Alien Relic Hunter

But with this, another question arises - when Hruni obtained this "ability", he should not have been to the core area of ​​the Gray Mist Forest, so how could he be eroded? ?

It's another "chicken or egg" question: if Hruni wants to gain the ability to read the alpha civilization's texts, he must be severely corroded, and if he wants to be corroded to this extent, he must be able to read The inscriptions on these floor tiles.

Ke Lan checked Hruni's information and was basically sure that he was a "natural person" and not a "symbiote" created by the undead crew like himself and the prophet.

But apart from reading these inscriptions, there is another way to be corroded... Ke Lan couldn't help but think of Mo Jue's ending: For those who are "easy to corrode their physique", they only need to see things like corroded bones. Monsters or being attacked by corroded corpses, the degree of erosion can easily exceed the critical value - but in this case, the third paradox appears.

Hruni's physique is not only not "prone to corrosion" like Mo Jue, but is one of the "corrosion-resistant" physiques among ordinary humans. Otherwise, he would not have become the member of the "Shaojiang Kai" crew. The last person in the world who became a corpse would not still retain the last trace of "humanity" after sleeping for more than ten years.

Unless a person like Hruni directly absorbs a large amount of "forbidden knowledge", it is impossible to raise his level of erosion to the point where he can have hallucinations and auditory hallucinations with just a little "edge ball".

The crew of the "Shaojiang Kai" must have encountered other things at the time, but Ke Lan didn't know about these things, and they were not recorded in the battleship's database.

But for Ke Lan, these things are no longer so important now.

He even wanted to know how many inscriptions on the floor tiles Hruni and the others saw back then, and how did they activate these floor tiles?

Does it also rely on the flesh and blood of corroded corpses?

The flesh and blood of a corpse can only activate one floor tile... and the number of floor tiles in this square is at least hundreds of thousands. Doesn't that mean that hundreds of thousands of corpses are needed?

The sacrifices of hundreds of thousands of people...

A dangerous word popped up in Ke Lan's mind: collective sacrifice.

The last time a collective sacrifice of this scale was held at the ruins of the Ancient Bronze City... the lives of hundreds of thousands of field legion soldiers were exchanged for the awakening of the military god "Alexander".

Ke Lan initially thought that this was a decision-making error made by the Undead Crew Association. Even if they wanted to cover up the truth about the clones, they should not have used this method to fill the "relics" with soldiers as flesh and blood sacrifices... But Now it seems that this decision was probably pushed by insiders within the crew association.

There are some people with evil intentions and some people who want to cover up the truth. Although the two groups of people have different purposes, the process of achieving their goals is the same - perhaps, in the eyes of the Undead Crew Association, the lives of hundreds of thousands of people are far less important. The stability of Ark is very important. They are all chips that can be sacrificed. The heretical sect, the prophet and Alexander can only be regarded as executioners and scapegoats.

Ke Lan will not forgive the prophet, but as the truth is revealed bit by bit, he feels more and more that the organization of the Undead Crew has become hateful.

Perhaps, their initial purpose was indeed for the future of human civilization, but as time went by...the hearts of these "human beings" with long lifespans began to gradually rot.

Not to mention what would happen if hundreds of thousands of people were "sacrificed" here - even if Ke Lan could really do such cold and cruel things like other members of the Undead Crew, he would have no place to find these few. One hundred thousand corpses.

Not only him, not even the Undead Crew can do it.

No one can bring hundreds of thousands of people to this place. The gray mist forest is an excellent barrier, perfectly hiding this square and this tower in this place.

If violent means are used to forcibly wipe the Gray Mist Forest from the surface of Alpha Planet, Ke Lan can be 100% sure that this will definitely trigger the second level of protection mechanism - it is very likely that the fleet in Ark will use plasma cannons to destroy the entire forest. After the gray mist forest was burned clean, it was discovered that the core area had sunk deep underground, or been moved to a place where other humans could not set foot.

The Immortal Crew Club must have understood this truth, so they did not act rashly.

If he wanted to activate more stone slabs... Ke Lan couldn't help but cast his sights on Ze Luo.

Since Ze Luo can imitate various things, he should also be able to imitate the flesh and blood of corpses, right?

"Ke Lan! Ke Lan! Can you hear my voice?" Only then did Ke Lan notice Thirty-three's roar - in addition to the roar, he also found that there were at least three people around him. There are more than a hundred black flying blades, and the tip of each flying blade is pointed at a vital part of his body.

"how--"

Ke Lan forcefully swallowed the word "what's wrong" that had reached his throat - he just glanced down slightly and discovered the abnormality in his body.

A blood-like red light was flashing on his chest. Even the thick combat uniform could not cover up this light... Through the clothes, you could see that this red light was centered on Ke Lan's chest and continued to flow. Flow towards the limbs... just like the human blood vessel distribution model in medical school.

Ke Lan clearly remembered that before Mo Jue turned into a corpse, there was such a dark red light under his skin.

Could it be that... the degree of erosion in my body has reached a critical value?

"Ke Lan! Ke Lan!" Thirty-three was still shouting loudly from the side. His face was very bad and his anxiety was palpable.

Even Ze Luo, who had always been expressionless, had a nervous look on his face. Ke Lan could feel that his body was surrounded by solid space barriers - even though Ze Luo did not attack him, But he also cannot break through this space barrier.

"What's your situation now?" Thirty-three asked urgently, "You have just been staring at the glowing stone tablet on the ground... Do you know the changes in your body? Hello? If you can hear me , just respond!”

"I can hear it." Ke Lan nodded. He took a deep breath, trying not to focus on the inscriptions, and trying to bury this information deep in his memory...

Originally he just had the idea of ​​giving it a try, but he soon discovered that it was really useful: when he stopped thinking about those things, the original blood-red light under his skin gradually dimmed until it completely extinguished.

He reached out and unzipped his coat, unzipped his shirt, and lifted up his underwear. The exposed skin was smooth and white, with no scars or mutated areas visible... Ke Lan rubbed it with his fingers. Rubbing the chest where the red light was most concentrated just now, he could clearly feel the flexible subcutaneous tissue and muscles, as well as the bones further down. The heart in the chest was beating powerfully, constantly pumping oxygen-filled blood along the blood vessels. Pumped to all organs throughout the body.

There is neither pain nor any strange feeling under touch and pressure.

In just a few seconds, Ke Lan changed from a humanoid self-propelled LED lamp back to its original state.

When hearing Ke Lan's response, Thirty-three's tense face relaxed slightly. After seeing that Ke Lan's body no longer "glows", he withdrew more than half of the black flying blade aimed at Ke Lan.

But he didn't dare to completely let down his guard yet, and asked Ke Lan in a deep voice: "Are you...Ke Lan? Or something else?"

"Of course I am Ke Lan." Ke Lan replied.

Thirty-three turned his head and glanced at Ze Luo, who nodded to him and removed the space barrier around Ke Lan.

"Just...what happened? Why are you staring at that glowing floor tile? No matter how I call you, you seem to be completely unable to hear me? Also, why does your body glow along with the floor tile? I I heard from Ze Luo that before Mo Jue became a 'corrosion', he also had this 'symptom'...Did you just approach the critical point of super erosion?" Thirty-three asked a series of questions in one breath The problem.

"...Don't worry, I'll answer them one by one." Ke Lan waved his hand and said, "The order of the alpha characters on this floor tile has changed. I guess it must be after absorbing the flesh and blood of the corroded corpse. Some mechanism inside was activated. These inscription characters were recombined into an inscription with a completely different meaning from the previous prayer. It's not that I couldn't hear you shouting just now, but the amount of information contained in this inscription was too great. I couldn’t help but be fascinated by it.”

Although many of the contents overlapped with Ke Lan's previous speculations, when the truth was nakedly revealed before his eyes, it still had a strong mental impact on Ke Lan.

"What's the content?" Thirty-three asked subconsciously.

"If I tell you, I'm afraid you will..." Ke Lan made a "you know" expression to Thirty-Three, who was stunned for a moment and then reacted immediately.

The content of these inscriptions even caused such amazing changes in Ke Lan's body, let alone an "ordinary person" like him.

"Then your body...is it okay? To be honest, I really thought you were about to turn into something called a 'corrosion'..." Thirty-three said.

"I'm not sure... maybe, I've just walked around the edge of 'super eclipse'." Ke Lan put on his clothes, buttoned up the zipper, "But to be honest, if it weren't for myself If I saw it with my own eyes, I wouldn’t feel anything strange in my body.”

But it is true that there is no feeling when being corroded... Ke Lan added in her mind that when Mo Jue's forehead "grew" tentacles earlier, she herself did not notice it at all. As for the fact that she later turned into a corpse Whether I feel it at that time is unknown.

"By the way, didn't you say before that this kind of 'erosion' is irreversible? Then why did your body return to its original state?" Thirty-three looked at Ke Lan curiously.

"Probably...it's because my own corrosion level is already very serious..." Ke Lan said, "Although I look no different from a normal human being now, my corrosion level is estimated to be that of the eroded Mo Jue. It’s dozens or even hundreds of times higher...it shouldn’t be surprising if it glows or something, right?”

Ke Lan thought to himself that now he can grow a piece of flesh quickly from his body. Logically speaking, it should be normal to grow some tentacles or other weird non-human organs, but his body He has always maintained his human appearance and never changed...

Is it because I have always firmly believed that I am a human being from the bottom of my heart?

What if...

Ke Lan imagined the back of his hand covered with scales. Soon, a slight itching sensation came from the back of his hand. The originally fair and smooth skin suddenly turned into a hard cuticle and split into pieces. Layers of stacked scales covered the back of Ke Lan's hand.

After Ke Lan gave up the idea, the scales on the back of his hand immediately returned to their original fair and smooth skin.

Even the position of the pores is exactly the same as before.

"Hiss..." Ke Lan couldn't help but feel a strange feeling in his heart. He looked at Ze Luo, and Ze Luo also looked at him.

The hand that had changed was always behind his back, so Thirty-Three did not see this surprising scene.

Ke Lan remembered that he did not have this ability before - he imagined himself turning into a monster more than once, but his body had never experienced such changes... This was the first time.

Could it be that the eroded body has deteriorated to such an extent that it has gained the ability to change its form at will?

At least one thing Ke Lan is sure of is that the closer to the critical point of "super erosion", the more powerful the eroded person will be able to gain... But trying to gain power in this way is tantamount to drinking poison to quench thirst.

"Then you might turn into a 'corrosion' at any time?" Thirty-three frowned, "It's like a time bomb."

"Actually, everyone is the same. This kind of erosion cannot be prevented at all." Ke Lan sighed, "Even if you close your eyes and plug your ears, cutting off all perceptions, as long as your brain is not completely dead, it can even To instill those things into your mind through dreams... In the face of this kind of power, humans simply cannot resist."

In fact, he didn't say the last part of the sentence: Not only humans are unable to resist, but Alpha civilization is also unable to resist.

"Oh, let's not talk about this... let's talk about the things on the floor tiles? Even if you can't tell me what the content of the inscription is, you must at least let me know whether these things were mentioned by Mo Zhuorui and Heruni. Is it related to the 'secret'?"

Ke Lan nodded: "The truth about the disappearance of Alpha Civilization should be recorded on the floor tiles of this square."