Alien Relic Hunter

Chapter 774 Lost
But after determining the direction, Valentina was in trouble.

Logically speaking, the place with lower fog concentration should be away from the forest core. If she wants to escape, it is best to travel along this direction.But the problem is that their team entered the gray fog forest in order to go to the core area of ​​the forest. If they want to join Ke Lan and the others, going deeper is the right choice.

Going out is going in the opposite direction... It basically cuts off the possibility of meeting other people, not to mention, in this weird forest, even if you walk in a straight line, you may not be able to go out smoothly.

When Ke Lan used the "navigation" to lead everyone along a circuitous route to a depth of 35 kilometers, Valentina had already deeply understood this truth.

She bit her lip hard, without any further hesitation, she manipulated the Blasphemer Mech to walk towards the direction with the highest concentration of fog.

……

……

Not sure how many hours ago.

"Three, two, one, retreat."

After Ke Lan shouted this sentence, he took a step back, and his figure was hidden in the thick fog.

But at the same time, he felt several huge forces coming from the safety rope, pulling the main rope from several different directions.

Ke Lan's face changed suddenly - he thought at first that biological weapons had followed them into the gray fog, but soon he realized that the pulling force came from other people in the team.

"It's going to be bad!"

Ke Lan only remembered to condense a hand of space, and pulled Mo Jue, who was closest to him, to his side. Just when he was about to catch another person, the safety rope was suddenly loosened, and the forces from other directions The moments are gone.

"What's going on here?" Ke Lan looked at Mo Jue, who was imprisoned by the closed hand of space, and saw her eyes were blank, her limbs were twisting desperately, as if she wanted to break free from the shackles of the hand of space.

Ke Lan just tried to relax the hand of space, and Mo Jue immediately squeezed out of it and walked in one direction.

Ke Lan could only force her back again.

"Hey, Mo Jue! Can you hear me?" Ke Lan patted her on the cheek first, but the other party didn't respond, and then he gave her a big pussy.

Now Mo Jue didn't struggle any more, because she was directly knocked out by Ke Lan.

With Ke Lan's enhancement level, even without the blessing of Ze Luo's living armor, this slap was enough to knock Mo Jue's head off his neck, just fainting, which was already the result of Ke Lan's mercy.

Ke Lan took a deep breath and pulled back the safety rope that had lost its pulling power.

As he expected, several of the auxiliary ropes connecting the others were cut—the two ropes of Asano Showa 33 had a smooth cut, and they were obviously cut with Nino alloy swords and flying knives. As for Ivana The break of the rope was relatively rough, it should have been forcibly torn off by him with that mechanical prosthesis.

It seems that several of them should have fallen into the same delirious state as Mo Jue.

As for why Ke Lan himself is sober, he doesn't know the reason, maybe it's because Ze Luo is attached to him, or maybe it's the physique of his symbiote that made him escape.

Ke Lan tried to wake up Mo Jue, but he injected four medicines in a row to force people to wake up, and Mo Jue still didn't wake up... He looked at the fifth syringe in his hand, and finally Still chose to give up.

The side effects of this thing are not small, if you hit too much, it will kill people.

It took almost two full hours before Mo Jue woke up from the coma. At this time, her eyes had recovered, but the whites of her eyes were covered with bloodshot eyes, as if she had stayed up all night for several consecutive nights. Same as sleeping.

"Hiss...it hurts..." Mo Jue naturally raised her hand and rubbed the back of her head, which was where Ke Lan had just slapped her hard, "I stumbled and knocked my head on the ground ,It hurts."

She raised her head, met Ke Lan's eyes, and found that the latter's eyes were full of solemnity, and then moved her gaze to the cut safety rope on the ground, and her face changed drastically: "Where are the others? Why did the safety rope break and where did they go?"

Although Ke Lan used the power of Ze Luo to push away the surrounding fog, but in order not to attract the attack of biological weapons, he only maintained a minimum clearance range-before other people got off the safety rope, Ke Lan once thought He wanted to expand the headroom to the limit, but after noticing Mo Jue's absent-minded state, he finally gave up on this decision.

At that time, the "beast tide" formed by biological weapons had not faded away, and thousands of monsters were only one step away from them. If the surrounding fog was cleared at this time, the attacks of these biological weapons would be attracted in an instant... ...Although Ke Lan is fully capable of protecting himself, the situation of other people in a state of trance is very bad.

"Don't worry about this, just answer my question." Ke Lan grabbed Mo Jue's wrist vigorously, "Do you know what happened to yourself just now?"

"Me? I just... I stepped into the gray mist just now, and then I tripped over something under my feet and fell to the ground... Now the back of my head is still hurting like hell..."

As Mo Jue said, he stretched out his feet and groped the surrounding ground: "It's strange...there are no stones or anything on the ground around here. How could I be tripped?"

"Just now?" Ke Lan stared at her closely, and couldn't help frowning, "Are you sure it was just now?"

"Yeah, just now." Mo Jue nodded in a daze, then said anxiously, "Leave me alone, what about the other people in the team? Where are they now? You know that at this depth, you can walk with other people. What is the concept of dispersion?"

"They have already separated from me, and you are the only one I can catch in time." Ke Lan said in a deep voice.

"Me? I just fell down."

"Just now, how long ago do you mean?"

"How much time? Probably...probably less than 1 minutes? Maybe...[-] to [-] seconds? Didn't we just enter the thick fog? You...what do you want to ask?"

Thirty or forty seconds?The look of surprise on Ke Lan's face became more and more serious... Could it be that Mo Jue had no memory of the fact that he had just fallen into a sleepwalking state and was knocked out by himself?Could it be that there is also the kind of power that can modify people's memory?

Ke Lan still hasn't figured out why under the glacier ruins, he has completely different memories from other people... But in this forest separated from the glacier ruins by more than half a planet, a similar plot is happening again up.

From the perspective of Mo Jue and the rest of the team, what happened just now has no impression, just like drinking "fragments"... It's just that this situation is more natural than fragments, and the parties don't even feel the time. Two hours had passed, and they didn't even feel a brief trance—in their opinion, one second they had retreated into the gray fog with others, and the next second they had already stood in one place. In an unfamiliar place, only the broken safety rope and auxiliary rope at the waist are left to explain what happened "just now".

As for the intermediate process, it seems to have been extracted by the editing software, and they will not even remember that they have been in an unconscious state like sleepwalking for a while.

The memories before and after are coherent, with almost no flaws or sense of disobedience. If Ke Lan encounters such a thing, he will most likely not think that his memory has been tampered with, but will subconsciously think that he has triggered it by mistake. A hidden transmission device was teleported to another place in an instant.

No... there is still something that can be used as a solid proof of the missing part of the memory!

Ke Lan let go of Mo Jue's wrist and asked, "Do you still remember what time it was when we retreated into the gray fog?"

"This... I didn't pay attention, but I remember that when I was attacked by those monsters, I glanced at the watch on my wrist while changing the magazine. It was 10:25 in the afternoon. Later, when wearing equipment and blocking monsters, you should It took about [-] minutes, so when we retreated into the gray fog, it should be between [-]:[-] and [-]:[-]. Oh yes, just look at the watch now, and it will be more accurate when counting backwards!"

As Mo Jue spoke, he began to twist the airtight valve on the wrist of the protective suit, and dragged the heavy gloves off.

"You should take a closer look at your watch. What time is it?" Ke Lan said to her solemnly.

Mo Jue pushed up the sleeves of the protective suit, and then glanced at her watch—during the whole process, her expression did not change.

A chilling feeling suddenly climbed up Ke Lan's back.

"Look, it's 32:[-], so it should be around [-]:[-] when we retreat into the gray fog." Mo Jue's words caused Ke Lan's inner anxiety to expand rapidly - he grabbed Mo Jue's arm , pulled her close to him, and looked down at the watch carefully.

This is an Omega mechanical watch. The style is the "Ranger Series" that is very popular among top mercenaries and relic hunters. This mechanical watch is famous for its stable and accurate travel time and strong resistance to harsh environments. It is purely mechanical. Driven, the winding can last for 5-7 days, and the error per 24 hours will not exceed 10 seconds.Including the case, all parts of the watch are made of anti-magnetic materials, so even in a strong magnetic field environment, it will not be affected in any way.

At this moment, the time displayed on Mo Jue's "Ranger" dial is exactly what she said, "32:[-] p.m.."

The second hand was still beating, and the watch didn't seem to be malfunctioning.

"Look at my watch." Ke Lan also took off his protective clothing gloves and rolled up his sleeves.

The time displayed on his mechanical watch is "47:[-] p.m.", which is more than two hours "faster" than Mo Jue's watch.

Ke Lan originally thought that this was the right time... But now, even he himself is not sure.

Maybe, a section of my own memory has also been taken out, but I don't realize it.

It is outrageous to tamper with people's memory, but even the time of the mechanical watch carried by the person whose memory has been tampered with can be modified. Apart from the power of "His", Ke Lan can't think of anything else that can be done for a while. to this kind of thing.

Ze Luo can freeze time and space for a short time, and Ke Lan himself has the ability to stop time, but in the time-stop state, what changes is only the ability to release the skill user's own perception of the flow of time-assuming that Ke Lan is in the time-stop state with A watch, even if the time stop lasted for an hour, the watch in his hand still showed the time before the time stop started.

Not to mention that Mo Jue didn't fall into that state of frozen time just now. When she fell into that state of sleepwalking, the watch on her wrist should not have stopped.

"Huh? Why is it 47:[-] on your watch? Is it broken? Or did you forget to wind the clock earlier?" Mo Jue asked puzzled.

"No, the problem is your watch." Ke Lan shook his head slowly, "You probably don't know, it's been more than two hours since we retreated into the gray fog. You guys entered the gray fog After that, I lost consciousness, trying to break free from the safety rope like a walking dead... The incident happened suddenly, and Ze Luo's ability was severely weakened by the thick fog, and I only had time to catch you alone."

"What did you say?" Mo Jue was stunned, "You mean, it's been two hours since we retreated into the gray fog... But, I didn't feel it at all! It was just a few minutes ago..."

"That's because I knocked you out." Ke Lan said.

"But I don't remember that I passed out... I just fell down..." Mo Jue's voice became smaller and smaller, and the color of fear spread in her pupils.

"Because your memory was deleted." Ke Lan continued, "About 45:[-], you entered the gray fog, lost consciousness and tried to break free from the safety rope, but I caught you back and knocked you unconscious until [-]:[-] At [-] minutes, you wake up from a coma, and the entire memory of this period has been deleted."

"Just like we all forgot the existence of denim before." Ke Lan added.

"But, but... how to explain the time on the watch?" Mo Jue raised her hand wearing the watch in a daze, "You knocked me out, but you didn't stop my watch, did you?" ?”

"I just discovered the watch at this time, so I can't be sure whether there is some kind of force that made your watch pause for more than two hours, or after you woke up, the time of the watch was dialed back to the time before your memory was deleted. At that time." Ke Lan paused, then continued, "For the 'initiator', since he can delete and modify people's memory without people noticing, then for mechanical creations like watches Little hands and feet shouldn't be too difficult... To be honest, I'm not even sure if my watch is accurate or not."

[PS Thanks to Daxiong's mentor for the 9559 starting point coins, the No. 17 hall master of this book was born, and the number of rudder masters finally broke through [-].Regarding the plot of the foggy forest, I revised the outline again and added some content. The end of this book may be delayed. 】

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