Alien Relic Hunter

Every ruin of Alpha civilization has a complete set of operating mechanisms, and the main console of this set of operating mechanisms is often set in the deepest core area of ​​the ruins - if a ruins are compared to a battleship, then this " "The absolute core area" is equivalent to the bridge of this battleship.

As long as we can gain control of the core area, if nothing else, we can definitely guarantee a safe exit from here.

Coupled with the huge reward for discovering the core area, this time, maybe it can be a blessing in disguise...

Ke Lan quickly got in touch with Hound and the others. Fortunately, it was calm there and nothing happened. The two teams finally reunited.

Layton's operation went very smoothly. Ivan was not only proficient in medical skills, but also highly accomplished in the repair of artificial organs. In the absence of a spare trachea, he cut a section from the air supply pipe of the protective suit, and after simple disinfection and After the modification, Layton's throat tube and the artificial lung were successfully connected. Although Layton said that he felt "as if there was a spring stuck in his throat," at least his life was saved.

Next, comes the real highlight.

"Brother Asano, are you really sure that there is a giant door a hundred meters high down here? Are you sure which door is it?...Ah, don't get me wrong about that. It's not that I don't believe you, I'm just saying...it's possible , would you feel that it was just a relief on the wall or something..." The hound walked around the platform in the middle of the stone room, and there was a very hidden secret door under the platform, which Asano Akira had come out of before. of.

"I can confirm that it is a door." Asano Akira said.

"A hundred meters...a scale of a hundred meters..." Hound sighed in a low voice. According to Ark's official records, during the previous exploration of the ruins, the largest door discovered was located in the A-019 ruins. That door was completely open. Made of crystallized steel doped with Nino alloy, it is forty-five meters wide and seventy-seven meters high... If we follow this ratio, wouldn't the giant door discovered by Asano Akira have to be nearly two hundred meters tall? Meters high? !

The giant door fifty stories high is enough to shock you just thinking about it. As for what you will find at the back door, it is hard for the hound to imagine.

"Hey, old dog, if you don't believe it, just go down and see with your own eyes later." Layton said. Most of his body was wrapped in bandages like a rice dumpling. Fortunately, the modified person was really rough-skinned and thick-bodied, so The serious injury reflected on him was just some difficulty in moving.

On the other hand, Zhuo Ligetu, who has not been transformed, is still in a deep coma due to excessive blood loss. His face is pale and his breath is weak. Although the severed limb has been treated by Ivan's emergency, there is still some necrosis. Obviously it can't last much longer.

"Zoligetu is dying, we have to get out quickly." Ivan said, "Without further delay, if there is nothing else, let's act quickly."

"Let's go!"

Layton wanted to take the lead as usual, but was stopped by Akira Asano: "You are a wounded person, you should follow behind, and I am most familiar with the situation below."

"How can you let a blind person be a pioneer? I'm fine. I just broke an arm. If I go back and buy some parts, I can build a better one!"

"That will happen after we go back." Asano Akira said, and went into the secret door by himself.

"Hello--"

Layton wanted to say something else, but he was kicked in the butt by the hound: "Are you stupid? Why don't you appreciate others who are nice to you? Besides, with Brother Asano's ability, do you think Does it matter to him that he can't see? Look at that damn thing—"

The hound pointed at the corpse of the monster beside him and continued to curse: "You useless thing was killed in one round. Even if you are equipped with twenty mechanical arms, do you think you can be Asano Akira's opponent? Especially You like to show off your strength, but you still suffer too little loss?"

As he spoke, the hound slapped Leighton on the head.

"..." This time, Layton didn't talk back or fight back. He mumbled a few words in a voice that only he could hear, then followed the hound obediently, and entered the secret door third.

Ivan took on the heavy responsibility of carrying Zhuo Ligetu, and Ke Lan was responsible for breaking up the rear.

Below the secret door is a bottomless vertical cave. The cave is roughly funnel-shaped. There is a spiraling stone step down the cave wall. There is no guardrail on the outside of the stone step and it is also covered with a thin layer of ice, so everyone can walk easily. Very slowly, for fear of accidentally slipping and falling.

"Qianye, is there a giant door under this cave?" Ivan asked.

"Yes." Akira Asano nodded. He walked at the front of the team, and every step he took was steady, and it didn't look like he was invisible at all.

"This should be located in the heart of the mountain... It seems that the scale of this ruins is much larger than we imagined."

There seemed to be many gaps in the rock formations that led to the outside world. Ke Lan could always hear the sharp sound of wind as the air flowed through the gaps. However, the sound of wind seemed to be mixed with whispers of unknown meaning...

Did you hear it wrong?

He stopped and stood there, but at this time, the whispers seemed to have completely disappeared...

Hearing Ke Lan stop, Ivan turned his head and asked, "What's going on? Did you find anything?"

"I seem to hear... uh... voices in the wind? Did you hear it?"

"No." Both Layton and Hound shook their heads.

"Could it be our own echo? This kind of terrain can easily produce echoes, which are then mixed with the sound of the wind, making it sound like it is coming from somewhere else." Ivan analyzed.

"Maybe. By the way, Asano, have you heard anything unusual?" Ke Lan focused on Asano Akira. As a blind person, his hearing should be the sharpest in the entire team.

"No, there is only the sound of wind." Asano Akira shook his head.

"It's also possible that you are too tired and have slight tinnitus. Do you need me to give you some refreshing medicine?" Ivan glanced at Ke Lan and put his hand into the medicine box.

"No, I feel fine." Ke Lan waved his hand, "Let's go, maybe it's really just an echo."

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When the 100-meter giant door mentioned by Asano Akira appeared in the field of vision, except for Asano Akira, the rest of the team gasped in unison.

If you haven't seen it with your own eyes, you will never be able to experience the awe-inspiring aura. Ke Lan still remembers that the last time he felt like this was when he saw the entire Ark from the air for the first time.

Although their reason told them that, let alone the Alpha civilization, even with the construction technology of the old era of mankind, it would not be that difficult to build a two-hundred-meter-high giant door, but when they stood in front of this door in person , but still can't help but feel a strong sense of powerlessness - as if a group of dwarfs mistakenly entered the kingdom of the mythical Titans.

"Huh... I feel like we are going to be recorded in the history books this time when we go back..." The hound rubbed his hands excitedly and looked at the majestic door excitedly.

This giant door is embedded in a very high rock wall. It has two door panels polished from rock. The structure and shape are very close to the sliding swing doors in the human world. They are only used to support the door panels. The depth of the rail groove is as much as two meters.

If it were not activated by energy crystals, even if the door was unlocked, Ke Lan and the others would never be able to push it open.

"I just don't know what good stuff there is here..." Leighton said with a smile, "When I go back this time, the new arm must be a full top version, and all the parts must be the best!"

For some reason, when Leighton mentioned "good things", Ke Lan couldn't help but think of the pieces of meat he saw in the ice tunnel, and couldn't help but say: "As long as there aren't those disgusting pieces of meat in there... ...It feels like in the eyes of Alpha Planet people, those things seem to belong to the category of treasures.”

"Meat? What piece of meat?" Leighton was stunned for a moment, then stared at Ke Lan and asked.

"Are they the pieces of meat frozen behind the ice?" Ke Lan was a little confused. At that time, Leighton's reaction was much more intense than his own.

"What are you talking about? Apart from those damn slitjaws, we haven't encountered anything else along the way?" Layton looked confused.

"Have you lost your memory?" Ke Lan looked at the big man in front of him who was tightly wrapped in bandages. "Do you still remember how you got this injury?"

"Of course I remember it! It was in the oval hall before that I accidentally stepped on the wrong floor and was blown up by a machine... Fortunately, I was lucky..."

Ke Lan only felt a numbness in his scalp. He pulled Layton and told him everything that had happened before, but the latter suddenly burst into laughter: "Brother, when did you make this horror up?" Story? I didn’t expect you to have the talent to be a novelist! The meat and the big eyes, these things never appeared at all. As for the monster that killed me instantly with one move - don’t be kidding, my mechanical arm Although it’s not made of Nino alloy, the materials cost half of my money, so how could it be torn off directly?”

"Did you really hit your head?" For some reason, Ke Lan suddenly had a very bad feeling.

"Oh, I said, why do you suddenly start talking nonsense... Forget it, I won't argue with you, let's call the others over, and you will know if you ask them. Those things you said are not true at all. exist!"

With that said, Layton called over the hound and others who were studying the giant door.

…

However, the fact made Ke Lan shudder.

"We were indeed trapped in the Oval Hall, and Zoligatu was seriously injured by the Slitjaw, but Asano Akira has never been separated from us... As for what you said about finding a secret passage at the crash site, you are right. , the hound did indeed scratch his finger by the cover of the secret passage, but the piece of meat that can turn into a human form has never appeared... This kind of thing, to be honest, I have never heard of it. If If it really exists, it will definitely cause uproar in the academic world." Ivan said calmly.

"What about the poisoning? You and the hound were poisoned, and then Layton and I chose to move on, and you stayed where you were. Have you forgotten it?" Ke Lan asked hurriedly.

"It is true that the doctor and I were poisoned, but the toxin was not emitted from corpses at all, nor did it smell of blood, but colorless and odorless. We were caught without any precautions. There is another point. You also said it wrong. It wasn't you and Layton, it was you, Layton, and Akira Asano. Oh, including the Zhuoligetu carried by Layton, a total of four people continued to walk forward. You passed through a cold road. They took the ice road and arrived at the stone chamber, and they only let us come after confirming that there was no danger." Hound continued.

"And we have searched the ice tunnel very carefully. There are no pieces of meat sealed in the ice, nor are there any giant eyeballs that can swim in the ice -" Layton continued, "Moreover, there are no pieces of meat in the stone chamber. There is no monster like you mentioned, but I do admire your imagination. How did you come up with such strange things?"

"What on earth is going on?" Ke Lan felt a huge fear suffocating his heart, and even his breathing began to feel unnatural.

"You must be hallucinating. This is a very common thing. Alpha people are best at pretending to be ghosts." Hound shrugged and said nonchalantly, "I've seen this kind of situation too many times. Don't worry, brothers. I'll laugh at you. Even veterans will fall for this. Every year, many hunters come out of the ruins intact, but in the end they go crazy. They just take those illusions as reality. Listen to me Yes, let’s finish this job, go back and have a big meal, and then find a few beautiful girls... In just one night, you will forget all these messy thoughts."

Both Layton and Ivan laughed heartily, but Ke Lan couldn't laugh. No, when did all these changes begin? Was it after leaving the stone chamber and entering the secret door? Or after seeing this giant door?

Is all this his own hallucination...or has everyone's memory changed except for himself?

Suddenly, Ke Lan remembered a piece of evidence that proved the truth of the matter, and said quickly: "By the way! Specimens! Ivan, I remember that you collected pieces of meat and monster specimens, which are in the inner pocket of your protective suit!"

"Specimen?" Ivan put his hand into his pocket and took out a test tube, "I only have this specimen in my pocket, but it's not obtained from pieces of meat or monsters. It's the kind of bug that can control corpses. If If you want it, I’ll give it to you.”

"This is impossible! I clearly saw you put those test tubes into your pocket!"

"That may also be part of your hallucination." Ivan said, turning the pocket of the protective suit upside down, and it was empty inside.

"...and...there is another way. Let's go back the way we came. The monster's body is still in the stone chamber, and there are traces of fighting with the monster in the stone chamber. All of this can prove that what I saw is not the same. It's not an illusion!" Ke Lan's performance was extremely stubborn. There was a firm voice in the depths of his brain telling him: All of this is true! None of this is an illusion!

"Isn't it... go back the same way?" The hound looked a little depressed, "It's just a hallucination. There's no need to make such a fuss, right? Doctor, do you have any sedatives? Give him a shot?"

"Are you really sure that what you saw was not an hallucination? But you have been with us all the time. If what you saw was not an hallucination, then have we all lost our memory? This is impossible. I thought about it. From the time of the crash, Up to now, my entire memory chain is complete, with no blurred or missing fragments. This does not seem to be a manifestation of amnesia." Ivan did not actually give Ke Lan a shot, but obviously he also felt that Ke Lan What Lan saw was an illusion.

"I don't think Ke Lan is lying. I believe him...but I have never left the team." Akira Asano said while holding the war blade.

"If we turn back, Zoligatu's condition may become worse. He has lost too much blood."

"Transfer my blood to him. Both he and I have type AB blood!" Ke Lan said without thinking, "I must go back and take a look, otherwise I will never give up."

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Finally, at Ke Lan's insistence, everyone made a decision. Ivan and Asano Akira stayed to take care of Zhuoligetu, while Hound and Layton accompanied Ke Lan back to the stone chamber to look for evidence.

Climbing up the stone steps, the three of them passed through the cave again and returned to the familiar stone room.

However, just one glance made Ke Lan feel like he had fallen into an ice cave.

Not only did the monster's body disappear, but also the blood stains on the ground, the knife marks on the wall, and the big hole made by Layton!

The clay pots in the corner were all intact and not broken, and there was no dark hole in the ceiling.

What was edited... is it memory or reality?

A 4,600-word chapter, it’s two in one… I forgot to divide it into two chapters.