Alien Relic Hunter.

Chapter 886 Rivets
The monster was in pain, and immediately jumped up from the ground, rolling sideways in mid-air, trying to tear off the "streamer" wrapped around its body.

It's just that the flexibility of the living armor is far beyond its imagination. Not only did this tumbling action not tear off the "streamer", but it wrapped around its body tightly again.

More liquid seeped into the gaps between the scales, and more and more scales were torn off, exposing the bloody flesh underneath.

33 didn't even need to do anything, the spikes condensed from the living armor had already penetrated the monster's body - the monster's flesh was also quite tough. When manipulating the spikes of the living armor to drill into the flesh, Ke Lan seemed to be stabbing The feeling of stabbing the most high-grade stab-proof clothing stacked together dozens of layers is extremely difficult for every point of penetration.

Even if the monster's meat is not poisonous, it may not be digested by the human stomach.

Fortunately, it is much easier to control the living armor to exert force than to poke it with a weapon. Ke Lan only needs to give instructions to the living armor through consciousness, and it doesn't take much effort at all.

This monster struggled frantically on the ground, but it couldn't get rid of the living armor like a gangrene. It dug out a huge pit on the ground, and gravel, mud, and torn vegetation were scattered all over the place. It's everywhere... But even so, this monster didn't cross the border of the jungle hunting ground to attack Ke Lan's body, which was less than three meters away.

The spikes condensed from the living armor finally entered the monster's internal organs. The moment Ke Lan noticed that the resistance at the tip of the spikes was instantly reduced, Ke Lan immediately made many small branches on the sides of the spikes. , These bifurcations are like clusters of crystals growing in the mine, stirring up the monster's internal organs into a mass of rotten meat.

No matter how hard the scales and bones are, no matter how tough the muscles and skin are, the inside of the internal organs are still fragile... After more than ten minutes of dying struggle, the monster finally made no sound, and curled up motionless on its own plane. The bottom of the big pit that came out.

"Dead?" 33 stepped forward and looked into the pit with his head.

"The heart stopped beating, and I messed up its brain. If it can still survive, it can only show that the biochemical technology of the hive civilization has reached its peak." Ke Lan took back the living armor, "Just now I By the way, I also checked the internal structure of this monster. This guy has four hearts, two of which are working at the same time, and two are spare. The brain capacity is similar to that of a human being. I guess the IQ will not be so low... As for the visual organs , I haven't found it yet."

"Then how did it 'see' us?" 33 asked slightly startled.

"It should rely on other senses." Ke Lan kicked the broken soil by the side of the pit, and the broken soil mixed with gravel and rotten grass leaves fell down along the wall of the pit and sprinkled on the monster's body , "Asano Akira also can't see, but his ability to perceive the surrounding environment is better than anyone in the hunting group... oh, except Ze Luo."

"Zero..." 33 murmured in a low voice. After he joined the hunting group, he gradually learned about Zeluo's origin in the conversations with other people, although other people in the hunting group have become accustomed to the existence of Zeluo. , but 33 always feels that Ze Luo cannot be viewed from the perspective of "ordinary people".

This does not mean that he has a grudge against Ze Luo, but in his opinion, Ze Luo cannot be regarded as a human being at all, and at most can only be regarded as an "alien creature" who maintains a friendly relationship with human beings...

But he is also very clear that in daily interactions, other members of the hunting group treat Ze Luo as their own little sister... 33's EQ will naturally not be low enough for him to say "Zero is also a human being" Is it?" This kind of words come.

Not only Ze Luo, Ke Lan also gave him an unfathomable feeling... all kinds of abilities that are similar to hacking, which shouldn't appear in a "human being" at all.

33 thought that he could be considered a "monster" if he could manipulate Nino alloy, but after joining the Hunting God Hunting Group, he had a deep understanding of what it means to be "insignificant".

Even without the help of a coward like Ze Luo, Ke Lan still killed the unreasonably strong monster alone... If Ke Lan wanted to kill himself, it should be in the blink of an eye, right?

strangeness?Why do I have such thoughts?
33 scratched his neck irritably, vaguely, he seemed to hear something whispering deep in his head, but when he wanted to listen seriously, the whisper disappeared without a trace.

"Ke Lan, I said—"

33 looked up, but was stunned by the scene in front of him: Ke Lan, who was standing there, disappeared, replaced by a large mass of rotting flesh and blood dripping with pus, and ugly tentacles covered with sharp teeth and eyeballs emerged from this mass of flesh and blood. It got out from all corners of the body and stretched out towards him wriggling.

"?!" 33 was so frightened that he jumped back a big step, but after he blinked vigorously, all the visions disappeared, and all the rotting flesh, tentacles covered with sharp teeth and eyeballs were all gone. Ke Lan still stood there, with his back turned to him, inspecting the corpse of the monster at the bottom of the pit.

"What's going on?" Ke Lan turned his head to look at 33, obviously aware of 33's big jump just now.

Ke Lan's appearance has not changed in any way, only some dried blood stains are still stained on his face, but for some reason, 33 always feels that the black and red blood stains are extremely bright... even coquettish, he always has a feeling, as if In the next second, the bloodstain will spread rapidly, enveloping Ke Lan's whole body, turning into the monster of flesh and blood he saw just now.

"I just...seemed to be hallucinating." 33 thought for a while, but decided to tell Ke Lan what he saw.

……

"You mean, just now you saw me turn into a tentacled flesh and blood monster? After blinking, everything returned to normal?" Ke Lan stared into 33's eyes and confirmed with a serious face.

33 nodded solemnly, but then shook his head slightly with a trace of hesitation: "I'm not sure if that's what I really saw, or an illusion created in my mind."

He always felt that he seemed to have forgotten something, and there was another thing to tell Ke Lan, but now he couldn't remember it.

"I can't rule out hallucinations, but there is another possibility that your cognition has been interfered by some kind of external force." Ke Lan stretched out one of his arms, and the plasma-like living armor leaked out from the pores, covering the whole arm All wrapped in it, the wriggling, semi-liquid living armor imitated the shape and texture of rotting flesh and blood, and at the same time gave birth to several tentacles full of thorns, which swayed slightly.

"Is this scene similar to what you saw?" Ke Lan asked.

33's breathing became a little short, he nodded, and said, "Almost...that's it."

"Maybe it's because when I used the living armor to attack that monster just now, you had some associations, and then some unknown force in the Hive City interfered with your consciousness, causing this association in your brain to be multiplied." Zooming in... and then producing that 'illusion'." Ke Lan thought about it.

"I... I don't know." 33's face was a little pale, "To be honest, I'm worried that if I blink, you will become that kind of monster again in my eyes..."

"Are you afraid of me?" Ke Lan was stunned for a moment and asked.

"No... I'm not afraid of you, and I'm not afraid of death... I'm just afraid of that..." 33 thought for a while before saying each word, "I'm afraid of that... the feeling of losing your companion , and, compared to the death of my companion, I am more afraid that my companion will become something that I cannot understand."

"Don't worry, even if I become a monster, I still think I am human." Ke Lan took back the living armor, "If I find that my consciousness is about to lose control, I will choose to destroy my body before that... I would rather die here than become his puppet, not to mention that my current mental state is very stable, and that day is still very early."

"On the contrary, it's you," Ke Lan continued, "I always feel that your expression is a little dazed now... Could it be that you are too tired?"

"Tired...maybe?" 33 took a deep breath, and then exhaled slowly, "After all this journey, I basically haven't had a good rest."

"No!" Ke Lan suddenly became excited, and his speech speed became faster. "Before this, this situation has never happened...Since you are seeing this hallucination now, there must be a reason for it...Maybe, we have already Some kind of mechanism was triggered."

"Organ?" After hearing this word, 33 subconsciously wanted to raise his head, but then he remembered the warning "don't raise his head", his whole body trembled violently, and he quickly lowered his gaze.

Naturally, Ke Lan had a panoramic view of these movements, and Ke Lan immediately asked, "You must have glimpsed the dome above by accident, right?"

"Should...not?" 33 hesitated, "I kept my head down, so I shouldn't have seen the dome... Only when I was in the jungle just now, I raised my head a few times to look for the giant tree. There are monsters moving between... But the sky above the jungle is covered by a huge and dense canopy, so the dome should not be visible."

Ke Lan glanced back at the jungle behind him. He controlled his sight angle as much as possible so that he would not see the dome in the distance beyond the top of the canopy—as described in 33, the canopy is extremely dense, with leaves and There are almost no gaps between the leaves, and even light cannot penetrate, let alone the human eye can see through the canopy to see the dome above.

But at this moment, Ke Lan's sight was attracted by a small thing on 33's body—it was a rivet on the backpack. Although the surface of the rivet had been frosted, it could still be seen The reflected light, calculated according to the angle, the turbid small color blocks projected on the rivets, just happened to be the dome above——

Ke Lan only felt that there seemed to be a huge bomb that exploded in his mind, and a large number of messy and gorgeous colors were mixed together, just like an overturned paint shelf, bright and colorful lights were intertwined, Fusion and entanglement with each other, and new colors will be produced at the fusion of the edges. In just one second, tens of thousands of colors are born. One second later, the camera zooms out instantly, forming a bright sea of ​​stars.

The mixed colors just now... Is it the big bang at the beginning of the universe?

The sea of ​​stars is still expanding. Although Ke Lan can no longer see the colors clearly, he can clearly feel that the amount of information contained in this sea of ​​stars is increasing exponentially... But the brilliant light produced by those explosions, the cooling and condensing form However, the celestial bodies do not "exist" just because they cannot be observed by Ke Lan.If Ke Lan's brain is compared to a computer, then this sea of ​​stars is a real-time calculation program, and the foggy star clusters one after another are not maps, but magnificent landscapes composed of hundreds of millions of stars...

Each star represents a huge amount of information, and the information contained in such a star cluster is enough to shut down any state-of-the-art personal computer on the Ark.

Ke Lan only felt that his head was really going to explode... He tried his best to evoke the last trace of sanity, raised his hand, slapped himself forcefully, and took his eyes off the rivet.

"laugh……"

He seemed to hear the sound of a cluster of flames being extinguished, the colors disappeared, the sea of ​​stars and the star clusters also disappeared, everything just now no longer existed, only the emptiness in his head and the residual pain remained... so In just a few seconds, Ke Lan even developed symptoms of amnesia—he couldn't remember who he was, where he was, or what he was doing.

He squatted on the ground, supporting his knees with his hands, like an ostrich that buried his head in the sand when he was in danger, lowered his head deeply, panting heavily.

It wasn't until the "buzzing" buzzing in his ears disappeared that he heard 33 calling himself anxiously from the side——

"Ke Lan?! Ke Lan!? What's wrong with you? Can you hear me calling you? Hello? Hello? How can I help you? What do you want me to do? If you can't talk, at least Give me some hints with your eyes—"

"I'm fine." Ke Lan waved his hand, "At least I'm fine now."

Ke Lan calmed down and stood up.

He didn't dare to look at it with his eyes, but reached out and touched his body - soon, he found that there were many similar "rivets" on his body.

Since these rivets are not mirror metal, he didn't even think that they could reflect the view of the dome at first... But only after experiencing it for himself, he would know that all these things are hidden... traps on his body.

(End of this chapter)