Alien Relic Hunter

"It seems that it must be the virgin boy who died. He was not transferred." Hound nodded to the others.

However, Aya Breya did not signal her men to put down their weapons. Instead, she took a step forward and continued to ask Ke Lan: "You suddenly disappeared just now. What happened? We need an explanation."

"I can't explain clearly." Ke Lan shrugged, "The moment Valkyrie's sniper cannon hit the tumor-like protrusion, I was teleported to a dark space without light and sound, as if I was being transported It was like being locked up in a solitary room... Just when I thought it would be difficult to escape, it released me inexplicably. As for how long I stayed in it, I couldn't tell, because the speed of time in that space seemed not to be the same. unusual."

"Nineteen point five seconds, this is the time that passes from when you disappear to when you reappear." Aya added, "Based on the time in our dimension."

"Nineteen point five seconds..." Ke Lan chewed on this number repeatedly. Although he could not determine how much time had passed in that dark space, it would definitely not be less than five minutes. In the eyes of the hounds and others, he had just disappeared. Less than twenty seconds.

The time in that space is not synchronized with the real world, so it makes perfect sense that the duration of the "time-stop" ability can be extended to four or five seconds - the "four or five seconds" that Ke Lan feels, Probably not even a second in reality.

"By the way, where is the monster summoned by Park Sangwoo?" Ke Lan suddenly thought of this and turned around immediately——

"It died. Just now... you appeared immediately after it died." Aya's voice came from behind.

Just five meters in front of Ke Lan, the capsule-shaped rescue capsule fell to the ground. Its deflated tentacles were hanging messily on the ground, completely losing the full feeling before. Under its body, there was A large pool of transparent liquid spread, forming an irregular puddle several meters in diameter.

It looked like a giant slug that had been sprinkled with salt and dehydrated to death.

"How... did it die? Did you kill it?" Ke Lan asked.

"...It has nothing to do with us, it is...it died on its own." Aya hesitated when she said this. Obviously, she was not sure whether her judgment was correct.

"We don't know what happened." Hound added, "Just five seconds before you came back from that 'confined space'... Oh, maybe only three seconds, this monster seemed to have a sudden illness. , its whole body twitched violently, and we thought it was going to use some big move, so we all fired at it, and then it died suddenly... As for whether it was killed by us, or for some other reason, I can't say Sure."

"It was probably not killed by us." Aya shook her head slightly, "After Ke Lan disappeared, we began to attack the monster. The firepower was never interrupted, but the previous attacks had no impact on it. "

"Perhaps the quantitative change caused the qualitative change?" Hound muttered, "This guy's defense mechanism may be the same as the energy shield. We fired all the ammunition on the shield at the beginning, and then waited until the energy of the shield was consumed. , it’s its turn.”

"I still prefer natural death. The genetic sequences of many Alpha civilization biological weapons are extremely unstable and there is a risk of collapse at any time... In my impression, there are many biological weapons with a lifespan of only ten minutes. Maybe it is One of them," Aya retorted.

"It's meaningless to argue about this now. I suggest checking the monster's body. Maybe we can make breakthrough discoveries." Ivan said, and he couldn't wait to take out a chainsaw.

"Second the proposal." Ke Lan raised his hand without hesitation.

…

According to the normal processing procedures, any corpse of such an unknown creature should be sealed up as soon as possible and sent to the institute's affiliated institution closest to the scene. However, the current situation is special, and everyone can only place their hope on Ivan. An "amateur biology enthusiast".

"I've heard jokes about veterinarians treating people, but it turns out that it's the doctors who treat people who dissect monsters. It's so damn ironic." Hound watched Ivan swinging a chainsaw at the monster's corpse and couldn't help but complained.

"The specimens that medical students first dissect are not humans, but animals such as mice." Ivan replied calmly, "And medicine has many things in common with biology, plus..."

Ivan stopped talking halfway through. But everyone in the Hunting God Hunting Group also knew what he didn’t say—

Out of personal interest, Ivan often buys the corpses of some indigenous creatures from Alpha Planet on the black market and brings them back to the clinic for research. However, the origin of these corpses obviously cannot be legal. Now people from the Security Bureau are standing nearby. Fan naturally would not say such words in front of them.

Although there is a high probability that they will not pursue this issue in this current situation, after all, one more thing is worse than one less thing...

The monster's tentacles were quickly cut off by a chainsaw, and Ivan dug out a broken human skeleton in the rescue cabin... Park Sang-woo's flesh and blood had disappeared, but the skeleton was preserved.

"These are all crushed into pieces..." The hound looked at the bone fragments that Ivan picked out from a pile of jelly-like slimy tissue with large tweezers, and sighed, "This is the thing that came out of its body. Was it crushed to pieces when he was rescued, or was it crushed alive by being squeezed into the narrow space of the rescue cabin?"

"No matter which one it is, it sounds painful." Layton continued.

Ke Lan did not participate in their chat. Instead, he squatted on the ground, picked out the parts of the skull from hundreds of bone fragments, and pieced them together bit by bit with quick-drying glue.

It took him almost an hour to restore the head. Although there were still many missing parts, the general outline was at least revealed.

However, looking at the skull in his hand, Ke Lan felt more and more something was wrong...

"Leader Breya, please extract the DNA from these bone fragments and compare it with the data in the archives." Ke Lan demanded.

Aya Brea did as she was told, but the result was somewhat beyond everyone's expectations - the samples extracted from the bone marrow detected the DNA of two people, one of which was Park Sangwoo's, and the other was... No matching data was found in the archives.

But what is certain is that this unknown DNA is human DNA, not the gene of some kind of monster.

"Is it because of the monster that Park Sangwoo's genes have mutated?" Aya guessed.

"But... the deceased was not Park Sangwoo. In other words, when he died, he was no longer Park Sangwoo." Ke Lan held up the pieced head, "This is another person."

"What?" Aya took the head in disbelief and scanned its facial bone features, but as Ke Lan said, there was no information about this face in the archives either.

"Is it possible to roughly restore the deceased's appearance through facial bones?" Ke Lan glanced at her and asked.

"Yes." Aya bit her lower lip and started typing on the virtual keyboard with both hands.

Not long after, a face completely different from Park Sangwoo's appeared on the screen.

The moment he saw this face, Ke Lan's eyebrows suddenly raised, and this detail was immediately captured by Aya.

"Do you know this guy?"

"I can't say we know each other, but we have met once," Ke Lan said.

"who is he?"

"A stand-in for the man who founded the heretical sect..."

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