Alien Relic Hunter

Hatchery?

Is it a hatchery for flesh-eating worms?

But don’t flesh-eating worms hatch inside their hosts? This is a hatchery...could it be used to raise meat animals as hosts?

However, the metal mesh used to seal the abyss is full of holes. It's hard to tell what might be underneath.

It's just that after the hatchery was abandoned for such a long time, there are still living flesh-eating worms, which really makes Ke Lan a little strange.

He once killed a flesh-eating worm with his own hands. Compared to the Corrosion Seed, this kind of fat worm has an extremely fragile body and is absolutely impossible to survive in such an extreme environment...

"It would be great if we could know where the worm in this guy's stomach went..." Ke Lan glanced at the body carried behind him, feeling a little regretful in his heart.

"I hope I can find something in this hatchery." Ke Lan swam directly above the metal mesh and fired the last flare into the abyss.

The flare fell quickly, and after a few seconds, it burst out with a strong light, dragging a long trajectory in the abyss like a meteor.

"...This is too deep." Ke Lan looked around and saw that the flare had been falling for more than ten seconds, but it still had not hit the bottom. The depth of the part that could be observed now alone was already more than two hundred meters.

The rock walls on both sides of the abyss are very smooth, and the surface seems to have been specially treated, with a unique reflection of metal materials. The further you go down, the farther the distance between the rock walls. The overall shape of the abyss is like a The girth is like a purse, and although the slit above is very narrow, the space underneath is unimaginably large.

Just when Ke Lan decided to pass through the metal mesh and enter the abyss, the incendiary bomb that he shot down suddenly went out.

This made him suddenly alert - this kind of underwater flare can burn for three to five minutes in an oxygen-free environment, and will not go out even if it is hit by a violent collision or strong water flow, but it is less than a minute now. It suddenly went out, which is definitely not normal.

Rather than saying it goes out, it would be more appropriate to describe it as disappearing.

It was as if something hidden in the darkness suddenly swallowed the entire flare in one gulp.

If you choose to dive rashly, I'm afraid you will disappear suddenly like this flare...

That was the last flare on Ke Lan's body just now. Apart from the flare, the only remaining lighting equipment was the two searchlights mounted on both sides of the helmet.

No...he has more than two searchlights in his hands!

Ke Lan looked at the body of the Security Bureau agent. Although the deep-diving suit the other party wore was different from his own, it still had standard equipment such as a searchlight.

Putting the body down, Ke Lan turned on the searchlight switch, and two snow-white light beams suddenly shot out from the lamp tube. Although the remaining battery capacity could not be seen, judging from the intensity of the light, it should still be usable. It lasted for a while.

"I'm sorry. I originally wanted to bring you back to the ship, but in this situation, I can only borrow your body..." Ke Lan apologized to the body, and then pushed it into the abyss. among.

The mummy wrapped in the damaged deep diving suit sank slowly. Ke Lan stared at the bottom of the abyss - the disappearance of the flare only took a moment, and the size of this corpse was much larger than the flare. What he swallowed may not be able to swallow such a corpse wearing a deep diving suit.

In addition, he also hung several special incendiary bombs and a piece of plastic explosive on the body. The explosive used a trigger fuse. When it is squeezed and collided by external forces other than water pressure, it will explode directly, and Detonate the incendiary bombs together.

Whatever was at the bottom of the abyss, it was enough to drink a pot.

I checked my equipment one last time. Ke Lan himself also jumped into the abyss, keeping a relatively safe distance of about fifty meters between him and the corpse. In this way, even if the corpse below encountered something, he would have enough time to escape and surface.

The body was still sinking, and the depth reached this time had exceeded the incendiary bomb just now. It was precisely because of this that Ke Lan was able to see something that he had not seen before:

At a depth of about three hundred meters, the rock walls on both sides are no longer as smooth as the upper part. With the extremely penetrating light, a pale flesh film can be vaguely seen covering the rock. Above, this layer looks like rotten meat that has been soaked in water for a long time, with large swathes of cotton-like objects growing on the swollen surface.

These flocs seemed to be extremely sensitive to light. When the searchlight beam swept over them, they actually shrank into a ball. This scene reminded Ke Lan of what he saw in the Ark Botanical Museum when he was a child. Mimosa, that strange plant whose leaves shrink and close immediately after being touched by external force, is very similar to the current situation.

"This thing should be a kind of creature, right?" Regarding these deep-sea creatures on Planet Alpha, humans have very little information. The deep-sea giant eel is already a relatively common deep-sea species, but even so, this kind of There are still a lot of mysteries about living things, not to mention things that have never been seen before.

"I just don't know if these things are an individual...or a group...huh?!"

Just as Ke Lan was thinking, that strange feeling that he had not seen for a long time suddenly appeared again - a large number of information fragments emerged from the depths of his memory, gradually becoming blurry and becoming clear, one after another in his mind like a slideshow. Flash by!

"This thing is actually...the egg shell of a flesh-eating worm?!"

In this way, this hatchery is indeed a hatchery for flesh-eating worms. I just don't know what the purpose of the Alpha people is to cultivate this kind of flesh-eating worms. Is it used as food or medicine? Or does it have other uses?

There was a lot of new knowledge in his head, and it was all related to the egg shells of flesh-eating worms. But what made Ke Lan a little speechless was that there was not even a word in it that mentioned the abyss at the bottom of the sea, or even the hatchery. The word never appears.

Completely contrary to this, one of the messages actually mentioned that "flesh-eating worms are difficult to cultivate in a centralized manner, and the larvae will eat each other. For them, the flesh and blood of the same kind is far more attractive than the heterogeneous host." ."

It is difficult to concentrate on cultivating... No wonder there is no mention of hatcheries, but if it cannot be centralized on cultivating, then what is going on in this abyss?

Isn't this inconsistent?

Wait, something seems wrong...

"The larvae and the larvae eat each other..."

Ke Lan repeated this sentence, and was suddenly shocked. A somewhat bold hypothesis appeared in his mind.

Could this hatchery be used to "raise Gu"?

Let hundreds of larvae fight and devour each other, and finally get the most powerful "Gu King"... Just thinking about it is enough to make one's scalp numb...

The corpse had sunk to a depth of 500 meters. Wherever the light touched, there were layers of white egg shells... But except for the egg shells, there was nothing else.