Alien Relic Hunter.

Chapter 450 Support Base (4000 word chapter)
At the same time, the reconnaissance team supported the base on the edge of the molten mine area.

The location of this temporary support base is on a condescending hill. The four-meter-high walls are all surrounded by foldable alloy armor plates, and there are two six-meter-wide entrances and exits at the front and back.

But these two entrances and exits did not have gates. Instead, they were replaced by two heavy armored vehicles. The giant buckets hung on the front of the armored vehicles to open the way and clear obstacles directly blocked the entire entrance and exit.On both sides of the armored vehicle, there are two humanoid tactical mechas squatting like door gods. Each mecha is equipped with dual rapid-fire railguns, and the head monitor is constantly rotating, scanning back and forth around the base. area.

The infantry was divided into three shifts, which took turns guarding the walls.There is a shooting hole every six meters in the wall, and protruding from these shooting holes are the barrels of all 25 mm caliber machine guns.

Eight military drones are hovering at a safe altitude above the base. Each drone is equipped with quadruple heavy machine guns and remote-controlled guided missiles. In terms of instantaneous firepower, they are even more powerful than dual-wielding railguns. The mecha is even stronger.

Not to mention the third-level standard, the defense level of this support base is already approaching the fourth-level. The one-time consumables used to build fortifications alone can cost as much as a standard-sized transfer station for three years. maintenance costs.

Anyway, this expenditure was reimbursed by the Security Bureau, and Ke Lan wouldn't worry about saving the budget at all-if it wasn't for the heavy cruiser that sent them to have other tasks to perform, he even planned to let the cruiser Stay on as air support for the base.

Afternoon, 48:[-].

Even in the fringes, the day and night in the Molten Mine are still unclear - during the day, sunlight cannot penetrate the thick leaden gray clouds; at night, the light emitted by the hot magma is the whole The sky was dyed a dark red... This is not like the scenery that should be seen in the world, but it is quite similar to the hell in the fairy tales.

A soldier squatting on the wall on duty looked down at his watch. The thermometer showed that the temperature near the support base had reached 93 degrees Celsius, which was two degrees higher than when they had just landed from the battleship.

He touched the metal wall in front of him, and a hot touch was transmitted to the palm of his hand through the thick protective gloves. After thinking for a while, he took out a piece of compressed dry food from his backpack, tore off the aluminum foil package and placed it on the wall superior.

As soon as the dry food came into contact with the armor plate, there was a "sizzling" sound, and the oil contained in it was melted and flowed away instantly. As for the edge of the solid object, it quickly turned black. He opened a gap in the mask, and A heat wave mixed with the smell of burnt and sulfur suddenly poured into the helmet.

"Ahem..." The soldier coughed twice after being choked, and quickly closed his mask.

The moment he raised his head, more than a dozen figures in protective clothing suddenly appeared in his field of vision. This discovery made the soldier nervous immediately. He raised his gun and aimed at those figures that appeared suddenly.

"Report! This is the No. 15 sentry post. Suspicious targets were found due to the west. The number is about [-] people. They came out of the mining area and are slowly approaching the base!"

"Around 15 people? Is it Mr. Ke Lan and Team Leader Breya?" The voice of a senior officer came from the intercom.

"No...it's not like." The soldier replied, he quickly adjusted the magnification of the scope, and then aimed at the people who came out of the mining area, "It's not our people! They are wearing civilian protective clothing, and I didn't see that 'Valkyrie' mech either! Instructions please!"

"Is it an exile? Or a survivor from the stationed base?" the officer asked.

"unconfirmed!"

"I can't communicate with them here, and there is no response to the communication application I sent... Everyone is on alert! They may be the enemy! But without my order, no one is allowed to shoot!" The officer said, while quickly He ran up the wall.

"Captain, they are still approaching, what should we do?" the soldier asked, looking back at the officer running up to the wall.

"Wait..." The officer raised the binoculars. However, these people were all wrapped in protective clothing, and they couldn't see their faces at all, and they didn't have any identifiable logos or emblems on their bodies. Identify the group.

"Well, let's take two warning shots first. If it's a survivor, it should stop immediately... If it's an enemy..."

"Bah! Bah!"

The soldier fired two shots with a sniper rifle. The bullets fell less than five meters in front of the path of these people, and the broken rock fragments even splashed on the two people walking in the front.

But they didn't stop. On the contrary, these people suddenly accelerated and ran towards the base!

"It's the enemy! Everyone, you are allowed to fire!" the officer shouted sharply.

Other than the survivors, the only humans who can meet here are exiles wandering in the wilderness... Moreover, these are not ordinary exiles, but a group of dangerous elements loyal to heretical sects!
Several machine guns facing this direction rang out instantly, and the dense rain of bullets directly tore the bodies of these people, the mutilated limbs, minced meat, and internal organs splashed everywhere, and the moment the spilled blood touched the ground, Vaporized——in less than two seconds, these dozen or so people with unknown origins were already dead, and the large-caliber machine guns didn't even leave them with a whole body.

But at the next moment, these shattered corpses wriggled on the ground, and countless tentacles grew wildly from the flesh——

"There are containers of the Seed of Corrosion among these people... No, no, they are all containers! All of them!" A female soldier wearing heavy power armor screamed.

"Keep calm! Don't panic! We are not facing the Seed of Corrosion all at once. The number of enemies is not large enough to pose a threat to us! Everyone, switch to 'Active Ammunition'." The officer shouted.

Driven by the tentacles, these corpses were much faster, and they rushed to the support base in the blink of an eye.

The soldier who first discovered the enemy removed the regular magazine and replaced it with a magazine with a black and yellow "biological hazard mark", but when he picked up the gun again, he suddenly froze.

According to the content of the training, before using "active ammunition" to shoot, one must use conventional weapons to break open the body of the Seed of Corrosion, exposing its "core" to the outside.No matter how bad it is, it is necessary to determine the location of the "nuclear" and shoot at this location.Otherwise, the toxicity produced by the "charge" of a single bullet is simply not enough to kill a mature Corrosion Seed.

But now, each "container" has been split into at least a dozen large and small corpses, and each corpse has become an independent "Seed of Corrosion". What I have seen in the book - these "things" don't even have a fixed shape, so how to determine the position of the "core"?
"Sir...I can't locate 'nuclear'."

"Don't be sure, just carry out saturation shooting. One round of active ammunition is not toxic enough, then fire ten rounds." The officer said calmly, "Our ammunition reserves are sufficient."

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On the other side, deep in the molten mine area, the entrance to the passage.

The "Valkyrie I" trudged through the magma with difficulty. Although this machine body has been greatly modified, there is still a big gap between it and the real all-terrain mech - like the "Tarantula". There is no need to worry about the balance of the body if it is a mecha with eight legs.The "Valkyrie", which has only four legs, must be careful every time it lands. As long as one leg is stepped on the air, the whole body may lose its balance and fall into the magma.

Everyone sitting on the back of the mecha endured the high temperature by default. Even the most noisy hound was too hot to speak at this time. Blinking, her sparse eyebrows curled up from the heat.

Ke Lan's condition is not much better than him. Although the body's recovery ability is different from ordinary people, but the sensory organs are still the same as ordinary people. Ke Lan can also feel the heat from the outside to the inside - power armor The internal temperature has exceeded 75 degrees Celsius, and the coolant pumped from the cooling device has just entered the heat pipe, and it instantly turns into boiling water. Compared with the heat that can be taken away from the outside, it is simply a drop in the bucket .

The beeping of the high temperature alarm rang in everyone's ears, but no one made a sound, and no one urged Valentina to let her speed up—except for the frame made of nino alloy, the channel Most of the main structure of the cave has been melted by magma, and only the skeleton part is a reliable foothold. As for other parts, they may collapse at any time under the condition of force.

In the mecha cockpit, although the temperature can still be controlled below [-] degrees Celsius, Valentina's pilot suit has been completely wet with sweat, and her back, chest, waist, abdomen, and inner legs, etc. The material of the light gray driving suit was completely soaked and turned into dark gray - you must know that this material is extremely sweat-absorbent. Compared with the suction of the diapers in the TV commercials, it is nothing compared to this driving suit. A younger brother, but now, sweat is constantly oozing from the surface of the driving suit.

After the Mech Contest, Valentina grew her short ear-length hair a little longer. At this moment, the tips of her forehead and sideburns were glued together by sweat, and they hung in strands on her head. superior.

A few long hairs kept getting into the corners of her eyes, but she had no time to reach out to push them away.

"If I had known...it would be better...to shave my head..."

She was breathing quickly, and the old wound in her lungs began to ache, but she didn't dare to inject painkillers herself - although painkillers can block the transmission of pain sensation from nerves, they will also numb her senses and make her Responses become sluggish.What she needs is an operation accurate to the millimeter, and this kind of interference is undoubtedly fatal to her.

A two-liter water bag was hung on the top of the cockpit. Valentina bit the straw of the water bag in her mouth. pushing the joystick.

Under the interference of magma, the sensor can play an extremely limited role, and she must rely on the force transmitted back from the joystick to determine whether the landing point belongs to the skeleton part.The force of the test must be controlled very precisely. If the force is light, the feedback result will be meaningless. If the force is heavy, it is easy to step on the bottom directly.

This battle is completely different... When fighting with the enemy, Valentina will rely on her terrifying fighting instinct to manipulate the body, and use many actions that seem to be unreasonable to launch unexpected attacks. In that case, The limbs of the machine are like extensions of her hands and feet. To use the description commonly used in novels, it is "the integration of man and machine", which is the strongest state of a pilot - but in the current situation, she cannot The control is handed over to her own instinct, she must precisely manipulate the body to make a series of movements without even a slight deviation.

Valentina couldn't help but think of a work of art she had seen on TV: it was a work carved out of rice grains. The carving tool was a steel needle thinner than a hair. The sculptor's Already gray-haired at this age, his face is covered with deep grooves, but his hands are surprisingly stable, the steel needle is pinched at his fingertips, and the naked eye cannot see any tremors at all, and every time it falls, it is precise. get it just right...

Manipulating the mech to trek through the magma, Valentina felt like the sculptor holding the steel needle...

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Finally, after advancing for about 120 meters, the depth of the magma dropped to about ten centimeters, and signs of condensation began to appear on its surface. Looking up, the passage to go had completely got rid of the magma, exposing the original ground.

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

"It finally came out... I'm almost roasted to death..." the hound complained.

"Think of it as a free sauna session. Sweating more is good for your body." Layton patted the hound's shoulder and said in relief.

The others didn't even care about talking, they pulled out their straws one after another, and started to drink in big gulps.

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