Alien Relic Hunter.

Chapter 261 Dead End (4000 words chapter)
Countless "worker ants" kept rushing towards the fortress, and the corpses under the wall had been piled up almost at the same level as the top of the wall. The following prismatic beasts rushed up directly stepping on the corpses of the same kind, and began to slaughter the ordinary people standing on the top of the wall. infantry.

"Light infantry retreat! The armored soldiers go up, gather the directional mines and explosives, and clean up the corpses of those bugs!" The hound commanded the troops loudly, and a dozen soldiers in power armor quickly ran behind the wall. The thruster sprayed out a hot tail flame, and jumped onto the wall with a light leap. The heavy-duty chain saw in his hand started to move, waving it wide open and closed among a bunch of "worker ants".

Ke Lan noticed that these dozen or so armored soldiers are definitely not the "new force" under the Hound's hands. The armor on their bodies is stained with a large amount of blue fluorescent blood unique to the Prismus, and the surface is covered with scratches of different shades. Several of the armors were so damaged that even the most basic protection function was gone, the vitals of the wearer's chest and abdomen were completely exposed, and it looked no different from a pair of powered exoskeletons assembled from discarded parts.

These people should have just returned from the front line where the battle was extremely fierce - they just rested for a while in the rear, replenished ammunition and fuel, and were thrown into the battle again before even repairing the damaged armor middle.

There are few cards that can be played in the hound's hand, and the strength, ammunition and energy are all in jeopardy. The entire fortress may be swallowed up by this group of prismatic beasts at any time.

What's more, as long as the energy of the protective shield above their heads is exhausted, the "worker ant" prismatic beasts don't need to tear the line of defense, and the plasma ball projected from a long distance by the "soldier ant" can easily destroy these hundreds of people. people.

At this moment, two military transport planes suddenly flew over from a distance, but for some reason, after seeing the two transport planes, the hound grabbed the communicator and shouted to them, "Turn around! Turn around quickly! Full rudder to the right!"

In the next second, a ball of fully charged plasma spewed out from the mouth of a "soldier ant-level" prismatic beast, drew a nearly straight arc in mid-air, and hit the two transport planes without any mistakes. one.

The other one made an emergency evasive action in mid-air, narrowly avoiding the aftermath of its companion's explosion.It was the hound's shout that alerted the other transport plane in time, which avoided the fate of both crashes. Ke Lan wondered for a while, could this guy have such good eyesight besides his particularly keen sense of smell?Even Ke Lan, who was in the perspective of God, didn't notice that a "soldier-level" prismatic beast secretly raised its head and aimed at the transport plane in the distance. Why would the hound in the fortress see that his Depending on the angle, the field of vision should be blocked...

But Ke Lan couldn't control this dream. He couldn't replay the scene just now to check the details that were missed, so he had to give up.

The remaining transport plane finally passed through the opening in the protective cover unharmed and landed in the fortress.

"How many supplies have you brought? How many ammunition and crystals are on the plane? Medical supplies?" The hound walked to the transport plane in three steps and two steps, and asked while pawing at the hatch.

"No... In order to get to the battlefield as quickly as possible, we didn't carry any supplies." The soldier on the plane said to the hound.

"Grass! Didn't I tell you to bring more ammunition and crystals! Didn't you hear? How many times have I said that!" There was a muffled sound.

"But the order we received is to protect your safety, Colonel, please board the plane immediately—"

"Board the plane?! Board your mother's plane! I won't leave! You fucking urge me one more time and I will kill you!" After the hound finished speaking, he turned to the guards beside him and said, "Have the wounded be carried away!" Come here and move to the plane, the seriously wounded who have no combat effectiveness are given priority!"

Soon, dozens of seriously wounded people lying on simple stretchers were carried onto the plane. In addition, a large number of metal dog tags stained with blood and even minced meat were also handed over to the crew hands of the staff.

"Tell the pilot, don't fly back immediately when you are in the air, turn to the left first, the 'soldier ants' are the least there, and adjust the direction after pulling away to a safe distance, remember, turn left first!" At the last second before the door closed, the Hound said to the crew with a serious face.

Amidst the dull roar of the vertical thrusters, the transport plane began to slowly lift into the air, and then, the thruster nozzles began to turn to the right, turning the direction of the nose to the left...

It is not known whether it was overloaded due to the full load of wounded, or the body was damaged in the explosion just now. The speed of the transport plane was much slower than when it came.Just when it flew away from the sky above the fortress, it happened to collide head-on with a mass of high-speed plasma.

"boom!!!"

"Damn it!" The hound grabbed the military cap on his head and fell to the ground forcefully.

……

Ke Lan knew that according to the original plot, the hound himself should not die... But these soldiers under his command are estimated to be able to return to the ark alive. Charge around the weakest part of the siege, maybe a miracle will happen...

"It would be fine if I could communicate with the hound... Even if there is no way to help him break this deadlock, at least let him know that all this is just a dream..." Just when Ke Lan was thinking this way, his perspective suddenly There was a change... He looked around, and suddenly found that he "transmigrated" into the body of a soldier, and he was also a guard beside a hound!

what is this?Take home?Conscious invasion?
"...Does this dream world really have a structure similar to that of a computer program? As a foreign visitor, I only have 'read-only' permissions, but when I assimilate myself into a part of the dream, I can get The ability to interfere with this dream?"

Ke Lan raised his head, just in time to see the hound that was losing his temper not far away. He thought for a while, if he intervened directly with "violent means", it might have some bad consequences-this is like killing When a sleepwalking person wakes up, he may enter a short-term state of insanity, but the dream world is much more real than ordinary nightmares. Ke Lan can't guarantee it, so he directly Will the hound "wake up" produce some unpredictable consequences.

It's better to follow the development of the dream first and find a way to help the hound get out of this predicament, maybe the hound will wake up by itself... If it doesn't work, then use brute force to crack it——

"Colonel, it's really not possible, let's find a way to break through." Ke Lan turned around and said to the hound as a "personal guard".

But what he didn't expect was that the hound, who was still in a panic just now, suddenly seemed to be a different person, grabbed his arm, and asked in a deep voice with a livid face, "Who are you?"

"I... I am..." Ke Lan subconsciously lowered his head to look at the dog tag hanging around his neck, but the hound reached out his hand first and pulled the dog tag off.

He used it so hard that the edge of the metal dog tag even cut the skin of his palm, but the hound didn't seem to feel any pain at all.

"Answer my question." The Hound said again.

"Colonel, those bugs are about to break through our defenses..."

"That's not important, I just want to know who you are...or what are you?" The hound drew out his pistol and put it on Ke Lan's head, "You're not Gates, Gates wouldn't be like this Talk to me...and, let alone say such a word to me at this time point."

Hound's words were unabashedly filled with hatred and murderous intent: "So, tell me, what are you...why did you appear in my dream?"

"You...you know this is a dream? Are you awake?!" Ke Lan looked at the hound in surprise. Although the hound didn't answer immediately, Ke Lan already knew the answer from the other's eyes.

"...Of course I know...Although I have been troubled by this nightmare for more than ten years, thanks to this, I know all the details of this dream clearly, and I know where each character will be. What time says and does...and you, you stand out like a drop of black ink splashed on white paper...it's too abrupt."

"I'm Ke Lan."

"What did you say?"

"Believe it or not, I am Ke Lan!" Ke Lan met the hound's eyes and looked at him.

"I don't believe it." The hound shook his head vigorously, but let go of his hand, "Sense tells me that Ke Lan can't appear here, but reason also tells me that in the dream, reason is a fucking fart !"

"Whether you're Ke Lan or something else, I'll just fucking pretend you're Ke Lan." The Hound said, spitting on the ground, "Bah—it's just a dream anyway, At worst, I'll go crazy... Perhaps, when I was here, I died with these little bastards, but it was a relief."

Ke Lan: "..."

"Okay, just treat you as Ke Lan, and tell me, how did you come to my dream." The hound turned around, took out two bottles of soda from the supply box on the side, and put the mouth of the bottle on the When the edge of the box was knocked, the bottle cap flew out directly.

He handed one of the bottles of soda to Ke Lan, and said, "Drinking alcoholic beverages is prohibited during the march. This is the only thing left, so just drink it."

Ke Lan looked at the soda bottle in his hand. The bottle was still stained with some blood that had already solidified. Bubbles were coming out of the dark brown liquid. Shards of steel scraped against his arm armor, smashing the soda bottle in his hand.

"Unfortunately, this is the last bottle." The hound said without changing his expression. The fragment was less than [-] centimeters away from him, and it was almost able to cut his throat.

Not far away, more than a dozen "worker ants" swarmed up and knocked over a soldier who was completely exhausted. Countless sharp limbs pierced through the gaps in the power armor, tearing and shredding the soldier's body. ...

The hound, on the other hand, turned a blind eye, raised his head, and gulped down the soda in the bottle.

Ke Lan glanced at the soda bottle with only the upper half left in his hand, and threw it aside helplessly, and roughly talked about what he encountered in the dream world.

"It seems that our situation is similar, the only difference is that you can control your dreams at will, but I can't." The hound threw the empty bottle towards the wall, "If it is possible, I really want to Create a fleet and crush these bugs directly."

"But, since you know it's a dream, why just now... you still seemed to be completely immersed in it?" Ke Lan asked the doubts in his heart.

"I'm just... well." The hound sighed, "I just want to try, can I change the outcome of that day, even if it's just in a dream... I want to know if there is a better battle plan, Can you let more people go back alive...even if there is only one more person..."

He squatted down, looked at the gradually crumbling defense line and said: "I took this nightmare as a sand table, simulating that day's battle over and over again... I finally found that I can't change anything... Even in the dream , I can't change anything..."

The hound's tone was extremely frustrated, and he clenched his fists so tightly that even his nails were cut into the flesh of his palm.

"Things have already happened. Even if you wiped out all these prismatic beasts in your dream, the dead will not come back." Ke Lan said, "Why don't you think about it, how can you get out of this dream world?" Get out... that's the top priority."

"Didn't you say that you can control your dreams at will? Why? Are you trapped in it too?" The hound raised his head and looked at Ke Lan, who was the image of Gates, with some puzzlement.

"I forgot to tell you, I can do anything in my own dream, there are only two things I can't - one is to find anything related to you, and the other is to wake up completely from this dream."

"Obviously the consciousness is clear, but I just can't get rid of this nightmare... From this point of view, the experience of those crazy relic hunters is the same as ours." The hound said, "It's just, why did you run into my dream? Come here? Just because you... 'thought about it'?"

"I don't know too well, I guess, it may be because of the spiritual attack that connected the dream worlds of the few of us... It is also for this reason that in my own dreams, all things related to you Nothing can exist, I think, in your dreams, things related to me can't appear..."

"Then you are now... that's right, you are that guy Gates now, not Ke Lan..."

"However, on the other hand, following this clue, I deduced two news, one good news and one bad news."

"Don't let me choose which one to listen to first, you just talk together." The hound waved his hand.

"The good news is that other than us, everyone else should be alive; the bad news is... we in the real world are probably deeply trapped in this S-level ruin at this moment."

(End of this chapter)