Alien Relic Hunter

Chapter 257
"I am..." said the chef who stood up.

"Your restaurant... has been here for how many years?" Ke Lan stared at him with wide eyes, as if he was afraid that the other party would disappear suddenly.

"Four years... what happened? Sir, what on earth are you..."

Before he finished speaking, Ke Lan interrupted him again: "Before you, was this place a clinic? It was a clinic run by a Slav named Ivan—"

"No, no, sir, I think you may have made a mistake. Before my restaurant opened, this was a small commercial bank. It went bankrupt due to poor management, and I was able to bid for this piece of land at a good price. The right to use... If you are looking for a clinic, there are several in the next block." The owner of the restaurant said, "If you can, I hope you can leave here now, your behavior has been serious..."

"I see, I'm sorry." Ke Lan said with some frustration, he turned around, with his arms hanging weakly by his side, and walked towards the door of the restaurant.

He vaguely heard someone behind him scolding him as a "crazy person". He turned his head slowly, only to see a young girl with blonde hair and blue eyes clumsily using the chopsticks in her hand, trying to pick up a piece of elastic meat. ball.

She failed once, twice, and on the third time, the meatball rolled off the edge of the pot and fell to the floor.

For some reason, Ke Lan always felt that the meatball was raw, and the pot of delicious, steaming soup seemed to be churning with bright red blood.

Is there such a dish in Chinese food?Is this a pot of "Mao Xue Wang"?

Ke Lan suddenly felt very irritable. He didn't want to think about these details. He just felt that the restaurant seemed very noisy, and he didn't want to stay here for a second.

"Before my restaurant opened, it was a small commercial bank..." The words of the restaurant owner are still echoing in Ke Lan's head. Man has never existed, all this is an illusion...

No, this is a paradox!
Ke Lan woke up suddenly. If Ivan didn't exist, then there would be no such thing as him being infected by the Corrosion Seed. It's impossible for me to get acquainted with Zofia... It doesn't make sense, it doesn't make sense at all!
This world seems normal, but it is full of loopholes everywhere!

Ke Lan suddenly discovered that the faces of the diners in the restaurant were all blurred. Only when he focused his attention on those few people could he see their faces clearly, and those people in the corner of his eyes...all of them Her face turned out to be just the simplest outline!

Not only that, even this scene is pieced together!The plates used to serve the food in the restaurant are printed with the logo of a barbecue restaurant I often go to; those exquisite dishes are from the pictures in the old movies I have seen... Even the aftermath The rusty exhaust fan in the kitchen was also copied from the wall of the grain warehouse that was used as a safe house!

It's a dream!It is a dream spliced ​​together with my own memory fragments!

Everything here is what I have seen or thought of, even the people in this scene are the same!

The owner of the restaurant, with his face, looks exactly like Ivan!
Ke Lan quickly turned back and knocked open the back kitchen again, but this time, he found that there was no one in the back kitchen, the operating table was empty, some tattered kitchen utensils were randomly piled up in the corner, and the ground was covered with a A thick layer of dust...

Ke Lan turned her head in astonishment, and saw that the lobby of the restaurant was also dilapidated, the decorations on the walls and ceiling had aged and faded, the tables, chairs and cabinets were even more dilapidated, and the dirty glass exterior walls were still stuck to The notice of "Wang Pu for Rent", but even this notice has turned yellow and brittle.

"This restaurant has been closed for a long time." Zofia stood at the door and said, "Are you planning to buy this land? As the office of the new hunting group?"

Ke Lan raised his head, and he stared at Zofia's face... There was nothing incongruous about this face... It was exactly the same as the Zofia in his memory.

"It's a dream, isn't it?" Ke Lan asked.

"What did you say?" Zofia asked puzzled.

"I'm stuck in this dream, I know it's a dream, but I don't know how to get out."

"...Are you having a nightmare?" Zofia asked cautiously, "But, you are clearly awake..."

"I have to get out of here..." Ke Lan stopped paying attention to Zofia, he looked around, and then stopped his eyes on the car Zofia was driving.

He walked over quickly, opened the car door, found a pistol from the glove box, and then stuffed the muzzle into his mouth.

If you beat yourself to death, you should be able to escape from this dream, right?

However, just when he was about to pull the trigger, he hesitated - he thought of those relic hunters who went crazy after coming out of the sinkhole, some of them shot themselves and the people around them... Presumably, they Among them, some people found themselves trapped in a dream, and planned to use this violent method to wake themselves up...

But when they pulled the trigger, they actually killed people in the real world...

Is he awake, or is he in a dream... Or, is he half asleep and half awake?

If you pull the trigger, will the bullet pass through your own brain?Will he wake up, or die directly?

Ke Lan suddenly understood why those people went crazy.

He let go of his fingers and pulled the pistol out of his mouth. He turned around and saw Zofia standing behind him silently, without making a sound or showing any expression on her face.

She didn't stop Ke Lan from committing suicide, she didn't even move.

Like a puppet with its string cut, she stood quietly on the street, staring at Ke Lan indifferently.

Ke Lan raised the gun at her, took aim, and then slowly lowered it.

"I'm not going to shoot because I don't know if I'm going to kill you if I pull the trigger...I just wonder if in the real world your bodyguards would come out and stop me."

Zofia didn't react to this...Because Ke Lan has never seen how she would react when confronted with her own gun, and Ke Lan has never imagined such a scene, so the memory of this part is blank of……

Nightmare "draws" from one's own memory, it cannot construct things that one has never seen out of thin air, but it can induce one's own step by step towards madness and self-destruction.

However, Ke Lan failed to fulfill his wish.

[PS When I was writing the latest episode, I tried to substitute it myself, and then I had a very strange dream at night...]

(End of this chapter)