"Hiss..."
The giant maw trembled, and the Alien Queen exhaled a long stream of white gas.
After laying an Alien egg, she was visibly more relaxed, her body no longer trembling so violently.
In a swift stride, Yun Hai rushed over to the first Alien egg the Queen had managed to birth and began to examine it closely.
The color was fleshy, and the Alien egg's shell was thick, covered in a transparent mucus.
The top was a tightly sealed, petal-like structure with four lobes.
After shining a flashlight on it for a good while, other than the color being slightly lighter than the Royal Alien egg that had parasitized Big Black, the shape was completely identical, even to the Alien Mother's eggs.
Impatient, Yun Hai tried to use his Alien senses to peer inside.
Within the thick egg, a Facehugger larva with a thick tail and eight limbs was growing in the egg white-like mucus.
In that faint mental connection, Yun Hai could even feel that it was more anxious than him, eagerly wanting to complete its growth and quickly emerge from the egg to find a host nearby to parasitize.
It was only the size of a human fist, but Yun Hai could feel it growing slowly at a speed visible to the naked eye, or rather, perceptible to mental energy.
Clearly, from the Alien egg, the Facehugger, the implanted embryo in the host, to the Chestburster Alien, all forms of Alien life possessed a growth speed akin to the speed of light.
This was something incomprehensible and unbelievable to human minds.
Looking at his watch, Yun Hai noted the time and stayed right by the Alien egg, not leaving for even half a step.
His expression was both anxious and like a mother hen protecting her chicks, afraid that some mutated creature would jump out and snatch the Alien egg away.
Time passed by, second by second, and he had never felt time pass so slowly, not even during the extremely anxious and tedious five days he had just spent.
In those five days, every second was torment, and the silent cave was driving him crazy.
Ten minutes passed, and from its initial tiny state, the Facehugger's size had already doubled.
Another twenty minutes passed, and the Facehugger had grown even larger. The eight tentacles on its sides, divided into three segments, including the thick, long tail, already showed a hint of ferocity.
Thirty minutes passed, and in Yun Hai's incredibly excited gaze, the four fleshy membrane lobes at the top of the Alien egg opened, and the beige Facehugger sprang out of the mucus, directly pouncing towards the mutated wildcat cub wrapped in the creep not far away.
Extremely fast, with a flick of its eight tentacles, the Facehugger shot towards its prey like a cobra.
Clearly due to the mutation, severely injured, and having not eaten or drunk for five or six days, none of the mutated wildcat cubs, or the mutated bamboo rats and squirrels, had died.
The animals' keen senses caused all the hosts to let out terrified screams, and the mutated wildcat cub struggled to swing its head, but its severely injured body and weak physique made it difficult to break free from the giant cocoon formed by the creep.
Accurately and without deviation, the Facehugger pounced onto the wildcat's face like lightning, its eight slender tentacles tightly hugging its head, while its thick and powerful tail tightly strangled the wildcat's neck.
The gap in its abdomen, full of mucus, split open, and a slender, tube-like proboscis extended. In Yun Hai's disgusted gaze, as the suffocating wildcat opened its mouth wide, the Facehugger's proboscis darted into its mouth like lightning, completely piercing deep into the wildcat's throat.
Involuntarily swallowing, Yun Hai looked at the Facehugger that was beginning to settle down, then at the wildcat that had already fainted, and remembering his own experience that day, he felt a tingling in his scalp.
At the same time, he noticed the differences.
The Alien Mother Facehugger that parasitized Yun Hai was a strange blue color, with a bony tail and a blade-like tail tip.
The Alien Queen Facehugger that parasitized the black dog was brownish-red, and its tail tip also looked sharp, but it was still somewhat inferior to the Alien Mother Facehugger.
However, the Facehugger in front of him was just a fleshy color, like the Alien egg, and its tail was like a snake's body, with no bony tail tip at all.
"Hiss..."
The Alien Queen's hiss rang out once again, her body trembling violently. At the same time, her ovipositor shifted slightly, and another Alien egg was ejected from the top.
"One Alien egg can be born every half hour, which means forty-eight eggs a day."
[Comment from user]
The Zerg race is still faster at reproduction.
"The Facehugger can grow up in half an hour and parasitize a host. Compared to me and Big Black, it will take about twelve hours for the Alien larva to burst out."
"The Alien Queen needs to reach maturity to grow an ovipositor, so the growth time is slightly longer. Taking her as an example, the first molting and growth of an ordinary Alien will take at least one day and at most two days, turning it into a lurker in the darkness, the best hunter for finding hosts."
"There are forty-five mutated bamboo rats, five mutated squirrels, and one mutated wildcat cub here, a total of fifty-one hosts. In less than two days, they can all become Aliens!"
Unable to resist, he began to fantasize. In Yun Hai's imagination, a large group of Aliens, similar yet slightly different, followed him closely, what a spectacular scene that would be.
Wiping the saliva from the corner of his mouth, Yun Hai patiently waited.
However, there was nothing he could do, no matter how anxious he was.
Laying eggs, hatching, parasitizing, chest bursting, molting and growing.
This was the inevitable path for the birth of an Alien, and it was also caused by the genetic makeup of the Alien race. This process was simply not something Yun Hai could interfere with.
The role he played in the Alien race was only absolute rule, a mental dominance.
Also, without being idle or controlled by Yun Hai, the magical energy in the space constantly entered his body.
He estimated that he had evolved, but Yun Hai tried his best and could not release this energy like Big Head. It was simply not under his control, and all of this energy entered the Alien Mother mark on his heart.
Moreover, he also discovered that the closer his skin was to the magical creep, the faster he absorbed energy.
As this indescribable energy entered his body, the starlight that had killed and sealed the Alien Mother became brighter than before.
It was this discovery that finally calmed Yun Hai's uneasy mind. Although he wasn't quite sure what these phenomena indicated, he at least confirmed that the starlight that had saved his life could also absorb this energy, and he estimated that it wouldn't be harmful.
Of course, even if it was harmful, Yun Hai had no way to refuse this autonomous energy absorption, just like Big Head, it was simply not something he could control.
Time slowly passed, and soon, three hours had passed. During this time, the Alien Queen had laid another six Alien eggs.
Including the first one that parasitized the wildcat, a total of six Facehuggers had successfully parasitized hosts.
Clearly, the Facehuggers had a sense of choosing the best when parasitizing hosts.
Just like the first Facehugger, it chose the wildcat, which was clearly stronger in individual combat power among the hosts.
The next five Facehuggers parasitized the mutated squirrels without choice, rather than the mutated bamboo rats that were closest to them.
He didn't know what was so powerful about the mutated squirrels. From the shape of the giant cocoon, Yun Hai could only see that their size was more than twice as large as before. As for the other parts, they were tightly wrapped by the creep in the air, and he couldn't see them.
What surprised Yun Hai was that the Alien Queen actually used her tail bones to circle the empty Alien eggs in front of her, held them up with her forelimbs, and swallowed them all in one go, drinking and chewing.
Yun Hai suspected that there was nothing in this world that she couldn't eat.
Taking out a bottle of water from his backpack and slowly drinking it, Yun Hai looked at the still unconscious wildcat from time to time, relaxing his mood.
"Roar..."
Suddenly, the unconscious wildcat woke up, its limbs having been completely broken by the Alien Queen. It desperately swung its head, shaking its body violently, causing the creep cocoon to shake as well.
"Six hours, much shorter than I expected."
In his mental sense, Yun Hai could clearly feel the eagerness of the Alien larva, which had already matured in the wildcat's body, to descend into the world.
"Pfft!"
A loud sound of flesh tearing rang out, and an Alien larva resembling a snake's body broke through the wildcat cub's chest with great force, blasting a hole in the creep.
Its head covered in blood and flesh, the Alien larva, like the Queen's inner jaws, opened its head slightly and let out a piercing "hissing" sound.
It was as if it was announcing its unique, bloody birth to the world.
Compared to the initial Queen larva, this Alien larva was much inferior. Its entire body was completely pale white. After a brief hiss, it turned its body and then rushed back into the wildcat's body.
As it turned around, Yun Hai could see even more clearly that the Alien larva was completely like a snake-like body with four short limbs, including a narrow tail behind it.
The sound of chewing while eating was extremely clear in the silent darkness. Watching the dead wildcat's body tremble constantly, Yun Hai clenched his fists in excitement.
The end of hardship.
The Alien race had finally taken root on Earth after the apocalypse and began to grow stronger.