Volume 12: Yaguna Kotor Chapter 597 Strong Magnetism
Ke Lan didn't know how terrifying his power was - it was completely meaningless to humans, just like a penniless beggar would never understand what the concept of billions of wealth meant... and the actual situation might be even more exaggerated than this.
At least a beggar can imagine a mountain of gold and diamonds, but humans cannot even reach the realm where He exists.
After all, human cognition is based on the existing worldview and various physical laws, but He has the ability to modify these "laws" at will...Humans can't even know how to "understand" Him, so how can they glimpse His true power?
With just a thought, He can completely wipe out humanity from this world without leaving a trace. This is even easier than a child in the old days using a pee to collapse an ant nest.
When being watched by Him, Ke Lan couldn't even feel the so-called "powerlessness" - powerlessness is the feeling you get when facing an opponent you can't defeat at all. And His existence has transcended the existing cognitive boundaries of human beings... He may be the truth of thousands of universes itself.
In the mythological stories handed down from various human civilizations in the old era, "God" mostly has a personified image, whether it is the "God" of Christianity, the "Allah" of the Arabs, the "Shakyamuni" of Buddhism, or the "Jade Emperor and Queen Mother" in Chinese legends... After stripping away their magical powers and strength, they are actually living people.
Perhaps, only the concepts of "Heaven's Way" and "God's Will" in Chinese culture are closer to the category of "God" - God should be the laws of the operation of the universe, rather than a creature that can be personified.
The "Heaven and Earth" in the poem "Heaven and Earth have no benevolence. They treat all things as straw dogs" are the only things that can truly be called "God."
Before having any encounter with Him, Ke Lan had always understood the word "God" in this way.
But now, his thoughts began to waver.
His power...seems to be above "heaven and earth", and that "sense of being watched" proves that He is a self-aware being, rather than an empty, elusive natural concept.
Ke Lan wanted to describe Him with words, but he racked his brains but could not think of any suitable words. Even in the Alpha language, which carries much more information than human language, he could not think of a better way to describe Him except "Him" and "the great god".
Ke Lan suddenly remembered the contents of the stone tablet. Although the text on the stone tablet did not directly describe "Him", it mentioned that "Him" had many enemies, and the war between "Him" and His enemies had lasted for countless years...
So, "He" is actually a high-dimensional creature that humans cannot understand? Just like the characters in computer games, if the little man on the screen has self-awareness, he may never understand that outside the world of 0 and 1, there is a "real" world, a world made up of matter.
The so-called "artificial intelligence" and "breaking the dimensional wall" are just a poor imitation of the human way of thinking by data. In essence, they are completely two dimensional existences.
Maybe... the relationship between humans and "Him" is just like the little man on the screen and the player in front of the screen?
To erase a piece of data, players only need to simply press the "Del" key... For the characters in the game, this is also an ability that is incomprehensible and even beyond the rules of the world.
Perhaps, at this moment, He is like a player in front of a computer, looking at the screen and waiting for the development of the game plot.
The sacrifice ceremony of the black host was finally completed. All the rotten flesh on his body peeled off, and a brand new "body" appeared in front of Ke Lan.
This is a skinny body with dark skin. At first glance, it is quite similar to a black skeleton - it is like a black skeleton wrapped in a layer of black skin. The flesh and organs under the skin have disappeared, and only the heart in the chest cavity is still beating strongly.
Every time the heart beats, some "liquid" is pumped along the fine tubes under the skin to every corner of the body... As for whether this "liquid" is blood, Ke Lan has no way of knowing for sure.
Just before the black cardinal died, something dripped out of his seven orifices... Rather than blood, Ke Lan felt that it was more like asphalt.
Apart from these places, the black cardinal's body did not undergo any strange changes - his skeleton still maintained a human shape, the phalanges of his ten fingers did not grow into bone claws like the black skeleton, and nothing like bone spurs or scales grew on his body.
Ke Lan couldn't help but think of the mummies in ancient Egypt in the old era - the thing in front of him looked a mummy fished out of asphalt.
Even the tentacles that were used to absorb the pilot's flesh and blood were stripped away along with the rotten flesh. Compared to the current appearance, the black-robed cardinal who was just being sacrificed looked more like a monster.
Just as Ke Lan was looking at it, the black mummy suddenly moved - but what greatly surprised Ke Lan was that its movements were not fast...it could even be described as slow. Not to mention compared to the black skeleton that was so fast that even its shadow could not be seen, even an old lady pushing a wheelchair might be faster than this thing.
The black mummy was just like the primary zombies that appeared at the beginning of the plot in old-era zombie movies and had not undergone much evolution and mutation. It took slow steps and slowly approached where Ke Lan was.
"What is this?" Ke Lan couldn't help but feel a little puzzled. "Is this guy deliberately showing weakness to the enemy so that I can let down my guard?"
But is it meaningful to do so? The black skeleton summoned by the sacrifice of an ordinary person is so powerful. This time, three people plus three Corrosion Seeds are used as sacrifices. Will the summoned zombie mummy be a soldier-level zombie?
Ke Lan did not rush up and kill it immediately. Instead, he picked up the joystick that he had just pulled out and smashed it at the mummy.
"Bang!"
There was a sound of metal clashing, and the joystick hit the black mummy, splashing a dense shower of sparks.
"From the sound... this guy's skin seems to have been metalized, so is his slow movements due to the influence of the metalization?" Ke Lan thought to himself.
If only the bones are metallized, the body's mobility will not be affected as long as the joints are not "welded". But if the skin is metallized, it means that every movement must be completed by deforming the metal, and the resistance will be huge.
So, this guy’s ability is...super high defense?
Ke Lan always felt that things were not that simple.
He picked up the pocket pistol that the pilot had dropped on the ground and pulled the trigger repeatedly at the black mummy.
"Ding! Ding! Ding——"
The 5.5mm caliber bullets specially designed for pocket pistols hit the black mummy's body, making crisp sounds and sparks flying everywhere, but the actual shooting effect... was not even a scratch.
The black mummy was still walking slowly towards Ke Lan. At its current speed, Ke Lan could easily use the control console in the middle of the cockpit to play "Emperor Qin Circling the Pillar" with it - if it maintained this state, even after the plane landed, it probably wouldn't be able to touch Ke Lan.
However, just when Ke Lan was about to do this , he suddenly discovered that most of the bullets he shot were actually stuck to the black mummy's body!
Not only the bullets, but even the joystick that was thrown out began to tremble on the ground and slid towards the black mummy little by little.
Although the pocket pistol in Ke Lan's hand was mostly made of polymer material, it still had a lot of metal parts. He could clearly feel a suction force that was gradually increasing...
"This guy can generate magnetism? And the magnetism is constantly increasing?" Ke Lan couldn't help but think of a character called "Magneto" in a superhero movie... However, compared with Magneto who can manipulate the magnetic field at will, the ability of the black mummy in front of him seems to be imperfect. It is simply equivalent to a magnet, spontaneously attracting the surrounding metal objects.
But the problem was that the magnetism attached to his body was rapidly increasing. After sliding on the ground for more than ten centimeters, the joystick finally flew up and stuck to the outside of its calf with a "bang".
Ke Lan couldn't help but glance at the large screen in the cockpit, and saw that the transport plane, which had been flying smoothly, was now showing signs of being out of control - it was obvious that the gradually increasing magnetism of had affected the components in the control console, and in turn affected the aircraft's automatic cruise system.
If you cut the view to the outside of the plane at this time, you can see that the entire Hercules transport plane is running up and down in the clouds like a headless fly. If an uninformed person sees this scene, he might think that the pilot of this plane is driving drunk...
Although the cockpit and the first-class cabin would not shake like the "pirate ship" in the amusement park thanks to the coordination of the automatic balancing system, it was impossible for Lin Qiming and his companions to escape from the plane by parachuting in this situation. If they jumped out of the cabin while shaking so violently, there was a high probability of hitting the rear wing or being sucked into the engine turbine. Even the relatively "safest" tail door could be sucked in by the turbulence generated by the tail wing.
Well-trained special agents like Lin Qiming might have a certain chance of survival, but these experts from the research institute, apart from their higher IQ, have no difference in physical fitness from ordinary people, and most of them have no experience in skydiving.
In this situation, asking experts with zero skydiving experience to jump out of the hatch is tantamount to asking them to commit suicide.
Ke Lan couldn't delay any longer. If she delayed any further, the magnetism on the black mummy would only become stronger and stronger. By the time the console was completely scrapped, it would be too late.
He took a deep breath, lowered his center of gravity slightly, and then rushed towards the black mummy!
When he was three meters away from the black mummy, he braked suddenly, converted the forward force into a torque, turned a 360-degree circle on the spot, and then swung the blood-red giant sword behind him with all his strength!
“Bang!!”
A loud bang sounded in the cockpit, and the giant sword in Ke Lan's hand hit the black mummy's shoulder and neck solidly.
But this sword failed to split the black mummy's chest, nor could it smash its shoulder - the blade of the giant sword couldn't even cut into the black mummy's body...
Ke Lan knew very well how terrifying the power of this sword was, not to mention the black mummy in front of him who was half a body shorter than him - although the mummy's body was unharmed, the floor of the cockpit could not withstand this force and collapsed directly.
Even if the explosion-proof door in front of Ke Lan was one that even a heavy machine gun couldn't penetrate, it should have been cut open by this sword.
But now he was like holding a hammer, hammering the black mummy's "nail" into the floor.
As for the "nail" itself, no damage was caused.
“So hard?!”
As Ke Lan's mind moved, the blade of the giant sword instantly became serrated and began to spin at high speed. The originally simple-looking broad-bladed giant sword instantly turned into a chainsaw sword exuding the breath of loyalty.
The high-speed rotating saw teeth collided with the black mummy's neck, causing a teeth-grinding friction sound. A large number of sparks flew out, almost covering the entire upper body of the mummy... But only Ke Lan knew that the chainsaw sword in his hand... couldn't advance even a little bit.
In terms of hardness alone, the body of this black mummy has surpassed the 100% pure Nino alloy... If this guy is dragging such a body to move, then how terrifying its limbs strength must be, Ke Lan simply can't believe it.
At least it's no problem to dismantle this transport plane with bare hands...
The black mummy did not climb out of the pit immediately. It just slowly raised its arm and grabbed the chainsaw sword on its shoulder.
The saw chain on the blade suddenly stopped.
Ke Lan was startled and quickly retracted the chainsaw sword - fortunately, the weapon condensed by the living armor could be transformed at any time, so he broke free from the opponent's hand.
"My attack cannot break through the defense. My strength is completely at a disadvantage. My only advantage is that my movement speed is much faster than this guy... But I have to get rid of this guy in the shortest possible time, otherwise the increasing magnetism will destroy the entire cockpit..." Ke Lan's brain was working quickly, and his eyes were constantly scanning the surrounding objects, trying to find a way to get rid of the black mummy in a short time...
