Volume 5: Bottomless Sinkhole Chapter 287 Loopholes in the Rules
Ke Lan could still clearly remember that Asano Akira slashed the same spot on his opponent's weapon for more than a hundred times in a row, first breaking the blade and then chopping off the head, successfully killing the flesh-and-blood centipede.
But Ke Lan couldn't replicate that victory: not to mention whether he could hit the same spot a hundred times with his weapons, the bone blade in the opponent's hand alone had undergone significant changes.
Like its original body, this bone blade also has the ability to self-repair - in the previous fight, Ke Lan watched the sharp tip of the bone blade, as thin as a cicada's wing, smash onto the ground, but the next second, the bone blade had recovered to its original state without any damage.
The tiny tentacles sticking between the fragments looked like drawn cheese. In just a moment, they would pull the fragments of the bone blade back into place and stick them together firmly.
The dagger in Ke Lan's hand was not made of Nino alloy. After many collisions and blocking, the blade had cracked and curled. The other short blade made of stone awl was even weaker than the dagger. In a fight with the bone blade in the opponent's hand that could be repaired continuously, I'm afraid Ke Lan would be the one who would die in the end...
But... the information hidden in that battle is not just this.
The bloody centipede was also transformed from a similar piece of meat, but Asano Akira killed it by beheading it, which means that the head is also its weak spot. And the humanoid monster in front of him...
Ke Lan realized that she might have made a mistake from the beginning.
Since it has been imitating humans, it will not only imitate human appearance and movement mechanisms, but also human weaknesses. In order to drive this body, it must first have a strong heart to pump blood, oxygen and nutrients to every corner of the body. In addition, various human organs need to coordinate with each other... and the most important organ of the human body, the brain, is naturally indispensable.
Since the biological technology of Alpha Civilization is so powerful that it can clone a piece of meat almost perfectly - no, the word "copy" is more accurate than "clone" - and can almost perfectly copy an identical hound. So, if they want to set up an opponent who completely imitates humans in the trial, they should not bring out a poor-quality imitation that only has the appearance.
To verify this, Ke Lan chose the opponent's flank as the target of his next attack. As expected, after the stone spike tore open the skin and deeper muscles, Ke Lan caught a glimpse of an organ that looked like intestines deep in the wound. The coiled one should be the small intestine, and the thicker one around the outside was the large intestine. Looking up, he could vaguely catch a glimpse of a corner of the stomach...
As a price to pay, Ke Lan had his little finger and ring finger on his right hand cut off by the bone blade swung by the opponent.
The dagger fell to the ground with a "clink". Ke Lan endured the severe pain, used his thumb and index finger to take out a circle of hemostatic bandage from his chest pocket, bit open the seal with his teeth, and quickly wrapped the injured hand.
This bandage contained hemostatic and analgesic drugs, and soon the unbearable pain gradually subsided.
To Ke Lan, the cost of these two fingers was worth it - since the opponent had even simulated the digestive organs that were of no use in combat, then other more important organs must have been formed as well... The vital parts of this thing should be exactly the same as those of humans!
As for why bullets can't kill it, it's because firearms are not within the scope of the "rules" of this trial. In a sense, any trauma caused by firearms is considered to be Ke Lan's violation of the rules, just like cheating in an exam... The scores obtained by cheating will be recorded as invalid scores, and the trauma caused by bullets, even if it hits the monster's vitals, will not have any effect.
Not only guns, but also the alloy dagger in Ke Lan's hand, which was produced in the human industrial assembly line, are weapons not allowed by the rules, and the only thing that can kill this thing is the stone spike.
As long as Ke Lan could pierce the monster's vitals with the stone spike, he could end the battle.
Before this, Ke Lan's preferred targets of attack were the joints that could restrict the opponent's movements, but now, he began to pay attention to the vital parts that could be fatal.
The brain, spine, throat, lungs... and the heart...
The humanoid monster was not in a hurry to launch an attack... As part of the rules, it also had physical limitations, not to mention that its body was now covered with wounds left by stone spikes. It gasped heavily, staring at Ke Lan with its dark, empty eye sockets, waiting for an opportunity to move.
It became smarter, and the battle became more and more difficult for Ke Lan. If he wanted to successfully cause damage to it, he had to leave something behind... The price just now was two fingers, and next time, maybe it would be a whole arm...
Ke Lan picked up the dagger on the ground, put it back into the sheath, then bit the stone spike with his teeth, pulled out the pistol again, and replaced it with a full magazine.
Some things cannot be imitated simply by imitation.
This is the difference between humans and monsters, the difference between intelligent creatures and beasts.
Ke Lan suddenly laughed.
"Rules can restrict me, but they can also be used to my advantage," he said silently. "Cheating will be counted as zero, but that only applies to idiots who are caught by the invigilator."
"And I've never been caught."
Ke Lan held the gun with one hand, raised his leg backward, and kicked the slide of the pistol hard with the heel of his boot to load the gun.
Then, Ke Lan began to speed up and rushed towards the humanoid monster!
“No matter how perfect the rules are, there will inevitably be loopholes.”
Just when the two were about to collide, Ke Lan pulled the trigger and fired two consecutive shots. Two large-caliber bullets broke the monster's right wrist - although the wrist recovered in the next second, the opponent had missed the best attack opportunity.
Ke Lan crashed directly into the arms of this humanoid monster, smashed his head hard on its left shoulder , and stabbed the stone spike in his mouth into the monster's chest.
"Bang!"
Another shot hit the monster's right elbow joint, making it unable to turn the bone blade. At the same time, Ke Lan threw his head to one side, causing the stone spike to tear a huge hole between the monster's chest and ribs!
A beating heart was exposed in front of Ke Lan.
The monster's broken elbow recovered, but it was too late. Ke Lan dropped the gun, took the stone spike in his hand, and stabbed it hard into the heart!
