Volume 1 Glacial Relics Chapter 15: Stitched Monster
"I almost forgot... Apart from me who needs a large amount of crystals, the rest of you don't really need this stuff." Layton said, "That bug with the crystal structure alone is probably equivalent to 10,000 units of energy crystals."
While Layton was still talking to himself, Ke Lan suddenly slapped his forehead and said, "Yes, demand! Asano Akira must have a demand for crystals, so he took so many! He must have discovered something in the ruins!"
Many mechanisms in the ruins require energy crystals to open... but five or six thousand units of crystals, if converted into power consumption, this number is enough for the anti-aircraft guns on the Ark to fire a shot. This shows how huge this energy is.
What scale of mechanism would require five or six thousand units of energy crystals to drive it?
Asano Akira must be found immediately !
At this moment, Layton looked up inadvertently, and saw a face poking out from the hole in the ceiling, looking at him with a half-smile.
"Oh my god! Asa... Asano Akira?! Are you trying to scare me to death?" Layton staggered and almost fell to the ground. Fortunately, it was a familiar face, so he did not smash the can in his hand away immediately.
Before Layton could relax, Ke Lan had already pulled out his pistol: "Be careful, it's not Asano Akira."
"Huh?!" Leighton was startled. After being reminded by Ke Lan, he also felt that something seemed to be wrong, but he couldn't put his finger on it.
"Akira Asano is blind, but this thing in front of me is not."
Just as Ke Lan said, the eyes on this face were not only not blind, but also had a very sharp gaze. The two could even feel the almost materialized sight emanating from the pair of dark eyes, patrolling their bodies, and finally stopping at the vital position of their throat.
Ke Lan could vaguely see that there was a cut running across the neck of this thing. This cut had obviously just healed, and even the proliferating granulation tissue still retained its fresh pink color.
It was just a little bit more likely that whoever made the cut would have chopped its head off entirely.
"This... isn't that kind of thing, is it?" Thinking of the piece of "meat" that had turned into a hound, Layton felt a bitterness in his throat. "Didn't the doctor say that thing wouldn't live long?"
"Who knows? But you can't expect it to destroy itself now, right?" Ke Lan took two steps back. "Even Asano Akira couldn't solve this thing... It seems the problem is very tricky."
"I should have removed the cannon from the transport plane earlier." Layton clenched the Gurkha knife in his hand, and the robotic arm began to slowly charge.
"We have to hit the vital points first. This thing's self-healing ability is probably very strong." Ke Lan said. If a human suffered a near-decapitation injury, there is absolutely no way they could survive. This thing only looks like a human...
However, Ke Lan quickly ruled out the conclusion that "it looks like a human" because "it" had already crawled out of the cave and landed on the platform in the middle of the stone chamber.
This monster only has the upper body of a human, and below the waist...
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Ke Lan really couldn't find the words to describe what he saw. He even felt that the word "monster" seemed a little pale when used here.
The lower body of this thing is completely made up of a large number of pieces of meat, with no natural coordination at all. From a distance, it looks like a giant centipede made of flesh and blood and with a bloated body.
Densely packed limbs emerged from these pieces of flesh, waving and struggling frantically, as if trying to grab something. From time to time, their nails would scratch the metal table below, making a piercing noise that made one's scalp tingle.
Judging from its size alone, the number of pieces of flesh that make up this thing is probably far more than double digits. As for the number of genes mixed in, that is even more terrifying.
The human torso and limbs, the exoskeleton shell of arthropods, the claws of carnivorous birds of prey...all these things can be found on it. It is like a pot of hodgepodge. The Creator stitched together dozens of completely different creatures to create such an indescribable thing.
"The weak spot... do you know where the weak spot of this thing is?" Leighton's tone was a little stiff. If he had a choice, he even wanted to turn around and run away immediately.
"I don't know either." Ke Lan's finger was already on the trigger. "Try to attack the human head?"
He noticed that most of the knife marks on this thing were concentrated on the human body, especially the throat, chest and ribs, which are the conventional vital parts. This shows that when Asano Akira fought with this monster, he should have chosen to focus on attacking these places, but the opponent's self-healing ability was too strong, and the fatal injuries to humans could not kill it at all.
But there were no scars on the monster's head. In front of the battle blade made of Nino alloy, the hardness of the skull was just a joke. Asano Akira had no reason not to attack its head, but he failed. This only meant that the monster would consciously protect its head from harm during the battle.
"Get ready!" As soon as the words fell, Ke Lan had already pulled the trigger. Along with a loud gunshot, a large-caliber tungsten core armor-piercing bullet flew out of the barrel!
Blood splattered everywhere! But the expected headshot scene did not appear - several twisted arms emerged from the monster's abdomen and back, blocking the bullet's flight path. These arms were all covered with a layer of stratum corneum as hard as armor. After penetrating several layers of stratum corneum, muscles and bones, the kinetic energy attached to the bullet was finally consumed and embedded in one of the arms, unable to penetrate any deeper.
"What a quick reaction!" Layton exclaimed in surprise. If it were him, at such a close distance, even if he could predict it, he would not be sure that he could block the shot with his robotic arm.
"Quick reaction is secondary..." Ke Lan fired several more shots, but they were all blocked by the opponent in the same way. "I just don't know if these arms that suddenly emerged were originally hidden in the body or just grew out... If it's the latter, then this thing's defense has no blind spots at all."
"Then chop it! Chop it until it can't grow back!" The fear and tension exceeded the limit, which instead aroused the ruthlessness in Layton's bones. He roared, rushed forward waving the Gurkha knife. The armor plates on the mechanical arm cracked one after another, revealing the nozzle hidden inside, pushing the speed of the blade to a higher level again!
"Die for me!" The green flame at the nozzle suddenly surged, Leighton jumped high and chopped down with a knife!
