody scenes of wild beasts killing gladiators in the arena can make those The blood of the aloof audience is surging and adrenaline is rushing... But when humans transform into beasts and bite the throats of their kind, no matter how much they like to watch gladiatorial fights, they will feel a wave of excitement from deep in their bones. Chill...

"I'm really curious, what exactly did they go through?" Thirty-three's frown never relaxed.

"You'll find out soon." Ze Luo said suddenly.

"What?"

"The body functions of these 'corpses' are recovering... I think they will soon become our enemies." Ze Luo said expressionlessly, as if he was talking about a trivial matter.

"Isn't it?!" Thirty-three was suddenly startled and kicked out the corpse floating in front of him.

The corpse rolled several times in mid-air, knocking away several corpses floating on the moving path... Just after the corpse stopped rolling, its stiff neck suddenly lifted up, and it opened its eyes to look at Thirty-three!

There were no black pupils in its eyes. The dark red bloodshot eyes were covered with dark red bloodshot eyes. A dense vein suddenly protruded from the corner of the eye. The blood that had dried and solidified began to flow in the blood vessels again.

"Fake corpses? Are these human corpses or something called corroded corpses?" Thirty-three waved his hand, and the remaining dozen intact black flying blades flew out instantly, cutting open the resurrected body. From the body of the corpse, black and red viscous blood suddenly shot out.

"It's not the corpses." Ke Lan shook his head, "The birth process of the corpses is completely random, and these corpses are obviously 'weapons' that were manufactured in batches."

In just ten seconds, thousands of corpses floating around came to life... This scene was like a reckless tomb robber in the movie breaking into a cemetery full of zombies.

"Fortunately, these guys have nowhere to use their strength in mid-air. They can only wave their hands and feet in vain and cannot get closer to us..." Halfway through, Thirty-Three looked down as if he sensed something. His expression suddenly changed, "Pretend I didn't say it."

Not far from his feet, a flat ground appeared there at some point, as if it was a battlefield specially prepared for them and these resurrected corpses...

"We will land in thirty seconds at most." Thirty-three said anxiously, "Has Ke Lanyi come up with any countermeasures?"

Thirty-three has used black flying blades to dismember several resurrected corpses, but at the same time he also discovered a very serious problem: although he could kill these monsters, he could not prevent them from resurrecting again.

Whether the throat is cut, the heart is pierced, or the Tianling Cap is cut open, or the entire brain is minced with a sharp blade, these corpses can be resurrected again after a short "death" - Thirty-three even tried to A corpse was chopped into tens of thousands of pieces, but the pieces seemed to be attracted to each other by magnetic fields. It didn't take long for them to come together and piece together a complete corpse again.

Then come back to life.

"This thing is harder to kill than the corpse. At least it is impossible for the corpse to survive if it is cut into such pieces." Thirty-three complained, "Let Ze Luo take action."

Ze Luo glanced at Ke Lan. After receiving permission, the power of space swept directly through the area. All the corpses within a radius of 50 meters from Ke Lan and the three of them were beaten into minced meat.

Ze Luo used the power of space to squeeze the minced meat into a ball, but even so, the minced meat was still squirming desperately... A few seconds later, a giant over twenty meters tall suddenly appeared in the sight of the three of them. among.

But apart from its huge size, this giant didn't seem to have any special abilities. It was broken up again in less than a second after it was formed...

Whether it is those resurrected corpses or this giant, their strength is not very strong, and their body strength is about the same as that of ordinary humans. But what gives Ke Lan and the others a headache is their extremely abnormal recovery ability - even if Ze Luo uses The force of space compresses these flesh and blood into a plane with a thickness of less than 0.1 millimeter, and they can still recover again.

"Physical attack methods are ineffective." Ze Luo said, "It is best to use anti-matter weapons, such as death ray cannons, to completely annihilate these flesh and blood. Or use plasma cannons to directly ablate them... With our current We cannot completely eliminate them."

"It would be great if Valentina and the Blasphemer Mecha were here." Thirty-three bared his teeth in annoyance, "The previous trial was an inverted mirror image, and this one is an infinitely resurrected corpse. ?”

"To be honest, I think the person who designed this trial level lacks the ability to innovate." Ke Lan said in a low voice.

"It's already here, and you're still in the mood to complain? I'm afraid if we don't kill all these monsters, we'll never be able to reach the next level, right?"

As they spoke, the three people and thousands of resurrected corpses around them fell to the ground at the same time. As soon as these resurrected corpses landed, they rushed towards the three people like crazy, just like the scene in the zombie movie.

An invisible space barrier blocked the way of these "zombies", but they didn't seem to care about it at all. Many of the "zombies" that rushed over smashed their brains into pieces on the space barrier. Even so, their fingers were still on the space barrier. They scratched and dug fiercely, and this crazy energy immediately reminded Thirty-three of the source of the shocking wounds on their bodies.

These resurrected corpses seem to pose no threat to Ke Lan and the others, but in fact this is still a dead end - Thirty-three is right, these unkillable corpses should be the "title" of this level, If they can't solve this problem, they will always be trapped and die here.

"I do have an idea." Thirty-three said.

Ke Lan: "Tell me about it."

"Didn't we try to cut through the tower wall on the previous floor? Although we failed, it was because our perspective was in a false mirror image, and the world we are in now should be real, right? Otherwise Try again? Use the space barrier to push you to the edge, and then drill through the tower wall?"

"Although I think it's impossible to solve the problem so easily, it doesn't hurt to try." After saying that, Ke Lan took the initiative to walk towards the tower wall in one direction.

But before they went very far, all three of them discovered a problem.

No matter how they move, the distance between them and the tower wall does not change, as if the tower wall is moving with them - when they approach, the tower wall moves away; when they move away, the tower wall moves closer.

"The things happening in this tower are really weird...have we been standing still?" Thirty-three was the first to stop, and threw away the deformed Nino alloy dagger in his hand with some indignation. After going out, the dagger made three turns in the air, drawing a trajectory that was completely inconsistent with the laws of physics, and finally penetrated into the eye socket of a zombie that was hitting the barrier.

Ke Lan was not surprised at all. He shrugged and signaled that he had given up the plan to drill through the tower wall: "I knew there would be some means to prevent cheating."