Zheng Zha glanced back, sighed, ran back, grabbed Li Shuaixi's arm, and ran with him to the middle of the group.
Even so, Li Shuaixi was exhausted and, panting, gave Zheng Zha a grateful look.
The screams came from a large hall of several dozen square meters, where the middle-aged man and three others were slumped on the ground, screaming in terror.
Opposite them, three corpses lay stiffly on the ground.
The three corpses were a blonde woman, a black man, and a white man. Their faces were extremely distorted, as if they had experienced something very painful before they died.
As soon as Li Ling and the others entered, the middle-aged man and the four white-collar workers scrambled to their feet in fright and hurriedly ran towards the corridor at the other end of the room, clearly quite shaken.
No one bothered with them. Li Ling squatted down next to the three corpses and looked at them with some curiosity. He had never seen such a novel thing as an alien parasitizing a human.
All three corpses had a deep, bloody hole in their chests, indicating that the alien larvae had emerged from them.
Moreover, one of them had a large hole in its chest and abdomen, as if a several-times-sized alien larva had crawled out of it. That alien was much larger than a normal alien.
The presence of three parasitized dead bodies indicates that at least three aliens have appeared on the merchant ship.
However, in the original 'Alien' horror film, an alien appeared on the merchant ship, and this alien killed everyone on board except for the protagonist.
Now there are at least three aliens, and the plot has been changed by the main god.
Li Ling glanced at the wounds on the three corpses and said calmly, "They've been dead for about four or five hours. There are at least three aliens. It seems the main god has increased the difficulty."
Chu Xuan also squatted down next to the corpses. He gestured with his finger over the holes in the chests of two of the corpses, and then gestured again over the corpse with a large hole in its chest.
After a long while, Chu Xuan finally stood up with a heavy expression and said in a solemn tone, "It really is the 'Empress'! This is terrible. The mission is to kill all the aliens, right? If there really is a 'Empress' on the merchant ship... I think we're probably doomed!"
Without looking up, Li Ling asked, "Does 'Queen' refer to the female Xenomorph that lays eggs?"
Chu Xuan nodded: "Yes, that's the kind of alien. Moreover, the Alien Queen is several times larger than a regular alien, and its strength is more than ten times greater. Without heavy weapons, it's impossible to cause it any harm at all."
He paused, then added, "And what's worse, we're such a conspicuous group!"
Zheng Zha asked, somewhat puzzled, "Conspicuous? What do you mean?"
Chu Xuan said, "Food! Alien larvae are only the size of snakes in their infancy. To grow to more than two meters tall, they need a lot of organic matter and energy."
Zhan Lan touched her forehead and said, "In other words, from now on, we are very likely to become their food, but why don't they devour these three corpses?"
Upon hearing that they had been made food by the aliens, everyone immediately felt a tightness in their anuses, as if they were about to become poop.
Li Ling said calmly, "Since the main god has increased the difficulty, all the characters in the storyline on the merchant ship may be parasitized by the alien."
Furthermore, the Alien Queen also lays eggs, so the number of Aliens... will be very large!
Li Ling actually hopes there will be more aliens, and that the Alien Queen will lay more eggs, since those are all reward points!
"This is absolutely terrifying!"
The thought of the merchant ship being occupied by a considerable number of aliens sent a chill down everyone's spine. (Search "All Heavens and Myriad Realms Wish Star Jiezhong Literature" on Baidu for the latest chapters, available for free reading immediately.)
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Chapter 258: The Alien Invasion
Everyone unconsciously looked around, as if aliens were lurking nearby.
There was no way around it; faced with an unknown number of aliens and a terrifying presence like the Alien Queen, no one could feel at ease.
Only Li Ling remained calm. He smiled and said, "It's just an empress and some aliens. Look how scared you all are. Let's go to the merchant ship's control room first!"
Everyone gave a wry smile; Captain Li really had a big heart!
Zhang Jie couldn't help but ask, "Why can't we have a few more queens? Anyway, we're always in debt!"
Li Ling explained with a smile: "Aliens, like ants and bees, are creatures with a special survival structure. There can only be one queen in a colony."
Otherwise, war will break out due to racial division, until the weaker side is killed or leaves the group.
Everyone nodded in realization, and Chu Xuan continued, "In fact, after watching this movie, I've always believed that the Alien is the most perfectly evolved creature."
They can change their form according to the host's genes and possess terrifying environmental adaptability. They constantly modify their genes and evolve according to the environment, which is so similar to humans who have unlocked their genetic potential!
"Genetic lock?"
Apart from Li Ling, everyone else couldn't help but wonder, what was that thing?
Facing everyone's questioning gazes, Chu Xuan smiled and explained, "Gene locking is the world's most cutting-edge technology, and our country happens to be at the forefront of the world. In fact, even European countries like the United States may not know as much as we do."
In ancient times, the ancestors of humankind were still monkeys, no, even earlier than monkeys...
There was an archaeological gap in the evolution of humankind during that era; nothing can explain why humans suddenly evolved from monkeys into humans.
"The passages in books that say that human evolution took millions of years are all lies."
Let me tell you, the most advanced genetics tells us that this evolutionary period was only a little over 120 years long.
Not millions of years, not hundreds of thousands of years, not even a thousand years—in just over 120 years, humanity completed all the necessary conditions for evolution from apes to early humans.
Chu Xuan began to revel in his own thoughts. He was a scientist who pursued knowledge and explored the unknown. He continued, "Do you know what appeared in the human genetic code during those 120 years?"
Let me tell you, a lock has appeared!
Humanity's full potential was unleashed for only about 120 years, after which it was sealed away for various inexplicable reasons. Therefore, from ancient times to modern times, we humans have essentially ceased to evolve, only making some technological progress…
They are capable of solving problems under any circumstances, possess an unwavering will to never give up, and will never die under any circumstances!