Alien Relic Hunter.

Chapter 804 Activation

When Ke Lan was talking with 33, a sudden change occurred!

The body lying on the wreckage in a very pious posture suddenly screamed, his limbs danced wildly, as if he wanted to get up from the ground, but his face was tightly attached to the inscriptions, like It's like being smeared with super glue, and it can't be separated from the floor tiles no matter what.

In the next second, the flesh and blood in the erosion body seemed to be emptied, and the whole body shriveled up, just like the erosion bodies killed by Mo Jue, leaving only one body tightly wrapped in black hard skin His skeleton... and what changed with it was the floor tile that had absorbed his flesh and blood.

The material of this floor tile gradually changed from black-gray rock to a crystal-like transparent substance, and a dark red light like blood flowed inside the floor tile...

This vision lasted for more than half a minute before the floor tiles returned to their original color, but Ke Lan noticed that the order of characters on the floor tiles had changed dramatically from before.

Ke Lan's heart moved, he gritted his teeth, and looked at the inscription characters that were arranged in a completely different order from before.

This time, the expected severe pain in the head did not appear, and those mysterious chanting sounds did not sound, and Ke Lan read the changed inscription very smoothly.

But just as his body relaxed for a moment, it immediately tensed up again.

After the order of the characters in the inscription was reversed, the inscription on the floor tiles was no longer a "formula" prayer, but a text with a huge amount of information that had no beginning or end.

"Everything is just for camouflage."

"We disguise ourselves as sheep raised in captivity, docile, harmless, pious, and willing to contribute all our strength and resources to His will."

"Maybe some people have really become sheep, but there are always people awake in the dark night, always awake."

"Those who are awake must assume the duty of vigil. They must be the leaders of all survivors, and when necessary, wake up all sleeping people."

"We sharpen weapons for him, but they are also our weapons, and the weapons dedicated to him will eventually stab him."

... In the middle is a large paragraph of meaningless scattered characters, perhaps to confuse the audience, or maybe it was erased intentionally, but just the first half of the text already made Ke Lan feel as if he had been struck by lightning.

The devotion of the Alpha civilization to the great gods...is it a disguise?
No wonder... No wonder the tactical mecha they created was called "blasphemer", which sounded disrespectful to the gods. Ke Lan once thought that this kind of mecha was specially aimed at the enemy of the "great god", Those "evil gods", "evil gods" or "false gods"...but now it seems that the blasphemers... the gods that the Alpha people want to "blaspheme" are probably the gods they have been believing in and worshiping This "great god" of God!
Ke Lan's eyes were fixed on the inscription on the ground, and his breathing gradually became short of breath.He completely ignored 33's panicked calls, and continued to read the second half of the inscription.

"He cannot be made aware of our true intentions."

"It must be kept secret."

"Before that time comes, all those who wake up early must be obliterated."

"Among the night watchmen, if the erosion level exceeds the danger threshold, they must be wiped out."

"The 'sheep' involved in the construction of the altar must be wiped out after the project is completed."

"...kill everyone who knows."

"The recorder of this inscription must also be obliterated."

"That's too late."

"Perhaps he has noticed."

"Maybe he doesn't care at all."

"For Him, our power is nothing more than a fly shaking a tree." (Explanation: Of course, there will be no idioms in Chinese in the language of the Alpha civilization, including the previous 'sheep', and of course there can be no sheep on the Alpha planet This kind of earth species, these sentences are all translated by Ke Lan himself according to the context and semantics, as long as you understand it in your heart, don’t worry.)
"He doesn't seem to have taken any measures against us... Is it disdain? Or is there another purpose?"

"Using the thinking of mortals to speculate on the thoughts of gods, aren't we too overconfident?"

"Does it really make sense to do this? It can't be successful, right?"

"Are you going to give up?"

"Isn't it possible to exhaust the entire civilization's years?"

"His existence is almost as eternal as this entire universe, and the years of our civilization's existence are but a short span of time for this world."

"It's like that man named Yu Gong—" Ke Lan was stunned again when he read this.

The previous inscriptions, whether it is "sheep", "flying a tree" or "a white horse passing through the gap", these words that are unique to earth civilization are the result of Ke Lan's brain's self-polishing in the process of reading and translating the inscriptions—— For people with a certain level of writing ability, when they see or read something, they will naturally think of some idioms or idioms corresponding to it. This is a very natural thing. People who grow up in the environment have this ability. (Of course, there are also people who grew up in an English environment, but English also has a set of corresponding things, such as slang, proverbs, etc. This kind of fixed sentences with specific meanings appears in almost all language systems of earth civilization. )
When Ke Lan read this sentence, his brain automatically translated the "stupid old man" in the inscription into "Yu Gong".

But for a person who is familiar with Chinese, "Yu Gong" is not a literal translation of "stupid old man" or "stupid male old man" in most cases, but has a specific role.

That is the protagonist in the idiom allusion "Yugong Yishan".

The reason why Ke Lan's brain can directly translate this word into "Yu Gong" is because there is a prefix used to modify this "stupid old man" here in the inscription.

The modifier prefix is: "the one who attempted to move the mountains by himself"

All connected together is "the stupid old man who tried to move the mountains by himself"... Isn't this "Yugong Yishan"?

In English, the idiom Yugong Yishan is translated as "The foolish old man, who removed the mountains" - the stupid old man who moved the mountains.

Isn't this the same as the meaning of this inscription... one, mold, one, the same, isn't it?

Is there such an allusion as "The Foolish Old Man Moves Mountains" in Alpha Civilization?Could it be a coincidence?

Do not!This is no coincidence!
Ke Lan thought of the things he saw in the Chaomeng video, and he vaguely had a guess... It seemed that he was getting closer and closer to the truth.

He temporarily suppressed the horror in his heart and continued reading.

"What Yugong can't do, there are still his descendants who can continue."

Seeing the next line of inscription, Ke Lan became more and more sure that it referred to the allusion of the Chinese idiom "The Foolish Old Man Moves the Mountain". Isn't this the famous saying "children and grandchildren are infinitely scarce"?

"But what we can't do, who can continue for us?"

"When our civilization is completely submerged in history, when the last human skeleton turns into dust, we will not be able to break free."

"Does what we're doing really make sense?"

"Meaningful." This sentence is not only a conversation with the previous sentence, but also a question and answer, "We can't be sheep in captivity. If we give up, we might as well choose to destroy."

"However, these sheep can't wait to be slaughtered, and they have exhausted their lifespan and died of old age... The shepherd just took a nap, and the sheep have already lived their entire life... Is this considered captivity?"

This inscription finally ended in a question-and-answer format. Ke Lan could see that there should be other content in the follow-up, but there was no room for engraving on this floor tile.

With the corner of his eye, he glanced at other floor tiles that had not absorbed the flesh and blood. After just a few quick glances, his head felt like being stabbed by thousands of needles—Ke Lan didn't even need to confirm, just It can be seen that the inscriptions on the other floor tiles have not changed, and they are still the "original" prayers.

The prayers are just a disguise, a disguise used to cover up the truth, but for the truth to be revealed, something must be used to activate these floor tiles...

Is this thing corroded flesh and blood?

Ke Lan glanced at the shriveled corpse of the eroded skeleton. The flesh and blood of this eroded skeleton had been sucked dry, but right now, he had no way to find a second eroded skeleton.

The number of floor tiles in the square exceeds 100,000 yuan, and only this one has such shocking information. What kind of secrets are hidden on the other floor tiles?

Ke Lan felt an itch like claws scratching his heart... If he could find more corroded flesh and activate all these floor tiles... then he might be able to piece together the truth about the disappearance of the entire Alpha civilization!

Could it be these things that made Hruni and the others the secrets of corroded corpses?If these things are made public, will the entire human civilization be destroyed?
I don't know how many floor tiles were activated when they arrived here?

Ke Lan thought for a while, obviously, the "secret" on the floor tile he saw was not enough.

Members of the Undead Crew Club and scholars who study Alpha civilization may regard this information as treasure, but for ordinary people, it can only be regarded as a chat after dinner.Not to mention subverting the order of the entire human society, it is not even possible to compete with the scandal of a popular actress to win news headlines.

What's more, if they tell these things, who will ordinary people believe?
Unless... this information alone is enough to transform a large number of humans into this kind of monster called "corrosion".

wait?

Ke Lan suddenly noticed a suspicious point.

From the timeline, Heroone and the others should have seen the inscriptions on these floor tiles (assuming that the secrets in their mouths are these things), and then returned to the "Shaojiang Kai" frigate.It is precisely because of this that the debate between Hruni and other crew members on "whether to return to the ark to return to human society, and whether to publish these news" occurred.

But the problem is that as time goes by, the crew members other than Heluni are "super-eclipsed" one by one. They commit suicide or are killed by their companions... In the end, only Heruni is left, his own body The state also went from bad to worse...until he locked himself in the "confinement room" that had been prepared long ago.

During this process, Hruni often heard the mysterious calling voice in his ears and saw the starry sky calling to him in the half-dream and half-waking state... At this time, he found that he had gradually mastered the language of the Alpha civilization .

If he couldn't understand the language of the Alpha civilization or the text of the Alpha civilization before, even if he could see the activated inscription on the floor tiles, it was impossible for him to understand the content above?
Could it be that he forgot?In that half-dream and half-awake state, people's memory is easily confused. Maybe he forgot that he can read the language of the Alpha civilization?

No, language ability is different from other memories. Unless the language center of the brain is damaged, it is difficult for human beings to lose this almost instinctive ability. If Hruni had already mastered the language of the Alpha civilization , then when he first heard those whispers, he should be able to understand them.

What went wrong?
Ke Lan squatted down, while stroking the changed inscription on the floor tile with his fingers, while thinking...

Suddenly, a flash of light flashed in his mind!
The timeline is not wrong, but my preconceived notion is wrong!
Those recording files are not marked with time, that is to say, the files in the front are not necessarily what happened in the front, and the files in the back are not necessarily what happened later!
Moreover, Hrouni himself has edited and deleted these recording files, so the sorting of the files does not need to be in chronological order!
Although it seems logical from a logical point of view, if the order is reversed, it also makes sense!
Heroone first heard the whispers and found that he understood the language of the Alpha civilization, and then went to the core area of ​​the gray mist forest with other crew members, and then discovered the secret and was eroded... After returning to the wreckage of the battleship, the others followed suit. They left one by one, and finally he locked himself in the confinement room again.

And the segment of half-dream, half-awake, and hearing whispers could have been cut from the front, and then inserted into the second half of the plot.

Ke Lan recalled it, and found that those audio clips that mentioned half-dream, wandering, and whispering, although the other crew members were not mentioned in the clips, it also did not mention that Hruni's own body had mutated.

Before he died, Hrouni often suffered from confusion, and before he left the wreck of the battleship, he also had a period of frequent nightmares.

Because those recording files could be "perfectly connected" to each other, I subconsciously regarded them as things that happened in the same period of time.

(End of this chapter)