Alien Relic Hunter

Chapter 20 Sedatives

"Ice Dao... and Ice Dao!" Ke Lan completely ignored Layton and the hound's obstruction, rushed into the Ice Dao like crazy, put the flashlight against the wall, and turned on the maximum brightness——

no, nothing...

Everything seemed to be his own nightmare.

"Layton, hold him down for me!"

The hound that was chasing after took out a needle, stuck it on Ke Lan's shoulder, and pushed all the medicine inside.

"I'm sorry...but I've seen too many hunters who have gone crazy because of hallucinations. I don't want you to become like that." The Hound said, and together with Layton, they helped Ke Lan up.

The effect of the medicine soon took effect. Ke Lan only felt his head dizzy, his weak arms hanging limply by his side, and his legs couldn't take a step as if they were filled with lead. I heard the whining of the hound in my ear...

"Damn...is this a sedative given by the doctor? Why do I look like a sweat medicine?"

"I don't care so much, let's carry Ke Lan down first, we can't waste any more time here." Leighton said, directly pinching the delirious Ke Lan under his ribs, and strode towards the stone room.

"Wait." The hound's voice suddenly came from behind. "It seems that there is really something in the ice?"

"What can there be? Didn't Ke Lan have seen it all? You must have been caught too, old dog, right?" Layton stopped speechlessly and threw the flashlight in his hand.

Taking the flashlight, the hound carefully inspected the ice walls on both sides, but also found nothing.

But just now he really caught a glimpse of a dark shadow floating past inside the ice cube...

No, how strong is this ice block? Even with a large engineering rig, it would take a long time to break it open. How could there be something swimming in it?

"...It should be my eyes." The old dog blinked hard, rubbed the stubble on his chin, and said with a frown.

"You're not dazzling, it's purely suspicious, according to me, we should give this guy a shot from the beginning, maybe we've already picked treasures in the core area at this time." Layton said angrily, "Let's go. Let's go, I really don't want to stay in this place for even a second... My temperature control system is broken and I'm freezing to death."

"Yeah." The Hound nodded, "I remember Ke Lan said before that the wounds on your body were caused by a big centipede? That centipede still has the upper body of a human, and the face is exactly the same as Akano Asano? "

"Don't you see all the injuries on my body? And the big centipede... You also believe the stories he made up? He also said that there was a piece of rotten flesh that looked like you, and then shattered again. It fell... Hahaha, if there was such a thing, I would definitely use the camera to capture it."

"Then did you film it? Where's the fully automatic recording device on you?" the Hound asked as he walked down.

"Isn't it reimbursed with my robotic arm? It's annoying when I think about it, and I have to write a report when I go back. It's more convenient than uploading a video of the whole process."

"To be honest... I always feel that the memory of the scene where your robotic arm was blown up... seems a bit vague, and there seem to be some details in my subconscious, but I just can't remember it..." Hound was a little depressed. scratched his head.

"Look at you, when will this suspicious old problem be changed? With an expression like constipation, weren't we chased by schizophrenia and fled? Isn't it normal that some details can't be remembered?" Layton said disapprovingly, "Could it be, do you really think that as Ke Lan said, all of us have amnesia? Then why is his memory different from ours? This is obviously something wrong with him."

"That's what I said..." The Hound nodded, and was no longer tangled on this topic.

……

It didn't take long for the two to take Ke Lan back to the giant gate again. At this time, the effect of the medicine gradually subsided, and Ke Lan finally woke up.

"What did you guys give me? It's...a bit too strong..." Ke Lan asked weakly, rubbing his temples forcefully.

"High-dose phenobarbital plus morphine." Ivan said with a blank face, "Although there is a certain risk of sudden death, it can minimize the impact of hallucinations on you."

"Damn...you quack doctor...are you trying to kill me?"

"If you are completely mad, the trouble will be even greater... Besides, even if you have respiratory failure due to the effect of the drug, I have a way to save you." Ivan shrugged.

"How to help?"

"Endotracheal intubation."

"...If I get sick in the future, I will never come to you." Ke Lan silently crossed out Ivan's quack doctor label in his heart, and then replaced it with...

"I also don't see the average patient."

"Okay, stop arguing—Ke Lan, how are you feeling now?" The Hound stepped forward and patted Ke Lan's arm, "I mean... those things about hallucinations, you still think Are they real?"

"My head hurts...I feel like I can't remember the details of a lot of things, those things, those things...it's like I had a dream...damn...you shouldn't have given me that medicine... ' Collan complained.

"But at least you look better than before, really," said the Hound. "You know what, you almost went crazy just now."

"I'm not sure if those things are real or fake, but I don't think those monsters should have been imagined by me out of thin air. I've never seen anything similar..."

"It's normal. There used to be a crazy hunter who claimed to have seen a living Alpha star with his own eyes, and kept shouting about evil gods and sacrifices. Do you know how the last thing ended? According to the computer The description draws the so-called 'Alpha Starman', and compared the results with the database, only to find that this shape comes from a low-cost sci-fi animation filmed 40 years ago, called "Gang Damu vs. Alpha Star Demon King"..."

"Grass... I've also seen that anime, and the Alpha star in it looks like a crab, and it can spit bubbles..." Layton said with a forcible smile.

"So, it's just an illusion, nothing to make a fuss about." The Hound said, turning his eyes to the giant stone gate in front of him, "Everything else is trivial, the most important thing right now is how to open this giant door. The door - by the way, have you researched any doorway?"

Ivan and Asano Akira stayed below all the time. In addition to taking care of the comatose Zorigetu, finding a way to open the stone gate was also their main task.

"At present, it can only be determined that this stone gate requires energy crystals to open, and there is no progress for the time being." Ivan said seriously.

"Well, what you said, doctor, is the same as what you didn't say. Even if everyone on the Alpha star is a Hercules, this door can't be pushed open with strength... Since you want to use crystals, have you found the crystal slot?"

"If there is, it should be there—" Ivan raised his arm, and the others looked in the direction he pointed, only to see a place in the middle of the gate, about 100 meters high. A small platform that protrudes outward, but due to the limited viewing angle, it is unknown what is on the platform.

"Someone has to be sent up to see," said the Hound.

(End of this chapter)