Alien Relic Hunter

Such behavior as heretical sects can be said to have broken through the bottom line of human beings... After seeing the sacrificial scene in the restaurant, Ke Lan no longer intended to regard these guys as his own kind.

In more than two minutes, the team only advanced less than a hundred meters. Just when Ke Lan thought that he should speed up a little, Victoria, who was squatting and being stared at by the bloodhound, suddenly stood up. , facing a grocery store on the right side of the street twenty meters ahead, he shouted sharply: "Come out! Otherwise I will order incendiary bombs to be thrown into the building where you are hiding!"

As a high-level transformer, with the help of detection equipment directly connected to the body, Victoria's perception ability can be regarded as the strongest in the team. When she heard what she said, the agents aimed their guns at her. The front entrance of that grocery store.

"Crunch——"

The antique-style fence door was gently pushed open, and a man in a floor-length black robe slowly walked out.

There is no doubt that this is a believer of a heretical sect, but I don't know what his rank is in the sect - this black robe is covered with strange patterns, and you can tell at a glance that this person is definitely not one of the most popular. Ordinary believers at the bottom.

The man in black robe walked to the middle of the street, facing Ke Lan and the others. He slowly raised his arms to the height of his shoulders, with his palms facing up and his ten fingers stretched straight.

"What is he doing?" Ke Lan murmured in his heart. He subconsciously glanced at Victoria standing on the mecha. In the latter's vigilant eyes, he caught a trace of doubt - obviously, for this black-robed man, There should be no relevant intelligence from the Security Bureau regarding the actions taken.

No one knew what this heretical sect member in black robe wanted to do.

This action can't possibly be surrendering to them.

More than half of the weapons in the team were aimed at his vital points. With just one order from Victoria, the man in black robe would be blasted to the point where not even a scrap would be left.

At this moment, the man in black robe spoke, his lips moved slightly, but he did not spit even half a syllable.

"He...what does he seem to be saying?" Alyosha whispered, "But...I can't hear what he is saying at all..."

Of course you can't hear it... Ke Lan thought to himself, because what this man in black robe speaks is clearly the language of Alpha civilization!

This is the fourth human being that Ke Lan knows so far who can use the language of Alpha Civilization. Apart from him and the "successor" who founded the heretical sect, the other one is the one who sacrificed himself in the exile camp. Sacrificed to the "Messenger of the Prophet" of the Seed of Corrosion.

Could it be that the man in black robes in front of me is also a "messenger of the prophet"?

But Ke Lan soon discovered that this man in black robe did not seem to be proficient in the language of Alpha civilization. He kept repeating the same few sentences, and his reading was very difficult, as if he was learning babbling. Like young children...

The general meaning of these sentences was not far from what Ke Lan saw on the broken stone tablet.

At this moment, Major Ashkani suddenly exclaimed: "You, you... look at his face!"

The face of the man in black robe was not covered. It was the face of a young yellow man with no notable features. He was not handsome, but he could not be said to be ugly either. If he were to replace his dirty black robe, If he were to put him into an ordinary company employee uniform and then throw him into a morning train filled with office workers, he would hardly attract anyone's attention.

But as he continued to recite those few prayers, his face was aging rapidly - the originally plump skin gradually became shriveled and shriveled, a large number of wrinkles and age spots appeared on his face, and his eye sockets Then he sunk deeply, and his eyes became even more cloudy... It only took a few seconds, but to him it seemed like decades had passed.

At this time, another mechanical voice sounded deep in Ke Lan's brain: "The servant of the god can temporarily grant the use of part of the Holy Word to his dependents, but in exchange for the price, he must be used by the servant of the god or his dependents. When these holy words pray directly to the great god for a gift, they must devote their life force equal to the power of the gift..."

This passage comes from the information left by Alpha Civilization. Although it sounds mysterious, it is not difficult to understand literally, especially in light of the situation at hand——

"Servants of God" should refer to the Alpha people or the "successors" of Alpha Civilization, and the so-called Holy Word should refer to the language of Alpha Civilization mastered by Ke Lan and the founder of the heretical sect... This kind of Language ability can be temporarily transferred to other people, but whether they are servants or servants' dependents, they must use this ability at the cost of their own lifespan...

Wait... Ke Lan suddenly realized that there was something difficult to explain in this piece of information: If using the "Holy Word" requires a cost of life, then he has used this ability more than once, why does he seem to No impact?

If using the language of Alpha civilization requires lifespan, it would be impossible for this civilization to develop, and these ruins on this planet should not exist!

No...no, that shouldn't be the case...I understood it wrong from the beginning! "Holy Word" should not generally refer to the language of Alpha civilization, but to certain specific "prayer words". Only when these "prayer words" are "used" will the user's vitality be depleted!

As for the role of these "holy words", they use their lifespan to exchange for "gifts" from some "great god"... So, what is this "gift"?

Soon, Ke Lan found the answer.

The man in black robe, who had aged to the point of dying, suddenly trembled. His skin, hair and flesh were rapidly decaying, and his organs and intestines, which had lost their support, fell to the ground... In less than ten seconds, he was wrapped in a black robe. All that was left inside was a pitch-black skeleton.

The dark skeleton!

Ke Lan reacted immediately and hurriedly shouted to Victoria: "Be careful! He is not dead!"

"This skeleton...is what you encountered in the cargo hold of the Pioneer icebreaker, right?" Victoria asked, what happened in the cargo hold after the Soma Consortium sent the sample of the black skeleton to the research institute? The battle was no longer a secret, and the Security Bureau naturally obtained relevant information as soon as possible.

"Yes." Ke Lan nodded, "This thing is extremely maneuverable and difficult to deal with...especially in a place like this."