Alien Relic Hunter

In Ke Lan's original imagination, Genting should be a more luxurious place than the upper city... Even if it is completely destroyed due to disaster, the ruins of a palace are more gorgeous and spectacular than the ruins of a bungalow.

Instead of what is left in front of us, there are only bare rocks and an abyss that seems to be able to swallow all light.

Except that there is no magma, this place is exactly the same as the molten mine area after the "earthquake". Ke Lan can't even find any man-made objects in this space, not even traces of debris or foundations.

This is more like the first line of the hive's tunneling deep underground, rather than a place where the hive's owner lives.

Judging from the luxurious and hedonistic atmosphere in the upper city, the master of the nest city is by no means the kind of person who strictly enforces the "Doomsday Law". Since he allows the powerful people in the upper city to waste a lot of resources on meaningless entertainment, Then he himself shouldn't be an ascetic... To put it another way, even if the owner of this hive is really an "ascetic" with no materialistic desires, then the ascetic would still have to build a thatched hut. …

To put it in the simplest terms, Genting is not suitable for human habitation at all, and there is no trace of human habitation at all.

It is like the extreme zone on Earth or Alpha Planet... let alone human habitation, even animals and plants are extremely rare.

"Could it be that it was completely destroyed by the power of that god?" Ke Lan murmured in his heart, "Having said that, with that kind of power, it is impossible to turn a prosperous metropolis into a desolate no man's land in an instant. Easily, it doesn’t seem to be difficult to erase all human creations in the cloud top..."

Just when Ke Lan was about to take a step, he suddenly remembered the precautions that Nieto had said to himself, and stopped abruptly - the island and the abyss may be just an "illusion", the general situation of the rift between space. The bottom cannot be observed by the naked eye, unless there is spatial distortion or dislocation at the break.

The abyss between the islands is just a "boundary" under the normal concept of space. If the space here is divided into countless pieces, then the boundaries between these space fragments will not coincide with these "boundaries" perfectly.

Ke Lan squatted down, used an engineering shovel to carve out a small piece of stone from under his feet, and then threw it straight ahead.

Ke Lan's position was about five meters away from the edge of the island, but the small stone did not fall into the abyss five meters away, but suddenly disappeared more than one meter away from Ke Lan.

"Sure enough." Ke Lan took a deep breath and forced himself to calm down, "The boundary of the space debris and the boundary of the island are completely different things... Fortunately, it stopped just now, otherwise it would have crashed into another space. "

Ke Lan straightened up and looked around. He could not find the small stone he threw on the other islands within his sight.

"Did it fall to a farther island, or did it fall into the abyss?"

There was obviously no point in thinking about this kind of problem. Ke Lan followed the same pattern and chiseled off several small stones and threw one in different directions.

If the first stone just thrown is counted as twelve o'clock, the space boundary at three o'clock is three meters away from Ke Lan, the space boundary at six o'clock is four and five meters away from Ke Lan, and as for the nine o'clock direction, Ke Lan is The thrown stone flew directly out of the edge of the island, flew in the air for a while before crossing an arc and falling into the abyss.

The boundary at nine o'clock is so far away?

Ke Lan threw three more stones in that direction. This time he used more force, but the endings of these three stones were completely different: the first stone fell on another island thirty meters away. On the ground, it bounced on the ground for a few times and then stopped moving; the second stone also fell on the island, but after landing, it bounced up for the first time and disappeared suddenly ten centimeters above the ground. ; As for the third stone, it did not fly to the island at all, and disappeared while flying above the abyss.

Ke Lan suddenly felt a little nervous - with his strength, the precision of muscles and bones is comparable to the precision instruments in the institute's laboratory, he can ensure that the paths of the three stones flying in mid-air are exactly the same. But there is a big gap in the flying distance of the three stones...

Of the three stones, the first one flew the farthest, more than thirty meters, the second one was exactly thirty meters, and the third one did not even fly twenty meters. If we look at this phenomenon in reverse, This means that the space boundary that "swallowed" the last two stones is gradually approaching Ke Lan.

"The distance and boundary changes between space fragments are completely random and there are no rules." Ke Lan thought of Nieto's words. This also means that the space in Genting is always in a state of change, not fixed. Motionless.

Even if Ke Lan stood motionless, his situation was not safe - even if he did not touch the boundaries of those space fragments, the boundaries might actively hit him.

"It would be great if Ze Luo could wake up...she should be able to see the moving boundaries of space." Ke Lan thought.

He simply started the time-stop and observed the surrounding environment in the time-stop state - if he didn't do this, he might be swallowed directly by the space boundary somewhere in the next second.

Two hundred meters directly above Ke Lan is the top wall of the cloud top. There was originally a hole in the top wall, which was the exit of the tunnel where the deep-diving capsule was "vomited" out. However, after Ke Lan left the tunnel, the exit gradually healed. , and now there is not even a trace left - the way back has been completely blocked. Even if Ke Lan wants to regret it now, it is useless.

Of course, Ke Lan will never regret it - this is one of his life creeds: do anything, no matter how bad the result is, you will never regret it.

There is no regret medicine in this world. Regret is meaningless except bringing negative emotions to yourself. Now that something has happened, what you need to do is to guide things to a situation that is beneficial to you as much as possible. Anyone who thinks "if I didn't do this" as None of the premise sentences can bring any help to the situation.

Although the current situation is a bit tricky, at least it is still within the acceptable range, and one thing is very important - Nieto said that the master of the nest is within the cloud top, and he is not dead yet... at least he The consciousness has not died out yet, which means that this chaotic space may not be as dangerous as Nieto described.

Since the master of the hive city can survive in this place for 500,000 years, as long as he finds a way, he should be able to stay for 50 hours, not to mention 500,000 years... Ke Lanru thought.

His main purpose of entering Genting was to find the owner of the nest. If the other party was also willing to communicate with him, he probably wouldn't mind telling Ke Lan this method... The prerequisite was that he must find this person.

"It's a bit like a dead loop..." Ke Lan smiled self-deprecatingly, "If you want to survive in this place, you must find the master of the nest city, but if you want to find the master of the nest city, you must find the master of the nest city here. To survive as a place... in the end, you still have to rely on yourself.”

After much thought, Ke Lan decided to use a stupid method - he first released the time stop, then used the living armor to condense a tentacle, and stretched it towards the twelve o'clock direction.

The first thing he needs to figure out is whether the boundaries of the space debris here are open or closed.

The definitions of "open" and "closed" are simple. The "open" boundary allows anything to pass, just like a transmission channel, while the "closed" boundary squeezes or cuts off the things it touches - -For example, the space barriers and space blades condensed by Ze Luo's ability achieve blocking or cutting effects through closed space boundaries.

The former is an open door, while the latter is a "wall" that is both sharp and thin, but at the same time extremely strong.

The tentacle slowly moved forward, and Ke Lan's eyes were fixed on the front of the tentacle... In addition, he also generated many neural structures inside the tentacles, and connected these structures with his own nervous system. ...Doing this can perfectly synchronize the touch of the tentacles with Ke Lan's nervous system, and truly bring out the function of the "tentacles".

Ke Lan can even choose to use living armor to condense an eyeball, and connect the eyeball with the optic nerve, but it is very difficult to perfectly simulate the function of the eyeball, and for some reason, the eyeball condensed with living armor can be seen. The things are completely different from what Ke Lan sees with his own eyes.

For example, if you look at the rocky island under your feet through the eyeballs condensed by the living armor, you will see that it is a mass of tangled, squirming pieces of flesh and tentacles...

Perhaps it's because the living armor is more deeply affected by erosion, and its cognition is completely distorted? Ke Lan could only give up vision and use touch to explore the unknown spaces around her.

The boundary of space at twelve o'clock did not seem to move. It was still one meter away from Ke Lan, and the front end of the tentacle quietly submerged into another space.

The tentacle was not cut off, and Ke Lan did not feel pain or other sensations from the front end of the tentacle... He controlled the tentacle to swing in a small range, and the front end of the tentacle in another space could still obey. His command moved freely, except that it didn't touch anything.

"It seems that the border is open, which is good news." Ke Lan said to himself as if to comfort himself.

Ke Lan stretched his tentacles downward, and soon, the tentacles touched the ground in another space - the height of the ground opposite was exactly the same as that of the island ground in this space where Ke Lan was, but the touch was rough. The rock was different. The feeling coming from the tip of the tentacle was cold and smooth, as if it was some kind of polished metal.

"Metal floor? Is it a man-made thing?" Ke Lan felt a little excited in his heart. It seems that the space on the other side is completely different from this place with only islands and abyss - perhaps, that is what Genting is like!

He extended the tentacles a few more meters, but other than the cold and smooth metal floor, the tentacles did not touch anything. Just when Ke Lan wanted to extend the tentacles a further distance, a pinprick-like pain disappeared from the tentacles. There was a sound coming from somewhere, and the next second, Ke Lan lost the feeling of the front end of the tentacle.

The tentacles were severed.

"The boundary of space is closed? No, no, the position of the space should have changed. The space one meter in front of me is no longer the space that the tentacle just entered...the tentacle was cut off when the space changed...or Say, it was torn off abruptly.”

After thinking about this, Ke Lan condensed a new tentacle and reached forward into this new space.

The ground of the new space is still metallic, but the temperature is very high, about 300 to 400 degrees Celsius. This space seems to be burning, the flames are licking the ground, and even the surface of the tentacles is feeling burning pain.

Ke Lan retracted the tentacle a little. The surface of the tentacle had been carbonized, but other than that, there was no change in the tentacle.

What Ke Lan was most worried about - the phenomenon of inconsistent time flow rates between the two spaces did not appear. The burning space was by no means a stagnant space. Otherwise, the tentacles would not have been scorched at all.

While the tentacles had not been cut off and the space had not changed, Ke Lan took a deep breath, covered his whole body with living armor, and rushed into the burning space with a single stride.

Fire, fire everywhere... Ke Lan found himself on a burning street. The surrounding luxurious buildings were burning. The building materials continued to crackle and explode in the flames. Thick smoke billowed upwards, touching the ground. After touching the dome, it pressed down again, shrouding the entire block in smoke that made it invisible.

"This is...Yunding?"

Ke Lan had a doubt in his heart, because he found a lot of charred corpses on the street - logically speaking, no one else should be able to enter Genting except the owner of the hive, but these corpses were obviously living things. People in this neighborhood.

The buildings that are burning are all residences for people to live in, rather than functional buildings... The style of the buildings is also very close to that of the uptown area.

"Am I back in the uptown area again?" Ke Lan looked around, quickly wrote down the characteristics of the blocks and buildings, and constructed a three-dimensional block map in his mind - but soon, he discovered that this area The neighborhood didn't match up anywhere on the city map.

This place should be Yunding, but Yunding is obviously a place where a group of people live, not the territory of the hive owner alone.

Who could these people be? Is it a family member of the hive master, or someone else related to the hive master?

In the communication with Nieto, although the other party did not mention how many owners the nest city has, when he mentioned him, he always used singular pronouns, so Ke Lan defaulted to the fact that there is only one owner in a nest city—— This place adopts a dictatorship rather than the parliamentary system used by Ark.