Volume 4: Shadows Under the Neon Lights Chapter 226: An immortal person?
"Even the hound doesn't know ?" Ke Lan asked.
"Nick's rank before he retired was only colonel. To be exposed to this level of secrets, one must at least be a general... To be honest, even I don't know much." Maginot's tone was quite nervous, and he seemed reluctant to talk about this topic with Ke Lan.
"So what should I do if I have something to do with them?"
"No, you must not take the initiative to find them... If there is a need for direct contact, they will send 'agents' to find you."
"'Agent'? Is it similar to the way Victoria's cyborg is remotely controlled? Hasn't any of you ever seen a member of the Undead Crew?"
"Not to mention me, even my superiors and my superiors' superiors have only had contact with 'agents' at most... As far as I know, the crew has existed for at least a few hundred years, but no one has ever seen the true face of any of them... Oh damn, I shouldn't have told you these things. You'd better forget what I said just now. It will be better for both you and me." said Maginot.
"No one has seen their true faces? Then are the members of this crew association really immortal? If it is true as the name of this crew association says, then they have lived for hundreds of years?" Ke Lan said with some doubt.
"Don't ask me anymore, I beg you..." Maginot shouted as if he was frightened by something, "Don't talk about this anymore, something bad will happen if you continue!"
"Okay... By the way, your officer said that you will call me later. If you have anything to say, just tell me here." Ke Lan said while holding the joystick of the hovercraft in one hand and the mobile phone in the other hand - in order to allow the driver to raise the gun and shoot, the military vehicles have been specially modified, and there is no problem in operating with one hand... and this car has a military license plate, so even if he is photographed by the camera, he doesn't have to worry about a ticket.
"Ah... Actually, it's nothing. Don't worry, let's talk about it next time... I still have a lot of things to deal with here, so I'll hang up first." Maginot said as if he had been pardoned, and hung up the phone in a hurry.
Hearing the busy tone coming from the phone, Ke Lan couldn't help but fall into deep thought - from what Maginot said, he seemed to be very afraid of this organization called "Undead Crew Society".
That’s right, it was fear, not awe... Perhaps even Maginot himself did not notice that there was a very obvious hint of fear in his tone.
But if the members of the crew are really immortal, this fear is not difficult to understand. In Ke Lan's opinion, such creatures can no longer be considered human beings... But if this assumption is true, doesn't it mean that the supreme leaders of mankind are actually a group of "monsters"?
If this news were to leak out, it would definitely cause chaos. No wonder Maginot was so nervous.
But what concerned Ke Lan more was that Maginot mentioned that the "Undead Crew Club" had existed for hundreds of years. In other words, when the Ark was still in the interstellar drifting stage, the Undead Crew Club already existed... Could it be that humans had already mastered the technology of immortality at that time?
Or did they just use hibernation technology to freeze the people and revive them hundreds of years later? But if these people were really frozen in the hibernation chamber for hundreds of years, the three giants would definitely have completely eliminated the power of the crew during this period of time, and even the underlying program of the core master brain might have been changed...
However, Ke Lan did think of a possibility, which is to awaken one or several dormant members every once in a while, and let the awakened people take power as representatives of the Undead Crew... But the problem is that doing so is not only meaningless, but also cannot be considered true "immortality."
Since the Undead Crew can become the highest authority of the Ark, the members of this crew must be extraordinary people. However, doing so is equivalent to using everyone as a "disposable consumable". After excluding the hibernation time, everyone's "actual lifespan" will not change much.
What's more, if it is implemented in this way, it will only take a few hundred years, when the last awakened dormant crew member dies, and the Undead Crew will be completely extinct. If they continue the existence of the Crew by absorbing new members, then what is the essential difference between them and the "Big Three Organization"?
“It doesn’t make sense no matter how hard I think about it…”
Before he knew it, Ke Lan had driven the car to the block where the safe house was located. He stepped on the brakes, and then honked the horn rhythmically several times according to the signal given by the hound.
Not long after, a tall and thin man wearing a dark gray sweatshirt and a hood came out from a small alley on the side. One side of his sweatshirt was sleeveless, revealing his entire shiny metal arm. A delicately crafted small wine jug was flipped flexibly between several mechanical fingers.
"Ivan!" Ke Lan jumped out of the car. "I haven't seen you do this before. I didn't expect you to be so skilled with this new arm."
"Of course." Ivan suddenly showed a somewhat strange smile, "Natasha is also very satisfied, but she always urges me to wrap a layer of bionic skin, but I think it's cool to leave the mechanical structure exposed."
As he spoke, Ivan flicked his little finger lightly, and the wine jug flew directly towards Ke Lan.
Ke Lan grabbed the wine bottle and was about to unscrew the cap, but he suddenly remembered something and looked up at the other party: "Is this still medical alcohol?"
"No, drink it safely." Ivan said.
Ke Lan unscrewed the lid, and immediately, a mellow and rich aroma wafted out from it. He took a sip - the wine was indeed good, but the alcohol content was a bit too high for him.
After returning the wine flask to Ivan, Ke Lan turned around, closed the car door, and casually put the key card into his pocket: "Are Asano Akira and the others okay? Lao Gou said earlier that they were all seriously injured."
"They are just flesh wounds. As long as the bones and internal organs are fine, it's just a minor problem." Ivan raised his head and took a sip, then walked into the alley with Ke Lan.
The safe house that Maginot arranged for the Hounds was a warehouse for storing emergency reserve food. Normally, few people would come here, unless there was a sudden food crisis on the Ark and these emergency reserve food were needed, then the door of the warehouse would be opened.
The door that Ivan took Ke Lan through was located in an abandoned underground pipe fifty meters away from the warehouse.
