Alien Relic Hunter.

Chapter 838 Seawater
"Damn, then even if we want to throw away this broken rock now, we won't be able to throw it away." The hound glanced at the disused nuclear beacon with some annoyance, remembering that he objected to discarding the beacon just now, mouth The scolding words in Li had been brewing for a long time, and then he swallowed them abruptly.

"The most urgent task now is to find a way to contact Ke Lan. Only he can change the settings of Yagunaktor's console... As for the deactivated nuclear beacon, we have nothing to do with it now." Zhuoligtu Shen Said, "But if there is really no other way...then we have to prepare for the worst."

"Worst plan?" The hound raised his head and looked at him.

"Without being able to modify the route, our destination is Zhonghai. Things may turn around after we reach the sea area," Zhuoligetu continued.

"I understand what you mean." The Hound nodded, "But there are nearly 80,000 people on Yagunaktor, what should they do?"

"If Yaguna Ketor will hover above the sea, then we will leave these people in the boat." Zoligetu paused, and then said, "If Yaguna Ketor brings all People have entered the city under the sea, and even arrived at the mysterious deserted island Ke Lan mentioned...then we can only choose to resign ourselves to fate."

"But at least one thing, compared to the 776 special team back then, at least we will not be helpless against the Seed of Corrosion..." Layton continued, "After all, the only monster Ke Lan encountered on the island is the Seed of Corrosion .”

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Tongtian Tower, second floor.

Ke Lan looked at the pitch-black display in front of him, feeling a little dazed for a moment.

"What's going on? The connection is broken?" 33 asked from the side.

"Well, it's broken." Ke Lan nodded, "And the moment before the connection was disconnected, I saw that Yagunaktor's route was modified."

"The route has been modified? Could it be that the operating system has been hacked? Where has the route been changed?" 33's reaction was almost the same as that of the hounds before, "Will the undead crew do it? Is the new destination near the ark or A place suitable for setting up an ambush?"

"No..." Ke Lan shook his head with a complicated expression, "The destination of the new route is a sea area in Zhonghai...under that sea area, there is a sunken city."

"You're talking about the No. 18 S-class ruins... the city under the sea?" 33's expression suddenly became exciting.

Although the city under the sea has been banned by the high-level officials of the Ark, it has still obtained the certification of the S-level ruins, and is numbered "S-018" according to the order in which it was discovered. It is automatically extended one digit backwards, and the serial number becomes "S-18".

"Didn't you guys explore that ruin once?" 33 asked.

"To be precise, only I have explored it...and the degree of exploration is extremely limited." Ke Lan sighed.

There seems to be an invisible boundary between the city under the sea and the sea area, and only by breaking through that boundary can one enter the territory of the city under the sea——In that exploration operation, Ke Lan passed through without noticing it at all Liao Zilang, who was traveling with him, couldn't even touch the boundary, so he was forced back to the surface by the turbulent undercurrent.

Ke Lan's experience was completely opposite to Liao Zilang's. The whole dive process was calm, not to mention the undercurrent that was so turbulent enough to sweep people away, there was not even a slightly abnormal change.

Ke Lan remembered that at that time, he had just scanned the seabed directly below from the sonar, and according to the return time of the sound waves, he could be sure that they were still a long way from the bottom of the sea...but when he told the results of the sonar scan to When Liao Zilang raised his head, he happened to meet the big dark green eye carved on the stone pillar.

From this moment on, Liao Zilang seemed to have evaporated from the world, and never responded to Ke Lan's call again.

But at the last second, Liao Zilang was within ten meters of Ke Lan.

The limit communication distance of the AF-6 radio communication equipment in the middle sea is 22 meters. If Liao Zilang was swept away by the undercurrent in an instant, it would make sense... But the problem lies in what happened afterwards.

Neither the on-board sonar on the "Pioneer" icebreaker nor the small portable sonar carried by Ke Lan and Liao Zilang had ever scanned the city built on the sea platform under the stone pillar statue.

There is indeed an Alpha civilization city ruins on the seabed of that sea area, but it is not the one Ke Lan arrived at.

If the underwater city discovered at the beginning is called "City No. [-]", then what Ke Lan saw should be "City No. [-]".

"City No. 3000" is located on the seabed at a depth of [-] meters. With the diving equipment Ke Lan was wearing at that time, it was impossible to reach such a deep place, and the purpose of his diving at the beginning was only a tentative reconnaissance. I thought about getting close to the city under the sea.

If you want to reach "City No. [-]", you must use a deep submersible. The deep submersible alone cannot withstand the pressure equivalent to hundreds of atmospheres.

Speaking of deep submersibles, Ke Lan thought of the diving cabin on the "Pioneer" icebreaker that was dismantled to only an iron shell. No one who took the diving cabin survived. The crew also checked the files of this incident in the black well afterwards, and the cause of death recorded in the files was not "being attacked by an unknown creature", but "being parasitized by flesh-eating worms".

And when Ke Lan entered the underwater city "No. 3000 City", he also found the body of a diver who had been parasitized by flesh-eating worms. From this point of view, there is a high probability that the "Undersea City" that the diving cabin arrived at was also "" City No. [-]", not the "City No. [-]" which is located at the bottom of the sea at a depth of [-] meters.

As for the instigator who destroyed the diving chamber into that appearance... probably the fusion body dormant in the abyss hatchery?
There is one thing to say, if this diving cabin really escaped from the hands of the fusion body, then these people's luck is really not so good... But maybe it's because they used their luck to escape, these people In the end, no one was able to return to the surface alive—no one knew how the flesh-eating worms entered the airtight diving chamber and how they parasitized the occupants.

Moreover, the short English sentence engraved on the inner wall of the diving chamber, "Leave the bed"... This is the first time this "secret language" appeared in front of Ke Lan. The next time I saw or heard this sentence again, even the bishop of the heretical sect who tried to launch the self-sacrifice of the Holy Word reacted to this sentence-but until now, Ke Lan has not figured out what is in it contained meaning.

Ke Lan knows each of these three English words, and he also knows the three words together... But it is obvious that the message that this sentence wants to convey is not as simple as the literal meaning.

In addition to the city under the sea, there is also the deserted island, the unnamed deserted island whose time flow rate is completely different from the normal world, and the day and night are constant.

As far as Ke Lan knows, he and the 776 special team are the only two groups of humans who have arrived at the unnamed desert island, but the two groups of people who have been separated by 48 years have arrived at the desert island in completely different ways.

The 776 special team was "teleported" to the island after the hydrogen bomb exploded, and Ke Lan fell into a coma after falling into a liquid cliff, and was already on a deserted island when he woke up.

During the period when he lost consciousness, he must have been teleported...

The entrances of the two teleportation passages are hundreds of thousands of miles apart, but they have the same exit...

Is it a coincidence?Or is it a prearranged outcome?

Ke Lan prefers the latter.

One thing is certain now, the Alphas have been trying to create powerful biological weapons...or to put it more bluntly, powerful monsters.

In Ke Lan's view, these extremely deadly behaviors seem to be the most important thing for Alpha civilization. Whether it is the hatchery in the abyss or the laboratory under the nameless desert island, it is obviously for this " "Death Plan" was built.

According to the memory fragments in their minds, the Alpha people even imprisoned a creature that was suspected to be a prehistoric species under the unnamed desert island... That thing is not suitable for keeping as a pet, so there is only one explanation.

They are trying to parse and copy the prehistoric species.

In this way, it was linked to the Leviathan incident again—those red meat worms that make up Leviathan’s body should be the research results of the Alpha people, but the progress bar of the plan has not been completed yet, and the Alpha civilization will start from here. The planet disappeared.

Otherwise, maybe they can really make a batch of mass-produced prehistoric species.

Why does Alpha civilization create monsters?Is it to participate in the war between the "gods"?No... No, that is the content of the prayers, and according to the information on the floor tiles of Tongtian Tower Square, those prayers are just a means to cover up the truth.

At least the group of "Night Watchmen" are by no means devout believers. They are always thinking about breaking free from the control of the "Great God"... These plans to create monsters should be the same.

These monsters are not used to support his imperial guards, but are prepared to overthrow his resistance force!

After sorting out all these things, Ke Lan suddenly felt a sense of enlightenment—although there are still many mysteries that have not been solved, at least half of the main body of the "iceberg" has surfaced, not The original inconspicuous corner.

The Alpha Civilization project is a failure.

Before they even waited for the moment to confront the gods, they were already wiped out of this world by some mysterious force.

Ke Lan couldn't help thinking of a metaphor: a group of ants, because they are afraid of the power of human beings, decided to secretly accumulate power to overthrow the human rule over the earth.They have spent countless generations of life and an extremely long time for ants to accumulate food, develop the group, and train fighters... Finally, when the strongest individual in the ant colony was able to single out a dung beetle, a battle broke out. The torrential rain without warning washed away the entire ant nest and drowned all the ants.

And humans don't know that in the corner of the playground, an ant colony that once had "ambitious ambitions" was wiped out in a rainstorm at the end of summer... Those children who rushed out of the classroom can only breathe greedily In the clean air after the rain, even if someone noticed the dead ants encased in the damp sand, they would not have any special thoughts.

Perhaps only biologists and documentary directors will pay attention to a group of ants drowning in the rain, and perhaps only a certain writer with a strange mind will write a "great story" for this group of ants trying to resist humans .

But whether it is the biologist, the director of the documentary or the writer, from the beginning to the end, they will not feel that a group of ants will have any influence on them, let alone a threat.

The gap between gods and mortals is too great. Even though the Alpha civilization has surpassed the human civilization by countless levels, in front of "Him", it is still no different from a group of ants... No wonder the words recorded on the floor tiles would be so hopeless.

When an ant recognizes the truth of the world, can it still muster the courage to overthrow the human domination of the earth?

Ke Lan felt that if an ant could have such an understanding ability, let alone the truth of the world, as long as it saw the daily life of human beings, it would probably go crazy.

Just like those "taboo knowledge", knowledge itself is harmless, but if too weak individuals try to absorb "knowledge" that they cannot bear, the consequences will be dire.

Perhaps, in a parallel world where there are no human beings on the earth, ants have developed their own civilization and become the rulers of the earth...but here, ants are always ants.

As if empathizing with him, Ke Lan felt a vague sense of despair for no reason, and the sense of powerlessness from the bottom of his heart gradually climbed up, which made him start to question, what is all this for?
The Alpha civilization has worked hard for tens of thousands of years, but even the first step of the plan was taken, and it was wiped away by a "storm" like a group of ants... As for human beings, it is even more ridiculous.

What is the meaning of civilization?
What is the meaning of living?
Ke Lan slowly squatted down and hugged his head.

He suddenly felt very tired, and he really wanted to give up... Maybe, just like this, lying in this tower, looking up at the virtual moon and starry sky above, just waiting for the predetermined ending to come... Seems not bad?

Anyway, no matter what you do, you can change the ending... How about taking as many breaths of air as you can before the "storm" arrives?

Breathe the air?
Ke Lan's nose twitched, and he suddenly noticed that there seemed to be a salty smell in the air.

He is no stranger to this salty smell.

"Ke Lan, the situation is wrong." 33 took a step back and stood back to back with Ke Lan, "There is water, there is water coming from all around."

"It's sea water." Ke Lan said.

(End of this chapter)