Chapter 405: Predator
In a few hours, under the accurate calculation of the laser ranging equipment, the engineering probe stopped at a distance of ten centimeters from the hatch, and then, the annular wheel in front of the probe rotated, and a dark blue flowed through the crystal-clear pipe below, and a cluster of ultra-high temperature plasma arc popped out from the jet port of the probe tip.
The metal material that makes up the hatch melts and evaporates rapidly under the action of high-temperature plasma, pulling a long cut in the hatch.
Seeing this scene, Byron and the others in the quarantine station outside couldn't help but nod. It can be seen that Ruskin is very cautious, the monster is hidden in the cargo ship's cabin, the enemy is dark and I am clear, and it is really unwise to rush hard, and it is really unwise to use construction machinery to break the cargo ship hatch, and even cut the hull, which can effectively destroy the environmental advantages of the monster.
"That's a good idea." Zhou Ai said with a smile, and Byron and Tang Lin echoed their words.
Only Tang Fang didn't speak, his two eyebrows were almost twisted into a rope, if it was really as he thought, there were monsters hidden in the cargo ship that were comparable to creatures such as the evil eye and the giant snake, and the plasma arc was difficult to threaten at all.
After the engineering probe made a cut in the hatch, just as the plasma arc changed its direction, with a sharp hiss, the formidable tentacle stretched out again, like a giant python, directly coiled the engineering probe more than one meter wide, and twisted it hard.
"Click, click, click......" A tooth-sore sound sounded, the engineering probe was completely scrapped, and the sharp jet port was silent after a few blue spots gushed out.
After breaking the mechanical arm, the monster seemed to be enraged, and the twisted gray-brown tentacle was bathed in electric sparks raining down the hangar tracks, all the way upward, moving as agile as a monkey.
At this time, the originally bloated tentacles gradually lengthened, and the dense muscle tissue was like a mucous membrane that had been vigorously torn apart. It looks disgusting.
The next scene not only shocked the two soldiers in the mechanical control room, Ruskin on the second floor of the hangar, but also Byron and Tang Lin outside.
Its tentacles climbed up the rail layer, and after a few turns along the rails, its muscles tightened. Suddenly, I just listened to the "cluck...... With a squeak, the small half of the track floor was bent by it and ripped off the roof.
In the flash of lightning, there was a "boom" sound, and the steel structure weighing dozens of tons fell from mid-air to the ground, flattening and crushing some locomotives, aircraft, and engineering equipment.
The mechanical control room was pierced by a steel rail, but fortunately the two soldiers reacted in time and ran out at the moment before the rail was pressed to the top. Otherwise, I am afraid that I will not escape the life of being smashed into a meatloaf.
It was a stainless steel track, which could withstand dozens of tons of objects, and it actually broke the monster, how strong should that tentacle be, both of them turned white with fright, and ran away under the cover of messy equipment.
At this time, the tentacles that had been twisting the rail squirmed a few times. The musculature twisted together like hemp rope separates into strands, as if they have eyes. The news was like thunder and lightning, bursting out towards the two people who fled in panic in the distance.
In the hangar with many obstacles, the wisp of muscle and tissue is like a fish swimming in water, turning and circling all the way forward, but in the blink of an eye, there is a "poof" sound. Pierced into the back of the back of one of the last soldiers, splashing a large pool of blood.
Outside, Tang Lin was startled, and his face became a little embarrassed, although he had also seen the corpse of the giant snake when he was at the Ipsilon Relay Station of the Meigar Star System, but it was one thing to die. It's another thing to live.
Not only is that tentacle surprisingly powerful, but it can also differentiate into a wisp of nimble soft thorns, which is simply staggering.
Zhou Ai and Byron's faces are also gloomy and terrifying, compared to it, the centipede monster of Planet 5 is like a fool, NC's is dying, the monsters in the cargo ship not only know how to create a favorable environment and hide their own weaknesses, but also can control their body organs so flexibly.
Tang Fang was still frowning and silent, but his eyes were unblinking, staring closely at the monster tentacle with a bloated and fat end and a flexible and sharp tip.
Somehow, the monster's change reminded him of a man, Roy! Roy's right arm was somewhat similar to the monster in front of him when it changed form, and considering the origin of Roy's right arm, he couldn't help but have a thought in his heart.
"Roy's right arm is from Faraday's real yĆ n of specimen TS-001, is it possible...... Could it be that the monster in front of you is also related to specimen TS-001? ā
Just when Tang Fang was puzzled, something happened in the hangar. The body of the soldier who should have died was twisted by the sharp thorn in the back of the heart, and the muscles slowly expanded, forming one bulging vesicle after another, and the facial features that were originally distorted by pain were compressed into a ball by the rapidly expanding muscles. In just a few breaths, he transformed from a human form to a massive tumor.
At this moment, the sharp spike that had originally passed through the soldier's chest and kept twisting and rolling suddenly accelerated twice, instantly piercing the second soldier's right chest with lightning speed.
After 3 or 5 seconds, the second soldier showed the same symptoms as the first soldier, the musculature churned and wriggled, and his body swelled at a speed that was discernible to the naked eye.
At the same time, the originally 2 finger-thick branched tentacles flowed from the tip to the tail through one bulging sac after another, looking as if they were extracting the flesh tissue of the two poor soldiers, making people feel their scalps tingling and uncomfortable.
"This ...... What the hell is this? A soldier of the garrison turned white with fright, turned around and ran out of the door, holding down the railing and retching. He has been in the "Daystar Pharmaceutical" for several years, and he has done a lot of things like this to wipe his ass for the scientific research department, and the things that can be touched are 108,000 miles away from the thing in front of him.
The things in the cargo ship, where are the biological samples, it will cost you 3,000 lives!
The faces of the people outside were not good-looking, not to mention Ruskin and the others inside, in less than a minute, 2 soldiers died like this, the death was so inexplicable, and the death was so miserable.
By now, anyone can see that the monsters in the cargo ship are by no means comparable to the "dirty things" of the past.
"Eugene, activate the internal defense system and blow up the cargo ship for me." On the second floor of the hangar, Ruskin gave the order to storm the city.
At this moment, the sarcoma transformed from the soldier's corpse had shrunk in a circle, and was slowly retracted back into the cargo ship's cabin by the tentacles, leaving only a few puddles of shocking blood on the messy ground. and the "Pickaxe VI" that did not fire a single shot.
Before pressing the "fire" button, Eugene glanced at the hangar's miserable situation again, gritted his teeth, and slammed down the big red button that controlled the platform.
THE ALARM BELL SOUNDED, AND THE FLOODGATES SHAPED LIKE VENTS AT THE FOUR CORNERS OF THE HANGAR SLOWLY OPENED, AND EIGHT 160MM RAILGUNS PROTRUDED FROM THE SHADOWS. Firmly lock the cargo ship on the tarmac.
In the face of such a terrifying monster, a single soldier is purely sent to death, and now, Ruskin no longer cares about any tasks and losses, and burying it completely is the problem that needs to be considered at the moment.
The arc of the "......" arc is bounced off by the railgun's acceleration track, illuminating the four corners of the hangar.
EIGHT PROJECTILES WITH A DIAMETER OF 160MM SHOT OUT WITH FIRE AND LIGHT, AND FLEW TO THE 120-METER-LONG CARGO SHIP ON THE CENTRAL PUSH PLATFORM OF THE HANGAR.
"Daystar Pharmaceutical" is a large pharmaceutical company. At the beginning of the construction of the factory, the overall plan was made, how could a place like a hangar that was prone to accidents not have a defense system.
WITH THE POWER OF THE 160MM RAILGUN, THERE WILL NATURALLY BE NO PROBLEM AGAINST A 100-METER SHIP, LET ALONE A CARGO SHIP.
"Boom!" The fire was shining and the smoke was billowing up.
Eight projectiles hit the target accurately, the entire hangar was shrouded in flames, and the tarmac was scrapped. The push platform collapsed, and the cargo ship, dismembered by 8 kinetic projectiles, slowly capsized under the raging flames. Falling from the platform to the ground, a sea of fire was sown.
A deafening roar came from the steaming smoke of the "......", the rails that fell from mid-air were trembling, and there was a "sparse" crash on the ground, which was the monster's tentacles frantically whipping the ground, throwing the wreckage of the battleship everywhere.
"Not even dead?" Inside the computer room. RUSKIN'S FOREHEAD WAS ALREADY SWEATING, AND UNDER THE BOMBARDMENT OF EIGHT 160MM RAILGUNS, THE CARGO SHIP WAS DISMEMBERED, HALF OF THE HANGAR WAS DESTROYED, BUT THE MONSTER WAS STILL ALIVE. This...... How is this possible?
"Fire! Fire! Keep banging for me! ā
Eugene didn't dare to slack off, and trembled in agreement, and pressed the fire button continuously.
"Boom! Rumble! Rumble! "The four corners of the hangar are spurting with thunder and fire, and the magnetic track projectiles carrying powerful kinetic energy will be more than ten meters thick, and the foundation of carbon nanomaterials will collapse one after another, the ground is shaking, and the entire hangar has been bombarded beyond recognition by this round of attacks.
Thanks to the reinforcement of the earth's crust and rock formations in the process of building the park, the continuous bombardment of this intensity would have caused a powerful earthquake.
The shock wave brought up dust and smoke and threw it into the air at an altitude of forty or fifty meters, and a large number of metal and non-metal fragments flew in all directions, hitting one locomotive after another, triggering a series of explosions.
"Boom, boom, boom......" fires rose into the air, billowing black smoke filled the entire hangar.
Not only Ruskin and Eugene, but also Byron, Zhou Ai and others outside the hangar also opened their eyes wide, looking at the monitor screen covered by thick smoke without blinking.
"Is the monster dead?" Everyone drew a question mark in their hearts, after all, the 160MM railgun is a battleship-level configuration, and if it can't destroy the monsters hidden in the cargo ship, it will be a big trouble, this is underground, and the 160MM railgun is already the strongest weapon in the internal defense system of the park.
Tang Fang still frowned, and did not say a word from beginning to end. He couldn't understand one thing, what was the origin of the monster in the hangar, an epic creature of the same family as the evil eye and the giant snake? Or is it related to TS-001 phagosome? Valentine remembers that Epic Creature is genetically similar to TS-001 Phagosome, but as a whole, it belongs to a different species. IF IT WAS THE FORMER, THE 160MM RAILGUN MIGHT NOT BE ABLE TO HURT IT, AND AS FOR THE LATTER, THE PARASITE ENCOUNTERED IN THE RESEARCH INSTITUTE IN THE NORTHERN SUBURBS OF RECTOR WAS TOO SMALL TO HAVE REFERENCE VALUE.
The sound of debris bursting came from the sound source equipment of "Bilibi ......", and the smoke billowing in the sky also had a tendency to dissipate. Suddenly, as a shadow flashed, a wave of fire rose in front of the camera.
About 3 seconds later, a roar twice as loud as the roar just now came: "Woo ......" Its sound was muffled like thunder, and the vibrations fermented under the feet, radiating from the hangar in Area G as the center point, radiating outward "rumbling" sounds.
"I'm really afraid of something." Tang Fang stood up suddenly, snatched the communicator that the garrison soldier held tightly in his palm, and shouted loudly: "Ruskin, withdraw quickly, you can't deal with this thing." ā
"Huh...... "There was a noise over there, ...... spaced 10 seconds apart. Only then did I hear Ruskin's response: "Hey...... Hey, did you get it? Who was it just now? Tang Fang? ā
"Yes, it's me. Get out of here, that thing is not something you can handle. ā
IN FACT, THERE IS NO NEED FOR TANG FANG TO SAY, RUSKIN ALSO KNOWS THAT "QIXING PHARMACEUTICAL" IS IN BIG TROUBLE THIS TIME, AND THE 160MM RAILGUN HAS NO WAY TO TAKE IT. Where can you find more powerful weapons in a cramped space like an underground hangar? He now regretted using the railgun crew, and if the hangar was intact, he might be able to use the push platform to lift the cargo ship to the surface, so that Stephen's battleships could use larger caliber guns against it.
"Got it, I'll go out." Now there was no time to regret it, and Ruskin promised to put on a combat gas mask. Beckoned his soldiers to leave the machine room and walk towards the entrance of the hangar.
The machine room was actually not far from the door of the hangar, and after coming down from the second floor, Ruskin and his party of 11 people crept forward, for fear of attracting the attention of the monster. According to his thoughts, it seems that Area G cannot be saved, and the next thing to do is to evacuate the entire staff of Area G. Completely block the connection channel. In this way, you may be able to trap the monster in the hangar. It is not too late to deal with the matter after it has been reported to the senior management of the enterprise.
The fire and smoke in the hangar had not yet dissipated, and the infrared detection equipment of the combat gas mask was severely interfered with, and Ruskin, Eugene and others could only rely on the naked eye to identify the path ahead. 3 people open the way, 3 people break the back, and 4 people are responsible for the two wings. Very standard combat configuration.
Ruskin intends to delay the army, but the unknown monster in the hangar does not intend to let him go.
When the 11 people came down the stairs and walked forward less than 20 meters, more than a dozen sharp shadows suddenly shot out from the dense smoke screen, like arrows. From far to near, faster than lightning.
Among the three people after the break, Eugene was quick and yelled: "It's coming!" He bumped into his comrade on the left, and the two rolled into a ball. Although the ground was densely covered with large and small rubble and metal fragments, rolling on it was far less comfortable than rolling the sheets, but it managed to avoid the stabbing of the tentacles.
Eugene's warning worked, in such a harsh environment, it is not an exaggeration to say that his eyes are black, Ruskin and several people have been in a state of high tension, hearing this, without thinking about it, they each turned to the left and right, and dangerously let go of the "Death Spear" that attacked from behind.
"Ah...... Hmph, uh......" But even so, there was still one person who was a little late, and was stabbed in the heart by the tentacles twisted into a spear, and another person was pierced through his right arm by a spear.
Blood fell "tick-tock" to the ground, smearing several pieces of rubble. The soldier who had been pierced through the chest by the spear began to twist and swell, his body began to twist and swell, and the five fingers that were tightly scraped to the ground swelled in a circle, and his whole arm was spasmodic and convulsive.
Because the spear did not pierce the heart, he couldn't breathe for a while, the swollen facial muscles broke the belt, the gas mask fell to the ground, the originally upright facial features were almost squeezed together, the bloodshot eyes were wide in anger, and while staring at another soldier, his head was raised up one by one, and the whole body seemed to twitch and tremble, as if something in the body was being sucked away by the tentacles.
"Nick, Nick...... No...... Ah......h
At that moment, the tentacle spear that pierced Nick accelerated twice from under him, hitting the former's ankle in one fell swoop. However, unlike before, the tentacles this time were not twisted into a spear posture, but opened up piece by piece, like an octopus turning eight-clawed, tightly wrapping his feet, and then, the original tenacious tentacles quickly softened, like a puddle of moving mud, in the soldier's frightened gaze, along the ankles and calves all the way up, blinking an eye to wrap the entire lower body.
"Save ...... Help me. The soldier's upper and lower teeth fought, and the cries for help seemed to come out of his throat.
You must know that there are more than a dozen tentacle spears, and Ruskin and the others have tried their best to dodge them, so how can they have a chance to save him.
When the soldier craned his neck and pulled his face, watching the puddle of mud crawl up the upper and lower jaw shells, the ground parts of the four tentacles that had been deeply inserted into the ground bulged one after another, and suddenly shot out a few follicles.
"Poof! Burst! Burst! Burst! These follicles were like darts deep into the bodies of the four soldiers who couldn't dodge, and then, the originally closed follicles were like blooming flowers, slowly opening six petals.
The four soldiers kicked their feet on the ground, their arms seemed to freeze, their heads struggled upward, their Adam's apple squirmed up and down, their faces were pale, and their mouths were open: "Ho...... Ho...... Ho ......"
They wanted to scream and cry for help, but when the words came to their mouths, they turned into hoho and panting that no one could understand.
At this time, the 4 open follicles seemed to come to life, and the 6 petals danced up and down at a specific frequency, and the original gray-brown skin was slowly dyed with a layer of red, looking from afar, the blood was exquisite.
The four soldiers had bruised under their skin, blood streaks spread, their bodies kept rolling and twisting in the ground, and their ten fingers scratched the skin and burst it, slowly pouring out a thick brown pulp.
Ruskin was stunned, choked in his throat, and wanted to struggle to get up, but at this moment, less than a meter away from him, the tentacle spear that had originally poked into the ground actually used the pit as a turning point to launch a two-stage thrust and shoot out. (To be continued......)
PS: I have to go to the New Year before 6 o'clock in the morning~ We seem to get up early only once a year during the Spring Festival.
Happy New Year~ New Year's greetings to everyone!