Alien Relic Hunter.

Chapter 995 Different Armadillo

"The minority obeys the majority. Set up camp first, and then designate the next action plan according to the actual situation." The person who spoke was Jonah, the last of the four squad leaders on duty, and the only one with a "name" in the memory of the fool. A person... It's a pity that except for the name, the Fool "forgot" all the memories related to Jonah, and even Jonah's personality and specialties were all erased.All that was left to Ke Lan was just such a name.

No...not all erased...

Ke Lan was taken aback, he suddenly discovered a loophole in the memory world - although he couldn't remember anything related to Jonah, if the fool really erased everything related to Jonah except the name , then in this memory world, Jonah's sense of existence will be thinner than that of the passer-by girl... Maybe he only remembers the existence of such a person in the advance team, who can't see what he looks like, what he said I can't even hear...

Now that this Jonah is standing there completely, with no mosaic on his face, and Ke Lan can hear what he said, it means that the fool has not really forgotten this person, but just put the information related to Jonah , hidden in a deeper place.

Among all the people, he is the only one with a name, but for this person with a name, other relevant information is blank... This is very intriguing.Ke Lan couldn't help wondering, could this be a reminder specially left by the Fool for himself?
Could this Jonah be the key clue in this memory?

Ke Lan immediately decided to focus on this Jonah, and if possible, choose to act with this person as much as possible.

"That's why Jonah can hold down that blond girl." Ludan crossed his arms and whispered to Ke Lan and the others with his head sideways, looking like he was watching the show.

"Why do you say that?" Just ask if you don't understand. Since the Fool didn't leave any information about Jonah in his memory, he might as well just ask other people in his memory. It will also be automatically corrected, and Ke Lan doesn't have to worry about triggering any "butterfly effect" that will lead to changes in the direction of the incident.

"Except for the deceased commander, Jonah is the most prestigious in the advance team... On the surface, decisions are made by voting, but in fact, as long as Jonah expresses his opinion, most people will agree with him." Dan whispered to Ke Lan.

It seems that I guessed it right... Ke Lan thought silently, the Fool didn't forget all the information related to Jonah, but just hid it.

"To be honest, I kind of forgot who this Jonah is..." Ke Lan asked tentatively, but this time, it was as if he hadn't heard his question at all, and did not respond at all.

"Shouldn't the necessary trigger conditions be met, so you can't unlock this part of the information?" Ke Lan muttered inwardly.

In the end, the blonde girl's proposal was still not adopted, and the advance team unanimously decided to act according to the plan set at the beginning.

The weapon box located in the cargo compartment of the shuttle was opened, and each advance team member was assigned corresponding weapons according to their positions—these weapons had been sealed in the box for 19 years, but fortunately they were well maintained. Basically still usable.

Unlike the large-caliber firearms that the Ark replaced after landing on Alpha Planet, these weapons were basically models handed down from the old era. During the interstellar drift, although there were small-scale conflicts inside the Ark, they never evolved into wars.People are also very clear that using powerful weapons on the ark is tantamount to suicidal.It is precisely for this reason that individual light weapons such as firearms have basically not developed much in the past 900 years, and even the new production lines are made of old antiques thousands of years ago.

In the era of extremely tight resources, as long as the most basic needs can be met, people will not invest excess manpower and material resources in those unnecessary projects.

Ke Lan glanced at a pile of weapons with calibers of 5.56, 7.62, and 5.8mm in the box, and couldn't help but sigh in his heart...People in this period have not suffered from the caliber of weapons. After the creatures had a large-scale conflict, they would discover that the power of weapons handed down from the old era was not superior to most of the native creatures on Planet Alpha.A rifle that can easily penetrate body armor is not even scraping against the tough skin and chitinous carapace.

In the ninth year of the new era, the proposal to upgrade the muzzle of general-purpose firearms was passed. At that time, the sample gun sent to the United Parliament was the "Zero-type rifle". After several improvements (or various castrations to save costs), it was finally finalized. It is the famous "Ark-01 Automatic Rifle".

After that, in the hands of the soldiers of the Field Legion—no, there was no such thing as the Field Legion at that time, it should be called "the troops performing combat missions outside the ark"—they finally had a weapon capable of killing most of the indigenous creatures. An individual weapon that deals lethal damage.

And this box, which can meet the requirements of this type of weapon, is only a few general-purpose machine guns that use 7.62mm full-power bullets and an M14EBR precision shooter rifle that also uses this type of bullet.

Before the big screen of the shuttle went out, Ke Lan had already looked at the map. The place where they landed was a desert area named area B17.

If Ke Lan remembers correctly, the later official name of this place is Xiya Desert, which is the fourth largest desert on Alpha Planet, almost equivalent to the Taklamakan Desert on Earth—of course, "Alpha Star", or, The Taklamakan Desert on this earth in this time and space has long since disappeared in tens of thousands of years of geological changes. The original four oceans have also merged into the Central Sea and the Extreme Sea, and the continents have been connected together again to form a continent. The vast "Pangaea".

(In fact, plate movements are measured in units of hundreds of millions of years. Tens of thousands of years are not enough to produce changes in the sea. Alpha Star became what it is now mainly because of the transformation of the planet by the Alpha Civilization—geological changes also include The "man-made" interference factor.)
The most common creature on the West Cliff Desert is an armadillo-like creature, but its body is much larger than the armadillos on Earth. Adults are generally more than ten meters long.The alien armadillo is also very aggressive and territorial. If someone breaks into their territory, they will secretly burrow and sneak right under the enemy, and then break through the ground to launch a surprise attack.

This kind of creature was named the different armadillo by the biologists on the Ark. The most threatening part of them is the pair of sharp claws and scales that contain a lot of metal elements and are as hard as armor.The weapons held by the advance team are difficult to penetrate this layer of scales and cause effective damage to the alien armadillo, but the sharp claws of the alien armadillo can easily tear through the protective clothing equipped by the advance team.

Ke Lan did not personally participate in the Ark’s campaign against alien armadillos, but some relevant battle cases have been recorded—before the zero-one rifle was deployed in troops, heavy machine guns or artillery were generally used to deal with alien armadillos , Bombs and other powerful weapons.The only way for the guns in the hands of ordinary soldiers to hurt them is to get under the belly of the armadillo and shoot at their belly without the protection of scales.

It's just that the success rate of doing this is extremely low. In order to protect the weak point of the abdomen, the alien armadillo clings to the ground when crawling... Even if someone can really squeeze under the alien armadillo's stomach and kill it, he will die The dead armadillo was crushed to death—an adult armadillo with a body length of ten meters, the weight of the flesh alone is several times that of an Asian elephant, not to mention the heavy metal scales.

The situation is not optimistic for the advance team.

After the distribution of weapons, perhaps because the Fool's marksmanship is better, the only M14EBR precision marksman rifle in the box was distributed to Ke Lan, and the other one that was also distributed to him was basically negligible for the damage to native creatures. [-]mm Glock pistol.

Being able to get the precision marksman rifle naturally meant that Ke Lan and his group were included in the "action group". The "garrison group" stayed to set up the camp, while the "action group" was responsible for exploring the surrounding area, collecting information and available resources... In addition, they had one more task: hunting.

Jonah asked them to capture at least one native Alpha creature and hand it over to the team's biologists for dissection. Knowing the characteristics of this creature is secondary, and the most important thing is to figure out whether it... can be eaten.

The action team consisted of two full-staffed rotations, no more, no less, exactly ten people. The leaders were Braised Dan and the Chinese-character face. They each carried a 7.62 mm caliber general-purpose machine gun, including Ke Lan. In the M14EBR, there are only three weapons in the action team that can penetrate the scales of different armadillos.

"It's almost three kilometers away." Ludan turned his head and glanced at the shuttle in the distance, "The surrounding situation is clear at a glance, prey, resources... can't see anything, in my opinion, I want to gain something , I’m afraid I’ll go there.”

Ludan pointed to the hilly area in the distance, which was the border of the West Cliff Desert. It seemed not far away, but it was actually tens of kilometers away from their current location.

Guo Zilian also sighed: "I just had someone analyze the ingredients of those shrubs, all of which are highly poisonous and cannot be eaten."

The only living things that can be seen in the desert, other than themselves, are some low bushes covered with thorns. These bushes are gray-brown all over, and they look like they are dead.An advance team member squatted down, cut off a small branch, and put it into a reagent bottle. The reagent in the bottle immediately turned into a color.

Although Ke Lan didn't know what that color meant, he knew it was dangerous at a glance - that colorful and gorgeous color was like knocking over an art student's palette.

Ke Lan really wants to tell them that there are actually many indigenous creatures living in this desert... According to Ark's statistics, between 900 and 905 in the New Era, there were at least [-] alien armadillos living in the West Cliff Desert.It's just that this kind of cave-dwelling creature basically lives in underground caves during the day, and only emerges from the ground to look for food at night.

The drones sent out before were all shot at high altitude, and the signal was intermittent, and it was completely normal to fail to capture the signs of the alien armadillo's activities.

What's more, the different armadillos have another characteristic. They know how to bury the holes they dug and erase the traces of their actions on the ground... Because of this, the members of the advance team never imagined that under the desert , there is an intricate network of caves.

"It's useless to say it." Ke Lan thought to himself, "I don't even need to think about whether they will believe me... As long as it involves information that 'shouldn't be known', they should turn a deaf ear to it... After all I am just a bystander and cannot change this period of history."

The action team walked for about six kilometers in one breath before encountering the first attack—an armadillo suddenly emerged from the ground, and two advance team members who were caught off guard fell directly into the collapsed hole. He didn't even have time to let out a scream.Another person was torn in half by the claws of the alien armadillo, and the warm blood rained from the air, staining the white protective clothing of the surrounding people with red.

"What?!" The marinated egg retreated a dozen steps immediately, picked up the machine gun and fired at the alien armadillo.The team doctor went around to the side and attacked at close range with the submachine gun in his hand.

The moment the armadillo got out of the ground, it was rare to be able to attack its weak point in the abdomen, but when Ke Lan raised his gun to aim, there was a strange feeling of dizziness in his head, and the finger holding the trigger It also seemed to be petrified, and it couldn't be suppressed no matter what.

After the dizziness disappeared and the fingers returned to normal, the armadillo that came out of the cave had already lay down, and Ke Lan's "delayed" shot finally hit the scales on its back.

"Damn it..." Although Ke Lan knew that in his original memory, the Fool failed to hit the weak point of the alien armadillo, which caused the abnormality just now, but he still couldn't help but swear.

This feeling of powerlessness is really uncomfortable.

The two machine guns with the Chinese character face and the halogen egg form a 45-degree angle, suppressing the armadillo from two directions - the 7.62mm full-power bullet can indeed cause fatal damage to the armadillo, but it does not mean that a single Two shots can kill.They can only pierce through the scales of the alien armadillo. As for making this behemoth fall, they need to accumulate enough damage.

In terms of the game, the attack power of the weapon has reached the armor-piercing line of the boss, but the long health bar of the boss still needs to be worn down a little bit.

[PS Before the end, I plan to rely on this method of memory fragments to explain some plots when the Ark just landed on Alpha Planet. I don’t know if you are interested in this part of the content.If you are interested, I will write it in detail. If you are not interested, I will return to the main story after explaining all the parts related to the main line, and make a quick decision.As for other stories, they can be written in extra chapters in the future.What do you think? 】

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