Xue Li nodded. What he was going to ask next might cause tremendous psychological pressure to those who witnessed it. He also hoped that the child would be fine and have the courage to face what happened.For a child who looked no more than twelve or thirteen years old, this request might be a bit cruel...but no one was thrown into the face of pain when they were ready.
"What happened?" He poured another glass of juice for the choking little girl before asking in a low voice.
"...Dad and several other researcher uncles went to investigate outside the base, and were attacked by monsters. Their faces were covered with white things, like scorpions without shells... Then the adults didn't let me see it, and told me to go back I waited at home. Then Dad woke up, and they said it was all right, so I went to see him... As a result, in the ward, a little monster jumped out of his chest."
The girl's body trembled, and she had to take a sip of juice to press down; but it could be seen that her fear was not a little bit relieved by the sweet taste in her mouth.
But she still mustered up the courage to continue the story in a tone as neutral as possible: "Three days later, everyone in the base died. My parents... and my brother too. Grow up and turn black The monsters are searching everywhere in the base, and I can only hide where they can't find."
After going through this, a little girl can still know that it is not easy to hide from monsters and communicate with people normally, let alone tell these things by herself.
Daige looked at Cheetos, then pursed her lips silently.
If we had had the courage back then, wouldn’t we have been able to get out of the sea of suffering long ago?Looking back now, "Undead Old Joe" was just an ordinary person, and they used to have a chance to kill him every night.But even Furiosa couldn't think of that at the time, they just wanted to run away and avoid danger.
Xue Li remained silent, and waited for the little girl's emotions to stop being so agitated, before comforting her and saying, "As long as you stay here, you are absolutely safe. But I just don't understand why Ripley brought you here. But she went back... I remember last time she said that she was acting with a group of soldiers."
Amelia, who had been listening quietly for a long time, said at this moment: "Of course it's because... monsters are certainly scary, but humans themselves are also very scary."
"Let's say it first, she's still a child, don't do those scary jobs." Xue Li warned in advance, then touched his chin and closed his mouth thoughtfully.
I have to say that Elder Amelia is right.Ripley was with the Marine Corps and met this little girl during the mission. If she hadn't encountered a "monster", there was basically no reason to bring the girl here.
Unless... there are people in that team she can't trust, and she can't say so at this time.
"Where did Ripley meet you, kid?" he asked.
"...I went out to find food. But it was found, I didn't expect it to be human... Ripley chased me to the place where I was hiding in the ventilation pipe, and told me that she was human, so she brought me here."
The girl continued drinking juice and answered.
Qido on the side touched her still wet hair affectionately, and asked softly, "How long have you been there alone?"
"I don't remember. But those monsters have been away for a long time, I only come out occasionally to find food, and sleep in the ventilation pipe when I'm sleepy."
It was really difficult for a little girl to live alone in that environment for a long time.No need for Ripley to say anything, the Cheetos who took her to take a bath could smell her strange smell, she was obviously a human being, but she lived like a mouse in those underground pipelines.
Xue Li picked up the photo of Ripley thrown on the bar, and read the name of the little girl who was still very beautiful in the photo: "Rebecca...you can stay here temporarily, or if you want, It’s okay to stay here forever.”
"No one calls me Rebecca, except my brother...you can call me 'Newt'."
The little girl said, and asked curiously: "Do you all have that mark on your neck? Can I touch it again?"
"Okay." Qido bent down, grabbed her hand, and sent it to the back of his neck.This brand used to be their shame and pain...but now, it is more like a medal.
In the colony base of LV-426.
Ripley got out of the ventilation duct as usual, and shook her head at the person who was waiting for her: "I didn't catch up, but that thing was yellow and looked like a larva of 'alien'. I didn't either It's too clear."
"I remember you saying that their larvae are the kind of bugs in the laboratory..." Burke next to him interrupted suddenly.
"I also said that all the worm does is inject the parasite into the host's body. The larva that breaks out of the chest has a head and teeth, is yellowish-brown, and grows very fast." Ripley added, and she did not No lie, the alien ecology is indeed like this.
It wasn't that difficult to deal with when it just emerged from the human chest, but after rapid growth, it would become the tall, agile and silent natural hunter.
"Okay, Ms. Ripley is the only one here who has seen that thing, we have to trust her judgment... that is, this place was indeed destroyed by alien attacks, and those damn guys are still alive." Lieutenant Goldman of the Marine Corps said to My own team said, "From now on, we must remain vigilant at all times and do not disarm... Now, let's go back to the central control room, copy all the information and divide into two groups, and take turns to search in other buildings and external spaces Signs of that creature. Watch out for vents above or below your feet. Move!"
Ripley thought of something, and quickly said to the young lieutenant: "Map, we'd better get a map that includes all the buildings, so that it's easy to search. Also, we can lower the outer armor first, In this way, even if the 'alien' appears, it can resist for a while."
"No problem, we will keep an eye on the map for you. You heard the lady's order, don't wait for me to kick your ass! Hudson, hack into the base's computer system and gain control of the building's outer armor, I will give you 15 minutes."
Sergeant Major Apeng said, swearing and walking to the end of the team, urging everyone to move forward to the central control room.
A few minutes later, outside the window of the main building where the central control room is located, a thick layer of armor gradually lowered, blocking the rain and the scenery outside the window.
Hudson, who is in charge of the computer system and all related operations, is busy in front of the computer in the central control room. He has just obtained the highest authority, and he can already use the electromagnetic sensors covering all rooms in the base to search for the chip signals of company employees in a blanket manner.
The company calls this chip PDT, which stands for Personal Data Transmitter, and it is implanted not only by the alien colony team, but also by company employees who stay on Earth.
It's a pity... After a long search, there was no signal anywhere in the base. Those immigrants seemed to have been evaporated. In the end, the marines could only continue to search in the most classic way-visual inspection with naked eyes.
The company's order is to search for survivors among the immigrants as much as possible, even if they cannot be brought back alive, at least they must find evidence of their death.
Cooperating with the electronic map of the colonial base, they searched every building, but they still couldn't find those people.
As the exploration of these marines deepened, Goldman, who was sitting in the central control room and commanded remotely, also sighed.
This task has become troublesome...
Chapter 7 Humans and non-humans
"...How long have I slept?"
Waking up again from the nightmare and the coolness in the air, Ripley rubbed her forehead and asked the people around her.
Vazquez, who was checking the moving parts of the machine gun, looked at the electronic terminal on his wrist and replied, "Less than two hours."
Seeing Ripley's undecided expression and slightly trembling hands, she couldn't help asking, "Is that thing really that scary?"
Instead of answering the question, Ripley asked her instead: "What is the most brutal killing you have ever seen?"
"So you're not actually a flight officer, you're an emotional radio host, aren't you?" Vazquez stabbed instinctively, and then replied while wiping his gun, "Anyway, you're idle and bored, so just listen. …There was such a lunatic who once gathered a group of believers on a certain first colony planet 12 light-years away from the earth, smashed the airport, executed the company’s residents, and burned all technological creations. There is a tree on that planet Shaped creatures, through the movement of the root system, make traps, catch prey, and wrap the prey in sacs attached to the trunk, and dissolve them with special tissue fluid. Those people slowly began to worship this during decades of colonization Creatures... and enshrined that lunatic as an oracle, because no matter how close he was to the 'tree', he would not be swallowed."
She put the gun on the table, began to wipe the drum and loader again, and continued: "We won the landing operation very quickly, because those people burned and abandoned their guns and ammunition, and hid in the woods." Want to expect us to be wiped out by their sacred tree... Of course that is impossible. We managed to rescue a few people who were still alive from the tree sac...but their bodies are already dissolving, people can't speak, and they are exposed It didn't take long to die in the air.
"The one with the least degree of dissolution can still see the words engraved on the back, probably saying 'ignorant humans destroy the universe', 'refuse to evolve', etc., the hands and feet were tied tightly with organic ropes, and the chest was horizontally Cut marks.
"We deduce that those believers caught these people, controlled their movements, left wounds on them, and then threw them to the 'divine tree' as food. The company has 275 people stationed there, except for the dozens Only six bodies have been recovered, other than the believers.
"I've been a soldier for a long time... but I've never seen that kind of death. I'd rather be decapitated by shrapnel on the battlefield than watch myself being swallowed up and feeling slowly while conscious Corrupted himself."
After Vazquez finished telling the story, he turned to Ripley, with a bit of sarcasm in his tone: "Could your monster be more cruel than this?"
Ripley shrugged.
It wasn't "her monster," and it wasn't as cruel as the man-eating tree.
"I've told you, and most of you have seen the records I submitted to the company," Ripley said, "but no indirect testimony can compare to the shock of seeing it with your own eyes. The thing grew on human beings. The seedbed of human beings, devouring human flesh and blood to perfect themselves, killing the host to complete the last step of growth... No matter how developed our intelligence is, no matter how many achievements we have made, and we have traveled tens of hundreds of light years from the earth, for them It's just food, too."
At this moment, the bionic bishop came out of the laboratory while wiping his hands, and agreed: "Yes, this kind of cold and complete indifference is also one of the reasons why it feels scary. And its 'afterbirth' ... I can only describe it like this, it feels like it is specially designed to prey on humans. Its tail is just long enough to wrap around the neck of a human being, and the eight arthropod feet are just long enough to hug a human head. Partial bone and webbed pads fit perfectly to the shape of a human face. It has hidden air holes on its back to provide air to victims..."
Ripley had already stood up, grabbed the android by the collar and pressed him against the wall, pointed at his nose and yelled angrily, "Are you studying that thing?!"
The bishop's tone remained calm: "Yes, I think if we want to deal with this creature, we must at least know what it is."
"What's the next step? Do you still want to observe how it parasitizes humans, what it looks like when it breaks out of the chest, and how it grows so big in such a short period of time?"
Ripley warned him in a serious tone, with only anger in her eyes: "...we are here to save people this time, not to carry out any other orders from the company. If you want to do something, I will first remove the hydraulic pump in your chest Take it out!"
"I see. . . . I will stop researching immediately at your command, Ms. Ripley."
While the two were still talking, Burke, the company representative, came over from the central control room and said to Vazquez, "The lieutenant is calling you."
After the woman went out with the cleaned gun, he approached Ripley and persuaded in a low voice: "Rapley... I can testify that the mission entrusted to us by the company this time is to save the people here. Residents, absolutely nothing else. We don't have any biotech equipment on board!"
Ripley pursed her lips, and finally let go of the bishop's collar.
But before the two of them could say anything, she turned around again: "I don't believe you two, I'll keep an eye on you."
"Come on, Ripley, you want to give someone a chance to talk? Bishop, show us what you found that can be used."
As Burke said, he dragged Ripley into the laboratory.
The bishop had already placed a worm-shaped "afterbirth" that had completed the implantation of parasites and had been dead for a long time on the experimental table, and it seemed that he had dissected it just before walking out.
Ripley stood aside, feeling a little nauseous when she saw the ugly shape, but she held back and asked the bishop coldly, "What can you show me?"
"Apart from what I just mentioned... this, I tentatively named it 'Face Hugger', is not a complete creature. It can survive for a long time, but it is based on less movement Yes." The bishop touched his neck, picked up the tweezers to open the skin on the inside of the facehugger, and signaled Ripley to take a closer look: "It doesn't have a feeding or digestive system, and its muscle structure is very simple. Only electrostatic stimulation can make it Move. The only exception is around this fascial canal, which is the lip-shaped 'door' to protect the 'parasite' that was once at the root of the canal. It has a membrane-like afterbirth, and a lot of mucus.... This 'face hugger' is neither a larva of aliens nor one of its metamorphosis forms, but its detached reproductive module...or an organ."
If this inference is true, it is even more disgusting.
Because this thing is parasitic through the human mouth... The fascia tube will be inserted straight into the human esophagus.
Before the bishop finished speaking, he summed up his findings: "Basically, it can be concluded that this thing did not evolve naturally on this asteroid, because before the arrival of the Nostromo, there were no vertical structures on this asteroid. Indigenous vertebrates that walk and have their mouths on the underside of their heads, they don't have that condition to reproduce. It's more like a weapon made specifically for humans, or humanoid creatures..."
Ripley didn't say anything about pulling out the hydraulic pump. She was listening intently, when the Bishop suddenly raised his head.
"……What's wrong?"
She is still asking.
The bishop didn't have time to answer her. He walked quickly to the door of the laboratory and pressed the operation panel there, but the automatic door was completely unmoved.
Just outside the window of the laboratory, Burke stood there, looking at the situation in the laboratory with his eyes wide open. At the same time, he grabbed a steel bar beside him and went to the main control room.
He never told anyone...he had been a service technician for the company for a few years before, but that position was far too lucrative, nowhere near as sales rep, or "corporate agent" as it is now.Doing technology is really a waste of his clever mind... So he changed jobs, and spent a few years climbing to the middle of the company step by step, and got the company's dividend shares.
If he could bring the alien back to the company this time, he might be able to join the board of directors and truly become a part of the behemoth "Wieland Yugu"!
He knew that the company's biotechnology department would definitely like this wonderful creature. "Bishop" said a lot in it but didn't get to the point, but he saw Ripley's report long before the departure of the outer earth orbit station. already noticed.
A natural hunter who is indestructible and almost impossible to kill by conventional means, it is really suitable as a biochemical weapon.Moreover, its genetic characteristics are also in line with the needs of the biotechnology department. Using genetic technology to unlock the code on its body, it is possible to develop new types of drugs, eliminate many diseases that are still considered terminal diseases, and even climb the ladder of immortality.
As for its natural reproduction, it needs to use humans as seedbeds... Don't be stupid, people who are willing to sell themselves for tens of thousands of dollars can easily catch a lot on the earth.Not even clones are that cheap...
In the laboratory of the colony base, Ripley turned her head and looked back. The glass jars containing the "face huggers" were rattling and rattling, and the liquid inside had been spilled along the first gap opened. come out.She could clearly see that two facehuggers floating in the liquid were still alive, awakened by the water flow, and moved their centipede-like claws.
"Bishop! Open that damned door!"
she shouted.
"No, there is no way to crack it, there is no computer here..." The bishop also tried, but he is just an ordinary bionic person, and does not have the ability to hack into the operating system within a few seconds.Damn Burke didn't know what he did before he escaped. He had already locked the door from the outside and destroyed the operation panel on the inside. If he wanted to get out, he had to remove it and directly connect the circuit inside the door lock by hot wire!
"bishop!"
Ripley's cry suddenly became sharp, and the bishop turned around quickly, seeing a face-hugger rushed out of the glass jar, as if immediately activated by the presence of human beings, and slammed into her face.
Chapter 8
Ripley struggled desperately to hold the bug that was flying towards her face with both hands, but the facehugger was too strong.
Its eight articulated limbs are waving in the air, and its long tail has wrapped around Ripley's neck, pulling her head over there forcefully, and protruding fascia from the lip-shaped protective tissue Steal, straight for Ripley's mouth, flinging the slime all over the place.
It was too late for the bishop to get the control panel, he picked up the fire extinguisher next to the door, and swung it at the face hugger that Ripley was holding in both hands.
The hydraulic drive shaft on his shoulders was already creaking. No matter how powerful the face hugger was, it couldn't stand it. It was knocked out with a bang and hit the wall of the laboratory. Even the fire extinguisher was dented in one piece.
The bishop was about to rush over to mend that disgusting guy, but saw that Ripley had sat up, pulled out a pistol from her waist, and smashed the face hugger in the corner with a bang bang bang.Strongly acidic blood burst out from its body, scalding a large area of corrosion marks on the floor.
"Ma'am, where did you get the gun?" He couldn't help asking suspiciously. Didn't she return the gun to the marine after she got out of the ventilation pipe?
"Do you have to ask this question now?" With his help, Ripley stood up, raised her gun towards the other cans, emptied a magazine, and first killed all the face huggers. Let's kill each other together.
The destroyed glass jar shattered and shattered, and the liquid inside flowed all over the floor, exuding the pungent smell of the chemicals mixed in it, which also diluted the strong acid of the alien blood, and the laboratory fell silent for a while.
After seeing that the face huggers on the ground stopped moving, Ripley let out a long breath, and said to the bionic man beside her, "Now you have time to open the door. But you have to hurry...or Burke will definitely will kill everyone."
Burke trapped the two people here, apparently to parasitize them with the face-hugging worms; it takes a long time from the time when the alien embryo is implanted into the human body to when the larva breaks out of the chest, during which time he can completely hide it and act outside The members of the search team took control of the center console, controlled the shuttle, and transferred the parasitized human body to the shuttle and brought it back to the Sulaco.He is a representative of the company and looks harmless to humans and animals. How could anyone doubt him?
Once back on the Sulaco, he could put the two of them, including the facehugger, in the frozen sleep cabin, return to Earth, and hand them over to the company without waking them up.
"...But I don't think he has thought of a problem, that is, the aliens don't seem to be interested in bionics." Ripley said again, and looked at the bishop's tall body.When the facehugger jumped up, he barely noticed the bionic person with bigger targets beside him, instead he just jumped at her.
"It's not sure yet. If you ask for my opinion, I can only say that it seems that its embryo is not interested in me at the moment." The bishop has already started to use the tools he can find at hand to try to pry off the operation panel, hearing Ripley That being said, he can still answer her distractedly.
The technology applied to the bionics has developed to this level, in fact, it is not much different from real people.He has a body structure similar to that of a human, with temperature, breath, and even blood, or more precisely, white tissue fluid; his whole body is not made of metal, and his weight is almost the same as that of an adult male .Regardless of whether the alien embryo is detecting human appearance or human voice and breathing, he should not be ignored.
While wrenching the screwdriver in his hand, he answered clearly: "The biggest difference between me and humans is bioelectricity... There are no cells in my body, and all electrical signals are transmitted in a closed circuit."
"Maybe, no cells means no nutrients for it to grow, and maybe it's using bioelectricity to tell that."
Ripley agreed and came over to help him violently disassemble the circuit on the door.
The bishop seemed to hesitate for a moment, which was an unusual expression for a bionic person.After prying his head a few more times, he couldn't help asking: "Ms. Ripley... that gun, you originally planned to use it to kill me, right?"
Ripley looked at him, and simply admitted: "Yes. And if you go to study some alien life forms now, or suddenly want to join forces with Burke, then I will still shoot you. I know you are Androids, but I promise you — being shot doesn't feel good."
"Okay, ma'am." The bishop nodded obediently, with the corners of his mouth twitching upwards.
Now he can understand why Ripley has been vigilant... If what he said is false, he also completely obeys the company's orders and acts in the company's interests just like the old model, then maybe the face-hugger is released now it's him.
[44. No. 44]
But for human beings, even if they are not born with this logic of serving the company, they will still do this kind of thing out of personal interests...
With Ripley's help, the operating panel was quickly removed.The bishop cautiously reached in, took out two wires from the space behind the operating panel, and finally opened the automatic door.
As soon as the door opened, Ripley rushed into the central control room, but only saw Lieutenant Goldman lying on the ground covered in blood, and had already stopped breathing.
The radio station connected to the shuttle has been smashed to pieces. It must be that after Burke tricked the shuttle, he was afraid that someone else would come in and spoil his good work, so he simply smashed the communication equipment; but on the other side of the command platform, the short-distance radio still The Marines could be heard terribly calling: "Control room! Control room! Can you hear that...we are under heavy enemy attack, please reply! Damn it, Hudson!"
Ripley grabbed the walkie-talkie and shouted towards the opposite side: "I'm Ripley! The central control room was attacked, and Lieutenant Goldman was killed! Anyone who heard me retreated immediately and entered the central control room! There are no aliens here now, there are outsiders. Armor, temporarily safe!"
"Got it, Ripley, got it. Vazquez! Hit 'em!"
With the hysterical roar of the heavy machine gun, the voices of the people on the other side were completely suppressed.It wasn't until a few minutes later that there was the sound of severe panting mixed with the sound of wind and rain, and there was a report in a low voice: "Entered the airlock door, no pursuers. Survivors... three people."
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