Lin Ci's expression was solemn, and he gestured to Chen Hu: "Wait for me." He found a rope and tied Lao Xia to a chair. When everything was ready, Lin Xi let Winnie in.

"Lao Xia, how do you feel about yourself?" Winnie asked.

Lao Xia shook his head and said, "I'm very hungry, I just want to eat." Still want to drink water, lots of water! ”

Winnie said, "Then let me check the wound for you first." ”

Lao Xia nodded.

Winnie unbuttoned his shirt and asked Lin Ci to come over and uncover it. She took out sterilized pliers and thread scissors, and untied the bandage attached to Lao Xia's wound.

When the bandage was removed, both of them were stunned, Lao Xia's wound had healed, his skin was exposed, and he couldn't see the injury. Chen Hu also saw it, but he was not happy at all, such an abnormal self-healing ability has explained many problems.

"My injuries are healed" Lao Xia smiled more ugly than crying, "I felt a lot more relaxed when I got up today, and now it seems that something is really wrong with me." I'm parasitized, right. Only those monsters have the ability to heal themselves so quickly. I'm done, I can't go back, I can't go back! ”

"Lao Xia, calm down, maybe you're just sick. You've been on a boat, and you know that people are always sick at sea, right? Chen Hu comforted him.

Winnie called Lin Ci aside and whispered, "He's in trouble now." We have only one way. Keep him in a cabin and observe him for a few days. ”

"Regardless of whether Lao Xia has become a different species or not, if he can't maintain the human mind, I will kill him, and I will tell Chen Hu about this."

Lin Ci walked back and said to Chen Hu and Lao Xia, "Lao Xia, I hope you understand, your current situation is difficult to reassure others. ”

Chen Hu was silent, but Lao Xia nodded and said, "I know, you can do whatever you want." ”

"Then let's go to Lao Xia's room."

When I came to Lao Xia's room, I happened to meet Kate and another man cleaning up the thing.

There was still a strange smell in the room, and everyone else frowned, but Lao Xia looked indifferent, as if there was no smell in the room.

After letting Lao Xia sit down, Winnie gave him a tranquilizer and said, "From now on, we will temporarily provide you with food and water, this time will be difficult, Mr. Xia, you have to endure it." ”

"It's okay, Dr. Winnie." Lao Xia is colorful.

Chen Hu was silent for a moment, then shook Lao Xia's shoulder vigorously and said, "No matter what, you have to get through." I'll be with you, brother. ”

On the deck of the steamer, Lin Xi summoned everyone, his face was full of uneasiness, "Everyone has also seen it, Lao Xia is likely to be parasitized, and it is not safe here, just in case, everyone should pay close attention to Lao Xia's movements." ”

And so the time passed.

The next morning, Lin Ci looked at Chen Hu at the door of the isolation cabin and said softly, "How is he?" ”

"There's nothing wrong with that, except for constant sweating."

As soon as Lin Ci finished speaking, Lao Xia over there suddenly raised his head, and his eyes fell on the lunch box sent by Lin Ci.

He suddenly laughed weirdly, and that look made both Lin Ci feel frightened.

At this time, a familiar feeling floated in Lin Ci's body, it was the restlessness of blood devouring. Lin Ci knew that it was going to be bad, Lao Xia was really parasitic.

"Lao Xia, are you okay?" Chen Hu was about to open the door and walk in as he spoke

Lin Ci grabbed him suddenly: "No need, Lao Xia has been parasitized, and he has begun to change, look at his feet." ”

When Chen Hu heard this, the expression on his face suddenly froze.

There was a puddle of water under Lao Xia's feet, and the muscles on his face were expanding uncontrollably, and he was terrified and said, "Lao Chen, I feel that something is wrong. It looked like a bug was burrowing into my head. I can't do it, kill me......"

"Kill me!"

Suddenly, Lao Xia's head was split from the middle, and the edge of the split was actually covered with fangs, and there were no brains in the cracked head, only a few things coiled together like insects.

They spread out and swayed in all directions, and at the front end of the mouth could be seen like a small snake. These things hissed at Lin Ci and the others, Lao Xia's body was also vibrating, and the back of the chair behind him suddenly bounced out, and three octopus-like tentacles stretched out from Lao Xia's back. The tentacles were covered with eyeballs, and these ugly eyes looked around, as if they were looking at their surroundings.

Then the three tentacles suddenly reached up to the ceiling, stuck to it, and then pulled Lao Xia's body up.

Chen Humu wanted to quickly attract Zhao Yu and a few people to the door, and after a while, the door opened, and it was Lin Ci who opened the door, he shook his head at everyone and said, "Lao Xia is dead"

Several people looked towards the door, and sure enough, Lao Xia's body was lying on the ground, but his body had mutated, and Chen Hu was silent with a gun in his hand.

"Let's deal with Lao Xia's corpse first. Chen Hu, what do you say. ”

Regarding Lin Ci's proposal, Chen Hu just nodded.

Unexpectedly, at this time, Winnie squeezed in and said, "No, don't be busy with the sea burial yet." ”

Hearing this, everyone looked at Winnie suspiciously.

"Before burying Lao Xia, I need to perform an autopsy on him."

"What?!"

"Lao Chen, you have also seen that Lao Xia's mutation is very unusual. They found the skin of some kind of sea creature under his bed, which means that this is a mutation that we have never seen before. We need to figure out this new mode of parasitism. ”

Chen Hu was speechless for a moment, and reason told him that what Winnie said made sense. But emotions couldn't make him do this, Lin Ci hurriedly came out to play a round and said, "Chen Hu, I understand your feelings." But Winnie is also thinking about everyone. ”

Chen Hu left the room, and only Winnie, Han Mengdie and Lin Ci were left in the room. Lin Ci didn't provide academic help, he just stayed here just in case.

Lao Xia's bed was cleaned and used as a temporary operating table, and after Winnie and Han Mengdie disinfected, they prepared for the dissection.

Lao Xia's body had been moved to the bed, and all his clothes had been taken off, but his mutation had not been lifted with death.

Winnie looked at the corpse and said, "Let's start with the heart." ”

Han Mengdie picked up the scalpel with her gloved hand and gently fell to her chest, and a large amount of translucent liquid suddenly emerged from her muscles......

"No blood?" Han Mengdie frowned.

Winnie shook her head and said, "No, it's blood, it's just that their properties have changed, and in that sense, it's a bit like a new type of xenostructure." ”

Winnie used a test tube to collect some blood, intending to wait for another lab test.

She quickly parted the corpse's muscles, and when she saw the heart, an eyeball met her at the heart, and then the eyeball rolled back and sank into the heart.

Winnie was startled and said, "Lao Xia may not be dead yet, no, it should be a creature parasitic in his body." ”

Lin Ci walked over, and with a shake of his left hand, the blood devouring quickly took shape.

He nodded to Vinnie, who widened the wound and shot a dark red shadow out of it. Lin Ci was already prepared, and now the blood devouring grabbed the past and closed the thing in his palm.

Winnie immediately brought a utensil, Lin Ci put down the thing in his hand, and then hurriedly covered the utensil. Suddenly, this transparent container was shocked, and if it hadn't been for Lin Xi's compression, he would have almost fallen to the ground.

Winnie and Han Mengdie both squatted down and looked into the container, and inside was a small alien monster. It has a series of tentacles that are elastic and capable of slamming its body against the vessel with tremendous force.

It should have been shaped like a heart, but it was clearly deformed, with an eyeball, two or three small mouths, and small teeth in the mouthparts.

"What is this...... "Winnie shook her head, "this has never happened before, new xenomorphs don't parasitize?" ”

The little xenomorph was vigorous at first, but after two minutes it was motionless.

Lin Ci opened the container, stabbed it with a bloody claw, and flicked it again, completely splitting this thing in two. However, it did not react in the spur of the moment, and appeared to be dead before that.

"It doesn't survive for less than two minutes after leaving the host's body, in other words, its life system is not yet perfect, and it should need the host to provide it with nutrients. In this way, it makes sense that Lao Xia will eat a lot of food, and the energy and nutrients of eating are all provided to it. ”

"If it continues to be supplied, will it leave the host after it has fully evolved?" Lin Ci raised his own puzzlement.

"It's possible that this new mode of parasitism looks very similar to that of parasites, both of which are dependent on the host for nutrients. When it has formed a full-fledged living system, it should leave the host. ”

"Let me see what's going on inside the corpse again." Winnie said, picking up the scalpel again.

Lin Ci walked up to her and said, "Be careful, there's more than one parasite in it." ”

This time Winnie opened the corpse's chest cavity, and while the organs were visible inside, a large number of follicles were also seen. These gray-white follicles clinged to the internal organs, Lao Xia was dead, but these follicles were still wriggling.

Winnie took a deep breath and used her scalpel to pick open one of the follicles, the walls of which opened and a finger-sized chunk of flesh slipped out of it. The piece of meat had no obvious shape, but it was rare to open a small mouth, and the three of them took a breath of cold air.

"That's not good, that thing is evolving and multiplying at the same time, and it's too good to use it." Lin Ci said.

"You see, the follicles themselves are not dead, that is to say, the corpses themselves, and it is estimated that they can still provide them with nutrients for a while. In other words, Lao Xia cannot be buried at sea, he must be burned to death, and the body must be disposed of along with these follicles. Otherwise......"

"Do you want to continue, or?"

Winnie shook her head, "It shouldn't be necessary, I'll test Lao Xia's blood next." As for his body, dispose of it as soon as possible. ”

Lin Ci raised his head and said to Han Mengdie, "You go and call Chen Hu." ”

After a while, Chen Hu came to the room and saw the contents of Lao Xia's body cavity, as well as the monster in the container, and his face was extremely pale. Lin Ci told him about the cremation proposal, and he nodded very simply this time, then gritted his teeth and said, "What's wrong with this world......

"If the new xenomorphs are a divergence in the evolutionary path of monsters, then this divergence will only get bigger and bigger, and eventually, they will become entirely new species. They are too aggressive, and they are extremely efficient in both evolution and breeding. A sense of crisis surged into Lin Ci's heart.

"That's for later, for now, I suggest you get rid of it immediately." Winnie took the test tube with the blood in it and left.

Lin Ci glanced at Chen Hu, who nodded and said, "Do me a favor." ”

The two burned Lao Xia's corpse, and when the corpse drenched with gasoline burned, a thin cry came from Lao Xia's body, as if those little monsters who had not yet had time to be born screamed in the follicles.

Listening to this shout, everyone's faces were solemn.

Obviously, no one will like them.

Lao Xia's body burned for an entire afternoon, until it was confirmed that the parasites inside were burned to death, and then his wreckage was sent into the sea. Watch as the Shroud gradually sank into the sea.

"What's further along?" Lin Xi asked.

"Las Vegas."

……

A yacht appeared in the tactical telescope, its solitary figure as obvious as it was on the surface of the sea, and now that there were no ships passing in the sea, Luke was sure that it was the ship he had been tracking for days.

What's more, its opening is very much in line with Boss Merlin's description.

The deputy commander of the Night Stalkers lowered his binoculars, shoved them into a nearby team, and walked down the embankment along the shoreline, sliding down the slope to the road, and finally stopping in front of an infantry fighting vehicle in the middle.

The woman in the tight combat suit in the car heard the footsteps, and she turned around and went straight to "Found the target?" ”

"Yes, sir. We found the yacht, which was heading towards Las Vegas from the direction it was sailing. If there are no surprises, they will be looking for supplies in Las Vegas. ”

"Okay, let's go to Las Vegas and wait for them."

Luke picked up the communication device and said a piece of code, and soon the guards around him trotted back and everyone got into the car.

Moments later, the convoy was heading along the coastline road toward Las Vegas.

A day later, Las Vegas.

Lin Ci, Wellington and the others were divided into two teams like last time.

Lin Ci and Han Mengdie, Kate's first team; Wellington is on a team with Xiao Jiu, Momiji, and Twilight.

The Sally came to a halt about fifty meters from the pier, and the two teams went ashore in rubber boats. The docks are empty, and there are very few ships moored here. They rowed to the shore with ease, and after securing the dinghy, they went up to the shore.

Lin Ci looked at Kate and said, "Kate, what do you say now." ”

"Come with me, if it doesn't make sense, I remember there was a club nearby. It should be possible to find food there and it is important to ......"

He looked at Wellington and winked, "The wine there is definitely not bad." ”

Wellington's eyes lit up.

Moments later, they were standing at the gates of the St Behr Seamen's Club, and it seemed that Kate had a decent memory.