Alien Relic Hunter

"When have you been here? In a dream?" Thirty-three couldn't help but complain.

Not only Thirty-Three, but also Ke Lan himself who said these words couldn't help but be stunned for a moment.

This sentence was said almost subconsciously, without any thought at all.

The key point is that Ke Lan's brain did not question the rationality of this sentence. On the contrary, it was Thirty-three's complaints that made Ke Lan realize the problem.

Have I been to...this place...?

Or, in my mind... I have the memory of visiting this place?

If the memory fragments sealed deep in his mind contain content related to the Gray Mist Forest, then why have these memory fragments not been unsealed since he entered the forest?

Is it because the corresponding activation conditions are not triggered? Or... the memory fragments related to the Gray Mist Forest have been "sealed" more tightly and cannot be unlocked by activating the memory fragments in the past?

"Maybe it's really in a dream." Ke Lan laughed, stepped on the accelerator to the bottom, held the steering wheel and turned it to one side——

If this action were driven on flat ground, it would be a standard "Initial D" drift, but the problem is that the "Lynx X6" is now in a suspended state.

If this is just an ordinary car, then whether you turn the steering wheel or step on the accelerator while it is suspended in the air, it will not have any impact on the movement trajectory of the car. But the problem is, this is a car equipped with a jet vector thruster. military all-terrain assault vehicle.

The result of the two "buts" superimposed together is that this "Lynx X6" completed a 720-degree turn in the air, violently throwing the entire car forward, and with the fierceness of the Tiger The mountain-like momentum hit the body less than three meters away from the running corpse.

The shock wave when it landed directly splashed the earth and rocks into the air more than ten meters high, and then landed on Thirty-Third's face and body.

As for Ke Lan and Ze Luo, they were protected by a space barrier. Not only were they not covered in gravel and dirt, they even spun and landed.

"Ahem...Ke Lan...you kid..." Thirty-three, who was almost thrown away, immediately yelled, "It's a bit of a personal grudge, right?"

"No, I've wanted to try this for a long time, but I just never had the chance." Ke Lan said calmly, "If you do this on the Ark, I'm afraid your driver's license will be revoked in a matter of minutes."

"Bullshit! With your authority, who dares to revoke your driver's license?" Thirty-three scolded angrily and amusingly, "Even if you can't disclose your true identity to ordinary people, you can just use it to knock on the field corps or the security bureau. A driver’s license with a stamp on it will suffice, the guys at the Traffic Control Bureau probably won’t even dare to fart after seeing it!”

"Okay, I won't kid you anymore." Ke Lan glanced at the milestone that had been reset just before starting the car. The reading on it showed that they had chased nearly ten kilometers in just a few minutes—— If the escape path of the corpse is a straight line, then the core area of ​​the Gray Mist Forest should be not far ahead.

"By the way, this guy probably didn't play tricks with us, right? Anyway, I didn't feel it turn a few times..." Thirty-three squinted his eyes and stared at the corpse running like a wild beast in front of him, and said.

"There are only a few small changes in direction, but the overall movement path is basically a straight line." Ze Luo, who was floating like a ghost on the roof of the assault vehicle, said, "Of course, that is if the forest does not disturb my perception. ."

"It's hard to say, this damn place can even interfere with the travel time of a mechanical watch. It's hard for me to believe what I see with my eyes." Sansansan said, "Even the numbers on this odometer, I think there are some questionable."

"This is the most troublesome part of the Gray Mist Forest." Ke Lan continued, "Once you are fooled once, it is easy to lose everything... Being cautious is not a bad thing, but being too cautious can easily miss many fleeting opportunities. , Moreover, maintaining a state of high mental stress for a long time is very terrible for people."

"It's okay if you don't tell me, but I really feel a little headache when I tell you." Thirty-three blocked the frame with the elbow of one arm, and rubbed his temples with his other free hand. Sweeping away the remaining sand and gravel from his hair, face, and head.

The further away from the crash site of the "Shaojiang Kai" frigate, the flatter the ground becomes - but this does not mean that the road conditions have improved. On the contrary, because the density of fog perches has increased, the places where Ke Lan needs to brake, slow down and make sharp turns are getting smoother. More and more, the overall movement speed has slowed down compared to the previous "leap forward" time.

However, the Erosion seems to be completely unaffected by the terrain, and its speed has not slowed down at all. If Ze Luo hadn't frequently restricted it, I'm afraid the Erosion would have gotten rid of Ke Lan and the others.

"This place... is not easy to open." Thirty-three said.

But for him, the frequent sudden stops and sharp turns were much more comfortable than the jumping forward way before. At least they all moved on a horizontal plane, and he only had to bear the lateral pulling force.

"Do you feel that the foggy trees in this area have become thicker?" Ke Lan asked.

"To be honest... I can't tell clearly." Thirty-three replied a little embarrassed.

On the contrary, Ze Luo immediately gave the answer: "Compared with the fog perches at the crash site of the 'Shaojiang Kai' frigate, the average diameter of the fog perches in this area has increased by 6.57%."

As soon as he finished speaking, the two foggy trees that the assault vehicle had just passed quietly broke into two pieces. The upper trunks slipped directly from the smooth, mirror-like oblique surface, and they did not make a loud noise until they fell to the ground. .

"The wood density of the mist perch has increased by 0.97%." Ze Luo added.

"It's correct to see at least the general direction." Ke Lan nodded, "We are indeed heading deeper into the forest."

Not long after Ke Lan finished these words, the assault vehicle suddenly turned a nearly 90-degree bend under the "leadership" of the wreckage, and the view ahead suddenly became brighter.

Ke Lan couldn't remember how long it had been since he had seen such a wide field of vision. At least after entering the gray mist forest, except for the time when he jumped into the air in the Blasphemer mecha, his field of vision had not exceeded the limit during the whole process. Three hundred meters passed.

And directly in front of them, the gray fog that was originally as thick as substance was actually pushed away - not only the thick fog disappeared, but also the trunks and pillars of the fog perches that could be seen everywhere in the gray fog forest. root.

This is a circular square with a diameter of tens of kilometers. There seems to be a barrier similar to a space barrier at the edge of the square, causing the thick fog to spread into this area. All the fog can only stretch upward, forming a A cylindrical "fog tube" with a height of more than 10,000 meters.

The ground in the square is not exposed earth and stone, but is paved with a layer of flat stone tiles. Each stone tile is densely packed with prayers written in Alpha civilization characters. Ke Lan only glanced at it a few times and immediately heard it. There were bursts of strange chanting sounds in my ears, accompanied by a swelling and pain that seemed to burst my head.

"Attention! Don't look at the words carved on the floor!" Ke Lan immediately warned.

He raised his head and looked away from these prayers. The sound of chanting and the splitting headache disappeared instantly, as if everything just now was just his hallucination.

"Damn...is this what is hidden in the core of the forest? What that guy said...'hive'?" Thirty-three did not look at the Alpha text on the floor. He raised his head and murmured said.

In the center of the square, there is a tower reaching the sky.

The diameter of the tower is several kilometers, and the height extends to places that Ke Lan and the others can't reach... Compared with the core tower that originally appeared in the ruins of the ancient copper city, this tower is both larger and smaller. The momentum is far beyond that of the "little thing" that is only two thousand meters high.

The whole body of the tower is made of a black material that looks like gold but not gold, and looks like stone but not stone. It has no doors, windows or any gaps. The bottom of the tower has almost the same diameter as the highest point that can be seen with the naked eye. The surface is smooth and there are no words or characters. It is a "decoration" like a totem.

"It seems that this should be the core area of ​​the Gray Mist Forest." Ke Lan said, "This cylindrical 'fog tube' should be the Wushan that people see outside... But I didn't expect Wushan's The interior is actually hollow, and there is such a building hidden inside.”

"It feels like the eye of a storm, but the center area is calm..." Thirty-three took over the words, "Everyone thought that the interior of Wushan Mountain was the place with the thickest gray fog in the entire forest, but who could have imagined that , it’s so clean here that there isn’t even a wisp of mist.”

On the other side, Ze Luo had already captured the corpse that was "leading the way", but when she captured the corpse, the other party did not put up any resistance.

After entering the "eye of the storm", the corpse seemed to shrink back, with its limbs curled up in front of it, trembling constantly.

"He... seems to be afraid of something? Is he afraid of this tower?" Thirty-three frowned and asked in confusion.

"Hey, what's wrong with you?" Ke Lan squatted down and reached out to pat Qiu Zu's shoulder.

The other party did not attack him, nor did he react in any way to Ke Lan's questions or actions... It was a pity that the eyes of the corpse had already become cloudy and the whites of his eyes were black. Otherwise, Ke Lan could at least learn from the other party's words. Some information can be read in his eyes.

"Judging from his current behavior, he should be afraid..." Ke Lan stood up, holding his chin with his hand and thinking, "But the problem is, this kind of action is only shown by humans when they are afraid. I'm not sure if curling up and shaking would be a sign of fear for an eclipse."

"I think you're overthinking it. Whether it's a corpse or something else, at least he was a human before, right? Then I think it's normal to have this instinct." Thirty-three said, "I think we should first What needs to be understood is what it is that he is afraid of.”

After saying that, Thirty-Three turned his head and glanced at the black tower standing in the center of the square. The meaning in his eyes could not be more obvious.

"Ze Luo, untie him." Ke Lan said.

The space force that imprisoned the corpse suddenly disappeared, but the corpse did not get up from the ground. Instead, it turned over and faced the direction of the black tower, kneeling on the ground.

"Are you... kneeling down to worship that tower?" Thirty-three scratched the back of his head and guessed.

Ke Lan did not speak, but tried to push the corpse towards the black tower, but was resisted by the other party - the corpse was only pushed forward less than five centimeters by Ke Lan. However, he retreated several meters on his own, until he reached the edge of the square.

Ke Lan stopped Ze Luo's idea of ​​using the power of space to capture the corpse. He shook his head and said, "Don't touch him yet. Let's see how he reacts later."

I saw the corpse slowly retreating to the top of the stone slab at the edge of the square. Behind him was a thick wall of fog. Just when Thirty-three thought that the corpse would turn around and escape into the fog in the next second. At that moment, the corpse actually leaned down and put his cheek against the inscriptions of the prayers.

Thirty-three, who had been following the movements of the corpses, inevitably noticed the alpha characters - even though he couldn't understand the meaning of these "ghost symbols" at all, when his eyes came into direct contact with these inscriptions, the feeling was almost magical. The intense pain of wanting to be relieved by death suddenly came to me!

Thirty-three, who was caught off guard, immediately held his head and let out a shrill scream. He stumbled and fell to his knees like a corpse.

"Thirty-three! Close your eyes!" Ke Lan shouted loudly, "Don't look directly at those inscriptions!"

But Thirty-three didn't seem to hear Ke Lan's words. Although his head was in excruciating pain, his eyes seemed to be "glued" to the inscriptions on the floor tiles, and he couldn't move away at all.

"Ze Luo, cover his eyes!" Ke Lan shouted again.

The moment his vision was blocked, the terrifying pain immediately disappeared.

Thirty-three knelt on the ground, breathing heavily, and his chest heaved violently... He waited for half a minute to calm down his breathing, and asked with lingering fear: "What are these words on the ground?" What is it? Why did I just glance at it, and my head felt like it was about to explode... The key is that I thought about looking away, but my eyes didn't obey my orders at all... This is too evil! "

"I haven't seen much content, but they are basically prayers to that great god... This kind of prayers can be found in many ruins of Alpha civilization. The style and wording are almost all from the same person. Template." Ke Lan said, "By the way, when you had a headache just now, did you hear someone chanting something in your ear?"

Thirty-three shook his head: "No."

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