Volume 2: The Undersea City Chapter 63: Incendiary Bombs
"Asano Akira! Back off!"
Ke Lan shouted loudly, and at the same time, he took out a grenade with a red shell from his body and threw it hard at the black skeleton.
This is a specially made small incendiary bomb. Ever since they encountered the swarm of split-jaw insects in the last ruins, this thing has become standard equipment for Ke Lan and his group.
"boom!!"
The incendiary bomb exploded the moment it hit the black skeleton. A large amount of sticky oily substance adhered firmly to the surface of the skeleton and burned violently!
The filling in the bomb body is a mixture of white phosphorus, magnesium thermite and modified rocket propellant fuel , which can release temperatures of over a thousand degrees when burned. Not only that, this incendiary bomb is also effective in water. Only one bomb is needed to heat more than ten tons of seawater to boiling.
The burning black skeleton looked like a demon crawling out of purgatory in a horror movie. It had a very strong visual impact, especially the skeleton half wrapped in flames, which reminded Ke Lan of the Ghost Rider riding a motorcycle and wielding chains.
It was an old movie shot in the old era. Ke Lan found the video file in a scrapped antique hard drive. He originally just wanted to study the hardware structure of old computers, but he didn't expect to get hundreds of pirated movies from the old era...
The video file was severely damaged, but with today's data recovery technology, it is not difficult to repair it. The first movie to be restored was "Ghost Rider" from Columbia Pictures.
After Ke Lan watched this movie, he had a bad idea to use a fire extinguisher to wash the Ghost Rider's hair. Now, this idea can finally be realized in reality.
He released the safety lock and turned the flow regulating valve to the highest setting. Ke Lan also threw the cooling tank in his other hand.
The liquid nitrogen in the cooling tank splashed out and fell on the burning black skeleton!
"laugh--"
Suddenly, a large area of white fog spread out. The air temperature, which had been rising due to the incendiary bombs, fell below zero degrees in just a few seconds. Even the steel plates on the ground were covered with a thin layer of white frost.
Although the emergency cooling tank of the power armor is filled with liquid nitrogen, the liquid nitrogen is not used to spray directly on the overheated parts, but to cool the coolant in the copper tube first, and then use the coolant to absorb the heat emitted by the overheated parts...
If liquid nitrogen is allowed to come into direct contact with hot metal, the violent thermal expansion and contraction will cause the metal to become brittle and crack. This is like magnifying the effectiveness of the conventional quenching process hundreds of times. Only a few top-grade materials can withstand such torture.
At the same time, Ke Lan raised the gun in his hand and fired two shots, blowing up the induction alarm on the ceiling.
He didn't want everyone on the icebreaker to come and watch this scene.
"Back off! Everyone back off! Get out of the range of the white fog!" Ke Lan shouted to the other people while retreating quickly - the vision in the white fog was extremely limited. If this move failed to get rid of the black skeleton, this white fog would instead provide an excellent ambush site for the opponent.
"Did we kill it?" Caroline looked at Ke Lan, the last person to emerge from the white mist. Everything that had just happened was so sudden that she was still a little slow to react.
"Not sure." Ke Lan shook his head. "To be able to fight against a battle blade made of Nino alloy... the material strength of that skeleton must be quite high. I can't guarantee that this method will work."
"In short, we have to stay alert until the white fog dissipates." Ke Lan retreated behind Asano Akira. Compared to the Nino alloy, his body was much more fragile.
After about ten minutes, the white mist in the cargo hold finally dissipated, and the skeleton was seen lying on the ground motionless, with fine cracks all over the spine and humerus, and the ribs were broken into pieces.
Ke Lan picked up a small stone at his feet and threw it over. The stone hit the skeleton and bounced back to the ground.
The black skeleton remained motionless.
"Is it 'dead'?" Liao Zilang wanted to put away the folding shield, but Ke Lan raised his hand to stop him: "Don't be careless, maybe this thing is pretending to be dead."
Considering the previous ambush, Ke Lan didn't dare to be careless at this time. The four men aimed their weapons at the black skeleton and approached it step by step.
Nothing happened until Asano Akira picked up the black skeleton with the tip of the knife.
"There seems to be something inside this skeleton..." said the sharp-eyed Liao Zilang.
"Is it bone marrow?" Caroline couldn't help but move closer.
"Not like it." Ke Lan shook his head, picked up a suitable stone from the pile of rocks nearby, aimed at a section of the spine of the black skeleton, and smashed it down hard!
“Crack!”
The cracked bones were very fragile, and just one hit knocked off many bone fragments. Ke Lan hit them a few more times and soon created a hole about one centimeter in diameter on this vertebra.
"Turn the light over here."
A beam of extremely bright white light shot out from the shoulder of the power armor and shone onto the vertebra .
I saw that the place where the spinal cord should have been was filled with a pale white translucent substance. Through the surface of this substance, I could vaguely see some things similar to organ tissues.
"It looks like a slug..." Caroline whispered , "Could this be its true form?"
Slugs, scientifically known as slugs, are hermaphroditic molluscs classified as Gastropoda, Stylophora. They were extremely common on Earth in the old era... But on the Ark, only a very small number of living specimens were preserved in the biological laboratory... Compared to , this creature's ability to adapt to the environment is much weaker. Just a little bit of high-concentration salt solution is enough to dehydrate it to death.
"Although it looks like a slug, it is definitely a native creature of Alpha Planet," Ke Lan pursed her lips, "This should be the thing that drives the black skeleton."
"Indeed, it was too fast, but...how did it avoid the screening of the Security Bureau?" Caroline said, "No matter how hard I think, I can't figure out how this thing appeared here."
"I'm afraid the people in the Security Bureau can't explain this problem clearly." Ke Lan spread his hands and said, "But the question now is how to deal with this thing... We can't just hand it over to the Security Bureau, right?"
"That won't do! If the Security Bureau finds out that we opened cargo hold number nine, even the captain will be in trouble." Caroline shook her head repeatedly.
