But now you can't rush to the hospital.

Zheng Rui swept the floor while thinking that there were three evolutionary aliens raiding the basement yesterday, which meant that there might be more aliens nearby. Since she first saw the alien on August 15, less than seven days have passed, and there are already six aliens hunted by Zheng Rui alone, and at least five people in the opposite community have been victimized.

If it weren't for the fact that she accidentally conducted a near-death experiment four days ago to train her abilities, it is estimated that Zheng Rui would have hung up when she encountered the first initial alien. Later, if she hadn't seen and killed the alien who attacked Benna, Miss Benna wouldn't have survived. After that, she also saved Zuo Youcheng once, which was equivalent to saving Fang Tong once. In other words, if she hadn't accidentally trained and boosted her abilities before the aliens even started appearing in the area, at least four more people would have died.

And now, the aliens have evolved.

New traits are known to have evolved, in addition to the asymmetrically large claws at the end of the right limb of the first pair of appendages, as well as a transparent membrane that appears to be used as gliding, and toxins carried on the claws. It is not known to what extent the gliding membrane can be used, and the toxin doesn't seem to have much effect on Zheng Rui, but the enlarged claws and increased strength alone have made the alien increasingly difficult to deal with.

And in such a short period of time, there were two attacks by evolved aliens, and the second time was three together, which not only shows that aliens have been able to hunt in groups, but also means that there may be alien settlements nearby.

It is not very likely that a life form of such mass as Xenomorph is morphologically directly budding and reproduced, nor does it look like a viviparous species in terms of their internal anatomy. It is inferred that the new individuals produced during alien reproduction, whether in the form of egg-like, adult-like, or metamorphosed larvae, should be smaller than adults, which requires a relatively closed nest to complete the larval stage of growth.

Matter cannot be created out of thin air, and the creation of new entities by aliens should also consume more matter. It's easy to think that if the aliens were able to consume human tissue, then it would likely be that the substances they needed to reproduce would come primarily from the human body.

Think of it this way...... It's really disgusting.

Zheng Rui frowned slightly, she suddenly had a very bad idea.

If the breeding of the alien requires a nest, and the growth of the new alien requires new substance, then ...... It can completely explain why the adult alien will take the initiative to attack the commissary. The basement can be used as a nest, and the people in the basement are the best source of energy and material for the generation of new individuals.

And so on –

Fang Tong said that in the attacked basement of the opposite community, the alien left without eating the corpse.

So......

- There is one left.

"Sister Na, I'm going out." Zheng Rui stopped the broom in his hand and said softly.

"What's wrong?" Benna asked as she swept the water.

"There's probably an evolved alien around here." Zheng Rui took a deep breath and tried to make his tone appear more relaxed, "You have to kill it, or ...... It's too late. ”

"And another?" Bian Na also stopped what she was doing, and her tone became solemn, "Xiao Rui, what did you think of?" ”

"It's just speculation." Zheng Rui was silent for a moment before lowering her voice and saying, "Sister Na, I'll go out and have a look first and confirm it." Don't rush out, if an alien comes when I leave, you should be able to resist it for a while. ”

Benna's eyes flickered, she was still a little scared, but not as scared as she had been at the beginning. She didn't feel fear at a critical moment before she dared to attack the alien, and after the attack was successful, she had the bottom of her heart.

She knew that Zheng Rui must have thought of something that she hadn't thought of for the time being, and if this matter was important, then it should indeed be confirmed as soon as possible.

Benna nodded and gave her a reassuring smile: "Then be careful." ”

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Zheng Rui didn't know what she was thinking.

didn't tell Bian Na directly, not because she was afraid that she would be afraid, but just because Zheng Rui couldn't say this conjecture in a normal tone at all.

This kind of thing she could only figure out in her own heart - the alien killed five people, didn't finish it, and even left most of them without eating, leaving the corpse in the basement. Then she turned around and attacked Benna again, and started eating while she was still alive. These two methods of hunting, although they may be different tactics of the same species, do not make sense to be placed on the same individual, unless they are not both for the same purpose of feeding.

- It attacked Benna apparently to eat, and it attacked the five people in the basement, most likely to lay eggs.

It can't be said to be an egg, it can only be said that it is some kind of life form with the genetic material of the alien, which grows in the corpses of those five people and forms a new alien - an alien that has completed its first evolution.

Zheng Rui didn't know if the people in the opposite community had searched the basement after it was "wiped out", and most of them had already searched all the materials that could be used after the alien left. But most likely, they will not "recycle" the bodies of the deceased, whether out of awe, fear, or simply to avoid wasting energy. So the body was left there, and no one knew what happened after that.

However, the weight of a human being is much lower than that of an alien, and if an alien is constructed only from the total amount of matter in the human body, then this adult should not be as large as the evolutionary alien they encountered......

— but there is also a double steel frame bed in the basement.

The basement of the opposite community is used as a dormitory for the security guards of the community, and in addition to the steel frame bed, there are also a lot of daily living furniture, and the total amount of material is sufficient. And compared to the initial alien shell, it feels a little warm, as if it is made of materials with poor thermal conductivity, but the evolved alien shell feels cool, and it seems that a lot of metal is mixed into it.

Zheng Rui walked up the steps in the basement.

It was a terrible conjecture, and she wanted to verify it as soon as possible.

If it's true......

That means there may be danger everywhere around here. In the distance, unbeknownst to her, there may be a similar basement where the people who originally lived there have been annihilated by the aliens, and have become a breeding ground for the evolution of aliens.

She went up to the ground.

Forget it, don't overthink it. Zheng Rui said to herself, Occam razor, don't make overly complicated assumptions. It's not because superfluous assumptions affect logical reasoning, it's just that thinking too much makes people more panicked.