Alien Relic Hunter

Victoria was completely stunned. She looked at Ke Lan with absent-minded eyes. Her finger unconsciously pulled the trigger again. The bullet flew less than ten centimeters from Ke Lan's eyes and hit the man in the distance. above the floor.

"What happened...it...it exploded?"

"It seems so." Ke Lan wiped the blood on his face, raised his hand and took a look. He suddenly discovered that the plasma from the monster seemed to be "self-diluting" - a drop of thick and viscous plasma stained with On Ke Lan's fingertips, it slowly slid down along the fingers. When it fell to the base of the finger, it had turned into a clear liquid like serum. When it reached the palm of the hand, it looked like a drop of water. There is a difference.

Ke Lan stretched out his hand and wiped it on his face again. All the smelly, sticky pus and blood disappeared, and even the water-like liquid quickly evaporated.

The monster disappeared completely, as if it had never existed in this world.

Is this the effect of the "Holy Word"...Does that line of sight...really come from the "great god" that Alpha Civilization talks about?

Ke Lan suddenly remembered something. He touched his face with his hand for the third time, and then rubbed his cheek vigorously - the feeling on his palm was smooth and full. Not only did he not lose a piece of flesh, he even had no wrinkles. None showed up.

He took out the lens from his pocket and looked at his face - although he looked a little embarrassed in the mirror, there was no sign of aging at all.

However, doesn’t using the “Holy Word” require one’s own life force to be paid for?

If what you "pay" is not life force, what will it be?

Just when Ke Lan was staring at the mirror blankly and thinking, Victoria walked towards Ke Lan. She held the gun in both hands, and the muzzle of the gun was aimed at Ke Lan for a while, and then pointed at the ground again, constantly moving between the two. As she swayed, the corners of her eyes kept twitching slightly, and her eyes were full of surprise... After brewing for a long time, she squeezed out half a sentence: "You...what did you do?"

"I don't know." Ke Lan shook his head and said.

"Did you just...recite that prayer?"

"Yes... but I don't know why, I didn't turn into a black skeleton..." Ke Lan said, taking off the protective armor on his body, then taking off his jacket and the shirt underneath, lowered his head, and carefully He checked his body.

There was nothing abnormal. Apart from some bruises and abrasions, he didn't even have a single serious injury on his body, and he didn't feel any discomfort.

Seeing that there was no change in Ke Lan's body, the suspicion in Victoria's eyes gradually faded away.

"Maybe... this thing disintegrated on its own and has nothing to do with you..." Victoria thought for a while and finally came to this conclusion.

"The genetic sequence of this man-made monster is very unstable, and there is a risk of collapse at any time... I have seen similar experiments in the research institute. Like this, the experimental body was fine one second, but the next It’s not uncommon for it to burst into pieces within seconds.”

"Disintegrate on its own..." Ke Lan did not refute Victoria's guess, because even he himself was completely unable to explain what just happened... That line of sight, that consciousness... Looking back now, it seems like it was just an illusion in his mind. , only some fleeting and vague fragments remain in the memory.

"It's a pity that the wreckage has evaporated...otherwise, we could have sent the samples to the research institute for analysis." Victoria looked at the two "Bloodhound" mechas that were destroyed by the monsters. The corrosive liquid completely disappeared at this moment, leaving no trace of residue.

"By the way." Victoria suddenly turned her head and stared at Ke Lan, "Why can you repeat those prayers?"

"Huh?" Faced with Victoria's sudden questioning, Ke Lan was speechless for a moment... If he hadn't thought that both of them were dead just now, he wouldn't have made such a choice. But now, the crisis has been lifted, and this matter But there was no way to get away with it...

"Moreover, let's not talk about why I didn't hear the specific content of the prayer in that voice... You were standing less than ten meters away from me just now. Why was it that when you were reciting that prayer, I Didn't hear anything? What was the content you just recited...and what language was it used?"

"...The content is about praying to the great gods for gifts. Any believer of this kind of heretical sect can talk about a lot of these 'doctrines' casually. As for the language, I use my native Chinese, why do you If you can't hear it at such a close distance, then I don't know...but I can assure you that when I recited this prayer, I used a normal volume," Ke Lan said.

"Since it is something that every believer can master, then why is it that only the man in black robe turned into a black skeleton after reciting it? But other believers do not have this ability?" Victoria asked in hot pursuit.

"Then how do I know? Besides, nothing happened when I recited it?... In my opinion, this may be just a symbolic ritual. The body of the man in black robe must have undergone some kind of transformation. Or there is something in his body that turned him into a black skeleton... just like a container for the seed of erosion." Ke Lan said, quickly walked up to Victoria and pointed at the gun in her hand -

"If you think there's something wrong with me, you can kill me here... Of course, if you don't plan to shoot me, I think we have to hurry up." Ke Lan continued, "Just now Yui Arasaka said it herself 'The great ceremony has been completed'... Although I don't know what this great ceremony refers to, I don't think it is anything good."

"You're right, maybe killing you directly is the best choice." Victoria raised her gun and pointed it at Ke Lan's head... But after two seconds, she lowered her arm again, "You answer Go to the blockade, take the intelligence here out, and let the troops outside take action quickly... I alone will be enough for the next task."

"I refuse." Of course Ke Lan would not tell Victoria that the reason he chose to enter the East Nine District was because he heard a call from the depths of his mind, but no matter what, he had to find a convincing reason, " They captured my teammate. Although Yui Arasaka said that he has become a consumable in the experiment, I want to see him alive and his corpse... If he also becomes a monster, then I will kill him with my own hands. relief."