Alien Relic Hunter.

Chapter 426 S-Type Mutants (4000-word chapter)
The hound was taken aback for a moment, and then nodded in agreement: "It's true...we are not a regular army, and the mission is just reconnaissance. There is really no need to make such a big death."

"Let's go, it's time to go down, the cruiser can no longer fly in." Ke Lan said.

This molten mine area can be said to be one of the deadliest no-fly zones on Planet Alpha. Except for small drones flying close to the ground, any aircraft or warship entering this area will be attacked by automatic anti-aircraft weapons— —Most of the buildings in the mining area have been turned into ruins, and these automatic defense devices are one of the very few devices in the ruins that still maintain normal operation.

Most of them are hidden in the rocks and will only be activated when an invasion of foreign enemies is detected.

All kinds of high-tech camouflage methods, coupled with the huge number and irregular distribution, it is almost impossible to eliminate these automatic defense devices.Fortunately, they will only attack targets in the air, and will not respond to "intruders" who enter the mining area from the ground.

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The mining area is full of radiation and toxic gases, and the average surface temperature is between 120 and [-] degrees Celsius. In places near the magma river, this number can soar to hundreds of degrees-this is just the temperature of the air. The temperature of lava that has just condensed and formed will only be higher.

A relic hunter once shot a short video on the Internet. In the video, he was wearing a heavy protective suit, carefully took a metal cup out of the incubator, and then quickly raised the cup to the height of his shoulders. , pour out the water inside.

Before the water could touch the ground, it was directly evaporated in mid-air.

If the reconnaissance team wants to enter the mining area, they must naturally wear a full set of protective equipment. Considering that a battle may occur, Ke Lan simply replaced all the protective clothing of everyone with a power armor with high heat resistance and an internal oxygen supply device. .But even so, at the moment when the hatch of the airborne cabin opened, the oncoming heat wave gave everyone a severe blow. Ke Lan only felt that the fine hairs on the surface of his skin seemed to curl up.

"Hiss... so hot!"

"This is just a marginal area, and the temperature is more than 90 degrees Celsius?"

"You can use any stone to barbecue..."

Except for Ivan, no one in the team had ever been to the Molten Mine Area, and the exclamation and complaints about the high temperature kept ringing in the communication channel until the temperature control system of the power armor started to operate, reducing the temperature inside the armor to 25 Celsius, everyone felt a little more comfortable.

"It feels like the entrance to purgatory." The hound took a deep breath, and the sound of a long gasp sounded in the helmet, "I remember that in the myths and legends of China, one of the punishments of the eighteenth floor of hell is to be put into the oil pan. Right? I don’t think this place is much different from a boiling oil pan.”

"Indeed." Layton nodded, "I just don't know if there are chopped green onions and coriander."

"How about you two talking about cross talk here? One is joking and the other is joking, and you have a tacit understanding." Ke Lan complained in the communication channel, "Okay, it's time to work. According to the original plan, the brothers from the tactical team and the Security Bureau You are camping here. Your task is to build a support base with a defense standard of level 12 or higher within 3 hours. If you find traces of heretic sects or exiles, immediately send me, the cruiser, and the Ark three parties at the same time. alarm."

Ke Lan said that the level 24 standard refers to a strength index commonly used in strongholds and fortifications. A stronghold with a level [-] defense capability requires the physical strength to withstand earthquakes of magnitude [-] or above and strong winds of magnitude [-] or above. At the same time, it must be able to withstand Enemy with more than five times the combat strength of the defenders besieged and persisted for more than [-] hours to be considered qualified.

Most of the transfer stations built in the Alpha star wilderness are of the second-level standard; while the mining base on the back of Leviathan is barely able to reach the threshold of the fifth-level standard.

If the heretic sect wants to storm a level-three standard support base in a short period of time, at least it will have to invest more than ten times the combat power of the garrison troops, and the garrison personnel are all elite field troops and security bureau agents , and equipped with a large number of weapons against the Seed of Corrosion. It is conservatively estimated that this multiple must be expanded to at least fifteen to twenty times.

As long as this frontier support base can be established, it is equivalent to opening up a safe zone for the scouting team on the edge of the mining area. If Ke Lan and the others encounter any difficult enemies in the mining area, they can retreat here at any time.With the cover of fortifications, whether they choose to counterattack or retreat, they can gain great initiative.

After arranging tasks for these people, Ke Lan led a reconnaissance team composed of 12 people and headed into the depths of the mining area.

Since the landform of the Molten Mine had undergone tremendous changes after the earthquake, the original map has basically become a piece of waste paper, and the only thing that can be used as a reference is probably the latitude and longitude coordinates of the original stationed base.

Even if the rock stratum has shifted or settled, the general location of the base will not change much, and Ke Lan and the others are heading to the area with the original coordinates of the base as the center point.

The speed at which they travel can be described as a tortoise's speed - almost none of the roads that have been repaired and completed after spending a lot of manpower and material resources on the Ark are now feasible. If these roads are compared to the meridians in a human body, Now this person has just been slapped by a master of internal skills, and his meridians are broken every inch of his body, and there is almost no good place.

In many places, the cracks on the ground are too big for a single person to cross. Ke Lan can only let Valentina jump to the opposite side of the cracks in the mech and set up the zipline, and the others can use the slide cable through the crack.

More than half of the cracks need to be passed in this way, and half of the time spent on the road is wasted on setting up and retracting the ziplines-the hound also proposed to detour at the beginning, but the result of the detour is to encounter more, Wider cracks.

"Anyway, all the roads are destroyed. Just go in a straight line and turn over when encountering obstacles. This is the most time-saving route." Ke Lan said.

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It has been five hours since the reconnaissance team entered the mining area, but they have only traveled less than 150 kilometers, and they are still [-] kilometers away from the coordinates of the garrison base—but at this location, the surrounding temperature has already broken through The hundred degrees Celsius mark was exceeded, and the rubber armband Layton had attached to his arm had already melted into a puddle of black viscous fluid, flowing down the surface of the armor.

"Damn it... I'm getting tired..." the hound gasped and said, trekking in this kind of terrain consumes a lot of energy. If it wasn't for the power armor supporting his body, he doubted himself He had already collapsed due to exhaustion.

"There is another obstacle ahead... this time it's not a crack, but a hill." Layton said, "Old dog, can you still hold on? How about I carry you away?"

"It's still holding up, it's not a big problem." The hound drooped his head and waved his hands weakly. In this state, he didn't even have the intention of joking, and his speaking style changed from usual to very concise .

"Hold on for a while longer, turn over the ruins in front, and we will rest on the spot for 15 minutes." Ke Lan said.

Standing in front of them was a collapsed building. Judging by the architectural style of Alpha civilization, buildings of this style generally have more than 80 floors and a height of at least [-] meters, but the building that appeared in front of everyone , only a section of ruins about [-] meters from the top remained, and the lower part, together with the foundation, sank into the magma.

The wreckage of the building lies above a 30-meter-wide crack, and below it is the slowly flowing magma. The bright yellow light fills the space inside the crack. Every step closer, the temperature rises sharply, so that the distant scene is blurry. Distortion occurs because the air temperature is too high.

"You wait here first, Asano Akira will follow me, let's check the strength of the wreckage of the building first, if the strength is enough, we will turn over the wreckage, if there is a danger of disintegration, then use the previous method, with the help of The zipline goes through the crack," Ke Lan said.

"It's just right, old dog, you can also take this time to rest and catch your breath." Layton held the hound by one arm, helped him onto a rock and sat down.

"Do you need our help?" Aya Breya came up and asked.

"No, the fewer people, the better. With one more person, the total weight of this equipment will add up to several hundred kilograms. Although the wreckage of this building seems to be quite stable, it might collapse if you step on it. " Ke Lan declined Aya's kindness, and led Asano Akira to the wreckage of the building.

This building uses a one-piece alloy skeleton, which is also the design adopted by most high-rise buildings in the Alpha civilization. This kind of skeleton is a bit like the steel frame in the reinforced concrete buildings on the earth, but compared to the steel bars tied together with iron wires , the strength of the one-piece alloy skeleton manufactured by Alpha Civilization is much higher.

Ke Lan looked in along the torn outer wall of the building, and the internal structure of the building had been destroyed, but Ke Lan wanted to see if the skeleton of the load-bearing part had broken—if the skeleton of this part of the wreckage was intact , then it is more than enough to eat the amount of people like them.

But at this moment, Akira Asano grabbed Ke Lan.

"What's going on?" Ke Lan turned his head, but was surprised to find that Asano Akira had already drawn his saber out of its sheath.

"There is movement inside the building, and there are quite a few of them." Akira Asano replied.

He said it on the team channel, and the hound and Aya could also hear it. This sentence immediately attracted everyone's attention.

"What? Is there any movement? Have you been discovered? I'll come over right away!" Without saying a word, Layton picked up his weapon and planned to run towards the wreckage of the building.

"Don't come here yet! We don't seem to have been discovered yet!" Ke Lan quickly stopped Layton's actions.

"Can you be sure what it is? Could it be some indigenous creatures that use the wreckage of the building as their lair?" Ivan couldn't help asking.

"There are no indigenous creatures in the molten mine area." Aya immediately denied this judgment, "Of course, I'm not saying that this environment is not suitable for indigenous creatures to live in, even in places with worse conditions, some creatures can be found more or less Traces of ... But in the molten mine area, even bugs are very rare. The Alpha civilization seems to have emptied all the creatures in this area, and set up a 'barrier' that we cannot detect to prevent the indigenous creatures outside the mining area Enter the mine."

"It's not an indigenous creature, so it can only be a human." The hound said in a deep voice, leaning on the ground with a gun and standing up, "Everyone, get ready to fight, what should come will always come."

The rest of the reconnaissance team approached the wreckage of the building cautiously, and a dozen black guns pointed at the ten-meter-long crack on the outer wall of the building.

"Layton, take out the mechanical snake you improved." Ke Lan ordered in a low voice.

"Understood." Layton nodded, the outer armor of his arm opened, and a small metal snake as thick as a little finger crawled out from the hidden compartment under the outer armor, and swam to the edge of the crack.

This little metal snake is actually a snake-shaped drone. The reason why it was designed in this shape is to keep it secret, and to drill into some gaps and holes that conventional drones cannot enter—— Mechanical snakes like this are sold in equipment shopping malls and black markets, but the original mechanical snakes are not as flexible as this modified version, and the functions are also more than this one.

Layton changed the "snake eye" camera to low-light mode, and shared the images seen by the camera with everyone in the reconnaissance team, and then manipulated the mechanical snake to slide into the crack.

"The movement is in the middle of the wreckage, between the 17th and 19th floors from the top, about 45 meters away from us." Akira Asano said to Layton, guiding the mechanical snake.

Some places that are difficult for humans to reach, are as smooth as walking on the ground for a mechanical snake that can be attached to the wall. It didn't take long for this little snake to reach the position where it made a movement, and everyone in the scouting team also walked on the ground. With its eyes, it saw the things that were dormant in the wreckage of the building.

Thirty mature seeds of erosion!

And it also includes mutants that Ke Lan has never seen before!
Among the three mutants, the most conspicuous one is the one surrounded by many species of erosion - it is more than four meters tall, with a slender body, and the neck alone occupies one-third of it The height, from a distance, looks like a creature called a giraffe on the earth.On this mutant head, there are more than a dozen slender tentacles that look like flexible antennas, moving slowly in a strange rhythm.

"It's an 'S-type mutant'...this is troublesome." After seeing the appearance of this mutant, Aya murmured.

(End of this chapter)