Alien Relic Hunter.

Chapter 658 Battle in the Central Courtyard

As soon as Ke Lan turned the gun, the knife in Akira Asano's arms came out of its sheath—the two B-type mutants instantly turned into countless slap-sized pieces of minced meat, and the high-speed dancing blade even weaved a knife on the top of the three people's heads. An airtight curtain blocked all the splashed blood and pus outside.

With the saber sheathed, the entire hall was covered with a layer of red blood, but the three of them and the square inch under their feet were clean, as if there was an invisible barrier between them and the surrounding environment the average.

"By the way, that Sakurai Nana went to the Field Corps camp to look for you, but you turned around and ran back to the ark with me, leaving that girl in vain. I'm afraid she's going crazy..." Ke Lan casually said to Akira Asano Said.

"Oh."

"Oh, your size, do you have any interest in other girls? It's not a problem to hide like this all the time, right?" Ke Lan said with a bit of resentment.

"Let's talk about it later." Asano Akira said—although the content of this sentence seemed perfunctory, the tone of saying this sentence was extremely serious.

"You two, can you stop chatting during the action!" At this moment, Aya, who was following behind the two, protested, but considering Ke Lan's identity, she had to slow down her tone a little, "What if If you are attacked at this time—"

"What will happen if you get a sneak attack at this time?" Ke Lan asked, raising his hand and dropping an ordinary seed of erosion protruding from the end of the corridor.

The ability of "time stop" combined with the powerful energy weapon in his hand, even if the opponent only shows a small head, he will die.

Not to mention twenty B-type mutants, even if the number is doubled, Ke Lan and Asano Akira will not feel any pressure. The only thing they need to pay attention to is those black-clothed bishops who have the ability of holy words.

"At seven o'clock, behind the wall on the second floor, the distance is 19 meters." Akira Asano reminded again.

"Are you coming or me? According to the architectural structure of this house, it should be a load-bearing wall." Ke Lan said.

"I'll do it." Just as Akira Asano finished speaking, Aya had already jumped up, relying on the jet thrusters on the legs of the power armor, she easily jumped up to the second floor.

It was a Seed of Erosion that still maintained a human shape. Although the container was dead, this monster seemed to have inherited the fighting instinct of the container. Holding a carbine in each hand, it shot at Aya who jumped up to the second floor. .

The warhead hit the power armor with a tinkling sound, but the actual effect was equivalent to polishing. The Seed of Corrosion threw away the firearm in his hand when he saw it, and grabbed a gun hanging on the wall. The long-handled ax swung round and slashed at Aya.

Although the ax is a decoration in the mansion, the blade of the ax is not sharpened, but the material is still very sufficient, not inferior to actual combat weapons. Even if it does not have a sharp edge, it can be used as a blunt weapon with terrifying destructive power ——And blunt weapons have always been armor-piercing weapons specially used to target armor in history.

If Aya were to be hit by this axe, even if she did not die, she would be seriously injured.

Aya herself didn't know that she couldn't take the opponent's attack hard, and the two pieces of armor around her waist suddenly opened outwards, and the two micro-thrusters sprayed out a meter-long flame at the same time, pushing her whole body to quickly move backwards.

"boom!!"

The ax hit the position where Aya was a second ago. Under the support of the strange power of the erosion seed, the ax directly smashed through the ground of the second floor, and even collapsed a whole laminate on the edge of the corridor. come down!
The human-shaped erosion seed and the laminate fell heavily on the ground of the first floor, and the already overwhelmed container body finally exploded, and countless tentacles rushed out frantically towards the suspended in mid-air. Aya grabbed it.

The biggest disadvantage of the micro-propulsion is that the fuel storage is limited. If it is not replenished in time, it will misfire for a few seconds at most. At this time, Aya has no way to avoid those tentacles. Fortunately, the energy shield of the power armor is activated in time. This saved her from being captured by the tentacles.

After ablating those tentacles, she had the chance to draw out the firearm behind her and shoot at the Seed of Corrosion directly below.

A large number of active warheads penetrated into the body of the Seed of Corrosion. When the deadly toxin flowed into the "core", the monster finally calmed down and gradually turned into a puddle of foul-smelling pus.

This is not a B-type mutant, perhaps it can barely be regarded as a relatively special N-type mutant. Apart from being able to use human weapons, in terms of combat power, it is actually not much stronger than ordinary erosion species.

But even so, this Corrosion Seed forced Aya into an awkward situation for a while—killing an ordinary Corrosion Seed only required three to five rounds of "enhanced" active ammunition at most. It was enough, but just now in a hurry, she just emptied the entire magazine.

Aya couldn't help feeling that her face was a little hot. If it wasn't covered by the metal mask, Ke Lan should be able to see a beautiful flushed face at this time.

"It's a little bit reluctant... Team Leader Breya, ah, no, it should be Deputy Director Breya." Ke Lan teased.

"Sorry..." Aya lowered her head involuntarily. She was indeed a bit brazen just now. If any unnecessary casualties were caused by her actions, then she must be fully responsible.

"Although the monster wasn't very powerful just now, it still played a very clever combo." Ke Lan tried to smooth things over, "I can't really blame you, but I hope you have more confidence in the two of us... ...You just need to be responsible for helping us hold the line, if there is anything that needs your help, I will speak up."

"...Okay." Aya Breya nodded and retreated behind the two of them.

The three formed a triangular advancing formation, with Ke Lan and Asano Akira in front, and Aya behind, and quickly passed through the front hall of the mansion.

After Asano Akira's confirmation, there was no movement in the front hall, but in the courtyard in the middle of the house, there was a very strong heartbeat.

Seeds of erosion in the catastrophic and mature stages have no heartbeat and can retain the heart structure. They are probably another monster mutated from humans or indigenous creatures.

"So, is this the boss in the yard?" Ke Lan asked.

"It's very strong...it's the strongest one in the range I can hear." Akira Asano replied.

"Then what do you think is your chance of winning against this guy?" Ke Lan asked again.

"I'm not sure, I won't know until after the fight." Akira Asano shook his head.

"Should we...should we ask for support?" After hearing Asano Akira's words, Aya suddenly became a little nervous, "The troops from the Security Bureau are outside, and they can break into the mansion within 1 minute after the signal is sent. ..."

"It's not necessary." Ke Lan shook his head. "To deal with this kind of monster, the crowd tactics are useless. I don't think you should want your subordinates to come in and give away their heads for nothing, right?"

"Then do you want to go up..." Aya stopped in the middle of her sentence. She originally wanted to say "Should I ask for help from the people above", but she immediately realized that now Ke Lan has officially joined the Undead Crew Club , he is the "man above".

Until now, Aya still has a very strong sense of unreality.

This time it was still Ke Lan who walked in the front. He stretched out his hand and pushed open the heavy solid wood gate leading to the central courtyard.

It has to be said that the financial resources of the Williams family can also be ranked in the forefront of the top class of the ark - like the courtyard of Miss Soma's mansion, there is only a swimming pool, a fountain, and a few bushes and arbors. It's exhausted.And the central courtyard of the Williams mansion is like a large botanical garden. Under the semi-enclosed dome, rare earth plants can be seen everywhere—those trees and flowers that have long been extinct in ordinary people’s cognition have been extinct at this time. Planted in this courtyard, it is not known whether it is a seed preserved by the Williams family for generations or an "artificial species" reproduced through genetic engineering.

A winding path paved with gravel leads to the end of the courtyard, and on the right side of the path, there is a dead body dressed as a gardener. There is a very obvious bullet hole in the vest of the corpse, but at present It has not been determined whether this was the direct cause of death of the corpse.

"That thing is under the ground." Akira Asano said.

"No wonder, the security bureau's drones didn't see anything." Aya said, at this moment, there were more than a dozen armed drones hovering directly above the central courtyard, with black muzzles and hatches that had been opened. The missile launch nest has been aimed at the ground and can be fired at any time.

"This guy is really calm, is he waiting for us to walk into the trap he set up?" Ke Lan glanced at the three energy crystals that act as magazines. Judging from the fineness of the crystals, the highest power shooting At least two shots could be fired, even if there was a Thunder Beast dormant in the ground, it would be enough to kill it instantly.

What's more, with the thickness of the modules in the third west district, the soil depth of this central courtyard is only ten meters deep, and it is impossible to bury a Thunder Beast.

"If it doesn't come out, just blast it out." Aya looked at Akira Asano, "Can you lock the specific location of that thing? I'll try to attack it directly with a drone."

"34 meters straight ahead, about one meter deep."

"The target has been locked, the first to sixth aircraft, launch an attack!" Aya immediately ordered the drone.

Dozens of small missiles whizzed out, and drilled into the soil in an instant, followed by a violent explosion and a strong vibration transmitted from the ground. Aya, who had activated the energy shield, leaped forward to replace Ke Arashi and Akira Asano blocked the aftermath of the explosion.

But in other directions, there is no protection of energy shields. Those rare and expensive flowers and trees are destroyed by the shock wave in an instant. The ancient tree is as thick as four or five people hugging it, and even Ke Lan can't name it. It was even uprooted and thrown to one side.

Before the thick smoke from the explosion dissipated, a black figure more than three meters high rushed out of the smoke and crashed into Aya Breya who was at the forefront of the team at this time.

"Your energy shield can't stop this thing!" Ke Lan grabbed Aya's shoulder and pulled her back forcibly, while Asano Akira stepped forward quickly, drawing his knife forward——

"Chong!"

The sound of metal colliding sounded, and with the ability of "time stop", Ke Lan finally saw the true face of the thing - the monster's body was indeed a human... or an adult human male, but in his Its torso and limbs were covered by a crab-like hard shell, and in the gaps in the shell, there were also a large number of arthropods covered with bristles.

Its face was completely distorted, a pair of large pincers glowing with metallic luster tore the flesh on both sides of its cheeks, and tentacles also covered with carapace drilled out of its nasal cavity and eye sockets, constantly dancing in the air.

"Cbs mutant shell virus..." Ke Lan murmured, "I didn't expect someone to successfully fuse with this thing..."

"What is that?" Aya was stunned for a moment, even she, who is the deputy director of the Internal Affairs Department of the Security Bureau, had never heard of this thing at all.

"This is one of the collections in the underground ice storage of the research institute. I accidentally saw it when I entered the underground ice storage to perform a mission last time... To be honest, if it weren't for the appearance of the corpses sealed in the jars, it would be too much. It’s unique, and I won’t notice this thing.” Ke Lan explained, “Cbs is the abbreviation of the crayfish Cambarus. The ability of human beings, if they eat this kind of crayfish by mistake or are bitten by it and injected with digestive juice, they will have symptoms of infection within 24 hours, mainly manifested as high fever above [-] degrees, coma, skin ulceration and... ..."

"And what?" Aya couldn't help asking.

At this time, the monster infected by the Cbs mutant carapace virus had already fought with Akira Asano. Although its speed could not keep up with Akira Asano, its super-hard carapace could withstand the slashing of a Nino alloy sword. ——Akira Asano often needs to slash four or five consecutive knives at the same part to split it open, but before he can expand the wound, the edge of the shattered carapace will quickly secrete some kind of viscous substance, covering the wound Block it up.

The place repaired by these viscous substances is even harder than the original carapace.

"And, a large number of carapaces proliferated on the body surface... The carapaces on the corpse samples are almost exactly the same as those on this monster." Ke Lan said, "I went to check the relevant information later. After this virus infects the human body, It will quickly consume the energy and nutrients of the body, even if the infected person can be treated in time, it will be difficult to live for a week... According to the research institute's speculation, this virus is most likely the creation of the Alpha civilization, and those 'Zhonghai green' Crawfish' were either experimental organisms that escaped from one of the ruins, or they were unlucky ones contaminated with a leaked virus—the authors of that report preferred the former."

(End of this chapter)