Alien Relic Hunter

Hearing this conclusion, everyone couldn't help but feel their scalps tingling... At this moment, Ke Lan seemed to catch something moving out of the corner of his eye. He turned his head quickly, but his eyes met the circle. Relief on the inside of the gate.

Different from the patterned reliefs on the outside, the reliefs that appear on the inside of the gate are composed of neatly arranged circles of characters. These are the characters used by the Alpha civilization. Human beings have begun to study their meanings from the first day they discovered this kind of characters. But to this day, there is still no progress.

The writing of Alpha Civilization can be described as "weird". It does not conform to any language logic known to mankind today. It has no concept of words and sentences, and there is no connection between characters. Signs, they are like graffiti drawn by a young child, with no meaning and no rules...

But it can undoubtedly be read, it's just that humans haven't found the right way yet.

In a daze, Ke Lan felt that these characters seemed to be slowly squirming. They broke away from the shackles of the metal and began to gradually become distorted... No, it was not just the characters themselves that were distorted, but the entire tunnel began to flip and deform. The scene inside was like a drop of thick ink falling into clear water. The turbid black mist spread and quickly swallowed his entire body.

Faintly, Ke Lan seemed to see a high platform with a huge sarcophagus placed on it. The sarcophagus also had a large number of alpha characters on it, but he couldn't see the specific details clearly.

Under the high platform, it was a hell-like scene - countless grotesque pieces of flesh were entangled and squeezed together. They were struggling and making painful and sharp screams. Some of the pieces of meat were trying to climb up the high platform. But none of them succeeded. They fell down, fell apart, and were quickly devoured by their own kind...

Ke Lan felt a splitting headache. He squatted on the ground holding his head - the screams of those pieces of meat did not seem to come from the outside world, but from the depths of his brain. They became louder and louder. The frequency was high enough to drive people crazy. Ke Lan felt like he was going crazy. If he persisted for one more second, his brain would explode and turn into part of those pieces of meat...

"Hey...are you okay?"

A big hand patted his shoulder. Suddenly, the high platform disappeared, the sarcophagus disappeared, and the screaming pieces of meat also disappeared. Ke Lan found that he was back in the tunnel again, and the others were using a confused expression. Looking at himself.

"Uh...it's okay, I'm just...a little distracted." Ke Lan hesitated for a moment, but in the end he didn't speak out about the illusion he saw - for some reason, his subconscious kept telling himself that this was the best thing to do. Don't let anyone else know.

Maybe it was just an illusion. The high platform, the sarcophagus and the pieces of meat, these things soon became only a vague outline. Ke Lan wanted to recall, but found that he couldn't remember anything.

"It's not like you were distracted. You were holding your head, your expression was twisted, and you looked in pain." Ivan shook his head and said seriously.

"Could it be the sequelae of hitting your head before?" Layton asked, "Would you like Ivan to check it for you?"

"No, I'm fine now."

"Really?...Huh? I didn't notice it before, but there is actually a relief on the back of the gate! It's the writing of Alpha Civilization!" The hound's expression suddenly became excited, and he walked forward quickly. Ke Lan was about to stop him, but Finding that there was nothing unusual about the other party at all, he took out his camera from his backpack and started taking pictures.

Could it be that the hallucination just occurred has nothing to do with these words? Ke Lan glanced at it cautiously, then glanced again... Nothing happened. The words were just simple reliefs, without any movement or deformation, let alone any black mist and strange hallucinations.

"Click! Click!" The hound took dozens of photos in a row, not even the corners were missed - on Ark's official recycling price list, documentary relics have always been expensive, even photos or rubbings. , and can still be exchanged for a large number of credits.

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After taking the photos, everyone continued to walk into the passage. This passage was very long and deep, but fortunately there were no traps. It was calm along the way, and there were no forks in the road, so there was no worry of choice at all.

"You guys said... the advance team member, uh, I mean the body, or the thing that controlled the body, why did it come here? This passage only leads to the cave where we crashed. Does it want to escape? Escape from this ruins?" Leighton asked in a low voice.

"I don't know, but I didn't find any foreign objects during the dissection. That thing has obviously left." Ivan replied.

"I don't think so," Ke Lan pondered for a few seconds before taking over the words, "If that thing needs to control the body to move, it proves that its movement ability is extremely limited, or it is like a parasite. It is difficult to survive after leaving the host, which means that after leaving the body, it cannot go too far. If you want to escape from this ruins, it is absolutely impossible to abandon the old host before finding a new host. .”

"New host..." Ivan and Ke Lan looked at each other, and each read a hint of horror in the other's eyes. The former stopped immediately and shouted in a low voice, "Wait a minute, everyone should check their protection." Check the clothes and see if there is any damage! Even the soles of the shoes are not spared!"

As soon as she finished speaking, Jiang Lian, who was originally at the end of the team, turned around and ran towards the gate. Within a few steps, she fell to the ground and crawled up using her hands and feet in an extremely weird and twisted posture!

She crawled very fast, and in the blink of an eye she was more than thirty meters away from everyone.

"Boom! Boom!" A deafening gunshot sounded, and Ivan was seen holding a large-caliber pistol with a rough shape in both hands. He fired several shots and knocked Jiang Lian to the ground!

"What are you doing?!" The hound, who had not yet reacted, turned around and yelled, "What is going on? Why did that bitch suddenly become like a dog? Why did you shoot her?!"

"Quick! She's parasitized! That thing should still be in her body!" Ivan didn't care about the hound's attitude, but quickly changed the magazine of the pistol while running towards Jiang Lian who fell on the ground.

"Parasite? When?"

"Just now, when Ivan was dissecting the body, we didn't find it." Ke Lan explained to Ivan. He also pulled out a pistol and walked up quickly.

Jiang Lian lay face down on the ground, her limbs still twitching slightly. Two bowl-sized blood holes on her back completely penetrated her thin body. The deep red blood stains gradually spread under her body. alive.

"Can't you give me a kick?" Ke Lan said unbearably.

"That level of parasitism will completely destroy the brain. She won't be able to survive even if she's kicked. We may also suffer a counterattack from her... Be careful, don't be attacked by that thing."

Several hunters formed a circle, surrounding the dying Jiang Lian in the middle.

"Is that thing still in her head?" Layton asked with some uncertainty.

Ivan nodded: "Probably."

"Then just blow her head up? And that damn thing too?" As he said that, Layton had already raised his cannon and aimed it at Jiang Lian's head.

"No, we have to figure out what it is, otherwise there will still be no way to counter it next time we encounter it." Ke Lan said.

"Ke Lan is right, I don't want to die in the dark like this bitch." The hound took out the dagger and took a step forward - at this moment, a black shadow suddenly emerged from the pool of blood, It bounced off the ground at an astonishing speed and rushed towards the hound's face!

"Whoa!" The sword flashed, and the black shadow suddenly broke into two pieces when it was about to fall on the hound's mask, curled up into a ball, and fell on his instep.

Only then did everyone see clearly that the black shadow was an arthropod that had never been seen before. It looked a bit like a bug called a centipede on earth in the old era, but compared to the centipede, this thing's body was more slender. , there are no tentacles on the front end of the body, instead, there is a pair of sharp mouthparts.

"Is this the kind of bug that controls corpses?" Ke Lan was a little surprised. The human brain is a very sophisticated and complex organ. Let's not talk about whether this little bug has a brain. Even if it does, judging from its size, the brain is The capacity is not even one ten thousandth of that of a human being, so how does it control humans?

This kind of plot is not uncommon in horror movies and novels, but from a scientific point of view, this kind of thing is extremely ridiculous.

"This thing is not a bug, it is not a natural creature at all." Ivan had already picked up the thing's body with tweezers, and shined a flashlight on it, and a familiar metallic luster flashed across it.

"Grass!" Seeing this luster, the hound couldn't help but spit out a curse word, "It's Nino alloy! This thing is made of Nino alloy?!"

Everyone couldn't help but take a second look at Asano Akira who had just taken action. With the strength of Nino alloy, even if Ivan directly exploded Jiang Lian's head, the bullet might not be able to damage it, but Asano Akira actually did it easily. So he cut it into two pieces...

"My sword is also made of this kind of metal." Asano Akira said calmly, holding the scabbard, as if he felt the attention of everyone.

"I'm sorry, brother, I was wrong before, and I apologize to you." Hound's face was a little pale, and he bowed slightly to Asano Akira - the moment the latter drew his sword, no one could Seeing his movements clearly, this means that if Asano Akira wants to kill someone, no one present will have a chance to resist.

What's more, he is still blind...

"It's okay, I don't mind...but I really want to know, what is that thing?"