Volume 2: The Undersea City Chapter 74 Recorder
Before the giant cocoon was completed, the explosives and incendiary bombs that Ke Lan had set on the corpse were triggered. A dull explosion sounded underwater, and the shock wave instantly tore apart the tentacles wrapped around the corpse, followed by a violently burning metal flame.
The tentacles that came into contact with the flames turned into black charcoal in an instant, but what made Ke Lan feel a little regretful was that the flames did not spread to the tentacles themselves. These tiny tentacles were just like human hairs to the things in the abyss.
The sudden explosion obviously angered the tentacles. The front end of a tentacle suddenly cracked open, forming a huge mouth filled with densely packed teeth.
The huge mouth immediately bit the burning corpse. Although the distance was too far to hear clearly, Ke Lan could fully imagine the sound - the sound made by thousands or tens of thousands of teeth and reinforced fiber fabrics rubbing against each other, the kind of tooth-grinding sound. Just thinking about it made Ke Lan feel a thick layer of goose bumps all over his body.
Two seconds, just two seconds, the diving suit on the corpse was torn into pieces... Although this diving suit is not as good as the one Ke Lan is wearing, it is also made of military-grade bulletproof fiber. The inner layer is made of flame-retardant nylon and metal mesh, and it is reinforced with a reinforced skeleton mixed with Nino alloy. Even the high-yield explosives set by Ke Lan could not destroy it, but under this huge mouth, it was as fragile as a piece of low-quality toilet paper.
Fortunately, what the Pioneer encountered was a giant deep-sea eel. If it was this thing in front of them, I'm afraid Zofia and the others wouldn't even have the chance to send out a distress signal.
Most of the bottom of the abyss is still hidden in darkness, but judging by the size of these tentacles, the size of that "fusion body" is definitely not inferior to a behemoth of the level of the Thunder Beast.
Only one of these creatures is enough to fight against a fully-strength combat fleet. As for ordinary soldiers, no matter how many of them come, they are just like ants trying to shake a tree. More than 99% of individual weapons cannot penetrate their skin and cause even the slightest substantial damage.
“…”
Ke Lan had already turned off his searchlight. At this moment, the fusion body's attention had been attracted by the exploding corpse. Taking advantage of this opportunity, perhaps he could still escape from this abyss...
He carefully checked the thrusters on his body. Exactly half of the twenty-eight propellers were destroyed in the big vortex just now, leaving fourteen. Ke Lan tried to restart them, and nine of them started to turn again , while the other five did not respond at all.
The outside looks intact, but the internal motor structure is damaged.
Apart from the two sets of thrusters that were running in opposite directions and could not be adjusted, the diving suit's mobility was only reduced to a quarter. In order not to alarm the fusion body below, Ke Lan had to keep the thrusters as silent as possible and could not run them at full power.
His current speed of ascent was as slow as a snail climbing a tree...
"Faster...faster..."
One of the two searchlights on the corpse was bitten to pieces, and the other one drifted away. With this little light, Ke Lan could vaguely see the tentacles eating the crushed bones.
A full minute passed before Ke Lan floated up less than ten meters. Fortunately, the fusion body did not seem to notice him...
"I've given up hope. Except for the fusion itself, no creature can leave the hatchery alive..." The recording-like voice sounded again.
"The reason why I can still record here... is because I am regarded as a stored food by the fusion body..."
"Its tentacles pierced through my body. I couldn't move. These tentacles secreted a toxin that was eating away at my nerve center..."
"I don't know how much longer I can hold on..."
"A dedicated warrior who had received the priest's blessing broke free. They have genes from the true god in their bodies, and the fusion's neurotoxin is ineffective against them... But he was unable to escape. When he was less than 20 meters away from the exit, the fusion's tentacles grabbed him."
"When his body returned to the lower level of the hatchery, it had turned into a pile of unspeakable things... The fusion's intelligence is not lower than ours. It could have killed him long ago, but it seemed to prefer to play with its prey..."
"Both have the blood of the true god, and the fusion is more powerful than the devotee..."
"It can also evolve... We are not only food, but also providers of alien genes. The more species it devours, the stronger it becomes..."
"The experiment did not fail. This is a great success. We are willing to give everything for the true God..."
"It's over, it's finally over..."
If the Alpha language also has the concept of "timbre", these recordings should all come from the same Alpha alien, and his identity should be the recorder of this fusion experiment. Although Ke Lan doesn't know why his records came into his memory, this information is very likely to be true.
The whole context of the incident is very clear: the Alphaians cultivated a brand new creature in this hatchery, but for some reason, they went too far, and the creature they cultivated - the "fusion" under the abyss - lost control. It killed all the Alphaians in the hatchery and turned them into its own food.
What made Ke Lan a little uneasy was that the recorder mentioned that the fusion body had the habit of playing with its prey. Would that be...
He didn't dare to imagine any further. The last searchlight went out, and the abyss returned to endless darkness and silence.
Among these records, there is very little information related to the fusion, which shows that even the Alpha people could not tame the monster they created . Then with the ability of humans... can they kill it?
The propeller blades kept turning, carrying Ke Lan slowly upward. He clasped his arms across his chest, his whole body motionless, like a rotten tree trunk sinking into the sea.
He wanted to pray, but he didn't know what to pray to. Those religions that originated from Earth were undoubtedly ignorant in Ke Lan's eyes. In the old era, those believers were even arguing about whether the Earth was round or square. But now, humans have long been away from the Milky Way for who knows how many light years...
As for the true god mentioned by the people of Alpha Star, that was even less reliable. Not to mention whether it would protect "heretics" like them from Earth, you have to know that the dedicated warriors with the so-called "true god bloodline" could not escape, not to mention that the thing below also had the genes from the "true god".
I don’t know what the “true God” worshipped by the Alpha people is. Could it be a huge tentacle monster?
I wonder if it would taste good if I used it to make grilled squid...
At this moment, Ke Lan suddenly heard a soft "beep" sound - the miniature sonar that had previously experienced an unknown malfunction actually returned to normal at this time!
How could a miracle suddenly happen when I haven’t even prayed yet?
However, half a second later, the half-smile on Ke Lan's face froze - according to the image sent back by the micro sonar, there were six tentacles from the bottom of the abyss around Ke Lan. These tentacles had quietly formed a cage with a diameter of more than ten meters, trapping Ke Lan in the middle...
That thing had spotted him from the beginning... As the Alpha alien said, "It seems to prefer playing with its prey..."
