"Is it possible... that thing has been separated from your body without you noticing it?" Ivan said suddenly.

"No...I can feel its existence, it..." Ke Lan originally wanted to say that it was hiding in a corner of his body, but he also felt that this statement seemed inaccurate, "It seems to be everywhere,

It seems to have established a wonderful connection with me. I can sense this connection, but I cannot position it specifically..."

As Ke Lan said, she suddenly fell into silence. After a long time, she slowly said something: "It seems to dissolve in my body."

"This possibility is not ruled out." Ivan frowned, "There are many kinds of crystalline substances that can be soluble in blood... Who can't determine its properties before analyzing that thing. And Manstein is

It was swallowed after a layer of protective substance was wrapped on the outside of the crystal, so it made sense that this crystal could not dissolve in his body."

He unscrewed the wine pot, raised his head and poured a big mouthful, and then said, "As for the things in the Iron Virgin, you say that the black viscous liquid looks like oil, then it's assumed that some oily substance is good

, many crystals that can be soluble in water cannot be dissolved in oil, the most famous of which is sodium chloride crystals. But this is just a guess... Alas, it would be great if there were some samples left."

"Ke Lan, is there anything abnormal in your body?" Natasha, who had been listening to the conversation between the two people, suddenly spoke, "Logically speaking, when the dosage of a certain compound dissolved in the blood reaches a certain level.

At the same time, the human body will have corresponding reactions. Have you noticed these changes?"

"The physical changes... I didn't notice them to be honest."

"However, after the crystal entered my body, I unexpectedly gained a ability, a very strange ability."

After repeated thinking, Ke Lan decided to tell them about this.

"Apart from that, I have always had one thing that I haven't told you..."

Before this, the reason why Ke Lan had been hiding was that she was afraid of being regarded as an alien by others, and the other was that she was worried that her teammates would suffer unrestrained disasters due to these secrets... But now it seems that continuing to hide will only bring greater

Misunderstanding and trouble.

These teammates are all people who deserve their lives, and there is no reason not to believe them.

...

Three hours later, Ke Lan, Ivan and Natasha returned to the safe house, and as soon as the three of them entered the door, they immediately summoned everyone.

"All the surveillance equipment in the safe room was removed. I was worried that Layton would check it again four or five times, and even the toilet sewer was not missing." The hunting dog said with a serious expression, "Ke Lan, you said... you

There has always been something hidden from us, what is it.”

"Old dog, let me ask you something first. If I could be a monster, what would you think of me?" Ke Lan said in a deep voice.

"Are you sure you're not kidding?" The hound frowned and stared at him.

"No." Ke Lan shook her head slowly.

The two looked at each other for more than ten seconds, but the hound suddenly laughed "pop": "Haha...even if you are a monster, so what?"

The Hound continued: "Ivan's body still has cells of erosion seeds lurking. If the fragments of stalagmites on his body are removed, he may lose control and turn into a large group of tentacles at any time. Do you think he is a monster? Leiden

Seventy percent of the parts of the boy's body are iron lumps, and there is more oil in the tube than blood. Do you think he is a monster? And..."

His voice suddenly became a little low: "And Liao Zilang... He crawled out of the wastewater jug ​​alive, and his crust couldn't even penetrate bullets. Who did we ever treat him as a monster?"

He suddenly stretched out a finger and pointed to his head: "Whether it is a human or a monster depends only on your own thinking."

...

"I used to think I was a monster." Akira Asano, who was sitting in the corner, said, and the battle blade he placed on his knee suddenly made a sound, "But later I figured it out, this was just a kind of ability.

”

"Thank you." Ke Lan was silent for a long time before she put these two words into her mind.

"Thank you!" The Hound couldn't help but say, "Actually, I can roughly guess that your secret is probably related to Alpha civilization, and it's understandable that you choose to hide it... After all, no one can do it.

Just be honest with the people you just met.”

"Actually, it started with that plane crash." Ke Lan took out a photo, and the thing in the photo was the stone tablet found in the coffin.

"Isn't this thing... that broken stone tablet?" said Layton.

"Yes... do you still remember how that stone tablet broke?" Ke Lan raised her head and looked at everyone and asked.

"I remember." The hound rubbed his chin vigorously, "At that time, I went down to move this stone tablet with you, and then when I wrapped the anti-oxidation film, it suddenly broke..."

"At that time, I took off my gloves for convenience." Ke Lan continued the hound's words, "When my fingers touched the stone tablet, it broke."

"Yes, you were so scared at that time." The Hound nodded repeatedly.

"Then do you know why you are stunned?"

"Why?"

"At the moment the stone tablet was broken... all the inscriptions on it poured into my mind!" Ke Lan took a deep breath and continued, "It was at that moment that I suddenly understood the Alpha civilization.

language.”

Everyone was stunned. Although they were mentally prepared, this sentence was too great to their impact - they were all senior ruin hunters, and no one knew better than them.

What does the content mean?

The first person who reacted from this dull state was the hunting dog. He smacked his lips, as if he was talking to himself, and as if he was saying to Ke Lan: "No wonder...No wonder after that, I always had one

A strange feeling - I always feel that you are very radical in your judgment of some things, but the development of things will often be as you expected... Now I understand, since you have mastered the language of Alpha civilization,

You can naturally understand some information that we cannot interpret, and it is not surprising that you can make such a judgment."

"Yes, yes," Layton suddenly interrupted, "especially on the time of Leviathan, when Ke Lan, you were so firm that Leviathan was still alive, and insisted on letting me send a message of "Emergency 000"...

… Fortunately, I did as I did, otherwise I would feel scared if I thought about it.”

"I judge that Leviathan is still alive because of this." Ke Lan took out another photo, which was the black stone tablet engraved with "The place where the giant beast that ruled the sky sleeps", and Ke Lan put the contents on the stone tablet

After roughly translating it, although it cannot accurately reach every character, its general meaning can still be conveyed into human language, especially the saying "long-lasting sleep" is different from "death".

"Alpha language is a very strange language, with a bit of meaning that 'can only be understood but not expressed', especially the characters on this black stone tablet. If translated literally, they will have more than three hundred completely different meanings...

...But for some reason, when I saw these characters for the first time, the only correct meaning appeared in my head." Ke Lan said, "So, I think this is probably because humans have not been able to decipher it yet.

One of the main reasons for this language.”

"That's true." Ivan nodded in agreement, "Once there were some people in the academic community who believed that Alpha people used brain waves rather than sounds to communicate, but later with the discovery of a large number of documents left over from Alpha civilization, "brain wave theory"

Then he was self-defeating - compared with brain waves, text is too backward as an information carrier... For example, just now, the thought that flashed through my head within a second, if it were changed

If it is recorded in words, it may have tens of thousands of words. If it is replaced by computer language, it will occupy more characters."

"In other words, although Ke Lan has mastered the language of Alpha civilization, he can't teach us these things like the language teacher in the school?" Zhuoligetu raised his thick palm, and his voice was muffled.

asked.

"I personally think that the language of Alpha civilization cannot be learned. It can only rely on some method similar to 'inheritance' to make people master it." Ke Lan said, "and this language is not spoken with the mouth."

Out..."

"Ke Lan, remember, you must keep this matter confidential, especially the people from the Security Bureau and the Research Institute cannot know... Although your ability is enough to change the course of human history, from my selfishness, I

I don't want you to die because of this." said the Hound, "and even if humans really need a living translator, it may not be you - don't forget that besides you, there is another person who has similar

ability.”

"The founder of that heretic sect..."

"Yes, that guy. Even if this scumbag is sent to the dissection table for slices, I will only feel very satisfying. What's more, since a second successor can appear, it means that this is not an isolated case. Sooner or later, it will be

The third one appears, the fourth one…”

...

After knowing the truth, although the Hounds and the others showed their due surprise, Ke Lan could clearly feel that their attitude towards them had not changed much except Ivan.

The guy looked at him now as if he had discovered some big treasure. If the hunting dogs were not here, he might have come up and asked himself what to organize his body and study it carefully.

"In addition to this, there is another ability that I just obtained." Ke Lan continued to say that everyone had almost digested this matter.

"There is another ability?" The Hound couldn't help but curl his lips, "To be honest, I'm already a little numb. Even if you tell me now that you can spit out a fireball in your mouth, I won't feel that strange.

.”

“What about ‘time stops’?”

"Ha? What did you say?" The hound stretched out a little finger and dug his ear hard.

Ke Lan didn't explain much, but took a deck of cards from the sofa beside him and held them in his hand, then said to Akira Asano: "Asano, there are 54 cards in this stack of cards. I will do it later.

Is it possible to throw it out toward the ceiling, and when the cards are scattered, you can use a knife to chop about half of them?"

"Yes." Asano Akira walked to the table and stood still, reaching out to hold the handle of the knife.

"Prepare--"

Ke Lan nodded and threw the entire deck of cards into the air.

With a "scarlet" sound, the battle blade was unsheathed, and a sword light immediately enveloped the scattered cards. When the battle blade returned to the sheath, Ke Lan had already turned around. The whole process was less than half.

Second.

"There are thirty-four cards in total, and six of them are cut into eight pieces, namely three spades, k, 6, 10, 10, 17 and 18, 18, 18, 18, 18, 18, 18, 18, 18, 18, 18, 18, 18, 18, 18, 18, 18, 18, 18, 1

There are three of them in six pieces..."

Ke Lan silently reported the color and number of cut cards of each chopped card. However, when they picked up the cards from the ground and carefully counted them, they found that they were actually Ke Lan's.
To be continued...