Volume 16 Tower of Babel Chapter 1023 The Holy Ark
"Is there any way to resist the pollution of divine energy?"
"It is impossible to resist, but it can be neutralized with energy of the same level but different origin." Selene answered like an encyclopedia, "For example, the energy of the alien gods that the Alpha civilization once collected."
"In other words, if I return to the Ark now, these pollution particles with god-level energy will not affect me?"
"Not for now." Selene emphasized the word "for now" in a very humane way.
"The space between the Crescent Fortress and the Ark's underground ice storage wasn't completely destroyed by the Star Destroyer, right? Can it be teleported in reverse?"
"Yes. But the space beacon is unstable, and the teleportation point will deviate within a small range." Selene said, "There is a certain probability that the teleportation point will be inside the wall."
"Like the clipping in the game?"
"It's more serious than penetration. When the Alpha Civilization just mastered the teleportation technology, the first person who volunteered to be an experimenter was Major Anderson of the Fourth Space Corps. He was teleported to a building next to the target location, and his body was stuck directly in the ceiling." Selene said, "The record of this experiment is in the archives of Crescent Fortress, you can check it yourself."
"Then can't we rescue the people by chiseling open the ceiling?"
"At the moment the transmission was completed, the two spaces were overlapping, which means that part of the ceiling had merged with Major Anderson's body. Without the help of higher-level space technology, the two cannot be separated."
"So this Anderson... is he dead?"
"The physical strength of the Alpha people is much stronger than that of the Ark people. Major Anderson did not die immediately, but he endured unimaginable pain... After the research team repeatedly confirmed that they could not separate the ceiling and Major Anderson's body, they directly transferred Major Anderson's brain tissue into the mechanical prosthesis and abandoned his original body." Selene said.
"What if I teleport into the wall?" Ke Lan thought about it. With his body's ability to recover, even if a part of it merged with the wall or ceiling or something, as long as he cut off the merged part, it should recover quickly, right?
Not to mention being cut in half like Anderson, even if Ke Lan was completely melted into the wall, as long as he had one finger exposed outside, he could use this finger to "regain life".
After weighing the risks of "blind transmission" in his mind, Ke Lan made a decision and said to Selene: "Open the transmission channel and send me back."
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A few minutes later, Ke Lan returned to the empty warehouse again. Four winding black arcs shot out from the four corners of the warehouse. When these arcs were entangled together, an elliptical entrance to the passage gradually took shape... The inside of the passage was only chaos, and no one knew what was on the other side of the passage.
"The transmission channel can only last for three seconds." Selene's voice rang out in the warehouse, "and the landing point of the transmission channel will continue to change slightly within these three seconds. There is no regular pattern to this change. Please judge the timing of transmission by yourself."
The teleportation landing point will constantly change, which is very similar to the space-time fragments on the top of the hive city cloud. Although the star destroyer cannon is not fired at full power, it still causes huge interference to the space inside the Ark. Even if there is a space beacon, the transmission channel will become very unstable.
This means that Ke Lan cannot use the "throwing a stone to test the water" method to determine whether the other end of the passage is safe. He can only bite the bullet and take the gamble.
He took a deep breath and jumped into the transmission channel.
The surrounding environment suddenly began to distort, and then was stretched into a blurred band of light - just like sitting on a very fast train, using a time-lapse camera to shoot the neon signs of shops on both sides of the track... When Ke Lan came to his senses , his feet were already on the solid floor.
"The teleportation was completed? It seems that I am lucky... at least I didn't get stuck in the wall." Ke Lan looked around and found that the landing point of the teleportation was a very unfamiliar place.
This should be inside the Ark, but Ke Lan has never been to this place before - even after he joined the Undead Crew, he has never been to this place.
Not only had he never been here, he had never even heard of this place.
As a member of the Undead Crew, there should be no so-called "secret corners" on the Ark - the Black Well, the storage place of the Coffin of Eternal Life, and the computer room of the core brain. These three places should be the highest-level restricted areas on the Ark, but the secret room where Ke Lan is now seems to be above them.
"Are you surprised?" A voice suddenly sounded, "About this place, and everything here..."
This voice made Ke Lan feel both familiar and unfamiliar... It seemed to be a mixture of many individual voices, and these voices must include people Ke Lan knew, but when they were mixed together, they formed a completely new voice, and it came with a "sacred" feeling.
For some reason, Ke Lan suddenly had the feeling of a choir singing mass in a church, with the singing echoing repeatedly through the towering dome... This was perhaps the most appropriate description Ke Lan could find in his mind for this unknown sound.
"Who are you? Where is this place?" Ke Lan asked loudly.
Since he was here, he might as well make the best of it. Since the other party did not attack him directly but had the intention of communicating, Ke Lan did not mind chatting with him for a few words.
"We named this place 'The Holy Ark'." The other party only answered Ke Lan's second question and did not mention the first question at all.
"Holy Ark? Isn't that the niche used to store scriptures in the old era church?" Ke Lan frowned slightly. He never liked such terms with a strong religious flavor. "This is inside the Ark... right?"
"You can say it is inside the Ark, but you can also say it is not, because this is an independent space... Although in terms of spatial coordinates, the Ark does overlap with a part of the core area of the Ark, it does exist independently." The voice replied.
"The overlapping space inside the Ark?" Ke Lan looked at the room again. "Could the undead crew have already mastered the space technology of the Alpha civilization? Or was this so-called 'Holy Ark' dug out from the ruins of the Alpha civilization?"
