Alien Relic Hunter.

Chapter 152 The Fall of the Base
"From a certain point of view, we...should be considered safe for the time being." Ke Lan said, "These monsters have focused their attack on the human base on the ground. We have to take advantage of this opportunity to get out quickly."

"Hey... that old man still wanted to kill us in the mine, but he didn't expect these monsters to go to his lair instead... Hehe..." the hound said with a sneer, "this is called a fucking report of the world , It's so fucking pleasing!"

"Layton, how long will you be there?"

"Two or 10 minutes. This water pump is too old and has a lot of problems. I guess it was thrown here because it was about to be scrapped." Layton said while cutting off the shell of the water pump with a welding torch. Come on, "Looks like I'll have to turn this thing into a disposable."

"As long as you can persist until the tunnel is dug through." Ke Lan nodded to him, and walked over, "I'll help you."

"Okay, then help me fix this rotor, be careful not to make direct contact with the skin, it will burn you." Layton said, bent down, tilted his head, and inserted the front end of the welding torch into the inside of the machine.

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At the same time, inside the mining base of the Soma Consortium, on the top of the No. [-] sentry tower——

"Karen! Fire, fire! Those monsters are about to charge over!" An officer covered in blood rushed up from the bottom of the tower, shouting at the shooting who was stunned behind the heavy machine gun.

"But...but our people are also over there, if they shoot, they will..."

"They're all dead! They're all dead! Do you understand the current situation?! Idiot! If you don't fire, we'll die too!" Karen's machine gunner kicked to the ground, grabbed the grip of the heavy machine gun by himself, and fired at the bottom of the sentry tower.

With the roar of the revolver heavy machine gun, hundreds of shell casings fell at the officer's feet...

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Karen was a young mercenary employed by the Soma Consortium. He bribed a senior executive of the consortium with his five-year savings to be assigned to the Leviathan base with the highest commission.Here, he has been a machine gunner for two full years. However, during these two years, he has not even pulled the trigger once.

There is an old saying in their industry: If there is any place on Alpha Planet that is the safest, except for the Ark, then there is only Leviathan.

There is no harsh natural climate here, no native creatures that are strong enough to require a fleet to fight against, and even except inside the mine, the radiation in other places is much lower than the average value on Alpha Star, except for the weekly downhole. Besides, they don't even have to wear bulky protective clothing.

Eating, sleeping, standing guard, playing cards or watching TV, this is the life of Karen and his teammates for the past two years. Although it is a bit boring, it is better than leisure, and the income is not less than those colleagues who are born and died.

Karen once thought that if Planet Alpha went to heaven, it would probably be here.

But it is often just a moment when heaven becomes hell.

"Karen! Karen! Reload!" The officer shouted without looking back, but he didn't get a response after calling several times in a row. Turning his head, the usually honest machine gunner It has disappeared without a trace.

"Bastard! Coward! Coward! Damn deserter!" Cursing words came out of the officer's mouth one after another. Just when he was about to move the box of ammunition next to him, a sea anemone head He had already climbed to the top of the tower along the vertical wall, and had a face-to-face meeting with the officer.

"Fuck!" The officer subconsciously went to pull out the pistol stuck in his waist, but the movement of the sea anemone head was much faster than him, and the thick forearm had penetrated from the officer's back in a blink of an eye. In the middle of the fingers, there is still a beating heart tightly grasped.

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As for the disappeared Karen, he had escaped from the sentry tower at this moment and ran towards the main control building in the center of the base.

"It's over...the base is over...it's all over...I don't want to die..."

He threw away all the equipment on his body, just to run faster - he knew that those things were completely cumbersome.He saw with his own eyes that even the soldiers in power armor couldn't withstand an attack from those monsters; and the officer who snatched the machine gun killed all those who hadn't had time to retreat. As for the monster... 12.7 mm caliber armor-piercing rounds can't even tear their skin...

He didn't know where those monsters came from... The defense around the base was breached almost instantly. Although the energy shield covering the base burned the monsters to pieces, they couldn't cause fatal damage , Counting from the sound of the alarm, less than 25 minutes later, those monsters had already entered the inner side of the wall.

Karen remembered that several vertical take-off and landing aircraft were parked on the roof of the main control building all year round, and this might be his only means of escape.

The gunfire from sentry tower No. [-] had stopped, but Karen didn't dare to look back... He knew that this meant that the team he belonged to had been wiped out except him...

Everyone is dead, but at least he's alive now.

"As long as you can escape to the apron on the roof of the main control building, you will definitely be able to leave here!"

It is less than a hundred meters away from the main control building, and there are guards everywhere in this place on weekdays—those guards are different from the mercenaries who have signed contracts with them. The equipment and combat effectiveness are far superior to those of their mercenaries, and their loyalty to the consortium is not comparable to those of them who work with money.

In the past, if Karen dared to get close to the main control building, he would have been beaten out by the guards with rubber sticks, but now, the guards around the main control building have disappeared, and all the guard posts are in a different place. Fortified state.

"This group of guys...couldn't they let us mercenaries stay and die, and run away first?" Karen thought to himself.

"It's almost there...as long as we can catch up..." Karen kept recalling the vertical lift driving course he had learned before-although this is an elective course that most mercenaries will take, but can Few people have actual driving experience, including Karen.

But in any case, as long as the plane can be started up, at worst, it is fine to abandon the plane and parachute after flying away from Leviathan.

Just when Karen climbed over the railing, a group of soldiers wearing purple and black combat uniforms suddenly ran out of the main control building in a panic. These people were the direct troops of the consortium mentioned earlier. , Many of them were stained with blood, obviously they had just experienced a tragic battle.

Seeing these people, Karen quickly hid behind the sentry box, and couldn't help but wonder inwardly: "Could it be... those monsters have already entered the main control building?"

If this is the case, then if he wants to enter the building, wouldn't it be the same as a sheep entering a tiger's mouth?
Or, wait for these people to lure the monster away, and then go in by themselves?But what if there are more than one monster in the building?

Karen was still struggling, but a black figure suddenly broke out of the window of the main control building and landed right in the center of the group of consortium guards.

This is a man wearing a black robe. His exposed half chest and right arm are embedded with cyber-style biochemical armor. There are flowing purple light paths on the surface of the armor. There are no eyes on his face, replaced by It is a linear electronic eyepiece - making people confused for a moment whether this is a complete simulation robot or a highly modified biochemical human.

The black-robed man drew out the long knife in the sheath before he landed, and pulled out a 360-degree circular knife light in mid-air!
When the long knife returned to its sheath, the guards of the Soma Consortium who were frozen in place fell to the ground one after another, blood gushing out.

"This guy is so strong!" Seeing this scene, Karen didn't even dare to show his breath... Although the one who chased and killed these guards was not the kind of monster with tentacles, the man in black robe in front of him was stronger than those guards. The monster is also scary.

"Let's wait for this guy to leave before acting on our own." Karen thought so, but after the man in black robe finished killing someone, he walked straight towards him.

Damn it!This guy's electronic eyes have heat-sensitive vision, and he was discovered!
The hair on Karen's head stood up immediately, and the feeling of being treated as a prey made him want to run away... But reason told him that with only human legs, he would never be able to run away from the opponent's high-level justice. bodily...

"Hey! Hey! Don't do it! Don't do it!" Karen's heart was swayed, and he simply walked out of the hiding place with his hands raised, "I'm not with those people, please don't kill me, I and The contract of the Soma Consortium has been terminated. Just now, the contract has been terminated. I am not a member of the Soma Consortium...Of course, if you need me in anything, please feel free to ask...but don't kill me... ..."

The man in the black robe didn't speak, a purple light flashed in his electronic eyes, and then he rushed towards Karen quickly.

"Oops!" Karen reached out to draw his gun, but found nothing—his weapon had already been thrown away when he ran away just now!

He couldn't even see the movement of the opponent's hand, he felt his body lighten suddenly, and then his vision began to blur... He felt as if he was flying, and he moved his eyes to look down with some effort, but saw himself standing On the headless body on the ground, blood is gushing out from the opening of the neck...

Vaguely, he seemed to see an emblem on the back of the opponent's neck, which was a white rhombus printed on the black nail plate, and in the center of the rhombus, there were three horizontal lines of equal length.

"Three... the emblem of the Mitsui consortium?" This was the last thought that flashed through Karen's mind.

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Inside Leviathan, Mine Shaft [-].

"Okay, it's finally finished." Layton clapped his hands excitedly. In front of him was a tractor-like thing—in order to make this machine move, Layton even installed it A pair of large wheels with a diameter of one meter were installed.

In the place where the water pump should have been, the heat energy epee used as a drill bit is welded on. The energy of the epee is provided by the crystallization engine of the water pump itself, and when the engine of the water pump is started, the epee Driven by the rotor, the epee will spin at a high speed, and the high-temperature blade can cut rocks, just like cutting tofu.

"This thing... can really dig through the tunnel?" The hound looked at the water pump that could no longer recognize the original appearance at this moment, and asked with some doubts, "Is it too thin to use the blade as a drill. "

"Not at all!" Layton said, patting his chest, "The thermal energy epee does not rely on sharpness to cut things, but the high temperature attached to the blade. Even if the blade breaks, the efficiency will not decrease significantly. Only this time If so, that's enough."

As he spoke, he pushed the "tractor" to the place where the tunnel was blocked, and stuffed two crystals into the entrance of the converter.

The blade of the epee turned dark red again, and immediately began to spin.

"It feels good." Layton pushed the "tractor" forward for a meter, and there was almost no sense of obstruction. The rocks blocked in the tunnel were cut into fist-sized pieces, and along the sides of the drill bit The tunnel tumbled to the ground.

"Help me clear the cut rocks to the back! Be careful! Don't be hit on the head!" The drill bit made a lot of noise, and Layton almost shouted at the top of his voice.

"You don't need to say it! It's working!" The hound also roared at the same volume.

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As the drill continued to advance, they were getting closer and closer to the entrance. When there were still about three meters left, Ke Lan stepped forward, patted Layton on the shoulder, and asked him to turn the machine stopped.

"What's the matter? We can go out soon, and I can even feel the fresh air coming through the cracks in the rocks." Layton said a little puzzled.

"It's the last few meters, don't worry." Ke Lan said, "The situation outside now...is much more dangerous than in the mine."

"Ke Lan is right. You said you felt the fresh air outside, but I smelled a bloody smell in the fresh air." The hound frowned and said, "Just go out like this, in case you happen to bump into a few Monster, that's all over."

"The sound of nearby guns has stopped. It seems that the battle outside the mine has ended." Ke Lan said. If there are really hundreds of them, relying on the little defensive power in the camp, they will be slaughtered at all.

"It's a pity that Akira Asano hasn't woken up yet. His ears are much better than those of us who are not blind." The hound glanced at Akira Asano, who was still in a coma and was carried behind Zoligetu, and said.

"Layton, can you control the size of the hole drilled by this machine? We can make a smaller observation port first, and then go out after making sure there is no danger outside." Ke Lan said.

"It should be possible, as long as half of the blade of the epee is removed." Layton nodded, and immediately started to work.

[PS (I can’t help complaining) The update has been relatively late these days... because the upstairs is being renovated during the day, and the electric drill makes my scalp numb and I can’t calm down to code. Every time they start work, I It feels like the whole building is shaking together, and it’s useless to wear headphones... The laptop I used when I was in school broke down a long time ago, and it has never been repaired, so I can’t go to the library or Starbucks to code words, Internet cafes Due to physical reasons, I can’t go to crowded places... Sigh, it’s late every day, and I don’t know how many days the one upstairs will be open...]

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