Volume 10: Ancient Battleship Chapter 485: One Person Clears the Scene
The explosion would not necessarily destroy the power room, but it would definitely be enough to kill everyone in the reconnaissance team!
Fortunately, this area is relatively open, leaving plenty of room for everyone to fight, so there is no need to rush to fight these bugs whose stomachs are full of flammable and explosive items.
They began to retreat, stretching the swarm's formation as long as possible, and then used precise point-fire to eliminate individual stray insects on the edge of the swarm.
"This efficiency is too low..." The Hound couldn't help but complain, "It feels like I have all the energy in my body, but I can't use it at all."
Although others did not complain like him, his words touched everyone's heart.
More and more bugs crawled out of the giant pit, and the reconnaissance team was faced with increasing pressure. However, they did not dare to unleash all their firepower for fear of causing a large-scale chain explosion. This feeling of being restricted was really suffocating.
But Ke Lan couldn't think of a better solution for the time being - unless he could find a way to delay the self-destruction of the lava leech larvae.
At this moment, Asano Akira suddenly took a step forward, walked to the front of the team, and said softly: "Let me do it."
"You come?" Ke Lan was stunned for a moment, and hesitated for a moment - although Asano Akira was the one with the highest personal combat power among them, close combat was a taboo against things like lava leeches!
Even if you can chop these bugs apart, it is difficult to avoid the self-detonation of the bugs when they are dying... It is difficult enough to fight one on one, let alone facing a swarm of hundreds of bugs.
"Yes, I'm sure." Asano Akira nodded. "Last time, after fighting with Marshall, I can feel that my ability has become stronger. I can deal with these bugs."
"Your ability... has been promoted to a higher level?" Ke Lan racked his brains for a long time before he came up with this word, which is common in fantasy cultivation systems but rarely used in reality.
But only this kind of words can be used to describe the superpowers unique to telekinetic experimental subjects.
"Well, I feel like I'm almost breaking through that shackle... I'm almost there, and I can reach the level that Marshall described to me."
"Telekinesis materializes?" Ke Lan looked at Asano Akira with some surprise. The handsome young swordsman closed his eyes and held the scabbard in one hand. His other hand did not touch the handle, but the sharp blade in the scabbard seemed to come alive and automatically popped out and fell into his hand.
Asano Akira threw the sword to the ground, and the sharp tip of the sword immediately sank several inches - as if what they were standing on was not hard rock, but a piece of tofu that was so soft that it could be broken with a breath.
Ke Lan couldn't help but frown. It was certainly a good thing that Asano Akira's strength had increased, but Marshall had also told him that this kind of ability was not something that the human body could withstand.
The reason why the telekinesis experiment failed is because the body of the experimental subject could not withstand the load brought by the overly powerful mental power. Even an eighth-level enhanced person like Marshall could not withstand the negative impact of this ability. No matter how strong Asano Akira was, he could not be stronger than Marshall.
Ke Lan looked at him worriedly.
From the outside, there was no visible change at all, but Ke Lan could feel that an independent space seemed to have formed a few inches around Asano Akira. This was the embryonic form of the "absolute control field" and a symbol of the power of thought being on the verge of materialization.
"Be careful and don't force yourself." Ke Lan warned.
"I know." After saying that, Asano Akira removed the various parts of the power armor from his body.
"Wait! Asano Akira, what are you doing?" The hound who saw this scene asked, "Why did you take off your armor?"
Although the power armor equipped by the reconnaissance team is not as good as the two prototypes provided by the Ye Group, it is not a mass-produced model that can be easily purchased. Each piece is based on the top individual power armor on the market and is customized based on the size and ability of the reconnaissance team members.
Although he could not withstand the "resonance" caused by the simultaneous explosion of dozens of lava leeches, he could still withstand one or two close-range explosions. But now that he had taken off his armor, the self-detonation of a single lava leech could blow his body into pieces.
Even for a high-level enhanced human, the strength of his flesh and blood body cannot compare to this expensive alloy armor.
In the eyes of the hound, taking off the armor is simply seeking death.
But Asano Akira simply said: "The power armor is too inflexible and can't keep up with my reaction."
The hound was stunned for two seconds before he managed to squeeze out a sentence from between his teeth: "I'll let you pretend now... If you lose any limbs later, don't worry, I'll be the first one to come and laugh at you."
"What if Asano Akira isn't pretending?" Asano Akira didn't respond to the Hound's question, but Layton spoke up for him.
"Even if he is really awesome..."
Asano Akira took off his power armor, leaving only a breathing mask and a can of oxygen hanging behind him. He placed the scabbard on the ground, held the sword with both hands, and bowed slightly.
"Everyone! Stop shooting in five seconds!" Ke Lan clenched his right fist and raised it high.
"Prepare to cover Asano Akira." He added, "Five, four, three, two, one--"
The moment the gunfire stopped, Asano Akira rushed into the swarm of insects. Without activating the time stop function, Ke Lan couldn't even see his movements clearly. Only a series of blurry afterimages remained on her retina.
The next second, a mutated larva of a lava leech was picked up and flew into the air.
After the mutant larvae were lifted up to a height of nearly fifty meters, a barely , and they were completely cut in half. Through the smooth incision, one could even see the cross-section of their internal structure...
These worms...even the surface of their internal organs are covered with tiny, uneven crystals.
The cut mutant larva exploded violently after a brief delay, but at this height, the aftermath of the explosion had been greatly weakened by the time it reached the ground.
For other young animals, this shock wave is at most a strong gust of wind pressure, which is not enough to cause them to self-destruct, and naturally will not trigger a chain reaction.
"Wow, this works?!" Layton couldn't help but open his mouth in amazement as he watched Asano Akira cut into the insect swarm alone and lifted all the mutant larvae near him into the air.
He even controlled the angle of the flying very precisely. Each mutant larva that was lifted up maintained a far enough distance even in the air to prevent interference with each other and cause "resonance".
As for how he delayed the "splitting" of the mutant larva's body, Layton couldn't understand it at all.
He only remembered that in many movies with cold weapon battle scenes, in order to highlight the speed of the knife and the sharpness of the blade, it would often take a few seconds after the blade passed through the flesh before a thin "red line" would appear on the neck of the person stabbed, and then the head and body would be separated.
If you want to make it more exaggerated, you can give the dying man a few lines in these few seconds, or have him stagger a few steps, and then let the blood spurt onto the camera, and finally zoom out to take in the entire battle scene - in this way, the tension of the camera is almost instantly maximized.
(PS I have some personal opinions here. I would like to recommend one of Quentin's representative works of violent aesthetics, "Kill Bill". The scene where the protagonist kills Ishii Oren at the end of the first part uses a similar shooting technique.)
"So strong!" Zhuo Ligetu exclaimed, and couldn't help but tighten his grip on the battle axe hanging on his waist - that was his usual weapon. In the past, he was very confident in his close combat ability, but after seeing the strength displayed by Asano Akira at this moment, Zhuo Ligetu began to doubt whether he could last three moves under the hands of this man who looked fairer than a girl.
No... let alone three moves, I might be dead in the first move...
The dense swarm of insects couldn't get close to Asano Akira at all - not because Asano Akira dodged fast enough, but because all the mutant larvae that pounced on him were picked up and flew away by the tip of the knife, without any exception.
With his own strength, he killed one in the middle of the Zerg swarm and split it into two parts.
Layton and his men were so surprised, not to mention Aya and his men. Their expressions were as exciting as they could be. One of the agents, who was carrying a heavy sword and seemed to prefer close combat, almost knelt down to watch Asano's performance.
"Isn't he the failed product of that experiment... Why..." Aya said incoherently, "Are all the eliminated people... so... exaggerated?"
"Don't ask me. I rarely see Asano Akira use his full strength." Ke Lan glanced at her casually. "The Security Bureau should have archived information about this group of people. You can look it up yourself."
Although Ke Lan was also surprised, he would not show it on his face - his subordinates were awesome, so he, as the boss, could naturally "share" this awesomeness. If he showed the same surprised expression as others at this time, it would be too embarrassing.
If you want to show off, you have to do it all.
"Asano Akira, can you try to divide the swarm into several small pieces? This will make it easier for us to kill off individual ones and speed up the clearing process." Ke Lan said in the team's communication channel.
Although Asano Akira took off his power armor, he still wore his headphones.
He did not speak, but answered with actual action - after piercing the Zerg swarm, he struck back and separated several mutant larvae in one corner of the Zerg swarm from the main force.
"Concentrate your firepower and prioritize dealing with lone young ones!" Ke Lan immediately issued a new order.
…
The battle lasted less than half an hour. Because of Asano Akira, the originally tough battle turned into a boring shooting game - of course, the word boring was not used to describe him, but to describe Ke Lan and other spectators who were "watching the show" most of the time.
In the words of the Hound, even if this clip was cut directly into the movie, there would be no need for post-production staff to add special effects. The ghostly movements and miraculous swordsmanship are already mysterious enough in themselves.
…
Looking at the corpses of mutated lava leech larvae scattered on the ground, Ke Lan began to count the number of lava leeches that had crawled out from the bottom of the giant pit.
"There are 176 in total." Asano Akira had obviously started counting the moment he rushed into the swarm of insects. Before Ke Lan had counted to one third, he had given the exact number.
"176... that's exactly the number of eggs a female lava leech can lay in one go."
Ke Lan suddenly had a bad feeling.
Although there is no shortage of food in this place, it will undoubtedly take a long time for the lava leeches to change their cannibalistic habits... The ancestors of these mutated lava leeches may have come here thousands of years ago and have been multiplying and living here until today.
This means... in this power room, at the bottom of this huge pit, there is most likely a huge group of lava leeches.
And the group of mutant larvae may only be a very small part of the entire population.
"This place seems to be more dangerous than the tunnel..."
On the other side, Hound and Zhuoligetu picked up a large number of lava leech limbs. They piled the limbs on the ground and asked Layton to use a flamethrower to burn the surface of the limbs until they were carbonized. Then they pried open the limbs with a dagger, dug out the hot white meat inside, and put it into a plastic bag.
"What are you doing?" Aya Breya asked curiously.
"You don't know this!" The hound chuckled, "Although 99% of the native creatures on Alpha are inedible, the lava leech happens to be one of the remaining 1%."
He went on to say, "The abdominal sac used by lava leeches to store ' fuel ' has a very high radiation content and is highly toxic, but their limbs are very clean. Although the meat inside the hard shell tastes a bit fishy and has a rough texture, it has no radiation at all and is not toxic. The protein content is at least five times that of synthetic beef... Have the agents in your field team never encountered a situation where they ran out of ammunition and food while performing their missions?"
"...No." Aya shook her head, "We will bring enough supplies."
"What if something unexpected happens? Like this time."
"Among the things listed in the wilderness survival tutorial that can be used as food... this is not one of them." Aya bit her lip and said stubbornly.
"Oh, I've seen that thing. Every recruit in the field service unit has a copy. But no one takes it seriously. It lists less than twenty kinds of food in total, most of which are very rare plants. If people strictly follow the instructions in the book to find food, many people would have starved to death. Apart from anything else, the limbs of this lava leech are much better than the gray potatoes mentioned in the book - ha! Whether it's nutritional value or toxic side effects, it's better in all aspects."
“But the risk of killing lava leeches is far greater than collecting gray potatoes,” Aya retorted.
