Alien Relic Hunter.

Chapter 93 Iwai
Ke Lan knew that the transparent "egg" they found was actually the "nucleus" of an eroding seed...

The "nucleus" is the body of the erosive seed. One erosive seed can only have one "nucleus", and their reproduction method is to assimilate the other's cells by invading other organisms, and then generate a new one in the host's body. "Nuclear" to complete... but what makes Ke Lan a little puzzled is why the 776 special team encountered a "nuclear" that "seems to be completely harmless" instead of a complete seed of erosion? ?
If it was the latter, things wouldn't have happened so suddenly, and the team's losses might have been much less.

Is this a sleep mode similar to suspended animation?Or a form of trap used to lure prey?Ke Lan was not sure.

The recording continues to play...

"Our weapons can't effectively kill this monster at all, and we can only limit its movements by the heavy machine guns of the fearless warrior..."

"Four more people died...Samuel died, we lost the only fearless warrior, and Joseph and Danny...The Moriyama who always spoke with a Dongying accent couldn't survive... The tentacles pierced right through his lungs..."

"We didn't have time to bury them, we had to run all the way down the coast..."

"The monster didn't catch up, we are temporarily safe."

"The headland in front of it looks like an eagle's beak. Connelly said it's better to name this place Eagle's mouth. We are now in the distance from the Eagle's mouth. Damn, there is no north-south in this ghost place at all...north. The needles are spinning wildly, and the sun has always been hanging directly above the head..."

Hearing this, Ke Lan recalled the beach where he woke up. It seems that there is no such an Eagle's Mouth on the coastline within the range of vision... So it seems that the 776 special team should be at the other end of the desert island. The seeds of erosion encountered.

"July [-]th. I'm starting to suspect... we may have entered a... how to say... an unusual space... it's like a cage, a prison... maybe it's for that It was only prepared by the monster, and we people are the bait for that monster..."

"Sergeant Collins proposed to leave here by sea. He thought it was impossible for the rescue force to find the island... To be honest, I must admit that he was right..."

"We fastened two inflatable kayaks together, clamped armored wrenches into paddles, and mounted them on the motors...but a fatal problem was in front of us - the material of the kayaks could not withstand the long-term exposure of the sea water. Corrosion, we will most likely sink directly to the bottom of the sea on the way."

"Connelly thought it was suicidal and he had an argument with the sergeant."

"Everyone's mood is very low, including myself."

Immediately after that, there was another long series of electrical noises... It seemed to be mixed with some gunshots and explosions that sounded far away...

Suddenly, the commander's voice sounded again, and the tone was quite excited——

"We found an Iwai! The wall of this Iwai is very smooth, it is definitely not natural, it should be left over from the Alpha civilization... Of course, these are not important, the important thing is... We found that The monster seems to be very afraid of this Iwai, and it does not dare to approach..."

"I don't know what's under Iwai, maybe it's the monster's natural enemy - a more terrifying creature, but anyway, it's our only life... We've lost two-thirds of our people, and Not a single one of the people sent to the desert came back, so I gave the order to let the rest of the people drill into the rock well."

Iwai?Ke Lan was slightly taken aback. Could it be that the rock well they mentioned was another exit of the cave?
If it is correct, then the formation of this cave is probably inseparable from the Alpha people...

"Under Iwai is a passageway reinforced with alloy materials...go along the passageway..."

There was a sudden burst of exclamations in the recording.

"This, this is..."

"The Alphas are building a huge basement under this desert island... I don't know what these things are for... It could be a chemical factory, or maybe a laboratory or something... Yes There are many quartz jars that are more than ten meters high, filled with turbid liquids... and many metal brackets with shackles and other things attached to them, which look like... um... a kind of torture device."

"Chemical factory? Laboratory?" Ke Lan lightly bit the nail of his thumb... According to the description of the commander of the 776 special team, this underground space may indeed be a laboratory left by the Alpha people. As for The function of this laboratory - [-]% has to do with the Seed of Erosion.

The Alpha people have been conducting some extremely dangerous biological experiments, which Ke Lan knows, especially this thing called the Seed of Corrosion, if he remembers correctly, it should be the 660 The creations produced by six transformation experiments...

To conduct such a large-scale experiment, there must be enough venues, and this desert island should be one of them.

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[PS] Regarding the black box, a reader mentioned in the last chapter that the black box on the plane should be orange, in order to be easy to find and easy to recycle, which is indeed the case... But the black box I have here is an extended meaning, which is the same as the one on the plane. The black box is not the same thing, it is mainly used to indicate that this thing is a "secret action file", so I chose a more serious black color scheme.

In addition, in terms of recycling, the black box itself has a high-power signal transmitter, so it is not so important whether the color is eye-catching... After all, the Alpha planet is sparsely populated, and it is almost impossible for the recycling team to visually search for a slap-sized object. Yes, if it is painted bright orange, it is easy to be mistaken for some kind of food by indigenous creatures and swallowed...

[PPS] About the development of weapon technology on the Ark.Before the Ark arrived at Alpha, the development of individual weapons was almost at a standstill. First, it was to save as much manpower and material resources as possible for the long-distance voyage of the Ark. Second, the weapons of the old era were fully satisfied. The needs of the army: In the previous voyages, human beings have never experienced external warfare, and in the case of internal warfare (such as suppressing rebellion, public security, etc.), the power of the weapons of the old era is completely sufficient.

It was not until the discovery of Alpha Star that the shortcomings of individual weapons were exposed, and Ark began to invest resources and scientific research in this area.

Therefore, the equipment configuration of the 776 special team is basically the same as that of the old era.

[PPPS] I forgot to mention it before, the reader group number is 564747351, and the password to enter the group is the protagonist's name (the protagonist in any of my books can be), some people like to discuss the plot settings, or like to chat and blow water Friends can add a group.

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