Alien Relic Hunter

Before Ke Lan and the others could react, it had already disappeared into the shaft.

"Who was kidnapped?" The hound turned his head and asked.

"It's Cao Feng." Zhuo Ligetu had already unzipped the two body bags he had snatched back, and pulled out Ivan and Akira Asano, who were still in a coma.

"Then...are we going to chase?" Leiton glanced at Hound and Ke Lan hesitantly. The meaning behind his words couldn't be more obvious: after all, Cao Feng and Martin are not our own people. For their sake, he risked his life. There are really some...

"Even if we don't catch up," the hound said solemnly, "that thing will definitely be found again... If we don't kill this monster, we won't be able to live in peace in the future."

"From the brief confrontation just now, at least we got a very useful piece of information," Ke Lan said, "The monster's defense shouldn't be too strong, otherwise, it can take bullets without any need to use them. Martin's body shielded him from the gun."

"Hmph, that's the best." The hound snorted coldly, "A monster that can be killed by a gun is a good monster."

"By the way, old dog, can you smell that guy's scent?" Ke Lan raised his head, glanced at the dark shaft mouth above, and asked.

"...It's strange to say," the hound frowned and rubbed his nose vigorously, "Ever since I woke up, my nose seems to have malfunctioned. Everything I smell smells dull... It's like, It's like someone blocked my nose with two pieces of cotton filter."

Ke Lan gave the hound a strange look, then walked forward, dipped some of Martin's blood on the ground with his index finger, approached the hound, and asked, "What about the smell of blood? Can you smell it?"

"Is it possible..." the hound nodded, "but...I can't find the direction. I can ask about this smell, but you want me to follow this smell to track down the monster. I can't. ."

"Is it possible that your sense of smell has been disturbed? Just like that circular ice road that looks straight?" Layton interjected from the side.

"It's possible... Damn it, why is this place so evil, why can't I even trust my own eyes and nose..." Hound complained.

"Sensory interference...vision, smell..." Ke Lan was thinking. He always felt that there was something wrong that he had not considered, but for a while he couldn't think of what details he had missed.

At this moment, Ke Lan suddenly felt someone tugging on his sleeve. He turned around and saw Qin Zhao lowering her head, her body shaking constantly. Her breathing was rapid, and her chest was shaking rapidly. Ups and downs.

"What's wrong?" Ke Lan was a little surprised. Although the monster just now did have a strong impact on a rookie hunter with little experience, judging from the quality Qin Zhao showed along the way, her Her courage shouldn't be so overwhelming... Could it be that the calmness she had before was just an act of force, and that weird monster just became the straw that broke the camel's back?

"It...that thing...I...I have...seen...seen that...monster before..." Qin Zhao clenched his fists and squeezed out these words intermittently from between his teeth.

"What did you say?!" The hound was suddenly startled and walked over quickly, "You said you have seen it?! That thing? Where is it? Which ruins?"

"...not in the ruins...but...in a dream." Qin Zhao replied.

"In the dream?!" The hound was stunned for a moment, "Wait a minute, didn't you say you couldn't remember the things in the dream? Did you suddenly remember it after seeing this monster?"

"No, no, no..." Qin Zhao shook his head repeatedly, "I mean the dream I had before, probably when I was only eleven or twelve years old... Out of curiosity, I watched a few movies that my friends downloaded from the Internet. Horror movie... Then I had a nightmare... That thing was exactly the same as the monster I encountered in my nightmare..."

"The monster in the nightmare you had when you were a child has appeared in the real world..." Ke Lan pondered, "Is it possible that you remembered it wrong, or that your memory is too vague and biased?"

"No, because the impression is too deep, I remember it very clearly...especially those eyes, I have dreamed about them more than once..."

Ke Lan and Hound looked at each other. The corners of the latter's eyes twitched involuntarily, and he said slowly: "No way..."

"Do you think the monsters in the ruins will suddenly appear in the dream of an eleven or twelve-year-old child who has never been exposed to anything related to Alpha civilization?" Ke Lan asked rhetorically.

"But, but this is also..." Hound wanted to retort, but found that he could not find a reason at all.

"I already felt something was wrong when we were in the ice tunnel." Ke Lan said, suddenly reaching out to block the hound's eyes, taking out a piece of compressed biscuit from his pocket, biting open the wrapping paper with his teeth, and put it on the Under the hound's nose, "Old dog, can you smell what I'm holding in my hand?"

"I..." The hound paused, and then said with some difficulty, "I can't smell it, I can't smell anything."

"You can smell blood because you know it is blood. There is a memory of the smell of blood in your brain. You know what the smell of blood should be like...so you can 'smell' it, but for you, you can't You know something, but your senses are completely disabled. What does this mean? I don’t need to say more, right?"

Ke Lan continued: "Also, some things in this ruins are actually both strange and familiar to us... Whether it is stone chambers, stone platforms or ice tunnels, we have actually seen them before, as well as those red ones. Meatworms, because we are afraid of them, they also appear..."

"But the details of this scene..."

"This is a world sewn together. All the details come from the memories of the nine of us...but it is well disguised. For each of us, there are too many completely unfamiliar things here. , so we think this is a real world, but if the thinking consciousness of the nine of us is merged together, we will find that everything here is pieced together from the fragments of our memories... Ice Road It comes from glacier ruins, the crimson flesh worm comes from Leviathan, and that monster comes from Qin Zhao’s nightmare when he was a child." Ke Lan said seriously, "And the reason why that monster takes hostages is because we 'I just thought' it would be a hijacking."

"Then let's..."

"We are still in a dream, a dream within a dream, like a Russian matryoshka doll." Ke Lan pursed his lips hard and said, "In fact, we have not woken up at all."