Alien Relic Hunter

This space gives people a very weird feeling, but it does not seem dangerous. The ambient temperature is about 20 degrees, and the oxygen content of the air is very sufficient. Even without powered armor and protective clothing, humans can still be in this place. stay alive.

Ke Lan simply sat down on the ground and thought about how to break the situation.

The fear of darkness has been engraved in human genes since the ancient times of the earth, and during the nine hundred years of interstellar drift, the dark space has left an indelible shadow in the memory of this race - darkness It often means danger and death, which is derived from instinctive fear, especially in a completely unfamiliar environment.

But for some reason, after getting used to the darkness, Ke Lan felt that this space gradually became more intimate... It was like returning to the mother's womb. Even the creepy tentacles squirming sounds seemed like It turned into the sound of amniotic fluid squeezing and flowing around the embryo.

"Strange...why do I feel like this?" Ke Lan thought to himself, "The feeling of returning to the mother's body...an artificial womb made of metal or glass and filled with liquid nutrients?"

He closed his eyes and tried to recall the feeling of breathing in the sticky nutrient solution... only to find that those memories had long been blurred. More than twenty years had passed, and the only impression he had of his childhood was that of human cultivation. That blinding light on the center ceiling.

The lights are really harsh.

He always wanted to turn off the glowing thing.

A dark environment can make him feel safe and comfortable.

As for many times, when Ke Lan is alone in his small house, he turns off the lights, firstly to save electricity bills, and secondly because he is born with an indescribable repulsion towards bright places.

To him, darkness represents not danger, but safety.

He closed his eyes, although in this space, it made no difference whether he closed his eyes or not.

Some chaotic memory fragments began to pour into his mind, some belonging to him, and some not belonging to him - the information from the Alpha Civilization stone tablet - this dark space seemed to give them an inexplicable sense of security, they could not No matter how scared I am, I won’t hide anymore...

Ke Lan felt as if he had been stuffed into a cold glass jar. A liquid with a strong smell of blood rushed into his nasal cavity and poured into his trachea and lungs. His limbs were all shackled. As he stood, a mechanical arm that was too precise to look like a human creation had a thin blade clamped at the end, moving in and out of the blind spots in his field of vision...

Is this a memory fragment from the Alpha civilization? Is it a first-person perspective of some kind of living biological experiment?

Ke Lan thought this, but when the perspective moved down, he saw his own feet.

They were a pair of human feet with a complete skeleton structure. Purple blood vessels could still be seen vaguely under the skin. The ten toes seemed a little swollen perhaps because they had been soaked in liquid for too long. The pale skin and under the fingernails The flesh color contrasts sharply.

Ke Lan saw an inconspicuous mole on the outside of the little toe on his right foot.

His breathing suddenly hitched.

On his body, in the same position, there is also a mole of almost the same size.

This is not a fragment from the stone tablet... is this my own memory?

But Ke Lan never remembered being soaked in such a jar... This glass jar was obviously not a medical cabin, and the transparent liquid in front of him was not LCL, commonly known as "water of life", but another completely different organic substance. mixture……

Judging from the size of his feet, the "self" in this memory fragment is obviously an adult, so the facilities of the human cultivation center can basically be ruled out...

Is it a scene from some nightmare? Or is it that my memory and the things in the stone tablet have merged, and the two have been confused with each other?

Could it be that subconsciously, he put himself into the perspective of a certain memory that did not belong to him?

He tried to search for more information from this memory, but found that the world outside the glass jar was completely blank.

The glass jar is transparent, not much thicker than the glass slides used in the laboratory, but Ke Lan can't see the outside scene at all - it's like a sandbox game, the scope of the game is only limited to the glass jar , that thin and transparent glass is the border of the map. Beyond the border, there is an endless void without any modeling or mapping.

That is the "unobservable world."

Why does this memory suddenly appear? Does it have anything to do with this dark space?

Ke Lan opened his eyes, but the surroundings were still dark, and the sound of the tentacles squirming never disappeared.

He had no clue about the memory fragment just now, but he thought of a way to solve the current predicament.

Regardless of whether it works or not, at least give it a try.

Ke Lan clenched his fists, took a deep breath, and held his breath.

If the darkness and silence are due to the shielding of one's own senses, then oneself in the time-stop state may be able to break free from it.

He raised his hand, with his index finger tilted forward, and the other four fingers pointing toward the palm to form a chicken claw shape - this middle-of-the-road posture comes from the villain Dio Brando in "JoJo's Bizarre Adventure", and his The signature ability of "Stand-in" is "time stop".

"Smash Varudo!"

Unbearable severe pain instantly filled the skull cavity, and the surrounding darkness instantly faded away, turning into a gray and white world, like an overexposed black and white photo.

Dark gray lines outline the outline of the tunnel, with blurry and thick shadows on the edges, as if some special filter has been added.

About five meters in front of Ke Lan, stood a humanoid silhouette - its upper body was human, but its lower body was a group of squirming tentacles. I thought the "voice" I kept hearing came from it. "Passed" came.

Ke Lan gritted his teeth, suppressed his headache, and raised a hand towards the human silhouette - almost at the same time, the other person also raised the corresponding arm.

"This thing... can move within the time frame?!"

As soon as this idea came to Ke Lan's head, the pause ended. He held his knees with both hands, panting heavily, sweat sliding down his chin and dripping into his collar. The close-fitting clothes he was wearing were already soaked on his back and chest.

This time the pause lasted for almost 1.5 seconds. This was a new record, but Ke Lan couldn't be happy at all.

That human silhouette standing five meters in front of him... what on earth is it?

Why can he move while time stops?

Why did it immediately follow the same action when I raised my hand?

Is it a living thing, or an hallucination before your eyes?