Alien Relic Hunter

Chapter 750 Restricted Area
"Where's Denning? What about others?!" Ke Lan only felt a numbness in his back, and he jumped up from the ground in an instant, looked around, and asked loudly.

"Damn! I remember he was walking around just now!" 33 rubbed his neck in disbelief, "Why did he suddenly disappear?"

"Zero! Zeluo, did you sense when the tannin disappeared?" Ke Lan placed his hope on the humanoid self-propelled plug-in in the team.

"No..." Ze Luo shook his head lightly, "If you hadn't said that the person named Danning was missing, I wouldn't have remembered such a person in the team at all."

Ivan nodded solemnly: "I have the same feeling... Just now when you were communicating with Mo Jue, I seemed to have completely forgotten about Danning."

This is not normal!

The reason why they "forgot" the existence of Danning was not because Danning had a low sense of presence among the crowd, but because there was some kind of strange power in the foggy forest that prompted them to ignore the missing person.

Even Ke Lan himself, when talking to Mo Jue, completely forgot the existence of Tannin.

If he still remembered Danning at that time, he would definitely ask Danning the same question—maybe, something that Mo Jue didn't notice, but Danning, the "old man" in the team, noticed it .

However, when Ke Lan now realizes that Danning has disappeared mysteriously, the extremely unreal "sense of forgetting" is rapidly fading away, as if he had a dream. When he wakes up, the memory of the real world Everything began to become clear, but some details in the dream could not be recalled.

The hairs on Ke Lan's arms stood on end, he controlled his breathing rhythm as much as possible, and at the same time grabbed Mo Jue who stood up suddenly with a frightened expression: "Don't move around, if you If you're gone, then there's going to be big trouble."

"Akira Asano, did you hear the sound of Denning walking?"

"At first I seemed to hear it...but then I didn't seem to remember that there was such a person in the team. Since then, I haven't heard his footsteps." Asano Akira said, "As for When did the change happen, I have no memory."

Ivan strode to the front end of the safety rope. The auxiliary rope belonging to denim is still fixed on the main rope. Neither the rope itself nor the buckle has been damaged by external force... If calculated according to this logic, Then there is only one possibility: Danning took off the safety rope while everyone was not paying attention, and walked into the dense fog.

Could it be that something affected Danning's sanity?

This kind of thing is not uncommon in the ruins... But the problem is that the action of putting on and taking off the safety rope is not convenient, the whole process takes at least 1 minute, even if they are already very proficient in it, it will take at least [-] seconds, no No one may have noticed Danning's dangerous behavior... If the safety rope shakes strangely, among other things, at least Akira Asano and Zelo will definitely notice it.

However, everyone present "forgot" the existence of tannin during the ten minutes just now!

"That's it! That's it!" Mo Jue grabbed the safety rope around his waist with both hands, and shouted out of breath, "Those people who disappeared in the gray fog forest! They all disappeared like this! No exception!"

"This is too mysterious..." 33 and Ivan each took a step back, their backs just bumped into each other, and the latter subconsciously grabbed 33's wrist with his non-mechanical hand—— Although this action seems a bit gay, at least the sense of security it brings is real.

"You're right, in this forest, the safety rope is useless." Ke Lan held Mo Jue with one hand and put the other on Ze Luo's shoulder, and said to everyone, "Everyone, stay safe." Physical contact with each other, counting the number of people on one side every thirty seconds... By the way, and Valentina, you set the mech to follow automatically, and then come over and hold Zelo's hand."

"understood."

Valentina responded, the hatch of the Blasphemer mecha opened, and the girl in a tight pilot suit jumped out of the cockpit like a monster's stomach, and walked over quickly.

Fortunately, Mo Jue is currently in a state of high tension, and has not noticed the internal structure of the Blasphemer's mecha, otherwise Ke Lan would have to spend a lot of brain cells to find a reason to prevaricate it...

Valentina came to Ke Lan's side, but she didn't listen to Ke Lan's advice to grab Ze Luo's hand, but grabbed the wrist of Ke Lan's hand that was on Ze Luo's shoulder, and she felt like she was A sideways posture leaned into Ke Lan's chest.

Her other mechanical prosthesis passed under Ke Lan's ribs and was directly buckled on the main rope of the safety rope.

From other perspectives, the two seem to be embracing each other.

Ke Lan could feel that Valentina's breathing was a little short and her heart was beating very fast.

Chi Hanfeng once told Ke Lan about this matter, if Valentina is allowed to stay in the cockpit when she is in a dangerous situation, then all her performances will be normal, even under the influence of pressure. Inspire more delicate and extreme operations.But if she is allowed to come out of the cockpit at this time, her sense of security will be greatly weakened, and her whole body will become extremely uneasy... The most obvious feature is that she will habitually find a wall or other bunkers, Lean your body against it.

Obviously, Valentina regarded herself as the "wall" at this time.

Generally speaking, many people like her who almost died in the cockpit of the mecha will suffer from mental sequelae similar to claustrophobia... There are even some ace pilots who lost their lives after narrow escapes. The ability to drive the body, when they sit in the cockpit, unspeakable fear will surge up wildly, shortness of breath, rapid heartbeat, and then a feeling of suffocation like drowning. After the cockpit is completely closed, this symptom will become more apparent.

What happened to Valentina was the complete opposite of claustrophobia.

"She once told me that only when you hold the joystick of the mech in your hand, can you feel the existence of power." These are Chi Hanfeng's original words.

But Ke Lan can't let her stay in the cockpit all the time... This forest is too weird, he has to put everyone in the team in his field of vision to be at ease... If Valentin If Na continued to drive the Blasphemer Mecha, she was afraid that the mecha would suddenly stop while walking, and then open the cockpit to see that it was empty.

Judging by the weirdness of the sudden disappearance of the denim, this kind of thing is very likely to happen.

"Looks like it's time for Valentina to play the "Titanfall" series..." Ke Lan muttered in his heart, "In this game, the pilot 'Iron Pilot' can even exert stronger combat power after leaving Titan ...Mechas can be people's help, but they must not be people's shackles."

Just when Ke Lan was thinking this way, Ze Luo suddenly said something nonsensical: "Do you like Ke Lan?"

Ke Lan could feel Valentina's body stiffen in her arms, but she didn't answer Ze Luo's question.

Is this the default?Ke Lan's heart skipped a beat...Although he could indeed feel that Valentina had some strange feelings for him, especially after he enlightened her after the Mech Contest, this feeling already existed...But Ke Lan Lan always felt that it should be gratitude or other emotions, not liking!

If Major Chi Hanfeng knew about this, would he have to blow his head off with a wrench?

To Chi Hanfeng, Valentina is like his daughter... The cabbage raised with one hand was crushed by a pig, and that pig was a "famous pig with an owner". Ke Lan could even imagine Chi Hanfeng's face was so gloomy that it dripped water.

But what made him feel wronged the most was that this "pig" of his own had no intention of making a fuss about this "cabbage" at all.
No, now is not the time to think about this kind of thing... Anyway, we haven't talked to each other yet, everything can be discussed, and it will be too late to deal with this matter after this operation is over and back to the ark... As for Ze Luo, just It's good to be this guy's nonsense.

"No, this is wrong!" Mo Jue suddenly struggled, "Ke Lan, let me go!"

"Don't let go." Ke Lan rebuffed straight away, "If you run into the fog as soon as you get up, then I can't help you back."

"The disappearance of tannins is not normal! Although this is already a restricted area behind the red line, it is only a few tens of meters away from the red line. For us, although this area is not [-]% safe, we have never lost it here. It's beyond human hands." Mo Jue said quickly.

"Dan Ning is considered a veteran in your team, right?" Ivan asked.

"Yeah." Mo Jue nodded affirmatively, "His qualifications are second only to my father and those veterans who know the 'secret', and he has explored the gray fog forest more times than me. The time my father disappeared, 500 meters deep He also participated in the exploration operation."

"You mean, with his ability, he won't capsize in this kind of gutter, right?" Ivan asked again.

"I wouldn't be surprised if it was any one of you who disappeared...but with his experience and ability, Denning can even walk out of the restricted area from this position on his own. How could he disappear here?"

"Maybe, he has gone outside the red line now?" 33 said.

"You mean, he was worried that we would silence him, so he took a chance and slipped away?" Ivan looked at 33, "This possibility exists..."

"No! It's impossible for Tanning to escape without me alone!" Mo Jue said in a trembling voice, "In the battle with those followers of heretic sects just now, he was almost shot several times for protection, he is not that kind of person !"

"You two... like each other?" Ke Lan glanced at her. Although Mo Jue and Dan Ning seem to be about ten years apart in age, there is a difference of 50 years between old couples and young wives. It's very common, and the difference in ten years old is actually not that big.

Mo Jue didn't speak, but a layer of red and white appeared on his cheeks.

Well, if you don't speak, that's the default.

"No wonder he would take the initiative to ask to stay with us into the gray mist forest, he is to follow you; and you, as the leader of the lumberjack team, became so panicked after Denning disappeared... all of this It all makes sense." Ke Lan analyzed.

"He... he saved me once... once, at a depth of about [-] meters, I got separated from the main force... At that time, I thought I was going to die... because according to the rules of our team, if If someone disappears in the fog, it will be assumed that that member has been 'destroyed', and no manpower will be sent to search for the missing person, because that will only lead to greater losses. The only thing we can do is to try our best to Compensate his family." Mo Jue continued, "But just when I was so desperate that I wanted to commit suicide, I saw a figure appearing in my field of vision through the thick fog... At first I thought it was My father, but when he walked up to me, I realized it was Denim..."

"So at that time you made a secret promise... Tsk, the hero saves the beauty, although the plot is a bit old, but this kind of plot is indeed easy to capture the girl's heart." Ke Lan commented, "By the way, that Danning Did you break away from the main force and come to find you alone?"

"Yeah." Mo Jue nodded slowly, "The big troops stayed in place for three hours, which is the time they promised to Danning, and it was during these three hours that Danning found me and brought me to the hospital. back."

"In other words, this Denning is indeed very familiar with the gray fog forest. At a depth of about [-] meters, he can walk through the gray fog alone and find missing people... People with such skills are indeed You shouldn’t be missing here.” While talking, Ke Lan suddenly changed the subject, stared at Mo Jue and asked, “You said that you got separated from the big team once, can you describe in detail what happened when you fell behind? ?"

"I... I don't know how to describe it." Mo Jue's face showed a look of embarrassment, "Just... I was following other people in the last second, and my consciousness seemed to be in a trance for a second. , I was the only one left standing there, surrounded by thick fog, I couldn’t see anything, and I couldn’t hear anything.”

"Did you wear a safety rope at that time?" Ke Lan asked again.

"It was tied... But when I was alone, the auxiliary rope around my waist disappeared, and I later found out that the auxiliary rope remained on the main rope, and there was no sign of damage... Just, like now " said Mo Jue.

"This kind of safety rope is fixed in a way that it is impossible to loosen... If someone or something unlocks your safety rope lock, you will definitely find it the first time... From a practical point of view, this kind of thing, Impossible." Ke Lan thought, "However, if your memory... or other people's memories are tampered with... then any unreasonable event can find a reasonable explanation. Especially The momentary trance you just mentioned is suspicious. Coupled with our 'ignorance' of tannins just now...in this forest, something seems to be affecting our brains."

In addition to these, Ke Lan also thought of the deviation between his memory and other people's memory when he was in the glacier ruins...but he didn't say it directly.

(End of this chapter)