Alien Relic Hunter

Thirty-three reached for his waist. There was still the last magazine left. He took a deep breath and slowly moved towards the armored off-road vehicle filled with gasoline.

I don't know when, the whistling wind carried a faint fishy smell, and what made Sansansan even more confused was that even though he was wearing a breathing mask, the fishy smell still penetrated into his nasal cavity... The smell is very light, so light that it almost makes people suspect that there is something wrong with their olfactory organs... But even so, this fishy smell is difficult to ignore.

This fishy smell was not unfamiliar. Thirty-three remembered that he should have smelled something similar...no, it should be said to be exactly the same smell somewhere, but he just couldn't remember it.

Thirty-three suddenly felt dizzy, and the whole world began to spin. The lead-gray clouds stirred and seemed to be glued to the earth. Even the armored off-road vehicles around him turned into abstract blocks of color, flowing into the sky and the ground. between the gaps.

Everything in the world no longer has an obvious dividing line. Everything is like fruit thrown into a wall-breaking machine, broken, stirred, mixed... Thirty-three can't even feel his own body. The only thing that still exists is... Remaining independent and clear, only his self-awareness remains.

A word suddenly popped into his head - "chaos".

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The frustrated boy staggered onto the overpass with steps like an 80-year-old man, leaned on the guardrail, and looked at the busy road on the bridge. The weaving traffic never stopped for a moment, and the shining car lights were moving at high speed. It was pulled into one gorgeous strip of light after another.

The high-rise buildings in the distance are brightly lit, and the bustling city will not sleep even in the middle of the night. Neon billboards and huge screens complement each other. The passenger plane piercing the night sky flashes red and green navigation lights. A huge aircraft The advertising airship slowly passed over the office buildings.

But all the excitement has nothing to do with this boy who has grown up.

The season has entered winter, and it is very cold on the overpass. The biting cold wind makes the boy's thin jacket rustle. He pulls up the hood of the jacket, but the next second, the hood is immediately blown by the oncoming wind. After filling it up, it was pulled to the back of the head.

The boy sighed softly in the wind, stopped pulling on his hat, and instead reached into his pocket.

He touched a metal object with rounded corners.

He used to smoke when he was in college because of stress, but since starting his own business, he has quit smoking. For him who is cash-strapped, cigarette money is really an expense that cannot be ignored... But He didn't know until a week ago that he couldn't bear to smoke cigarettes that cost 5 yuan a pack, but the "friend" who lost all his money to Lisboa smoked cigarettes in the casino for 4,800 yuan a pack. Cuban cigar.

After quitting smoking, he only kept a "Zhibao" brand lighter as a souvenir. He had used this lighter for many years. The old coating on the surface had been completely worn away, revealing the original metal color of the pure copper shell. The embossed pattern has almost been smoothed away... Although it has become very old, it feels much better than when I first bought it.

He took out the lighter, skillfully opened the lid, and rolled the grinding wheel - he seemed to want to use the lighter's tiny flame to keep warm, but after the crisp "pop" sound, the flame did not appear.

He hadn't used this lighter for so long that the kerosene stored inside had long since dried up.

The boy's originally calm face finally showed a trace of anger. He raised his hand and pretended to throw the lighter from the overpass. But just when the lighter was about to leave his hand, he once again grabbed it tightly. In the palm of your hand.

It wasn't because he couldn't bear it, but because he was worried that the lighter would hit a car driving under the overpass - if someone caught him, he wouldn't be able to pay for compensation and repairs.

The boy lowered his head, buried his head in his arms, and whispered to himself: "Is life always so painful? Or is it just like this when you were a kid?"

"It's always been like this." He asked himself.

This is a very classic movie line from "This Killer Is Not Too Cold". As a lover of old era movies, Ke Lan has of course watched this movie, more than once.

He was also deeply impressed by Matilda's line.

But then again, the entire fantasy came from Ke Lan's memory. If he had not seen the movie, the lines of the movie would not appear in this fantasy.

Even the boy's facial features are somewhat similar to Ke Lan... Ke Lan even has a feeling that if he lived on the earth in the old era, if he were not a "cyborg" without a father and mother, if the earth There is no destruction…

Maybe, this will be my life?

No...this boy's personality doesn't match my own. Compared with the boy who was cynical when he was young and passionate as an adult, Ke Lan's attitude towards things is more casual - to put it nicely, he is casual, to put it worse, he is more casual. That is indifference. Unless it's something he thinks is important, he won't care at all.

This attitude cannot be said to be exactly the same as that of the boy's father - suppose an old man falls to the ground, and the boy's father is unwilling to help him because he has seen too much "evil" in real society and has been indoctrinated into it. There are too many "selfish" concepts, whether they come from himself or others... In short, the boy's father chose to stand by and do nothing for the sake of his own interests. If this matter would not harm his own interests, maybe he would lend a helping hand if he was in a good mood...

But for Ke Lan, if he is walking on the street and an old man falls to the ground not far away, his brain may automatically filter it when it receives this information - unless the fallen old man The bomb strapped to his body was exposed under his open clothes.

Looking at the boy on the overpass, Ke Lan suddenly realized that he seemed to be an extremely cold-blooded person...

No...that's not right...

I'm not that kind of person... If I was so cold-blooded, I wouldn't have chosen to team up with Lao Gou and others, wouldn't have become angry after learning that Zofia had been loaded with bombs, and wouldn't have been angry with the heretics. Those actions of the sect generate any emotion...

I am a person with normal emotions, a person of flesh and blood...

Although Nieto no longer speaks, it seems to be constantly using some kind of power in this illusion to change Ke Lan's cognition and thinking. Although this power does not cause direct harm, it is actually more powerful than swords and bullets. It's even more terrifying... As the saying goes, "It's easy to hide from open guns, but hard to guard against hidden arrows." It's not enough for Ke Lan to keep his brain awake all the time. He must emphasize it repeatedly in his self-awareness so that he won't be induced by illusions...

Moreover, in the fantasy world, thinking has become a very dangerous thing.

The more you think about it, the more confused your mind becomes, and the easier it is for Nieto to find an opportunity to take advantage of him.

This is like a computer program. The longer the program, the more likely it is to have loopholes. The simplest program that outputs "hello world" after running it is difficult to make mistakes even if it is written by a novice who is new to programming.

Maybe you should empty your mind... Faced with a consciousness that refuses to think, no matter how many tricks Nieto uses, these tricks will not help.

But the question is, if Ke Lan doesn't think about it, how can he get out of this illusion?

Just because there is no danger in the fantasy world does not mean that it is as safe in the real world - he and Thirty-Three are now in a jungle hunting ground, and not long ago, an extremely sudden gunshot sounded deep in the hunting ground.

Ke Lan couldn't guarantee whether the gun would have been pressed against his head when he was struggling in the illusion.

The situation must be broken, but how?

The boy in the fantasy was very depressed. Although he didn't cry, the expression on his face made Ke Lan wonder if he would suddenly jump off the overpass and end everything.

If the boy "dies", will it switch to the next fantasy?

Ke Lan's consciousness has always been with the boy. He cannot switch to his parents or anyone else in this fantasy except the boy. This is the third-person perspective of the boy as the protagonist. If the protagonist dies If so, then this story should end there, right?

This illusion is not good for Ke Lan. He has no entity, and his perspective is tied to the boy. He cannot move freely, nor can he have any influence on this illusion. He cannot even communicate with the "characters" in the illusion...

Wait a moment? Communicate with the character?

Ke Lan's eyes fell on the boy... He seemed to have never tried to communicate.

Although Ke Lan had decided to wait until the next illusion to find a way to break the situation, he still decided to make some attempts before this illusion ended.

"It's not always like this." Ke Lan tried to say.

There was no sound - he didn't even have a physical body, which meant he had no vocal organs and naturally couldn't make any sound. The communication between him and Nieto just now was completed entirely through conscious communication.

But the boy heard it.

He was startled, raised his head, and looked around: "Who? Who is talking?"

"It's not important." Ke Lan continued, "Are you planning to jump off the overpass?"

The boy's eyes widened, he rubbed the bridge of his nose, blinked hard, and then looked up into the sky - the airship with a giant advertising screen was slowly flying over the overpass, and the popular actress on the screen They were dancing passionately, and the sound waves coming from the loudspeaker passed through a distance of hundreds of meters and hit the ground in waves.

"Is it my imagination?"

"It's not an illusion."

Ke Lan's voice sounded directly in the boy's head. Although his hearing center was occupied by the music played by the airship, he could still clearly hear what Ke Lan said to him.

"Why is your voice in my head? Who are you...what is 伱? You...why do you know that I want to jump off the overpass." The boy calmed down a little and asked.

A few minutes ago he was considering whether to end his life. Now even if someone told him that the earth would explode in five minutes, he would not find it so difficult to accept.

On the contrary, I will secretly rejoice that so many people can reach the same ending as me.

As for the surprise and panic just now, they are just human instinctive reactions.

"I said, it doesn't matter who I am." Ke Lan thought for a while and decided to be a psychological tutor for the boy. Although his attainments in psychology were not as good as those of a professional doctor like Ivan, he could at least see the boy. I have read several related books to enlighten a person who can't think of committing suicide... maybe it can succeed?

Although this was contrary to Ke Lan's original purpose, he actually didn't care whether he could succeed or not - if he succeeded, it might change the illusion. If he failed, he would just restart and start the next illusion directly.

Although these three illusions are different, Nieto's purpose is the same, which is to show Ke Lan the disappointing side of the human race - from a modern perspective, the three illusions are all full of negative aspects. Emotions, and will spread this negative emotion to the "audience".

For Ke Lan, when he was experiencing these illusions, he was still suffering from psychological hints from Nieto - in the first illusion, facing those ignorant and fanatical people, facing those who were forced to survive And those who have to betray their friends face the church that has the right to speak but wants to burn the "truth" to ashes for its own benefit... Nieto told Ke Lan that it is impossible for such humans to obtain the truth of the universe. of.

Although the heliocentric theory was later proven to be wrong, like the geocentric theory, it was a wrong conclusion drawn by humans due to limited cognitive and technical conditions... However, the history of human technological development is one of constantly proposing theories and then putting them into practice. The process of its overthrow.

Many things that are considered to be true may be proven to be wrong hundreds or even decades later. Humanity's understanding of the world has also been improved bit by bit in this process of constant overthrow and reconstruction.

Just like those things that are now regarded as "theorems" by humans, they are simply vulnerable to the technology of Alpha Civilization, let alone facing the "great god".

Chemistry, physics, mathematics...those ironclad laws may also be wrong...

As for the truth of the universe, compared with the current cognitive level of human beings, it is really far behind... so far away that humans will not be able to touch it even if it takes tens of thousands or even hundreds of millions of years.

If the truth really comes to the world, it may not happen like Bruno was condemned as a heretic and burned to death, but it will definitely subvert human cognition completely.

Ke Lan suddenly understood why "forbidden knowledge" can turn people into monsters...

It's not that those people became "monsters", but that they came into contact with existence beyond cognition and themselves became something that could not be "understood" by their former kind.

In the eyes of humans, aren't creatures that are incomprehensible just monsters?

[P.S. Thanks to Ruikang for the reward of 100,000 starting coins... This book finally has an eighth leader. I didn’t expect that it was almost finished and there was still a big boss willing to spend a lot of money. I checked the background last night and saw that the reward message was true. I was stunned... At first glance, I thought it was 10,000 starting coins, but when I counted carefully, there was an extra zero...]

[P.P.S. The leader’s update will be arranged soon in the next few days. 】