Alien Relic Hunter

"This sea area is very strange..." Zhuoligetu murmured, "Old dogs can smell strange smells, and Lao Chi draws things he has never seen before... Is there something here? Can it silently affect our brains?"

"Old Chi!" The hound turned his head and stared at Chi Hanfeng, "Can you draw anything else? We need more information!"

"I... try..." Chi Hanfeng was stunned for a moment and picked up the pencil again, but this time, the tip of the pen did not fall.

"You don't have to think about drawing anything deliberately, just doodle randomly like you just did." Hound said.

"No...I can't do it." Chi Hanfeng shook his head, "When I think about this, I find that I can't write at all...unless you can hit me on the head with a stick to make me forget what just happened. ."

"You can just close your eyes and scratch on the paper with a pen!" Hound said anxiously.

Chi Hanfeng gritted his teeth and did as the hound said. He closed his eyes and started scribbling on the paper with a pencil. He even broke the tip of the pencil because he used too much force.

But this time, what he drew was just meaningless graffiti, without any useful information.

"It's useless to be deliberate." Zhuo Ligetu showed a sense and calmness that was completely inconsistent with his strong body. "It seems that that kind of thing can only be drawn unconsciously."

At this time, Ghost Owl, who had been silent, suddenly raised his hand and signaled everyone to be silent: "Wait... wait... I seem to hear something..."

The deep diving cabin suddenly fell into deathly silence.

But everyone held their breath and listened for more than ten seconds, but they didn't hear any unusual sound. The hound raised his eyebrows and looked at the ghost owl: "Only you... heard it... right?"

"Can't you hear me?" Ghost Owl's eyes widened and he looked at the hound. Then he seemed to have thought of something and turned to look at Chi Hanfeng.

"Smells, patterns, sounds...it seems there is more than one clue." The hound murmured, "Ghost Owl, what did you hear?"

"I...I can't tell..." Ghost Owl's expression was very strange, "It's not Chinese, it's not English...it's not any language I know...but I can understand it...it's weird …”

Hound, Chi Hanfeng and Zhuoligetu looked at each other and said in unison: "It's the language of Alpha civilization!"

"What?" Ghost Owl was startled, "Why do you think so? And...how can I understand the language of Alpha civilization?"

"Stop worrying about this, tell me carefully what you heard." Hound asked.

"Escape...although it is difficult for me to express that sentence word for word...but the general meaning...is to let us escape and leave..." Ghost Owl explained with some difficulty, the kind of knowing but But the unspeakable feeling was like a hundred claws scratching his heart, making him feel that his brain was always in a completely blank state.

Ghost Owl glanced at the others and immediately said: "Don't look at me like that, I... I don't mean to back down, I mean... I really heard such a sound, and I can confirm... …That sentence definitely contains this meaning, but I don’t know how to express it accurately.”

"I didn't say you wanted to back down." Chi Hanfeng said, "I just find it strange, but I can't tell what is strange for a while."

"Escape, leave...run away..." The hound chewed the words carefully, suddenly tapped the table, raised his head and said, "Leave the bed?"

"Ah?" Ghost Owl was a little confused, "What do you mean...leave...leave that bed?"

"Read this sentence once. Don't translate it into Chinese, just read it in the original English." Hound said solemnly.

"Leave...the...b...e..." Ghost Owl hadn't finished reading, and the expression on his face suddenly changed, "Yes! That's right! The weird language I heard said to me This sentence! Damn it, why didn’t I know how to paraphrase it just now? Wait?! Why do you know what I heard? Did you hear it too? "

"No... we didn't hear anything. It's just that these words are too familiar..." Hound slowly shook his head and said.

"familiar?"

"The first time I saw this sentence was on the inner shell of a dismantled deep-diving cabin, carved on the inner wall of the metal with some kind of hard object." Hound recalled, "That deep-diving cabin, He once participated in the initial exploration of the ruins of the underwater city...but no one who rode it survived."

"Then...who carved these words? Those explorers who died?" Ghost Owl asked quickly.

"We thought so at first, but then after thinking about it, it should be the black skeleton." Hound said, "The inner shell of the deep diving cabin was removed. Originally, there should be several layers wrapped in the inner shell. Buffer layers and linings made of high-molecular polymers. Even if explorers aboard a deep submersible want to engrave words on the inner wall of the deep submersible, they should be engraved on this layer instead of the completely wrapped metal inner shell. Above. Moreover, if this line of writing was engraved before the deep submersible was picked up, then the people from the Security Bureau would definitely find this important clue when dismantling the deep submersible, and they would not look at the inner shell like It was thrown away like garbage in the cargo hold of the Pioneer."

"That sentence was not carved by those explorers during their lifetime." Zhuoligetu added.

"It wasn't carved while alive, could it be after death?" Ghost Owl felt confused, "Also, what is the black skeleton?"

Since Ghost Owl knew nothing about these things, the hound could only briefly introduce him to the God Hunting Group... Oh, there was no God Hunting Group at the time. It was just a group formed by them to save Ivan. A temporary hunter team...the first experience of exploring the underwater city.

Anyway, even the secrets of the Undead Crew Club have been told to Ghost Owl, so there is no need to keep this secret. Hound is not worried that Ghost Owl will leak these secrets to others... Have they come into contact with other people? There are still two opportunities.

"Later, when Ke Lan was exploring the unknown desert island, he discovered that the skeletons of some soldiers of the 776 Special Forces Team had also turned into black skeletons, and some of the believers of the heretical sect could also transform themselves through special sacrificial rituals. It turned into a black skeleton, so we can basically confirm that the black skeleton was turned into a human being."

"Then... did that black skeleton carve this sentence on the inner shell of the deep submersible to let you escape... escape from somewhere or something? But you also said it, and later you and the black skeleton A battle broke out before, so since it wants to kill you, why did it leave you this message?"

"The transformation of a human into that kind of thing is a gradual process. At the beginning, it may still retain a part of human consciousness, but later on, it will completely become a monster that only knows how to kill." Zhuoligetu said, "At least that's what we think."

"Then what does this sentence mean?"

"You've got the point right." The hound pointed at the ghost owl with his index finger, "It's just a pity that we also want to know the answer to this question."

"ah?"

"This is not the first time this sentence has appeared in our field of vision. It is like a haunting nightmare... We have spent a lot of effort to figure out the true meaning of this sentence, but until now, There is no substantial gain." After the hound finished speaking, he glanced at the underwater city outside the porthole, "Maybe... this trip, we can figure out what it means."

"So, not only did we not get any useful clues, but we also added a bunch of new puzzles?" Ghost Owl's eyes flashed with a trace of frustration.

"No, whether it's the stone pillars painted by Lao Chi or the sounds you heard, these puzzles have always existed and are not new additions." The Hound patted the Ghost Owl's uninjured arm comfortingly, "These are The information is not without any value, at least we can know that we are not in the wrong place."

"I have one last question... Why can I suddenly understand the language of Alpha civilization?" Ghost Owl asked, "As far as I know, among humans, the only person with this ability is your leader Ke Lan and the prophet of the heretic sect who has been killed, right?"

"Then maybe you are the third lucky person." Hound said, suddenly patted his forehead, took the piece of paper full of graffiti, turned it to the back, and drew on the paper while thinking. One obscure character after another.

"This is the content on a stone tablet of Alpha civilization documents. This stone tablet was rubbed by me, so I am very impressed by the characters on it. This is the first line of text on the stone tablet. See if you can read it. ." The hound moved the paper with the characters in front of the ghost owl.

"The characters may be a bit substandard, but I've tried my best to restore them." Hound said again, "It's a pity that the tablet was smashed, otherwise I could just pull out the photos and show them to you."

Ghost Owl lowered his head and stared at the characters on the paper seriously, but after staring for a long time, he just shook his head and said, "I can't read it."

"Then it seems that you are not the third lucky one." The hound was a little disappointed, but seemed to exhale with some relief, "You can only understand that specific sentence, rather than having the ability to read Alpha language. The ability... There are many such people in heretical sects. They will only mechanically 'recite' the 'prayer' given to them by the prophet, but if you want to ask them about the precise content of the 'prayer', it is What, I guess they can’t tell themselves.”

"Furthermore, Ke Lan said that the language of Alpha civilization is not spoken with the mouth." Zhuo Ligetu interjected, "In Ke Lan's words, the black bishops of the heretical sect only use human language to recite prayers. Using syllables to simulate the sounds of Alpha Language in your head does not count as 'speaking' Alpha Language."

"Then let me try to 'read' the sentence I just heard?" The ghost owl was about to open his mouth, but was stopped by the eyes of the hound.

"I suggest you not do that." Hound said, "Although it is just a simulation method, it is really 'useful'... After those black bishops finished chanting the prayers, it was equivalent to completing some kind of sacrificial ceremony. They dedicated their lives to the great god, and then borrowed time-limited power from the great god - specifically in the form of transforming themselves into some kind of monster, or summoning some kind of monster to come to the world."

"The language of Alpha civilization... still has this kind of effect?!" Ghost Owl suddenly broke into a cold sweat.

"It seems that only specific combinations of sentences have this effect, but none of us know which sentences are 'specific'... Therefore, it is best not to try randomly when Ke Lan is not around... This behavior is called Die," the hound warned.

"I know...I know..." Ghost Owl responded repeatedly, raising his hand to wipe away the cold sweat on his forehead.

But what he didn't notice was that...under the back of his neck, on the "spinal groove" that sunk along the spine, the skin had turned red without knowing it, and a small granule had appeared.

This change occurred extremely "naturally" and without any discomfort. Even Ghost Owl himself was not aware of it, let alone other people.

Those flesh buds squirmed and grew slowly. They seemed to have their own consciousness, and they seemed to be a "naturally formed" part of the ghost owl's body... The two completely opposite perceptions merged together, and they seemed unexpectedly... "harmonious".

"There is one person left, or rather, two people." Chi Hanfeng said, "The old dog smelled the smell, I accidentally drew the stone pillar, and the ghost owl heard 'that sentence'... Then only Zhuo is left. Ligetu and Valentina, if this information can be regarded as a kind of 'revelation' - well, don't mind me using such a religious word, I just think this word is more suitable at the moment - Assuming this is a kind of 'revelation', then among the few of us, only Zoligatu and Valentina have not received the 'revelation'."

"Is it a revelation..." Zhuoligetu murmured, "Some of my people believe in the 'Eternal Life Heaven', and some shamans often say that they have received revelations from the 'Eternal Life Heaven'... But I am an atheist. Well, I don’t believe in that stuff. At least, I don’t believe in those fabricated ‘gods’ in the Earth Age.”

"It's just a metaphor." Chi Hanfeng explained, "Revelation is not necessarily given by gods, it may also be something that people suddenly realize from their hearts... It may seem a bit mysterious to say this, but I can't find it. What a better way to put it.”

"Let's not talk about it for now. Have you noticed that the forms of revelation are different, which seem to correspond to different human senses - smell, vision, hearing... Then what will be next? Touch?" The hound muttered, " Mongolian, have you touched something strange?"