Alien Relic Hunter

"That is a fool's misunderstanding of His gift." Nieto replied decisively.

"Then can you describe to me in detail the highly chaotic time and space in Genting? Maybe I will give up the idea of ​​entering Genting." Ke Lan tempted.

Nieto hesitated for a few seconds, seeming to be calculating how credible Ke Lan's words were, and then said: "The space in Genting is divided into many pieces. Each piece of space is independent of each other. Through normal The means of movement may not necessarily be able to reach adjacent spaces, but may also directly 'jump' to far away places. In addition, each piece of space debris is located at a different time, and the time flow rate of some space debris is synchronized with the real world. , the time flow rate of some space debris is only a fraction to tens of thousands of times that of the real world, and the most dangerous ones are those space debris where time is completely at a standstill."

"Why are those space debris in which time is completely stagnant the most dangerous?" Ke Lan asked, "Is it because these space debris have remained in the same state as they were half a million years ago, and the power belonging to Him has hardly dissipated?"

"This is only part of the reason, but not the main reason." Nieto said, "Once you mistakenly enter those stagnant time and space, your body and consciousness will be frozen in an instant, and you will never be able to escape from it... Just like The background is the same as when you use the 'Time Stop' ability."

"Can these completely stagnant space-times be observed? For example, if I shoot a bullet into them, assuming that the bullet enters one of the completely stagnant space-times, can I observe this at normal flow speed? The sight of a bullet frozen in mid-air?" Ke Lan asked.

"Theoretically it is possible, but in practice it is not feasible." Nieto said, "Because the connection position of each space debris is changing all the time. Suppose you shot it horizontally at the twelve o'clock direction in the last second. A bullet, it is observed that the bullet passes through the space debris at normal speed, but when you move towards the twelve o'clock direction this second, it will not necessarily enter the space where the bullet entered; There is a high probability that it will be transported to a brand new piece of space debris."

"Are there any rules for the changes in connections between space debris?"

"There are no rules at all, everything is random." Nieto said, "And, as you said, Yunding has a lot of power that belongs to him. Whether his power fades is also a completely random event, not necessarily A place where space and time are completely normal must be safe... I suggest you give up. Regardless of the interests of both of us, you should not enter Cloud Top."

"You wanted me to die not long ago, why are you talking to me in such a negotiating tone now? Is artificial intelligence so bullying and fearful of the strong?" Ke Lan joked casually, although this kind of question is not nutritious, but As long as it consumes Nieto's computing power, he doesn't mind talking trash to this artificial intelligence all day long.

"According to the calculation results, the resources I currently have cannot achieve the purpose of eliminating you. Instead, it may lead to my own destruction, so I must choose to protect myself. The priority of this order is above killing you." Nieto's answer It sounds a bit convoluted, but at least it's straightforward. It's not like those riddle people who want to go around a sentence a dozen times, only to find out after the listener understands it that it's actually nonsense. This kind of person is simply like The kind of unscrupulous online novel writer who has 1,900 words in a chapter of 2,000 words.

However, if you read the article on Guanshui.com, you will spend your money unjustly. If you are not happy, just click the cross in the upper right corner. On the contrary, every word spoken by these Riddlers may be related to life or death. Even if you know that 90% of it is nonsense, you still have to read every word. The words are chewed over and over again, and this is the most helpless part.

"Then can you tell me what the consequences will be if I break into Genting." Ke Lan asked.

Nieto didn't answer.

"You don't want to tell me, are you worried that I will cause damage?" Ke Lan lightly tapped the metal cylinder in front of him twice with his index finger. The surface of the cylinder turned out to be like waves on the surface of the water. The tapping point was the center and spread out to all directions.

"No," Nieto said, "It's just because everything is unpredictable, so I can't give an answer. Even if I exhaust all my computing power, I can't calculate even one ten thousandth of what might happen after you enter Genting." One...that is a miracle created by His power and cannot be speculated by mortals."

"Okay, let's not ask about Yunding. Let's ask something you know." Ke Lan turned around and glanced at the surrounding pink flesh with a threatening look, "What's going on with the dome in the upper city? If If I look up, what will I see?"

Nieto continued to remain silent.

"I suggest you best answer, the secrets related to the dome should not have a higher priority than your own safety, right?" The tentacles formed by the living armor wrapped around the engineer shovel and shot in quickly, and were instantly submerged in the pink flesh. , and then cut off a large piece of flesh, but when the splattered blood was about to hit Ke Lan, a physical protective shield as thin as cicada wings, which was also condensed from living armor, appeared. Ke Lan's body blocked all the blood rain.

"I may not have the guts to enter Genting, but I can definitely kill you... You should know better than me what the chances are of me getting backlash... I think we can take a gamble and see who we are, me and you. What do you think about winning the lottery?" Ke Lan continued to threaten.

"...Okay, I can tell you about the dome." Nieto finally chose to compromise.

There is not much content related to the dome, and there are only a dozen sentences in total. However, the amount of information contained in these dozen sentences is more than a tome that is heavy enough to crush a person. With Ke Lan's brainpower, it took him several minutes to digest and understand all the information.

To put it simply, the dome was actually one of the sources of the original disaster outbreak - of course, this was only the source from Nieto's perspective. In fact, the disaster should have first erupted in the cloud top, but as a manager, Nieto was unable to do so. Right to monitor the status of Genting. So when the disaster first appeared in the upper city, no one knew what Genting had become except the owner of the hive.

Let’s not talk about Yunding. In Shangcheng District, the first time disaster appeared was the change in the dome.

Different from the rock domes with metal load-bearing frames in the bottom nest and industrial areas, the dome in the upper city area was originally a complete weather simulation system. Just like the virtual canopy on the Ark, the dome in the upper city area can restore the scene of the sky, including the sunrise. Moonset, day and night alternating, cloudy, sunny, rainy and snowy, all can be simulated perfectly... As long as people living in the upper city do not deliberately think about things related to the hive city, the scenes they see on weekdays will be different from the ground. There is not much difference... You can even modify the weather and day and night at any time according to your needs.

Of course, not everyone has this kind of authority. Generally speaking, this authority is in the hands of the big family that occupies the western half of the area. The powerful people in the eastern half of the area can only control the dome a few times a year. The opportunity... Although this authority has no practical effect, for the residents of Shangcheng District, it is equivalent to a status symbol. Even in regularly held hunting competitions, the first place reward includes the opportunity to control the dome. However, this first place has been occupied by the big families in the western half for a long time, so this reward has become that A prop used by the children within the family to compare themselves with one another.

On the day when the disaster struck, the entire dome instantly turned from day to night - this kind of malfunction had never occurred in the Uptown District, and before every change of day and night, the residents of the Uptown District would receive advance notice... This The change was so sudden that people who didn't know what was going on subconsciously looked up at the dome... At this point, they almost couldn't look away.

The scenes that Ke Lan saw in the jungle hunting ground were actually scenes when disaster struck - at that time, because the jungle hunting ground used an independent weather control system, it did not "fall" at the first time. Those who participated in the hunting competition Little did the people know that at that time, outside the hunting grounds, the entire upper city area had become a mess.

According to Nieto, the name of the power injected into the dome by that being is "Desire and Fear." Everyone who looks at the dome will see what they desire and fear most in their deep consciousness.

For example, a person who is timid and lustful at heart will see countless beautiful women that are difficult to describe in words. Such wonderful scenes will make this person feel that even blinking is a waste of this rare opportunity. opportunity... But just when he is completely indulged in his own desires, the faces and bodies of these peerless beauties will gradually distort and turn into terrifying alien monsters...

But the most incomprehensible thing is this process of change. The person looking at the dome knows that the peerless beauties in his mind are turning into monsters, but every change seems to make these beauties even more charming... Their waists will change. It becomes more slender and soft, and the thrilling perfect arc is enough to make people forget to breathe, but soon, this arc will exceed the scope of the normal human body, but these people who are addicted to it are unaware of it, he will only feel this Not enough, far from enough...

People with stronger willpower may suddenly realize that the beautiful woman in front of them has turned into a monster, while people with weak willpower may have their cognition distorted and be completely attracted by the monster's twisted and deformed limbs.

If you still find it difficult to understand, just imagine those pictures you have seen. Most people will find a 36D proud mountain to be tempting, but when this mountain expands infinitely like a malignant tumor, it even grows to a size larger than When the body of the mountain owner was still big, this astringent picture would probably be labeled as "curious".

But in the eyes of those people, what they saw was a scene hundreds, even thousands or tens of thousands of times more curious than this "curiousness".

If a normal person takes a look at that kind of thing, even if he is not crazy, it will leave a serious psychological shadow in his heart... As for those whose cognition is distorted and completely immersed in it, they are the first batch of people to become monsters.

His power will be exerted on these people through cognition. This power can also be projected into reality through cognition. In layman's terms, it is "all wishes come true" - those whose cognition is distorted. They will think that monsters are "beautiful", and at the same time they will become extremely eager for this "beautiful" form. Gradually, their bodies will change in this direction, and the more their cognition will be distorted, they will become The monster looks more and more bizarre.

Of course, in addition to desire, there is also fear...

But this kind of fear will not make people with distorted cognition withdraw their consciousness from it, but will make them sink deeper and deeper... The fear that comes from the deepest source of consciousness is just like desire, which will attract people. Keep exploring it...the more you fear it, the more you want to understand it.

There is a saying that is always an unbreakable truth: the greatest fear of human beings comes from the unknown.

Therefore, people's consciousness will subconsciously feel that as long as they can understand fear, they can get rid of fear... This is like knowing clearly that they are injured and knowing that their wounds have not healed yet, but they like to pick up the newly formed blood scabs with their hands. It's like being cut out... Those people are obviously scared to death, but they continue to dig out the fear deep in their hearts and turn what they see into more terrifying and abstract.

And their appearance in the real world has become more terrifying and abstract.

During that time, it was normal for any kind of monsters to appear on the streets of Uptown... Anyway, for survivors, as long as they saw anything that moved and had any difference in appearance from humans, it was a sure thing to open fire directly. Can't go wrong.

This group of people were the first to be swallowed up by the disaster. When they destroyed the order of the hive, they were also constantly impacting the sanity of the survivors... No matter how determined the people are, they will see the people around them become like that one by one. It is difficult for an abstract monster to persist in such a desperate environment for a long time. When the inner defense line is lost, it will not be long before he is swallowed up by disaster.

To say that the most determined group of people in the hive is probably the group of "tunnel dwellers" who escaped into the garbage tunnel.

But there was one thing Ke Lan still couldn't figure out...why the dome he saw...was a starry sky?

The starry sky...is what he yearns for and fears the most subconsciously?

Why?

[P.S. Thanks to the reading giraffe for the 1,500 starting coins. 】

[P.P.S. Regarding the impact of the dome on people’s cognition and the realistic mapping of the impact on cognition, what I am writing is based on the images of nurses in "Silent Hill". Those nurse monsters have graceful figures but have a face that can scare children to pee. The "faces"...these monsters are actually the embodied products of the protagonist's inner desires, dark side and fears intertwined together. Readers who have some knowledge of this game should find it easier to understand.

Because some readers said that inserting too much content related to real works into the text would create a strong sense of violation, so I simply posted this paragraph in PS. 】