Alien Relic Hunter.

Chapter 19 Editing
Each relic of Alpha civilization has a complete set of operating mechanisms, and the main console of this operating mechanism is often set in the deepest core area of ​​the relics-if a relic is compared to a warship, then this " The absolute core area" is equivalent to the bridge of this warship.

As long as you can gain control of the core area, if nothing else, you can definitely leave this place safely.

Coupled with the huge reward for discovering the core area, this time, maybe it will be a blessing in disguise...

Ke Lan quickly got in touch with the hounds and the others. Fortunately, the situation was calm and nothing happened. The two teams finally reunited.

Layton's operation went well. Ivan is not only proficient in medicine, but also has a high level of attainments in the repair of artificial organs. In the absence of a spare trachea, he cut a section from the trachea of ​​the protective suit. After simple disinfection and After the transformation, Layton's throat and artificial lung were successfully connected together. Although Layton said that he felt "like a spring in his throat", at least his life was saved.

Next, comes the real highlight.

"Brother Asano, you can really be sure that there is a huge door [-] meters high below? Are you sure where is the door? ... Ah, don't get me wrong, it's not that I don't believe you, I'm just saying ... it's possible , will you touch only the relief on the wall or something..." The Hound walked around the table in the middle of the stone room, and there was a very hidden secret door under the table, from which Akano Asano drilled out before. of.

"I'm sure it's a door," Asano said.

"A hundred meters... the scale of a hundred meters..." the hound sighed in a low voice. According to the official records of the Ark, in the process of exploring the ruins, the largest door was found in the ruins of A-019. It is made of crystallized steel doped with Nino alloy, 45 meters wide and 77 meters high... If this ratio is used, wouldn't the giant door discovered by Akira Asano have to be nearly 200 meters high? !

The huge door with a height of fifty stories is shocking enough just to make up for it in the brain. As for what will be discovered at the back door, the Hound has already found it unimaginable.

"Hey, old dog, if you don't believe it, you can go down and see for yourself later." Layton said, most of his body was wrapped in bandages and turned into zongzi. Fortunately, the transformed person is really rough and fleshy, so The serious injury reflected on him, and it was just a little inconvenient to move.

On the other hand, the unmodified Zorigtu, due to excessive blood loss, is still in a deep coma at the moment, with a pale face and a weak breath. Although the severed limbs have been treated urgently by Ivan, there is still some necrosis. Apparently it won't last long.

"Zoligetu is dying, we have to go out quickly." Ivan said, "It's not too late, if there is nothing else, let's act quickly."

"Let's go!"

Layton wanted to take the lead as usual, but was stopped by Asano Akira: "You are the wounded, you should follow behind, and I am most familiar with the following situation."

"How can the blind... let the unseen be the vanguard? I'm fine, wouldn't I just break an arm? Go back and buy some parts and I can build a better one!"

"That's what happened after I went back." Asano Akira said, he got into the secret door on his own.

"Hey--"

Layton wanted to say something, but was kicked on his ass by the hound: "Are you stupid, why don't you appreciate others for being nice to you? Besides, with Asano's ability, what do you think? Does being invisible matter to him? Look at that shit--"

The Hound pointed to the corpse of the monster on the side, and continued to scold: "You bastard will be killed in one turn. Even if you are equipped with [-] robotic arms, do you think you can be Asano Akira's opponent? Do you like to be brave, and you don’t have enough losses?”

As he spoke, the hound slapped Layton on the forehead.

"..." This time, Leighton didn't talk back and didn't fight back. He muttered a few words in a voice that only he could hear, then followed the hound obediently, and the third one entered the secret door.

Ivan shouldered the heavy responsibility of carrying Zorigetu, and Ke Lan was responsible for the break.

Below the secret door is a bottomless vertical karst cave. The karst cave is roughly in the shape of a funnel. There is a spiraling stone step on the wall of the cave. There is no guardrail on the outside of the stone step, and it is covered with a thin layer of ice, so everyone can walk. Very slow, for fear of accidentally falling off.

"Asano, is there a giant door under this cave?" Ivan asked.

"Yeah." Asano Akira nodded. He walked at the front of the team, and every step he took was steady, and he didn't seem to be invisible at all.

"This place should be in the middle of the mountain... It seems that the scale of this ruin is much larger than we thought."

There seem to be many gaps in the rock formations leading to the outside world. Ke Lan can always hear the sharp wind sound from the airflow passing through the gaps, but there seems to be a whisper of unknown meaning mixed in the wind sound...

Did you hear it wrong?
He stopped and stood where he was, but at this time, the whispering seemed to disappear completely...

Hearing that Ke Lan stopped, Ivan turned his head and asked, "What's going on? Did you find anything?"

"I think I heard... uh... there were voices in the wind? Did you hear that?"

"No." Both Layton and the Hound shook their heads.

"Could it be our own echo? This kind of terrain can easily generate echoes, and then mix in the wind, it sounds like it came from somewhere else." Ivan analyzed.

"Maybe, Asano, have you heard anything unusual?" Ke Lan set his eyes on Asano Akira. As a blind man, his hearing should be the sharpest in the entire team.

"No, only the wind." Asano Akira shook his head.

"It's also possible that you are too tired and have a slight tinnitus. Do you need me to give you some refreshing medicine?" Ivan glanced at Ke Lan and put his hand into the medicine cabinet.

"No, I feel fine." Ke Lan waved his hand, "Let's go, maybe it's just an echo."

……

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When the [-]-meter giant door mentioned by Asano Akira appeared in his field of vision, everyone in the team except Akano Asano took a breath.

If you haven't seen it with your own eyes, you will never be able to experience that kind of awe-inspiring aura. Ke Lan still remembers that the last time he felt this way was the first time he saw the whole picture of the Ark from the air.

Although rationality tells them that, let alone the Alpha civilization, it is not that difficult to build a 200-meter-high giant door with the construction technology of the old human era, but when they stand in front of this door in person, But I can't help but feel a strong sense of powerlessness—it's as if a group of dwarfs have strayed into the mythical kingdom of giant titans.

"Huh... I feel that this trip back, we are going to be recorded in the annals of history..." The Hound rubbed his hands excitedly and looked at this magnificent giant door with excitement.

This giant door is embedded on a very high rock wall. It has two door panels made of rock. The structure and shape are very similar to the sliding swing doors in the human world. They are only used to support the door panels. The depth of the rail groove is as much as two meters.

If it hadn't been activated by the energy crystal, even if the door was unlocked, Ke Lan and the others would never have been able to push it open.

"I just don't know what good things are here..." Layton said with a smile, "This time, when I go back, the new arms must be replaced with full tops, and all parts must be the best!"

I don't know why, when Layton mentioned "good things", Ke Lan couldn't help but think of the pieces of meat he saw in the ice road, and couldn't help but say: "As long as there are no disgusting pieces of meat in it... ...It feels like in the eyes of the Alphas, those things also seem to belong to the category of treasures."

"Meat? What kind of meat?" Layton stared at Ke Lan and asked.

"It's the pieces of meat frozen behind the ice cubes?" Ke Lan was a little puzzled. At that time, Layton's reaction was much more intense than his own.

"What are you talking about? Except for those damn schizophrenias, we haven't encountered anything else along the way?" Layton looked confused.

"Have you lost your memory?" Ke Lan looked at the big man tightly wrapped in bandages in front of him, "Do you remember how your injury came about?"

"Of course I remember! It was in the oval hall before, I accidentally stepped on the wrong floor and was bombed by the machine... Fortunately, my life is dead..."

Ke Lan only felt a tingling in his scalp, he pulled Layton and quickly told everything that happened before, but the latter suddenly burst out laughing: "Brother, when did you make up this horror? Story? I didn't expect you to have the talent to be a novelist! What kind of meat and big eyes, these things have never appeared at all. As for the monster that killed me in one stroke - don't joke, my robotic arm Although it's not made of Nino alloy, the material cost me half of my family's wealth, how could it be torn off directly?"

"Did you really hit your head?" For some reason, Ke Lan suddenly had a very bad feeling.

"Hey, I said, why did you suddenly start talking nonsense... Forget it, I'm not arguing with you, we'll call everyone else over, you'll know if you ask them, the things you said are not at all. exist!"

With that said, Layton called over the hound and others who were studying the giant gate.

……

However, the fact made Ke Lan shudder for a while.

"We were indeed trapped in the oval hall, and Zorigato was seriously injured by the schizophrenia, but Akano Asano has never been separated from us... As for you saying that you found a secret passage at the crash site, it is also true , the hound has indeed scratched his fingers by the cover of the secret passage, but the meat that can turn into a human shape has never appeared... This kind of thing, to be honest, I have never heard of it. If If it really exists, it will definitely cause a storm in the academic world." Ivan said calmly.

"What about the poisoning? You and the hound were poisoned, and then Layton and I chose to move on. You stayed where you were and stood by. Have you all forgotten?" Ke Lan asked hurriedly.

"Indeed, the doctor and I were poisoned, but the toxin was not emitted from the corpse at all, nor was it bloody, but colorless and odorless. We were attacked without any precautions at all. There is one more point. You're also wrong, it's not you and Layton, it's you, Layton, and Akira Asano, oh, including the Zorigtu that Layton is carrying, a total of four people continue to move forward, and you pass through a cold The ice road, arrived at the stone room, and let us come after confirming that there is no danger." Hound continued.

"And we have searched the ice path very carefully, there are no meat pieces sealed in the ice cubes, and there are no giant eyeballs that can cruise in the ice cubes-" Leighton continued, "Also, there are also no stone chambers. There is no monster you mentioned, but I admire your imagination a little bit, how did you come up with that strange thing?"

"What the hell is going on?" Ke Lan only felt a huge fear grip his heart, and even his breathing became a little unnatural.

"You must have hallucinations. This is a very common thing. Alphas are the best at those things that pretend to be ghosts." The Hound shrugged and said nonchalantly, "I've seen this situation a lot, don't worry, bro. I will laugh at you. Even veterans will be caught in this matter. Every year, many hunters come out of the ruins intact, but people go crazy. They just take those illusions as real. Listen to me. Yes, let's finish this ticket, go back to have a big dinner, and then find some beautiful chicks... In just one night, you'll forget all these messy thoughts."

Layton and Ivan both laughed heartily, but Ke Lan couldn't laugh - no, when did all these changes start?After leaving the stone chamber and entering the secret door?Or after seeing this giant door?
Is all of this his own hallucinations... Or is everyone's memory changed except himself?

Suddenly, Ke Lan remembered a piece of evidence enough to prove the authenticity of the matter, and said quickly: "That's right! Specimen! Ivan, I remember you collected the specimens of meat chunks and monsters, which are in the inner pocket of your protective suit!"

"Specimen?" Ivan put his hand into his pocket and took out a test tube, "I only have such a specimen in my pocket, but it's not from pieces of meat and monsters. It's the kind of bug that can control corpses. If If you want it, give it to you."

"It's impossible! I clearly saw you put those test tubes in your pocket!"

"That may also be part of your hallucination." Ivan said, turning over the pocket of the protective suit, and it was empty.

"...And... there is another way, we go back the same way, the body of the monster is still in the stone room, and there are traces of fighting with that monster in the stone room, all of which can prove that what I saw is not It's not an illusion!" Ke Lan's performance was extremely stubborn, and there was a firm voice in the back of his brain saying to him: This is all true!None of this is an illusion!

"Isn't it...returning the same way?" The Hound looked a little depressed. "It's just an illusion. There's no need to make such a fuss, right? Do you have any sedatives, doctor? Give him a shot?"

"Are you really sure what you saw wasn't a hallucination? But you've been with us all the time. If what you saw wasn't a hallucination, could we all have amnesia? It's impossible, I think back, from the crash Up to now, my entire memory chain is complete, and there are no vague and missing fragments, which does not seem like a manifestation of amnesia." Ivan didn't really give Ke Lan a shot, but he obviously felt that Ke Lan also felt All Lan sees are hallucinations.

"I don't think Ke Lan is lying, I believe him... But, I have never left the team." Asano Akira said holding the blade.

"If there was a return trip, Trorigtu's condition could have gotten worse. He lost too much blood."

"Give him my blood, he and I both have type AB blood!" Ke Lan said without thinking, "I must go back and take a look, or I will never give up."

……

In the end, at the insistence of Ke Lan, everyone made a decision. Ivan and Akano Asano stayed to take care of Zorigato, while Hound and Layton accompanied Ke Lan back to the Shishi to find evidence.

Walking up the stone steps, the three passed through the cave again and returned to the familiar stone room.

However, just one glance made Ke Lan fall into an ice cave.

Not only did the monster's corpse disappear, but also the blood on the ground, the knife marks on the wall, and the big pit that was smashed by Leighton!
The pots in the corners were all intact, undamaged, and there was no dark hole in the ceiling.

What has been edited... is it memory, or reality?
　The 4600-word chapter is two in one... I forgot to divide it into two chapters
　　
　
(End of this chapter)