Alien Relic Hunter.

Chapter 553 Strange Survivor

Fortunately, there was no obvious change in the size and appearance of this mad beast of burden, and it seemed that only its mind was affected.

Before Ke Lan raised the muzzle of the gun, Akira Asano drew out his saber and rushed forward.

Although the size of the violent pack beast in front of him has not changed, but pack beasts are originally that kind of large mammals. Generally, an adult pack beast can exceed five meters in height, but the one in front of him is estimated to be close to seven meters.

As for the length of the body, it was even more than ten meters—from the comparison of visual effects and body size alone, the oppressive force this guy brought to people was even higher than that of the mutated six-winged gray mosquito.

Seeing Asano Akira rushing towards him, the pack beast instantly locked him as his target, lowered his head, and suddenly accelerated and ran towards him!
This is the most common attack method of the long-haired pack beast - although this creature is docile, no matter how docile the animal is, it will be aggressive during the estrus period.In order to compete for mates, male long-haired pack animals will use their skulls to confront other members of the same sex, driving them away from their chosen "mates".

Although there are no horns on the head of the long-haired pack beast, its strange-shaped skull with four horn-like protrusions on the edge is the hardest part of its whole body - most of the metal elements ingested from food will be enriched in the On this bone, its hardness is difficult even for a large-caliber anti-material sniper rifle to penetrate.

Of course, it was impossible for Akira Asano to be hit by a pack beast just like that. When the distance between the two was less than half a meter, he suddenly braked suddenly, and swung his whole body with his right ankle as a fulcrum. He dodged to the side and rear of the pack beast, and at the same time, the saber in his hand cut a huge gash in the pack beast's lower abdomen.

The long snow-white fur was instantly stained red with blood, and the greasy intestines fell out of the opening, and then they were trampled to pieces by the pack beast's own hind hooves. What came out turned out to be corpses covered in large chunks of blood and flesh... Perhaps because the digestive system of plant-eating organisms is not suitable for digesting meat, many of these corpses still retain their original appearance, Ke Lan Even a vaguely human arm can be discerned.

"The herbivorous pack animals have started to eat meat..." Ke Lan shook his head self-consciously. Compared with "meme infection", this is not so unusual, but it gave him another feeling in his heart. Added a bit of haze.

No one knows what the other "collections" that are more cruel in nature have become at this time.

The beast of burden did not immediately fall down because its stomach was cut open, but the severe pain intensified its rage—it did not turn its head to look for Akira Asano, but slammed sideways towards Akira Asano, a bit like an ancient Chinese warrior It means "iron mountain leaning on".

If Asano Akira was hit solidly by this "Iron Mountain Reach", even if he was wearing power armor, it would probably be enough. After all, the tonnage of the pack beast is there, plus the inertia of the collision—— Even the bulletproof glass outer wall of the institute's public dining room couldn't withstand the impact of this beast.

This time, Akira Asano did not choose to dodge, but jumped up directly, and lightly jumped onto the back of the long-haired pack beast.

The moment his feet touched the back of the pack animal, his knees and hip joints were bent quickly, and his whole body made a squat-like posture in order to dissolve the force transmitted to him. Then, Holding the saber with both hands, he stabbed straight at the pack beast's back!
Asano Akira did not poke the soft internal organs of the pack animal with the tip of the knife through the ribs - the internal organs are the key, but they cannot kill a raging pack animal immediately, and instead make the dying pack beast explode exert greater strength.The best way to stop its movements immediately is to destroy its central nervous system like it did to the six-winged gray mosquito.

"Cack-clack! Clack--"

A teeth-piercing crisp sound came from the place where the saber pierced—besides the skull, the spine was the second most concentrated part of the pack animal's metal elements.Its spine is as thick as the mouth of a sea bowl, and its strength is comparable to that of an alloy. Even a blade made of Nino alloy cannot penetrate it for a while.

At this moment, the back of hands, wrists, forearms, elbows, shoulders and other parts of Akira Asano's power armor turned over in more than a dozen places, revealing various sizes and specifications. The nozzles of the vector thrusters, after adjusting the angles of these nozzles, began to emit a faint blue tail flame——Asano Akira’s arms were like two miniature rockets, forcibly "pushing" the sword little by little go in!

"So that's what the equipment department meant by the 'close-combat-specialized' type of armor... Tsk tsk, it looks pretty cool, but if it's another person, this device will basically be useless if you use two arms at once. "Ke Lan glanced at his arm armor. He didn't have so many hidden propellers on his armor. Instead, there were two miniature rocket launchers and two foldable thermal switchblades.

The equipment of the battle armor is indeed very rich, but the feeling of patchwork is also obvious. For example, the two thermal energy switchblades overlap somewhat in function with the high-frequency particle vibration dagger that Ke Lan just used - he can be sure, These two sets of armors were temporarily produced by the equipment department specially for this mission.

"It is estimated that those guys still want to take this opportunity to use Akira Asano as an experimental product to test some kind of 'reinforcement device'..." Ke Lan murmured in his heart. When people removed the "mind strengthening device", the faces of those people showed obvious frustration.

If that guy named Smith hadn't caused such a big mess this time, maybe this group of people would have tampered with their own armor... Even if they didn't dare to install some lethal equipment on themselves, but like It is inevitable to draw some blood when injecting medicine, cut some subcutaneous tissue when treating wounds, and so on.

In addition, various data of the wearer will definitely be collected. The name is for the development of new armor as a reference. In fact, what this group of people will use these data for, Ke Lan can guess with his heels arrive.

Ke Lan secretly decided that when this task is completed, he will "snatch" these two sets of armor directly... and save the madmen in the research institute from causing any trouble.

……

With the support of more than a dozen vector propellers, the entire saber quickly penetrated into the body of the long-haired pack beast, leaving only a section of the hilt exposed.

The violent beast of burden could roar in pain at the beginning, but as the blade pierced deeper and deeper, its roar gradually became weaker, and its huge body knelt down on the ground, no longer as it was at the beginning struggling so violently.

Akira Asano pulled out his saber, stepped on the back of the pack beast and walked a few steps forward, pointed the tip of the knife at the back of the pack beast's head, and stabbed down again.

The frenzied and out-of-control beast of burden finally stopped moving and fell silent forever.

Akira Asano put the sword back into its sheath, jumped off the hill-like corpse of the pack beast, and said lightly, "Dead."

"I know." Ke Lan nodded. In the past, he would have had to dissect the pack animal's body to study the reason for its madness, but now, Ke Lan has no such thoughts at all.

Seven hours have passed since the outbreak of the incident, and in another five hours, the reserve power of the underground ice storage will be exhausted... Once the things sealed in the depths of the ice storage escape, it will not be easy for the two of them to deal with it that's it.

"There is another one in the restaurant." Akira Asano said again.

"A long-haired pack beast?"

"No, the weight is much lighter than the pack beast, but the speed is faster." Akira Asano replied, "Also, there seems to be survivors hiding in the second floor of the building at nine o'clock."

"Since that thing didn't take the initiative to trouble us, there's no need for us to waste time on it." Ke Lan thought for a while, and said, "As for the survivors... as long as they hide in the building and don't come out, we can Don't poke your head out and look around, it's safe for the time being, at least it's much safer than following us."

Akira Asano nodded, and he didn't mean to ask Ke Lan to save people—after all, even if they rescued people now, they wouldn't have time to escort these survivors back to the third defense line.

What's more... Schroeder emphasized at the beginning of the mission that the undead crew has already tacitly accepted that the entire contaminated area has "fallen" and there are no survivors.

However, out of humanitarianism, Ke Lan recorded the coordinates of the building and sent it back to the headquarters: "There may be survivors in the building marked point A, you can pay attention to it when cleaning up later, or Send a rescue team here first. In addition, traces of the 'collection' that broke through the containment were found in the restaurant at Mark B. As for how to deal with it, you will decide by yourself at that time."

"Received." Schroeder's voice came from the headset, "But until the 'meme' body is not erased, we cannot send more people to the contaminated area."

"I know." Ke Lan nodded, then turned to the building where the survivors were hidden, and shouted loudly: "If there are still people alive inside, remember two things - first, don't go out room; second, don’t look at anything outside the room, and don’t look at the screen of your mobile phone, TV or any electronic device. If you can, I suggest you keep your eyes closed. After five hours at the latest, there will be Rescuers are coming to take you away!"

As soon as Ke Lan finished speaking, there was a sound of knocking on the windows on the second floor of the building—the windows made of bulletproof glass kept making loud noises, causing Ke Lan to look up...

It was indeed a "survivor", but all parts of the survivor's body that were exposed outside the clothes were covered with grape-shaped sarcomas, but Ke Lan was a little surprised that none of these sarcomas seemed to be Cracked, and the eyes hidden in it were not exposed - so that this person looked more like a patient infected with some strange disease.

"Intelligence update, the person in marker point A is not a 'survivor', but a meme-infected person..." Ke Lan paused, but decided to tell Schroeder the actual situation, "However, this infected person is a little strangeness."

"Strange? How strange?"

"His body is full of sarcoma, but for some reason, none of the eyeballs in these sarcoma seems to be mature, and none of the sarcoids are cracked... Moreover, this person's physical strength seems to be still good, after hearing me After shouting, he kept banging on the glass window," Ke Lan said.

"His heartbeat, pulse and breathing are also stable, and his physical signs are all normal." Akira Asano added, "So I just thought he was a survivor."

Generally speaking, the energy and nutrients in the human body infected by the "meme" will be sucked dry by those crazy eyeballs in a very short period of time, and the organs of the whole body will quickly fail due to insufficient energy and oxygen supply, which will lead to infection The victim himself died—like the instigator of this incident, Professor Smith, the whole process was less than 1 minute from the time he discovered a sarcoma on his arm to the time he fell to the ground exhausted and lost the ability to move independently.

And the guy in front of him looked alive and well, he didn't look like he was "sucked dry" at all.

Ke Lan even suspected that this guy really just suffers from a strange disease, right?It's just that the symptoms of this strange disease look very similar to those infected by the "meme"?
There seemed to be a heated argument at the headquarters, and after more than a minute, Schroeder said, "Please try to communicate with the infected person to confirm whether he is sane or not."

"Row."

Ke Lan raised his head and shouted again: "Stop knocking! I saw you! If you can understand what I said, please report your name and identity."

As soon as this sentence was uttered, the man stopped knocking, but he didn't open the window, but shouted something hoarsely inside.

It's a pity that the sound insulation of this window is so good that Ke Lan couldn't hear what the man was shouting at all.

If it weren't for the high-power loudspeaker installed on his power armor, the other party probably wouldn't be able to hear him at all.

He could only look at Akira Asano, patted him on the shoulder, and asked, "What is this guy shouting inside?"

"He said that he was an engineer in the logistics department of the research institute, and his name was Zhou Tong. All the doors and windows of this building were locked, and he was trapped to death inside."

"This guy... Isn't this his own residence? He doesn't have permission to open the door?"

"In special times, the authority of ordinary personnel will be withdrawn." Schroeder explained in the communication channel, "but the access card in your hand can open the door lock of this building."

"Ask him again, how and when he was infected, and how he is doing now." Schroeder said again.

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(End of this chapter)