Chapter 16: A Strange Attack
"This is probably the biggest moon I've ever seen. Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info"
"It's a crescent moon." Atlas corrected.
"Oh yes, it's the crescent moon." Zhou Xinshu said with a smile.
"Because the green star has just emerged from the shadow zone of the supergiant, the crescent moon we see now happens to be in its youngest state." The little girl then explained, "As the green star orbits the supergiant planet, the crescent moon in the sky will grow day by day. If we stay here long enough, we will see the 'Full Moon' on the Green Star in a little over 100 days. At that time, that 'Full Moon' will occupy more than twenty times the area of the Earth's Full Moon in the night sky. Then, after reaching the 'Full Moon', it will begin to taper again. In fact, it is similar to the change of the moon on the earth, but the time of one 'month' is a little longer, more than 300 days. ”
"It's beautiful—" Atlas had barely finished speaking when Ralph's exclamation came out of the communicator. With this exclamation, most of the people on the green star who were immersed in the night sky woke up like a dream. The originally peaceful atmosphere suddenly became warm, and most of the people were happily chatting with the others around them, judging from their movements and demeanors, I am afraid that the topic of their conversation is still inseparable from the night sky at this time.
"This is the biggest moon I've ever seen." At this time, Ralph had the same emotion as Zhou Xin.
"It's a crescent moon." Atlas corrected again.
While everyone's attention was focused on the night sky, no one noticed the slightest change in their surroundings. I don't know when, but there was a faint humming sound mixed in with the original sound, and as time went by, the humming sound was still slowly getting louder and louder.
However, perhaps because the surroundings were too noisy, or perhaps because everyone's attention was too focused on the night sky, no one present heard the strange sound. Atlas was aware of it, but her first reaction was that it was an interference in the communication process, and she filtered out the sound. So much so that the voice that should have been heard more obviously here in Zhou Xin was ignored.
However, while no one noticed the unusual sound, Christy was keenly aware of the other anomalies.
"Do you - do you - smell anything strange?" At first, she asked with hesitation, as she wasn't sure if she was feeling right.
"What does it smell like?" Ralph replied disapprovingly.
"What does it smell like?" Because it was only a one-line contact, Zhou Xin only heard Ralph's answer, and he asked curiously.
"Sister Christy told me she smelled something strange."
"I thought it was a delusion, but did you smell it, Sister Christie?" Aina added a sentence next to her.
"Eh, it really seems to have some strange smell." As soon as Aina's words fell, even Ralph noticed, and she said in a strange tone, "It smells—it seems to smell good." ”
It didn't take long for everyone present to smell the strange aroma. Their attention shifted from the heavens to all around in an instant, and many people were looking left and right for the source of the aroma.
"Where's the aroma?" Zhou Xin also raised this question, and by this time, he had already added Christy and Aina to the instant messaging.
"I don't know." After all, wearing protective suits, they didn't smell where the aroma came from. However, this doubt did not last long, and in less than a minute, everyone turned their heads in the same direction.
"Did you hear anything?" This time, it was Aina who spoke first.
"I heard it, it seems to be coming from this direction." With that, Ralph turned his head in the same direction as the others. What appears on the screen is a forest, but in the bright moonlight, the woods appear a little dark. Therefore, everyone looked carefully for a long time but did not find the source of the strange sound.
"Voice? Why didn't I hear that? Zhou Xin asked strangely.
"Such an obvious voice, Uncle Captain, how could you not hear it." Now it's Ralph's turn.
"Huh? Is this the sound around you? I thought it was a distraction. That's when Atlas realized something was wrong. As soon as her words fell, Zhou Xin also heard that strange hum here.
"A swarm?" This was Zhou Xin's first reaction the moment he heard that voice, but he immediately realized how there could be a bee colony on the green star. But soundly, it should be a colony similar to a bee colony. At this time, the voice sounded very close to Ralph and them, and there was a tendency to get closer and closer, so Zhou Xin didn't continue to speculate, but stared at the woods on the screen, wanting to see what would come out of it next.
However, before an object appeared in the woods in front of them, Ralph and the others made a new discovery.
"How can I hear the same sound here." Ralph's voice rang out, and the screen shifted gear.
"Looks like there's one here." Christy's voice followed.
"Here, this way, I heard it too." This is Aina's voice.
After a while, a huge buzzing sound from all directions hit everyone present like a stormy wave. On Zhou Xin's side, the humming had even drowned out Ralph's voice, and he had to let Atlas dim the hum to barely hear them.
At first, everyone in the room didn't think there was anything remarkable about the sound. But now, many of them don't think so, after all, people's fear in the face of the unknown is innate, so in the huge wave, many people's faces showed panicked looks. Even Zhou Xin realized this, and just as he was about to ask everyone to retreat into the spaceship to observe the situation, the buzzing sound that sounded very close to the spaceship and seemed to be about to come out of the woods suddenly stopped abruptly.
The abrupt cessation of the sound made Ralph, who had become accustomed to it, feel a little strange, but they soon reacted to the strangeness. Then Ralph took a deep breath and said pleasantly, "It smells so good—"
That's right, just as they focused on the sound, the aroma around them became more and more intense. With Ralph's voice, the panicked crowd also subconsciously took a breath, and then they were deeply attracted by the aroma like Ralph.
However, at this moment, Zhou Xin, who heard Ralph's voice, suddenly had a bad idea in his heart. Immediately, he asked Atlas with a little panic: "Did the detector find any aromas, and is there any harm to them?" ”
"The detector did detect a strange chemical that had suddenly appeared in the air." The little girl replied preparedly, "From the perspective of composition, it should be something like information hormones, the source is unknown, and it is certain that there is no harm to the human body." ”
Getting this answer, Zhou Xin's heart was immediately relieved. So he refocused his gaze on the screen and watched the situation unfold. From Ralph's communication with the others, Zhou Xin learned that the aroma around them was still getting stronger and stronger, and it seemed that there was no stopping momentum at all.
After a while, the aroma had become a little pungent, and many people, including Ralph, already had uncomfortable looks on their faces. Some people have even begun to complain about the aroma of the outside world in their words, and at this time, a sudden change occurred.
At the same time that everyone was a little dizzy from the aroma, the humming sound that had just stopped abruptly sounded again. While startling everyone, including Zhou Xin, a large number of small things sprang out of the woods.
No one could see exactly what those little things were, and they were already flying in front of them. It wasn't enough to just fly in front of you, many small things even crashed into the bodies of everyone present.
Although the attack from the unknown little thing did not cause any damage to Ralph and them, there was still confusion in the crowd under such a dense impact. Even Ralph was the same, she screamed in a panic and slapped her whole body, and even the picture in front of Zhou Xin's eyes was chaotic. Now he could only hear the loud humming sound mixed with the panicked voices of many people.
"What happened? What happened? Zhou Xin, who could only hear his voice, asked nervously. However, at this time, everyone was busy dealing with the unknown objects that kept crashing into them, and no one paid attention to Zhou Xin's question at all.
This reaction made Zhou Xin's mood more and more nervous, and then he switched to the camera of several other people in succession, but the situation did not improve in any way, and even the picture on Christie, who he thought was the most stable, was shaking violently. There was no way, he switched the camera to the surrounding detectors, but what he didn't expect was that even the detectors were being attacked by unknown objects at this time. Zhou Xin, who couldn't figure out the situation, had to die first, and as a live horse, he loudly ordered everyone to withdraw to the spaceship in the communication. But what he didn't know was that even if someone heard his order, there was no way for them to act accordingly, because the space around them was almost completely filled with the little things that attacked them. Unless they were standing right next to the ship's entrance, they couldn't even find their way.
I don't know how long it took for the chaotic scene to finally stop. It's not that those sudden little things were all dealt with by Ralph, but that the other party took the initiative to stop the attack. At this moment, although the loud humming continued, Ralph and the others could already see what was attacking them. At the same time, Zhou Xin's picture returned to normal, and he also saw the little things in front of Ralph.
At first glance, those little things seem to resemble dragonflies. However, after careful observation, Zhou Xin found that they were completely different from dragonflies except that they also had two pairs of transparent wings on their backs. When he focused his gaze on their bodies, Zhou Xin was even more surprised, because he saw that the bodies of those little things were actually very similar to people. Not only that, if Zhou Xin can take a closer look, he can find that those little things also have normal people's "four features" on their faces, but they are missing ears. At this time, all the little things hovered in the air, surrounding Ralph and his party. Of course, not many people noticed that a lot of small things were pulling out of the weeds at Ralph's feet, pulling out the newly stunned companions one by one.
"Who are you? Why are you attacking us? However, Ralph, who had just emerged from the chaos, didn't care how cute the little things were, or even whether they could understand his words.
Obviously, the other party did not understand and heeded Ralph's accusations at all. The little thing hovering in front of Ralph's eyes flew around her a few times, and then hovered again in front of Ralph's eyes and danced with his hands.
Ralph, who was still angry, didn't pay attention to its movements at all, and when she saw that the other party did not respond to her accusations, her first reaction was to raise her hand and try to fan the little thing aside. Fortunately, Christie, who was beside her, was calm, and she reached out to stop Ralph's movements.
"Let's see what they want to do." After grabbing Ralph's hand, Christy spoke.
In fact, not only Ralph, but basically everyone present at this time had one such little thing hovering in front of them, even in front of the probes and robots. In fact, at first, many people's first reaction was the same as Ralph's, but fortunately, most of them were stopped by their calmer companions. But even so, a few small things were still photographed aside, but instead of giving up, they flew back from the ground to the front of the few people who had slapped them, and danced even more violently than before. Just as those people tried to keep the little things out of the way, their movements were finally stopped by the others in time.
Perhaps it was because all the attention was focused on the small things in front of them, or perhaps because they were used to it, no one noticed that the fragrance that permeated the surroundings at this time had changed, from the original strong and pungent nose to ease, and some new fragrances appeared in it.
None of the people present noticed, and Zhou Xin, who stayed in the base, didn't notice it even more. At this time, he didn't even care about the movements of those little things, because on their bodies, Zhou Xin noticed something that shocked him even more......