Chapter one hundred and twenty-three Mimicry
"First of all, we have to find a way to get rid of these fungi … otherwise, if a spore is brought into the base … not only our whole base will become a dead city."
"If you clean the equipment …" Yu Yi glanced at the tablet brain in her hand. "No.2 and No.5 cars are equipped with high-pressure water guns to wash radioactive dust for vehicles …"
"That thing doesn’t work," Kelan shook his head. "The current can’t kill these carnivorous fungi and it can’t clear the spores that are difficult to detect with the naked eye in the air."
"What about fire if water doesn’t work?" The old dog shines at the moment, pointing to the flame launcher on the roof of No.1 car, saying-that’s for road clearing equipment. Of course, the critical head can also be used to deal with indigenous creatures rushing to the crowd.
In this case, a flamethrower to clean up these fungi and spores is probably the best solution they can come up with.
The vehicles in the motorcade are armored vehicles, and even the tires are made of high heat-resistant polymer materials. If the flame temperature and fuel quantity are well controlled, the flamethrower will not cause much damage to the vehicle body, and the thermal insulation layer equipped to cope with the harsh environment of Alpha Star can just protect the vehicle members from being "suffocated" by high temperature.
"No.1 car check flamethrower and fuel …"
Halfway through, Kelan suddenly froze … Not only his car, but also others.
Those white hyphae … They’re moving!
It’s as if something commands them. The corner of the carriage, the chair surface, the attached material box … These hyphae gather together to form an earthworm-like combination.
Then, like real earthworms, these assemblies crawled to the bones of a dead person by peristalsis, and then … they intertwined and merged with the mycelium attached to the skeleton … Only a few tens of seconds later, a humanoid creature composed of white mycelium and human skeleton appeared in their field of vision.
"I …" The old dog’s face and skin trembled slightly. "I grass … this thing … what the hell is this thing …"
"I don’t know." You Yi, who was sitting next to her, couldn’t keep her original calm expression at the moment. She shook her head somewhat woodenly.
Except for the old dog and the car outside the clothes, his performance is not much better. Only Ke Lan is still calm … because it is not the first time he has seen similar scenes …
At the beginning, he witnessed a pile of meat pieces turned into another old dog in the secret passage of the glacier ruins … that kind of indescribable strangeness and fear almost drove the old dog crazy … I don’t know why one of all the people who saw the meat pieces kept those nightmare memories.
Kelan glanced at the old dog out of the corner of his eye and patted the roof vigorously.
"Mao Mao! ！”
They just came to their senses at this moment, and their first reaction was to reach out their hands to the weapons they carried-
Of course, nothing can be seen except Asano Akira.
"Everybody don’t be nervous," Kelan sink a way. "Zorig, don’t hit the car door and put the gun in your hand for me … What, do you still want to go out and fight with that thing now?"
"No … I am … I am …" Simple and honest Mongolian Han "I am me" for a long time before finally admitting that "I am … too nervous"
"I know," Kelan nodded, "but now there are spores everywhere outside. Breaking the door rashly will harm the car and everyone will become the same kind of monster …"
"I’m sorry" Zorig figure some injustice to retract to the seat surface.
"Koran" old dog hand rubbed his cheek hard "this thing … don’t you think something? Become a person even if … But it’s that face that’s impossible … You see … "
The old dog was handed over by the flat screen of the clothes machine, which showed the personnel file of the No.10 car crew. One of the four photos looks almost the same as the face of this humanoid mycelium monster in front of me!
This thing not only became a human appearance, but also perfectly simulated the original face of the deceased!
"Nothing is impossible. After all, these fungi have devoured all the flesh and blood of the deceased … It is not unreasonable to simulate the prey with all the records’ data’ in these flesh and blood," Kelan said.
You know, it takes a few drops of blood to simulate the old dog and Asano Akira, and the genetic information contained in the flesh and blood is much more than a few drops of blood
"No matter what it is, it’s always … No.1 car flame thrower to get rid of that guy!"
"boom! ！”
Dozens of meters long flame column went straight to the No.10 car carriage, and the hot flame kept licking the body of that thing … Soon the white hyphae became black as coke …
"There is fire!" Ivan said with some excitement, but as soon as his voice fell, the excitement turned into amazement. "It … it seems to be still moving!" "
It is true that the white hyphae on the outer layer roasted by the flame thrower are almost carbonized, but the carbonized layer has not peeled off, but it still adheres to this monster and becomes a armor that can block the flame!
It bent down to pick up the large caliber rifle dropped by the security guard in the carriage and then … pulled a bolt vigorously.
"… impossible … it … it can shoot?" Ivan clung to the front seat of the chair so tightly that he couldn’t catch his breath.
"Don’t …" Kelan rubbed his frown and thought, can these fungi take the memory of the deceased from nerve cells after devouring the body of the deceased? Or just keep some that have been incorporated into the initiative … such as self-walking, picking up … repeated tens of millions of times to pull the bolt?
But that doesn’t make sense!
It is said that muscle memory, muscle memory … but it also needs muscles. But the eye is just a posture simulated by a mass of mycelium wrapped around human bones. Muscle, nerve, fascia, blood vessels … This human body should have organs without it. How can it inherit the deceased’s life?
There is an idiom that means "nothing but a watch". No matter how realistic the face is, this thing is just a mycelium!
The charred figure jumped out of the carriage, and it staggered a step or two against the impact of the flame …
"The flamethrower stopped attacking the No.1 car and retreated the No.4 car to change the armor-piercing incendiary bomb for the anti-aircraft gun to shoot the target flat!"
Chapter one hundred and twenty-four Carbonized layer
In less than two seconds, hundreds of rounds of ammunition were poured into this humanoid monster body composed of hyphae, but it ran through the 10 mm rolling homogeneous armor-piercing incendiary bomb and broke the thin carbonized layer, leaving several inconspicuous cracks.
"Why is this damn thing so hard?" The old dog turned to look at the eye Koran "? Direct heavy weapons? "
"No" Koran shook his head "water cannon"
"What’s with the water gun?" Half the old dog suddenly paused. "Are you going to destroy the carbonized layer on the surface of that thing by expanding with heat and contracting with cold?"
"Well, it’s also to collect more data … if that layer of material has such strength and good thermal stability, I really think it can be used as a new armor material," Kelan said calmly.
"No … you’re still thinking about this at this time?" The old dog is a bit astounding
"What’s the problem?" Kelan cocked his head. "If this fungus really has good economic benefits, the No.10 car is not lost in vain … What do you say, Miss Yi?"
"Really" by clothing nodded. "If this material can really be used in the research and development of new armor … even if this creature is dangerous again, the consortium will definitely ask us to keep living strains and everyone will get a very generous reward."
She also deliberately emphasized the seven words "extremely generous remuneration"
Kelan they naturally know what is the concept of extremely rich remuneration in the eyes of SOMA consortium … They can give the recycling price at least ten times that of the official.
In addition to the one-time remuneration, if this new material can really receive local follow-up patents and profit dividends, it will be a huge sum of money-the money is nothing to them, but now Kelan SOMA consortium has an L-level executive, and all this is different …