Alien Relic Hunter.

Chapter 805 Deterioration
But in this way, another problem was born - when Hruni obtained this "ability", he should have not been to the core area of ​​the foggy forest, so how could he be eroded ?
It's another "chicken or the egg" question: if Hruni wants to gain the ability to read the text of Alpha civilization, he must be severely corrupted, and if he wants to be corrupted to this degree, he must understand Inscriptions on these floor tiles.

Ke Lan has checked Heruni's information, and can basically confirm that he is a "natural person", not a "symbiont" created by the undead crew like himself and the prophet.

However, besides reading these inscriptions, there is another way to be eroded... Ke Lan couldn't help but think of Mo Jue's ending: For those who are "easy to erode physique", they only need to see things like eroded bones. monsters, or being attacked by erosion, the degree of erosion can easily exceed the critical value - but in this way, the third paradox appears.

He Luni's physique is not only not the "erosion-prone" physique like Mo Jue, but the "corrosion-resistant" physique that is one of the ordinary human beings. Otherwise, he would not be the member of the crew of the "Shaojiang Kai". The last person who became a skeletal remains will not still retain the last trace of "humanity" after sleeping for more than ten years.

For a person like Hrouni, unless he directly absorbs a large amount of "forbidden knowledge", it is impossible to raise his level of erosion to the point where he can have hallucinations and auditory hallucinations just by relying on a little "side kick".

The crew of the "Shaojiang Kai" must have encountered other things at the beginning, but Ke Lan didn't know about these things, and they were not recorded in the battleship's database.

But for Ke Lan, these things are not so important now.

He even wanted to know, how many inscriptions on the floor tiles did Hruni and the others see, and what method did they use to activate these floor tiles?
Is it also by the flesh and blood of erosion?

The flesh and blood of a corroded body can only activate one floor tile... and the number of floor tiles in this square is at least hundreds of thousands. Doesn't that mean that hundreds of thousands of corroded bodies are needed?
The sacrifice of several 100,000 people...

A dangerous word popped up in Ke Lan's mind: collective sacrifice.

The last time there was a collective sacrifice of this scale was at the ruins of the Bronze City... The lives of hundreds of thousands of soldiers from the field army were exchanged for the awakening of the military god "Alexander".

At first, Ke Lan thought it was a wrong decision of the Undead Crew, even if they wanted to cover up the truth of the replicants, they shouldn't use this method to fill the soldiers as flesh and blood sacrifices into this "relic"... But Now it seems that this decision was probably passed under the impetus of the inner ghosts in the crew association.

Some people with ulterior motives and some people who want to cover up the truth, although the two groups of people have different goals, but the process of achieving their goals is the same—perhaps, in the eyes of the Undead Crew, the lives of hundreds of thousands of people are far less than those of the Ark. Stability is important, they are all bargaining chips that can be sacrificed, and heretics, prophets, and Alexander can only be regarded as executioners and targets for scapegoating.

Ke Lan would not forgive the Prophet, but as the truth was revealed little by little, he felt more and more that the organization of the Undead Crew had become abominable.

Perhaps, their purpose at the beginning was indeed for the future of human civilization, but as time went by...the hearts of these "human beings" with a long lifespan have gradually begun to rot.

Let’s not talk about what will happen if a few 100,000 people are “sacrificed” here—even if Ke Lan can really do such cruel and cruel things like other members of the Undead Crew, he has no place to find these dozens of people. Thousands of ruins.

Not only him, but even the Undead Crew can't do it.

No one can bring several 100,000 people to this place. The foggy forest is an excellent barrier, perfectly hiding this square and this high tower in this place.

If violent means are used to forcibly erase the gray mist forest from the surface of Alpha Star, Ke Lan can be [-]% sure that this will definitely trigger the second protection mechanism-it is very likely that the entire fleet will be wiped out with plasma cannons in the Ark's fleet. After all the foggy forests were burned, it was discovered that the core area had sunk deep underground, or had been transferred to places where other humans could not set foot.

The Undead Crew Club must also understand this truth, so they did not act rashly.

If you want to activate more slates... Ke Lan couldn't help casting his gaze on Ze Luo.

Since Ze Luo can simulate various things, it should also be able to simulate the flesh and blood of erosion, right?

"Ke Lan! Ke Lan! Can you hear my voice?" It wasn't until then that Ke Lan noticed 33's roar—in addition to the roar, he also found that there were at least [-] bullets around him. Above the black flying blades, the tip of each flying blade is pointing at the vital points on his body.

"how--"

Ke Lan forcibly swallowed the word "what's the matter" that had reached his throat—he just glanced down and found the abnormality in his body.

A blood-like red light is flashing on the chest, and even the thick combat uniform can't cover up this light...Through the clothes, you can see this red light from Ke Lan's chest as the center, continuously Flowing toward the extremities... like a model of human blood vessels in medical school.

Ke Lan clearly remembered that before Mo Jue turned into a wreck, there was such a dark red glow under his skin.

Could it be... the degree of erosion in his body has reached a critical value?

"Ke Lan! Ke Lan!" 33 was still shouting loudly from the sidelines, his face was very bad, and his anxiety was beyond words.

Even Ze Luo, who has always been expressionless, showed a nervous look on his face. Ke Lan could feel that his body was surrounded by solid space barriers—even though Ze Luo did not attack himself, But he also couldn't break through this space barrier.

"What's your situation now?" 33 asked anxiously, "You just kept staring at that glowing stone tablet on the ground just now... Do you know the changes in your body? Hello? If you can hear me, please Respond!"

"I can hear it." Ke Lan nodded, he took a deep breath, tried not to let his attention be on those inscriptions, and tried to bury the information in the depths of his memory...

Originally, he just had the idea of ​​giving it a try, but he soon discovered that it was really useful: when he stopped thinking about those things, the original blood-red light under his skin gradually dimmed until it was completely off.

He stretched out his hand to unzip his coat, unbuttoned his shirt, and lifted up his close-fitting clothes. His exposed skin was smooth and fair, and he could not see any scars or any mutations... Ke Lan rubbed it with his fingers. Rubbing the chest where the red light was most concentrated just now, he could clearly feel the flexible subcutaneous tissue and muscles, as well as the bones below. The heart in the chest was beating vigorously, constantly sending oxygen-filled blood along the blood vessels Pump to all organs of the body.

Under touch and pressure, there is neither itching nor any strange feeling.

In just a few seconds, Ke Lan changed from a humanoid self-propelled LED light back to its original state.

When he heard Ke Lan's response, 33's tense face relaxed slightly, and after seeing that Ke Lan's body no longer "glowed", he even removed more than half of the black flying blade aimed at Ke Lan.

But he didn't dare to let his guard down completely, and asked Ke Lan in a deep voice, "Are you... Ke Lan? Or something else?"

"Of course I am Ke Lan." Ke Lan replied.

33 turned his head and glanced at Ze Luo, who nodded to him and removed the space barrier around Ke Lan.

"What the hell happened just now? Why are you staring at that glowing floor tile, no matter how I call you, you seem to be unable to hear at all? Also, why is your body glowing with the floor tile? I I heard from Ze Luo that Mo Jue also had this kind of 'symptom' before he became an 'eclipse'... Could it be that you are just approaching the critical point of super-eclipse?" 33 asked a series of questions in one breath .

"...Don't worry, I'll answer one by one." Ke Lan waved his hand and said, "The order of the alpha characters on this floor tile has changed. Some kind of mechanism inside has been activated. These inscription characters have been recombined into an inscription that has a completely different meaning from the previous prayer. It’s not that I couldn’t hear you shouting just now, but that the amount of information contained in this inscription is too large. I couldn’t help but be fascinated by it.”

Although many of the contents coincided with Ke Lan's previous guesses, when the truth was nakedly revealed in front of his eyes, it still had a strong mental impact on Ke Lan.

"What's the content?" 33 subconsciously asked.

"If I told you, I'm afraid you would..." Ke Lan made a "you understand" expression to 33. The latter was stunned for a moment, and then reacted immediately.

The content of these inscriptions even caused such amazing changes in Ke Lan's body, let alone him, an "ordinary person".

"Then your body... is it alright? To be honest, I really thought you were going to turn into something called 'Erosion'..." 33 said.

"I'm not sure either... Maybe, I've walked around the edge of 'super-eclipse' just now." Ke Lan put on his clothes, buttoned them up and pulled up the zipper, "But to be honest, if it wasn't for me When I saw it with my own eyes, I couldn’t feel any abnormality in my body.”

But she really didn't feel it when she was eroded... Ke Lan added in her heart that when Mo Jue's forehead "grows" tentacles, she didn't notice it at all. Whether there is any feeling at the time is unknown.

"By the way, didn't you say that this 'erosion' is irreversible? Then why did your body return to its original state?" 33 looked at Ke Lan curiously.

"Probably... it's because my own erosion is already very serious..." Ke Lan said, "Although I look no different from a normal human being now, my erosion is estimated to be that of the eroded Mo Jue. Dozens or even hundreds of times of that...it shouldn't be surprising to see a light or something, right?"

Ke Lan thought to himself, digging a piece of flesh from his body can quickly grow back. Logically speaking, it should be normal to grow tentacles or other strange-shaped organs that do not belong to humans, but his body It has always maintained the appearance of a human being, never changing...

Is it because I have always firmly believed that I am a human being from the bottom of my heart?
Then if...

Ke Lan imagined how the back of his hand was covered with scales, and soon, a slight itching sensation came from the back of his hand, and the originally white and smooth skin suddenly turned into a hard cuticle, and split apart, forming pieces Layers of scales covered the back of Ke Lan's hand.

And after Ke Lan dispelled this idea, the scales on the back of his hand immediately returned to the original white and smooth skin.

Even the positions of the pores are exactly the same as before.

"Hiss..." Ke Lan couldn't help feeling a strange feeling in his heart, he looked at Ze Luo, and Ze Luo also looked at him.

The changing hand was always behind his back, so 33 did not see this surprising scene.

Ke Lan remembered that he didn't have this ability before - he had imagined himself turning into a monster more than once, but his body had never undergone such changes... This was the first time.

Could it be that the corroded body has deteriorated to a certain extent, so that the flesh has acquired this ability to change shape at will?

At least one thing Ke Lan can be sure of is that the closer to the critical point of "super-erosion", the more powerful the eroded person will be able to gain... But if you want to gain power in this way, it is tantamount to drinking poison to quench your thirst.

"Then don't you have the possibility to become a 'corruption' at any time?" 33 frowned, "It's like a time bomb."

"In fact, everyone is the same, and this kind of erosion cannot be prevented at all." Ke Lan sighed, "Even if you close your eyes and plug your ears to isolate all perception, as long as your brain is not completely dead, it can even Instill those things into your mind through dreams... In the face of this kind of power, human beings simply cannot resist."

In fact, he still didn't say the second half of the sentence: not only humans can't resist, but Alpha civilization can't resist either.

"Hey, let's not talk about this... Let's talk about the things on the floor tiles? Even if you can't tell me what the content of the inscription is, at least let me know whether these things are mentioned by Mo Zhuorui and He Luni about that 'secret'?"

Ke Lan nodded: "The truth about the disappearance of the Alpha civilization should be recorded on the floor tiles in this square."

(End of this chapter)