Alien Relic Hunter

"Hey, Luo Wei, can you hear my voice?" Ke Lan shouted softly in the ear of patient No. 0302. He gently tapped the patient's back with his palm, trying to ease his mood.

"Luo Wei, tell me, what did you see?" Ke Lan continued to ask, but at this time, Patient No. 0302 suddenly stopped twitching, and then began to gasp rapidly——

"Damn it, he'll suffocate if he keeps doing this!" Ke Lan raised his head and wanted to find the oxygen valve that is usually found on hospital beds. However, there was not even a bed in this iron cage-like ward, let alone that. This is a conventional security facility.

"Oxygen! Get the oxygen!" Ke Lan turned his head and shouted to the dean.

"Oh...oh, okay!" The dean was stunned for a moment, and quickly responded - if the patient died in their hospital, although the matter would not be a big deal, as the dean, he would definitely have a lot of trouble. Trouble to be dealt with.

The oxygen cylinder installed on the trolley was quickly pushed over. Ke Lan grabbed the breathing mask and buckled it directly on the face of patient No. 0302.

Patient No. 0302's breathing finally slowed down. At the same time, his head began to shake from side to side unconsciously, and some fragmented words began to come out of his mouth...

"Is this... is he experiencing delirium?" The dean looked at Patient No. 0302 curiously, "He seems to be talking about something..."

"Shut up." Ke Lan shouted. He turned his head and put his hands behind his ears, carefully discerning the meaning of these words.

"I...I won't die here..."

"Run...everyone, run..."

"Another one died..."

"As long as you get to...the stone bridge...you can go out..."

"Shiqiao?" Ke Lan's heart moved slightly. This might be a keyword. He immediately turned on his phone and found the detailed information about Patient No. 0302 that ACMS_0420 had sent to him.

"Stone bridge...where can there be a stone bridge, or in other words, a ruins of a stone bridge?"

Moreover, judging from the content of his words, this stone bridge should be located at the exit or entrance of the ruins.

Ke Lan's eyes swept down the long list of mission records, and soon he locked on one of them.

This is an exploration record from 26 months ago. The number of the ruins explored is A-065 "Black Temple".

Although Ke Lan has not explored this ruins, he once considered this ruins as one of his alternative targets, so he has studied the information about this ruins.

He remembered that the A-065 ruins "Black Temple" was located deep in a volcanic basin. The basin was surrounded by cliffs thousands of meters high, with flowing magma at the bottom. The main body of the temple was built from a On top of giant volcanic rocks rising from magma.

There are only two ways to enter the temple: one is to jump from the air directly above the temple, and the other is to cross a stone bridge that extends all the way out of the basin.

Could it be that the "stone bridge" mentioned by patient No. 0302 refers to this one?

Ke Lan clicked on the detailed information of this exploration record. At first glance, he saw the casualty statistics at the top of the text report: A total of 49 hunters from three hunting groups participated in this exploration operation, but the death toll was as high as 41 In addition, there are 6 missing people, 1 person was seriously injured and died half a month later due to excessive injuries and ineffective treatment - generally speaking, the hunters who are "missing" in the ruins are basically the default Because he died...that is to say, Patient No. 0302, Luo Wei, was the only survivor of this exploration operation.

In the circle of ruin hunters, there are not many exploration missions like this in which only one person survives. In most cases, the whole army is annihilated.

As a colleague, Ke Lan knows very well that this kind of thing will definitely leave an indelible shadow in the heart of the person involved - the vast majority of hunters will choose to wash their hands and quit the industry after encountering this kind of thing. . Only a small number of people with very good psychological quality will be able to get rid of the impact of this nightmare experience and continue to work as ruin hunters.

This Luo Wei should belong to the latter. In the 26 months after exploring the "Black Temple" No. A-065, he participated in 7 more ruins exploration operations, including the last mission to explore the bottomless sinkhole. Including, there are a total of five B-level ruins, one A-level and one S-level.

In these seven exploration operations, he made no mistakes or mistakes, and the evaluation scores given to him by the team were also at the forefront of everyone - judging from the paper data alone, he can definitely be regarded as an experienced, cautious, and An excellent hunter worthy of the trust of his teammates.

The tragedy that occurred at the "Black Temple" at Ruin A-065 did not have any negative impact on him. In other words, he relied on his strong will to completely suppress the negative impact of these frightening memories.

But for such a determined person, after spending these twenty-six months peacefully, why did he go crazy just after going to the bottomless sinkhole?

Is there any connection between the S-018 ruins "Bottomless Sink" and the A-065 ruins "Black Temple"?

No, no... there should be no connection between the two. After all, he is the only person who came back from the Black Temple alive, while there are dozens of crazy ruin hunters, each of whom has endless Not everyone has the same experience. Not everyone has been to the Black Temple... The past of Patient No. 0302 is just an example and cannot explain anything.

But there is no doubt that the experience of the Black Temple planted a seed called "fear" in his heart. In the previous twenty-six months, this seed had been buried deep in Patient No. 0302. Deep in my heart... Until not long ago, for some unknown reason, this seed suddenly began to sprout and grow... It was no longer a seed, but grew into a lingering nightmare.

The consciousness of Patient No. 0302 has been trapped in this nightmare. He could not escape from it and could only repeat the tragic scene of that day over and over again.

Perhaps the reason why he became so aggressive was that he thought the approaching medical staff and Ke Lan were the monsters he met in the black temple... From his perspective, he is not in the hospital ward now Inside, but within that despairing ruins.

However, there is another question... Why did Patient 0302 react so obviously to Alpha Language? Logically speaking, ordinary humans who have not received "inheritance" should not be able to hear the Alpha language. Even the high-level believers of the heretical sects have only been given temporary permission to use the "Holy Word". They want to To "read" those sentences, what they need to pay is their own vitality. What they master is only a method of use, not the language itself.

Could it be said that Alpha language was the catalyst that caused the "seed" to germinate?