The professor who was marching at the front was cleaning the bushes as a habit, and suddenly found a plump fruit that had fallen on the ground. He subconsciously prepared for the fat man who was familiar with various alien plants to come and identify it.

But when he turned around, he suddenly found that there was someone missing from the team.

"Where's the fat man?"

Hearing his question, everyone was stunned and realized that the fat man was gone.

The professor suddenly had a bad premonition and quickly directed everyone to go back, looking for the fat man who had fallen behind.

Not far away, they saw the fat man sitting slumped on the spot, shivering as if he was frightened by something.

Cowper quickly shouted: "Fat man! What are you doing!" and then walked forward quickly.

However, he stopped midway, with a look of fear in his eyes.

I saw a huge "spider" standing on the forest, with eight appendages deeply inserted into the soil, supporting its heavy body.

Under the bright red eyes, there is a mouthpart that is constantly moving, and saliva is flowing out of it, dripping onto the bewildered fat man's head below.

No one knew how Fatty got into trouble with such a terrifying alien creature, but it was the professor who reacted first and took out the laser cutter he carried with him.

This high-energy laser used for cutting metal can also kill living creatures at a certain distance, and it is also one of his few weapons.

He aimed his crosshair at the spider, and then shouted: "What are you still doing? Bring the fat man here quickly!"

The others suddenly woke up and hurriedly prepared to drag the fat man back who couldn't control his legs.

The professor also fired at this time, causing the green cutting beam to hit the spider.

However, after the high-energy laser that can easily cut through ordinary alloys was shot at the spider, nothing happened as if nothing happened.

The spider didn't even show any feedback of being irritated, but after seeing the fat man being dragged away, some wanted to chase him back.

The professor's expression changed again and again. This cutter was already the most powerful weapon in his hand, but at this time he was unable to do anything to this alien creature.

He had no choice but to follow the students and escape while taking out the flare gun.

After many years of alien exploration, he knew that the best way to deal with such large alien creatures was to make them fearful.

And bright light and flame are the best weapons to scare primitive creatures.

In addition to emitting light, the flare is also a good source of combustion. If it explodes on the ground, it will form countless ignition points and spread quickly.

The forest here just provided fuel, so the professor spotted a dense bush and fired a signal flare.

A striking and intense light suddenly lit up, causing even the giant spider to stand still for a while.

Then there were accelerants scattered everywhere, and the forest was set on fire.

The fire suddenly grew larger and soon formed a burning wall, with tall flames burning into the sky, blocking the path of the giant spider.

The professor felt happy because of this and felt like he had escaped.

However, the next moment, the giant spider not only did not retreat, but seemed to be enraged, directly swept away the burning trees and rushed towards them.

The sound of the giant moving "dong dong dong" echoed in the forest. This time, even the professor was frightened and ran away desperately.

But how can two legs outrun eight legs? The distance between them is still quickly shortened.

The young man in the penultimate position had a cold look and secretly glanced at the fat man who was running in a panic at the end.

"...This alien creature seems to have been provoked by Fatty. If he is handed over, he may be able to escape." Under his expressionless face, there was a malice that no one could detect.

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Seeing that no one noticed him, the young man quietly slowed down a little, kept the same position as the fat man, and then tripped the fat man.

The fat man who was running away in panic could not have expected such a change. He lost his center of gravity and fell to the ground. He rolled several times before he could stop.

In the somewhat dizzy eyes, there is the smile of the young man who has succeeded in his plan.

No one else noticed that someone had fallen behind, and the fat man's body suddenly stiffened because a thick appendage was deeply inserted into the soil beside him.

He raised his head tremblingly, and what he saw was the suddenly enlarged mouthpart.

"ah--!!!"

Fatty's screams pierced everyone's ears. When Cowper turned around, he saw Fatty whose body was half swallowed by a giant spider.

His heart sank, and his eyes swept over the young man who was running away without leaving any trace.

But when it was time to escape, no one said anything.

After running for a long time, everyone stopped and took a breath until they completely left the forest.

At this time, there was a dark cloud hanging over everyone's heads.

The tragic death of the fat man was still vivid in his mind, and it was obvious that they had been too careless before.

"...'Under the long-term influence of high technology, explorers tend to ignore many dangerous factors that should be paid attention to, and with arrogance and arrogance, eventually die at the hands of the indigenous residents'..."

The professor read out a line with a bitter look on his face. This is a famous quote from the popular interstellar book "Space Drift", which tells the reason why each explorer hates his foreign country.

After everyone heard this famous line, they were also silent for a while.

Although they attach great importance to this place on the surface, in fact, deep down they still harbor the arrogance of being an interstellar civilization.

Even if there had been civilization here, they still feel from the bottom of their hearts that "it's just an old antique and your technology is outdated."

Otherwise, they would not have rashly approached the planet, and then inexplicably lost control of the spacecraft, making mistakes every step of the way, until one of their companions died just now.

The planet's rotation is still going on, and soon the sky here turns black.

Everyone finally fell asleep in silence, but everyone had different thoughts.

…………

In an artificial forest next to the guardianship core, the synthetic man controlled by Li Wenyuan was sitting on a tree stump and sighing.

Lilian on the side was sitting obediently with her back straight, but her eyes drifted to the game console placed aside from time to time.

In order to teach a primitive man to speak, Li Wenyuan went to great lengths to explain the lesson plan in a dazzling way.

Eventually he came to the conclusion that he was not suitable to be a teacher.

It’s not that he didn’t teach well, it’s that the students were so stupid that he doubted his ability.

"...Um, Lord Guardian, can I go play?"

"...Go ahead, go ahead, alas..."

Seeing Lilian cheering for joy, Li Wenyuan held his forehead and recalled a scene from the other side of the earth.

A fat alien was entangled in something like spider silk, and then hung upside down on a branch, unconscious.

In the scene not far away, a giant spider was moving frequently in the background, spraying out liquid to put out fires from time to time, or cutting off the source of the fire with its tall and powerful appendages.

"Hey, has the gardening robot actually moved again?" Li Wenyuan was a little surprised when he saw this giant spider.

This giant spider-like "creature" is actually an old-fashioned robot. Its model in the database is much older than that of synthetic humans. It is probably a museum-level cultural relic.

As its name suggests, it is a gardening robot responsible for pruning, but the trees it usually repairs are tall trees fifty or sixty meters high.

Its hardware was too old to establish a connection with the monitoring matrix. When Li Wenyuan discovered it, it was in a standby state for an unknown length of time and was buried deep under the soil.

Since he couldn't find a way to wake it up, Li Wenyuan simply left the gardening robot alone.

But he didn't expect that the aliens didn't know how to activate it, and one of them was even captured. This made Li Wenyuan very interested.

So he called up the surveillance footage of this area.

But I saw these aliens walking carefully in this synthetic forest, constantly clearing the shrubs blocking the road.

After watching it, Li Wenyuan suddenly understood how they activated the gardening robot.

The professor at the front felt that it was too troublesome to rush through the forest, so he swiped forward with a laser cutter, instantly cutting off large bushes and dozens of tall trees.

It must be convenient for them to travel, but the gardening robot that detects that the gardening has been "destroyed" will definitely not be happy.

So it woke up directly from standby and prepared to arrest these "lawless people", but because of the fire caused by the professor, it temporarily switched its target to put out the fire.

The fat man was just a person who happened to be caught up. He was hung on a branch by the gardening robot, waiting for its former owner to come and check on these "lawless people".

"They were in such a mess on the first day. These aliens don't seem to be very good at it..." Li Wenyuan in the virtual world was a little uninterested.

"Hurry and drive them to the ruins, so as not to waste the whole day..."

With this in mind, he controlled a synthetic man and gradually approached Cowper's camp.


Chapter completed!