Volume 1 Glacial Relics Chapter 34: Seeds of Erosion
The two tentacles suddenly extended more than twice their length, and immediately knocked Ivan, who was caught off guard, to the ground!
"Be careful! The attack range of this thing... is at least three meters away!" the hound growled. Fortunately, Ivan was not hit in the vitals and quickly got up from the ground.
"Damn... one of my arms is broken... this guy is very strong!" Ivan said while enduring the pain. The arm that was hit was now hanging limply at his side. The sleeve of his protective suit was torn open, and the exposed arm was covered in blood and flesh, and even the white bones were vaguely visible.
The area of the entire front hall is only about 20 square meters, which is completely covered by the attack range of these tentacles. If these dozens or hundreds of tentacles attack at the same time, Ke Lan and the others will have nowhere to hide.
"I need more nutrients... more nutrients..." Two more tentacles swept over, and Ke Lan quickly squatted down and barely dodged them.
For this monster, people like us should be the so-called nutrients, right?
Ke Lan picked up the incense burner from the low table and threw it directly towards the tentacle group.
"Snapped!"
When the incense burner was half a meter away from it, seven or eight tentacles shot out at the same time, captured it in mid-air, and then directly shredded it into pieces...
Active attacks are two tentacles at a distance of more than three meters. The attack power is almost equal to the full-strength attack of a level two modified human, and the upper limit is unknown. When passively defending, seven to eight tentacles are dispatched at a time, with extremely fast reactions and a defense radius of about half a meter. The power is enough to crush an alloy incense burner.
In other words, they could only use long-range attacks. If they engaged in close combat, without Asano Akira's presence, the four of them combined would probably not be a match for this monster.
"Don't worry about it, just fire!" The Hound raised the Type 01 rifle in his hand and pulled the trigger directly!
"Da da da——" Deafening gunshots suddenly rang out in the room!
The Ark-01 automatic rifle was developed as a standard military rifle in the first year after Noah's Ark landed on Alpha. It absorbed the advantages of all conventional automatic rifles of the old era and improved them. It also adopted the most advanced metal smelting technology and added a small amount of Nino alloy to the material of the barrel, so that its accuracy at 100 meters can still be maintained within 1MOA after 40,000 shots.
The bullets used are 8.8mm caliber full-power bullets. This is also taken into consideration that most of the indigenous creatures on Alpha Star have thick skin and flesh. Compared with bullets from the old era, the 8.8mm full-power bullets have much stronger penetration ability and lethality after penetration.
If the target is a human, hitting the lumbar spine at a distance of 100 meters can directly break the person into two pieces, which is not much different from the heavy machine guns of the old era.
The only drawbacks of the Type 01 rifle are its large recoil and the weight of the 8.8mm full-power bullet. However, in an era when genetic modification technology, human enhancement technology, and biochemical transformation technology are extremely common, these two problems are no longer a problem.
The power of the Type 01 rifle is recognized by all those who have used it. A single burst of bullets can basically knock down medium-sized indigenous creatures like rock thorn lizards and snow dragons, which have scales and cuticles on their bodies as defenses...
However, after these bullets hit the tentacles in front of them, they were like hitting a pile of cotton and had no effect at all!
If the bullet didn't penetrate the tentacles, it could be explained by the high density of the tentacles, but where did the huge kinetic energy go? The impact was enough to flip an elephant over , but the monster didn't even lean back as it should have after being hit...
The Hound emptied the entire magazine in one go, but the bullets seemed to pour into a black hole without any feedback...
"What the hell is this--" Before the Hound could finish his curse, two tentacles came down at him on the head with a sound of breaking through the air. He subconsciously raised his rifle to block it. With a sharp "click", the metal receiver with a trace amount of Nino alloy added to it was smashed into an almost right-angled shape.
"hiss……"
The force of this attack was stronger than the previous ones. The hound, who had taken the blow head-on, felt his legs go limp and fell to his knees. The broken rifle in his hand was blown away by the retracted tentacles and knocked over a heater in the corner.
"It... its power is getting stronger!" Ivan's face was a little pale. If it had been this powerful the first time it attacked him, he would probably have suffered more than just a broken arm.
If the first attack was considered at the level of a second-level cyborg, then this one was at least equivalent to a fifth-level cyborg.
"Bah!... My wrist is dislocated..." The hound spat out a mouthful of blood foam and said through gritted teeth.
"It would be great if Asano Aki was here..." said Layton. He protected and held a military hand axe in the other, and stood in front of the hound resolutely.
"I don't think that guy can do it... It's better that he's not here, at least there's one less person to be buried with him... Bah... Get out of my way, big guy, I don't need you to block the knife!" The hound struggled to stand up.
"Bullets are useless against this guy..." Ke Lan looked around, but the things in the room could be counted on the fingers of one hand, and there was no way to restrain this monster.
"Seed of Corrosion... That's what the 'envoy' just called it..."
"How do you say 'Seed of Erosion' in the language of Alpha Civilization?" For some reason, this thought suddenly popped up in Ke Lan's mind.
Almost in an instant, a large amount of fragmented information suddenly poured out from the depths of his mind!
"'Seed of Corrosion', a creation produced by the 49,666th transformation experiment..."
"The 'core' of the 'seed of corrosion' contains a drop of blood from the gods..."
"The result of the experiment... failed... not strong enough... unable to survive in a vacuum environment for a long time..."
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It was just like the feeling when the stone tablet was broken, except that the information instilled into Ke Lan's brain this time had one thing in common, that is, they were all related to this "seed of erosion"...
He felt as if he had typed the word into a search engine, and all the information containing this word appeared in front of him at once.
"'Seeds of Corrosion' will invade the biological cells it comes into contact with and modify the genetic sequence of the invaded organisms..."
"The 'Seed of Corrosion' requires a large amount of organic matter and energy during its growth process..."
"'Seed of Corrosion' has a strong ability to resist physical attacks and regenerate..."
No... Ke Lan shook his head vigorously... This was not the information he needed. It was of no use at all now!
What he needs is a way to kill this "Seed of Erosion", he needs to know the weakness of the "Seed of Erosion"!
As soon as this thought came up, a lot of the information was immediately filtered out, leaving only a dozen or so highlighted pieces of content - this operation was like adding a few more keywords to the search engine, greatly narrowing the scope of the search results...
"The cells of the Flesh-Eating Worm are an irresistible attraction to the Seed of Corrosion..."
"But the cells of the Flesh-Eating Worm are fatally toxic to the Seed of Erosion, causing the cells of the Seed of Erosion to die quickly..."
"During the experiment, the two creations must be completely isolated..."
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Flesh-eating worm? Could it be the flesh-eating worm that came out of the priestess's stomach?
