Alien Relic Hunter.

Chapter 452 The second wave of offensive

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On the edge of the Molten Mine Area, the scouting team supports the base.

After replacing the "active ammunition", those "corpse parts" stopped the pace of charging after only two rounds of shooting.

The living cells of flesh-eating worms are almost unsolvable and highly toxic to the species of erosion, even the mutant species.The "corpse" that was shot twitched and twitched, and the necrotic parts began to spread from the inside to the outside. In less than 2 minutes, the piles of flesh and blood covered with tentacles were all turned into pus, and then evaporated by the high temperature on the surface. .

"Huh..." The soldier with the sniper rifle heaved a sigh of relief, moved his eyes away from the scope, raised his head, and looked at the battlefield below.

Except for the fragments of the protective clothing torn by the machine gun, the containers of the Seed of Corrosion did not leave any traces - their bodies will become extremely fragile after death, let alone in the harsh environment of the molten fire mine area Oh, even in the sterile incubator of the laboratory, the corpse of the Corrosion Seed will decompose by itself in a short time.

He remembered that an expert who studied Seed of Corrosion said that after the cells of Seed of Corrosion died completely, the apoptosis program embedded in the gene would be activated.

Most of the creatures known to mankind, whether they are creatures on Earth or on Planet Alpha, or even humans themselves, even if the brain dies, cells in other tissues of the body can still survive for a period of time.The so-called organ transplantation, tissue culture and other operations are all feasible based on this feature... But for the erosive species, as long as the "nucleus" stops functioning, all the cells of the individual will be in a few minutes. If they die within seconds, they will be as resolute as the dead who died for their country in ancient times, and they will end their lives without hesitation...

It is also for this reason that experiments to study the Seed of Corrosion must use living specimens. In the research institute, accidents of living specimens breaching containment occur almost every year. Just three months ago, their team completed a " Specimen cleaning task".

The expert also said that the reason why the gene of the Seed of Corruption was "written" into a fragment similar to a self-destruct program is that the Alpha civilization does not want this kind of biochemical weapon to cause too much pollution to the natural environment ... Although this kind of explanation sounds ridiculous to the soldiers, when the expert said this, his expression was very serious.

The expert also said something to the soldier, but the soldier can't remember - he's just a soldier, all he needs to do is follow orders, pull the trigger, kill these monsters, as to how these monsters are made , What is the purpose of making it, he has nothing to do with it.

The soldier himself is not very interested in these things, and his talent is not enough to make him a research talent. On the contrary, because of his excellent shooting performance, he was assigned to the position of sniper by the army. The Garrison Corps was later transferred to the elite combat unit of the Field Corps. His understanding of the Seed of Corrosion may not be as good as that of an intern who just entered the research institute, but the Seed of Corrosion who died under his gun , but there are already as many as nineteen.

If the two corpses just now could be counted as two independent individuals, then there would be twenty.

"Don't let your guard down." The officer held up the binoculars in his hand, "Our position has been exposed, and the movement of the exchange of fire may attract more enemies. Stay alert and be ready to fight at any time."

Just when he had just finished speaking, more than a dozen figures rushed out of the mining area in the northwest direction of the support base.

They were on all fours, running extremely fast, and they didn't wear any protective equipment on their bodies—"They're not human! They're not containers! They're mature eroded seeds! It seems...it seems to be a mutant!"

"It's a B-type mutant!" The officer shouted, "Suppress the drones and slow them down! Use 'active ammunition' firearms to focus fire on them, and attack the ones that rush forward first!"

"Type B mutant?" The soldier quickly picked up his sniper rifle, and put a eroded seed that was at the front into the front sight of the scope—this erosive seed is the same as the common one made of meat and The tentacles-based monsters are different in shape from octopuses to sea anemones. They still maintain a human shape, and soldiers can even recognize the original appearance of the container.

This is a dark-skinned young man with a ochre-red birthmark on his left cheek. His nose and mouth still retain their original appearance, but two transparent tentacles protrude from his eye sockets. There are more than a dozen eyeballs of different sizes embedded in it. During the high-speed running, these eyeballs are constantly turning, capturing the surrounding vision - the largest eyeball even sees through the sniper rifle scope and The soldiers exchanged brief glances.

The soldier only felt a sudden numbness in his scalp, and the hairs on his back stood on end... He didn't know whether the eyeballs of that thing could really lock on a target hundreds of meters while moving at high speed, or it was just a coincidence , so that their eyes collided together.

These B-type mutants have almost perfectly merged with the container. While inheriting the advantages of the human body, they have also substantially modified it, turning it into a more aggressive "weapon".

The length of their hind limbs has been shortened by nearly half, but the length of the metatarsals has increased several times, so that a structure similar to a reflex joint is formed (Note 1), which is characterized by extremely strong explosive force-say It's running, but it's actually more like jumping. Every time the powerful hind limbs push the ground, the body can fly for a distance of nearly ten meters.

[PS Note 1: Regarding the recurve joint: I used to think that the bending direction of the knee joint of the horse's hind legs is opposite to that of humans, but after seeing the bone structure diagram of the horse, you will find that the knee joint of the horse is actually very close to the hip. And its metatarsal bone is about the same length as the femur and calf bone, so many people think that the horse's "reversely bent knee joint" is actually its ankle.

Humans can also simulate this posture - standing on tiptoes is enough, but our ankles are too low, so it doesn't look very obvious, and the advantage in exerting force is not as good as that of horses.

But even so, in a short-distance race, the rear soles of the far mobilization will not touch the ground, only the forefoot or even the toes will touch the ground, which is very similar to when a horse runs. 】

【PS Thank you for the 3 starting point coins that can't survive 1500 minutes; thank you 2119233 for the 500 starting point coins.By the way, bro, if you want a dragon role, you must at least leave a name...]

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