Volume 8: A Trip to the Sick Village Chapter 374: The Worst Plan
But what happened next was completely beyond Ke Lan's expectations——
After the flesh tube touched the back of his hand, it turned completely black, and the thick tentacles behind it were also covered with a strange light gray color. The fascia on the surface of the tentacles suddenly began to decompose, and a large amount of gray pus oozed out of the body... In less than five seconds, the muscle tissue that made up the main body of the tentacle quickly disintegrated and turned into a bunch of cotton-like substances that looked like they were soaked in lime water, floating in the air.
Not only was Ke Lan stunned, but even the servant of God and his followers on the ground were completely stunned.
"This... what is going on?" Ke Lan asked in astonishment. He subconsciously looked at the huge eyeballs embedded in the wall of flesh and blood - he found that these eyeballs were staring at him at the moment... Among these "sights" that were staring at him, Ke Lan felt an emotion very clearly.
fear.
Even though he himself found it hard to believe...but the "look" expressed by those eyeballs did indeed contain expressions such as "fear" and "terror".
This wall of flesh and blood... the "great god" mentioned by the servant of God... is it afraid of himself?
Could it be that the collapse of the tentacle just now was caused by myself?
Ke Lan did not comment on this, but he could not find a more reasonable explanation.
Judging from the reaction of the tentacles... my body seems to be a poison that is deadly enough to this "great god"?
The speed at which the tentacles died and decayed was no less than that of being eroded by the cells of flesh-eating worms or the stalagmites in underwater caves. In just a few short breaths, the tentacles that were originally dozens of meters long had completely "evaporated".
Even the floc-like rotten flesh eventually turned into tiny white fragments floating in the air. It looked like dust and wall debris raised from long-uninhabited ruins, or like the "dirty snow" that can only be seen in those special polluted areas on the earth.
"Why on earth is this happening..." Ke Lan lowered his head and glanced at the back of his hand, where there was an imperceptible needle hole. He gently squeezed the skin on the back of his hand, trying to squeeze out a drop of blood, but the needle hole had already healed. In a few days, this mark that was extremely difficult to detect with the naked eye would disappear without a trace.
Is it because of that "holy object"?
After much thought, Ke Lan could only attribute all of this to the thing he had never seen with his own eyes but had already been integrated into his body.
If Alpha's language ability and those memory fragments came from the broken stone tablet, then the various changes in his body were caused by the "pollution" he suffered on the top floor of Arasaka Tower.
The black liquid from the "Iron Maiden" and the mysterious crystal that Manstein refused to hand over until his death...
The wall of flesh and blood is not afraid of itself, it is afraid of these things!
It was not until then that the servant of God below realized what had happened. It let out a sharp, inhuman roar, stomped its feet on the ground, and flew towards Ke Lan.
Its right hand stretched forward, and hundreds of fleshy tentacles directly cracked the hand and arm armor of the "Copper Hammer Type VI" and stretched out wildly - these tentacles were exactly the same as what Ke Lan had seen in the "hallucination" before, except that at this moment they did not form a spindle-shaped cocoon, but woven into a giant net, covering Ke Lan who was stranded in mid-air.
"I really don't want to have a conflict with these people..." Ke Lan pulled out the pocket pistol from his secret pocket with some helplessness and pulled the trigger at the servant of God who was floating over.
A gunshot was heard, and the bullet hit the shoulder armor of the "Copper Hammer Type VI" and bounced off. Apart from scraping off a little rust, the shot did not cause any damage to the opponent.
But Ke Lan's original intention was not to kill the other party with bullets. With the help of the recoil generated by the shooting, he quickly fell to the ground, while the servant of God was pushed by the kinetic energy attached to the bullet and turned over in mid-air, sliding in another direction.
If it was on the ground, this shot would not be able to shake the target covered in heavy armor, but it is different in a floating state that is not affected by gravity. Any external force will change the inertial movement trajectory of the object.
"Fuck this last resort..." The moment he touched the ground, Ke Lan floated up again and fired another shot, pushing himself in the direction he came from.
Originally, Ke Lan did not want to be enemies with these people. Although their code of conduct was barbaric and cruel, in a sense, they were also "enemies of my enemy". Even if they could not be friends, Ke Lan did not want to completely stand against them.
Although they have the bloody custom of living sacrifices, and although they kill the sick and weak... they have also allowed many people to survive in this space station with harsh conditions... If this "Sick Village Sect" had not appeared, I'm afraid the number of residents in the South Sixteenth District would not even be one-tenth of what it is now.
Moreover, for some reason, Ke Lan did not have much aversion to the "great god" believed in by this "Sick Village Sect" - this wall of flesh and blood... Could it be because this strange creature not only did not actively harm humans, but also provided help for human survival?
The fact that these abandoned miners can live on the space station and even reproduce the "second generation of people" is definitely related to this wall of flesh and blood.
This wall of flesh and blood even anesthetizes the baptized before the "baptism ceremony"...
Even at this time, the servant of God was rushing towards him like crazy, but the wall of flesh and blood still did not make any aggressive moves towards him.
Ke Lan couldn't understand why. Even if this thing was afraid of him, even if he was a deadly poison to it, it wouldn't just do nothing, right? Even a rabbit would bite when it got angry... This guy couldn't be more cowardly than a rabbit, right?
Although it has a terrifying appearance, its personality is more docile than that of a herbivore. What is this? Is it cute in contrast?
Perhaps some guys with weird XP systems would have some special interest in this wall of flesh and blood, but Ke Lan's XP was obviously still within the range of normal humans, so he decided it would be better to stay away from this place first - the wall of flesh and blood was silent now, but who could guarantee that it would never move?
But how far could Ke Lan float? The followers of the servant of God had already caught up with him - the flesh membrane covering the ground had a certain viscosity, and the grip provided to their feet was enough to allow them to run on the ground in a state of microgravity without floating in the air.
The servants of the god stood in a row in front. They seemed to have received the order to "kill Ke Lan" and took out short spears from under their cloaks. These short spears were actually made of cut steel pipes. Although the pipe walls were covered with rust, the front ends were polished to be very sharp, reflecting dangerous light.
"Damn!" Seeing these followers making a throwing gesture, Ke Lan had to shoot again, and changed direction abruptly in the air, flying towards the wall of flesh and blood again.
With the power of these "second generation people", the short spears thrown by them can penetrate Ke Lan's small body... He just has extraordinary healing ability, not the immortal body in myths and legends. If the short spear pierces the vital organs, there will definitely be only one outcome, that is, sudden death on the spot.
With the sound of "swooshing" breaking through the air, the short spears shot towards Ke Lan. Due to gravity, the flight trajectory of these short spears was almost straight, and their speed hardly decreased during the flight.
However, this was not bad news for Ke Lan - a straight line was easier to predict than a parabolic projection trajectory. After using time stop to see the trajectory of each short spear clearly, he fired again, allowing his body to squeeze through the gaps between the short spears.
The short spear closest to him just brushed past the tip of his hair. If it had gone two centimeters lower, it would have been able to pry up Ke Lan's crown.
"There is only one last bullet left in the chamber..." Ke Lan looked around. The servant of God crashed into the top wall on the west side of the wall of flesh and blood and had not landed yet, while the followers were still chasing him on the ground... If Ke Lan planned to continue to escape in the direction of the passage he came from, not to mention whether there was a second spear under the cloaks of these followers, the acceleration brought by this last bullet alone would not allow Ke Lan to break through their encirclement and rush to the safe area.
Although gravity is negligible, air resistance still exists.
What's more, there are several columnar culture dishes running through the entire space. Having used up all his bullets, Ke Lan has no ability to change direction a second time in the air. If he doesn't choose the right angle at the beginning, he is likely to crash into these pillars.
There is only one way to get rid of the pursuers - cross the wall of flesh and blood and climb over to area F on the other side!
When she was just "baptized", Ke Lan had already discovered that this wall of flesh and blood was not closed, and there were several narrow cracks at the top. Of course, this narrowness was relative to the entire wall of flesh and blood. In fact, the width of this crack was at least one meter, which was enough for a person to get through sideways.
After making this decision, Ke Lan fired the last bullet without hesitation. Driven by the recoil, it accelerated and flew towards the crack in the middle of the bureau.
The moment he approached the crack, he already felt a breeze blowing from the other end of the crack. This airflow just proved that this crack was open and not a dead end.
The breeze slowed down Ke Lan's speed slightly, but it did not push Ke Lan out. He finally climbed onto the top wall of the space station and used his hands and feet to get into the crack.
Ke Lan looked forward and saw a dim light coming from afar. Judging from the light source, the depth of this crack was about twenty-five to thirty-five meters, which was equivalent to the thickness of the wall of flesh and blood. Compared with its area, this thickness was not exaggerated. He just didn't know what it would look like behind the wall.
Ke Lan bent over and walked forward in the gap. Above his head and under his feet were dark red walls of flesh and blood. Although the scene here gave people a feeling of horror and oppression, Ke Lan did not encounter any danger until he crawled out of the gap.
The wall of flesh seemed to be ignoring him completely.
Behind the wall of flesh and blood is an even purer dark red world.
Ke Lan turned his head and could clearly see that on the back of the wall of flesh and blood, there were many tissues that looked like enlarged versions of human organs attached to it, including a huge, translucent stomach sac.
Inside this wriggling stomach, a mass of bloody and fleshy things were constantly rolling. A piece of white bone poked out from the flesh. As soon as it came into contact with the transparent mucus secreted from the inner wall of the stomach, it quickly melted away like an ice cube being poured with boiling water. During this process, a large number of bubbles emerged from the bone and mixed into the mixture of blood and mucus.
"Strong acid... stomach acid..."
Ke Lan looked at the stomach sac. Among the bloody and fleshy masses that could no longer be distinguished from their original appearance, he saw a piece of familiar fabric. Although the piece of fabric had been corroded by strong acid and was in tatters, he still recognized that it came from the clothes worn by the young woman.
So what is being digested in this stomach? The answer is obvious.
Not only the digestive system, but also the other organs attached to the wall of flesh and blood have structures that are very similar to those of humans... In Ke Lan's view, this wall of flesh and blood is like cutting open a human body that has been magnified hundreds of times. Without destroying the entire circulatory system, the interconnected organs are taken out one by one and spread out on a table covered with flesh and blood.
In addition to the stomach, he also saw the heart, pancreas, liver... Countless blood vessels as thick as the block sewage pipes on the Ark connected these organs. The blood flowed in the blood vessels, rushed to the heart, and then the contraction of the heart pumped the blood to various organs.
This is clearly a perfect blood circulation system. Anyone who has some knowledge of biological structure will be amazed when seeing this scene.
"This wall of flesh and blood...could it really be made by humans?" Ke Lan muttered and turned around.
In the empty space behind the wall, there were nearly a hundred large cocoons made of fleshy tentacles… These cocoons were exactly the same as the illusion he had seen on the servant of God.
"It turns out that the illusion doesn't mean that the servant of God will become like that, but that it was hatched from these 'cocoons'..." Ke Lan said to himself thoughtfully, "It seems that I got the order wrong."
