Volume 8: A Trip to the Sick Village Chapter 394 Black Asphalt
"I'll do it." Before Layton could react, another person spoke before him.
Accompanied by the sound of metal parts rubbing against each other, a figure stood in front of Ke Lan.
It was the "servant of God" wearing the abandoned power armor - this "servant of God" was different from the other experimental subjects. Its self-awareness was incomplete, and in most cases it was just a puppet controlled by Chiron. Most of the commands Chiron issued to the sick village were conveyed by this "servant of God".
It is no exaggeration to say that it is Chiron's substitute.
And now, the one who was speaking to Ke Lan was obviously not the "Servant of God" himself, but Chiron who was hiding behind him.
"Okay, you do it." Ke Lan nodded. Although he was a little surprised that Chiron could still control the puppet at such a long distance, the situation was urgent now and it was obviously not the time to worry about such things.
The "Servant of God" lifted Ze Luo up with one hand, and then aimed him in the direction where the suicide-destructive monsters were most concentrated.
"Get ready." A dull synthetic voice came from under the armor of the "Servant of God".
The iconic spherical shoulder armor of the Copper Hammer Power Armor made a crisp "clang" sound, and Ze Luo's petite body drew an almost straight line in the air and went straight to the center of the monster pile.
"Damn it! This guy threw too hard!" After seeing the trajectory of Ze Luo being thrown out, Layton couldn't help but shout, "She's going to fly over my head!"
Although the interior of the "Greece" spaceship also has a gravity control system, this is a hangar. For the convenience of logistics, the gravity value is set to only one-third of that on the ground. When Layton restarted the various equipment in the hangar just now, he did not make a second adjustment to the gravity value.
"It's okay! She can land on her own!" Ke Lan said immediately.
"Land on its own?" Just as Layton was puzzled, Ze Luo had already arrived right above the monster pile. According to the current trajectory, she would continue to fly forward until she hit the wall on one side of the hangar -
But at this moment, she seemed to be grabbed by an invisible big hand. With no support in mid-air, she abruptly changed the direction of her movement and fell straight down!
With Ze Luo as the center, the area within fifty meters seemed to have turned into a killing zone. All the monsters that fell into this killing zone exploded and died. The splashed asphalt-like substance fell on the floor of the hangar, forming an area like a swamp.
Only a very small number of monsters at the front survived, but they were quickly killed by Layton and others with guns. This expected encounter ended in such an abrupt way.
"Marshall... Is this the ability of your 'perfect individual'?" Layton turned his head stiffly and asked Marshall.
Marshall shook his head: "I can't do it."
"Pack your equipment and stay alert." After saying this, Ke Lan climbed out of the shelter and ran towards Ze Luo who was standing in the middle of the "swamp".
"Everything has been cleaned up, only she is left." Seeing Ke Lan coming, Ze Luo spoke.
"Is that puppet entity still on the bridge?"
"Um."
"If we enter the bridge..." Ke Lan recalled the structural diagram of the "Greece" airship that he had seen before, "The fastest route should be along the No. 2 channel, through the corridor in front of the restaurant, there is a security door on the far right..."
"Zeluo, can you sense any other mechanisms or traps inside the airship? Especially inside this passage." Ke Lan said, pointing to Passage No. 2 on the second floor of the hangar.
"No, but..." Ze Luo moved his focus from Ke Lan to the ground - only then did Ke Lan notice that the "black asphalt" all over the ground was slowly retreating towards the passage where the monsters rushed out!
They were like some kind of soft-bodied creatures living near the coast, pushed up by the waves. When the waves receded, these things were left on the wet beach. In order to avoid being dehydrated by the sun, they kept wriggling and moved towards the sea little by little...
"Are these things...part of that puppet individual?" Ke Lan asked.
This was not the first time he had seen this substance that looked like black asphalt. It had first appeared in the iron virgin. Now , not only had part of this substance been integrated into his body, but the body of the fair-skinned, jade-like girl in front of him was also completely made up of this black and thick substance.
I think this substance should also be the origin of that puppet individual.
"No." Ze Luo shook his head, "These things come from the humans on the spaceship."
"From humans? But they have died twice... killed once by a puppet individual, and then killed again by us after turning into monsters. Why are these things still moving?" Ke Lan frowned, raised his gun, and fired two shots at the squirming "black asphalt". The bullet passed through the nearly one-centimeter thick "asphalt layer" and hit the metal floor of the hangar with a dull sound - however, the bullet hole soon disappeared, and the bullet was also wrapped inside the black asphalt. They were still squirming and crawling forward.
Ke Lan's shot was like firing into a real swamp. Apart from a few black "splashes", it failed to cause any impact.
"The body tissues of these humans have been assimilated by her, so they have become like this." Ze Luo said lightly.
"Then can you use these materials to create another you or another puppet individual?" Ke Lan asked.
"No, they are not the same thing as my origin... This assimilation is not perfect."
"Then why are these things crawling back? Do the puppets want to reclaim them?"
"Part of her consciousness is attached to them. She can gather these substances together and reconstruct a living being."
"Are those monsters that just attacked us?"
"Anything else is fine."
"Then we really can't let these things escape back." Ke Lan turned around and waved at Layton, "Layton, do you have a flamethrower?"
"I brought it." While walking towards Ke Lan, Layton also discovered the abnormality of these "black asphalts". "What ? Are you planning to burn all these ghost things?"
"Well, if we let them escape, we will have to fight the refreshed monsters again later." Ke Lan shrugged, "It's better to kill them completely."
