Alien Relic Hunter

Chapter 783 "Definitely"

"Erosion? What erosion?"

"It's the situation that Hruni and the others encountered. This kind of erosion is like a virus, except that it can spread through cognition. The information contained in the recording is its carrier." Ke Lan explained.

Although Hrouni has been very careful to delete the content involving "forbidden knowledge", these recording files are still extremely dangerous.Ke Lan couldn't help feeling a little thankful that other people were not by his side at this time, otherwise, Mo Jue might not be the only one who was eroded.

"Why do you have nothing to do?" Mo Jue raised his hands in the air, a little at a loss, "What should I do? Will I die?"

"Are you afraid of death?" Ke Lan stared into her eyes and asked word by word.

"With the current methods, this kind of 'corrosion'... cannot be treated, right?" Mo Jue took a few deep breaths and asked as calmly as possible.

Ke Lan nodded, noncommittal.

Although Hruni mentioned that erasing the memory may be able to prevent the deepening of the erosion, but to perform such an operation, it is necessary to let the eroded person enter a deep sleep state... and once entering a deep sleep, Ke Lan feels that There is a high probability that Mo Jue will be like Heruni... dreaming of that "frightening starry sky".

At that time, I am afraid that even if all the memories of the eroded person are deleted, it will be impossible to save the person.

Although Ke Lan has not "seen" the starry sky described by Heluni in the recording, when Ke Lan used the Holy Word, the gaze from "His" seemed to press the quality of the entire vast starry sky on Ke Lan. Above Lan's consciousness... It's hard to describe this feeling in words, but Ke Lan's subconscious kept telling him that the essence of the two is the same.

The "horrible starry sky" that Hruni saw can actually be understood as the sight of "His" - how to say that classic saying: When you look at the abyss, the abyss is also looking at you .

When Hruni saw the "starry sky", it was actually equivalent to the sight of "His" sweeping over Hruni... In layman's terms, when things have developed to this point, the "Him" who is a hunter has already set his sights on It is impossible for the prey to pretend to know nothing and get out of the hunter's field of vision at this time.

"I'm not afraid of death." Mo Jue said to Ke Lan, "In fact, when I followed you into the depths of the forest, I already thought that I would die in this place."

"But." Mo Jue changed the subject, "Even if it is death, I hope to die with dignity, instead of being treated as an experimental subject and being chopped into pieces by a group of white coats on the operating table... I can't survive, I want to die cannot."

"...Do you think I'll use you as an experimental material?" Ke Lan twitched her lips. It has to be said that Mo Jue's divergent thinking is wide enough - but from her perspective, she would think so , which is entirely reasonable.

If Heluni can repair the "Shaojiang Kai" frigate and return to the Ark, the first choice of the Undead Crew is definitely not to kill him, but to control him... The members of the crew are also plagued by erosion, With such a living sample with a high degree of erosion, and it has been watched by "He", the undead crew will definitely spare no effort to study it.

What's more, Heruni still carries the "secret" from the foggy forest.

It is easy to artificially create a corrupted person who is on the verge of a critical point, but it is very difficult to create a "so good" corrupted person... After the vast majority of people accept the "forbidden knowledge", Like other crew members, their bodies will be highly mutated in a short period of time, and finally transformed into "corrosion wrecks".

Even the symbionts inserted into the alpha human gene fragments through the gene editing project, only Ke Lan and the "Prophet" can survive for a long time, while Heruni, with his "mortal body", persisted for a whole year under severe erosion. Nian's physique can be said to be one in a million.

From Mo Jue's point of view, Ke Lan and his group represent the officialdom of the Ark. With the usual style of the upper echelons of the Ark, it is really possible that Mo Jue will be captured as experimental material for studying human body erosion.

Although her value is far behind Heluni...but the key point is that Mo Jue doesn't know that the undead crew members are fully capable of producing this "experimental material" in batches.

"Couldn't it be?" Mo Jue said as he took a few steps back slowly, then quickly pulled out the pistol from his waist, and pressed it against his temple.

She draws the gun very fast, but in the eyes of Ke Lan, who has the ability to stop time, she doesn't have the word "fast". Chance took the gun out of her hand.

But Ke Lan didn't do this...Using strength to suppress the other party will only make the other party distrust him even more.

The next exploration process is still very long. If possible, Ke Lan still hopes to have a good relationship with this "lumberjack".Regardless of the strength of the opponent, in such a weird and dangerous place, it is better to have one more teammate who can be trusted than one less.Even if the other party can only talk and chat with him, it is better than him wandering alone in the forest alone.

"Rather than being brought back to the ark by you alive, I'd rather die here." Mo Jue slightly raised his voice, and slightly exerted force on his index finger holding the trigger.

Ke Lan could tell that as long as she showed any attempt to bring Mo Jue back to "do research", she would pull the trigger without hesitation.

"Then you can rest assured, I don't have any good feelings for the guys in the research institute... They still tried to treat me as a research object. I can completely understand your mood, so, can you put down the gun first?" Ke Lan persuaded.

"No. I...I still can't fully trust you...I..." Mo Jue originally wanted to negotiate terms with Ke Lan, but when she was about to speak, she realized that she didn't know what terms to negotiate .

The only bargaining chip in Mo Jue's hand is his own life... But the problem is, Ke Lan can't offer any bargaining chips.

No verbal guarantee could make her feel at ease.And even if she was holding a gun to her temple all the time, there were countless ways for Ark to safely disarm her after returning home.

"Okay, if you really want to die, then you can shoot, I have no objection." Ke Lan suddenly gave up persuading, shrugged, and made a "please go" gesture to Mo Jue.

Mo Jue was stunned for a moment, and then a look of doubt appeared on her face, but she didn't ask Ke Lan the reason for her sudden change of attitude, she just pretended to be relaxed and said: "Then you stay away a little bit, be careful Splattered with blood and brains."

The pistol in her hand was a large-caliber hunting pistol. If she shot it to the head, not to mention opening a hole, her head would probably be blown away.

Of course, the bigger possibility is that it exploded like a watermelon thrown to the ground.

The inner hesitation lasted only half a second before Mo Jue pulled the trigger.

The gun didn't go off, and her head didn't explode like a watermelon.

She raised the pistol in front of her in some astonishment, pulled out the magazine, pulled the slide, and checked it inside and out.

There was nothing wrong with the gun itself, and she even tried to fire a shot at the wall. The sound of the gun was thunderous, and the large-caliber armor-piercing bullet made a hole in the metal-lined wall.

What happened just now?

Mo Jue didn't think about it, she pointed the gun at her head again, gritted her teeth and pulled the trigger.

The gun still didn't go off.

One bang, another decline, three exhaustions... When the first suicide attempt failed, most of that impulse had receded, and when she pulled the trigger on herself for the second time, her hands were already trembling slightly. Now, she suddenly found that she didn't even have the courage to check the pistol again.

"You did it, right?" Mo Jue raised his head, looked at Ke Lan, and asked.

She was right, with the help of Ze Luo's space ability, it is very easy to make a purely mechanical pistol unable to fire.Ke Lan could even just freeze Mo Jue in place, then slowly walk in front of her, and take the gun out of her hand.

"You see, you have absolutely no ability to resist. As long as I think about it, you can't even commit suicide. So you might as well try to trust me once, I will never hand you over to the research institute or any other scientific research institution , and will not treat you as an experimental material."

In fact, Ke Lan didn't say anything clearly: With Mo Jue's anti-corrosion ability, just listening to these deleted recordings, the body has already changed, so she probably won't be able to persist with Ke Lan and the others. Walking out of the foggy forest...

Just like that Jack Garcia... her days are numbered.

"..." Mo Jue opened his eyes wide and stared at Ke Lan for several seconds before throwing the pistol on the ground and sitting on the ground in frustration.

"Even if you don't treat me as an experimental material...then why don't you let me die? The doctor Liu in the recording has already made it very clear that this kind of 'disease' has no cure. Technology, can't even extend life... I know, I can live in a few days."

Ke Lan sighed. Although he didn't say that hurtful truth just now, Mo Jue obviously knew this in his heart.

"You are not even afraid of death, are you still afraid of the process of dying?" Ke Lan stepped forward and pulled Mo Jue up from the ground, "Humans have no cure, but this does not mean that there is no Alpha civilization. Maybe, In the core area of ​​the foggy forest, there is a way to slow down the erosion process."

"Are you trying to comfort me?" Mo Jue smiled bitterly.

"You think that's it." Ke Lan said, "But I think, until the last moment, people can never give up hope... Don't worry, if you really want to become that kind of monster in the end, I will help you out of."

"I hope you won't break your promise..."

"The Maozi doctor who just separated from us, Ivan, you should have noticed his mechanical arm, right?" Ke Lan said.

Mo Jue nodded and said, "He replaced his arm with a cyborg prosthesis for the convenience of performing surgery in the field?"

"No, his original arm was infected by the cells of the Seed of Corrosion."

When she heard the words "Seed of Corrosion", Mo Jue's expression changed significantly - as a hell paratrooper, she knew a lot of information. During her service, in the combat missions she participated in, Exceeding targets are members of heretical sects or settlements.

Anyone who knows something about heresy sects and Seeds of Corrosion knows that being infected and parasitized by Seeds of Corrosion is a true "incurable disease".Even though Ark has mastered the method of restraining the seeds of erosion, there is still no way to save those "containers".

The only thing they can do is to kill the container and the erosion seeds inside the container.

Mo Jue's chief also told her that if a comrade in arms is accidentally infected during a combat operation, he must be "treated" in time. As for the method of treatment, it is anyone's guess.

This thing is just like the zombie virus in the movie... But at the end of the movie, even if the protagonists are infected, they can always find something like serum or antidote.But in reality, the research institute has studied the seed of erosion for so long, but failed to save any infected person.

"He... How long has he been infected?" Mo Jue couldn't help asking.

"Two years. However, the erosive cells in his body have been suppressed, and the infection process has not changed in two years." Ke Lan said, "The suppression method was not discovered by the research institute, but From the ruins of an Alpha civilization. We all thought he was going to die at first, just like you are now going to die yourself."

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