Alien Relic Hunter

"What is the Night Watchman?" Ke Lan tried to ask.

Although he didn't have high expectations for Lu Brick's answer, judging from Lu Brick's previous answers, at least for the time being, he would not be wiped out.

After all, the other party also said that being able to come to this place means that "their plan" has been half successful.

You can't think that the first half of this plan is to find a way to lure yourself to this place, and the second half is to kill yourself here, right?

No matter what the content of the plan is, at least Ke Lan will definitely be useful to "them".

No matter what, at least life safety can be guaranteed for the time being.

But to Ke Lan's surprise, Floor Tile not only answered his questions this time, but also answered them in detail.

"The Night's Watch are the last of us who are still awake. They are neither blinded by false visions like the 'sheep', nor like the fallen, who have completely dedicated their bodies and souls to the gods. They are The last hope of race and civilization, they guard our last secrets and shoulder the most important responsibilities. They hide behind the scenes and never appear in public, but they control some aspects of the entire planet... In the efforts of the Night Watch Under this, all the talents and resources of the entire civilization are concentrated and continue to move towards the predetermined goal."

"It sounds like the nature of this group of 'night watchmen' is very close to that of the undead crew..." Ke Lan pondered and entered a new question.

"What are the secrets and responsibilities of the Night's Watch?"

"This part of the information involves the core content of the plan. It is strictly prohibited to disclose it to symbionts and individuals whose erosion level exceeds the specified threshold to prevent leaks." Di Tian ruthlessly rejected Ke Lan's question.

"What's not easy to reveal..." Ke Lan couldn't help complaining in his heart, "You have already openly called guys who completely believe in gods as degenerates. Even I can tell you your secrets." It’s pretty close to guessing, so why are you pretending..."

This group of Alphas, or in other words, this group of night watchmen, made it clear that they planned to confront the great god they "believed in". After Ke Lan read the inscription on the first floor tile, the outline of the whole thing was basically It has surfaced. To use that classic saying, it is simply: Sima Zhao’s heart—everyone knows it.

"Are there any night watchmen alive now?" Ke Lan changed the question.

But Tile didn't answer.

From a normal thinking point of view, this question is obviously a bit over the top for a "dead thing" like an agency... But from another perspective, it proves that at least in this black tower, there is no night watchman garrison.

I just don’t know if the Alpha man left behind in the wreckage of Engine No. 92 is considered a member of the "Night Watch"... But since the Alpha man can speak such a rare term as "symbiote", then Thinking about it, most likely it is also a "night watchman".

"What is the use of this square and this tower?" Before the floor tiles raised any new questions, Ke Lan seized the opportunity and asked again.

"It is an altar used to worship the great gods." Floor Tile replied.

It's lying.

Ke Lan, who has already read the inscription on the first floor tile, naturally knows that this answer is only a "superficial answer". Whether it is the square or the black tower, it is obviously inseparable from the group of "night watchmen" in Alpha Civilization. And what these "night watchmen" want is how to get rid of the control of that great god. How can they sincerely build an altar to worship that god?

Furthermore, wouldn’t it be disrespectful to Him to record such information on the altar tiles?

The altar should be just a cover, this place must have another purpose.

However, with Ke Lan's status as a "symbiotic person", no matter how he asked, Floor Tile would probably not tell him the truth.

"One more thing, I still have some companions trapped deep in the forest. I want to find them or bring them here. What should I do?"

After asking, Ke Lan was worried that the other party would not agree, and continued to add: "If my request cannot be met, no matter what the Night Watchman's plan is, I will refuse to participate, and I will even choose to return to the forest area."

This can be regarded as a threat... Ke Lan knew that his threat might be ridiculous to the Alpha civilization, but the conditions he wanted to exchange for were not excessive. Bringing the other people in the exploration team here was important for building this For the ruined Alpha civilization, it is simply a piece of cake.

But this time, Ke Lan guessed wrong.

"I can fulfill your request, but I can't do it at the moment." The characters on the floor tiles changed again.

At this time, the red light inside the floor tiles had dimmed to the point that it was about to go out at any time. Ke Lan had to bleed again to "charge" the floor tiles that were about to "shut down".

"You can't do it? Who are you? I mean, this thing that is talking to me now." Ke Lan asked.

"Narrator three-type automatic file storage, style of stone tablet No. 69, installation location: Babel Square in Gray Mist Forest, equipment serial number: 939146." A line appeared on the floor tiles to introduce the equipment Characters for the name parameter.

Sure enough, Ke Lan's initial guess was right. The conversation with him was just an intelligent program installed by Alpha in this floor tile, or in other words, this "Narrator Three-type Fully Automatic File Storage".

As for the tall tower in front of me...

Ke Lan looked up and saw that the black tower in the "eye of the storm" plunged straight into the clouds... ah no, straight into the foggy mountains. The top of the tower could not be seen with just his eyes. If the height of this black tower is the same as that of Mist Mountain, it can basically be regarded as the tallest building on the surface of Alpha Planet - bar none.

It is true that the smart program of the floor tile calls it the "Tower of Babel", but in human civilization, the Tower of Babel is also known as the "Tower of Babel", which made Ke Lan couldn't help but think of the one hidden in the Ark before. The organization that causes various sabotage incidents and cultivates captive fusions...the name of this organization is also called "Tower of Babel". Is this just a coincidence?

"I hope so..."

But Ke Lan cannot guarantee that the other party will not know the existence of this Tower of Babel. After all, the real leader of the "Tower of Babel" organization is most likely a member of the Immortal Crew, and the various behaviors of the Immortal Crew will Judging from the signs, they obviously knew what was going on in the core area of ​​the Gray Mist Forest.

Ke Lan suddenly felt like he had been tricked - if his arrival in front of the Tower of Babel was part of the Night Watchman's plan, then were the people from the Undead Crew secretly promoting this plan that was originally " What about the plan designated by "Night Watch"?

Looking back now, everything went so smoothly... Whether it was the purchase of equipment or the various preparations before departure, even though Ke Lan himself was a member of the Immortal Crew Association, trying to completely hide all this from the eyes of the Crew Association, almost It's impossible... The crew may ignore a small person like Mo Zhuorui, but for someone like himself who needs "key attention", any clues will arouse deeper suspicion.

These are a group of human beings who have lived for hundreds of years. It is easy to guess their true purpose through their actions.

Ke Lan initially thought that someone had deliberately hidden his whereabouts - his original idea was to take advantage of the struggle between factions within the crew association, the existence of moles and the opacity of some information to take advantage of the unexpected troubled waters. The other members of the crew escaped from their control before they could react...but now it seems that they are using them, and they are also using themselves.

This cannot be regarded as escaping at all, it should be regarded as being released by them.

Ke Lan had an impulse, an impulse to turn around and leave here.

This may seem a bit rebellious, but compared to the prophet who is the enemy of the entire Ark, Ke Lan just doesn't want to be a pawn at the mercy of others.

No one knows what the real purpose of the Night Watchman's plan is... But judging from the inscription on the first floor tile, it is clear that they themselves do not have much confidence in what this group of Alphas are doing.

"Overestimating one's capabilities", "moths flying into flames", "mantis trying to catch a chariot", "seeking death", "seeking one's own destruction"... A series of words like this popped up in Ke Lan's mind. He was not afraid of death. But he also didn't want to fall victim to something stupid and pointless.

"If you can't help me find my lost companions, then I will go find them myself. But I have to tell you in advance, no matter whether I can find them or not, I will never come back to this place again." Ke Lan will be scattered The characters spelled out, "I'm scared, I'm going to withdraw."

"If you go back now, not only will you not be able to find them, but you will also get lost in the forest and thick fog." Floor Brick replied, "The system has detected that you have obtained an incomplete guide file, but this guide The file only applies to the forest in its normal state. Now, when you activate this device, the entire forest has been adjusted to a more complex and defensive alert state."

"Damn it." After seeing Floor Tile's reply, Ke Lan couldn't help but uttered a classic swear word.

You are threatening the other party, and the other party is also threatening you.

The "incomplete guide file" mentioned by Floor Tile should be the "navigation" that Ke Lan obtained from the body of "Golden Retriever", but this navigation system is incomplete and can only take Ke Lan and the others to the thirty-fifth kilometers deep.

This is not the key. The key is that the map stored in this navigation system is only the gray fog forest in the "normal state".

If the Gray Mist Forest is compared to a maze game, they were playing the easy version at first, but now, after Ke Lan activated this damn floor tile, the game was successfully upgraded to the difficult version.

The easy version is already so difficult, you can imagine what the difficult version is like.

"I just don't know if there will be a hell difficulty later."

Ke Lan curled his lips, translated the general content of the "negotiation" between himself and Floor Tile to Thirty-three, and asked: "What do you think? I always feel that this is a conspiracy, whether it is the group of night watchmen or the The Immortal Crew Association and others seem to be eager for me to come to this place... You must also feel this feeling of being used as a pawn."

He did not hide the existence of the "Night Watchmen" from Thirty-Three. This group of Night Watchmen should be regarded as the opposite of the "gods". They themselves must always beware of the degree of erosion among their companions, so the information related to them should not be It is regarded as "forbidden knowledge"...otherwise, this organization would already have "all the evildoers" in it.

"I understand this feeling. To tell you the truth, when I left the Ark, I felt that the whole process went too smoothly. The smoothness gave me a strange feeling." Thirty-three nodded. "Now it seems that it is really possible that the undead crew will let us go on purpose."

"Well... then let's..." Before Ke Lan could finish his words, his attention was once again attracted to the floor tiles.

A new line of characters appeared on the floor tiles.

"The control center of the Gray Mist Forest is located on the top floor of the Tower of Babel. After gaining control, you can disable the defense mechanism of the Gray Mist Forest so that your companions can come out of it."

"I just finished threatening, now I'm starting to offer inducements." Ke Lan immediately translated this sentence to Thirty-Three.

"But we seem to have no choice." Thirty-three said with a wry smile, "According to what you said, even in the gray mist forest on easy difficulty, we can't find them, not to mention, it has been upgraded to hard difficulty now... …”

[P.S. Thanks to book friend 20211217001211164 for the 1,500 starting coins; thanks to book friends 20211215155449339 and Pipi Xing for the 500 starting coins. 】

[P.P.S. I saw a book review today. A reader said that the previous plots were very good, but when it came to the mecha competition, it suddenly became boring. Then he planned to skip it, but when he looked at the chapter names at the end, the whole book suddenly became boring. I don’t want to read it…

I was reading the subscriptions in the background. The volume of the Mecha Competition was indeed a failure. There was a watershed in the reader retention rate and the subscription rate... But now I need to make adjustments to this book. Deleting an entire large volume is almost It’s impossible. I can only say that I’ll try my best to pay attention to this situation in the next book.

(To be honest, I was actually a bit stuck when I was writing about the Mecha Competition, and there were always people complaining that the pace was too fast, so I planned to slow down a bit. In the end, I ended up writing a whole big volume. I can bear to read that volume. Readers will also find that I tried my best to remedy the situation later but the effect was not good. There are really many readers who were dissuaded by this part of the plot...)

Not only this reader today, but many of my old readers in the book club have also mentioned this issue... Although I will definitely pay more attention to it in my new book, to be honest, sometimes it is really difficult to avoid stepping on the wrong side of the story. If you have time, can you leave me some more comments? For example, which part of this book is good and which part is bad? What are the plots that are most likely to make you feel discouraged? What are your highlights and poisonous points?

(The reason why I ask here rather than in the comment area is because I think readers who have read these almost 800 chapters can be regarded as die-hard fans, and there is a high probability that there will not be any trolls or the like. , you can see here that it shows that the compatibility with me, a desperate author, is pretty good. To be honest, I don’t intend to write a book to suit everyone’s tastes, but I at least want to make sure that you, the ‘core readers’ Take good care of it. I hope you can give me more opinions and suggestions.)]