Alien Relic Hunter

Ke Lan pointed the muzzle of the shotgun at Seraph's face, and then pulled the trigger.

Not only the large-caliber shotgun in his hand, but all the weapons on the power armor were activated at the same time. Various muzzles, muzzles and launch nests protruded from the hidden grooves inside the armor. Induced missiles His wake even opened up a fan-shaped smoke screen behind him.

The recoil produced by firing all the bullets made Ke Lan take several steps back. The anchor claws plowed several half-inch deep ravines on the alloy ground.

All hits, none missed the target... However, when the fire and smoke of the explosion dissipated, only a pair of huge wings could be seen blocking the front, receiving all the bombardments.

The pair of wings was undamaged, just the eyes embedded between the feathers were closed.

"I saw the Lord seated on a throne high and high. His garments were hanging down and covering the temple. Seraphim stood on them. Each one had six wings. With two wings he covered his face, with two wings he covered his feet, and with two wings he covered his feet. Wings to fly.”

What the other party was reciting was a description of the Seraph from the Book of Isaiah, and this description of the Seraph was almost the same as what it looks like now...

"It seems that among the people infected by this guy, there are still devout Christian believers." Ke Lan complained in his heart. This believer is definitely not from the institute - these lunatics don't believe in anything except science. . Even if God and angels really exist, they must be thinking about how to get a living specimen for dissection.

"It's useless for you to talk to me about this. I'm an atheist." Ke Lan said - he was waiting for the weapons of the power armor to be reloaded. Although these weapons had little effect on the "Seraph", this was the only thing he could do at the moment. "Holy Word" is the most powerful attack method.

"But you believe in the existence of 'God'." Chitian said in a mocking tone, "You even regard His power as your last trump card."

"I don't know if you have ever found the saying 'The end of science is theology' in the memories of those infected... The reason why theology can exist is because there will always be things in the world that are beyond the current scope of human cognition. Things." Ke Lan said, "After the Industrial Revolution, many things that humans thought only 'gods' could do became commonplace in reality, so the number of blind believers in religion decreased sharply... And now, when humans Our horizons gradually expand to the universe beyond the Milky Way, and we are exposed to more things that cannot be explained by existing scientific theories, so organizations like heretical sects have the opportunity to rise..."

"As for me." Ke Lan changed the topic, "The reason why I call Him God is because I haven't found a more suitable name yet. I never believe in a personal God, and the will of the universe does not have a personality. , this point, ancient Chinese philosophers have already figured it out - 'Heaven and earth are unkind, and treat all things as stupid dogs'."

Ke Lan prefers to believe that the "great god" mentioned in heretical sects and Alpha civilization is an extremely powerful creature, a creature whose power far exceeds the limit of human imagination. Just like the prehistoric species, in the eyes of humans in the ignorant era, the prehistoric species were god-like existences, and their power could not be described in words - but now, humans have the ability to kill them.

Although the price is high, they have also fallen from the so-called pedestal and turned into beast-like existences.

The "god" who can span countless planes with just his sight is actually a prehistoric species that is countless times more powerful. His ability is so strong that many people think that he is an "omnipotent" existence.

But as a classic joke goes, "God cannot create a stone that he cannot lift"... Except for the universe itself, nothing can truly be called "god".

Seraph did not respond to Ke Lan's words. It closed its eyes - the eyes on its face and all the eyes on its wings - and fell into silence. It seemed to be thinking or falling into a deep sleep.

Ke Lan took a deep breath. The weapons of the power armor have been loaded and can be fired at any time... He does not think that such a BOSS can be defeated by talking alone... If the real world is a novel, then this author's The plot structure is also a bit too much.

"Heaven and earth are unkind and treat all things as stupid dogs...Who said this?"

What Ke Lan didn't expect was that Seraph suddenly opened his eyes and asked such a question.

Is it possible that among so many people who have been infected by it...even Christians, who are now very rare, no one can be found who knows this "famous saying"?

Even though very few people are now interested in the Taoist culture of ancient China, this "famous saying" has always appeared in various online novels at a high rate. Even some guys who don't speak Chinese very smoothly, Occasionally, a few similar classic lines would pop out of his mouth. If none of the infected people had heard of these words, Ke Lan would definitely not believe it.

Either the memory absorbed by the "meme" subject is incomplete, and this part is missing... But is it really such a coincidence? The part of everyone’s memory related to this sentence happens to be among the missing parts?

Or is this sentence "consciously" erased?

Because this sentence denies the existence of "gods", so the "great god" also denies this sentence?

Isn't this "great god" too narrow-minded? This is like a group of ants shouting, "The human species does not exist, it is all our illusion." When a normal person hears the ants' remarks, he will either laugh it off or simply step on the ants to death. , let them know that this is simply a fallacy - and no one will brainwash the ants and delete all parts of their memories that refer to this point of view.

Unless this person has reached a certain level of leisure...

Wait a moment?

Too worried?

If we go by what the little boy said earlier, isn't this "great god" just too busy to be idle?

Anyone with an almost infinite lifespan, as long as it has personalized emotions, cannot completely abandon the emotion of "loneliness". And all the means of killing time known to mankind, all added together, are just a blink of an eye for it.

It's really possible for this "idle-hearted" God to do such a thing.

He once responded to the "prayers" of Ke Lan and those black bishops, and now he has given this mutated clone the power to "fuse" with the Yinglong egg...

Ke Lan finally understood: this universe is His chessboard. Whether it is the Alpha Civilization, the Heretic Sect, the Undead Crew, or Ke Lan, they are all just chess pieces on the chessboard... As for the chess players, they are the right and left hands of this god... …Of course, it could also be two of His countless hands.

Ke Lan suddenly felt that what the little boy said just now was a bit ridiculous - it said that it was the "unstable factor" that jumped out of the chess board, but now it seems that at best, it just jumped from the Chinese chess board to the international chess board. That’s all.

It is still a chess piece, just like myself.

"This sentence comes from Chapter 5 of the Tao Te Ching. It was said by Lao Tzu, the founder of the Chinese Taoist school." Ke Lan replied.

"So, is this man named Lao Tzu denying the existence of God?" Seraph asked again.

"Of course, God does not exist...unless you consider the universe itself to be 'God'."

"Absurd!" Seraph's face suddenly showed an extremely angry look, "I am His messenger, His highest-ranking envoy, Seraph!"

"...?" Ke Lan was stunned for a moment. Why did this guy suddenly start pretending to be real?

"My mission is to carry out His instructions and spread His brilliance in this world!" the other party said again.

"Are you... out of your mind?" Ke Lan's mouth twitched, "The Seraph is a fictional thing created by humans in the old era... and you are just an egg fused with the prehistoric species 'Yinglong' A clone, maybe you still have some genetic fragments of the Corrosion Seed in your body, but in any case, you are not the same thing as that fictional creature."

"Those who blaspheme Him will have unpardonable sins!" The anger on Seraph's face grew stronger, and three pairs of wings spread out at the same time, occupying almost most of the space in the hall - Ke Lan noticed that the little boy's face was Below the face, there were three other faces. The appearance, expression and eyes of the four faces were exactly the same. They were all glaring at Ke Lan and "declaring" his "crime" in unison.

"Are you... too into the drama?" Ke Lan took a step back and nailed the anchor hook into the ground again, "You just look very close to that fictional creature... I don't have time to play roles with you. A game of pretending!”

Could this guy be so angry that he couldn't explain himself?

"Reckoning!"

The opponent suddenly shouted loudly, and the three pairs of wings flapped forward at the same time. Fortunately, Ke Lan held up the energy shield in time, so he was not beaten to pieces by the distance.

But the energy shield did not burn away Seraph's wings, and the two collided solidly - logically speaking, the energy shield has no entity, and in terms of attributes well known to game players, it does not have a collision volume. , anything that comes into contact with it will either be incinerated or penetrate the shield...

Unless the thing in contact with it is also an energy body.

The lifelike wings of Seraph are actually energy bodies?

"The seraphim... is the servant closest to God and the messenger who sings God's praises. It does not have a substantial body, but only a spiritual body composed of light and flame. When it wants to show its holiness in front of people, it will transform In the posture of six wings and four songs..." Ke Lan mentally recalled the description of Seraph in the religious books he had read online. If the thing in front of him is really an "angel", then it should indeed be A ball of "energy" - but the problem is, it is a fake!

That was not a seraph at all, but an "egg" of a prehistoric species found from the depths of the abyss!

Ke Lan "topped" the energy shield, and dazzling sparks continued to sputter out from the contact point between the shield and the wings. His brain was running rapidly, thinking of possible countermeasures——

Is it because of "memes"? Did the "meme" change my perception of it...or even, to some extent, its perception of itself?

It firmly believes that it is the Seraph in the Bible, so it has exactly the same characteristics and abilities as Seraph?

If "memes" have the ability to influence reality through cognition, what are the limits of this ability?

Can it affect that "god"? Can the power of that "god"... be able to suppress its ability?

The output power of the shield generator is plummeting, and the luster of the energy shield is quickly dimming. In no more than ten seconds at most, the entire shield will collapse, and Ke Lan will also be overwhelmed by these huge energy body wings. Caught in the middle.

Ke Lan didn't know the consequences of direct contact with the wings that could collide with the energy shield, but he didn't need to think too much to know that he would definitely not survive. Perhaps, he wouldn't even be able to leave a slightly intact body.

"You still have to use your trump card!" Ke Lan gritted his teeth. Although he had already had this realization when he entered the underground icehouse, no matter what, borrowing "His" power still made Ke Lan feel... Somewhat uncomfortable.

Especially the line of sight that penetrated countless parallel time and space and was projected on him, even if it was only for a short moment, but in that moment, time and space seemed to have disappeared, and Ke Lan's consciousness was like a supernova. It also exploded, and all senses, thinking, and cognition came to a standstill... That brief moment was no different than trillions of years.

The phrase "a glance for thousands of years" that literary and artistic young people like to use probably has this feeling, but it is love, and Ke Lan is in jail.

So much so that when his consciousness is released from the "prison", he will have a sudden feeling of being reincarnated as a human being.

No normal person would be willing to experience this feeling a second time... not only normal people, but also lunatics.

But conventional weapons have no effect on "Seraph". The only weapons Ke Lan has not used yet are two folding knives hidden in the arm armor. But in terms of close combat ability, he may not even be one-tenth of Asano Akira. nothing.

The "Holy Word" is the only means to break the situation.

Ke Lan began to recite the "prayer" that he usually dared not even recite silently in his heart: "Please ask the great god to fix one of his thousands of eyes on me..."

But before he finished reading the first sentence, Ke Lan realized the problem.

That familiar yet unfamiliar feeling did not come. It was as if he was speaking some insignificant sentences in the language of Alpha civilization... The "great god", His eyes did not come to Ke again. On Lan's body.

The "Holy Word"...has failed!