"It seems that I guessed right. This 'hive' is a large shelter." Thirty-three nodded vigorously and agreed with some pride.

"What do these characters mean? Can they be translated?" Ke Lan asked, pointing to the inscription on the inside of the can.

"The 43rd batch is only for use by ground exploration teams." Ze Luo said.

"Only for the ground exploration team?" Ke Lan quickly imagined a picture in his mind: the surface of Alpha Planet was completely covered by ice caps, and the "people" living on this planet were forced to move into buildings built underground.

Life in a shelter in the depths. However, long years have passed, and the environment on the surface has not changed at all.

, the various resources in the underground shelter gradually began to be stretched. In order to prevent the shelter from collapsing, the managers had to form a "ground exploration team" and send people to the surface to collect information and resources... If this is the case, this ground exploration team

The team is somewhat similar to the relic hunters on the Ark.

"It seems that this kind of canned food should be regarded as a special offering, and the output will not be too large." Thirty-three thought of something similar to Ke Lan, "The forty-third batch... It seems that this hive has already sent out to the ground.

Passed many exploration teams."

"These cans are not used to hold food." Ze Luo said suddenly.

"Why do you say that?" Thirty-three was stunned, "Where did you see it?"

"My intuition tells me that what is contained in this can is very dangerous." Ze Luo said seriously.

"Intuition..." The corner of Thirty-three's mouth twitched a few times, "These are just some empty cans with nothing in them. How can you 'perceive' that the things inside are dangerous? If you say this can

There are also prefabricated fragmentation slots engraved on the surface, which may contain explosives... But the problem is that this thing is almost the same as the common food cans on the Ark, except that the tab on the lid may be a little different."

Thirty-three thought for a moment, took out a can of "Potato Stewed Beef Brisket" from his backpack, tore off the label, shook the smooth can in front of Zeluo's eyes, and said: "

Then when you look at this can, do you feel any danger?"

"That's not what I meant." Ze Luo shook his head, "It's just that when I stand here, I seem to be able to see... they are filling the cans with something... that can make me feel dangerous."

"You can see...could this be the legendary 'sense of instant vision'?" Thirty-three immediately shifted the focus of his attention to Ke Lan, "If it's convenient, can you tell me the origin of Ze Luo?

?Maybe she has been to this place before?"

"Even she and I don't know the origin of Ze Luo." Ke Lan shook his head, "When her self-awareness awakened, she was already on the 'altar' built by the Arasaka Consortium... As for the Arasaka Consortium

The people inside who know her origins have all died in the East Ninth District Incident, even if there are survivors..."

Speaking of this, Ke Lan suddenly let out a sigh: "Hey... I suddenly thought that the Undead Crew might know the true origin of Ze Luo. They originally sent the World to carry out the abandonment operation of the East 9th District module. Will

Don’t you just want to kill all the survivors of the Arasaka Foundation to prevent them from leaking this matter?”

"Did the undead crew never mention Ze Luo later?" Thirty-three asked curiously.

"I mentioned it, but only once. They seemed to have tacitly agreed to let Ze Luo stay by my side without any interference." Ke Lan said thoughtfully, "The more I think about it, the more suspicious it becomes... After the East Ninth District incident,

Those members of the Arasaka Consortium who stayed in other blocks later disappeared.

Got it... Although it is impossible for these people to have access to secrets of this level with their level. But judging from this method of eradicating the roots, it does seem like the handiwork of the Immortal Crew Association... I used to think that those Arasaka Consortium

The remnants of it were purged away by people from heretical sects.”

"Ze Luo, I remember that you can have a spiritual connection with me, right? Then can you share this 'sense of instant vision' with me?" Ke Lan asked the Sanwu girl.

"I'll try." After Ze Luo said this, he turned into the black liquid again and adhered to Ke Lan's back. Ke Lan could clearly feel that countless fine tentacles were coming from his neck.

It penetrates and goes all the way up the cervical spine, then drills out from the gap under the occipital bone, carefully avoiding the rich blood vessels and nerves in the brain, and then penetrates several layers of ligaments and mucous membranes until it reaches the cerebral cortex.

A feeling like an electric shock came from his limbs and bones, and Ke Lan couldn't help but shudder, followed by waves of numbness in his scalp.

Generally speaking, describing the brain as painful as a needle prick is a metaphor, but now Ke Lan can really feel the feeling of those tentacles piercing the brain... Although Ze Luo has tried his best to avoid important blood vessels and nerves

However, the strangeness coming from his brain still caused Ke Lan to suffer from temporary facial paralysis.

Fortunately, this strange feeling subsided before Ke Lan was about to burst into tears.

"Huh...huh..." Ke Lan gasped, "Spiritual connection...is it so exciting? Why didn't I feel this way the past few times?"

"The past few times were shallow connections." Ze Luo's voice rang directly in Ke Lan's brain, "But I just tried it, and it was just a shallow connection that couldn't combine the pictures I saw and what I heard.

Those sounds are shared with you, so only the deepest connection method can be used. If the connection is not made in the cockpit of the Blasphemer mecha, it will indeed make people feel uncomfortable, and it will also affect the mental strength of the connector.

The weaker party causes irreversible damage."

"Irreversible damage...what does it mean?" Ke Lan subconsciously thought of the connection between himself and Valentina.

"If the spiritual connection is too deep and lasts too long, the one with the weaker spiritual power will lose his complete personality. In other words, he will 'live forever in the shadow of others.'" Ze Luo

explained.

"I probably understand." Ke Lan couldn't help but think of the first time he encountered a "black skeleton", which was in the ninth cargo hold of the "Pioneer" icebreaker. At that time, Ke Lan had not yet figured out his own abilities.

Trying to control the "black skeleton", his self-awareness was almost swallowed up by a "black hole" that suddenly appeared in his mind.

At that time, Ke Lan thought that his consciousness was counter-invaded by the "Black Skeleton" when he invaded it. But judging from the symptoms of brain tingling at the beginning, he should have unintentionally interacted with the "Black Skeleton" at that time.

Skeleton” establishes a spiritual connection.

The black skeleton had obviously lost its self-awareness long ago, so what Ke Lan came into contact with was a "black hole", not another conscious body that could communicate.

"Are you ready?" Ze Luo asked.

Ke Lan nodded silently.

A feeling that is difficult to describe in words suddenly spread, and Ke Lan felt that his vision seemed to become blurry... But when the scene in front of him began to blur to a certain extent, he could vaguely see a

Humanoid shadows move around the streets and factories.

This image is very similar to the shadowy figure Ke Lan saw in the memory fragments before, but there is a subtle difference between the two: the memory fragments are like short short films that can only be seen at a specific time and at a specific time.

Things and scenes in the place; and the "sense of immediate sight" that Ze Luo shared with Ke Lan is more like giving Ke Lan's eyes the ability to look back in time, peering through the confusion of time and space to see what happened tens of thousands of years ago.

.

The bodies of the workers who operate the "capping machines" seem to have been specially modified. Compared with the figures walking on the street, their shoulders and arms are more than a circle thicker, and the edges and corners are also very stiff. They don't look like them at all.

The roundness that biological limbs should have - just like the cyborg robotic arm on Layton.

Workers were divided into groups of four. One person fixed the empty can on the machine, the other two worked together to carry a seemingly heavy barrel-shaped container, and the last person used a long drainage rod to guide the contents of the barrel.

into the empty can.

Although he couldn't see clearly what was in the bucket, when the liquid was exposed to the air, Ke Lan also felt an inexplicable palpitation - he didn't know whether this feeling came from himself or Ze who was connected to his spirit.

Luo, but all in all, when his sight was removed from the gurgling liquid on the drainage rod, he felt like his hair was on fire, and he wished he could immediately turn his sight elsewhere, or simply withdraw from the state of mental connection.

Ke Lan forced herself to stare at the workers' operations, pinching her thighs with both hands, not even noticing that her nails dug into her flesh through her pants and small pieces of blood stained them.

Those workers acted very carefully, as if the liquid they were filling was nitroglycerine... But if it was really an inflammable and explosive substance like nitroglycerine, although it was very dangerous, Ke Lan knew that he would never produce it.

That feeling.

There are a total of sixteen cans in a batch. After filling, they have to go through a screening process. Only the qualified ones will be transported to other places by rail trains. The unqualified ones will stay and be carried on trolleys to the basement of the factory.

Go inside.

Ke Lan really wanted to follow the cart to the basement to have a look, but in reality the entrance to the basement had been doused with molten steel. He could only watch the figure on the cart pass through the steel and disappear under the ground.

.

"What did you see?" Thirty-three on the side saw Ke Lan walking towards the semi-open factory with wide eyes, and quickly followed him.

"I don't know what they are filling...but I also feel a bit of danger from that thing." Ke Lan said with a very sure tone, "After the cans are sealed, there is a 'quality inspection procedure'.

Qualified products will be transported away, and unqualified products will be sent to this basement... But this basement has been sealed with molten steel and cannot be entered."

"Then it seems we can only follow another clue." Thirty-three answered, "Can you keep up with the qualified products that were shipped away?"

"Yes." Ke Lan turned around and walked outside. After looking around, he selected a track leading into the distance and quickened his pace.

The two of them walked through the second level of the hive city for a full half an hour before finally arriving at an empty square. But just as they walked out of the corner, Thirty-Three suddenly stopped and fired hundreds of black flying blades.

At the same time, the hidden pockets on his body shot out and floated one meter in front of him.

"What's wrong?" Sensing that Thirty-Three was taking an attacking stance, Ke Lan had a trace of doubt on his face.

"In the center of the square, there is a platform, can you see it?" Thirty-three's voice was very low, "There is a lump on the platform... a lump of rotten meat... This lump of meat seems to be alive, can I

You can see it squirming slightly."

"A piece of rotten meat?"

However, what Ke Lan saw was a little girl with long straight black hair, pale skin, and a slender figure, about twelve to fourteen years old.

Unlike the other figures, he could completely see the face of this little girl, so much so that when Ke Lan saw her for the first time, he almost thought that this little girl existed in the real world and was not shared by Ze Luo.

Your own "sense of immediate vision".

She is so real, so real that she is so incompatible with the foggy world in "The Sense of Immediate Sight".

Ke Lan's gaze moved towards the little girl's lower body - don't get me wrong, he was not a pervert with some weird quirks, he simply wanted to know whether this little girl was a "human" or an "Alpha".

But what makes Ke Lan a little disappointed is that the little girl's body only has the upper part, just like a bust statue. Her waist is directly connected to a base, and there are many tubes extending from the base and inserted into her back.

and ribs. Some mechanical structures similar to powered exoskeletons covered her spine and limbs, and hard and cold metal restraints tightly pinched the pale limbs.

A black robe was symbolically draped over her shoulders, and the outline of her bony shoulders was completely highlighted on the surface of the robe.

A mask equipped with a ventilation valve and an oxygen supply tube was buckled on her face, covering most of her face. Only half of her small and delicate nose bones and a pair of big eyes with purple pupils were exposed. Even so,

It can also be seen that the beauty of this little girl is definitely not bad. If she were a few years older, she would definitely be called a beauty that would bring disaster to the country and the people - according to normal human beauty standards.
To be continued...