Volume 14: Devastation Chapter 680: Alpha Man
While Ke Lan was still thinking about the "conspiracy" of the Undead Crew, the members of the 776 Special Forces Team had already ended their argument and discussion.
Sergeant Ken is a qualified soldier... Although his style of doing things is a bit rigid and his personality is not very likable, he is undoubtedly a soldier who can satisfy and reassure his superiors.
He is the kind of person who can resolutely carry out orders - even if the content of that order is tantamount to a mission to commit suicide.
Under Sergeant Ken's strict request, the soldiers of the 776 Special Forces Team had to shut up, leave the room with the hibernation capsule, and enter another room opposite.
But the next second, they entered a state of high tension.
In the center of the room, on a device shaped like a "pedestal", sat a living monster.
This was not the humanoid monster they had encountered before, but a true "monster".
The upper body of this monster has a human-like head, chest and arms, but its cranial cavity is at least 1.5 times larger than that of a normal person. It has deep eye sockets, no nose or mouth, and a sharp jaw. Its appearance is somewhat similar to the image of aliens that was very popular in the old era of the 20th century.
Its body was very thin, with its clavicle, ribs and sternum clearly visible under the skin. Its two slender arms showed obvious signs of degeneration, and its ten underdeveloped tiny fingers did not seem to have the ability to grasp objects, let alone serve as weapons.
But compared with the upper body, the lower body of this monster is much more shocking - below the waist, there is a large group of tangled and slimy tentacles. These tentacles are constantly wriggling, and the mucus secreted from the surface keeps dripping onto the ground, so that a circle of small puddles formed by mucus has accumulated around the base.
The members of the 776 Special Forces Team were almost stunned. They had never seen such a monster before - compared with the indigenous creatures in the wilderness, this monster was obviously closer to humans... It seemed to be intelligent!
Dozens of guns were pointed at the monster. Even Sergeant Ken, who was usually very calm, had his facial muscles twitching involuntarily.
As for Ke Lan…if he could shout, he would have shouted long ago.
He had seen this monster in his memory fragments!
In the Dirac Sea created by Park Sang-woo's self-explosion, one of the three strange scenes was thousands of such monsters lined up in a huge square... and the shadow of this monster had appeared many times in those blurry and unclear memory fragments.
Just when Ke Lan was still in shock and had not yet fully recovered, this monster...it spoke.
"Your purpose in coming here is to blow up the wreckage of this engine, right?" Its eyes swept over the soldiers of the 776 Special Forces Team, and finally stopped on the small tactical hydrogen bombs carried by the two fearless warriors.
The soldiers of Special Forces Team 776 could not understand the language it spoke - to be more precise, they could not hear it speaking at all... because it spoke the language of the Alpha civilization.
"This monster... is really an Alpha!" This thought exploded in Ke Lan's mind... Although he had already made such speculations, when the truth was laid before him, he still had a feeling that could not be described in words .
It's like a sealed box. You know there's a bomb inside, but until you open the box, you'll never be able to experience the feeling of watching the countdown approach zero step by step.
"It...it seems to be staring at the hydrogen bomb on Samuel's back!" Martin noticed the change in the "Alpha Man's" gaze and said in a trembling voice.
"It seems to know about hydrogen bombs..." Kino added.
"If this monster intends to stop our mission, then we will kill it," said Sergeant Ken, flicking the weapon's safety with his thumb and pulling the trigger.
"I will not stop you." Alpha said, "I know the purpose of your leaders' actions... They are right... The truth cannot be made public... Otherwise, everything will fall into chaos."
"What truth? What confusion?" Ke Lan really wanted to ask it... Unfortunately, everything he saw was an impression recorded in "Mewtwo". He could do nothing and could not change anything.
"Because of the paradox, most of us disappeared." The "Alpha Man" completely ignored the black muzzles of the guns and said to himself, "A small number of people left this place. Only a very small number of individuals like me stayed, wanting to witness some things and trying to communicate with you."
"Paradox? Because of the paradox... most of the Alpha people disappeared?" Ke Lan's mind was in a mess. "What kind of paradox is it talking about? Is it some kind of causal weapon? Are the enemies of the Alpha people so terrifying that they have mastered this kind of weapon that is hard to even imagine?"
"But unfortunately, there is no 'symbiote' among you. It seems that I can't communicate with you." The Alpha said, with a hint of helplessness and regret in his tone.
"Symbiote"? This is a new term that Ke Lan has never heard of, but it is obvious that this term refers to those "humans" who can understand the language of Alpha civilization and read their writing. So far, he knows of only two people who have this ability: the prophet and himself.
The prophet is dead, but Ke Lan feels that he should not be the only remaining "symbiote"... Otherwise, would the undead crew be able to obtain so much information that can only be obtained by the ability of the "symbiote"?
"Boss, are we going to shoot?" Connelly shouted, his finger already pressing down the trigger of the machine gun. With a little more force, the bullet in the barrel would be fired and hit the body of the Alpha man.
"The base under it seems to be a control console. If it activates the mechanism in the ruins, we will not have any advantage at all!" Jinuo also said, "It's better to strike first, boss!"
"...Open fire!" Sergeant Ken took a deep breath and made a decision that made Ke Lan somewhat desperate.
Don't shoot! Let it talk a few more words!
Ke Lan wanted to yell at these soldiers, but the muzzle flashes had already lit up in the darkness, and hundreds of bullets instantly penetrated the body of the Alpha - its physical strength did not seem to be much stronger than that of humans. Compared with the invulnerable biological weapons they created, the Alpha's body was simply too fragile.
Purple-black blood flowed in from the bullet hole, and its body slid down from the base, its tentacles scattered and spread on the ground.
"But... I still want to tell you... There is a transmission node buried under this engine... If the explosion affects the node..."
It didn't even finish its last sentence because Sergeant Ken walked up quickly and shot it in the head with a 0.5-inch caliber hunting pistol.
"Fuck it!!!" Seeing the exploding brain and minced meat, Ke Lan couldn't help but curse out a swear word in his mind.
