Alien Relic Hunter.

Chapter 471 Park Sang-woo’s Sacrifice (4000-word chapter)
"Valentina! Let go of the fixing bracket! Let go of the rescue cabin!" Ke Lan yelled again.

"It's a sacrificial ceremony!" Aya, the head of the special agent team of the Security Bureau, also saw the change in Park Shangyou, "This person is a key member of a heretical sect! Only key members can initiate this kind of ceremony!"

The signal light on the top of the rescue cabin has turned red—this means that Park Shangyou's body has died, and something indescribable is coming to this world through his flesh and blood.

"It's too late, even if his body is smashed into slag now, there is no way to interrupt the ceremony." Ke Lan said... The situation in front of him was beyond his expectation - he didn't even use the forged one that Layton helped to forge "Evidence", Park Sang-woo has stopped calling himself, and even directly took out his hole card!
He is a real lunatic, a lunatic who doesn't care about his own life in order to achieve his goal... far crazier than those guys in the research institute.

His acting skills are even more superb than Yui Arasaka, and everyone can even feel the fear, despair and inner struggle he showed earlier... But all of these are just his disguise.

"Didn't you check this guy's body to make sure he wasn't infected by the cells of the Seed of Corruption?" The hound pointed his muzzle at the door of the rescue cabin, "What's going on here?"

"It's not the seed of erosion." Ke Lan said, "This is a sacrificial ceremony that is even more incomprehensible than the seed of erosion. With our current level of technology, it is impossible to understand the principle of this ceremony... I just You know, the thing summoned by this ritual is much stronger than the Seed of Corrosion."

"It's that kind of black skeleton! It was mentioned in the report on the operation in the East Ninth District!" Aya Breya said, "It's the thing you once encountered in the No. [-] cargo hold of the Pioneer."

"This kind of ceremony, the summoned things seem to be not fixed..." Ke Lan remembered what happened when he chanted the "Holy Word", "This kind of sacrificial ceremony... will have completely different prayers because of the difference in the content of the prayer." Different results."

This is like ordinary people praying to the God of Wealth to get rich. Assuming that the God of Wealth really exists and hears that person’s prayer, there are many ways to satisfy the wish of the praying person—the stocks and funds purchased by the praying person can suddenly be affected by certain factors. For some reasons, it would also allow him to pick up a bag of diamonds left behind by others when he went out the next day.

As long as the ultimate goal can be achieved, not many people will care about the process of achieving the goal.

The black-robed believer I met in the East Ninth District, the content of the "Holy Word" prayer was to gain powerful power, so he turned into a monster like a black skeleton-not only the purpose of gaining power was achieved, but in the prayer The phrase "I am willing to sacrifice myself" is also called a fact.

When facing Arasaka Yui, Ke Lan did not directly pray to the "great god" for his power, but said that he wanted to kill him-his purpose was also achieved, and in the process of achieving it However, his body did not show any abnormal changes.

But if you want to "modify the Holy Word", there is a prerequisite that you must master the language of the Alpha civilization... Judging from the current known information, only he and the "Prophet" have this ability.

There is definitely a price to pay for using the "Holy Word", but obviously the "Prophet" also knows this, otherwise, with the help of the "Great God", the heretic sect can easily destroy the Ark and become the ruler of mankind.

As for other people, it is even less likely to use the "Holy Word" or power beyond imagination... In those memory fragments, it is clearly pointed out that using the "Holy Word" requires a life force equal to the gift, and the life force of an ordinary human being , in the eyes of the "great god", it is very small...

To change it to a more understandable metaphor, a desperate person sells his body to arms dealers in exchange for weapons—ordinary people with ordinary looks (with not too much life force that can be used to pay) may be able to Change to a pistol or a grenade; and that kind of beautiful woman (a human being with extremely strong vitality) may be able to exchange a few kilograms of C4 explosives; but even if she looks like a fairy (the limit of human vitality) People, it is impossible to switch from arms dealers to intercontinental missiles.

Not because arms dealers don't have missiles, just because nobody can afford that price.

Of course, quantitative changes will also lead to qualitative changes. The birth of Zeluo is an example.

To be honest, Ke Lan is not particularly worried about what can be summoned by Park Shangyou's sacrificial ceremony-with his own vitality, the most he can exchange is a monster like a black skeleton, but as far as the reconnaissance team found As far as some firepower is concerned, it only takes a few seconds to blast the black skeleton into pieces.

Constrained by the principle of "equal value exchange", no matter how terrifying the power of that "great god" is, only a small part of it can be "loaned" to Park Sang-woo.

But I don't know if it's because Park Sang-woo strengthens people, the power he "exchanges" seems to be a little too much.

He didn't turn into a black skeleton. His shriveled body quickly swelled up again. The whole body was like an inflated balloon, instantly filling the remaining space in the rescue cabin. The completely distorted facial features stickers Above the porthole, it looks extraordinarily weird.

"Oh!"

Everyone heard a muffled sound like a balloon exploding in the rescue cabin, and the inside of the porthole was coated with dirty blood and minced meat, making it impossible to see what was inside.

"This guy... could it be... exploded?" the hound muttered softly.

"I don't know." Layton shook his head, "But the rescue capsule seems to be moving..."

"I heard something wriggling inside, it's sticky." Akira Asano said, holding the scabbard horizontally with his left hand, and tightly grasping the handle with his right hand, he has already performed the "Iai Slash" gesture action.

"It's about to come out..." Zhuo Ligetu stared at the hatch nervously, and moved his finger to the trigger.

"Bang!" In the next second, the door of the rescue cabin was knocked open by a huge force, and dozens of thick and thick tentacles that were as thick as a person's arms and covered with mucus poured out from the inside of the rescue cabin—it didn't He also threw off the rescue capsule, but lifted it up and carried it behind his back.

Ke Lan felt that this thing looked like some kind of mollusk with a hard shell—the heavy and hard rescue capsule was its protective shell.

"Team leader... what kind of ammunition should be used for this thing?" An agent asked anxiously.

He couldn't be blamed for this, because the monster Park Sang-woo turned into was too much like the Seed of Corrosion—every trained Security Bureau agent knew that the Seed of Corrosion could only be killed with active ammunition.However, the physical lethality of active ammunition itself is very low. In many cases, conventional ammunition needs to tear the body of the seed of erosion and expose the "nucleus" to the outside to play a role.

They couldn't be sure whether the monster in front of them was a Seed of Corrosion or not... It was so similar, it was so similar, even for this group of people with the most experience in dealing with Seeds of Corrosion, it was hard not to compare the two. Connect together.

Before Aya Breya opened her mouth, Ke Lan said first: "Use conventional ammunition to suppress firepower first, even if it can't kill it, at least it can hinder it!"

"Use conventional ammunition! No signs of infection were found in Park Shangyou's body before. This thing just looks like the Seed of Corrosion, and it is definitely not the same creature!" Aya glanced at Ke Lan quickly, and shouted to her subordinates .

"Don't be too absolute... No one knows what the sacrificial ceremony summoned... Maybe the first erosion seed on Alpha Planet was summoned by this sacrificial ceremony. " Ke Lan said to Aya while pouring firepower at "Park Shangyou".

"Then do you know what this monster is?"

"I said I don't know... If you want to study this thing, I suggest killing it first. Although the corpse is not as valuable as a living sample, it is at least safe." Ke Lan shouted loudly, lest his own The sound was drowned out by loud gunshots.

"Are you still in the mood to joke at this time?"

"I'm not joking, I'm just stating the facts."

Except for Valentina's body, everyone was retreating while firing at the monster that Park Sang-woo turned into. Countless bullets hit those tentacles, as if hitting a piece of extremely soft plasticine. , the bullet pierced through the tentacles almost without hindrance, but apart from a hole piercing back and forth, it did not cause any greater trauma.

Generally speaking, if a living body is shot, especially this kind of large-caliber full-power bullet, the kinetic energy attached to the bullet will directly tear off a large piece of flesh and blood from the hit site, or directly smash the internal organs to pieces ...But when it hit this monster, the kinetic energy on the bullet seemed to disappear, and it went straight through its body.

It was not repulsed by the barrage, but instead kept crawling towards the crowd... Those tentacles wriggled slowly, leaving several crooked slime marks on the ground.

"Conventional ammunition doesn't seem to do anything to this thing!" cried the Hound, "not even to hinder its movement."

"Change the active ammunition, try firing a round first." Ke Lan emptied a magazine in one breath, and then replaced it with a new one with a yellow and black "biological hazard" logo on it. Short bursts.

The distance between them and the monster was less than 20 meters. With the help of the Powered Armor Aiming System, even a hip shot could hit 100% of the target—these bullets burst into pieces after they penetrated into the tentacles. Then, the active cells of the flesh-eating worms contained in the sealed tube were released.

Nothing happens.

According to previous examples, if you shoot the Seed of Corrosion with active ammunition, even if you miss the "nucleus", even if the dose of active cells in the ammunition is far from the threshold for killing the target, at least the tissue at the shot site will still die quickly... But the monster in front of him seemed completely unaffected by the active cells of the flesh-eating worm.

"Don't waste active ammunition! This thing is not a seed of erosion!" Ke Lan shouted immediately.

"Then how can we kill it?" The hound put back the magazine he just took out with some annoyance. "Conventional ammunition is useless, and active ammunition is also ineffective. Do you want to bombard it with shells?"

The Valkyrie body is equipped with some heavy firepower weapons, but bombarding the target at this distance, and in a closed environment like a tunnel, the aftermath will affect them [-]%, even if it is protected by power armor, it is very difficult. It is difficult to guarantee that there will be no damage.

Unless the distance can be increased... But Ke Lan noticed that the monster's movement speed was gradually accelerating, and it seemed to be gradually adapting to this body, which may be the reason why it did not attack everyone immediately.

Half a minute had passed now, and everyone in the scouting team changed from walking back slowly to running back while turning their heads and shooting, while the monster's moving speed was four or five times faster than it was at the beginning.

Every time those tentacles squirmed, it could move a distance of several meters on the smooth metal ground. At this time, it was already very difficult to distance themselves from it.

Unless someone volunteered to sacrifice himself, hold the monster, and let others retreat out of the range of the heavy firepower.

Ke Lan would not issue such an order unless it was absolutely necessary.

"Ke Lan, don't you have any clue? This thing is crawling faster and faster, and we are about to be caught up by it." After finding that the two types of ammunition were ineffective, the hound simply stopped shooting, Instead, he rummaged through his equipment bag, trying to find something that could stop the monster.

Ke Lan naturally knew what the Hound meant when he asked himself "do you have any clues?" "Clues" refers to those memory fragments that automatically popped up in his mind when he came into contact with things related to the Alpha civilization-in the exile camp. In the first time they encountered the Seed of Corrosion, Ke Lan relied on the information provided in these memory fragments and used the corpse of the flesh-eating worm to trap and kill the monster.

But this time, nothing jumped out of Ke Lan's head.

After entering this tunnel, those memory fragments hidden deep in his mind seemed to have fallen into a dormant state, never appearing once.

For some reason, Ke Lan suddenly had a very strange idea...

Those memories seem to be afraid of this place.

[PS Thanks to Xiaopangdun uu for the reward of 500 starting coins; thanks to the villain in the villain, Infinity Magic for the reward of 100 starting coins. 】

[PPS The temperature has dropped suddenly in the past few days. It seems that I have a fever again within a week after I recovered from my cold. I will go to the hospital for a checkup tomorrow.In addition, everyone should also pay attention to keeping warm, wear more clothes, and don't catch a cold. 】

(End of this chapter)