Volume 12: Yaguna Kotor Chapter 594: Bloody Giant Shield
But at the moment when Ke Lan was distracted, Longchuan Ximei, who was originally leaning on the partition and was shaky, suddenly fell into his arms. The hands tied by self-locking cable ties broke free in an instant and clung to Ke Lan's shoulders tightly.
Her mouth opened to a degree far beyond the normal human limit, with the corners of her mouth stretched all the way to her ears, making it look as if the upper half of her head had flipped backwards - then, a large mass of bloody tentacles spurted out of her throat and directly wrapped around Ke Lan's face.
At the same time, Ke Lan's arms had pierced through Longchuan Ximei's chest, tearing the "container" apart!
The Seed of Erosion, which had broken free from its shackles, had already climbed onto Ke Lan's head. This was a Seed of Erosion that had just entered a period of rapid change and was not yet fully mature. It looked like a severely deformed octopus, with a large amount of broken tissue from the "container" clinging to its translucent tentacles, and inside it was a mass of crimson misty substance like blood.
Hundreds of tentacles grew out of the body of this erosion species, tightly wrapped around Ke Lan's body... These tentacles looked soft, but were actually extremely tough. On Ke Lan's shoulders, back, and the outside of his arms, the tightly wrapped tentacles had already cut through the skin and sunk deeply into the flesh.
But there was no expression of pain on Ke Lan's face - for him, after experiencing the pain of living armor fusion, his body's threshold for endurance of pain had been raised to a level that ordinary people could hardly imagine.
The attack of the Seed of Erosion did not stop. It seemed that it wanted to drill its tentacles into Ke Lan's seven orifices... At this moment, a layer of blood-red film suddenly appeared and completely separated the Seed of Erosion from Ke Lan's body.
The next second, Ke Lan's upper body exploded into a red sea urchin. Countless blood-red spikes instantly pierced through the flexible soft body of the Erosion Seed and tangled up the hundreds of tentacles.
The blood mist flowing and churning inside the tentacles was immediately absorbed completely by the red spikes. Then, the "core" that was also pierced by the spikes split into several petals and gradually merged with the soft flesh.
In less than half a minute, a rapidly changing erosion seed had turned into a pool of transparent pus, which flowed down from the surface of the living armor and dripped onto the tiled floor of the bathroom.
Despite the "intimate contact" with the Seed of Erosion, Ke Lan was not infected by the cells of the Seed of Erosion - not only was he not infected, but he also used the spikes of his active armor to absorb the drop of "True God's Blood" in the core of the Seed of Erosion.
If the memory that the stone tablet left for Ke Lan is correct, then there should be a drop of blood from the "great god" in the core of "each" Seed of Erosion - of course, those who can enjoy this treatment should be the first batch of Seeds of Erosion that were born... But what was the final outcome of this first batch of Seeds of Erosion? There is no mention in the memory fragment.
It is possible that they gained incomparable power because of the blood of the true God, or it is possible that they could not withstand such power and quickly died just after being born... But no matter which the outcome is, one thing is certain: so far, humans have not had any intersection with this kind of corrosive seeds.
Ke Lan felt that it might be a species completely different from the known erosion species. If he had to give it a name according to the current naming rules, Ke Lan might call them "native species."
Compared with the original species, these current seeds of erosion are undoubtedly the product of compromise, a kind of "defective products" that can be mass-produced without limit. The "blood of the true God" in their bodies is not even a diluted version, and at best can only be regarded as an imitation - Ke Lan couldn't help but think of artificially synthesized diamonds, but on second thought, artificially synthesized diamonds can at least completely replace natural diamonds in the industrial field, and these imitations of the blood of God are estimated to not even have one thousandth of the energy of the real thing.
Complaints aside, the drop of "mass-produced" true god blood in the "core" is still the source of power for the entire Seed of Corrosion. And the active armor on Ke Lan seemed to like this thing very much. When it just slaughtered those hijackers, it absorbed all the false god blood of the Seed of Corrosion. Every time it absorbed a portion, the activity and power of the armor itself would be slightly enhanced - this kind of enhancement is so weak that it can be almost ignored, but Ke Lan can still clearly feel that the active armor can grow by absorbing this thing.
What made him a little worried was that... by absorbing the blood of the false god, it was the armor itself that grew, not him.
Will there come a day when mass production leads to a qualitative change, and the active armor takes control of the body... Ke Lan didn't dare to think about it, but the idea of separating the armor became even stronger.
If he had the chance, he would definitely take off this armor.
It's just a tool, and tools shouldn't have life.
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Coming out of the bathroom , Ke Lan walked forward less than ten meters and pushed open a half-open, bullet-riddled cabin door. The area where the gunfight had just broken out came into his sight.
This was a straight passage with almost no cover. Several bodies wearing crisis management uniforms were lying on the ground in a mess. Sticky blood flowed from several meters away to Ke Lan's feet.
The bodies of these crisis management officers were all riddled with bullet holes, and some were even beaten into pieces. From this scene, we can tell that they were probably killed by the intensive barrage of automatic weapons. In this kind of terrain, only one heavy machine gun is needed to block the entire passage. Unless there are heavy bulletproof shields or heavy power armor at the front to clear the way, no matter how many people are deployed, it is just like throwing people into a meat grinder...
"I must have heard it wrong just now... These people not only have light machine guns, but also half-inch caliber vehicle-mounted heavy machine guns... How did they transport such a big thing onto the plane?"
Ke Lan looked towards the end of the passage - the lights in the entire passage were turned off, and it was pitch black. She could only vaguely see the walls on both sides of the passage. Even the bodies of the operators a little further away were only left with a vague outline.
Ke Lan noticed that there was a small tactical flashlight lying in the sticky pool of blood... Apparently, the crisis management officers in this group subconsciously turned on the lighting equipment when they entered this unlit passage. However, they did not expect that the light source in the dark environment would make them the most conspicuous target.
Of course, they had not anticipated that the enemy would station so many troops in the cockpit, and even equipped them with heavy firepower that even they did not have.
"It seems like I have to let Ye Yan investigate his men carefully..." Ke Lan thought to herself. To be able to bring so many boxes of weapons into the airport, there must be one or more high-ranking traitors inside the Ye Group. As for pawns like Longchuan Ximei, they seem insignificant at this time.
"12.7mm machine gun bullets... the active armor should be able to block them, right?" Ke Lan muttered in his heart. The horrific body parts on the ground were the masterpieces of that heavy machine gun - if this thing was equipped with depleted uranium armor-piercing bullets, it could even penetrate the side armor of some light armored vehicles.
"It would be nice to have a heavy shield..."
Ke Lan tried to imagine himself holding a shield, but just as he was imagining it, the active armor on his body suddenly began to flow, gathering towards his forearm little by little.
At first, it was an arm shield only the size of a palm. Then, the palm-sized arm shield turned into a round shield that was large enough to protect Ke Lan's upper body behind it. Then, the round shield gradually lengthened and expanded to an area that could block Ke Lan's entire body behind the shield.
The thickness of this huge blood-red shield is about the width of a palm. As a price, only a thin layer of "shell" is left on Ke Lan's armor all over his body, and most of the "blood" is condensed on this shield.
This shield is not solid. During the forming process, Ke Lan clearly saw the composite sandwich structure inside. Compared with a solid shield, this structure can weaken the penetration power of the warhead to the greatest extent, allowing the warhead to consume all its kinetic energy before penetrating the shield.
However, this structure was not generated by the active armor itself - when Ke Lan was "imagining" the shield, he thought of the composite armor often used on mechas, and the composite interlayer of the active armor was constructed according to the styles of the composite armor that Ke Lan thought of.
"Perhaps, calling this thing 'armor'... is a bit too one-sided." Ke Lan looked at the "giant shield" in his hand, and his mood was a bit complicated.
This thing seems to be able to read my thoughts... This is not a good thing...
However, as far as the current situation is concerned, if there were no active armor transformed into a shield, things would probably become quite tricky - the nearly half-meter thick explosion-proof door in front of him was almost shot through, which shows how strong the opponent's firepower is.
If there was no Cardinal in Black among the hijackers, Ke Lan could have called on fighter jets to use cluster laser weapons to carry out a "surgical" precision strike - directly "cutting" off the nose of the plane where the cockpit is located, and then taking advantage of the gap before the plane crashed to have all the people on board parachute to escape... Although this rescue method may seem very awkward, at least it is quick and efficient, and Ark does not have to take too much risk.
However, when the Cardinal in Black appeared among the hijackers, the situation was completely different.
The Cardinal in Black is like a bomb of unknown magnitude that could explode at any time... He could be just a rocket launcher, or he could be a "Big Ivan". Ke Lan doesn't dare to bet... If a space-time storm that appeared in the Security Bureau's action records is triggered in mid-air, then no one on the transport plane, including himself, will have any chance of survival.
Rather than taking a gamble by "detonating" him, Ke Lan would rather let him complete the sacrifice ceremony and then kill the thing he summoned.
Using a human body as a sacrifice, the strongest thing that can be summoned is at most an SP-level mutant, which is much weaker than a perverted existence like Seraph. Relying on the power of active armor, it is not too difficult to tear an SP-level mutant apart with bare hands.
Although it was outrageous that Park Sang-woo sacrificed the things he summoned inside Agunaktor before, considering that he was actually one of the prophet's substitutes and could no longer be considered a "human" in the strict sense, his sacrifice ceremony could not be measured with normal eyes.
The black-robed cardinal among the hijackers should not be a substitute for the prophet - otherwise, the hijackers should call him "prophet" instead of "bishop".
"In a one-on-one fight, the active armor should still be able to suppress the black cardinal..." Ke Lan thought to himself. As for the other hijackers and the seeds of erosion in their bodies, he simply ignored them.
Holding a huge shield, as soon as Ke Lan stepped into the passage, the deafening sound of machine guns rang out, and the blazing muzzle flames directly illuminated the entire passage as if it were daytime.
"Damn... these guys even prepared night vision goggles?"
