Alien Relic Hunter

Chapter 782 The Corrupted Mo Jue

Although Liu Yi said that it is absolutely impossible for the eclipse to escape from the closed ward, within two seconds after Hruni finished speaking, there was a sound of glass shattering, followed by a deafening gunshot. Voice……

The recording ends.

The content of the next few recordings is similar. Every once in a while, someone will be eroded to a sudden limit and turned into a wreck, which will then be "processed" by Heluni and others.

There are also people who choose to kill themselves before turning into monsters... For example, Dr. Liu Yi, when her physical condition began to deteriorate rapidly, she stuffed the pistol into her mouth without hesitation, and pressed the muzzle against the roof of her mouth. Pulled the trigger directly.

Her last words before committing suicide were "This mutation is not a disease, medicine can do nothing about it, I can't even alleviate the suffering of 'patients', and all the data collected are meaningless..."

Then there was a dull gunshot, and the sound of the bullet piercing through the flesh and brain, tearing the skull apart.

Although there is no image in front of Ke Lan, he can still imagine the picture... Dots of red and white things splashed all the way to the ceiling, and the body that was mutated by erosion crashed down, still warm Blood quickly spread along the floor...

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Besides Hruni, the last person to become a corroded body was Lao Zuo. When he was about to break through the erosion critical point, he asked Hruni to help him out with his only sliver of reason...

After helping Lao Zuo fulfill his "wish", Hroone's physical condition is no longer optimistic. According to his own description, there have been many pathological mutations in his body. It has increased a lot in the past, but the situation of confusion often occurs...

He often has nightmares, and the contents of the dreams are, without exception, the vast starry sky.

Logically speaking, the starry sky should be beautiful, mysterious, and shocking... No matter what language and rhetoric people use to describe it, it should not be scary.But in Herouni's self-report, the starry sky gave him the feeling of real terror.

With the passage of time, Hruni's sane time is getting less and less, and he often passes out without warning... Moreover, he also developed very serious sleepwalking symptoms. He looked at himself wandering around in the surveillance, always Think it's not a person, but a walking dead or something.

Between half-dream and half-awake, Hruni often heard a voice whispering to him... At first, he couldn't understand what those strange syllables meant, but as the body's mutation continued to deepen, he gradually become understandable to those languages.

At this time, he was surprised to find that the voice that had been whispering to him in his ear and in his mind spoke the language of the Alpha civilization.

What surprised him even more was that before he knew it, he had also mastered the language that the research institute had spent decades in but failed to decipher even a single letter or syllable.

However, what makes Ke Lan a little depressed is that in the recording, Hruni didn't say a word about the content of these whispers.

Of course, it is also possible that he mentioned it, but later deleted this part of the recording... These whispers narrated in Alpha language also belong to the category of "forbidden knowledge". Accentuates the level of erosion of the listener.

"I feel that the starry sky seems to be calling me..." Hruni muttered to himself in the recording. At this time, his tone had changed a lot from before. Ke Lan estimated that it should be Hruni His vocal cords and other organs have been affected by body mutations, which means that the day when Hruni will be transformed into a corrode is not far away.

Sure enough, in the next recording file, after the opening minutes of silence, there is a strange-sounding sigh: "I think... I don't have much time. Before I completely become one of those monsters, I will It is impossible to return to the ark, the world of human civilization... Heh... But even if I go back, I will be silenced by the people above..."

He paused, and continued: "Maybe I should be like Dr. Liu, before I completely lose my sense of being a human, I should give myself a good time... But I am not reconciled.

"I think I should leave something... In case someone can find the wreckage of this battleship later, I should tell the truth to the latecomers, so as to prevent them from repeating our mistakes..."

Immediately afterwards, there was a ten-second-long current noise. Before Ke Lan could ask, the military AI had already replied: "The data in this recording is not damaged, and everything in the middle was edited by Hruni Yang himself. dropped."

"No, I can't do that, if I tell these things to the latecomers, even if they don't do anything, they will become like us... This thing is a virus, a virus that can be transmitted through cognition. Only by closing your eyes, plugging your ears, and keeping silent... can you have a chance to survive.

"I don't know if forgetting those things will relieve this symptom, but I can't forget them at all... As soon as I close my eyes, those things will come like a nightmare. They haunt me all the time... If ...This ship has the kind of device invented by the research institute that can erase memories... It would be great.

"Perhaps, Lao Zuo and the others are right... These things cannot be made public... Humans have no right to fight against them...

"If they failed, how could we possibly do it?

"My waking hours are getting shorter and shorter every day. I see me in the video like a ghost, wandering around the battleship... I don't know what I'm going to do, and I don't know that What exactly does the voice want me to do...

"The whispers in my head are getting louder... This voice seems to come from that starry sky, it seems... as if it wants to make me merge with the starry sky... How... how is this possible?
"I can't resist that force, I can only rely on external objects... I used the few waking hours to strengthen the confinement room of the battleship. I will lock myself in this room until my end is ushered in."

This recording ends here, and the AI ​​of the "Shaojiang Kai" frigate told Ke Lan that since then, Hruni has been locking himself in the confinement room.The walls and hatches of this confinement room were reinforced with armor plates from discarded mechs. After locking himself inside, Hrouni welded the hatch with the thermite on his body, completely remodeling the confinement room. It became a cage that could not be opened.

Hrouni fixed himself on the floor with iron chains and restraint belts... He did not prepare any food or drinking water. In his words, his severely mutated body could no longer perceive hunger and thirst, and his heart Already have the will to die, and don't intend to continue to linger on.

"I don't know how long I can live... To be precise, I don't know how much sane time I have left." Hrouni said at the beginning of the next recording, "According to the records of the central control computer, I am now one day Within two hours, he stayed awake for less than two hours, and for the rest of the time, he was muttering to himself or trying to break free...

"Physical pain seemed to take away from me, I no longer had that weird discomfort, instead I was filled with strength...I knew I was about to become that monster, like everybody else.

"I feel that I no longer resist the mutation of my body. The deeper the mutation, the weaker the pain, and a strange pleasure that makes people indulge in it involuntarily and let it be at the mercy of it... I have already remembered I don't know how long I've locked myself in, the chains and restraints have been broken by me, but fortunately this room is strong enough...

"I feel very strange, not only the appearance is strange, but my thinking mode seems to have undergone a fundamental change... I am no longer afraid of the starry sky, but have an urge to become one with it .

"If anyone hears this recording... no matter if you are from the ark or an exile in the wilderness, leave this place quickly, don't make any stays, don't look at anything in the battleship, and don't search for any suspicious things. Traces... Forget everything you've seen and heard... Believe me, I'm here to save you."

It was very difficult for Hruni to say this sentence, and he would pause for a while almost every time he uttered a word. About five seconds after he finished speaking, there was a muffled groan and the sound of flesh and blood tearing in the recording, followed by , the recording ends.

This is the last recording file.

"Why not? What happened next? Didn't you continue to record?" Ke Lan asked AI.

"The recording data in other parts has been damaged." There was no emotion in the tone of AI's answer, but it was this unemotional attitude that made people feel even more annoyed.

At least when the civilian AI says sorry, it will show sincere or tactful personified emotions according to the user's current state, while the reaction of the military AI is always so intuitive, just like the dialog box that pops up when the program reports an error .

Mistakes are mistakes, nothing is nothing, straight to the point and concise.

"Damn it." Ke Lan couldn't help swearing, "Knife in hand, follow me, kill all the dogs in the world..."

"Sorry, no valid keywords were detected from your utterance," said the AI.

This sentence is used by readers in online forums to vent their grievances against the author of the dog. Of course, it is impossible for the military AI database to include such useless information.Facing the files on the screen showing "data corrupted and unreadable", Ke Lan could only sigh and turn around.

But the moment he turned around, his body became slightly stiff, and he subconsciously put his hand on the holster around his waist.

Mo Jue standing behind Ke Lan... On her forehead, a small piece of transparent tentacles like slug tentacles grew out. This cluster of tiny tentacles was still wriggling, but as an eroded individual, Mo Jue seemed to be completely unaware. Unconsciously.

"What's wrong? The way you look at me...it's so strange..." Mo Jue also noticed the strangeness in Ke Lan's eyes, and stretched out his hand to touch his face in confusion.

It's okay if you don't touch it, a drop of mucus dripping from the tentacles just landed on the back of Mo Jue's hand, making her stunned for a moment.

She raised her head and looked up. The ceiling of the bridge was also made up of external surveillance screens, but now she could only see thick gray fog, and the visibility was basically zero.

"What is this?" Mo Jue originally planned to reach out to wipe the drop of mucus on the back of her hand, but the next second she realized that this operation was very unprofessional, she retracted her hand again, and took out a stick from her pocket. test tube.

"Is this liquid dripping from above? But I look at the screen on the ceiling...it seems very dry." Mo Jue put the drop of mucus into a test tube, thought for a while, and handed the test tube to Ke Lan.

"This thing should be safe... I don't feel any discomfort on the back of my hand, and I don't have any signs of poisoning for the time being..." Mo Jue said, "The only thing I feel now is a little thirsty... But I It seems that I haven't drank water for a long time, which should be a normal phenomenon."

Ke Lan did not have a conversation with Mo Jue, nor did he reach out to pick up the test tube. During this series of processes, he stood still and observed the latter silently.

"You...what's wrong with you?" Mo Jue said with a guilty conscience, "Why have you been..."

Ke Lan shook his head with complicated eyes: "I'm fine, but you... You can try to reach out and touch the corner of your forehead... Remember, no matter what you touch, keep calm. "

Mo Jue's expression suddenly changed, and she froze in place for a few seconds, then cautiously stretched out her right hand to touch her own forehead.

When her fingertips touched those wriggling tentacles, she quickly retracted her hand, and her face became even paler.

"I... what is... on my head?"

"You can see for yourself," Ke Lan said.

"Look for yourself? Oh... oh yes..." Mo Jue rummaged in his pocket in a panic, and many of the small equipment he carried fell to the ground during the rummaging process.But at this moment, Mo Jue had no intention of caring about this kind of thing, she just wanted to know what happened to her.

Finally, she found a mirror.

She took a deep breath and held up the mirror—even though she was mentally prepared, the mirror in her hand fell to the ground when she saw the tentacles growing from her forehead.

"I... am I parasitized by something?"

These squirming tentacles are like an independent living body, and Mo Jue's first reaction is foreign parasites.

"If it's parasitic, then it's easy to handle... I'm afraid you have been eroded."

(End of this chapter)