Alien Relic Hunter.

Chapter 807 "Difficulty"

"Night watchman...what is it?" Ke Lan tried to ask.

Although he didn't have too much expectation for Titile's answer, judging from Titile's previous answer, at least for the time being, he won't be obliterated.

After all, the other party also said that being able to come to this place means that "their plan" has been half successful.

It can't be that the first half of this plan is to find a way to lure myself to this place, and the second half is to kill myself here, right?
No matter what the content of the plan is, at least Ke Lan will definitely be useful to "them".

In any case, at least life safety can be guaranteed temporarily, temporarily.

But to Ke Lan's surprise, the floor tile not only answered his question this time, but also answered it in detail.

"The Night's Watch are the last of us who remain sane. They are neither blinded by false visions like the 'sheep' nor, like the Fallen, whose bodies and souls have been completely consecrated to the gods. They are The last hope of race and civilization, they hold our last secrets and shoulder the most important responsibilities. They hide behind the scenes and never appear in public, but they manipulate some of the entire planet... in the efforts of the night watchman Under this circumstance, all the talents and resources of the entire civilization will be gathered together, and they will continue to advance towards the predetermined goal.”

"It sounds like the nature of this group of 'night watchmen' is very close to that of the undead crew members..." Ke Lan pondered and typed in a new question.

"What are the secrets and responsibilities that the Night Watchmen keep?"

"This part of the information involves the core content of the plan, and it is strictly forbidden to disclose it to the symbiont and individuals whose erosion degree exceeds the specified threshold to prevent leakage." Floor Brick mercilessly rejected Ke Lan's question.

"What's wrong with revealing this..." Ke Lan couldn't help complaining in his heart, "You have already nakedly called the guy who completely believes in the gods a fallen person, even I can tell your secret Guesses are close to ten, why are you pretending to be garlic..."

This group of Alphas, or in other words, this group of night watchmen, made it clear that they intend to confront the great god they "believe in". After Ke Lan read the inscription on the first floor tile, the outline of the whole thing basically It has already surfaced, and to use that very classic sentence, it is simply: Sima Zhao's heart-everyone knows it.

"Are there still living night watchmen?" Ke Lan changed the question.

But Tiles didn't answer.

From a normal thinking point of view, this question is obviously a bit out of line for "dead things" like organs... But from another point of view, it proves that at least in this black tower, there is no night watchman Garrison.

I just don’t know if the Alpha who stayed behind in the wreckage of No.90’s No. [-] engine is a member of the “Night Watch”… But since that Alpha can say the uncommon term “symbiont”, then Presumably it is also a "night watchman" in all likelihood.

"What's the use of this square and this tower?" Ke Lan seized the opportunity and asked again before the floor tiles raised any new questions.

"It's an altar used to worship great gods." Tiles replied.

It's lying.

Ke Lan, who has already read the inscription on the first floor tile, naturally knows that this answer is only a "superficial answer". Whether it is the square or the black tower, they are obviously inseparable from the group of "night watchmen" in the Alpha civilization. And this group of "Night Watchmen" was thinking about how to get rid of the control of that great god, how could they sincerely build an altar to worship that god?
Moreover, wouldn't it be disrespectful to Him to record such a message on the altar tiles?

The altar should be just a cover, there must be another purpose for this place.

But as Ke Lan's "symbiont", no matter how he asks, Tiles probably won't tell him the truth.

"One more thing, I still have some companions who are deep in the forest, I want to find them or bring them here, what should I do?"

After asking, Ke Lan was worried that the other party would not agree, and continued to add: "If my request cannot be met, no matter what the night watchman's plan is, I will refuse to participate, and I will even choose to return to the forest area."

This can be regarded as a threat... Ke Lan knows that his threat may be ridiculous to the Alpha civilization, but the conditions he wants to exchange are not too much. Bringing other people in the exploration team here is very important for the construction of this building. For the Alpha civilization of the ruins, it is simply a matter of lifting a finger.

But this time, Ke Lan guessed wrong.

"I can meet your request, but I can't do it right now." The characters on the floor tiles changed again.

At this time, the red light inside the floor tiles had dimmed to the point that it was about to go out at any time, and Ke Lan had to bleed again to "charge" the floor tiles that were about to "shut down".

"You can't do it? Who are you? I mean, this guy who is talking to me now." Ke Lan asked.

"Narrator Type III Automatic File Storage, No.60 No. [-] Stele Style, Installation Location: Tongtian Tower Square, Gray Fog Forest, Equipment Serial Number: [-]." A line appeared on the floor tiles to introduce the equipment Characters for the name parameter.

Sure enough, Ke Lan's guess at the beginning was right, and the conversation with him was just an intelligent program installed by the Alpha people in this floor tile, or in other words, this "Narrator III Automatic File Storage".

As for the tall tower in front of me...

Ke Lan looked up, and the black tower in the "eye of the storm" plunged into the clouds... Ah no, it plunged into the foggy mountains, and the top of the tower could not be seen with eyes alone.If the height of this black tower is the same as that of the foggy mountain, it can basically be regarded as the tallest building on the surface of Alpha Planet—there is no such thing.

It is true that the intelligent program of the floor tiles called it "Babel Tower", but in human civilization, Tongtian Tower also has an alias called "Babel Tower", which made Ke Lan think of the one hidden in the ark before. In fact, the organization that caused all kinds of sabotage incidents and cultivated captive fusions... The name of this organization is also called "Babel Tower". Isn't this just a coincidence?

"I hope so..."

But Ke Lan can't guarantee that the other party must not know the existence of this Tongtian Tower. After all, the real leader of the "Tower of Babel" organization is likely to be a member of the Undead Crew Club, and the undead crew will show all kinds of things. Judging from the signs, they obviously know the situation in the core area of ​​the gray fog forest.

Ke Lan suddenly had a feeling that he had been tricked - if it is said that he came to this Tongtian Tower as a part of the night watchman's plan, then the members of the Undead Crew Club are secretly promoting this plan that was originally created by "" What about the plan specified by the Night Watchman?
Looking back now, everything went so smoothly... Whether it was the purchase of equipment or various preparations before departure, even if Ke Lan himself was a member of the Undead Crew Club, trying to completely hide all this from the eyes of the crew club, almost It's impossible... The crew may ignore a small person like Mo Zhuorui, but for someone like himself who needs "focused attention", any clues will lead to deeper suspicions.

These are a group of spirits who have lived for hundreds of years, and it is easy to guess their true purpose through their actions.

At first, Ke Lan thought that someone had deliberately hidden his whereabouts—his original idea was to take advantage of the struggle between factions within the crew club, the existence of inside ghosts, and the opacity of some information to take advantage of the fact that he was not expecting to fish in troubled waters. The other members of the crew escaped from their control before they could react... But now it seems that they are using them, and they are using themselves.

This can't be regarded as escape at all, it should be regarded as being released by them.

Ke Lan had an impulse, an impulse to turn around and leave here.

This may seem a bit rebellious, but compared to the prophet who is against the entire ark, Ke Lan just doesn't want to be a pawn at the mercy of others.

No one knows what the real purpose of the Night Watchman's plan is... But judging from the inscription on the first floor tile, it's clear that they don't have much confidence in what this group of Alphas are doing.

"Overestimate one's strength", "Moths to the flame", "A mantis' arm is a car", "Suicide", "Suicide"... A series of words like these popped up in Ke Lan's mind. He was not afraid of death, But he also didn't want to be a stupid and pointless victim.

"If you can't help me find my lost companions, then I will find them myself. But I have to tell you in advance, whether I can find them or not, I will never return to this place." Ke Lan scattered The characters spelled out, "I'm scared, I plan to withdraw."

"If you go back now, not only will you not be able to find them, but you will also get lost in the forest and dense fog." Floor Brick replied, "The system detects that you have obtained an incomplete guide file, but this guide The file is only applicable to the normal state of the forest, now, when you activate this device, the entire forest has been adjusted to a more complex and more defensive state of alert."

"Damn it." After seeing Tiile's reply, Ke Lan couldn't help but utter a classic swear word.

You are threatening the other person, and the other person is also threatening you.

The "incomplete guide file" mentioned by the floor tiles should be the "navigation" that Ke Lan obtained from the corpse of "Golden Retriever", but this navigation system is incomplete and can only take Ke Lan and the others to a depth of 35 kilometers The place.

This is not the point, the point is that the map stored in this navigation system is just a foggy forest in a "normal state".

If we compare the foggy forest to a maze game, they only played the easy version at first, but now, after Ke Lan activated the damn floor tile, the game has been successfully upgraded to the difficult version.

The easy version is already so difficult, one can imagine what the difficult version looks like.

"I just don't know if there is another hell difficulty in the future."

Ke Lan pouted, translated the general content of the "negotiation" between himself and Tiles to 33, and asked, "What do you think? I always think this is a conspiracy, whether it's the night watchmen or the undead crew Whether it is true or not, it seems that I wish I could come to this place... You should also be very touched by this feeling of being treated as a pawn."

He didn't hide the existence of "Night Watchmen" from 33. This group of Night Watchmen should be regarded as the opposite of "Gods". "Forbidden knowledge"... Otherwise, this organization would have already been "all ghosts".

"I understand this feeling. To tell you the truth, when I left the ark, I also felt that the whole process was too smooth. It made me feel weird." 33 nodded, "Now It seems that it is really possible that the undead crew will let us go on purpose."

"Well...then we now..." Before Ke Lan finished speaking, his attention was once again attracted by the floor tiles.

A new line of characters appeared on the floor tiles.

"The control center of the Mist Forest is located on the top floor of the Tongtian Tower. After gaining control, you can release the defense mechanism of the Mist Forest, so that your companions can come out of it."

"I just finished threatening, and now I'm starting to lure." Ke Lan immediately translated this sentence to 33.

"But we seem to have no choice." 33 smiled wryly, "According to what you said, even in the gray mist forest on easy difficulty, it is impossible for us to find them, not to mention, it has now been upgraded to hard difficulty..."

[PS Thanks to book friend 20211217001211164 for the reward of 1500 starting coins; thanks to book friends 20211215155449339 and Pippi Xing for the reward of 500 starting coins. 】

[PPS I saw a book review today. A reader said that the previous plot was very good, but when it came to the mech contest, it suddenly became boring, and then I planned to skip it, but when I saw the chapter names later, the whole book suddenly became boring. I don't want to read...

I was watching subscriptions in the background. The volume of the Mecha Contest was indeed a failure. There was a watershed between the reader retention rate and the subscription rate... But now I need to adjust this book. It is almost impossible to delete a whole volume. Impossible, I can only say that in the next book, try to pay attention to this situation.

(To be honest, I was a bit stuck when I was writing the Mecha Contest, and people kept complaining that the pace was too fast, so I planned to slow it down, but in the end, I just pulled the brakes and wrote a whole volume. I can bear to read that volume. Readers should also find that I am trying my best to remedy it later, but the effect is not good. There are a lot of readers who are persuaded by this part of the plot...)
Not only today's reader, but many of my old readers in the book friend group have also mentioned this issue... Although I will definitely pay more attention to it in the new book, to be honest, sometimes it is really difficult to avoid stepping on the thunder.If you are free, can you leave me some comments?For example, which part of this book is better and which part is more lax, the most likely to make you feel discouraged are those plots, and what are your thunder and poison points?
(The reason why I am asking here instead of in the comment area is because I think readers who have read almost [-] chapters should be regarded as die-hard fans, and there is a high probability that there will be no trolls and so on. , you can see here that the compatibility with me, an author who hit the street, is not bad. To be honest, I don’t intend to write a book to meet everyone’s tastes, but I at least want you 'core readers' Take good care of it, I hope you can give me some suggestions.)]

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