Chapter 5 Archaeologists
Shoko didn't actually disappear out of thin air, and he didn't have that magical ability at all. He just took advantage of Hou Jie's lack of attention and jumped high, his own bounce as a super soldier was already amazing, plus the bonus of agility attributes and the air dancer cloak increased the jump height by 50%, making him easily jump to the ceiling of the room, and the S-level skill of steel skin gave Xiao Ke the ability to wear gold hole jade with both hands, his ten fingers were firmly buckled on the ceiling, and the whole person hung on it like a gecko. In fact, his departure like this is simply superfluous, and it is completely vanity and childishness.
Looking at Hou Jie below who was shocked by his strange way of disappearing, Xiao Ke was triumphant and contented to continue walking towards the depths of the pyramid.
Although the strong muscle strength and steel-like hardness of the bone skin allow Xiao Ke to move freely on the wall and even the ceiling, but this way of moving is a physically demanding job after all, so after leaving the room just now, Xiao Ke gently fell to the ground, and continued to move silently with light and soft steps, although Xiao Ke does not have the ability to magically disappear, but his other ability can be called magical, that is, he can control the body surface temperature and the surrounding environment temperature to keep surprisingly consistent, This makes it impossible to detect him with infrared imaging.
Shoko walked cautiously, during which the pyramid reorganized several times, but Shoko was always able to stay in the right direction due to his strong perception ability. When he came to a corner, Shoko suddenly stopped, jumped slightly, and stood still against a wall in a corner.
There was no creature on the ground, but there was the faint sound of footsteps, and Shoko's powerful sense recognized it as an invisible Predator. When the Predator passed under Shoko, the quiet dormant Shoko showed his sharp wrist knife, gently approached, lightning force, the wrist knife pierced through the Predator's back, and came out of the lower abdomen. When the Predator finds himself attacked, he has been completely impaled with a wrist knife. The Predator roared, trying to fight back, but Shoko gently lifted him up and threw him out with a little force. Just as Shoko wanted to further expand the victory and end the life of this predator, he suddenly froze and moved quickly, hiding himself in the darkness. A moment later, the sound of Suosuo was heard not far away, and the three aliens heard the sound. They saw the seriously injured Predator lying on the ground, and communicated with each other in some way, and at the same time launched an attack on the Predator, the predator after the serious injury no longer had the same agility as before, both arms and one foot were pierced by the sharp tail of the alien at the same time, and the alien did not kill him, but dragged him into the darkness, and probably because of the order, even in such a predicament, the Predator did not use high-explosive bombs to die with the enemy.
The three aliens have an unusually tacit division of labor and cooperation, dragging the Predator, who is larger than them and weighs much more than them, but effortlessly, the Predator was still struggling at first, and then probably due to a coma, he no longer had a sound. The alien dragged his way through several secret doorways before finally dragging the Predator to a lair full of alien eggs.
The nest was originally an empty hall, but now it was covered in secretions, and the floor, walls, and ceiling were covered with thick gelatinous secretions, which were terrifying to the human aesthetic. The floor of the lair was densely packed with oval eggs laid by the Alien Queen, and several unconscious people were firmly wrapped in secretions on several walls and load-bearing pillars. Several of them had a terrifying circular wound cut in their chests, apparently victims of the alien parasitism.
Three xenomorphs dragged the Predator to the center of the room, wrapping their loot in secretions on a large pillar in the middle of the hall. The Xenomorphs apparently have an IQ that matches their terrifying abilities, and the secretions that wrap around the Predator are much thicker than those that wrap around humans, and before leaving, one of the Xenomorphs bites off the Predator's shoulder cannon and throws it far away. And a noodle worm crawled out of a mature egg, quickly parasitizing the Predator.
After the alien left, a shadow appeared from the darkness, it turned out that Xiao Ke followed all the way, Xiao Ke carefully observed this hideous and ugly lair, showed a silent smile, and whispered to himself: "It seems that this is it!" ”
Xiao Ke walked softly and slowly around the lair, carefully observing the people hanging on the wall, and when he stopped in front of a man in his thirties, who still showed a strong and heroic temperament in his pale face, the man suddenly woke up with a groan, and said intermittently: "Kill ...... I, kill ...... The last few words of my "have been so soft that they can barely be heard, and it is only thanks to Shawko's excellent hearing that they can be distinguished.
When Xiao Ke saw this person speak, his eyebrows fluttered happily: "It seems that you are looking for you!" Kill you? That's not going to work, my task is still on you! ”
"I ...... Sent ...... Raw, ...... Kill ...... I! The man was in a hurry, and his voice was much louder.
"Isn't it just parasitized by aliens, it's a trivial matter!" As he spoke, Xiao Ke immediately used his razor-sharp iron wrist knife to cut the secretions that wrapped around the man, and put the man down. Then he took out a bottle of potion glowing with purple light from the storage ring, grinned at the man, and his right hand stabbed out like lightning, piercing the man's chest like cutting tofu, and pulled out the parasitic alien hatchlings inside, the man's painful eyes almost bulged out, and just opened his mouth to scream, Xiao Ke stuffed the purple potion bottle into his mouth with his left hand, and poured it into his stomach.
The man's chest was stabbed by Xiao Ke with such a huge wound, which was sure to die, but by the miraculous potion, the wound actually began to recover at a speed visible to the naked eye, and after a while, the chest was intact, not even a scar remained, and not only this wound, but all the dark wounds and hidden diseases on the man's body disappeared, and he was full of energy that made him unbelievable.
"This ...... How is this possible! The man muttered.
"How could it not be? I told you just that being parasitized is just a trivial matter! Shawco said triumphantly as he cut off the little alien's head with a wrist knife.
"Then save them, they're going to die!" The man pointed to a few other parasitic people hanging on the wall.
"Well...... this" Xiao Ke was embarrassed: "It's a trivial matter to have that bottle of potion just now, it's harder than climbing to the sky without the potion, and now that the potion is gone, I can't do anything." ”
"Do you just watch them die? Is there no other way? ”
"Of course not, we can help them out, just like you asked me to do." Xiao Ke said, and the wrist knife on his right arm suddenly swung slightly, cutting a sneak attack dough worm in half, it turned out that the dough worm had already begun to hatch from the egg. Shoko took out his submachine gun from the storage ring and said to the man, "There's no time to figure it out now, get out of here!" After saying that, he shot at the parasitic people without hesitation, including the parasitic Predator, all of whom were shot in the head by him!
The man was not a mother-in-law, and when he saw that so many dough worms were starting to hatch, he didn't mention anything about saving people, so he turned around and ran outside, Xiao Ke shot at the dough worms that had hatched and attacked them, and followed closely behind, covering his retreat to a safe place.
The two retreated to the mezzanine of a room, and Shoko made sure that no pursuers were coming, and stopped with the man. The man spoke first, "Thank you for saving me, I'm ......"
Before he could finish speaking, Shoko continued: "You are Sebastian, an archaeologist. ”
The man exclaimed, "You know me? ”
"Of course I know you, otherwise there are so many people hanging there, how could I save you? Don't think it's because you're handsome, except for myself, I hate handsome men the most! ”
Hearing Xiao Ke's strange answer, Sebastian said helplessly: "I'm really sorry, I look like you hate it." ”
Xiao Ke waved his hand and said: "The biggest advantage of me is that I am broad-minded, forgive you!" As he spoke, he took out a stone slab from the storage ring: "Now let's get to the point, my main purpose in saving you is to let you identify what is written on this thing." ”
Sebastian took the slab that was obviously in the same style as the earliest pyramid and looked at Shoko in amazement: "You came to this dangerous place for this thing?" ”
"No, I'm here for tourism," Shoko said nonsense.
Sebastian looked at Chauco speechlessly with the eyes of an idiot.
"Okay, I'm actually here to fight monsters, and I picked up such a thing, and I happened to know that you were also here, so I made a special trip to save your life, this answer always satisfies you, right?" Xiao Ke replied helplessly.
Sebastian sighed and said, "Forget it, whatever you want." After speaking, he carefully observed the stone slab, and then slowly recognized: "It is written that the god statue has been sacrificed with the blood and soul of the prey, and the temple is ...... No, it was supposed that the priest of the temple ordered the warriors to retrieve the statues of the gods placed in the deepest part of this pyramid. ”
As soon as Sebastian finished speaking, the cold and loud voice of the temple sounded in Shoko's head: "Complete the mission: save the archaeologist, reward 500 soul points, and receive the next stage of the mission: Statue of the Gods (Description, find and capture the statue of the god worshiped by the Predator in the pyramid, reward for completing the mission: 1000 soul points and get the item Statue of the Spirit, no penalty for failing the mission)"
It turns out that this Sebastian is the archaeologist who has been adventuring with the heroine in the movie, and was later captured by the alien to parasitize, and the heroine killed him because she had no way to save him. Xiao Ke picked up a used flare in front of the pyramid gate before, considering that there may be plot characters in the proving ground this time, and as long as you find them, you should be able to get the side quest. In the previous operation, Xiao Ke was not discovered by anyone, but Xiao Ke accidentally saw a tall predator wearing a cloak holding this stone tablet in his hand and comparing it with the words on the wall, and took the initiative to attack the elite Iron Blood Captain of the mini-boss, after killing him, he dropped 1200 soul points, a weapon and this quest slate, this slate allowed Xiao Ke to receive a continuous mission, the first step was to rescue the archaeologist Sebastian, and let him identify the contents of the slate, so, Xiao Ke took this task as the goal, launched a series of later actions, and saved Hou Jie's life.
Shoko received the follow-up task, and said to Sebastian very happily: "I want to continue to go deeper to find this statue, what are your plans?" ”
Sebastian was shocked: "Are you going to go in and die?" I'm not going, I'm leaving this place! ”
Xiao Ke frowned: "You want to escape at this time?" That's not a good idea, now the outside must be surrounded by those Predators, that is, those monsters dressed like Saint Seiya, you go out now, not to mention that there are a lot of monsters on the road, even if you are lucky enough to escape from the pyramid, it will still be a death. ”
Sebastian exclaimed, "What then? ”
"If you ask my opinion, then my advice is to either follow me or just wait here." Shoko said and handed him the submachine gun and a few magazines: "You see, this room is closed on all sides, there is only one entrance, now that the pyramid has stopped, you can always defend here, I will help you set a few traps at the exit, if an alien comes in, you will shoot it, if the Predator comes, then my advice is to throw away the weapon and surrender on your knees or simply lie down and pretend to be dead, then these battle maniacs may spare your life because they despise you, of course, it is better not to come at all, Then you just have to wait until there is a big change in the pyramid, such as a big explosion or a big collapse or something, and rush out desperately. ”
After Xiao Ke finished speaking, he left him some more food and other equipment, waved goodbye, and said, "I'm leaving." Good luck! ”
Sebastian hesitated, but instead of mustering up the courage to go deeper with Shoko, he chose to stay here and wait for help.