After the rainstorm, the ground is littered with dead branches and rubbish washed away by the water.

Even though they have tried to remove the fallen leaf litter from the surface to a fixed location, they still can't stop the surface runoff from rainwater that washes them everywhere. The water on the ground has not yet been drained, and the dents that have fallen into disrepair are now large puddles, and now that all infrastructure maintenance has been suspended, it may have to rely on evaporation.

Zheng Rui carried a glaive knife, bypassed the small field of vegetables and fruits that had been almost destroyed by the heavy rain, and crossed the road to the boundary of the opposite community.

Although she only hit the boss Zhao Weiming on the other side yesterday and abolished his right ankle, dealing with aliens should be the common interest of mankind, and in her logic, this common interest takes precedence over hostile relations. However, Zheng Rui was not sure if there was such a priority in the other party's logic, so she still clenched the glaive knife-shaped alien claw in her hand.

Salute first and then soldier, and she is not false to do it.

Thinking like this, Zheng Rui walked to the door of the basement where he met the other party's boss Zhao Weiming last time, and shouted below: "May I ask anyone?" ”

She waited for a while—about a dozen seconds—and no one answered.

"No malice, I'm here to discuss something with you." Zheng Rui raised her voice again and said, "If you don't reply, I'll go." ”

After waiting for more than ten seconds, no one answered.

Zheng Rui didn't feel right.

From above, the basement door is open, and there are scattered instant noodle bags at the door, as if someone accidentally brought them out when they came out of it, but you can vaguely see that there are still uneaten dough cakes inside.

She leaned to the edge on the right side and walked down the steps with a light step.

Just glanced through the open door, and saw a bloody corpse lying on the ground in the doorway.

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Zheng Rui returned to the commissary with her hands covered in blood, and she didn't know how she got back.

Fragmented memories are the brain's self-protection mechanism.

However, the memory fragments that had lost her voice and became black and white showed that she had indeed walked to the opposite neighborhood, and went to every basement to make sure that there was no one left alive.

At that time, Zheng Rui really didn't dare to look closely at the corpses that had been gnawed into the flesh and blood, so he could only close his eyes and put his hand into the big wound on the chest of the corpse, and touched an octahedral core that was only the size of his thumb, and it was shattered with a little force. Then I felt a hard cylinder with a lot of blood vessels around it. She tore the cylinder out and tossed it aside, then couldn't help but throw up.

She then disposed of each corpse as if it were one by one, and then went through it again to make sure that there were no other organs that were not human in the wounds.

Then she seemed to have encountered another alien, and she killed it - in complete numbness, she could only remember a little pain from the injury, and any other details of it - and then lay on its corpse and vomited, only a little gastric juice.

Then she returned to her territory in a daze, sat on the floor at the entrance of the commissary, wiped her face with her hands, closed her eyes and fell asleep, not noticing the blood of human corpses and the slime of alien corpses on her hands.

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Zheng Rui had a dream.

The dreams are full of alien silhouettes.

Strangely, in her dreams, she thought the aliens were beautiful, and the silhouettes were so beautiful that they seemed to be elaborate works of art.

There are also human silhouettes in the dream, and the human silhouette looks clumsy. Later, when the silhouette of the human split in half, and the alien broke out of the cocoon, she actually felt joy, as if her own side had won.

But in the dream she didn't have any negative feelings towards humans, she looked at the silhouette of the human as if she were a friend, and she didn't feel sad when she saw it crack, as if it was just a silhouette.

The alien silhouette triumphed, the human silhouette failed.

But this is not a victory for the Xenomorphs, nor is it a defeat for humanity.

Everything was quiet and peaceful, as it was just a silhouette.

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Zheng Rui woke up in a quiet and happy mood, if it weren't for the fact that Fang Tong had fallen asleep on the box with Zuo Youcheng at this time, she would probably think that this was Fang Tong's ability to interfere with her.

At this point, she could only remember the fact that she had disposed of the corpse of the opposite community and killed the evolutionary alien that was laying eggs, and she could no longer remember any details about it.

She didn't want to tell Benna about the fact that the alien had used human bodies as raw materials to create new instances, but intellectually she knew she had to say it, and she had to say it as soon as possible. It's not clear what the next steps will be, but it's important information.

Zheng Rui got up from the ground, picked up the glaive knife beside him, walked to the shelves where Bian Na usually slept in the dark according to his memory, squatted down and reached out to probe, and patted Bian Na's ankle.

"Sister Na?" Zheng Rui asked in a low voice.

Bian Na woke up in shock, reflexively got up from the ground, and realized that it was Zheng Rui who breathed a sigh of relief: "Xiao Rui...... What's wrong? ”

Zheng Rui slashed the back of his hand with the glaive knife, and then touched the dark to pull Bian Na's hand: "Sister Na, you lick a mouthful of my blood." ”

Bian Na licked Zheng Rui's finger in the dark.

Without Fang Tong as a spiritual reinforcement signal, Zheng Rui closed his eyes and slowed down his breathing, and after a few seconds, he felt Bian Na's consciousness in his mind.

Zheng Rui: Sister Na, it's not good.

Benna: What's wrong?

Zheng Rui: Don't be afraid—Xenomorphs are breeding from human corpses.

Benna: What...... Meaning?

Zheng Rui: Have you heard of Ji Xiaobee? It's a parasitic wasp. They lay their eggs in the larvae of other insects, and the hatched larvae complete metamorphosis in the body of the parasite, and finally emerge in the form of adults.

As the "server" of consciousness connection, Zheng Rui really felt Bian Na's disgust and fear in her own mind.

Benna: You mean, the people in the basement across the street......

Zheng Rui: They are all dead, and the aliens lay "eggs" in their corpses. Previous Evolutionary Alien ...... It should be the five people who died before.

Fear.

Boundless fear.

Zheng Rui felt Bian Na's fear weakly, but this was different from the influence of the spirit type, and she could only watch Bian Na's fear at this time.

It may be two or three minutes, it may be five minutes.

The fear subsided slightly.

Benna: So...... You said there was another alien.

Zheng Rui: Yes, I also solved it this time.

Benna: That should be fine, there shouldn't be any aliens around here, right?

Zheng Rui wanted to tell her that there were no aliens. As a party member, she really wants to bring spiritual comfort to the people. But that's not the case.

Zheng Rui: The community on the opposite side is gone, and there must be one in the distance. There will always be victims who have not yet been found, and it is not known if people elsewhere are aware of the need to clean up the bodies...... Sister Na, let's cheer up.

Benna: Well, cheer up.

Zheng Rui: Cheer up.