-Despite its physical power, C-31 could barely compare to a Grade F at the beginning, but there are few supers here and when they arrived, it was already comparable to a Grade D Super. When it reached Lapis Purpureus, it began a frenzied devouring spree and quickly rose to Grade C. We judged that the current biological forms on the planet are no longer suitable for C-31's growth, so it stopped devouring everything around it. But the mercenaries who came later offered much more nutritious ingredients for it. From Grade C, it managed to reach Grade B, along with its stealth and intelligence. All the mercenaries sent so far, including those of Grade B, have already...- The man didn't finish the sentence, only giving them a cold, gloating smile, as if he expected them to be next at the feast.
Rick broke out in a cold sweat at that moment. - Wait! Grade B?!
The man looked at Rick with strange eyes. -What? That's public information, didn't you see that?
Rick turned to Black Spider and the man rolled his eyes before letting his Grade B aura leak out. This surprised Rick, who thought Black Spider was just a Grade C like himself.
Black Spider didn't care and turned to the man. - Ignore him, he's new.
-Wait! Even if you're a Grade B, he said other Grade B soldiers have already died!- Rick turned back to the main issue.
-It's not too late to give up.- The man looked at them with amusement.
-We're not going to give up.- Black Spider said softly.
Just kidding, after Ringo found out about this guy, he was dying to go after him, a living being with each cell representing a whole, capable of literally regenerating until only one cell remains... he needed that.
So, even without the reward, Ringo was completely excited now, almost wanting to come here with his main body.
A vision of the future isn't like perfectly seeing everything that happens in the future, it's like connected fragments of a film. A film can represent days, months or years in a few hours. A vision of the future is very similar, although Ringo can also see the entire scenario, but that is much more time-consuming and exhausting.
Even though he had seen the future, he didn't know he would find a species here that would excite him so much.
-Captain! Please, I don't want to die, reconsider!- Rick knelt right there, gripping Black Spider's trouser leg, who simply rolled his eyes and kicked him away.
-You can stay here if you prefer, it won't take long.- Black Spider said to him, turning to the man.
-I just need to exterminate this, right? Okay.- Ringo nodded and turned to leave.
The man looked at him with interest and said. -If you can get a sample of the specimen, we'll pay you double.
Ringo paused slightly, but did not turn around and continued walking, followed by the helmeted, armed clones.
Rick let out a long groan of frustration and stood up, walking behind them without looking back.
Despite everything, Rick is a Pugilist, as a Pugilist, Rick is not lacking in courage, he still followed him without delay.
Black Spider smiled, pleased with Rick's attitude.
The man behind them watched the group leave with a mocking smile, he doubted they could return alive.
The woman beside him, who had kept her head down the whole time, finally raised her head, looking indifferently at their backs as they disappeared and said. -Prepare the monitoring system, let's see what these guys can do against C-31.
The man's smile faded, replaced by a respectful expression. - Yes, ma'am.
He turned to one of the soldiers looking at the monitor and said. -The C-31's food has arrived, wake him up.
The man nodded as he activated some programs. On the planet Lapis Purpureus, probes in various parts of the planet began to emit a high-frequency vibration for a while, inside a swamp of red mud, a creature slowly rose from it. Its mouth tentacles opened slightly, revealing a cluster of sharp fangs all over its "mouth".
During the monitoring, the woman adjusted her glasses slightly while a small smile, which made her look very cute, appeared on her lips.
The man next to her wasn't at all pleased with the smile, but felt an even stronger chill down his spine.
//-//
On the ship heading towards the planet, Ringo's lips curled up. He couldn't read minds, but he could sense the emotions of others, from beginning to end, the group's emotions seemed to be misguided.
Cold, funny, analytical...
Everything pointed to something being wrong with this mission, but he didn't care, he had seen the future as soon as he entered the ship and began to explore possibilities, and in the end, a few minutes later, he broke into an amused smile.
So we're not the exterminator, but the food, right?
He smiled nonchalantly, letting the ship land slowly on a plain with purple grass. Some animals that looked like hippos, but with more agile limbs, were eating grass before being startled by the ship's intrusion, they quickly ran away.
Black Spider jumped from the ship without a helmet, the sensors showed that the atmosphere is stable and not harmful to them.
Looking around, he was amazed by the planet's beauty, the colors varied in red, blue, purple and pink, especially the purple foliage, some darker, some lighter. He didn't see a single green leaf, which intrigued him.
The color of a plant's leaves indicates its preference with respect to the primary color spectrum of light: blue, red and green.
The plants in Aquamarine are green, just as they were on his original planet. This means that the plants there prefer the red and blue aspects of light and are green to repel the green spectrum of light.
But here the leaves are purple, and considering that the mixture of blue and red is purple, perhaps they are repelling those two color spectrums and retaining only the green.
This intrigued him for a moment and he decided to collect some samples for Emma and when he said "he", he meant the clones.
The group spread out, carefully collecting some samples. Rick was already beside them, looking around with evident caution, as if C-31 might jump out from somewhere at any moment and attack them, but he also looked around with curiosity.
He wasn't like Black Spider, who was seeing this type of vegetation for the first time, instead, he had seen stranger things before, his curiosity simply stemming from the desire to reach a new place.
-Okay, so what now?- Rick asked after a while, clearly having grown tired of observing the monotonous landscape.
Black Spider didn't respond, Ringo's clone quickly began using his future vision, Black Spider's gaze soon turning to the right, narrowing his eyes.
He saw that no matter where they went, they would find the C-31, of course, he knew it was the idiots up there who were creating this "coincidence".
But he saw that going to the right greatly accelerated the process, that was probably where the C-31 was coming from.
-Let's go this way.- Black Spider said. A group of clones approached and began to calmly clear the terrain using high-powered vibrating blades. The vegetation didn't stand a chance, a clear trail appeared behind them as they plunged deeper into the forest.
Ringo's clone constantly used his future vision to find the best path, he would need a lot of time at that speed to find the monster, but he knew it was coming for him, so it wouldn't take long to find it.
Sure, C-31 was an experienced hunter, Black Spider and his clones, even Rick, had died countless times in his sight, the creature could camouflage itself in different ways.
Becoming invisible, even to the most advanced monitoring systems and transforming into other living beings, whether animals or plants!
Without foresight, they would have to pay a high price to find the creature, but unfortunately for C-31, it had been found. It was already entering the lion's mouth, unaware that the lions jaw was already closing, the rolls of predator and prey had swapped with no one the wiser.