Volume 2: The Undersea City Chapter 88 Iwai
Ke Lan knew that the transparent "egg" they found was actually the "core" of an erosion seed...
The "nucleus" is the body of the Seed of Erosion. A Seed of Erosion will only have one "nucleus", and their way of reproduction is to invade other organisms, assimilate the opponent's cells, and then generate a new "nucleus" in the host's body... But what puzzles Ke Lan is why the 776 Special Forces Team encountered a "nucleus" that "seemed completely harmless" instead of a complete Seed of Erosion?
If it was the latter, things would not have happened so suddenly and the team's losses might have been much .
Is this a dormant mode similar to suspended animation? Or is it a trap used to lure prey? Ke Lan is not sure.
The recording continues to play...
"Our weapons can't do any effective damage to this monster. We can only rely on the heavy machine guns of the Fearless Warriors to restrict its movements..."
"Four more people died... Samuel died. We lost our only fearless warrior, as well as Joseph and Danny... Moriyama, who always spoke with a Japanese accent, didn't make it either... A tentacle pierced his lungs directly..."
"We don't have time to bury them. We can only run along the coastline..."
"The monster didn't catch up with us. We are safe for now."
"The cape in front of us looks like an eagle's beak. Cornelius suggested that we name this place Eagle's Beak Cape. We are now ... Damn, there is no north or south in this damn place... The compass is spinning wildly, and the sun is always hanging directly above our heads..."
Hearing this, Ke Lan recalled the beach where he woke up. There didn't seem to be such an Eagle's Beak Cape on the coastline within his field of vision... It seems that the 776 Special Forces Team must have encountered the erosion on the other side of the deserted island.
"July 20th. I began to suspect... we might have entered a... how should I put it... an abnormal space... This place is like a cage, a prison... It might be prepared for that monster, and we are the bait for that monster..."
"Sergeant Collins proposed leaving here by sea. He thought it was impossible for the rescue team to find this island... To be honest, I have to admit that he was right..."
"We fixed two inflatable kayaks together, clamped the armor plates into paddles, and installed them on the motors... But a fatal problem lay before us - the material of the kayaks could not withstand long-term corrosion from seawater , and we would most likely sink directly to the bottom of the sea during the journey."
"Connelly thought it was suicidal and he had an argument with the sergeant."
"Everyone was in a very low mood, myself included."
Then, there was another long series of electrical noises... mixed with some gunshots and explosions that seemed to be far away...
Suddenly, the commander's voice sounded again, his tone was quite excited -
"We found a rock well! The wall of this rock well was cut very smoothly. It was definitely not formed naturally. It should be a relic of the Alpha civilization... Of course, none of this is important. The important thing is... We found that the monster seemed to be very afraid of this rock well. It didn't dare to get close to it..."
"I don't know what's under the well. Maybe it's the monster's natural enemy - a more terrifying creature. But no matter what, this is our only chance of survival... We have lost two-thirds of our men, and none of those sent to the desert have returned. I gave the order to have all the remaining men get into the well."
Rock well? Ke Lan was slightly stunned. Could it be that the rock well they mentioned was another exit of this cave?
If I am correct, then the formation of this cave is probably related to the Alpha people...
"Under the well is a passage reinforced with alloy materials...walk along the passage..."
Suddenly, there were bursts of exclamations in the recording.
“This, this is…”
"The Alphas built a huge basement underground on this deserted island... I'm not sure what these things are used for... This could be a chemical plant, or maybe a laboratory... There are many quartz tanks more than ten meters high, filled with turbid liquid... There are also many metal brackets with shackles and other things attached to them. It looks like... um... a torture device."
"Chemical plant? Laboratory?" Ke Lan bit her thumb nail lightly... According to the description of the commander of the 776 Special Forces Team, this underground space might indeed be a laboratory left behind by the Alphas. As for the function of this laboratory - it is 100% related to the Seed of Erosion.
Ke Lan knew that the Alphas had been conducting some extremely dangerous biological experiments, especially the thing called the Seed of Erosion. If he remembered correctly, it should be the product of the 49,666th transformation experiment...
To conduct such a large-scale experiment, enough sites are definitely needed, and this deserted island should be one of them.
