Volume 13 Ancient Bronze City Ruins Chapter 640: Absorbing the Blood of God
"Is this the real blood of God?" Ivan pushed the goggles stuck on his nose. "So, the 'great god' that the heretics believe in really exists?"
"I don't think the heretic sects truly believe in the thing called God, at least the prophet doesn't." Ke Lan shook his head. "I have dealt with that guy and his stand-in several times. I don't feel any piety from them... In my opinion, the reason why he worships that God is simply to covet His power."
"Ke Lan...your arm..." Ivan turned his head to look at Ke Lan and immediately discovered something abnormal about the latter - Ke Lan's entire right arm was almost covered with dark red blood clots, which were still constantly proliferating and piling up... gradually approaching the direction of the "eukaryote".
"This thing seems to be thirsty for the blood of gods." Ke Lan said, placing his right hand on the surface of the true core, "Do you remember what you saw in the 'tower'?"
"Remember, that was... a temptation that was hard for me to refuse..." Recalling those fragments, Ivan couldn't help swallowing his saliva, "Although my reason told me that those things were fake..."
"Me too. I saw... people who should have died long ago." Thirty-three leaned on the legs of the Blasphemer mecha, his face pale and breathing heavily. "They were so real... They greeted me, smiled and talked to me... It was as if they were all still alive."
"Those things come from your brain, from the memory fragments when they were alive." Ke Lan said, "But what I saw was something I had never seen before."
The living armor almost completely drilled out of Ke Lan's body, covering the surface of the nucleus and turning into a layer of substance between solid and liquid.
"What did you see?" Ivan asked.
"The real blood of God." Ke Lan said, "But I actually didn't know what it was... It was the strange agitation of the living armor that made me realize that it was not ordinary blood."
"So what exactly is this living armor... The undead crew has never told you clearly?" Ivan stared at the blood-red substance covering the surface of the nucleus and frowned slightly.
"No."
"Then their battle plan... is to let you use your living armor to absorb this drop of real blood of God?" Ivan took two deep breaths and continued, "Can we kill... 'Alexander' in this way?"
"I don't know. The guy who contacted me didn't say what to do after absorbing it." Ke Lan shook his head and pointed to his earphones. "He is talking to me now, but he doesn't say a word."
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At this moment, the living armor suddenly changed. Countless hair-thin spikes suddenly grew on the inner side of the true nucleus, piercing the true nucleus shell and approaching the drop of "True God's Blood" in the center. At the same time, the body of the original erosion seed also twitched violently , causing the entire channel to shrink violently.
"We have to speed up!" Ivan said urgently. At this time, the diameter of the passage was less than five meters. Although the Blasphemer mecha had squatted down, the top of it still touched the top wall of the lowered passage, and the legs of the body had already been immersed in the dense granulations growing from the ground.
"We can't get out!" Layton yelled. He controlled the "Black Armor Warrior" to retreat step by step. One of the two black swords had been broken in the middle, and the blade of the other was also covered with gaps. "The entrance to the passage has been closed. In at most thirty seconds, the space we are standing in now will be filled with growing flesh!"
"To be honest, I can't control this thing now." Ke Lan looked at the living armor that was only connected to him by a "blood thread", "This thing is acting with its own will..."
"Didn't you say before that it has no self-awareness?" Ivan's eyes were full of vigilance.
"But it has an instinct... a bloodthirsty instinct." Ke Lan said, "It's just that what it likes is not the blood of humans or animals, but His blood, including those imitations."
As if sensing Ke Lan's anxious mood, the speed at which the spikes of the living armor invaded the nucleus suddenly increased, and the Original Seed of Corrosion also began to emit mournful cries like a baby crying - for Ke Lan and others who were in the body of the Original Seed of Corrosion, these cries were equivalent to real Thirty-Three, who was already seriously injured, he directly spat out a mouthful of dark blood with internal organ fragments and fell to the ground.
Ivan was quick to grab Thirty-three's body - they were now inside the Seed of Corrosion, and if they came into direct contact with the active tissue of the Seed of Corrosion, there was a high probability of being parasitized, not to mention that this thing was the "Original Seed of Corrosion" that possessed the true blood of God.
"Hurry up, please, faster!" Looking at the approaching inner wall of the passage and the team members who were forced to retreat and squeeze together, Ke Lan kept "urging" the living armor, but the invasion speed of the living armor seemed to have reached its limit and there was no sign of accelerating further.
At this rate, their living space will probably disappear completely before the blood-colored spikes touch the drop of divine blood.
The feeling of being wrapped in those sticky, wriggling flesh and blood is enough to make one's scalp tingle just thinking about it, not to mention that these flesh and blood cells are extremely invasive.
Ke Lan suddenly thought of some heavy-mouthed books, such as the "Marun" plot... But when such a plot happens to herself, it is difficult to make people laugh.
"Damn, these monsters are impossible to kill!" The two swords in the black-armored warrior's hands were finally completely scrapped. If Asano Akira hadn't filled the position in time, Layton would have been surrounded by this group of small erosion seeds that were swarming up crazily.
"Weapons... Damn, there are no more weapons available!" Layton glanced at the equipment list, and his heart suddenly sank - the AMX-95 Black Armor Warrior is an assault-type close combat machine, and is not suitable for sustained combat. To use a more childish description, it is the kind of machine that "takes the enemy's head from among thousands of troops". Its research and development purpose is to target important enemy targets on the battlefield. If it succeeds in one strike, it can be killed instantly on the battlefield. Therefore, the only weapons on the entire machine are these two special combat knives, and it is not even equipped with conventional self-defense firearms.
Of course, this does not mean that the Black Armor Warrior cannot use guns. As a general-purpose humanoid tactical mecha, its ten movable fingers can of course hold guns in addition to holding knives. However, for safety reasons, guns and ammunition are generally not placed in the same airdrop cabin as the body.
The battlefield around the ruins had been destroyed beyond recognition by the awakened Alexander. It was already very lucky for Layton to find such a black-armored warrior that could still be powered on. As for the matching airdrop equipment package, there was not even a shadow of it.
"Damn it, let's fight!" Leighton growled and directly controlled the body to rush out. With his fists clenched, he started the most primitive hand-to-hand combat with the small erosion seeds that continued to split from the inner wall of the passage .
But two fists are no match for four hands... not to mention, each of these seeds of corrosion has more than four tentacles... After just one encounter, the black-armored warrior's arms were torn off the torso of the mecha by countless tentacles. At the same time, the head of the mecha was attacked from all directions, and the main monitor was pierced through.
Fortunately, Asano Akira fully demonstrated his hidden strength at this time. With his sword, he forced hundreds of Erosion Seeds to not be able to get close to the team members. In just ten seconds, more than thirty Erosion Seeds were killed by being pierced by his sword or split open by the "pseudo-core".
He was like an efficient killing machine, wielding the weapon in his hand tirelessly - if the walls of the passage were not closing, he could have held out for at least half an hour by himself.
Ze Luo and Valentina were not idle at this time either. The former continued to use the means of space solidification to delay the process of the four walls closing in, while the latter directly inserted the heavy armor-piercing sword into the "ground" and burned the new flesh and blood with maximum output power.
Everyone is trying their best.
Looking at the spikes that were still a long distance away from the Blood of God, Ke Lan suddenly felt a surge of anger in his heart for no reason. He took a step forward and clenched his right fist directly towards the "true core" that was so close.
"Bang--crack...crack-crack..." First there was a dull sound of impact, followed by the crisp sound of glass breaking.
Fine cracks suddenly appeared on the surface of the nucleus and began to spread gradually inward.
"This thing seems to be much more fragile than it looks..."
Ke Lan took a deep breath and punched the "true core" several times in succession. The cracked area instantly expanded several times.
The spikes of the living armor that penetrated into the interior of the nucleus also advanced several inches in a short period of time.
"It works!" Ke Lan was delighted and started punching left and right, hammering like a sandbag. With every punch, the Original Seed of Corrosion would emit a sharp wail, as if Ke Lan's fist was hitting its heart.
However, from another perspective, the "eukaryote" in the body of the Seed of Erosion is actually equivalent to their heart. It is the source of their power and also their fatal weakness.
Soon, nearly one-third of the nucleus was covered with cracks after being hammered by Ke Lan, just like broken tempered glass.
"To be honest, what you are doing now is very risky." Finally, the voice of the intelligence dealer who had been silent for a long time sounded in Ke Lan's ears again, "You can indeed speed up the invasion of the living armor by doing this, but if the cracks spread to the location of the God's Blood, even if it is only for a moment, the overflowing pollution will spread all over the battlefield."
"But I have no choice but to do this, right?" Ke Lan said, throwing another punch. "Otherwise, everyone will die here."
"They will die, but you won't. The original seed of corrosion in its current state can't pose any threat to you. You can just wait for the living armor to swallow the blood of God. You have already won, and there is no need to take risks." The intelligence dealer said in a very cold voice.
"To me, what you said is no different from fart!"
"Bang!" Another punch, this one hit directly on the back of the living armor covering the surface of the nucleus. The sharp point closest to the blood of God suddenly grew nearly ten centimeters and pierced into the drop of liquid that was as crystal clear and gorgeous as a ruby.
For a moment, Ke Lan felt that the flow of time around him had completely stopped - this was completely different from his ability to stop time. Not only time and space were frozen, but even his thoughts were in an absolutely still state.
When his consciousness broke free from the stagnant state, the "true nucleus" in front of him had turned into a pile of fine crystal particles like powder, and the drop of "blood of the true god" had completely disappeared.
"Gone? No... absorbed?!"
Ke Lan subconsciously lowered his head to look at the living armor, only to see that the living armor was constantly changing its shape. It looked like a soft-bodied creature struggling in pain, rolling wildly on the ground... Then, the entire living armor began to boil out of thin air!
The passage they were in was collapsing. The flesh and blood had stopped growing and began to decay and rot. Smelly pus dripped from the top of their heads, and the ground under their feet began to collapse little by little...
Those small seeds of erosion that were charging at the team just a second ago were frozen in place. Their bodies, like the passage, were disintegrating at a rapid speed.
"Successful? This big guy... the original seed of corrosion..." The tattered black-armored warrior struggled to sit up, the cockpit hatch opened, and Layton climbed out with a confused look on his face, "It... it's dead?"
"Its body is dying... This is exactly the same as the appearance of all the seeds of corrosion when they die." Ivan nodded, then turned to look at Ke Lan, "Ke Lan, has the living armor absorbed that drop of 'real blood of God'?"
"It seems so..." Ke Lan responded. He looked at the thing on the ground that he didn't know how to describe, and a trace of doubt emerged in his heart - is this the end? Can this thing... defeat Alexander?
"Try to put the living armor back into your body." The intelligence dealer said on the phone.
Retract the "boiling" living armor into the body?
Ke Lan was silent for a moment, then took a deep breath - as soon as the thought of recycling came to his mind, the entire living armor shrank into his body at lightning speed and merged with his blood again.
In an instant, Ke Lan felt as if the blood in his body was boiling along with these things!
"it hurts!"
This was an extremely painful feeling, even more intense than when Ke Lan first merged with the living armor!
