Alien Relic Hunter.

Chapter 590 Ecological Cage

"The connection between me and the battleship console has not been cut off, I can already feel the existence of the console and issue instructions to it through consciousness... That is to say, the position we are in now is indeed in the 'Yagunac Thor's interior," Ke Lan said.

"People who work in this line of work should already be familiar with it, right?" 33's voice sounded.

A few of them arrived at Block [-] almost right behind Ivan and Asano Akira. As members of the former elite force, this group of people showed a strong tactical quality as soon as they landed: more than four and a half yuan The tall mobile shield was set up in a blink of an eye, coupled with two general-purpose machine guns and a minefield in front of the shield made of rapidly deployed anti-personnel mines, a standard defensive fortress had appeared in front of Ke Lan's eyes .

"It's still slow." 33 said with some self-blame, "According to the previous requirements in the army, the time for erecting the shield and assembling the machine gun should not exceed fifteen seconds, which is almost twenty seconds. It seems that our comfortable days It's been too long."

"This speed is already very fast." Ke Lan said.

"But those beasts are faster." 33 shook his head, "On the battlefield, as long as the speed of erecting shield barriers is slowed down by a second, the defense line will be broken through several places... You know how many times you are killed by those things. Inside the lines, are we going to inflict much casualties?"

"Once, we joined forces with a second-line force to intercept a group of migrating ground dragons in an open river valley. As a result, their speed of establishing a line of defense was delayed by two seconds, allowing the ground dragons at the front to rush forward. Xinglong rushed into the position without hindrance..." said another retired soldier of the Velociraptor Squad, he kept shaking his head while talking, his eyes full of unbearable meaning.

"And then?" Ke Lan couldn't help asking.

Although the opponent said it was a second-line force, the second-line force of the Field Corps could be regarded as a real elite in other places. The combat effectiveness is definitely not much weaker. At most, the personnel and equipment configuration are better than the Velociraptor team. The small group of special warfare troops in the country is only halfway up.

"There were 350 seven people in that infantry battalion, and only 33 people returned alive in the end, and none of these [-] people's bodies were intact." [-] continued.

"But this only shows that the battle process is relatively difficult... If only a few ground dragons break in, concentrate your firepower to quickly destroy them, and then..."

Before Ke Lan finished speaking, he was interrupted by 33: "Anyone can talk about war on paper, but the battlefield in reality is different from real-time strategy games. After a hole is torn in the defense line, the enemies behind are already coming. Earth is pouring in, and this hole will only get bigger and bigger, and it won’t be long before even that part of the line of defense that has been erected will collapse.”

"There was no fighting process at all in that battle. From the moment the defense line was breached, there was only a rout." The veteran who spoke before said, "If we can barely maintain our formation when we retreat, Using firepower to suppress the beasts that charged up, even the nineteen people probably wouldn't be able to survive."

"Are there no mechas or tanks? What about air support?" Ke Lan asked.

"It is not possible to have heavy equipment and air and artillery support at all times. In this rapidly changing battlefield, even if the headquarters issues an emergency order, it will take time for the order to be communicated and implemented. As a soldier, your only What you can rely on is the gun in your hand and the teammates around you." 33 said.

Ke Lan originally wanted to ask about the details of the battle, but Valentina's voice suddenly rang through the communication channel—"They are starting to approach me."

Ke Lan and 33 looked up and looked forward at the same time, and saw that the group of wolf-like creatures formed a semi-encircling circle of about 180 degrees, surrounding "Augustus". , approaching the body tentatively.

"Try to frighten them with strength." Ke Lan replied.

"Okay." As soon as Valentina finished speaking, Augustus raised his left leg high, and then stomped it down hard!

"Bang!!"

With Augustus as the center, a large amount of smoke and dust rose instantly, and even Ke Lan and the others who were standing tens of meters away could feel a strong sense of shock coming from the ground under their feet.

Although Ke Lan's vision was obscured by smoke and dust, Valentina immediately shared the monitor screen of "Augustus" on the communication channel. Through the screen, you can see those wolf creatures He only took two steps back at first, but then, under the cover of the smoke, he charged directly towards "Augustus".

"Not only did it not act as a deterrent, but it inspired the fierce nature of these creatures." Ivan said.

"You are allowed to fight back, don't hold back!" Ke Lan ordered immediately.

The shared viewing angle moved instantly, and a silver light flashed, and Augustus had already rushed out of the range of smoke and dust. On the outside of its arm, there were two crescent-shaped blades—a series of splattered blood. Chasing behind the pair of blades, but the blade itself was not stained with any blood.

Augustus retreated more than a dozen steps before stopping, and then made a counterattack posture in the direction of the smoke.

However, those wolf-like creatures did not chase out from the smoke.

It wasn't until the smoke cleared after a few seconds that everyone saw clearly what had happened—the bodies of three wolf-like creatures were cut off in half, and these three happened to be the largest "head wolves" that had tried to approach Augustus earlier. , while the other wolf-like creatures threw themselves on the body of the "wolf head", tearing and biting the flesh and blood of the "wolf head".

"Obviously the enemy is in front of us, the first reaction of these beasts is not to continue chasing, but to devour the corpses of their slain companions, this..." A former member of the Velociraptor team said with a look of astonishment.

"It means that these beasts are really hungry." 33 nodded, "For them, the priority of eating is far higher than defending against foreign enemies."

"The corpses they were eating before have been eaten up... If we hadn't come over, they would have started a new round of killing each other," Ivan said.

Although the three "head wolves" are strong and strong, they can't stand the food of dozens of hungry wolves of the same kind. In less than 2 minutes, their bodies have been eaten up, leaving only the ripped Tattered skeletons and shattered fur stained with blood.

After eating this "fast food", those wolf-like creatures finally focused on Augustus and the group of relic hunters behind the mecha again.

"Let my people deal with them." Ghost Owl said, "Live beasts are worth more than dead ones."

Ten hunters from the Gray Bird Hunting Group lined up, picked up the anesthesia guns in their hands, and pointed their guns at the "wolves" in the distance.

"put!"

At the order of the ghost owl, ten anesthesia guns fired at the same time. This posture is a bit similar to the tactic of "queuing up to shoot" when powder guns first entered the army in the seventeenth century, but compared to the deafening gunshots and choking noise of powder guns, The muzzle smoke and the noise produced by the shooting of the tranquilizer gun are so small that they can almost be ignored.

Not only the movement when shooting, but even the shooting effect... seems to be negligible.

Not a single wolf-like creature fell down, as if all the anesthesia guns had hit the empty space.

The distance between the two sides is only 100 meters. Each of these anesthesia guns is a high-end hunting tool produced by a top gun company. Coupled with high-precision optical sights, it is impossible to miss the target.

But throwing a stone into the water can at least make a little splash, but these wolf-like creatures didn't even react when these anesthetizing guns hit those wolf-like creatures.

"Could it be that the dose of the potion is too small?" Ivan looked at the ghost owl and asked.

"Using enhanced ammunition, the dose of sixteen standard units." Ghost Owl said expressionlessly.

Anesthesia ammunition, like "active ammunition", also has a standard dosage unit... Generally speaking, a standard unit dosage is enough to release a healthy adult man in three seconds without enhancement or modification surgery. Three to four units are enough for a bull.

Sixteen units... If used on humans, it can be regarded as a "lethal dose".

"Load ammunition and prepare for the second round of shooting."

It was another round of salvo, followed by the third round, the fourth round...the absence of the fifth round was not because the ammunition was exhausted, but because those wolf-like creatures had rushed to Augustus and got close to the mecha. Fighting up.

But before that, not even a wolf-like creature was brought down by the tranquilizer bomb.

"The drug resistance of these organisms...is not so high." Ivan said while making records on the device he carried with him.

"Change to a live ammunition gun." Ghost Owl said, his tone remained steady - for him, this kind of thing is not even an "accident".

Not all wolf-like creatures locked their targets on Augustus, almost half of them bypassed the tall mechs and rushed towards Ke Lan and the others.

"First shoot with a small-caliber firearm to test the defense of these creatures," Ke Lan said.

The live ammunition guns equipped by the hunters of the Gray Bird Hunting Group are all modifications of the Ark series carbines, and the calibers are all ten millimeters. It can only be regarded as a "small caliber firearm".

"Three bursts of short bursts, targeting the leg joints first," Ghost Owl said.

"Bah! Bah! Bah!..." The gunshots rang out all at once, but at this moment, an unexpected scene happened—the wolf-like creatures that charged at the front, on their bodies, It turned out that a faint "light curtain" appeared!
When the bullets shot by the hunters of the Gray Bird Hunting Group touched these "light curtains", they instantly turned into fine sparks and splashed away, completely failing to hurt the creatures behind the light curtains!
"This is... this is an energy shield?!" Even the Ghost Owl, who had seen the strange incident, couldn't help but frowned at this time, "How can there be an energy shield on a living body?"

Although the "light curtain" on these wolf-like creatures is much dimmer than the energy shield produced by the shield generator, judging from the collision effect of the bullets, this is definitely a genuine energy shield—those The fine and bright sparks are actually metal droplets produced after the bullet is melted at high temperature. What else can this defense mechanism be if it is not an energy shield?

"It doesn't mean that there won't be energy shields on living things..." Mentioning the energy shields of living things, Ke Lan immediately thought of the "resurrected" prehistoric beast——Leviathan, but the power shield The reason why Vitan was able to release the energy shield was because those blood-colored worms simulated the structure of the shield generator in its body... It is obviously impossible for these "wolf-like creatures" in front of them to have such abilities.

If there was a "shield generator" in their bodies, when Augustus cut the three "head wolves" in half, their bodies should explode directly, instead of being reduced to food in the mouths of their kind.

"It's different, it's different from that time." Ivan shook his head again and again, obviously he knew that the "creature with energy shield" that Ke Lan was referring to was the giant Leviathan, "This is a completely different kind of monster." mechanism……"

His eyes gradually became hot-for any biology enthusiast, this is a pioneering discovery, and Ivan knows better than anyone present that the energy shield appears in the biological body. body, what does this mean.

"Living samples must be captured!" Ivan shouted, "I won't be able to find the right words to describe their research value for a while, but you just need to know that the mysteries contained in these creatures are probably no less than that of a wild animal." kind!"

"Is this too exaggerated? Can these guys be compared with the prehistoric species?" 33 pinched his nose and asked, and he didn't know when several throwing knives made of Nino alloy were caught between his fingers. It wasn't Ivan who spoke, he probably had already thrown the throwing knife out at this time.

The wolf-like creatures had rushed into the minefield at this time, and those anti-personnel mines were activated one after another—hundreds of broad bean-sized metal balls jumped up from the ground at high speed, and then exploded one after another, throwing out the smaller steel balls inside. .

The hunters noticed that only some of the steel balls were intercepted by the "energy shield" on the wolf-like creatures, and some of them were actually shot at them—but the tiny steel balls did not hurt the skin. The only effect of rough and thick beasts is probably to slow down their charging speed a little.

"They don't seem to be able to control the energy shield... Is it an adaptive trigger mechanism? Or a stress response of the organism? No, no, maybe it's more complicated than I thought... Could it be at the cellular level... ..." Ivan was still "brainstorming" on his side, while on the other side, the two machine guns behind the shield had already started roaring.

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