Alien Relic Hunter.

After being yelled at by the captain, those armed personnel immediately picked up their guns and swept wildly as if they had just woken up from a dream... However, they couldn't hit the black shadow until they emptied the magazines of the guns in their hands. Instead, they killed him again. Several "teammates" died.

The so-called "one-way valve" is just a slightly raised ring-shaped structure on the inner wall of the tunnel. There is no bunker at all in this place. Except for a staff member who fell to the ground in time, everyone else was more or less hit. A few shots—the firearms used by these armed men are so powerful that even if they just scratch the body, they can tear off a large piece of flesh and blood, and their arms and legs will be broken if they hit the chest and abdomen directly... If they hit the chest and abdomen directly, It can even break the whole person into two pieces!

The power of these firearms is roughly equivalent to the [-]-inch caliber heavy machine guns on the Ark. Fortunately, these armed personnel are all wearing powered exoskeletons. Otherwise, the terrifying recoil cannot be suppressed by human body strength alone. Can live.

"If I knew I would encounter this kind of thing, I should have brought shotguns or grenades!" The captain yelled angrily while changing the magazine—but before he could replace the second magazine, the black shadow had already jumped to him. In front of him, a big bloody hole was opened on his neck.

From the death of the No.1 armed man to the complete cessation of the gunfire, it took only [-] seconds in total. The entire ten-man team was completely wiped out, and the "sense of sight" shared by Ze Luo with Ke Lan also disappeared.

Ke Lan can basically be sure that the so-called "sense of instant sight" should be the memory of those people living in the hive capital - the ten-member team was wiped out, and their memory ends here, so the "sense of instant sight" naturally cannot Presented to Ke Lan the scenes that they could no longer see.

"What did you see?" Seeing Ke Lan let out a long breath as if relieved, 33 knew that he had withdrawn from the "sense of immediate sight", and asked quickly.

"A ten-man team was attacked by a palm-sized black shadow at our current location. In twenty seconds, the configuration of four armed personnel and six maintenance workers was completely wiped out," Ke Lan said.

"A palm-sized black shadow?" 33 muttered, "Could it be a mouse? Don't you have the ability to stop time? Even you can't see the true face of that black shadow?"

"Time stop is not very useful in the 'sense of sight'." Ke Lan shook his head, "This thing is like a film that has been shot, and there are things that cannot be clearly captured in the original film, even if I press more It is impossible to see clearly even after pressing the pause button. As for the 'camera' that shot the original film, I guess it should be the eyes and brains of the victims... because after the death of the last victim, the 'visual sense ' and the screen disappears."

"...Then if that black shadow appears in front of us, you should be able to see what it looks like?" 33 looked around with some vigilance, "Although it has been several hundred thousand years...but protect Don't allow that thing... or its descendants to hide in this place."

"Don't be nervous, I asked Ze Luo to set up space barriers around us. Even if we are attacked, the space barriers can block those things." Ke Lan said.

"I know, this thing is much better than an energy shield." 33 nodded, "I'm not nervous, I'm just thinking... In five months, the mouse can be mutated into that look, then if 500,000 years... Will they evolve intelligence? Like... Ratmen?"

"It seems...you have successfully integrated into us and truly became a part of the Hunting God Hunting Group." Ke Lan suddenly showed a wry smile.

"What do you mean?" 33 was stunned for a moment, obviously not understanding why Ke Lan suddenly brought up a topic that seemed to have nothing to do with the current conversation.

"Your mouth is also a crow's mouth that has been opened." Ke Lan sighed, "Zero told me that directly ahead, in the darkness about 200 meters away, there are six heads with humanoid torsos dormant... But a creature with a huge mouse head, obviously, they have found us."

"Ha...so that's what it means." 33 suddenly couldn't laugh or cry, "Is there only six heads? Then we will be divided into four and two—you four and two me. Anyway, Ze Luo is attached to you. You are two people, and you will not suffer. "

"You are not as nervous as before. I can feel that your heartbeat seems to be much more stable than before." Ke Lan glanced at 33 out of the corner of his eye and joked.

"The unknown is the easiest thing to scare people... Now that you know what you are going to face, it is not so scary." 33 touched the back of the hand axe, and said in a low voice, "Don't forget , I used to be a soldier, a soldier who has personally experienced many battles."

"I think they've also noticed that we've discovered their existence." Ke Lan whispered, arching his body slightly, "Their heart rate is increasing—they're moving!"

Messy footsteps like raindrops suddenly sounded from the depths of the passage, and quickly approached Ke Lan and 33 amidst the chaotic echoes. In less than three seconds, the "rat man" who rushed to the front "It has already crashed into the light of their tactical flashlight.

It's pretty much the same as Ze Luo's description. This is a big mouse that can stand on two feet, with extremely long soles and toes.Only the front soles of their feet are stepped on the ground, and the heels are lifted upwards. The entire ankle looks like the anti-joint of an insect-this structure allows their legs to explode with terrifying power like a spring. Rather than running, it is more appropriate to use "jumping" to describe their way of moving.

These "ratmen" are stooped, their spines are bent almost at a ninety-degree angle, and their upper body protrudes forward—even so, their height is still close to two meters. If the spine can be straightened, the whole body If they stand upright completely, the height of these creatures can easily exceed three meters.

It was twice as big as the mutated giant rat that 33 encountered in the Rimshi Basin back then.

The body of the "rat man" is covered with messy, thick gray long hair, but the long tail dragging behind him has no hair at all, only clusters of overgrown sarcoma and rotten and pus-filled wounds - this is quite different from the Most of the patients with acute radiation sickness that Ke Lan has seen are somewhat similar. In the "sick village", there are countless people with such symptoms.

But different from the patients, these "ratmen" have extremely well-developed muscles, and their strength and speed are far from those of radiation sick patients who are at the end of their lives... But judging from the explosive power of sprinting, these "ratmen" It has at least the level of six to seven fortified people.

On their heads, they are covered with white bone helmets that fit closely to their heads.These bone helmets tightly wrapped the only part of their body that could be related to the image of the mouse except for the tail, only a few long beards protruding from the gap in the front of the bone helmet.

And what surprised Ke Lan the most was that in the hands of these "ratmen" they were actually holding crude weapons!

There are broken steel pipes, iron sheets with extremely sharp edges, metal blocks that have been removed from something... There is even a chainsaw sword that is so rusty that the chain saw has broken!

They know how to use weapons and tools, which means that they are intelligent creatures.

Really let 33 be right!

But Ke Lan didn't have time to tell 33 this, these "ratmen" had already rushed forward and swung the weapons in their hands towards the two of them!

The space barrier successfully blocked the first round of attacks. These ratmen seemed surprised why the two "intruders" in front of them had "shields" invisible to the naked eye, and quickly retreated after the first round of attacks were ineffective. With a distance of more than ten meters away from Ke Lan and the others, they made a hasty and threatening "squeak".

"Can you understand what they're saying?" 33 asked.

Neither Ke Lan, 33, nor Ze Luo made an attack just now—with the combat power of the three of them, when facing these "ratmen" whose individual strength is about equal to that of a sixth- or seventh-level enhanced human, they randomly picked out One can complete the instant kill in an instant, without even expending any effort.

For them, these "ratmen" were not a "threat".

"I don't understand." Ke Lan shook his head, "Zero is the same... We are not Doraemon, and we don't have something like translating bread. How can we understand the words of mice?"

"What translation bread?" 33, who neither likes watching cartoons nor collects cultural antiques from the old era, was confused by Ke Lan's sudden new vocabulary.

"It's nothing? It's just a virtual prop in the comics." Ke Lan shrugged, signaling 33 not to care about such trivial matters.

"Then shall we do it now?" 33 didn't like to complain and ask questions like the old dog, and quickly brought the topic back to the real thing, "These ratmen seem to be afraid of us..."

"Grab one and try first." As soon as Ke Lan finished speaking, Ze Luo's space power condensed into a big invisible hand, and grabbed the strongest hand with a rusty chainsaw sword in his hand. Ratmen.

No matter how the ratman struggled and screamed, it couldn't break free from the shackles of the space force. Ke Lan just pulled the immobile ratman in front of him.

The other five ratmen looked at each other in a panic before turning around and running away.

But in the next second, they slammed into an invisible wall--while Ke Lan used the power of space to "catch the mouse", he also created a space for the other five ratmen. The condensed cage locked them inside.

"Are you planning to...dissect them?" 33 glanced at the rat man held up in mid-air by the force of space, and then at the other five rat men bumping around in the "cage", not knowing why , He suddenly felt that these horrifying and terrifying creatures gradually became no different from those harmless mice in the laboratory.

This is probably... the special impression brought about by the suppression of power, right?Any fear stems from the lack of firepower... and firepower and strength are not much different in essence.

"I want to tear off this guy's 'mask' first, but the bone mask seems to be growing on its head..." Ke Lan said, "At first I thought it was the skull of the same kind of remains they picked up. It's on your own head."

The "mask" in his mouth refers to the white bone helmet that the Ratmen "wear" on their heads.

"The one that grows on the head... that should be considered an exoskeleton, right?" 33 was slightly taken aback, subconsciously said.

"Maybe..." With a horrific tearing sound, the bone helmet of the rat man was torn off by Ke Lan with brute force, and after the bone helmet and the head of the rat man were separated, the rat man People finally stopped struggling and completely lost their vitality.

"Well, it's really an exoskeleton, and part of the brain tissue is still attached to the inside of this layer of bone." Ke Lan glanced at the torn bone helmet, "It seems that I just tore off this guy's celestial spirit cover. "

"It's not the sky cap, but the entire upper part of the skull." 33 pointed to the bloody head of the dead ratman and said, "This bone even includes the upper jaw of this creature... You see, From here to here, there is a complete oral structure, and even a muscular tongue can be seen, but the base of the tongue has been torn off by you."

Seeing that Ke Lan didn't answer, 33 turned his head to look at Ke Lan with some doubts, only to realize that Ke Lan was staring at the rat man's brain tissue in a daze at this time, wondering what he was thinking.

"You... don't you want to eat it?" Thinking of what Ke Lan did on the second floor of Tongtian Tower, 33 suddenly felt something churning in his stomach.

Fortunately, it had been a while since the last time I ate, and there was not much food left in the stomach sac, only a puff of pungent sour water flooded my throat.

"To be precise, this is not 'eating', but absorption." Ke Lan sighed, "No way, we have so little information now, otherwise, you think I like doing this kind of thing?"

The blood-like living armor oozes from Ke Lan's pores and turns into a palm, grabbing the apple-sized ratman's brain tissue. In the next second, countless small hollow holes protrude from the bright red palm. The tentacles pierced deep into the brain tissue.

The information contained in the rat man's brain was very messy, and Ke Lan only felt dizzy for a while, and double images appeared in front of his eyes... After a while, he recovered, shook his head at 33, and said, "Overestimated!" They are... these ratmen are not intelligent creatures at all, they only have the instinct of animals, and they don't have the ability to think like humans at all."

"However," Ke Lan continued, "just now a piece of memory in my mind was unsealed because of this... Alpha civilization seems to have come into contact with this kind of creature, and named them-'Tunnelers'."