The three of them have officially entered the core lair where the Alien Queen lives.
A large amount of hazy smoke filled the air in the core lair.
The rough road underfoot also became smoother.
By the light of the fire, the three of them could see that the dirt road originally paved with gravel had turned into pieces of bluestone floor tiles.
Alien eggs blooming like flowers are neatly placed on the ground at the entrance, and the facehuggers living in them have long since disappeared.
There was nothing inside except a puddle of viscous and transparent bodily fluids.
Carefully moving between the dense alien eggs, the three of them were alert to the unknown dangers that might appear in the darkness around them.
The pitch-black core lair was eerily silent. Except for the constant sound of footsteps underfoot, there was no sound at all.
As the three people moved deeper and deeper, the pungent smell in their mouths and noses became stronger and stronger.
In front of what they can't see.
A vague black shadow appeared faintly in the fog.
But the three of them seemed to know nothing about all this.
The turbid liquid flowing freely spread across the path of the three people, criss-crossing on the bluestone floor, and weaving into a huge water network.
The slightly sunken rock floor proves that these liquids have the same corrosive properties as strong acid blood.
Stepping on the gaps between the water nets, the three of them carefully avoided the corrosive liquid on the ground and continued to challenge the depths of the core lair.
As the distance between the two sides continues to get closer.
The huge body of the black shadow began to gradually appear in the eyes of the three people.
"Look, what is that?" Ike's low voice sounded in the silent core lair.
In fact, Kahn and Seth had already noticed this big guy without Ike's reminder.
"It looks like a big worm, but why doesn't it have a head?"
Arriving next to the big man, Seth began to look at it carefully.
The asphalt-like gray horny skin tightly wraps the worm's body, and its nearly two-and-a-half-meter-tall body rises and falls like a mountain range.
However, other than being slightly surprised, the three of them were not too surprised by this.
Due to the existence of magic, there is no shortage of huge creatures in this world.
A mouse the size of a human head.
A wild boar like a van.
Even the Warcraft Shield Crab that Sauron killed yesterday was the size of a small truck.
"Maybe they were killed by those aliens." Ike shrugged.
Looking at the side of the "big worm" facing me, a trickle of water was constantly flowing out from it.
Ike speculated that it might have been hunted by the Alien Queen or other powerful aliens, and was finally dragged here.
Kahn remained silent about this, frowning.
Even though he had seen many huge creatures, he couldn't help but wonder: "Is this really a worm? Maybe Lord Sauron will know something about it."
Just as Kahn suspected, the decapitated "worm" the three of them saw was not a real worm.
Rather, from the time the Alien Queen began to grow until it was put into use, she only used her reproductive organ - the ovipositor - which was discarded in less than a day.
No matter whether this abandonment is active or forced.
Being able to lay so many alien eggs in such a short span of less than a day is not something that an ordinary queen can do. There are many secrets in this.
Some people may think this is unbelievable, but it is actually the case.
Combined with the individual conditions of the aliens, this exaggerated reproduction rate is rare even in the endless multiverse.
However, Sauron needs to find out these things one by one after completely eliminating the hidden dangers of aliens.
Obviously, the three Kahns did not recognize the Queen's ovipositor.
After realizing that the other party was just an immobile corpse, the three of them stopped paying attention to it.
After all, as long as the aliens in the lair are successfully eliminated, these things will become their trophies, but it is up to them to decide whether to destroy or dissect them.
"It seems that there is nothing else here except this big insect. How about we..."
"Eh~~!"
Before Seth could finish speaking, a shrill scream penetrated the darkness and reached the ears of the three of them.
"Captain Kahn, it's York's voice!"
As York's child, Ike is naturally very familiar with York's voice.
"Let's go." Kahn glanced at the two of them solemnly.
There was a sound, and the three of them didn't care about the acid on the ground at the moment. They stepped on it without hesitation and ran quickly in the direction of the sound.
"Yue...York, you...what's wrong with you?" Alyssa called York's name with difficulty.
The armor that was constantly squeezing her face made it difficult for her to breathe and speak.
However, within a second, this oppressive and suffocating feeling disappeared without a trace, followed by even more shrill screams.
"It hurts! It hurts!"
"Uh-huh~!"
York kept rolling back and forth on the ground.
At this moment, he only felt that there were countless small insects in his body eating his flesh and blood.
Itching.
pain.
An indescribable feeling kept tormenting his nerves.
He knew that the culprit of all this was closely related to the facehugger on his back.
No matter whether it was hard pulling or violent impact, there was no effect at all.
No matter how much York struggled, the facehugger always clung tightly to his back. On the contrary, this series of actions seemed to stimulate the facehugger.
Not only did this heart-piercing pain from the depths of my bone marrow not disappear, it actually became more and more intense.
The miserable screams and dull crashing sounds continued to impact Alyssa's heart.
Distraught, she knew something bad must have happened to York.
Alyssa wished so much that she could help York at this time, but as she was tightly bound to the wall by the alien secretions, it was destined to be just a fantasy.
She could only watch helplessly as York endured inhumane torture.
boom!
After a dull crash that signaled the end, York fell straight to the ground.
He was dying, his eyes were dull, and he was lying on the ground helplessly.
Take out a lot of anger.
Less air intake.
His mind was in a blur.
The originally sensitive nerves have become numb and dull under constant torture.
York felt that his eyelids were getting heavier and heavier, and his consciousness began to sink, as if he was falling into a bottomless abyss.
He only felt that the hoarse shouts in his ears were getting farther and farther away from him, getting softer and softer, until finally they disappeared.
The already dark world becomes even darker.
Eyelids closed.
At this moment York completely lost consciousness.
"York! York!"
The continuous shouting made Alyssa's voice hoarse. No matter how she shouted, York, who was unconscious, could not respond.
In the darkness not far away, a bright fire was moving quickly towards her location.
She was just immersed in sadness and didn't notice.
The familiar rustling sound sounded again in the darkness.
Alyssa knew what it was, and she had been attacked by this creature more than once.
She just lowered her head expressionlessly, with a sense of waiting for death.
A black shadow flashed in the sky.
laugh!
The Facehugger that soared into the air was stabbed diagonally into the ground by a short spear that shot out.
"Are you okay?" Kahn wanted to confirm Alyssa's condition.
The sudden light made Alyssa, who had been in darkness for a long time, unable to adapt and closed her eyes involuntarily.
When she adapted to the light brought by the torch, a sharp and determined face appeared in front of Alyssa.
Since Kahn did not cover his face with a mask, Alyssa saw Kahn's appearance at a glance.
calm.
calm.
No expression at all!
This was the first impression Kahn gave Alyssa.
"York! Something's wrong with York!"
"Go and see what happened to him."
Facing Kahn's sudden appearance, Alyssa, who couldn't react for a while, began to become a little excited and happy.
The first thing she thought of was the man she had known for less than a few hours and who had eaten away at her.
In fact, Kahn had already noticed York lying unconscious on the ground when he arrived.
But when faced with the facehugger that rushed towards Alyssa, he immediately chose to save her.
Another burst of rapid footsteps sounded.
Ike and Seth, who arrived belatedly, immediately saw York lying unconscious on the ground and Alyssa who was tied to the wall.
"Hello, York?"
"Wake up, what's wrong with you?"
Seth quickly came to York's side, took off his helmet, and groped around York's neck with his palms.
After confirming that York had not died, he couldn't help but breathed a sigh of relief.
"How about it?"
"It's okay, he's still alive, he just passed out."