Alien Relic Hunter

Chapter 25 The Broken Stele

"It doesn't matter if it's a coffin or an operating table, you'll know if you go up and take a look... If I hadn't been able to move now, I'd definitely be the first to rush up." Layton said weakly, losing the main power furnace and adding The upper part of the body was seriously injured, except that he was still awake, and it was not much different from Zorigtu, who had been in a deep coma.

"Ivan, let's go up and have a look." Ke Lan said, "It must be a lie to say that I don't feel itchy now. I'm also curious about what's inside."

"Well." Ivan took out two pairs of gloves from his pocket and threw one pair to Ke Lan.

"Don't be careless. On Earth, the emperors of the old era especially like to set traps in their coffins, just to kill those tomb robbers who were blinded by greed at the last minute." Hound said.

"Don't worry, we're not the kind of rookies who just entered the industry." Ke Lan said, took out a folded metal rod from his backpack, and then glued a mirror to the end of the metal rod with all-purpose glue - this task should have been This is done by drones loaded with high-definition cameras, but in cases where most of the equipment is missing, this can only be used as an alternative to this simplified version.

Ke Lan and Ivan climbed to the top of the high platform with the help of suction cups. Compared with the previous long-distance perspective, the sarcophagus in front of them completely showed the heavy texture-this sarcophagus was five meters long and more than three meters long. The width and height are nearly [-] meters. The material used is similar to the rock in the cave, but the surface has a special luster, which should be a part of the metal elements incorporated in the production.

There is no text or pattern carved on the outside of the sarcophagus, but there is a row of evenly spaced round holes. As for whether these round holes are used for drainage or ventilation, or slots for some additional components, it is completely unknown. .

The sarcophagus did not have a lid, but Ke Lan and Ivan did not look directly at the edge of the sarcophagus, but stuck out the metal rod with the mirror, and used the image reflected on the mirror to observe the interior of the sarcophagus.

"Hi..." Seeing the image on the mirror, Ke Lan couldn't help taking a deep breath. Inside the sarcophagus was a pool of viscous blood plasma, and there were still many broken organ fragments soaked in the blood plasma. A few air bubbles came up from the bottom and popped with a snap.

"It's normal, after all, that monster crawled out of here, no matter what the sarcophagus looks like, I'm mentally prepared." As a doctor, Ivan didn't have any overreaction to such a scene. Call a few more people to help, collect some samples first, and then clean up these dirty things."

Fortunately, there was a mini suction pump in the equipment everyone carried. Although the tube was blocked countless times by lumps of blood scabs and minced meat, after working hard for half an hour, the blood inside the sarcophagus was finally removed. All cleaned up.

"This thing... looks like a stone tablet?"

Since there is no Alpha star person's body in the sarcophagus, nor is there any valuable funerary objects, there is only a one-meter square stone tablet, and the stone tablet is densely written with the text of the Alpha civilization.

"It's Alpha... It's estimated to have thousands of characters!" Hound exclaimed. Although the relics related to documents are useless to them hunters, the official purchase price from Ark is very high. High, and it is also very helpful for the evaluation of the hunter's qualification level. The higher the qualification level, the more tasks can be selected, and the higher the guaranteed reward can be obtained for each task.

"Ke Lan, the two of us are going to lift this stele out, Ivan and Akano Asano, you guys will catch it... Everyone must be careful, the price difference between the intact and the damaged one has to be five or six times at least... ..." The hound greeted Ke Lan and climbed into the coffin.

For the processing of documentary relics, hunters have a complete set of processes. First, take pictures, then use a resin film to rub a rubbing, and finally wrap it with an anti-oxidation film and transfer it out.

The process of taking pictures and rubbing went smoothly, but when the anti-oxidation film was wrapped, an accident happened suddenly——

Because the anti-oxidation film was very thin and could not leave any space with the stone tablet, Ke Lan had to take off the pair of gloves. However, when his fingertips just touched the stone tablet, the entire stone tablet was actually indistinct. It shattered without warning!

"what?!"

Ke Lan's eyes widened instantly, his whole body froze in place, his lips began to tremble slightly, and even his whole body twitched like an electric shock!

"It's actually broken... It's a pity, it seems that the stone itself has been weathered... Huh? Ke Lan, are you all right? I don't blame you for this, really."

The hound thought that Ke Lan was confused because the stone tablet suddenly shattered, but in fact, at that moment, a large amount of information from unknown sources poured into his head like a torrent—he was not shocked by the stone tablet, but I was stunned by these sudden information!

This... what is this? !

His head was full of pain, and countless strange pictures flashed before his eyes like a slideshow. A kind of knowledge that had never been touched before was forcibly instilled into his mind. Like the "enlightenment" of Ke Lan, Ke Lan's self-defense line was easily destroyed by this uninvited guest, and the sea of ​​consciousness swelled in a blink of an eye!
"What's wrong? Did the previous drug have side effects?" The hound ran to Ke Lan's side as soon as he found out that it was wrong, and supported his shoulder.

"It's not like a side effect of the drug." Ivan shook his head, "This symptom is a bit like the tumor pressing on the nerves in the head..."

"Don't talk nonsense, people with brain tumors can't even pass the physical examination, how can they be registered as hunters?" Hound retorted, but when he saw Ke Lan's mouth began to drip, his expression couldn't help but be suspicious. stand up.

This guy... Could it be that there is some hidden disease in the nervous system, I usually can't see it, but I was stimulated too much today, and it suddenly broke out, right?
Just when the Hound and Ivan didn't know what to do with Ke Lan, the storm in Ke Lan's mind finally stopped. However, what made him unbelievable was that it was just instilled in his mind. The content on the stone tablet!
He actually has the ability to read the text of the Alpha civilization! !
But despite this, he can only read, but it is difficult to transcribe in human language - the language of Alpha Civilization is too weird, whether from the perspective of natural language or programming language, it is There is no similarity, it is completely inconsistent with the logic that an information carrier should have, it is simply a fantasy to understand it in the way of human thinking, it has no concept of words and sentences, and the combination of characters is also There is no rule to speak of, the same character has completely different meanings in different places. Rather than comparing it to a password or a secret language, Ke Lan feels it is a kind of conveyance on the level of consciousness.

He can only understand what these characters want to convey through the ability he has mastered, but he cannot teach another person how to read these characters by any means - for example, these characters are on this stele It is such a meaning that if they change places, even if the factors such as the size, number, and arrangement order of the characters are completely unchanged, the meaning they represent will also change.

If a human wants to acquire the language of the Alpha civilization, the only way is to accept an "empowerment"-style shock of information like what Ke Lan has just experienced...

Ke Lan suddenly thought of a very old proverb, "You can only understand it, but you can't tell it in words." These eight words are used to describe the language of the Alpha Civilization, which is too apt.

The text engraved on the stone tablet is actually a long and strange prayer, to the effect that the Alpha civilization believes in a certain god, and that god has many powerful and even terrible enemies. The war has been going on for countless thousands of years. These devout believers want to help their gods, but they cannot intervene in wars of that level with their abilities. Therefore, the Alpha civilization can only find another way to use... (Next It is a large section of content that Ke Lan can understand but cannot understand, probably involving the secret technology of the Alpha civilization)... In an attempt to create a warrior strong enough to intervene in the war between gods.

In addition, words such as "dedication" and "sacrifice" appear many times throughout the prayer, but the content is too fragmented, and the context in many places cannot be connected at all. This part of the content that Ke Lan can read , less than one-tenth of the entire prayer.

Create powerful warriors?Ke Lan couldn't help but think of the resurrected pilot... and the meat pieces sealed in ice cubes in the hallucination...

But... what are the gods that the Alpha Civilization believes in?Could it be a higher-level cosmic civilization?And who is the so-called "enemy of the gods"?The amount of information contained in this prayer is too huge, and Ke Lan feels that his brain is about to run out.

"Hey! Ke Lan! Don't scare people! Hey! Your saliva is about to drip onto the coffin!" The hound slapped Ke Lan on the back, finally interrupting his thoughts , Ke Lan, who woke up, staggered and almost fell to his knees in the sarcophagus.

"Huh...huh..." Ke Lan breathed heavily, his underwear was completely wet with sweat, and his body was almost collapsed, but his heartbeat kept at a rate of more than [-] beats per minute - for no For biochemically modified humans, this data is very close to the limit.

"Are you okay? Do you want another sedative?" Ivan asked after looking at Ke Lan's pale face.

"I...I'm fine, if you...give me...one more injection...I might...have something to do..." Ke Lan waved his hand and said.

After a short period of thought, he decided to keep this matter a secret - he knew that if the news that he could read the text of the Alpha civilization was leaked, his best end would be to be sent to the dissection table for research, and His brain is a living CPU that will be processed into a super translation computer...

Whether in the old or the new era, the human rights and lives of individuals have always been insignificant when it comes to the future of all mankind.

The so-called trolley problem, in fact, has always been the optimal solution.

(End of this chapter)