Volume 9: Molten Mine Chapter 471 Assimilation
His body walked out of the shelter uncontrollably. He wanted to shout "No", but no sound came out.
He felt extremely frightened, but the expression on his face was one of smile.
Before he was exiled by the Ark, he particularly liked to read novels online, especially those fantasy novels that originated from Eastern culture. He remembered that there was a special term in it, called "seizing the body", which refers to some immortal cultivators who have lost their physical bodies and use force to allow their "primordial spirit" - that is, consciousness, soul and the like, to occupy the body of others, thereby completing the means of rebirth.
Could it be that his body was "taken over" by the prophet's soul?
But what he couldn't understand was that the prophet's body was not destroyed, and was even stronger than his body, which was not even a strengthened human body. Why did he want to "take over" his body? ?
He wanted to beg the prophet to let him go, but he didn't know how to do it. At this time, his body had already left the bunker under the control of another consciousness.
"Bang!"
When the sniper rifle fired, his body staggered half a step, and his head tilted back greatly - but he did not fall down, but stood up immediately.
A blood hole the size of a bowl appeared in the middle of the head, with the facial features completely torn apart and bloody. Through the blood hole, one could even see minced brains and minced meat mixed together, alternating between red and white, looking like minced tofu drizzled with fermented bean curd sauce.
The leader's original consciousness remained forever at the moment when he was pierced by the bullet, but the movement of this body did not stop.
He continued to walk forward, faster and faster, and finally he actually started running!
Allen couldn't help but be stunned for a moment - unlike the leader, the former only knew that he had hit Allen, but he couldn't see clearly where he was hit; while Allen could clearly see the shocking bloody hole on the leader's head through the sniper rifle's scope.
He's not dead yet , can he still be considered a human being?
"It seems that there is a 'container' among this group of people..." Allen thought to himself and opened the safety of the assault rifle at his feet.
But he did not directly shoot at the opponent with his assault rifle - the opponent was running very fast, and if he directly used active ammunition in this situation, at least half of the ammunition would be wasted.
There was no way to get supplies in the mining area, and every time he used up his active ammunition, it would be one less round, so he had to use it carefully.
Allen picked up the sniper rifle again. This time, he did not aim at the opponent's head or chest, which are vital parts for humans, but chose the knee as the target. After calculating the lead time, he decisively pulled the trigger.
"Bang!"
The opponent's running route was a straight line, and he did not make any evasive movements such as swaying left or right after being aimed at by Allen - of course, it is also possible that his eyes had been broken and he could not see that he was being aimed at by the gun.
The shot accurately hit the opponent's right knee, and the whole leg was broken into two pieces on the spot. Fortunately, the protective suit was made of a tough material and was not torn, so the broken calf did not fly out.
The leader, who lost the support of his right leg, immediately fell to the ground and landed in the mud.
However, just as Allen changed his weapon to an assault , it struggled to get up from the ground.
Half of the trouser leg of the protective suit was dangling with the broken calf in its arms, and several strong tentacles emerged from the end of the thigh. With these tentacles as support, the leader continued to jump towards Allen.
"It is indeed the container of the Seed of Corrosion..." Allen frowned, "But the growth rate of this tentacle is too fast. Could it be some kind of mutant?"
He tried firing a series of short bursts, and the active ammunition fired from the muzzle penetrated into the body inside the protective suit, making a few muffled "puff" sounds, but the opponent was only slightly blocked and then approached him at a faster speed.
"Is it because of insufficient dosage, or is it blocked by the armor lining inside the protective suit?" Allen was a little confused. He just fired five rounds of active ammunition, and all of them hit the target. Logically speaking, even if a Corrosive Seed of this size failed to hit the "core", the toxicity of the five rounds of active ammunition would be enough to be fatal. However, judging from the opponent's feedback, the effect of these five shots was not even as good as that of conventional bullets.
At least conventional bullets have more physical lethality.
Allen could only change back to his sniper rifle. If the opponent was wearing inner armor under the protective suit, he had to destroy the inner armor first before he had a chance to hurt the body of the Seed of Erosion.
The penetrating performance of living ammunition is poor, which is an unsolvable problem - it is not that there is no way to improve the penetrating performance of this kind of ammunition, but after the penetrating ability is improved, when hitting the target, the active cells of the flesh-eating worms in the bullet may not be released in time, and have already penetrated the target, which would be a waste of time.
Allen gritted his teeth and made a decision in his heart: just use continuous shooting from a large-caliber sniper rifle to completely shatter the flesh of the "container", so that the body of the Seed of Erosion is fully exposed, and then use active ammunition to complete the fatal blow.
Just as he was aiming at the target, the other party made a move that he was somewhat surprised about.
The upper body of the container arched backwards greatly, and it folded its body completely like an invertebrate. The flexible tentacles were like a drawn bowstring, tightly stretched behind it... After accumulating enough elastic potential energy, the folded body suddenly stretched out -
“Bang!”
It bounced up from the ground like a cannonball! It instantly flew dozens of meters into the air, and the two chasms of lava fissures in the original version were also crossed by it in the blink of an eye!
Allen was shocked by the sudden burst of mobility of this thing. He quickly raised the muzzle of the sniper rifle and chased after the "container" flying in the air.
There was no time to aim, and the moment he felt the target, Allen pulled the trigger almost subconsciously.
"Bang!"
I don't know if his marksmanship was so good that he could hit an object moving at high speed in the air with a hip shot, or if it was just luck, but the shot hit the container right on the chest.
There was nowhere to gain leverage in mid-air. According to the current trend, it would fall into the magma. Even if the magma could not burn the Seed of Erosion to death, it would not be able to crawl back to the surface for a while... Thinking of this, Allen finally breathed a sigh of relief.
But the next scene made him open his eyes wide!
The container flew backwards under the push of the bullet, and several tentacles suddenly shot out from its body. These tentacles extended dozens of meters in an instant and penetrated deeply into the huge rock in front of Allen like hooks.
These tentacles were pulled straight at once, but they did not break. The thing at the end of the tentacles used inertia to swing its body out and smashed towards Allen like a meteor hammer!
The whole process took less than one second, and the opponent had already closed the distance to within twenty meters!
Allen's mind was already filled with the image of himself being smashed to death by this fleshy "meteor hammer"...
Although his brain had not yet reacted, his rigorously trained body responded with muscle memory: he grabbed the assault rifle on the ground and rolled over on the spot, letting the "meteor hammer" fly past his scalp. As it got closer, he quickly flashed to the side and rear of the Seed of Erosion and poured out all the remaining active ammunition in the magazine.
The distance between the two sides was less than five meters. Even if the other side had inner armor, it could not block the warheads of active ammunition. The toxicity of these dozen bullets was enough to kill a four or five meter tall "T-type mutant".
The "T" in "T-type mutant" is taken from the English word "Titan", which means "giant".
The Titan-type mutants have terrifying defense and strength, and their only weakness is their poor flexibility. The "sumo wrestler" that Ke Lan and Victoria met in the East 9th District was the first "T-type mutant" discovered by the Security Bureau. The experts in charge of classification were still struggling over whether to classify this guy as "N-type" or "SP-type", but later in several encirclement and suppression operations, the field forces and Security Bureau agents encountered similar mutants several times. The experts in charge of classification immediately slapped their heads and created a new classification: T-type mutant (Titan-type mutant).
After many actual combat tests, the Security Bureau can basically confirm that if the "core" cannot be hit, 15-20 units of active cells of the flesh-eating worm can "poison" a T-type mutant. The active ammunition that Allen shot into the body of the Corrosion Seed in front of him has already exceeded this number.
Why isn't it dead yet?!
Allen pressed the magazine release button with his thumb and turned the gun horizontally. The empty magazine was immediately thrown out of the magazine well. But just when he was about to insert a new magazine, a tentacle like a spear suddenly pierced his chest.
He lowered his head and looked at his chest in astonishment... He was a little confused. His body was clearly stabbed through, but he didn't feel any pain.
Is it because I am going to die soon?
So in the final moments of life...will the connection between consciousness and body be severed?
Allen wanted to raise his hand to grab the tentacle stuck in his chest, but his arm did not move at all, and his body stood there like a toy doll that had lost power.
Allen could no longer feel his limbs and torso, and he couldn't even move his eyeballs. He could only watch the bloody tentacles being pulled out of his body while his body fell to one side...
Just as he was about to fall to the ground, his arms suddenly moved and he supported the ground with his palms.
"What... is going on?" If Allen could still control his facial muscles at this moment, an expression of extreme horror would be revealed on his face.
But he can't.
He watched his body climb up from the ground somewhat awkwardly, moving all the joints like a mechanic testing a new mecha.
A voice sounded in his mind: "This body is good, much better than that rubbish just now."
"Who is it? Who is talking?!" Allen was startled. He wanted to question the other party, but his body was completely out of control.
He felt like he was playing a visual novel game. Although he had the perspective of the protagonist, no matter how he shouted on the other side of the screen, the protagonist on the screen would still only follow the plot flow. There would not be a single unnecessary action or line.
But even a visual novel game with no operation at all will at least give players some options to achieve different endings... But now, Allen has completely become a bystander, an observer who "resides" in his own body but has no control over it!
What is going on?
He was different from the leader of the heretical sect. He didn't read novels and naturally didn't know the concept of "possession"... But like the leader, he felt the indescribable fear that penetrated deep into his bones.
Something has entered the body and replaced the original soul of this body...
There is one more thing that neither the leader nor Allen could see: after they lost control of their bodies, there would be some subtle changes in their facial features. Although the changes were very small, they completely turned into another face.
If the leader could see the mirror before his consciousness dissipated, he would be shocked to find that his face had become exactly the same as that of the prophet!
If his head had not been hit by Allen's sniper rifle, a very strange scene would have appeared: two people with exactly the same appearance were looking at each other silently, and at the same time showing an ambiguous smile.
"This is the power that comes from a higher class... It can completely surpass the Alpha civilization..." "Alan" lowered his head, looked at this "familiar" body, and muttered silently.
"For the greater good, I need... more of me..."
If Ke Lan could see this scene, he would be surprised to find that he was not unfamiliar with this strange ability - isn't this the assimilation ability that the agent program "Smith" in "The Matrix" gained after being infected with a virus?
However, the background of that old movie is in a virtual digital world. The rules of that world are made up of countless ones and zeros, while the constituent elements of the real world are far more complicated than those of the digital world...
In the digital world, copying, pasting, and overwriting are just a few simple operating instructions.
But reality is not "Metrics", and the prophet is not a virus program...
This is a cheating method that is almost like rewriting the rules of the universe. Even the Alpha civilization is far from reaching this level.
