Volume 4: Shadows Under the Neon Lights Chapter 198: Diverting Disaster
"Damn it... that guy is also a 'container'... Could it be a completely new mutant? Formed by the fusion of two erosion seeds?... Look at you, you still refuse to admit that you are a disaster star..." Alyosha muttered.
"I don't think so. The one on the big guy seems to be still in the parasitic stage. Alyosha, don't you find this unreasonable?" Ke Lan shook his head and said.
"Unreasonable? It's indeed unreasonable... Nothing that happened along the way was reasonable." Alyosha complained. Ke Lan suddenly felt that if this guy and Lao Gou met, once the war of words between them started, it would be difficult to stop.
"That big guy must be an erosion seed in the 'rapid change period' or 'mature period'. Is there any objection to this?" Ke Lan said.
"No." Alyosha answered immediately, "That kind of living armor will seriously damage the body tissue of the 'Container'. The Corrosion Seed in the 'Parasitic Stage' cannot use this ability."
"The Corrosion Seeds in the 'Acute Phase' or 'Mature Phase' will, driven by the desire to feed, indiscriminately attack all living things within their field of vision. Is there any objection to this?"
"No - can you please stop playing dumb? This guy is almost rushing to the center of the square!" Alyosha said anxiously.
"Then the question is, why are so many living people over there ignored by this Corruption Seed, and instead run towards us?"
"This...you mean, it is the 'container' on the back of this mutant that is controlling it?" Alyosha was a senior agent after all, and he immediately understood the implied meaning of Ke Lan's words.
"That's the only explanation." Ke Lan nodded and said, "Do you have a sniper rifle? Whether it works or not, we have to at least try it ."
Hearing this, Alyosha bent down and dragged over the equipment box beside him. He picked out a heavy sniper rifle from it and threw it to Ke Lan: "Krebel sniper rifle, .50 caliber, armor-piercing heavy bullet, quadruple acceleration magnetic track, instantaneous charging array... To be honest, the power of this thing is actually comparable to those heavy weapons that are forbidden to be used on the Ark."
Ke Lan took the gun and glanced at the scope - the aiming system of this heavy sniper rifle comes with a computer-aided program and basically does not require manual adjustment. All you have to do is lock the target in the center of the crosshairs and pull the trigger. It can be said to be a pure fool-proof operation mode.
"I need a shooting window...Major Ashkani, how are the energy shields of these Bloodhounds cooling down?"
"Only Unit 1 and Unit 4 are equipped with energy shields. Unit 1 has cooled down to 28% and cannot be started. Unit 4 has cooled down to 51% and can be used but only for a few seconds." Ashkani looked up at the portable combat command terminal in his hand and said.
"A few seconds will be enough." Ke Lan said as he inserted a heavy magazine into the chamber of the gun.
"Then tell me when you're ready." Ashkani nodded and quickly dragged his fingers across the screen of the command terminal, while Ke Lan ducked behind the "Bloodhound" marked with "Number Four".
"The energy shield is ready and can be deployed at any time." Ashkani stared at the screen and said in a deep voice.
"Open the shield!" Ke Lan said. He leaned back against the mechanical leg on the right side of the mecha with his gun in his arms. If he took one more step forward, he would get a perfect shooting angle, but he would also be exposed to the dense firepower of the rebels.
With a "buzz" sound, a hemispherical energy shield extended in front of the No. 4 "Bloodhound", covering the entire mecha inside, and the stray bullets that fell on the shield were vaporized in an instant by the high temperature - even some heavy bullets with larger mass were turned into metal jets, and under the influence of the shield's restraining magnetic field, they deviated to the surroundings.
Ke Lan seized this brief opportunity, dodged directly, and locked onto the "controller" behind the mutant.
Energy shields have a two-way effect. Bullets from outside cannot get in, and bullets from inside cannot get out. If you want to hit the target, there is only one way...
"close!"
Ke Lan shouted loudly. The moment the energy shield disappeared, he had completed a series of operations including pulling the trigger, throwing away the weapon, turning around and hiding back in the bunker. The whole process took less than one third of a second.
As soon as he pulled his hind feet back from outside, a rain of bullets landed on the place where he had just stood, with sparks flying all over the ground. A few ricochets even hit the protective armor he was wearing.
“It’s a hit!” Alyosha cheered. “The guy’s upper body was completely destroyed…”
But the next second, his cheers stopped abruptly: "No, the mutants are still rushing towards us, they are not out of control at all!"
"That's just inertia. Let me help this big guy figure it out." Ke Lan said as he took out three syringes of "active cells" from the metal box that Sofia gave him, loaded them into the injection gun, and shot.
This time there is no need to aim precisely, just show the muzzle and make sure the general direction is correct.
Three syringes drew a graceful arc in the air, and then fell "without accuracy" in front of the rebel position. Due to the angle, the needles made of Nino alloy were not able to be nailed into the floor, but bounced up from the ground with the force of the fall.
However, the glass bulb inside the syringe used to store compressed air still broke, and the active cells of the flesh-eating worms were squeezed out and scattered on the ground.
Suddenly, the mutant that was about to rush to the "Bloodhound" mecha stopped, its huge body trembled violently a few times, and then it turned around and ran towards the rebel position - and its speed was even faster than before!
Alyosha and Ashkani were stunned by Ke Lan's series of operations. The former was silent for several seconds before he uttered, "The injection bullet of active cells can actually be used to guide mutants..."
"I just learned this trick . Didn't you also use the larvae of the flesh-eating worm to lure the seeds of corrosion? Although the amount of active cells in the injection bullet is very small, there are no other interference factors on the battlefield, and the distance is not far... In case the temptation is not strong enough, I also injected three injections at once."
At the moment Ke Lan and Alyosha were talking, the mutant had already rushed to the front of the battle under the fierce firepower of the rebels. It first licked up all the active cells scattered on the ground, and then, it went crazy and pounced directly into the panicked crowd of rebels!
