Alien Relic Hunter

Chapter 582 Booming so badly
"You didn't intend to hide?" Ke Lan asked directly.

"The task of this substitute has been completed, and it is useless to keep it." The prophet replied in the Alpha language - the language of the Alpha civilization does not need to be used for human vocal organs, so even if the throat of the prophet's substitute has been pierced by a spear , he can still communicate with Ke Lan.

"What task?" Ke Lan asked.

However, the other party did not answer his question immediately, but after several seconds of silence, he suddenly let out a chuckle full of sarcasm.

"Those things on your body, they gave you, right? I mean...the group of people from the Undead Crew Club."

Ke Lan also didn't answer the other party's question. Although he could feel that the stand-in was on the verge of death, he still didn't want to be tricked by the other party.

Seeing Ke Lan’s reluctance to answer, the Prophet’s stand-in actually laughed “hahaha”—the language of Alpha civilization also contains “laughter”, but because of the different language structures, their “laughter” Can more directly convey emotions to those who "listen".

There are only two emotions in the prophet's laughter, sarcasm and sarcasm.

"They told those idiots on the ark that the 'warriors' we created were monsters... But, why aren't they creating monsters themselves? Hahahaha..."

The aura of the Prophet's substitute became weaker and weaker, but he didn't seem to care about the coming of death, and his laughter became more and more insane.

"Hahahaha... so interesting!"

"You're going to die soon." Ke Lan reminded him expressionlessly.

"It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter at all." The prophet's stand-in said, the breathing of his body disappeared, and the drooping limbs no longer twitched reflexively, and the viscous blood flowed along the spear made of hollow steel pipe, drop by drop The ground was dripping down——if he hadn't been able to talk to Ke Lan in Alpha language, Ke Lan would have thought that the nail nailed to the dome was already a corpse.

"Why do you accept their gifts? For power?" the Prophet's substitute asked again.

"It's none of your business."

"You should know better than me...the more power you gain, the farther you are from humans..."

"I am human."

"Do you really think you are still a human being? Hahahaha, you don't look at you now. In the eyes of anyone on the ark, you are a monster from beginning to end! Human? This is really me. The funniest joke I've heard in months!"

"If you insist on talking about anyone on the ark, at least my companions don't think so." Ke Lan retorted calmly.

"Why don't you know that they are not afraid of your power? Lies...everyone will tell them, right? Lying...is this an inherent ability of inferior creatures like humans? What is the significance of this ability other than the drag caused by the progress of human beings? You see, inferior creatures are inferior creatures. After tens of thousands of years of evolution, they are still so stupid and..."

"Since you are not an inferior creature, why do you lie to your believers? You promise them the power of gods, but you only use them as materials for making biochemical weapons... Those people outside are actually half-finished products, right? The reason why you To catalyze them so anxiously is to stop me, right?" Ke Lan interrupted the other party - if he talked about gossip and quarrels, he was not at all false to the other party, but he began to have some doubts that the prophet's substitute was hanging so half Arguing with yourself in tone, isn't it procrastinating for the "things" on the pyramid?
Ke Lan walked slowly towards the pyramid while staring at the Prophet's substitute who was nailed to the dome and was half breathed.

"I didn't lie to them, they did gain power, but there is a price to pay for gaining power-this is the rule, and you and I are no exception." The prophet's substitute laughed again, "Then, what do you pay for?" What is the price?"

"Haven't you really lied to your subordinates? I won't expose you, just ask yourself...you really have a fucking talent for being funny." Ke Lan also laughed dryly—no Are you laughing?You can laugh, so can I fucking, he doesn't believe in a dying person, can he laugh longer than himself?
"At least I won't lie to my kind." Seemingly realizing that he couldn't say anything to Ke Lan, the Prophet chose to back down.

"That's fine, I remember you told me that I'm your kind, right?"

"What do you mean?"

"If you think I'm your kind, then you can't lie to me. Then, Mr. Stand, where is your body now?"

"..."

"Look, you are silent... tsk tsk tsk."

"I just refused to answer, which is not a lie."

"No, when you are silent, you are already lying..." Ke Lan shook his head, "Just a few minutes ago, you told me that you don't have a body, or that every substitute is a body. But Now, I just asked the same question again in a different form, but your answer is different—silence, of course, is also an answer.”

Ke Lan can be sure that this guy definitely has a "noumenon", and this noumenon is hiding in what he thinks is the "safest" place.If you want to kill the Prophet, it's useless to kill more doubles, you have to get rid of the "main body".

"You seem to be more..." The Prophet hesitated for a moment, as if thinking about words, "You are more... more eloquent..."

"Thank you for the compliment." Ke Lan said immediately, at this time, he had reached the bottom of the pyramid.

"Did you know that the word 'monster' is not a derogatory term..."

"Go on, I'm listening." Ke Lan nodded perfunctorily, "Speaking of which, you've been talking for a long time, haven't you?"

"Any creature worships power, and human beings are no exception. People with power will be revered by other people, but when an individual's power is so strong that it breaks through a certain threshold, so powerful that other people can't understand it or even feel fear , this individual will be regarded as a monster by others, as a different kind.”

"and then?"

"Do you think you are not a different species? The gap between your genes and the genes of those humans on the Ark is probably greater than the gap between humans and gorillas?"

"According to what you say, it's better for human beings to go back to the period of slash-and-burn farming... In the eyes of primitive people, guns can be regarded as monsters, right?"

"As I said, monster is not a derogatory term... If 'monster' represents the future evolution direction of the race, then I am happy to be a monster." The prophet said.

"Don't be happy, you already are."

This time, the prophet didn't answer... Ke Lan couldn't feel his breath at all, and the remaining thoughts for "communication" disappeared without a trace in a blink of an eye.

The substitute of the Prophet was finally dead.

However, the troubles he left behind were far from over.

Ke Lan has already climbed onto the small platform at the top of the pyramid. In the middle of the platform, there is a sunken pool.The pond contained a thick liquid that was very similar in texture to serum, and a large cocoon wrapped in a large number of fine off-white mycelia was soaking in the thick liquid.

The cocoon was slightly undulating with the breathing rhythm of the things inside, and even the liquid in the pool rippled in circles.

Through the translucent hyphae, one can vaguely see a plump female body curled up inside the cocoon.

However, the skin of this body showed a very strange dark red color...

"It's... Dr. Renee?" Ke Lan recognized the identity of the person in the cocoon at a glance... He thought that the prophet would let Dr. Renee join the heretical sect to continue her research, but he didn't expect to use her directly as an experiment material...

However, from a certain point of view, she has indeed joined the Prophet's "great cause", and she is indeed continuing her original research... Moreover, she has participated in the experiment more "in-depth".

It has to be said that this kind of self-sacrifice spirit is indeed commendable... But Ke Lan can't say whether this is due to Dr. Renee's own wishes.

Looking at the calm and composed appearance of the Prophet's body, his goal has probably been achieved, but since this thing has not yet emerged from the cocoon, it means that "it" has not yet reached [-]% completion.

The sharp claws of the living armor directly tore open the hyphae, cutting into the plump dark red body.

The part where the claw blade cuts is the flank, and with a light pull, a huge opening is made directly, and the greasy intestines immediately fall out of the abdominal cavity, and balls of blood like mist are dizzy in the pool dyed.

It was only at this time that Ke Lan discovered that Dr. Renee's skin had not turned dark red, but that her skin had been peeled off, and the muscles and tendons under the skin were directly exposed to the outermost layer of her body.

And in the chest and abdomen, armpits, buttocks and both sides of the thighs, there are still a lot of yellow and white adipose tissue adhered.

It's hard to imagine that this terrifying body was once so sexy and alluring.

Just when Ke Lan was about to further damage Dr. Renee's internal organs, the other party suddenly moved!

She stretched out her hands, grabbed Ke Lan's wrist tightly, and then used Ke Lan's wrist as a fulcrum to jump up from the broken cocoon——

More intestines fell out of the breach, and some severely deformed pieces of viscera fell into the pool with crackling noises... and the owners of these organs flipped over, He quickly distanced himself from Ke Lan and landed on the other side of the pool.

She... No, it was "it"—it was no longer a human being, and the loss of those organs seemed insignificant to it, and the wound on her abdomen had already healed more than half of it at this moment.

Its recovery ability is even more terrifying than that of Ke Lan!
Its waist is arched, its straight legs are widely spread apart, and its ten toes are firmly grasping the ground.The upper body is bent down, with two stiff arms on both sides of the body, a pair of cloudy eyes that can no longer see clearly the boundary between the pupil, cornea and iris are staring at Ke Lan.

Its ten fingers were all folded towards the back of the hand at a strange angle - this was the price it paid for using Ke Lan's wrist just now, and all ten fingers were broken by Ke Lan.

But Ke Lan originally planned to pull out its fingers, but in the end, the bloody claws only pulled out a few strands of dry muscle fibers... This small injury, it almost recovered in the blink of an eye .

Its folded fingers failed to reset, but the broken joints and tendons regrown, and the mobility of the fingers has been fully recovered... Although the recovered hands look strange, they seem to be more flexible than before up.

Ke Lan suddenly felt that even if he cut off Dr. Renee's head and stuffed it into its anus, the head would have grown directly with the butt...

This kind of recovery ability, which is weird enough to clear the human SAN value, could not be brought by his own cloned cells, right?

A red light flashed, Ke Lan stepped across the pool in an instant, and appeared in front of Dr. Renee.His left hand pierced Dr. Renee's eye socket, the sharp claws on his fingertips reached the brain, and his right hand pierced Dr. Renee's chest, crushing her heart.

Immediately afterwards, Ke Lan turned to Dr. Renee's back and dismantled her spine section by section—the body without spinal support suddenly fell limply to the ground, and the upper body and lower body were completely separated.

Ke Lan kicked and kicked Dr. Renee's lower body far away, and then punched him twice, smashing his skull and the brain inside.

Brain, heart, spine...these are the vital points of a humanoid creature, but the mass of rotten flesh in front of him has been destroyed by Ke Lan, but it is still wriggling and struggling to stand up.

Its muscles are growing crazily, and its bones are also growing crazily...but they have completely deviated from the original framework of being a "human being"...Compared to "recovery", Ke Lan feels that this thing seems to be unrestrained and unrestrained Controlled tumor cells...As long as there are enough nutrients and growth space, it will expand without limit...

This point is somewhat similar to the own cloned cells that Dr. Renee described back then.

It's just that at that time, Ke Lan never expected that the first time he saw this scene would be on Dr. Renee's body.

"It's so troublesome... With my existing methods, I can't kill it at all..." Ke Lan muttered - with this trend, even if Ke Lan smashed "Dr. Renee" into minced meat, it would not die, as long as There is still one cell that has not been completely eliminated, it can continue to grow...

As for what it will grow into in the end, Ke Lan has no idea at all.

He didn't know what Dr. Renee's "source of nourishment" was, and he cut the body into several parts, but these parts were growing frantically on their own... If you gather these rotten meat together , both volume and quality are several times that of the human form at the beginning.

Continuing to grow, Ke Lan even suspected that this underground space could be filled with these meats.

This is completely inconsistent with the law of conservation...Of course, on this planet, there are more than one things that do not conform to the laws summed up by humans.

The key is, how can we completely eliminate it?

Ke Lan immediately thought of the fleet's plasma cannon - with that thing, it should be able to blast the rotten meat to the point where there is no residue left, right?
(End of this chapter)