blogombal Chapter 99 Space Well and the Reiss Alien
Chapter 99 Space Well and the Reiss Alien
Chapter 99 Space Well and the Reiss Alien
Eight kilometers west of the core industrial area of Horisonburg lies an unexplored wasteland.
The heavy clanging of metal shattered the silence of the wasteland.
With each step Kolber took, his two-hundred-kilogram alloy combat boots crushed the concrete fragments on the ground into powder, accompanied by a pleasant hissing sound from the hydraulic power system.
"Pioneer" type assault power armor.
Andy used the Type-IV neural bundles generated by the Alien Technology Analysis Station, combined with the high-strength armor plates produced by the Material Molecular Reconstruction Instrument, and the servo joints cut by the precision machining center, to finally assemble this killing machine.
Kohlberg's original height was 1.95 meters, but after putting on this armor, his height increased to 2.3 meters, and his sense of power became explosive.
Unlike the T-9000 exoskeleton he wore before, he no longer needed to adapt to the hydraulic transmission structure if his movements were too large.
Now, this armor is his skin; he can do whatever he wants with it.
Besides being shocked by the equipment, Kolber felt an almost fanatical admiration for Andy.
Before meeting Andy, Colbert was just a black boxer in the "Bone Shattering Pit," relying on his brute strength and fearless ruthlessness to roll around in blood and mud, all for the sake of winning half a piece of moldy corpse starch.
At that time, his life was as fragile as paper, and his dignity was a joke.
Andy pulled him out of the pile of corpses, not only feeding him but also giving him the strength to crush everything, turning him from a barbarian who could only throw punches into the vice-captain of the Storm Squad.
From the moment I put on this power armor.
Kohlberg swore that his life belonged to Andy, and that he would tear anyone who stood in Andy's way to pieces.
"Hey, Lao Ke."
"explain."
Jaden's somewhat noisy voice came through the communication channel.
"Do you think mutants who eat too many radioactive cockroaches will poop glowing poop?"
Kolber:
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Jaden walked beside Kolber. Because he was so short, only a little over 1.7 meters tall, his shoulders didn't even reach Kolber's elbows.
Although this short guy looks unserious, he was nicknamed "King of Rats" before joining Deep Space Industries.
He used to specialize in crawling through various abandoned ventilation ducts in the hive capital to smuggle contraband parts and intelligence. When it came to drilling, reconnaissance, and intuition for danger, few people in the entire bottom hive could compare to him.
It was precisely because of his quick wit and excellent combat skills that he was noticed by Andy and eventually promoted to captain of the Storm Squad.
Andy originally built 20 power armor suits in the first batch, and the Storm Squad expanded to 32 people. Logically, Zetton, as the captain, should have had one.
But after he put it on, he found that his limbs were too short to reach the control gloves and boot soles of the power armor. It was like a child wearing adult clothes, unable to move at all.
At that moment, Jaden awkwardly laughed it off, saying that he preferred to be more flexible, and gave the spot to someone else.
He obediently put back on the lightweight Stormtrooper shell armor.
"have no idea."
Kolber's voice came through an external speaker, with a metallic thud.
"Focus, Jaden, we're in uncharted territory."
"I'm very focused!"
Jaden held the gun, his eyes darting around.
"It's so boring! Why do we have to do this kind of hard labor?"
"Doesn't Boss Andy have hundreds of those 'Black Spirit' spiders? And drones flying in the sky?"
"Why not just let those lumps of metal scan the maps? Why make us wad through all this muddy terrain?"
Kolber stopped, his electronic eye scanning a collapsed building ahead.
"Because machines are inanimate."
Kohlberg answered very decisively.
Andy had indeed tried having Xiao Liu command a swarm of drones for map surveying before.
The resulting report was simply unreadable!
As a subspace navigation AI, Xiao Liu was initially given a try-it-out mentality by Andy, who thought that things couldn't get much worse than expected.
As it turns out, she was completely unsuitable for surveying!
She will tell you, "There is an obstacle 300 meters ahead, 15 meters high, made of reinforced concrete."
But she won't tell you, "That's a perfect sniping spot."
She couldn't even distinguish between "strategically valuable bunkers" and "a pile of meaningless industrial waste."
Although Xiao Liu has strong logical reasoning skills and has helped Andy a lot in the past, she has absolutely no tactical intuition.
To turn this ruin into a safe haven, we still need to rely on human eyes and human judgment.
So after letting Xiao Liu try it for two days, Andy changed her off.
Some jobs still need to be done by people, at least for the time being.
"There's a big guy up ahead."
Kolber raised his large, heavily armored hand and pointed to a huge crack deep in the ruins ahead.
The crack was at least twenty meters wide, like a scar tearing the ground apart, and it was dark and bottomless inside.
Besides Kolber and Jaden, three fully armed Storm Squad elites followed them in. The five of them formed a search formation and carefully entered, while the other Storm Squad members stayed outside to guard the vehicles and establish a defensive line.
The beam of light pierced the darkness underground.
When he could see the internal structure, Jaden whistled.
Wow! This is spectacular.
This is a huge cylindrical vertical shaft.
It is at least 500 meters in diameter, and its depth is unknown.
The well walls are made of a high-strength black metal, and although thousands of years have passed, the surface is still as smooth as a mirror, without a trace of rust.
Around the well wall, countless folded robotic arms, filling pipes, and maintenance platforms are densely distributed.
【Aerospace Well】, a special architectural structure from the Golden Age.
In order to protect their precious starships from harsh weather on the surface and the effects of orbital battles, humans of that era integrated shipyards and launch pads deep underground.
The spacecraft is assembled, maintained, and refueled underground.
At launch, the armored dome above opened, and the spacecraft shot directly from the ground into space.
"If this place is repaired, can we build big ships here?"
Jaden leaned over the railing and looked down, even considering spitting down to test the depth.
"Hehe, Boss Andy will definitely like it."
Kolber did not speak.
On his helmet display, the radar interface remained a calm green.
But beneath that calm, his nerve bundles suddenly felt an extremely faint tingling sensation.
That's a unique function of the Type-IV neural bundle—intuitive amplification.
The Netherworld Bone material from the Spirit Clan still retains a trace of its instinctive perception of danger.
What is it?
it's here.
And it's right nearby!
"Zetton, step back."
Kohlberg's voice suddenly turned somber; he didn't even use the communication channel, but instead spoke directly through the speakerphone.
"Huh? What's wrong?"
Jaden turned around, looking completely bewildered.
In that very instant.
Kohlberg's visual sensors detected a highly unnatural air disturbance.
In the shadows behind Jaden, the previously still dust was suddenly stirred by some invisible force, forming a transparent outline.
There was no reaction from any heat source.
There is no sound.
Even the sound of airflow was absorbed by some kind of force field.
It's just a momentary distortion of light refraction!
"careful!!"
Kohlberg didn't even have time to raise his gun.
The moment his brain issues the command, the nerve bundles have already transmitted the current to the servo motors throughout his body.
"Buzz!!!"
A burst of high-pressure gas suddenly erupted from the jetpack on the back of the power armor.
The steel body unleashed an astonishing acceleration.
Kolber lunged forward, his massive mechanical hand slamming into Jaden's chest.
"Bang!"
The force of the push was so great that Jaden was thrown backward as if he had been hit by a truck, flying five or six meters away before crashing heavily to the ground and rolling several times before coming to a stop.
"Holy crap! Old Ke, are you crazy?!"
Just as Jaden was about to curse.
The next second, he shut up.
Because he saw it right where he had just been standing.
A crescent-shaped, almost transparent wave suddenly flashed by.
"Zi—"
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The air was swept away by the whistling sound of being cut at high speed.
The wave grazed Kolber's shoulder armor and slammed into the metal wall beside him.
"when!!!"
Sparks flew everywhere.
The high-strength alloy wall of the aerospace well, which would take half a day to burn even with a hot melt gun, was actually cut open with a huge crack that was half a meter deep and about two meters long!
The incision even turned slightly red due to the high temperature.
If a mortal body were to be struck by this, even if it were wearing armor, it would instantly be split in two.
Kohlberg landed, his magnetic boots sticking to the ground, leaving two deep marks on the marble floor before he regained his balance.
He raised his head and stared intently at the void.
The attack missed, and the attacker seemed to be taken aback, clearly not expecting the seemingly bulky can to react so quickly.
With a ripple of air.
The hidden thing finally revealed its true form.
It was a monster that would make anyone feel physically nauseous just by looking at it.
It stood slightly taller than Kolber, but shorter than Andy, about two meters tall, with a hunched posture, yet it appeared extremely powerful.
The main structure resembles a skinned ape, but its limbs are disproportionately long, and its joints are covered with barbs, making it look more like a hybrid of some kind of ape and reptile.
The head has no eyes, only a large mouth that splits open to the ears and is covered with fine, sharp teeth, and a few tentacles that tremble in the air.
Its body is covered with a layer of dark red chitinous armor that seems to be still breathing.
What is most striking is the weapon it holds in its hand.
It was a huge, crescent-shaped scythe.
But this sickle is not made of metal; it is formed from the growth of some kind of biological skeleton, and you can even see pulsating blood vessels and nerves on it.
Biotechnology!
That terrifying slash just now was unleashed by this biological scythe.
At this moment, the alien was slightly lowering its head, and the biological scythe was vibrating rapidly because the attack had missed, with an eerie red glow emanating from the air around the blade.
"Fire!!"
Kolber roared and raised his arm, causing the built-in explosive gun to roar instantly.
The three stormtroopers behind him and the Zetton on the ground also pulled their triggers at the same time.
"Bang bang bang!"
"Sizzle!"
Several explosive bombs and high-energy laser beams formed a dense net of fire, rushing straight towards the monster.
At such close range, there's nowhere to hide!
However, the monster did not dodge at all.
It simply flipped its wrist slightly.
"call"
The enormous, dark red scythe instantly transformed into a ball of red light and shadow before it, like a blooming flower of death.
"Jingle bells!!!"
A series of rapid impacts rang out.
Whether it was the high-energy laser from the Hellfire Gun or the explosive projectiles fired by Kolber, they were all blocked by that high-speed spinning scythe!
The laser beam was refracted, burning a black hole in the wall.
The bomb exploded on the surface of the scythe, scattering sparks, but it didn't even interrupt its movement in the slightest.
As the smoke cleared, the monster stood unharmed, still in the same spot. Its eyeless face, though expressionless, exuded a suffocating mockery.
Jaden's eyes nearly popped out of their sockets as he watched this scene, and he even forgot to fire a second round while holding his gun.
"Holy crap—this is outrageous?!"
The monster raised its scythe again, its figure becoming blurry, as if it were about to enter stealth mode once more.
"Trying to run away?!"
Kolber was not deterred by the incredible parry. He roared and drew his chainsaw sword from his back.
"Buzz!!!"
The chainsaw sword's engine roared furiously, its serrations spinning wildly!
He was like a runaway tank, charging towards the disappearing monster!
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