Alien Relic Hunter.

Chapter 201 The Price of Strength

Behaviors like heresy sects can be said to have broken through the bottom line of being a human being... After seeing the sacrificial scene in the restaurant, Ke Lan no longer intends to regard these guys as his own kind.

In more than two minutes, the team only advanced less than 100 meters. Just when Ke Lan wondered if he should speed up a little, Victoria, who was squatting on the bloodhound's eye, suddenly stood up. Facing 20 meters ahead, a grocery store on the right hand side of the street yelled: "Come out! Otherwise, I'll order you to throw incendiary bombs into the building where you're hiding!"

As a high-level reformer, with the help of the detection equipment directly connected to the body, Victoria's perception ability can be regarded as the strongest in this team. Hearing what she said, the agents aimed their guns at The front entrance of that grocery store.

"crunch-"

The antique-style fence door was gently pushed open, and a man in a floor-length black robe walked out slowly.

There is no doubt that this is a believer of a heretical sect, but he doesn't know what his rank is in the sect - this black robe is covered with strange patterns, one can tell at a glance that this person is definitely not one of the most Ordinary believers at the bottom.

The man in the black robe walked to the middle of the street, facing Ke Lan and the others, slowly raised his arms to the height of his shoulders, with his palms facing upwards, and his ten fingers stretched straight.

"What is he doing?" Ke Lan muttered in his heart. He subconsciously glanced at Victoria standing on the mech. There should be no intelligence related to the actions taken by the Security Bureau.

No one knows what this heretic sect wearer in black robe wants to do.

This action couldn't possibly be a surrender to them.

More than half of the weapons in the team were aimed at his vitals. It only took Victoria to give an order, and the man in black would be bombarded until there was no scum left.

At this moment, the man in black spoke, his lips moved slightly, but he didn't utter even half a syllable.

"He...he seemed to be talking about something?" Alyosha whispered, "but...I couldn't hear what he was saying at all..."

Of course you can't hear it... Ke Lan thought to himself, because the man in black robe can clearly speak the language of the Alpha civilization!

This is the fourth human that Ke Lan knows so far that can use the language of Alpha civilization. Apart from him and the "successor" who founded the heresy sect, the other one is the one who sacrificed himself in the exile camp. Sacrificial to the "Messenger of the Prophet" of the Seed of Corrosion.

Could it be that the man in black robe in front of him is also a "messenger of the prophet"?
But Ke Lan soon discovered that this black-robed man didn't seem to be proficient in the language of Alpha civilization. He kept repeating the same few sentences, and read them very difficult, as if he was babbling like a toddler...

But the general idea of ​​these sentences is not far from what Ke Lan saw on the broken stone tablet.

At this moment, Major Ashkani suddenly exclaimed: "You, you...you look at his face!"

The face of the man in the black robe was not covered up. It was the face of a young yellow man with no distinctive features. It was not handsome, but it was not ugly either. If his dirty black robe was replaced Putting him into the uniform of an ordinary company employee and then throwing him on a morning train full of commuters will hardly attract anyone's attention.

But as he kept chanting those few prayers, his face was aging rapidly—the puffy skin gradually became shriveled and wrinkled, and a large number of wrinkles and age spots appeared on his face, while his eye sockets Then it sank deeply, and the two eyeballs became even more cloudy... It only took a few seconds, but it seemed to him that decades had passed.

At this time, another mechanical voice sounded deep in Ke Lan's brain: "The servant of the god can temporarily grant the authority to use part of the holy words to his family, but as a price, when the servant of the god or his family uses When these holy words directly pray for gifts from the great gods, they must dedicate a life force equal to the power of the gifts..."

This passage comes from the information left over from the Alpha civilization. Although it sounds mysterious, it is not difficult to understand from a literal point of view, especially when combined with the current situation——

"Servants of the gods" should refer to the Alpha people or the "successors" of the Alpha civilization, and the so-called holy words should refer to the language of the Alpha civilization mastered by Ke Lan and the founder of the heretical sect... This kind of Language ability can be temporarily transferred to other people, but whether it is a servant or a servant's family, they use this ability at the cost of their own lifespan...

Wait... Ke Lan suddenly noticed something inexplicable in this piece of information: if it is said that using the "Holy Word" needs to be at the cost of life, then he has used this ability more than once. Why does he seem to be Haven't been affected?

If the use of the language of the Alpha Civilization requires lifespan at the cost of life, it is impossible for this civilization to develop at all, and these ruins on this planet should not exist!
No... No, it shouldn't be like this... I misunderstood it from the beginning! The "sacred words" should not refer to the language of the Alpha civilization in general, but to a few specific "prayers". Only when these "prayers" are "used" will the user's vitality be lost!
As for the function of these "sacred words", it is to exchange one's lifespan for a "gift" from that "great god"... Then, what is this "gift"?
Soon, Ke Lan found the answer.

The black-robed man who had aged to a dying age suddenly trembled. His skin, hair, and flesh were rapidly decomposing, and his unsupported organs and intestines fell to the ground... In less than ten seconds, he was wrapped in the black robe. Inside, only a pitch-black skeleton remained.

Dark skeleton!
Ke Lan reacted immediately, and hurriedly shouted to Victoria: "Be careful! He is not dead!"

"This skeleton... is what you encountered in the cargo hold of the 'Pioneer' icebreaker?" Victoria asked. After the Soma Consortium sent the sample of the black skeleton to the research institute, what happened in the cargo hold A battle is no longer a secret, and the Security Bureau naturally obtained information related to it in the first place.

"Yeah." Ke Lan nodded, "This thing is extremely mobile, it's hard to deal with...especially in this kind of place."

(End of this chapter)