Alien Relic Hunter

Chapter 1019 One Quarter
"Fool?!"

Ke Lan's eyebrows couldn't help but move, his thumb moved to the position of the answer button, and he pressed it lightly.

"Hey?"

"Long time no see." A male voice that seemed to be synthesized by software came from the receiver.

"We don't seem to have met before, right? Why haven't we seen each other for so long?" Ke Lan asked coldly.

"What about now?" The other party changed to a voice that Ke Lan was very familiar with. This voice made Ke Lan's body tremble. The voice most often used on the phone.

Although the voices are also synthesized by software, this voice is obviously specially tuned, and that kind of low-key tone cannot be imitated by anyone.

After the Battle of the Bronze City Ruins, the intelligence dealer disappeared strangely. Not only did Ke Lan investigate his identity, but even the Undead Crew spent a lot of resources to track down the information dealer’s whereabouts, but they found nothing—this People are like an electronic ghost that is only active on the Internet. Ke Lan even wondered whether he was a real person.

"You are... The Fool?" Ke Lan couldn't help asking.

"Don't you think I'm the kind of person who likes to joke with others?" The other party's tone was very frivolous, and it was obvious that it was the information dealer Ke Lan had known for a long time... Unless, someone stole the information between the information dealer and Ke Lan. All chats and call records, and let AI learn and imitate, can bring Ke Lan such a familiar feeling.

"Aren't you?"

"Forget it, I'm indeed a 'fool', but to be precise, I'm just a part of the 'fool', just like you." The intelligence dealer said.

"I know this. In order to avoid the ending caused by the degree of erosion exceeding the critical point, the Fool can only seal up the split personality of himself in different 'containers'. And for insurance, he also imposed the memory of each part of the personality 'Seal'..." Ke Lan said, "I have a high probability of being such a 'container', but it's a pity that I seem to be the one with the most memories sealed. Before these things, my identity and the matter of the fool , know nothing about it.”

"Bingo! That's right." The intelligence dealer snapped his fingers, but the sound was still synthesized by software, and Ke Lan couldn't even be sure whether the other party had a real body. "It seems that in the past few years, you Through my own efforts, I have collected a lot of secret information."

"No, I still don't know anything about the Fool's core plan." Ke Lan sighed, "I don't know what's the matter with you contacting me, but since you are also one of the containers, then you should stand on my side. This side?"

"First of all, I want to correct one of your grammatical errors. When referring to 'The Fool', you should not use the third person 'he', but should use the No.1 pronoun 'I'." The intelligence dealer said, "Second , although you don't know anything about 'my' plan, you have been following the preset route in the plan...don't worry, you've done a good job until now, impeccably perfect."

"You still talk so much nonsense even at this time..." Ke Lan's mouth twitched twice, "If you have to talk to me wrong, then you shouldn't use the second person pronoun 'you' when you call me, right? ?”

"No, it's different. I'm not the same as you. We are two completely different parts of the fool's personality. The fool is me, and the fool is also you, but I'm not you... This may sound confusing, but I think you should be able to Understood." The intelligence dealer said, "Also, aren't you curious how many parts the Fool divides his personality into?"

"How many copies?"

"Four copies." The intelligence dealer told Ke Lan bluntly, "Personality No. [-] is me, but my body is just a failed experiment... Although I have been trying to delay the progress of the erosion, but now The time left for me will not exceed twelve hours at most... Leaving aside this, you should be able to guess that No. [-] personality is the personality implanted in the living armor, and his degree of erosion is four personality It is the heaviest among them, so he is in deep sleep most of the time. His only function is to replace you to accept the gaze of that existence when you need to use the Holy Word... I would like to call him the strongest tool People. It's a pity that the big move can only be used once, if there are more people like this tool, the current situation will not be so rigid."

"What about number three and number four?" Ke Lan asked along.

"The No. [-] personality has been implanted into the core mastermind. As the center of the entire plan, it is the No. [-] personality who represents the Fool when the undead crew members vote... But now the core mastermind is controlled by Zeus and the group. No. [-] Personality can only be temporarily hidden in order to protect itself, and cannot provide any help."

"As for you," the information dealer, or rather, the No. [-] personality of "The Fool", changed the topic, "Naturally, it is the No. [-] personality, the mediocre relic hunter Ke Lan, how about it, I am quite satisfied with this answer ?"

"Not satisfied." Ke Lan replied indifferently, "The situation is very urgent now, if you want to chat with someone, you can write an anthropomorphic intelligent program yourself, I know this is not difficult for you, but I still have There are very important things to do, and I have no time to waste with you."

"Why is it a waste of time to chat with me? Besides, you have important things to do... What are important things? Is it the fool's plan?"

"What did you want to say when you called?"

"I haven't finished the topic just now, let's continue." The intelligence dealer said, "The four separated personalities were implanted into different containers, while the body of the Fool was completely preserved and was Put into the 'Black Coffin' on Yagunaktor, the 'body' you fused is actually the body of the Fool himself."

"Isn't the Fool's physical body on the verge of super-eclipse?" Ke Lan raised his hand and glanced at it, feeling a little doubt in his heart.

"That's right, the physical body is super-eclipsed, and it has nothing to do with consciousness... Don't you think you can still be regarded as a human being?" The intelligence dealer laughed dumbly, "Don't you think that in terms of the physical body alone, you are simply more powerful than the corroded body?" Corrosion?"

"...Then why is my consciousness not affected after the fusion of the body and me?"

"That is due to the powerful function of the 'Black Coffin'. The Alpha civilization has collected a large amount of unowned Ability God energy. This energy is purified by the Black Coffin and then put into the body of the fool. It is like a martial arts Like the 'washing the tendons and cutting the marrow' in the novel, the imprint left by that existence will be worn away little by little, leaving only the purest power." The information dealer said, "So, you have obtained a body that is comparable to an eclipse. Mukuro's body, thinking and cognition will not be affected in any way."

"Is this also arranged by the Fool?"

"That's right, not only that, but the Fool has already calculated that the erosion of other members of the Undead Crew will break through the critical point... The Coffin of Eternal Life can suppress the speed of erosion, but it's just a suppression. In order to prevent other members of the Undead Crew from becoming For that minion that exists, he has already prepared a countermeasure. And the key to this countermeasure is you."

"I?"

"You have seen the battle video saved on Yagunaktor. When you replay it, you should be able to detect that the Black Fleet attacked Yagunaktor at that time to force you to activate the 'Number Zero emergency procedure. '...Don't you think it's strange that the undead crew members have spent so much effort, and finally called out a father for themselves, and directly wiped out the entire black fleet with one move, but this body fell into yours again Under control, it's a modern version of 'lose wife and lose soldier'. Do you think they would do such a stupid thing?"

"I'm really puzzled by this point, maybe the undead crew members don't know enough about the Black Coffin?"

"No, they know the Black Coffin very well. They even watched the Fool's body put into the Black Coffin...but they didn't know at that time that it was the body of the Fool himself. Just a clone for experimentation."

"And then? The body in the black coffin has no self-awareness, so what's the difference if it's a deity or a clone?"

"There is no later, because what the undead crew will want to wake up at that time is not the black coffin, but the white coffin." The intelligence dealer said with a chuckle, "These fools have all been calculated by the fool."

"What is stored in the White Coffin...?"

"You." The information dealer said in an unastonishing tone, "The undead crew members only know that the degree of corruption of the Fool is approaching a critical point, but they don't know that he has secretly divided his personality into four parts and sealed his memory. Undead The crew always thought that what was put into the White Coffin was the body of the Fool himself and his complete personality... The function of the White Coffin is actually an enhanced version of the Coffin of Eternal Life, or in other words, the Coffin of Eternal Life on the Ark is actually the White Coffin A poor imitation of a coffin."

"But the one that was actually placed in the White Coffin..."

"It's a clone that is almost identical to the Fool's true self, plus a quarter of the Fool's personality, that is, you, Ke Lan." The intelligence dealer continued, "The White Coffin uses Yagunaktor's energy Direct remote connection with the core mastermind, so the Fool can also participate in the decision-making meeting of the Undead Crew during his short waking hours... But what no one else can imagine is that the 'Fool' attending the meeting has always been sealed The No. [-] personality in the core master brain."

"Then why did the Undead Crew Club wake up the Fool himself in the White Coffin?" Ke Lan asked.

"Because 15 years after 'you' was sealed in the White Coffin, some people in the Undead Crew Club secretly stole the White Coffin, and rewrote its operating program, reversing all functions... Originally used The protection measures used to curb the progress of erosion instantly turned into a weapon to accelerate erosion... According to their assumptions, the one who finally emerges from the White Coffin will not be the Fool, but a 'semi-apotheosis' whose self-awareness has been completely wiped out body.

"At the beginning, they just wanted to create a 'god' that they could drive, but as the erosion of these people deepened, even they didn't realize it, their original goal has changed from artificial gods to transforming the entire Civilization sacrificed to that existence... and with the distortion of cognition and the gradual spread of inner obsession, they gradually forgot the existence of the Black Coffin. Using such means, they constantly guided them, and over and over again weakened the presence of the Black Coffin in their hearts.

"Otherwise, over time, someone will definitely notice something is wrong. Once someone finds out that the person in the Black Coffin is the Fool himself, the fun will be great."

"If the body in the white coffin is really 'semi-deified', what will happen after it is awakened?" Ke Lan forced to suppress his inner curiosity about his life experience, and continued to ask about the "main plot".

"The disaster will come directly, and all surviving humans will be destroyed within a day." The information dealer said, "But they never imagined that the body in the white coffin would be secretly taken out a year later, and it will be destroyed in a day." After that, the white coffin has been empty...hahahaha!" The intelligence dealer suddenly laughed.

"Where was the body in the white coffin put after it was taken out?" Ke Lan said, "At that point in time, it seems to be decades away from the starting point of my memory, right?"

"It has been sealed in the underground freezer until the time is right, and several other personalities work together to mix this body, that is, you, into a bunch of symbiosis... Most of your memories were implanted later. Yes, the real memory is only the last few years, which is true... But in fact, you have been born in this world for more than 40 years, but you have been sleeping for 40 years." The intelligence dealer said.

"Why would the fool do this? Putting me in the coffin of white, what's the point of putting me in the coffin besides other members of the undead crew?"

"The meaning is great. Your immunity to erosion is so strong now, thanks to the gift of the White Coffin - the transformation of the individual by the White Coffin can be completed in only one year, provided that the energy of the Ability God is sufficient. Of course, the requirements for clones are also very high. In order to select a suitable clone for you, the scrapped products cost a full five figures."

"Five-figure abandoned clones... Will the undead crew not find it?"

"I found it, but they only knew that it was a scrapped mass-produced symbiont, and they didn't think about it." The intelligence dealer said.

"There is another question. I look exactly the same as the Fool. Could it be that the members of the Undead Crew Club can't see it? Will they still treat me as an ordinary symbiont?"

"The face of a god cannot be seen directly by mortals... Although this is just an exaggerated statement from the mouth of the god stick, when the body of the fool himself is successfully 'semi-deified', many memories of the fool in their impression will be erased, including Including the appearance of the Fool."

[PS Thanks for choosing a name, it’s really hard, I’m not good at keeping it, so don’t take the 100 starting coins that you tipped. 】

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