Volume 15 Gray Fog Forest Chapter 763: Wrong Information
"What?" Ke Lan was slightly stunned. The consciousness that was controlling the Eclipse to say this sentence should be the original consciousness of the captain of the "Shaojiang Kai" frigate, Heruni.
"Get out of here! Don't waste time... otherwise... otherwise it will be too late!" Shihai's body was twitching violently, as if something was about to drill out of its chest. Its hands were tightly covering its heart, and its whole body was kneeling on the ground, with its head against the ground, and its back covered with wounds was arched like a shrimp.
"What exactly is in the core area of the Gray Mist Forest? Isn't your mission to blow up the engine wreckage? Why did you become like this?" Taking advantage of the brief moment when Heruni was conscious, Ke Lan asked questions one after another.
"No... there is no engine wreckage in the forest! Wrong! The information is completely wrong! That is--"
At this point, Erosion, or rather Heruni, suddenly stopped. No sound came out of its mouth anymore, only black pus and blood with a strong fishy smell kept flowing out from between its lips and teeth.
Its head was tilted to one side, its cheek pressed against the ground, and its shoulders supported the weight of its upper body. Ke Lan could clearly hear the sound of constant squirming coming from inside its body, as if a leech was crawling through its flesh and blood.
"Hello? Hello! Hruni! Hruni Yang! Captain Yang!?"
No matter how Ke Lan called out to it, the Eclipse Corpse no longer responded - this feeling was just like watching an online novel where the author suddenly stopped updating at the most critical part of the plot and then disappeared from the face of the earth. It was enough to drive a person's rage index to the maximum.
Through the "communication" at the end, Ke Lan only got two pieces of information from "Erosion" Heruni Yang:
The first piece of information was that the "Alpha Civilization" might have betrayed the great god they believed in. Ke Lan had already anticipated this... Starting from the glacial ruins, all along the way, various clues were proving that the Alpha civilization seemed to be brewing a huge "conspiracy". On the surface, they worshiped "Him" and regarded him as a god, but in fact, there was "another plan" going on in secret.
But it is obvious that this plan should have failed, but Ke Lan doesn’t know whether the failure was due to being discovered by "Him" or for some other reason ... But the disappearance of the Alpha civilization is definitely related to this plan.
The second piece of information was that there were no engine wreckage sites in the core area of the Gray Mist Forest. The information was wrong.
There is nothing wrong with the first half of the sentence, it is very clear, but the second half is a bit confusing - wrong intelligence, does that mean the intelligence is wrong, or does it mean that the entire Undead Crew was kept in the dark?
The Undead Crew has many sources of intelligence, but most of the information related to the secrets of the Alpha civilization is obtained by relying on the symbiote to interpret the Alpha civilization documents excavated from the ruins... Then, this leads to the second question: Are the initial documents obtained by the Undead Crew wrong, or are there some deviations in the process of interpretation?
It would have been better if Heruni could finish the second half of the sentence - there were only two pieces of information in total, and the second one was incomplete, so it could barely be counted as 1.75.
Of course, for Ke Lan, the most important thing is this incomplete "0.75 pieces" of information.
"There is no engine wreckage site in the core area of the Gray Mist Forest."
The mission record of the special operations fleet was modified... or in other words, the modified version was saved in the hard disk at the beginning... Although they suffered a fierce attack from biological weapons, perhaps they did not retreat halfway...
The failure of the mission was probably directly related to the secret hidden in the Gray Mist Forest - and it was this secret that turned the captain of the "Shaojiang Kai" frigate, Heruni Yang, into a wreck, and made Mo Jue's father obsessed with this "man-eating forest".
Ke Lan couldn't help but feel a little regretful. It seemed that her choice was really a bit too reckless.
Perhaps, if we first look for the fleet veterans who participated in that mission, we will get more valuable information...
But soon, Ke Lan erased the thought of regret from his mind.
This assumption does not exist - whether it is a special operations team of a dozen people like the 776 Special Forces Team, or a Class C fleet like the "Special Operations Fleet" consisting of five warships and thousands of officers and soldiers... as long as the undead crew decides to completely block the news, it is impossible for anyone to survive until now.
Mo Jue's father is just an exception, and this exception cannot be replicated... As for the other "veterans" of the lumberjack team, they may be members of the "special operations fleet" who survived, or they may be members of a special team who escaped death... But they all have one thing in common: their personal files have more or less these bugs, and their existence is difficult to be discovered by ordinary search methods.
And if Ke Lan uses the channels of the Undead Crew to look for these people, it will only alert the enemy - the other members of the crew will be aware of his intentions first and kill these "survivors" before he can.
The undead crew will never care about individual lives. Even if there are a thousand or ten thousand people who know about it, they will kill them without hesitation.
Although this was cruel, Ke Lan had to admit that their approach was the safest - if those who knew the secret spread the news and then shared what they had with each other... it was very likely that most of the people on the Ark would be transformed into monsters called "Erosion Corpses".
The "meme crisis" at the institute was limited to "spreading" only after "seeing", but it had already caused such great damage... Then this kind of cognitive pollution, which would be "eroded" as long as "knowing of its existence", would be absolutely devastating to human civilization.
After the undead crew killed the survivors, it would be almost impossible for Ke Lan to go to the Gray Mist Forest to search for clues.
Now, another question is placed before Ke Lan:
Since there are no engine wreckage sites in the Gray Mist Forest, it means that Ke Lan has no chance of finding any living Alphas - communicating with the remnants of the Alpha civilization is the ultimate goal of his trip!
If he had known that there were no engine wreckage sites in the Gray Mist Forest, he might not have planned this exploration mission at all.
The secret in the Gray Mist Forest is related to "forbidden knowledge"...but it is not known whether this "forbidden knowledge" is the information that Ke Lan wants to know.
Regarding the degree of erosion and over-erosion, Ke Lan suddenly thought of a very apt metaphor.
If the progress bar of the erosion degree is compared to the remaining capacity of a hard disk, then those "forbidden knowledge" are files stored in this hard disk that cannot be deleted. When the hard disk is completely full, the computer will not be able to run, which is called "over-erosion" - although Ke Lan is also very interested in the secrets hidden in the Gray Mist Forest, his "remaining hard disk space" is so small. If these "files" are stored, he may not have the opportunity to explore the things he wants to know most.
You can only choose to absorb part of these "forbidden knowledge". If you choose to "take them all", the result will be to become a monster called "Erosion Corpse".
For "low-level civilizations" like humans, the desire for knowledge and curiosity can bring progress, but also destruction - no matter from which angle you look at it, this is an eternal truth.
"Should we retreat?" Ke Lan asked herself.
If he goes back this time, the Undead Crew may take some coercive measures to restrict his freedom - although Ke Lan now has an equal status with other crew members, if the majority of the crew members decide to restrict his freedom, he cannot go against the will of the majority.
Ke Lan felt that Demeter and the others would not stand on his side in this matter, as evidenced by Demeter's refusal to tell Ke Lan about those things.
He said that sharing information is not that simple.
Ke Lan always felt a little unwilling to go back like this... Not only would he not gain anything substantial, but he would also completely lose the initiative in action, and even other people in the God Hunting Group might be implicated.
But if they continue to explore deeper... what will they encounter, what will happen, what the outcome will be... Ke Lan has no idea at all.
If the core area of the Gray Mist Forest is an engine wreckage site, then after arriving there, the only question that exists is whether the Alpha civilization survivor who stayed behind in the engine wreckage is as non-hostile to humans as "No. 92" and is willing to communicate... But now, all previous assumptions have been completely overturned because of a word from Heruni Yang.
Although the map was originally covered with fog, at least the end point was clearly visible. But now, even the end of the journey is completely hidden in the thick fog.
This exploration mission now only leaves unknowns and dangers.
When Heruni Yang was conscious, he frantically asked Ke Lan to leave here... Maybe I should really do as he said?
Just when Ke Lan's heart began to waver, Heruni, who had been kneeling on the ground without moving... no, it should be called "Eclipse" at this time... stood up again.
The facial features disappeared, as if they were dissolved by a special solvent. The face became smooth and blank. Through the pale and almost transparent skin, Ke Lan could vaguely see the purple blood vessels underneath... This did not look like a head, but more like a large ostrich egg covered with skin and flesh.
The Erosion's movements were a little stiff, and the joints of its limbs made uncomfortable "cracking" sounds. The wounds on its body began to rot, and the tiny tentacles dissolved into pus and flowed along its body surface.
There was an extremely exaggerated bulge on its chest, and its ribs seemed to be completely deformed - even the chests of patients with severe pigeon chest deformity did not have such a severe bulge.
Something is growing vigorously in its chest...
"The Seed of Erosion? Or a monster like the Alien?" Ke Lan couldn't help but take two steps back. The spatial force from Ze Luo was ready. As long as the "Erosion Corpse" had any abnormal movement, hundreds of thousands of tons of force would instantly knock it to the ground and press it into a piece of flesh membrane not much thicker than paper.
With a creepy sound, the chest wall of "Erosion" began to crack, and a cyst the size of an American football rolled out.
Afterwards, Erosion fell backwards on his back, completely losing his life.
"What's this……?"
Ke Lan's attention was immediately drawn to the things on the ground.
This thing looks like the swim bladder of a fish (commonly known as the fish bubble), and inside it is an immature embryo curled up.
An embryo with the rudiments of a human fetus.
