Alien Relic Hunter.

Chapter 579 Liquid Gate

The further he walked in, the more uneasiness in Ke Lan's heart became stronger.

Neatly arranged crystallization tanks, increasing serial numbers, rusty metal wires...everything in his field of vision reminded him of the particularity of this cave...perhaps tens of thousands of years ago, for the Alpha civilization, this The place is no less important than the deserted island that can only be reached by "falling" into the depths of the sea.

But compared to that deserted island, this place... seems a little too easy to get in.

Could it be because the mechanism originally set up outside the ruins has been destroyed by the heretic sect?
A complete laboratory of Alpha civilization, for a prophet who can read Alpha characters, it is not difficult to transform it into the combat power of heretical sects... Ke Lan suddenly understood why the prophet brought Dr. Renee here The place is here—he was not forced to flee here to escape the pursuit of the Zero Fleet, this ruin was originally the destination of the Prophet!

Dr. Renee's research results, his own cell clone tissue, and the mysterious laboratory left over from the Alpha civilization, these three elements are added together, and Ke Lan does not find it strange that the prophet can come up with anything.

The Prophet must be stopped...

Just when Ke Lan counted to No.70 eight crystallization tanks, the tank was finally not empty!

This jar numbered 78 contains a person!

The whole body of this person was tightly entangled with a viscous substance. It looked like a cocoon, but also like a mummy that had been eroded by mold and had not been properly preserved—as for the entanglement. Those things on him were somewhat similar to melted chewing gum.

Before Ke Lan got close to the jar, the man struggled violently. For a while, Ke Lan seemed to be able to hear the dull cry for help from his throat.

"Help me... save me... save..."

But the more he struggled, the tighter the "chewing gum" wrapped around him became, and these viscous fluid substances even poured in from his mouth, blocking his throat.

His struggle gradually weakened. Although the sticky stuff was fluid, its strength after being stretched was no less than that of steel wires. These mucus strings even directly cut his skin and strangled into his flesh. , dripping blood flowed down the surface of the human-shaped cocoon, but before it reached the bottom of the jar, it was absorbed by the mucus.

The body that had stopped moving started to squirm again, but Ke Lan could tell that it wasn't the person inside who was moving, but the things attached to him.

When all the mucus fell off, all the flesh and organs on this person's body had disappeared, leaving only a blackened skeleton.

"Black skeleton..."

Just as Ke Lan expected, this newly "born" black skeleton only moved its joints a little, then quickly crawled out of the crystallization tank and pounced on Ke Lan.

Apart from its fast speed, the black skeleton itself is not considered strong—Ke Lan only found out later that the black-robed bishop in the East Ninth District turned into a black skeleton after activating the Holy Word, not because he didn’t want to In exchange for more power, but with his meager vitality, as a sacrifice, he can only reach this level.

If it was a stronger person, such as a strengthened person like Park Shangyou, Ke Lan and his team would have to pay a very heavy price if they wanted to pass through that block.

The distance of more than ten meters between the black skeleton and Ke Lan was wiped out in the blink of an eye, and the slender black bone claws stabbed fiercely towards the sides of Ke Lan's neck—its target was Ke Lan's heart, and with The falling trajectory of the bone claws, after piercing Ke Lan's neck, they will penetrate into his chest, and then cross at the heart.

It only needs a little stirring to tear this vital organ next to the brain to pieces.

But a pair of hands wrapped in blood-colored armor tightly grasped the black bone claws, preventing them from falling any further.As Ke Lan clenched his fists together, only a few crisp "clicks" were heard, and the black bone claw was broken abruptly by Ke Lan.

The biggest advantage of the black skeleton is "speed". In front of Ke Lan, who has the ability to stop time, it is almost the same as slow motion. Ke Lan can even analyze its attack movements by pausing frame by frame, and respond in advance.

After breaking all ten bone claws, Ke Lan directly put his hands through the ribs of the black skeleton and grabbed its spine.

The black skeleton that lost its claws frantically attacked Ke Lan with its arms and legs, but those sharp bones could not leave any traces on Ke Lan's active armor—even if there was a slight scratch, these scratches The trace will disappear without a trace in the blink of an eye.

Ke Lan felt that even if he stood there and let the black skeleton attack, it should have nothing to do with him.

Whether it's strength, speed or physical strength, the active armor has completely crushed the black skeleton. Ke Lan didn't even spend any effort to tear the skeleton into pieces.

However, looking at the black bone fragments scattered on the ground, Ke Lan couldn't feel at ease at all.

This person... is probably one of the exiles who disappeared outside. If so, he will definitely encounter more and stronger monsters in the next journey.

This Alpha Civilization laboratory has been restarted by the Prophet, and the exiles left outside the ruins are apparently the guards of this stronghold, but in fact they are "meat animals" used as experimental materials ...

Ke Lan continued to walk in.

The frequency of "something" in the jars embedded in the rock walls on both sides began to become higher and higher, but not every experimental subject in the jars could be successfully transformed into a monster.The vast majority of "meat animals" turned into corpses, and went to death along with the parasitic things on them.

The success rate of this kind of human experiment is not high. Even the seed of erosion has high requirements for the "container".Ke Lan encountered a total of twenty jars containing things along the way, but the things in the jars could come out and attack him, including the first black skeleton, it was only four times.

At the end of this passage is a tightly closed white door.

The material of the gate is neither metal nor rock, but a bit like a high-molecular polymer-although the word looks very tall, in fact, it is just two words-"plastic" in layman's terms.

"A plastic gate?" Although Ke Lan couldn't tell the reason, he always felt that it would be too unsuitable for such a plastic gate to appear in the deepest part of the cave.

He has explored quite a few Alpha relics, and there are even more relics that he has "explored" through the Internet and through various pictures, videos and text materials. He has seen all kinds of magnificent stone gates, metal gates, and even crystal gates. There are few, but I have never seen "plastic" as a door.

Not only the doors, but even the relics of the Alpha civilization unearthed from the ruins are rarely made of plastic.

The main reason for this is that the material "plastic" will age and degrade by itself, and its durability is far inferior to that of stone and metal. Even if there were gates made of plastic in some ruins, such a long Time has passed, and it has long since turned to dust.

On the earth in the old era, "white pollution" caused by plastics that are difficult to degrade was once one of the most serious environmental problems in the 21st century, but even the most difficult to degrade plastics, hundreds of years are enough to return them to dust ——These ruins of the Alpha civilization have existed for more than ten thousand years.

"Could it be that this door was added by a heretic sect?" Ke Lan was full of doubts—even if the heretic sect wanted to add a door here, plastic is by no means the best choice... It can even be said is one of the worst options.

What's more, this door is a seamless one, with no trace of splicing at all. If you want to manufacture it, you must have a huge mold and extremely high injection molding technology.For the Ark, it is not difficult to build such a door, but for the heretic sect in the wilderness, solving the problem of survival is the most important problem, how can it be possible to waste precious resources on such things What about the top?

With the style of the exiles, an economical, reliable, and simple solution is the best solution. Even if a door is welded out with discarded steel pipes and iron sheets, it is much better than this flashy plastic door.

"If something goes wrong, there must be a demon." With this idea in mind, Ke Lan didn't push the door immediately, but observed it carefully after getting closer.

It's okay not to observe, but once you observe, you will find something extraordinary.

This "plastic door" is not in a static state, but in a liquid state!

Because the entire door is pure white, many details are not obvious at first glance. Only when you look closely can you see the traces of white liquid flowing.

There is an invisible force field that confines these liquids, making them look like a door—this may be a deadly trap... Ke Lan is not sure, if he crashes into this liquid door, what will happen to him? Will it also become part of the "door".

He turned back, picked up some black skeleton wreckage, and returned to the front of the liquid gate again.

He carefully picked up a piece of black bone and poked it into the door.

"what?"

Ke Lan didn't feel the position where the white liquid was imprisoned, the bone piece penetrated almost without hindrance, and "inserted" into the door.

At the place where the bone piece and the "door" contact, there are indeed ripples where the fluid is disturbed-this kind of ripple is like the ripples that appear on the edge of the palm when you put your hand into the flowing water.

But the problem is that if you put your hand into the flowing water, you can obviously feel the thrust from the direction of the water flow, but the bone in Ke Lan's hand, although it has interfered with the white liquid, doesn't feel any force. the power of.

"This door... so strange..." Ke Lan muttered in his heart, and he suddenly decided to make an attempt—a somewhat exaggerated attempt.

He turned back to the passage again, but this time, he used violent means to remove an entire empty crystallization tank from the rock wall.

Then, he walked back to the white gate, and drove the crystal pot on his shoulders like a battering ram towards the white gate.

The flowing white liquid was immediately separated by the huge cylinder, but in the next second, they had penetrated the wall of the crystallization tank, filling the inside of the tank, and when Ke Lan pulled the tank out, the tank The liquid inside reversed osmosis back, and did not remain inside the tank.

Ke Lan suddenly felt a cold sweat seep from his back.

This white door does not seem to be dangerous, but it is actually fatal to living things.

These liquids seem to be able to penetrate the surface of any material - if it is Ke Lan who drills into the door, then all the cavities in his body will be filled with these unknown white liquids, including the brain, heart, and internal organs of the body. And blood vessels, gaps and holes between muscles and bones, without exception.

This level of foreign body invasion is enough to kill most creatures on any planet.

"I just don't know if the active armor can resist these white liquids..."

Ke Lan gritted his teeth, stretched out a finger, and inserted it.

A cool feeling came from the fingertips. This feeling was not painful, and even a little comfortable... But after just a few seconds, Ke Lan's face changed drastically: he could no longer feel his fingertips!

He immediately retracted his fingers and removed the active armor at the fingertips—only then did he realize that the part of the finger inserted into the door had been completely necrotic... The speed of tissue necrosis was so fast that The nerves have not had time to transmit the pain sensation back to the nerve center...

There was only a faint numbness in the middle of the finger, and further forward, there was no feeling at all.

Ke Lan had no choice but to grit his teeth, and cut off the necrotic finger—to be on the safe side, he cut it off at the root, and the moment before the blood spurted out, the flowing active armor sealed the wound, and a piece of finger was cut off. A finger completely solidified from blood appeared where the severed finger was.

Before the new fingers grow, they can only use active armor as a substitute.

He didn't throw away the severed finger, but put it away carefully - the Seraph incident made Ke Lan realize a very troublesome problem: although he didn't think he was a monster, in fact, his cells had been completely destroyed. It can be used as a material for biochemical weapons.

Whether he wants to or not, he has to admit this reality.

Leaving aside the question of whether he is a monster or not, the weird door in front of him is the first problem that Ke Lan needs to solve.

[PS The physical and mental state are not very good, I will go to the hospital tomorrow to have a look, I hope the results of the examination are all right, I hope I can have a good year. 】

(End of this chapter)