Volume 4: Shadows Under the Neon Lights Chapter 201 Biochemical Monster
As she laughed, there was a creepy "cracking" sound in her throat. Then, her entire head flipped backwards. Ten sharp nails tore her throat from the inside, and a pair of bony arms like dead branches emerged from deep in her neck.
Ke Lan did not stand there stupidly. He kept pulling the trigger of the shotgun. The rain of bullets ripped Arasaka Yui's body into pieces. Blood plasma and broken flesh formed a fan-shaped dispersion area behind her. The black bullets wrapped in dirty blood rolled on the ground, drawing irregular bloodstains... Ke Lan was still shooting. The wounds on Arasaka Yui's body were so deep that bones and internal organs could even be seen, but she was still kneeling there. She did not retreat, nor was she knocked down.
Ke Lan frowned and began to retreat step by step - the shotgun bullets could not interrupt her alienation process. The originally pleasing beauty had now turned into a horrible monster with eight pairs of arms, and on the outside of each of her arms, there were dozens of bulging tumors of various sizes. There was a crack on the surface of the tumor, and smelly pus was constantly overflowing from this crack.
Arasaka Yui... no, it should be said that it was this monster. She laughed strangely, but the laughter did not come from her broken head, but from inside her chest... As she laughed, the tumors on her arms "opened" - inside each tumor, there was an eyeball covered with mucus. These dozens of eyeballs rolled around for a few times, and then all the eyeballs focused their attention on Ke Lan.
At this time, Ke Lan had already loaded the active cells of the remaining two flesh-eating worms into the bullet slot of the injection gun and fired at the monster.
"Puff——" A bloated eyeball was pierced directly by the needle, the glass bubble burst, and that strand of active cells was directly injected into the monster's body.
There was no reaction at all, not even local necrosis of the tissue . From this, it can be inferred that it was not the Seed of Corrosion that caused Arasaka Yui to mutate into a monster... rather, it was a "new mutant" that did not react to the cells of the flesh-eating worms.
Ke Lan reached into his pocket and grabbed the stone spike. Just because the flesh-eating worms were ineffective against this monster didn't mean the stone spike was useless...but the problem was that the stone spike was a melee weapon, and Ke Lan only had one chance to try. If he failed, he would put himself in a very dangerous situation.
Although he didn't know what type of monster this was, he thought its melee ability would not be weaker than the original Arasaka Yui. Ke Lan's choice of close combat was undoubtedly extremely stupid.
Just when he was in a dilemma, a tall figure suddenly rushed out from the side and fired a volley of bullets at the monster.
That was Victoria who had chosen to take a detour and encircle the enemy earlier... But Ke Lan noticed that the agents who had left with her did not appear, and her body was covered with large patches of blood that had not yet dried.
"Did you encounter enemies on the road?" Ke Lan stepped back quickly and asked Victoria as he did so.
"A group of parasitic 'containers'... but they have all been dealt with." Victoria said. She did not mention the situation of other agents, but Ke Lan knew that those people must have died in the line of duty - in the battle with the Seeds of Erosion, there was no difference between injury and death.
"This girl is Arasaka Yui. She claims to be the 'final result' of some kind of experiment...but I don't know what that experiment is exactly." Ke Lan quickly explained the current situation to Victoria.
"It doesn't look like the Seed of Corrosion." Victoria inserted a new magazine into the chamber.
"I've tried it, and it has no reaction to the living cells of the flesh-eating worms." Ke Lan pointed to the syringe and said, "Also, it should not be the same thing as the black skeleton. At least before she mutated, she didn't... didn't perform any weird rituals."
Ke Lan originally wanted to say that Arasaka Yui did not use the "Holy Word", but when she thought that only she could "hear" this thing, she had to change to a more "euphemistic" statement.
"It might be a biochemical monster hybridized from Alpha civilization and human technology..." Victoria thought for a moment and said to Ke Lan, "I've seen something similar in the exile camp... They expose pregnant women to high-intensity radiation that is not immediately lethal, and then add a variety of drugs... The embryo in the pregnant woman's body will most likely die, but there is a very small chance that it will mutate into a powerful monster... I've dealt with several such monsters, and they look very similar to Arasaka Yui now."
"But that's an embryo... Arasaka Yui is an adult. It's probably impossible to make a mature adult produce this degree of mutation... Wait!" Ke Lan suddenly seemed to think of something and slapped his forehead, "I almost forgot that Arasaka Yui is also a woman!"
"You mean..." Victoria looked up and down at the monster in the distance, with a hint of surprise in her eyes.
"Maybe this monster wasn't mutated from Arasaka Yui, but the embryo that grew inside her... That would explain why those arms tore apart her original body when they grew out... Watch out, it's coming!"
Just as Ke Lan and Victoria were exchanging information, the monster finally moved. It tore off the legs that originally belonged to Arasaka Yui and threw them aside. Then, using its eight pairs of arms as support, it crawled towards Ke Lan and Victoria quickly!
"Unit 3 and Unit 4, stop him!" Ke Lan shouted hurriedly. With the death of Major Ashkani, the survivors of the garrison had already accepted him as the commander on the scene. The two mechas that were named immediately moved sideways and blocked the monster's path.
"Permission to open fire, shoot freely without worrying about ammunition consumption!" Ke Lan shouted again.
But the two Bloodhounds had just fired their machine guns when the monster had already crawled under the belly of one of them!
"Unit 3! The target is right below you, jump up and crush it!"
Although the "Bloodhound" is a light mecha, the one equipped by the reconnaissance team is a heavy-duty model used for positional warfare. Even if the weight of the ammunition is excluded, the weight of the mecha plus the weapons it carries is more than ten tons. Add to that the impact force when falling, even an off-road vehicle can easily crush it into a discus, let alone a flesh and blood body.
