Alien Relic Hunter

Even if you directly block the signals transmitted by the pain nerves, it will be useless... This kind of pain is born directly from the depths of the origin of consciousness. In the second point of the Second Class, it is "pain that goes straight to the soul."

Ke Lan only felt that his self-consciousness was on the verge of collapse. On the edge of extreme pain, he seemed to have an ecstatic feeling that he was about to fly to a higher-dimensional world...

"Damn it...am I a jerk?" I don't know why, but at this critical moment, this kind of nonsense flashed through his mind, "That's not right, I obviously know how to play doubles with the eldest lady. They all hold the C position, how can they be jerking off?"

As time went by, the unbearable pain gradually weakened, and Ke Lan's mind gradually returned to clarity. He suddenly found that he and the rest of the team were standing in a cave thousands of meters deep. In the giant pit, as far as the eye can see, the ground is full of remaining rotten tissue, and even the walls of the giant pit are covered with rapidly shrinking flesh and blood... In just ten seconds, The original erosion seed that originally stretched across the wilderness like a mountain range has almost completely disappeared. Its corpse has been evaporated like snow under the scorching sun. Only the disgusting smell remains in this huge pit. Fishy smell.

"Ke Lan - you, are you okay?" Seeing Ke Lan stand up, Ivan asked quickly.

"Maybe, maybe, maybe it's okay..." Ke Lan touched the back of his head. Fortunately, his hair was still there... With the burning sensation just now, he almost thought he was going to be burned into a bald head again.

"Are you sure?" Ivan pushed up the goggles on the bridge of his nose - this thing is not a simple pair of goggles, but a high-tech detection device that integrates multiple functions, just like the one worn by Lin Qiming's secretary. A pair of AR glasses is almost the same. It's just that the one Ivan is wearing is a customized model specially designed for medical personnel.

When he looked at Ke Lan, various red alarm prompts flashed together on the lenses.

"The absorption process just now was quite painful, but now I don't seem to feel anything." Ke Lan shrugged and replied.

"Do you know what your body temperature is now?" Ivan's tone was stiff.

"How much?" Ke Lan was stunned for a moment and put his palm on his forehead. "Looking at your appearance, it shouldn't be thirty-seven degrees Celsius, right? But I don't feel that my skin is very hot, either?"

"If this thing isn't broken -" Ivan tapped the frame of the goggles with the pad of his index finger, "it detected that your body temperature is... sixty-five degrees Celsius."

"Sixty-five degrees Celsius?" Ke Lan was startled. Ordinary people's lives are in danger if their body temperature reaches above forty degrees Celsius. Although the body temperature of enhanced and modified people is higher than that of natural humans, it rarely exceeds fifty. Celsius... As for the value of 65 degrees Celsius, if it were Layton, the alarm in his prosthetic central control chip would have been ringing long ago.

The most important thing is that Ke Lan did not feel any heat, and the temperature of his skin was the same as usual.

"Isn't it right... could it be that your glasses are broken?" Ke Lan asked subconsciously.

Ivan turned his attention to the others. The alarm on the lens immediately went out, and the monitoring value dropped back to the normal threshold. However, when he turned his head to look at Ke Lan again, the temperature reading began to rise again. Jumped.

"There is no problem with the equipment." Ivan shook his head.

"Then feel it yourself to see if I have a fever." Ke Lan stretched out his wrist to Ivan.

Sixty-five degrees Celsius, as a body temperature, this number is very exaggerated, but if it is just a temperature measurement, it is equivalent to a cup of warm water, which is far from scalding your hands. Without thinking much, Ivan took off his gloves and grabbed Ke Lan's wrist.

Ke Lan's wrist is not hot at all, not even warm. All Ivan can feel through touch is a strange coldness, combined with the tough but delicate and smooth texture of Ke Lan's skin - he I almost suspected that what I was holding was not a human wrist, but the limb of some kind of cold-blooded animal with smooth skin.

"Strange?" This time it was Ivan's turn to be stunned. He looked at the red warning sign on the lens and the body temperature value that had soared to almost 70 degrees. However, the things he touched in his hands were extremely cold. It didn't look like a warm-blooded creature at all... He couldn't help but begin to wonder whether there was a malfunction in the equipment or something wrong with his sensory organs.

"Hey, it's true. I just turned on the temperature detection system... Tsk, it's even more exaggerated than your doctor's glasses. It directly shows that Ke Lan's body surface temperature is more than 100 degrees Celsius -" Leiton shouted, "If you just hold his wrist like this, won't your hands be cooked?"

"If you don't believe me, try it yourself." Ivan let go of Ke Lan's wrist and took a step back.

"Huh?" Layton hesitated for a moment, "This is a high temperature of more than 100 degrees. Even if I am a transformed person, my biological body is still a mortal body..."

"Do you think something's wrong with my hands?" Ivan asked.

"I think your equipment is malfunctioning...cough." Thirty-three rolled his eyes at the two of them and said to himself, "If the temperature around Ke Lan's body could be that high, the light would have been It is distorted due to changes in gas density, but have you seen this phenomenon now?"

"That seems to be the case..." Leiton stretched out his hand dubiously and touched Ke Lan's arm, "Hey... why is it so cold? It's like... like a fucking corpse..."

"You don't have to say anything if you can't speak..." Ke Lan glanced at Layton speechlessly, "Don't curse me to death."

"No, I'm just making an analogy... But having said that, your body temperature is obviously not even 37 degrees Celsius, right? It can't be that Ivan and I's equipment failed at the same time, right?"

At this moment, Ze Luo suddenly walked over, walked around Ke Lan, then raised his head and said, "Your temperature measurement system uses the principle of infrared temperature measurement, right?"

"Yes." Layton replied, "I don't know what the structure of Ivan's glasses is, but most of the equipment that can measure temperature from a long distance now uses infrared."

"That's right." Ze Luo said, "Although Ke Lan's body temperature is not that high, there is a very terrifying energy flowing in his body now, and a small part of this energy overflows from his body surface. , even though it’s just a little bit, it’s enough to cause huge interference to your testing equipment.”

"Energy? Are you referring to the drop of blood that Ke Lan absorbed?" Leighton muttered, "I thought at first that after he absorbed that thing, even if he wouldn't become a big guy like the original erosion seed, at least he would Be like the Hulk in the movie."

"Speaking of changes..." Ivan pondered for a moment and looked up at Alexander, who was a few kilometers away. "You have now absorbed the blood of the true god from the original erosion seed. Can you kill that thing?"

"I don't know... To be honest, if Ze Luo hadn't been able to 'see' the energy flow in my body, I would have doubted that I had absorbed that drop of blood at all." Ke Lan said with a look of embarrassment on his face, "But apart from just now Apart from the pain during absorption, I didn't feel any changes in my body, even the living armor——"

As he spoke, Ke Lan's arm was instantly covered with a layer of blood-red armor.

"There are still some changes in the living armor, that is, it has changed from the texture similar to blood scab to the crystal clear feeling like ruby ​​now, and the hardness has also increased... But I want to kill it with this change alone. 'Alexander', no way."

After Ke Lan finished speaking, he reached out and pressed the earphone: "You have been silent since just now. Now that the original erosion seed is dead and I have absorbed the blood of the true god, shouldn't you say something?"

"I thought you could guess it." The information dealer said meaningfully.

"Guess what?"

"If you think of the blood of God as a box containing power, then you need a key to open the box and release the contents."

"Can you please stop telling riddles at this time?"

"Well, it's actually very simple. It's not enough to obtain His power. You also need to get His permission before this power can be used by you."

"His...permission?"

"You should have mastered the method of communicating with that existence, right?" the intelligence dealer said, "Even the black bishops with mediocre qualifications in the heretical sect can do it. With your 'capital', you should be able to make him Will I keep my eyes on you for a moment?"

"You mean...'Holy Word'?!" Ke Lan's breath suddenly suffocated.

"Otherwise, is there a second way?"

"All right……"

Ke Lan glanced at the blasphemer and said, "Valentina, you are responsible for taking everyone out of the battlefield. This place... will soon become unsafe."

"What are you going to do?!" Ivan grabbed Ke Lan, "The Holy Word refers to the sacrificial ceremony of those black bishops, right? Are you planning to sacrifice yourself?"

"No, no, no... I am different from those black bishops. In fact, I have already used this ability before." Ke Lan said.

"when?"

"During the East Ninth District incident, a mixed team from the Security Bureau and the Guards encountered Yui Arasaka, whose body was highly alienated... Well, at that time I thought she had been transformed into a radiation monster, but now I see that Yui Arasaka is probably He is also a black bishop." Ke Lan continued, "In the face of overwhelming power, the entire team was almost wiped out. Only Victoria and I survived. In order to get rid of Arasaka Yui, I was determined to die. I followed the example of the black bishop I met before and recited the prayer in Alpha language..."

"Then what?" Ivan asked.

"Then Yui Arasaka died... To be precise, she was completely wiped out from this world, leaving nothing behind."

"What about you? Shouldn't using this ability have serious side effects?" Ivan spoke faster and faster, "According to the records of the Security Bureau, those black bishops who initiated the sacrificial ceremony, regardless of whether the ceremony was If it succeeds, no one will survive afterwards...the mortality rate is 100%!"

"I also said that I am different from those black bishops..." Ke Lan said, "After using the power of that 'god' to obliterate Arasaka Yui, nothing abnormal happened to my body..."

"But the situation is different now! Do you think Arasaka Yui can be compared with a being like Alexander?" Ivan said firmly, "Although I know very little about the principles of the sacrificial ceremony, I know very well that the most important thing is One of the rules is 'equivalent exchange'!"

"What kind of equivalent exchange?" Layton on the side looked a little confused, "Doctor, what are you talking about? I don't understand it at all..."

"The meaning of equivalent exchange is how much power you pay in exchange for power." Ivan said word by word, "The essence of the sacrifice ceremony is a transaction. The weights on both sides of the scale are what you can offer to the gods. sacrifices, and the power that the gods can bestow on you... is embodied in the black bishops, that is, the stronger their lives are, the stronger the monsters they can summon... And if you want to defeat a behemoth like Alexander, you must The price that needs to be paid can be imagined.”

"In other words, even if Ke Lan can kill this big guy, he himself will definitely die, right?" Leiton's face turned pale.

"That's basically it." Ivan nodded vigorously.

"No." Ke Lan shook his head, "I think you confused something."

"What's up?"

"Although the essence of the 'Holy Word' is the same as the sacrificial ceremony, I am not a sacrifice. How could I be sacrificed?" Ke Lan took a deep breath and said to everyone, "The reason why those black-clothed bishops They died because they were using nothing but nothing to sacrifice. Except for their own lives, they had nothing to sacrifice. But I am different. I have already obtained this drop of God’s blood. The power to defeat Alexander is contained in this drop of blood, why should I sacrifice myself to that god in exchange for power?"

"But--"

"Stop it, Zeluo, Valentina, take them away." Ke Lan said decisively, "I will give you ten minutes, you can run as far away from the battlefield as possible... Wait a moment, I I don’t know what will happen, but it will definitely not be a small scene.”

"Okay." Ze Luo nodded. Ivan and Leighton were about to step forward to stop Ke Lan, but found that their bodies could no longer move. In the blink of an eye, Ze Luo threw them onto the back of the Blasphemer mecha.

"Try not to die." Thirty-three nodded to Ke Lan, "At least don't die before me." Then he also climbed onto the machine.

As for Asano Akira, he handed the sword in his hand to Ke Lan - this was the first time Ke Lan saw his sword leaving his hand... Before that, even Asano Akira's sword was gone when he was sleeping. It was in his arms.

"You even lent me your 'wife'?" Ke Lan couldn't help but joke, "What if I accidentally break it?"

"As long as it can help you." Akira Asano remained expressionless, "It doesn't matter."