Chapter Thirty-Eight: Evolution
After Zuo Youcheng's condition stabilized, Zheng Rui discussed with Bian Na to dispose of the alien corpse outside.
So early the next morning, Zuo Youcheng sat on the box, Fang Tong sat on the ground next to him, and watched Zheng Rui and Bian Na go out with two big bags and various special-shaped claws, kitchen knives and utility knives.
"Big guy, what's going on, you're going to fight?" Zuo Youcheng asked in surprise.
"Hey, I'm going to recycle the alien corpse outside." Zheng Rui replied.
Seeing his eagerness, Bian Na said to him a little helplessly: "You can rest there, don't get involved." ”
Zuo Youcheng's femur fracture still doesn't know how to recover. Although there is Zheng Rui's "miracle medicine" blood, as the saying goes, "it takes a hundred days to break the muscles and bones", although he will not need a hundred days, but it will not be good in one night. At this time, if there was chaos, they would have spent so much time "operating" him yesterday.
Zheng Rui glanced at Fang Tong again, this person was still sitting next to Zuo Youcheng's box, he seemed to have been sitting like this for almost a whole day, and the whole person was shrouded in the shadow of the box. Zheng Rui didn't know what he was thinking, but it was quite surprising that he was able to use his abilities to cooperate with her through the consciousness connection yesterday.
Zheng Rui thought that he should have been able to figure it out after yesterday's treatment of Zuo Youcheng. No matter what he wants in the future, the best solution now is to cooperate with Zheng Rui and Bian Na to deal with the affairs of the commissary, which is the guarantee for the four of them to survive in this chaos. But now that he was still sitting there, he neither participated nor asked about what Zheng Rui and Bian Na were doing, which was really confusing.
Forget it, you can't count on the people, otherwise what do you need party members to do.
Zheng Rui hooked the shelves blocking the entrance with her feet, and then walked out of the commissary behind Bian Na. The alien corpse collapsed on the steps, a small amount of blue-green slime left from the steps, falling into the floor drain below and pulling into silks.
It feels terrifying to look at this xenomorph at night, but it has an unexpected beauty in the daytime sunlight. Unlike the previous ones, the shell of its entire body is a pearly purple hue, from the head and the severed neck to the ventral side of the chest and the healing area of the chest and abdomen, while the dorsal side of the chest and abdomen has a dark purple very smooth deck, and the deck also has a transparent purple film that seems to be able to pull away into a glider, showing a dazzling laser luster in the sun.
With the exception of the large asymmetrical claws on the first appendage on the right and the second pair of forelimbs that mutated into "gliders" on the chest and belly deck, its basic structure appears to be similar to the two initial xenomorphs seen earlier. Zheng Rui carefully cut off the junction between the gliding membrane and the torso with her alien claws, and removed a pair of membranous wings—not so much membranous wings that resemble insects, but more like a bat with a membrane stretched out, soft and elastic to the touch, and quite nice to the touch.
"This thing looks so good." Zheng Rui stretched out the alien glider and fanned it, "Like elf wings?" ”
However, Miss Bian Na looked incomprehensible: "These are the wings of flies and mosquitoes......"
"That's completely different, okay?" Zheng Rui said a little dissatisfied, "Although flies and mosquitoes are diptera, with only one pair of wings, their patterns are completely different from this." Moreover, the membranous wings of insects are brittle, this one is elastic, and the feel is not the same. ”
As she spoke, she broke off the first pair of forelimbs of the alien, took one and sucked the juice that flowed out, and handed the other one to Bian Na: "Sister Na, take a bite?" ”
"You can eat it, I still like to eat it cooked." Ben Na politely refused.
Zheng Rui stopped playing, put down the glider in his hand, and began to unload the alien corpse with Bian Na.
Now it can be seen that Bian Na's strength has also been enhanced after scientifically training the ability, and Zheng Rui had to do the appendages of the alien before, but now the young lady is effortless to do it. In this way, in fact, as long as she overcomes the fear of aliens, there is no problem in killing the initial version of aliens she encountered before.
It's just that the xenomorphs are starting to evolve, and it might be a little difficult to face a new xenomorph on its own, like this one.
The two of them quickly collected the edible tissue in the alien appendages, and stacked them one by one on the alien transparent gliders, which looked like vermicelli with blue-green pigment. Then cut open the chest and abdomen, which was a bit disgusting, and inevitably covered the arms with blue-green juice, and accidentally splashed on the face.
Zheng Rui used the claws of the alien "Glaive Knife" to cut it off from the healing place of the chest and abdomen, and then reached into the alien abdomen and pulled it out, but she didn't touch the octahedral core that she imagined it should have—that thing was the most delicious thing she thought, and the outer layer of tissue was like pickled fruit.
"This alien has no core......" Zheng Rui muttered with some disappointment.
"It doesn't look like it looks the same as before, maybe the position of the internal organs has changed?" Benna guessed.
Although the young lady didn't eat the alien's internal organs at all, she still helped Zheng Rui cut open the alien's abdomen together. Zheng Rui turned over it for a long time, but she didn't find the delicious octahedral core.
"It shouldn't be." Zheng Rui habitually rubbed the sweat on his face with the back of his hand, and immediately rubbed half of the blue-green mucus on his face, "Maybe it's an individual difference." ”
But there are also more logical speculations.
Zheng Rui couldn't help but think that if the initial alien encountered before was really the initial form of the alien, then this octahedral core might control the transformation of the alien, and when the nucleus disappeared, it would transform and grow asymmetrical claws and gliders. It's a guess, and another is that maybe the octahedral nucleus is some kind of reproductive organ — after all, reproductive organs are usually delicious. The initial xenomorph gave birth to the more evolved second generation of the xenomorph, which was not yet sexually mature, and therefore had not yet formed an octahedral nucleus.
But if it's the latter guess, this alien has evolved too quickly, right?
Zheng Rui couldn't help but think of the game "Spore" she had played before, if it was externally controlled, it could indeed produce very obvious mutations in each generation. This is in line with her conjecture about survival games. Similarly, the alien metamorphosis does not contradict this conjecture. In short, humans and aliens will most likely become stronger over time.
It's not just about treating the earth as a jar of crickets, this may be raising Gu.