Chapter 35: Persona
"Prawn" is the same as his name, if you look at it roughly, it looks like a lobster standing up, but if you look closely, it doesn't actually have many characteristics of a lobster.
Although I had seen and seen alien prawns in movies before, and I was mentally prepared before I came, it was still shocking when I saw it with my own eyes.
These days outsiders, the face is like a praying mantis, and four tentacles like dark green antennas stand erect on the forehead, two long and two short.
The feet of monitor lizards are similar to those of monitor lizards on their legs, but they only have three claw-like fingers on their hands, and the only thing that looks like a lobster is their mouth, which is a mass of mouthparts in the shape of shrimp whiskers.
The number of 1.8 million made this group of aliens not seem so rare and precious, and they could be seen everywhere almost the first moment Shen Sen and his party walked into the ninth district.
Some prawns walked past them with a cart of rotting meat, and some were holding bottles like gasoline drums, as if they were drunk.
There was even a prawn with a helmet made of tin and a strangely shaped firearm in his hand running past them, and with a flick of the trigger, the distant houses were blown into a cloud of blue sparks.
Along the way, the mystery of this group of aliens in Shen Sen's heart was completely shattered.
Compared to the title of aliens, these intelligent creatures are more like homeless people, vagabonds, drunkards, and even seem a little mentally retarded at the moment.
"Hey, you stupid shrimp, stay away from me!"
"Aha, do you want to eat guns! Want to give it a try! Do you want to try it? ”
"You retarded, trash, get out of here!"
The turban man of the Nizhia gang at the forefront has been loudly using all kinds of expletives to drive away and intimidate the aliens who get too close ever since he walked in.
As he walked, he did not forget to explain to Shen Sen and his party what he had seen and heard in his spoken language full of Nigeria.
"Haha, have you seen it? These things are a bunch of idiots! ”
"They're thieves, they're going to steal everything they can eat, you know the tires, they even eat that!"
Carlo was responding to the man with the turban, while Shen Sen took the opportunity to take a closer look at everything here.
But there is a price to pay for indiscriminately, and a scene that suddenly appeared not far from him made his pupils shrink involuntarily.
This picture is a bit spicy to the eye, and in his sight, a wandering warbler female in the ninth quarantine area is doing an unsightly "communication" with aliens.
Of course, Shen Sen will not discriminate against the "love" between different races, even if it is a traditional man like him, he also appreciates women of different races such as cat ear girls, rabbit girls, and elf succubi.
However, this kind of picture still raises a deeper question for him, whether the prawns are also hermaphroditic creatures, and are they not reproductively isolated from humans?
In his memory, there seems to be a concept of gender in the prawn colony, and there have been several times in the movie where the prawns are dressed in human women's underwear.
But this can only show that prawns have sex characteristics, as for whether they rely on opposite-sex pairing to reproduce offspring like humans, this Shen Sen is not very clear.
In the movie, the number of prawns on the spaceship was about 1.8 million when they first came to Earth, and by the time they were deported to military concentration camps twenty years later, it was almost the same number, and the number had hardly changed.
Naturally, there is a human role in this, and MUN has set up a special population control organization to forcibly control the prawn population. However, this is also inextricably linked to the breeding methods of the prawns themselves.
There was a scene in the movie where a prawn was breeding offspring, and in a dilapidated and dirty narrow wooden house, there was a breeding scene that could be called a alien.
The body of a cow is suspended in the air, and dozens of thick and long tubes are inserted into the body of the cow and the offspring of the prawns like "eggs".
Flesh and blood from cows, an unknown black-red fluid, and oxygen are transported down these pipes to the "shrimp eggs" to maintain their development and growth.
However, how these "shrimp eggs" came about, and who is responsible for taking care of them every day, whether it is the offspring bred by a single prawn or the offspring bred by a group, there is no explanation in the movie.
"But MUN should have the answer......"
At this time, Shen Sen remembered that the organization with the highest appearance rate in this movie, as an alien control agency jointly established by several powerful countries in the world, their research on aliens was estimated to be deeper than imagined.
Originally, he planned to wait and see what happened to MUN without going to contact MUN first, but now it seems that if he wants to get a lot of reliable information about alien prawns in a short period of time, he can't bypass this MUN agency.
Relying on his current ability alone, the time and resources it takes to understand the information of the prawns and obtain their technology by contacting them are probably astronomical.
The best way is to sit back and enjoy the results, take a look at the research materials of the MUN Institute, take the essence of it, remove the dross, and conduct research on the basis of them.
After pondering, the group finally arrived at the base camp of the Nigerya Gang.
At a glance, almost everyone of the gang members dressed in miscellaneous and colorful clothes was fully armed.
Not far from the destination, the member who should be in charge of guarding the gate was surrounded by five or six prawns, shouting frantically.
They looked excitedly at the fenced off area of the crowd and roared loudly in their respective languages.
"Kill it!"
"Kill it!"
"Goo, quack, roar!"
"Quick, attack it!"
"Baby, my baby, kill it!"
Through the gap that came out, two strange-looking creatures could be seen in the fence-like circle, attacking each other as if they were fighting cocks.
They resemble scorpions walking upside down, with eight slender lower limbs and long spikes on their tails, and in a fierce confrontation, one uses its sharp tail spines to nail the other to the ground.
"I won, I won!"
"Damn prawns, lose money!"
The result of the game appeared, and the crowd shouted and cursed one after another, but within a few seconds, they participated in the next guess.
At this time, the man who led the way suddenly turned his head and said excitedly.
"Hey, brother, do you want to play too, I can sell it to you, 100 rand a piece."
"The little alien pets I have cultivated are very fierce, and they will definitely make you a lot of money."
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