Volume 1 The Last Garden of Eden 00008 Sunset
"You said that we have always had a misconception about xenos?" The host of the show frowned and looked at the elegant ...... in front of him with a slightly embarrassed smile Kindness...... Gentleman?
"Yes, so far as I can see." The response was firm.
"Oh? That's interesting, I wonder if you can explain it to you in today's show with good ratings? The host made a small gesture, and then the camera zoomed in, and the audience in the audience also became interested.
"Well, how can I say it, I think most people's initial understanding of xenomorphs should still stay in the ancient understanding of 'zombies', right?"
"Hehe, yes, as you said, the word 'zombie' originally only existed in the ancient doctrinal code, I heard that it was a special existence made up by our ancestors several eras ago, but in our opinion, these are as irrational as zombies, they bite when they see people, and if they bite, they will inevitably be infected into a new xenomorph The way is the same as the setting of zombies, I don't think most people think it's wrong to put 'xenomorphs' and 'zombies' together, right?" The host's words resonated, and the audience nodded their heads.
The gentleman who saw this scene did not panic in the slightest, but had more mysterious smiles on his face.
He nodded, but more as if acknowledging a commonality than a fact.
"First of all, I actually agree with your words, there is really nothing wrong with this way of understanding, but it is also a few key points in your words that make people have a great misunderstanding of 'xenomorph'!"
"Oh?!" The host no longer leaned out and looked curious, but sat back a little stubbornly, listening quietly.
"The first point is that the 'xenomorphs' you just mentioned lack reason like zombies, or there is no such thing as 'intelligence', or 'thinking'! They are more like relying on instinct to plunder the life carriers they need, like pure hunting beasts, even if they are not hungry, they will not stop their instinct to kill, this is the most primitive, a kind of praise for 'eating', or madness! ”
"Uh...... Isn't it? The moderator frowned again.
Only then did the smile on his face finally bloom a little.
"Of course not, I can tell you very clearly that the 'xenomorphs' not only do not lose their minds, but are more intelligent, or their thinking ability and cognitive ability are as terrifying and difficult to contain as every crazy cell in their body after they are alienated!"
As soon as this remark came out, the audience was shocked, and at the moment, both the host on the stage and the audience all exclaimed, or were at a loss, because the original thinking was broken, or the inherent dominant posture was suddenly reversed and trampled, as human beings themselves, this is absolutely unacceptable and tolerated.
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As described in this additional program, "xeno" is indeed not a simple "zombie", it is smarter and more terrifying than "zombie"!
When the Sky Kangaroo moaned and plunged into the Everglade, Nanying Jane already knew that a catastrophe was coming.
Looking at the barriers that were being urgently erected around her, as well as the sun gradually setting in the west [although it was a new era, people did not give new names to the new stars, and they were still used to calling it the sun], Nanying Jane was sad. The impact caused the first half of the Sky Kangaroo to plunge into the depths of the swamp, and although the sparse mud of the swamp softened much of the impact, the Sky Kangaroo crashed smoothly, and all three engines turned into oversized electric fans that were idling, and could no longer hold up the huge fortress into the air.
The casualty figures were quickly counted, and the 37 members of the command warehouse had confirmed that all of them were wiped out, and more than 20 of the front-end staff who were lucky enough to escape were wounded and basically lost their combat capability, and the rest of the personnel, in addition to the combat readiness personnel, were less than 100 people who could be placed on the defensive wall, and these 100 people were responsible for holding the defensive line close to 200 meters, and held out until sunrise the next day, when the rescue arrived.
"How's it going, it's not hurt, is it?" Iron Pimple walked over and asked.
Nanying Jian didn't look back, only sneered softly: "There is no difference between such a line of defense and waiting for death!" ”
Hearing this, Tie Pimple looked into the distance, and couldn't help sighing: "These are the only people left who can fight, it's better than sitting still!" ”
Nanying Jian shook her head: "No, tell them to reduce the barrier area and shrink the defense line to within fifty meters." ”
"Fifty meters?! You are crazy? Do you want to let these people go back to the ship and wait to sink together? ”
"That's a lot better than being eaten by xenos!" Nan Yingjian's words were undoubted, and Iron Pimple could only do it after being stuffy for a long time, and he conveyed new instructions loudly to the busy people in the distance. Here, while Nanying Jane was considering other possible survival chances, she overheard the Doctor in the distance with several guards opening the barrier, and that direction was where the Sky Kangaroo abandoned the C-SIO1 experimental area before crashing.
Seeing that the doctor had already left the area protected by the barriers, Nanying Jian hurriedly caught up: "Hey! Wait a minute! Dr. Dull Wood, where are you going? ”
Dr. Dullwood didn't look back, he quickly walked away on a pontoon yacht under the protection of his guards.
When Nanying Jane arrived, she immediately said angrily, "Who allowed you to let the doctor leave?" ”
Several staff members were very aggrieved, after all, they were not regular combat readiness personnel, they were just threatened with guns, and now they are being scolded again.
Nanying Jane didn't have time to talk to them, and after confirming that the doctor was heading in the direction of the C-SIO1 experimental area, she said to Iron Pimple in the built-in communicator: "I'm going to retrieve the doctor, I'll leave it to you here!" As he spoke, the mask fell, and a flash of lightning flashed under his feet, and the person was already galloping a hundred meters away.
Iron Pimple was dismantling the barrier, and when he heard this brainless sentence, he wanted to intercede, but the other party had already cut off contact.
"What's going on?" Iron Pimple was very depressed and threw down the barrier component in his hand, this loss didn't matter, but the warrior who was holding the barrier component with him on the opposite side was scared half to death, only to hear a bang, the two-ton barrier component was deeply rooted in the depths of the swamp, and soon disappeared......
Seeing this scene, Tie Pimple slapped his head and became even more depressed.
Nanying Jane, who was chasing after her on the other side, arrived in time when the doctor stepped off the floating yacht, but when she stopped in front of the doctor, Dr. Dum Mu looked at her with an extremely unfamiliar look and said coldly: "Little Jane, you get out of the way!" ”
This look is still the first time Nanying Jane has seen it, and she never thought that Dr. Dumki, who was like her father, would become like this for his research. Nanying Jane naturally wouldn't get out of the way, and the weapon in her hand began to charge and aimed at the doctor.
"I'm sorry, Doctor!" Calibrated to the paralyzing level of shock energy, Nanying Jian slowly pulled the trigger.
The surrounding guards were in a dilemma, not knowing what to do, but Dr. Dumu shook his head slightly indifferently, and with a light press of the hand in his coat pocket, Nan Yingjian, who was about to shoot, instantly turned black in front of him, and the entire mechanical exoskeleton fell into a dead silence.
"I'm sorry, Jane, you'll understand what I've done!" Dr. Dullwood said as he walked around the puppet-like stalled Nanying Jane, patted her on the shoulder, walked to the locked door of the C-SIO1 experimental area, activated the backup power to open the blocked door, and walked briskly inside.
The guards looked at each other, and in the end, they could only stay true to their duties and quickly keep up with the Doctor.
Nanying Jane, who was locked in the exoskeleton, shouted loudly, "Doctor! Doctor! But the footsteps grew farther and farther away, and soon they were inaudible.
Nanying Jian struggled to break free from the shackles of the exoskeleton, but it was far more difficult to get rid of this mechanical exoskeleton than Nanying Jane imagined, but just when Nanying Jane was at a loss, a line of small words suddenly popped up in front of her eyes, showing "MARK IV. will restart in 10 minutes"
Nanying Jane: "O__O "..."
Sunsets are not new to anyone, but they can feel very different to people in different places.
It had been a long time since the people sheltered by the curtain of the sky had seen a full sunset, but they would never envy the group of people who were feeling the breath of nature in the swamp and watching the remnants of the sun like blood, because for them, perhaps this would be the last time they would see the sun.
Iron Pimple didn't know where Dr. Dull Wood and Nan Ying Jian were going, but at the moment, ensuring the safety inside the fortress was more important than anything else, so when the last ray of remnant sun disappeared on the horizon, Iron Pimple's mask also flickered, and the bright light scanned the surroundings, he raised the "Contempt" tactical magnetic storm gun in his hand and shouted to everyone: "Fight for the Empire!" For the glory of Ms. Zanspor! Long live freedom! ”
"Long live freedom!" Responding loudly, without the slightest element of embarrassment, this pure belief that originated from the deep-rooted roots of the people of the empire condensed into the purest power.
On the other side, Nan Yingjian, who was trapped in the mechanical exoskeleton, watched the time in front of her pass minute by minute, and every subtle sound in her ears made her feel like she was on pins and needles, not because she was timid, but in such an embarrassing situation where she was powerless to resist, anyone would involuntarily feel helpless and afraid.
The wind stopped?
This is the most intuitive signal of danger, and the sound of the rope is beginning to intensify, indicating that more threats are approaching.
Come on! Damn it!
Three minutes to go! Two minutes and fifty-nine seconds!
The sound of "popping" branches breaking was less than five meters away from Nanying Jane.
Although Nanying Jian could only see the slow-beating word of time at the moment, she was still very sensitive to the sounds outside, which was obviously a sign of some kind of large species passing by.
Then, when the clock ticked for 2 minutes and 31 seconds, a slight but rapid gasp sounded behind him.
Nanying Jane's back was cold, she swallowed her saliva quietly, and looked at the numbers more eagerly, but the time was only five seconds, and there were still more than two minutes to wait.
The only thing she could pray for now, and what she didn't want to see, was that the distant fortified fortress could enter a combat state, so that these things around her could be drawn away.
However, it backfired, and the slight breathing became urgent, accompanied by a tentative touch, and Nanying Jane could clearly feel the wet and slimy touch through the close-fitting exoskeleton armor, and the cold, sharp claws hidden under the touch skipped the armor.
And Nanying Jian didn't know what was around her at the moment, how many were there, what class of xenomorphs, and what kind of alien species she could do now...... Only waiting.
At 1 minute and 30 seconds, when the curious being seemed to be unable to hold back and intend to make further moves, a scream pierced the dead silence of the entire swamp, and the ensuing magnetic storm exploded the sunken part of the C-SIO1 experimental area, and the blood poured out of the swamp's silt, accompanied by sporadic fires and flickering pale blue electric light illuminating a large area.
This abrupt scream and explosion made the iron pimple in the darkness in the distance can't help but look over, and with the help of the night vision device, the iron pimple can't help but gasp.
I saw in the distance in front of the door of the C-SIO1 experimental area, and there were hundreds of xenos with stumps around Nan Yingjian, who was like a puppet for some reason, and these xenos were parasitic with countless blood worms all over their bodies, they were crowded in everything, looking at the place where the gap had exploded, and behind them, a large and bloated maternal infected person was continuing to vomit new xenos under the support of a group of xenos who only had their upper bodies left.
Seeing this scene, the iron pimple did not hesitate at all, he opened the scarlet crosshair on the mask, and the contempt on his shoulder began to charge and shine, and the next moment when countless xenos in the distance were attracted by this restless energy and strong light, a sharp roar rushed away with a manic wave of qi, and in an instant, the area of nearly twenty meters in front of the door of the C-SIO1 experimental area in the distance was cut into a perfect fan, and the fan surface was scorched black, and the dirty blood in the air gradually disappeared in the shattered electric light, and hundreds of xenomorphs were wiped out in an instant!
But this sharp roar fell, and after a moment of dead silence, a hoarse fury rang out, followed by a tidal scream and roar, accompanied by a mad death rush, surging towards the sky Kangaroo that held the barrier to protect it!