Alien Relic Hunter.

Chapter 935 Redemption Across Time and Space

"What kind of concept is the strength level of the family?" Ke Lan couldn't help asking.

"What do you think of the strength of the prehistoric species?"

"Is the prehistoric species... the family?" Ke Lan was taken aback. As soon as he asked, he felt that his guess must be wrong.

"The prehistoric species can only be regarded as pets for the family members, and they are pets that only the weakest family members can keep." The owner of the hive capital said, "As for the 'blood of God' collected by the Alpha civilization, it is actually just from the captured blood. It’s just the life essence purified from the primordial species, and it doesn’t really have much to do with that existence. If there is real blood of God... I even doubt whether the universe we live in can accommodate that kind of thing.”

Listening to the hive master's description, Ke Lan inexplicably felt a burst of suffocating despair... Thinking about it, the despair felt by the original Alpha civilization would only be deeper than this, and that kind of civilization is destined to be reduced to high-dimensional biological nourishment The fate, the sense of powerlessness that no matter what you do... It is simply too pale to describe in words.

For people on Earth, this kind of thing may not matter—by the time the entire civilization is destroyed, their bones may have already been turned into fly ash... But the Alpha people are different. To be assimilated by that being... It may seem like a gift, but in fact it is a never-ending torture.

Just thinking about this kind of torture gives chills down the spine.

"Can you tell me... about the Alpha Civilization?" At this time, Ke Lan was no longer in a hurry to ask why the Alpha Civilization brought the Ark to this time and space... On the contrary, he was more concerned about what the Alpha Civilization experienced later. curious.

"It can be seen that you are very special." The hive master's tone was mixed with a hint of admiration, "This information, due to the residual power of that existence, can be regarded as taboo knowledge, and it is dangerous. The higher level, but until now your body has not changed, your cognition has not been distorted, and your mind is very clear... This gives me a glimmer of hope."

"My body has already..." When Ke Lan said this, the bright red seeping from the pores instantly condensed a large group of tentacles that were almost identical in appearance to the Seed of Erosion, and turned into a A red skeleton lying on his back, "It's just that I prefer to maintain a human form...it reminds me that I'm a human being, not a monster."

"This is the key point." The master of the hive capital said, "If there is anything human beings can contend with that kind of power, it is the will. As long as you don't waver in the idea of ​​being a human being, the impact of erosion on you It will be greatly weakened... Of the three judging criteria I mentioned, the latter two are actually the most important, and as for the first, it can be ignored in front of the latter two."

The three judging criteria mentioned by the other party naturally refer to "body", "cognition" and "wisdom"... As for the latter two judging criteria, only outsiders are qualified to judge. As for Ke Lan himself, it is very difficult Recognizing that one's own cognition is distorted—after all, a madman would never think of himself as a madman.

"The vast majority of people in the Alpha civilization have become loyal believers of that existence. They firmly believe that as long as they are devout enough, they will be able to merge with that existence after death and obtain eternal life in body and soul... As for those who know the truth and stay awake people, they gathered together and formed an organization..."

"night guard?"

"Yes, they are the Night Watchman." The hive master said, "They took that existence as an excuse to manufacture war weapons, and tried to capture many primordial species and conducted research...Although they paid a heavy price, they at least gained some Results. The fusion body you saw in the abyss hatchery of the city under the sea is one of the results."

"There are also primordial erosion seeds." Ke Lan added.

"In terms of strength, the fusion body and the original erosion species are already very close to the prehistoric species, and it is not impossible to call them artificial prehistoric species... But I have already said before that the prehistoric species that can be contacted by the Alpha civilization They are just pets raised by the weakest family members, or biological weapons made at random, and relying on such things alone cannot resist that existence."

"..." Ke Lan couldn't help admiring the will of those night watchmen - they had already seen the gap like a chasm, and they were still thinking about resisting... This kind of spirit is even more tenacious than Yugong Yishan. There is also an infinite shortage of descendants, but even if the Alpha civilization gives them [-] million years, even if they are not extinct due to erosion, at most they can only touch the threshold of the family... They still want to resist that existence.

Is this tenacious...or stupid?

"In addition, the night watchmen have made various efforts... The ruins you see on Alpha Planet are basically left over from these projects. In order to keep secret, the core areas of these ruins are all A large number of traps have been set up, and only members of the Night Watch can safely pass through them."

"Then what happened later that caused..." Ke Lan hesitated, but continued to ask, "What caused the night watchmen to decide to bring us here in time and space?"

"Because there is no time." The hive master said, "The erosion of the whole family of the Alpha civilization is rapidly deepening. Under the influence of human beings, the mutation is still deepening... More and more people are becoming creatures that cannot be described in words... If erosion is regarded as a plague, then the period of disaster is before the acute outbreak, and the Alpha people They belong to the survivors who have survived the acute outbreak... But this does not mean that the 'disease' in their bodies has been cured, but has entered a chronic progressive stage. No one can escape this fate, even newborn babies , there have been large-scale variations.”

The master of the hive capital paused for a moment, and continued: "This is the influence of the remaining power... As long as the Alpha civilization has not yet reached the qualifications to become a family, that influence will continue to transform their bodies and cognitions, adapting Those who survive will survive, and those who are unsuitable will be eliminated... According to the progress at that time, the entire Alpha civilization will eventually be eliminated."

"So, the night watchman finally gave up resistance and accepted his fate?"

"You can say you gave up, or you didn't give up, it depends on how you understand it." The hive master gave an ambiguous answer, "Alpha civilization is doomed, but humans in other time and space may still have salvation. .”

"Human beings in other time and space...refer to us?" Ke Lan sat down cross-legged, raised his head, and stared intently at a light source on the ceiling, as if it was the other party's eyes.

"It can be you, or humans from another parallel universe. But no matter who it is, in the first half of history, your experience is similar to that of Alpha civilization—if the Ark continues to sail in the universe, there is a high probability that it will Become a 'dead ship'...Compared with a whole drifting planet, an interstellar colony ship that can only accommodate tens of millions of people has too low anti-risk ability. And after observation and calculation, the Alpha civilization discovered A desperate fact—most areas in the universe suitable for intelligent life have actually been polluted by the power of that existence. They even put forward a bold guess that the sun will suddenly accelerate its decay, and it may be the existence of that existence caused by the invasion of the solar system by consciousness."

"That is to say, even if human beings have not left the solar system or been swallowed by the decaying sun, this is the end? And even if the Ark finds a planet suitable as a home in the universe, that planet has a great probability of being in that place." Within the control range?" For some reason, Ke Lan suddenly had a line that often appeared in costume dramas in the old era.

"The world is so big, could it be the king's land; the shore of the land, could it be the king's ministers."

It's just that the world here has become "universe", the king has become "god", and the king's subjects have become "families".

"The night watchmen are unwilling to let human civilizations in other time and space repeat the same mistakes. After careful calculation, they came up with a 'maybe feasible' method."

"'Maybe it works'? What's that?"

"Bringing human civilization from another time and space to this time and space will trigger a space-time paradox, leading to the disappearance of the vast majority of Alpha people. But it is this paradox that gives the night watchmen room to operate - that existence is just He left a thought in this universe, and he will not pay attention to this universe all the time, let alone staring at Alpha Star, so when you, that is, humans from another time and space, come here, it just so happens It can fill the vacancy left by the disappearing Alpha civilization."

"Let us replace Alpha civilization... But, is there any point in doing this?" Ke Lan frowned. No matter what he thought, he felt that this was a practice that would harm others and himself... Not only would Alpha civilization disappear because of this However, the Ark civilization was also pulled into this quagmire. If the Ark civilization was allowed to drift in the universe, it might last for a long time.

"Because the Ark civilization has not been 'branded' by that existence... and the Alpha civilization where all members have been eroded and started to mutate, everyone has an indelible 'brand' on their bodies and souls. Even if the Alpha people escape to the ends of the earth, They cannot escape this fate. However, the Ark people who have not been "branded" still have a future and hope. Relying on the inheritance left to them by the Alpha civilization, combined with their own circumstances, they may have a chance to escape this fate... "

"You mean that the Alpha civilization is equivalent to using its own demise to win us a chance to escape?"

"You can think so." The Hive Master said, "In order to ensure that the ark can pass through the wormhole smoothly and sail to the universe where Alpha Star is located, the night watchman imparted various knowledge to The human beings on the ark, the various technical breakthroughs that can be called miracles during the voyage of the ark, were actually taught to you by the night watchman in this way... It is precisely because of this knowledge that the The establishment of the Undead Crew Club."

"No wonder... Before the Ark landed on Alpha Planet, the Undead Crew Club had already mastered the technology related to the Coffin of Eternal Life... Wait, wait!" Ke Lan suddenly widened his eyes, "You said those who are called It is a miracle that the technological breakthroughs are all because the night watchmen taught the Ark people by using the method of consciousness projection... Then, the predecessor of the Alpha civilization, the people on the earth at that time, were able to break through the technical difficulties of refusion in just a few years, right? because……"

"You are very smart, you discovered the problem so quickly." The hive master praised, "Yes, we are not the first human civilization to come up with this idea and put it into action. In another time and space, there is another A desperate human civilization, they passed on this knowledge to us, hoping that we can escape our fate... Unfortunately, we failed, so we can only pass this baton to your hands."

"..." Ke Lan was so shocked that he couldn't speak for a long time... He was still comparing the Alpha Civilization and the Night Watchman with Yugong Yishan just now, but he didn't expect that this is really Yugong Yishan across time and space... It's just Yishan It is not the descendants of Yu Gong, but human civilizations from different time and space one after another.

Countless human civilizations were destroyed because of the power of that existence, but they accumulated and passed on their knowledge little by little, and handed it over to themselves in another time and space, trying to change their destiny...

And now, the baton is in the hands of the Ark people.

"I... I probably understand... But, I have to take my time." Ke Lan took several deep breaths, closed his eyes tightly, and tried to sort out the information one by one in his brain , and then digest and absorb one by one.

After about 10 minutes—of course, in this space fragment, time is frozen, and this 10 minutes should be regarded as 10 minutes of Ke Lan’s self-feeling—he opened his eyes, looked at the light source on the ceiling again, Asked: "Then what role did I... play in this story?"

"You give me a very familiar feeling. The Alpha civilization once came into contact with a human in the Ark. That person was you, but it wasn't you." The hive master said.

"Fool?"

"After he joined the Undead Crew, his codename was indeed 'The Fool'." The hive master gave an affirmative answer, "Although his sequence is zero, in fact, he is the latest to join the Undead besides you. One of the crew members."

"The latest?" Ke Lan was stunned for a moment. He originally thought that the Fool Club was the founder of the Undead Crew Club.

(End of this chapter)