Alien Relic Hunter.

Chapter 810 The Fall
"Wait, I'll try again."

After Ke Lan finished speaking, he waved the engineering shovel again.

The sharp shovel edge cut into the hard wall. Ke Lan's arm and back muscles exerted force at the same time. With his left hand as the fulcrum, his right hand pressed the end of the engineer shovel to make a lever movement, forcefully pushing a piece of broken rock from the wall to " Pry" off.

When doing this series of actions, Ke Lan's eyes did not stare at the engineering shovel or the wall, but stared at the reflection under his feet the whole time - he noticed that the movement of waving the engineering shovel in the reflection seemed It was also very strenuous, but the engineer shovel did not seem to receive any resistance when it was wedged into the wall and pried, nor did any gravel or rocks be knocked off the wall.

In the reflection, the engineering shovel in his hand was like a weapon that had been molded in a 3D game, passing through the wall without hindrance, but neither the engineering shovel nor the wall suffered any force or damage.

Are the walls in the reflection fake?Just a virtual projection?

But in this way, wouldn't it violate the principle of consistency between the worlds on both sides of the mirror?
"Perhaps, I was wrong at the beginning?" Ke Lan squatted down and looked at himself on the other side of the mirror. He stretched out his finger, and "Ke Lan" on the other side of the mirror made exactly the same gesture. until the fingertips of the two are completely attached together.

Ke Lan exerted a little force on his fingers. Although there was no change in the mirror surface, he could feel an invisible wave that spread out from the point where his fingertips touched the mirror surface. At this moment, the blocking feeling of the mirror surface It seemed to disappear, and a thrust of equal force and completely opposite direction came from the other end of the mirror.

Ke Lan immediately canceled the force exerted by his fingers on the mirror surface, and this "opposite force" disappeared without a trace in an instant.

"Ke Lan, I really think we are in an illusory dream right now." 33 persuaded, "Otherwise, the fragments that disappeared just now can't be explained at all-Zero also said that she couldn't explain it at all. I didn't notice any spatial fluctuations."

33 raised his hand, gestured on his head, and said, "Maybe, we are lying somewhere in reality now, with a pipe or tentacles attached to our heads... Speaking of which , how did you break through from the dream last time?"

"Our side is indeed an illusory world." Ke Lan stood up suddenly and said, "It's not a dream, but in the mirror... In fact, the real world is on the other side of the mirror, but our The point of view has been reversed."

"How did you figure it out?" 33 was taken aback for a moment, "To be honest... this kind of puzzle solving is what I'm worst at. When I was exploring the ruins, I was most afraid of encountering this kind of mechanism."

"Because all the unreasonable things only happen on our side, whether it's the saliva passing through the mirror, the warheads deforming simultaneously, the fragments disappearing suddenly, and all kinds of things we 'see' Unreasonable scenes... If our place is the world in the mirror, then all the unreasonable things will be reasonable." Ke Lan said.

"Then...how do we turn the perspective?" 33 frowned and stared at his own "reflection" in the mirror, muttering, "If we can't break this mirror, won't we be trapped here until we die ?”

"Why can't you break the mirror?"

"If we attack the mirror, the attack at the other end of the mirror will be fed back to us through the lens surface... and we are not sure whether the attack feedback mechanism is really judged by 'hostility'... Otherwise, we can use Try hypnosis, what happens when you attack the mirror in an unconscious state."

"There is no need for that." Ke Lan said, "The feedback of the attack is all one-way, and the side receiving the one-way feedback is actually the reflection."

"But when I stomped my foot just now, I was really hurt by the shock... That kind of feeling doesn't seem like..." 33 stopped in the middle of speaking. He originally wanted to say that the feeling didn't seem fake, but Looking back on it now, I feel a illusory feeling like a dream.

He bent down to rub the muscles in his knees and calves. The pain just now was still in his memory. The muscles in his legs were tense again because of the memory of the pain just now, but he didn't No injuries found on the legs...not even the slightest contusion of muscle or cartilage.

"You mean, we were deceived by the sight in front of us?"

"Hmm... Ze Luo," Ke Lan nodded, and looked at Ze Luo, "Can you try to use your strongest attack method to attack the mirror under your feet?"

"I need to borrow something," Zelo said.

"what?"

"Those black flying blades of 33."

"It's all here, you can use it as you like." Hearing this, 33 immediately drove all the black flying blades he was carrying to Ze Luo.

The size is about the same as a razor blade, and there are thousands of black flying blades that are most commonly used by 33. In addition, there are nearly more than 100 palm-length, pinky finger-thick, conical brazing nails specially used for piercing armor, and ten Several Nino alloy weapons in the style of daggers and short knives.

These are all the equipment that Ke Lan used his own resources to build for 33. When 33 worked alone in the past, in order to make up the 33 Nino alloy flying blades, he almost had to empty out the wealth accumulated over the years. A: Nino alloy is not only very difficult to obtain, but also extremely difficult to process.In particular, only the forging machines with the largest tonnage in the Ark can press and forge such blades as thin as cicada's wings. The cost of foundry alone is several times the cost of materials.

"Release control." Zelo said again.

All of these weapons forged from Nino alloy fell on the mirror surface, making a crisp clanging sound.

In the next second, these weapons were swept into the air by an invisible force, and slowly condensed into the shape of a drill.

The drill bit started to rotate from the moment it was formed, turning faster and faster... Even Ke Lan and 33, who were more than ten meters away from the drill bit, could feel a terrifying attraction coming from the drill bit.

The drill bit first climbed to a height of about [-] meters, and then fell heavily with force!

Although Ke Lan had already said that this side of the mirror was a false "reflection", 33 still took a few steps back subconsciously, trying to distance himself from the point where the drill bit landed as far as possible.

"boom!!"

A violent roar swept through the entire space, and the high-speed rotating drill bit began to collapse and disintegrate the moment it touched the mirror surface, and with a crisp cracking sound, countless fine cracks spread rapidly on the mirror surface.

"Crack...crack...crack!"

When the entire drill bit was reduced to a pile of severely deformed Nino alloy weapons, the cracks on the mirror surface also spread to every corner of this floor. In an instant, the mirror surface under the feet of the three of them turned into countless flying fine pieces!
The moment the mirror shattered, the three of them only felt the world spinning, and the angle of view was turned 180 degrees. Along with the shimmering mirror fragments around them, they began to fall slowly.

33 It was only then that it was confirmed that the "mirror" under their feet in their field of vision was actually the "ceiling" of this floor, and their bodies had actually been stepping on the back of the "ceiling".

"It's an anti-gravity device... It seems that the people who designed and built this Tongtian Tower are quite considerate. At least people who pass through this floor will not be killed because of a sudden change of perspective." Ke Lan, who was falling slowly, said half-jokingly .

"So we have passed the first trial?" 33 looked up, and then looked down at the abyss shrouded in darkness—the "moon" they saw before was still hanging in the sky, only However, the light emitted by the "moon" is not enough to penetrate the darkness below, and they cannot see the scene below clearly.

"I don't know, I didn't receive any prompt." Ke Lan shook his head, and he also glanced at the "moon" directly above, "It seems that we were teleported to the top floor of this Tongtian Tower at the beginning. The order of the towers is reversed from what we normally understand...the top is the first floor, and we have to climb down layer by layer."

……

The three of them continued to fall down, and in this tower, time seemed to have stopped flowing—the mechanical watch on Ke Lan's wrist had completely stopped, while the electronic watch was constantly beating chaotic numbers, which could not be normal at all. operate.

The speed of time in this tower is different from that of the outside world, just like the unnamed deserted island Ke Lan once visited - he stayed on the island for at least a whole day, but from the outside world, he was just missing It was only four hours.

"How do I feel, we have been missing for half a year..." 33 reached out and touched the stubble on his chin... The last time he shaved his beard was when he was taking action to organize his equipment, but now the beard on his face has become quite Pricking hands...but only pricking hands.

"There is a problem with the flow of time here." Ze Luo explained, "And the dark, unreferenced environment will also affect people's perception, so you feel that a long time has passed."

In fact, there is still a reference object, that is, the "moon" hanging above, but the size of this "moon" has never changed, so people can't feel whether the distance between themselves and the moon is changing. .

In addition, the shimmering mirror fragments around them have been absorbed to the surrounding tower walls during the fall, and blended with the black-gray tower walls... If it weren't for the laser rangefinder in 33's hand In normal operation, he would suspect that he was just suspended in mid-air instead of falling.

But the laser rangefinder can't measure their current height from the next floor - the laser can't penetrate the darkness below, 33 can only aim it at the tower wall, and determine their whereabouts through the change of the laser landing point speed.

The falling speed of the three of them is not fast, only about half a meter per second... 33 originally planned to calculate the falling distance by counting seconds, but every time he counted to more than two hundred seconds, his perception of time It will become extremely blurred, and by the time he reacts, he no longer knows how many seconds he has counted.

Not only him, but even Ze Luo, a girl who is called a "bad girl", has this situation.

It stands to reason that they have already fallen into the dark shadow, but this shadow seems to be one-way, and it will only block the downward vision. When they look up, the "moon" "It wasn't blocked in any way.

"But no matter what, at least it has fallen to a height of several kilometers. Is this still not the end?" 33 felt angry for no reason, "according to the height of the foggy mountain in the gray fog forest, this is already It's more than one-eighth of the height... It's impossible for us to fall to the bottom of the tower in one go, right?"

"Time can affect it, let alone space." Ke Lan said in a deep voice, "The interior space of this Tongtian Tower may be larger than it looks from the outside..."

"To be honest, I'm a little worried about other people now... Akira Asano is very strong, but Valentina and Ivan, the two of them may not last long in the forest." 33 said.

Just when Ke Lan was about to answer, Ze Luo suddenly warned: "About 150 meters below, there are many things suspended in mid-air!"

"What?" 33 pulled out his gun, "I can't see anything!"

"I can only perceive something, but the specific outline is very vague." Ze Luo said, "I need to get a little closer... It seems... It's a human-shaped thing."

Ke Lan couldn't help holding his breath—the long fall in the dark environment is enough to feel suffocating. In this case, even encountering a few battles is better than nothing happening all the time.

"Is it human?" asked 33, "or those 'corrosions'?"

"Not sure." Zelo shook his head.

……

The distance of 150 meters is about 5 minutes... 33 and Ke Lan finally saw the "humanoid things" that Ze Luo described.

It's a human corpse, but it's not transformed into a wreck.

These corpses were dressed in the uniform of the Ark Field Corps, and the bones were filled with a large number of wooden fibers, maintaining a weird twisted posture in mid-air, as if they were embedded in the trunk of the mist roost.

The three of them were surrounded by such corpses, at least a few thousand. They felt as if they had fallen into a gravity-free cemetery, and the depressive atmosphere immediately enveloped the three of them.

"This is... the army that got lost in the gray mist forest back then? No, that army didn't have so many people... Even if they all died in this tower, it is impossible to have so many corpses." 33 muttered.

Ze Luo was manipulating the power of space to bring over several corpses that were closer to him—Ke Lan noticed that although these corpses were wearing the uniforms of the Field Corps, there was nothing on the uniforms that could be used to identify them. Or the emblem of the unit to which it belongs.

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