Alien Relic Hunter.

"Deep sea giant eel? Are those creatures that the pioneer icebreaker encountered before? Where did they come from?" After hearing the name "deep sea giant eel", Yeger did not let his guard down - although this Compared with "Zuo Kirk Kai", the combat power of a single creature is not strong, but with so many numbers, the threat level is still quite high.

The last time these creatures appeared in human sight, they almost sank the "Pioneer".

"From the outline of the creature scanned by Yaguna Kotor, it should be the deep sea giant eel." Layton responded, "These things seem to be drilled from the bottom of the underwater pyramid."

Undersea Pyramid... Is there really a problem with this place?

"The nearest giant deep-sea eel is only 100 meters away from you, prepare to meet the enemy!" Layton shouted in the communication channel.

"No.14, 22, [-], and [-] explosive harpoons are ready." Yeager has opened the safety of the weapon while talking, "After the target enters the visible range, launch it immediately!"

The maximum combat lighting range of the searchlights equipped with "Zuo Ke Ke Kai" in this sea area is 30 meters away. Considering the speed of the deep-sea giant eel, the distance of 30 meters is just the blink of an eye.

The attack window left for Yeger and Wilson was only this blink of an eye.

The maximum combat lighting range of a searchlight does not refer to the limit lighting range - when the lights are gathered into a beam, the beam of the searchlight can penetrate a water body of about 35 meters, but it is difficult to catch a high-speed moving target with the beam of light gathered into a beam .Based on the distribution and number of searchlights on "Zuo Kirk Kai", if you want to illuminate the surrounding waters without dead ends, each searchlight needs to adjust the illumination angle to at least 30 degrees. At most, the light can only penetrate the sea water [-] meters away.

(The angle of illumination should actually be expressed in terms of solid angle, which involves the knowledge of steradian and squareness. It may be difficult for non-optical readers to understand. It took me more than an hour to find out when I checked the information myself. The relationship and calculation method between these units, so I will simplify it here. The default searchlight's light is a right cone, and the angle of the cross-sectional plane is taken as the lighting angle.)
Yeger had held his breath, his thumb on the firing button, ready to press it at any moment.

Although the explosive harpoon is a weapon that is "launched", it should actually be classified as a melee weapon. Under the water pressure and density at this depth, the effective killing distance is about 50 meters. Considering the defense capabilities of the deep-sea giant eel , this distance has to be reduced by half again, which happens to be about the same as the visual distance of Yegel and the others.

For the size of "Zuo Kirk Kai" and the deep-sea giant eel, this distance is already a melee distance.

However, the main lethality of the explosive harpoon is not by piercing, but by the explosion caused by the piercing in the target's body - the vast majority of indigenous creatures on Alpha star, the defense power inside the body is far lower than the defense power on the surface of the body , Even for deep-sea creatures living under terrifying water pressure, the killing effect caused by internal explosions is definitely better than external explosions.

"Come on!" A high-speed moving black shadow suddenly crashed into the edge of the illuminated waters, and Yeger pressed the red launch button without hesitation.

Along with the dull explosion sound in the launch tube, four explosive harpoons dragged a long string of bubbles and shot out, heading straight for the shadow.

Relying on extraordinary dynamic vision and rich combat experience, at the moment when the four explosive harpoons were fired, the ballistic trajectory was automatically calculated in his brain, and the ballistic trajectory was overlapped with the target's movement trajectory. After that, the final result was reached-two failed, and two were able to hit.

There was basically no difference from the expected situation. Yeger fired four explosive harpoons in one go to ensure the hit rate as much as possible. As long as one explosive harpoon could hit the target, it would be considered a success.

Two can hit, that is double insurance.

But what happened in the next instant was completely beyond Yeger's expectations.

The two exploding harpoons did hit the target, but they did not pierce the target's body-the moment they came into contact with the target's body, the sharp explosive harpoons were ejected, and the tip of the harpoon was even thrown out because of the The intense friction with the target's body turned into a bright red like molten iron.

It was not until the tail of the "Deep Sea Giant Eel" was slapped heavily on the outer armor of "Zuokirk Kai" that Yeger could see the appearance of the other party clearly.

The giant deep-sea eel is black in color and has no scales. Although there is a mucous membrane on the surface of the body, the skin under the mucous membrane is extremely tough. It can withstand the direct fire of a 25mm caliber machine gun at zero distance... The giant deep-sea eel that Yegel saw is also black , but in this touch of black, it has a bit more metallic texture.

Suffering such a heavy blow, the outer armor plate directly in front of "Zuo Kirk Kai" was torn directly, and a huge depression appeared in the buffer armor inside, and the whole body was directly lifted up under the action of tremendous force. , drifting diagonally upwards.

"Fall to the ground! Hurry up!" Layton said anxiously in the communication channel, "Zuo Kirk Kai's mobility is not comparable to those of these deep-sea giant eels. Only by grasping the ground can we have a chance to fight back!"

Suspended in sea water, it is difficult to find a stable support point and leverage point. If it is hit or beaten one after another, the whole machine will likely continue to roll in the sea water, so that the battle will fall into in a very passive state.

"I know, I'm adjusting my posture, I know, I can't get entangled with these things in the water." Yeger said quickly, holding the joystick in one hand, and swiping frantically on the touch screen with the other hand, turning the body The angles of the jets at the top were all corrected, and at the same time, the jets were jetted with maximum power, and the body that was lifted off was forced to be "pressed" to the seabed again.

At the moment when the legs of "Zuo Kirk Kai" touched the ground, twelve anchors three meters long were driven into the ground at the same time, and the body was firmly fixed on the ground.

Although doing so would cause the body to be unable to buffer external forces when it was under attack, it was still better than being pumped into a rolling ball by this group of deep-sea giant eels.

Yeger was unfamiliar at the beginning, and in just a few minutes now, he has gradually become familiar with the feeling of controlling the body underwater - this feeling is like being in space, except that the vacuum outside is surrounded by Replaced with high-density sea water.

As a senior pilot, Yeger's flight time in the cosmic environment is about [-] hours. After substituting his experience during that time, he began to feel handy.

But for the next battle, this experience is far from enough - "Zuo Kirk Kai" has just gained a firm foothold on the bottom of the sea, and two deep-sea giant eels attacked the front, and the alternating left and right blows directly abolished the body. The outer armor of the left arm and the right quarter of the cockpit, if not for the suspension structure of the cockpit, it is estimated that Yeger and Wilson would have been shocked to death at this time.

"What's going on? Yeger? Why didn't you fight back?" All Leighton could see was the "line picture" displayed by Yaguna Kotor's environmental scanning equipment, and he could not see the real underwater scene. , In his opinion, "Zuo Kirk Kai" has always been in a situation of passive beating and not fighting back, except for the four explosive harpoons fired at the beginning.

"Layton! These deep-sea giant eels... don't seem to be ordinary deep-sea giant eels!" Yeger raised his shield with the only mechanical arm left in the body, blocking the melee attack of the fourth deep-sea giant eel - blocking It was blocked, but the body still retreated more than ten meters, four of the twelve anchors were broken, and the remaining eight plowed out eight deep ravines on the ground.

The outer armor of the body has been seriously deformed, and many temporary welding places have also shown signs of tearing. The large number of bubbles emerging from various gaps indicate that the outer structure of Zuoke has been severely damaged, and many parts have been damaged. have lost their airtightness.

Yeger, who was sitting in the cockpit, could even hear the body's inner shell groaning overwhelmedly, and depressions the size of a coin to the size of a fist, pressed by water pressure, kept appearing on the surface of the body, like the moon. It is like a crater that is densely packed and surrounded by a circle.

"Exploding harpoons can't pierce their skin!" Yeger continued, "Not even at very close distances! The surface of these deep-sea giant eels has a strange metallic texture, or a brand new subspecies. , or some unknown mutation occurred."

"The surface of the body shows a metallic texture?" Layton was stunned for a moment, and someone immediately said: "There are many indigenous creatures on Alpha that absorb metal elements from food or minerals, and enrich these metal elements to Parts such as teeth, horns or claws are used to strengthen the attack power of these places. There are also creatures that move metal elements into the cuticle on the body surface to improve their defense... These deep-sea giant eels live In the ruins of the underwater city, they are likely to absorb a lot of metal elements from the remnants of the Alpha civilization, so they have become like this!"

The speaker is a young reserve hunter, and he is also the orphan of the hound's fallen men.Before joining the hunting group, this young man had just graduated from the biology department of a well-known college and was one of the children most seen by the hounds.

"The explosive harpoon can penetrate even a [-]mm steel plate... It can block the skin of the explosive harpoon. The metal eaten by these deep-sea giant eels is probably not Nino alloy?" Layton murmured, "If it is true In terms of Nino alloys, isn't the weapon equipped with this 'Zuokirk Kai' a joke in front of them?"

"I don't know if it's Nino! Anyway, exploding harpoons are ineffective against them! The only cards in our hands are the 'Fang IV' torpedoes! I don't have a better choice!" Yeger With a roar, he turned his head to look at Wilson, who was still calm. "How is the state of the machine? Can it withstand a torpedo that explodes at close range?"

Wilson just shook his head silently: "I can't bear it... Even if the giant deep-sea eel stops attacking now, this machine can only last ten to 15 minutes at most. The shock wave of the torpedo explosion will further accelerate the disintegration of the machine..."

"But doing nothing is equivalent to waiting for death!" Yeger said bitterly, "If there is a choice, I choose to die with these beasts!"

"I have no problem, the right to launch the torpedo is yours." Wilson said sternly.

His cyborg eyes flashed with high-frequency, dense glimmers of light, as if he was carrying out precise and massive calculations.

"Wait! Yeger, wait!" Hearing that the body might disintegrate at any time, Layton couldn't help but said, "Don't be in a hurry to die with those monsters! Release the anchors of the feet, adjust the direction of the propeller nozzle, and then Launch torpedoes in the distance, try to get rid of these eels with the aftermath of the shock wave, and then lean in the direction of Yaguna Kotor!"

"No, it's too late!" Yeger shook his head again and again. On another screen, you could see that more than a dozen deep-sea giant eels had rushed to the place less than [-] meters away from the mecha. The speed of these deep-sea creatures in the water far exceeded " "Zuokirk Kai", even faster than the torpedo launched, they have no chance to escape!

It's not as good as - while these deep-sea giant eels are gathered together, detonate the torpedo directly in the vicinity, and pull as many as possible to cushion the back!
Although Yeger felt that he was at a loss by exchanging his own life for the lives of these beasts, this was the limit of what he could do.

"Hans..." Yeger silently read the name of his partner, "If you are watching, please bless me... I don't want to live, I just want... to kill a few more..."

Yeger resolutely pressed the torpedo launch button.

All torpedoes have a set detonation time of [-] seconds, that is to say, they will explode as soon as they leave the launch port.

"Zuo Kirk Kai" and Yeger, who were at the center of the explosion, had absolutely no chance of surviving.

But at this critical moment, a deep-sea giant eel seemed to sense Yeger's intention to perish together, and instead of using his body to smack "Zuo Kirk Kai", he put his head on the machine. directly above the armor.

In the next second, the screen in front of Yeger went black, and naturally not a single torpedo was fired.

"Damn, forget about these things and they will discharge high voltage!" Yeger stepped on two pedals angrily, but the body did not respond - the previous attack had destroyed the "Zuokirk Kai" Insulation protection layer, this deep-sea giant eel just got an electric shock, and the control system of "Zuo Kirk Kai" went down.

"The main control computer has overload protection and should not be burned out, but it will take at least [-] seconds to automatically restart." Wilson said to Yeger.