Alien Relic Hunter.

Chapter 649 "Another Ke Lan"

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At Ke Lan's request, everyone finally left the battlefield in the Blasphemer Mech.After their figures completely disappeared from the end of his vision, Ke Lan turned around and looked at the "God of Mechanics-Alexander" a few kilometers away.

As the ultimate mobile weapon of the Alpha civilization, the activation process of Alexander, which has been sleeping for tens of thousands of years, is cumbersome and lengthy. Until now, the deformation and reorganization of the body have not been completely completed.And the Ark Fleet surrounding Alexander has already exhausted all the ammunition it carried when it started the war—even though the emergency supply operation in the air is in progress, compared with the huge ammunition shortage of the entire fleet, the inventory of these dozen supply ships can only be regarded as A drop in the bucket.

What's more, even if all the battleships have been replenished, so what... Even if the three fleets are full, they can't blast the energy shield in the core control area of ​​the Bronze City ruins, let alone the current state of exhaustion. .

At least [-]% of the main battleships were seriously damaged and lost their combat power. Three aircraft carriers and battleships were sunk by the terrifying light beams, and countless weapons were scrapped due to overload and overheating. When the battle just broke out, it was much sparser, and many warships were even in a state of complete misfire.

Even if the replenishment can be completed in time, the firepower of the three fleets will be reduced by at least half—this is still under conservative estimates.

Moreover, they also lost the support of ground troops.

The officers and soldiers on the battleship also knew very well that the battle at this stage can only be regarded as "doing everything possible".Relying on their strength alone, it is impossible to win this war... From the moment "Alexander" stood up, the balance of victory and defeat had completely tilted towards the side of the heretic sect.

But as long as they don't receive an order to retreat, they can only continue to fight.

Ke Lan knew that the members of the Undead Crew Club must be paying attention to this battlefield, but they showed no sign of sending reinforcements at all... Perhaps in their view, this huge monster cannot be killed by crowd tactics alone.

"Is this putting the bet on me?" Ke Lan asked.

The informant didn't answer.

"I think so. With your style of acting, you must have someone behind you."

The other party remained silent.

"If you don't speak, I'll take it as your default."

"Alexander's awakening ceremony has come to an end, and there is not much time left for us." The intelligence dealer said.

"Oh, you know you're in a hurry now? Then if I suddenly change my mind and don't plan to gamble my life, what are you going to do?" Ke Lan said, "I think you shouldn't be so despicable as to take the lives of my companions as a A threat?"

"We don't need to do that." The intelligence dealer said, "If Alexander can't be stopped, the entire Ark will be destroyed...How long do you think humans can survive on this planet without the Ark as a shelter and backing?"

Although what he said to the other side felt like a moral kidnapping, Ke Lan also had to admit that there was nothing wrong with what he said - he didn't dare to bet, and he didn't dare to bet on whether the crew would be prepared to back up.If the ark is destroyed, the human living environment will fall into an extremely bad situation.

Many people will die, and there is a high probability that they will include people Ke Lan cares about, and people he cares about.

"I see." Ke Lan took a deep breath, found a rock that looked solid, and sat on it.

"Then don't waste time." The intelligence dealer urged, "Alexander will fully wake up in 10 minutes at most, and no one knows how long your 'ceremony' will take."

"Don't rush." ​​Ke Lan suddenly regained the feeling he had when he was talking to the intelligence dealer before, "Beep beep yourself."

He stretched out his arms, allowing the living armor to completely cover his arms—the jewel-like armor was indeed much better looking than before, but it gave Ke Lan the illusion of being extremely fragile.

Ruby is a kind of corundum, its hardness is second only to diamond, but these substances in front of them only look like rubies, and the material properties of the two are completely different.

The reason why Ke Lan thinks it is "fragile" is probably because the gauntlet looks more like a flawless work of art than a weapon.

Since it is a work of art, it will naturally make people have a mentality of "handling it with care", for fear of bumping into it - even if it is just an imperceptible scratch, it will have an incalculable impact on the value of the work of art itself.

"Pretty is quite beautiful." He stretched out his hand and pinched the protruding corner of the edge of the rock. He didn't even use much force, and the stone in his hand was already turned into powder.

And the living armor in the palm is still smooth enough to reflect the figure.

"If there is the power of the gods in it, how can this power be stimulated?" Ke Lan asked with his hands.

This time, he used the language of the Alpha civilization.

As soon as the voice fell, the surrounding scene suddenly turned into black and white——Ke Lan didn't activate "time stop", but the ability of time stop was released automatically.What made him a little uneasy was that he found that he couldn't get rid of this time-stop state.

That is to say, the person who stopped the engine was not him.

Ke Lan also didn't feel the side effects of the time stop - those needle-like pains deep in the brain and all kinds of mourning and howling... Although he has long been used to these things, when these accustomed "background sounds" "After disappearing, he felt that the environment was a little too quiet.

It was so quiet that one couldn't help but feel a little scary.

Everything in the whole world is still, including Ke Lan himself...but one thing suddenly moved.

Living armor!

It stands to reason that apart from the fusion of the living armor and Ke Lan, although it can be transformed into various things out of the body, no matter what form it becomes, the connection with Ke Lan cannot be broken, even after the invasion of the original erosion. When the "eukaryotic" was planted, a thin "pipe" was still connected between the living armor and Ke Lan.But now, it has completely detached from Ke Lan's body and flowed to the ground like a liquid.

The living armor still maintains that crystal clear texture at this time, but because of the flow, it no longer looks like a gemstone, but is close to some kind of high-purity gelatin mixed with red pigment.

This ball of "red gelatin" was constantly wriggling, and a human figure gradually stood up from it—like a clay sculpture, first pinching out the general torso and limbs, then outlining the details little by little, and finally filling in the full body sculpture.

In fact, before the facial features of this human figure were "sculpted", Ke Lan had already guessed its appearance.

This is "another self".

This scene is somewhat similar to the scene where the old dog was "replicated" by those pieces of meat under the glacier ruins, but the replica in front of him still maintains the ruby ​​texture of the living armor - through its skin, Ke Lan can Seeing the texture of the bones, organs and every muscle in this humanoid body, there is even a blood-like fluid flowing in those "vessels".

A very strange idea suddenly popped up in Ke Lan's mind: This "counterfeit" of himself is like the "color through limited edition" produced by those toy manufacturers, which obviously saves the tedious color separation and painting. However, the price is much more expensive than the "normal version" of those original colors.

Just because of the word "restricted" in front of it.

"What a black-hearted profiteer..."

Seeing the "Limited Edition" of himself gradually taking shape in front of him, Ke Lan didn't feel scared, but instead had a kind of indescribable...intimacy?

This person feels to me as if he is his own brother... No, no, even a brother would not feel this way. To be precise, it is another self...another Ke Lan.

It is myself... Ke Lan felt that his thoughts were a little confused, and he felt that he seemed to be unable to remember many things.Those memories are sealed in the depths of my mind, separated by an impenetrable thick fog.He knew of their existence, but he didn't even remember a word about them.

"What do you want to stimulate this power...for?" Ke Lan of "Lottery Limited Edition" said suddenly, it was completely unaffected by time stop, and slowly paced around Ke Lan's immobile body, Red transparent eyes without pupils looked at him carefully.

"In order to end the war." Although Ke Lan couldn't speak, his mind could still function. After the other party asked this question, his brain gave such an answer directly, and at the same time, the other party's footsteps also stopped. down.

"Power can only trigger wars, not end wars." The other party said, "Power will attract jealousy and greed, and jealousy and greed will become the fuse of new wars."

"Then at least I will be the winning side." Ke Lan replied without thinking.

Thousands of years of human history have proved one thing, people or organizations who voluntarily give up their power will end up miserable in the end—the nature of this world is the law of the jungle, and the so-called "Holy Mother" is just under the whitewash of the peaceful and prosperous age. Actual childish thinking.If the conditions for survival cannot be met, then there is no civilization at all, and everything is just empty talk.

In a novel, there is a Ke Lan who likes the characters very much, and said a word, "If you lose your humanity, you lose a lot; if you lose your bestiality, you lose everything."

The "beast nature" in this sentence refers to the minimum needs of human beings for survival.

If Alexander can't be stopped now, perhaps mankind will soon be completely extinct... No matter what happens in the future, at least for now, we must survive first.

"Have you considered the price you need to pay to obtain this power?" the other party asked again.

"Since I want to obtain this power, I don't care about the price." Ke Lan replied consciously, "Your questions are a bit stupid...or are you testing me?"

"You're right if you understand it that way." The blood-red figure stood in front of Ke Lan, "This was originally just an insurance, a dispensable insurance... You should also know that the inside of the Undead Crew Club , there are a lot of people who don't trust you...they are worried that you will become a second 'prophet'."

"Who are you? What do you know?" Ke Lan couldn't help asking.

However, the other party ignored him and continued on his own: "But I will not doubt you, I trust you very much, I believe your choice is the same as mine..."

"What do you mean?"

"Because I'm the same person as you."

"Who are you...or, who am I?" Ke Lan couldn't help doubting her identity.

Could it be that he is really a replicant with memory implanted later, as the prophet said?

And this "colorful version of Ke Lan" in front of him is another clone?It's just that its manufacturing process is more complicated, and it is made into the form of living armor?
However, the living armor did not show any signs of self-awareness at all before, so why would it suddenly become another self now, discussing these philosophical issues with himself?

Between Pan and the Prophet, there must be one person who lied to him. Of course, it is more likely that both of them are lying.

There is no doubt that I am a pawn, but my pawn seems to have lost control for the chess player.

Including the "other self" in front of him who made Ke Lan feel kind, he suddenly began to doubt everything... But at the same time, he also knew that maybe the purpose of the other party doing this was to create doubts in his heart.

When I thought I had discovered a certain truth, I might have fallen into another trap that had been arranged long ago...

"I know what you're thinking, but I'm sorry, I can't tell you those things." The color version of "Ke Lan" stretched out a hand and passed through Ke Lan's chest without hindrance, "Officially joined After the meeting of the undead crew, you will have access to those things, and by then, you will naturally know the true identity of me and you."

"As for now." It continued, "I can help you activate the power in the blood of God."

"How to activate?"

"Activating the power of the blood of God is not as you imagined, without paying any price." The other party said, "You only guessed half right, it is indeed different from the sacrifice ceremony of the black bishop, and does not require a living body as a sacrifice product. But it needs a strong enough soul as a carrier."

"Soul? Does this thing really exist?"

"It's just a saying, you can understand it as a strong enough consciousness." The other party explained, "Your consciousness has been trained far beyond ordinary people, but you are still far from being able to withstand this force , if it is activated directly, the greatest possibility is to turn into a monster that has lost its mind and can only act on instinct... just like the original seed of erosion."

"What shall we do then?"

"I will be the carrier... After all, I was born for this moment."

(End of this chapter)