Alien Relic Hunter

Chapter 786
"The only thing you need to pay attention to now is one thing." Ke Lan continued to say to Mo Jue, "Just don't let yourself fall asleep, and concentrate at all times. It's best not to even appear in a daze."

"Why?" Mo Jue asked.

"I'm afraid that you will be in a trance and hear the whispers that Heruni described, or simply see the 'starry sky' directly... Then with your anti-corrosion ability, I am afraid that you will become a monster in a few minutes." While explaining, Ke Lan took out a large amount of psychotropic drugs from his backpack and handed them to Mo Jue, "You can rely on the help of drugs when necessary... Although the side effects of excessive use of this drug will be uncomfortable, but in You must stay awake until we reach the heart of the Mist Forest."

"...Understood." Mo Jue took the medicines and stuffed them into the waist kit one by one so that they could be taken at any time.

"Your condition is fairly stable now." Ke Lan glanced at the tentacles growing from Mo Jue's forehead, and there was no sign of continuing to grow or expand, "Try not to think about the things you just heard in the recording, eroding The process should slow down."

"It's fine if you don't say it. Once you say it, I can't help but go back and think about it..." Mo Jue showed a helpless expression on his face.

This is like a classic psychology game, the host said to the players participating in the game: For the next ten seconds, please don't think about an elephant in your head-and the players who heard this sentence, basically The first thing that comes to mind is an elephant.

"Fortunately, at least the tentacles on the head haven't grown, and I don't know if other parts of the body have mutated." Ke Lan shrugged, "You can find a clean cabin and take off all the equipment to check for yourself , Of course, if you don't mind, I can also help."

"No need." Mo Jue said with a stern face, "If the erosion will be deepened by cognition, no matter whether the body has mutated or not, the best way to deal with it is to ignore it, right?"

"That makes sense... Hey, why do you seem to have suddenly become smarter? Could it be that the brain structure has also mutated?" Ke Lan joked.

The originally dignified atmosphere suddenly became much more relaxed.

Mo Jue glared at Ke Lan, and then asked, "Then what should we do now, should we continue to stay here to search for clues, or continue to move forward?"

Mo Jue originally wanted to talk about finding other people who were lost, but soon she realized that this choice was unreliable.

Looking for someone in the foggy forest, you will only lose yourself if you look for it... On the contrary, everyone sets a common goal, such as the core area of ​​the forest, and they may meet at the end.

Of course, the premise is that they have to go through the last dozen kilometers alone.

"I want to ask this AI some more things... well, but you'd better avoid it, if you hear something you shouldn't hear, your erosion may be further deepened." Ke Lan said.

"Yes...but where should I go?" Mo Jue looked around and asked.

The interior of the wreckage of the "Shaojiang Kai" frigate has been filled with gray fog at this time. Only the area around Ke Lan has not been invaded by the gray fog under the effect of Ze Luo's space power. If Mo Jue is allowed to leave this area at this time In the open space, if he enters the gray mist... Even if he is inside the battleship, he may lose his way.

As for the situation of losing consciousness and entering a sleepwalking state like just now, it may happen again.

The safest and surest direction is to ensure that Mo Jue is always within Ke Lan's field of vision.

"There is no way, then we can only paint the ground as a prison." Ke Lan sighed.

"Drawing the ground as a prison?" Mo Jue was stunned for a moment, "What do you mean?"

"That's it." Ke Lan waved his hand, and a small space barrier that could block sight and sound in one direction immediately enveloped Mo Jue.

"What's going on? What's going on? Why can't I see anything?" Mo Jue's terrified voice came from the one-way sound transmission space barrier. She tried to take a step forward, but bumped directly into the On top of the space barrier as hard as a wall.

"It's a small black room that I created with Ze Luo's ability. I feel sorry for you to stay in it for a while, and I'll let you out when I finish asking that AI what I want to know." Ke Lan finished speaking. After the sentence, the sound isolation of "Little Black Room" was restored again.

After hearing Ke Lan's voice, Mo Jue immediately calmed down... Although being locked in the "black room" was uncomfortable, she also knew that Ke Lan was here to save her.

Through the one-way light-transmitting space barrier, Ke Lan could see that Mo Jue sat down slowly with his back against the barrier behind him, and subconsciously reached out to touch the tentacles on his forehead, but he seemed to remember something, His whole body trembled slightly, and he retracted his hand.

Ke Lan knew that although she had been comforting Mo Jue just now, the chances of Mo Jue surviving were actually very low... She was not one in a million like Heruni, who was extremely resistant to erosion , otherwise, the body will not mutate after listening to a few recordings that have no key points at all...

Mo Jue should be very aware of this. When she was face to face with Ke Lan before, she pretended to be indifferent, but now after being locked in the small dark room, her expression suddenly changed... ...Desperation, frustration, helplessness... Through the barrier of one-way vision, Mo Jue's emotions can be seen in Ke Lan's eyes.

But Ke Lan has nothing to do... The source of this erosion is an existence that even he cannot touch.

No, it can't be said to be touched...Even just looking at each other for a moment is enough to make Ke Lan's whole body and mind collapse together.

"I still have some questions, I hope you can answer them truthfully." Ke Lan stopped looking at Mo Jue in the "Little Black Room", turned to look at the virtual screen in front of him, and said to the AI ​​of the central control computer.

"Your Excellency has the top-level authority of the Ark, and can access all the data in the ship's central control computer." AI replied.

A single member of the undead crew may be restricted in every way when accessing the core brain of the ark, but lower-level terminals like the battleship's central control computer can still be fully controlled.

"That line, first organize the information in your database into a table. If there is a date, you must mark the date. Any information that mentions the foggy forest or keywords that contain secrets, truth, despair, mutation, whispers, etc. are all marked in red. Make it bolder, and scroll the created table onto the screen as quickly as possible." Ke Lan ordered.

Although many of the data stored in the central control computer have been damaged, such a supercomputer with an area comparable to that of a mansion only leaves some data fragments in its calculations, and the amount of information it contains can definitely be called The sky is vast.

Even though Ke Lan can browse at an extremely fast speed by relying on his photographic memory and the assistance of Time Stop, his digestion speed is still too slow compared to the huge amount of data.

The densely packed characters scrolled on the projection screen at a speed that ordinary people could not see clearly. According to the time calculated by the central control computer, at this speed, it would take at least [-] hours for Ke Lan to read all the content.

Moreover, this is not the data itself, but the title table after induction and sorting. Click on each line of characters, and there will be level after level of root directories inside.

"Faster! The font can be changed to a smaller size!" Ke Lan said, with the help of Ze Luo, his ability to activate the time stop is almost no longer limited, and the mental power consumption and side effects can be completely ignored— —However, there is a limit to the ability of human eyes to receive and process information. No matter how fast the brain operates, it is meaningless if the eyes cannot keep up.

Ke Lan suddenly became envious of the characters in those cyberpunk works. With the help of the brain-computer interface, their speed of absorbing information can be equated with the data transmission data of the computer... Although the current cyberpunk meaning of Ark is Body technology has not been extended to the brain level, and the only practical application is the simple "brain modification" that connects sensory nerves and motor nerves. However, in the research institute, brain-computer interface experiments have been carried out many times up.There are many experimental subjects equipped with brain-computer structures, and most of their brains have been cyborgized, lying in the freezer of the underground refrigerator. There are men and women, old and young... This technology is extended to the entire human society It's only a matter of time.

However, there is also a fatal problem with the brain-computer interface. Just like computers and network services, the former will crash if the calculation intensity exceeds the limit, and the latter will be equivalent to a DDOS attack if a large amount of data is input in a short period of time... and the human brain If an excessive amount of data is accepted, it will also be burned.

Biological synapses are much more fragile than silicon chips... Although it has the ability to regenerate, once it is damaged, the impact on the brain is completely irreversible. Even if you can save your life, some unavoidable mental problems will occur. Defects.

The brain is an extremely sophisticated piece of equipment. Even if human civilization has developed to this stage, it has not been able to create anything more sophisticated and miraculous than the brain.

Therefore, no matter whether the brain is operated or repaired, it must be cautious. This is probably the reason why the technology of brain-computer interface has not been popularized although it has matured.

In the final analysis, those cyberpunk works are still science fiction works, with a certain degree of fantasy nature. As long as human beings fail to fully analyze the structure of the brain, the black technology of brain-computer interface will not be able to be promoted in a day.

The scrolling speed of the characters on the projection screen has been faster than that of a top sports car with full horsepower, and Ke Lan has to start and stop almost every tenth of a millisecond... Even with the assistance of Ze Luo, his eyes still reveal There was a hint of fatigue.

It's not that Ke Lan's mental strength has been overdrawn, but that reading a lot of meaningless information for a long time has made his thinking instinctively disgusted... It's like eating that chewy synthetic ration all the time. It's okay to eat once or twice, because life is forced to eat every meal, but if people keep stuffing this thing in their mouths 24 hours a day, even the champion of the Big Eater Competition, it is probably very difficult. Feeling nauseous soon.

But in order not to miss any clues, Ke Lan had to check all the data, no matter how big or small. As for the entries marked in red and bold, he had to click on the root directory of the next level and read them all.

If Mo Jue could see the outside scene through the dark space barrier in front of her at this time, she would be surprised to find that a white steam was constantly rising from the top of Ke Lan's head.

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At the same time, deep in the foggy forest, an unknown location.

Akira Asano opened his eyes abruptly.

There was a strange feeling in his heart—even though the memory told him that he had just retreated from the wreckage of the battleship into the fog in the last second, he always felt that something seemed to be missing in the middle.It's like watching a movie. Although the editing and connection of a long shot are so perfect that there are almost no traces, some people who are very keen on this can still find a slight gap: for example The angle of view is as small as an offset of less than [-] degrees, such as the minimal change in focus and lighting, or the picture drop of only one frame and the image misalignment of a few pixels.

And Asano Akira is such a person.

After awakening this ability, his perceived world is completely different from that of ordinary people. Even if his memory is deleted, he can detect abnormalities faster than ordinary people.

Just when Akira Asano was wondering, his saber suddenly buzzed in the scabbard, and the blade trembled crazily, as if it wanted to bounce out of the scabbard by itself.

"Ok?"

Akira Asano stretched out his hand to hold the handle of the knife, and the beating sword calmed down instantly.He pulled out the knife, and gently pressed the blade on his palm, holding his breath, and stood there quietly for a few seconds.

"I left the team? Cut off the safety rope? Walked alone in the foggy forest for two hours?" Asano Akira frowned. In his memory, there was no record related to it at all...

However, he was completely convinced of the information Zhan Dao told him... This saber had already become a part of his extended consciousness. Heart-to-heart connection... To put it in a little fantasy, it means that the spirit of the weapon is about to be born.

Moreover, this information also proved that Akira Asano's strange feeling just now was definitely not his illusion.

All this is true.

"Then I should go to Ke Lan and the others now? No... I can't find them, and they can't find me... Rather than wandering around in the forest, it's better to just set the original destination as the destination... As long as I can reach the core area, I can join Ke Lan and the others." Akira Asano thought to himself.

[PS Thanks for the 1500 starting coins rewarded by the giraffe who read the book; thank you Xiao Jiaerlang for the 500 starting coins rewarded; thank you for the 300 starting coins rewarded by Wang Moxibustion; 】

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