Alien Relic Hunter

The first time he saw this monster, a term from ancient Greek mythology popped into Ke Lan's mind.

"Chimera".

In mythology, this is a monster that is a chimera of lions, goats, and pythons... Later, this word was also used to describe those weird hybrid creatures or chimeras. Of course, it was only limited to the fictional magical world view. among.

The monster in front of him was even more Chimera than the ancestor Chimera - the limbs of various earth creatures and indigenous creatures of Alpha Planet were randomly pieced together to form a huge monster. At the top of its body, It was a female head with wheat-colored skin and long, messy white hair... Although the appearance of this head had undergone earth-shaking changes, Ke Lan still recognized this face as that of the founder of the New Star Chamber of Commerce, the one named Camilla. · Claudia’s woman.

Regardless of whether this woman is a member of a heretical sect or not, it is obvious that she has been fed to this monster by the "BOSS" for a long time.

But what worries Ke Lan the most is not this... The body surface of this fusion body is densely covered with a layer of white fluff - these are not the hairs of the fusion body, but the hyphae of the mimetic fungus, the fusion body. Every time it hits the cage wall, a large number of spores will scatter from between the hyphae and fall to the ground.

"It seems that these people want to try to fuse the mimetic fungus with the fusion body... But it seems that the mimetic fungus is just parasitic on the surface of the fusion body... I just don't know what this monster looks like inside. "Ke Lan muttered quietly, not to mention that guy Ivan, even Ke Lan had the urge to dissect this thing.

But one thing is certain, the mimic fungus on this fusion body is somehow related to the mimic fungus in "BOSS"... After the death of the latter, the fusion body began to hit the cage crazily, and in this Before, it had been in a very quiet state.

"Is it possible that this thing can also be used as a communication device?" A strange idea came to Ke Lan's head.

Another cage wall was shattered, and less than twenty seconds had passed since the previous cage wall was shattered.

There are still twelve layers of cage walls left, which means that this cage can buy Ke Lan and the others at most four minutes.

In fact, as long as this monster is willing, it can rush out at any time... This beautiful transparent cage cannot trap it at all. It seems that the "BOSS" should have the means to control the fusion body.

It's a pity that he is dead.

"Hello? Aya? How is the evacuation of the people going?" Ke Lan pressed the communicator hanging on the ear and asked.

"The garrison has entered the economic development zone, but the previous gunfire and the sudden appearance of the army triggered a new commotion... at least... it will take at least forty-five minutes!"

"I can only give you half an hour at most." Ke Lan said.

"It's impossible to evacuate all the people in half an hour!" Aya hissed. The background noise on her side was extremely chaotic, with all kinds of sirens and shouts.

"There are still many people hiding in the building. They are unwilling to cooperate with us, and some people have locked the door directly... Forty-five minutes is still the time required under the best circumstances... In fact, even if there is one We can't evacuate all the people even if it's an hour!" Aya added.

"Four more minutes..." With a loud "bang", another layer of transparent cage walls shattered to the ground, "Okay, now it's three minutes and forty seconds, and there's another three minutes and four seconds." In ten seconds, this big guy will be out of trouble."

"But……"

"Stop it, to be honest, I don't think I can help you hold this thing for a whole hour." Ke Lan sighed, "It's only thirty minutes, not even one more second. Just use the high-power speaker to tell To all citizens, this block will be hit by indiscriminate artillery fire in thirty minutes. Everyone should immediately follow the military’s guidance and evacuate the area in an orderly manner. Those who stay will be responsible for the consequences.”

"This will cause panic! There will probably be a large-scale stampede!" Aya exclaimed.

"What about the army? Do they live for a living?"

"There are too many people. There are too many people in this neighborhood... Even if we count the soldiers of the 24th Regiment, we can't put everyone and everywhere under control." Aya replied.

"But if we don't do this, more people will die." Ke Lan said, "We have no choice... As for the agents and soldiers, they only need to be responsible for maintaining order at major intersections... If someone disrupts order and does not obey Guide and allow soldiers to use non-lethal weapons... If someone maliciously obstructs evacuation operations, or drives a vehicle to run over people or attack checkpoints, he will be killed directly without reporting it!"

Ke Lan paused for a moment and added: "Remember, if you can't save everyone, then save as many people as possible...save those who can!"

"I know, I know..." Aya gritted her teeth and replied.

The cage wall on the eleventh floor from the bottom was also shattered - Ke Lan noticed that at some point at the front of the fusion body, a cage that was completely wrapped in an exoskeleton, about two meters in diameter and five meters long, grew out. , the front end is round and blunt, and the end is an organ involving a large number of muscles... This thing hits the cage wall again and again, greatly speeding up the appearance of cracks on the cage wall.

The time for the penultimate cage wall to be breached was shortened from twenty seconds to thirteen seconds.

"Whether it is in terms of appearance or function, this thing is clearly a battering ram..." Ke Lan frowned and whispered to himself.

Could it be that the remnants of the heretical sect also fed this monster a "battering ram"? But the fusion should not only regard non-living things as food, right? Moreover... the battering ram doesn't have the genetic sequence for its reproduction?

Ke Lan began to search in his mind for creatures with organs that resembled a battering ram, but no matter which one they were, they were completely different from the organ growing on the monster in front of him.

Moreover, this organ only appeared not long ago. During this time, no one should have come to feed this fusion body.

Could this be adaptive evolution? Because you need to break open the cage, you piece together the complex genetic sequences in your body to create such an organ that looks like a battering ram?

If this is the case, then this monster will be difficult to deal with.

It's like playing cards - every piece of "feed" it eats and every set of "genes" it fuses are equivalent to incomplete cards... What card did Ke Lan think it got? You can only play any cards, but now, this fusion seems to be able to rearrange and combine the cards, and then play them into the required deck... As long as you collect enough cards, you can even make more than a dozen decks. It's not a problem for Wang Zhao to come.

Of course, this is not a problem for the fusion body, but for Ke Lan, it is a big problem.

To exaggerate...this monster has almost "infinite" possibilities.

The ninth floor from the bottom, the eighth floor from the bottom, the seventh floor from the bottom... The speed at which the cage wall was breached could be described as overwhelming. Ke Lan even felt that he could smell the fishy smell emanating from this monster.

Let alone thirty minutes... He felt that he might not even be able to hold off for five minutes.

If the living armor is still there, there may be a chance, but now...

Ke Lan looked at the engineer shovel in his hand and the light machine gun he snatched from the man in black, and then at the fusion body that was more than twenty meters high... Reason told him to turn around and escape from this place immediately. is the most correct choice.

"Do you want me to hit the king bomb at the beginning?" Ke Lan's hand subconsciously reached into his pocket and held the two syringes, "But the problem is, I only have this king bomb... and this big guy His hands are full of king bombs."

"My only chance of winning is to strike a fatal blow before the opponent finishes playing all their cards."

but……

The question has returned to its original point: can these two "seed embryos" really be considered kings?

Ke Lan couldn't help but think of the "memetic crisis" that almost completely destroyed the entire institute. The cause was that Professor Smith tried to inoculate cells from the Seed of Corrosion into his own cloned tissue, and inadvertently created " Seraph"-like monster.

Now, the seed embryo is equivalent to the ultimate enhanced patch version of the erosion seed cell, and the self transformed by the living armor is much stronger than a lump of meat that cannot survive without the nutrient solution. If it is If these two things are combined...

Ke Lan had no doubt that he would gain extremely powerful power...but he was more worried about whether his consciousness could remain awake after being injected with the original seed embryo.

According to the instructor of the heretical sect's remnant party, the container after being parasitized by the seed embryo will fall into a "violent period" of unconsciousness... If he becomes like that by then, I am afraid he will soon be destroyed. Should the members of the Immortal Crew Club be eliminated?

But at the same time, another voice in his mind kept telling him: Inject it, inject it quickly, don’t hesitate anymore... This is the crystallization of Alpha Civilization’s tens of thousands of years of technology, embodying the supremacy of Alpha Civilization’s biological science. The dazzling fruit... As long as you fuse it, you can gain power that rivals the gods...

"Rivaling the gods?"

Isn't it the prophet's obsession to match the gods? Why...why would I want to rival gods?

Could this be a sign of consciousness being deeply eroded by "him"?

Ke Lan shuddered suddenly and loosened his grip on the syringe slightly.

He couldn't help but feel a little scared. Just now, what he was thinking about was not whether to inject this thing, but how to deal with side effects if there were any side effects after the injection. This showed that his mind had been extremely seriously affected. Influence.

Before you are sure whether this thing is really effective, it is undoubtedly a dangerous item... Even if you want to use this kind of thing, you should only use it when you are desperate. But now, all Ke Lan has to do is Hold this fusion body for thirty minutes instead of being forced into a desperate situation by this fusion body.

If that doesn't work, he can rely on the speed of a high-level cybernetic to quickly escape from this place, and then call for battleship artillery fire... Although doing so will cause tens of thousands of civilian casualties, it is at least better than triggering another "memetic crisis." Okay?

"Why do I think this way?"

Ke Lan was breathing heavily, his eyes fixed on the fusion body dozens of meters away - at this time, only the last three layers of the transparent cage wall were left, and this monster would break out at any time.

"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

The sound of the fusion body hitting the cage wall was like beating a giant drum. Ke Lan felt his brain go numb, and a strange high temperature spread along his limbs and bones.

His consciousness, which had just been clear for a moment, suddenly became chaotic... His ability to think for himself seemed to be gradually losing...

He felt as if another consciousness emerged from the depths of his memory and took over this body.

The voice no longer induced him to inject the original seed embryo, but kept chanting something in the language of Alpha civilization...

Those words were very familiar to Ke Lan, but when each syllable was connected together, they turned into words that he couldn't understand at all... He felt that his self-awareness was being stripped away from this body, and darkness gradually fell.

At this moment, Ke Lan heard a low sigh.

Everything returns to normal instantly.

"what happened?"

If he had to describe what he felt just now, Ke Lan felt as if his soul had left his body for a few seconds and then been stuffed back into this body.

He stretched out his hand to wipe his face. There were fine beads of sweat on his forehead, cheeks and neck, and the skin on his body was horribly hot.

As if he suddenly remembered something, he took out his other hand from his pocket - Ke Lan suddenly discovered that the hard shell of the syringe had been crushed with his hands. As for the original seeds inside, The embryo seeped into his body from his palm.

His eyes couldn't help but widen slightly, and he didn't even notice that the fusion body not far away finally broke the last layer of barrier.

"But... it seems... there is no reaction?" Ke Lan turned the palm over and looked at it several times, but found nothing unusual.

Even the abnormally elevated body temperature just now subsided.

Ke Lan raised his head and bumped into a face with wheat-colored skin.

The fusion body stopped in front of him, and the head that originally belonged to Camilla Claudia bent down, staring directly at Ke Lan.

Ke Lan stared at the pair of cloudy eyes, and a somewhat absurd idea came to his mind.

"This Camilla...doesn't she still retain her self-awareness and memories of her life?"

Just when Ke Lan decided to try to have a conversation with the other party, "Camilla" spoke first——

"You...are...the same kind?"

[P.S Thanks to ssseeesss for the 1,500 starting coins. 】