Alien Relic Hunter.

Chapter 996 The first contact

"Keep a distance from it! Back! Back! Call for backup!" Guo Zilian roared, and at the same time threw the empty ammunition box towards the armadillo, and took out a new replacement from his backpack. superior.

Guozilian used to be a soldier. Although the actual combat effectiveness of the soldiers in the Ark during the interstellar drifting period was about equal to that of the security guards, he can still be regarded as one of the people in this group who are most familiar with firearms. Stuff it into the ammunition opening, and the second round of shooting on the other side of the Chinese character face has already begun.

The alien armadillo turned around, whipped away an advance team member who was behind it with its tail, and then curled up.

In the curled up state, due to the reduced body surface area, the scales on the body of the alien armadillo will be stacked layer by layer, and the defense will be improved... The more important point is that this curled up posture is actually an armadillo. The "big move" starting move.

Ke Lan subconsciously wanted to shout loudly to disperse the advance team members around him, but he found that his throat seemed to be dumb, and he couldn't make any sound... And those advance team members who were retreating saw the alien armadillo After shrinking into a ball, it turned out to be approaching again, and shot the armadillo at close range with the gun in his hand.

In the next second, the alien armadillo curled up into a ball suddenly rolled up. The glasses loli and the passer-by, who had no sense of presence, couldn't dodge. They were immediately crushed into meat by this "big iron ball", proficient in close combat The team doctor reacted a little faster than the two, and jumped back the moment the armadillo moved, but his body was still rubbed by the armadillo rolling at high speed, and his whole body suddenly looked like a kite with a broken thread It was thrown far away.

Only 2 minutes have passed since the attack by the alien armadillo, and the ten-man action team has lost seven people, leaving only Ke Lan, Braised Dan and Guozilian still alive.

Oh, from the vital sign detection device, the guy who was just whipped away by the armadillo's tail is still alive, but in his state, if he can't get timely treatment, he probably won't survive 10 minutes.

Ke Lan glanced at the communication device on his wrist. The team status interface in the upper right corner of the screen showed that the team doctor's heart rate had dropped to zero—even the doctor was killed. Someone can perform emergency surgery on him.

"What the hell kind of monster is this?! Why has no drone ever captured it!" The general-purpose machine gun in Guo Zilian's hand had exploded due to overheating. He simply threw away his weapon and heavy ammunition pack and ran wildly. While shooting at the alien armadillo with a pistol, he cursed at the same time.

"This thing probably stays underground at ordinary times. It's normal if the drone didn't take pictures..." The different armadillo rolled towards the face of the Chinese character. It doesn't mean they are safe - after the Chinese character face is run over by the alien armadillo, at the speed of the alien armadillo rolling, it is easy to catch up with the two without vehicles.

Just when the three were desperate, a strangely shaped aircraft suddenly broke into the airspace, and a slender metal spike shot out from the launcher at the bottom of the aircraft, hitting the armadillo accurately, and a burst of bright white An electric arc flashed across the body of the alien armadillo.In the next second, the armadillo released its curled up state and lay down on the ground, its body twitching intermittently.

"Is it the paralyzing effect of the high-voltage current?" Ke Lan judged from the flash of the arc just now, and then he looked up at the alien aircraft in the sky, "Is it a remnant of the Alpha civilization?"

However, before the three advance team members could react, the aircraft fell straight from the sky as if it had suddenly lost power, hit the ground hard, and exploded.

A deformed piece of metal whizzed over, and was nailed to the ground one meter in front of Ke Lan—if it flew a little further, Ke Lan...ah no, it should be the body of the Fool, I'm afraid It was split in two.

"Crash?" Ke Lan looked at the smoking wreckage in the distance, and a big question mark appeared in his head.

Obviously, the pilot of this aircraft is most likely an Alpha man, and he is also likely to be a member of the Night Watch organization-but why did he crash by himself after rescuing Ke Lan and the three of them?Is it a mechanical failure, or something else?
Braised eggs and Guo Zilian looked at each other, and they quickly made a unanimous decision: to check the crashed aircraft. Although the chances of the pilot's survival are almost zero, anyway, this is the first time that the pilot has landed on Alpha Planet. On, discover another individual of intelligent civilization.

Moreover, the other party just rescued the three of them. Does this mean that the civilization on this planet does not regard human beings as enemies?

Of course, Ke Lan knew in his heart that the Alpha civilization never regarded the humans on the Ark as enemies from the very beginning. It can even be said that they were the ones who guided humans to this time and space, and to the Alpha planet, but all these marinated eggs and Chinese characters The face is unknown, and Ke Lan has no way to tell them the truth.

The two walked up to the burning wreckage of the aircraft. Potato took out an emergency fire extinguisher from his backpack and rummaged through the wreckage after putting out the flames. farther away.

As for Ke Lan's task, it was to stare at the alien armadillo that had lost its ability to move due to paralysis.

"Strange...so fucking strange..." About 10 minutes later, the ashen-faced braised egg emerged from the wreckage, and shook his head at Guozilian and Ke Lan, "It's so strange ...There is no body found in this aircraft."

"No corpse?" Guozi was stunned for a moment, "I didn't see anything ejected from the aircraft just now, so the possibility of skydiving should be ruled out. By the way, did you see 'Scavenger'?"

"No." Ke Lan also shook his head.

"Could it be a drone?" Guozilian asked again.

"It's not a drone, I found a complete cockpit inside, and even a very advanced linear seat... Judging from the size of that seat, the Alpha Man should be a creature whose body shape is quite close to ours. "The marinated egg said.

"Could it be that the body has been burned? After all, we have never seen what this creature looks like. If it is a fragile creature like a jellyfish, maybe as long as the temperature in the cockpit is slightly higher, it will evaporate directly. What about it?" Guo Zilian said.

"No... The cockpit is well protected. After I pried open the hatch, I was even amazed at the safety performance of this aircraft... Even if the body disintegrates in the air, the operator in the cockpit can still survive very high The rate... the technological level of the Alpha civilization is far above ours."

"That's a hell." The two thick and thick eyebrows on the face of the Chinese character were tangled together. "Could this be a kind of aircraft that can be both manned and unmanned? By the way, since the cockpit The protection is intact, so can you find any clues from its control system?"

"Don't talk about it..." Ludan shook his head again and again, "I can't understand those words at all. I guess it will take a lot of effort to decipher them even if the linguistic experts in the team read them."

"Well, first take pictures of all the data and send them back to the shuttle." Guozilian didn't say to ask the shuttle to send the data back to the Ark—after the shuttle passed through the atmosphere of Star Alpha, the communication between them and the Ark would be Broken... The thick radiation cloud layer is like an ionization barrier, isolating the entire planet from the outside world.

"Even if the information can be sent back to the ark, those linguistic experts will not be able to decipher the text of the Alpha civilization." Ke Lan said in his heart, he really wanted to get into the cockpit of the aircraft to take a look... Although the fool at that time He still doesn't understand the language of Alpha Civilization, but Ke Lan can understand it.

It's just that the fool's feet seemed to be nailed to the ground, motionless... Ke Lan could only sigh in his heart, it seemed that the fool hadn't entered the cockpit at that time, even if Ke Lan forcibly broke free from the shackles of memory, rushed In the cockpit, it is estimated that there is nothing to see.

This is a world made up of the memory of the fool, and things that the fool has not seen do not exist.

A world of "subjective idealism" just like.

"Sent it back, they said they would send someone over immediately." Ludan said, then turned his head, and glanced at the paralyzed and unable to move armadillo with some concern, "I just don't know how long this monster will be controlled ...Perhaps we should find a way to deal with it first?"

At this moment, Ke Lan suddenly felt the sky and the ground shake violently, and even the marinated eggs and Chinese-character faces in the field of vision, the wreckage of the aircraft, and the alien armadillo not far away began to distort and deform. The tone gradually began to distort... The next second, he suddenly found himself back in the real world, and the hound was shaking his shoulder vigorously.

"What's the matter, old dog?" Ke Lan rubbed his sleepy eyes and asked.

"I still want to ask what's wrong with you. Didn't you insist that you won't get sleepy? Why are you still asleep on the sofa?" the hound yelled, "I originally planned to let you rest for a while...but now, Not only you, everyone can't sleep anymore."

"Is there something wrong with the Ark?!" Ke Lan was startled, and sat up straight. Although the hound hadn't told him why it woke him up, Ke Lan had vaguely guessed something.

"There is a situation, a big situation." The hound raised his hand and pointed to the wall behind Ke Lan, "You can see for yourself."

Ke Lan turned his head, only to see a huge, pale... tree on the projection screen?

"what is this?"

"It grew out of the ark, just 5 minutes ago." General Maginot, who had two thick dark circles under his eyes, added.

It was only then that Ke Lan noticed that the base of this giant tree turned out to be the Noah's Ark that they had been monitoring all along... If the size of the ark is used as a reference, then the volume of this giant tree has almost reached one Very exaggerated.

At this size, even Alexander, the God of the Hidden Army, and even the giant Leviathan can only hold a candle to it.

"Is this really grown in 5 minutes?" Ke Lan confirmed to the hound.

"If you don't believe it, you can go back to the video." The hound threw the remote control of the projector to Ke Lan, and pouted angrily.

Ke Lan pressed the "" button and rewound the video to 5 minutes ago.

The ark shrouded in darkness seemed extremely silent. The towers and high-rise buildings that were once brightly lit have now become completely dark. The fleshy creeps, and those egg-shaped sarcomas bred on the creeps.

Ke Lan didn't have to wait long before the change happened—the egg-shaped sarcoma suddenly shrank, and even the hatching monsters inside melted into pus, which melted into the inside of the fleshy creep. Then, the fleshy creep The color of his blood faded quickly and turned into a pale color, like a corpse soaked in formalin solution for several days.

All of this happened so quickly that the video had to be slowed down to [-] times the speed in order to have a panoramic view of these changes...

The entire piece of fleshy creep turned pale in just 1 minute, as if the vitality in it had been completely sucked out. At one minute and ten seconds, at the center of the ark, those towers and high-rise buildings Suddenly it began to shake, collapse, and sank into the interior of the ark.

In the middle of the ark, the dome suddenly began to crack, and a pale sapling with a diameter of more than two kilometers protruded from the bottom, and began to grow at an alarming speed...

"You should be more familiar with this position than we are." The hound pointed to Ke Lan, pointing to the position where the pale sapling grew.

"core area……"

The growth rate of the saplings can only be described as terrifying. It is hard to imagine how the huge body is made of matter... If this is really a "tree", even if all the organic matter on the ark is used as The nutrients it needs to grow are probably just a drop in the ocean.

"This thing...has completely violated the law of conservation of matter, right?" Magino murmured. Even though he had seen this scene more than once, when he saw it again, the shock in his heart was still hard to express in words. .

"I suggest you forget about all the laws and laws proposed by the scientists on Earth." The Hound glanced at Maginot and said, "Especially anything that can be related to 'that existence'."

"The members of the Undead Crew, what are they trying to do?" Magino took a deep breath, "I can't understand their behavior more and more."

"I don't know what they are doing now, but if they have all been eroded, I can be sure of one thing." Ke Lan put his chin in his hands and said word by word, "Their ultimate goal is to put The entire human civilization is sacrificed to that existence."

(End of this chapter)