Alien Relic Hunter

At the same time, on the edge of the molten mine area, the reconnaissance team supported the base.

This temporary support base is located on a condescending hill. The four-meter-high walls are all surrounded by foldable alloy armor plates. There are two six-meter-wide entrances and exits at the front and rear.

However, there were no gates installed at these two entrances and exits. Instead, there were two heavy armored vehicles. The giant buckets hung on the front of the armored vehicles to open roads and clear obstacles directly blocked the entire entrance and exit. On both sides of the armored vehicle, there are two door-god-like humanoid tactical mechas half squatting. Each mecha is equipped with dual-wielding rapid-fire railguns. The head monitor is constantly turning, scanning back and forth around the base. area.

The infantry was divided into three shifts and took turns manning the wall. There is a shooting hole every six meters in the wall. Protruding from these shooting holes are the barrels of twenty-five millimeter caliber machine guns.

Eight military drones are hovering at a safe height above the base. Each drone is equipped with four heavy machine guns and remotely controlled guided missiles. In terms of instantaneous firepower alone, they are even more powerful than dual-wielding railguns. The mecha is even better.

Not to mention the third-level standard, the defense level of this support base is already close to the fourth level. The disposable consumables used to build fortifications can cost as much as a standard-sized transfer station for three years. Maintenance costs are gone.

Anyway, this expenditure is reimbursed by the Security Bureau, and Ke Lan will not worry about saving the budget at all - if the heavy cruiser that sent them had not had other tasks to perform, he would even have planned to let the cruiser Stay as air support for the base.

Afternoon, 13:48.

Even at the edge, the day and night in the molten mine area are still unclear - during the day, the sunlight cannot penetrate the thick lead-gray clouds; at night, the light emitted by the hot magma illuminates the entire The sky was dyed a dark red... This didn't look like the scenery that should be seen in the human world, but it was quite similar to the hell in mythology.

A soldier squatting on the wall on duty lowered his head and glanced at his watch. The thermometer showed that the temperature near the support base had reached 93.6 degrees Celsius, which was two degrees higher than when they just landed from the battleship. .

He touched the metal wall in front of him, and a hot feeling passed through the thick protective gloves to his palms. He thought for a while, then took out a piece of compressed dry food from his backpack, tore off the aluminum foil package and placed it on the wall. superior.

As soon as the dry food came into contact with the armor plate, it made a "sizzling" sound, and the oil contained in it melted and flowed instantly. As for the edges of the solid object, it quickly became charred. He opened a gap in the mask and A heat wave mixed with the smell of burning and sulfur suddenly poured into the helmet.

"Ahem..." The soldier was choked and coughed twice, and quickly closed his mask.

The moment he raised his head, a dozen figures in protective clothing suddenly appeared in his field of vision. This discovery made the soldier immediately nervous. He raised his gun and pointed it at the figures who suddenly appeared.

"Report! This is post No. 3. A suspicious target was found due west. There are about fifteen people in humanoid form. They came out of the mining area and are slowly approaching the base!"

"About fifteen people? Are they Mr. Ke Lan and Team Leader Breya?" The voice of a superior officer came from the intercom.

"No...it's not like that." The soldier replied. He quickly adjusted the magnification of the scope, and then pointed it at the people who came out of the mining area. "They are not our people! They are wearing civilian protective clothing, and I didn't see that 'Valkyrie' mecha either! Please give me instructions!"

"Are they exiles? Or survivors from the garrison base?" the officer asked.

"unconfirmed!"

"I can't contact them here, and there is no response to the communication requests sent out... Everyone is on alert! They may be enemies! But without my order, no one is allowed to shoot!" the officer said, quickly He ran up the wall.

"Captain, they are still approaching, what should we do?" The soldier looked back at the officer who ran up the wall and asked.

"Wait a minute..." The officer raised the telescope. However, these people were all wrapped in protective clothing and could not see their faces at all. There were no identifiable marks or emblems on their bodies. It was impossible to observe them with the naked eye. Identify the gang.

"Let's do this. Let's fire two warning shots first. If it's a survivor, it should stop where it is immediately... If it's an enemy..."

"Boom! Boom!"

The soldier fired two shots with a sniper rifle. The bullet landed less than five meters directly in front of the path of these people. The broken rock fragments even splashed onto the two people walking in the front.

But they didn't stop. On the contrary, these people suddenly sped up and ran towards the base!

"It's the enemy! Everyone, permission to fire!" the officer shouted sternly.

The only human beings that can be encountered here, apart from the survivors, are the exiles wandering in the wilderness... Moreover, these are not ordinary exiles, but a group of dangerous elements loyal to the heretical sect!

Several machine cannons directed in this direction rang out instantly, and the dense rain of bullets directly tore the bodies of these people into pieces. The mutilated limbs, minced meat, and internal organs were splashed everywhere, and the spilled blood just touched the ground. Vaporized - in less than two seconds, these dozen people of unknown origin were already dead. The large-caliber machine cannon didn't even leave them with a whole body.

But at the next moment, these smashed corpses started to squirm on the ground, and countless tentacles grew wildly from the flesh and blood——

"There are containers of Seed of Corrosion among these people... No, no, they are all containers! All of them!" a female soldier wearing heavy power armor screamed.

"Keep calm! Don't panic! We are not facing the erosion seeds all at once. There are not many enemies and they cannot pose a threat to us! Everyone, change to 'active ammunition'." The officer shouted.

Driven by the tentacles, these corpses suddenly became much faster, and they rushed to the support base in the blink of an eye.

The soldier who first discovered the enemy removed the regular magazine and replaced it with a magazine with a black and yellow "biohazard mark". But when he picked up the gun again, he suddenly froze.

According to the training content, before using "active ammunition" to shoot, the body of the Corrosion Seed must be broken open with conventional weapons to expose its "core". No matter how bad it is, we must determine the location of the "nucleus" and shoot at this location. Otherwise, the toxicity produced by the "charge" of a single bullet would not be enough to kill a mature corrosive.

But now, each "container" has been split into at least a dozen corpse pieces, large and small, and each piece of corpse has turned into an independent "seed of erosion". This situation is something that soldiers have never seen in training tutorials. I have seen it in - these "things" don't even have a fixed shape, so how can we determine the position of the "core"?

"Sir...I cannot determine the location of the 'core'."

"No need to be sure, just carry out saturation shooting. One round of active ammunition is not toxic enough, so fire ten rounds." The officer said calmly, "We have sufficient ammunition reserves."

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On the other side, deep in the molten mine area, is the entrance to the passage.

"Valkyrie One" trudged hard in the magma. Although this machine body has undergone extensive modifications, it is still far from a true all-terrain mecha - like the "Tarantula" With a mecha with eight legs, there is no need to worry about the balance of the body. The "Valkyrie" with only four legs must be careful every time it lands. As long as one leg is missing, the entire body may lose its balance and fall into the magma.

Everyone sitting on the back of the mecha tolerated the high temperature by default. Even the noisiest hound on weekdays was too hot to speak at this time. His face was flushed, as if blood would drip at any time, and his dry eyes continued to Blinking, the sparse eyebrows were even curled up due to the perm.

Ke Lan's condition is not much better than him. Although his body's recovery ability is different from ordinary people, his sensory organs are still the same as ordinary people. Ke Lan can also feel the heat coming from the outside in - Powered Armor The internal temperature has exceeded seventy-five degrees Celsius. As soon as the coolant pumped out of the cooling device enters the heat pipe, it instantly turns into boiling water. Compared with the heat transferred in from the outside, it is simply It's just a drop in the bucket.

The beeping of the high temperature alarm kept ringing in everyone's ears, but no one made a sound, and no one urged Valentina to speed up - except for the frame made of Nino alloy, the passage Most of the main structure has been melted by magma, and only the skeleton part is a reliable foothold. As for other parts, it may collapse at any time under stress.

In the mecha cockpit, although the temperature can still be controlled below 40 degrees Celsius, Valentina's driving suit has been completely soaked with sweat. On her back, chest, waist and abdomen, and the inside of her legs, there were originally The light gray driving suit material was completely soaked and turned into dark gray - you must know that this material is extremely sweat-absorbent. The suction power of those diapers in TV commercials that are so hyped is compared to this driving suit. A younger brother, but now, sweat is constantly seeping out from the surface of the driving suit.

After the mecha competition, Valentina grew her ear-length hair a little longer. At this moment, the ends of her hair on her forehead and temples were stuck together with sweat, and strands were hanging on her head. superior.

A few longer hairs kept getting into the corners of her eyes, but she had no time to reach out and brush them away.

"If I had known earlier...it would be better...to shave my head..."

She breathed rapidly, and the old wounds in her lungs began to hurt, but she did not dare to inject painkillers herself - although painkillers could block the transmission of pain by nerves, they would also numb her senses and make her Reactions become sluggish. What she needs is operation accurate to the millimeter, and this kind of interference is undoubtedly fatal to her.

A two-liter water bag hung at the top of the cockpit. Valentina bit the straw of the water bag in her mouth. While replenishing water, her eyes were fixed on the sensor data on the four legs of the body. Push the joystick.

Under the interference of magma, the role of the sensor is extremely limited. She must rely on the force transmitted back from the joystick to determine whether the foothold belongs to the skeleton. The force of the test must be controlled very accurately. If the force is light, the feedback results will be meaningless. If the force is too strong, it will easily trample the bottom directly.

This battle is completely different... When fighting the enemy, Valentina will rely on her terrifying fighting instinct to control the body and use many seemingly unconventional movements to launch unexpected attacks. In that case, The limbs of the machine are like extensions of her hands and feet. To use a commonly used description in novels, it is "human and machine becoming one", which is the strongest state of a pilot - but in the current situation, she cannot Giving control to her own instincts, she must accurately manipulate the body to make a series of movements without even a trace of deviation.

Valentina couldn't help but think of a kind of art she had seen on TV: it was a work carved from rice grains. The carving tool was a steel needle thinner than a hair. The sculptor's He is already gray-haired and his face is covered with deep ravines, but his hands are surprisingly steady. The steel needle is pinched on his fingertips. No trembling can be seen at all with the naked eye. Every time it falls, it is precise. Got to be just right…

Controlling the mecha to wade through the magma, Valentina felt like the sculptor holding a steel needle...

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Finally, after advancing about 120 meters, the depth of the magma dropped to about ten centimeters, and its surface began to show signs of condensation. Looking up, the passage leading to it had completely gotten rid of the magma, exposing the original ground. .

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

"Finally it's out... I'm about to be fucked by a roaster..." the hound complained.

"Just think of it as a free sauna session. Sweating more is good for your health." Layton patted the hound on the shoulder and comforted him.

Others didn't even bother to talk, they took out their straws and started sipping.

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