Alien Relic Hunter

Chapter 639 The Swamp of Desire
There is air with sufficient oxygen content, normal gravity and suitable temperature, and there is no lethal radiation, and there is also water that is so pure that it can be drunk directly-a "good place" like this, let alone in Within the ruins of the Alpha civilization, even if the scope is extended to the entire Alpha planet, it is still very rare...

Or rather, it doesn't exist at all.

There is simply no such water source on Alpha Planet.

The natural water source with the highest degree of purification that can be found in the wilderness can only meet the standard of industrial water of grade [-]. The purification standard of industrial water and drinking water are completely different concepts. Industrial water with a degree of purification of grade [-] Judging from the standard of drinking water, even the lowest level of water threshold is not enough.

In other words, it is easier for everyone to understand, that is, even if you use this kind of water to wash the mop, you may think it is dirty.

Even the exiles who are struggling in the wilderness will not directly drink the natural water found in the wild under non-extreme circumstances—in any case, some necessary filtration and purification processes are absolutely indispensable... …You know, in the wilderness of lack of antibiotics and various electrolyte supplements, minor ailments like diarrhea can be fatal.

And the water that Ke Lan is stepping on now is as clear as if it has just been released from the most advanced purification pump of the water purification plant.

Is this water the reserve drinking water of the Alpha civilization?
Although humans have not found the remains of Alpha people or samples of body tissue, one thing is certain—they are carbon-based organisms just like humans.

One of the biggest commonalities of carbon-based organisms is that they must have water to survive.

……

But when Ke Lan reached the 170th step, he suddenly realized that this world... is probably an illusory world that only existed in his imagination.

Because the bracelet he put on the bottom of the pool suddenly disappeared, and the next moment, Ke Lan felt that there seemed to be something on his left wrist.

He didn't need to look down to know that the smart bracelet was back on his wrist.

He glanced at the time on the screen, it was now 55:29:56 in the evening... and when he took off the bracelet and put it on the ground, the time displayed on the bracelet was 41:[-]:[-] .

The timeline of this world seemed to be reset back to the moment he just entered.

It's a pity that there is nothing in the surrounding environment that can be used as a reference, and Ke Lan is completely unable to determine whether he has returned to the starting point at the beginning.

"Is it a dream?"

He couldn't help but think of the "big octopus" that can only make people fall into multiple dreams under the bottomless sinkhole.

Ke Lan subconsciously reached out and touched the top of her head.

If you want to simulate the dream to such a real degree and make people unable to break free from it, you must have a physical "direct connection" with the human nervous system. The method used by the big octopus to control them is Pierce countless tiny fleshy tentacles into the scalp, penetrate the skull, and directly connect with their cerebral cortex...

But the problem is that Ke Lan's body now hosts the "living armor", which is equivalent to the anti-virus software installed in the computer. If there is a foreign body from the outside trying to invade Ke Lan's body, the living armor will immediately attack him. It launched an attack, and its reaction speed was even faster than Ke Lan's own immune system.

(Of course, the premise is not to confuse this antivirus concept with those so-called "free antivirus software" or "XX computer housekeeper" and other rogue software.)
An old saying can be used to sum it up well - "One mountain cannot accommodate two tigers". If the plot under the bottomless sinkhole happens again, I am afraid that those tentacles will have been strangled and swallowed by the living armor just as soon as they penetrated into Ke Lan's scalp...

Ke Lan looked at the surrounding environment, and then at his hands, he decided to do an experiment.

He pulled out the short knife he carried with him, and slashed his wrist heavily—since this space has the ability to reset like "reading files", then he wants to see if the wound on his wrist is also damaged. will recover accordingly.

It's just that Ke Lan couldn't help showing an awkward smile in the next scene - the wound had healed as soon as the blade left the wound, not only did it leave no scar, even blood didn't flow out.

He also purposely made an incision nearly three centimeters deep, and as a result, there are no traces left. The skin on the wrist is smooth and fair, and the skin quality is so good that it doesn't look like the body that a relic hunter should have.

Since merging with the living armor, Ke Lan's own physical recovery ability has reached an almost abnormal level. Fortunately, the undead crew will grant him a series of privileges, otherwise, just the routine physical examination every time he enters and exits the ark. It was enough to cause a small riot.

It can even be said that if Ke Lan was not beheaded or pierced through the heart, Ke Lan could recover from any injury in a very short period of time—even if he was cut into a human stick, it would take less than half a day, and the lost limbs would not be lost. Will grow back from the break.

Ke Lan knew very well in his heart that compared with the reformed humans parasitized by the eroded seeds of the heretical sect...in fact, he was more suitable for the title of "monster".

"Oh, no way."

Ke Lan sighed, gritted his teeth, and directly pierced his forearm with the dagger, and the sharp point of the knife suddenly came out from the other end of the arm.

He didn't pull out the dagger, just let it get stuck in the wound, preventing the wound from healing automatically, and then began to count the seconds in his heart.

When he counted to 450 seconds, a fleeting sense of trance appeared in his consciousness. Immediately afterwards, the piercing pain in his arm disappeared, and the dagger returned to the scabbard tied to his leg. Inside.

The pain just now was like an illusion, as if everything had never happened.

"Reset every 450 seconds." Ke Lan said silently, he suddenly took a deep breath, and then began to rush out at full speed in one direction.

Seven and a half minutes later, when the somewhat familiar trance reappeared, Ke Lan still didn't see anything new except the water surface and the chaotic sky.

Even if the boundary of this space exists, at his speed, he cannot reach that place before the "timeline" is reset.

The only good news is that the reset function of this space will not reset his memory.

But that's about it.

Other people who want to enter the tower should also be trapped in a similar space like myself-although in this space that resets every seven and a half minutes, the trapped can get the "spirit" that many people dream of. eternal life".But in such a chaotic space with nothing but water, the so-called eternal life is an extremely terrifying torture.

You can't go anywhere, you can't do anything, the only thing you can do is wander on the water that never reaches the edge, and every seven and a half minutes, everything is reset except your memory ...Thinking about it can't help but make people feel creepy.

The memory will not be reset, but instead becomes the most inhumane setting in this "cage"... The people who are locked in here, other than death, the only ending is to go completely crazy.

No matter how determined the mind is, people will gradually lose their minds in this almost eternal torture.

Suicide may be a way of relief, but there are also two problems to face: [-]. Will the trapped person be resurrected with the "timeline reset" after seven and a half minutes after death?[-]. If this space is a phantom created in human consciousness, then if one dies in the phantom, will the body outside the phantom also die with it?

It cannot be ruled out that "death" may be the only way to break the game, but Ke Lan will not choose "death" without trying all the methods.

"I can only try one thing at a time."

Ke Lan silently counted down the countdown, and when he counted to the 440th eighth second, he decisively pierced his wrist with a dagger again, and then activated "Time Stop" at the 440th ninth second.

All the surrounding scenes froze immediately, and even the rays of light escaping from the chaotic sky were pulled into misty halos, and Ke Lan silently said in his heart: "One second...two seconds... Three seconds..."

The trance didn't appear, the wound on the arm didn't heal, and the dagger stuck in the wound didn't return to the scabbard.

But in the second of Ke Lan's stop at the end, a trance that was so subtle that ordinary people could not detect it came as promised-the wound healed, the dagger was sheathed, and everything returned to the original point.

If you don't count the few seconds in the stop state, it is exactly the 450th second.

"The time-stop ability cannot interfere with the rules of this world... Although it can indeed delay the arrival of the reset node from my own perspective, it still resets every 450 seconds during the normal flow rate ..."

"Plan A is temporarily put on hold, and plan B will be implemented first."

Above Ke Lan's head is a chaotic sky without stars, surrounded by unknown boundaries that will never be touched. The only thing he can touch is the bottom of the pool where he is stepping on the ground.

If the clue to break the game is hidden in this space, the priority of ground exploration is obviously in the first echelon.

With a thought, the living armor immediately covered Ke Lan's right hand.

"Let me think... the general structure of that thing should be..."

Gradually, the living armor formed a cylindrical instrument at the front end of Ke Lan's arm... As the details of this instrument gradually improved, the front-end parts began to rotate, and hundreds of knife wheels were placed on the knife plate. There was a tidy and dense whistling sound—he actually simulated a miniature "shield machine" out of the image in his memory.

The shield machine is a large-scale equipment used to dig tunnels. The drill bit carried on the "Super Driller" previously equipped by the gopher team is a construction machine designed by combining the characteristics of the drilling bit and the shield machine.

However, when this "mini-shield machine" took shape, the reset time of seven and a half minutes seemed to be up. Ke Lan simply retracted all the living armor into his body, silently waiting for the reset to come.

When he restored the mini-shield machine for the second time, the time it took was directly compressed to five seconds. When the hundreds of knife wheels were spinning, he did not hesitate to put the cutter head of the shield machine vertically. Hit on the bottom of the pool.

Suddenly, water splashed everywhere.

The bottom of this pool is a black glassy mineral similar to obsidian. meter depth.

According to this rate, before the next reset comes, Ke Lan can at least dig down to a depth of nearly [-] meters.

The surrounding water is continuously poured into this shaft. Although it has affected Ke Lan's excavation work to a certain extent, it has at least solved for Ke Lan the problem that the shield machine needs fluid as a medium when discharging debris.

The paste-like mixture piled up more and more, and gradually submerged Ke Lan's head. Ke Lan simply used the remaining living armor to prop up a solid protective cover and completely wrapped himself in it—he was not worried about digging If it is too deep, it will be buried alive by these mixtures. Anyway, as soon as seven and a half minutes arrive, everything will be reset to the original position.

As Ke Lan expected, soon after, he returned to the pool from a depth of nearly [-] meters underground, and the deep shaft had completely disappeared.

This time, of course, there was no gain in this attempt.

"Huh..." He let out a long breath in frustration, and Ke Lan rubbed his cheeks vigorously, but at this moment, a white light suddenly lit up right in front of him.

This sudden change immediately lifted Ke Lan's spirits, but he did not relax his vigilance because of this - the living armor was summoned in an instant, condensing into a giant shield with an observation window and a two-meter-long spear .

Through the observation window on the shield, Ke Lan found that the light source was about 50 meters directly in front of him. He took a deep breath, and approached step by step, holding his huge shield like a heavy infantry soldier in the Roman era in the old era. .

In the white light, there are bright yellow metal bars one after another - of course Ke Lan knows what they are, "gold bars", synonymous with "wealth" in the old era, the ultimate hard currency above all currencies However, even in this era, precious metals such as gold, as an important and scarce industrial material, still have a very high circulation value.

"Why are there gold bars here..." Ke Lan was full of doubts in his heart, but soon, his doubts turned into consternation.

The gold bar disappeared, and a carcass with graceful curves appeared in the white light—even though the face of the owner of the body was hidden in the white light, Ke Lan still recognized her identity.

[PS Thanks to Uncle Xuan for the 500 starting coins. 】

(End of this chapter)