"Brother, are you ready?"

"Ready, I can't help but witness this historic moment!"

On August 1, 2025, the Earth's 23rd full-scale exploration of the Moon was officially launched, and two young researchers, Hao Bo and Tian Nan, accepted the mission with honor.

After several years of research and a few years of study, they were finally able to fly the spacecraft and have the opportunity to go to outer space to carry out exploration work, which was a precious experience for them, but they did not know how terrifying what they would experience after that.

"The device test is over! Everything works! You can take off! ”

"Ready to take off!"

Three!

Two!

One!

Takeoff!

The spacecraft took off on time, accompanied by a white spray and strong propulsion, the spacecraft successfully flew into the air, and smoothly entered the high clouds and entered the atmosphere.

The current spacecraft is modified from a rocket prototype, except for the different shapes, other devices, and all aspects of the system are no different from rockets.

"We have entered the atmosphere and are ready for the outermost body separation! Start the second ignition acceleration! ”

The outermost structure of the spacecraft began to gradually separate and fall down the surroundings, and like a rocket, it needed to separate twice and accelerate three times before it could smoothly enter outer space and move forward by gravity.

The spacecraft accelerated again, passing through the atmosphere smoothly and reaching the third acceleration time.

"Prepare for the second separation! The third acceleration starts! ”

The spacecraft accelerated again, adjusted its position, and it didn't take long for it to smoothly enter the gravitational circle and begin to hover outside the earth by gravity.

In outer space, the spacecraft's remaining energy can be used to change orbit, and after reaching the moon's gravitational sphere, the landing step can be carried out.

And the situation was indeed going well, but just as they entered the moon's gravitational circle, the spacecraft suddenly vibrated violently.

"Haobo! There is a gap in the ship's fuel tank, which is constantly leaking! What to do?! ”

"Damn! Downhill now! If you don't land, it's dangerous! ”

Tian Nan immediately pressed the landing button, slowing down while landing.

Outer space is not the same as inside the earth, once it enters the gravitational circle, it means that there will be gravitational effects, although the gravitational force of the moon is not as large as on the earth, but there will still be a little effect, if the speed is too fast, it is very likely to crash, the ship will be destroyed, and people will die.

"Ah!!h

The spacecraft slammed into the surface of the moon, gliding for dozens of meters, stirring up a lot of dust, and finally stopped.

"Whew! Call! Hao Bo gasped for air, as if enjoying the feeling of the rest of his life. Fortunately, the fuel tank is already out of gas, otherwise such a rough ground will definitely cause an explosion! ”

"yes, do you think this counts as the rest of your life?!"

Tian Nan slowly untied the seat belt on his body, this is a reinforced seat belt, made of special materials, and even the shell of the spaceship is not as hard as this.

"Let's not talk about this for now, put on an oxygen suit, let's go down and have a look!"

The two hurriedly put on oxygen suits, slowly came to the door, pushed open the door and walked down.

The scene in front of them was the same as they thought, there were many small basins on the surface of the moon, and there were basically no flat places, and their spaceship happened to be stuck in a gap, so it stopped.

"Haobo! You see, this tank leaked a big hole, I don't know how I got it?! ”

"I checked it before leaving, how could there be such a big hole?" Haobo squatted in front of the fuel tank to take a closer look. "Tiannan, you see, this is clearly a trace of artificial cutting, and this accident was deliberately done by someone!"

Although he himself is a little unconvinced of this idea, there is only this possibility at present, so the complete incision cannot be made during the acceleration period, or when it disintegrates.

"Forget it! Let's go and contact the headquarters first and see if we can get them to pick us up! ”

The two hurriedly walked into the spaceship and tried to turn on the radio and the satellite radar, but the result was that they were cold, and these things had no signal at all.

"What to do? Haobo, we can't get in touch with the headquarters, are we just waiting here?! ”

"Tiannan, you go to find tools and see if you can repair the fuel tank, I'll go around and take a look, after all, it's already on the moon, since you can't go for the time being, then complete the task first!"

Tian Nan nodded and quickly walked out to look for tools, while Hao Bo picked up the stun gun placed next to his seat and walked out of the cabin door.

It's not the first time they've encountered this kind of thing, on their first trip to Mars, they had a fuel tank leak, but it wasn't so serious, and they turned around immediately after discovering it, and just returned to Earth.

And this time, it was clear that someone wanted them to die here, but he didn't know who it was, after all, they didn't have anyone to offend.

The breeze is blowing on the surface of the moon, and the temperature is not too low, hovering around zero or two degrees, which also makes Haobo's progress and exploration very labor-saving.

"Huh? What is it?! ”

At this moment, he suddenly found a very strange building not far away, saying that it was a building, but it was more like a pile of ruins.

Haobo hurriedly walked over, and after careful inspection, he realized that this was also a crashed spaceship.

The hull of the ship has been completely blackened, and the inside is the same, and it seems that the hull has become a little fragile and shatters when touched.

Moreover, he also found a corpse that had been turned into bones inside the ship.

"There are dead people here, looking at the body structure should be a human being, why have I never heard of it before?"

Haobo looked puzzled, you know, in the earth, the control of spaceships is very serious, and there are not many spaceships that can fly in the world, so when did this spaceship come here? And why did they die?

The careful Haobo did not let go of any details, because with his own personal experience just now, he deliberately looked at the fuel tank of the spaceship, and found that there was indeed a similar big hole there, although he didn't know how long it had been, but he could still recognize the smooth wound.

"How? Could it all have been premeditated? So why on earth is that?! ”

Haobo shook his head, he couldn't understand that he had no enemies and had not offended anyone, so why were there two ships here that were exactly the same, and even the methods of murder were so similar?

At that moment, Haobo noticed what appeared to be something inside the corpse, and it had been hissing like the sound of some kind of bug...

Before Haobo could investigate further, the hissing sound had quickly become louder, and suddenly, a dark yellow thing suddenly flew out of the corpse and hit Haobo's mask directly, with such force that it even threw him directly to the ground.

Haobo hurriedly picked up the thing in front of him with his hand, threw it aside, and then jumped to the side, took out the electric shock baton, and pointed it at the position of the thing.

"What is this? So disgusting! ”

The mask was full of slime left by that thing, and no matter how hard he wiped it, he couldn't completely wipe it off, and he could only see what was in front of him vaguely.

And after wiping it hard, he was finally able to see the appearance of the monster, but this did not make him feel reassured, but frightened again.

The monster looked like a piece of meat. The worm has a horn on the top of its head, and the rest of the place is wriggling skin, except for a crawling pad at the bottom, and at the top of him, there is a large open mouth with a circle of sharp teeth inside, which looks particularly terrifying.

Haobo was shocked in place at that time, his body was not called, and he couldn't move at all.

And the monster was slowly crawling towards him, and when it was a certain distance from Haobo, it suddenly sprinted and stuck to him again.

Because this time, Haobo was a little slower to react, and when he reacted, the bug was already firmly grasped on his oxygen suit, and he couldn't pull it off at all.

"Damn! What the hell is this monster?! ”

When Haobo was anxious, he pulled the monster down and attacked it with a stun gun, but it had no effect, and the monster seemed to be immune to electricity.

At this time, Haobo could feel that part of the protective clothing on his body had been corroded by the insect, because oxygen was constantly leaking, and this was a bad loss for him, because in outer space, no oxygen means death, of course, this is only for humans.

Haobo just watched as the monster corroded his oxygen suit little by little, and then stuck to his body, the stinging sensation made him scream instantly, but it didn't help, after all, no one would come here to save him.

The monster slowly entered the oxygen suit and finally disappeared, and no one knew where he went, but it was roughly guessable.

However, the strange thing is that Haobo did not die as cruelly as the corpse before, and even he did not die at all, but just became a little strange.

"Ahh The new body feels really good! It's no wonder I've waited here for so long! ”

Haobo's eyes turned red, and he didn't seem to be afraid of the oxygen problem anymore, but he just began to walk back, even forgetting the meaning of the monster bug before.

Tian Nan was repairing the ship's fuel tank at this time, but such a big gap was not so easy to repair, so he had to replace the fuel tank with a new one or install a protective shield, and he was doing this work now.

"Damn! If I had known that, I should have brought a replacement fuel tank, which was much easier than the safety shield! ”

Even though he complained, he still had to do work, and he didn't want to stay in this ghost place for the rest of his life!

Just as he was concentrating on installing the shield, a hand suddenly reached out from behind him and landed on his shoulder, startling him.

"I'll go!" Tian Nan quickly turned his head. "Haobo, it turned out to be you! I was shocked, I thought there were creatures here! ”

Haobo didn't speak, it seemed that Tiannan hadn't seen that he had changed into a different person, which also gave him a chance.

"You're really cowardly," Haobo said softly.

"It's okay... Are you done investigating? What's the situation? ”

"It's nothing..."Hao Bo smiled slightly, and leaned behind Tian Nan, the boss with a cracked mouth, who seemed to want to swallow him from behind.

But what made him a little mistaken was that just when he wanted to end Tiannan's life in one bite, he suddenly dodged to the side and dodged this attack.

"Do you think I really can't see your strangeness?" Tian Nan slowly turned his head and said with a smile. "Your oxygen suit has been torn like this, and you still want me not to suspect it, it's too careless, right?"

Although Tian Nan pretended not to care, his heart was still full of suspicions, and he could only attribute all this to supernatural phenomena or hallucinations, after all, he didn't know anything about this monster.

Hao Bo saw that he had been exposed, and he did not continue to hide, and slowly took off the protective clothing on his body, and there was a large wound on his body, which was bleeding non-stop, which looked shocking.

"You're not Haobo, who are you? Don't scare people here! Tiannan shouted loudly.

"Who am I?" Haobo whispered. "You don't need to know who I am, you just need to know that you're only here to be parasitized by us..."

"Parasitism...?"

Tian Nan obviously didn't know what he was talking about, but he still understood the word parasitism, and then looked at the appearance of Haobo in front of him, and guessed what was going on.

A feeling of palpitations in his heart suddenly hit, and the cold sweat all over his body was also covered with Tiannan's body, which was obviously beyond his cognition.

Haobo's body suddenly continued to twist, and his body began to move unnaturally, and the big hole in his body no longer bled out, but grew a tentacle, which seemed to have its own consciousness and had been rushing in the direction of Tiannan.

And Tian Nan finally realized the danger, hurriedly threw down the tools in his hand, ran into the spaceship, and locked the door.

"Whew! Call! Tian Nan gasped heavily, he hadn't recovered from the scene just now. So what's going on? Is that really Haobo? ”

There was still a knocking sound outside the door, and Haobo's familiar voice, but no matter how he shouted, Tiannan didn't plan to open the door, he didn't want to become like him, become a monster.

After knocking for a while, the sound outside the door disappeared, and Tiannan finally relieved his mood, after all, this is really a bit incredible, it was a good detection mission. It's so bumpy, even if the spaceship is vandalized, he also encountered a monster he has never seen before, which really makes him a little unbelievable.

But he hadn't given up his thirst for life yet, the ship was so hard that it might not be so easy to force it in.

Thinking of this, Tian Nan also breathed a sigh of relief, and slowly stood up, ready to take a rest first, and then think about the next things.

Although the fuel tank cannot be repaired for the time being, the radio radar is still there, and there is still a glimmer of hope that he can escape.

"Forget it! I don't want to, go get some sleep first, Haobo, it's really..."

Tian Nan shook his head, came to the sleeping bag, lay down, and thought carefully about what was happening at the moment, but no matter how he thought about it, it was useless, after all, this was beyond the scope of his knowledge.

At this moment, a sound suddenly came from the top of the boat, which suddenly interrupted Tiannan's thoughts and made him cautious again.

"That monster hasn't gone yet?" Tiannan frowned. "He's really persistent, but I don't care about him!"

Tian Nan didn't know that his careless behavior would make him pay a bloody price.

Spaceships generally have two exits, one is the normal side exit, usually located on the right side of the spaceship, which is a door large enough for one person to enter and exit, and the other is a door similar to a skylight, which is very narrow, but if there is an emergency, it can still be accessed from there, but it is a bit troublesome.

And Haobo was at the skylight at this time, and the tentacle was constantly twisting the door, and this is how the sound came out.

After a while, the skylight door was opened, and Haobo finally entered the spaceship.

"This is the operator's room... This is the bedroom, there is no one here, so that person must have gone to the bedroom..."

Hao Bo smiled slightly, after he possessed this person, his memory was also inherited, so he knew the internal structure of this spaceship, and he also knew that there was a skylight on this spaceship.

Walking slowly to the bedroom, Tian Nan was sleeping in his sleeping bag, not realizing that he had broken in.

"This kid really has a big heart, there is danger outside, and he dares to sleep so dead, is he really not afraid of death?"

Haobo smiled softly, and the tentacles on his body quickly climbed up Tiannan's body and wrapped him tightly.

At this time, Tiannan finally woke up, and when he saw this situation, shouting could no longer express his feelings, and he could not solve any problems.

"What the hell are you monster? Why?! ”

"This is your last question before you die, and it doesn't hurt for me to tell you!"

The monster seemed very happy and began to talk to Tian Nan, but the tentacle did not let go in the slightest, and did not give him any chance to escape.

"I... The higher intelligent beings here, in your words, should be aliens, but it's not quite accurate, because we have to parasitize living creatures to survive..."

"And after our investigation, we found that you, that is, human beings from the earth, are the most suitable for our living conditions..."

"In other words, you are parasites? But how did you find out that we were the best parasites? Have you ever parasitized us? ”

"It's up to you, you've been here more than once, and you've been missing more than once..."

Tian Nan nodded, he still wanted to ask a few questions, but the monster obviously didn't want to give him this chance again, and the tentacles clenched violently, instantly pinching his face blue and even congested.

At this time, something similar to a tube also came out of Haobo's mouth, and if you look closely, you can find that it is the previous bug, but the size has become much smaller.

And this insect drilled into the body of Tian Nan, who was pinched and had to open his mouth.

Tian Nan's face was full of horror, but that's all he had to do, after all, he couldn't do anything.

And when the insect entered Tiannan's body, the tentacles wrapped around him loosened, and he also fell to the ground and coughed violently.

"What is this?!"

"That's my doppelganger, in other words, it's supposed to be my derivative..."

"What? Ahem! Tian Nan couldn't believe this fact, such a disgusting thing actually entered his body, although he had some vomiting feelings, but he just couldn't vomit.

"You won't be able to vomit without trying, and, after a while, you'll get used to it..."

Tian Nan only felt dizzy in his head, and before he could ask again, he had already fallen to the ground.

And at the moment when he fell, he seemed to hear only one word.

"Congratulations, join us..."