Chapter Seventy-Four: Tracing the Trail

When the fat man and others launched a search for Liu Xinran, Lu Yuan had just terminated the investigation.

The team he encountered in the morning had obvious scratches on the bumper of the last car body, and Lu Yuan observed it a few times and judged that it was very likely to be caused by the alien. For this reason, he hurried to the scene of the incident and prepared to investigate the surrounding environment.

It's a pity that the alien is very cunning, and there is no trace left to use, and Lu Yuan, who has been busy in vain, can only return to the warehouse helplessly for the time being.

"Sir, the water ...... you want"

"Hmm, thank you, Sonny."

Taking the water cup handed over by Sonny, Lu Yuan stared at the map on the monitor, frowning: "Small mountains...... Small Mountains......"

Standing up suddenly, Lu Yuan put down the water glass and said in a deep voice, "Sonny, let's go to the small mountains to have a look." ”

"Sir, have you found any clues?"

"Well, since you can't find the alien here, then there are only two directions, one is that the alien has infiltrated Donghai City, and the other is to lurk near the small mountains. With the population of Donghai City, the probability of being discovered is too great if the alien wants to lurk and build a nest. ”

"And the small group of mountains is sparsely populated and doesn't interfere much, if that alien is really ...... If you're a queen, it's a good place. ”

In a hierarchical race like an alien, there can only be one queen in a breeding area, but only if this queen exists. If the queen dies or is not there, then without the suppression of pheromones, the ordinary alien can quickly activate the mechanisms in the body and quickly evolve into the queen. For a high-performance creature like an alien, this evolution process can even be condensed into five or six hours, which is terrifying.

Lu Yuan had to completely wipe out the other party physically before this alien could lay a large number of eggs.

Picking up his weapon and throwing it into the car, Sonny curled up into the modified back seat, Lu Yuan slammed down the accelerator and drove in the direction of the small mountains.

From here to the small mountains, you must first take the national highway, and then drive a road of more than 50 kilometers, so that you can see the shadow of the small mountains in the distance. Of course, this is only the distance of the road, if it is a straight line distance is not so long, about thirty to forty kilometers, with the high-speed agility of the alien, maintain the regular speed of progress, even if you have to find a suitable nesting place along the way, you should have arrived at the small group of mountains before dawn this morning.

"7:11 ......"

It was already 7:11 p.m., and there was not much time left before the sun had completely set, and the sky was a dim yellow scene, sprinkled among the mountains in the distance, which looked beautiful.

"By the way, the group this morning...... Didn't you say you were going to come to this reservoir? ”

This is really a bad idea, Lu Yuan's heart sank, he accelerated his speed and drove around the reservoir, and after a while, he really saw the temporary camp on a meadow.

However, the convoy of so many people in the morning was now too quiet in this camp, and there was not a single SUV parked in the row next to it, but Lu Yuan was stunned and did not see a single figure.

"Sonny, you stay in the car and don't move, I'll go down and have a look."

Asking Sonny not to get out of the car, Lu Yuan opened the car door with a weapon and walked over.

The Alien is not invincible, in fact, a regular rifle bullet only takes a few rounds to defeat the Alien as long as it hits its fatal position. Even if it doesn't hit the fatal position, the protection ability of the general alien can only resist a dozen bullets, which is enough to show that the alien is not impossible to kill.

The reason why this creature is so terrifying and extremely frightening is that the alien does not like to confront people head-on, but chooses the path of lurking assassination, and with its high-speed agility ability, once it is close to the alien, it is basically equivalent to death.

In order to deal with the aliens, Lu Yuan had a modified version of 1911 strapped to his lap and an AA-12 shotgun in his hand. At close range, the shotgun fires a large number of lead bullets, covering a wide area, and each shot has a kinetic energy that is not inferior to that of a pistol bullet, making it an excellent weapon against aliens.

Last night, because he didn't have a weapon in hand, he was almost solved by the alien with his bare hands, Lu Yuan would not make this mistake again, and he carried a large amount of weapons and equipment with him before slowly stepping into the camp.

"Hiss......"

Zip up the tent and there's no one.

Pull one more, and there's no one.

The camp was so big, and after turning back and forth, Lu Yuan didn't find any figures.

Even if they all run out to play, the camp should be left with one or two people, right?

"Hmm, drags?"

Suddenly stopping at the outskirts of the camp, Lu Yuan squatted down, his eyes condensed on the weeds on the ground.

Stretching out his hand to touch the leaf tongue, Lu Yuan gently brushed his hand and pressed the indentation, this kind of cow tendon grass distributed all over the world is strong and difficult to eradicate, the stem and stalk are relatively hard and strong, as soon as a heavy object falls on it, it is easy to leave traces.

"Did you go over there?"

With his backhand behind his back, Lu Yuan lowered his body and moved along the trail.

The drag marks are not very obvious, and it is often necessary for Lu Yuan to stop and carefully identify the indentations of the cow tendon grass to judge the direction, so he walked more than 100 meters and gradually approached a few big trees, and the pungent smell of blood was already impossible to ignore.

Corpse!

Two corpses!

Two unrecognizable corpses with blurred flesh and blood on their chests and heads lay motionless under the tree.

"Well, not good!"

Lu Yuan was about to step forward, but suddenly stopped, took out a pair of white gloves from his pocket with his backhand and put them on, AA-12 held it in his hand, searched around, and after confirming that it was safe, he approached the corpse.

"The time of death was probably between 2 hours and 4 hours......

Corpse spots had already appeared on the surface of the corpse, and when Lu Yuan pressed it with his fingers slightly, it faded, and when it was released, it returned to its original color. I felt the temperature of the corpse again, and roughly got the time of death.

"Direct cause of death...... Whew, isn't it the alien embryo that breaks the chest, but the inner nest teeth attack......"

After examining the wound on the corpse's chest, Lu Yuan found that the heart had disappeared, and there was a lot less flesh and blood inside, plus the door of the brain was also opened a big hole, and a lot of cerebrospinal fluid flowed out, all of which showed that this was not caused by the broken chest of the alien embryo after it matured, but that the alien was hunting.

Yes, aliens also have to eat, what animal can be more delicious than humans in their eyes?

Standing up slowly, Lu Yuan glanced around, and then returned to the camp the same way.

"Sonny, come out."

"Sir, have you found any clues?"

Sonny bounced out of the car and asked Lu Yuan if he had found a clue.

"Two people have died...... It's the traces left by the alien predator, and the alien must be found as soon as possible. ”

Lu Yuan's voice was heavy, and he was becoming more and more imminent.

If you want to find an alien who is good at concealment in such a large forest, it is absolutely not enough to rely on the strength of two people, and at this time drones are needed.

After starting the four drones he brought, watching the drones slowly rise into the air and fly in the four directions of the small mountains, Lu Yuan put on the Bluetooth headset and waited for the scanning results of the drones.

Although the Xenomorph is a cold-blooded creature, and the weak heat emitted by the shell shield makes thermal imaging unusable, as long as it moves, the dynamic night vision device can distinguish it from the stationary object, and thus find its traces.

Looking at the screen on the workstation, Lu Yuan couldn't help but be a little disappointed, either the alien left after the hunt, or the alien lurked and didn't move.

Either way, it's not an ideal outcome.

"Strange, why is this xenomorph just hunting and not dragging the two back to the lair?"

Lu Yuan frowned, pushed the joystick, and flew the drone over the hill and towards the other side.

"Hey, that's ......"

This flight passed, and there was an immediate major discovery.