Alien Relic Hunter.

Chapter 269 Egg Sheath
At this moment, Martin suddenly let out a sharp scream: "It...it seems to move its fingers!"

"Don't fucking talk nonsense!" The Hound glared at Martin viciously, but when he turned his head to look at the hand under the ice, he found that the middle finger and ring finger of this hand seemed to be beating for real.

The jump was so small that it was almost negligible, but the hound was sure it was moving!

"Fuck, back off! This ghost is still alive!" He roared, raised his gun and pointed it at the ice, flicked his thumb lightly, and opened the safety of the pistol with a "click".

"What should we do?" Layton glanced at Ke Lan, then turned to look at the hound. "Let's... shall we act first?"

"Wait first." Ke Lan raised his palm and made a "stop" gesture, "This thing... may not be able to break through this layer of ice. If we take the initiative to fire, we are actually helping it."

While they were talking, the uppermost joint of the middle finger suddenly bent about [-] degrees, and then, a burst of fine cracks spread from its fingertips, quickly reaching the surface of the ice layer!
"It...it seems to want to crawl out..." the hound held his breath and said to Ke Lan in a very low voice.

The tenacious vitality of a monster that can survive in such an ice layer is simply unimaginable, and the power needed to break through this layer of ice is even more terrifying. If such a monster enters this ice passage If so, the ending of their team can be imagined.

"Crack..." The crackling sound of the ice was already clearly audible... At this moment, Ke Lan remembered the scene when he and Layton met the giant eyeball in the ice passage...

"Everyone, keep silent, don't move, and turn off all light sources." Ke Lan said quickly, he took the lead in turning off the tactical gun light attached to the pistol, and the hound and Zhuoligetu also immediately extinguished the flashlight, and Lei Dun even turned off the laser emitter on the weapon for aiming aids.

In contrast, Qin Zhao and Martin's movements were slightly slower.

The ice passage suddenly became invisible, and Ke Lan could only hear the sound of his heart beating faster...and the "crack" sound of the ice cracking.

But soon, the "click" sound disappeared... The ice layer was not broken, and the owner of that hand did not climb up from below.

This state has been stalemate for more than ten minutes. Just when everyone felt their ankles began to go numb, Ke Lan finally turned on the gun light again, adjusted the brightness to the lowest level, and shone on the palm location.

The hand had disappeared, and there were only a few small cracks left on the ice layer. A misty white cold air was constantly escaping from the cracks, and quickly melted into the relatively high temperature in the ice passage.

"The hand...the hand disappeared..." Martin shrank his shoulders, holding the gun tightly with both hands, "That thing, it must have crawled out, right?"

He didn't dare to look back at all, he always felt that there was something lying behind him, as soon as he turned his head, that thing would immediately pounce on him, piercing his throat with those five slender fingers.

"This crack...even a bug can't get through it, let alone that thing just now." The hound said, "On the contrary, I think that thing might have sunk."

Ke Lan didn't speak, his eyes looked into the depths of the ice under his feet, where there was nothing but endless darkness.

"It's better to be careful... The visibility of the ice layer is less than half a meter, maybe that thing is less than one meter away from us, but we can't see it at all..." Ke Lan said, "Layton, Leave a warning beacon here, and we'll move on."

"Understood." Layton took out a small piece of plasticine-like special explosive from the equipment box, stuck it on the crack, and then carefully inserted a delicate metal tube on the explosive.

It was a highly sensitive trigger detonator. As long as the finalized explosive was deformed under the action of external force, or the crack beneath it expanded again, the fuze inside the detonator would detonate the explosive.

The equivalent of this explosive is very small, even if someone accidentally steps on it, as long as the quality of the protective gear worn by the unlucky person who stepped on mines is slightly better, there will be basically no missing arms or legs—the warning effect is far greater than the killing effect Well, Ke Lan asked Layton to set up such a warning beacon to prevent the monster under the ice from expanding the crack and sneaking out after they left here.

No one would want an inhuman monster to follow behind the team without anyone noticing, let alone this monster has the force to easily slaughter the entire team.

……

The team started to move forward, but they had to stop again before they were [-] meters away...

The ice passage in front suddenly narrowed, and the surrounding ice walls were no longer as flat and smooth as before, but covered with a large number of growths. These growths were piled on top of the ice wall, which reminded Ke Lan of Lipid deposits attached to blood vessels in patients with atherosclerosis.

After they got closer, they discovered that these growths were dark brown oval objects the size of a fist. These objects were adhered to each other and tightly adhered to the ice wall, and the surface was covered with a thick layer. Thick hoarfrost.

"What the hell is this?" Layton stared at the growths in front of him with apprehension, "It looks... very disgusting to me."

"To be honest, I think it's a bit like...a bit like a cockroach's egg case...but this thing is hundreds of times bigger than a cockroach's egg case." The hound said in a deep voice.

"C-Could it be... a big mutated cockroach?" Martin interrupted suddenly, "I've heard people say that after some earth cockroaches escaped from the ark, they strayed into a high-radiation area and mutated. Not only have they grown in size, they have even evolved the ability to walk upright, they also have human-like hands, and their IQs are also very high..."

"I know the story you mentioned. It's an old-time sci-fi comic. It seems to be the work of a Japanese manga artist, but that story takes place on Mars in the solar system, not Alpha Planet." Ke Lan said, " The cockroaches that were brought from the solar system to Alpha Planet by humans did have evolutionary examples, but it has not reached such an exaggerated level... 50 years, it is not enough for such a lowly creature to evolve to the level in the comics .”

"However," Ke Lan changed the subject, "if it's only a few hundred times larger, it's still very possible."

(End of this chapter)