Alien Relic Hunter

"Erosion? What erosion?"

"This is the situation that Hruni and the others encountered. This kind of erosion is like a virus, except that it can spread through cognition. The information contained in the recording is its carrier." Ke Lan explained.

Although Hruni has been very careful to delete content involving "forbidden knowledge", these recordings are still extremely dangerous. Ke Lan couldn't help but feel lucky that others were not around him at this time, otherwise, Mo Jue might not be the only one who was eroded.

"Why don't you have anything?" Mo Jue raised his hands in the air, a little at a loss. "What should I... do? Will I die?"

"Are you afraid of death?" Ke Lan stared into her eyes and asked word by word.

"With the current methods, this kind of 'erosion'... cannot be treated, right?" Mo Jue took a few deep breaths and asked in as calm a tone as possible.

Ke Lan nodded, noncommittal.

Although Hruni mentioned that it might be possible to prevent the erosion from deepening by deleting memories, but to carry out that operation, the victim must be put into a state of deep sleep... and once entering deep sleep, Ke Lan felt that , Mo Jue will most likely be like Hruni... dreaming of that "terrifying starry sky".

By that time, I am afraid that even if all the memories of the eroded person are deleted, it will be impossible to save them.

Although Ke Lan has not "seen" the starry sky described by Hruni in the recording, when Ke Lan uses the Holy Word, the gaze from "Him" is like the mass of the entire vast starry sky being pressed onto Ke Lan. Above Lan's consciousness... This feeling is difficult to describe exactly in words, but Ke Lan's subconscious kept telling him that the essence of the two is the same.

The "terrible starry sky" that Hruni saw can actually be understood as "His" sight - how to say that very classic saying: When you look at the abyss, the abyss is also looking at you .

When Hruni saw the "starry sky", it was actually equivalent to "His" sight sweeping across Hruni... In layman's terms, when things have developed to this point, "He" as a hunter has already set his sights. The prey "Hruni" accidentally entered the hunter's sight. At this time, it was impossible for the prey to pretend that it didn't know anything and withdraw from the hunter's sight.

"I'm not afraid of death." Mo Jue said to Ke Lan, "In fact, as soon as I followed you into the depths of the forest, I already thought that I would die in this place."

"But." Mo Jue changed the topic, "Even if I die, I hope to die with dignity, instead of being treated as an experimental subject and being torn into pieces by a group of white coats on the operating table... I can't live, I want to die. cannot."

"...Do you think I will use you as experimental material?" Ke Lan twitched the corner of his mouth. I have to say that Mo Jue's divergent thinking is also broad enough - but from her perspective, she would think so , which is completely reasonable.

If Hruni can repair the "Shaojiang Kai" frigate and return to the Ark, the Immortal Crew's first choice is definitely not to kill him, but to control him... The members of the Crew's Guild themselves are also plagued by erosion. With such a highly corrosive living sample that has been watched by "him", the undead crew will absolutely spare no effort to study it.

What's more, Hruni still carries the "secret" from the Gray Mist Forest.

It is easy to artificially create a corroded person who is on the verge of the critical point, but it is difficult to create a "such an excellent" corroded person... After accepting the "forbidden knowledge", the vast majority of people, Like other crew members, their bodies will undergo a high degree of mutation in a short period of time, and eventually transform into "corrosion".

Even for symbionts that inserted Alpha human gene fragments through gene editing projects, only Ke Lan and the "Prophet" were able to survive for a long time, while "mortal bodies" like Hruni persisted for a whole life under severe erosion. Nian's physique can be said to be one in a million.

From Mo Jue's point of view, Ke Lan and his group represent the official Ark. With the usual behavior of Ark's upper management, it is really possible that Mo Jue will be captured and used as experimental material to study human body erosion.

Although her value was vastly different from that of Hruni... But the key was that Mo Jue didn't know that the undead crew would be fully capable of mass-producing this "experimental material".

"Isn't it possible?" Mo Jue said as he slowly took a few steps back, then pulled out the pistol from his waist at an extremely fast speed and put it against his temple.

She drew the gun very quickly, but in the eyes of Ke Lan, who had the ability to stop time, the word "fast" was not at all related to her. Her entire set of actions was broken down into dozens of frames by Ke Lan, and Ke Lan had something to do with each frame. Opportunity to take the gun from her hand.

But Ke Lan didn't do that... using strength to suppress the other party would only make the other party distrust him even more.

The next exploration process is still long. If possible, Ke Lan still hopes to have a good relationship with this "lumberjack". No matter how strong the opponent is, in such a strange and dangerous place, it is better to have one more trustworthy teammate than one less. Even if the other person can only talk to him and chat with him, it is better than wandering alone in the forest.

"Rather than being brought back to the Ark alive by you, I would rather die here." Mo Jue raised his voice slightly, and pressed his index finger slightly harder on the trigger.

Ke Lan could see that as long as she showed any intention of bringing Mo Jue back for "research", she would pull the trigger without hesitation.

"Then you can rest assured. I don't have any good impressions of those guys at the institute... They still tried to treat me as a research subject. I can completely understand your mood, so can you put down the gun first?" Ke Lan advised.

"No. I...I can't completely believe you yet...I..." Mo Jue originally wanted to negotiate terms with Ke Lan, but just when she was about to speak, she found that she didn't know what kind of terms she should negotiate. .

The only thing Mo Jue had that could be used as a bargaining chip was his own life... But the problem was that Ke Lan couldn't offer any bargaining chips.

No verbal assurance could make her feel relieved. And even if she keeps a gun pointed at her temple, Ark will have countless ways to safely disarm her after returning.

"Okay, if you really want to die, then you can shoot. I have no objection." Ke Lan suddenly gave up persuading, shrugged, and made a "please" gesture to Mo Jue.

Mo Jue was stunned for a moment, and then a look of confusion appeared on her face. However, she did not ask why Ke Lan's attitude changed so quickly. She just pretended to be relaxed and said: "Then stay away a little, be careful. Splattered with blood and brain matter.”

The pistol in her hand was a large-caliber hunting pistol. If she were to shoot her head, not to mention making a hole, her head would probably be blown off.

Of course, the greater possibility is that it will explode like a watermelon that was thrown to the ground.

The inner hesitation only lasted for half a second before Mo Jue pulled the trigger.

The gun didn't go off, and her head didn't explode like a watermelon.

She raised the pistol in front of her in some astonishment, pulled out the magazine, opened the slide, and checked inside and out.

There was no malfunction in the gun itself. She even tried firing at the wall. The sound of the gun was thunderous, and the large-caliber armor-piercing bullet opened a hole in the metal-lined wall.

What happened just now?

Mo Jue didn't think about it, she pointed the gun at her head again, gritted her teeth and pulled the trigger.

The gun still didn't go off.

One rush of strength, another failure, three failures... When the first suicide attempt failed, most of the impulse had receded. When she pulled the trigger on herself for the second time, her hand was already shaking slightly, and Now, she suddenly found that she didn't even have the courage to check the pistol again.

"You did it, right?" Mo Jue raised his head, looked at Ke Lan, and asked.

She was right. With Ze Luo's spatial ability, it was very easy to make a purely mechanical pistol unable to fire. Ke Lan could even directly freeze Mo Jue in place, then slowly walk up to her and take the gun out of her hand.

"Look, you have no ability to resist at all. As long as I want to, you can't even commit suicide. So you might as well try to believe me once. I will never hand you over to a research institute or any other scientific research institution. , and I won’t treat you as experimental material.”

In fact, Ke Lan didn't say anything clearly: With Mo Jue's anti-corrosion ability, her body has already undergone changes just after listening to these deleted recordings, so there is a high probability that she will not be able to survive Ke Lan and the others. Coming out of the gray mist forest...

Just like that Jack Garcia...she doesn't have much time left.

"..." Mo Jue's eyes widened and he stared at Ke Lan for several seconds before dropping the pistol on the ground and sitting on the ground in frustration.

"Even if you don't treat me as experimental material...then why don't you let me die? Dr. Liu in the recording has made it very clear that this 'disease' cannot be cured by human medical treatment. Technology can’t even extend my life... I know I only have a few days left to live.”

Ke Lan sighed. Although he didn't say the hurtful truth just now, Mo Jue obviously knew this in his heart.

"You are not even afraid of death, are you still afraid of the process of dying?" Ke Lan stepped forward and pulled Mo Jue up from the ground. "Humans have no treatment, but this does not mean that Alpha civilization does not have it. Maybe, In the core area of ​​the Gray Mist Forest, there is a way to slow down the erosion process."

"Are you comforting me?" Mo Jue showed a sad smile.

"That's what you think." Ke Lan said, "But I think one can never give up hope until the last moment... Don't worry, if you really want to become that kind of monster in the end, I will help you get rid of it. of."

"I hope you won't break your promise..."

"That Dr. Maozi who just separated from us, Ivan, you should have noticed his robotic arm, right?" Ke Lan said.

Mo Jue nodded and said, "Did he replace his arm with a cybernetic prosthesis to facilitate surgical operations in the wild?"

"No, his original arm was infected by the cells of the Seed of Corrosion."

When she heard the words Seed of Corrosion, Mo Jue's expression changed very obviously - as a hell paratrooper, she knew a lot of information. During her service, in the combat missions she participated in, Most of the targets were members of heretical sects or settlements.

Anyone who knows something about heretical sects and Seeds of Corrosion knows that being infected and parasitized by Seeds of Corrosion is an "incurable disease" in the true sense. Even though Ark has mastered the method of restraining the seeds of erosion, there is still no way to save those "containers".

The only thing they can do is to kill the container and the seeds of erosion in the container.

Mo Jue's commander also told her that if a comrade is accidentally infected during combat operations, they must be "treated" in time. As for the method of treatment, she can guess it without telling her.

This thing is just like the zombie virus in the movie... But later in the movie, even if the protagonists are infected, they can always find serum or antidote or something like that. But in reality, the institute has been studying the corrosion seeds for so long, but it has not been able to save any infected people.

"He...how long has he been infected?" Mo Jue couldn't help but ask.

"Two years. However, the erosion seed cells in his body have been suppressed. In two years, there has been no change in the infection process." Ke Lan said, "The method of suppression was not discovered by people at the institute; Comes from the ruins of an Alpha civilization. We all thought he was certain to die at first, just like you are certain to die now."

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[P.P.S. I’m already writing an extra about Ark’s special food. You can leave a message to tell me what your favorite food is and provide me with some inspiration~]