Alien Relic Hunter.

Chapter 398 Boarding the Ship (4000-word chapter)
With the friendly force identification module, the space shuttle approached the "Greek" airship without being attacked at all.

The hangar door of the "Greek" was open, which saved the step of hacking the electronic lock. Under Layton's control, the space shuttle directly parked in the hangar.

"Prepare to connect with the control system of the hangar, close the hangar door, and Ivan and I will be in charge of the oxygen supply device." Ke Lan said to Layton, then stood up from his seat, and turned to Ivan He beckoned.

Although Chiron's subordinates are not weak, the equipment on their bodies can only be described as "rudimentary". Even the servant wearing the "Bronze Hammer" has lost more than [-]% of its original power armor. Function, the only ones who can move in a vacuum environment are Ke Lan who are wearing space suits or new armor.

But when Ke Lan was walking towards the airlock, Ze Luo followed her. She reached out and grabbed Ke Lan's belt for carrying magazines—although she didn't speak, but The expression on her face already showed what she meant: she wanted to go with Ke Lan.

Ke Lan knows that Ze Luo has the ability to survive in space, but the ability she has shown now is already outrageous. If one can move freely in the space environment, even Ke Lan will not I know how to introduce the origin of this "monster" to my teammates.

"You should stay here, there is no extra space suit for you." Ke Lan said, "I will be back soon, just 5 minutes."

Despite the reluctance on his face, Ze Luo finally let go of his hand.

"Oh... I don't know if I have caused a big trouble for myself." Ke Lan sighed inwardly. Ze Luo's actual mental age is equivalent to that of a human child who has just become sensible. It would be okay if he was always obedient. I'm afraid that if one day it comes to the rebellious period, that matter may not be within Ke Lan's control.

"You can't fight and fight, you can't escape, you can only take one step and watch..."

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The anti-intrusion system inside the "Greek" has already been triggered once, and the circuits of all equipment in the hangar have been cut off. At this time, it is in a state of complete darkness, with only a few safety warning lights using independent power supplies. The lamp was still emitting a dark red light.

Ke Lan fumbled under the space shuttle engine for a while, opened a flap, and pulled out a cable from it——to restart the equipment in the hangar, other than going to the bridge, there is only "physical Invasion" approach.

Ivan was guarding the surroundings with a weapon in his hand, while Ke Lan dragged the cable to the console in the corner of the hangar.He took out a dagger, first used the protrusion at the end of the handle to unscrew the screw on the inspection cover, and then inserted the tip of the knife into the gap to pry up the entire inspection cover.

"Layton, get ready." Ke Lan said in the communication channel, and then plugged the cable in his hand into a spare socket in the console.

"The virus program is being written into the airship master control system, and it is expected to take 13 minutes." Layton's voice came from the headset. Ke Lan raised his head, glanced at the dark console display, and said, "Priority Hack the control module of the hangar and close the door."

"I know."

As soon as Layton finished speaking, the hangar door behind the space shuttle slowly closed, and a muffled sound of fans rang out from the top of the hangar, oxygen-containing air was being continuously pressed into the hangar by the blower.

"Can you turn on the light?" Ke Lan looked around, "It's too dark here, I can't see anything clearly, and it's too easy to be attacked."

"It doesn't seem to work..." Layton said with some embarrassment, "The circuit of the lighting system seems to be malfunctioning. I see that the lights in the hangar are all on, but they just don't light up..."

"Forget it, you can just turn on all the external searchlights of the space shuttle." Ke Lan said.

With a "swish", several thick beams of light shot out from the space shuttle in an instant, reflecting most of the hangar as if it were daytime. At this time, Ke Lan discovered that the ground and walls of the hangar were covered with There was a lot of blood left.

Due to the extremely low temperature in the universe, these bloodstains have turned into ice, but it is precisely because of this that these bloodstains have retained their original appearance very well. The battle that took place inside the hangar.

"The people in the hangar... seem to have been killed by melee attacks...the enemy moves very fast and is very powerful..." Ke Lan analyzed the bloodstains one by one, "this place is bleeding The amount was large, and it was sprayed so far, the artery should have been severed, beheaded or severed... And it should have been attacked in an instant, and the weapon used to kill was very sharp, on the victim's body It only stays for a very short time, otherwise, the blood will change direction during the splashing process..."

Ke Lan subconsciously thought of the saber in Asano Akira's arms, but the problem was that they already knew what the enemy they were going to face was, but the battle marks in front of them did not match the expected enemy at all.

"There is no corpse..." Ivan whispered, "Ke Lan..."

"Well, I know what you mean...Fake corpses, possession, etc., are all routine operations, nothing to be surprised about." Ke Lan nodded, "Before in the East Ninth District, Zi Yan's head was chopped off. It should be no difficulty for that thing to be able to move after falling and control a few corpses."

"However, it should be noted that those corpses may use weapons." Layton interjected in the communication channel, "The Greek's arsenal is enough to equip a reinforced company."

"How many crew members are there on the Greek?" Ivan looked at Ke Lan and asked.

"If you don't count the marines on the armed landing craft, the crew should be about 80 people, half of whom are staff members hired from the 'Snapdragon International' under the Yip Consortium." Ke Lan said.

"Snapdragon International" is a PMC company controlled by Ye's consortium. PMC is the abbreviation of "Private Military Contractor", which means "private military contractor".Many people equate PMCs with mercenaries, but in fact, the business scope of PMCs is much larger than that of pure mercenaries.And in terms of professionalism, PMC employees are far better than the kind of gray mercenaries between legal and illegal.

Because of the particularity of this mission, Ke Lan hired a large number of people from "Snapdragon International".Except for the "Marine" team in charge of the battle, most of the more than 80 people on board are logistics personnel-for Ke Lan and the others, this is the only good news among a lot of bad news.

The marines were basically killed by the explosion of the armed landing craft, and their bodies were still floating in the cold and dark space, and these logistics personnel, even if their bodies were controlled by the puppet individual, the combat effectiveness they could display, Certainly not as good as those professional fighters.

"But I don't think they can use guns." Ivan shook his head and said, "It can be seen from the bloodstains that the battles in the hangar are basically melee. Besides, besides the corpse, I also No bullet casings or marks inside the bullet holes..."

"Melee combat? Playing with knives?" Layton asked. He hadn't gotten off the space shuttle yet, and he could only see some vague outlines of the traces described by Ke Lan and Ivan on the monitor.

"It shouldn't be a knife." Ke Lan denied Layton's words, "The only melee weapons in the arsenal are fighting daggers and multi-functional engineering shovels, but neither daggers nor engineering shovels can cause such trauma."

"Analyzing from the bloodstains, to create these marks, at least it must be the kind of sword in Akira Asano's hand, or a melee weapon with a wider blade and a longer blade that is easier to exert force." Ivan took it Ke Lan's words continued.

"I thought of two weapons." Ke Lan said.

Layton: "Which two kinds?"

"Ancient Huaxia's saber and Europa's two-handed sword." Ke Lan replied, "Only this kind of heavy weapon will not be hindered when it is swung to cut the human body."

"...I have only seen these two weapons in the literature. If you want to cut people, it must be better to use the chain sword." Layton said.

"But the chainsaw sword does not cut people apart, but saws them open. The traces of blood spilled will form a fan, not this thin and long straight line." Ke Lan said, "Okay, the hangar The oxygen concentration in the tank has reached the standard, and we can let those guys come down."

But at this moment, a black shadow quickly flashed past the blind spot of the searchlight light, Ke Lan quickly picked up his gun and swept over.

The bullets all hit the empty space, and a series of sparks splashed on the metal floor, but in just a moment, Ke Lan had already captured the true face of the black figure—it was a man in a blue and orange uniform. The logistics personnel, or rather, the monsters parasitic in the corpses of the logistics personnel...

A large number of black hard spikes protruded from the man's back and shoulders. The largest of these spikes was nearly one meter long and as thick as a hand, and the smallest was about the size of a chopstick. There are many torn and blood-stained cloth strips hanging...

"Black spikes..." Ke Lan subconsciously connected this thing with the black liquid in the Iron Maiden, and the texture of these spikes was indeed very close to solidified asphalt.

Under the dense spikes, the monster's skin was covered by a thick layer of black blood scab, and its forearms and palms were mutated into a pair of foldable sickle-shaped limbs—— At the first glance of this pair of scythes, Ke Lan could be sure that the bloodstains were all caused by this thing. Under the huge shearing force, cutting off human limbs is as easy as cutting paper.

"Be careful, it's heading towards your three o'clock!" Ivan shouted, he wanted to use the searchlight on the power armor to lock the monster's position, but he couldn't keep up with the opponent's speed at all.

"Don't think of it as the PMC's logistics staff... Except for the tattered body outside, that thing has nothing to do with humans." Ke Lan shouted, "Ivan and I failed to stop that thing, it Approaching the space shuttle, going fast—"

"Just leave it to me!" Marshall's voice came from a distance, and Ke Lan turned his head to look, only to see that he was the first to jump out of the hatch of the space shuttle, and then suddenly accelerated in mid-air and fell to the ground. As soon as he raised his hand, he strangled the monster's neck.

"It's too weak, it's not challenging at all." Marshall said without interest, "You decide, whether to kill or not."

"Don't kill it yet!" Ke Lan didn't speak, but Ivan walked over quickly, "We may encounter such monsters again, let me study this sample, and maybe I can find their weaknesses. "

"What is the research value of such a weak monster?" Marshall said so, but he still restrained the monster's actions with a substantive idea, and brought it in front of Ivan.

But when Ivan took out the dissecting tools, the imprisoned monster exploded like a bomb, and the spikes on its body shot out towards the surroundings, and Marshall only had time to seal it. The spikes shot at Ivan and himself, while an experimental subject who just got off the space shuttle on the other side was directly impaled into a hedgehog by dozens of spikes.

The vitality of the experimental subject was very tenacious. Even though many vital organs on his body were pierced, he did not die immediately. It was constantly struggling on the ground, and a large amount of blood overflowed from the squeezed and deformed wound. out.

"It's hopeless..." Ivan stepped forward, inspected the experimental subject's injuries, and shook his head at Ke Lan and Marshall, "The heart, lungs and spleen have been pierced, and a lot of blood is lost, unless it is within 5 minutes Send him to the medical cabin within a short time, otherwise..."

"This ghost thing, I've obviously imprisoned it, and those spikes can penetrate the barrier of my mind, has this guy also participated in that experiment?" Marshall looked at the broken corpse at his feet in some annoyance, and said As soon as he noticed the abnormality, he arranged three barriers around the monster to materialize his mind power.But after the monster blew itself up, those spikes penetrated through the three barriers almost without hindrance. If Marshall hadn't added more than a dozen barriers in front of him immediately, otherwise, even he would have already Hired.

He clearly felt that on those spikes, there were fluctuations very similar to his mind power, and this was how these things neutralized the barrier he set up—just like in the space station before, Asano Akira attached his mind to It's like cutting his condensed invisible big hand on the blade.

"Is there more than one experimental base for telekinetics?" Marshall said suspiciously to himself.

"It doesn't have to be the person himself. I think this ability should come from the thing that made him look like this." Ke Lan said.

"It's impossible. I've never heard of anyone who can give his mind to other people, not even a perfect individual." Marshall shook his head repeatedly.

"Where is it attached to a dead object?" Ke Lan asked tentatively, "Just like Asano Akira, isn't his mind attached to that sword... This person is dead, and the corpse does not belong to him It should be considered an item, right?"

[PS Thanks to Qiu Zhilin for the 100 starting coins. 】

[PPS I may have to go out for business in two days, and I should ask for a day or two of leave. Let me know in advance, and I will issue a chapter explaining it on the day of the leave. 】

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