Chapter 424 Brood Nest

Sentry machine gun.

Surveillance cameras without blind spots.

After gathering the remaining crew members of the spaceship into the cockpit, Lu Li opened the hatch and set off alone.

No matter what, let's control the alien lurking inside first.

As for whether he would be in the middle of the plan, Lu Li was not too worried. After all, the big Roger had already broken away from the first-order gene lock. With the help of four cyborg fighters who are not afraid of death, no matter what they encounter, they have the ability to persist for two minutes. .

And two minutes was enough for him to return to defense.

"Is there really no problem for Mr. Lu to act alone?" Miss Colleen looked at the closed hatch and asked worriedly.

"Do not worry."

"As a matter of fact, other people went with me, not only can't help, but it will become a burden."

Because Luo Jie had seen Lu Li's full-strength shot, he became the one with the best mentality among the crowd, and laughed at himself, "If I hadn't dragged him down, how could there be so many things now."

Hearing that, Miss Colleen really wanted to ask about the details of that time, but because of the atmosphere in front of her, she stopped abruptly.

But the captain withdrew his searching gaze, at this moment, he was looking for the inner ghost.

According to Lu Li's inference, the other party should have stayed in the temporary quarantine area, and no matter how bad it was, he knew a lot of details from other people's descriptions.

In addition, the ghost must have participated in the secret meeting, otherwise Roche Bio would not have known the existence of Professor Taylor.

Andy and David are unlikely.

Since boarding the ship, these two guys have never left the cockpit except to go to the restaurant for a meal, and the heavy driving work also makes it difficult for them to be distracted to do other things.

Doctor Amy?

When the alien crisis broke out, she was at the scene, knew the situation very well, and was not injured at all... This is not the point, the point is that the female doctor disappeared for a while.

She said she was going to sort out medical resources, but who can testify that she didn't take the opportunity to do other things?

Miss Colleen, Dr. Amy...

Alternatively, monitoring equipment that may exist.

The latter can be ruled out by technical means.

After deep thought, Lin Xiuyi, who saw everyone suspecting the other party, didn't realize that he became a little dazed.

At the same time, Lu Li, who had walked out of the safe zone, came to the vent again.

In order to increase his own strength and solve hidden dangers as soon as possible, he carefully put on the simple version of the mecha before jumping into the pipeline.

Corrosion traces left by acid blood, scratches caused by friction between the tail blade and the metal wall...

Compared with the first time I came in, the inside became more and more messy, and it became impractical to continue tracking along the corroded holes.

After all, the alien's injury has completely healed.

【Ding】

After walking a few steps, a sudden sound in the dark made Lu Li vigilant. While staring ahead, he turned on his communication watch——

The notification sound comes from here.

Probably someone is urgently contacting him.

It can't be Professor Taylor, and it can't be Ms. Kamio. She knows how to measure and has been silently waiting for a reply.

[Tinder: Mr. Lu, don't forget the agreement we made before, the company will have a living body with a different shape]

From the start to the present, the other party got the news in less than five minutes. This ghost must be too daring.

After I go back, I only need to do a little investigation to find out who it is.

[Lu Li: Got it, but I really want to ask, Mr. Luo, you are so blatant, aren't you afraid that the spy will reveal his identity? 】

[Tinder: As I said earlier, we did not plant spies, but only placed secret monitors in certain areas. 】

Believe me...

【Lu Li: Have you boarded the ship yet? 】

[Tinder: On the way, fifty hours later at the latest, we can have a frank negotiation face to face]

On a powerful light transport ship, Luo Yue looked at the communication watch, waiting patiently for a reply.

It's a pity that Lu Li showed him what a low-quality netizen is, and they went offline without a sound, making this guy wait a long time.

"Nest matter..."

As it continued to go deeper, the surrounding ventilation ducts gradually lost their original appearance.

From time to time, piles of spider silk-like substances appeared under his feet. Lu Li, who had done a lot of preparation work, knew that this thing was the secretion from the alien's mouth.

To be precise, it should be a transformed alien.

"It shouldn't be too far."

He squatted down, squeezed the spider silk substance with his hands, it was moist and slightly elastic.

This special-shaped oral secretion will harden due to drying in contact with the air for more than six hours, becoming a highly elastic material that can even change the atmospheric environment.

With this in mind, he restrained his distracting thoughts and carefully guarded his surroundings so as not to capsize in the gutter.

medical area—

Power cabin corridor——

elevator--

In fact, Lu Li, who got out of the ventilation pipe, didn't go deep into the engine compartment, but just walked around outside for a few laps to check carefully.

Because, the alien can't get in at all, even Roger, who claims to pile up explosives here, can do the limit, that is, fill the outside of the blocking door with high-explosive bombs.

After all, it is an important place related to the safety of the whole ship. As long as a little spark enters and breaks the internal balance, with the spaceship as the center, the surrounding ten miles will become a dead zone, and the area of ​​nearly a hundred miles will be affected.

Ding dong!

The green light is on.

The elevator sent Lu Li to the cargo compartment.

Previously, he and Roger came to the nearby armory to pick up supplies, but now, the surrounding scene has undergone earth-shaking changes.

The ground was almost covered with strange-shaped oral secretions, and the walls and the top of the head were corroded with large holes one after another.

Especially the vehicle storage area.

The two five-meter-high medium-sized probe vehicles were gnawed to pieces, with not only bite marks on them, but also a yellow-green jelly-like substance.

Royal gel?

Lu Li didn't rush to touch it.

If it's really royal gel, then things are in trouble. It can only be produced by alien queens, and it is also very abnormal, which can cause other species to mutate.

In addition, for Aliens, this gel is similar to a tonic, which can make ordinary Aliens into queens.

so……

The gray and white alien transformed into a queen?

Not unusual.

Isn't it normal for a cosmic nightmare capable of infinite evolution to stage some biological miracles?

"Mr. Lu, the sentry machine gun installed in the No. 9 passage has fired."

"Which area are you in?"

The captain Lin Xiuyi's slightly anxious voice sounded.

That's the communicator, and it's in every room, every bay on the ship.

number nine?

That was the hatchway from the rest area to the separate dining room, which had long since been abandoned.

So, where is the number one who became queen?

Not too possible.

At this moment, it should be busy laying eggs and growing its family.

While thinking about it, Lu Li came to a nearby communication point and pressed the number one button.

"I'm Lu Li."

The calm voice sounded in the cockpit, which was extremely reassuring.

"See what that thing looks like?"

"Surveillance shows that it is a spider-like creature with eight claws and is extremely fast. The sentry machine gun in that passage used nearly half of the bullets to kill them."

"How many are there?"

"Four, the corpses bleed out highly corrosive acid blood." Speaking of this, Mr. Captain couldn't help panicking. He thought of the fear of being dominated by alien drones not long ago.

And Lu Li knew what the other end of the communicator was worried about, and comforted him: "This kind of creature is not an alien, let alone a giant monster in a short time."

It is just a syringe responsible for finding a host for the alien embryo. As long as it is not hugged close to the face, there will be no danger.

In addition, Roger is sitting there, and there are a large number of sentry machine guns that can automatically sense the enemy and shoot, so there should be no need to return to defense by yourself.

At this time, Amy took the communicator from the captain. Obviously, after several contacts, she seemed to regard Lu Li as an all-knowing and omnipotent person:

"Is there anything I need to pay attention to?"

"Be careful of being hugged in the face. You can think of it as a kind of syringe. There are abnormally shaped embryos in the abdomen. When it gets close to a host that can parasitize, it will immediately pop up and wrap its eight legs around the opponent's face..."

bang bang bang!

Vaguely, Lu Li heard gunshots. It seemed that the sentry machine guns in passage 4 were firing.

Dr. Amy's voice became more urgent, "If you are hugged in the face, what should you do?"

"If it's someone else, don't hesitate to kill people and bugs immediately, and then burn the corpse with flames."

"If it's you, you can try to shut up and hold your breath, wait quietly... and wait for rescue."

Lu Li originally wanted to say wait for death, but it was too unlucky to say so, so he changed to a more euphemistic way of saying: "After the face hugger jumps on the host's face, it will first use its eight legs to fix the body, and then use its long tail to wrap around the host's face. Hold the opponent's neck and force him to open his mouth to breathe.

However, once the host opens its mouth, the guy will extend the long tubular secondary mouthparts that grow on the abdomen and inject the larval embryo.

Therefore, after being hugged in the face, you must not open your mouth. Immediately use a welding torch to fight back, cut the back of the face hugger, and don't move other places, such as the legs, so as not to splash acid blood on the face. "

Although there is no factual basis, it is also a theoretically feasible method anyway.

"Got it, leave it to me." Big Roger replied, "You continue to search for that monster, don't worry about this side."

Communication lost.

Judging from the sound of the gunshots, the army of face huggers should have reached the third cabin, which is the passage between the abandoned medical area and the scientific research area.

There are only two hatches from the cockpit.

After silently making a judgment, Lu Li quickly walked towards the darker front——

Since this area is an abandoned area, many electrical systems have been damaged and have not been repaired. Some searchlights flickered on and off, but more areas were directly off.

Not long after, there was a strange noise in the darkness, slight but continuous.

Seeing this, Lu Li removed a power arm so that he could use the bone spurs extending from his hand to launch an attack.

There are two sources of abnormal noise.

One is the exhaust fan which is corroded and still working hard.

The other comes from behind the arachnoid.

After quickly approaching, Lu Li used his bone spurs to pry open the translucent film in front of him, and took advantage of the momentum to lift it off——

Abnormal oral discharge.

It is not hard, it is softer than the ones encountered in the tunnel before, when you twist it with your hands, you can feel a slight burning sensation.

very fresh.

The queen's brood is not far from here.

The space behind the secretions also confirmed this conjecture, Lu Li saw a lot of secretions.

Transparent spider web substance, yellow-green queen gel, these things are everywhere, on the floor, on the wall, on the top of the head, covering several thick layers.

At first glance, Lu Li thought he had entered the gut of some giant creature.

But before he had time to think about it, he jumped up suddenly, and the bone spur inserted into the metal ceiling, stabilizing his figure.

Below, with a bang, the entire area where they had set foot on collapsed, covering seven or eight square meters.

There is no doubt that this is a trap.

Alien No. 1, who became a queen, deliberately corroded the bottom, and then filled it with slightly less acidic oral secretions. As long as someone passed by, they would fall down.

Fortunately, there is no mechanism set up below, otherwise, Lu Li would think that the other end has become a genius, and its IQ is not weaker than others——

Alien creatures are almost perfect, but there are also some flaws.

The price of the highest physical function is the lack of IQ. In film and television dramas, ordinary humans can use this to narrowly win when fighting against aliens.

And this Alien No. 1, which evolved into a queen, showed many extraordinary features:

Extraordinary camouflage, agility, and not weak intelligence.

"A professor who has been genetically enhanced can actually give birth to an alien queen with a very high IQ. What would happen if it were a human being who broke free from the genetic lock?"

Muttering to himself, Lu Li retracted his bone claws, returned to the ground, and continued to walk towards the depths of the lair. As he went deeper, the feeling from his feet became more and more clear——

Soft, as if stepping on the intestinal wall of some kind of creature.

Until dozens of elliptical objects appeared in front of them, they were slowly wriggling in the darkness.

This is the beginning of the alien larva.

Lu Li had studied it in depth in anatomy class, but those were dead objects after all.

Assistant Professor Bai once said: The alien egg that keeps alive is a flower of death, made of flesh and blood.

His vision penetrated the darkness, and he saw a large number of details that were not seen in the dissecting room.

Perhaps it sensed the surrounding heat changes, or air flow, or bioelectricity, and the flowers began to bloom slowly.

They are no longer dark green, and through a slight gap, the inner pink muscle cortex is revealed, and tissues similar to vein-like blood vessels can be vaguely seen.

"It is indeed worth collecting."

When the words fell, the petals opened.

Dozens of octopus-like and spider-like arthropods broke out of their shells, and their eight slender and powerful legs kicked lightly, like a rattlesnake rushing towards its prey, and rushed towards Lu Li at an astonishing speed.

The wind was blowing.

Within a short distance, the cold light flickered, so fast that it was hard to see with the naked eye.

Large chunks of yellow acid blood were scattered.

On the other side of the spaceship, the battle is also imminent.

Acidic blood oozed from the air ducts, and a large number of facehuggers died under the sentry machine guns, but the secretions still corroded the lighting equipment.

The No. 1 cabin, which is only separated from the cockpit, has become particularly gloomy.

rustle...

The sound of movement became clearer, and the already tense people were cast a shadow over their hearts.

Four transformed human security guards hold heavy weapons and aim at the top of their heads to prevent monsters from falling from the sky.

The big guy was alone at the hatch, and on his shoulders, the light automatic gun was ready to go.

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Almost a million words, I want to write a testimonial to encourage myself...