Alien Relic Hunter

After being yelled by the captain, the armed men suddenly picked up their guns and fired wildly as if they were awakening from a dream... However, they did not hit the black figure until they emptied the magazines of their guns. Instead, they killed him again. Several "teammates" died.

The so-called "one-way valve" is just a slightly raised annular structure on the inner wall of the tunnel. There is no shelter at all here. Except for one staff member who fell to the ground in time, everyone else was more or less close to it. Several shots were fired - the firearms used by these armed men were extremely powerful. Even if they just grazed the body, they could tear off a large piece of flesh and blood. The arms and legs would be broken with just one hit... If they hit the chest and abdomen directly, It can even cut the whole person into two pieces!

The power of these firearms is roughly equivalent to the 0.5-inch caliber heavy machine gun on the Ark. Fortunately, these armed personnel are wearing powered exoskeletons. Otherwise, the terrifying recoil may not be suppressed by human body strength alone. Live.

"If I had known I would encounter something like this, I should have brought shotguns or grenades!" the captain cursed angrily while changing the magazine - but before he could change the second magazine, the black shadow had already jumped up to him In front of him, a big bloody hole opened in his neck.

From the death of the first armed man to the complete cessation of gunfire, there was only a total of twenty seconds. The entire ten-man team was wiped out, and the "sense of sight" that Ze Luo shared with Ke Lan also disappeared.

Ke Lan is basically certain that the so-called "sense of immediate vision" should be the memories of those living in the hive - the ten-man team was wiped out, and their memories end here, so the "sense of immediate vision" naturally cannot be used. Present the scenes behind them to Ke Lan that they can no longer see.

"What did you see?" Seeing Ke Lan let out a long breath as if he was relieved, Thirty-three knew that he had withdrawn from the "sense of immediate sight" and asked quickly.

"A ten-man team was attacked by a palm-sized shadow at our current location. In twenty seconds, four armed personnel and six maintenance workers were all wiped out," Ke Lan said.

"A black shadow the size of a palm?" Thirty-three muttered, "Is it a mouse? Don't you have the ability to stop time? Can't you even see the true face of that black shadow clearly?"

"It's not very useful to stop in the 'sense of immediate vision'." Ke Lan shook his head, "This thing is like a film that has been shot. There are things that were not captured clearly in the original film. No matter how many times I press It is impossible to see clearly even after pressing the pause button. As for the 'camera' that shot the original film, I guess it should be the eyes and brains of those attacked... Because after the death of the last attacked, the 'sense of instant vision' 'The picture disappeared."

"...Then if that black shadow appears in front of us, you should be able to see clearly what it looks like?" Thirty-three looked around with some vigilance, "Although hundreds of thousands of years have passed... …But there’s no guarantee that thing…or that thing’s descendants are still hiding in this place.”

"Don't be nervous. I asked Ze Luo to set up a space barrier around us. Even if we are attacked, the space barrier can block those things." Ke Lan said.

"I know, this thing is much better than the energy shield." Thirty-three nodded, "I'm not nervous, I was just thinking... In five months, the mouse can mutate into that look. So what if it's half a million years...will they evolve intelligence? For example...rat men?"

"It seems... you have successfully integrated into us and truly become a member of the God Hunting Group." Ke Lan suddenly showed a wry smile.

"What do you mean?" Thirty-three was stunned for a moment, obviously not understanding why Ke Lan suddenly brought up a topic that seemed to have nothing to do with the current conversation.

"Your mouth is also an illuminated crow's mouth." Ke Lan sighed, "Ze Luo told me that directly ahead, in the darkness about two hundred meters away, there were six heads with humanoid torsos lurking... …But there are creatures with a huge rat head, and it’s obvious that they have discovered us.”

"Ha...that's what it means." Thirty-three suddenly felt dumbfounded, "There are only six heads? Then we are divided into four and two - you are four and I am two. Anyway, Ze Luo is attached to you, so you are two people. You are not Suffer a loss."

"You're not as nervous now. I can feel that your heartbeat seems to be much more stable than before." Ke Lan glanced at Thirty-Three from the corner of his eye and teased.

"The unknown is the easiest thing to scare people... Now that I know what I have to face, it is not so scary." Thirty-three touched the back of the hand ax and lowered his voice, "Don't Forget, I was once a soldier, a soldier who had experienced many battles."

"I think they have also noticed that we have discovered their existence." Ke Lan whispered, arching his body slightly, "Their heart rate is speeding up - they are moving!"

Chaotic footsteps like raindrops suddenly sounded from the depths of the passage, mixed with chaotic echoes, and quickly approached Ke Lan and Thirty-three. In less than three seconds, the one at the front " Rat Man" had already crashed into the light of their tactical flashlights.

It's very different from Ze Luo's description. This is a big rat that can stand on two feet, with extremely long soles and toes. Only the soles of their front feet are on the ground, and the heels are lifted upwards. The entire ankle looks like an insect's anti-joint - this structure allows their legs to explode with extremely terrifying power like springs. Rather than running, it would be more appropriate to describe their movement as "jumping".

These "rat men" are stooped, with their spines bent to almost a ninety-degree angle, and their upper bodies leaning forward - even so, their height is still close to two meters. If the spines can be straightened, the entire body will be If fully upright, the height of these creatures can easily exceed three meters.

It was fully twice the size of the mutated giant rat that Thirty-three encountered in the Prismatic Basin.

The "rat man"'s body is covered with dirty, thick gray long hair, but the long tail trailing behind him has no hair at all, only clusters of neoplastic tumors and rotten and oozing wounds - this fact is quite consistent with the Most of the patients with acute radiation sickness that Ke Lan has seen are somewhat similar. In the "sick village", there are countless people with such symptoms.

But unlike the patients, these "rat men" have extremely developed muscles, and their strength and speed are far beyond the reach of radiation patients who are approaching the end of their lives... But judging from the explosive power of sprinting, these "rat men" It is at least the level of a sixth to seventh level enhanced person.

Their heads are covered with white bone helmets that fit closely to their heads. These bone helmets tightly wrapped up the only part of their body that could be related to the image of a mouse, except for the tail. Only a few long beards poked out from the gaps in the front of the bone helmets.

What surprised Ke Lan the most was that these "rat men" actually held crude weapons in their hands!

There were broken steel pipes, iron pieces with extremely sharp edges, metal blocks removed from who knows what... There was even a chain sword that was so rusty that the chain saw had broken!

They know how to use weapons and tools, which means they are intelligent creatures.

Thirty-three really got it right!

But before Ke Lan had time to tell Thirty-Three this, these "rat men" had already rushed forward and swung their weapons towards the two of them!

The space barrier successfully blocked the first round of attacks. These rat men seemed surprised as to why the two "invaders" in front of them had "shields" invisible to the naked eye. After the first round of attacks was ineffective, they quickly retreated. He opened a distance of more than ten meters from Ke Lan and the others, and made a rapid and threatening "babble" sound.

"Can you understand what they are saying?" Thirty-three asked.

Neither Ke Lan, Thirty-three nor Ze Luo made an attack just now - with the combat power of the three of them, against these "rat men" whose individual strength is about the same as that of a sixth or seventh-level enhanced human, any one of them would be able to attack. If you pick one up, you can kill it in an instant without even spending any effort.

For them, these "rat men" are not considered a "threat".

"I don't understand." Ke Lan shook his head, "The same goes for Ze Luo... We are not Doraemon, and we don't have anything like translating bread, so how can we understand the mouse?"

"What translation bread?" Thirty-three, who neither likes watching cartoons nor collects cultural antiques from the old era, was confused by Ke Lan's sudden new vocabulary.

"Nothing? It's just a virtual prop in the comics." Ke Lan shrugged, indicating that Thirty-Three shouldn't care about such a trivial matter.

"Then should we take action now?" Thirty-three did not like to complain and ask questions like the old dog, and quickly brought the topic back to the main business, "These rat people seem to be very afraid of us..."

"Try grabbing one first." As soon as Ke Lan finished speaking, Ze Luo's space power condensed into an invisible big hand and grabbed the strongest one with the rusty chain sword in his hand. of rat men.

No matter how much the rat-man struggled and screamed, it could not break free from the constraints of space power. Ke Lan just pulled the immobile rat-man in front of him with a gentle pull.

The other five rat men looked at each other in panic, turned around and ran away.

But the next second, they hit an invisible wall solidly - while Ke Lan used the power of space to "catching rats", he also created a trap for the other five ratmen using the power of space. The condensed cage trapped them inside.

"Are you planning to... dissect them?" Thirty-three glanced at the rat-man lifted in the air by the power of space, and then at the other five rat-men who were bumping around in the "cage". No. Knowing why, he suddenly felt that these terrifying and terrifying creatures were gradually becoming no different from the harmless mice in the laboratory.

This is probably... the special feeling brought about by the suppression of power, right? Any fear comes from lack of firepower... and there is not much difference between firepower and strength.

"I wanted to tear off this guy's 'mask' first, but the bone mask seemed to be on his head..." Ke Lan said, "At first I thought it was the skull of the same kind of remains they picked up, and it was put on It’s on my own head.”

The "mask" he refers to refers to the white bone helmets that the rat people "wear" on their heads.

"The one that grows on the head...should be considered an exoskeleton, right?" Thirty-three was slightly startled and said subconsciously.

"Maybe..." With a blood-curdling tearing sound, the rat-man's bone helmet was torn off by Ke Lan with brute force. After the bone helmet and the rat-man's head were separated, the rat-man's bone helmet was torn off with brute force. The person finally stopped struggling and completely lost his life.

"Well, it's really an exoskeleton, and part of the brain tissue is attached to the inner surface of this layer of skeleton." Ke Lan glanced at the torn off bone helmet, "It seems that I just tore off this guy's Tianling Cap. "

"It's not the Tianling Cap, but the entire upper half of the skull." Thirty-three pointed at the bloody head of the dead rat man and said, "This bone even includes the upper jaw of this creature... You Look, from here to here, there is a complete oral structure, and you can even see a muscular tongue, but the base of the tongue has been torn off by you."

Seeing that Ke Lan didn't answer, Thirty-Three turned to look at Ke Lan with some doubts, only to realize that Ke Lan was staring at the rat man's brain tissue in a trance at this time, not knowing what he was thinking.

"You...you don't want to eat it, right?" Thinking of what Ke Lan did on the second floor of the Babel Tower, Thirty-three suddenly felt like something was churning in his stomach.

Fortunately, it had been a while since the last time I ate, and there wasn't much food left in my stomach. There was only a stream of spicy sour water rising up my throat.

"To be precise, this is not called 'eating', but absorbing." Ke Lan sighed, "No way, the information we have now is pitiful. Otherwise, do you think I like to do this kind of thing?"

The blood-like living armor seeped out from Ke Lan's pores, turned into a palm, and grabbed the apple-sized rat brain tissue. The next second, countless small hollows appeared in the bright red palm. The tentacles pierced deep into the brain tissue.

The information contained in the rat man's brain was very messy. Ke Lan only felt dizzy, and double images appeared in front of his eyes... After a while, he calmed down, shook his head at Thirty-Three, and said: " They are overestimated... These rat people are not intelligent creatures at all. They only have animal instincts and do not have the ability to think like humans."

"However," Ke Lan continued, "there was a memory fragment in my mind that was unsealed just now... The Alpha civilization seems to have come into contact with this kind of creature and named them - 'Tunnel Dwellers'."