Chapter 361: The careless iron-blooded youth and the hatched face-hugging worm
When Lu Wu arrived at the underground cave, the three Iron Bloods and Humans had already entered the pyramid in front of him.
At the entrance to the cave there was a lot of heavy equipment left behind by humans, as well as a corpse.
The corpse, the leader of the drill team who had previously remained on the ground, had been kicked by Iron Will from the entrance to the circular passageway.
Luckily, after a few hundred meters of gliding and crashing into a rock wall, he didn't die.
Unfortunately, a careful iron-blooded young man later stabbed him in the chest.
Lu Wu confirmed that he was dead and stopped paying attention, using all fours together, and quickly rushed to the mysterious pyramid.
The cave is very large and extends in all directions, and it is still naturally formed, without a trace of artificial excavation.
The whole island of Bouvet is the equivalent of a shell on top of the cave.
But the pyramid is easy to find because it's so conspicuous.
Standing at the foot of the pyramid, Lu Wu is equivalent to a grain of rice, and it is an elephant.
The tower body is not a triangle with a regular shape as in the impression, but incorporates the characteristics of many civilizations.
It's like piecing together all the civilizations in the world that have pyramid-like structures.
The Aztecs, Egypt, Cambodia, each civilization can find its own part of it.
One of the archaeologists on the expedition once told Wieland that this may be the world's first pyramid and has immeasurable research value for the development of various civilizations.
It's a pity that neither Wieland nor Lu Wu has much interest in studying this big guy.
Lu Wu felt that this thing looked weird, and then entered the inside of the pyramid.
Everything here seems to be an enlarged version, just the entrance corridor, and it is no problem to drive a tank in.
There are various murals carved on the stone walls of the corridor, many of which are scenes of iron-blooded and alien battles.
But the humans who went in didn't understand this, so they didn't take it seriously.
During the journey, Lu Wu found a concave stone slab on the ground, which was the switch for the entire pyramid.
When triggered, it means that the sacrifice is in place and the trial is about to begin.
The fertile Alien Mother has awakened from her slumber and is producing a steady stream of Alien Eggs.
With his keen hearing, Lu Wu could hear the roar of the Mother Emperor at the base of the pyramid.
Time was of the essence and he had to speed up a bit.
And while Lu Wu was hurrying, the first wave of humans who entered this place, in a state of confusion, stepped into the altar prepared for them in advance.
In the circular sacrificial burial chamber, more than a dozen stone beds are arranged vertically in a circle.
There was a corpse lying on each bed.
Because it's too cold, it's hard for the microorganisms to survive, which slows down the rate of decay considerably.
Therefore, even if it has been a hundred years since the altar was last opened, it is still possible to see what these sacrifices looked like during their lifetimes.
They were men and women, dressed in culturally distinctive costumes, with their hands folded on their abdomen, lying peacefully on the stone bed.
There are no traces of ropes or chains on his body, which proves that they are all voluntary.
But their expressions were painful, as if they had suffered great torture before they died, and the source of the torture was the large hole in the chest with a diameter of more than ten centimeters.
The ribs were broken from the inside out, and the chest was pierced, as if something had come out of the body.
Thomas, the archaeologist's assistant, held a DV and read out the ancient characters carved on the stone bed while filming.
"They gave their lives, and the hunt began."
Everyone studied for a long time, but they didn't understand what the 'hunting' meant.
At this moment, Wieland's bodyguard and security captain Max, a tall black male, found what resembled a ventilation shaft in the middle of the floor of the burial chamber.
A metal cover engraved with a special-shaped float is fixed at the wellhead to prevent someone from falling
He then tossed two glow sticks down the gap in the lid, confirming that there was a room underneath.
When Wieland heard about it, he planned to take someone to see it.
Max immediately arranged for a female security guard and assistant Thomas, as well as some of the personnel, to stay behind to count the equipment, and the rest of the people moved on.
The eyed, honest-looking assistant didn't want to be separated from the archaeologist, but the cold expression of the security captain made him dare not refuse.
Helpless, Thomas had no choice but to smile at the short-haired female security guard next to him, which could be regarded as a release of kindness.
Later, if she encounters danger, I hope she can take care of herself.
But the female security guard, who was pretty good-looking, was obviously not interested in an engineering man with a wooden personality like him, so she glanced at him and walked away.
On the other side, the boss Wieland and his party soon came to the room directly below the sacrificial tomb.
It is twice as large as the burial chamber above, with a passage to the left and right to the rest.
On the stone platform in the middle, a giant sarcophagus is placed.
Explorer Lex Wood, who was at the head of the group, summoned the archaeologist Sebastian and asked him to identify the images and words on the sarcophagus.
Sebas, who was handsome and far superior to his assistants, stepped forward and, with his superb archaeological experience, quickly determined that the images and text on the sarcophagus were a combination of the Mayan long calendar and the Aztec solar calendar.
Three rotatable wheels, representing the year, month and day.
The date shown above is October 10, 1904, exactly one hundred years after them, which means that the sarcophagus was last opened a hundred years ago.
Curiosity led Sebas to move the roulette wheel to today, October 10, 2004.
In the end, as expected, the sarcophagus clicked and stretched out automatically like a drawer.
The crowd waited for a few seconds and saw that there was no danger, so they surrounded them.
When the white mist in the coffin cleared, they did not see the corpse, but three strange devices in the shape of long strips.
The three items as a whole have a metallic luster, grayish-black, and covered with quaint textures, like some kind of weapon, similar to a firearm, and a bit like a grenade launcher.
Wieland, who was the only one who could recognize it, was slightly excited.
He already had physical problems, and under the emotion, he even found it difficult to breathe.
I had to step aside and take a big sip of oxygen behind everyone's back.
The attentive Lex sensed this and suggested to the group that they go back to the whaling station to rest and come back tomorrow morning.
Captain Max and the others were reluctant to leave so easily.
Lex was very angry, and the group had discussed before they came, for the sake of safety, they had to listen to her command along the way, and they couldn't act without permission, and as a result, how long had passed.
She retorted strongly to the captain, and was in a position to withdraw from the expedition at any time.
Max had no choice but to set his sights on Wieland, who could really make decisions.
Wieland knew that his physical condition could no longer support him to continue his exploration, so he agreed to Lex's suggestion.
But the contents of the sarcophagus must be taken away.
As a result, several security guards, including Max, immediately moved and took out the contents of the coffin.
After studying for a long time, Sebas, who finally saw something, wanted to stop them, but it was too late.
When the last item is removed, the device inside the sarcophagus is instantly activated.
After the sound of tooth-aching gears, the entire pyramid began to change its original structure as if it were made of building blocks.
The original passage has become a dead end, but the original dead end has an extra passage.
Some of the ground rises up a staircase leading to the rest of the world, while others sink into bottomless holes.
The way they came was also cut off by a stone gate weighing several tons.
The same is true of the sacrificial burial chamber directly above, where everyone is trapped.
One second it was an exciting archaeological paradise, and the next it became a cage to imprison them.
With the rustle of stones rubbing against each other, a circular gap opened in the stone bed of the burial chamber.
The alien eggs covered with slippery mucus are like assembly lines, and they are constantly being sent.
Through the slightly transparent egg wall, you can still vaguely see something twitching inside.
The female security guard named Rousseau vigilantly aimed her gun at the alien egg.
Before entering the pyramid, Lex also disputed her behavior of carrying a gun.
But she said that even if you don't use it, it's better than when you use it.
Now, her gun really came in handy.
"What did you say this room was called?"
Hearing Rousseau's question, Thomas, an assistant next to him who was already trembling, trembled and said, "Sacrifice... Tomb. ”
As soon as the words fell, an oval alien egg in front of the two of them, the top of which was split into four petals like a flower, revealing the pink flesh and white connective tissue inside, which looked extremely disgusting.
Then, out of it came a creature resembling a spider, its yellow-white skin like a corpse that had been soaked in formalin for many years, eight arthropods that looked like slender fingers swaying back and forth, and its long tail bent into a springy yellow, and it snapped out of its egg sheath.
Below the abdomen, the mouthparts that occupy the entire body open and go straight to the people's faces.
It all happened so fast that before Rousseau could shoot, he was hit by a facehug.
The sheer force pulled her to the ground, eight arthropods wrapped around her head, and a long tail wrapped around her neck.
The retractable tubular mouthparts pry open her mouth and then burrowed into it brutally.
At the same time, the rest of the people in the tomb were not spared, and they were attacked one after another, and their screams could be heard even by Ricks and the others directly below.
The security captain immediately contacted his subordinate Rousseau via intercom, and Sebas eagerly called out the name of his assistant.
Unfortunately, they didn't get any response after all.
Lex directly asks Wieland if he is hiding something from her.
Wieland was still stubborn, claiming to know as much as everyone else.
Faced with this situation, the safest thing to do is to leave immediately, and Lex thinks so and intends to do so.
As a result, the security captain Max tells her that her job is over, and pulls out the firearm he has prepared.
"I have an obligation and a duty to protect Mr. Wieland's life."
The rest of the security guards did the same as him, checking magazines, pulling bolts, and putting on a battle stance.
Lex thought that the suitcase they carried with them was a research instrument, but they didn't expect it to be full of weapons, which was obviously not for exploration, but for war.
On the other side, the three young iron-willed men also learned that their weapons had been taken, and immediately sped up and rushed to the area where Minkers and the others were.
Originally, the plan was that the aliens would start hatching after they got their weapons.
However, due to the fact that humans have taken the lead, things have changed unpredictably, which greatly affects their chances of completing this trial.
So, the Predators must get their things back as soon as possible.
Nowadays, humans are escaping, aliens are developing, and three young people are looking for their weapons, only Lu Wu is the most leisurely, wandering around in the pyramid.
The main purpose is to familiarize yourself with the next battlefield.
An excellent hunter instinct that allows him to come and go inside the intricate pyramid with ease.
There is no such thing as getting lost or something.
The only thing that makes them unhappy is that there are no plants, so there is no grass.
It made him feel a little uncomfortable.
But it's harmless, he's not like in the game where you can only jump around on the grass.
It didn't take long for Lu Wu to reach the periphery of the sacrificial tomb and find a passage to enter it from a higher position.
It looks like the burial chamber is sealed, but that doesn't mean there is no place to get in.
It's just that the people inside can't find it, otherwise how can the hatched aliens get out.
Falling silently from a position three or four meters above the ground, Lu Wu entered the tomb.
More than a dozen people were lying there in front of them, and everyone's face was occupied by the face-hugging insects.
Inside was only Rousseau, who was the first to be attacked, and his face was clean.
The corpse of the dead facehug next to her indicates that she has been parasitized.
Lu Wu was still very curious about the alien creature, so he took out the bone knife that dissected the prey, intending to study the body structure of the face-hugging insect.
I didn't know that I was just about to squat down, and the sound of breaking the air came from my ears.
As soon as he looked up, he saw a facehugging worm with teeth and claws, wagging its gut-like tail and pounced on his big furry face.
The bone knife struck in an instant, piercing the insect's mouthparts and nailing it to the floor.
Don't look at the bone knife has a bone character, but it sharpens iron like mud, just a small insect, no different from a cut of tofu.
Lu Wu got up and walked over to the face-hugging worm.
It wasn't dead yet, its eight nails struggling, and the yellow-green viscous blood flowed to the ground with a clattering sound, corroding into puddles of holes.
A pungent sour breath came to his face, making Lu Wu, who had a keen sense of smell, almost vomit on the spot.
I had to hold my breath and stretch out my claws to break off a bug's leg.
It's a bit disgusting, but it's still a trophy.
Unfortunately, this thing was so weak that it didn't even trigger his Predator Passive.
Tie the insect's legs around his waist, and Lu Wu completely dismantled the face-hugging worm and basically understood its body structure.
Then, he came to the dead face-hugging worm that had completed its parasitization.
There seems to be some difference between the two, the second one has completed its historical mission, its body has become siliconized and hardened, and it is cut like a certain stone, and the blood in its body is also neutralized and no longer corrosive.
All in all, it's a very amazing creature.
If it weren't for the fact that there were always humans who didn't have long eyes who took the initiative to send them to the door, with the complicated and cumbersome incubation method of aliens, they would have been extinct a long time ago.
Just as Lu Wu was studying it, the female security guard next to him suddenly convulsed a few times, took a deep breath, and then opened her eyes.
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The name of the heroine of the movie should be Ricks Wood, not Christ, and I said how I feel that the more I write it, the more wrong it becomes.