Chapter 41: 042. Evolutionary Aliens
As for war, not only Lin Yao, but even I have never been in contact with it, let alone experienced war. We have always lived in an era of peace forged by the flesh and blood of the martyrs, and war is just a defined word for us, nothing more.
Qin Yi, this strategist, Lin Yao has no way of knowing how deep the water is this person, his heart is like a deep sea, and he can't be snooped into. Behind him was a pile of corpses, the corpses of those who died in the war, whose position was forcibly turned from innocent to victim, and he... Or rather, they stood on this peak and looked down on the battlefield at their feet, like a meat grinder.
A river of blood? no... There was not even blood to be seen on this battlefield, only countless craters of various sizes and pits, which were ... Once a flat land, it was now corrupted and destroyed by the alien blood that could gather into a river.
The battlefield was filled with an extremely pungent smell of strong acid volatilization, which was mixed with the fishy smell of blood. Severed limbs of all kinds can be seen everywhere, some of them are alien, and some of them are corroded and do not recognize their shapes. There is no gunsmoke, no hand-to-hand combat, just the most primitive hand-to-hand combat, there is no right or wrong between the two, both are for the continuation of the race, and war is like this...
The meat grinder-style war that lasted for three days, the number of alien troops was sharply reduced from 8,000 to less than 1,000, although these 1,000 aliens were all elite, but they were already exhausted, and for some reason, Lin Yao and the others only killed a dozen aliens when they broke in, and the rest of the aliens around them seemed to not see them, just defending themselves against the attacks of other creatures.
"What's going on?" Lin Yao wondered.
"The command is like this, and now eighty percent of these alien operations are controlled by a commander behind the scenes, and this commander gives us permission to enter this area. Qin Yi said lightly.
After entering the shielding area, Tang Jia also closed the perspective of God, and in front of everyone, it was a conventional alien nest landform, but the ground was littered with fragments and severed limbs of drone aliens, looking at its appearance, it seemed to have been bitten off alive.
"Do the reverse aliens survive by devouring ordinary aliens?" said Remi, frowning.
"No... According to the data derived from my research, the purpose of the reverse alien to devour the common alien is to maintain the stability of the alien gene in the body. Qin Yi also replied lightly.
"Genetic stability?" Lin Yao also asked with interest.
"The Reverse Alien is the product of a mixture of human genes and Alien Genes, note that I have put the human genes first, that is, the body of the Reverse Alien is mostly composed of human genes. Aliens are rapidly evolving creatures, and the Reverse Alien is no exception, and it will selectively evolve based on the better genes in the body. ”
"Obviously, the alien inverse species is closer to humans in terms of form and thinking, which means that this species evolved based on human genes. But for some reason, they had to devour the common xenomorphs of their own kind in order to maintain the stability of the xenomorph genes in their bodies. ”
Hearing this, Lin Yao thought for a while, and suddenly realized: "I understand, so after the reverse species devours each other, because there are more human genetic components in its body, and because of the influence of its own evolutionary direction, the three-in-one reverse species will be like that of a human being, is that right?"
"yes, so I'm speculating... The commander of the alien army is a reverse alien who completely takes human genes as the main blueprint for evolution, and it even... Older than those three queens, it's possible that they have an Ancestor Alien Queen by their side!"
A thick pale yellow mist swirled around the place, and the breeze passed, and the mist drifted to a leaf, and only touched it for a moment, and the leaf quickly withered and withered, more than that... Even the treetops connected to the leaves are concerned about the speed of dehydration and carbonization visible to the naked eye, and in just a dozen seconds, the original dense tree has now come to naught...
The ground is pitch black, no... This is no longer the ground, like a muddy swamp, in which there are even streams of black viscous liquid with a rancid smell surging, and endless bones float and heavily, and it is impossible to distinguish their species, and I don't know how many years this skeleton has passed, and it has become so rotten and weathered that it is difficult to distinguish its owner.
In the center, the head of a alien queen that is five points larger than the regular alien queen is exposed in the mud, its huge mouth is slightly open and spews out a stream of pale yellow mist, above its skull, a humanoid figure about one meter and nine meters tall sits quietly, its physical characteristics are very similar to the three-in-one reverse alien subspecies, but the difference is... In addition to tyranny, the eyes of this figure are more deep and deceitful...
Behind this figure, on a tree-like object about six meters high, a dense face-hugging insect spread its eight legs and clinged to it. Soon, a face-hugging insect fell off and fell into the mud, and the black water disappeared without a trace, and then looked at the place where the face-hugging insect was originally located, it was a distorted human face!
After a few seconds, the face was full of eyes, its mouth was wide open and almost cracked, and then... A wriggling, fist-sized lump bulged above its head, and in the next second, a broken body burst out of its forehead, roaring and jumping into the mud, and when it resurfaced, it had grown into an adult alien beast!
The distorted human face that had been broken was regenerated and repaired at a speed visible to the naked eye, and the face that had died from intense pain was rejuvenated, and it looked around blankly.
Followed by... The nearest alien egg opened its petal-like opening, and a face-hugging insect flew out, and the face was covered by the face-hugging insect again, violently struggling uselessly, and the face-hugging insect on its side also fell into the mud one after another, and the dazed human faces were crowded together, and one by one the body-breakers broke out...
This tree... It was actually made of pure human faces! And this tree was the target of Lin Yao's hidden mission this time—the Abyss Creature Tree!
Humanoids... In other words, the evolutionary alien scooped up a human skull from the mud, and regardless of how painfully distorted the human face above the abyssal creature tree, the evolutionary alien dug a human face from above, and suddenly blood splattered and spurted, and the evolutionary alien nervously connected the blood with the skull, and crushed the human face into the skull, and then took a sip of the mixed liquid like a fine wine, closed his eyes and savored it.
When the liquid in the skull was fully in his abdomen, the evolved alien stretched out its barbed tongue and licked its lips greedily, exhaling a cloudy breath.
When Lin Yao and the others stepped into this area, the strong acid volatile smell that came to their noses could not hide the strong rancid smell. Over here... Even purgatory, it's half a point!