Alien Relic Hunter

In fact, it cannot be said that there was no damage at all... There were several severely deformed black scales attached to the front of the hammer head. These scales should have been torn off by the huge force of the impact, but the weakness of this monster was not exposed-under the surface scales, there is a second, smaller, and smaller layer. But also denser scales.

This structure is similar to the ancient layered armor.

The moment after the monster was smashed into the ground, it jumped up with the flying soil and rushed towards Ke Lan again. Just when Ke Lan was about to swing the armor-breaking hammer again, the monster that had already closed the distance repeated its trick, The powerful tail swept across Ke Lan's neck!

Ke Lan had just used his chest to resist the opponent's flick. Even his spine was broken and several sections were displaced. Compared to the torso, the neck was thinner and more fragile. If he was hit, the entire head might be separated from the body. , fly far away...

At that time, even if he has super recovery ability, Ke Lan cannot guarantee whether he can still survive after his body and head are separated...

Ke Lan could only give up attacking and choose to retreat.

The living armor seeped out from his back and condensed into a tentacle as thick as a handful. The end of the tentacle was a three-pronged barb. The moment it was thrown out, it hooked onto the ground and pulled Ke Lan's body. Pulled back.

The monster's tail barely brushed Ke Lan's cheek and was thrown over. It did not hit directly, but the strong wind it brought cut Ke Lan's cheek to pieces, even exposing his pale facial bones and teeth.

Compared to losing his head, this little flesh injury is nothing. Anyway, it will be back to normal in a few seconds. Ke Lan thought to himself.

He took out his gravity gun several times to attack, but when he thought about it, the effect of the gravity gun was just to multiply the gravity exerted on a certain area. Even the inner wall of the garbage channel made of lead alloy could not press against it. It collapsed, let alone the steel-and-iron monster in front of him.

In the physical sense - "iron bones".

Thirty-three on the side could only watch anxiously - Ke Lan was obviously at a disadvantage. He also wanted to help Ke Lan, but he was completely unable to intervene and could only wait for Ke Lan to create an opportunity for him to attack.

But the problem is that Ke Lan can only keep retreating in embarrassment now. Let alone attacking, even dodging is becoming gradually difficult.

This monster kept swinging its tail to sweep across a large area. Ke Lan didn't even dare to use his weapon to confront the opponent's tail head-on - as long as he made contact with the tail, the huge power attached to it would directly control Ke Lan's weapon. For Lan to fly out, unless Ke Lan softens the living armor at the moment of contact, but in this case, it will be difficult for the soft weapon to burst out with enough power, and it will not even be able to smash down a few scales like just now. arrive.

It's not like Ke Lan has never thought of transforming his weapon into a chain weapon like a meteor hammer, but now the monster is chasing after him, and the distance between the two is very tight. He belongs to the kind of person who will be beaten if he slows down even a little. The tail hit so hard that there was no room for the meteor hammer to be swung and charged.

The previous idea of ​​minimizing the movement as much as possible has been thrown away at this time. In the fight between Ke Lan and the monster, large areas of the forest were leveled, and when the towering giant trees were hit by the tail, Several people hugged each other, and the thick tree trunk was torn apart and broken easily as if it were made of paper. Rumbling sounds followed one after another along with the tremors of the ground.

Fortunately, the monster in front of him seemed to be the overlord of this area. Even if it caused such a big movement, no other creatures nearby were attracted, allowing Ke Lan to focus all his attention on a single opponent.

"This can't go on like this!" Ke Lan began to become anxious.

If Ze Luo assists, this battle will become very easy. The power of space can even be used to forge Nino alloy. It is not a problem to flatten and round this monster... But the problem is that Ze Luo's ability cannot be used in the upper city... The only way is to flatten this monster. Where to lead to the garbage channel...

But, will this guy really be lured away from the jungle hunting ground by himself?

There seems to be a layer of invisible and intangible restrictions on the edge of the jungle hunting ground. Not only will the trees in the hunting ground not cross the edge boundary even half an inch, but even the animals in the hunting ground will not run outside the hunting ground.

Although this cannot be confirmed for the time being, apart from the two people's previous simple investigation of the uptown area, except for some bugs similar to mutated cockroaches, no creatures were found in the eastern half of the uptown area.

Those "cockroaches" probably did not escape from the jungle hunting ground, but originally lived in the nooks and crannies of the upper city. When humans disappeared in the hive city, they became the only creatures active among the ruins of buildings.

There are definitely more creatures left in the jungle hunting ground than the crocodile-like monster in front of you, but no matter what kind of creature it is, they would rather risk being eaten by stronger creatures than leave this dangerous hunting ground and go to a less competitive place. The external world is smaller but more vast... This speaks volumes.

"Thirty-three!" Ke Lan suddenly shouted loudly.

"I'm here!" Thirty-three, who had been watching the battle for a long time, responded quickly, "What do you want me to do?"

"We," before Ke Lan could finish his words, he was interrupted by an embarrassing roll of his own. His right hand, which he couldn't pull back in time, was hit by the monster's tail. The entire palm was cut off at the root, and the blood suddenly seemed to be smashed. It spurted out like a faucet.

"Your hand!" Thirty-three bit his back molars hard. Although he knew that with Ke Lan's recovery ability, a brand new hand would grow out of the broken ground in a few minutes, but he It can also be seen that Ke Lan's dodge space has become much smaller than before, and the choices left to him have become more and more embarrassing.

"It's okay, it will grow back later!" But in fact, Ke Lan couldn't wait for those few minutes at all. He could only use the living armor to condense a bright red "prosthetic hand" on the broken wrist, and used his strength to He pushed himself up on the ground and pushed his body to one side with the strength from his wrists and elbows.

After narrowly avoiding another attack, Ke Lan had time to finish the sentence he just left unfinished: "Let's retreat to the edge of the forest! I guess this guy can't leave this place!"

"Then what if it can be done?" Thirty-three asked as he retreated.

"Then we can only use the building debris in the upper city to deal with it... To be honest, I hope to see this situation... As long as I can lead it into the garbage channel, I can use Ze Luo's power to solve it ."

After paying the price of an arm and a calf, Ke Lan finally succeeded in leading the monster to the edge of the jungle hunting ground - strangely enough, when Ke Lan retreated outside the boundary line, the monster immediately stopped The pursuit... Although it was very close, it seemed like there was a space barrier between it and Ke Lan, completely separating the two.

"It's really not chasing it anymore!" Thirty-three gasped - Ke Lan and the monster were moving very fast. Thirty-three had to move at full speed to ensure that they could withdraw from the jungle area before them. Otherwise, Ke Lan would If Lan exits first, the monster will turn around and attack him.

He didn't have the confidence to survive this monster's stormy attack like Ke Lan did.

"Ha, we have retreated to the safe zone." Ke Lan looked at the boundary line three steps ahead, feeling like looking at the light curtain in the safe zone of the main city in an online game, and couldn't help but He let out a long breath.

He had experienced many tough battles before, but this was the first time for him to be in such an embarrassing situation where his hands and feet were cut off, and his whole body was disemboweled and his internal organs were shattered.

But at least it also made Ke Lan know the limits of his recovery ability - as long as his head is not smashed, he can recover on his own regardless of the severity of the injury.

Thirty-three and his teammates would not be surprised by this. If it were anyone unfamiliar with Ke Lan, they would definitely suspect that Ke Lan is a monster. Although one head maintains a humanoid appearance, it has A monster even more "monstrous" than that crocodile with eight pairs of legs.

Strictly speaking, this statement is actually correct.

"I am a monster, but I am also a human being." Ke Lan said silently in his heart.

The monster—here refers to the crocodile with eight pairs of legs, not Ke Lan—did not leave, but looked at Ke Lan across the boundary of the hunting ground.

Even at its current location, Ke Lan still hasn't found where its eyes are... or maybe this guy doesn't have a "visual organ" in the conventional sense.

Although the boundary of the jungle hunting ground could block its pace, it could not block its perception. It squatted at the edge of the hunting ground, as if waiting for Ke Lan to step into it again.

Ke Lan is naturally not in a hurry to "give away heads". This is the same as fighting a BOSS in the game. Blindly repeating challenges is the least efficient way to pass the level. Only after each attempt, summarizing experience, improving techniques and equipment, and adjusting the state can be the most scientific strategy plan.

Ke Lan first waited for his broken limbs to grow back, then walked back and forth a few times close to the edge of the jungle hunting ground, carefully observing the monster from different angles——

No, it should be called "Epsilon-level mutant No. 14" now. If we want to be more accurate, it would be "the 500,000-year evolution version of Epsilon-level mutant No. 14".

Just when he fought with this monster, some memory fragments were unlocked in the depths of Ke Lan's mind. However, the battle just now was too intense, and his brain had no time to process other information besides fighting. , and then shelved the matter temporarily.

The monsters put into the hunting ground by the nest city are all "mutants" artificially created and cultivated based on the genes of the earth's creatures. They will be given different levels according to the strength of the mutants. The levels are taken from the order of Greek letters, with "α Alpha" in sequence one being the smallest and "Ω omega" in sequence twenty-four being the largest. (Alpha here has nothing to do with Alpha Planet or Alpha Civilization.)

Of course, according to the information mentioned in the memory fragments, it is not only the "Omega level" that only exists in theory. In fact, all levels after "Theta Theta" are "empty titles". Hive City Civilization The strongest mutant creatures created are limited to the "Theta-level" of Sequence 8.

The giant saber-toothed tiger that "No. 32" encountered previously was only a "Gamma-level" Sequence 3, while the "Crocodile" Ke Lan encountered was an "Epsilon-level" Sequence 5. The fourteenth registered "Epsilon-class mutant".

It's just that this is already data from half a million years ago. At that time, apart from its large size, this crocodile was no different from normal crocodiles on the earth. It only had four legs and did not have layers of Nino alloy scales on its body. , just the cuticle of the skin has the ability to enrich metal elements... Creatures with similar abilities can be found in large numbers in the wasteland of Planet Alpha.

Nino alloy is definitely not the same thing as ordinary metal elements... The smelting conditions of Nino alloy are extremely harsh. Not only does it require an ultra-high-pressure environment, but it also requires a type of element in the periodic table that can only be obtained on a mysterious planet. new elements.

This new element only exists on the planet where the escaped engineering ship once parked. It does not exist on Earth or on Alpha Planet... It is precisely for this reason that the Alpha civilization with such a high level of technology can only Energy crystals can be reproduced, but Nino alloy cannot be reproduced.

If it were just an ordinary "Epsilon-level mutant", Ke Lan's power alone could easily complete a single kill... But in half a million years, this "Epsilon-level mutant" has obviously a huge change occured.

If it were to be re-rated, Ke Lan felt that it could at least reach the "Kappa level" of Sequence 10, or even higher.

Judging from the information provided in the memory fragments, even the strongest mutants created by the hive civilization, "Theta-level" No. 1, No. 2 and No. 3, are definitely not as powerful as the crocodile in front of them.

Although "Theta-class" No. 1, No. 2 and No. 3 only mentioned one name, there are successful hunting records - No. 1 was successfully hunted by fourteen hunters, and the number of No. 2 increased to fifty. One, as for No. 3, was a little less impressive. He was killed by the Dichao people in the "qualifiers", but the Dichao people also paid nearly 200 casualties for this.

Vaguely, a very bold idea suddenly appeared in Ke Lan's mind...

Could these mutants of some level... be the originators of the indigenous creatures on Planet Alpha? !

Many indigenous creatures on Planet Alpha can find some similar shadows in these mutants! It is precisely because of this that many of the indigenous creatures on Alpha Planet make the people on the Ark feel that they have many similarities with some creatures on Earth.

[P.S. Thanks to Wandering DNA Vest for the 1,500 starting coins. 】