Alien Relic Hunter

But just after determining the direction, Valentina ran into trouble.

Logically speaking, the place with lower fog concentration should be away from the core of the forest. If she wanted to escape, it was best to go in this direction. But the problem is that their team entered the gray mist forest to go to the core of the forest. If they want to meet Ke Lan and the others, going deeper is the right choice.

Going out is going in the opposite direction... basically cutting off the possibility of meeting other people. What's more, in this weird forest, even if you keep walking in a straight line, you may not be able to get out smoothly.

When Ke Lan used "navigation" to lead everyone along a circuitous route to a depth of thirty-five kilometers, Valentina had already deeply understood this truth.

She bit her lip hard and without further hesitation, she controlled the Blasphemer mecha to walk in the direction with the highest concentration of fog.

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…

I don’t know how many hours ago.

"Three, two, one, retreat."

After Ke Lan shouted these words, he took a step back and disappeared into the thick mist.

But at the same time, he felt several huge forces coming from the safety rope, pulling the main rope forcefully from several different directions.

Ke Lan's expression suddenly changed - at first he thought there were biological weapons following them into the gray mist, but he soon realized that these pulling forces came from other people in the team.

"It's going to be bad!"

Ke Lan only remembered to gather a space hand and fish out Mo Jue, who was closest to him, to his side. Just when he was about to fish out the next person, the safety rope suddenly loosened, and forces from several other directions All disappeared in an instant.

"What on earth is going on?" Ke Lan looked at Mo Jue, who was imprisoned by the closed hands of space, and saw that her eyes were dull and her limbs were twisting desperately, as if she wanted to break free from the restraints of the hands of space.

Ke Lan just tried to relax his hand in space, and Mo Jue immediately squeezed out and walked in one direction.

Ke Lan could only force her back again.

"Hey, Mo Jue! Can you hear me?" Ke Lan patted her cheek first, but there was no response from the other party. He then gave her a big dick.

This time Mo Jue no longer struggled, because she was knocked unconscious by Ke Lan.

With Ke Lan's enhanced level, even without the blessing of Ze Luo's living armor, this slap was enough to knock Mo Jue's head away from his neck, and it was just a shock. This was already the result of Ke Lan's mercy.

Ke Lan took a deep breath and pulled back the safety rope that had lost its pulling power.

As he expected, several of the auxiliary ropes connecting the others were cut off - the two ropes of Asano Showa and Sanzosan were very flat, and they were obviously cut with a Nino alloy sword and a flying blade. As for Ivan The broken end of the rope was relatively rough, and he should have torn it off forcefully with the mechanical prosthetic leg.

It seems that several of them must have fallen into the same state of confusion as Mo Jue.

As for why Ke Lan himself was awake, he didn't know the reason. Maybe it was because Ze Luo was attached to his body, or maybe his symbiote's constitution allowed him to escape.

Ke Lan tried to wake up Mo Jue, but he injected him with four medicines used to force people to wake up, and Mo Jue still didn't wake up... He looked at the fifth syringe in his hand, and finally Still chose to give up.

The side effects of this thing are not small. If you hit it too much, you will die.

It took almost two hours for Mo Jue to wake up from the coma. At this time, her eyes had regained their vitality, but the whites of her eyes were covered with dense bloodshot eyes, as if she had stayed up all night for several consecutive nights. Same as sleeping.

"Hiss...it hurts..." Mo Jue naturally raised her hand and rubbed the back of her head, where she had just been slapped by Ke Lan. "I tripped and hit my head on the ground. ,It hurts."

She raised her head, met Ke Lan's eyes, and found that the latter's eyes were full of solemnity. Then, she moved her gaze to the cut safety rope on the ground, and her expression suddenly changed: "Where are the others? Why did the safety rope break and where did they go?”

Although Ke Lan relied on Ze Luo's power to expel the surrounding fog, in order not to attract attacks from biological weapons, he only maintained a minimum clearance range - before others escaped from the safety rope, Ke Lan once thought He expanded the clearance range to the limit, but after noticing Mo Jue's absent-minded state, he finally gave up on this decision.

At that time, the "beast tide" formed by biological weapons had not faded away, and thousands of monsters were only one step away from them. If the surrounding fog was cleared at this time, the attacks of these biological weapons would be attracted in an instant... ...Although Ke Lan is fully capable of protecting himself, the situation for others in a state of unconsciousness is very bad.

"Don't worry about it for now, answer my question." Ke Lan grabbed Mo Jue's wrist hard, "Do you know what happened to you just now?"

"Me? I just... I just stepped into the gray fog, and then I seemed to trip on something and fell to the ground... Now the back of my head still hurts like hell..."

As Mo Jue spoke, he stretched out his feet to touch the ground around him: "It's strange... there are no rocks or anything on the ground nearby. How could I trip?"

"Just now?" Ke Lan stared at her closely, frowning and said, "Are you sure it was just now?"

"Yes, just now." Mo Jue nodded in confusion, then said urgently, "You'd better leave me alone. Where are the other people in the team? Where are they now? You know that at this depth, you can't walk with the others. What is the concept of dispersion?"

"They have separated from me, and you are the only one I can catch in time." Ke Lan said solemnly.

"Me? I just fell down."

"When you say just now, how long ago do you mean?"

"How long? Probably... probably less than a minute, right? Maybe... thirty or forty seconds? Didn't we just enter the thick fog? You... what exactly do you want to ask?"

Thirty or forty seconds? The look of surprise on Ke Lan's face became more intense... Could it be that Mo Jue had no memory of the sleepwalking state he had just fallen into and the fact that he had knocked him unconscious? Could it be that there is also the power here that can modify people's memories?

Ke Lan still hasn't figured out why he has completely different memories from others under the glacier ruins... And in this forest, which is half a planet away from the glacier ruins, a similar plot is happening again. .

From the perspective of Mo Jue and the rest of the team, what happened just now is unimpressive, just like being "fragmented" by drinking... except that this situation is more natural than fragmentation, and the person involved will not even feel the time. Two hours have passed, and there is not even a brief sense of trance - in their view, they retreated into the gray mist with others one second, and were already standing in one place the next second In a strange place, only the broken safety rope around the waist was left to explain what "just" happened.

As for the middle process, it is as if it has been extracted by editing software. They will not even remember that they were in an unconscious state like sleepwalking for a period of time.

The memories before and after are all coherent, with almost no flaws or inconsistencies. If Ke Lan encounters this kind of thing, he will most likely not think that his memory has been tampered with, but will subconsciously think that he accidentally triggered it. A certain hidden teleportation device was teleported to another place in an instant.

No... there is still something that can be used as ironclad evidence of the missing part of the memory!

Ke Lan let go of Mo Jue's wrist and asked, "Do you still remember what time it was when we retreated into the gray fog?"

"This... I didn't pay attention, but I remember when I was attacked by those monsters, I glanced at the watch on my wrist when I was changing the magazine. It was two fifteen in the afternoon. Later, when I put on equipment and blocked monsters, I should use It took almost ten minutes, so it should be between 2:25 and 2:30 when we retreated into the gray fog. Oh, yes, just look at the watch now, and we need to be more accurate when inferring backwards! "

As Mo Jue spoke, he began to twist the air-tight valve on the wrist of the protective suit and pulled off the heavy gloves.

"Look at your watch carefully. What time is it now?" Ke Lan said to her with a solemn expression.

Mo Jue pushed up the sleeves of the protective suit, and then glanced at her watch - her expression did not change during the entire process.

A shuddering feeling suddenly crawled up Ke Lan's back.

"Look, it's two-thirty-two now, so the time when we retreat into the gray fog should be around two-thirty." Mo Jue's words made Ke Lan's inner uneasiness quickly expand - he grabbed Mo Jue With his arm, he pulled her close to him, lowered his head and observed the watch carefully.

This is an Omega mechanical watch. The style is the "Ranger Series" which is very popular among top mercenaries and relic hunters. This mechanical watch is famous for its stable and accurate travel time and strong resistance to harsh environments. It is purely mechanical. Driven, it can work continuously for 5-7 days after being fully wound, and the error will not exceed 10 seconds every 24 hours. Including the casing, all parts of the watch are made of antimagnetic materials, which will not be affected in any way even in a strong magnetic field environment.

At this moment, the time displayed on Mo Jue's "Ranger" dial was exactly what she said: "Two:32 p.m."

The second hand is still beating and the watch does not appear to be malfunctioning.

"Look at my watch." Ke Lan also took off his protective clothing and gloves and rolled up his sleeves.

The time displayed on his mechanical watch was "4:47 pm", which was more than two hours "faster" than Mo Jue's watch.

Ke Lan originally thought that this was the right time at this moment...but now, even he himself was not sure.

Maybe a small section of his memory has been deleted, but he just didn't realize it.

Tampering with people's memories is already outrageous, but even the time on the mechanical watch carried by the person whose memory has been tampered with can be modified. Apart from "His" power, Ke Lan couldn't think of anything else that could be done for a while. to this kind of thing.

Ze Luo can freeze time and space briefly, and Ke Lan himself also has the ability to stop time, but in the time-stop state, what changes is only the user's own perception of the flow of time - assuming that in the time-stop state, Ke Lan brings A watch, even if the time stop lasts for an hour, the watch on his hand still shows the time before the time stop started.

Not to mention that Mo Jue did not fall into that state of time freeze just now. When she fell into that state of sleepwalking, the watch on her wrist should not stop.

"Eh? Why does your watch say four forty-seven? Is it broken? Or did you forget to wind it up before?" Mo Jue asked doubtfully.

"No, the problem is your watch." Ke Lan slowly shook his head, "You probably don't know that more than two hours have passed since we retreated into the gray fog. The few of you entered the gray fog Then he lost consciousness and tried to break away from the safety rope like a zombie... The incident happened suddenly, and Ze Luo's ability was seriously weakened by the thick fog, so I only had time to catch you."

"What did you say?" Mo Jue was stunned. "You mean, it's been two hours since we retreated into the gray mist... But, I don't feel anything at all! It was obviously a few minutes ago..."

"That's because I knocked you unconscious." Ke Lan said.

"But I don't remember that I fainted... I just fell..." Mo Jue's voice became smaller and smaller, fear spreading in her pupils.

"Because that memory of yours has been deleted." Ke Lan continued, "About two-thirty, you entered the gray fog, lost consciousness and tried to break free from the safety rope. I caught you and knocked you unconscious until four-four. At fifteen minutes, you wake up from the coma, and the entire memory has been deleted."

"Just like how we all forgot about the existence of tannin before." Ke Lan added.

"B-but...how do you explain the time on the watch?" Mo Jue raised her hand with the watch in confusion, "You knocked me out, but you didn't pause my watch, did you? ?”

"I just discovered the watch at this time, so I can't be sure whether there was some kind of force that caused your watch to pause for more than two hours, or whether after you woke up, the time on your watch was set back to the time before your memory was deleted. At that point in time." Ke Lan paused and then said, "For the 'originator', since he can delete and modify people's memories without anyone noticing, how can he do anything about a mechanical creation like a watch? With small hands and feet, it shouldn’t be too difficult... To be honest, I can’t even be sure that my watch is accurate.”

[P.S. Thanks to Master Nobita’s reward of 9559 starting coins, the seventeenth hall master in this book was born, and the number of helmsmen finally exceeded 100. Regarding the plot of the Gray Mist Forest, I have revised the outline again and added some content. The completion of this book may be delayed. 】