Volume 8: A Trip to the Sick Village Chapter 401 Strengthening Equipment
"Then this strengthening equipment is the legacy of Alpha civilization?" Based on Marshall's description, Ke Lan couldn't help but think of something.
"Well...it is said that it was found from an S-class ruins. It seems that many people died in order to transport this thing out. I'm not sure about the truth of this rumor, but there are quite a few bullet holes on the surface of the device. I saw it with my own eyes." Marshall said.
"So where is this device now? Is it on the Ark... or in the sick village?" Ke Lan asked.
"How could I know this? Anyway, when I was sent out of the experimental base, the thing was still inside the base. As for whether it was sealed or destroyed later, it has nothing to do with me. As for the sick village... that's even more impossible. If that thing was there, you would have been dealt with long ago. Why would it be my turn to take action?"
The missing enhancement equipment, the victims' deprived wills, extremely similar means of attack... When these clues are connected together, the answer is obvious - the Iron Maiden that once served as Ze Luo's "shelter" is likely to be a similar enhancement equipment... In other words, it may be the one that Marshall and Asano Akira once used!
Putting a medieval shell on a high-tech device made by the Alpha civilization... Even a heretical sect could do such a thing.
As for why this thing fell into the hands of the heretical sect, the hidden secrets and details cannot be sorted out in a short time.
Anyway, the thing is now in Chiron's hands. How to deal with this hot potato is something the undead crew needs to consider... As for Ke Lan, his only goal now is to get rid of this extremely ugly monster in front of him.
"It has already invaded the control system of this airship." Ke Lan's eyes shifted to the console nearby, and he saw countless sharp black spikes piercing through the metal panel of the console and penetrating into the interior of the electronic components. At the end of these black spikes, there was a thin cable connected to the main body of the puppet.
In the middle of the bridge, on the chair that belonged to the captain, there was a crooked, headless corpse slumped - judging from the corpse's attire, the deceased was the captain of the "Greece" himself.
The fracture on his neck was very smooth, which reminded Ke Lan of the first monster he encountered in the hangar, the pair of sickle hands with huge shearing force. It seemed that the captain must have been killed by that monster.
The blood gushing from his neck dyed the upper body of the captain's uniform and most of the back of the chair dark red. More than a dozen black spikes pierced his hands and feet, firmly fixed to the seat behind him... He looked like a prisoner of war nailed to the cross by the Roman army in the old era.
This cruel method was obviously intended to take away the captain's head while he was still alive - or to be more precise - his brain.
Ke Lan turned his gaze back to the puppet individual, and soon he found the weathered face of the captain of the Greece in a corner.
Unlike the other faces that were either wailing or crying, or glaring with anger, the captain's eyes were tightly closed and his brows were furrowed, as if he was thinking about something, forming a sharp contrast with the surrounding faces that were constantly twitching and twisting.
"It...it is reading the captain's memory. Once it digests all that information, it will be able to master how to operate this airship." Ke Lan said with a frown.
"You mean this thing is stalling for time?" Marshall said, "Is this thing so determined to destroy the space station?"
"This may be an order given to it by the heretical sect. Its primary mission is to destroy the 'South District 16' space station... There are too many secrets hidden in that space station, and the reinforcement equipment you used is most likely also on the space station now." Ke Lan analyzed.
"That's impossible! That device can appear anywhere else, but it can't appear in the space station!" Marshall shook his head. "The guy behind the wall can't lie to me."
"Chiron did not lie to you. It's just that this thing came to him on its own, and he had no way to keep it out." Ke Lan curled his lips, "Otherwise, where do you think this monster and Ze Luo came from?"
"To be honest, if that device is really in the space station, I would rather it destroy the space station." Marshall suddenly sighed, "But... I can't let 10,000 people die for this damn thing."
"Zeluo, is there any way to get through the domain of this thing ? If you can't attack the main body, it will be useless no matter how much firepower you pour." Ke Lan looked at Ze Luo and placed his hope on this "inhuman" girl.
"It has the ability to manipulate time. If we get close to it, we will be trapped in static time. Only you can break its ability." Ze Luo said.
"Crack it? Is it like before?" Ke Lan recalled the scene in Area F of the space station. "So, it needs direct contact? But if I can directly contact that thing, then I can just attack its body directly. If I want to contact its body, I must first contact it to crack the time stop. This is clearly a dead loop!"
"What ability to manipulate time? What contact? Why can't I understand a word you say?" Marshall on the side looked at Ke Lan and Ze Luo in confusion.
"Just understand that I have a way to break the absolute control field of this thing, but I have to touch it. But if I want to touch it, I must first break its absolute control field... Although it sounds a bit confusing, it is basically a chicken and egg problem, an unsolvable vicious circle." Ke Lan said with difficulty, "Zeluo, don't you have any way to throw me in? Just like I asked someone to throw you out just now?"
"I can't do it. It's much stronger than me." Ze Luo said.
Ke Lan knew that this girl would not lie and never beat around the bush when she spoke. If she said she couldn't do it, then she really couldn't do it.
"We finally got here, this can't be a dead end." Marshall gritted his teeth and said, "How about... I charge again, just in case I can get close..."
"You were almost killed before you even walked five meters out. It will be the same if you try again." Ke Lan rejected Marshall's proposal, "That's no different from committing suicide."
"What should we do? Are we just going to watch it take control of this airship?"
"Wait a minute... I think I have an idea! Since I can't touch it, then it should be the same if I let it touch me first, right?"
