Alien Relic Hunter.

Chapter 130 Carbide Layer

Hundreds of rounds of ammunition were poured onto this humanoid monster made of hyphae in less than two seconds, but the armor-piercing incendiary bombs that were enough to penetrate ten millimeters of rolled homogeneous armor could not be crushed. The thin carbonized layer only left a few inconspicuous cracks on it.

"Why is this damn thing so hard?" The old dog turned his head and glanced at Ke Lan, "What should I do? Use heavy weapons directly?"

"No need." Ke Lan shook his head, "Use a high-pressure water gun."

"What's the use of the water gun—" halfway through the sentence, the old dog suddenly stopped, "Are you planning...to use the principle of thermal expansion and contraction to destroy the carbonized layer on the surface of that thing?"

"Well, it's also to collect more data... If that layer of material has such a strong thermal stability, I even think it can be used as a brand new armor material " Ke Lan said calmly.

"No way... you're still thinking about this at this moment?" The old dog was a little speechless.

"Is there any problem?" Ke Lan tilted her head, "If this fungus really has good economic benefits, the No. [-] car is not lost for nothing...Miss Yuyi, what do you think?"

"Indeed." Yui nodded, "If this material can really be used in the research and development of new armor... No matter how dangerous this creature is, the upper echelon of the consortium will definitely ask us to keep the live strain, and everyone here You will also get a very generous reward.”

On the seven words "extremely generous remuneration", she deliberately emphasized her tone.

Ke Lan and the others naturally know what an extremely generous remuneration is in the eyes of the Soma Consortium... The recycling price they can give is at least ten times the official price.

In addition to the one-time remuneration, if this new material can really go on the market, the subsequent patent fees and profit dividends will be a huge sum of money-this money has nothing to do with them, but now Ke Lan, as an executive of the Soma Consortium with L8 authority level, everything is different...

"I suddenly felt that the chick hired you as this special consultant, she seemed to have found the right person." The old dog nodded meaningfully.

"It's just a professional habit." Ke Lan rubbed his chin like an old dog, "It's just that it's not in the ruins now."

The machine gun, whose muzzle had turned red, stopped firing, and then, a high-pressure water gun was lifted up by the mechanical arm, aiming at the humanoid monster that was bombarded by the impact of the shell——

The powerful water flow pushed it out in an instant, rolling several somersaults on the ground one after another... and under the effect of the rapid alternation of cold and heat, the chapped lines on the carbonized layer were also expanding rapidly, and Ke Lan could even use it With the naked eye, many tiny scorched black fragments collapsed from above.

"Now, switch to armor-piercing incendiary bombs for shooting!"

"Tud chug chug—" The deafening sound of the machine gun rang out again, but this time, the cannonball successfully tore apart the carbonized layer that had been torn apart, exposing the white hyphae in the monster's body!

With the rupture of the second armor of the incendiary warhead, the incendiary agent preloaded in the warhead spewed out and burned directly in the body of the humanoid monster, and the exposed white mycelium quickly turned into that It looks scorched black.

"Although the thermal stability is not ideal, you can try to make living armor and use multiple carbonized layers to weaken the attack... But the disadvantage is that living mycelium will generate spores, which will increase the risk factor during transportation and storage , and it is also not conducive to cleaning up the battlefield and rescue operations after the war..." Ke Lan muttered to himself.

"But if we can use biotechnological means to keep mycelia active while cutting off their reproductive ability... Sigh, this kind of thing, let the group of talented students in the research institute have a headache."

The sound of the machine guns stopped, and the water vapor and smoke surrounding the monster gradually dissipated, and a corpse riddled with holes was seen kneeling on the ground, and it was still vaguely recognizable as a human figure.

"Is this solved?" The old dog asked with some uncertainty, "I always feel that this kind of guy... doesn't die so easily."

"It's really not easy to die. As long as there is a living spore left, as long as enough prey can be found, mass production of things like this is not a problem—" Ke Lan stopped abruptly, and he suddenly realized that this The greatest value of this kind of fungus may not lie in the carbide layer, which is as hard as an alloy, but in the weird mimicry ability...

As long as enough "nutrients" are used, this fungus can completely replicate an army of terrifying numbers. Compared with human soldiers, this army not only retains a certain degree of combat skills, but is also invulnerable and fearless. ...it's just like the Nazi zombie army in the old era movies...

No, they are stronger than zombies... There must be more than one kind of creature that these fungi can replicate... What if they devoured a Ultralisk?

Or something a little more daring... Seed of Corruption?Super-giant worms in the subterranean?And that fusion species lurking in the abyss?
Even if it's just a Xibei product, it's shocking enough...

Judging from the characteristics of this fungus, as long as the size is larger, the combination will be more difficult to kill - because it does not have any vital points, if you want to kill it, you must kill every individual in it.

If they can simulate all the prehistoric species...

"Ke Lan?!" The old dog's voice brought the dazed Ke Lan back to reality, "What happened to you just now?"

"I think... this fungus should not be an indigenous creature of Planet Alpha."

"Not an indigenous creature? Could it be an earth creature?"

"No... I suspect that this is a biological weapon made by the Alpha civilization, just like the Seed of Corrosion."

Ke Lan pursed his lips tightly and stared straight at the pile of coke in the distance... If this thing is really a creation of the Alpha civilization, why didn't the same information as before come out of his memory?Is it because the corresponding trigger conditions have not been met?

What is the trigger condition?name?Scenes?Or something else?

"You mean there are ruins nearby? Impossible, this area has been scanned countless times by the ark."

"It's also possible that I'm thinking too much..." Ke Lan took a deep breath, "Okay, it's time to clean up the battlefield."

"Then do you want to collect living spores?" Youyi asked.

"No need, since this material is not suitable for making armor, it has no use value." Ke Lan said, and then silently uploaded the combat records to the Ark's official database.

He didn't directly mention the possibility of the second use... In his opinion, this thing is different from the black skeleton at the beginning, and its potential value is really terrifying. As long as the senior management of the Soma Consortium If even one of them is blinded by interests, the result will be a disaster.

Compared with the astronomical sum of money, Ke Lan would rather hand over the information about this fungus to the authorities.

As for the issue of living spores, as long as they trace back along their travel route, with the ability of the Ark, they can always be found.

(End of this chapter)