Volume 6: Mecha Contest Chapter 305: Emergency
"Someone dying at a banquet of this level... I'm afraid it's not a good idea, right?" Facing the gazes of those people, Ke Lan said in a very calm tone.
Perhaps this slave would eventually die in a fatal fight, but at least Ke Lan didn't want to see him being killed here - in front of his own kind, in an iron cage, killed by a beast much stronger than himself.
This is not the way a human being should die.
Although in the eyes of the big lizard and the gods believed in by the Alpha civilization, humans are no different from insects, but at least humans should not regard their own kind as insects and deprive them of their lives as if they were killing an insect at random.
This way of dying is undignified and meaningless. Its only function is to bring a moment of sensory stimulation to the onlookers.
"Who are you?" The young master of the Morgan Consortium stood up, pointed at Ke Lan and asked, his strong dissatisfaction was evident in his words... Although Ke Lan saved the person who was almost killed, he ruined the program he had carefully prepared... This action was not much different from slapping him in the face.
The eyes of those onlookers looking at Ke Lan were not very friendly. From their whispered conversations, Ke Lan heard words like "spoiler", "rude", and "uneducated" more than once.
Lu Che glanced at the silent Ke Lan and shook his head with some regret.
Originally, his first impression of Ke Lan was very ordinary, and now, his evaluation of Ke Lan has fallen to the bottom.
In Lu Che's opinion, no matter how excessive the young master of the Morgan Consortium was, Ke Lan should not have intervened in this matter... In order to save the life of a low-level slave, not only did he slap the young master in the face, but he also ruined the interest of most people present... This deal was really not worth it.
Such a courageous act will not only not bring any benefits to himself, but will also create a lot of potential enemies... If nothing else, at least the Morgan Consortium will be seriously offended.
Lu Che began to think about how to get Zofia to cancel the engagement and sever her relationship with Ke Lan - although he was not on Zofia's side, if the Morgan Consortium chose to put pressure on the entire Soma family, then everyone with the surname "Soma" would suffer.
Just when Lu Che was about to pull Zofia away from Ke Lan, he suddenly smelled a pungent fishy odor. The appearance of this smell was extremely abrupt, but within just a few seconds, it spread to every corner of the Imperial Banquet Hall.
Ke Lan naturally also smelled the smell... Not only did he smell it, he also found the source of the smell in the first place.
The heavily armored rhinoceros in the cage!
A large amount of asphalt-like secretions overflowed from the gaps in its shell, and the pungent fishy smell came from these secretions.
Not only that, the carapace on the Heavy Armored Rhinoceros began to melt at a speed visible to the naked eye... However, the tissues under the shell were not exposed through the dissolved shell. Instead, what appeared in Ke Lan's field of vision was a new shell with a crystalline texture!
shell?
Is this bug not dead yet? !
Ke Lan suddenly thought of a term that was only proposed by biologists on the Ark in recent years - "stress mutation". This is a very rare phenomenon. When some indigenous creatures suffer fatal injuries or enter a near-death state, they will forcibly trigger a mutation process in order to survive...
Although this phenomenon is more like the so-called "last gasp of light" in common parlance, none of the biological individuals observed to have "stress mutations" have a remaining lifespan of more than 24 hours, but before they completely stop their life activities, they will burst out with a force several times stronger than the original one.
"This is trouble. With a chance of one in a hundred thousand, they still run into something. Isn't the luck of these people too good?" Ke Lan thought to himself. His eyes quickly swept around every corner of the banquet hall, trying to find something that could be used for self-defense.
As for the young master of the Morgan Consortium, he probably had never heard of such a thing as "stress mutation". He pinched his nose with his hand and looked at the heavy-armored rhinoceros in the cage with a frown. Not only did he not move away, but he took the initiative to move closer.
"Get out of here! Everyone, stay away from that cage!" The sudden strange phenomenon did not alert the people around the cage. For these flowers grown in a greenhouse, they had almost no perception of danger, and they didn't understand why the "corpse" of the heavy-armored rhinoceros shovel had undergone such a change.
"What?" The young master of the Morgan Consortium turned around and asked loudly.
"That thing isn't dead yet! This phenomenon is most likely a 'stress mutation'... It's more dangerous now than before, and this cage may not be able to contain it!" Ke Lan explained. Although these people were blaming and belittling him not long ago, he didn't want this banquet hall to turn into a hell with rivers of blood.
"It's not dead? Wait? What mutation are you talking about? Are you kidding—"
Before he could finish his words, the heavily armored rhinoceros that had just shed its shell suddenly jumped up from the ground. Its huge jaws covered with black crystals easily cut open the iron cage that imprisoned it, and in the process cut off half of the head of the young master of the Morgan Consortium.
Ear-piercing screams suddenly resounded throughout the entire Imperial Banquet Hall, and the people around the cages immediately fled in all directions... One of the young ladies accidentally stepped on the hem of her dress in panic and tripped to the ground. Before she could get up, the huge jaws of the heavy-armored rhinoceros shovel had already cut her slender body in half, and bloody internal organs flew more than ten meters away.
"Kill it! Kill it!" someone shouted loudly in the chaos. The burly bodyguards in black suits looked at each other, gritted their teeth, rushed forward, and blocked the path of the heavy armored rhinoceros shovel.
However, the weakest of these bodyguards, who were only level 2 mutants, couldn't hold out for even a second - firearms were forbidden to be brought into the cocktail party, and the only weapons they had were non-lethal Tasers. Although the electric current from this thing could cause humans to go into shock instantly, for a heavily armored rhinoceros shovel, it was not even a tickle.
Although these bodyguards who were loyal to their duties were admirable, all they did was leave a few puddles of indistinguishable meat on the floor of the banquet hall.
People in the banquet hall continued to rush to the door. They crowded together and pushed each other. From time to time, someone would fall to the ground... Anyone who fell could basically never get up again, and even their screams were drowned out by all kinds of shouts and roars.
Countless expensive leather shoes and high-heeled shoes stepped on the blood-soaked carpet. The bright red blood foamed out from the fabric fibers and stained the leather surface that was polished to a shiny finish.
Another group of people hid in the corners of the banquet hall. Many of them took out their cell phones and began to call for help from the outside world. However, by the time the garrison arrived at the hotel and took the elevator to the top floor, it was estimated that there would not be many living people left in the entire Imperial Banquet Hall.
"Let's find a place to hide first!" Lu Che said to Zofia and Ke Lan with a nervous look on his face. They were far away from the exits of the banquet hall, and it would be too late to escape from the banquet hall. It would be better to find a relatively safe place and pray that the garrison troops would arrive soon.
"Well, Mr. Luche, I'll leave it to you to protect Zofia," said Ke Lan.
"Then...what are you going to do?" Lu Che was stunned for a moment. He felt that he seemed to have guessed what Ke Lan wanted to do, but he didn't quite believe it.
"To kill that big bug, of course."
"Are you crazy? You don't even have a weapon..." Before Lu Che could finish his words, Ke Lan had already picked up a few wine bottles on the table and ran towards the heavy-armored rhinoceros shovel that had mutated due to stress.
"This guy... is he looking for death?" Looking at Ke Lan's back, Lu Che couldn't help but say, "Forget it, it's hard to persuade a damned ghost with kind words... It would be better if this guy died..."
"He won't die." At this time, Zofia suddenly said, "At least he won't die here."
"Why?" Lu Che looked at his niece in surprise.
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At this time, Ke Lan had already arrived behind the Heavy Armored Rhinoceros Shovel, less than twenty meters away from it.
What Lu Che said was not wrong. He didn't even have a weapon and couldn't cause any effective damage to the Heavy Armored Rhinoceros...and the Heavy Armored Rhinoceros, which was in a state of stress mutation, had lost its normal weaknesses such as the eyes and abdomen. Attacking these places would not only fail to kill it, but would further anger it.
Ke Lan glanced at the bottles of wine she had just picked up, a bottle of brandy and a bottle of whiskey, both of which were distilled liquors with high alcohol content. They might be a good choice for making Molotov cocktails... However, if she wanted to burn this heavily armored rhinoceros to death, she was afraid that everyone on this floor would die of high temperature and suffocation before it.
No, there is another way!
Without thinking too much, Ke Lan threw the bottle in his hand towards the heavy-armored rhinoceros shovel and shouted, "Hey! I'm here! Stupid bug, I stabbed you just now, and I'm standing here now, come and chase me!"
He found a few more wine bottles and threw them at the heavy-armored rhinoceros shovel one after another.
Finally, Ke Lan succeeded in angering the big insect. It turned around, stared at Ke Lan with its three remaining red eyes, and rushed towards him.
"success."
Seeing the big bug rushing towards him like an accelerating armored vehicle, knocking over the tables and chairs, Ke Lan breathed a sigh of relief and turned around to run.
In terms of running in a straight line, Ke Lan could not match the Heavy Armored Rhinoceros Shovel, but he was more flexible. He kept turning and making use of the brief intervals when time stopped to plan his escape route. At the same time, he gradually led the big bug into the trap he had set...
With a sliding tackle, Ke Lan passed under a long wine table. The moment he emerged from the other end of the table, he turned around, lifted up the huge tablecloth on the table, and threw it towards the chasing bug... This scene made him feel a bit like a Spanish bullfighter in the old era. If the tablecloth was changed to red, he would be even more like a bullfighter...
The wine bottles and glasses on the table were scattered all over the floor along with the lifted tablecloth and shattered. The next second, the entire solid wooden wine table followed in their footsteps and was crushed into flying fragments under the impact of the heavy rhinoceros shovel.
Ke Lan suddenly stopped. He no longer ran or dodged. He turned around and smiled at the heavy-armored rhinoceros shovel that was chasing him.
The Heavy-Armored Rhinoceros Shovel did not stop. In the last part of Ke Lan's escape route, it even designed a straight section to help it accelerate... Just when the huge jaws of the Heavy-Armored Rhinoceros Shovel were about to touch Ke Lan, Ke Lan suddenly leaned back and fell on his back. At the same time, he stretched out his arms to protect his cheeks.
Less than two meters behind Ke Lan was the observation deck at the very edge of the top floor of the hotel. Unable to brake, the heavily armored rhinoceros shovel instantly smashed the huge floor-to-ceiling window and flew out of the observation deck!
Between the hotel's glass curtain wall and the Ark's external portholes was a hollow layer with a span of more than fifty meters. The heavy-armored rhinoceros shovel flew only more than ten meters away before it lost its momentum and fell straight down.
Loud noises continued to be heard from the hollow layer. The falling heavy-armored rhinoceros shovel broke more than a dozen steel beams supporting the hotel's outer walls before it crashed firmly to the ground.
"boom!!"
Accompanied by a deafening roar, the entire hotel shook violently several times.
Ke Lan climbed up from the ground and looked down through the gap in the French window. At a height of one thousand meters, the heavy rhinoceros shovel had smashed a huge deep hole in the metal ground, so much so that the foundation of the hotel was slightly deformed.
This hotel might have become a dangerous building, Ke Lan thought. I hope the Morgan Consortium won't charge me for the repairs...
