Alien Relic Hunter

Chapter 781 Second Recording

Then there was a period of silence that lasted 1 minutes, and the recording ended.

After listening to this recording, Ke Lan fell into deep thought, and Mo Jue seemed to want to say something, but seeing Ke Lan's appearance, he could only swallow the words that had already reached his throat.

Judging from the conversations between Hruni and other officers and soldiers on board, they should all have been eroded by "taboo knowledge". With their research and analysis of this knowledge, the degree of erosion continued to deepen, and finally...

The progress of erosion varies from person to person. Like the "Jack Garcia" who stayed behind on the battleship, he is a person with relatively weak resistance. He just saw a few people who were eroded and mutated, and he himself mutated, and then " The "progress bar" is soaring all the way, and it seems that it is about to reach the limit of super eclipse.

And the captain of the "Shaojiang Kai" frigate, Hruni Yang, is obviously the kind of person with extraordinary resistance, just as the vague voice said-it is obvious that Hruni is the person who has the most contact with "taboo knowledge", but He showed the slightest degree of erosion, and he persisted for a full year before turning into erosion.

But there is a problem that makes Ke Lan a little puzzled: Neither Hruni Yang nor the other crew members of the battleship are symbionts, and they cannot understand the text of the Alpha civilization... Then what did they find in the gray fog forest? What is it that can cause such serious erosion in all employees?
The "desperate reality" they mentioned, "enough to cause the order of human society and the Ark to collapse overnight"... What is it?
Is this the secret that Mo Jue's father has been pursuing?

Ke Lan felt that he knew enough "forbidden knowledge". According to the members of the Undead Crew, his own erosion had reached a very dangerous level, but even so, his body was still There is no obvious sign of mutation... and the degree of erosion of these people on the "Shaojiang Kai" frigate is undoubtedly higher than that of Ke Lan.

Ke Lan took a deep breath, and finally said nothing, and silently opened the second recording file.

"Recording file 01001026, recording time: unknown."

"Captain! Little Jack is dying!" A sudden shout sounded, followed by the sound of high-frequency tapping of boots on the metal floor.

From the sound of footsteps, it could be heard that there were three people walking very fast, one of them was a little staggering, and his breath seemed not very stable.

The three of them walked briskly for about 2 minutes, passing through four automatic hatches during the period, and finally stopped at a place full of "beeps".

Ke Lan knew that this place should be the infirmary on the "Shaojiang Kai" ship, and those constant "beep" sounds were instruments used to monitor the vital signs of the wounded and sick.

"Doctor Liu, how is little Jack?" Hrooney asked immediately after coming up.

"Look for yourself." This is a mature female voice. According to the crew list of the "Shaojiang Kai" frigate in the archives, there are a total of eight military doctors on board, and only one of them is a woman named Liu Yi." She should have been 37 years old when the "Shaojiang Kai" frigate crashed. She had the rank of major and held a Class B doctor's license. She could already be regarded as a rare high-level talent in the fleet.

Generally, doctors of this level will not go to the front line. A military doctor on board a ship can have a C-level license, and a B-level doctor is qualified to serve as the full-time director of a certain department in a hospital behind. , Sending this kind of elite to a frigate as a military doctor is inevitably a bit overqualified.

However, it can also be seen from the side that the undead crew members attached great importance to this mission back then.

Accompanied by the characteristic friction sound when the blackout window was raised, Ke Lan heard someone gasp.

"How could it be like this?" the voice that called Hruni at the beginning whispered, "Obviously... when I came to see him in the morning, he was still able to barely talk to me...Now, now, no matter what... ..."

"It's... out of human form." The ambiguous voice that appeared in the first recording continued, "I know this 'virus' can mutate the human body, but in Little Jack... the mutated The speed seems to be very fast."

These conversations made Ke Lan, who could only listen to the recordings but not see the pictures, feel itchy. He directly pressed the pause button and asked the AI ​​of the central control computer: "It is impossible for the recording equipment on the Shaojiang Kai frigate to only Recorded audio? What about video? What about photos? What about hologram fragments like the ones in the previous combat records? Are all these things destroyed and not left at all?"

"Those data were not damaged, but were artificially deleted." AI replied.

"Who deleted it?!"

"Our ship's captain, Hruni Yang." AI said.Although the AI ​​of the "Shaojiang Reform" judged that Hruni Yang had been "polluted", on the premise of sending a report to the higher command organization without receiving a response, the AI ​​would not claim to lock Hruni's authority, even if At this time, Hrooney has become a monster, and he still has the control of the "Shaojiang Kai" frigate.

There is only one situation where the AI ​​wants to disobey the captain's order by its own will without receiving instructions from a higher level of authority-Heruni ordered the "Shaojiang Kai" frigate to attack and be recognized as friendly troops, buildings or facilities.

In that case, Hrouni will be recognized as a "traitor" by the AI. Not only will all control authority be deprived, but the AI ​​will also use the security measures in the ship to restrict the freedom of Hrouni and others until the fleet commander or This restricted state is not touched until Ark issues final processing instructions.

As for Hruni Yang deleting all the photos and video files after the crash of the battleship... This is completely within the scope of the captain's normal authority, and it will not be judged as "betrayal" by the AI ​​at all.

The purpose of Hruni's doing this is obviously to prevent those who entered the gray mist forest and found the wreckage of the "Shaojiang Kai" warship from having direct access to those "forbidden knowledge"... But he didn't delete all the records , but left these recording files...

Is this his warning?

Ke Lan pressed the "Continue Playing" button.

"This rate of mutation can't be explained by biological or medical knowledge at all. It's not just the mutation in Garcia, it's the same for every one of us." Liu Yi said with a sense of powerlessness, " In the past six hours, Jack Garcia didn't eat any food, I just gave him the minimum amount of water and electrolytes... But now, look at that huge growth... If this thing's If the main components are protein and fat, let alone biology and medicine cannot explain this situation... even the law of conservation of matter in a narrow sense has been broken.”

"From the perspective of volume... this thing is at least three times the size of Jack's original body..." said the ambiguous voice, "even if the filling inside is water...all the water in Jack's body combined There won't be so many. These growths seem to have popped out of nowhere..."

"Could it be the moisture absorbed from the surrounding environment?" Hruni asked in a deep voice.

"This ward is fully enclosed, and I strictly control the water provided to Garcia... For six hours, I supplemented him with a total of [-] milliliters of electrolyte solution through intravenous infusion. During this period, he He urinated twice in total, and the combined total volume was [-] milliliters, and all the excreted urine was collected in a special container through the catheter, which he could not touch." Liu Yi said.

"No... I mean, in the environment, after all, there is moisture in the air." Hruni said.

"Compared with six hours ago, the humidity in the ward has not changed at all." Liu Yi retorted, "With all due respect, Captain, if you want to interpret the changes in Garcia's body in a scientific way, then I'm afraid Going to be disappointed."

"Science...Compared with Alpha civilization, our human science is just like a child's play house, naive and ridiculous. These things can definitely be explained through science, but this science is not the science of human civilization. Hrouni sighed suddenly while talking, "The thing I'm most worried about now... is time."

"Captain, your physical condition is still very optimistic... at least better than ours. It is conservatively estimated that your physical condition will take at least two to three years before it deteriorates to the level that Garcia is now." Liu Yi Said.

She estimated that Hroone could last for two to three years without being able to receive "effective treatment", but in fact, Heroone only persisted for one year before it turned into an erosion. As for Liu Yi's miscalculation, it was Heroone Later, something was discovered that caused the erosion to suddenly speed up. Ke Lan still can't find the answer to this question.

"No, what I'm talking about is not my remaining time, but human beings." Hruni emphasized his tone, "Those people above clearly know all this, but what they want is to cover up the truth... what they are after It's just a moment of stability, but I never think about the future."

"Isn't this normal? Those people in the United Parliamentary Group are just a group of politicians chasing interests. Even if they can be re-elected, their longest term is only a few decades... When that day really comes, don't Speaking of themselves, even their descendants are probably already ashes. There is a proverb in the old era, which is used to describe this kind of attitude, which is called 'after I die, don't care about the flood'... These people They only care about their own approval rate during their term of office, and they dare not face any risks." The ambiguous voice said a long paragraph in one breath, and then gasped violently, which was obviously very important to him. strenuous.

From this passage, Ke Lan can be sure that at least Heruni and the others did not know that the undead crew would exist. They always thought that this mission was sent to them by the United Parliamentary Group, who wanted to cover up those secrets and the truth. Also members of the United Parliamentary Group.

While Ke Lan was waiting for Hruni's response to these words, there was a loud "bang" sound, and Mo Jue, who was on the side, pulled out the pistol at his waist in fright, and looked around nervously.

"It's the voice in the recording." Ke Lan said to her, while making a silent gesture.

It seems that something unexpected happened at that time, Ke Lan couldn't help pricking up his ears, trying to capture every detail in the recording as much as possible.

"Bah! Bah!"

There were two more loud bangs. Judging from the timbre, this should be the dull sound unique to physical bodies hitting tempered glass... This made Ke Lan immediately think of the "Jack Garcia" who was locked in a closed ward .

His degree of erosion should be the most serious among the crew, that is, the person who stopped his life activities after only persisting for 41 hours-judging from the current movement, he should have completely transformed into the kind called "Erosion" monster.

Then there was a sound of metal bumping and rubbing and the bolt of the gun being pulled, and then, Liu Yi shouted loudly: "Don't shoot! The observation window in the closed ward is very thick, and it is all bulletproof glass. If you can't penetrate it, it is impossible." Run out of it!"

"He...what's the situation with it now?" A young-sounding male voice asked, with a hint of tremor in his voice, "Doctor Liu...Garcia's vital signs were already very weak earlier Is it? You said that he would die due to organ failure at any time... But why does it suddenly jump up from the hospital bed... Is this the legendary flashback?"

"I don't know." Liu Yi's answer was very short, "but you all stand back and don't provoke it. I'll try to inject a sedative into it first to see if it can calm it down."

During the conversation between the few of them, the sound of "bang bang" hitting the glass has not been interrupted, but it has a tendency to become more violent.

In the tens of seconds that followed, no one spoke, only the sound of more and more frequent impacts and fingers tapping on the keyboard.

Ke Lan waited until No.40 for five seconds before Liu Yi's voice sounded again: "It didn't work, I tried all the sedatives on the ship, and the dosage has been increased to the maximum that the current body surface area can bear. Ten times, but the potion doesn't work on it at all..."

"The glass of the observation window is about to be smashed by it..." Hruni said slowly.

[PS Recently, I suddenly became interested in food novels, but with my knowledge reserve and experience, it is almost impossible to open a single food novel.But my hands are very itchy, and I really want to write... In other words, if I introduce some special delicacies in the era of human alien colonization and the ark in the form of a small extravaganza, are you interested in watching it?It can also be regarded as supplementing the background setting from a side angle...]

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