Alien Relic Hunter.

Chapter 5 Parasitic
Hearing this conclusion, everyone couldn't help but feel the scalp tingling... At this moment, Ke Lan's eyes seemed to see something moving, he turned his head quickly, but his line of sight happened to meet the circle Relief on the inside of the gate.

Different from the patterned reliefs on the outside, the reliefs that appear on the inside of the gate are composed of neatly arranged circles of characters. This is the text used by the Alpha civilization. Humans have been studying their meaning since the first day they discovered this text. But to this day, there is still no progress.

The text of the Alpha civilization can be completely described by the word "weird". It does not conform to any language logic known to human beings today. It has no concept of words and sentences, and cannot find any relationship between characters. Signs, they are like graffiti drawn by young children, meaningless and irregular...

But it can certainly be read, it's just that humans haven't figured out the right way yet.

In a trance, Ke Lan felt that these characters seemed to be creeping slowly. They broke away from the metal shackles and began to gradually become distorted... No, it was not only the characters themselves that were distorted, but even the entire tunnel began to turn over and deform, and the vision The scene in it was like a drop of thick ink falling into the clear water, and the turbid black mist smudged out, quickly engulfing his entire being.

Indistinctly, Ke Lan seemed to see a high platform with a huge sarcophagus on it. There was also a lot of alpha text on the sarcophagus, but he couldn't see the specific details.

Under the high platform, there is a hell-like scene - countless odd-shaped pieces of meat are entangled and squeezed together, they struggle, making a painful and sharp hiss, and some pieces of meat try to climb up the high platform, But without success, they fell, tore apart, and were quickly swallowed by their own kind...

Ke Lan only felt a splitting headache, he squatted on the ground with his head in his arms - the screams of the flesh didn't seem to come from the outside world, but from the depths of his brain, they became louder and louder, The frequency is also high enough to make people mad, Ke Lan feels like he is going crazy, if he persists for another second, his brain will explode and turn into a part of those pieces of meat...

"Hey... are you alright?"

A big hand patted his shoulder. Suddenly, the high platform disappeared, the sarcophagus disappeared, and the screaming pieces of meat disappeared. Ke Lan found that he was back in the tunnel, and the others were using a kind of surprised expression. Looking at himself.

"Uh...it's okay, I'm just...a little distracted." Ke Lan hesitated for a while, but in the end he didn't tell the vision he saw - for some reason, his subconscious kept telling himself that this was the best thing to do. Don't let other people know.

Perhaps it was really just an illusion. The high platform, the sarcophagus, and those pieces of meat soon left only a vague outline. Ke Lan wanted to recall, but found that he couldn't remember anything.

"You don't seem to be distracted like that. You just held your head with a distorted expression and looked very painful." Ivan shook his head and said seriously.

"Could it be the sequelae of hitting the head before?" Layton asked, "Would you like Ivan to check it for you?"

"No, I'm fine now."

"Really? ... Huh? I didn't notice before, there is actually a relief behind this gate! It's the text of Alpha civilization!" The Hound's expression suddenly became excited, he walked up quickly, Ke Lan was about to stop it, but It was found that the other party did not have any abnormality at all, and he took out the camera from his backpack and took pictures.

Could it be that the hallucination just produced has nothing to do with these words?Ke Lan glanced cautiously, then glanced again... Nothing happened, the words were just simple reliefs, neither wriggling nor deformed, not to mention black fog and weird hallucinations.

"Crack! Crack!" The Hound took dozens of photos in a row, not even missing the corners - on the official Ark recycling price list, document relics have always been expensive, even photos or rubbings , you can still exchange for a lot of credit points.

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After taking the photo, everyone continued to walk towards the passage. The passage is very long and deep, but fortunately there are no traps. The road is calm and there are no fork in the road, so there is no trouble of choice at all.

"You said... that advance team, uh, I mean the corpse, or the thing that controlled the corpse, why did it come here? This passage only leads to the cave where we crashed, Could it be that it wants to escape? Escape this ruin?" Layton asked in a low voice.

"I don't know, but I didn't find any foreign objects during the autopsy, and that thing has obviously left." Ivan replied.

"I don't think so," Ke Lan pondered for a few seconds, then took over the words, "If that thing needs to control the corpse to move, it proves that its own movement ability is extremely limited, or it is like a parasite. It is difficult to survive after leaving the host, which means that after leaving the corpse, it cannot go too far. If you want to escape this ruin, it is absolutely impossible to abandon the old host before finding a new host. ."

"New host..." Ivan and Ke Lan glanced at each other, and each read a trace of horror in each other's eyes, the former stopped immediately and whispered, "Wait a minute, everyone check their protection. Clothes, is there any damage! Don't even let the soles go!"

As soon as she finished speaking, Jiang Lian, who was originally at the end of the team, turned around and ran towards the gate. Before she ran out a few steps, she fell to the ground, using both hands and feet, and crawled up in an extremely weird and twisted posture!
She crawled extremely fast, and in a blink of an eye, she was more than 30 meters away from everyone.

"Bah! Bah!" The deafening gunshots sounded, and Ivan saw Ivan holding a rough-looking large-caliber pistol in both hands. He fired several shots and knocked Jiang Lian to the ground!

"What are you doing?!" The hound who hadn't reacted turned his head and roared, "What the hell is going on? Why did that bitch suddenly look like a dog? Why did you shoot her?!"

"Quick! She's been parasitized! That thing should still be in her body!" Ivan didn't care about the attitude of the hound, but quickly changed the magazine for the pistol, while running towards Jiang Lian who was lying on the ground.

"Parasite? When?"

"Just now, when Ivan dissected the body, we didn't find it." Ke Lan explained to Ivan, he also took out a pistol and walked up quickly.

Jiang Lian was lying face down on the ground, her limbs were still twitching slightly, the two bowl-sized blood holes behind her completely penetrated her thin body, and crimson bloodstains gradually spread under her body. live.

"Can't you kick your legs?" Ke Lan said a little reluctantly.

"That level of parasitism will completely destroy the brain, and she won't survive if she kicks her legs. We may still be counterattacked by her... Be careful, don't get attacked by that thing."

Several hunters formed a circle and surrounded the dying Jiang Lian in the middle.

"Is that thing still in her head?" Layton asked uncertainly.

Ivan nodded: "It should be."

"Then just blast her head? Together with that damn thing?" With that said, Leighton raised his cannon and aimed it at Jiang Lian's head.

"No, we have to figure out what it is, otherwise, the next time we encounter it, there is still no way to counter it." Ke Lan said.

"Ke Lan is right, I don't want to die like this bitch." The Hound took out his dagger and stepped forward - just at this moment, a dark shadow suddenly emerged from the pool of blood, Bouncing off the ground with incredible speed, slammed into the hound's face!
"Shuh!" The knife light flashed, and the shadow suddenly broke in two when he was about to fall on the hound's mask, curled up into a ball, and fell on his instep.

It was only now that everyone could see clearly that this shadow was an arthropod that had never been seen before. It looked a bit like a worm called the scorpion on the earth in the old era, but compared with the scorpion, the torso of this thing was more slender. , The front of the body has no tentacles, instead, it is a pair of sharp mouthparts.

"Could it be this kind of worm that controls the corpse?" Ke Lan was a little surprised. The human brain is a very sophisticated and complex organ. Let's not talk about whether this little worm has a brain or not. The capacity will not even reach one ten thousandth of that of human beings. How does it control human beings?

This kind of plot is not uncommon in horror movies and novels, but from a scientific point of view, this kind of thing is extremely absurd.

"This thing is not a bug, it is not a natural creature at all." Ivan had already used tweezers to pick up the corpse of this thing, and when he flashed it with a flashlight, a familiar metallic luster flashed across it.

"Grass!" Seeing this luster, the hound couldn't help but spit out a dirty word, "It's Nino alloy! This thing is made of Nino alloy?!"

Everyone couldn't help but glance at Asano Akira, who had just shot. With the strength of the Nino alloy, even if Ivan directly exploded Jiang Lian's head, the bullet would not necessarily be able to hurt this thing, but this Asano Akira was actually light and easy. Pine cut it in half...

"My sword is also made of this kind of metal." Asano Akira said lightly, holding the scabbard, as if feeling everyone's attention.

"I'm sorry, brother, I was wrong before, I apologize to you." The Hound's face was a little pale, and he bowed slightly to Asano Akira - the moment the latter fired the knife just now, no one was able to Seeing his actions clearly means that if Asano Akira wants to kill someone, there is no chance for anyone present to resist.

What's more, he's still blind...

"It's okay, I don't mind... But I'd really like to know, what the hell is that?"

(End of this chapter)