Alien Relic Hunter

"Fool?!"

Ke Lan couldn't help but raise his eyebrows, moved his thumb to the answer button, and pressed it gently.

"Hello?"

"Long time no see." A male voice that seemed to be synthesized by software came from the receiver.

"It seems like we've never met before, right? Why haven't we seen each other for so long?" Ke Lan asked coldly.

"What about now?" The other party used a voice that Ke Lan was very familiar with. This voice made Ke Lan's body tremble. This was exactly what the information dealer with the forum ID "ACMS_0420" was calling Ke Lan. The voice line most commonly used when making phone calls.

Although the voices are also synthesized using software, this voice has obviously been specially tuned, and not just anyone can imitate that kind of cheap and needy tone.

After the battle at the ruins of the Ancient Bronze City, the intelligence dealer mysteriously disappeared from the world. Not only did Ke Lan investigate his identity, but even the Undead Crew Association spent a lot of resources to track down the whereabouts of the intelligence dealer, but all found nothing - this A person is like an electronic ghost that is only active on the Internet. Ke Lan even once doubted whether he was a real person.

"Are you...the Fool?" Ke Lan couldn't help but ask.

"Do you think I'm the kind of person who likes to joke with others?" The other party's tone was very frivolous. It was obviously the intelligence dealer who Ke Lan had known for a long time... Unless, someone stole the information between the intelligence dealer and Ke Lan. All chats and call records, and letting AI learn and imitate, can give Ke Lan such a familiar feeling.

"Aren't you?"

"Don't be ridiculous, I am indeed the 'Fool', but to be precise, I am just a part of the 'Fool', just like you." The information dealer said.

"I know this. In order to avoid the consequences of the erosion exceeding the critical point, the Fool can only seal his split personality into different 'containers'. And for insurance, he also imposed the memory of each part of the personality on 'Seal'..." Ke Lan said, "I am most likely such a 'container', but unfortunately I seem to be the one with the most memories sealed. Before these things, I had no idea about my identity and the Fool's affairs. , nothing."

"Bingo! That's absolutely correct." The intelligence dealer snapped his fingers, but the snap was still a sound synthesized by software. Ke Lan couldn't even be sure whether the other party had a real body. "It seems that in the past few years, you Through my own efforts, I have collected a lot of secret information."

"No, I still know nothing about the Fool's core plan." Ke Lan sighed, "I don't know why you took the initiative to contact me, but since you are also one of the containers, you should be on my side. Is it on this side?"

"First of all, I want to correct one of your linguistic errors. When referring to 'The Fool', you should not use the third person 'he', but the first person 'I'." The intelligence dealer said, "Secondly, you Although you know nothing about 'my' plan, you have been following the route preset in the plan... Don't worry, you have done a good job so far, impeccably."

"Even now, you are still talking so much nonsense..." Ke Lan's mouth twitched twice, "If you have to say bad words to me, then you shouldn't use the second person 'you' when calling me, right? ?”

"No, this is different. You and I are different. We are two completely different personalities of fools. The fool is me and the fool is you, but I am not you... This may sound a bit convoluted, but I think you should be able to Understood." The information dealer said, "Also, aren't you curious about how many parts the Fool divided his personality into?"

"How many servings?"

"Four copies." The information dealer told Ke Lan bluntly, "Personality No. 1 is me, but my body is just a failed experiment... Although I have been thinking of ways to delay the progress of the erosion, now The time left for me will not exceed twelve hours at most... Putting aside this, you should be able to guess that Personality No. 2 is the personality implanted in the living armor. His degree of erosion is four personalities. The heaviest among them, so he spends most of his time sleeping. His only role is to accept the gaze of that existence on your behalf when you need to use the Holy Word... I would like to call him the most powerful tool. People. It's a pity that the ultimate move can only be used once. If there were more people with such tools, the current situation would not be so rigid."

"Where are No. 3 and No. 4?" Ke Lan asked.

"Personality No. 3 has been implanted into the core mastermind. As the center of the entire plan, it is this personality No. 3 that represents the Fool when the undead crew members vote... But now the core mastermind is controlled by Zeus's group of guys. No. 3 The personality can only be temporarily hidden in order to protect itself, and cannot provide much help.”

"As for you," the intelligence dealer, or rather, the personality number one of "The Fool", changed the subject, "of course you are the personality number four, the ordinary ruin hunter Ke Lan, so what, I am quite satisfied with this answer. ?"

"Not satisfied." Ke Lan replied indifferently, "The situation is very urgent now. If you want to find someone to chat, you can write an anthropomorphic intelligent program yourself. I know this is not difficult for you, but I still have I have something very important to do, and I don’t have time to waste with you.”

"Why are you wasting your time chatting with me? Besides, you have very important things to do... What are important things? Do you mean the Fool's plan?"

"What did you want to say when you called me?"

"I haven't finished the topic just now, let's continue." The intelligence dealer said, "The four separated personalities were implanted in different containers, but the Fool's body was completely preserved and was Put into the 'Black Coffin' on Yagunaktor, the 'body' you merged with is actually the body of the Fool himself."

"Isn't the Fool's body already on the verge of super erosion?" Ke Lan raised his hand and took a look, feeling a trace of doubt in his heart.

"Yes, super erosion of the body has nothing to do with consciousness... Don't you think you can still be considered a human being now?" The information dealer laughed dumbly, "Don't you think that in terms of body alone, you are worse than a corpse? Erosion?"

"...Then why was my consciousness not affected after the body merged with me?"

"That's all thanks to the powerful function of the 'Black Coffin'. The Alpha Civilization has collected a large amount of ownerless supernatural energy. This energy was purified by the Black Coffin and then transferred into the body of the Fool, just like a martial artist. Like the 'cleansing of tendons and marrow' in the novel, the mark left by that existence will be worn away little by little, leaving only the purest power." The information dealer said, "So, you have obtained a body that is comparable to the eclipse. The corpse’s body, thinking and cognition will not be affected in any way.”

"This was also arranged by the Fool back then?"

"Yes, not only that, the Fool had also calculated that the erosion level of other members of the Undead Crew would exceed the critical point... The Coffin of Eternal Life can suppress the speed of erosion, but it is only suppressed. In order to prevent other members of the Undead Crew from becoming He has already prepared a countermeasure for the minions of that existence. And the key to this countermeasure is you."

"I?"

"You have seen the combat video saved on Yagunak Tol. When reviewing it, you should be able to realize that the black fleet attacked Yagunak Tol at that time just to force you to activate the emergency procedure zero. '...Don't you think it's strange that the undead crew went to such great lengths to call themselves a father and wiped out the entire black fleet with one move? However, this body fell into your hands again. Under control, it's like a modern version of 'losing the wife and losing the soldiers'. Do you think they would do such a stupid thing?"

"I'm really confused about this. Maybe the undead crew doesn't know enough about the Black Coffin?"

"No, they know the Black Coffin very well. They even saw the Fool's body put into the Black Coffin with their own eyes... But they didn't know that it was the Fool's body that was put in at that time. They always thought that it was the body of the Fool. Just a clone used for experiments."

"Then what? The body in the Black Coffin has no self-awareness. Is it the original body or a clone? What difference does it make?"

"There is no chance, because what the undead crew will want to wake up at that time is not the black coffin, but the white coffin." The intelligence dealer chuckled and said, "These idiots have all been plotted by the Fool."

"What is stored in Bai Zhi's coffin...?"

"You." The information dealer continued without surprising, "The Immortal Crew only knew that The Fool's erosion was approaching the critical point, but they didn't know that he had secretly divided his personality into four parts and sealed his memory. Immortal The crew will always think that what is placed in the White Coffin is the body of the Fool and his complete personality... The function of the White Coffin is actually an enhanced version of the Coffin of Immortality. In other words, the Coffin of Immortality on the Ark is actually the Coffin of White. A poor imitation of a coffin."

"But what was actually put into Shiro's coffin..."

"It is a clone that is almost identical to the Fool himself, plus a quarter of the Fool's personality, which is you, Ke Lan." The information dealer continued, "The White Coffin uses the energy of Yagunaktor Directly connected to the core mastermind remotely, so during the brief period of wakefulness of the Fool, he could also participate in the decision-making meeting of the Undead Crew... But what no one else could have imagined was that the 'Fool' who attended the meeting had always been sealed in Personality number three in the core mastermind.”

"Then why did the Undead Crew wake up the Fool himself in the White Coffin?" Ke Lan asked.

"Because fifteen years after 'you' were sealed in the White Coffin, some people in the Undead Crew secretly stole the White Coffin, rewritten its operating program, and reversed all functions... Originally The protective measures used to inhibit the progress of the erosion instantly turned into a weapon that accelerated the erosion... According to their assumptions, the person who finally came out of the White Coffin would not be a fool, but a demigod whose self-awareness had been completely erased. 'Body.

"At the beginning, they just wanted to create a 'god' that they could drive. But as the erosion of these people deepened, even they themselves were not aware that their original goal had changed from man-made gods to destroying the entire world. Civilization was sacrificed to that existence... and as the distortion of cognition and inner obsession gradually spread, they gradually forgot the existence of the Black Coffin. Of course, this was also because of the backhand left by the Fool in advance, through various Using this method, he constantly guided them and diluted the existence of the Black Coffin in their hearts again and again.

"Otherwise, as time goes by, someone will definitely notice that something is wrong. Once someone discovers that the person stored in the black coffin is the Fool himself, it will be great fun."

"If the body in the White Coffin is really 'demigodized', what will happen after it is awakened?" Ke Lan suppressed his inner curiosity about his life experience and continued to ask about the 'main plot'.

"The disaster will come directly, and all surviving humans will be reduced to corpses within a day." The intelligence dealer said, "But they never imagined that the body in Bai Zhi's coffin would be secretly taken out a year later. After that, the White Coffin has always been empty... Hahahaha!" The information dealer suddenly laughed.

"Where was the body put in the White Coffin after it was taken out?" Ke Lan said, "That time seems to be decades away from the starting point of my memory, right?"

"It was sealed in an underground icehouse until the time came. Several other personalities worked together to mix this body, that is, you, into a bunch of symbionts... Most of your memories were implanted later. Yes, the real memory is only the last few years, which is true...but in fact you have been born in this world for more than forty years, but you have been sleeping for forty years," the intelligence dealer said.

"Why would the Fool do this? What's the point of putting me in the White Coffin, apart from being able to join other members of the Undead Crew?"

"It makes a lot of sense. Your immunity to erosion is so strong now, thanks to the White Coffin. The transformation of an individual by the White Coffin only takes one year to complete, provided that the energy of the alien god is enough. Of course, the requirements for clones are also very high. In order to select a suitable clone for you, the scrapped products cost five figures."

"Five figures of abandoned clones...will the undead crew not find it?"

"They found it, but they only knew that it was a scrapped mass-produced symbiote, and they didn't think about it in this aspect," the intelligence dealer said.

"There's another question. I look exactly the same as The Fool. Can't the people in the Immortal Crew Club see that? Will they think of me as an ordinary symbiote?"

"The face of a god cannot be seen directly by mortals... Although this is just an exaggerated statement from the magic stick, when the body of the Fool is successfully 'semi-deified', many of their memories of the Fool will be erased, including Including the appearance of the Fool.”

[P.S. Thank you, it’s so hard to come up with a name. I’m not good at retaining you, so don’t take away the 100 starting coins as a reward. 】