Alien Relic Hunter

"Is it possible...that thing has left your body without you noticing?" Ivan said suddenly.

"No... I can feel its existence, it..." Ke Lan originally wanted to say that it was hiding somewhere in his body, but felt that this statement seemed inaccurate, "It seems to be everywhere, It's strange...it seems to have established a wonderful connection with me. I can sense this connection, but I can't pinpoint it..."

As Ke Lan spoke, he suddenly fell into silence. After a long time, he slowly uttered a sentence: "It seems to have dissolved into my body."

"This possibility cannot be ruled out." Ivan frowned and said, "There are many kinds of crystalline substances that can be dissolved in blood... No one can determine its properties before analyzing that thing. And Manstein is He swallowed the crystal after wrapping it with a protective substance, so it makes perfect sense that the crystal failed to dissolve in his body."

He unscrewed the flask, raised his head and took a big sip, and then said: "As for the contents of the Iron Maiden, you said that the black viscous liquid looks like petroleum, so assume it is some kind of oily substance. Well, many crystals that are soluble in water are insoluble in oil, the most famous of which is sodium chloride crystals. But this is just a guess... Well, it would be great if there were some samples left."

"Ke Lan, are there any abnormalities in your body?" Natasha, who had been listening to the conversation between the two, suddenly said, "Logically speaking, when the dose of a certain compound dissolved in the blood reaches a certain level, The human body will react accordingly when it occurs, have you noticed these changes?"

"The physical changes... to be honest, I didn't notice them."

"However, after that crystal entered my body, I unexpectedly gained an ability, a very strange ability."

After much thought, Ke Lan decided to tell them the matter.

"Besides, there is one thing I have not told you..."

Before this, the reason why Ke Lan had been hiding it was that he was afraid of being regarded as an alien by others, and he was worried that his teammates would suffer unreasonable disasters because of these secrets... But now it seems that continuing to hide it will only lead to greater consequences. misunderstandings and troubles.

These teammates are all people worth trusting with their lives, and I have no reason not to believe in them.

…

Three hours later, Ke Lan, Ivan and Natasha returned to the safe house. As soon as the three entered the door, they immediately summoned everyone over.

"All the monitoring equipment in the safe house has been dismantled. I was worried and asked Layton to check it four or five times. Even the toilet drains were not missed." Hound said solemnly, "Ke Lan, you said... you There is something that has been hidden from us, what is it.”

"Old dog, let me ask you something first. If I might be a monster, what would you think of me?" Ke Lan said in a deep voice.

"Are you sure you're not kidding?" The hound frowned and stared intently.

"No." Ke Lan slowly shook his head.

The two looked at each other for more than ten seconds, but the hound suddenly laughed: "Haha... Even if you are a monster, so what?"

The hound continued: "There are still cells of the Seed of Corrosion lurking in Ivan's body. If the stalagmite fragments on his body are removed, he may lose control at any time and turn into a large group of tentacles. Do you think he is a monster? Layton... Seventy percent of the kid's body parts are made of iron lumps, and the oil in the pipe is more than blood. Do you think he is a monster? And..."

His voice suddenly became a little low: "And Liao Zilang... He crawled out of the wastewater tank alive, and his tough skin couldn't even be penetrated by bullets. Who among us has ever thought of him as a monster?"

He suddenly stretched out a finger and pointed at his head: "Whether it is a human or a monster, it just depends on your own thoughts."

…

"I also thought I was a monster." Akira Asano, who was sitting in the corner, said, and the sword on his knee suddenly made a sharp sound, "But then I figured it out, this is just an ability. "

"Thank you." Ke Lan was silent for a long time before holding back these two words.

"Thank you so much!" Hound couldn't help but said, "Actually, I can roughly guess that your secret is probably related to the Alpha civilization. It's understandable that you choose to hide it... After all, no one will You go out of your way to people you just met."

"Actually, it started from the plane crash." Ke Lan took out a photo. The thing in the photo was the stone tablet found in the coffin.

"Isn't this thing...the broken stone tablet?" Layton said.

"Yes... do you still remember how that stone tablet was broken?" Ke Lan raised his head and looked at everyone and asked.

"I remember." Hound rubbed his chin vigorously, "At that time, I went down with you to move this stone monument, and then when we were wrapping it with an anti-oxidation film, it suddenly broke..."

"At that time, I took off my gloves to facilitate the operation." Ke Lan continued what the hound said, "When my fingers touched the stone tablet, it shattered."

"Yes, you were so scared that you were stunned." Hound nodded repeatedly.

"Then do you know why you were stunned?"

"Why?"

"The moment the stone tablet shattered...all the inscriptions on it poured into my mind!" Ke Lan took a deep breath and continued, "It was at that moment that I suddenly understood the Alpha Civilization language."

Everyone was stunned. Although they had been mentally prepared, the impact of this sentence was too great for them - they were all senior ruin hunters, and no one knew better than them. What does the content mean.

The first person to react from this sluggish state was Hound. He smacked his lips, as if talking to himself or saying to Ke Lan: "No wonder... no wonder I always have a problem after that." A strange feeling - I always feel that you are very radical in your judgment on some things, but things often develop as you expected... Now I understand, since you have mastered the language of Alpha Civilization, then It is natural to be able to read some information that we cannot decipher, so it is not surprising that we can make such a judgment."

"Yes, yes," Layton suddenly interjected, "Especially that time in Leviathan. At that time, Ke Lan, you were so firm that Leviathan was still alive and insisted on letting me send the 'Emergency 000' message... …Fortunately, I did as I was told, otherwise, I would be scared just thinking about it.”

"I judge that Leviathan is still alive because of this." Ke Lan took out another photo. This is the black stone tablet engraved with "The resting place of the giant beast that rules the sky." Ke Lan read the content on the stone tablet. I roughly translated it. Although I couldn't get every character accurately, the general meaning could still be translated into human language, especially the statement that "sleep" is different from "death".

"Alpha language is a very strange language, with a meaning that can only be understood but cannot be expressed. Especially the characters on this black stone tablet, if translated literally, will have more than 300 completely different meanings... ...But I don’t know why, when I saw these characters for the first time, the only correct meaning appeared in my mind." Ke Lan said, "So, I think this is probably the reason why humans have not been able to decipher it so far. One of the main reasons for this language."

"Indeed." Ivan nodded in agreement. "Some people in academic circles once thought that Alpha people used brain waves instead of sounds to communicate. However, with the discovery of a large number of documents left by Alpha civilization, the 'brain wave theory' This is self-defeating - compared with brain waves, words are too backward as an information carrier... For example, just now, the thoughts that flashed through my head in one second, if I change If it were recorded in writing, it would probably have tens of thousands of words, and if it were written in computer language, it would take up even more characters."

"In other words, although Ke Lan has mastered the language of Alpha Civilization, he can't teach us these things like the language teacher in school?" Zhuoligetu raised his thick palm and made a loud sound. asked.

"Personally, I feel that the language of Alpha civilization cannot be learned. It can only be mastered by relying on a method similar to 'inheritance.'" Ke Lan said, "Moreover, this language is not spoken with the mouth. from……"

"Ke Lan, remember, you must keep this matter secret, especially not letting people from the Security Bureau and the Institute know... Although your ability is enough to change the course of human history, from my selfish point of view, I I don't want you to die because of this." Hound said, "Also, even if humans really need a living translator, it doesn't have to be you - don't forget, besides you, there is another person with a similar Ability."

"The founder of that heretical sect..."

"Yes, it's that guy. Even if such a scumbag is sent to the autopsy table and sliced ​​into slices, I will only feel happy. What's more, since a second successor can appear, it means that this is not an exception. Sooner or later, it will happen The third and fourth appeared..."

…

After knowing the truth, although Hound and the others showed due surprise, Ke Lan could clearly feel that their attitude towards him had not changed much - except for Ivan.

This guy is looking at me now as if he has discovered some big treasure. If it weren't for the hounds and the others, he might have come up to him and asked him for some body tissue, so he could go back and study it carefully.

"Besides this, there is another ability that I just gained." Ke Lan continued after seeing that everyone had almost digested the matter.

"Is there another ability?" The hound couldn't help but curled his lips, "To be honest, I'm already a little numb. Even if you tell me now that you can spit out a fireball from your mouth, I won't find it so strange. ."

"What about 'time stops'?"

"Huh? What did you say?" The hound stretched out a little finger and vigorously picked out his ear.

Ke Lan did not explain much, but took a deck of cards from the sofa nearby and held it in his hand, then said to Asano Akira: "Asano, there are a total of fifty-four cards in this stack of cards. I will explain it later." Throw it towards the ceiling, and then when the cards are scattered, use your knife to chop up about half of the cards, can you do that?"

"Yes." Asano Akira walked to the table and stood still, reaching out to hold the handle of the knife.

"Prepare--"

Ke Lan nodded, then threw the entire deck of cards into the air.

With a "crack" sound, the war blade was unsheathed, and a burst of sword light immediately enveloped the scattered cards. When the war blade was returned to the sheath, Ke Lan had already turned around. The whole process was less than half Second.

"A total of thirty of the fifty-four cards were cut, and six of them were cut into eight pieces, namely the three of spades, the king of spades, the six of diamonds, the tenth of diamonds, the king of diamonds, and the ace of clubs. There are three pictures in six pieces..."

Ke Lan silently reported the suit, size and number of pieces of each chopped card. However, when Hunting and others picked up the cards from the ground and counted them carefully, they were surprised to find that they were the same cards as Ke Lan. The reports are exactly the same.

It is not difficult to do this. Any biochemically modified person equipped with electronic eyes can do it. All he has to do is take a photo of Asano Akira and use a computer to make statistics at the moment Asano Akira retracts his knife. But The hounds and the others all know that every part on Ke Lan's body is genuine and genuine, and there are no electronic eyes at all.

"So, you just wrote down the suit of each chopped card when time stopped?" The Hound looked at the pile of chopped cards on the table and asked with some difficulty - when others When he focused all his attention on Asano Showa's playing cards, only the hunting dog was staring at Ke Lan, but from the time Ke Lan threw the playing cards until he turned around, he didn't notice anything strange, even when Ke Lan was I don’t know when the “time stop” ability was activated.

"Yes." Ke Lan nodded, "Similar to Asano Akira's swordsmanship, I also need to expend a lot of mental energy to use this ability. In its peak state, it can last for about five seconds at most... Moreover, in time In the stopped state, I myself cannot move."

Just when the skill was activated, Ke Lan tried moving his little finger again, but this time, there was no reaction.

Maybe it was an illusion last time?

"To be honest, I don't know how to organize my language now..." Hound rubbed his forehead helplessly, "You know what this means, right? If this matter spreads..."

As he said that, the hound suddenly hit the table hard, and the fragments of the cards were immediately scattered all over the table.

"No matter what, everyone who heard all this today must strictly keep this secret... Ke Lan told us these things, which means that he trusts us, and we can't live up to this trust... In addition," he turned his gaze again Putting it on Ke Lan, "Ke Lan, you'd better not use this ability at will unless it is necessary... There is an old saying among your Chinese people, which is that 'every man is not guilty, but he who carries the treasure is responsible' , you should have heard of it, right?”

"And there is one thing I must tell you... Never believe Maginot. He is just a puppet, and the person who controls him is not necessarily a good person."