"Buzz..."
More strange insects on the mountaintop flew or ran, rushing into the hotel, cruelly vying for the limited fresh flesh.
In front of a window on the second floor of the hotel, Yun Hai, with a hiking bag on his back, suddenly opened the window and jumped down.
At a height of only four or five meters, he slightly bent his knees upon landing to offset the impact. Yun Hai swung the wooden stick in his hand, forcefully knocking away a strange insect flying from the side, and then sprinted towards the south.
More thuds of landings followed, as over twenty people jumped out of the hotel windows, all chasing after Yun Hai.
If they could only run, that would be one thing, but these strange insects could also fly, and they weren't slow either. Faced with such ferocious insects, even a fully armed squad of soldiers with guns would only have to flee in panic.
"Save me!"
Qi Xiangyu was the last to jump out. His obese body tensed up as he landed on both legs, fracturing his right tibia. He fell to the ground, enduring the sharp pain in his leg, and frantically cried out for help in terror.
No one paid attention to him. In this critical moment of life and death, everyone was struggling to save themselves; who would care about the life or death of others?
However, it wasn't the strange insects that ended Qi Xiangyu's life. A slender, green snake poked its head out from the grass and bit his ankle in a flash.
His face instantly turned green. Qi Xiangyu even maintained his previous pleading gesture, completely stiffening.
The green snake arched its body slightly and, with a flick, burrowed into Qi Xiangyu's open mouth.
"Ah!"
Having only run a dozen steps, Si Yan let out a shrill scream, spitting out blood.
A large chunk of his back muscle was torn off by the mandibles of a strange insect behind him. The burning pain made Si Yan scream repeatedly, but he couldn't run much further...
With a "snap," a strange insect flying in mid-air closed its pincer-like mandibles, directly severing Si Yan's neck.
Blood spurted from his throat like a fountain, attracting more strange insects with the scent of blood. Several strange insects spread their wings and flew over, instantly dismembering him.
One after another, people fell: Liu Ming, a female college student...
Of the twenty-plus people who jumped out of the hotel, only the dozen or so in the front reached the slope at the edge of the mountain.
"Help..."
In front of the hotel, a female tourist stumbled out, convulsing strangely, reaching out her hands towards them from afar.
"Pfft!"
Her chest burst open, and a pair of limbs covered in blood emerged,挟持ing flesh. The mandibles on the mouthparts of the strange insect behind her violently pierced into the back of her head, breaking through her brow, and blood dripped down.
Da Tou ran last, wielding a steel pipe in his right hand, and with a burst of cold air, he knocked away a strange insect that flew over.
The strange insect was frozen into an ice sculpture mid-air and fell to the ground.
A large shield-like barrier of ice condensed in his left hand blocked several strange insects from crashing into him. Da Tou, his face pale, activated a large amount of cold energy, freezing the strange insects that kept衝撞ing the shield.
"Jump! There's a cave below."
Cracks were appearing on the ice shield, and Da Tou clearly felt that he didn't have much cold energy left. He turned his head and saw several people at the edge of the mountain looking terrified, not daring to slide down the slope for a moment. They were afraid of not being able to stop at the bottom and plunging off the cliff. He angrily roared.
The ice shield shattered instantly by the strange insects, and the powerful force sent Da Tou flying backward.
The bad thing was that he had been knocked back, and the slope was covered with moss. Da Tou fell on the slope and slid down rapidly. Seeing that he couldn't stop himself, he screamed in fright to Yun Hai, who was at the edge of the cliff below.
Quick-witted and fast-handed, Yun Hai pushed Cui Hao, who he had just pulled up, into the cave on the side of the slope, and at the same time, quickly reached out his left hand.
His feet slammed hard into the edge of the ditch at the bottom of the slope. Da Tou rushed too hard, and half of his body was冲到 outside the cliff.
At the critical moment, Yun Hai grabbed his collar and, with another effort, pulled him up.
"Ah!"
A tourist tumbled down clumsily. However, this time, neither Yun Hai nor Da Tou made another move. They watched as he was climbed on by two strange insects and fell off the slope straight towards the bottom of the mountain. The two turned their heads and rushed into the cave.
Desperate escape.
The terrain of the cave sloped downwards into the mountain's belly, and the stone ground was still covered with moss. The slippery ground was even more slippery than an ice rink. After rushing in, the two directly slipped and fell to the ground, sliding down clumsily.
The cave passage was full of honeycomb-like holes, and they couldn't stop or see clearly. They slid down all the way, and the screams in the dark cave seemed to tear the eardrums.
"Buzz..."
The sound of flapping wings continued behind them. Yun Hai didn't need to look back; he could sense the terrifying aura of danger approaching. He desperately tried to gain leverage on the ground with both hands.
A violent gust of wind came from behind. Yun Hai couldn't help but turn his head to look back, but he couldn't see anything in the pitch blackness.
He couldn't stop himself anymore, and Yun Hai's sliding speed was getting faster and faster.
Gradually, the strange noises behind him faded, and the terrifying aura of danger also gradually receded. He couldn't control his body, and he slid for a while in the dark passage until his body was缠住 by something around the waist.
Letting out a long breath, Yun Hai, still in shock, couldn't see, but he knew that it was the Alien Queen who had缠住 him with her tailbone.
"Hiss..."
Hearing a hissing sound, Yun Hai realized that the Alien Queen had started to move. Everything was pitch black, but he didn't feel fear; on the contrary, he felt extremely secure.
Grabbing the sticky Queen's tailbone, it was like riding a roller coaster. His body rose and fell, and after a few minutes, the Alien Queen finally stopped, gently placing Yun Hai on the ground with a light flick of her tailbone.
The ground felt incredibly soft, like stepping on a thick carpet. Yun Hai groped to take off the hiking bag from his back, unzipped it, and fumbled for a long time before finally finding the flashlight.
Yun Hai had collected the hiking bag from the hotel room, as he knew that the hotel couldn't stop the mutated creatures.
However, he had always thought that it would be some kind of large mutated beast that would break through the door, but he never expected it to be a group of strange insects he had never heard of or seen before.
Six bottles of mineral water, five packs of biscuits, and three packs of chocolate—these were all left behind by the previous tourists in his room. Adding the pack of sausages that Liu Ming had given him earlier, the food and water weren't much, but it was better than nothing, enough to cope for a few days.
Without taking the time to examine his surroundings, Yun Hai adjusted the flashlight to its brightest setting and then shone it on the Alien Queen.
The mental connection was higher than everything else.
Even though the cave was vast and boundless, Yun Hai didn't need to search with his eyes; he found the Alien Queen's body in the first instant.
Her body had grown significantly. He already knew the proportions of her limbs by heart. Even though she was leaning against a boulder in the center of the cave, Yun Hai could estimate her height at a glance.
The Alien Queen was already over six meters tall, and her skin was so dark that she looked more like a mechanized creature made of metal.
Saliva dripped from the elongated, smooth skull, and on the fan-shaped bone plates behind her skull, short, hard bone spurs were arranged in three lines.
The entire head crown looked a bit strange, yet it also revealed a dark, gorgeous beauty.
Like most shelled creatures, the Alien Queen didn't have skin on her body; it was all exposed dark bones. The black, fine-iron-like bones had obvious biomechanical features, strange and ugly, yet also making one feel incredibly fierce and霸气.
The neck was the only part not surrounded by exposed bones. The dark muscles were not bulging but were exceptionally developed, protected on both sides by two fan-shaped protruding shoulder blades. Yun Hai even suspected that bullets couldn't penetrate their thickness and luster.
A pair of forelimbs were slender and powerful, while the hind limbs were even thicker, appearing more explosive. Three sharp bone spurs protruded from her back, flamboyant and terrifying, making one not doubt their terrible penetrating power at a glance.
Her fingertips were as sharp as razors. The forelimbs were slightly broken, and the fingertips were extremely long. The ankle joints of the hind limbs were unusually developed, clearly possessing powerful冲刺 ability.
Because she was leaning against a boulder, Yun Hai could see very clearly that the soles of her feet had thick layers of keratin, like the fat pads on the toes of feline creatures. This feature fully demonstrated that she was definitely an excellent lurking assassin.
Even more terrifying was her tail. The Alien Queen's tail was connected to the exposed vertebrae, and there was no muscle tissue to be seen. It was composed of segmented vertebral protrusions. At the end of the slender and powerful tailbone, the hook-like tail tip was like it was made of metal, making one feel a chill just by looking at it.
Her tailbone and body were covered in green liquid. Yun Hai didn't know how she had dealt with those mutated beetles in the dark, but at least he didn't find any scars on the Queen's body, which put his mind at ease.
Just as the flashlight was about to move away from the Queen's body, he suddenly noticed something unusual. After a closer look, he couldn't help but be stunned.
A gap had opened in the Alien Queen's abdomen, and the two opened bone plates extended to the left and right.
Dark yellow mucus dripped continuously from the Queen's lower abdomen. When the flashlight was turned to its brightest setting, Yun Hai vaguely saw a wriggling, membranous thing in the sticky, dark yellow liquid.
A look of狂喜涌现 on his face, and Yun Hai almost dropped the flashlight he was holding in his palm.
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"It turns out it's just asexual reproduction; she's an adult!"
Without even thinking, an idea popped into his head. Yun Hai couldn't control his激动心情 and clenched his fists tightly.
When he merged with the Alien Mother, he only obtained fragmented information. To put it bluntly, it was just a series of single-word consciousnesses. Many situations could only be pieced together to form complete information when he witnessed them with his own eyes and experienced them firsthand.
Just like the scene before him, seeing it with his own eyes, he understood.
In just three days, the Alien Queen had completely completed her evolution, becoming a true "Queen."