Alien Relic Hunter

"What...what's going on? What...has happened to my body?"

Mo Jue felt that his thinking ability seemed to have stagnated for a moment... It seemed like a moment, and it seemed like a long time passed.

In her field of vision, everything around her became extremely slow. Just when she was so surprised that she wanted to call Ke Lan, a vague line of sight traveled through countless spaces and times and was projected on her. of body and soul.

The pain, like being struck by lightning, suddenly woke Mo Jue out of her trance. She suddenly discovered that she could actually hear the "sounds" emitted by the corpses in front of her - not only could she hear them, but She can also understand the meaning of those meaningless babbles!

"Stop them... Don't let the intruders disturb the great god's sacrificial ceremony... Stop them..."

Although the lips of these eroded skeletons have not moved from beginning to end, they are constantly repeating "this sentence".

"What's stopping it? What ritual?"

Before Mo Jue's brain could react, a pair of sharp claws had already pierced her chest, tearing her entire chest apart!

This was an injury that could kill someone in an instant, but Mo Jue didn't feel any impact on her body except for the pain... Even, under her subconscious counterattack, the pair of thorns that pierced her chest The sharp claws were all broken off!

"This is...my power?"

Mo Jue was shocked by his own actions - the sharp claws that had just been unharmed by the resonance of three crystal energy bombs were now broken by his own hands? !

"Have I... turned into that kind of... 'monster'?" Mo Jue couldn't help but froze on the spot. She lowered her head in disbelief and looked at the wound on her chest -

The wound has disappeared, and even the scar has completely disappeared, but the originally wheat-colored skin has shown a strange red color, as if burning magma is flowing under the skin.

"No!" Although she had been mentally prepared for a long time, when this moment really came, Mo Jue still couldn't accept the reality. She hugged her head, knelt down on the ground with a "pop", and shook her head desperately. head.

"Don't... don't... I don't want to become a monster..."

Two corpses rushed forward. One of them strung up Mo Jue's body with an arm that had been transformed into a bone blade. The other corpse had hundreds of empty tube structure tentacles shot out from its body, stabbing into the body. He entered her body and sucked her flesh and blood crazily.

The huge pain caused by the body tissue being crushed and sucked suddenly drowned out Mo Jue's last shred of reason. The strange redness instantly spread all over her body, and countless red spikes shot out from every corner of her body. When she came out...she, who could still maintain her human form, turned into a huge crimson "sea urchin" in the blink of an eye.

The two corpses that were attacking her were suddenly smashed into sieves by these spikes... This time, the roles of the absorber and the one being absorbed were completely reversed, and the two corpses moved in just a short time. It shriveled up in a second, leaving only a layer of hard skin wrapped around the skeleton, while the spikes on the "sea urchin" transformed by Mo Jue became increasingly bright red and gorgeous. .

Hundreds of tentacles extended out from the gaps between the spikes, sweeping towards everything that moved in the bridge except Ke Lan. Every time these tentacles grab a corpse, they will drag it close to the "sea urchin" and use those spikes to penetrate and absorb it.

Even Thirty-three, who had just arrived at the bridge, was almost swept away by several tentacles attacking him. Fortunately, he blocked it for a moment with a flying blade, then quickly withdrew and retreated a dozen steps, returning to the ship in one breath. Outside the bridge, it was Ze Luo's space shield that separated the pursuing tentacles.

Otherwise, he might have become a man by now.

"What... is this?" Thirty-three stared at the tentacles that retreated angrily in shock, and asked Ze Luo, "Where are Ke Lan and Mo Jue? Are they still inside?"

"Yeah." Ze Luo nodded, then stepped forward.

"Wait!" Thirty-three wanted to reach out to pull Zeluo, but found a soft space barrier blocking his movement. "Ke Lan sent me a text message at the last moment before the communication was cut off. , he said that there is something in the bridge that can stop you, so you can’t enter the bridge, and you can’t use your power to interfere with it, so it will be a hard battle... If you go in now, is it okay? "

"Just now, that force field disappeared." After Ze Luo finished speaking, he stepped over the frame of the air-tight door.

With Ze Luo leading the way, Thirty-Three was no longer afraid of the tentacles that almost caught him just now. He took a deep breath and followed immediately.

The two of them bypassed the separation walls and walked to the open area. Thirty-three were immediately startled by the scene in front of them: "Then... what is that 'big thorn ball'? Those eroded corpses all around. , were they all killed by it? Why didn’t it attack Ke Lan? "

"She is Mo Jue." Ze Luo said softly.

"Mo Jue?!" Thirty-three was stunned for a moment, and then quickly reacted, "Her erosion level has exceeded the critical value? Is this her...'corrosion' state?"

Ze Luo nodded.

Mo Jue's incarnation of "Corruption" has very strong combat power. Even when faced with enemies more than ten times his own in the bridge, it was able to completely crush it... Perhaps crushing is used to describe the strength gap between the two sides. Not very accurate, this was a complete instant kill - from the time those tentacles stretched out from between the spikes to the last corpse being dragged back and sucked dry, the entire battle only lasted ten seconds.

Ke Lan also finally succeeded in breaking through the firewall of the central control computer and regained control of the battleship by relying on the virus implanted in it. The energy shield instantly unfolded and burned away the vines wrapped around the "Genoa" ship. Clean and tidy.

A dilemma that was almost unsolvable has been solved in the blink of an eye.

But neither Ke Lan nor Thirty-three were happy at all at this time.

Although Ze Luo didn't show any emotion, she just kept staring at the "sea urchin" transformed by Mo Jue with vigilance. However, she did not take action directly, and she did not even impose any restrictions on Mo Jue under normal circumstances. body.

Everyone was silent, no one made a sound.

After about ten seconds, those bright red spikes slowly shrank inwards... The huge "red sea urchin" disappeared, leaving only a woman covered in blood and whose skin was cut into pieces standing there. .

All the spikes with a length of more than ten meters were retracted into this body, which was only about 1.7 meters tall and even looked a little thin... From Ke Lan's perspective, it didn't look like these sharp spikes had been retracted. Jue's body seemed to be melted into her flesh and blood...

The gap left by the sharp thorns on the skin healed in the blink of an eye. Even the tiny tentacles that originally grew on Mo Jue's head have retracted under the skin. Now she looks like a completely normal human being. There is no difference.

But everyone present knew that she would never be able to return to the way she was before entering the forest.

Mo Jue turned her head with some difficulty and looked at Ke Lan - her turbid eyes were bloodshot, and her pupils were already showing signs of dilation... She could no longer see anything at the moment, she was just looking for her memory. Looking at Ke Lan's position.

"I'm here." Ke Lan said, but Mo Jue's expression did not change at all - not only has she lost her vision, but her hearing has also been taken away...

Mo Jue's terrifying power did not come for free... Ke Lan knew the rules of "His" very well. Since he wanted power, he had to exchange it with corresponding things... Anything that could be used in the concept of "His" Anything that can be used as a bargaining chip can be exchanged, whether life, body, soul...or emotions, memories, etc., and what Mo Jue uses as a bargaining chip is her senses.

When she was picked up by the bone blade, the unbearable pain destroyed her consciousness. Her last remaining trace of clarity was to block all the senses in her body... Perhaps, this was also a trace of mercy from "him" ?

Will He have mercy on humans, creatures that are like insects to Him?

Maybe.

When a person sees a dying insect struggling in pain, he may choose to help it out. This person probably has no good intentions, nor does he think about the life, death and pain of the insect. He even has Maybe he immediately forgot about this random act after doing it... But no matter what, from the perspective of a bug, this can indeed be regarded as a kind of "mercy".

"I'm here." Ke Lan stepped forward and reached out to hold Mo Jue's shoulder.

He was not worried that Mo Jue would attack him, and the sense of crisis in his subconscious did not appear.

Although Mo Jue lost all her senses, she could still detect someone holding her shoulders. There was a look of relief on her face, and her lips moved slightly.

She was speechless, and Ke Lan didn't read her mouth movements...but Ke Lan knew what she wanted to say to herself.

"I know." Ke Lan nodded, took out the pistol from his waist, and put the muzzle of the gun against Mo Jue's head.

"Good night, have a sweet dream." Ke Lan said silently, and then pulled the trigger.

Sudden gunshots rang out in the silent bridge, and a bloody hole the size of a fist appeared on the back of Mo Jue's head. She fell straight backwards, and her lifeless body fell to the ground and exploded into a ball. The blood mist quickly evaporated and disappeared.

"You can't even keep the body..." Thirty-three murmured, "That's good... at least it's clean."

"She gave up that power on her own in the end... Her obsession was different from other corpses. She wanted to embrace death as a human being, so she finally changed back to her original form." Ze Luo said expressionlessly, "She got her wish."

"Embracing death as a human being?" Thirty-three glanced at Sanwu Girl in surprise, "Did you learn this rhetoric from some literary book? It sounds... quite tragic."

"No, this is what I read before her last ray of consciousness died." Ze Luo replied.

"..." Thirty-three rubbed the bridge of his nose vigorously, suppressing a certain sore feeling, "If I have this day, I hope you can do this little favor for me."

"Your mood swings are obvious." Ze Luo looked at Thirty-Three with some confusion, "I can feel the sadness in your mood."

"Uh... did you see it, or did you use your... special ability?" Thirty-three rubbed his face, raised his wrist, and looked at his expression through the reflection of the watch mirror.

His eyes were not red, and there were no obvious changes in his facial features. But for some reason, looking at his face, Thirty-three always felt depressed.

He tried to smile, but found that smiling was uglier than crying.

"I can feel human emotions within a certain range." Ze Luo said, "Although there are many conditions for directly reading human thoughts, it is still very easy if you just feel the changes in emotions."

After hearing Ze Luo's words, Thirty-three subconsciously took a few steps back and distanced himself from the Sanwu girl: "To be honest, this ability makes me feel... a little uncomfortable. Don't look at me like that. , although I have experienced a lot of life and death and am relatively open-minded, it does not mean that I am a hard-hearted person."

"Because Mo Jue is your kind, did her death arouse your empathy and make you feel sad?" Ze Luo asked, "I'm sorry, my expression may be a bit blunt, but my understanding of human beings Emotional changes, I've always been interested in them...I thought, if I could figure out the mysteries of them, maybe I could become exactly like a human being."

"You can't say that... I actually don't know how to answer your question, but I always feel that your statement just now is not quite right." Thirty-three scratched the back of his head, "Have you never had this before? Does it feel like this?”

Ze Luo nodded, then shook his head: "I don't know...but when Ke Lan killed Mo Jue just now, I had an urge to stop him."

"But," Ze Luo continued, "I know that this impulse was wrong, and it was not that strong, so it disappeared quickly."

"This shows that you are becoming more and more human...in every sense." Ke Lan said, walking towards the two of them.

"How is the situation now?" Thirty-three changed the topic and asked.

"Too bad, at least the 'Genoa' is useless." Ke Lan showed a helpless smile, "Even if the vines used to repair the ship's hull were not burned by the energy shield, a ship that has lost its AI To us, a battleship is no different than a big pile of scrap metal."

"That's really bad... no, I should say it's simply terrible." Thirty-three shrugged, "Without the battleship, then your original crazy plan would have no chance of being implemented -"

Thirty-three was halfway through talking when he suddenly paused: "Wait a minute, we have another battleship!"

[P.S. Thanks to Li Xia i for the 100 starting coins. 】

[To be honest, when I was coding this chapter today, when Ke Lan repeated "I'm here" to Mo Jue twice, the Japanese dubbing automatically came to my mind: Knock, click, oh, Lewa, click, click... ...It’s over. Could it be that I am a rare person?

Small. Heart. two. Second-rate. Yuan. 】