Alien Relic Hunter

Chapter 611 Abolition Beacon
"I almost forgot, your human body is a 'mimesis'..." Ke Lan touched the tip of his nose in embarrassment, "Then... your original body, hasn't any change?"

"No." Zelo said.

One of her arms suddenly turned into a black asphalt-like substance, shaking in front of Ke Lan's eyes, and then turned back into that beautiful white limb like a lotus root.

"..." Ke Lan couldn't help but fell into deep thought. Although the sight from "God" had already seen them, he didn't take any action because he and Ze Luo destroyed the things summoned by his followers with sacrifices. any move...

Ke Lan knows that He has the ability to interfere in this world. Among other things, Arasaka Yui who exploded in front of him that day is the best proof... If He is willing, he can also kill himself and Ze Ze without any effort. Lo.

But He just watched.

Ke Lan couldn't figure out why He did this... Is it just to pass the boring time of hundreds of millions of years?
God, get bored too?
It's not that Ke Lan never thought about it, the entire Alpha Planet is a "testing ground" artificially created, and all creatures on this planet are "experimental samples" to be observed... But as the secrets he knows become more and more He felt more and more that the proving ground was untenable: with his ability, he could literally "turn his hand into a cloud and turn his hand into rain", so what's the point of building such a proving ground? ?

For a nearly omniscient and omnipotent existence, whether it is human beings, alpha humans, or even those incredible prehistoric giant beasts, there is actually no difference in essence... It may be difficult to understand, so why not change it statement:

Assuming that humans have completely deciphered the genetic code of a creature, and are fully aware of the life, old age, sickness, and death of this creature, as well as various future evolutionary pathways of variation, humans will spend a lot of time and energy on building an ecological experiment box. Come to observe every move of this creature on weekdays?

Maybe there will be such experiments in the biology class used to enlighten children, but the research institute, which is the benchmark of the highest technological level, will never waste resources on such things.

When a thing no longer has any "unknown attributes", it will naturally lose its value of exploration.

Unknown attributes... Ke Lan couldn't help but glance at the sky between the battleships and covered by radiation clouds. Is there something "unknown" in Alpha people, or human beings?
……

The time left for Ke Lan to be dazed was only a few minutes. A large number of heavily armed marines had already landed on the top of the mountain. Cao Ge even jumped out of the cabin of the transport plane nearly ten meters above the ground. , with the help of the built-in propeller of the mechanical prosthesis, it landed firmly on the ground.

"Solved?" Cao Ge walked quickly in front of Ke Lan, looking incredulously at the place where the black mummy crumbled into pieces and then disappeared.

"I guess..." Ke Lan pouted, "This thing feels like a piece of tempered glass to me."

Tempered glass refers to special glass that has undergone special treatment to cause "compressive stress" on the glass surface. The impact resistance and bearing capacity of tempered glass are much stronger than ordinary glass...but it also has defects that ordinary glass does not have: when When the tempered glass is damaged, even if it is only a small damage such as missing a corner, the whole piece of glass will explode due to the destruction of the uniform compressive stress balance, and the whole piece of glass will instantly become smashed to pieces.

As Ke Lan said, the body of this black mummy, which cannot be damaged by nuclear bombs, lost its original physical strength in an instant after being torn apart by Ze Luo's spatial stagnation——Ke Lan He even felt that it was not the material itself that maintained the strength of the black mummy's body, but an unknown force field.

This force field constrains the black mummy's body, but at the same time endows it with a terrifying defense that is almost immune to physical attacks, but Ze Luo's ability can just restrain and destroy this force field.And when the force field disappears, just like the stress balance of tempered glass collapses, even if Ke Lan and the others don't attack the black mummy, the black mummy's body will shatter on its own.

Ke Lan couldn't help but feel a little pity in his heart. He originally thought that through the research on the black mummy, there would be a breakthrough in the field of human materials science...

He stretched out his hand and showed the crystal.

"This is the only remnant of the target." Ke Lan said to Cao Ge.

Every move of him and Ze Luo was watched by the monitors on the battleship. Not only Cao Ge and others, but also the people from the Undead Crew Association should also be paying attention to the situation here. They must have seen this crystal. ——Rather than being asked to hand it in later, it is better to take it out now.

What's more, Ke Lan didn't know whether this thing was dangerous or not—in the old era, some people often regarded radioactive materials picked up in garbage dumps as treasures, but they didn't know that in their eyes, these glowing "night pearls" It was the beginning of a nightmare. When they realized that something was wrong with their bodies, it was probably too late. What awaited them was the approaching death...

"I'll get someone to bring a safe container right away." Cao Ge said solemnly, "What should I do with this thing? Send it back to the ark...send it to the research institute?"

Before Ke Lan could answer, Pan's voice rang through the earphones worn by him and Cao Ge at the same time: "This is your trophy, you just keep it for yourself."

"I'll keep it for myself? You won't have any conspiracy, right?" Ke Lan suddenly felt vigilant when he thought of the living armor in his body. He even felt that the crystal lying on the palm of his hand suddenly became hot.

"What conspiracy can I have? Please don't imagine me as the kind of character with a bad stomach?" Pan's tone was a little helpless.

"It hasn't been long since the matter of the living armor." Ke Lan said immediately.

"That's to save you. Besides, can you think of a better way? Besides, don't you use the power of the living armor very well?"

"But no one likes to have a bomb planted inside him, does he?"

"As long as the bomb never explodes, then it is safe." Pan quibbled, "For example, if you are a heart patient, if you don't change your heart, you will die soon, but you can use it to replace it." There is one and only one artificial heart, and it contains a bomb that cannot be disassembled and will explode at an unknown time—then do you choose to die immediately, or replace it with this bomb-equipped heart?"

"Then I will choose to have a second heart transplant in the future." Ke Lan replied without thinking.

"That's it... If you can find a way to separate the living armor, no matter how you deal with it, the undead crew will not interfere with your decision. We have always respected everyone's freedom..."

"The second half of your sentence can be omitted... When you say this sentence, it easily reminds me of a rogue country located between the Pacific Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean in the old era." Ke Lan said nothing. He retorted mercilessly, "Also, tell me what this crystal is and what it does—don't tell me you don't know anything, do you think I'll believe you?"

"This is really just a piece of waste core." Pan said, "It was originally the core of the sacrificial seed of erosion, and the flesh and power in the core have been evacuated, leaving only this one Empty shells... are useless, but they are actually pretty cool as souvenirs, right?"

"Then if I plan to put this thing up for auction, will you stop me? I think, the group of people on the ark who are stupid and rich in money should be very interested in this kind of thing, right? It just so happens that the Hunting God Hunting Group recently moved Funds are a bit short, this thing should fetch a good price..."

"Better not." Hearing that Ke Lan planned to sell the crystal, Pan hurriedly said, "Well, to tell you the truth, this thing is indeed a useless waste core, but its only special The only difference is that a beacon is branded on it."

"Beacon?" Ke Lan stared at the crystal in his hand suspiciously, "What beacon?"

"It's related to the 'Great God' that the Alpha civilization believes in... We have found hundreds of objects with beacons on Alpha Planet, but until now, we haven't figured out what this beacon does. .”

"Things that have something to do with that 'god' are never good things, I think I'd better throw them away." Ke Lan looked at the cliff not far away, "Throwing them in this valley should be fine. Bar?"

"I suggest you keep this thing with you - although we haven't discovered the function of the beacon so far, every beacon is under our close surveillance, so that even if any beacon changes, we will be able to respond immediately.”

"Then why don't you take this thing away?"

"Because we want to see if something interesting will happen to this beacon in your hands." Pan said bluntly, "You can consider this an experiment, but you have no right to refuse."

"Who just said that everyone's freedom will be respected?"

"You can pretend that I just farted." Pan said extremely shamelessly.

"This thing won't suddenly open a portal while I'm sleeping, and then a lot of alien monsters will come out of it?" Ke Lan asked.

To be honest, he really wanted to throw this crystal out—but he also knew that even if he lost the beacon, the undead crew would send it back to him in a short time... even , and they'll cram even more other beacons into themselves.

They have already boarded this "thief ship", even if Ke Lan wants to refuse, it is useless.

"The first beacon object we found was a stele, which was discovered in the ruins of B-902 in 009 New Era, and is now kept in the underground ice storage of the Research Institute. It is placed with this stele and another 94 beacons. In addition, there are 31 beacons left inside the ruins due to their large size or inability to move—but no matter whether they are beacons in the underground ice storage or beacons in the ruins, this For decades, nothing happened."

While talking, Pan added: "We think that in the next few hundred years, they will also maintain the status quo-a few hundred years is equivalent to several generations or even a dozen generations for human beings, but For the existence of imprinting these beacons, it is just a blink of an eye."

"..."

"You can rest assured that in your lifetime, there is a high probability that this beacon will be a dud that will never explode."

"What about the small probability... Besides, since there is no movement, why do you let me bring this thing?"

"out of curiosity."

"Curiosity will kill the cat."

"So you think you're that cat?"

"Why do you even start to be a riddle?"

"It was you who started to mess with the cat." Pan argued like a child bickering, "Well then, I can promise you that as long as you carry this beacon, after six months, you can directly How about becoming a member of the crew association—you will pass all the previous assessment tasks?"

"Three months."

"Five months, no less."

"Four months, one price, this is my bottom line."

"Four and a half months, if it's shorter, you'd better throw this thing away." Pan said angrily.

"make a deal."

Bringing this "dangerous item" with you for four and a half months can be exchanged for the opportunity to join the Undead Crew Club. This is a very good deal for Ke Lan, and he has no reason to refuse.

Even if Pan rejected his bargain at the beginning, Ke Lan would still agree to the six-month condition in the end.

In the face of the absolute power of the Undead Crew Association, he has no right to refuse, so he might as well use this as a bargaining chip to gain more benefits for himself.

Even if you want to sell yourself, at least you have to sell it for a good price.

The expression on Ke Lan's face didn't change much. On the contrary, Cao Ge, who had been listening to the whole bargaining process, stared at him in astonishment—if nothing happened, after four and a half months, the one in front of him didn't look like he was born. Young people who are 30 years old will become a member of the Undead Crew Club!
This is an organization that symbolizes the highest power of human beings, but Cao Ge feels that the two of them are like buying vegetables in a vegetable market...

This is the first time Cao Ge has seen the real body of a member of the Undead Crew, and an indescribable sense of unreality surged from the bottom of his heart. One finger of his prosthetic limb rested on the other of his biological body. On the arm, electric sparks passed all over——

"Hey...it hurts..."

Looking at the burning marks and piercing pain on his arm, Cao Ge realized that everything he heard just now was true.

"This, this is too childish... No... Isn't this too crazy?" Cao Ge couldn't help but said in his heart, but he didn't dare to show any strange expressions on his face, for fear that the young crew member in front of him would approve him. Members are aware.

"Oh, by the way, there is another thing." Pan said again.

"what's up?"

"According to the route of the hijacked Hercules transport plane, we found signs of activities of heretical sects north of the White Ridge Mountains."

"Is it the stronghold of the heretic sect? Just use missiles to greet it, and it's over? Anyway, they don't have any hostages in their hands." Ke Lan said.

"No, it's not the kind of stronghold you imagined. They occupy an A-level relic...According to our estimation, the heretic sect has probably already controlled the core defense module inside the relic." Pan rare said in a serious tone.

A-level ruins north of the White Ridge Mountains?A map of Alpha Star suddenly appeared in Ke Lan's mind... The A ruins north of the White Ridge Mountains, there is only the "Ancient Bronze City Ruins" numbered A-009.

This is one of the first few A-level relics discovered by humans. Because most of the buildings in this city site are made of an alloy with copper as the main component, it is named "Bronze City".There are not many valuable relics inside the Bronze City, but various defensive facilities and organs are emerging one after another. To use a sentence in the hunter circle to describe it, it is "the risk of A-level relics, and the oil and water of D-level relics"... Time Over time, few hunters explored this A-level ruins.

It's just that I didn't expect that this forgotten A-level relic had now turned into a heretical sect's entrenched place.

(End of this chapter)