Alien Relic Hunter

"Whether it's a coffin or an operating table, you'll know if you go up and take a look... If I hadn't been unable to move now, I would have been the first to rush up." Leighton said a little weakly, losing the main power furnace, plus The body part of the upper body was seriously injured. Apart from being still conscious, there was not much difference from Zhuo Ligetu who had been in a deep coma.

"Ivan, let's go up and have a look." Ke Lan said, "If you say you don't feel itchy right now, you must be lying. I'm also curious about what's inside."

"Yes." Ivan took out two pairs of gloves from his pocket and threw one pair to Ke Lan.

"Don't be careless. On Earth, the emperors of the old era especially liked to set traps in their coffins, just to kill the tomb robbers who were blinded by greed at the last moment." Hound said.

"Don't worry, we are not the kind of rookies who have just entered the industry." Ke Lan said, taking out a folded metal rod from his backpack, and then glued a mirror to the end of the metal rod with all-purpose glue - this task should have been It is completed by a drone equipped with a high-definition camera, but when most of the equipment is lost, this simplified version can only be used as a substitute.

Ke Lan and Ivan climbed up to the high platform with the help of suction cups. Compared with the previous long-distance perspective, the sarcophagus in front of them completely showed the heavy texture - this sarcophagus is five meters long and more than three meters long. It is wide and nearly 1.5 meters tall. The material used is similar to the rocks in the cave, but the surface has a special layer of luster. It should be that some metal elements were incorporated during the production.

There are no words or patterns carved on the outside of the sarcophagus, but there are a row of evenly spaced round holes. It is completely unknown whether these round holes are used for drainage, ventilation, or slots for some additional components. .

The sarcophagus had no lid, but Ke Lan and Ivan did not stand directly on the edge of the sarcophagus to look inside. Instead, they stuck out the metal rod with the mirror attached to it and used the image reflected on the mirror to observe the inside of the sarcophagus.

"Hiss..." Ke Lan couldn't help but take a breath when he saw the image on the mirror - inside the sarcophagus was a pool of viscous plasma, and there were many broken organ fragments soaked in the plasma. From time to time, there would be A few bubbles popped up from the bottom and popped.

"It's normal. After all, that monster crawled out from here. No matter what it looks like in the sarcophagus, I am mentally prepared." As a doctor, Ivan did not have any extreme reaction to such a scene, "Yes Ask a few more people to come up to help, collect some samples first, and then clean out these dirty things."

Fortunately, everyone carried a mini suction pump among the equipment. Although the tube was blocked countless times by caked blood scabs and minced meat, after half an hour of hard work, the dirty blood in the sarcophagus was finally pumped out. All cleaned up.

"This thing... seems to be a stone tablet?"

Since there are no remains of Alpha aliens in the sarcophagus, there are no priceless burial objects. There is only a one-meter-square stone tablet, which is densely covered with the words of Alpha civilization.

"It's Alpha... This... must have thousands of characters!" Hound exclaimed. Although relics involving documents are of little use to hunters like them, the official purchase price offered by Ark is very high. It is high, and it is also very helpful for the hunter's qualification level evaluation. The higher the qualification level, the more missions you can choose, and the higher the guaranteed reward you can get for each mission.

"Ke Lan, the two of us are going to lift this stone tablet out. Ivan and Asano Akira will catch it on top... Everyone must be careful. The price difference between a complete thing and a damaged one is at least five to six times... ..." The hound said and asked Ke Lan to climb into the coffin together.

Hunters have a complete process for handling documentary relics. They first take pictures, then use a resin film to make a rubbing, and finally wrap it with an anti-oxidation film and transfer it out.

The process of taking pictures and rubbing went smoothly, but when the anti-oxidation film was being applied, an accident suddenly happened——

Since the anti-oxidation film was very thin and could not leave any gap between it and the stone tablet, Ke Lan had to take off the gloves. However, when his fingertips just touched the stone tablet, the entire stone tablet was completely invisible. Broken without warning!

"ah?!"

Ke Lan's eyes widened in an instant, and he froze in place. His lips began to tremble slightly, and his whole body twitched as if he was electrocuted!

"It actually broke... What a pity. It seems that the stone itself has weathered... Huh? Ke Lan, are you okay? I don't blame you for this, really."

The hound thought that Ke Lan was confused because the stone tablet suddenly broke, but in fact, at that moment, a large amount of information from unknown sources poured into his head like a torrent - he was not shocked because of the stone tablet, but because of the stone tablet. I was stunned by this sudden information!

This... what is this? !

His head was swollen and painful, and countless strange pictures flashed before his eyes like slides. A kind of knowledge that he had never been exposed to before was forcibly instilled into his mind. This method was just like what was described in martial arts novels from the old era. Just like the "Initiation", Ke Lan's self-defense was easily destroyed by this uninvited guest, and in the blink of an eye, there was a stormy sea in the sea of ​​consciousness!

"What's wrong? Is it a side effect of the previous medicine?" Hound immediately ran to Ke Lan's side and held his shoulders as soon as he realized something was wrong.

"It's not like a side effect of medicine." Ivan shook his head. "This symptom is a bit like a tumor compressing the nerves in the head..."

"Don't be ridiculous. A person with a brain tumor can't even pass the physical examination. How can he pass the hunter registration?" Hound retorted, but when he saw saliva starting to drip from the corner of Ke Lan's mouth, his expression became suspicious. stand up.

This guy...could he have some hidden nervous system disease, which is usually invisible, but he received too much stimulation today and suddenly broke out, right?

Just when the hound and Ivan didn't know what to do with Ke Lan, the storm in Ke Lan's mind finally stopped. However, what made him unbelievable was that the piece that had just been implanted in his mind turned out to be What’s on the stone tablet!

He actually has the ability to read the alpha civilization's text! !

But despite this, he can only read, but it is difficult to translate it in human language - the language of Alpha civilization is really weird, whether from the perspective of natural language or programming language, it is There is no similarity at all. It is completely inconsistent with the logic that an information carrier should have. It is simply impossible to understand it using the human way of thinking. It has no concept of vocabulary and sentences, and the combination of characters is also impossible. There are no rules at all. The same character appears in different places and has completely different meanings. Rather than comparing it to a password or a code word, Ke Lan feels that it is a kind of transmission on a conscious level.

He can only understand what these characters want to convey through his own ability, but he cannot teach the method of reading these characters to another person by any means - for example, these characters are on this stone tablet. This means that if they change places, even if factors such as the size, number, and arrangement of the characters remain completely unchanged, the meanings they represent will also change.

If a human wants to learn the language of Alpha Civilization, I am afraid that the only way is to receive an "initiation" type of information shock like what Ke Lan just experienced...

Ke Lan suddenly thought of a very old proverb, "It can only be understood, not expressed." These eight words are so appropriate to describe the language of Alpha Civilization.

The text engraved on the stone tablet is actually a long and strange prayer. The main idea is that the Alpha civilization believes in a certain god, and that god has many powerful and even terrifying enemies. The relationship between the gods of the Alpha civilization and these enemies The war has been going on for countless thousands of years. These devout believers want to help their gods, but with their abilities, they are simply unable to intervene in that level of war. Therefore, the Alpha civilization can only find another way and use... (Next It is a large piece of content that Ke Lan can read but cannot understand. It probably involves the secret technology of Alpha civilization)... an attempt to create warriors powerful enough to intervene in the war between gods.

In addition, the words "dedication" and "sacrifice" appear many times throughout the prayer, but the content is too fragmented and the context in many places cannot be connected at all. Ke Lan can read this part of the content , less than one-tenth of the entire prayer.

Create a powerful warrior? Ke Lan couldn't help but think of the resurrected pilot...and the pieces of meat sealed in ice in the hallucination...

But... what is the god that Alpha Civilization believes in? Is it a higher-level cosmic civilization? And who are the so-called “enemies of the gods”? The amount of information contained in this prayer was so huge that Ke Lan felt that his brain was running out of energy.

"Hey! Ke Lan! Don't scare people! Hey! Your saliva is about to drip onto the coffin board!" The hound slapped Ke Lan on the back, finally interrupting his thoughts. , Ke Lan staggered when he woke up and almost fell to his knees in the sarcophagus.

"Huh...huh..." Ke Lan panted heavily. His underwear was completely soaked with sweat. His body was almost exhausted, but his heartbeat remained at a frequency of more than 200 beats per minute. For humans who have undergone biochemical modification, this data is already very close to the limit.

"Are you okay? Do you want another shot of sedative?" Ivan looked at Ke Lan's pale face and asked.

"I...I'm fine. If you...give me...another injection...I might be...something..." Ke Lan waved his hand and said.

After a short period of thinking, he decided to keep the matter a secret - he knew that if the news that he could read Alpha civilization's text was leaked, the best outcome for him would be to be sent to the dissecting table for study, and His brain is a living CPU that will be processed into a super translation computer...

Whether in the old era or the new era, individual human rights and lives have always been insignificant when it comes to the future of all mankind.

The so-called trolley problem actually has an optimal solution.