As the sun set in the west, the densely shaded forest began to darken.
"Swish, swish..."
Running swiftly through the forest, Yunhai and thirty aliens trailed the porcupine from a short distance.
Clearly sensing the abnormality within its body, the porcupine began to run madly, charging aggressively and recklessly.
Stone forests standing tall in the grass and thick trees were of no concern. When the porcupine's chest began to heave slightly, it went completely berserk.
Its strong hind legs supported its massive body, and the porcupine frantically rammed its chest against a rock.
Watching this scene from afar, Yunhai couldn't help but feel a little worried.
However, seeing that a large group of aliens behind him were calmly standing in place, with no intention of stopping the porcupine, he felt slightly relieved.
"Bang, bang, bang..."
Unable to reach its chest with its tusks, and unable to touch it with its thick limbs, the porcupine could only try to eliminate the monster gestating within it by ramming itself, frantically ramming for half the night...
"Puchi!"
The sound of flesh tearing rang out, and the porcupine, which had just taken a few steps back and was about to continue ramming, let out a miserable howl as it raised its head.
A large hole had been torn open in its chest, and blood gushed out like a spring.
Its massive body collapsed with a "thump," and the porcupine's body trembled slightly before quickly losing the breath of life.
In the cave, Yunhai mostly used the unique senses of the aliens to observe things. Now, witnessing this bloody scene with his own eyes, he did not feel any sense of cruelty.
This was an apocalyptic world where even insects could eat people, and vines enjoyed drinking blood and eating flesh. Yunhai, who was allied with the aliens, was destined to walk a path paved with blood and minced meat.
"Just maintain your original heart, and that's enough!"
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You've already become a humanoid alien, what original heart are you talking about 💔
Stopping his musings, Yunhai began to patiently wait for the alien larvae to feed.
As larvae growing from embryos, the aliens had accumulated enough energy within their bodies. Even if they didn't eat anything after birth, they could still rapidly grow, molt, and complete their first evolution within a day.
Of course, if they consumed more food to replenish their energy during this process, the speed would be even faster.
"Rustle, rustle..."
More insects in the grass were attracted by the smell of blood, and a large number of them crawled over. In the unique alien senses, the ground and underground were filled with dense white dots. Afraid that something unexpected might happen, Yunhai issued a mental command to the alien larvae that were still feeding.
Quickly crawling out of the porcupine's body, covered in blood and fragments of the host's internal organs, the porcupine alien larva was much larger than ordinary alien larvae.
The body characteristics were still obvious. Only after the alien larva completed its first molting evolution within a day and entered its growth period would it reveal the unique body created by absorbing the host's genes.
With a slight flick of its tailbone, the alien larva quickly crawled onto the back of the lynx alien, its short limbs tightly gripping the gaps in the bone plates.
More than a dozen messengers received the mental command and swarmed forward. Their tail tips cut and their claws tore, quickly dismembering the porcupine's corpse, which was already covered with insects.
"Return!"
No particularly terrifying giant mutated insects appeared, which made Yunhai slightly surprised. He issued a mental command, and all the aliens followed behind him, quickly heading towards the top of the mountain.
On the way back, Yunhai was constantly exploring the surrounding environment and any unusual movements.
Apart from some insects that had not mutated much or had not mutated at all still active in the mountains, there were almost no larger or more terrifying insects.
As for the strange insects that had appeared that day, Yunhai couldn't figure out whether they were the result of some insect on Earth mutating, or whether they were extraterrestrial creatures that had landed on Earth like the aliens.
At least since that day, no traces of strange insects had appeared near Yangshan.
Soon, they reached the top of the mountain. Feeling the porcupine quills that the aliens had collected and tied together with grass stems on his back, Yunhai stopped and looked at the barbecue restaurant opened by Si Yan and a few other thugs in the distance.
Perhaps because they had eaten all the survivors in the hotel, the gnarled vines no longer showed any tendency to extend towards the top of the mountain. The houses south of the hotel seemed to be safe.
After hesitating for a moment, Yunhai had the messenger aliens carrying the chunks of porcupine meat return to the cave, while the lynx alien and five messengers stayed outside.
Looking at his small restaurant, which had been completely submerged by vines, he led two messengers towards Si Yan's barbecue restaurant.
The door of the restaurant was wide open, and it was dark inside. After Yunhai ran in, he went straight to Si Yan's bedroom.
The air was filled with the smell of decay, and the tables and chairs were scattered everywhere. The shop, which had been luxuriously decorated a few days ago, now looked like a haunted house in the deep mountains, filled with an eerie atmosphere.
Unknown small insects were disturbed by Yunhai and the messenger aliens and crawled around. Kicking open the locked door with one foot, Yunhai ran in and looked around. He bent down to look under the bed, and then pulled out a narrow leather case.
Pressing the hidden button to open the case, Yunhai saw the disassembled crossbow and a handful of crossbow bolts inside. A smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, and he closed the case and left the room.
Walking to the lobby, more messengers who had received his mental command ran in, jumped into the front desk, and swept away the bundles of beer, drinks, and mineral water that were placed inside.
Yunhai didn't let go of the small warehouse in the back either. Several bags of charcoal, including a box of apples that hadn't deteriorated, bagged salt, and some seasonings, were all carried away by the messengers.
Fortunately, there were many aliens. After confirming that they couldn't find anything useful, the group of looters left in a mighty manner and disappeared into the dark cave.
Yunhai had known for a long time that Si Yan had a steel crossbow. In fact, he had seen Si Yan secretly hunting in the back mountain more than once.
He had played with his father's air gun when he was a child, but it was later confiscated. Yunhai had never played with such high-end goods as crossbows. Today's porcupine quill volley attack reminded him of this, so he naturally couldn't let it go.
The group marched mightily towards the cave. The sky had already darkened. The moment Yunhai stepped into the cave, he suddenly felt an abnormality and stopped to look back.
In the distant mountains, patches of faint light faintly appeared. When the blood-red setting sun fell behind the mountains a moment later, and the world suddenly darkened, hundreds of millions of light spots appeared in front of Yunhai.
Red, blue, purple...
Colorful light spots bloomed in the night sky. From a distance, the large ones were like the sun and moon, and the small ones were like stars.
Among these light clusters and spots, in the unique perspective of the aliens, some even emitted ribbon-like rays of light, which were everywhere in the vast sky.
The naked eye could only see the colorful light clusters and spots, but those hazy ribbon-like rays of light, wandering above the earth and below the sky, created a dreamlike scene that captivated Yunhai, who had always loved to be close to nature.
It wasn't just plants that were glowing.
Standing on the top of the mountain, Yunhai's vision could see further. He could see those moving light spots in the sky or on the ground, thousands of meters away, which were obviously glowing mutated insects or animals and birds.
"The glowing ones are living things, and those wandering in space are some kind of unknown radiation-like magnetic field or electromagnetic wave emitted by plants?"
After a long while, he withdrew his gaze from the extraordinarily beautiful night sky and picked off a flower in front of him that was emitting a faint white light.
As soon as the stem of the flower was broken, the white light disappeared.
"Life is all the same fragile."
Throwing the flower on the ground, Yunhai composed himself and turned around to lead the aliens into the cave.
The route was already clear in his mind, and the speed was extremely fast. It didn't take long for Yunhai to return to the cave where the Queen resided.
Five crocodile lizards had already been parasitized by facehuggers. This time, there was no need to spend effort using fungal carpets to trap them. Several remaining messengers pierced the heads and tails of the hosts with their tail tips, directly nailing them to the ground, facing upwards.
There were also fifteen miscellaneous hosts, including mutated bamboo rats, mutated slow lorises, and mutated rabbits, all of similar size. The largest mutated rabbit was about the size of a small calf.
These were all mutated small animals, not even wild beasts. They were the results of the lynx alien leading the messenger aliens while Yunhai was guarding the porcupine.
All of them had been parasitized, and on the fungal carpet that the alien Queen's ovipositor was aimed at, there was still a patch of alien eggs waiting to be parasitized.
"Hosts are always a problem. There are still too few animals in the back mountain..."
The joy that the birth of the porcupine alien brought to Yunhai was instantly diluted.
The Queen would lay another forty-eight alien eggs tomorrow, but today, in half a day, they had only found twenty or so hosts. Yunhai felt a headache just thinking about it.
"Begin a comprehensive exploration of all parts of the cave. Tomorrow, start trying to advance towards the Eighteen Peaks behind Yangshan."
"I just don't know how dangerous the deep mountains are. The messenger aliens are still too weak. If they encounter giant mutated beasts, I'm afraid they won't be able to gain an advantage."
The more he thought about it, the more his head ached. Yunhai gave orders to the twenty messengers parasitized by giant rats and squirrels.
Not knowing what fatigue was, and not needing to rest, the aliens' energy intake was very high, and their consumption was very low. The energy accumulated in their bodies was enough for them to continuously fight and attack for a considerable period of time without eating anything.
Yunhai, who had merged with the alien Overlord, although not as abnormal as the aliens, had tried not eating or drinking for the past few days, and he hadn't even noticed any discomfort.
Receiving the mental command, twenty messengers either quickly climbed up the holes in the cave walls or darted into the many passages in the darkness, quickly disappearing from sight.
In fact, Yunhai still controlled the hunting range of these aliens in his mental command, limiting them to Yangshan and the mountains to the south.
The Eighteen Peaks behind Yangshan, which stretched endlessly, and the tropical rainforests deeper in, were absolutely forbidden areas in his mental command.
The number of aliens was still too small, and coupled with the earth-shattering roar of beasts he heard in the deep mountains on the second day of the virus outbreak, Yunhai didn't want the small number of messengers to take risks.
At least not now.
Otherwise, with the aliens' abilities, Yunhai believed that no terrain or topography could stop their footsteps. He even believed that if they had wings, with their abnormal adaptation and evolution abilities, would they even fly out of the atmosphere and soar through the universe and starry sky.