"Swish, swish..."
In the pitch-black cave, Yun Hai moved like a gray lightning bolt, flashing swiftly.
Darkness, for the Aliens, is like water for fish – it's paradise, an irreplaceable home field.
Naturally, the same was true for Yun Hai now.
Thirty black shadows moved like lightning, spreading out around Yun Hai.
Several were rapidly advancing in the front, with a few even climbing on the mountain walls on both sides and above, moving like geckos, even faster.
More followed behind Yun Hai, advancing like lightning.
"Still can't find them!"
The passages within the mountain's belly were complex, with countless caves, plus a large number of honeycomb-like holes in the walls. Yun Hai searched for several tens of minutes with thirty Aliens, but other than finding three corpses, he couldn't find Big Head and Cui Hao.
It was impossible to identify who the three corpses were. He didn't know what insects in the cave had done it, but the skeletons of the three bodies were incomplete. Yun Hai looked for a long time and could only recognize one female corpse and two male corpses.
The three corpses were in different places. Yun Hai vaguely remembered that when the strange insects attacked that day, at least seven or eight people had successfully escaped into the cave.
As for the rest, he didn't know if they were alive or had been devoured, skin and bones, by some mutated creatures or insects.
"It's been more than a week since we entered the cave. Even if they weren't killed by the strange insects at the time, they're probably starving to death."
"Forget it, everyone has their own destiny. I'd better hurry up and find food for the Alien Queen, including more hosts."
After running in the darkness for a while, Yun Hai had to turn around, choose a sloping path, and start running upwards.
Without having to specifically search for Big Head and the others, Yun Hai's speed was faster this time, and his unique senses spread to the Aliens running alongside him.
The Alien Queen's strength was definitely her forte. Without having witnessed her true battle with a powerful opponent, Yun Hai couldn't define it precisely.
But compared to agility and flexibility, these ordinary Aliens were slightly stronger, especially the Alien born from the parasitized wildcat.
Yun Hai had even specifically tested it. In that spacious cave, he ran at full speed, and only after he had completely unleashed his speed did he mentally command the wildcat Alien to chase him.
In less than ten seconds, the wildcat Alien could steadily appear in front of him. The same result occurred in a series of tests.
Clearly, the wildcat host, which was good at running and extremely agile, had its excellent genes recorded in the wildcat Alien's gene blank chain.
Yun Hai naturally wouldn't let it go. After the mucus secreted by the wildcat Alien entered the creep, he extracted this ability from it without any suspense and successfully modulated it onto himself.
This was the benefit of fusing with the Alien Mother, and it also showed the Alien Mother's power.
She only needed to guard the lair. No matter what abilities the various Aliens that were constantly born obtained from their hosts, the Alien Mother could easily acquire them through the creep.
The Alien Queen gave Yun Hai strength.
The wildcat Alien gave Yun Hai agility.
But the giant rat and squirrel Aliens didn't bring Yun Hai any abilities.
In fact, he had also tested them in the cave. Especially the giant rat Alien, its sharp claws showed their sharpness, and it could quickly dig holes even in the hard stone ground.
Yun Hai hadn't seen any advantages of the squirrel Alien. Looking around, he only felt that its huge teeth and inner jaws seemed sharper than those of other Aliens.
Yun Hai estimated that his inability to obtain these two abilities was related to his human body. Just like he had obtained the wildcat's agility, but still couldn't outrun it.
This was determined by muscles, bones, and even gene cells. After all, Yun Hai had a human body, not a true Alien Mother body.
Even so, Yun Hai was very, very satisfied.
In fact, there was a moment when he felt that he might become stronger if he had an Alienized body.
Moving as fast as lightning, Yun Hai, who was in a sorry state when he first entered the cave, was now high-spirited as he was about to leave the cave, and he became more and more excited as he ran.
Before long, a glimmer of light appeared not far away. Heading diagonally upwards all the way, Yun Hai lightly tapped the stone wall with his feet to borrow strength, and his body turned freely in the air. Following a turn in the passage, the cave entrance not far away finally appeared in his sight.
Squinting his eyes slightly, Yun Hai didn't rush out, but stopped.
The thirty Aliens stopped at the same time, crowding into the passage, silent.
Receiving his mental command, the wildcat Alien climbed up the mountain wall and ran out rapidly from above Yun Hai's head. In the distance of dozens of meters, before Yun Hai could even blink, it had already left the cave passage.
Not rushing out as Yun Hai had imagined, the wildcat Alien silently fell from above when it reached the cave entrance. With a light swing of its tail bones, it quietly slipped out along the bushes at the edge of the cave entrance.
After a moment, in his mental sense, the wildcat Alien, which had already completed its first molting and growth, clearly transmitted a safe mental feedback. Only then did Yun Hai and the other Aliens rush out together.
As soon as he stepped out of the cave entrance, Yun Hai was stunned.
The lampposts over six meters away told him that this was the top of Yangshan Mountain, but the grass that was taller than a person made Yun Hai feel like he had stepped into a primeval forest.
The pine trees on the side of the mountain, however, surprisingly hadn't changed much. Yun Hai estimated that its growth might have reached its peak state and had stopped mutating.
"Buzz, buzz..."
An insect the size of an adult's palm flew out of the grass, and Yun Hai recognized it as a ladybug when he saw the seven familiar red dots on its red back.
Its antennae wiggled slightly as it landed on a blue flower disc the size of a frying pan. The mutated ladybug's compound eyes stared at Yun Hai's side.
Whether it was frightened by the ferocious appearance of the thirty Aliens or it hadn't mutated to the point of eating meat, the carapace on its back, which was obviously much harder than before, opened, and the ladybug flapped its wings and flew away.
Many people who had fled to the cave a few days ago had died, but there were no bones on the ground. He didn't know what creatures had eaten them all clean.
The grass, which was more than one person tall, completely blocked the view. Yun Hai simply closed his eyes and moved forward with the Aliens' unique senses.
In the three-dimensional pattern in his senses, there were only green light and shadows swaying in the wind, all of which represented the light and shadows of plant life.
There were also more moving pale white light spots on the ground, which represented insects, but the number was not as large as Yun Hai had imagined.
After all, this large area of grassland, and it was so tall, under normal circumstances, there wouldn't be too few insects inside.
"The non-mutated insects are decreasing sharply. Is the ecological chain about to collapse?"
"Their vitality is far more tenacious than that of humans. They are about to be eliminated from the Earth's life spectrum, so is there a way out for humans who haven't mutated?"
The excitement and joy brought by the Alien race's growth faded a lot, and Yun Hai felt a little sad.
In the end, he was still a human.
[Comment from user]
With such thoughts, you have received the benefits of the Aliens, but where do you place this race?
Even if one day, he could lead billions of Aliens to the throne of the Earth's food chain, what would be the point if humans were completely eliminated?
"Yun Duo..."
The image of his sister's playful expression flashed in his mind, and Yun Hai's negative emotions disappeared instantly. He cheered up. After ten giant rat Aliens quickly ran out behind the wildcat Alien, he and the other Aliens followed.
Suddenly, a green snake more than a meter long sprang out of the grass, its mouth wide open, revealing its ferocious fangs, and bit fiercely at Yun Hai's neck.
Yun Hai had already noticed this green snake when it silently swam over, thanks to the Aliens' unique life senses.
He didn't underestimate it. Most snakes were poisonous, and they were even more extraordinary after mutation. Yun Hai couldn't be sure whether he, who had fused with the Alien Mother, could ignore the existence of toxicity like the Queen, so he naturally didn't dare to risk his life.
The body that was originally moving slowly rushed forward, and Yun Hai disappeared from its attack range at a speed several times faster than the green snake.
Not only was Yun Hai prepared, but the two Aliens behind him were also prepared.
The squirrel Alien on the left stepped on the ground with its hind legs, and its body, which was about one meter long, leaped into the air. With a snap of its huge mouth, it bit the green snake in its mouth. Then, the inner jaws lightly extended and bit down, swallowing the entire twisted and spasming green snake as it contracted.
Yun Hai didn't pay attention to these, and ran quickly to not far from the hotel. Noticing the abnormality, he immediately stopped.
The wildcat and ten giant rat Aliens that were clearing the way in front had already stopped, raising their skulls, their lips trembling, and their sharp teeth pointing towards the hotel.
He couldn't recognize it at all. After just waiting in the cave for more than a week, the hotel that had sheltered more than fifty survivors had completely changed its appearance.
Python-like vines completely covered the entire hotel, and there were even many slightly thinner vines that had penetrated into the hotel's interior from the windows, doors, and even the cracks that had been squeezed out of the walls with great force.
In the Aliens' unique senses, the entire hotel was filled with deep green light and shadows, so thick that it seemed like water was about to drip out.
In the huge hotel, there were no other light spots representing the existence of life, not even a weed.
"Even if they were lucky enough to escape from the pile of strange insects and hide in the hotel, who could survive in the face of these strange and unpredictable vines?"
Sighing in his heart, Yun Hai completely gave up the idea of going into the hotel to investigate, and ordered all the Aliens to detour far to the side of the mountain and start running towards the back mountain.