Volume 13 Ancient Bronze City Ruins Chapter 639 True Core
If one hadn't seen it with one's own eyes, no one would have believed that a behemoth like the Primal Seed of Corrosion was actually suppressed by a dozen mass-produced Fallen Angels - this absurd feeling was as outrageous as a group of ants knocking down an elephant with their punches and kicks.
"Keep moving forward, don't stop!" Ke Lan slapped the blasphemer under his feet and shouted loudly.
From the moment they entered the battle zone, they had no way to retreat. The only way to survive was to keep moving forward.
All the mass-produced fallen angel squad could do to help them was to clear a path, but every moment new tentacles grew out of the bodies of the original seeds of corrosion, rushing towards them like an overwhelming force.
The Blasphemer mech had already boarded the body of the Original Corrosion Seed, and its forward speed suddenly slowed down - although the body of the Corrosion Seed was extremely tough, it was not a solid place to stand. As long as the body's feet stepped on it, the place that was as hard as iron in the last second would turn into a sticky quagmire in the next second. At the same time, a large number of tiny tentacles would grow wildly due to induction and wrap around any object close to the surface of the Original Corrosion Seed.
Even if she flew close to the ground with the help of the jets, she couldn't completely avoid those small tentacles. The phrase "sprouting" couldn't describe how fast they grew - at first glance, they were just small fleshy buds as thick as fingers, but in a blink of an eye, they were already more than 30 meters long. Facing these annoying things, Valentina could only rely on the partial energy shield of the lower body and the tail flames of the thrusters installed on her legs to burn off the approaching tentacles.
But the endless tentacles cannot be burned away at all. If they cannot kill the original seed of erosion, they will eventually be trapped to death in this place.
"Valentina and Ze Luo, the two of you concentrate on controlling the body, I will deal with those tentacles!" Thirty-Three shouted in a low voice, and more than a dozen Nino alloy flying blades flew out from various pockets on his body, and in a blink of an eye, the tentacles chasing after the blasphemer were cut into dozens of pieces.
However, when he released the flying blade, sticky blood plasma slowly overflowed from his nostrils. By the time he had dealt with the tentacles behind him, the clothes on his chest had been completely soaked with the blood from his nose. A large patch of dark red blood looked particularly shocking.
"Are you okay?" Ke Lan glanced at him with some concern. "Don't force yourself. The situation is not so bad that you need to risk your life for the time being."
"It's okay. I just overdrawn my energy from operating the machine." Sanshisan wiped the blood off his chin with the back of his hand. "Besides, for a guy like me, every chance to fight is one less. I don't want to die in mediocrity on a hospital bed like a waste."
“At least wait until revenge is achieved before dying.” Ke Lan raised his head and glanced at the “God of War Alexander” who had already sunk into the clouds. The countless sophisticated mechanical parts on his huge body were still constantly combining and changing, which meant that the prophet’s “awakening ceremony” had not yet been completed… But even for Alexander in this state, the Ark’s fleet was completely helpless against him… Several warships with no ammunition or energy had already launched suicidal raids on Alexander, but no warship had succeeded in causing damage to Alexander’s body - they couldn’t even crash into Alexander’s energy shield, and were cut into pieces by the dense defensive beams in mid-air.
Ke Lan couldn't help but have some doubts... Even if the living armor really absorbed the blood of God, could it get rid of this mechanical god?
The towering steel giant seemed so invincible that just looking up at it would make people feel deeply powerless... As for knocking it down with one's own hands, Ke Lan simply couldn't imagine such a scene.
There are only eight mass-produced Fallen Angels still functioning, and the battle plan against the Original Seed of Corrosion has also come to an end. These mass-produced Fallen Angels have "drilled" a hole with a diameter of more than 100 meters in the body of the Original Seed of Corrosion, reaching the center of the body of the Original Seed of Corrosion. Under the strong light of the searchlight, Ke Lan can even see the crystal-like transparent shell of the "true nucleus" deep in the cave.
"Rush in!" Ke Lan said to Valentina and Ze Luo.
Although the walls of the cave were already squirming and closing inward, and perhaps the entire cave would be completely closed before Ke Lan and the others could reach the "Eunucleus", they had no choice - they only had this one chance, and the remaining few machines of the mass-produced Fallen Angels team had very little time left to move, and it was no longer possible to open up a second passage for them to reach the "Eunucleus".
However, they had just entered the cave and had advanced less than fifty meters when a new obstacle appeared in front of them -
On the inner wall of the cave, sarcoma-like cysts ranging from half a meter to one meter in diameter pushed open the necrotic tissue that was burned into charcoal and grew out. These sarcoma-like cysts expanded and cracked rapidly, and small erosion seeds hatched directly from them, and pounced on Ke Lan and the others fearlessly!
"These tumors are... the eggs of the Seeds of Erosion!" Ivan exclaimed, "So the Seeds of Erosion have this kind of reproduction method? I thought they were like viruses, relying on infecting and alienating the cells of other organisms to complete reproduction..."
"This big guy is the original Seed of Erosion, so it's normal to have some differences..." Ke Lan said. He was holding a Gatling cannon picked up from the battlefield and pouring ammunition at the small Seeds of Erosion that were rushing towards him. However, this cannon was loaded with conventional warheads. Although the impact force made these monsters retreat step by step, it could not cause any substantial damage to them.
"The original seed of erosion, does it mean the first seed of erosion that was born?" Ivan asked excitedly.
"To be precise... it should be the earliest batch..." Ke Lan said to everyone, "Our goal is to get the drop of 'God's Blood' in the core of this original Corrosion Seed. This thing is the key to solving Alexander's problem."
"The blood of God in the body of the Original Corrosion Seed... is it real?" Ivan asked.
Prior to this, Ke Lan and Ivan had discussed many times about the "God's Blood" in the bodies of the Corrosion Seeds. Ivan also knew that the God's Blood in the bodies of the ordinary Corrosion Seeds they saw now were all "imitations". Otherwise, if the heretical sects infected a few hundred or a few thousand people at random, wouldn't there be hundreds or thousands of more copies of God's Blood out of thin air... Then this God's Blood would really be too "cheap".
"Yeah." Ke Lan nodded.
"No wonder... the power of the original erosion seed is so strong..."
"Let's not talk about this for now. There are too many seeds of erosion squeezing in. This passage is about to be blocked!" Thirty-three shouted, "Have you noticed something--"
"What?"
"Even if these seeds of erosion are killed, their remains will not rot and die, but will merge with the inner wall of the channel and turn back into part of the original seeds of erosion. In this way, the speed at which the channel shrinks will be more than doubled!"
This pattern of splitting and then merging made Ke Lan think of the original Seed of Erosion that split into two and forced the ground troops on standby outside the ruins to retreat into the ruins of the Ancient Bronze City... Although these Seeds of Erosion in front of him were much smaller in size, they were essentially no different from the big one that split off previously.
Among those two giant erosion seeds, one of them must be a weirdo with only a "pseudo-core" in its body. Unfortunately, the command of the front-line troops did not obtain the corresponding intelligence at that time, otherwise, among the more than 100,000 soldiers who died in the ruins, at least half of them would have had a chance to survive.
"Put me down, I'll drag these things, you guys continue to move forward." Thirty-three said. At this moment , blood was not only flowing out of his nostrils, but also from the corners of his eyes, mouth and ear canals, with sticky black blood constantly flowing out. His collar had been completely stained dark brown.
"You're already bleeding from all seven orifices. If you continue to use your abilities, you'll probably die suddenly..."
"For a soldier, dying here is a good fate - cough cough!" Thirty-three coughed twice, and the bloody sputum he coughed up contained some tiny fragments of internal organs. "If you can really kill that big guy, my life will be worth it... You don't know how many soldiers in the field army want such an ending, but they don't have the chance..."
Just when Sanshisan was about to push Ke Lan away and jump down, an angry shout suddenly came from behind. Everyone turned around hurriedly and saw a pitch-black machine with its thrusters at full power, crashing into the passage.
"Damn it, I finally caught up!" Layton's voice appeared again in the team's communication channel, "You guys charge forward, leave these bastards to me!"
The black mecha turned around and pulled out two equally black swords from its back. Apart from the paint, these two swords were exactly the same as the weapons equipped by the Ronin Squad. They were also equipped with devices for injecting active cells, which could directly kill the Seeds of Corrosion through physical attacks.
"It seems that you are not destined to die." Ivan patted Thirty-three on the back, pulled him back, and stuffed an emergency blood-replenishing injection into Thirty-three's hand.
"I don't know if this thing will work in your situation, but at least it can temporarily relieve the various symptoms caused by excessive blood loss." Ivan said.
Emergency blood tonics cannot truly "replenish blood", but they can delay the time it takes for the human body to fall into shock due to excessive blood loss - an adult has about three to five thousand milliliters of blood in his body, and the blood flowing out of Sanshisan's nasal cavity alone is probably more than one thousand milliliters... If it weren't for his exceptionally strong body, an ordinary person would have gone into shock long ago.
"Thank you..." Thirty-three gave Ivan a somewhat bleak smile, but the injection ended up sticking into his upper arm - his special ability couldn't turn him into an immortal superman. After losing more than a thousand milliliters of blood, his vision had already begun to become blurred, and his skin couldn't feel the temperature of the outside world at all... He even suspected that if he had really jumped out just now, he might have fallen headfirst to the ground and never been able to get up again.
In a trance, he felt a very familiar atmosphere... He seemed to have returned to the Velociraptor Squad. The group of comrades who had been through life and death with him did not leave him, but stayed by his side all the time.
"I'm going on a killing spree today!" Layton roared loudly, waving the two swords in his hands in a disorderly manner - there were too many Seeds of Erosion rushing up, even if he was just slashing and killing indiscriminately, every sword he slashed could cut the bodies of several Seeds of Erosion. The entire heavy armor of the "Black Armor Warrior" was covered with bloody pieces of flesh, and it looked like a demon crawling out of hell.
With Layton's help in clearing the way, the speed of progress suddenly increased a lot - finally, when the diameter of the passage shrank to only about ten meters and the Blasphemer Mech had to lean down, they finally arrived at the "true core" located in the center of the body of the Original Seed of Erosion.
This place is already six kilometers deep from the surface of the original Seed of Corrosion, and those mass-produced Fallen Angels have drained the life of the living CPU in the process of maintaining the channel, and all of them were wiped out.
"Hurry up, there's no time!" The information dealer, who had been speaking in a leisurely tone, now urged very rarely, "In at most one minute, you will be buried alive inside this giant."
In front of the "True Core", a mass-produced Fallen Angel that had lost its controller knelt down. Until the last second before it shut down, it was still waving its weapon to prevent the proliferation of tissue in the body of the Seed of Erosion from wrapping up the "True Core" again. Now, the surface of the "True Core" has been covered with a palm-thick flesh membrane. This flesh membrane is constantly squirming, and a large amount of fluid is transported from all directions and poured into the pipes under the flesh membrane. In just a few breaths, the thickness of the flesh membrane has increased by nearly twice.
"Cut it open." Ke Lan said.
The Blasphemer Mech took a step forward and swung the heavy armor-piercing swords crosswise, instantly cutting a cross-shaped incision in the flesh membrane.
The flesh membrane carbonized by high temperature cracked at the edge, revealing the "true nucleus" hidden underneath.
The diameter of this eukaryote is about three meters, which is not small according to the size of a human, but compared with the huge body of the original erosion seed, the proportion occupied by this thing is a bit ridiculously small.
Even the walnut-sized brain in a dinosaur's head would have accounted for a much larger proportion of the volume.
I don’t know how those mass-produced fallen angels determined the location of the “true core”...Looking for this thing in the body of the original seed of corrosion is no less difficult than finding a needle in a haystack.
The eukaryote is transparent throughout, and unlike the "nucleus" of ordinary erosive species, there is no fleshy organ inside, only a drop of bright red liquid quietly suspended in the center.
This drop of liquid is exactly the same as the one Ke Lan saw "inside the tower".
