Alien Relic Hunter

"Uh...Okay." Ke Lan suddenly felt that he seemed to have an unusual talent in chatting to death...

In this case, it seems that the only option is to resort to sleep escape.

He pondered for several seconds before forcefully squeezing out a few words from his mouth: "Well... we have a game tomorrow, go to bed early, good night."

"Good night." Zofia replied, she turned around and pulled up the quilt.

This quilt was very big, and it was more than enough for two people under it, but Ke Lan still didn't have the nerve to get into the quilt. He covered himself with the jacket he took off, put his hands around his chest, and closed his eyes.

"Fortunately, at least the pillow is divided into two, not a long pillow that is as wide as the bed." He thought happily.

When the embarrassment gradually receded, fatigue and sleepiness quickly came back. Although it was an excuse, he didn't lie. In today's battle with the ace of the Angres Club, he had launched it at least nearly a hundred times. Although the ability to "stop time" only lasts for a short moment each time, together, it still puts a huge burden on Ke Lan's spirit.

The nerves that were still in a tense state gradually relaxed. Not long after, Ke Lan felt that his consciousness sank into a seemingly boundless chaos...

At this moment, shrill screams and wails exploded in the chaos without warning, as if a huge stone was suddenly thrown on the calm and dark lake. These sounds were like ripples on the water, interacting with each other. Collision and interference intertwined into a creepy and terrifying movement!

These screams and wails... Ke Lan is not unfamiliar. He can hear these sounds every time he activates time stop. He has long been immune to them... However, he is in a dream. , seems to have lost this immune ability.

These sounds penetrated his body like a pervasive tide, copied themselves like infinitely proliferating cancer cells, and then spread. They overlapped many times, and the distorted voices were like the roar of a banshee, left and right in Ke Lan's mind. Rushing to the right, as if to tear a hole in his head...

This feeling was simply unbearable for him. For a moment, he almost blurred the line between dreams and reality.

Ke Lan wanted to wake up... but found that his body was tightly bound and could not move at all. This feeling was like the legendary ghost pressing the bed——

He subconsciously looked around and saw countless corpses crawling out of the chaos at some unknown time. Among these corpses were the dead who had not yet completely decomposed and still roughly maintained their appearance in life, and some who had only the remains of The skeletons with forest-white bones were both male and female, old and young... trailing a long trail of blood behind them, they crawled towards Ke Lan step by step.

"These corpses...are the victims of the East Ninth District Incident!" Among these corpses, Ke Lan even saw the "container" that was killed by the Security Bureau agents at the beginning of the operation:

Half of the furisode she wore was already on the ground, stained deep black by the dirty blood, and her entire body was covered with sarcomas of all sizes, like potatoes. Many of these sarcomas had already It was chapped, and smelly pus mixed with tissue fragments that had not yet completely melted continued to drip from the inside to her feet.

"Why do these things appear in my dreams... Is it because of overdrafting my ability?" Ke Lan was very confused, "But the problem is, I have overdrafted several times before, but never like this. ah."

At this time, the corpses at the front had crawled in front of Ke Lan. They stretched out their hands and grabbed Ke Lan's ankles - Ke Lan did not retreat, resist or struggle. He knew that this was just a dream, and these Things can't really hurt you... What's more, what he wants to understand most now is the reason why these dead people appear in his dreams - instead of choosing to escape, it is better to remain unchanged in response to changes.

But just when the first corpse was about to catch Ke Lan, a faint whimpering sound suddenly sounded around. When the corpses heard this whimpering sound, they all stopped moving. Then, like wax statues that came into contact with red-hot iron, they quickly melted into the chaos.

"what happened?"

Ke Lan was suddenly shocked, but just like that, he found that he had regained control of his body... The chaos in his field of vision was quickly becoming blurry, and vaguely, the whimpering sounds seemed to have turned into a faint sound. Wu's call... A certain coordinate was imprinted in the depths of Ke Lan's memory.

Ke Lan suddenly opened his eyes. He sat up from the bed and glanced at Zofia next to him. Her breathing was even and gentle, and she was obviously in a deep sleep.

"This dream... always feels so strange..." Ke Lan vaguely remembered that the calling voice seemed to tell him the coordinates, but when he tried to recall it, he couldn't remember anything.

As for that voice, although it is somewhat similar to the cry for help that Ke Lan heard in East Nine District, if you compare it carefully, you will find that there seems to be a huge difference between the two - in the dream just now, Ke Lan The voice he heard was sharper, like the voice of a newborn baby.

Strange to say, in such a sharp voice, I could still hear a hint of "calling". Maybe there was something wrong with my auditory center...

Ke Lan looked at the timer embedded in the wall and saw that it was only 1:30 in the morning. Ke Lan thought about it and simply lay down again - if he slept until dawn, then just pretend that nothing happened. ; If this strange dream appears again, then he can take this opportunity to find out.

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However, when Ke Lan woke up the next day, not to mention whether the second dream had appeared or not, even the memory of the dream had become extremely vague... The only thing he still remembered was that... A voice as sharp as a baby girl's.

Ke Lan remembered that the sounds he heard in the East Ninth District, whether they were sobbing or cries for help, should have come from the "Iron Maiden"... The things inside had long been accompanied by As a result, the entire East Nine District was bombarded into powder... Even if it was really a creature of the prehistoric species, it should have been extremely dead.

Moreover, Ke Lan also clearly remembered that at the moment when the East 9th District module was destroyed by the Ark's main gun, his body also had a corresponding "reaction", which seemed to prove the connection between himself and that thing. It has been cut off. As for the black liquid that seeped into his palm, even if it still stays in his body, it should be considered an independent existence.

In addition to giving himself the cheating ability of "stopping time," this thing did not seem to cause any damage to the body. After that, Ke Lan commissioned Ivan to conduct several comprehensive physical examinations on himself, and the results proved that , his body is very healthy and no abnormality has been detected at all.

"There's nothing out of the ordinary...wrong."

Ke Lan raised his right hand. The newly grown little finger and ring finger were almost exactly the same as the original ones. There were no scars or other marks left at the cutting place. If there was any difference, it was probably that the skin was slightly thicker than the original one. The other fingers are fairer and the nails should be slightly shorter and thinner.

If an all-purpose medical cabin is used to regenerate amputated limbs, nails will not grow on the new limbs, and nail replantation must be performed separately. In terms of recovery rate alone, the medical cabin is completely inferior to Ke Lan's own regeneration ability.

"But why wasn't it found during the physical examination?"

When Ivan was checking Ke Lan before, not to mention regular urine and blood samples, even hair, skin, muscles... and even bone samples were collected, but those samples left his body. Apart from that, it seems to have lost this strange regenerative ability and has become the same as the tissues of normal people.

After returning from the tiankeng, Ke Lan discussed the issue of regeneration ability with Ivan several times, but they could not come to any accurate conclusion. According to Ivan, unless Ke Lan chopped off his head, Try to see if you can grow a new head, otherwise, the research process will become extremely slow...

Of course, there is another option, which is to "surrender" to the institute... In that case, Ke Lan would rather choose to cut off his head directly, which is better than being tied to the operating table and suffering all kinds of inhumane things. The torture is going to come with pleasure.

"At least I still maintain my human appearance and haven't turned into some weird creature..." Ke Lan comforted herself and sat up from the bed.

Zofia woke up earlier than Ke Lan, and there was still a trace of residual warmth on the side of the bed where she had slept... The sound of running water came from one side, and Ke Lan turned around and saw the bathroom. The door is closed, and through the frosted glass on the door, you can vaguely catch a glimpse of the moving curve.

"Taking a shower?" Ke Lan muttered in his heart, but he did not open the door - it would be fine if the other party was wearing clothes or a towel, but if he was not wearing anything, the scene would be embarrassing.

After thinking about it, he put on his clothes and walked out of the room - there was also a bathroom in the living room. Although he couldn't take a shower, it was still okay to brush his teeth and wash his face.

As soon as he opened the door and went out, he saw Hound and Chi Hanfeng sitting opposite each other at the dining table, eating breakfast and studying information about their opponents.

"You two, you got up very early." Ke Lan said hello to the two of them while putting on his coat.

"As a middle-aged person, isn't it normal for a shorter sleep time than a young person? But it's you, Ke Lan. I didn't expect you to get up so early today." Hound said, using a weird He looked at Ke Lan with his eyes, obviously there was something behind his words.

"What's wrong? Is there a problem?"

"No, no problem... As a man, of course you should put your career first instead of indulging in a gentle country. You have done a good job in this..." Hound suddenly said seriously, but this expression could not be maintained for even a second. He stopped, and in a blink of an eye, he turned into the wretched appearance he had when Ke Lan first saw him. He lowered his voice and asked, "Speaking of which... the taste of the young lady is pretty good, right?"

Not only him, but also Chi Hanfeng, who had always been serious, showed a charming smile to Ke Lan, like "aunt's smile".

"???" Ke Lan's eyes widened, and for a moment he didn't know how to answer this question.

"Last night, everyone watched you and the eldest lady enter the same room..." Hound lowered his voice, "Don't tell me that you didn't do anything except sleep, right?" "

"Just sleep, otherwise what else do you want from me?"

"Oh... you are embarrassed to say it, I understand, just sleep. Anyway, sleeping has many meanings, right?"

"What's right? To your size!" The hound had already said this. Ke Lan naturally understood what the old woman was criticizing and explained word by word, "Let me tell you this. , those things in your head didn’t happen at all.”

"No way? Are you still a virgin now?" Hound stood up, walked over, put his arm around Ke Lan's shoulders, and said in his ear, "A beauty like the eldest lady...how can you bear it?" Where to live? You...you don't really have any health problems, right?"

The hound glanced at the bedroom door and continued: "If you are sick, you need to be treated... Don't worry, I will definitely keep this matter a secret for you, and I will never let the eldest lady know that you have this obstacle... I Let me tell you, even if she doesn’t show it clearly now, when she reaches the age of thirty, when she reaches that wolf-like age, if you can’t be satisfied..."

Before Hound finished speaking, Ke Lan covered his mouth. He wanted to explain to Hound that there was nothing wrong with his body, but the more he argued, the more it seemed that there was no silver in this place... He then thought about it, Simply changed the topic.

"Last night, I had a dream."

"What dream? An erotic dream?"

"No... it's a nightmare. I dreamed about the victims who died in the East Ninth District Incident." Ke Lan said solemnly.

"...Are you too mentally stressed?" The hound's expression finally showed a change, "Is there anything special about that dream?"

For ruin hunters, having nightmares is actually a normal thing, especially after completing some dangerous tasks... Even the most arrogant guy will inevitably dream of the terrifying things encountered in the ruins. This is originally It was a normal thing, but the hound still smelled something amiss from Ke Lan's words.

"In my dream, a voice told me the geographical coordinates...but after I woke up, I couldn't remember it."

"The geographical coordinates...are they somewhere on Planet Alpha?"

"I don't know... I could only remember that such an incident happened after I woke up, but not even a vague impression of all the contents and details was left in my memory."

[P.S. Thanks to Lost Xihuang for the 5,000 starting coins, and thanks to Z_Quiet for the 500 starting coins. 】