Alien Relic Hunter.

Chapter 472 Shell (4000 word chapter)
Could it be that the third civilization that built this tunnel and the ancient battleship "Yagunaktor" is the culprit that caused the disappearance of the Alpha civilization?
But the existence of the Molten Mining Area proves one more point: from the timeline, the node of the existence of the third civilization is earlier than the Alpha civilization, and the period of the existence of the third civilization is like the earth ruled by dinosaurs. In the Mesozoic Era, by the time humans were born, these ancient creatures had already been completely extinct.

However, one difference is that the technological level of the third civilization is far higher than that of the Alpha civilization, so the time difference between the two existence periods may be far more than hundreds of millions of years.

Ke Lan estimates that the civilization level of this third civilization must have entered the sequence of a third-level civilization...

In addition to being destroyed by a higher-level civilization, it is difficult for a third-level civilization to die out on its own. Dinosaurs can only face extinction in the face of a series of disasters such as meteorite impacts and climate change, but humans can escape from the earth and turn the race continues to this day.

Perhaps, this third civilization still exists in a certain corner of the universe, but because of natural disasters, resources, or population, they abandoned Alpha Planet and turned to expand their territory towards the vast starry sky?
Then one day, they suddenly wanted to go back to their home planet on a whim, but they found this group of Alpha people who occupied the magpie's nest, and then wiped out the Alpha civilization in a rage?
But if this is the case, why are there so many intact remains of the Alpha civilization left on this planet?
Moreover, apart from "Yagunaktor" and this tunnel, there is nothing more related to the third civilization on Planet Alpha... The term "parent planet" may not be accurate.

Ke Lan thought of another possibility: the fleet of the third civilization discovered this planet while exploring the unknown star field, and then "erased" the Alpha civilization... As for this battleship, it was the During the battle, it was shot down by the Alpha civilization by chance, and fell into the magma lake...

Not right!

The molten mine area was obviously built for "Yagunaktor", which means that the Alpha civilization has at least "mined" the Nino alloy on this ancient battleship for decades, and the gap between the two civilizations Looking at it, it is impossible for the war to last for such a long time...

The only explanation is that this battleship is actually just a long-distance reconnaissance ship with a low level of weaponry. After being defeated by the Alpha Civilization, it took the Army of the Third Civilization several decades to cross the distant time and space. , ran over and wiped out the Alpha civilization?
However, if the Third Civilization won the war, why didn't it develop Planet Alpha into its own colony?

Could it be that you look down on this planet?

Although Alpha Star is much poorer than Earth used to be, as a planet suitable for the survival of carbon-based organisms, it is already considered one of the ten thousand existences in the universe. It took a full 900 years for the Ark to find such a planet... Could it be possible? Isn't this third civilization a carbon-based civilization?
Then there is another doubt - if a war broke out between the third civilization and the Alpha civilization, wouldn't the "great god" believed by the Alpha civilization not intervene?
Would he...or they, would watch his faithful believers being wiped out like this?
Once, Ke Lan once thought that the "great god" was just a fictional idol, just like the God and Buddha that humans once believed in, but after experiencing the "Holy Word" incident, his attitude changed 180 degrees ——The "great god" believed by the Alpha civilization is real, and he has the power to subvert the human world view... This power, from the perspective of human beings, is almost equivalent to a "miracle".

What disturbed Ke Lan most was that when his followers prayed to him, he would respond...

In other words, it is very likely that this great god has been watching everything that happened on this planet.

This can't help but make Ke Lan feel creepy...

"That monster...it stopped!" An agent shouted, La Kelan's thoughts pulled back to reality, he turned his head to look, and saw "Park Shangyou" stopped, and the front ends of its tentacles were like calyx Cracked open, revealing the tiny, densely packed fangs inside.

"Is this its mouth?" said the Hound, frowning. "It's really disgusting. I don't want to be bitten by this thing."

Everyone stopped, staring at the monster vigilantly. An agent tried to fire two shots. One bullet passed through the tentacles, and the hole formed was filled with mucus almost instantly, and then disappeared. A bullet hit the teeth inside the "mouth", making a crisp sound like a metal collision.

But these two shots made the monster's tentacles tremble violently, especially the cracked flesh flaps at the front of the tentacles, the trembling frequency was even more astonishing.

Combined with the words before the hound, it can't help but make people feel as if it is screaming.

It's just that everyone didn't hear any sound.

"Could this be...an infrasonic attack?" One of Aya's agents suddenly said this.

"But my equipment didn't detect infrasound waves..." Before Layton finished speaking, the agent's expression changed suddenly, and he walked straight towards the monster.

"Nicolas! What are you doing?!" Aya Breya shouted immediately.

The agent named Nicholas didn't pay attention to Aya's words. He didn't even look back, and stopped when he was only ten meters away from the monster.

"Dangerous! Nikolai! Stay away from this monster! Come back to me quickly!"

Nicholas turned a deaf ear to Aya's order. He stood in front of the monster, as if he was looking at the monster's non-existent eyes, and remained motionless.

"You help me cover, I'll pull him back!" Aya planned to rush out after speaking, but Ke Lan grabbed her wrist tightly.

"Don't go! Otherwise you will become like him!" Ke Lan shouted sharply, his eyes full of seriousness.

"You know what happened to him, right?" Aya asked anxiously, "Is this a kind of mental attack? Nicholas was seduced...or controlled?"

"Almost..." Ke Lan nodded.

"Is there any way to save him?" Aya continued to ask, speaking quickly, "How do you relic hunters deal with this kind of situation? I can't just sit and watch him being—"

Before she could finish her sentence, she was interrupted by Ke Lan.

"It's too late." Ke Lan shook his head at Aya.

I saw Nicholas' body trembling along with the monster, he turned around slowly, and the helmet's visor lifted upwards.

His expression looked extremely dull, and crimson blood slowly overflowed from his nostrils and the corners of his eyes.

There seemed to be something wriggling in his throat, and these things began to surge upwards, and then he spit them out with a "wow"——

What was spit out was not the food residue wrapped in digestive juice, but a large group of tentacles that kept moving... These tentacles rolled back and covered his face. Ke Lan seemed to hear the bones being crushed the sound of.

"That thing! How did that thing get into his body?" Layton exclaimed, "He has no direct contact with that monster!"

With a "plop", Nicholas' body fell face down on the ground, and a cluster of tentacles several meters long emerged from his body. The surface of this cluster of tentacles was covered with mucus, dirty blood, and undigested Completely broken pieces of internal organs staggered and struggled towards Ke Lan and the others.

"Is this... the larva of that monster?" Ivan stared at the "newborn" tentacles, muttering, "When was the embryo of the larva implanted in the agent's body? Before the sacrificial ceremony Or after the sacrificial ceremony? The implantation method and route cannot be ascertained..."

"Don't think about it now, this thing is crawling over!" Layton shouted, shooting at the tentacles—however, this little guy is the same as the mother's body, and the bullets can't do effective damage to it, even if it is killed A machine gun that shatters into a sieve will heal in a fraction of a second.

"Damn it, I don't believe you can't be killed!" The hound took out a large defensive grenade angrily, pulled it away, counted a few seconds silently, and then threw it towards the tentacles.

"The old dog threw the 'HF25' grenade, which has a killing radius of 40 meters! Try not to use power armor to resist! Find cover!" Layton shouted, and at the same time opened the energy shield, knocking Ke Lan Several people guarded behind.

Valentina also manipulated the body and jumped in front of everyone, preparing to block the shock waves and fragments.

However, before the grenade thrown by the hound hit the ground, several tentacles shot out and captured it in mid-air. Just when everyone was worried that the monster would throw the grenade back, those tentacles were about to explode. The grenade was wrapped tightly, and the tentacles adhered to each other, forming an airtight space——

"boom!!!"

The muffled sound came from the inside of the confined space, and those tentacles sticking together suddenly inflated to a width of more than ten meters like a balloon injected with high-pressure gas. Through the stretched and thinned mucous membrane, Ke Lan could even Seeing the flames from the explosion billowing inside the "balloon"...

However, the balloon did not burst. Instead, after a few seconds, it gradually deflated until it returned to its normal size. Then, the tentacles that were stuck together separated, forming a pile of irregular metal fragments. fell to the ground.

An astonishingly powerful explosion was so easily dispelled, the hound was so startled that its eyeballs were about to fall off.

"This... is this fucking okay?" He murmured, "I have thought of many ways to explain this monster, but I never thought that it could resist grenades in this way... I saw it swallow the grenade at first 'Down, I thought it was dead..."

"It seems to be able to control the strength of its body tissue at will." Ivan said, "When we shoot with guns, the bullets can easily penetrate its tentacles, but the grenade that exploded in its 'body', whether it is a shock wave or a metal Even the fragments couldn't break through the extremely thin flesh membrane... This feature reminds me of a creature we have encountered before..."

"You mean those 'sea anemone heads' inside Leviathan?" Ke Lan said.

Ivan nodded.

"There is no obvious weakness in that thing, and the only head that was killed was Akira Asano who relied on hard power to kill it head-on." Ke Lan said, "But before I figure out the cause of the agent's death, I can't let the agent die rashly." Ask Asano Akira to rush up and fight the monster in close quarters."

"No, Ke Lan, you may have missed one point. Those sea anemone heads have weaknesses." Ivan said calmly, "You were the first to discover this weakness - they are afraid of acid. After the anemone head at the front enters melee combat, the anemone head at the rear no longer spits acid."

"Acid... Indeed, I haven't tried this method yet." Ke Lan turned to look at Layton, "Is there any acidic corrosive liquid that can be used as a weapon? Or strong alkaline will do."

"There are only a small amount of concentrated hydrochloric acid and concentrated sulfuric acid, but even if they are used to synthesize aqua regia, the corrosiveness is not as corrosive as the acid secreted by those sea anemone heads back then." Layton replied.

"At least try!"

Ke Lan's eyes kept wandering around the monster's mother body and the tentacles. When Layton was frantically preparing the aqua regia, he suddenly discovered that there was a tumor-like protrusion at the end of the tentacles. The outside of this thing is covered with a layer of translucent mucous membrane, and inside is a black object the size of a fist, beating continuously like a heart.

Could this be the heart of this monster?Or... "nuclear"?
Ke Lan couldn't help turning his attention to the monster body that Park Shangyou had turned into, trying to find a similar structure in it—but soon, he discovered the problem.

The mother body did not abandon the rescue capsule, but carried the "hard shell" behind it like a conch...

The position of the rescue capsule just covered the tumor-like protrusion on its back!
If it weren't for this larva without a "shell", Ke Lan would never have been able to find out that the monster had hidden this abnormal part of its body in the rescue cabin.

That is its weakness!

"Valentina! Can you see the knobbly bump on the tail of that ball of tentacles?"

"I can see... it's been moving, and the part you mentioned is occasionally exposed." Valentina replied, "Do you want me to shoot here?"

"Yes, use an electromagnetic sniper gun—try not to let the shells pass through its body. If this is its weakness, it will definitely try its best to block the bullets fired here." Ke Lan said.

"Okay, I see." Valentina pulled down the scope and began to adjust the angle of the muzzle.

At this time, Layton finally prepared the aqua regia, and threw the bottle containing the aqua regia forcefully towards the tentacles.

This time, the tentacle did not reach out to the glass bottle, but avoided it to one side, but it was this dodging action that directly exposed the tumor-shaped protrusion on its tail to the Valkyrie's muzzle .

Valentina pulled the trigger without hesitation.

(End of this chapter)