Without a hint of warning, the last moment they were still agonizing about a place to spend the night, discussing a plan for a temporary camp. The next moment, standing on the top of the mountain, they were shocked by the huge and hideous settlement of xenomorph creatures shrouded in darkness. As Lily described, the xenomorph colonies occupied the entire valley, the huge and chaotic downstream camp was like a garbage dump hit by a river, sporadically flickering with a little fire, and all kinds of buildings that looked like garbage heaps flickered with dazzling reflections from time to time, these reflective objects should be the first reflective things Zhang Lan saw on the top of the mountain. Compared with the downstream settlement, the river seems to be separated not from two areas in the valley but from two worlds, and further up is on the opposite side of the ridge where Zhang Lan is located, there is a huge castle surrounded by walls. In the night, there was no fire in the castle, like a wild beast crawling on the highest point in the valley, looking down on the gathering place of alien creatures below and below. And the city and the inner wall inside the outer city wall that Lily said are too high to see anything.

After the shock caused by the unexpected encounter, Zhang Lan and Li Junshan leaned against the back of a big rock on the ridge and looked at each other.

"Isn't it going to take three or four days to get to this place, why did we get there after only two days of walking, I am not mentally prepared," Zhang Lan said nervously.

"Three or four days is the time to travel under normal circumstances, and it is normal to shorten the time by half at the speed of jumping ditches and climbing mountains like this," Li Junshan also said with a solemn face.

To be honest, the two of them were really not ready, after all, the first contact with extraterrestrial intelligent creatures was still extremely ferocious, and it was a lie for the two ordinary earthlings to say that they were not nervous. But it's already in this cruel world, you can't hide from it, you will come into contact sooner or later, it's just active or passive. In Zhang Lan's words, stretching out and shrinking the head is a knife, it is better to be single, and if you are proactive, you may be able to seek a favorable situation.

The two glanced at each other, and Zhang Lan asked, "What now?" ”

"We still act according to our original goal, the first goal is to find a way to save which humans, we have to find a way to gather the humans we can find, if we can form a group, then our strength will be much greater, and we will not be passive. The second goal is to scout the place, the problem is that we don't understand their language, and if we can communicate, it would be better if we could take a prisoner. Now let's go around to the castle over there," Li Junshan said in a clear manner her plan of action.

Listening to Li Junshan's plan of action, Zhang Lan nodded, and then took out some dried meat from the backpack and gave it to her, Li Junshan glanced at him and gave Zhang Lan an appreciative look, and the two of them carefully checked the equipment on their bodies after eating silently. Then the two of them looked solemn, leaned down, bowed their heads, and moved swiftly along the ridge towards the side of the castle.

To get to the ridge across the valley, the distance in a straight line is almost eight kilometers. But they couldn't go straight through the valley and fight their way to the opposite castle. Although they are now very "superhuman", they are not the "supermen" of the US imperialism after all, and now they can only go around along the ridge, bypassing the river that separates the valley in the middle. That's definitely more than twice the distance in a straight line, but it won't take them long. Just watch out for xenomorph patrols on the ridge.

The two alternated between trees and rocks on the ridge, and after two days of intensive training by Li Junshan, the cooperation between the two was also good.

From what they have observed so far, the living habits of xenomorphs are also diurnal. Due to the darkness, there are few active xenomorphs in the downstream settlements. There were no xenomorph patrols on the ridge of the downstream camp, but a few xenomorphs could occasionally be seen at the foot of the mountain, and the distance between the ridge and the foot of the mountain was five or six hundred meters in the low places and more than a thousand meters away in the high places, although it was certain that the xenomorphs could not see them. But in the process, Li Junshan and Zhang Lan were still careful to hide with the help of rocks and trees, and soon they went around along the ridge to the mouth of the river that divides the valley into two, this estuary is the entrance of the river into the valley, it winds out from the heavy mountains, due to the basin topography of the valley, there is a height difference of six or seven meters between the river and the valley, so this river valley is actually a small waterfall, and the already turbulent river water rushes through this waterfall is even more turbulent. Although the drop is not large, it still smashes a deep pool under the waterfall, and the entire waterfall is more than ten meters wide, but for Zhang Lan and Li Junshan now, it is not difficult to jump this distance, but the problem is that there is a spear-wielding xenomorph creature on both sides of the waterfall bank, and now the two xenomorph creatures are still walking back and forth idly.

Zhang Lan and Li Junshan hid behind a ridge stone two hundred meters away from the waterfall, and the two waited for half an hour without seeing the two xenomorph creatures have any intention of leaving. In order to avoid unnecessary battles, they could only reluctantly go to the upper reaches of the river to carefully investigate, over the mountains and mountains to explore for more than an hour, they found that the upstream river channel is much wider than the estuary, the narrowest place is more than 30 meters, the width of the place is more than 200 meters, and both sides are towering cliffs that cannot be climbed, no rut The two of them went back to the stone of the waterfall to discuss countermeasures.

"There's no way, I can only kill these two first," Li Junshan said with a serious expression.

"That's the only way, the two of us go one after the other, I will shoot the one on the other side of the river with my bow first, and then deal with this one on this side of the river together" Zhang Lan estimated and touched it, and also said his thoughts.

"No, both sides must be killed at the same time, in case he raises the alarm, we will be in trouble. In this way, I will first sneak behind it from the bushes in front of me, and then I will gesture to you and we will attack together," Zhang Lan said firmly.

"This... Wouldn't it be too dangerous, or if you release the arrows, I'll do this on our side," Zhang Lan asked hesitantly.

Li Junshan glanced at Zhang Lan and said, "Don't ink this kind of thing, don't worry, I know my affairs, and I have confidence."

Seeing that Li Junshan was going to insist on hand-to-hand combat, Zhang Lan couldn't help it. Knowing that now is not the time for ink, it is only a small level, and there are still many battles waiting for them in the future, so they can't be emotional.

Thinking about the joint, Zhang Lan no longer hesitated, he nodded, and motioned for Li Junshan to do what he said. Li Junshan did not delay in the slightest, crawled into the bushes with a short body, and watched Li Junshan move forward little by little, and his heart also rose to his throat. Every time the xenomorph creature turned or stopped, she immediately stopped, and then quickly advanced for a while, two hundred meters, Li Junshan took almost twenty minutes to reach the distance of thirty meters of the xenomorph creature, and at this distance, Li Junshan could no longer move forward, otherwise even if there was a bush block, it would be possible to be discovered. Measuring the attack distance, Lee Jun-san, who was crawling in the bushes, made an OK pose behind his back with his left hand. Seeing Li Junshan's signal, Zhang Lan immediately raised the wooden bow in his hand and focused on aiming at the xenomorph creatures on the other side of the river, and released the arrows on the string in a moment when his breathing was steady.

Almost at the same time as the bowstring trembled, a trembling feather arrow was already inserted in the chest of the xenomorph creature on the other side of the river, and the feather arrow flew out about five meters with the xenomorph creature and hit a rock on the river bank before stopping. At the same time, Li Junshan also jumped up from the bushes, holding the spear in his hand and pounced on the body of the xenomorph creature who suddenly turned around when he heard the sound, the sharp spear pierced the thin xenomorph creature's body, like a needle through paper, and was pierced by the spear without a sound, and it was also a successful blow, Li Junshan took out the spear, rolled the animal skin on the xenomorph creature to wipe the blood stains on the spear, signaled that Zhang Lan could come down, and dragged the body of the xenomorph creature into the bushes.

Seeing that the two xenomorph creatures had been dealt with, Zhang Lan's hanging heart also fell, and he jumped all the way down the ridge, but just as he was about to approach the foot of the mountain, something suddenly happened.