Volume 15 Gray Fog Forest Chapter 761: Things in the Bridge
"However, I can share senses with you." Ze Luo continued, "Just like you and Valentina in the Blasphemer mecha."
"What?! Wait a minute..." Before Ke Lan could refuse, he felt that the "armor" that was pressed against his back had changed. Countless tiny spikes grew out from the inside of the armor, piercing his skin and muscles, as well as the ligaments between the vertebrae, all the way to the spinal cord and connecting with his nerve center.
The discomfort only lasted for less than a second. After the connection was completed, this "living armor" no longer felt like "something worn on the body" to Ke Lan, but more like a part of his body.
But just after Ze Luo and Ke Lan's consciousness were completely connected, Ke Lan suddenly felt the headache that Ze Luo had just described - this was not an ordinary headache at all. Ke Lan felt as if his brain was about to split apart... as if something was about to drill out from deep within his brain.
Ke Lan originally thought that he had a high resistance to headaches. After all, every time he used the time-stop skill, his brain would endure the kind of cramping pain that ordinary people could hardly imagine... It felt like someone was stirring his brain and scratching his spinal cord with a blade ... But now, the pain that Ke Lan shared with Ze Luo was countless times stronger than this.
Only Ze Luo could appear stress-free in the face of such severe pain - for her, her face just turned a little pale, but for others, the body's self-protection mechanism would probably have been triggered and they would have passed out.
Ke Lan's tolerance was not as strong as Ze Luo's. The moment the severe pain came, he half-knelt down, and the polymer knee pads on his legs hit the metal base heavily, making a crisp sound.
"Ke Lan! What's wrong with you?!" Sanshisan was startled and reached out to support Ke Lan, while Asano Akira drew out his sword and protected the two of them behind him.
"I... I'm fine... I just experienced the feeling that Ze Luo had just had..." Ke Lan shook his still dizzy head, held his forehead and stood up - the moment he half-knelt down because he could not bear the severe pain deep in his head, Ze Luo had already cut off the sharing of their senses. If her action had been half a second slower, Ke Lan would probably have fallen into a coma now.
"Is it that exaggerated?" Thirty-three whispered, "Since I've known you, this is the first time I've seen you in such a mess."
"It's not an exaggeration at all. That kind of pain has already exceeded the limit of what human senses can bear." Ke Lan took a few long breaths and finally recovered. "To put it in a more artistic way, it's like 'it's as if the soul is being torn apart.'"
Thirty-three subconsciously cast his eyes towards the closed airtight door leading to the bridge near the corridor, and said in a deep voice: "Or, let's retreat ... I'm not afraid of death, I just think that we have more important things to do."
"No, I think we should go in." Ke Lan stood up straight and looked at the door leading to the bridge.
"Why?"
"If the thing in the bridge can kill us easily, why would it need to rely on the plasma main gun of the 'Shaojiang Modified'? Moreover, if its power is really that terrifying, even if we turn around and run now, we won't be able to escape." Ke Lan said.
"Hey... After hearing what you said, I don't think the things inside are that scary anymore." Sanshisan suddenly laughed, "That's true. This guy still needs the power of the warship built by the Ark, which means that its body... may actually be very weak..."
"Let's go."
Ke Lan walked past Asano Akira who was holding a knife, and came to the airtight door.
He did not use violence to break the airtight door, but simply placed his palm on the door panel.
Ze Luo and Ke Lan share not only their senses, but also their superb spatial control abilities.
An inconspicuous spark flashed on the circuit board inside the airtight door, and then the sophisticated mechanical structure began to move. With a "click" sound of the bolt retracting, the heavy airtight door slid into the wall on one side.
The bridge of the "Shaojiang Modified" frigate was fully displayed in Ke Lan's field of vision.
Compared with other parts of the warship that were severely damaged, the facilities on the bridge were surprisingly well preserved. Most of the semi-circular surveillance windows covering the dome were still able to work normally, presenting the outside scene faithfully on the screen.
Including the corridor that Ke Lan and the others came from, countless vines gathered towards the middle from all corners of the bridge, and finally formed a cocoon-like object at the place where the captain's seat was originally. Through the gaps in the vines, one can see that a human being is imprisoned in the cocoon - or rather, a thing that used to be a human.
"Its" body was covered with torn wounds, and tiny transparent tentacles stretched out from these wounds, gently swaying like water plants on the bottom of a lake. A large amount of sticky liquid flowed along the grooves and cracks on the rattan cocoon, and finally dripped onto the ground... The sound that Asano Akira had heard in the corridor before was obviously made by this "thing".
The body was without any clothes and its facial features were completely distorted. Based on these features alone, it was impossible to determine his original identity.
As Ke Lan's mind moved, a pair of invisible big hands immediately pulled the vine cocoon open, and the "human body" wrapped in the vine lost its support, fell out, and hit the ground with a "pa" sound.
"Its" body seemed very fragile. When it fell to the ground, its flesh and blood burst apart directly. The farthest piece even flew to a place less than five meters away from Ke Lan's feet - but almost at the same time, these flying pieces of flesh crawled back and attached themselves to the human-shaped skeleton again.
"What monster?" Thirty-three narrowed his eyes, aimed his gun with one hand, and held dozens of black flying blades in the air with the other hand, ready to strike.
For some reason, Ke Lan suddenly had a very strange feeling in her heart: this person is still alive... and "it" still retains the consciousness and memory of its original human being.
But "it" and humans are already a completely different thing. "It" only knows that it was once a "human".
After the body was reassembled, the person lying on the ground raised his head with some effort, and his cloudy and dislocated eyes immediately met Ke Lan's vision.
At the moment their eyes met, a large amount of memory fragments flooded into Ke Lan's mind!
