Alien Relic Hunter

Ke Lan felt a bone-chilling chill running from the top of his head to the soles of his feet.

He thought the other party was just talking nonsense, but he didn't expect that everything the other party said was true...

Ke Lan originally had a pair of king bombs in his hand, but now when he needed to use this pair of king bombs, he turned over his hole cards and found that they turned into "vs. three".

Is it because cognition is distorted by “memes”? No, His power is far greater than "memes". "Memes" cannot interfere with the "Holy Word", just like the sacrificial ceremony cannot be interrupted.

That can only mean one problem - that "great god" is unwilling to lend his power to himself at this time.

Ke Lan hasn't even revealed the purpose and price yet.

I don't know why... Even though this result was fatal, Ke Lan felt a sense of relief in his heart for no reason... It was as if it would be a better thing if the "god" didn't respond to him.

The energy shield was so transparent that it was almost impossible to detect it with the naked eye. The micro-fan that dissipated heat for the shield generator immediately stopped working after making a hysterical buzzing sound... The temperature was over 100 degrees below zero. In the space, the air pump and metal heat pipes of the entire cooling device were melted directly, and the bright red metal liquid overflowed directly from the gaps in the armor.

It has to be said that the people in the equipment department have spent a lot of money on this suit of armor. If it had been replaced by an ordinary small shield generator on the market, it would probably have exploded by now.

The shield generators manufactured by Alpha Civilization are also divided into several grades. For example, if Layton is installed in his own robotic arm, it can only be regarded as a mid-to-lower grade shield generator. The market price of the top-level shield generators, even small ones, is already on par with battleship-level shield generators.

It was this price difference of dozens or even hundreds of times that bought Ke Lan just a few seconds.

The price difference of hundreds of times in exchange for these few seconds is not cost-effective at all... But if these few seconds can become the key to a battle, then no matter how expensive this thing is, it is still worth it.

If the "Holy Word" can take effect, Ke Lan does have the ability to reverse the entire situation in these few seconds... But the premise is that this thing must take effect! !

Just as the clone said, the "great god" may be watching here. Ke Lan is a chess piece on his chessboard, and the "Seraph" after the fusion of the clone and the Yinglong Egg is also a chess piece on his chessboard... ...playing chess with the left hand and the right hand, the player will naturally not favor either side.

But is He really not taking sides on the chessboard?

If there was no favoritism, then why couldn't Ke Lan interrupt the fusion ceremony between the clone and Yinglong's egg? !

"At least... I shouldn't be allowed to die here like this..." Ke Lan murmured.

As soon as he finished speaking, the top of the hall exploded, and a beam of light that was countless times more solid than the energy shield fell from the sky, directly covering the "Seraph"!

Seraph's wings retracted, and at the same time, Ke Lan's energy shield disappeared.

"...??!" Ke Lan was stunned. He looked up and saw that the entire underground icehouse from the first to the fifth floor had been blasted through. He could even see the ice above the West Second District. Dome…

"What... is going on?" Ke Lan looked at the beam of light that imprisoned the "Seraph" with some disbelief - he thought it was the power from the "great god", but when he looked carefully, he found that This beam of light seems to be formed after being restrained by an energy shield.

Is this... support from the Undead Crew?

They removed the energy shield covering the entire contaminated area, blasted it into the underground icehouse, and trapped the "Seraph"!

"Hiss...hiss..." A burst of electricity came from the communication channel - with the disappearance of the large shield, the originally unusable wireless communication channel also returned to normal.

"Schroeder? Schroeder...Lin Qiming? What on earth is going on? Have you turned off the energy shield outside?"

However, it was not Schroeder and Lin Qiming who responded to Ke Lan, but an unfamiliar voice.

This voice is very young, younger than Schroeder, Lin Qiming...even Ke Lan. It sounds like a young adult at best.

"Can you hear me? Lucky guy."

"Who are you?" Ke Lan asked subconsciously.

"You can call me 'Pan'."

"Pan?" Ke Lan's heart moved, and a male image with goat horns and hooves appeared in his mind. "Are you... the fifteenth seat of the Undead Crew, the 'devil'?"

"Bingo!" Pan said happily. His personality seemed completely different from other members of the Undead Crew. He was really like a big boy who had just grown up. "My mind is very smart. I guessed it right away. I thought you would spend more time."

"Except for the people in the crisis management department, the only people who can access this communication channel are you, the immortal crew." Ke Lan said, "If you can, can you tell me what is going on?"

"As you can see." Pan's tone was very brisk, "The crew doesn't want the 'Pope' candidate to die in the underground icehouse, so they decided to provide you with a little help... It happened that the shield happened some time ago The interference device of the weapon has made breakthrough progress, so we decided to take advantage of this opportunity to test this new weapon."

The new weapon in Pan's mouth naturally refers to the "energy shield" after the contraction. If Seraph's six wings were not trying their best to resist the shrinking light curtain, the entire energy shield should be able to turn into a slender and Solid beam of light.

It can be an unbreakable shield or an indestructible spear.

"Is this how you plan to kill it?"

"No...the energy shield alone cannot kill Seraph. Its power comes from cognition. As long as it firmly believes that its energy will never be exhausted, then it can always compete with this beam of light, even It is tearing apart the light beam. For us, the power of the energy shield has been stretched to its limit. In this state, the light beam can only last for five minutes at most."

"Power comes from cognition... Do you mean 'meme'? Then if it firmly believes that it is invincible, wouldn't it really be invincible?" Ke Lan glanced at the "Seraph" shrouded in a beam of light, " Isn’t this plug-in a bit outrageous?”

"Cognition also has limits." Pan patiently explained to Ke Lan, "From a human worldview, the existence of 'memes' is indeed like an unreasonable plug-in, but if you combine the vision Expand, and you will find that even plug-ins must abide by the rules... I think you should understand that writing a game plug-in requires more than just randomly typing a few lines of code to succeed."

"So...how to kill this thing?" Ke Lan asked.

In five minutes, he had no time or interest to study "memes" or power cognition. He just wanted to know how he could get rid of this monster... He didn't know whether the undead crew would stay. There is a backup plan, but if he wants to walk out of the underground icehouse alive, he must kill the "Seraph".

"You have to kill me." Pan said with a smile, and Ke Lan seemed to be able to imagine the other person shrugging his shoulders with ease, "Although the main body of the 'meme' has happened many times, its origin is There is no change - you can understand that you two have exactly the same 'source code'... Although 'memes' are harmful in ways that are difficult to describe in words, these things have no effect on you."

"It can't work on me? But I was almost killed by it just now."

"That's because your own strength is too weak. In terms of strength alone, you are not even as good as the blind man you just drove away." Pan said.

"So? Are you going to perform a complete set of body strengthening surgeries on me in these five minutes, or are you going to just airdrop a Gundam?" Ke Lan asked rhetorically.

"I can give you the most direct 'power'..." Pan suddenly lowered his voice, "Hey...how about it, does this sound a lot like the words used by demons in myths and legends to seduce humans?"

"If there is a way to kill this guy in front of you, then don't talk nonsense." Ke Lan said, "One and a half minutes have passed. According to the time you said, this guy will break free in three and a half minutes."

"It's being released... Oh, yes, take a few steps back, be careful not to hit your feet."

Ke Lan immediately stepped back a few meters. Before he could ask what the other party was throwing, a metal bucket suddenly fell from the sky and hit him in front of him, making a loud "bang" sound.

"...Are you planning to hit me to death?" Ke Lan looked at the metal bucket. The bucket was only half a meter high and only about 30 centimeters in diameter... If it contained a weapon, then this Are the weapons a little too small?

Even Asano Akira's war blade couldn't fit into this metal bucket.

"Didn't I tell you to take two steps back? Can you blame me?" Pan complained, "Okay, hurry up and open the gift!"

"What... is inside here?" Ke Lan took a step forward. He found a biometric lock on the top of the metal barrel. He immediately pressed his palm to the scanning plate, but suddenly there was a faint sound at the tip of his index finger. A stinging sensation, like being stung by a small insect.

He raised his palm, just in time to see a drop of his blood being "sucked" into the scanning plate. Then, the two rows of red warning lights on both sides of the biometric lock suddenly jumped to green, and a hidden gap appeared in the The center of the barrel.

A lot of steaming light yellow viscous liquid flowed out from this gap. Before it flowed to the ground, it was frozen halfway and turned into a substance similar to amber.

Ke Lan quickly recognized that what flowed out of the metal bucket was LCL liquid commonly used in medical life-support cabins.

It is also commonly known as "water of life".

This liquid is very similar to the amniotic fluid in the womb. It can provide oxygen and nutrients to the organisms soaked in it. Under the action of specific electric current, it can even reshape the missing limbs of the organism. It is known as the "New Era" The greatest invention in the field of biomedicine", bar none.

Why is there LCL liquid in the metal barrel? Could it be that what's inside...is a living thing?

"It's a set of armor, a set of 'living armor' from Alpha Civilization." Pan replied.

"Living armor? ...living?" Ke Lan's movements stopped instantly, and he subconsciously wanted to withdraw his hand and stay as far away from the things in the metal barrel as possible.

"It is 'active' in the biological sense, but it is not an independent 'organism'. You can think of it as a xenogeneic organ that can be transplanted into the human body."

Xenogeneic organs transplanted into humans? This is not the first time Ke Lan has heard this statement. In the wilderness, there are many crazy exiles who will choose to transplant the organs or limbs of indigenous creatures into their own bodies in order to gain powerful power. But this kind of crazy transplantation The success rate of surgery is extremely low. Less than half of people can walk off the operating table alive, and of those less than half, more than 90% will die of infection and rejection within just a few days.

Out of a hundred people who receive xenogeneic organ transplants, only one person can survive for more than three months, but this lucky person will be accompanied by lifelong pain and suffering - exchanging one at this price is not that powerful. The power of surgery, whether it is cost-effective, only the person who undergoes the surgery can know the answer.

It goes without saying that the institute must have done some research on xenogeneic organ transplantation, but the results are probably not very successful... Compared with the already very mature cyborg prosthetic technology, the organs of indigenous creatures are really not safe at all. sex and stability.

"So, if I want to gain power, I have to transplant this 'living armor'... into my body?" Ke Lan asked.

"Otherwise?" Faintly, Ke Lan seemed to hear Pan chuckle, just like a devil laughing when he saw a human who couldn't withstand temptation, "But I have to remind you, don't wear this living body The process of armoring may not be comfortable... Moreover, it will have an irreversible impact on your body... As for the final result of this impact, I can't say."

"The process of putting on this living armor may not be comfortable... I'm afraid it's very painful, right?" Ke Lan sighed, "As for the irreversible effects... what do you mean specifically?"

"It's hard to say, we have done several in vivo experiments, but those 'volunteers' are too ordinary, and none of them can successfully transplant... So we don't know what will happen after you put it on." Pan After a pause, "Maybe, it might turn into a monster."

"...Can I choose not to wear it?"

"Yes, you have the right to refuse." Pan said immediately, "But the support we can provide you is limited to this."

"If I refuse, do you have any other ways to deal with Seraph?"

"Have a plan B."

"What is it?"

"Directly launch the core module of the Ark and the Earth's gene pool into space to start the second round of the 'Great Drift'... I believe that there must be a third planet suitable for human habitation in this universe." Pan said in a very serious tone. It's easy. If you ignore the content of his words, you can't tell that his plan is to abandon the Ark and the tens of millions of people on it.

"Running away, right?"

"Yes, the 'meme' thing is so unreasonable that it is impossible to deal with it with the existing methods of mankind. Since we can't defeat it, of course we can only choose to run away to preserve the fire."

[P.S. Thanks to book friend 20220111213202054 for the 10,000 starting coins. Congratulations on the birth of the 33rd helmsman of this book. 】