Volume 4: Shadows Under the Neon Lights Chapter 204: "The Holy Word"
From Victoria's perspective, this is indeed the best solution at the moment.
She is the most capable fighter in the entire reconnaissance team, and she is the only one who has the capital to fight this monster - although she has no chance of winning, but as Ke Lan said before - as long as she can hold on to this monster for a while, Ke Lan will have a great chance of escaping back to the blockade line.
Even if she is in a situation where she is certain to die, she will try her best to make the most of her death.
To die in vain was a disgrace to Victoria.
"I can't delay for long, but I will try my best." Victoria said, and the palm of her left hand split apart. A pair of steel claws made of Nino alloy emerged from the wrist and fit tightly together with the five fingers.
But Ke Lan did not turn around, he even stopped and did not retreat.
"What are you doing?" Victoria 's tone was a little angry. "Have your legs been weakened by fear?"
"No, I just thought of something." Ke Lan said, "It's... a very strange thing."
Victoria resisted the urge to yell and asked word by word, "...what is it?"
"Something that might help us turn the tide..." Ke Lan took a deep breath. In fact, he had just thought of this...
"Don't waste time, talk."
"Do you remember the black skeleton you just encountered?"
"Remember."
"I actually heard the words that the heretic muttered before he turned into that form."
"Can you hear clearly what he said?" Victoria couldn't help but show a look of surprise on her face.
"I can't be specific about every word, but I can basically confirm that what he read... is the same as the prayer we heard." Ke Lan said.
That is the "Holy Word" - according to the information left in his memory by the Alpha civilization, using this method, the servants of God can use their own vitality to exchange for "gifts" from God, and strength is undoubtedly one of the gifts of God.
Although Ke Lan is not a " servant of God", he can use the language of Alpha civilization. Similarly, he can also recite the "holy words" based on the language of Alpha civilization.
Ke Lan knew that even if Victoria sacrificed herself to buy time for herself, her hope of escaping back to the blockade was extremely slim. Rather than putting all her chips on something with a probability so small that it could almost be ignored, Ke Lan would rather choose to take a big gamble.
"You mean ... that prayer was the reason why the believer turned into a black skeleton?"
"Yeah, nine out of ten times." Ke Lan replied.
"So what are you going to do?"
"I'm going to try saying these prayers out loud... and see if they have any effect on me."
"Are you crazy?!"
"This is the only way to try... but maybe nothing will happen." Ke Lan tried hard to recall the content of the black-robed believer's prayer...
"Have you thought it through? Even if you kill the monster in front of you... you will spend the rest of your life in a glass cage in the institute..."
"I didn't expect that the people in the Security Bureau would consider others? But don't jump to conclusions. It's still unclear whether it will work..." Ke Lan bit her lips hard and licked the blood that seeped out into her mouth. "Okay, I'm going to try it... Stay away from me."
"..." Victoria moved sideways a few steps, stopped, and looked at the monster and Ke Lan at the same time.
"Great God, please let one of His thousands of eyes be fixed on me..." Ke Lan opened his mouth slightly, his Adam's apple moving slowly as he "recited" this silent prayer.
"I am..." The second sentence should have been "I am His most loyal servant", but for some reason, Ke Lan couldn't pronounce these words. He made up his mind and simply said, "I want to kill His servant..."
As soon as he finished speaking, Ke Lan suddenly felt as if there was a line of sight that crossed countless planes and projected onto himself. This line of sight seemed to have existed since time immemorial. It had always existed, but no one could perceive it, but it seemed to be real... Ke Lan felt as if a mountain was pressing down on him, and as if countless chains had bound his hands and feet... His body was trembling slightly, as if in the next second, his flesh and blood would collapse, and even his self-consciousness would be swallowed up by this line of sight.
“I need a gift from Him…”
Ke Lan felt as if he was using up all his strength to utter each word, but he simply couldn't stop. An indescribable force was pushing him forward... and that sight became more solid.
"I need to……"
In a trance, a trace of doubt emerged in Ke Lan's mind... But he knew very well that this doubt did not come from his own consciousness, but from that strange gaze.
This was the doubt coming from “Him”… and within this doubt, there seemed to be curiosity…
Would "God" be curious about humans? Ke Lan had never thought about this question, and now he didn't have the time to think about it.
"I need... strength..."
"Why?" A very clear foreign consciousness appeared in Ke Lan's mind, and he was stunned... Could this consciousness be the "great god" described by the Alpha civilization?
Why, He was asking himself why he should ask Him for strength!
But Ke Lan remembered that the next sentence of the prayer should be "I am willing to sacrifice myself in exchange for His gift."
But now, He was asking Himself… "Why?"
"In order... in order to kill it." Ke Lan raised his head. At this moment, the monster had already pounced in front of him, but for some reason, everything around him seemed to be still - the monster that was so close was frozen in mid-air, and Victoria on the side kept the action of shooting, the flame from the muzzle, the flying bullet... also turned into a frozen picture.
In the next moment, the monster's sharp claws would pierce through Ke Lan's chest, but the last few dozen centimeters seemed to be a distance that it could never reach.
"As you wish."
The heavy, terrifying, surging... pressure that was like a still tsunami disappeared, and all the strange phenomena seemed to be just hallucinations that Ke Lan had just had... They had never happened, they had never existed...
But - except for that monster.
At the moment when the time and space in Ke Lan's perception returned to normal, the monster exploded without warning, and the smelly pus and blood splashed all over Ke Lan's body... Fortunately, there was no corrosive liquid in it that could penetrate armor.
