Alien Relic Hunter.

Chapter 8 The Secret Path
"Quick, we'll be there soon!" The five people who turned back passed Jiang Lian's body, which meant that they were not far from the cave where the plane crashed.

The fresh flesh and blood that had not yet begun to corrupt successfully attracted the attention of Schizophrenia, but it only bought Ke Lan and the others less than a second, and the corpses on the ground were already eaten up by the insect swarm.

"Bah!" The solid gate closed again, except for the unconscious Zorigato, the other four all sat on the ground, gasping for breath.

"The whole person is about to lose strength... I almost finished... The bug of the dead horse, what a piece of shit!" The hound lay on the ground, out of breath, scolding.

"You're right in scolding, the eggs of the cleft worm hatch in the female worm's body. When the larvae break out of the shell, in order to obtain enough nutrients for growth, they will put the whole worm from the inside out. The female worms have been devoured... Every adult cleft worm is indeed Sima's stuff." Ivan said very seriously, he took out his jug, unscrewed the lid, and poured it with his head up. A big mouthful.

"Hey, doctor, what's in your jug? Is it really wine?" Leyton, who was finally relieved, couldn't help but get greedy.

Although wine is not particularly rare on the Ark, most people really can’t afford it. Because food is hard to come by, the Ark has strict controls on alcoholic beverages. Everyone can only buy according to the ration quota, even if there are more. Not even credit.

Even so, most of the wine that the commoners can drink is not real wine, but is made by chemically preparing alcohol, and then blending it with other beverages. As for the wine that is really brewed from grain, only the nobles are. class can afford it.

"Vodka." Ivan replied.

"Grass? Vodka?! Really? You still have this good thing?" Layton's eyes instantly straightened, "Give me a drink, just one, let me taste it, I'll buy it from you—five thousand, no Six thousand! Six thousand credits!"

"A price of eight thousand." Ivan threw the jug to Layton, then walked to Zoligetu's side, and began to help the Mongolian man deal with the wound.

"Eight thousand is eight thousand!" Leighton took a sip of the jug and couldn't wait to take a sip, but in the next second his face turned a weird purple-blue color.

"Pfft!" The [-]-credit-point "vodka" was sprayed on the ground by Leighton, and he shouted while spitting out the remaining liquid in his mouth, "Vodka? Is this vodka? Are you sure this special code is not tank antifreeze?"

"Tank antifreeze is highly toxic. Drinking too much will affect your eyesight. This is just medical alcohol mixed with water." Ivan said nonchalantly.

"You can drink this too? Sure enough, Maozi is very talented..." Layton said helplessly, "Okay, whether it's vodka or antifreeze, it's estimated that you'll have to drink it in your next life."

Layton's meaning is very clear - although they narrowly escaped the pursuit of Schizophrenia, they are now completely trapped in this cave and can't get out.

Two people were downsized and one person was seriously injured. More importantly, during the entire exploration process, not even a single unit of energy crystal was found. The inventory in hand is simply not enough to open the gate again.

"Is Akano Asano still alive? Can I contact him?" Ivan raised his head and asked Ke Lan.

"I just tried it, but I can't get in touch." Ke Lan shook his head.

"Are you dead?"

"Not sure, either his communication equipment is broken, or the distance between him and us has exceeded the limit of the equipment." Ke Lan glanced at Trorigtu's wound, but luckily it was only eaten by cleft worms Lost two calves, the blood loss is not very large, otherwise I am afraid that even an immortal will be difficult to save.

"I'm going to see what else can be used on the transport plane. Anyway, it can last for a day. Maybe if we are lucky, we can really wait for the rescue of the Ark." Ke Lan said and walked towards the wreckage of the transport plane. He passed by, but before taking a few steps, his feet stopped moving.

"A corpse...a corpse?"

"What corpse?" Layton turned his head with a puzzled look on his face.

"Where's the pilot's body? I remembered it was here before, why is it gone?!" Ke Lan quickly climbed onto the wreckage of the transport plane and scanned the entire cave with a flashlight. Aside from the rocks that came, the place was empty, and the pilot's body seemed to evaporate out of thin air.

"Could it be Schizophrenia?" Layton shuddered and raised his mechanical arm subconsciously, but was embarrassed to find that his weapon had been abandoned in the passage outside.

"No, cleft worms only eat meat, if they are, there will be skeletons left behind." Ivan was still calm, "I think the corpse should have left on its own."

"Leave on your own? Do you mean the kind of little bug that can control a corpse?" Ke Lan took a deep breath. For some reason, he felt a little hair on his back.

"Isn't that worm already cut in two by Asano Akira?" The hound glanced at Ivan, who took out the test tube from his close-fitting pocket, and the broken worm's body was still inside, both There was no escape, and no sign of resurrection.

Ivan frowned and put away the test tube: "I'm afraid there is more than one thing."

"If that's the case, it's probably already running out, maybe it's eaten by the cleft worm." Layton shrugged.

"No, I don't think so." Ke Lan jumped off the wreckage of the transport plane, "If the corpse ran out, then we would definitely hit it when we turned back. Along the way, we checked every corner of the passage. There is neither a fork in the road nor a blind spot to hide... In addition, the body of the advance team fell in front of this gate, which means that its destination is this cave, since it is already here, then it How can you go back?"

"These two are not the same bug, maybe one wants to get in and the other wants to get out! I remember that there was an ancient book written by a writer in the old era in the e-book library, and there seems to be something like 'birds painted with gold paint' Cage, the birds outside want to come in, the birds inside go out'..." Layton muttered.

Ke Lan: "No, we have confirmed before that this kind of bug is a creation of 'human'. In this case, they can be regarded as tools. The purpose of the same kind of tools is probably the same."

"Then I have the same axe, isn't it still the same axe when I chop horizontally and vertically? Besides, there is nothing in this cave, why do they have to come here?"

"What are you fighting for... Have you all forgotten me?" At this time, the hound suddenly interjected, "Don't forget what my housekeeping skills are!"

"Uh... I almost forgot, there is an old dog, you can smell the corpse to know where it is!" Leighton patted his head excitedly, but forgot to use the modified mechanical prosthesis. It hurt so much that he groaned.

Ke Lan's eyes also lit up. Previously, the hound's ability was too tasteless, and there was no sense of existence at all, but in this situation, it was able to play a role.

"The corpse is basically not decomposed, there is no corpse odor, only a faint smell of blood... eh? This is the direction..." The hound closed his eyes, his huge aquiline nose twitched twice from time to time, and circled along the wreckage of the transport plane. Two laps, and finally locked in a direction diametrically opposite to the gate.

"It's at this position, the smell breaks here... Huh? Why did the back of my foot disappear?!" Several people who had been staring at the hound all the time also noticed this anomaly, and saw that the front of the hound's feet seemed to disappear inexplicably It was normal, almost completely fused with the dark rock, but when the Hound stepped back, his feet were fully visible again.

"It's optical camouflage!" Ke Lan reacted first, "Secret passage! There is also a secret passage in this place!!"

　The cold seems to be getting worse. If it is still like this tomorrow, I am afraid I will have to go to the hospital. To be honest, I am really worried about the recurrence. Once it recurs, the only way is to go for transplantation. My parents are too old. I don't have any siblings either, so I can only rely on the bone marrow bank, and I hope this day doesn't come.

　　Hope it's alright hehe

　　
　
(End of this chapter)