Volume 1 Glacial Relics Chapter 21 The Resurrected
The resurrected pilot had already been turned out of the coffin. Everyone noticed that in addition to his skin turning into a strange gray-black color, his hip joints and knees were bent in the completely opposite direction of humans - this structure looked like the ankle of a hoofed animal, and compared to the original human skeleton, this inversely bent joint had higher mechanical efficiency and greater explosive power.
"He... discovered us!" the hound whispered. Although it was not sure whether the pilot's two cloudy eyes still had vision, it had obviously sensed the presence of the "invader". It quickly jumped off the platform, growling in a low voice and approached the direction of the hunters step by step.
Its back was arched like a shrimp, its chest was bent down, but its head was held high, its expression was stiff, a pair of sharp canine teeth were exposed from its protruding lips, and bloody saliva was dripping from the corners of its mouth...
Compared to a human, it is now more like a beast, a hungry beast.
"Everyone, come together and kill it!" Layton roared, took a few steps, and threw out a hand axe with a blade containing a trace amount of Nino alloy.
The hand axe spun at high speed in the air and hit the pilot's shoulder with a buzzing sound!
However, the imagined scene of flesh tearing did not appear. The axe could not even cut off the opponent's arm. It only cut a finger-wide and more than ten centimeters long cut on the pilot's shoulder, and no further effect was achieved.
"..." Layton's breathing stagnated slightly. The opponent's physical strength had far exceeded his expectations. The strength of a level 4 biochemical man plus the battle axe made of Nino alloy only scratched a layer of skin at a distance of 50 meters? !
What surprised the hunters even more was that within less than two seconds after the wound appeared, a large amount of wriggling granulation tissue had squeezed out from it. In just a short moment, the granulation tissue had filled the wound and formed a layer of protective tissue similar to the stratum corneum on the epidermis.
"The target's physical strength is estimated to exceed that of a seventh-order cyborg. At the same time, his tissue cells have extremely strong ability to divide and proliferate. They can quickly repair wounds and promote adaptive changes in tissues..." Ivan took out a recorder with a holographic camera function from his backpack and recorded quickly.
The pilot increased his speed immediately after being attacked. He kicked the ground with his bent legs and instantly jumped out more than ten meters, closing the distance between him and Ke Lan and the others.
"We must behead him or sever his spine. Ordinary attacks will not make him lose his ability to resist!" Ivan put away his pistol. In such a close-range melee, the pistol not only could not cause effective damage to the target, but it could also easily injure one's own people by mistake.
"Spread out your formation and keep a sufficient distance from it. I will try my best to restrict its movements. You guys prepare to attack!" Ke Lan shouted loudly, and swung his arm vigorously. The grenade with the pull ring pulled out long ago drew a long arc and landed right at the pilot's feet.
"Bang!" The grenade exploded immediately after being hit, but it produced neither shock waves nor flying metal fragments. Only a large amount of plastic foam gushed out from the ruptured body, quickly wrapping up half of the pilot's body.
This is a non-lethal grenade filled with several mixed chemicals. After detonation, these substances will react rapidly to produce a large amount of high-strength sticky foam. This plastic foam is generally used to support collapsed tunnels or seal breaches, but it is also used in operations to capture living biological samples.
The plastic foam quickly solidified, which abruptly stopped the pilot's momentum. He fell to the ground and struggled frantically.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, Asano Akira stepped forward quickly, and with a flash of his knife, one of the pilot's legs was separated from his torso. Then he slashed with two more knives, cutting off the opponent's arms!
"Do you want to leave him alive?" Asano Akira asked Ivan, but before the latter could reply, the pilot who fell to the ground broke free from the shackles of the plastic foam and flew away from Asano Akira quickly.
"Want to run?" Asano Akira subconsciously wanted to chase him, but the next second, he suddenly retreated more than ten steps, and slashed the ground opposite with the sword in his hand, splashing a large amount of sticky pus!
Everyone then realized that while their attention was drawn to the resurrected pilot, a thick layer of fleshy fungal blanket had silently spread from under the platform and now occupied most of the space in the cave!
"Hiss... this thing, if I'm not mistaken, should be the 'blood-sucking bacterial blanket' cultivated by the Alpha aliens. They will devour all organic matter they can come into contact with. If you don't want to be turned into fertilizer, then don't get touched by this thing!" The hound's expression was extremely serious. "I've seen a documentary video where a thunder beast mistakenly entered a valley covered with a bacterial blanket. In less than five minutes, the whole thing was digested without any residue left..."
"Look! The fungal blanket is attacking that guy!" Layton pointed straight ahead, and saw that the fungal blanket was tightly wrapped around the pilot's body, and some of it even eroded into the wound on the broken limb.
"It looks like this guy is going to become fertilizer for the fungal blanket." The Hound sighed. Although the pilot had become an enemy at this time, he still felt a little regretful that he could not bring his body back... Of course, the loss of the reward also made him sad.
But at this time, Ke Lan discovered something unusual: "No! The fungal mats didn't treat it as prey! Look, the fungal mats are withering!"
Just as Ke Lan said, the fungal blanket wrapped around the pilot had lost its activity at this moment, cracked into dry and hard fragments and scattered down, while the pilot's chopped-off arms and one leg actually grew out again in this extremely short time!
Not only that, compared to the chopped-off part, the new limbs appeared to be stronger, and the surface of the body was even covered with a layer of gray-white exoskeleton, and the ten fingers were simply replaced with two pairs of sharp bone claws.
The fungal blanket is not hunting, but feeding the monster - it can use the substances and energy absorbed by the fungal blanket for its own use, constantly repairing itself, and constantly evolving!
"What a troublesome thing..." The Hound said through gritted teeth , "If only we had an incendiary bomb, we could burn this fungal blanket and make it much easier to deal with this guy."
"We don't have incendiary bombs, but fortunately we have enough energy crystals ." Ke Lan suddenly said.
As a top-notch engineer, Layton immediately understood Ke Lan's idea and couldn't help but ask, "You mean... using the energy released when the converter is overloaded to create a big explosion?"
"Yes! This will not only clear the fungal mat here, but it will probably also kill the monster directly." Ke Lan nodded.
"Isn't this too crazy? Even I am not sure I can control the power of the explosion. If this place collapses, won't we all be buried with this monster?"
