Alien Relic Hunter.

Chapter 809 Between the Mirrors

33 took a deep breath and pulled the trigger.

"Bah!"

Deafening gunshots rang out, but there was no echo—the diameter of this Tongtian Tower was several kilometers in diameter. Combined with the dim light, it perfectly created a sense of vastness with almost no boundaries. The "mirror surface", even the sense of distance in the vertical direction has been stretched to the extreme.

At a distance of ten centimeters between the eyebrows of 33, a 33-inch caliber tungsten-core armor-piercing projectile warhead produced by "Nile Military Industry" is quietly hovering in mid-air, while the extension line of the [-] muzzle and the junction of the ground At the same position, there is also an identical bullet.

The bullet fired by the 33 did not form a ricochet, nor did it penetrate the ground like a mirror, and it did not even leave any traces of cracks, craters, or scratches at all—as if it was a bullet on the bullet. The kinetic energy is completely absorbed the moment it touches the mirror surface.

Ke Lan walked over, picked up the bullet and the shell casing that fell next to it, and then "picked" off the bullet floating in front of 33.

"The serial numbers of the two warheads are the same. Judging from the material work, they should be the same one." After observing carefully, Ke Lan threw the two warheads to 33. Nodded in agreement.

"It's like a copy." 33 said.

"I think this is probably the first trial. The ground on this floor is a huge mirror, and it is a mirror that can materialize the image in the mirror." Ke Lan said, "But it makes me feel a little strange. Yes, its materialization seems to be selective..."

"Huh? What do you mean?" 33 looked at Ke Lan with a questioning look.

"Not everything is thrown on the mirror, and the mirror will pop out the same thing." Ke Lan pinched the bullet casing with two fingers, "I only found one bullet casing on the ground - your saliva and The bullet got feedback when it touched the mirror, but the casing didn’t. Moreover, I used Time Stop to decompose the whole process into hundreds of frames and check them one by one, and found something very interesting.”

Ke Lan took a breath, and then said: "When the bullet touched the mirror, it stopped instantly, just like Ze Luo used the space force to 'pinch' the second bullet that was fired at you, but The cartridge case flew out of the ejection window, landed on the ground and bounced a few times, and then rolled away for a certain distance."

"Hiss... I also find it strange when you say that. Even a mouthful of saliva can 'bounce'. It doesn't make sense that the bullet casing has no reaction?" 33 squatted down, stretched out his hand to touch the ground under his feet...or, the mirror surface .

The mirror surface is very smooth, with a very small coefficient of friction, and there is a strange coolness... 33 tapped lightly with his knuckles, and the sound was extremely dull, which means that the mirror surface is not empty. If the mirror surface and the ground are one In other words, the thickness is less than half a meter.

"Could it be because of insufficient power or speed?" 33 raised his head and looked at Ke Lan, "Spit and bullets fly faster, which may be judged by this mirror as an attack from the outside world, triggering a series of attacks." feedback mechanism... and the impact force of the free-falling bullet casing on the mirror has not yet reached the threshold to trigger this feedback mechanism?"

"Then do you think, if we jump off and land heavily on the ground, will a second self pop out in the mirror?" Ke Lan tilted his head, staring at himself in the mirror and asked.

Ke Lan in the mirror also tilted his head and stared at him, opening and closing his lips up and down—although there was no sound coming from the mirror, judging from the mouth shape, what the "other party" said was exactly the same as himself.

Under normal circumstances, this is just nonsense. Of course, the actions of the reflection in the mirror are exactly the same as those of the person in front of the mirror... But the question is, can the self in the mirror in front of Ke Lan really be a reflection? ?
"Don't try, I'll try if you want to." 33 hastily stretched out his hand to grab Ke Lan, "It's fine if the second you who popped out of the mirror is not hostile to us, but if 'he' regards us as an enemy If it is, then it will be a big trouble. But if it is me, with the ability of you and Ze Luo, you should be able to easily kill my 'replica body', right?"

"Do you think...if your clone is killed, your body will be affected?" Ke Lan asked suddenly.

"Why do you think so?" 33 was slightly taken aback.

"Since there is a 'real world' on the other side of the mirror, to the people in that world, are we equivalent to reflections?" Ke Lan murmured.

"What are you talking about? Your thinking is too out of the ordinary. I can't keep up with your thoughts? You mean... the things in the mirror are all real?" 33's brows were furrowed, "If If both sides of the mirror are real, then who is the shadow?"

"Mutual reflections..." Ke Lan spread out his palms to 33, "Give me those two bullets just now."

"What are you going to do?" 33 asked, but still put the bullet in Ke Lan's palm, "I shot this one just now, and this one just popped out of the mirror."

"If they are reflections of each other, the things in the world on both sides must be highly unified... But there is a mechanism in this mirror that we don't know yet, which allows certain things to break through this interface and pass through to the other side of the mirror. ...But if this thing travels to the other side of the mirror, there will be multiple reflections in the original world, look, now counting the reflections in the mirror, is there a total of four bullets?"

"Yes...but what exactly do you want to say? I'm a little dizzy by you." 33 looked at the mirror under his feet, then at Ke Lan, "Don't be foolish, just say what you have."

"This is the bullet shot from the other side of the mirror." Ke Lan pinched the bullet with his index finger and thumb, and started to exert force at the same time—although the strength of a high-level enhanced person is not enough to bend it A warhead made of tungsten steel alloy, but with the assistance of Ze Luo, this warhead was quickly squeezed into an oblate shape, while the other warhead lying in Ke Lan's palm was not affected by it. Under any pressure, it turned into this shape.

"Ah, this..." 33 couldn't help being stunned.

"Look in the mirror, the two warheads are also deformed." Ke Lan said, "If you on the other side of the mirror come to this side through the mirror and we kill it, you on this side may also die. "

"This... this is too weird." 33 smacked his lips, "I have explored quite a few ruins, but this is the first time I have seen such a weird place. In other words, we shouldn't be in Is it in a dream? The old dog told me that when you first explored the ruins of the bottomless sinkhole, you encountered a rare double dream... If this is in a dream, then any weird things can happen Makes sense."

"I don't think so." Ke Lan shook his head, looking at the automatically deformed warhead in his palm, "Theoretically speaking, if it has successfully passed through the mirror, then the warhead should not be affected anymore... ...Both these two warheads have 'new reflections', even if they want to maintain consistency, they should be consistent with the new reflections..."

"I suddenly wondered, using this mechanism, can we replicate something infinitely?" 33 said suddenly, "Although I know it seems stupid to talk about the law of conservation of matter in the remains of the Alpha civilization, but this... Too……"

33 Searched for a long time, but couldn't find a suitable adjective. In the end, he could only use the word "outrageous".

"33, try stomping on the mirror." Ke Lan said.

"Oh..." 33 nodded, lifted his right foot about twenty centimeters away from the mirror, and then stomped it down vigorously.

A muffled "boom" came from the mirror, and at the same time, 33 bent over and covered his knees, with a painful look on his face.

"Damn it... there's a sudden strong recoil on the mirror, like... like..."

"It's as if someone kicked you with the same force on the opposite side of the mirror." Ke Lan helped him add the second half of the sentence.

33 nodded, and kept rubbing his numb knees and knees.

Ke Lan thought for a moment, then shook off the backpack behind him and threw it high into the sky.

He carried most of his equipment and supplies in the backpack, and the weight of the backpack itself was nearly 33 kilograms. Coupled with the impact of the free fall at this height, it was no worse than [-]'s force of stomping his feet... At least, it must be much stronger than that mouthful of saliva.

"Bang!!"

The backpack fell heavily to the ground, but nothing happened.

It's like falling on an ordinary plane.

The backpack itself was not impacted by the other side of the mirror, and the backpack that fell from the other side of the mirror did not pass through the lens, and ran into Ke Lan's "this world".

"Strange..." Ke Lan rested his chin and looked at the backpack, and suddenly a flash of light flashed in his mind, "Wait a minute, I seem to know what's going on!"

"What's going on?" 33, holding his knees, raised his head and looked at Ke Lan.

"When you stomped on the ground just now, what was going through your mind?" Ke Lan asked 33.

"What are you thinking?" 33 recalled, "I was thinking...if a foot stomped over from the other side of the mirror...what would happen."

"What else?" Ke Lan continued to ask.

"And... oh, I thought about it, it would be great if I could crush this weird mirror with one foot."

"And what about when you spit before?"

"Well... At that time, I seemed to see that the mirror-like floor was too clean, and I always felt uncomfortable. In addition, the clear reflection inside made me feel a little panicked. I wanted to make the mirror clean. If it's dirty, will it make me feel less responsive..." 33's speech speed is getting slower and slower, obviously he has realized something.

"That should be right. Whether it is stomping or spitting, when you do these behaviors, there is 'maliciousness' or 'aggressiveness' in your heart, let alone shooting... But There was no 'maliciousness' or 'aggressiveness' in the dropping of the shell casings, nor in the fact that I threw the backpack out and let it free fall, and the mirror didn't respond accordingly."

"So, this mirror is a bit like some kind of defense facility made by the Alpha civilization." 33 pondered, "All things and forces that are detected as 'malicious' or 'aggressive' will be treated in the same way. Pay back, and ignore those who are not 'malicious'... Then what is the criterion for judging? Our thinking?"

"I don't know." Ke Lan shook his head.

"By the way, since you said that this is the first of the eight trial procedures, have you figured out what to do to pass this trial?" 33 looked up at the "moon" hanging in the air. ", then looked down at the mirror under his feet, "Is the content of the trial to ask us to pass through this mirror? Or... to break it?"

"Let's check around first." Ke Lan also raised his head and glanced at the "moon", but for some reason, he always had a feeling that this moon seemed a little blurry compared to the one in the mirror?
The three of them chose a direction and walked straight forward. After walking about two kilometers, they finally arrived at the border.

At the boundary is a high black wall, which is exactly the same material as the outside of the Tongtian Tower.

"This should be the wall of the tower, right? It seems that the strength of this material is not very high... If we cut through it, maybe we can drill it out?" 33 said.

"Try it?" Ke Lan took out the engineering shovel, inserted the head of the shovel into the wall forcefully, and pried it hard, a black fragment fell off the wall and fell to the ground.

But when Ke Lan looked at the ground along the fallen debris, he was stunned.

The self in the mirror is doing the same thing, but the wall in front of the other Ke Lan is intact.

"what happened?!"

Ke Lan raised his head and found that the small hole he just dug had disappeared!
At the same time, 33's exclamation also sounded: "Strange thing! The place you dug just now has automatically recovered!"

"Not only did the excavated place recover, but even the fragments that fell on the ground disappeared instantly." Ze Luo, who hadn't spoken much, said, "I didn't feel any abnormal fluctuations in space, so I can be sure that the fragments are not was teleported away."

"Hiss...why do I feel like the hairs on my back stand up one by one..." 33 took two deep breaths and confirmed to Ke Lan, "Aren't we really in a dream?"

(End of this chapter)