Sunlight filtered through the dense foliage, dappling the ground.
The sunlight wasn't intense, but Yun Hai felt like he was on fire, his heart burning with anxiety.
After eating all the vines and gnawing a huge mushroom bare, the porcupine slowly walked dozens of steps, then squatted down and started "grunting and snorting" as it took a dump.
A slow doctor for an anxious patient.
But Yun Hai knew that there was no use in being anxious.
Even the wildcat Alien was hiding motionless in the grass not far from the trap, with no intention of attacking.
He believed that if he issued a mental command, all the Aliens would rush up without hesitation and engage in a life-and-death struggle with the porcupine, but Yun Hai still wanted the Aliens to make their own decisions and attack based on instinct.
Facing different prey, exchanging the greatest victory for the smallest casualties, that was the Alien's instinct.
More of the inherited information was being activated, allowing Yun Hai to understand the Aliens more deeply. The Alien's instinctive attack was to sneak and ambush like an assassin, including actively setting traps.
Unless the ambush failed, or the number had reached an incredible level of absolute suppression, or the opponent was simply too weak to withstand an attack.
Otherwise, frontal confrontation was simply not the Alien's way of fighting.
Only knowing instinctive killing, reproduction, growth, and evolution, this was the Alien's instinct.
Yun Hai once again confirmed some of his thoughts. For the Aliens, he only needed to achieve macroscopic control.
Grunting and snorting endlessly, when Yun Hai refocused his attention, the huge porcupine had happily taken a dump that looked like a mound, and actually turned its head to sniff it with its long nose.
In Yun Hai's contracting pupils, it finally didn't bravely take a bite, and then turned around and slowly walked forward.
He couldn't see the digging Aliens, but Yun Hai's unique Alien senses could accurately locate them. Seeing the porcupine about to approach the trap, Yun Hai widened his eyes, not even blinking.
"Thump!"
Reaching out its mouth to bite a red flower not far away, the porcupine's front foot had just stepped down when the flat ground suddenly collapsed. Its huge body determined its weight, and before it could struggle, it fell into the pit.
The same trap ambush, but even more refined and perfect.
In complex environments, they were assassins in the shadows, omnipresent.
In less complex environments, they would rely on their instincts to make it complex.
Once again admiring the Alien's instinctive hunting methods and skills, Yun Hai was completely certain that the Alien race could perfectly hunt any creature without his intervention.
In his mental communication, Yun Hai once again released the autonomous authority to all the Aliens, because their performance was so perfect.
They had completely dug out a vertical shaft, the diameter of which was just right to hold the porcupine's body tightly. As if they were still worried that it would step on the wrong place, every ten meters or so in the underground area with a diameter of hundreds of meters, there would be the same vertical shaft.
"Bang!"
Having climbed a tree at some point, the wildcat Alien pounced down from the air, and the porcupine's struggling butt, which had just stuck out, was violently hit by it, causing it to sink and get stuck in the pit.
A pig-slaughtering-like howl resounded in the air, and the huge porcupine struggled violently in the vertical pit, causing the soil in the vertical shaft to fall down.
Instinctively ejecting a large number of quills, because its body was completely stuck, the quills all sank into the soil of the pit in a muffled crash.
"Hiss..."
The wildcat Alien didn't rush up as Yun Hai had imagined, but turned around and ran quickly towards the top of the mountain.
"Could the Queen be in danger!"
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A thought flashed through his mind, and Yun Hai couldn't help but be startled.
But in an instant, when the wildcat Alien relayed a simple mental communication, Yun Hai understood and completely put his heart back in his stomach.
The wildcat Alien was going back to get the Alien egg.
After all, unlike the mutated crocodile lizard, although the crocodile lizard was about two meters long, its body was narrow and its tail accounted for half of its body length, weighing only a few dozen kilograms. Even the weakest Messenger Alien could drag it away.
This porcupine was completely different. Except for the height, its length was infinitely close to that of an elephant, and its weight was definitely in the range of several tons.
Killing it and dismembering it to take it back while taking advantage of this opportunity wasn't difficult for the Aliens, but capturing it alive was inherently about killing, and was several times more difficult.
Wanting to drag this huge porcupine weighing several tons back alive was obviously not something these Messengers, including Yun Hai, could do, not to mention that they had to be on guard against its quill attacks from time to time.
"If the parasitization is successful, six hours... it's only twelve o'clock now, we can still get back to the cave before dark."
Yun Hai looked around and estimated the time in his heart.
The angry howls grew louder and louder. The vertical shaft collapsed under the porcupine's tremendous struggle, and with its head shaking and fangs stabbing wildly, it actually began to dig a hole.
The vertical shaft widened rapidly, and the porcupine was about to turn over.
However, the Messenger Aliens in the pit didn't give it any chance. They quickly deepened the vertical shaft and widened the pit walls where the porcupine was borrowing strength. The more the porcupine struggled, the deeper it sank.
In just one or two minutes, the huge porcupine had sunk nearly six meters deep, and was still sinking.
The Messenger Aliens, who were better at digging holes than it, were almost digging a well.
Yun Hai saw it clearly and was relieved. Sensing the abnormality, he had just turned his head when the wildcat Alien, with a Facehugger wrapped around its back, stood up halfway and instantly arrived at the pit.
The five Messenger Aliens who had gone back earlier followed behind the wildcat Alien and ran over quickly.
Even before the wildcat Alien could stand firm, the Facehugger on its back jumped out impatiently and eagerly burrowed into the small hole that the Messenger Aliens had already dug.
Obviously, it wasn't easy to kiss the porcupine's giant mouth with its fangs. The Facehugger had disappeared into the pit for several minutes, and the porcupine was still struggling violently and howling angrily.
"Pfft!"
Yun Hai couldn't bear to watch any longer. The wildcat Alien actually handed over its tailbone, directly stabbing it into the porcupine's anus. He didn't see much blood flowing out, obviously it had mastered the appropriate force.
A earth-shattering howl rang out, and then, the porcupine's violently struggling huge buttocks quieted down.
"Success!"
Yun Hai clenched his fists in excitement.
Of the thirty Aliens, the Messengers who had been hit by the crocodile lizard's tongue and tail during the previous hunt showed no signs of injury at all.
This time, hunting an even bigger and fiercer porcupine with ranged attack methods,
After thinking for a moment, Yun Hai issued a mental command to the Aliens.
Led by the wildcat Alien, twenty Messengers scattered in the grass, watching out for each other, and quickly rushed into the depths of the back mountain.
There weren't many animals to begin with. There were many animals and beasts in the eighteen peaks of the deep mountains behind Yangshan, but Yangshan had already been developed into a scenic spot, especially this area of the back mountain, where there weren't many animals to begin with. Yun Hai estimated that if he continued to search, he wouldn't find many hosts.
Letting more Aliens autonomously search for hosts, Yun Hai and the other nine Messenger Aliens stayed in place, patiently waiting for the porcupine to wake up.
"Chirp, chirp..."
An unknown insect made a crisp chirping sound, the breeze brushed through the space, the leaves rustled, the flowers danced lightly, and the grass swayed.
The primeval forest-like back mountain returned to tranquility.
Yun Hai quietly sat on a tree branch, enjoying the rare peace of the past few days.
After a long time.
The porcupine, with its butt facing the sky, woke up and quickly struggled again.
"Give it freedom."
Issuing a command to the Messenger Aliens through mental communication, Yun Hai began to climb to higher trees with the nine Messenger Aliens.
Struggling its body violently, the porcupine used its four limbs, fangs, and rough nose together. This time, without the Messenger Aliens causing trouble, it quickly dug a hole horizontally in the vertical shaft and laboriously moved its huge body to crawl into it.
Breathing heavily through its nose, the porcupine crawled out of the trap pit, its huge eyes full of confusion, and its fat butt occasionally trembled, but it completely forgot what had just happened.
Shaking its head and body violently to shake off the soil, the thick-skinned porcupine couldn't remember, so it simply stopped thinking about it and started walking forward again.
"They all say you have a pig brain. It seems that porcupines are still pigs, and this saying is true."
Watching the porcupine limp with its hind legs and not walk far, "thump," it fell into another prepared trap, and Yun Hai couldn't help but grin silently.
"Swoosh, swoosh..."
Although it didn't understand what had happened, the faintly aching butt still made the porcupine maintain a certain level of vigilance. Just as it fell into the trap, because there was no Messenger Alien digging to pull it down, it didn't sink immediately. Its back half of its body tensed up, and several quills were ejected violently.
The speed was no less than that of a bullet, and the quills scattered in all directions. The grass stems were pierced, and the quills that shot into the tree trunks almost completely penetrated them.
Watching the farthest quills shoot out nearly a hundred meters, Yun Hai couldn't help but swallow.
With such sharp quills and such terrifying ejection force, Yun Hai believed that there would definitely be casualties if those Messengers confronted the porcupine head-on.
After all, the most conspicuous and very long smooth skull was very fragile. Compared to their bone-plated bodies, the Alien's head defense was still much worse.
Watching the porcupine struggle out of the pit, shake off the soil again, grunt for a long time, and then walk towards the seemingly normal trap in front, Yun Hai found it even more amusing.