Alien Relic Hunter.

Chapter 876 New Memory Fragments
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The arrangement of buildings in the upper city is much more reasonable than that of the lower city and the bottom nest, and the streets are more spacious and clean... Several hundred thousand years have passed, and there is not even much dust on the ground.

But this point was quickly explained - after Ke Lan and 33 went around an intersection, they happened to see an automatic cleaning robot approaching from a distance. This robot was shaped like a giant lying on the ground. The ladybug, the garbage and dust on the ground where it passes will be sucked into the belly of the robot, and then it will spray a gel preparation from the tail to maintain the road surface, filling the gaps cracked by the road surface due to disrepair stand up.

The white paint on the surface of the robot has peeled off in large areas, exposing the rusty metal shell underneath... But you must know that more than 50 years have passed since this self-cleaning robot was manufactured. A pile of rotten iron, but it can still start to work as usual, which in itself is enough to make people feel astonished.

This robot also seems to have a built-in induction device. When it was only ten meters away from Ke Lan and 33, it began to slow down, then stopped, and began to emit a "beep" warning sound, and the warning light on the top also started A dazzling red light flashed as a warning.

"No wonder the streets are so clean... But then again, this thing should have been out of the factory for 100,000 years, right? If the managers of the upper city have lost control of the hive, then the daily maintenance and energy consumption of this robot And the supplement of road repairing gel... How are these problems solved? Is it all automated?" 33 walked around the automatic cleaning robot, and wondered.

"Maybe." Ke Lan stepped aside from the front of the automatic cleaning robot, the warning sound soon disappeared, and the robot returned to normal operation and continued along the street.

"Shall we search the upper city?" 33 asked Ke Lan as he watched the robot disappear at the corner of the intersection.

"The area of ​​​​the residential area is too large, and it takes a lot of time to search." Ke Lan thought about it and rejected the proposal-although the "Nieto" on this floor seemed to have disappeared and stopped making a sound, but Ke Lan thought about it for a while. Lan always felt that the other party seemed to be planning something... With the passage of time, Ke Lan's inexplicable sense of unease was growing.

"Maybe we can just search for those iconic buildings, it shouldn't take much time." 33 suggested.

"Landmark building...Which one are you referring to?" Ke Lan asked rhetorically.

"Uh, this..."

33 looked around and was stunned.

Although the buildings in the upper city are all luxurious... But the biggest problem is that in this eastern half, the mansions of various "families" are almost the same in luxury, and it is difficult to find such prominent buildings with landmark properties.

On the contrary, in the western half of the other side, in the family control area with gears, thorns and shields as the family crest, there are many unique buildings.

"Search for a nearby house first, and if you don't find anything, head straight for the forest area." Ke Lan made a decision.

The two pushed open the courtyard gate of the nearest manor, and they were greeted by an artificial lake covering an area of ​​at least two acres. Although the lake water had dried up, the bottom of the lake, which was not cleaned regularly by automatic robots, was also thickly covered. A layer of dust, but Ke Lan can still imagine the sparkling scene of this artificial lake.

As far as this artificial lake is concerned, this manor is much more stylish than the main house of the Williams family that Ke Lan had copied before - no matter how powerful the Williams family is, it will be difficult to make money in an inch of land. In the West Third District, such a landscape lake was built purely for viewing.

"I can sense that there is a load-bearing frame made of Nino alloy buried at the bottom of the lake." 33 tutted, "It's really a luxury. Our warships use Nino alloy in proportion. What precious material is used in such a pointless place... just to prevent the lake bottom from subsidence."

The two did not detour, but chose a straight path with the shortest distance, crossing directly from the bottom of the lake.

On the other side of the artificial lake are a row of four-storey villas. These villas are like the outer walls of the castle, with the largest main house in the center... But now more than half of these villas have collapsed. The height of the ruins was not even half a floor. Ke Lan's line of sight went directly past the ruins and saw the innermost main house, which had been eroded by the years and only a frame remained.

The internal structure of the main house can be seen at a glance. Whether it is the furniture or the household items used by the owner of the house, they have all disappeared... Compared with the nest itself, which is full of unreasonable things, these dilapidated buildings are on the contrary. Bringing Ke Lan back to reality.

This "refuge" is at least 500,000 years old.

Even if the wind and rain do not invade here, such a long time is enough to turn most of the things into dust.

Archaeological work in the old era can find a document and antiquity that is thousands of years old. As for the relics of 500,000 years ago, even if the words are directly carved on the steel, if there is no excellent preservation environment , steel will rust and rot... not to mention those recorded on stone, bamboo, cloth or papyrus.

Even with the iteration of technology, people began to use more advanced data carriers, but like the most commonly used electronic storage device on the Ark, it has been demagnetized long ago without maintenance for 500,000 years. It is simply impossible to extract the documents that have been passed.

Not to mention all, not even a single character is left.

"Weird...so weird..." 33 glanced over those skeleton-like house frames, shook his head again and again, "Ke Lan, don't you think there is a place that is very weird?"

"Well, it's weird." Ke Lan nodded and agreed, "The upper city is indeed more luxurious than the lower city and the bottom nest, but only in terms of the scale of the ruins... If it is replaced by the degree of preservation of the buildings, It's much more rundown than the other two floors."

"This is what the ruins from 500,000 years ago should look like." 33 said in a low voice, "As for the Lower City and Bottom Nest, if I have to say it, I don't think there will even be 1000 years...they are too well preserved , even the beds made of pipes made of thin iron sheets are still there... 500,000 years ago, that kind of thing should have been corroded to the point where there is no slag left."

"Could it be that time has stopped flowing?" Ke Lan muttered. He had long known that Alpha Civilization had the technology to control the flow of time... If nothing else, the nameless island is a good example, so he couldn't send a nest. There is a very different flow of time between the bottom nest of the capital and the lower and upper urban areas.

Ke Lan subconsciously looked down at the mechanical watch on his wrist. The second hand was ticking, and the hour and minute hands were staying where they should be. He compared it with the watch worn by 33 and the electronic timer. It was determined that after they entered the hive capital, there was no abnormality in time.

What's more, Zeluo's power was not limited when he was in the bottom nest and Xiacheng District. If there was an abnormality in the flow of time, Zeluo, who was extremely sensitive to time and space, should have noticed the problem immediately.

But Zeluo didn't find anything wrong.

Unless, the abnormal force in the foggy forest that separated everyone reappeared, erasing Ke Lan, 33, and even Ze Luo's memory of the abnormal time flow, and even tampered with it in an extremely incredible way. All timer times...

"No... That kind of power should only be effective on ordinary people, otherwise, I should also be recruited at that time." Ke Lan thought for a moment, and then denied this possibility.

If even his own memory was really erased, it would be meaningless to go deep into this kind of thing - that kind of power is not something he can resist at all, that kind of powerlessness, just like the Alpha Civilization facing them. The same "great god" of faith.

"Could it be that the Lower City and Bottom Hive were rebuilt later?" 33 speculated, "In the old era, people would also restore and rebuild some monuments to be used as museums or tourist attractions... Maybe the Alpha people The lower city and the bottom hive were repaired and reinforced tens of thousands of years ago? As for why the upper city was not rebuilt, perhaps, it has something to do with the things above our heads now?"

33 pointed to the dome above, and the meaning in the words was self-evident.

Although the two of them never raised their heads to look at it from beginning to end, they both knew in their hearts that there must be something above the dome... Just one glance would lead things in an uncontrollable direction.

"Forget it, let's not worry about this for now... It seems that these mansions are all the same, and there is no search value." Ke Lan said, "Let's go directly to the forest."

The two returned to the street along the original road, and then followed the shortest route to the man-made forest in the center of the upper city.

Compared with the dilapidated buildings, this forest looks full of vitality. A large number of trees and shrubs that Ke Lan can't name at all are stacked on top of each other. The trails are all buried... From the outside, it doesn't look like a man-made forest at all, but a completely undeveloped virgin forest.

In 500,000 years, climate and geological changes are enough to transform a barren land into a dense rainforest. Maybe this forest is not the same forest as the original man-made forest... There is nothing to say about this, but there is a This thing made Ke Lan a little concerned.

These trees are not illegal structures at the bottom of the nest, they are alive. It stands to reason that such a crazily growing forest will cover most of the area of ​​the upper city in just 500,000 years instead of 50 years.But now it seems that no matter how long these plants grow, they have not crossed the boundary drawn on the ground for half a step, and even the part of the crown of the tree has not exceeded the boundary.

It's like there is an invisible space barrier that restricts their growth space.

But after the actual investigation, Ke Lan found that there was no space barrier at the border between the forest and the residential area. He entered back and forth at the border without any obstacle at all.

"Don't you think this place is very similar to the core area of ​​the gray fog forest? No matter how thick the fog is, it won't invade that square by half an inch... The same is true here, no matter how dense the trees are, they won't cross the thunder pool. "

"Probably some kind of restriction measures are still in effect, just like the self-cleaning robot that is still operating." Ke Lan replied.

"Speaking of which, the robot is weird enough. The buildings are rotten like that, and the chips inside the robot are still working... I think we should investigate with that robot, or simply take it apart... ..." 33 said.

"Let's explore the forest first... I think there may be more gains in the western half."

Ke Lan said, and then walked towards the forest... But before taking a few steps, an electric current suddenly burst out from the depths of his mind, and the familiar feeling came up again.

"Wait first." Ke Lan raised his hand to signal 33 to stand still, "This place... another memory fragment has been activated in my mind!"

"This forest can also trigger your memory fragments?!" Although 33 was a little stunned, but there was a look of joy on his face, and the "Nieto" who liked to tell riddles and the "Nieto" who kept asking them to look up In comparison, Ke Lan's memory fragments are far more reliable—the most important and detailed information they have obtained since entering the hive capital was provided by Ke Lan's memory fragments.

"What did you see?" 33 asked anxiously.

"A man, a man with a crude weapon."

The memory fragments that Ke Lan triggered this time were similar to Ze Luo's "sense of sight". He could clearly "see" that at a distance of 30 meters away from him, under a big tree as thick as four or five people hugged each other, there was Leaning against a panting young male.

Although that position has now been filled with a large number of bushes, Ke Lan can still see a phantom, staying at that position through the real bushes.

Unlike Ze Luo's "sense of instant vision", the characters in Ke Lan's memory fragments do not have that kind of blurred fog on them. He can clearly see that this is a human being who is exactly the same as the people on Earth. Judging from the above, the age of this young man is probably between 25 and [-]. He is wearing a set of pure white underwear that is a little weird compared to ordinary residents of the ark, but very ordinary compared to those strange clothes at fashion exhibitions. , holding a hunting knife that seems to be a modified Gurkha saber in his hand, leaning against the tree trunk with his back, panting heavily.

[PS Thanks to the giraffes and soaps who read the books for the 1500 starting coins; thanks to Mo Daochou, Ba Jiuhuan, book friends 20201203210026758, and H Han Paopao for the 100 starting coins. 】

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