Alien Relic Hunter

"What?" Ke Lan was slightly startled. The consciousness that now controls the corpse to say these words should be the original consciousness of the captain of the "Shaojiang Kai" frigate Hruni.

"Get out of here quickly! Don't waste time...otherwise...or it'll be too late!" The body of the corpse was twitching violently, as if something was about to come out of its chest. Its hands were tightly Covering his heart, he knelt down on the ground with his whole body, pressing his head against the ground, and his back covered with wounds arched into a shrimp shape.

"What is there in the core of the Gray Mist Forest? Isn't your mission to blow up the engine wreckage? Why are you like this?" Taking advantage of the brief moment when Hruni's consciousness was clear, Ke Lan asked one after another.

"No... there are no engine wreckage sites in the forest at all! Wrong! The information is completely wrong! That's——"

At this point, the corpse, or Hruni, suddenly stopped. It no longer made any sound from its mouth, only black pus and blood with a strong fishy smell continued to overflow from its lips and teeth.

Its head was tilted to one side, its cheeks pressed against the ground, and it used its shoulders to support the weight of its upper body. Ke Lan could clearly hear the squirming sounds coming from its body, as if there was a leech inside. It seems to be moving through flesh and blood.

"Hello? Hello! Hrunny! Hrunny Yang! Captain Yang!?"

No matter how Ke Lan calls it, there is no longer any response from the eclipse - this feeling is like watching the author of an online novel suddenly update to the most critical plot, suddenly cut off more chapters and then disappear from the world, it is enough to make a person irritable. Pull directly to full grid.

Through Duan Zai's "communication", Ke Lan only obtained two pieces of information from "The Skeleton" Hruni Yang:

The first piece of information is that the "Alfa Civilization" has probably betrayed the great god they believe in. Ke Lan has already expected this... Starting from the glacier ruins, along the way, various There are clues and clues that prove that the Alpha civilization seems to be brewing a huge "conspiracy". On the surface, they worship "him" and regard him as a god, but in fact, there has always been "another plan" going on secretly. .

But obviously, this plan should have failed, but Ke Lan didn't know whether the failure was because he was discovered by "him" or for other reasons... But the disappearance of Alpha civilization is definitely inseparable from this plan.

The second piece of information is that there is no engine wreckage site in the core area of ​​the Gray Mist Forest. The information is wrong.

There is nothing wrong with the first half of the sentence, it is very clear, but the second half of the sentence is a bit elusive - wrong information, does it mean that the information obtained by the "Special Operations Fleet" is wrong, or is it wrong? , even the entire undead crew was kept in the dark?

There are many sources of information for the Undead Crew, but most of them related to the secrets of Alpha Civilization are obtained by relying on the symbiote to interpret the Alpha Civilization documents unearthed from the ruins... Then, this leads to the third Two questions: Is the initial document obtained by the Immortal Crew wrong, or is there some deviation in the interpretation process?

It would be great if Hruni could finish the second half of the sentence - there are only two pieces of information in total, and the second piece is still incomplete, barely counting as 1.75 pieces.

Of course, for Ke Lan, the most important thing is this incomplete "0.75 pieces" of information.

"There are no engine wreckage sites at all in the core area of ​​the Gray Mist Forest."

The mission record of the special operations fleet was modified...or in other words, the modified version that was originally saved to the hard drive...Although they were severely attacked by biological weapons, maybe they did not retreat halfway... …

The failure of the mission is probably directly related to the secret hidden in the gray fog forest - and it is this secret that turned the captain of the "Shaojiang Kai" frigate Hruny Yang into a corpse, and made Mo Jue's father hate him. I will never forget this "man-eating forest".

Ke Lan couldn't help but regret. His choice seemed a bit too reckless.

Perhaps, if we first look for those fleet veterans who participated in that mission, we will get more valuable information...

But soon, Ke Lan erased the thought of regret from his mind.

This assumption does not exist - whether it is a special operations team of more than a dozen people like the 776 Special Forces Team, or a Class C fleet like the "Special Operations Fleet" consisting of five battleships and thousands of officers and soldiers (Note 1) ...As long as the undead crew decides to completely block the news, no one will be able to survive until now.

Mo Jue's father is just an exception, and this exception cannot be copied... As for the other "veterans" of the lumberjack team, they may be the surviving members of the "Special Operations Fleet", or they may be some special forces that escaped death. Team members...but they all have one characteristic in common: their personal files have more or less bugs, and their existence is difficult to be discovered by ordinary search methods.

And if Ke Lan uses the channels of the Undead Crew Club to find these people, it will only alert the enemy - other members of the Crew Club will be aware of his intentions first and kill these "survivors" before he does.

The undead crew will never care about individual lives. Even if there are a thousand or ten thousand people who know about it, they will kill these thousand or ten thousand people without hesitation.

Although this is cruel, Ke Lan cannot admit that their approach is the safest - if these people who know the secret spread the news, and then communicate with each other... it is very likely that most of the people on the Ark will People will be transformed into this kind of monster called "corrosion".

The "memetic crisis" in the institute was only "infectious" by "seeing" it, and it had already caused so much damage... So as long as you "know His existence", you will be "contagious" The cognitive pollution of "erosion" is absolutely devastating to human civilization.

After the undead crew silenced the survivors, it was almost impossible for Ke Lan to run into the gray mist forest to search for clues.

Now, another question is placed in front of Ke Lan:

Since there are no engine wreckage sites in the Gray Mist Forest, it means that Ke Lan has no chance of finding any living Alpha people - communicating with the survivors of the Alpha civilization, which is the ultimate goal of his trip!

If he had known earlier that there were no engine wreckage sites in the Gray Mist Forest, he might not have planned this exploration operation at all.

The secret that exists in the Gray Mist Forest is related to "forbidden knowledge"... But whether this "forbidden knowledge" is the part of the information that Ke Lan wants to know is unknown.

Regarding the degree of erosion and super-erosion, Ke Lan suddenly thought of a very appropriate metaphor in his mind.

If the progress bar of the degree of erosion is compared to the remaining capacity of a hard disk, then those "forbidden knowledge" are files stored in the hard disk that cannot be deleted. When the hard disk is completely filled, the computer will not be able to run. , that is, a "super eclipse" occurs - Although Ke Lan is also very interested in the secrets hidden in the gray fog forest, his "hard drive remaining space" is only so large. If these "files" are stored, I am afraid that There would be no chance to explore the things he wanted to know most.

You can only choose part of these "forbidden knowledge" to absorb. If you choose "all of them", the result will only be to become this kind of monster called "corrosion".

For "low-level civilizations" like humans, thirst for knowledge and curiosity will bring progress, but they can also bring destruction - no matter which angle you look at it, this is an eternal truth.

"Do you want to retreat?" Ke Lan asked himself in his heart.

If he goes back this time, the Undead Crew Guild may take some coercive measures to restrict his freedom. Although Ke Lan now has an equal status with other crew guild members, if the majority of the crew guild members decide to restrict his freedom, , then he cannot go against the will of the majority.

In this matter, Ke Lan felt that Demeter and others would not stand on his side. This can be seen from Demeter's refusal to inform Ke Lan of those things.

He said that sharing information should not be that simple.

Ke Lan always felt a little unwilling to go back like this... Not only would he not gain any substantial gains, but he would also completely lose the initiative in action. Even other members of the God Hunting Group may be implicated. .

But if they continue to explore deeper... what they will encounter, what will happen, what will be the result... Ke Lan has no idea at all.

If the core area of ​​the Gray Mist Forest is an engine wreckage site, the only question after arriving there is whether the Alpha civilization survivor who stayed behind the engine wreckage is not hostile to humans and is willing to communicate with "No. 92" But now, all the previous assumptions have been completely overturned because of Khruni Yang's words.

Originally, although the map was covered with fog, at least the end point was clearly visible, but now, even the end point of the journey was completely hidden in the thick fog.

This exploration operation now only leaves unknowns and dangers.

When Hruni Yang was conscious, he frantically asked Ke Lan to leave here... Maybe he should really do what it said?

Just when Ke Lan began to waver in his heart, Hruni, who had been kneeling on the ground and stopped moving... no, it should be called "corrosion" at this time... stood up again.

The facial features on its face disappeared, as if it had been dissolved by a special solvent. The face became smooth and blank. Through the pale and almost transparent skin, Ke Lan could vaguely see the purple blood vessels underneath. ...This is not like a head, but more like a large ostrich egg covered with skin and flesh.

The movement of the corpse was a little stiff, and its limb joints made an uncomfortable "clicking" sound. The wounds on its body began to rot, and the tiny tentacles melted into pus and flowed along the body surface.

An extremely exaggerated bulge appeared on its chest, and the ribs seemed to have been completely deformed—even the chests of severely deformed patients with chicken breast disease did not bulge so much.

Something is growing inside its chest...

"Seed of erosion? Or a monster like an alien?" Ke Lan couldn't help but take two steps back. The space power from Zeluo was ready. As long as there was any abnormal movement in the "corrosion", the force of hundreds of thousands of tons would He immediately slapped it on the ground and pressed it into a piece of flesh film not much thicker than paper.

Accompanied by a creepy sound, the chest wall of "The Skeleton" began to crack, and a football-sized vesicle rolled out from it.

Then, the corpse fell backwards, completely losing the breath of life.

"What's this……?"

Ke Lan's eyes were immediately attracted to the things on the ground.

This thing looks like a swim bladder in a fish (commonly known as a fish bubble), and inside it, curled up is an embryo that has not yet matured.

An embryo with the rudiments of a human fetus.

[P.S. Thanks to the high V account from more than ten years ago, all the 500 starting coins were lost; thanks to book friend 20190117204938186 for the 159 starting coins. 】

[P.P.S. Note 1: Regarding the fleet classification standards of Ark. The Ark First Cruise Fleet that hit Leviathan before, several fleets that participated in the Battle of the Ancient Copper City Ruins, and the Zero Fleet that defended Yaguna Kotor, all belong to the "Class A fleet", except for the Zero Fleet. In addition to the "Yagunaktor" as the flagship, the flagship of the "Class A fleet" is generally an aircraft carrier battleship. It has between 20 and 50 battleships of various levels under its jurisdiction. The number of combat troops starts at 20,000. No upper limit. As for the logistics ships and logistics personnel, there will only be more, not less, than the combat troops.

"Class B fleet" generally refers to the "squadron" deployed for the convenience of command. Generally, a "Class A fleet" will contain three to four "Class B fleets". The flagship of the "Class B fleet" is often only small in size. A "secondary battleship" inferior to the aircraft carrier battleship.

As for the "C-Class Fleet", it is an independent establishment. This organization is not fixed, but temporary - for example, in order to perform a certain task, several warships are temporarily organized into a fleet. This fleet belongs to the "C-level fleet."

However, the size of the "C-class fleet" will generally not exceed the "B-class fleet", but there is no limit on the level of the flagship. The number of ships must be greater than one - as a more extreme example, suppose a newly launched aircraft carrier battleship is in If they perform the task of "going to the delivery location" under the escort of a logistics maintenance ship, then these two warships can also be regarded as a "C-level fleet."

Regarding the fleet level, here are some supplements to the previously vague settings. Some readers may think that the word count is too high, but the ending part contains a lengthy description of the fleet battle. The battlefield will not be limited to the surface of Planet Alpha, but will expand to the entire star system where Planet Alpha is located, so I think an explanation is still necessary. 】