A series of winding passages crisscross deep underground.
Some of them are dead ends, while others lead to unknown depths.
Aliens of different shapes were quietly lurking in each passage.
At the end of these passages leading deeper, an underground space the size of a basketball court comes into view.
Ignoring the darkness, one can see gray-white alien eggs placed orderly on the ground.
Opposite the alien egg, a huge ferocious beast was lying on the ground and resting quietly without making a sound.
The huge ovipositor connected behind him was rising and falling, as if something was surging inside.
It is officially the ruler of the alien race - the Queen.
Around the Queen, a group of unconscious humans were tightly bound to the wall by a resinous black substance.
Among them were men and women, old and young, and they were all serfs in the barony of Leicester.
These pitch-black, resinous substances are formed by the drying of special-shaped secretions.
It is the main method used to trap prey or hosts.
At this time, a painful groan sounded in the silent underground space.
"Hmm~???" Dais groaned in pain and slowly opened his eyes.
But except for the darkness, he couldn't see anything clearly.
He tried to twist his body, but found that his body was bound by something and he couldn't move.
"Damn it! Damn it! What the hell is this?" Dess twisted his body harder.
It was just the sudden sound of panic that disturbed something.
In the darkness where things can't be seen clearly.
The alien egg closest to him suddenly shook.
As if sensing Dai Si's awakening, the four petal-like organs on the top of the alien egg opened like buds.
I saw a strange creature crawling out from inside.
It has a powerful tail and eight appendages that look like human fingers.
This is the second stage that the facehugger, the alien, needs to go through to grow.
This facehugger, which had just emerged from its egg, quickly approached Dess looking for his breath.
Unlike the aliens, the Facehuggers that emerge from their eggs have no intention of concealing their movements.
Swish, swish, swish~
Hearing that something seemed to be crawling towards him on the ground, Dais's expression began to become frightened.
He twisted his body wildly to escape the darkness, but it was all in vain.
"Don't~wuwuwu~"
Before he could say the words, the face-hugging Wormtail, which was crawling quickly on the ground, flicked hard, and its eight appendages spread out, and they were pinned on Dais' face accurately.
No matter how much Daisi struggled and shook his head, he couldn't shake the facehugger off his face.
The strong tail even wrapped tightly around his neck.
Two mouthparts of different thicknesses, one large and one small, protruded from the facehugger's body and were forced into Dai Si's mouth and nasal cavity.
Feeling the slime in his mouth, Dais felt only infinite fear in his heart.
I wanted to shout "Help", but no sound came out.
Uh-huh~
As it extends into the nasal cavity, the mouthparts that enter the trachea release a thin cloud of smoke.
Dais felt that his eyelids were getting heavier and heavier, his energy was getting more and more sleepy, and it didn't take long before he fell asleep.
Immediately afterwards, an "embryo" as big as a baby's fist was injected into Dais's body through the other mouthpart of the self-hugging bug.
And then the embryo was completely injected into Dais’ body.
Facehugger's body began to stiffen, and the tail originally wrapped around his neck became slightly looser.
The self-hugger has completed its parasitism, which seems to be a signal.
The serfs who were tied to the wall began to wake up one by one.
These serfs who were the first to wake up were all strong men among the serfs.
After a while, struggling sounds of "Uh-huh" sounded in the dark underground space one after another.
…
The heavily armed Sauron and his party walked out of the village after appeasing the serfs.
As soon as they left the village, a large area of charred blackness occupied the group's sight.
Inhaling the scorched smell in the air and looking at the grass ash flying in the sky, Zoro couldn't help but twitch.
When he came out, he also received joint reports from several serfs.
The targets of the report were none other than Kahn and Ike.
It's just that since he has agreed to shoulder the responsibility for the two of them, he will naturally not go back on his word.
In addition to exempting the families of serfs whose wheat fields were burned from winter taxes, they were also compensated with a certain amount of wheat.
It can be said that there is no more benevolent lord than Sauron.
On the way to the Barony of Leicester, Sauron kept emphasizing the characteristics of the alien to everyone like an old lady.
After twisting and turning for about twenty minutes, Sauron and his party finally stopped outside the serf village in Lester's territory.
I didn't see a single trace of a living person along the way.
This made Sauron's guess about him ninety-nine percent certain.
The wooden wall door like Isis was not locked from the inside, but was left open without warning.
"Lord Sauron, let me go in first!"
Looking at the dead village in front of him, Kahn took the lead and expressed his thoughts before everyone else.
"Be careful and pay attention to the corners!" Zoro nodded in agreement.
Under Kahn's lead, the group walked into the village cautiously.
The village has been reduced to a dead place without any sound of insects or birds.
One after another, the pitch-black creatures are either hiding in wooden houses, or huddled in dark corners where sunlight cannot reach them.
They use special methods to sense the actions of Sauron and his party.
"No need to search the village, go directly to the castle!" Zoro gave the order directly to everyone.
Feeling the surrounding environment, he felt that if the alien wanted to build a nest.
In comparison, a stone castle is better than a flimsy wooden house.
Although it was only the first time for everyone to come to Leicester, they were not blind.
At a glance, I saw the tall stone castle not far away.
After passing through wooden houses, the group's footsteps were finally blocked by the stone wall of the castle.
The door made of black solid wood is tightly closed.
Kahn tried to push, but the wooden door remained unmoved.
"Lord Zoro, the door is locked from the inside! We can't get in."
"Wait for me here for a while!" Sauron thought for a moment and got out of the protective circle of the group.
Take a few steps back to put some distance between you and the stone wall.
A wave of magic power spread from Sauron's feet like ripples to the surroundings.
By taking a run-up, he easily crossed the stone wall, which was about six to seven meters high.
Although the heavy armor on his body is very different from that of Kahn and his party, it limits Sauron's flexibility to a certain extent.
But with the magic power in his body and his pretty good physical fitness, it doesn't hurt.
Looking at Sauron's handsome figure, York's mouth was a little sour: "I wish I could be like Lord Sauron someday."
"It's just you? In the next life!" Rudas started taunting without hesitation.
"Ha! It would be nice if I could be this powerful in my next life, but I guess you may have to continue to be a bachelor in your next life." York's words were full of teasing.
"you…!"
Just when Rudas was about to fight back, Kahn shouted: