A brave player who started by touching corpses

Looking at the entire Metal Slug series, there are actually quite a few elements that involve the player's controlled protagonist's morphological changes.

Mummies, zombies, chimpanzees, fat boys...

The unlucky guard warrior who didn't know the value of the thousand-year curse not far from Luke was forced to mummify. At this time, he fell into a fixed negative state with unchanged limb movements, greatly slowed movement speed, and could only use light weapons. Even the scream he just made was hoarse, as if a ball of double-sided sandpaper with 3 times the grain was stuffed in his Adam's apple.

But this extremely lightweight mummy body due to high dehydration gave him super jumping ability, as well as the ability to flatten his body and get into narrow gaps.

The guard warrior who had been cursed and turned into a mummy was completely in panic.

Almost all of his equipment was removed during the forced transformation, and it flowed all over the floor, leaving only the helmet used to identify his identity still hanging firmly on his neck.

The guard warrior had never felt that his power was so weak. Even if he tried his best to dig the knight's shield on the ground with his fingers, he couldn't dig out even a narrow gap.

What's more terrifying is that he squatted almost instinctively, but the actual behavior he showed was that the outer body made of bandages was directly scattered into a ball, just like we randomly piled up a roll of completely pulled out toilet paper. Seeing this, several of his teammates took a few steps back and looked at him with suspicion and a little hostility.

Luke, who was not far away, of course knew that this curse would only change the form of people, and the essence would not change, but the heroes didn't know!

Who knows if this has been transformed into a monster unit!

Of course, they are all certified heroes, not rookies, and they are not reckless. They still confirmed through simple verbal communication that the guard's sanity is still there and has not been transformed.

But the current situation is that the guard warrior has been abolished. What's more terrifying is that they don't know how long this curse will last, and whether there is a way to remove the curse.

"Don't panic! Calm down!"

At this moment, a short man wearing a baseball helmet and with empty hands roared, forcibly interrupting the noisy sounds around.

Everyone, including the cursed guard warrior, looked at him.

"Have you forgotten what you learned in the guild manual? When you encounter some unsolvable difficulties in the monster's lair, there is a high probability that you can find a solution nearby."

The words of the baseball cap made the mummy guard warrior, who had already fallen into panic and despair, shine again in his eyes.

It is indeed as the baseball cap said, the source of the scene of the monster's lair is basically the game, and as long as it is a normal game, the difficulties and solutions are basically in the same map.

The mummy curse in the mysterious pyramid ruins ignores resistance and is semi-constant, but the reason why the curse is so harsh is that the antidote used to remove the curse is in the pyramid. It is very easy to obtain. You can get it with a little attention, and the rate of removing the curse is 100%.

And the so-called antidote is a bottle of liquid potion flashing with colorful light.

Yes, that's right, it's the bottle in Luke's hand.

This is the potion that Luke just shouted out from the mummy corpse he pieced together.

The mummy curse antidote is a special potion among liquid potions, so when Luke is in the Metal Slug scene, it is in Luke's shouting potion pool.

Luke also saw the miserable appearance of the unlucky guard warrior, and considering that he might not always be able to avoid all the curse attacks from the mummy, he tried to shout, and the result was a direct delivery.

[Name: Curse Removal Potion]

[Type: Consumable]

[Origin: Metal Slug, Pyramid]

[Quality: Ordinary/White]

[Use Conditions: Drink it]

[Attributes: Immediately remove the "Mummy Curse" state on your body, and gain immunity to the "Mummy Curse" in the next 30 seconds. ]

[Note: Unfortunately, if you come here in advance and then go to the Queen's Tomb, you may be able to turn the Queen from a mummy back to a human. 】

…Is it true or not?

Seeing the note, Luke obviously took it seriously.

But then again, if Luke really had this bottle of potion at that time, and he was too careless to help Cleopatra remove the curse, then they would be the unlucky ones.

What is the setting of Cleopatra? She is the incarnation of Isis, the Egyptian goddess who fascinated Caesar and conquered Antony!

Not to mention conquering her, Luke might be pua into an Egyptian-style marionette, and his heart might be held in someone else's hands.

With a slight shake of his palm, the potion in Luke's hand disappeared.

He would keep this thing for himself, and as for the unlucky child, let him continue to be unlucky.

Luke passed by the quarreling team forcefully, and while passing by, he also heard a little about the reason for their quarrel.

It was probably because of whether to deliberately take time out to help the guard warrior find a way to remove the curse, or abandon the warrior and let him fend for himself, while they hurried to find the magic lamp that they didn't know where it was hidden and what it looked like.

After all, they are in the scalper circle, profit is the most important thing, and there is no team spirit at all.

Luke shook his head in his heart.

Maybe the quarrel was too intense, and they didn't even take Luke's presence into consideration. A few of them just glanced at Luke's back and went back to the quarrel.

Obviously, Luke of the Lone Ranger was not taken seriously by them. If it were a standard five-person team, perhaps they would not treat him so lightly.

The next goal is to pile up the top of the hillside. Only when you enter there can you truly enter the deep area of ​​the pyramid ruins.

But precisely because of this, there are more monsters blocking the road.

And because this is the version of Metal Slug

Although the mummy dog ​​looks as round as if it has eaten a gas can, its mobility is far greater than that of a mummy.

It moves quickly, travels in groups, and spits curses. As long as it doesn't have strong firepower, it will definitely be chased around by the mummy dogs.

Luckily, Luke has the Hellfire Staff.

Another difference between the mummy units here and the mummies in Marie Claire's Guard is that they are very afraid of fire.

The F-gun in the original work, that is, the flamethrower, simply wiped out a large area of ​​them and turned them into ashes on the spot. Luke's Hellfire was equivalent to his own F-gun, and the climb was almost smooth.

But it was clear that things were going very smoothly, but Luke always felt a sense of disharmony.

And when he subconsciously looked up and saw that there was nothing on the ropeway above his head, Luke suddenly realized that something was wrong.

...Where is the old hostage? Why aren't there any?

Could it be said that he has been rescued in advance?

Luke looked confused.

In Metal Slug, players can rescue some old, long-haired and bearded "savage" men who are tied up in various ways and wearing only ragged military pants on the road.

According to the settings, these hostages are regular army soldiers and scientists kidnapped by the Modern Army.

These rescueable hostages will provide players with a variety of props that can increase points or enhance firepower. There are even special old men who can release single-shot tracking Qigong waves!

If all the hostages on this uphill road have been rescued, then at least three bottles of curse removal potion, an I-type steel lizard dispenser, an enhanced F-type flame launcher, and a dozen incendiary bombs have fallen into scalpers. In the hands of the party.

That firepower is indeed quite powerful.

However, this also involves a key issue that Luke needs to confirm now, and that is in what form the alloy slug firearm is manifested.

Based on Luke's experience in Contra, he has every reason to suspect that Metal Slug firearms may also exist in the form of shooting enhancement components.

"Huh? What's wrong?"

Just as Luke was thinking about something between battles, he felt his cheek being pulled.

Apart from the little monster in the backpack, there is no one else who can pull Luke's face at an extremely close distance.

Faced with Luke's question, the little monster pointed at the stick in Luke's hand.

"Can I use this?"

The little monster asked with a hopeful look on his face.