Volume 14: Devastation Chapter 723: Ke Lan invites reinforcements
Aya did not stay at Checkpoint No. 6 for long. After handing the container of the fusion body to Asano Akira, she took a team of security agents to evacuate the people. Checkpoint No. 6 had become a battlefield between Asano Akira and the monster. All the people who had gathered here to queue had to move to another exit.
The perspective shifted to the ruins of the Nova Chamber of Commerce building. Ke Lan squatted on the roof of the department store, paying attention to the situation below, with a solemn look on his face.
The adaptability of "Fusion Plus" is really strong. At the beginning, the fire-extinguishing gel caused some obstacles to its mobility, but gradually, one tumor-like gland after another swelled up under its skin, and a large amount of oily substances were secreted from these glands, covering the body surface of the fusion.
This should be the ability of the sea beasts in the polar seas. This mammal, which looks like a cross between seals and sea lions on Earth, has sharp and hard claws and teeth, and can quickly dig tunnels in the frozen polar sea ice and move freely. Each hair on their body is a hollow tube, with the bottom directly connected to the sebaceous glands, which can secrete a light and thin layer of oil covering the surface of the hair.
This layer of oil will not make the fluffy hair stick together and lose its heat-retaining ability. Instead, it can form a sealed insulation layer, locking the air between the gaps in the hair.
In addition to keeping warm, the biggest function of this layer of oil is to act as a lubricant for the burrowing sea beasts as they move through ice caves. This creature can slide at a maximum speed of over 75 kilometers per hour in a straight horizontal ice cave. Unless the ice cave is blocked or collapsed, predators on the ice field cannot catch them at all.
For the Fusion Plus, this layer of oil is also a very good lubricant... When the oil layer gradually becomes thicker, the gel poured on its body surface begins to have trouble staying on.
The fire extinguishing gel has good adhesion, but facing a layer of oil film with almost negligible friction, it is very difficult to stick to it as before.
The fire-extinguishing gel that was originally wrapped around the fusion body slid off one after another, and as for the fire-extinguishing gel that was sprayed on later, it only went through the fat layer on the surface of the body and quickly merged into the gel pool on the ground.
The only thing that comforted Ke Lan was that this layer of oil not only isolated the fire extinguishing gel, but also blocked the spores sprayed out by the mimicry fungus.
Using fire extinguishing gel to stop the spore spray was Ke Lan's original purpose. As for restricting the movement of the fusion body, that was purely a pleasant surprise... In any case, at least Ke Lan's original goal had been achieved. As for the delay of more than ten minutes, that was completely a bonus.
After getting rid of the shackles of the fire-extinguishing gel, the fusion body began to move slowly - its main body was actually an irregular flesh ball with a diameter of more than 30 meters, moving with the help of multiple pairs of ventral feet at the bottom and auxiliary limbs on both sides of the body... Although the movement was slow, due to its body shape, it could move nearly ten meters every second, which was still very fast compared to humans.
According to its current movement speed, in ten minutes at most, those checkpoints crowded with evacuated people will be within the attack range of its tentacles.
"Aya, the situation is not good... Everyone has escaped and is moving towards the direction where the crowd is gathering. How much time will it take you to evacuate everyone?" Ke Lan asked in the communication channel.
"A container that has entered the 'violent phase' has appeared at Gate 6. Asano Akira is currently processing it. I am now busy transferring the people at Gate 6 to other exits... The troops and transport vehicles that can be mobilized from the nearby districts are also on the way. In at most another forty... no, give me another thirty minutes, I can evacuate all of these people. As for those who are hiding in the buildings and refuse to come out... I can't take care of them."
"Don't worry about those people... Since they don't want to trust us, let them bear the consequences themselves." Ke Lan said quickly, "But I can't give you 30 minutes. The big guys are moving in your direction. You have at most 10 minutes."
"Ten minutes is too little! Even the convoy won't be able to make it, and many people will die!"
"I also know that many people will die..."
"We are releasing people as quickly as possible. If we open all the checkpoints, I don't know how many people will die in the stampede... Can you think of another solution?"
"Think of another way... I do wish there was a way..." Ke Lan looked up at the battleship floating in the sky - he could order the use of plasma cannons to destroy this big guy at any time, but the price of doing so would be that the tens of thousands of innocent people who had not yet evacuated from the economic development zone would be buried with it.
The people on the battleship apparently noticed that the fire-extinguishing gel could no longer restrict the fusion's movements, and began to ask Ke Lan whether it was necessary to carry out some lethal strikes that "would not affect the evacuated civilians."
For example, small missiles, cluster laser weapons and the like.
"Forget it." Ke Lan rejected the proposal outright. "Try not to use offensive means to stimulate this monster... You can see that this guy's adaptive evolution ability is too abnormal. In such a short time, it has evolved oil glands that can break free from the gel... Beam lasers and small missiles can't kill it... What's the old saying? 'What can't kill me can only make me stronger'... What if this thing evolves some kind of heat-insulating armor, anti-beam coating, etc. after being bombarded by you? By then, can you still guarantee that the plasma cannon can kill it with one shot?"
This fusion Plus is essentially very similar to the Leviathan that was "resurrected" by the red fleshworm. At that time, the First Cruise Fleet actually had many combat plans, but the fleet commander made the decision to sacrifice himself and the flagship without hesitation in order to achieve a one-shot kill, in order to prevent Leviathan from constantly learning, evolving, and growing during the long battle...
Hitting a trump card at the beginning is not a joke, but a tactic, a mature, excellent and effective tactic.
Even a lion needs to use all its strength to fight a rabbit... In many novels, if the villain could use thunder-like means to destroy the protagonist before he grows up, there wouldn't be so many things later - he has to send characters who are only one or two levels higher than the protagonist to give the protagonist kills, resources, and experience again and again. By the time the protagonist's level is raised, it will be too late to shout "It's so terrifying".
If Ke Lan were the villain, even if the opponent was just a small shrimp in the Qi Refining stage, as long as this guy showed even a hint of the protagonist's temperament, he would directly send a Yuanying stage monster to kill this small shrimp, and he would even go to the scene himself - since he has already made up his mind "this kid must not be allowed to live", then this determination to "kill" must be implemented resolutely. Either don't provoke him, or grind him to dust, and don't let even his soul go.
Ke Lan even felt that she could write an online novel called "This Villain is Too Steady" ...
"Then...are we just going to watch?" The contact person on the battleship was a little stunned. "But if we don't take measures to stop it...what about the people who are evacuating?"
The warships were hovering above the block, and they could see the situation in the entire block more clearly than Ke Lan. They naturally knew that it was absolutely impossible for all these tens of thousands of people to be transferred away before the fusion body moved to the evacuation area.
It would be good if they could evacuate one-fifth of them... Without any means of transportation, they can't run far.
As the fusion body moves, there is another problem that must be faced - that is, the bombardment position of the plasma cannon must also change accordingly.
The plasma cannon must directly hit the fusion body in order to destroy it, but if the bombardment position moves with the fusion body, the range of the aftermath will naturally move as well.
These people had to run farther away to avoid the aftermath of the bombardment and the deadly heat.
"Why haven't you come yet?" Ke Lan raised his head, searching the small airspace with his eyes.
"What hasn't come yet?" Aya couldn't help but ask.
"I called for special support ten minutes ago. According to the efficiency of the crisis management department, they should have sent the people to me by now, right?" Ke Lan scratched his head and muttered.
"Crisis Management Department? Do they have a way to stop this big guy? Wait, you said to send the person to... who are you talking about?" Aya asked puzzledly.
"Just a cheater." Ke Lan replied, "But I can't guarantee whether it will be useful... Here it comes!"
He looked at the sky and squinted his eyes.
I saw a high-speed fighter jet flying over the entire block. In this brief moment, a black dot fell from the fighter jet and quickly enlarged during the falling process until it became a black sphere with a diameter of more than five meters.
The black sphere landed exactly on the top floor of the department store where Ke Lan was. When the sphere was about to hit the building, it strangely solidified in mid-air. The next second, all the black matter on the surface of the sphere gathered inward and turned into a black strapless dress.
The black "cloth" has a satin-like texture, forming a very obvious visual contrast with the snow-white skin of the person wearing it.
The skirt of the dress just covered her thighs, revealing two round knees and graceful calves. Further down, there was a pair of black patent leather high heels, which added a bit of mature and feminine charm to the stunning girl in front of Ke Lan.
Even whiter than the girl's skin color was her long white hair that flowed down from her shoulders like a waterfall... Ever since Ke Lan joined the Undead Crew, there was no need to hide Ze Luo's true identity anymore - in fact, the Undead Crew had already known about Ze Luo's existence a long time ago.
After that, Ze Luo changed her hair color back to the white color when Ke Lan first saw her, and the color of her eyes turned red.
This red color is different from ordinary contact lenses. It looks as eye-catching as two dazzling rubies.
Although Ke Lan protested against this, Ze Luo rejected his protest with the reason "I just like it this way". He also asked Ke Lan if this caused him "XP crit" and that was why he protested.
Ke Lan didn't know what kind of messed up books this guy read when he was free...
"Finally you're here." Ke Lan sighed, "If you don't come, I'll have to pick you up in person."
"If I had known earlier, I would have delayed time on purpose." Ze Luo said a proud line with a Sanwu expression, and appeared beside Ke Lan the next second, and naturally put his arm around Ke Lan's arm.
This slightly intimate action seemed to be normal to Ze Luo. Instead, Ke Lan pulled his arm away with a look of disgust.
"There are so many spaceships in the sky watching, I don't want anyone to misunderstand me as refining copper."
"My current body looks about sixteen to eighteen years old, not counting copper smelting," Ze Luo said expressionlessly.
"I doubt it. You keep a poker face all day long. Could it be because you know that I particularly like those three-no girls in anime?" Ke Lan asked.
"If you want to understand it that way, that's fine." Ze Luo nodded, and her thin white hair gently brushed across her small and delicate chin.
"Then you should also know that three-no girls are usually icy beauties. They won't come up to you so actively, right?"
"The weather is nice today." Ze Luo raised his head, looked at the unchanging lead-gray clouds in the sky, and said lightly.
"Okay, let's get down to business first." Ke Lan pointed at the "Fusion Plus" moving along the street below and asked, "Can you stop this guy? You don't need to kill it, just hold it for thirty minutes... In addition, try not to use attack methods that may induce it to evolve or mutate. The growth potential of this thing... is not an ordinary pervert."
"Hmm?" Ze Luo tilted his head and looked at Ke Lan.
Before she came, Ke Lan did not have the time to introduce her to the monster in detail. She only knew that it was a monster formed by the fusion of two "incompatible" creatures, the Seed of Erosion and the Flesh-Eating Worm, and she knew no other information.
As for the books and documents she read on a daily basis, there was no record of creatures like fusion bodies.
"A fusion body can absorb the genes of its prey and replicate its flesh...but this big guy has eaten so many things that its body is like a large and diverse gene bank. No matter what situation it encounters, it can find a response strategy from this gene bank and prompt its body to evolve rapidly in that direction. Do you understand what I mean?"
"Oh, I understand." Ze Luo replied.
"Also, these genes are definitely not as simple as one plus one equals two... Editing different genomes together may cause unexpected mutations. In short, I would not be surprised by anything that happens to this guy. You must pay extra attention to this."
