Alien Relic Hunter.

Chapter 1017
The roots inside the power furnace are far superior in density and thickness to those of the same kind that Ke Lan has seen before. If the roots in the living area of ​​the ark are compared with them, they are simply nothing... The thinnest roots in the power furnace The diameter of one of the rods is also more than one meter, and its strength is so strong that even monsters like giant knights cannot break free.

Seeing that the giant knight who made him extremely troublesome just a moment ago was "digested" by these roots in just a few seconds, and the weird armor fell into the depths of the power furnace, an inexplicable chill couldn't help climbing up. On Ke Lan's back.

"This is what we need to solve..." Ke Lan looked away from these roots and couldn't help sighing.

Although Ke Lan himself is the maker of the whole plan, he doesn't know if the plan will work... The only thing he can do is to do his best and obey the destiny...

I don't know why, Ke Lan always felt very uncomfortable after these words popped up in his head. He thought about it, probably because in human cognition, the concept of "destiny" is generally related to the will of gods. Putting the same sign, since they want to resist the existence called God, but they have to obey the destiny, it sounds really ironic.

"It's more straightforward to say 'my fate is up to me' in Long Aotian's novel." Ke Lan smiled self-deprecatingly, turned his head and left the edge of the big hole.

Those roots in the power furnace are indeed part of the giant tree's root system, but they are not the main root. Blowing up all these roots will at most affect the efficiency of the giant tree's nutrient absorption, and will not cause fatal damage to it.

If the root system of giant trees is divided into three levels, namely tap root, secondary tap root and peripheral root system, the roots in this power furnace can only be regarded as the lowest level of "peripheral root system". The scattered roots inside are not even considered "root system".

The secondary taproot should presumably be the active power furnaces that occupy the underground of the ark—the fuel reserves and total energy conversion there are hundreds of times that of the power furnaces in the northern area. The output of any active power furnace is enough It is necessary to maintain the daily life of all the living quarters on the ark.

And the giant tree has only one tap root, and that is its key point.

"The original plan remains the same. We will continue to rush to the site of the West First District Research Institute." Ke Lan said to Ze Luo, "I hope that we can find what we are looking for in the underground ice storage."

The two returned to the place where the soldiers died in battle, recovered some of the usable equipment from the corpses, and then sprinkled powdered incendiary on the corpses of the soldiers and set them on fire.

If these corpses are not burned, the nearby roots will soon spread here, and these soldiers who were fighting side by side with Ke Lan not long ago will soon become the nourishment of the giant tree...even their remaining The last ray of consciousness will be absorbed by the giant tree, unable to rest in complete peace.

For that existence, nourishment at the level of consciousness is far more important than at the material level, and as the most important carrier in the sacrificial ceremony, in addition to absorbing the flesh and blood of all creatures on Alpha Planet, their " The "soul" is also doomed.

Ke Lan couldn't help recalling the side effects of when he just acquired the "time stop" ability - those wailing and screaming from men, women, old and children echoed in his head, these people were all sacrificed by the Arasaka consortium The victims, their flesh and blood essence were integrated into those "black asphalt", as for their consciousness, they were divided into two parts, one part was condensed into the ego of the puppet individual, and the other part was condensed with the "time stop" "The ability is attached to Ke Lan's body.

It's just that after Ke Lan and the "body" merged into one, the consciousness of these victims who were almost no different from ghosts was wiped out, leaving only pure thought power... It's like filtering out the impurities in the water.

This process is undoubtedly extremely painful for the conscious body. There is an upper limit to the sensory organs for the pain suffered by the body, and the brain can even "self-protect" through fainting, but there is no upper limit for the pain that the conscious body can bear. In addition to being wiped out, the conscious body has no way to put itself into a coma, so as to escape this pain.

When merging with the body, Ke Lan personally experienced the process of the consciousness attached to himself being gradually obliterated. Their negative emotions such as pain, despair, madness, etc. condensed into a terrifying force, hitting Ke Lan over and over again. In Lan's heart... If it were someone with a weak will, I'm afraid he would become a lunatic right after the fusion.

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At the same time, the outer battlefield of the Ark.

The third batch of transport planes returned to the Skadi with the remnants of the first and second batches of airborne troops, and those "wake up" wrecks completely occupied the upper platform of the ark and began to kill each other.

Major General Alexander looked at the crazy scene in the picture sent back by the drone, and couldn't help but tremble in his heart-fortunately, the subsequent batch of airborne troops received an order to retreat, so no more casualties were caused.

With the combat power shown by the "monsters" transformed by these men in black, let alone two batches of airborne troops, even if the number of people is increased by five times, they will be swallowed up by these monsters in an instant.

The only thing that puzzled Alexander was the issuer of the evacuation order... He clearly remembered that the highest-ranking officer in the airborne force was a colonel, but he used the highest command rank when communicating with the third batch of transport planes. It is precisely for this reason that the third batch of transport planes will execute the retreat order without hesitation.

In the Survivor Alliance, apart from myself and General Maginot, only the top executives of the Hunting God Hunting Group have the command code of the highest command level. Even Levi, the chief of staff trusted by General Maginot, does not have this authority. ...Could it be that among the airborne troops just now, there are high-level members of the Hunting God Hunting Group?
Did they not tell themselves that it was to keep the operation secret?
Major General Alexander did not guess any further, nor did he tell the officers around him what he thought, but silently hid the matter in his heart - of course he knew why the Hunting God Hunting Group did this, let alone them, just Even the officers under his opponents are not [-]% assured... The power of the Undead Crew Association is too powerful, and anyone who comes out of the ark may be their secret son.

The leakage of ordinary combat information will not have a big impact on the battle situation, but once such crucial information is intercepted by the dark, it may affect the final direction of the entire battle.

Major General Alexander did not alarm anyone, and secretly called out the combat report of the third batch of airborne troops just now and re-read it. More than 60 people stayed behind.After the transport plane took off, these more than 60 people entered the interior of the ark using the vertical passage on the platform. At this point, the team disappeared from their field of vision.

In addition, there was also an unconscious female pilot among those who had withdrawn. As soon as this female pilot arrived on the Skadi, she was picked up by someone sent by the Hunting God Hunting Group.

"Female pilot?" Major General Alexander suddenly thought of the girl named "Valentina" who didn't talk too much... Since she was among the first batch of airborne troops, the person she escorted must be someone very important...

"Could it be Ke Lan himself?" Alexander was startled, his fingers trembled involuntarily, and then subconsciously deleted the combat report submitted by the airborne troops.

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On the other side of the battlefield, Yagunaktor was hidden in the clouds.

After the electromagnetic pulse bomb was launched, the swarms stopped their attack, and all returned to the canopy of the giant tree.Yaguna Ketor also took this opportunity to quickly leave the battlefield and pull to a "relatively safe area" twenty kilometers away from the ark.

Valentina woke up shortly after being taken back to Yagunaktor. She sat up on the hospital bed, looked around in a daze, and finally her eyes stayed on the chair beside the bed, which had fallen into a deep sleep. On Chi Hanfeng's body.

"Old Chi has not closed his eyes for more than 30 hours. If you can come back safely, the stone that has been hanging in his heart will be considered to have fallen." Ivan walked out from the shadow of the room and said to Valentina.

"Where are Ke, Ke Lan and the others?"

"Successfully entered the inside of the ark. But the communication between them and us has been disconnected, and we don't know what's going on inside." Ivan replied truthfully.

"No, I have to support them!" Valentina wanted to jump off the bed as she said that, but found that her wrist was tightly held by Chi Hanfeng in his sleep, and she couldn't pull it out without any effort. come out.

"Shh, don't wake up Lao Chi. This guy's eyes are bloodshot and he refuses to rest. I'm worried that he will die suddenly. He won't close his eyes until you come back. It’s only been 10 minutes of sleep... Let him sleep again." Ivan made a stop gesture, "Besides, with the current situation, you can't break into the inside of the ark... You just fought with the man in black That area has now completely turned into hell."

After Ivan finished speaking, he handed over the tablet in his hand.

Valentina took the tablet and felt a strong smell of blood passing through the screen into her nostrils after just one glance...

What Ivan said is absolutely correct. Just now, the high-level platform of the Ark, which was the battlefield of the airborne troops and men in black, has been occupied by all kinds of indescribable monsters... These monsters are fighting and devouring each other... Broken corpses And bloody stumps can be seen everywhere, and the ruins that were originally a mess are now covered with a layer of dark red that symbolizes death.

"No one can break through the blocking of these monsters and enter the interior of the ark. There are only two options before us: [-]. Wait for these monsters to kill each other, and the number is reduced to a certain level before sending troops to clean up the mess. [-]. Directly use the Star Destroyer to clear the platform, and at the same time create a passage directly to the core area, but the consequence of doing so is to use up our heaviest hole card." Ivan said softly from the side.

"We... are we completely unable to help him now?" Valentina frowned slightly, and the other hand that was not held by Chi Hanfeng clenched into a fist.

"It can't be said that it can't help at all... Although the battlefield inside the ark is more important, we can't take it lightly outside. In the current situation, maintaining the status quo is the greatest help we can provide him."

"..."

Valentina turned her head to look at Chi Hanfeng who was still tired even in his sleep, and nodded silently.

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Inside the Ark, the border between the West [-]st District and the North [-]st District.

After the airborne troops were wiped out, Ke Lan and Ze Luo's movement speed increased a lot. With the double blessing of high-level enhanced physique and space power, the two of them crossed the entire north in less than 10 minutes. a district.

The West [-]st District is different from the other three districts with the first serial number. There are no luxurious mansions here, nor are there any high-end commercial districts with every inch of land. Compared with the luxurious atmosphere of the other three districts, the West [-]st District gives people a Cold, orderly and extremely depressing feeling.

"This place is like a huge hospital, or to put it more ugly, it is the morgue in the hospital." This is the evaluation given by the hound when he first came to West District [-], "Even the streets are There was a faint stench of corpses."

Ke Lan didn't know whether the hounds really smelled the smell of corpses or it was an exaggerated metaphor... Although there are indeed a large number of corpses used for experiments in the research institute, these corpses are soaked in sealed, full of Fur In the jar of Marlin solution, coupled with the extremely airtight cold storage, it is reasonable to say that there will be no corpse odor spreading to the street.

Half of the area of ​​West District [-] is the research institute and its several branches responsible for different types of subjects, and the other half is the experimental site and supporting facilities for researchers and their families to live and live.

In the meme contagion incident, the entire West District was almost reduced to ruins, and none of the people who lived here survived.Although the people from the Crisis Management Section sealed off the entire West District in time to prevent the meme from spreading, the "collections" that escaped from the underground ice storage still caused great damage to the interior of the West District.

To this day, the reconstruction of the West District has not been completely completed.

As for the research institutes, they have been in a state of half-blockade and half-banning. The surviving research institutes can only continue to carry out some "harmless to humans and animals" subjects with various restrictions and surveillance.Both the main building and the underground ice storage of the research institute have been taken over by the crisis management department, and even the new director of the research institute is forbidden to enter.

In Ke Lan's memory, the Crisis Management Section imitated the "sarcophagus" of Chernobyl in the old era and built a huge isolation cover to cover the main building of the research institute and the underground ice storage... But now, this huge The isolation cover has been broken into countless petals like an eggshell, and the entire main building of the research institute has been razed to the ground. A deep hole is so nakedly exposed. Looking down from the hole, a messy underground ice store can be seen at a glance.

(End of this chapter)