Alien Relic Hunter

Ke Lan picked up a handful of charred powder with his fingers, but before he could take a closer look, the powder turned into finer dust, slipped from his fingers, and dissipated in the flowing air.

This "black-robed bishop" seemed as if he had never appeared in this world before. He disappeared without a trace in just a few seconds, leaving only an empty shell of clothes spread out on the ground. It proves in vain that a living person once existed here.

Ke Lan raised his head and glanced at the members of the heretical sect lying on the ground around him. After Thirty-Three slit their throats with a flying knife, in order to completely lose the ability of these people to resist desperately, Thirty-three even cut off their hand tendons with a follow-up knife.

This group of people were lying on the ground in a mess, twisting and struggling... Because their vocal cords were damaged, they couldn't even scream or cry. They could only make some hoarse howls of unknown meaning, mixed with a lot of The sound of air leakage.

"If you don't want to die, it's best not to make a sound. If you inhale too much air, you may develop emphysema." Ke Lan told them.

It's just that this group of people can no longer hear what Ke Lan is saying. The fear of imminent death has deeply grasped their hearts - even the most devout believers of heretics feel life passing from their bodies little by little. It is impossible to be completely unafraid...Survival is the instinct of all living things, especially this slow death process, which is an unbearable torment and torture compared to instantaneous death.

"There is no way...Qin Zhao, Valentina, do me a favor." Ke Lan turned to the two women and said, "First search these people for any hidden weapons, and then treat their wounds. , at least a few survivors must be left alive for interrogation.”

At this time, the soldiers of the garrison finally separated from the crowd and rushed over quickly. About fifty meters away from the scene, they had already raised their guns and pointed them at Ke Lan and others.

"What's going on? Who fired the gun?" A captain walked out from behind the soldier, but after he saw clearly who was holding the gun, the expression on his face suddenly became very wonderful.

When Ke Lan was sent here before, he had an acquaintance with the captain in charge of this temporary shelter. The captain also asked Ke Lan if he needed a quiet cubicle, but Ke Lan refused. .

But he never imagined that this great god would cause him such a big trouble before his butt was even warmed up...

He wasn't sure whether the people above would hold this person accountable, but he was just a lieutenant in a small garrison, and he would definitely not be able to get away with such a thing.

Just when the lieutenant had the consciousness to risk his life and take the blame, he heard this sentence——

"These people are spies infiltrated by heretical sects. They are planning a riot. I will help you deal with it."

"Wha...what?!" The lieutenant almost thought he heard wrongly...the group of relic hunters lying on the ground...are members of a heretical sect?

"Ke, Mr. Ke Lan, what is going on?" The lieutenant quickly thought about it in his mind. If things are really as Ke Lan said, then although he has also committed certain dereliction of duty, as long as he can handle it in the follow-up Okay, then for him, the reward will definitely far exceed the punishment.

"They are trying to spread rumors that the Ark has been invaded, and incite the people to attack the blockade..." Ke Lan paused, "Besides, this group of people still has... um... some troublesome things."

"Troublesome thing?!" The lieutenant's eyelids suddenly twitched. "You are referring to...c-could it be the corrosive seed? But our army is not equipped with active ammunition...this..."

"It's not a seed of erosion, but for you, it is probably more difficult than a seed of erosion." Ke Lan shook his head, "But you just need to remember one thing, don't let them talk. Even if you are interrogated, you can still pass. It will be conducted in a paper-and-pencil question and answer format.”

"Can't they talk?" The lieutenant was stunned for a moment, then nodded very seriously, "Okay, I remember it!"

"Do you have any medical soldiers under your command? Come and save them quickly. These people can't last long." Ke Lan said to the lieutenant, "By the way, it's best to give these people a comprehensive examination, although there should be no such thing among these people." 'Containers' of erosion seeds, but who knows if there are some other weird things parasitic in their bodies."

"Yes!" the lieutenant responded. At this time, he almost treated Ke Lan as his direct superior. He turned to look behind him and shouted: "Medical team! People from the medical team, hurry up and bring your things!"

"In addition, notify the Security Bureau and other temporary shelters so that they can increase their attention to prevent similar incidents from happening... If possible, it is best to send more manpower, and active ammunition and other things must also be equipped Go. If this group of people is allowed to succeed, there will be a large number of casualties."

"That's your reminder! I will contact other shelters right now and submit a request for assistance to the Security Bureau... Uh, by the way, Mr. Ke Lan, how should I report this matter?"

"Just report it truthfully." After saying that, Ke Lan glanced at the member of the heretic sect who was kicked away by Valentina - although this guy looked the worst, in fact, his injuries were the lightest: only It was just half of the face that exploded, and the spine was misaligned... Considering the physique of a first-level enhanced person, this injury is not considered fatal.

While the medical soldiers of the garrison were hurriedly treating the injured, several people wearing the same dark gray combat uniforms of the Security Bureau quickly walked into the temporary shelter.

"Huh? Is it the support from the Security Bureau? Coming so soon?" The lieutenant was stunned for a moment, "But...but the message that I requested reinforcements has not been sent out yet."

"You came to see me." Ke Lan patted the lieutenant's shoulder and took the initiative to greet him.

"Mr. Ke Lan, it's not convenient to talk here, please follow me." The first man, about thirty years old, immediately locked his eyes on Ke Lan and said.

"Okay." Ke Lan responded, then turned back to Thirty-three and the two women: "You just stay here. This matter is probably more difficult and you can't participate in it."

The man nodded, and then took Ke Lan into the manager's office of the mall - after the two of them entered, several other people immediately closed the door and guarded the door without leaving.

"I have heard what those soldiers said about what just happened in the shelter." The man said, "Your handling was very timely and correct. If the 'Black Robed Bishop' were to initiate the sacrificial ceremony in the shelter, the consequences would be disastrous. ."

"How did you know there was a 'black-robed bishop' among these people? I never told those soldiers." Ke Lan asked.

"As far as I know, the only thing that can be countered by silence is this kind of thing." The man replied.

His word was "such things", not "such people".

"Okay, now can you tell me the reason for the blockade of the whole ship? Is it related to the heretical sect?"

"It has nothing to do with it."

"...Aren't you from the Security Bureau?" Ke Lan looked at the person in front of him carefully.

"This is my ID." The man took out a hard card. In the upper left corner of the hard card, the badge and acronym of the Core Research Institute were printed, but the secondary unit in the next line was not a research department. Or an independent research group, but a department name that Ke Lan had never heard of.

"Crisis Management Section".

"Crisis Management Department? I've never heard of this department." He asked directly.

"Normally, we almost never appear in the public eye." The man pointed to his uniform, "Even when necessary, we will disguise ourselves as members of the Security Bureau to avoid causing panic."

"Causing panic? People don't know the existence of a department like yours. How could it cause panic?" Ke Lan couldn't help but ask.

"Because any of the things we need to deal with are enough to cause large-scale panic." The man replied, "In fact, we are not affiliated with the Core Research Institute, but are directly dispatched by the Immortal Crew Association."

Ke Lan took another look at the hard card. The man in front of him, who was only in his early thirties, was called Lin Qiming, and his position was the "deputy section chief" of the crisis management department.

Generally speaking, the second-in-command in such an important department can be considered young at the age of forty. However, if the man in front of him, who is not much older than himself, can sit in this position, it can only mean two things.

First, this guy named Lin Qiming is so powerful that he can surpass the limitations of seniority.

Second, those members of the Crisis Management Section who were older than him were either dead or "forced to retire"...

"I always feel that you are emphasizing the seriousness of this incident... just say it directly, I am mentally prepared."

Lin Qiming took out a tablet and handed it to Ke Lan.

Playing on the screen was a processed video, from Professor Smith's laboratory to what happened in the corridor.

It's just that there are many places in the video that are covered with thick mosaics - not the kind of blurry mosaic that reduces pixels and degrades color details, but a whole black block of color that completely blocks the things behind the mosaic. Strictly true.

"It turns out that the people at the institute were trying to kill themselves and came up with something terrible... It seems that this is an acute infectious disease, but I can't see the specific symptoms and transmission route from the video. Come out. What I don’t understand is why this video is mosaic. Can’t even you get the original high-definition and uncensored surveillance video?”

"Because if there is no mosaic, the thing will spread." Lin Qiming said seriously.

"No mosaic? Will 'that thing' spread immediately? What do you mean?" Ke Lan's face changed slightly, and these words instantly made him realize the seriousness of the problem.

"The mosaic part is actually a structure similar to the human eyeball." Lin Qiming said, "The surface of the infected person's body will quickly develop sarcoma-like growths, and after cracking, eyeball-like organs will be exposed. These rapidly proliferating eyeball-like The organs will quickly drain the body of energy, and the infected person will die from organ failure within five to ten minutes."

"eyeball……?"

"Based on the analysis of a large number of infection cases, we came to the conclusion that the way this symptom is transmitted is to look into these eyeballs... As long as our eyes look into these eyeballs, we will be infected."

"Eye-to-eye infection? I'm afraid it's not that simple..." Ke Lan took a breath and said with a wry smile, "If that's all, there's no need to process the video."

"Yes, not only looking directly...even if you look into these eyeballs through media such as videos, photos, mirrors, etc., you will be infected. The specific reasons are still under study." Lin Qiming said.

Ke Lan only felt a buzz in his head, and the hairs on his back stood up. It was not that he had never had similar conjectures, but this should only exist in fantasy and should never happen in reality. middle!

"Damn, this makes me a little numb... You guys are so stupid in your research. This thing is obviously not something that our current scientific system can explain."

This method of infection can no longer be described as a "virus". It is more like a "spiritual pollution"... The mental pollution here refers to literal mental pollution. The infected person does not even need to interact with the source of infection. Formal contact only requires "receiving" specific information related to the source of infection to become infected...

In this case, not only is the source of infection itself dangerous, but even a video, a photo... as long as that "specific information" is recorded on it, they are all part of the source of infection.

Even in the technology left over from Alpha Civilization, Ke Lan had never heard of anything similar.

This kind of thing seems to come from "His" power.

"This is our duty..."

"Okay, now that the transmission method has been clarified, why don't we just send autonomous robots to clean up the contaminated areas?" Ke Lan said, "Don't let the background operators look at the robot's surveillance footage, just set the settings directly Establish the target parameters, and then hand them all over to the computer... These things can't even infect machines, right?"

"They cannot infect machines, but machines cannot identify them," Lin Qiming said. "As early as the first time the transmission method was discovered, someone mentioned the solution of autonomous robots. We took huge risks to collect We collected dozens of sets of 'eyeball' pictures and let the AI ​​learn on its own."

"The results of it?"

"The first batch of autonomous robots released into contaminated areas killed all the humans they found and destroyed their eyes, but they turned a blind eye to the real infected people."

"I now understand why the entire ship has to be blocked." Ke Lan nodded in agreement, "But, is it useful for you to ask me about this? Could it be that you are planning to let me use the 'Yagunaktor' Can the weapons on the ship directly evaporate the contaminated area? Then I can only tell you that I am sorry to tell you that all the weapons on the Yagunaktor are in an unusable state, and I can't do that."

"No, that's not why we found you." Lin Qiming shook his head. "It's because Smith's experimental specimens were cloned tissue taken from your blood cells. The experiment at the beginning of the video was where he used the Corrosion Seed The cells were injected into your cloned tissue. It is true that he has seriously violated the prohibition of the Undead Crew, but the matter has reached this point and we can no longer hold him accountable..."

For some reason, Ke Lan suddenly wanted to curse.

[P.S. Thanks to book friend 20170214120631691 for the 500 starting coins. 】