Volume 8: A Trip to the Sick Village Chapter 370 I can tell at a glance that you are not a human
Ke Lan once again took a look at the power armor on the "servant of God". It was indeed the "Copper Hammer Type VI" that had been discontinued forty years ago. The reason why this series of armor was given such a name was entirely because the iconic spherical shoulder armor looked like a pair of huge copper hammers embedded on both sides of the head from a distance.
Although it was named "Copper Hammer", the armor was not made of copper alloy, but a material called "Schroeder Steel". This material was developed from WC hard alloy, and its main components are tungsten carbide and cobalt as a binder. It is an alloy with excellent hardness and toughness... However, this material has a fatal flaw.
That is, it is heavy. The density of this alloy is extremely high. Even the armor plate on the chest of the "Copper Hammer Type VI" which is only six millimeters thick weighs nearly fifty kilograms, not to mention the entire suit of armor where more than 70% of the protective armor is made of Schroeder steel.
If these Schroeder steels were replaced with special ceramics and titanium alloys with comparable defensive power to make composite armor, the overall weight would be reduced to one-third of the original. In addition, people later discovered a large amount of Nino alloys in the remains of the Alpha civilization, so Schroeder steel basically withdrew from the field of armor manufacturing. The "Copper Hammer" series of power armor was discontinued for this reason.
However, Schroeder steel has not completely withdrawn from the military manufacturing field. On the Ark, whether it is the armor-piercing bullets used by individual firearms or the armor-piercing shells used by mechas and tanks, more than 90% of the types use Schroeder steel as the warhead material, which is commonly known as "tungsten core armor-piercing bullets."
Ke Lan and his team had used this kind of bullet to shoot the Seeds of Erosion in the past, but it had no effect at all.
And the guy in front of him, who was called "God's Servant" by the locals, also had his hand armor made of Schroeder steel. How could he kill this Seed of Corrosion? !
Ke Lan's sight shifted to the withered, festering tentacles. This Seed of Corrosion was indeed dead, but it was impossible to kill this monster with physical means alone...
The transparent spherical object called the "core" is indeed the vital point of the Seed of Erosion, just like the human heart, but it is impossible to kill the Seed of Erosion by simply smashing it - the special weapon equipped by the Security Bureau against the Seed of Erosion first uses explosives and fragments to tear open the body of the Seed of Erosion, exposing its "core", and then uses a Nino alloy needle to pierce the outer shell of the "core" and inject the active cells of the flesh-eating worm into the "core".
Whether it is the stalagmites and stone cones that Ke Lan found in the underwater caves, or the flesh-eating worms that were made into "special effects weapons", they essentially use an effect similar to "toxicity" to kill the seeds of erosion.
As for physical means... Even if a Seed of Erosion is blasted to pieces by a missile, as long as there is one cell that is not completely destroyed, it can revive.
After the East 9th District incident, Ke Lan "borrowed" Victoria's authority to visit the Security Bureau's archives. In the confidential document titled "Research Report on the Seed of Erosion", the column "Defense and Adaptability to Conventional Physical Attacks" only had two words filled in.
"immunity".
In this erosion, just being "pinched" to pieces caused all the cells to burst, showing a state similar to that of "poisoning", and they disintegrated and died within just a few seconds. Ke Lan would never believe that this was an effect achieved by purely physical means.
That can only mean one thing.
The one that "poisoned" the Seed of Corrosion was the creature hiding in this heavy armor.
Ke Lan no longer used the word "human" to describe the servant of God... In his eyes, the true form of this thing had become a monster more threatening than the Seed of Erosion.
This suit of armor weighing more than a ton may not be its armor, but some kind of "restraint" device, just like the "armor" put on the EVA's body.
Ke Lan once again cast his gaze on the servant of God, and at this moment, the servant of God's body, along with the "Copper Hammer Type VI" power armor it was wearing, suddenly became distorted and blurred... Countless slender, root-like fleshy tentacles drilled out from every , and these tentacles quickly extended and lengthened, and in the blink of an eye, they had wrapped the entire armor into a spindle-shaped cocoon.
But when Ke Lan blinked his eyes, the cocoon and tentacles disappeared without a trace, and the servant of God wearing power armor returned to his original appearance, standing motionless in front of the mutilated body of the missionary.
"…Is it an illusion?" Ke Lan quickly realized that the scene just now was the same illusion he had seen many times in the exile settlement and on the strange deserted island. These images came from the deep of his mind, those broken fragments of memory...
The illusion is false, but what is presented in the illusion is real!
Ke Lan looked at the "restored" servant of God and subconsciously took a half step back. He couldn't help but think of a famous line from an old movie in the old era -
"I can tell at once that you are not a human being!"
Ke Lan was no stranger to those slender cocoon tentacles. There were also many such tentacles growing on the surface of the flesh-eating worms, but they were not as long as these.
Could it be that the thing under this armor is a human-shaped flesh-eating worm?
In this way, it can barely make sense that the Seed of Erosion was killed instantly...but at the same time, another problem arises.
Regardless of whether the flesh-eating worms have humanoid subspecies, Ke Lan clearly remembered that in the information he obtained from the memory fragments, there was a very clear statement that "the cells of the 'flesh-eating worms' have an irresistible temptation for the 'seeds of erosion'." And in the combat operations in the East Nine District, the Security Bureau and Ke Lan also used "flesh-eating worms" as bait many times to lure out the seeds of erosion hiding deep in the streets and alleys and kill them...
It only takes a few active cells exposed to the air to attract the "seeds of erosion". However, now, such a large "flesh-eating worm " is standing here. Even if it is covered with a thick layer of armor, it is enough to drive the seeds of erosion in the two "containers" crazy.
But they didn't react to it.
It was not until the missionary was electrocuted and chose to commit suicide that the seeds of corrosion in his body completely got out of control. Before that, they had been in a very stable state.
Ke Lan glanced at another missionary out of the corner of his eye... If the true form of the "servant of God" was really a flesh-eating worm, then the erosion seeds in his body would enter a rapid transformation period the moment they smelled the scent of the flesh-eating worm...
Instead of being like now, with no movement at all.
