Alien Relic Hunter

Just when Ke Lan was talking to Thirty-three, a sudden change occurred!

The body lying on the corpse in a very pious posture suddenly screamed, his limbs danced wildly, as if he wanted to get up from the ground, but his face was pressed tightly against the inscriptions, like It's like it's been smeared with strong glue, and it can't be separated from the floor tiles no matter what.

The next second, the flesh and blood in the body of the corpse seemed to have been drained out, and the entire body shriveled up. Like the corpses killed by Mo Jue, only one body was left tightly wrapped in black hard skin. His skeleton... and what changed with it was the floor tile that absorbed his flesh and blood.

The material of this floor tile gradually changed from black-gray rock to a transparent substance like crystal, and a dim light as red as blood flowed inside the floor tile...

This phenomenon lasted for more than half a minute before the floor tiles returned to their original color. However, Ke Lan noticed that the order of characters on the floor tiles had changed dramatically from before.

Ke Lan's heart moved. He gritted his teeth and looked intently at the inscription characters whose order was completely different from before.

This time, the expected severe pain in his head did not appear, nor did those mysterious chanting sounds. Ke Lan read the changed inscription very smoothly.

But just as his body relaxed for a moment, it immediately became tense again.

After the order of the inscription characters was changed, the inscription on the floor tile was no longer a "formulaic" prayer, but a text with no beginning or end, but with an extremely large amount of information.

"Everything is for disguise."

“We disguise ourselves as sheep in captivity, docile, harmless, pious, and willing to contribute all our strength and resources to His will.”

"Maybe some people have really turned into sheep, but there are always people awake in the dark night, always awake."

"Those who are awake must bear the responsibility of keeping vigil. They must be the leaders of all survivors and wake up all those who are sleeping when necessary."

“We sharpen our weapons for Him, but they are also our weapons, weapons dedicated to Him that will eventually pierce Him.”

...In the middle was a large paragraph of meaningless scattered characters. Perhaps it was to confuse the audience, or perhaps it was deliberately erased. But just the first half of the text made Ke Lan's whole body feel like he was struck by lightning.

The Alpha civilization's devotion to the great god...is it a disguise?

No wonder...no wonder the tactical mecha they created was called "blasphemer", a name that sounded so disrespectful to the gods. Ke Lan once thought that this kind of mecha was specifically aimed at the enemies of that "great god". Those "evil gods", "evil gods" or "false gods"... But now it seems that the blasphemer, the blasphemer... the god that the Alpha people want to "blaspheme" is probably the one they have always believed in and worshiped. This "great god"!

Ke Lan's eyes were fixed on the inscription on the ground, and his breathing gradually became faster. He completely ignored Thirty-Three's somewhat panicked calls and continued to read the second half of the inscription.

"He cannot be made aware of our true intentions."

"Secrets must be kept."

"Before that moment arrives, all those who wake up early must be wiped out."

"Among the Night Watch, if there are any whose erosion exceeds the danger threshold, they must be eliminated."

"The 'sheep' who participated in the construction of the altar must be killed after the project is completed."

"...Kill everyone who knows."

"The recorder of this inscription must also be erased."

"That's too late."

"Perhaps He has noticed it."

"Maybe He just doesn't care."

"To Him, our power is nothing more than a cricket shaking a tree." (Explanation: Of course, there are no Chinese idioms in the language of Alpha civilization, including the previous 'sheep'. Of course there can be no sheep on Alpha planet. For this kind of earth species, these sentences are all translated by Ke Lan himself based on the context and semantics. It’s okay for everyone to understand, Mo Bang.)

"He doesn't seem to be taking any measures against us... Is it disdain? Or is there another purpose?"

“Aren’t we overestimating our abilities when we use mortal minds to speculate on the thoughts of gods?”

"Does this really make sense? It can't possibly succeed, right?"

"Are you giving up?"

"It's impossible to do it even after all the years of civilization, right?"

"His existence is almost as eternal as the entire universe, and the years of our civilization are just a fleeting moment in this world."

"This is just like the man named Yu Gong——" When he read this, Ke Lan was stunned again.

The previous inscriptions, whether they are "sheep", "a fly shaking a tree" or "a white horse passing through the gap", these words that are unique to earth civilization are all the result of Ke Lan's brain polishing them in the process of reading and translating the inscriptions—— For people with certain writing skills, when they see or read something, their minds will naturally think of some corresponding idioms or idioms. This is a very natural thing. Many people have learned Chinese since childhood. People who grow up in this environment have this ability. (Of course, there are also people who grew up in an English environment, but there is also a set of corresponding things in English, such as slang, proverbs, etc. Such fixed sentences with specific meanings appear in almost all language systems of earth civilization. )

When Ke Lan read this sentence, his brain automatically translated the "stupid old man" in the inscription into "Foolish Old Man".

But for someone who is familiar with Chinese, in most cases, "Foolish Old Man" is not the literal translation of "silly old man" or "silly male old man", but has a specific role.

That is the protagonist in the idiom "The Foolish Old Man Moves the Mountains".

The reason why Ke Lan's brain directly translated this word as "Foolish Old Man" is because there is a prefix used to modify this "silly old man" in the inscription.

This decorative prefix is: "the one who attempts to move the mountains by himself"

All connected together is "that stupid old man who tried to move the mountains by himself"... Isn't this "The Foolish Old Man Moved the Mountains"?

In English, the idiom "Yugong Yishan" is translated as "The foolish old man, who removed the mountains" - the foolish old man who moved the mountains.

Isn't this the same as the meaning of this inscription... one, model, one, same?

Does Alpha Civilization also have an allusion like "The Foolish Old Man Moved the Mountains"? Could this be a coincidence?

No! This is no coincidence!

Ke Lan thought of the things he saw in the Chaomeng video, and he had a vague suspicion... It seemed that he was getting closer and closer to the truth.

He temporarily suppressed the fear in his heart and continued reading.

"What Yu Gong couldn't do, his descendants can continue."

When he saw the next inscription, Ke Lan became more and more certain that it was referring to the allusion of the Chinese idiom "The Foolish Old Man Moved the Mountains". Isn't this the famous sentence "The descendants of our children are infinitely limited"?

“But who can do what we can’t do for us?”

“When our civilization is completely submerged in history, until the last human skeleton turns to dust, we will not be able to break free.”

“Does what we are doing really make sense?”

"Meaningful." This sentence seems to be having a conversation with the previous sentence, but also seems to be asking and answering itself. "We cannot become sheep raised in captivity. If we give up, it is better to choose destruction."

"However, these sheep have already exhausted their lifespan and died of old age before they can be slaughtered... The shepherd just took a nap, and the sheep have already completed their life... Is this considered captive breeding?"

This inscription finally ended in a question-and-answer format. Ke Lan could tell that there should be other content to follow, but this floor tile could no longer be engraved on it.

He glanced at other floor tiles that had not absorbed flesh and blood with the corner of his eyes. After just a few quick glances, his head felt stinging as if it had been pricked by thousands of needles - Ke Lan didn't even need to confirm, just It can be seen that the inscriptions on the other floor tiles have not changed, they are still the "original" prayers.

The prayer is just a disguise, a disguise used to cover up the truth. But for the truth to be revealed, something must be used to activate these floor tiles...

Is this thing the flesh and blood of corroded corpses?

Ke Lan glanced at the shriveled corpse of the corpse. The flesh and blood of this corpse had been sucked dry, but at the moment, he had no way to find the second corpse.

There are more than 100,000 floor tiles in the square. This one alone contains such horrifying information. So what kind of secrets are hidden on the other floor tiles?

Ke Lan felt an itching like a hundred claws scratching his heart... If he could find more corroded flesh and blood and activate all these floor tiles... then he might be able to piece together the truth about the disappearance of the entire Alpha civilization!

Are these the secrets that turned Hruni and the others into corpses? If these things were made public, would the entire human civilization be destroyed?

I wonder how many floor tiles were activated when they arrived here?

Ke Lan thought for a while, and it was obvious that the "secret" on the floor tile he saw was not enough.

The people of the Immortal Crew and scholars who study Alpha Civilization may regard this information as a treasure, but for ordinary people, it can only be regarded as a conversation piece after dinner. Not to mention subverting the order of the entire human society, it is not even clear whether it can compete with the scandals of popular actresses to win headlines.

What's more, if they tell these things, who among ordinary people will believe them?

Unless... this information alone is enough to transform a large number of humans into this kind of monster called "Erosion".

Wait a moment?

Ke Lan suddenly noticed a suspicious point.

Judging from the timeline, Hruni and the others should have returned to the "Shaojiang Kai" frigate after seeing the inscriptions on these floor tiles (assuming that the secrets they talked about were these things). It is precisely because of this that there was a debate between Hruni and other crew members about "whether to return to the Ark and return to human society, and whether to publish this information."

But the problem is that as time goes by, the crew members except Hruni are "super-eclipsed" one after another. They commit suicide or are killed by their companions... In the end, only Hruni is left, his own body His condition went from bad to worse...until he locked himself in the "confinement room" that he had prepared long ago.

During this process, Hruni often heard the mysterious call in his ear while half asleep, and saw the starry sky calling him... At this time, he discovered that he had gradually mastered the language of the Alpha civilization. .

If he could not understand the language of Alpha Civilization or read the text of Alpha Civilization before, even if he could see the activated floor tile inscriptions, he would not be able to understand the content on it?

Could it be that he forgot? In that half-dream and half-awake state, a person's memory is easily confused. Maybe he forgot that he can read the language of Alpha civilization?

That’s not right. Language ability is different from other memories. Unless the language center of the brain is damaged, it is difficult for humans to lose this almost instinctive ability. If Hruni had already mastered the language of Alpha Civilization before this , then he should be able to understand those whispers when he first hears them.

What went wrong?

Ke Lan squatted down, stroking the changed inscriptions on the floor tiles with his fingers, and thinking...

Suddenly, a flash of inspiration flashed in his mind!

The timeline is not wrong, but my preconceived notions are wrong!

Those recording files are not marked with time, which means that the files listed first are not necessarily what happened before, and the files listed next are not necessarily what happened later!

Moreover, Hruni himself also edited and deleted these recording files, so the files do not need to be sorted in chronological order!

Although it seems logically logical, it also makes sense if the order is reversed!

Hruni first heard the whispers and found that he understood the language of the Alpha civilization. Then he and other crew members went to the core of the gray mist forest, and then discovered the secret and was eroded... After returning to the wreckage of the battleship, the others one after another He left one by one, and finally locked himself in the solitary room.

And the scene of half-awake and hearing whispers could have been cut from the front and inserted into the second half of the plot.

Ke Lan recalled it and found those recording clips that mentioned being half asleep, wandering, and whispering. Although the clips did not mention other crew members, they also did not mention that Hruni's own body had mutated.

Before Hruni died, he often suffered from confusion, and before he left the wreckage of the battleship, there was a period of frequent nightmares.

Because those recording files were "perfectly connected" to each other, I subconsciously regarded them as happening at the same time.