Alien Relic Hunter

Even the master of the nest city didn't know what was inside the old moon and the new moon. He only knew that the Twin Moon Fortress was once a powerful weapon prepared by the Alpha civilization to fight against the Ability God Familia. In addition to the Star Destroyer Cannon, it was also equipped with A large number of strategic weapons, launched from any fortress, are enough to wipe out the human civilization of the earth in the old era hundreds of times.

Ke Lan was in a bright corridor and couldn't help but be a little confused about which direction to go in - except for the door of the warehouse he came out of, there were no signs in the corridor, no street signs, no lighting fixtures, not even the walls and There is no unblocking between the floor and ceiling.

The entire corridor was seamless, as if it were a tunnel carved out of a large metal ingot.

"Is there anyone there?" Ke Lan tried to shout.

no respond.

He thought for a while, maybe because the Alpha people didn't understand Chinese, they ignored him, and immediately changed to Alpha language and asked again.

"anyone there?"

Suddenly, the lights in the entire corridor lit up - the reason Ke Lan had not seen these lights before was because the lamps were all installed inside the wall. Although the wall was made of alloy material, it was The lamp is designed to be very thin, and the brightness of the lamp itself is very high. The light naturally passes through the wall and shines into the corridor.

"Who are you?" a voice asked. Ke Lan subconsciously wanted to trace the source of the sound, but found that the sound seemed to come from all directions - what was even more outrageous was that in a narrow and semi-enclosed environment like the corridor, Next, this sound actually did not produce an echo effect. At least to Ke Lan's ears, the sounds coming from all directions were not sequential in time, and the volume and timbre were completely consistent. They did not look like echoes at all.

"Are you the night watchman staying at your Crescent Fortress?" Ke Lan asked bluntly - there was not much time left, and he did not have time to go around in circles with the opponent. The top priority was to let the opponent directly activate the Star Destroyer Cannon and launch the Alpha Star. The world-destroying tree was blown away.

The preparation time for a large weapon like a Star Destroyer Cannon is definitely not short - take Yagunaktor as an example. If it is a Star Destroyer Cannon with 30% power, the charging time alone will take five hours. , if the charging efficiency of Crescent Fortress's Star Destroyer Cannon is slower than this, then the time left for Ke Lan can be said to be very tight.

"I'm asking you." The other party's tone was very calm, with no emotion at all.

"I am a human, a human from the Ark Civilization!" Ke Lan emphasized his tone, "I am a human who was dragged here by you to another parallel time and space."

"No, you are not human." The other party's voice still had no fluctuation.

To be honest, Ke Lan hated arguing with such an incompetent guy. He said eagerly: "Okay, I will be whatever you say! But, I have something very important. If you are not willing to interview me, then I’ll just say it right here!”

"The corroders on the Ark have successfully caused the Ember Crown mutant No. 194a to germinate. In another twenty-eight thousand nine hundred and fifteen seconds, its roots will penetrate into the earth and become one with the earth." The "Earth" in his mouth obviously refers to the Alpha Planet. "Your purpose is to use the Star Destroyer Cannon on the Crescent Fortress to destroy the Ember Crown Mutant No. 194a."

"Since you know everything, why do you still ask about those irrelevant things? Isn't it fun?" Ke Lan couldn't help but feel angry when he heard the other party tell the purpose of his trip exactly as if reading a script.

"Wait a minute... I use the official whole process to describe the Tree of Destruction. The countdown is calculated in seconds... Are you an Alpha or something else?" Ke Lan suddenly noticed something was wrong and subconsciously asked. road.

"I am the core control hub of Crescent Fortress, codenamed 'Selene'."

"Sure enough... it's an artificial intelligence program." Ke Lan was startled. "Then... where are the Alphas who stayed at Crescent Fortress? Are they here now? Can I talk to them directly?"

"It's a pity." Although she said 'regret', Selene's tone was completely devoid of regret. "Just six minutes ago, the last Alpha disappeared from this world."

"Six minutes ago?" Ke Lan lowered his head and glanced at his watch, "Isn't that when I was just teleported to Crescent Fortress? This can't be a coincidence, right?"

"It's not a coincidence. You are the direct cause of their disappearance - there is a time and space paradox between Alpha and the humans on the Ark. The only way to avoid this paradox is to have no contact between the two parties. After you were transported When you arrive at Crescent Fortress, there will inevitably be an intersection between you and the last of these Alphas, so the space-time paradox will be triggered again and their existence will be directly erased." Selene replied.

"However, I remember that the 776th Special Forces Team met an Alpha man in the ruins of a planetary engine, and there was a conversation between the two parties... Although the conversation failed, he did not come into contact with these soldiers. He was wiped out by the paradox of time and space! In the end, he died at the hands of soldiers who didn't understand the language. How to explain this?" Ke Lan asked confused.

"What those soldiers saw was not a native Alpha, but a 'pseudo-Alpha' that was cultivated using biochemical technology and artificially implanted with personality and memory. It was connected through a base and a planetary engine. It was essentially the same as me. It is part of the planetary engine." Selene explained in simple and clear words.

"What the 776 Special Forces Team saw was actually a humanoid intelligent computer? A 'part' of the planetary engine... something like a core mastermind?" Ke Lan couldn't help but twitch the corner of his mouth, "In other words, Alpha and Humans from the Ark Civilization can never meet each other? That’s not right, according to the hive master, the Fool clearly had contact with the Alpha Civilization when he first landed on the Alpha Planet!"

"He came into contact with the Alpha civilization, not the Alpha people. Any direct contact, including physical contact and visual contact, will lead to the occurrence of space-time paradoxes, and even the inevitable intersection on the future timeline will also erase the Alpha people. existence. The only way that allows two humans in parallel time and space to communicate is to use physical information carriers for indirect communication. However, doing so will still lead to a time and space paradox, but it will be delayed in time. "

"Indirect communication? It means that the Alpha people write the information on a message board, then put the message board in a conspicuous place, and then send out a signal for the Fool or other Ark people to find the message board and read the words on it. Information…is this what it means?”

"It's basically close." Selene said, "But when the Ark people start reading this message board, it means that the reader and the commenter have an intersection. Even if this intersection is only indirect, it will also cause the commenter to Their existence is gradually faded until they are completely erased from this world."

Hearing what the other party said, Ke Lan couldn't help but have a picture pop up in his mind: an Alpha man left a dense and long text on a stone slab, threw the stone slab in the wilderness, and then launched a firework-like firework into the air. Flare, then escaped.

The Fool wandering in the wilderness rushed to the location of the stone tablet after discovering the signal flare and discovered the stone tablet. When the Fool picked up the stone tablet and began to read the words on it, the body of the Alpha man who left the stone tablet began to gradually fade away... ...until the Fool finished reading the entire stone tablet, and the Alpha man completely disappeared.

This is simply using your life to convey information...

Ke Lan suddenly understood why he was in the Fool's memory fragment. The Alpha civilization aircraft that saved the Fool and the others would fall straight out of the sky as if it lost control, and they could not find any bodies from the wreckage of the aircraft - —It was not a remotely controlled drone, but the Alpha pilot who piloted it was obliterated by the space-time paradox after completing the mission, and the aircraft that lost its pilot naturally crashed.

"Without the Alphas, can the Star Destroyer Cannon of Crescent Fortress still be activated?" At this time, Ke Lan had no time to mourn the Alphas who disappeared because of him - after all, this was the fate they chose, and what he had to do was , that is, to preserve the existing Ark civilization, so that the Alpha civilization... and more human civilizations in parallel time and space that he does not know are sacrificed in vain.

"Yes." Selene replied, "But the Star Destroyer Cannon needs to be activated manually. After all the personnel stationed in the Crescent Fortress disappear, as the core control hub, I do not have the authority to activate the Star Destroyer Cannon."

"How to obtain this permission?!" Ke Lan suddenly became anxious - The Fool may have calculated that the Star Destroyer Cannon of Crescent Fortress could destroy the giant tree, but he certainly did not calculate that when the Ark Civilization decided to use the power of Crescent Fortress At that time, all remaining Alphas on Crescent Fortress will be wiped out due to the paradox of time and space.

A wise man must make a mistake after thinking a lot... But just this mistake will lead to the loss of everything!

Selene did not answer, but there was a harsh friction sound in the corridor. The friction sound came from far to near... In less than five minutes, a coffin-shaped vehicle with a streamlined shell and two conical heads appeared in Ke Lan stopped in front of him, and the cover of the vehicle slid open to one side, revealing the seat placed inside.

This means obviously asking Ke Lan to lie down.

"The central control room of Crescent Fortress is in the center of the earth, 1,700 kilometers away from here. The shuttle can move in the tunnel at twelve times the speed of sound. It can take you to the central control room within seven minutes." It seems to be. Noticing Ke Lan's hesitant expression, Selene opened her mouth to explain.

"Anyway, let's go to the central control room first and then think of a solution..." Ke Lan lay down inside the shuttle. After the cockpit lid was closed, a viscous liquid surged up from under the seat, covering the entire cockpit. The space was completely filled. These fluids, whose properties were very similar to LCL, could even dissolve the air. They penetrated along Ke Lan's ears and nose, squeezing out all the cavities in Ke Lan's ear canals and lungs.

Ke Lan knew that this liquid was used to resolve the G force exerted on the passengers when the shuttle was moving at high speed, but the next second, he discovered that these liquids had another effect -

A strange current flowed along Ke Lan's ear canal and directly to his brain. As it approached, the internal structure diagram of Crescent Fortress appeared in his mind. At the same time, a young woman who combined the characteristics of Eastern and Western beauties appeared. The image of a woman entered his field of vision.

"Are you Selene?" Ke Lan opened his mouth, but his throat was already filled with anti-charge fluid, and he couldn't make any sound... Fortunately, this fluid seemed to be a communication channel at the consciousness level. As soon as this idea popped into Ke Lan's head, he could feel that the other party had "heard" this sentence.

"I am Selene." The young woman nodded to Ke Lan - although the Alphas themselves turned into half-tentacled monsters, the AI ​​avatar they designed still looked 100% human, and quite... In line with the aesthetics of earthlings from the old era, at least in Ke Lan's eyes, there are only three people who can be more beautiful than Selene's avatar.

Zeluo, Zofia Soma and Aphdirota, the sixth "lover" of the Immortal Crew.

The shuttle began to accelerate. Although Ke Lan's whole body was wrapped in fluid, he could still feel the strong pushing feeling. A number representing speed appeared on Ke Lan's retina - from zero to twelve times. At the speed of sound, the shuttle only took eleven seconds. I don’t know how the propulsion device of this thing can achieve such a terrifying output power. From the outside, it is obvious that there are only six jets the size of a bowl, and these are on both sides. The added up quantities.

"Has The Fool been here?" While on the road, Ke Lan planned to ask Selene about something related to The Fool.

"No human from the Ark civilization has ever entered the Twin Moon Fortress, and you are the first." Selene answered truthfully.

"That's right, otherwise the Alphas left behind in the fortress would have disappeared long ago... Wait, I came to New Moon, so the Alphas on the Old Moon should still be there, right? Can you find a way to contact them? What I mean is It’s not me who should contact you, you should contact them and tell them tactfully, asking them to use Old Moon’s Star Destroyer Cannon to bombard the World-Destroying Tree. This should be possible, right?” Ke Lan said excitedly as if he had discovered a new continent. .

"I'm sorry, the communication between the old moon and the new moon has been disconnected for more than 10,000 years. I don't know whether there are still Alpha people in the old moon."

"Huh... okay." Ke Lan was a little disappointed, "Apart from the Alphas left behind at the Twin Moon Fortress, are there any Alphas left?"

"Before dragging you to this time and space, there was an 'escape fleet' carrying 1.5 million people that left this space. But after they left, we lost all news about them."

[P.S. Thanks to Young Emperor Fengzi for the 100 starting coins. 】