Alien Relic Hunter.

Chapter 555 "Collection" on the Fifth Floor of the Underground Ice Storage

Ke Lan suddenly understood that this "pretender" was not an elite monster at all, but the "strange sea tactics" he chose!
In less than ten seconds, the source of the noise that Akira Asano heard appeared in front of the two of them—these people (assuming they can still be called "human beings"), their bodies are covered with Large and small sarcomas, in terms of appearance alone, are almost the same as the pretender who called himself "Zhou Tong".

They turned out from the forks of small streets, the entrances and exits of various buildings, and even from high windows... Their movements seemed clumsy and extremely uncoordinated, but their speed was quite fast. One street has already been blocked by densely packed pretenders.

"What's wrong with learning, isn't it a student crisis..." Ke Lan sneered contemptuously in a nasal voice, and inserted a 54-round large-capacity drum into the shotgun.

"All fear comes from insufficient firepower." This sentence has been emphasized many times. Every time Ke Lan watches a movie of the Resident Evil series, he will feel that the plot is outrageous-those hordes of zombies are obviously not powerful enough to fight alone. Strong, even the "executor" who existed as a BOSS in the early stage can't get back up after being headshot by the protagonist's self-made coin shotgun.

And the most puzzling thing is that the zombies are obviously easy to kill, but the weapons of the protagonist team will always only be small pistols and submachine guns that are difficult to penetrate even a body armor, like soldiers from the Umbrella Company as standard equipment. Assault rifles are rarely seen in the show, so that just putting a Minigun on a vehicle or carrying it in the hands of a big guy can be regarded as the most powerful "heavy weapon" in a movie.

Ke Lan couldn't help asking—in the world view of Resident Evil, doesn't every country have its own army except for the private army of the umbrella company?Even if more than [-]% of the soldiers are infected, is it possible that armed with the army, it will not be able to deal with ten times the enemies who can only bite and scratch with their teeth?
You must know that the zombies that appeared in the early days, these monsters can't even run, they move extremely slowly, and even the moving targets on the shooting range are faster than them-after the initial riot, most of the zombies will inevitably be attacked. Suppression, as long as one army can complete self-clearance, it can help more troops to be liberated from chaos.Not to mention one tenth, as long as one percent of the original soldiers are organized, with the weapons and equipment of the old era, there is no fear of biohazard at all.

This is still considering the result of the direct spread of the virus in the army, but in fact, when the zombie wave first appeared, the war machines of various countries should have been activated, and it is difficult for the virus to even cross the border between countries. the border between.

Ke Lan always felt that the screenwriters of the Resident Evil series, for the sake of the plot, seemed to treat the governments of various countries directly as a group of mentally retarded.

Even civilians can survive so many people and form various survivor settlements, but the army collapsed as soon as the crisis broke out. It is hard not to doubt the IQ of the screenwriter and director.

Seven steps away, the gun is fast; within seven steps, the gun is not only fast but also accurate-how can zombies defeat an army armed with modern weapons?
In Ke Lan's view, in the face of the zombie tide, there is no need to use nuclear weapons to arrange more than a hundred ways to kill these monsters.

He switched the burst shotgun to fully automatic shooting mode, and then locked the elbow and shoulder joints of his right arm, which were mainly responsible for the recoil, and the two pairs of claws popped out from the heels, plowing deeply into the concrete road .

In the next second, a storm of steel balls hit the pretenders who rushed over.

In many film and television dramas or games, shooting large groups of enemies with fully automatic weapons like this often results in the enemies falling down one after another like wheat harvested by a sickle, but under Ke Lan's muzzle However, the pretenders couldn't even leave a complete corpse behind.

The pretenders in the front row were directly smashed by the dense steel balls—they were like fresh meat thrown into a wall breaker, and they turned into minced meat scattered in a blink of an eye.

The 54 rounds of large-capacity drums were emptied in just ten seconds, and the barrels of the shotguns had turned crimson red—as for the group of pretenders, they didn’t even have a single intact limb. remain.

Akira Asano, who was standing in front of Ke Lan, was stunned for a moment, and retracted the battle into the sheath somewhat disappointed—none of this group of pretenders could rush within ten meters of the two of them.

Ke Lan grabbed the red and deformed gun barrel and unloaded it, and the auxiliary mechanical arm mounted on the backpack cooperated to insert a brand new gun barrel into it.

There are seven replacement barrels like this in his backpack, and although there are only two spare drums, as long as the empty drums are put back into the backpack, the automatic loading device will reload the drums again within half a minute. Fill up—even if the infected people in the entire research institute become such monsters, they can't get close to Ke Lan's body.

"Asano, stay alert." Ke Lan said, then released the anchor hook used to fix the body, turned around and walked back to the broken communication cable.

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"Test, is the communication restored... Zizi... Test again... Zizi..." Ke Lan repeated into the microphone.

However, even with the broken cables back together, his communications equipment still couldn't get in touch with command.

"Forget it, let's just do this..." Ke Lan walked behind Asano Akira, pulled out the communication cable on his back, and plugged it into his power armor.

Anyway, it is impossible for Akira Asano, a boring gourd, to take the initiative to talk to the group of people in the command center. In addition, he is still in a melee position, and a cable is dragging behind him, which can easily affect his position during the battle, and may become a weakness in the eyes of the enemy—— For example, the opponent had already dodged the opponent's attack, but the opponent grabbed the cable behind him and pulled the person back. In close combat, such a flaw is almost fatal.

As soon as he entered the communication channel, Schroeder's anxious voice rang in Ke Lan's ear: "What's going on? Why was the communication suddenly interrupted? Why did you go offline suddenly just now? Also, there is a message from Akira Asano The deafening gunshots, what happened? I kept asking, but Akira Asano didn’t reply to me... Now he suddenly went offline again, and then you went online again... What happened?"

The young chief of the crisis management department was obviously not calm, and he threw a series of questions at Ke Lan like a cannonball.

"The pretender just tore off the cable, so the communication was interrupted. At this location, there is no unobstructed communication pile nearby, and laser communication is impossible. I can only unplug Asano Akira's cable and plug it into myself. " Ke Lan replied.

"What about the gunshot? What's the matter with the gunshot?" Schroeder continued to ask, "Is that the gunshot of the mecha's rapid-fire shotgun? You emptied a full magazine——did the pretender So hard to kill? Is it still alive now?"

"It's dead, it's not hard to kill... it's just that there are a lot of them."

"Many? More than one pretender?" Schroeder obviously paused.

"Although there was not a whole body left, I roughly counted before I opened fire, and there are about 200 people pretending to appear in the field of vision."

"200 people...can you describe their state and attire?" Schroeder asked in a deep voice.

At the same time, after hearing the news, the experts of the countermeasure team in the headquarters immediately whispered to each other. As the discussion progressed, some people's expressions quickly became ugly.

"In terms of status, they are all similar to that 'Zhou Tong', full of tumors." Ke Lan recalled, "As for attire, most of them wear the standard white coats of researchers, and some of them wear formal and casual clothes... oh, and There were several people in heavy hazmat suits."

"...This group of people should have been staff members of the research institute during their lifetime." Lin Qiming said something that sounded like nonsense.

But even if it was nonsense, his words were still wrong.

"They're not dead, they're just under control." Ke Lan said, "Akira Asano can hear their pulse and heartbeat, and their bodies are obviously alive. As for the brains...I'm not sure whether the brains are dead or alive. But the cerebellum and brainstem must be fully functional."

Ke Lan continued: "I think that the body of the 'meme' not only has self-awareness and intelligence, but also has mutated... or, in other words, evolved. The earliest infected people will be opened by the 'eyes' in a short period of time." 'Suck up the nutrition and die, and the 'eyes' of these 'pretenders' have been kept in an immature state, so their body functions have not been too seriously affected. Originally, I thought it was just An accidental case, but one that now appears to be clearly intentional by the subject of the 'meme'."

"The results discussed by the countermeasure team are similar to this. The 'meme' not only has the ability to infect the human body, but can even invade the brain and control the behavior of the infected person. In addition, the experts also believe that it may also have the ability to infect the human body." The ability to read the memory of an infected person." Schroeder said, "Otherwise, the behavior of the No.1 pretender cannot be explained."

"It doesn't make any sense to explain its behavior now." Ke Lan said decisively, "You might as well think about the motives of these pretenders—why does the subject of the 'meme' do this? What is its purpose?"

"To... stall for time."

"Why does it delay time, have you thought about it?" Ke Lan couldn't help but speed up his speech, "For us, the time is tight because we are afraid of two things, one is that the 'meme' will mutate again; the other is that those underground The 'collection' in the depths of the freezer was revived and broke containment...but from the perspective of the 'meme' subject, why should it delay time? To mutate itself? Or to release more contained items to expand the chaos?"

Ke Lan didn't wait for Schroeder to speak, so he continued on his own: "Neither! Its real purpose is actually the fifth floor of the underground ice storage!"

The words are not shocking and endless. As soon as these words came out, there was an uproar in the headquarters.

"The things on the fifth floor of the underground ice storage...should not breach containment...very...very safe." I don't know why, when he said this, even Schroeder felt that he didn't have much confidence .

"Since you think that the subject of the 'meme' can read the memory of the infected person, so many leaders and professors in the research institute, plus those in the Security Bureau and the Crisis Management Section, all the memories of the infected person have been brought together ...I think, for it, there shouldn't be any secrets on this ark anymore, right?"

"This..." Schroeder subconsciously clenched his fists, his lips twitching slightly.

"Although it is difficult to explain the origin of the 'meme' at the level of human technology, at least this thing is mutated from a lump of meat, and its carrier can be classified as a biological category—— Since it is a living thing, it has the instinct of 'survival', in order to survive, it is definitely not willing to be wiped out by us just like that."

"You continue to say..."

"If it doesn't want to be wiped out, it must become stronger—if it doesn't have wisdom, then it may pin its chances of survival on its own further mutation... But now, since we have confirmed that it has wisdom, then we You can't treat it as a monster that only acts on instinct. My suggestion is that you'd better treat this thing as an opponent on the opposite side of the chessboard. When we move the chess pieces, it is also thinking about the countermeasures to crack.

In the current situation, combined with all available resources and information nearby, the fastest and most reliable way for it to become stronger is to find a more powerful new host.

It delays time to do this—so, what you should worry about now is not whether the things in the fifth floor will come out... but how long it will take for this guy to break through the blockade and invade the first floor of the underground ice storage. Go to the fifth floor. "

"..." There was a brief silence in the headquarters, even the group of experts who were still arguing just now fell silent.

They stopped arguing, but looked at each other silently. From each other's eyes, all they could see were fear and despair.

"It's already at this time, and you still refuse to tell me what is sealed in the fifth floor of the underground ice storage?" Ke Lan asked, "Section Chief Schroeder?"

"The fifth floor of the underground ice storage...the fifth floor..." Schroeder said in a trembling voice, "The one that is sealed... is a primordial species."

"Prehistoric species? Is it a part of the wreckage or something like a gene fragment extracted from the organization?"

"It's not... In the container on the fifth floor, there is a complete primordial species."

"A complete primordial species?" Now, even Ke Lan was shocked, "You mean, there is a complete prehistoric species inside the ark?!"

(End of this chapter)