The arched scanning device activated, swept back and forth over the skull, and the monitor next to it soon showed clearer and clearer scanned images.

Elizabeth Shaw looked up at Meredith, who was standing across from her, and asked, "You care so much about their lives and deaths?" ”

"Mr. Weyland cares." Meredith didn't seem to see the provocation in the other party's eyes, and said lightly.

"Dr. Xiao, look here!"

The doctor's voice interrupted the conversation between the two, and Elizabeth Shaw hurried to the monitor, "This is not a skull, I think this is a helmet!" ”

"Let's see if we can take the helmet away and see where to open it."

"This thing is too heavy for us", fumbling with her helmet, Elizabeth said to the droid who was more suitable for manual work here, "Davy? ”

Although it looks no different from a human, as a android, David's body is powered by machinery, and his strength is naturally not comparable to that of the two women, the doctor and Elizabeth Shaw.

The helmet, which was somewhat heavy for a human, was easily removed by David, revealing the head that belonged to the Engineer hidden underneath.

The skull, which did not look much different from a human in terms of outline, had a strange grayish-brown color due to its death for 2,000 years, and there were many obviously abnormal black bumps on the skull.

The true appearance of the engineer made everyone who saw him stunned, even Meredith, who had always been moody, had obvious shock on his face at this moment, and subconsciously took a few steps closer to the test bench, wanting to see the engineer's appearance more closely.

Sensitively noticing the bulges on the Engineer's skull, Meredith asked, "What's on his head?" ”

"It's like infected cells."

Elizabeth Shaw guessed, picked up the tweezers and cautiously tested the bulges, and said to the doctor, "In the mutation." ”

"Let's do an intracranial recovery, I think we can fool the nervous system into thinking it's still alive."

This is a technology developed by the medical department of the Weyland Corporation that can reactivate the brain activity of the deceased, and the nervous system is reactivated by the stimulation of the right amount of electricity. Theoretically, the ideal state would even be able to restore consciousness to someone who has already died.

The doctor, who was already part of the medical department of the Weiland company, immediately understood Elizabeth Shaw's intentions, and took out the corresponding instruments from the laboratory and returned to the test bench.

It was a flashlight-sized instrument, and after being activated by the doctor, a probe more than ten centimeters long popped out at the top of the instrument, and then the probe was pierced into the brain of the skull by the doctor.

The doctor manipulated a tablet and had the instrument's probe steadily output 30 A into the engineer's brain.

However, the head did not react at all, and the instrument did not receive any information that it had been reactivated.

Elizabeth Shaw said cautiously: "Up to 40A." ”

"Okay, increase to 40A", the doctor immediately finished the operation, and when the current output to the engineer's brain increased to 40A, the surface of the skull immediately reacted, and under the skin, there seemed to be something flowing, it looked like blood was flowing in the blood vessels.

Elizabeth Shaw was pleasantly surprised: "Add another 10A." ”

As the current continues to increase, the head's reaction becomes more violent.

The head, which had been lifeless for two thousand years, seemed to be resurrected, and the muscles on his face began to twitch, and the amplitude became more and more obvious. Soon his closed eyelids tried to lift as well, revealing completely black eyes behind them.

However, it is clear that something is not right.

His face seemed to show a pained expression, and his mouth opened and closed, but no sound came out.

And on the top of his head, some of those black bumps reacted particularly violently, constantly agitating outward!

"It's too much, down 10A."

"Okay, drop 10."

The doctor hurriedly lowered the output current, but the condition on the head was still deteriorating, and from the black bumps, black fluid suddenly remained.

The power output continued to be reduced, but the situation did not improve at all, and eventually the doctor pulled out the probe that had been stabbed into the engineer's head.

But by this time, the situation was out of their control.

The expression on the engineer's face had become distorted, and more and more black liquid flowed out. His skin, like a balloon that had been blown up, was constantly bulging, and looking at his Ali, it was like something was trying to get out of it!

"David, seal it up!" Elizabeth Shaw panicked as she put her mask over her face and said loudly to David.

David hurriedly operated the test bench, allowing the guide rail under the skull to drive the increasingly violent head back to the bottom of the isolation chamber.

Then the tempered glass connected on all sides quickly fell, sealing the severely deformed head inside, and a large amount of white breath used for disinfection suddenly sprayed on the head, and soon the white gas filled the entire isolation cabin, obscuring the vision of these people.

When the head reappeared in their sight, it seemed that the thing had regained its calm, even though the top of the head had doubled in size.

However, the next moment, the engineer's head suddenly exploded, and the yellow-green liquid burst open the skull and burst out, staining the entire isolation chamber!

Looking at the chaotic appearance in the isolation cabin, David whispered to himself, "It's just a mortal." ”

No one noticed David's whisper, and Elizabeth Shaw reluctantly said to the doctor, "Forde, take some samples, let's take a look." ”

The experiment, which seemed to have failed, left the lab one after another, leaving only the doctor and Elizabeth Shaw, trying to find out some valuable information from the liquid.

And not long after the end of the laboratory incident, Ye Qianhu, who had been away from the spaceship for nearly three hours, once again crossed the storm and returned to the Prometheus.

Through the connection of the red queen to the control system of the engineer's spacecraft, Ye Qianhu has already learned a lot of information.

For example, in the valley where they are located, a small half of the area belongs to the scope of the military base, but the military base is underground, with a total length of about thirteen kilometers.

This military base was built by engineers to research biological and chemical weapons with greater lethality and greater risk, that is, aliens.

And those black liquids that look like oil that are sealed in jars can be called alien protozoes. This protomorph is more infectious than an alien, and when properly cultured and incorporated into new DNA, the alien we know can be born.

However, due to an accident, the biological weapon leaked, causing most of the engineers to die, and in the end, only the engineer in the hibernation chamber survived.

Since then, the military base has been in an abandoned state until its current location.

Regarding the history of this base, Ye Qianhu was not interested. What really valued him was that there were still three spaceships stored in the base, and even if they hadn't been activated for two thousand years, they were still well preserved!