Alien Relic Hunter

Chapter 275 The Monster in the Nightmare
Before Ke Lan and the others could react, it had disappeared into the shaft.

"Who was taken away?" the hound turned his head and asked.

"It's Cao Feng." Zhuoligetu had already unzipped the two body bags he had snatched back, and dragged out Ivan and Akira Asano who were still in a coma.

"Then... then shall we chase?" Layton glanced at Hound and Ke Lan hesitantly. The meaning in his words couldn't be more obvious: After all, Cao Feng and Martin are not his own people. For them, they risked their lives. It's really a little...

"Even if we don't chase after it," the hound said in a deep voice, "that thing will definitely be found... If we don't kill this monster, there will be no safety in the future."

"From the brief confrontation just now, at least we have obtained a very useful piece of information," Ke Lan said, "The monster's defense power should not be too strong, otherwise, it can eat bullets hard, and there is no need to use it." Martin's body shielded himself from the gun."

"Hmph, that would be the best." The hound snorted coldly, "A monster that can be shot to death is a good monster."

"By the way, old dog, can you smell that guy?" Ke Lan raised his head, glanced at the dark shaft above, and asked.

"...It's strange to say," the hound frowned, and rubbed his nose vigorously, "Since I woke up, my nose seems to be out of order, and it feels blunt when I smell it... just like, It was like someone plugged my nose with two filter pads."

Ke Lan gave the hound a strange look, then walked forward, dipped some of Martin's blood on the ground with his index finger, leaned in front of the hound, and asked, "What about the bloody smell? Can you smell it?"

"Yes, yes..." the hound nodded, "but... I can't find the direction, I can ask this smell, but you want me to follow the smell to track the monster, I can't do it .”

"Could it be that your sense of smell has been disturbed? It's like the circular ice road is straight no matter how you look at it?" Layton interjected from the side.

"It's possible...Damn it, why is this place so evil, I can't even believe my own eyes and nose..." the hound complained.

"Sensory interference... vision, smell..." Ke Lan thought about it. He always felt that there was something he hadn't considered, but for a while he couldn't figure out what details he had missed.

At this moment, Ke Lan suddenly felt someone tugging on his sleeve. He turned his head to see that Qin Zhao was lowering his head, and his body was trembling constantly. Her breathing was very rapid, and even her chest was moving rapidly ups and downs.

"What's the matter?" Ke Lan was a little surprised. Although the monster just now had a strong impact on an inexperienced rookie hunter, judging from Qin Zhao's quality along the way, her Guts shouldn't be so unbearable... Could it be that she just pretended to be calm before, and that weird monster happened to be the last straw that broke the camel's back?
"It... that thing... I... I... saw... seen that... monster..." Qin Zhao clenched his fists tightly, and squeezed out these few words intermittently from between his teeth.

"What did you say?!" The hound was startled, and walked over quickly, "You said you've seen it?! That thing? Where? Which ruin?"

"...not in the ruins...it's...in a dream." Qin Zhao replied.

"In a dream?!" The hound was stunned for a moment, "Wait a minute, didn't you say you couldn't remember what was in the dream? Could it be that after you saw this monster, you suddenly remembered it?"

"No, no, no..." Qin Zhao shook his head again and again, "I mean the dream I had before, probably when I was only eleven or twelve years old... Out of curiosity, I watched a few movies my friends downloaded from the Internet. A horror movie...and then I had a nightmare...that thing is exactly the same as the monster I saw in my nightmare..."

"The monster in the nightmare you had when you were a child appeared in the real world..." Ke Lan pondered, "Could it be that your memory is wrong, and the memory is too vague to cause deviation?"

"No, because the impression is too deep, I remember it very clearly...especially those eyes, I have dreamed about it more than once..."

Ke Lan and the hound looked at each other, the corner of the latter's eyes twitched involuntarily, and said slowly, "No way..."

"Do you think the monster in the ruins will suddenly appear in the dream of an eleven or twelve-year-old child who has never been exposed to anything related to Alpha civilization?" Ke Lan asked back.

"But, this is also..." The hound wanted to refute, but found that he couldn't find a reason at all.

"When I was in the ice tunnel, I already felt something was wrong." Ke Lan said, suddenly reached out to cover the eyes of the hound, took out a compressed biscuit from his pocket, bit the wrapping paper with his teeth, and put it in the Under the Hound's nose, "Old dog, can you smell what I'm holding?"

"I..." The hound paused, and then said with some difficulty, "I can't smell it, I can't smell anything."

"You can smell blood because you know it's blood, you have a memory of blood in your brain, you know what blood should smell like... so you can 'smell' it, but you don't What you know, your senses have completely failed, what does this mean, don't I need to say more?"

Ke Lan went on to say: "Also, there are some things in this ruins that we are both unfamiliar with and familiar with...whether it is a stone chamber, a stone platform or an ice passage, we have actually seen them before, and those red ones Meat worms, because we will be afraid of them, so it also appeared..."

"However, the details of this scene..."

"This is a stitched world. All the details come from the memories of the nine of us... It's just that it's well disguised. For each of us, there are too many completely unfamiliar things here. , that's why we think this is a real world, but if we combine the minds of the nine of us, we will find that everything here is pieced together from the fragments of our memories... Bing Dao It comes from the remains of glaciers, the scarlet worm comes from Leviathan, and that monster comes from Qin Zhao's childhood nightmare." Ke Lan said seriously, "The reason why that monster took hostages is because we 'Thought' it would be held hostage."

"Then we..."

"We are still in a dream, a dream within a dream, just like a Russian doll." Ke Lan pursed his lips and said, "Actually, we haven't woken up at all."

(End of this chapter)