Alien Relic Hunter

The bullets in the magazine were emptied almost instantly. Ke Lan didn't bother to change the magazine. He directly held the under-mounted shotgun installed under the barrel and fired an 18.4 mm caliber No. 00 Deer bullets (note 1) are loaded into the gun chamber. The moment the bolt is pulled and loaded, the trigger is pulled and the firing is completed.

"Bang!!"

Eight steel balls with a caliber of 0.33 inches instantly penetrated the depths of the throat. The face whose mouth was blocked by the gun barrel let out an inhuman scream, and black blood continued to shoot out from all the orifices. come out.

"The last shot was for Alyosha and the many agents who died in the East Ninth District Incident."

"Bang!!"

"This shot was fired for Major Ashkarni and the sacrificed garrison soldiers."

"Bang!!"

"This shot was for Ms. Victoria."

After three shots, the face was completely shattered. The fragmented flesh blocked the barrel of the shotgun. Black, sticky juice flowed along the lines of the receiver, and then dripped on the ground.

Ke Lan threw away the assault rifle, pulled out a large-caliber hunting pistol, and inserted it fiercely into the eye socket of the other face. The eyeball exploded, and the debris and pus and blood were on Ke Lan's side. A black stain was left on his face.

"The seven bullets in this magazine are used to mourn Liao Zilang and Marshall."

"Boom, boom, boom, boom!"

Ke Lan pulled the trigger continuously and emptied all the magazines of the pistol.

"Ahhhhh--" That face let out a sharp howl, and next to it, another ferocious and fierce face that originally belonged to a middle-aged and elderly man stretched out desperately towards Ke Lan, Its upper and lower jaws kept opening and closing, as if it wanted to bite out Ke Lan's throat.

"The vitality is so damn tenacious." Ke Lan pulled the pistol out of the eye socket of the previous face, then smashed it hard, and the alloy gun body and sleeve slammed into the face that wanted to In the biting mouth, all its teeth will be broken off!

"You monster, it's time to let the souls of those who died rest in peace." Ke Lan took out a grenade, pulled off the safety ring, stuffed it into the toothless mouth, and then pushed it hard with the barrel of the gun. It pushed deep into the throat.

"boom!!"

A dull explosion sounded from inside the puppet's body. A dozen faces drooped, and black asphalt-like "blood" slowly flowed down from their closed eyes.

But when Ke Lan turned his attention to the other side of the puppet, he realized that Ze Luo was far more "ruthless" than him.

Just like the top Japanese chefs are processing fish, the invisible blade continuously slices the body of the puppet into thin and almost transparent slices. Even the splashed black asphalt is covered by a wave of Invisible power was trapped in the air.

"Are you... looking for something?" Ke Lan glanced at Ze Luo, who looked serious, and asked.

"Yes. At the core of the puppet individual, there is another half of the crystal." Ze Luo replied.

"Half a crystal? Wait, are you talking about the thing that integrated into my body? What was absorbed by my body... is actually only half of that thing?"

"Well. That's what I asked you to take away after I separated it. If I had a complete crystal, I would have transformed successfully before being bombarded. At that time, I would completely become that A person's puppet is at his mercy." Ze Luo explained to Ke Lan while continuing to slice the individual puppets into pieces.

"Then the call I heard at that time? Was it also because of...?"

"Well, if you want to separate the crystal, you must find someone who can serve as a carrier. Apart from that person, you are the only one left among all the humans I can sense."

"...So, that guy didn't lie to me. He and I are really 'different' individuals. But...but why is it me? Is it because I absorbed the things sealed in that stone tablet?" ?" Ke Lan scratched his hair in distress, only to find that his hair had been lumped into a ball by the sticky black asphalt. The disgusting feeling was simply difficult to describe in words.

"However, after coming into contact with that stone tablet, the only abilities I gained were the language ability of Alpha Civilization and the memory fragments sealed by Alpha Civilization. Those are all things on the level of consciousness. For my body itself It didn't have any impact. But my body started to become different from normal people, after the East Ninth District incident...that is, after fusing the half of the 'crystal' you gave me."

Ke Lan continued: "I think that the human beings who can be used as the carrier of 'crystal' in your mouth must have very high requirements for the physical body. But at that time, my physical body could only be regarded as a relatively strong ordinary human being, and nothing else. It is said that Akira Asano, Layton, and Zhuo Ligetu are all much better physically than me... No matter how I think about it, I can't think of anything special about me."

"I don't know." Ze Luo replied, "I have no memory of childhood and dormancy. My self-awareness was only awakened after the sacrifice ceremony. All my knowledge comes from those who were used as sacrifices. The dead, the man, Chiron...and you, your question, I can't answer."

"..." Ke Lan lowered his hand helplessly. Although Ze Luo can speak much more fluently now than a few hours ago, in a sense, she is less than a year away from being "born" , using human standards, it is still just a baby.

Although she is a creation of Alpha Civilization, she can't even speak the language of Alpha Civilization, let alone the secrets related to "crystallization".

Maybe you have to ask the founder of the heretical sect about this kind of thing - as for his double, it was obviously brainwashed before being sent here, and even Chiron couldn't dig out the memory of the double. Come up with something useful.

"But what I can confirm is that the reason why you are able to fit in with this crystal is because of yourself and has nothing to do with the stone tablet." Ze Luo suddenly said, "That stone tablet and this crystal are of the same type. Even if your teammates come into contact with the stele at that time, the stele will not be activated."

"Um?"

"You and that person are the same kind." Ze Luo looked into Ke Lan's eyes and said, "It's not because you both inherited things from the Alpha civilization, but because you were the same kind from the moment you were born... You and His relationship is like that between me and the puppet individual..."

"You mean that you are not a normal human being after birth? This statement... I find it hard to accept." Ke Lan shook his head as he thought to himself, "I am not a baby born naturally from a woman's womb. I am born from fertilization." From egg to embryo to baby, my status has been monitored by machines. If my genes deviate from those of normal humans...whether I mutate into a monster or evolve into some kind of superman, the monitoring equipment should be there at the next step. It’s better to discover it as soon as possible. If that’s the case, then my life in the first twenty years should have been different.”

"I don't know, but I have a feeling." Ze Luo said, suddenly looking at Marshall's headless body in the distance, "You and them are not the same kind."

"Can I understand that you are scolding me for not being human?" Ke Lan suddenly didn't know what kind of expression to make. He could only twitch the corners of his mouth, point his finger at the tip of his nose, and asked half-complainingly, half-self-deprecatingly. road.

"I'm not scolding you." Ze Luo shook his head, "I'm just stating to you the information collected by my sensory organs, and it doesn't contain any insulting meaning. Moreover, I don't think the sentence "not a human being" is considered a curse. "

"This sentence is just a curse. You are still young. Don't be led astray by that pervert who doesn't want to be a human being...Besides, aren't you looking forward to life as a human being? Then remember, I am A person...well, you will also be a person from now on, we are all human beings, not some random monsters, do you understand?"

Ze Luo looked at Ke Lan expressionlessly, tilted his head, paused for a few seconds as if thinking about something, and then nodded.

I have to say, if you ignore the blood stains on the girl's body and what she is doing, she looks really cute. She will definitely become a popular character in any drama.

Anyway... the current audience doesn't care what the character is, as long as he looks good...

"By the way, since you said that I am different from ordinary humans, can you tell me in detail what is different?" Ke Lan suddenly remembered this matter and asked quickly.

Ze Luo: "I can't explain it, it's just a feeling."

"Come on, it's useless to ask." Ke Lan shook the black asphalt on his hand with some disappointment.

The puppet individual should be considered dead. The human faces on it had closed their eyes. No matter how much Ze Luo sliced ​​it into pieces, it still stopped screaming. Ke Lan simply stopped paying attention to the piece of rotten meat and turned around and walked towards Marshall's. corpse.

He collected all the scattered fragments of Marshall's skull and wrapped them in his cloak.

There was still a trace of warmth in Marshall's body, and his limbs were not yet stiff. Ke Lan stuffed the cloak wrapped with bone fragments into his arms, and then carried his body to the door of the emergency cabin.

This emergency rescue capsule is an escape device used in emergencies. Unlike a lifeboat, this thing is about the same size as a coffin. Only one person can lie down in a rescue capsule, and it does not have any power device. After the airship is launched, it can only drift in the universe with inertia and gravity until it is discovered by friendly search and rescue personnel.

"But this thing is good for you as your final destination. At least you don't have to expose your corpse to the wilderness... Ah, no, it should be said to be the corpse's outer space."

Ke Lan pushed Marshall's body into the rescue cabin and then pulled the release valve.

"I will help you publish your poem on the Internet. Goodbye and have a good dream."

Driven by the compressed gas, the silver-white rescue capsule quickly slid out of the empty ship, and with the blinking signal light, it slowly floated toward the deep black sky in the distance.

When the power of the rescue capsule is exhausted and the signal light stops flashing, it will blend into the darkness and never be discovered again.

At least that was Marshall's last wish.

"Perhaps Asano Akira should be allowed to see him off for the last time." Ke Lan rubbed his hands with some relief, "Oh, forget it, my head is fried, it's more dignified to leave like this."

Ke Lan just turned around and saw Ze Luo inserting her slender white arms deep into the body of the puppet. One black and one white formed a very sharp visual contrast. She almost penetrated most of her body. Entering this pile of rotten meat... However, as soon as Ke Lan thought that these "rotten meat" were originally part of her body, the sense of violation in this scene instantly decreased a lot.

"I found it."

Ze Luo withdrew from the "rotten flesh". The black asphalt stained on her cheeks, arms, shoulders and neck was quickly absorbed into her skin. In addition to the blood stains on her clothes, the girl's The body once again returned to its fair and flawless state.

"That half of the 'crystal'."

"Yes." Like a child offering a treasure to an adult, Ze Luo carefully raised her cupped hands in front of Ke Lan. In her palm lay an irregular crystal with the texture of obsidian.

To be precise, half a pill.

"This thing...can really control time?" Although Ke Lan had experienced this magical ability countless times, when the real thing was presented in front of his eyes, he couldn't help but ask.

"Yeah." Ze Luo nodded.

"Then are you going to do this with this thing? Eat it?" Ke Lan asked.

"You come and absorb it and complete the half of the crystal in your body." Ze Luo said.

"I'll absorb it? What about you?"

"Only you can fuse it. I can only use its power, but I can't completely absorb it." Ze Luo said, "Otherwise, I wouldn't be able to dig it out of the body of the puppet individual."

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[P.S. Note 1: 18.4mm is the standard caliber of the common 12-gauge shotgun. Because writing 12-gauge 00 buckshot would be confusing to read, I changed the term.

Numbers such as No. 10, No. 12, and No. 16 refer to the caliber of the shotgun. This name comes from the caliber specifications of old-fashioned shotguns. At that time, shotguns could only fire round lead bullets, and one pound of lead could make The number of rounds of lead bullets represents the caliber of the shotgun using the lead bullets - for example, the lead bullets used in 12-gauge shotguns require one-twelfth of a pound of lead to make.

As for the seven markings of 000, 00, 0, 1, 2, 3, and 4, they are exclusive markings for buckshot (the other two types of shotgun ammunition are special, one is birdshot similar to iron sand, and the other is unique Head shot), this number represents the diameter of each lead shot or steel ball in a shotshell. No. 000 has the largest diameter, which is 0.36 inches, and No. 4 has the smallest diameter, which is 0.24 inches. (One inch is 25 millimeters, you can convert it yourself.)]