Volume 16 Tower of Babel Chapter 905: Alien God
Before Neto could finish his words, a drone with a shape very different from the Ark's appeared in the sky above the battlefield and shot a stream of high-pressure liquid directly into the back of the Sphinx's neck.
The wounds on the Sphinx's body that were fatal enough to be fatal to ordinary mutants began to heal at a speed visible to the naked eye... To be precise, it was not healing, but "mutation": the newly grown tissue was not soft flesh and blood, but hard crystalline scales... After a while, the wounds were completely blocked by these crystalline scales, and the same scales also grew under the skin of those uninjured places.
"What did you inject it with?"
"Catalyst No. 45. This was his last research achievement before his death. Only he himself knows the specific effect." Neto replied.
The bone spurs on the Sphinx's back began to proliferate, becoming longer and thicker, and then gradually expanded outward, forming several large irregular exoskeletons. These exoskeletons first wrapped around its back, then crossed over its shoulders and extended to its chest and abdomen.
Naturally, Ke Lan would not allow the Sphinx to complete its "evolution". During this process, he constantly attacked the Sphinx, especially the places where the exoskeleton and scales grew - but he soon discovered that if he cut those scales from the surface of the Sphinx's body, soon larger and thicker scales would grow from the places where the old scales fell off; the same was true for the exoskeleton, the cut places would become thicker and the texture would become tighter.
Just like the hair on a person's legs becomes thicker the more they are shaved, the Sphinx's body will also produce a stress response to external attacks, constantly strengthening the traumatized parts.
The speed of the Sphinx is also increasing, and the force of its attacks is getting stronger and stronger - assuming that the original physical attribute value of the Sphinx is 1, and it is 3 after being injected with the berserk potion, then now this number has gradually increased to 4, and is gradually approaching 5.
Previously, Ke Lan, who possessed the "Time Stop" ability, had a slight advantage in speed and reaction. But now, even if Ke Lan used the "Time Stop" ability to predict the Sphinx's movements, it would be difficult to completely avoid the opponent's attack - this guy was simply too fast. Ke Lan could see its movements clearly, but he just couldn't dodge them .
After several rounds of fighting, not only did Ke Lan fail to expand his previous advantage, but he suffered a lot of losses. At this time, almost one-third of his body was a "prosthesis" temporarily repaired with living armor, and his entire right leg and half of his left arm were "prosthetic limbs" completely condensed from living armor.
Ke Lan began to retreat. He could only rely on tree trunks as cover and barriers to block the Sphinx's attacks. However, even a dozen giant trees that were as thick as a man's embrace were just a piece of cake in front of the Sphinx. The area where the two sides fought soon formed a huge blank area. A large number of trees were felled and then torn apart. The tree fragments, which were only the size of a palm, were spread on the ground in layer upon layer.
There are many more parts on Ke Lan's body that are made of living armor - now he has no time to regenerate his limbs. As long as he can protect his brain, it will be no problem even if his entire body is made of living armor.
This is like the "super-modified people" whose modification degree reaches more than 90%. These people, except for the brain, are almost all artificial parts, and the "human content" is very small. But even so, they are still recognized as human beings - although in the folk, these super-modified people have always been called "cyborg monsters."
Ze Luo seemed to have fallen into a deep sleep. No matter how Ke Lan called her, she did not respond. In order to protect her, Ke Lan simply stuffed the black armor that Ze Luo had transformed into into his own body and completely wrapped her up with the living armor.
"You must be erased. You should not exist in this world." Neto was still muttering, "Something must have gone wrong... Alien Gods, yes, it must be those alien gods who are interfering. They distorted the rules of this world, so mistakes like you were born..."
"Alien God? What is an alien god?" Ke Lan couldn't help asking after hearing this 'new word', "Is it the enemy in the legend of the Alpha civilization that fights against that damn god they believe in?"
Many religious documents of the Alpha civilization mentioned that the "great god" they believed in was not truly omnipotent, and that he also had mortal enemies that were difficult to eliminate... This mortal enemy was so powerful that it even had a record of defeating the "great god" many times... Their armies continued to conquer in the distant time and space, and the fighting and killing never stopped.
The Alpha civilization breeds those monsters and "biological weapons" in order to build an army for the "great god" they believe in...
When fighting against the prophet and Alexander, a piece of information had flowed into Ke Lan's mind: the god believed in by the Alpha people had countless enemies, just like the stars in the universe. One of the most powerful enemies was a huge super star that emitted infinite heat... and had self-awareness.
"The Fire God Cthugha", in that memory, the Alpha people once called this conscious star.
The power that killed Alexander came from Cthugha... Of course, this power did not come from Cthugha itself, but was a projection of an elemental creature called "Fire Colossus".
The projection of the Flame Colossus had only one ten-thousandth of its original strength, but it still tore Alexander apart with ease... One can imagine how terrifying the true strength of this elemental creature is.
Such terrifying creatures are just the followers of Cthugya's descendants...so one can imagine how exaggerated the power of these alien gods themselves can be.
This kind of power cannot be imagined even with the fullest human imagination, let alone numbers.
"Have you ever come into contact with a foreign god?!" There was a tremor in Neto's voice. "Have you ever come into contact with the fire foreign god Cthugya?!"
"I don't know what you mean by contact. If I remember correctly, that power should come from the 'blood of the true god' in the body of the original corrosive seed... To be honest, I am also puzzled as to why the blood of that god could summon the warriors under the command of His mortal enemy."
"That drop of blood... that drop of blood was tampered with!" Neto became angry, "Damn Night Watchmen... they will pay the price for their betrayal!"
"Didn't the Night Watchmen have all been wiped out long ago? It seems from your words... are there any survivors among them?" Ke Lan dodged a heavy punch from the Sphinx and immediately asked.
But this time, Neto did not answer Ke Lan's question. Instead, he continued, "They thought that after contacting Cthugha, they would be able to gain the power to fight against the great gods? How ignorant! Foolish! Ridiculous! Cthugha does not care about any creatures that are not in elemental form. Their final fate is nothing more than being treated as consumables by Cthugha, and their entire civilization will be thrown into the millstone of endless war and crushed into ashes... No other alien god has such kindness as Him. Only He is willing to accept every believer and let the believer become a part of the great god himself..."
"Eating the bodies and souls of believers sounds so great..." Ke Lan said sarcastically, "Perhaps the AI thinking logic of biological computing is too simple? You can't even see through such a simple thing... You are really a loyal dog of that damn god."
"No matter which alien god caused your birth, you will die here today. Don't expect that alien god to save you. To them, whether it's the people of the Hive City, the Alpha people, the people of Earth... or you, you are just insignificant ants. They just accidentally glanced at this world, which led to the birth of your 'mistake'... But they are not willing to waste more energy on you... As long as they want, they can create hundreds of millions of you at any time, but no matter what they do, they can't defeat the great gods..."
"But from what I've heard, that damn god you worship seems to have lost a lot of battles?"
"That's because those followers and servants are too incompetent... Incompetent races and civilizations deserve to be destroyed in war... As for the great god himself, He has never been defeated."
Two more drones appeared and injected two beams of medicine into the Sphinx's body... The Sphinx's eyes were severely bloodshot, the entire whites of its eyes had turned red, its face was full of bulging blood vessels, beating violently, and its breathing sounded like the roar of a heavy engine, resounding through the sky.
The Sphinx's speed was getting faster and faster, and its strength was getting stronger and stronger. According to the standards just now, the Sphinx's attributes should have exceeded seven times the basic value at this time. Ke Lan went from a small advantage in the beginning, to being evenly matched later, and then gradually falling into a disadvantage... Now, he could only run and dodge blindly. Not only did he have no chance to fight back, but the Sphinx would also seize the opportunity from time to time to remove some "parts" from Ke Lan's body.
If Ke Lan was restrained in fighting Sanshisan before because he was afraid of hurting Sanshisan, then now he has no strength to fight back at all - in order to eliminate Ke Lan, Neto probably played all his cards... Ke Lan didn't know how long Sphinx's enhanced state could last, but at least there would be no problem in forcing Ke Lan into a desperate situation before the effect of the drug wore off.
Even if the Sphinx's combat power does not increase any more, given the current situation, Ke Lan can only hold on for a few minutes at most.
It's not that Ke Lan didn't think about escaping outside the jungle hunting ground, but Neto could obviously see what Ke Lan was thinking - every time Ke Lan tried to move towards the edge of the hunting ground, the Sphinx would give up the attack and instead cut off Ke Lan's retreat route, forcing Ke Lan back... After several attempts, not only did Ke Lan fail to get close to the edge of the hunting ground, but instead returned to the central area where he had fought with Wilson before.
Am I really going to die here today?
Ke Lan had encountered desperate situations many times, but this kind of thought rarely occurred to him... But this time, the overwhelming fighting power displayed by the Sphinx made Ke Lan feel a suffocating despair.
Even when facing a behemoth like Alexander before, Ke Lan had never had this feeling.
Perhaps it was because Alexander’s main target was not Ke Lan, but the undead crew hiding on the Ark... But Neto and the Sphinx had different targets. The feeling of being targeted by murderous intent made the air around Ke Lan stagnant... He even had an illusion that he was moving inside a large piece of gelatinous object, and every movement had to overcome huge resistance to be completed.
"I...should...have another trump card..."
Ke Lan does have a hidden card that she hasn't played yet.
"The Holy Word".
But thinking about the conversation between him and Neto just now, Ke Lan couldn't help but think of one thing - the "gaze" he felt when he used the Holy Word last time, was it from the "great god" believed in by the Alpha people, or an "alien god" who was their enemy?
If he really was that "God", why would he respond to Ke Lan's request - you know, Ke Lan's request was to kill his servants... Even if this "God" was unreliable, he wouldn't respond to every request from the enemies of his believers, right?
