Alien Relic Hunter

Chapter 1036 The End of the Disaster
"It's nothing to be surprised about, because you are the one who walked into the misunderstanding..." Ke Lan sighed, and said, "The gap between dimensions does not exist at all. The state you observed is actually just It’s just an abnormal area generated after the overlap of space and time... If you use the example of artificial intelligence and programmer you just gave, if the programmer wants to kill an artificial intelligence, he only needs to press the 'delete button'... Or more simply, directly destroy the carrier of the artificial intelligence program by physical means. For the artificial intelligence itself, this kind of "strike" from a higher dimension is simply irresistible. There is also no "transition" between the two dimensions area'."

The lump of meat that Ke Lan dragged out of the void seemed to be in an extremely unstable state. Faces emerged one after another on the surface of the lump of meat, and then disappeared.These faces include members of the Undead Crew that he is familiar with, as well as strangers Ke Lan has never seen before. They have different expressions, including anger, pain, and resentment...but most of the faces are numb and lifeless, as if Like a puppet whose soul has been taken away.

The mouths of each face are moving, and the completely different voices are connected together to form a complete sentence: "I don't believe it! Since the first observation of the gap between dimensions, I have worked hard for hundreds of years! This is absolutely Impossible! The gap between dimensions is definitely not an abnormal area produced after the overlap of time and space!"

"Hundreds of years is still too short...Alpha civilization has worked hard for tens of thousands of years, and even they have not been able to discover the existence of this thing, only relying on the technical level of the Ark, plus some incomplete Alpha civilization technology Inheritance... Where did you get your confidence..." Ke Lan glanced at the lump of meat on the ground with some pity, "There is no chance or fluke in this kind of thing...We don't even count as standing on the shoulders of giants, At most, it can only be regarded as a group of primitive people who excavated the heritage of prehistoric civilization... If you want to skip the long process and directly "reach the sky in one step", only Long Aotian's novels from the old era dare to write like this."

Ke Lan paused, and continued: "Although I also think that the success rate of Alpha Civilization's plan is almost zero, almost zero does not mean it is zero. Behind the countless zeros after the decimal point, there is still a glimmer of hope... …As for your plan, it is completely accelerating the demise of human civilization. What is the difference between you and heretical sects?

"Take a step back, even if your plan is successful, after sacrificing most of the vitality of human civilization, what can you do in that higher dimension? He, or they, may not have Strong enough to completely control that high-dimensional world, but at least it is equivalent to a higher race in that world... just like humans on Earth. As for us, we are newcomers, maybe we are not even as good as plankton?"

A faint light suddenly appeared inside the holy cabinet, and a holographic projection that looked exactly like Ke Lan lightly "falls" to the ground.

The projection and Ke Lan looked at each other, and the latter immediately understood its identity—this holographic projection was exactly the part of the personality that The Fool had sealed in the core brain.

Ke Lan felt a strong resonance, and there was an indescribable attraction between the two personalities of the same origin. Countless memory fragments flooded into Ke Lan's mind-these memory fragments were not sealed in his What is in the consciousness, but comes from the personality of the core master brain... These memories are extremely dangerous for ordinary people, and the information contained in them can be regarded as a kind of meme, which is enough to make people fall into super eclipse in an instant .

But in Ke Lan's current state, he can easily neutralize the erosive memes attached to these memories, and examine these things that have happened with absolute sobriety and reason.

"The Fool once told you that there is no gap between dimensions, but it's a pity that you stubbornly believe that the Fool is jealous of you, demeaning you, and vetoing your plan is to suppress your position in the Undead Crew..." Ke Lan glanced at the wriggling meat on the ground again, and suddenly understood a lot, "You are not reconciled, so you use all your available resources to conduct research day and night... until one day, all the experimental data point to a Result: The Fool is right, the gap between dimensions does not exist, it is just an abnormal area produced by the overlapping of space and time... This phenomenon is essentially the same as the 'space-time singularity', it exists but does not exist, you It cannot be found in the physical universe, but it can be calculated through mathematics... It cannot be truly observed, just like those Alpha people whose existence was erased because of the space-time paradox.

"You are desperate, you smashed the priceless equipment in the laboratory, but you almost lost your life because of the small-scale space storm caused by the explosion... Your sanity is on the verge of collapse, completely ignoring the fool and other undead The warning from the crew, secretly read a large number of Alpha Civilization documents that were sealed by the undead crew...

"This kind of behavior is no different from suicide. Although the body and consciousness of the members of the crew have been strengthened, and their ability to withstand erosion far exceeds that of ordinary people, a large amount of 'taboo knowledge' still makes your erosion level break through the critical point... Undead crew The first member of the Society to erode was not Chiron, but you, Hermes.

"But unexpectedly, I don't know whether you are extremely lucky or extremely unlucky... Your corroded form is a very deceptive and camouflaged form, and it can still retain your Your self-awareness... If you don’t take the initiative to confess, other members of the Undead Crew will not be able to detect your changes, and the hive civilization once called this form of eclipse 'Cain'."

"Cain...Cain..." Routuan silently recited the name that symbolizes the original evil of human beings in religious books, his expression gradually distorted.

Because of various reasons such as anger, jealousy and pride, Cain killed his younger brother Abel, and Hermes also became Corrupted Cain because of these reasons... Is this a coincidence or necessity? Even the Fool It's hard to say clearly.

"Cain's biggest characteristic, besides disguise, is self-deception and suggestion... You forget the result of the failed experiment, and turn to convince yourself that what you did is correct. You deceive the undead crew other members of the society to secretly read those archived documents, and use it to blackmail and control them... and as the erosion of other members deepens, they also begin to believe in your so-called 'dimension ascension plan', you know why ?"

"Why... what?" After being dragged out of the space anomaly by Ke Lan, the meat ball began to become weaker and weaker, and now he could not even speak clearly.

"Because a corroded individual will subconsciously have a desire to become one with him... and a crucial step in the 'Dimension Ascension Plan' is to use the power of the World Extinct Tree to dedicate the entire civilization Sacrifice to that existence." Ke Lan continued, "This coincides with the subconscious impulse of the eroded, so even if you don't continue to coerce them, they will 'sincerely' support this plan."

"Sacrifice... the tree of destruction... no, no... my plan... I...they..."

Routuan's thinking logic seems to have fallen into chaos, but Ke Lan ignored him, but continued: "Of course, the reason why you firmly believe that your plan can be successful is also because of this subconscious mind. Trouble... Your reason tells you that the plan to ascend the dimension is not feasible at all, but after the erosion, you seem to be sane, but in fact you have completely lost your mind... Or, from the very beginning, you did not intend to The real purpose of making the Dimension Ascension Plan succeed is to sacrifice the entire human civilization to that existence."

Ke Lan and the holographic projection in front of him looked at each other, and said: "If you want to deceive others, you must first deceive yourself... It's just that you have fallen too deep in this lie. Until just now, you still believed in your own What he did was to free human civilization from his control..."

"...No, it's not like this...No!!" The voice of the meatball, from whimpering at the beginning, gradually became agitated, and finally roared directly, and its body also began to undergo tremendous changes—— The volume suddenly swelled, and countless thick tentacles covered with suckers and scales grew out of the flesh mass, filling the small space inside the holy cabinet in an instant.

But in the next second, these stretched tentacles were squeezed into a space less than one cubic meter. Under the huge pressure, these tentacles exploded into a bloody mess like berries in a juice. The pate is then compacted into boxy chunks.

The wailing resounded throughout the space, but Ke Lan remained unmoved.The space that imprisoned the meat ball was still being compressed, and in just a few seconds, it had become the size of a ping pong ball.

It's hard to imagine how high the density inside the meat is at this time. Neither the tentacles nor the distorted faces can be seen anymore. There is only an almost pure black bead floating in front of Ke Lan. In midair, from time to time, a touch of dark red would flash across the surface of the bead.

The biggest feature of the holy cabinet is to shield the detection of that existence. This is a "laboratory" specially built by the Alpha civilization to study the energy of the gods. To be precise, the technology of the holy cabinet was not developed by the Alpha civilization itself. It is a legacy left to them by a human civilization in another parallel time and space.

Inside the holy cabinet, Ke Lan can use the power of his body to a certain extent without attracting the attention of that being... From a certain point of view, this is the best battlefield tailored for him.

Hermes is a living body formed by condensing tens of millions of creatures on the ark. It contains the god-level energy it has collected from hundreds of Alpha civilization ruins. In terms of strength alone, it has completely reached the level of a family member. Let alone fighting Ke Lan, it is not difficult to destroy Alpha Star.

But just when Hermes wanted to mobilize these forces, he discovered that there were tens of millions of resisting consciousnesses in his body... Those consciousnesses that should have been wiped out all woke up at the same time Now, every conscious body is resisting Hermes' control, pulling the energy that has been integrated with consciousness, preventing it from being released smoothly.

"Why do these people still have self-awareness?! Why?!" Hermes' consciousness screamed in surprise and anger. Although it is the leader of this consciousness aggregate, when this dominant position is not recognized by other consciousness bodies When the time comes, its own power becomes very small... It is like a helpless brain that has lost control of every part of the body... What makes it most desperate is that its "limbs" are not only no longer Accepting the control of its brain, in turn, is still attacking its "brain", constantly impacting and eating away at the part of consciousness that originally belonged to Hermes.

"You... don't you know... this is suicide?" Hermes finally felt the fear, but in this fear, there seemed to be a hint of relief. The only way out! As long as you ascend to a higher-dimensional world with me, you will understand all of this! The Dimension Ascension Plan...the Dimension Ascension Plan is..."

Hermes' consciousness suddenly fell silent. After a while, his tone seemed to be a different person. All the anger, fear, and panic had disappeared, leaving only calmness: "The plan to ascend the dimension is not feasible. Yes...I remember...I already knew the answer, but I don't want to believe it...I've been deceiving myself...I've been deceiving myself..."

Ke Lan could clearly feel that the black bead stopped struggling suddenly, and then, the number of consciousness bodies inside the bead was rapidly decreasing, and the erosive power attached to the bead was also weakening at an astonishing speed .

"Purification?" Ke Lan was slightly taken aback, "No, that's not right, it's neutralization... Those disappeared consciousness bodies, at the cost of themselves, neutralized the brand that belonged to him..."

"They're awake." The Fool's holographic projection said, "Hermes, and the other corroded members of the crew."

At the same time, in the command post of the Survivor Alliance ground forces, General Magino, who had lost consciousness not long ago, opened his eyes and sat up from the ground with some difficulty.

As soon as Magino regained consciousness, he hastily stretched out his hand to his cheek.

Magino clearly remembered that before he fell into a coma, a bunch of grape-like sarcoids grew on his face, and the sarcoids were wrapped with something like glass beads, which could still rotate uncontrollably in a small range.

He knew that it was the "extra eyeball" that grew out of the mutation... He knew that he hadn't escaped this disaster either—but now, the hands that were pressing on his face couldn't touch anything.

Apart from a "slight" excess of subcutaneous fat, Maginot's face has nothing on it.

"Could it be that everything just now was an illusion?" Machino muttered to himself, still in shock, he fumbled around his body, but still didn't find any signs of mutation.

"What...what's going on? General, are you...are you alright?" Levi also woke up, and stretched out his hand to cover his head, "Head...it hurts..."

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