Alien Relic Hunter

"They shouldn't be able to escape anywhere... After all, they have all been marked by that existence that cannot be erased." Ke Lan said.

"The Alphas who chose to leave do not agree with the plan to bring you to this time and space, but the Night's Watch organization has always followed the principle of the minority obeying the majority... However, the Night's Watch organization will not force any member, since they do not agree with the majority The Night Watchmen's plan, then other Night Watchmen will respect their ideas. Without affecting the execution of the main plan, they took away a fleet and part of the resources, and then left this space." Selene said.

"Are they looking for another way out?" Ke Lan said, "Or are they just trying to avoid being obliterated by the time and space paradox?"

"I have no idea."

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The shuttle passed through a long deceleration channel, and finally stopped completely. The canopy was raised... Ke Lan turned over and jumped out before the anti-charge fluid could be drained.

The anti-charge fluid remaining on Ke Lan's surface and body was quickly absorbed by his body, and then discharged from his pores like waste. After throwing the sticky ball back into the shuttle's cockpit, he Then he raised his head and began to look at his surroundings.

The central control room was dark, with only a few fluorescent lights on the surrounding walls providing a pitiful illumination. However, with Ke Lan's visual ability, he could see clearly even if it was completely dark.

The style of this central control room is very similar to that of a Western-style large library, but it is many times larger than any building in the Ark civilization. The surrounding walls are embedded with metal cabinet shelves, with intricate carvings on them. Gorgeous decorative patterns, the pattern's style is probably somewhere between Gothic and Baroque. In the blank space between the cabinet shelves, there is a large metal mural framed. Most of the content of the mural describes the construction process of the Double Moon Fortress... Although there are many high-tech elements in the mural, the overall appearance It creates an atmosphere of ancient myths and legends.

However, judging by time, the stories described in the murals tens of thousands of years ago are indeed ancient legends... After all, even the Dunhuang murals on earth are only a few thousand years old.

Countless crystal boxes are inserted into the grids of these metal cabinets. With Ke Lan's eyesight, he can see at a glance that these crystal boxes are the highest-standard crystal chips. The dots of fluorescence on the walls are from These crystal circuit chips are emitted internally.

Except for the lack of a central column, the structure of this central control room is very similar to the control center underground in the bottomless sinkhole. Of course, the area and space of the former are hundreds or even thousands of times larger than the latter.

Each of these crystal chips can store a massive amount of data. If the standard hard drive used by Kuroi is used as the unit of measurement, the storage capacity of one crystal chip is approximately equal to about 800 to 1,000 hard drives. And in this central control room There are at least more than 20 million such crystal chips displayed on the cabinet shelves.

"This is the central control room of Crescent Fortress and the backup database of Alpha Civilization." A faint blue light was projected from the dome, and Selene's holographic projection emerged in the light. "Alpha Civilization once had a The alternative plan is to completely abandon their home planet and control the Twin Moon Fortress to escape from this space... For this alternative plan, they spent a lot of resources and time on these two satellites."

"Then why was the plan cancelled?" Ke Lan asked.

"I don't know. This plan was canceled when I was created. From the beginning to the end, my mission has been to assist the garrison of Crescent Fortress and defend the earth... which is the Alpha planet you call." Selene Said, "In that alternative plan, the Twin Moon Fortress would share a super artificial intelligence named 'Jingwei'. However, 'Jingwei' was not ultimately created, and this alternative plan was never implemented. ."

"Perhaps the Alpha people found that even if they escaped from this space, they could not escape the control of that existence..." Ke Lan said, "Fortunately, those who left only took a fleet with them and did not destroy the Twin Moon Fortress. Take it away too, otherwise there is really nothing you can do about the World-Destroying Tree now."

"The residents of Crescent Fortress left some information for you at the last moment. Do you want to check it?" Selene said.

"You have a message for me? Why didn't you tell me earlier?" Ke Lan was stunned and nodded quickly, "Of course I want to read it."

"For an existence that has been erased due to the paradox of time and space, if something is deliberately left to the person who caused the paradox to occur, that thing will gradually disappear. Even if the being is erased and deceives himself, as long as the two If there is a substantial connection between them, then the paradox will be activated. If I had told you about the existence of the message just now, the message should have almost disappeared by now."

As Selene spoke, she opened a huge holographic screen in mid-air, and dense text quickly scrolled on the screen.

Ke Lan directly activated Shi Ting and read the message carefully. The first half of the message was an "instruction manual" on how to operate the Crescent Fortress Star Destroyer Cannon. It can be seen that the night watchmen stationed at the Crescent Fortress have long known about Ke Lan. Will come, arrangements have been made in advance.

"Everything left to us by the Alpha Civilization will disappear because of the paradox? So, the stone tablet I touched in the glacier ruins turned into powder. Is this the reason? But... why are the things brought out of those ruins Haven't disappeared?" Ke Lan asked Selene while reading the instruction text of the Star Destroyer Cannon.

"Because those things were not originally intended to be left to you by the Alpha civilization...the 'legacy' they want to leave to the Ark civilization is actually much richer than it is now, but after you set foot on the Alpha planet, these 'legacies' will Gradually disappeared together with the Alpha civilization."

"The main culprit for this planet becoming so desolate is actually the humans on the Ark. Is it okay for me to understand this?" Ke Lan curled his lips, not knowing how to express himself for a moment.

"Yes. But this is also Alpha Civilization's own choice." Selene said.

At this time, Ke Lan had already finished reading the explanatory text of the Star Destroyer Cannon... and as Selene said, as time went by, the text content began to appear a lot of missing and garbled characters, broken paragraphs and sentences, and unclear meanings. Characters began to appear frequently, and Ke Lan's reading suddenly became difficult.

"do not give up……"

"I hope there will never be humans...even if it has abandoned us...but you still exist..."

"I still don't believe that we... can defeat the gods..."

"But it doesn't mean... I don't believe in humans..."

"He is not a god at all, he is just a higher-dimensional life form... As long as human civilization can continue... Sooner or later, humans will be able to..."

"To Him, we are like worms...perhaps, even worse than worms..."

"We are so small..."

"However, the bug has never been completely defeated..."

"No need to mourn for us..."

"At least for me...it's better to be obliterated because of the time and space paradox...than to become His nourishment..."

"Since I was born... I have been suffering from the torture of erosion... Those whispers have been lingering in my ears day and night, making me almost crazy... But now, I can finally be free..."

"My mission is finally completed..."

"Thank you."

When the message ended, the entire text completely faded and disappeared, and even the stagnant time did not allow it to remain in this world for a moment longer.

Ke Lan took a deep breath and said to Selene: "I am the one who should say thank you to them."

Selene did not answer this, and Ke Lan knew that it was just an artificial intelligence without emotions. It would only faithfully perform the tasks set in the program, but could not empathize with human emotions.

Yes, the emotions between humans... there is no Alpha civilization, and there are no Alpha people... they are humans, they are us.

The planet that the crescent moon overlooks is not Alpha, but the mother planet of mankind...Earth.

According to the information left by the New Moon resident, Ke Lan strode to the middle of the central control room, while Selene's projection took two steps back and gave up the position to Ke Lan.

The second blue beam of light projected down from the dome and enveloped Ke Lan's body. Ke Lan only felt a slight sting on his skin, as if he was burned by this beam of light... The next moment, he discovered A massive flow of information poured into his brain—the entire Crescent Fortress control system was connected to him at this moment!

Even though Ke Lan has experienced similar things many times, the flow of information this time was so great that the impact made him lose consciousness for a moment. Two sticky blood stains slowly came from Ke Lan's nasal cavity. Shedding - In the past few seconds, his brain had actually been "destroyed" and "rebuilt" countless times. Fortunately, the body's recovery speed was fast enough, which allowed Ke Lan's consciousness and memory to be preserved.

Ke Lan's current state is as if he has woken up from a coma for a long time. However, in this process of destruction and rebirth, his brain has been further developed, and the activity level and number of brain cells have reached that of a normal human being. An unattainable peak.

Experts once said that only one-tenth of the human brain has been developed, and the other nine-tenths are actually "treasures" that have not yet been discovered... But now, Ke Lan feels that the development progress of his brain has reached at least a hundred. More than 50%, he felt a sense of comfort that he had never experienced before. The speed of thinking was as if the processor of an old computer was changed from 286 to the current top CPU. Not only could he think more than a dozen times at the same time, Work, carry out "multi-threaded operations", even the memories sealed by the Fool in his brain were all unsealed.

In these memories, there is actually very little information related to the Fool himself. Most of it is the "forbidden knowledge" inherited from the Alpha Civilization... This knowledge, even if it is leaked a little bit, is enough. Let the human beings who accept it instantly break through the critical point and transform into a corroded corpse... However, Ke Lan only showed some mild mutation symptoms in his body, and these symptoms all disappeared within a few seconds, allowing him to change back again. A "pure human being".

"Crescent Fortress main gun, N2K type star cracking device, start up." Ke Lan said slowly, hundreds of instructions were sent from his brain at the same time, using the blue light pillar that enveloped him as a carrier, transmitted to the Crescent Moon Inside the fortress' control system.

The crystal circuit chips on the surrounding wall cabinets suddenly flashed crazily, and the originally dim light like fireflies suddenly brightened, like bright lights lighting up in the dark night, and like the brilliant sea of ​​stars in the vast universe... The entire center The control room was suddenly filled with magical colors, and the beautiful scenery also had a touch of shocking majesty.

The Crescent Fortress, which has been orbiting Alpha Star—no, it should be called "Earth" now—and has been rotating around the Earth for tens of thousands of years without stopping, has stopped.

The opposite Old Moon seemed to sense Ke Lan's intention and stopped at the other end of the earth.

The tide in the middle sea suddenly turned into huge waves, and the tsunami swept along the coast, smashing the hard rocks into pieces.

A huge gap that could be called an abyss appeared on the ice cap of the polar sea. Tens of thousands of square meters of ice caps were torn apart, and thawing seawater rose into the sky.

Volcanoes all over the surface also erupted one after another, even extinct volcanoes that had long been considered to be incapable of erupting. The blocked mountain passes were also washed away by the surging magma, and red streams of light rolled down from the surface of the mountain towards the surroundings. spread.

The thick radiation clouds were torn open one after another, and the land that had not been exposed to direct sunlight for tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of years finally saw a dazzling clear light falling from the sky.

What is happening on the earth is like two extremes. Since it is the day of destruction, it is like the beginning of the rebirth of all things - a veteran standing on the deck of Yagunaktor looked up at the clouds. This gushing sunlight made tears fall from the corners of my eyes.

"I've never... seen... real sunlight."

The sky on this planet is always that gray color, lifeless... To be precise, there has never been a "sunny day" on this planet. Even the sun, which provides a steady stream of energy to everything on the planet, can only see a blur of light and shadow through the clouds.

But now, the sunlight shining directly on the earth is so dazzling that it stimulates people's tear glands to secrete tears continuously... But those who have lived on this planet for a lifetime are still unwilling to look away, even if their faces are full of tears, they always keep He raised his head and stared at the light coming from the clouds.