Alien Relic Hunter

Chapter 211 Explosion, Dilution, Evaporation
Victoria was completely stunned. She looked at Ke Lan with absent-minded eyes, and pulled the trigger unconsciously with her finger. The bullet flew from less than ten centimeters in front of Ke Lan's eyes, and hit the gun in the distance. above the floor.

"What happened...it...it exploded?"

"It seems to be." Ke Lan wiped the dirty blood on his face, raised his hand to take a look, and he suddenly found that these plasma from monsters seemed to be "self-diluted"-a drop of thick and thick plasma stained On Ke Lan's fingertips, it slowly slid down the fingers. When it slid down to the root of the finger, it had turned into a clear liquid like serum, but when it reached the palm, it looked nothing like a drop of water. difference.

Ke Lan stretched out his hand to wipe his face again, and all the smelly and sticky pus and blood disappeared, and even the water-like liquid evaporated quickly.

The monster disappeared completely, as if it had never existed in this world.

Is this the effect of the "Holy Word"...that line of sight...could it really come from the "great god" that the Alpha civilization said?
Ke Lan suddenly remembered something. He touched his face with his hands for the third time, and then rubbed his cheeks vigorously—the feeling from his palms was smooth and full. Not only did he not lose a piece of flesh, he even had wrinkles Neither appeared.

He took out the lens from his pocket, and took a look at his own face—although he looked a bit embarrassed in the mirror, there was no sign of aging at all.

However, using the "Holy Word" doesn't require one's own vitality as a price?
If what I "pay" is not life force, what is it?

Just as Ke Lan was staring at the mirror thinking in a daze, Victoria walked towards Ke Lan. She held the gun in both hands. Swaying, the corners of her eyes twitched slightly, her eyes were full of surprise... After deliberating for a long time, she managed to utter a few words: "You... what did you do?"

"I don't know." Ke Lan shook his head and said.

"Did you just... read that prayer?"

"Yes...but I don't know why, I didn't become a black skeleton..." Ke Lan said, took off the protective armor on his body, and then took off the coat and the shirt inside, lowered his head, carefully He carefully checked his body.

There was nothing abnormal, except for some bruises and abrasions, he didn't even have a serious injury on his body, and he didn't feel any discomfort.

Seeing that there was no change in Ke Lan, the suspicion in Victoria's eyes gradually faded.

"Perhaps... this thing disintegrated on its own and has nothing to do with you..." Victoria thought for a while, and finally came to such a conclusion.

"The genetic sequence of this man-made monster is very unstable, and there is a risk of collapse at any time... I have seen similar experiments in the research institute. Like this, the experimental subject is fine for one second, and the next It's not uncommon for a second to explode into pieces of meat."

"Disintegrate on its own..." Ke Lan did not refute Victoria's guess, because even he himself was completely unable to explain what happened just now... That line of sight, that consciousness... Looking back now, it seems to be just an illusion in his mind , only a few flashes of fuzzy fragments remain in memory.

"It's a pity that the wreckage has already volatilized... Otherwise, the samples can be sent to the research institute for analysis." Victoria looked at the two "Bloodhound" mechas destroyed by the monsters, and even the bloodhounds generated in the monsters The corrosive liquid also completely disappeared at this moment, leaving no residue.

"By the way." Victoria turned her head suddenly, staring at Ke Lan, "Why can you repeat those prayers?"

"Eh?" Facing Victoria's sudden questioning, Ke Lan was speechless for a while... If he hadn't thought that both of them were dead, he would not have made such a choice, but now that the crisis is over, this matter But there is no way to get away with it...

"Also, let's not talk about why I didn't hear the specific content of the prayer in that voice... You were standing less than ten meters away from me just now, why did I hear you when you recited that prayer? Didn't hear anything? What exactly was the content you just recited...and what language did you use?"

"...The content is to pray to the great gods for gifts and the like. Any believer in a heretical sect can say a lot of this kind of 'doctrine' casually. As for the language, I use my mother tongue, Chinese. Why do you I don’t know if I can’t hear it at such a close distance... But I can assure you that when I recite this prayer, I use absolutely normal volume.” Ke Lan said.

"Since it is something that any congregation can master, why only the man in black robe turned into a black skeleton after chanting? But other believers don't have this ability?" Victoria asked hotly.

"Then how do I know? Besides, I read it, but nothing happened?... In my opinion, this may be just a symbolic ceremony. The body of the man in black should have undergone some kind of transformation." Or there is something in his body that will turn him into a black skeleton... like a container for the seeds of erosion." Ke Lan said, walking quickly in front of Victoria, pointing to the gun in her hand——

"If you think there is something wrong with me, you can kill me here...Of course, if you don't plan to shoot me, I think we have to hurry up." Ke Lan continued, "Just now Arasaka Yui said Yes, 'the great ceremony has been completed'... Although I don't know what this great ceremony refers to, I don't think it will be a good thing."

"You're right, maybe killing you directly is the best choice." Victoria raised her gun and pointed it at Ke Lan's head...but after two seconds, her arm came down again, "You back Go to the blockade, take out the information here, and let the troops outside take action quickly... For the next task, I alone will be enough."

"I refuse." Of course, Ke Lan would not tell Victoria that the reason he chose to enter the East Ninth District was because he heard a call from the depths of his mind, but anyway, he had to find a convincing reason, " They captured my teammate. Although Arasaka Yui said that he has become a consumable for the experiment, but I want to see people, and I want to see corpses... If he also becomes a monster, then I will kill him with my own hands. relief."

(End of this chapter)