Alien Relic Hunter

First of all, we have to find a way to get rid of these fungi... Otherwise, as long as one spore is brought into the base... not only us, but the entire base will become a dead city.

As for cleaning equipment... Yui glanced at the tablet in her hand, Car No. 2 and Car No. 5 are equipped with high-pressure water cannons, which are specially used to wash away radioactive dust from the vehicles...

That thing won't work, Ke Lan shook his head. The water flow can't kill these flesh-eating fungi, and it can't remove the spores that are scattered in the air and are difficult to detect with the naked eye.

If water doesn't work, what about fire? Lao Gou's eyes lit up and he pointed to the flame launcher installed on the roof of the No. 1 car - it was originally a clearing equipment used to open roads. Of course, at a critical moment, the same It can also be used to deal with indigenous creatures rushing towards you.

In the current situation, using a flamethrower to clean up these fungi and spores is probably the best solution they can come up with.

The vehicles in the convoy are all armored vehicles, and even the tires are made of highly heat-resistant polymer materials. As long as the temperature of the flame and the amount of fuel are controlled, the flamethrower will not cause much damage to the vehicle itself. In order to deal with Alpha The thermal insulation layer equipped for the harsh environment of the car can protect the members in the car from being suffocated by the high temperature.

Car No. 1, check the flamethrower and fuel, it's accurate...

Halfway through, Ke Lan was suddenly stunned... Not only him, but also everyone else in the car was stunned.

Those white hyphae... they actually moved!

As if something was ordering them, the mycelium in the corners of the carriage, under the chairs, attached to the supply boxes... these hyphae began to gather together, forming an assembly like earthworms.

Immediately afterwards, these combinations were like real earthworms, crawling on the bones of a deceased person by wriggling, and then... they began to entangle and fuse with the hyphae attached to the skeleton... In just a few dozen seconds, a humanoid creature composed of white mycelium and a human skeleton appeared within Ke Lan's field of vision.

I... The skin on the old dog's face trembled slightly, Fuck...this thing...what the hell is this thing...

I don't know. Yui, who was sitting next to her, could not maintain her original calm expression at this moment. She shook her head numbly.

Except for Lao Gou and Yu Yi, the performance of others in the car was not much better. Only Ke Lan was still calm... because this was not the first time he saw a similar scene...

Back in the secret tunnel of the glacier ruins, he had witnessed with his own eyes a pile of meat turning into another old dog... The indescribable feeling of weirdness and fear almost drove the old dog crazy. ...I just don’t know why, among all the people who have seen the meat, he is the only one who retains those nightmarish memories.

Ke Lan glanced at the old dog calmly from the corner of his eye, and then patted the roof of the car hard.

Boom!

Only then did everyone come back to their senses, and their first reaction was to reach for the weapons they carried -

Of course, except for Akira Asano who couldn't see anything.

Everyone, don't be nervous. Ke Lan said in a deep voice, Zhuo Ligetu, please don't open the car door, and put down the gun in your hand... What, do you still want to go out and fight with that thing now?

No... I just... I... The honest Mongolian man said I, I, I for a long time before finally admitting in frustration, I'm just... too nervous.

I know, Ke Lan nodded, but now there are spores everywhere outside. Opening the car door hastily will only cause everyone in the car to become the same kind of monster...

I'm sorry. Zhuo Ligetu shrank back to his seat aggrievedly.

Ke Lan, the old dog rubbed his cheek vigorously with his hand, this thing...don't you think it's evil? Just turn into a human...but with that face, this is impossible... look……

The old dog handed over the tablet used by Yui. What was displayed on the screen was the files of the crew members of the No. 10 train. Among the four photos, the appearance of one of them was almost exactly the same as the face of the humanoid mycelium monster in front of him. !

This thing not only turned into a human appearance, but also perfectly simulated the original face of the deceased!

It's not impossible. After all, these fungi have devoured all the flesh and blood of the deceased... Using all the 'data' recorded in the flesh and blood, it's not too far-fetched to simulate the prey, Ke Lan said.

You know, for those pieces of meat to simulate the appearance of Lao Gou and Asano Akira, only a few drops of blood are enough, and the genetic information contained in the flesh and blood of the whole body is much more than a few drops of blood. .

Whatever it is, anyway... Car No. 1, use the flamethrower to kill that guy!

boom!!

The tens of meters long flame pillar went straight to the compartment of Car No. 10, and the fiery tongues of fire kept licking the body of the thing... Soon, the white mycelium turned into a coke-like black...

Fire works! Ivan said excitedly, but as soon as he finished speaking, the excitement turned into consternation, It...it seems to be still moving!

Indeed, under the burning of the flamethrower, the outer layer of white mycelium was almost completely carbonized, but the carbonized layer did not peel off, but still adhered to the monster's body, forming an armor that could block flames!

It bent down, picked up the large-caliber rifle that the security guard had dropped in the carriage, and then... pulled the bolt hard.

...Impossible...it...it can use a gun? Ivan clutched the back of the seat in front of him tightly, not daring to take a breath.

Could it be that... Ke Lan rubbed his frown and thought, could these fungi still be able to extract the memory of the deceased from the nerve cells after devouring the body of the deceased? Or do you just retain some instinctive actions...such as walking, picking up...and the bolt-pulling action that has been repeated thousands of times?

But that doesn’t make sense!

They say muscle memory, muscle memory...but that requires muscles. But right now, this thing is just a posture simulated by a ball of mycelium wrapped around human bones. Muscles, nerves, fascia , blood vessels... There are no organs that the human body should have. How can it inherit the instinct of the deceased?

To use an idiom to describe it, it's just merely superficial. No matter how lifelike the face is, it's just a ball of mycelium!

The charred human figure jumped out of the carriage. Facing the impact of the flames, it staggered a step or two...

The flamethrower stopped attacking, the No. 1 vehicle retreated, the No. 4 vehicle equipped the anti-aircraft cannon with armor-piercing incendiary bombs, and fired flatly at the target!

[P.S. Thanks for the 50,000 starting coin reward from the 15th android. I have guests at home today, so the update is a bit late. 】