Alien Relic Hunter.

Chapter 294 Phase Two
The bone blade finally pierced into Ke Lan's body, but stopped after penetrating less than half a centimeter.

The monster's body melted like heated wax, and the bone blade fell from Ke Lan's body and fell to the ground, turning into a puddle of fine bone powder.

The melted flesh and blood flowed back to the statue along the gap between the hexagonal floors. For a moment, Ke Lan seemed to see the statue tremble slightly.

"The first stage of the trial, complete." The voice rang in Ke Lan's ears again. Ke Lan heaved a sigh of relief, got up from the ground, and patted the bone meal stuck to his body.

But for some reason, he suddenly had a bad feeling...

"The second phase of the trial begins, the countdown... ten..."

Sure enough, Ke Lan sighed inwardly. Since this trial has the first stage, there must be more than one stage...

He quickly picked up the dropped pistol, slipped it back into the holster, and loaded the empty magazine with bullets.

Because the middle finger will affect the wound of the ring finger, Ke Lan simply wrapped the middle finger in when bandaging. Only the index finger and thumb of his right hand can move, and the speed of loading bullets is suddenly slower than usual. a lot.

After the seven rounds were loaded, there were only four seconds left in the countdown.

The statue in the middle of the hall began to tremble, and Ke Lan realized that it was not his illusion just now.

"……three……"

In the second stage of the trial, his opponent seemed to be this statue more than ten meters high.

"I...fuck your mother..." Ke Lan couldn't help but swear.

"...Two..." The coating on the surface of the statue "rusted" off, revealing the rusty metal body inside.

On this body, there are fine lines like blood vessels, and the blood flowing back to the statue is rushing in these lines.

"……one……"

Ke Lan looked at the stone awl in his hand, and couldn't help but feel a little desperate. Even if the big guy stood there and let him pierce it, even if he could easily pierce the hard metal body, the length of the stone awl was only a little bit for it. It's just a broken layer of skin, and it can't hurt the important parts inside the statue.

Speaking of important parts, Ke Lan couldn't help but glanced at the organs between the statue's legs—like the statue's body, the surface of that thing was also covered with rust, and it was obviously made of metal...

If there is a heavy battle mech like a steel colossus or a cyclops, Ke Lan may still have a chance to fight.But now, with only one pistol and two daggers, to deal with a metal statue more than ten meters high - Ke Lan couldn't help feeling the malice of the builder of this ruin.

He is neither Dongfang Bubai who can dismantle Gundams with his bare hands, nor an iron pilot who can fly over walls and pull out batteries. Arranging such an opponent clearly means killing himself.

The difficulty span of the first and second stages is so large, this trial is not intended to be passed by people, right?
Ke Lan could only retreat, but he didn't take a few steps back before the wall-like light curtain appeared again. This time, the combat area delimited by the light curtain was even smaller than in the first stage.

Based on the size of the metal statue, it only takes a few steps to walk from one end of the light curtain to the other. The entire area is within its attack range, and Ke Lan doesn't even have room to move and dodge.

"Play with your mother!"

Ke Lan shot at the metal colossus with some indignation. The bullets hit the body of the colossus, but they could only wipe out a few inconspicuous sparks. The only function was probably to help the rusty statue remove rust. up.

Ke Lan thought, it would be great if he could blow up this statue like a tiger tank at the end of a certain movie... However, reality is reality after all, no matter how much Ke Lan prays, it doesn't mean Miracles will surely come... What's more, it is not the protagonist's small pistol that kills the Tiger tank in the movie, but the aerial firepower of friendly fighter jets...

Taking ten thousand steps back, even if Ke Lan can call for air support now, his mother's fighter jets will not be able to fly down to the ground!
The metal colossus took one step toward him, and another.

Ke Lan stopped cursing, he drew his dagger and arched his body.

He wanted to see if there was a chance to jump on the metal colossus—even though there was almost no place to climb on the surface of the colossus, even though he didn't have a jetpack with thrusters on him, even though he could only do that kind of difficult action in electronic Tried it in game...

But he was not reconciled, not reconciled to being trampled into a pile of pulpy meat by this thing.

He kept his eyes on every move of the giant statue, ready to activate the ability to stop time at any time. He didn't know if he could have a glimmer of life... Even if there was, it would be fleeting...

He must seize the opportunity that may not exist at all, otherwise, the end will be death.

But at this moment, a miracle... a fucking thing happened!

The metal colossus knelt down on one knee in front of Ke Lan. It stretched out a hand, palm up, and put it on the ground.

There was an opening in its chest and abdomen, and a dark red seat could be vaguely seen inside.

For Ke Lan, who has watched many aircraft combat animations and movies, and played many similar games, the meaning of this action is really obvious-it is inviting himself to "board"!
Dare... This metal colossus is not his enemy, but a weapon prepared for him? !

Is this thing... a mecha developed by Alpha Civilization?
Without thinking too much, Ke Lan climbed up the arm of the colossus and got into the opening... However, when he saw the dark red seat, he felt a little hesitation in his heart.

The material of that chair seemed to be made of meat, and it was still wriggling slightly... In addition, Ke Lan did not find anything like a joystick or a monitoring screen in this "cockpit".

"This thing... how to control it?" He couldn't help asking in his heart.

"Sit on it, the trial is about to begin." The voice suddenly appeared and answered his question.

"Is this thing for people to sit on? Why do I feel that this thing is like a lump of rotten meat? Who are you? Can you tell me what the purpose of this trial is? And...how do I get out of this ruin? After discovering that the voice answered his own question, Ke Lan immediately asked one after another.

"The trial is about to begin." But this time, the voice ignored his question and repeated the previous sentence.

Ke Lan noticed that the light curtain on the outer circle had changed from pale white to orange at this moment, and there was a tendency to change to a deeper red.

Is this urging yourself?
Forget it, let's not care about that much for now——Ke Lan slumped down and sat down on this chair.

But after sitting down, he immediately regretted it...

The chair was very comfortable, and the seat surface fit his back without any gaps, even if it was a tailor-made size... But in the next second, countless tiny tentacles protruded from the seat surface, piercing his body. It penetrated his clothes and stabbed him in the back!

Ke Lan could even clearly feel that the tips of those tentacles had passed through the two layers of ligaments on the spine and penetrated deep into his spinal cord.

But at the same time, Ke Lan suddenly discovered that his consciousness was actually connected with this metal colossus!
[PS electrodes are pierced into the spine, and the mecha is manipulated through nerve connections. I wrote about this in the last book Wasteland Survival Rules, but I never thought of it at that time. I will experience this myself in the future a feeling of.

That’s right, what I’m talking about is lumbar puncture surgery, which involves puncturing the spine with a puncture needle, extracting cerebrospinal fluid and injecting drugs... I still remember that when I was in the hospital, I failed several lumbar punctures, and then the old man who gave me a lumbar puncture I was extremely helpless and said to the director: I clearly felt that I had penetrated the obstacles twice (referring to the supraspinous ligament and ligamentum flavum), and the position should have been reached, but the cerebrospinal fluid just couldn’t come out... Later, the cerebrospinal fluid was penetrated again, and the cerebrospinal fluid was successful. Come out, probably because the intracranial pressure was too low at the first time...]

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