Volume 9: Molten Mine Chapter 460: Skinner
The information of the person corresponding to this DNA was quickly found out. He was a man named Alfonso Gonzalez Sanchez, 41 years old. He had served in the Second Corps of the Field Force and was hired by the research institute after retiring. He was a level seven enhanced person.
(Note: Enhanced humans are a type of biochemically modified humans, but they do not have cyborg prostheses installed. Therefore, for the sake of distinction, in the following text, those with purely physical enhancements like Marshall and Park Sang-woo are collectively called enhanced humans, while those with cyborg prostheses like Layton and Victoria are called modified humans.)
"Yes! Alfonso, that's him!" Park Sang-woo in the lifeboat suddenly shouted, "The security guard who entered the lava tunnel with Muller and the others is called Alfonso! He's a level 7 enhanced human!"
"A level 7 enhanced person... that person's physical strength is comparable to King Kong." Layton whispered, "This kind of person, even if he doesn't wear any protective gear, will hardly be injured by the fragments splashed out when the barrel explodes."
At this time, Ke Lan suddenly looked at Aya and said, "This detection equipment was specially made by your Security Bureau, right?"
"Yes...what's wrong?" Aya felt a little confused about Ke Lan's somewhat inappropriate question.
"Can this thing detect whether this person is infected by the cells of the Seed of Erosion?"
Aya: "You suspect him..."
“This possibility cannot be ruled out.”
The test results of cell contamination came out soon - this level 7 enhanced human named Alfonso was not infected by the Seed of Corrosion, at least not before his blood stained the gun.
"Ke Lan... should we continue to move forward? Something that can make a Level 7 enhanced person shoot the barrel of a gun like crazy and explode... I'm afraid it's not easy to deal with." The hound's face was full of worry. "Or, think of other ways... try to see if you can drill through the outer wall of this tunnel?"
"If this tunnel is connected to the wormhole-like transmission device, it is very likely that we will be torn apart by the distorted space the moment we drill through it..." Ke Lan rejected this proposal, "But don't worry too much. I think the enemies Alfonso encountered may not be as terrifying as you think."
"What do you mean?" The hound was stunned.
"If the enemy was really strong, Alfonso would have no chance to fight back and would be killed instantly... But now, his gun barrel exploded, which means he emptied at least several magazines, which means the battle lasted for quite a while." Ke Lan paused and continued, "The combat effectiveness of those experts and the driver can be basically ruled out. A level 7 enhanced person without heavy weapons can fight the enemy for so long with a light machine gun, which proves that the enemy is not very strong... Of course, the premise is that the other party is not in the mood to play with prey."
"It seems to make sense..." The Hound nodded subconsciously, "At least the combat effectiveness of our team this time is much stronger than a level 7 enhanced person."
"But we still have to be cautious." Ke Lan continued, "Keep the formation. Also, Layton, send out two drones to watch the front and back of the team respectively. You don't need to control them to the extreme distance, about a hundred meters will be enough."
"Yeah." Layton took out two mechanical dog-shaped drones from an equipment box specifically for drones. After setting a series of parameters, the two drones flew out in two completely different directions.
Before the team set off , the drone moving forward made a new discovery.
A dead body.
In the image transmitted back by the drone, a bright red human body was lying on the ground. At first, Ke Lan and the others thought that the red color was flowing blood. It was not until the image with higher resolution was refreshed that they realized that this was a person with his skin peeled off.
The red color on the body surface is actually the exposed muscle tissue.
The white pixels that they originally thought to be skin are actually the fascia covering the surface of the muscles.
"Damn, that looks pretty corny," the Hound said as he used his fingernails to pick at the biscuit crumbs left between his teeth. Although the things on the screen were visually impactful, they were not very stimulating to him as he had seen many bloody scenes on the battlefield.
The reactions of everyone else were normal, except Park Sang-woo, who looked extremely pale. It was unclear whether it was because of excessive blood loss or because he was frightened by the skinner.
"Let the drone patrol the area around the corpse, and we'll go over there," Ke Lan said.
The reconnaissance team quickly arrived at the place where the drone discovered the body. Watching the skinned corpse up close was a completely different feeling than watching it on the screen - at least, Park Sang-woo's expression was worse.
"I can't smell any blood." The hound frowned. "Looking at the texture of his muscles, it seems like all the blood has been drained. Could it be that the thing that killed him likes to suck human blood?"
Ivan squatted down and poked the muscles on the back of the corpse with the handle of the scalpel . He said to Ke Lan, "The muscles are quite stiff and the rigor mortis has not completely subsided. Thanks to the dry environment in the tunnel, the degree of soft tissue decay is not obvious. Considering that the deceased is a high-level enhanced person, the preliminary judgment is that the time of death is about four to six days."
"The earthquake occurred more than a week ago... It seems that he did not die when 'Yaguna Kator' fell." Aya analyzed.
"Can you find out the cause of death?" Ke Lan asked.
"There are no obvious external injuries on the body surface... Although the skin was peeled off, the peeling technique seems to be very perfect. Not only did it remove the subcutaneous tissue such as fat and glands very cleanly, but it also did not damage the muscles and fascia at all. It is impossible to determine his cause of death from the outside. I need to perform an autopsy." Ivan replied.
"Let's check the identity of the deceased first." Ke Lan said.
Ivan used a clean scalpel to scrape a small amount of tissue from the thigh of the corpse and sent it into the testing instrument. The DNA comparison results were completely consistent with Alfonso Gonzalez Sanchez.
The toughness of the body tissues is basically in line with the level of a seventh-level enhanced human.
"Wait a minute, this guy seems to be holding something in his hand!" the hound, who always has a sharp eye, suddenly said.
Ke Lan looked down and saw that Alfonso seemed to be pinching something between his fingers in his clenched right fist.
"This guy's fingers are completely stiff... Damn, the bones of a level 7 enhanced person are so hard ... I'll just cut off two fingers, is it okay?" A sharp blade popped out of the hound's gauntlet. It was a high-frequency particle vibration knife. As for the storage mechanism and shape, it was based on the fictional weapon in Assassin's Creed - the hidden blade.
"If it's just a finger, it's no problem, it won't affect the anatomy." Ivan nodded.
"Then I'll cut it..." After saying that, the hound put the blade close to it...
…
What Alfonso held in his fist was a piece of paper with a string of letters written crookedly on it.
"Aleja... No, this is not English." The Hound read with a frown, "It looks like Spanish."
"It should be Spanish. People named Alfonso are basically descendants of people who lived in the Spanish-speaking areas of the old era...By the way, old dog, don't you understand Spanish?" Ke Lan took the note.
"Hey... As for Spanish, I only know a few numbers." The Hound said a little embarrassedly.
"That's right... the number of people who use Spanish now is much less than in the old era." Ke Lan said as he looked at the note.
But he only took one look and froze.
The note read, "Aléjate de esa cama."
Translated into English, it means "Stay away from that bed." Or...
“Leave the bed.”
Why...why does this sentence appear here?
