Alien Relic Hunter.

"Why doesn't the supervisor have time to take care of it? Not only this game... even the daily operation of the entire Hive City needs to be coordinated by the supervisor. If she can't even do this kind of thing well, then I think she can be thrown away Go into the incinerator and get a new one."

The regulator in his mouth obviously refers to the manager "Nieto". From his tone, it is not difficult to find that although the manager's authority level is level two, it is one level higher than their senior residents with level three authority level. , but they don't seem to be in awe of the manager... It seems that the fact that the manager is a manufactured super biological computer is not a secret inside the hive, at least among the senior residents.

"No, you didn't understand what I meant...I mean, now...I'm afraid not only this game, but the entire Hive City may be in chaos." Lao Qi said with a gloomy face.

"Old Seven...you, what are you talking about?" Another rider was stunned for a moment, "You can't feel that the whole nest is in chaos just because the supervisor and the management personnel of the hunting ground don't come to respond to our news ...If such a big event happened, the whole hive would be plunged into darkness now, right? But you see, the simulated sun above our heads is still on, and the air supply system is constantly pumping fresh air into the hive ...not to mention the siren broadcasts that are bound to go off in an emergency."

"Actually, I started to feel something was wrong a few days ago... Have you ever been to the lower city?" The aim of the hunting crossbow in Lao Qi's hand never moved away from "Second Brother" from the beginning to the end, and he stared at the ball Almost the entire body of "Second Brother" was wrapped in the tentacles, and he said slowly.

"Uh, been... but it was years ago, and the guy from the Aziz family said to take me downtown for fun, you know, kind of fun..."

"I mean recently." Lao Qi interrupted him.

"Recently? Haven't been there. Why do you often go to that kind of place? To be honest, I don't want to go to the second time to find that fun. The women in the downtown area, I even suspect that they don't take a bath once a month." .” The man said with a look of disgust.

I'm afraid it's not that I don't take a bath once a month... According to the living conditions in the lower city, it's pretty good to be able to take a bath once a year... Ke Lan thought to himself.

"I just went to the downtown area last week to check on the recent decline in production on the food production line... and then I found a problem." Lao Qi said.

"what is the problem?"

"The population of the lower city has decreased a lot... and this news was tightly blocked by the administrator. Even my entourage and I were asked to keep it secret. I went to my father after I came back, and he obviously He already knew about it, but he also asked me not to leak it, and asked me to go to downtown as little as possible in the future.”

"The population is decreasing? Could it be that they all went to the Bottom Nest? But isn't the living condition in that place worse than that in the Lower City? If there is a shortage of people, why don't we just pick a group from the Bottom Nest?" Another As he was talking, he suddenly paused, "Uh, could it be that the administrator sent all the people in the lower city to the surface?"

"The ground exploration teams are all composed of Bottom Hive residents. Even if they are used as a one-time consumption, it is difficult to consume them in such a short period of time... After all, the transportation capacity of the elevator is limited, which can be used by the explorers. The equipment for operations on the surface has always been in short supply. Without the support of equipment, the people sent to the surface cannot survive even a day. Even if the lives of the people in the bottom nest are worthless, there is no reason to waste them in vain. "Lao Qi continued, "What's more, it's only been half a month since I went to Xiacheng District twice, and the population of Xiacheng District has been reduced by at least half..."...

"What did you say? The population of the lower city has been reduced by half?!" Another person exclaimed immediately, "I thought you said that the population reduction would be [-] to [-]%...half the population, how is this possible?!"

"Nothing is impossible... This is just my conservative estimate. In reality, it may be... more."

"Could it be that some kind of plague is spreading in the lower city? That's why father told you not to go to the lower city as much as possible?" The other person seemed to have a little luck, and asked tentatively.

"I have not received any reports related to the plague... I even ignored the warnings of the regulators, and found a few people in private

The residents of the city are inquiring..."

"What's the result of the inquiry?" Another person hurriedly asked - not only did he want to know, but Ke Lan, who was staring at this scene, was also whetted.

"They told me that those people... all disappeared inexplicably, and because of this, people in the lower city are panicking... There is already a huge shortage of factory workers, and the remaining people are worried and unmotivated to work. Several assembly lines are in a state of complete stagnation..." Lao Qi said halfway, then stopped suddenly, and after a second, he squeezed out four words from between his teeth, "It's finished eating ?”

"What's finished? Who's finished?" The other person was taken aback for a moment, then immediately reacted, and suddenly turned his head to look at "Second Brother".

Their "Second Brother" has disappeared...not even a bone residue...or rather, there is not even a trace of blood left.The back of the mechanical horse was so empty that not even a single hair could be found.Originally, the equipment on "Second Brother" was scattered on the ground, and the clothes were torn into countless pieces, as if they had been passed through a meat grinder.

The mass of tentacles that had become larger than a human rolled down to the ground. It first touched the corpse of "No. 32", and then moved closer to the corpse of the giant saber-toothed tiger.

But the tentacle group did not attack the two corpses, but instead turned to the two on the horse——

Although this group of tentacles has no concept of "face" at all, and they can't even tell the front from the back, but whether it's the two on horseback or Ke Lan from God's perspective, they all have the same feeling—— The tentacles were facing those two people... staring at them.

This group of tentacles didn't seem to be interested in the corpse... After eating the "Second Brother", it was obvious that the only two survivors on the scene were regarded as the next target.

"Go to hell, monster!" The man was still trying to stop Lao Qi from shooting the crossbow at "Second Brother", but this time he himself acted first and pulled the trigger without hesitation.

"Buzz!" The bowstring of the crossbow made a loud noise, and the bolt made of Nino alloy instantly penetrated the center of the tentacles.

However, nothing happened except for a brief moment of stiffness in the tentacles.The tentacles directly "vomited" the crossbow bolt out of the body... As for the wound, it healed in just two seconds.

"Can't kill it?!" The man was startled, and hurriedly wanted to load another arrow, but the faster he thought about it, the more his hands shook, and he failed to fill the arrow slot three times in a row. , and finally even dropped the crossbow arrow to the ground because the finger was scratched by the buckle on the side of the arrow slot. …

It seems that for the sake of competition, this hunting crossbow, which can obviously be set to be fired in bursts and reloaded automatically, is forced to be set to only fire once and reload once, and the reloading steps have become a little cumbersome—according to Ke Lan’s estimation , if you give him a day to get familiar with this hunting crossbow, it will take about two seconds to complete a reload under the condition of extraordinary performance.

It's a nice "sports machine," but definitely not a "good weapon."

"Damn it! Damn it! Damn it!" He scolded three damn things in a row, reaching out to touch the quiver hanging on his waist... Probably because of being too nervous, or perhaps in response to the phrase "The leak in the house happens to rain all night" As the old saying goes, his elbow actually bumped against the release button of the quiver strap, with a "snap", the hanging bag snapped off, the opening of the quiver hung to one side, and the spare crossbow bolts inside fell to the ground. .

The man's face suddenly turned pale, and just when he gave up the crossbow and wanted to take off the shotgun hanging behind his back, the group of tentacles finally wriggled to the front, jumped up suddenly, and rushed towards him.

Just when the tentacles opened up those tentacles, trying to wrap his upper body in, Lao Qi, who had been holding back all this time, finally made a move—he had been observing the situation of the tentacles just now, after finding that his companion's crossbow arrows had no effect , he was no longer in a hurry to shoot... Until now, when the tentacles attacked, the "core hub" used to connect the tentacles inside was exposed, and he chose the target of attack.

"On the sidelines" Ke Lan in his heart

He sighed in admiration—except for "No. 32", among these three people, the youngest Lao Qi is the most mature and calmest one. His thinking and sense of smell are very keen, and his logical ability and The ability to associate is also very strong. If the other two are the standard playboys, then this old seventh can definitely be regarded as a noble elite in the true sense.

If the other children of this family are like the other two, then the position of heir of this family will most likely fall to Lao Qi in the end.

Ke Lan put himself in his shoes and thought about it. If it was him, he would have made the same choice as Lao Qi under the circumstances.

The crossbow bolts pierced through the core hub of the tentacle group neatly and burst open—just as the other person was in a hurry, Lao Qi had already replaced the normal crossbow bolts on the hunting crossbow with explosive arrows.

The strong shock wave generated by the explosion pushed out the tentacles that had nowhere to rely on in mid-air, but at the same time also lifted the other man off the mechanical horse's back.

The man covered his face, rolled crazily on the ground, howling: "Lao Qi——Lao Qi, you bastard! My face! My eyes! I was blown blind by you! You...you ... Ah! It hurts!"

He seemed completely unaware that it was Lao Qi who saved his life just now, cursing his fellow brothers frantically there.

However, Lao Qi didn't care about his brother, but kept focusing on the tentacles—after the tentacles were blown away, they immediately bounced off the ground, seven or eight of which were as thick as thighs. Like an insect's jointed limbs, it slid quickly on the ground, closing the distance again. …

Just a few seconds ago, the tentacle moved in a way similar to that of molluscs wriggling their bodies, but now, it has learned to "run".

"Whoosh!"

Another crossbow bolt was shot from the hunting crossbow in Lao Qi's hand. This crossbow bolt hit one of the "legs" of the tentacle group, and shot out a large number of dazzling arcs after hitting it—the same as the exploding arrow. It is a special crossbow, and Ke Lan estimated that its effect should be electric shock: when dealing with weaker targets, the high-voltage electricity can make the target shock or even die directly, and when dealing with stronger targets, it can also have the same effect. Limiting effects such as paralysis.

The effect of the electric shock was still there, and the tentacle hit by the crossbow twitched violently, but the speed of the tentacle ball did not slow down at all—it retracted the **** tentacle, and stretched out a new one. Tentacles to replace the original "leg".

The bodies of these tentacles seem to have extremely high resistance, or in other words, they have a body structure similar to an insulating layer inside. The paralysis effect is only limited to the tentacle hit by the crossbow bolt, and has not been able to spread to the entire tentacle group.

At the same time, an even weirder scene appeared: on the top of the tentacles, a tentacle as thick as two hands clasped stood up, and at the end of this tentacle, the same distorted human face was reflected.

The whole "Second Brother" who was just eaten by the tentacles!
That face was very distorted, as if a normal person's face was covered with a tight layer of silicone, and the facial features and facial muscles all showed an indescribably weird and horrifying feeling... The next second, the tight pair The closed eyes opened, and the dark eyes without whites stared at Lao Qi and the guy who fell on the ground.

It was too late for Lao Qi to reload the second crossbow bolt. Out of the corner of his eye, he glanced at his fellow brothers on the ground who were still cursing him. He pulled the reins hard, controlled the mechanical horse to turn around and run away.

"Cruel enough..." Ke Lan nodded and commented, "However, in this case, it is not practical to save the person on the ground, and the final result may be that the two of them are entangled by tentacles together... …Using the injured as a delay to buy time for myself should be considered the best solution at the moment.”

True as it is ruthless.

The tentacle group didn't go after Lao Qi, but directly jumped on the fallen man, enveloping him completely.

This time, it took only one-third of the original time to devour the man... Not long after, on the erected tentacles, there were more

second face.

The two distorted faces were crowded together, and the four eyes without whites looked at the direction where Lao Qi was escaping.