Alien Relic Hunter

"Thirty seconds?! It's too late! I can't wait that long!" Yeger gritted his teeth and said, "Is there no other way? Didn't you say that you made the circuit system of this machine? Isn't there any emergency? Is there a backdoor for restarting?”

"Yes, but it requires manual operation." As he spoke, Wilson had already unlocked the protective suit, got out of the iron bucket-like protective suit, and reached for a cover on the top of the cockpit. plate.

But just when Wilson's fingers touched the cover, his body seemed to have been hit hard, and he was instantly bounced back to the seat. His whole body twitched a few times, and then stopped moving. .

"What's wrong with you?! Hello?!" Yeager subconsciously reached out to pull Wilson, but when he turned his head, he happened to catch a glimpse of the screen on the side of the seat used to monitor vital signs - life The physical sign monitoring equipment was not connected to the mecha, so it was not affected by the electric shock and was still working normally.

But Wilson's heart rate shown above is zero, and the electrocardiogram is also a straight line.

Wilson's heart went into cardiac arrest.

Yeager seemed to realize something, and turned to look at Wilson's fingers that had just touched the cover. The front ends of those fingers were burnt black, and the nails even looked carbonized and cracked.

"It's high-voltage electricity!" Yeager reacted instantly - the electric shock from the giant eel in the deep sea had completely destroyed the insulating protective layer of the body. The only reason Yeger was not electrocuted was because of this piece of equipment on his body that he thought was completely A deep diving suit that offers little protection.

This high-voltage electricity is only transient and will soon be conducted away by the sea water. As long as Wilson slows down for a few seconds to touch the metal cover, he will not get an electric shock... But, nothing can be said now. It's too late.

"..." Yeger took a deep breath, his expression looking a little dull.

Although Wilson's heart stopped beating, Yeager did not think he was dead - coma and shock are very common symptoms after an electric shock. If rescue can be carried out immediately at this time, even if it is just emergency cardiopulmonary resuscitation, it will There is a chance to save him.

But the problem is that they have neither the conditions nor the time now.

Before Yeager stretched out his hand to reach Wilson, there was a muffled "boom" sound outside, and the entire cockpit tipped to one side - the cockpit could no longer maintain balance, which meant that it was necessary to adjust The balancing suspension device has been damaged, and all the anchors that fixed the mecha's footsteps have been broken.

Despair surged in Yeager's heart, and he retracted his hand - there was no point in rescuing Wilson at this time. Even if he could be saved, there would only be a few minutes left for the two of them.

"Boom!"

There was another muffled sound, and the entire cockpit shook violently. An extremely obvious depression appeared on the inner wall of the cockpit, and a display screen originally installed in that place was directly broken into several pieces.

Wilson, who lost the restraints of his deep-diving suit, was thrown up, flew past Yeager, and hit the other side of the cockpit. His head was suddenly bloody and bloody, and even the gray-white brain could be vaguely seen.

"Thirty seconds...thirty seconds should have come. Why, why hasn't the operating system restarted automatically?" Yeager shook the joystick in vain, but the machine did not respond at all, and the screen remained dark.

"Move! Why don't you move!" Yeger roared, "Even if you can't move, at least let me detonate the torpedo!"

But just when Yeager fell into despair, a clear "beep" sound suddenly came from his ears. He couldn't help but turn his head and look in the direction of the sound - it was Wilson's vital signs monitoring equipment. , although Wilson was no longer in the seat, the device's sensor patch was still attached to his body.

The heart rate that had originally returned to zero was gradually rising. Yeager wiped his eyes in disbelief - although he could only hear the "beep" of the machine, he vaguely seemed to be able to hear it. The sound of a heart beating in Wilson's chest.

The electrocardiogram, which was originally a straight line, also fluctuated again...

"Alive... alive?!" Yeger looked stunned, even temporarily forgetting that the two of them were still in danger.

There are fully automatic drug syringes and micro pacemakers inside the deep diving suit for first aid, but Wilson, who takes off the deep diving suit, cannot be rescued by these devices... and at this moment, his heart rate He and his breathing are recovering at a speed that can be said to be "rebirth". This can only be described as a "medical miracle".

"How is this possible?" Yeager turned his head again. Wilson's body was curled up in a corner of the cockpit in a weird posture. His head was torn apart by the impact, and even his skull had big bruises. A wide range of comminuted fractures - if Wilson still had a chance to be rescued after being electrocuted, then after hitting the wall, he was already dead in Yeager's heart.

With this kind of injury, even if the heart has not stopped, the military doctors on the battlefield will only shake their heads and sigh when they see it, and leave precious medicine and rescue opportunities to other wounded people.

The brain has always been the most vulnerable part of human beings - the current cyborg prosthetic technology is extremely advanced. Even if the heart is damaged, as long as the brain tissue is properly preserved and not necrotic due to lack of oxygen and suffocation, an artificial heart can still be used. The injured came back to life. But if the damaged part is the brain, then even the most awesome prosthetist will be helpless.

After all, artificial brains have yet to be developed.

"The brain and brain matter are all splashed out, so he shouldn't be able to survive, right?" Yeager muttered in his heart, "Maybe Wilson is a high-level enhanced person, his body's vitality is very tenacious, his heart revives on its own and is making a final struggle? Even if His heart has recovered...he shouldn't be able to wake up, right?"

What Yeger didn't expect was that the slap in the face came so quickly.

As the number symbolizing the heart rate on the screen gradually climbed above sixty, a dry moan came from Wilson's throat, and his originally motionless body started to twitch.

"This... this is impossible!" Yeger's eyes widened and he shook his head mechanically.

The control system that should have been restored did not recover, and the body that should have moved did not move, but the person who should have been completely dead came back to life.

Is there anything more incredible than this?

But this unbelievable thing was happening right in front of Yeger's eyes.

Wilson held on to the inner wall of the cockpit with his hands and slowly climbed up. He turned around and looked at Yeager with his cybernetic eye - his other normal eye could no longer be opened and was red. The blood was continuously overflowing from the slits of his eyes and dripping along the contours of his cheeks.

"You...are you still alive?" Yeger opened and closed his upper and lower lips a few times and asked a question that seemed a bit stupid.

"Still alive." Wilson said solemnly. He staggered a step forward and tried to return to his seat. But at this time, the deep-sea giant eel outside launched another attack on "Zokok Kai". Amid the shock, Wilson lost his balance again and sat down on the ground.

"Is your head... okay?" Yeager's eyes were fixed on the wound on Wilson's head. In the deepest part, the gray-white brain tissue was clearly visible - Yeager could be sure that those shattered bones must be Many of them penetrated into Wilson's brain.

Why... would he "alive" and still seem to be sane?

"It's okay." Wilson whispered, "My body has been transformed, and this injury is not fatal to me."

"Renovation...I see." At this time, Yeager could only accept this statement, "Let's not talk about it for now. Our current situation is very bad. The body is probably off the ground, and the cockpit is ready at any time. It may be crushed into a discus by the water pressure, and the two of us will become minced meat in this discus... Can you restart the operating system again?"

"Thirty seconds should have passed, right?" Wilson's gaze moved up slightly and stopped on the cover. "Didn't the operating system...restart automatically?"

"No." Yeager shook his head, "As you can see, I still can't control the machine, and I can't grasp the situation outside at all... Even if I want to self-destruct and die with those giant eels in the deep sea, I can't do it-"

Before the word "arrive" of "can't be done" was uttered, the machine suffered another heavy blow. Yeager bit his tongue hard, and the blood splattered on the inside of the helmet mask. .

"Hiss..." Yeger gasped in pain, and he almost bit off his tongue.

He almost bit his tongue and committed suicide.

Wilson's condition was not much better either. A steel pipe broke off from nowhere and penetrated his lower abdomen... But compared with the wound on his head, the steel pipe inserted into his stomach was as thick as a handful. It can only be regarded as a "minor injury".

Wilson looked down at his abdomen. The dark red blood stains on his clothes were spreading and spreading. As his breathing affected the muscles of his chest and abdomen, the blood stains spread faster and faster.

"Damn it...damn it...fuck him!" Yeager cursed inarticulately, "Just hold on, I'll get the medical kit right away..."

Yeager pulled out the medical kit that was stuffed under the seat with great difficulty and opened the lid.

After seeing the common emergency medicines in the medical box, Yeager hesitated briefly. He first looked at the hemostatic bandages and medicines, and then looked at the disposable morphine preparation fixed on the inside of the medical box with an elastic band. syringe, then took out the latter and threw it towards Wilson.

According to normal first aid measures, you should find a way to stop Wilson's bleeding at this time. It is best to pull out the steel pipe and sew the blood vessels, and use something like a stapler to staple the muscles and skin at the wound... Even if You cannot remove the steel pipe, but you should at least apply hemostatic gel around the wound to stop the blood from continuing to flow out.

But the severely deformed depressions on the four walls of the cockpit kept telling Yeager that at this time, any rescue measures seemed so unnecessary, such as tourniquets, hemostatic gel... At this time, they were all Not as useful as a painkiller.

It has to be said that the tenacity of this temporarily modified machine was far beyond Yeager's expectations - every time it was attacked by the giant eel in the deep sea, Yeager thought that the machine was about to disintegrate, but it just persisted. Lasted until now.

He also took out a syringe for himself and stuffed it into the fully automatic injection chamber on the deep diving suit.

As the medicinal liquid was injected into the body, the pain in the tongue was slightly relieved.

"I, I don't know what to say now..." Although he gave himself a painkiller injection, the injury on his tongue still made Yeager's pronunciation very weird, as if he was holding a big mouthful of ice cream, "Maybe. We should take this opportunity to write a suicide note...but I think even if we leave a suicide note, no one will be able to see it."

"I'm not going to die here," Wilson said.

"Yes, we won't die here." Yeger nodded and followed the other person's words. It was already this time, and he didn't want to argue with the person who was about to accompany him to death.

Wilson did not answer, but held the steel pipe with both hands and pulled it out of his body forcefully.

The imagined scene of blood spurting out did not appear. The wound on Yeger's abdomen was only exposed for a short moment, and the squirming flesh sprouts blocked the terrible hole.

"Wha, what?!" Yeager's eyes widened, and he immediately moved the focus of his sight to Wilson's head - similarly, at the wound on the top of his head, a piece of blood-red flesh had condensed out of nowhere. The membrane wrapped the wound.

"You said you transformed people...but I have never seen such a transformed person." Yeger said in a trembling voice, "This kind of recovery ability...cannot be obtained by transformation surgery, it is absolutely impossible...You, Who are you? No...what are you?"

"Now is not the time to discuss this matter with you." Wilson gave Yeager a deep look and stood up from the ground, "If you want to live, just cooperate with me."

[P.S. Here is a rumor. Although there are indeed rich blood vessels and nerves in the tongue, even if the tongue is bitten off, it is difficult for a person to die directly from it... The so-called "suicide by biting the tongue", according to the author's own research, He probably died of suffocation caused by swallowing the bitten off tongue and blocking the trachea, or died of shock due to severe pain... But no matter how the cause of death was determined, it would not be excessive blood loss. 】