Alien Relic Hunter

"No, the 'giant brain' of the ringed city is out of control... Its restraint device was destroyed by natural disasters like the ruins of the ringed city, and the tissue cells grew uncontrollably... And in the tank in front of us The giant brain, I think, should still be under control." Hound said, "Maybe it is staring at us through some monitoring equipment now."

"You mean, this giant brain... is still functioning normally?" Chi Hanfeng's eyes jumped violently.

"Otherwise, what do you think the red light was? How did this hall light up? Who was controlling the cleaning robot just now?" The hound took a deep breath and continued, "I not only doubt the giant in the tank, but The brain is still functioning, and I even suspect that it is the core mastermind of the entire underwater city."

"Then we accidentally bumped into each other and happened to enter the core hub of the underwater city?" Chi Hanfeng was stunned for a moment, "Isn't this good luck? It's so good that I have some doubts... is it intentional? It brought us in."

"It's not an accident. We originally started searching from the central area of ​​the Undersea City. After searching so many places, only here there was a life reaction..." The hound's voice suddenly paused, and then, His expression suddenly became extremely solemn.

"I smell that smell again!" cried the hound softly.

"I...I also heard the whisper I heard in the deep diving cabin again!" The ghost owl opened his eyes wide, "The phrase 'Leave...the...bed'!"

The eyes of several people suddenly focused on Chi Hanfeng. Chi Hanfeng was stunned for a moment, and then hurriedly took out a pen and paper from his jacket pocket.

"I, what should I do?" Chi Hanfeng looked at the hound with questioning eyes.

"Close your eyes and just scribble a few words! Hurry!" the hound urged, fearing that the "revelation" that finally appeared would slip away under his nose.

"Okay, okay, I'll try." Chi Hanfeng gritted his teeth, took a few deep breaths, then sat down cross-legged on the ground and closed his eyes.

His hand holding the pen was shaking, and the pen tip slid away just as it touched the paper, poking a hole on the edge of the paper. Chi Hanfeng acted like a primitive man who had never used a pen. , or a child who has just started to learn to draw.

"Lao Chi, don't be nervous, relax, you need to relax, understand?" Hound said urgently.

But Zhuoligetu grabbed him, shook his head silently at him, and motioned the hound to look at the piece of paper spread on the ground.

The lines drawn by Chi Hanfeng seem messy, but in fact they form a standard English letter - "Y" on the paper.

"What he is writing... is in English?" Hound said in astonishment, "This... is this the content of a 'revelation'?"

Zhuoligetu nodded and told the hound to be silent with his eyes.

The second character drawn by Chi Hanfeng is also an English letter. It is a big "O", and the circle is drawn almost close to the edge of the paper. This "O" is the same as the previous "Y", dividing the entire paper. Filled to the brim.

Each letter is covered on top of the previous one. If he hadn't been watching Chi Hanfeng write from beginning to end, I'm afraid the final result would just be a graffiti with countless messy lines stacked on top of each other.

"Y...O...U..." The hound read the letters one by one.

What comes together at the end is a very simple sentence.

"Are you humans from Earth?"

"Still...you are humans from Earth."

Since there is no punctuation mark at the end of the sentence, no one knows whether it is a statement or a question.

"Are you talking to us...?" The hound looked at Zhuoligetu in shock, then turned his head suddenly and looked at the giant brain soaked in the culture vat.

"Do you think the one we're talking to..." Ghost Owl pointed at the giant brain, "is that it?"

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Tower of Babel, Shangcheng District, Jungle Hunting Ground.

Ke Lan didn't use the Holy Word. It wasn't that he didn't want to use it, but that he couldn't use it at all.

Real battles are not like those in cartoons. When the protagonist magnifies his move, everything around him will stop in time, and the villain will just watch the protagonist complete the chant... In reality, if you want to fight in close combat, To release this ultimate move that requires "reciting a spell", Ke Lan can only ruthlessly "interrupt the spell" again and again.

It's not that he didn't try to recite the Holy Word in a time-stop state. Last time at the ruins of the Ancient Bronze City, another "self" could use the Holy Word in a time-stop state. However, when Ke Lan planned to copy the other party's operation, he failed. The situation was completely different.

Although in the time-stop state, Ke Lan's thinking is completely unaffected, but as soon as he starts reciting the holy words, the time-stop will be forcibly ended... When he tried it for the first time, Ke Lan was completely unprepared and caught off guard. He was directly hit by the Sphinx, and most of his body was torn to pieces. If he hadn't used his living armor to condense a huge "airbag" in time to separate himself from the Sphinx, I'm afraid not even that small half of the body can be left.

"Huh...huh..." Ke Lan can no longer feel his limbs and torso. Except for his chest and head, other parts of his body have been replaced by living armor. This level of trauma, even with Ke Lan, Lan's recovery ability will also take several days to fully recover.

Ke Lan has no intention of restoring his limbs. Anyway, the new limbs will soon be destroyed by the other party, not to mention that these limbs are not as strong or powerful as the living armor... If it were not for the living armor, it would not be able to compete with Ke Lan's senses. If the nerves are connected, Ke Lan even plans to replace everything except the brain with living armor.

Just like that kind of "cyborg monster" that has been transformed so that only one of its original brains is left... But even so, Ke Lan's decline is simply irreversible.

The growth rate of living armor is not unlimited. Under such high-intensity combat, the consumption rate of living armor is extremely exaggerated, and the "reserve" in Ke Lan's body has gradually become stretched - not to mention anything else, just His legs could originally use living armor to condense the shape of human legs, and could even perfectly simulate muscles, bones and blood vessels. But now, Ke Lan only uses mechanical spring legs that require the least "materials". The shape of this kind of spring leg is like the sports prosthetic limbs often seen at the disabled games in the old era - this is a forced choice. No matter how good the performance of the sports prostheses is, it is a simple mechanical structure after all, which is different from human legs. It's incomparable, let alone those complicated cyborg prosthetics.

But Ke Lan had no choice. He couldn't even condense the living armor used as an attack weapon. The depths of his body seemed to be hollowed out. Moreover, when Ke Lan used his mind to activate the living armor, , the brain will also feel bursts of needle-like pain. This pain inexplicably made Ke Lan feel another feeling-"hungry".

Yes, it's hunger.

Although his gastrointestinal system no longer existed, and only a small part of his esophagus was left, he felt an unprecedented hunger... The desire to eat was so urgent, even if there was a live animal in front of him. Ke Lan felt that he could only chew the bones of the thunder beast.

It's not that he hasn't thought about eating the Sphinx, but every time the living armor tears off a piece of flesh and blood from the Sphinx's body, the separated piece of flesh and blood will quickly become inactive...even if it is eaten. , and cannot provide any material or energy at all, let alone fill the hungry gully.

Unless he could swallow the sphinx whole.

It's still getting worse...

Ke Lan couldn't help but couldn't condense new living armor. Even the original living armor was accelerating "degradation". Many small holes had appeared on the surface of the streamlined version of the sports prosthetics, as if they were eaten by insects. It is like ordinary wooden furniture. Through these holes, you can see that the inside of the prosthetic limb is completely hollow...

"Crack!"

Finally, when he landed after a back jump, the overloaded sports prosthesis broke directly. Ke Lan lost his balance and fell heavily to the ground.

Naturally, the Sphinx would not miss such a good opportunity, and immediately pounced on Ke Lan, who was on the ground with both claws!

Let alone dodge, Ke Lan can't even get up from the ground now. He can only remove the living armor that makes up the torso and limbs, and condense the last shield he can muster on the front of his body. .

Under the arc-shaped blood-colored shield, a broken "Human Pig" lay there. The "Human Pig"'s face had been shattered, revealing the bright red flesh and white bones underneath, and its two eyeballs were missing. The only one left was covered with bloodshot eyes and extremely swollen.

The Sphinx's attacks hit the shield one after another, and cracks gradually began to appear in the shield, which expanded rapidly... The Sphinx seemed to know that Ke Lan had no power to fight back, and he only needed to break the shield. Kill the target, so it did not choose other moves, but poured all its power on the shield - on Ke Lan, the last barrier.

"The trump card... there will be a day when it becomes empty..."

Ke Lan, who was lying on the ground, tried to recite the "Holy Word" for the last time, but the "Holy Word" was extremely draining of mental energy. Now that his consciousness was starting to fade, how could he "recite" even half a word? Come……

"I didn't expect to die in this way...it's so frustrating..."

All kinds of messy pictures flashed through Ke Lan's mind. He had heard in many places that when a person is about to die, an environment similar to a revolving door will appear, and the scenes he has experienced in his life will appear one after another. Appearing in front of his eyes... But the problem is that the picture flashing through Ke Lan's mind makes him feel extremely strange, as if it is not his life at all.

"Bang!"

A huge bell rang suddenly. For a moment, Ke Lan thought that his semi-dissociated consciousness was going to be shaken away... But when he calmed down, he found that his mental state was actually worse than Just got a lot better.

"What's going on?...You, who are you?" He clearly felt that another consciousness entered his mind.

"Do you know why living things continue to evolve?" That consciousness did not answer Ke Lan's question, but asked him a question.

"To...become more perfect?"

"No. The reason why living things evolve is to survive." The consciousness said, "To survive is the most primitive instinct of all life forms. The reason why life is called life is because 'living' itself is the meaning of life. "

"You, what on earth do you want to tell me? My remaining time...may not be much..." Ke Lan originally wanted to say that his remaining time was running out, but he unexpectedly discovered that the world had fallen into in stagnation.

With Ke Lan's mental power, he stopped when he couldn't activate it... This obviously didn't come from his own power?

Is it Ze Luo?

Ke Lan tried to call Ze Luo, but there was still no reply.

He couldn't help but think of the "other self" at the ruins of the Ancient Bronze City... But he also knew very well that that consciousness no longer existed, and he clearly felt the other person's demise. If the conscious body can be called life, then the "other self" is already too dead to die. As the carrier of the blood of God, that consciousness has been completely burned out, not even ashes are left.

"As long as you are working hard to live, everything you do to survive is moving closer to the ultimate evolution of life." The consciousness added, "A strong enough will to survive can break through all shackles, including time and space."

"Are you kidding...? If you don't have to die if you don't want to die, then I'm afraid humans can really live forever..."

"That's because human willpower is not strong enough to change the rules of the universe... However, humans have begun to make attempts in this area, and Asano Akira is one of the results of this attempt..."

"Then if I don't want to die now, can you keep me from dying?"

"I can't, but you can. The ability of infinite rebirth like the 'Phoenix' is not true immortality... It is just the resurrection of the body, but consciousness is eternal."

The consciousness paused for a moment and then said: "You are closer to that 'existence' than the 'Phoenix'... You are a more perfect life form than it, but you are not complete now."

As soon as he finished speaking, a body wrapped in a white robe suddenly appeared in front of the Sphinx.

Ke Lan recognized it immediately. This was the body called "Joker" stored in the "Black Coffin".

"As long as your will is strong enough, you can control the power...control this part of the separated power." That consciousness said to Ke Lan.

[P.S. Thanks to Attacking Cavalry for the 1,500 starting coins; thanks to waterp for the 100 starting coins. 】

[P.P.S. Something seems not right... After the single-tube nucleic acid test that day, my family entered a state of seclusion. Except for my dad going out to buy groceries, I didn’t go out. As a result, my mom still had a fever today, 38.4 degrees Celsius, and there was also a fever. We have symptoms of fatigue and cough. Except for a dry and itchy throat and a foreign body sensation, my dad and I don’t have any symptoms yet... Considering that the appointment with the dentist has been canceled, there is no point in going out to do nucleic acid tests, and the antigen reagents are no longer available. If you can't buy it... just optimize the process and fast forward to "isolate at home and take cold medicine"... You can rest assured that I will not stop updating unless there is serious discomfort. 】