Chapter 16: The Xenomorph Lair
It is worth mentioning that after six days of suffering, the screams of the alien queen finally stopped.
The yellow substance it squeezes out of the cracks in its abdomen begins to soften as it reaches the length of its arm, becoming a puddle of mercury.
Then, gradually spread.
After a few minutes, a thin to somewhat transparent film is formed to wrap the lower half of the body.
After doing this, the wound in its abdomen began to heal slowly.
The hardest time is over!
The alien queen rested for a while, and the thick thigh-thick feeding straw behind her back was sticking out.
In front of it were dozens of animal carcasses, ranging from hares and red pandas to brown bears and wild boars.
Next, eat to replenish the energy you expended.
As time passed, the film that wrapped around the Alien Queen's lower body slowly thickened, stopping when it reached four or five layers of paper.
Immediately afterwards, this cylindrical film with a diameter of nearly one meter extended outward from the lower body of the alien queen, spreading, and growing.
The speed is dozens of times faster than before!
The cave didn't stop, and outside, a group of aliens were in full swing to build a nest.
Since there was not much vegetation near the old nest, Eina ordered a group of aliens to run away and cut wood.
For the aliens, it would be no difficult for them to bring down a large tree with their physique.
As a result, xenomorphs can be seen everywhere with hand grabbing, pedaling, and tail blade thorns, the purpose of which is to break the tree, and then several xenomorphs can carry it back or back to the nest together.
The low, small shrub was dragged back by an alien.
Jiang Ming stood on a high place and looked at it, feeling that the scene was indescribably weird.
I looked at the entrance of the cave again, and many aliens worked hard to widen the cracks a lot.
This will be about five meters wide on average and nearly thirty meters long, and there will be no more crowds to get in and out and carry things.
During this time, the xenomorphs in charge of predation returned one after another, and set off again without pausing after putting down their food.
During the whole process, none of the aliens complained, let alone shouted tiredness or strike.
All of them are working hard to complete the assigned tasks at any cost.
"What a powerful race."
Jiang Ming sighed again and again.
It's not about how powerful the alien is, or how strong the body is.
It's their terrifying cohesion, combined with complete obedience to orders and lack of selfishness, that makes the operation of this race simple and efficient.
Alien, living only to serve the race, the interests of the race are paramount!
This creature is in awe of the superiors, and hundreds of alien races cooperate tacitly like a person commanding hands and feet.
Perfect!
This is Ena's evaluation of the coordination between the aliens.
To be the enemy of such a group would be a nightmare for any species!
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With the efforts of hundreds of aliens day and night, the construction of the nest was completed.
The original seven or eight football fields were the size of the empty cave.
The stalactites at the top were all demolished, so that the highest height in the cave reached more than 20 meters, and the low part was also 7 or 8 meters.
The average height is three storeys high.
The outer third and the innermost third become a series of criss-crossing passages that extend in all directions.
The dismantled stalactites were mixed with the trees brought in from outside, and they were used as skeletons, and alien secretions and saliva enveloped them into passage walls.
Each passage is at least three meters wide, and the walls of the passage are full of folds, ravines, and strange patterns due to the alien secretions.
The whole looks like the inside of a precision instrument.
And those patterns are all adult aliens!
When nothing happens, the xenomorphs sleep in the ravine, guarding the lair.
Due to the nature of the alien nest, it is impossible to see anything hidden on the walls from the surface.
Therefore, once another creature strays into the alien lair, it may feel like it has not found anything, but in fact, it has been surrounded by countless aliens.
In the middle of the cave, there is a large open field.
There is a three-story high platform here, very wide, and the alien queen lies on it, and if you look closely, it is fixed.
Its lower body was completely wrapped in yellow substance, turning into a round shape and looking bloated, with a yellow spawning passage more than ten meters long dragging behind it.
The spawning passage is wrinkled on the outside, and it looks like an old man's forehead.
It was filled with alien eggs, hanging from the edge of the platform, it was somewhat cone-shaped, the thickest near the alien queen, two or three meters, and tapered backwards, and the end was like an arm.
"Goo."
Every half an hour or so, an alien egg is squeezed out and stands on the ground.
The eggs laid by the Alien Queen from the spawning channel are not the same as the eggs of the Alien Parasitic Host.
The parasitic eggs are discharged directly into the host's body, which is at most the size of a walnut.
At this time, the eggs produced by the alien queen were like eggs magnified dozens of times, close to the knee height of an adult man.
It is milky yellow in color as a whole, and the outside is covered with mucus, forming irregular small reticular veins.
At the top of the alien egg, there are four palm-sized flesh petals, which open backwards once the alien hatches.
Whenever a new alien egg appears under the platform, an alien will take it away and place it somewhere else.
As far as the eye could see, there were already hundreds of alien eggs, standing there in a haphazard manner.
Because there is no need for face-hugging insects for the time being, the alien queen only reproduces offspring.
At this point, Jiang Ming's first nest is completed, and the alien race is completely on the right track.
Walking back and forth in the lair a few times, he nodded in satisfaction.
Due to the fact that it is a deep mountain and an old forest, coupled with his caution, no human beings have yet discovered the existence of the alien race.
In the lair, there are at least two hundred adult xenomorphs dormant here, guarding this place.
For the creatures on the earth, it is undoubtedly called the Longtan Tiger's Den.
Even if there were humans coming in with thermal weapons, there would definitely be no entry and exit without sufficient numbers and lethality!
"It's almost time to leave."
Jiang Ming stood at the crack at the entrance of the cave, looking up at the sun in the sky, his eyes narrowing slightly.
Reborn as an alien for nearly three months, the alien race is like a sophisticated instrument, operating in an orderly manner under his command.
He had never seen any other human beings except for the poachers.
Lonely and boring.
Ordinary aliens can't feel this kind of atmosphere and emotion, but he is different, he is still a human mind, and he still has feelings.
The most important thing is that after not going home for a long time, Jiang Ming misses his parents very much.
Of course, there are also close friends and girlfriend Xiaoying.
He is now an alien and cannot appear in human society openly, this is already an established fact and cannot be changed.
In this way, they can only do some tricks and tricks secretly to let them live a good life.
However, every time he thought that his girlfriend would throw himself into the arms of other men in the future, Jiang Ming felt very irritable.
Although it made sense, he was still reluctant to accept it.
"Finally observe in the mountains, then go to 'that place' and you're good to go."
Eina muttered to himself.
But before that, there's one more important thing to do!
He glanced at the bound A4 pages in his palm.
This was found by Jiang Ming from the woman, and according to the above information, the purpose of the poachers was obvious.
Mutant rhinos!
Although Emei didn't know much about rhinoceros, he also knew that there were no ones that were five or six meters long.
"The world is so big, it's strange."
He shook his head and studied the information.
After staying in the deep mountains and old forests for a few months, I really missed the words at first glance.
After a short time, I turned to the last page.
"I see."
Jiang Ming knew it in his heart.
Immediately, the palms of the fingers were staggered, and the A4 paper in the palm of the palm seemed to be slashed by several sharp blades, instantly turning into a pile of confetti.
With a wave of his hand, he fell to the ground like snowflakes.
"In that case, then these poachers must only be the first batch, and there will be a second and third batch ...... next"
"Then, not just poachers, but animal protection associations, rhino lovers, national natural ecology organizations and so on."
"And the mutant rhinoceros is only two mountains away from the alien nest, and when the time comes, it will definitely be lively here."
Jiang Ming thought as he walked, his eyes flickering.
"There are too many people, maybe there will be some accidents, and now the alien race is not ready to be discovered by humans."
"Well...... First so, then ...... Almost, that's it. ”
After thinking about it, his scarlet eyes flashed with cold light, and he made up his mind.