Alien Relic Hunter

"Only one-third of the people have evacuated this neighborhood..." Aya's voice rang in Ke Lan's ears, "There are remnants of the heretical sect who have mixed into the crowd, and the garrison has had many encounters with them. Small-scale firefight... Although these remnants have been killed, at least twenty civilians were accidentally injured and killed in the firefight... The subsequent stampede casualties caused by the riots cannot yet be counted. It is conservatively estimated... Death There may be more than two hundred people!”

"I can't control that much anymore! Evacuate as many people as you can! Ask the nearby garrison to bring me all the vehicles that can transport people! If civilian agencies have near-Earth aircraft, all of them will be mobilized-"

Ke Lan lowered his head and dodged a spider thread that almost grazed the tip of his hair. He continued to yell at the communication device: "The building of the Xinxing Chamber of Commerce will collapse soon. If this fusion... If the body is exposed to an unenclosed environment, no one in this neighborhood can survive!!”

"Why, why?" Aya was obviously stunned for a moment, "With the Xinxing Chamber of Commerce as the center, the three surrounding streets have been cleared. Even if the monsters rush out, there should be no casualties among the people-"

"This monster is covered with hyphae that mimic fungi! These man-eating fungal spores can be sprayed up to ten kilometers away! As long as there is the slightest contact, it will be parasitized! No one will be spared by then!!" Ke Lan shouted hoarsely Explained - even with his ninth-level enhanced physical fitness, under such a high-intensity pursuit and escape, he would inevitably be on the verge of reaching the limit. Moreover, he also had to use "Time Stop" frequently to observe the attack methods of the fusion body. , planning the movement route... This is simply a double test of his physical and mental strength.

"...How much time is left until the building collapses?" Aya asked urgently on the communication channel.

"At most... it won't take more than three minutes." Ke Lan quickly looked around the situation in the basement - many walls and partitions had been destroyed and knocked down by the fusion body, including many load-bearing walls with steel piles inside. The ceiling of the basement part has broken and fallen, and the entire building has begun to tilt downward and settle.

Ke Lan was not worried that he would be buried alive by the collapsed building - with his ability, it was not difficult to open a passage in the ruins.

However, it is not difficult for him, and it is naturally even easier for the fusion body.

"Ark Guards Fleet! I am the fifth seat of the Immortal Crew Association - the 'Pope'. Have you done what I just asked you to do!" Ke Lan closed the team communication and switched to another channel.

"Reporting to His Excellency 'Pope', the cruiser 'Starfire' has arrived at the designated area, the main gun has been charged, and has locked the target area and is ready to launch at any time!" A sonorous and powerful voice replied in the communication channel.

"Ark's South Area Defense Module! The air defense shields No. 167 to No. 181 have all been closed! The hull dome has been opened, and the bombardment orbital airspace has been cleared!" another voice responded.

If Ke Lan could run to the street outside at this time, he would see that the giant spherical screen above his head that was used to simulate the sky had been closed, and the thick dome was lifted toward the surroundings, revealing the real sky above Alpha Star.

Unlike the cloudless clear sky simulated on the screen, the sky above Alpha Star is always covered by a layer of lead-gray clouds. The sun cannot be seen clearly during the day and the stars cannot be captured at night.

No one would like a sky like this... lifeless, just like the wasteland after the end of the world, lifeless.

A cruiser several hundred meters long was hovering 12,000 meters directly above the South Fifth District. The figure of the cruiser was obscured by clouds, and the people could not see it even if they raised their heads... But at this moment , the cruiser's main gun muzzle has been aimed at the headquarters building of the Xinxing Chamber of Commerce below, and the plasma cannon's charging array continuously flashed through circles of blue-white arcs.

This shot was enough to turn the Xinxing Chamber of Commerce building and the fusion body into ashes, and it was also enough to raise the ground temperature of the entire block by hundreds to thousands of degrees.

The air temperature will be heated to more than 300 degrees Celsius, and the moisture in it will be quickly evaporated. People in this neighborhood will be cooked in just a few seconds like food stuffed into an oven. Cooked, dried...

This temperature is not high enough to incinerate the human body, but it is high enough to take away tens of thousands of lives in a very short period of time.

If an artillery fire is ordered at this time, it will be equivalent to reenacting a small-scale "Alexander Disaster".

But if the cannon is not fired and the fusion is allowed to rush out of the Nova Chamber of Commerce building and spray the spores of the mimetic fungus into the surrounding neighborhoods... then the situation will only get worse.

By then, the death toll may be more than just tens of thousands.

Another load-bearing wall made of high-strength concrete and solid metal piles was flattened by the tentacles of the fusion body. Those six-meter-long metal piles with a diameter of about a handful and a large number of concrete fragments remaining on the surface were directly hit by the tentacles. Roll it up and keep shooting towards Ke Lan like throwing spears.

A corner of the basement has completely sunk to the bottom. Thanks to the Xinxing Chamber of Commerce building being transformed into a fortress by the remnants of this heretical sect, if it had been any other building, it would have completely collapsed by now.

The northeast corner of the building has overturned. After losing the load-bearing part, the floor above was overwhelmed and was directly crushed. Rooms on three or four floors were squeezed together and fell to the foundation with a loud "rumbling" sound. .

If this picture is a bit difficult to imagine, you can imagine what a house made of plasticine and cardboard would look like if someone sat on it and flattened one corner - the walls, floors, interior decoration and furniture, all It seems to have been compressed, and it is even difficult to distinguish the original dividing lines between the various floors when looking from the side.

Part of the collapsed area can even see outside light coming in - if the fusion body destroys a few more load-bearing walls, it is estimated that the remaining part of the building will completely sink into the foundation.

This building is the last barrier to those deadly spores...

Wait, barrier? !

Ke Lan suddenly had an idea in his mind. If a building like a building can become a barrier, then why can't I put a bigger barrier on the outside?

Anyway, as long as we can block those flying spores!

Now it is definitely too late for the engineering department to rush to make a giant physical cover. If an energy shield is used, it might be possible... No, it won't work. Without precise debugging, such a huge energy shield will It is impossible to precisely control the scope of action by dropping it directly from the air. Whether it can block the spores is another matter. Once it comes into contact with the hull of the Ark, the neighborhood will also be heated.

The degree of heating may not be as terrifying as the heat escaping from the plasma cannon, but the energy shield does not only last for a few seconds before closing... This is a continuous heating process, just like boiling a frog in warm water. Neighborhood temperatures will eventually rise to lethal levels.

The frog in the pot had no time to jump out before the water temperature became lethal.

As for the kind of barrier wall used when the whole ship is blocked, it can only be found at the connection between the plots, and it is of no use at this time!

Buildings may provide cover for people, but the spores of the mimic fungus fall from the sky, and if you want to avoid these spores, you must hide inside the building.

In this way, the progress of evacuation will be completely stalled... As for the fusion body, the spores it can produce are almost endless. As long as it is alive, it can keep spraying spores around.

If you want to leave this neighborhood, you have to expose yourself to the deadly spores falling from the sky. If you hide in a safe room, you will face the terrifying high temperature and scorching air brought by the plasma cannon bombardment...

You can only choose one of the two.

No, we have to come up with a better way, and it has to be implemented in a short time——

Another spider thread hit Ke Lan. Ke Lan's evasive movement was a little slower, and a palm-long opening was cut on the left trouser leg. Fortunately, the leg inside was not injured.

The fusion body rarely sprays spider silk directly at Ke Lan like it did just now. In this short ten-second chase, it learned to weave the spider silk into a web, and covered Ke Lan overwhelmingly. Coupled with the sneak attack of a single spider thread, Ke Lan was forced to move, and Ke Lan was almost forced into a desperate situation several times.

"Spider silk... spider web... liquid secretions... condense into a solid state when encountering air..."

Ke Lan's eyes suddenly lit up and he shouted: "Spark Cruiser! Do you have fire extinguishing gel on your ship?"

Fire-extinguishing gel is a fire-proof and fire-extinguishing material commonly used on warships. It is usually stored in a high-pressure metal tank in the form of a mixture of powder and liquid. When used, the sprayed liquid will quickly turn into a liquid after contacting the air. A gel-like flame-retardant substance that expands greatly in volume, and coupled with the dry powder particles contained within it, it has excellent fire-extinguishing capabilities.

Since there is no barrier that can block the spray of those spores, then simply use fire-extinguishing gel to spray the whole body of the fusion body, so that the hyphae and spores are coated in this sticky and heavy semi-fluid. In this way, even if The fusion ejects these spores, and they cannot fly very far.

"Yes! There are 200 cubic meters of A2-type fire-extinguishing gel and 3,500 cubic meters of B6-type fire-extinguishing gel on board the Spark. In addition, there are four tons of raw materials stored in the cargo hold. At least 2,000 cubic meters of B6-type fire-extinguishing gel can be prepared at any time. Gel,” the leader of the cruiser Starfire reported immediately.

The difference between the two types of fire-extinguishing gel, A2 and B6, lies in whether it is destructive to precision electronic components - the former is more expensive and is generally used for fire-extinguishing operations in important facilities within the ship, while the latter is mostly used for the exterior of the ship's hull and armor. Some fire incidents.

For Ke Lan, there is basically no difference between the two.

"Fifty-seven hundred cubic meters of gel..." Ke Lan thought for a moment, "At a height of 12,000 meters, can you accurately project these gels to a target with a diameter of about 30 meters?"

"It's difficult - the fire-extinguishing gel spray gun is not a weapon, and the longest horizontal range is only five hundred meters... Although there is no distance limit when spraying from top to bottom, the accuracy cannot be guaranteed." the cruiser replied.

"Then lower the altitude! Descend to a height that can accurately spray these fire-extinguishing gels on the target!" Ke Lan roared, "Five thousand square meters of gel will not last long, so that all the surrounding people equipped with fire-extinguishing gel will All airships are coming! My requirement is that after the target is exposed, its body must be wrapped in gel at all times!!"

"yes!!"

The Starfire cruiser began to descend as soon as it received the order. At the same time, the synthesis room in the ship was at full power, and one high-pressure metal tank after another was filled with newly synthesized gel, and then was put on power armor. The soldiers carried it to the bottom without stopping.

The Starfire cruiser did not stop until it was only 150 meters away from the Xinxing Chamber of Commerce building. At this time, the cruiser was completely inside the Ark's hull. A huge shadow covered a large block, causing the people to bursts of exclamation.

"Ke Lan! What are you doing?! Why do you want the battleship to be lowered?!" At this time, Aya asked angrily on the communication channel, "Do you think the public's mood is not panic enough?"

"Shut up! Do your own thing well!" Ke Lan didn't bother to explain to her. The Xinxing Chamber of Commerce building was in danger and might completely collapse at any time.

"Big guy, I don't have time to drive around with you anymore. Let's meet on the ground!" After Ke Lan said these words, he jumped directly to the stairs.

Speaking of which, thanks to the fusion's massive destruction, the originally maze-like basement was almost completely destroyed. Except for the collapsed and buried areas, all other passages were unobstructed. It only took Ke Lan less than ten seconds. In no time, he had already rushed to the street outside.

Before he could take a breath, a loud noise came from behind. The fusion body's tentacles destroyed the last few load-bearing walls, and the entire building finally collapsed completely!

"Fire extinguishing gel, get ready!" Ke Lan raised his hand and shouted loudly.

The smoke and dust raised when the building collapsed was nearly a hundred meters high, but Ke Lan still saw a tentacle penetrate the ruins and emerge from the ground——

"shooting!"

The bottom compartment of the Starfire cruiser was completely open. Sixteen fire-extinguishing gel guns were clamped by the mechanical arms and aimed at the ruins directly below. White foam-like gel sprayed out from the muzzles and rushed straight out of the ruins. The fusion body goes away!

During the process of fully reacting with the air, the volume of the fire-extinguishing gel expanded rapidly. A ball of gel that was originally the size of a fist when it was shot out of the muzzle, when it fell on the ruins, was already large enough to wrap an entire adult in it. ——This fusion body that had just been "seeing the light of day" instantly looked like the heroine in the book, with its entire body covered in white, viscous colloid.

Ke Lan stared closely at the white hyphae on the surface of the fusion body - the spores were indeed sprayed out, but due to the coercion and pull of the gel, these spores could not fly even ten meters away and fell to the ground... …And more spores can’t even leave the white hyphae that are stuck together.

Seeing this scene, Ke Lan couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief - although the problem of the fusion body has not been completely solved, at least the immediate threat has been resolved.

[P.S. Thanks to the closed reward for the 1,500 starting coins; thank you to Sahara Scorpion for the 500 starting coins. 】