Yunhai needed rest, but the aliens did not.
On the night of their return from hunting, clearly aware of the host crisis facing the swarm, all the aliens stayed up all night, continuing to hunt.
Most of them were still mutated bamboo rats, as they were originally the most abundant animals in the back mountain.
Perhaps frightened by the mutated green snakes, or for other reasons, they rarely came out during the day, but they were still active in the back mountain area at night.
Led by the lynx alien, the messenger aliens continuously brought back mutated bamboo rats one after another.
The ferocious mutated bamboo rats had no power to resist in front of the Queen, and even the messengers were far beyond their ability to contend with.
Throughout the entire night, fifty messenger aliens brought back more than two hundred mutated bamboo rats and fifteen mutated slow lorises, finally temporarily resolving the awkward situation where the facehuggers had no hosts to get intimate with.
Slow lorises are also called honey monkeys. They have large eyes and move slowly.
They spend most of the day resting in dense canopies or tree holes. They are even too lazy to look up when caught, so Yunhai's hometown people are used to calling them slow lorises.
Originally, they were between thirty and forty centimeters in size, but now the mutated slow lorises are more than one meter long.
Apart from their forelimbs looking a little more developed, even after being captured by the aliens, they still didn't change their nature. After a brief period of fear, they actually huddled together and fell asleep on the soft, warm fungal carpet, completely unaware of the impending disaster.
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Yunhai looked at these guys with a wry smile, feeling a little sorry for the facehuggers.
They weren't good hosts at all, and Yunhai didn't know how the slow lorises had mutated and survived.
The three slow loris aliens that were parasitized yesterday had already completed their molting and growth.
Their bodies showed no characteristics of the host at all, except that their forelimbs were slightly thicker. Obviously, for the alien embryos, such a clumsy host had no excellent genes for them to absorb.
Of course, Yunhai didn't know if they had absorbed any recessive genes.
He was also sure that the aliens wouldn't absorb their "laziness" genes. Otherwise, as far as slow lorises were concerned, Yunhai would only turn them into food for the Queen, rather than hosts for the aliens.
With joy comes sorrow. Yunhai estimated that the host problem wouldn't be a big deal as more aliens arrived.
What worried him was that the mutation of organisms had not stopped.
The mutated bamboo rats were particularly obvious.
Their body length was already close to one meter, and small keratinized scales had grown on their long tails and bodies. The fur on the surface of the mutated bamboo rats' bodies showed signs of fading.
Their pointed ears looked like two thin horns, and sharp fangs protruded from their upper palate, like eerie and terrifying vampires.
After observing them carefully for a long time, Yunhai confirmed that the messengers who captured them had not been injured by the bamboo rats' re-mutation. He felt a little relieved, but his heart was still heavy.
He couldn't imagine what would happen if bamboo rats, including more rodent creatures, with their astonishing reproductive abilities, all mutated into creatures with hard scales and armor, sharp teeth and claws. How would humans face their enormous numbers?
In comparison, the changes in mutated wild rabbits were not very large. The alien that parasitized it did not show very obvious body characteristics after molting and growing.
Their body length was close to one and a half meters. When standing upright, plus their significantly stronger hind limbs, the wild rabbit alien could reach a height of two and a half meters.
Their jumping power was amazing, several times stronger than ordinary messengers.
However, compared to the lynx alien, the wild rabbit alien was a bit inferior. After all, as far as their hosts were concerned, rabbits could only run away when they saw a lynx.
Of course, all the aliens combined couldn't compare to the joy that the porcupine alien brought to Yunhai.
To be precise, it was ecstasy.
The porcupine alien, which had completed its first molting evolution, was undoubtedly the true first Praetorian Alien.
Its body length was nearly three meters, and its height was nearly five meters when standing upright on its hind limbs, almost the same size as the Queen.
Its limbs were not as short as the porcupine host's, obviously because the alien didn't think the host's genes were excellent.
The other body characteristics of the porcupine alien were similar to those of ordinary aliens, except that two metalized sharp giant teeth grew on the sides of its huge snout.
With its exceptionally thick and powerful limbs, plus its nearly half-meter-long sharp teeth, Yunhai believed that if it ran at full speed, plus the momentum, it could pierce and overturn a tank.
This was only one aspect. What excited Yunhai the most was that the surface of the porcupine alien's body, from its back to its tail vertebrae, was covered with small bone spurs.
The base of the spurs was about the thickness of a human little finger, and the tip was as thin as a needle.
There were hundreds of them densely packed on its back. Yunhai, who had trypophobia, not only didn't feel any discomfort, but was actually delighted to see it.
Yunhai tried to have the porcupine alien eject its bone spurs to see their power. Without even needing to inhale, a bone spur shot out from the porcupine alien's back and pierced into the stone wall like lightning, half of it disappearing inside.
It could fire single shots or in groups. The porcupine alien could control the number of spurs ejected. This discovery made Yunhai even happier.
Naturally, he couldn't let go of the opportunity to absorb such an ability. However, as Yunhai expected, he couldn't extract any abilities from the porcupine alien.
Even its strength hadn't increased by half.
This made Yunhai, who originally thought that the porcupine alien's strength was even above the Queen's, certain that even if it had only parasitized an old dog, the porcupine alien's strength was still not as good as the alien Queen's.
As for bone spur ejection, that was just Yunhai's momentary whim.
After all, he had a human body rather than an alien body, which restricted his xenomorphic evolution.
While the other aliens were busy, the porcupine alien couldn't be idle either, so Yunhai sent it to find hosts, somewhat anticipating what kind of mutated creatures it could capture.
Looking around, Yunhai wasn't sure how big the cave they were currently inhabiting was.
When the experts first came to explore, they said that Yangshan and the Eighteen Peaks were originally at the bottom of the sea tens of millions of years ago, and finally surfaced on the continent due to volcanic eruptions and plate movements.
The winding caves were also formed at that time, occupying almost the entire Yangshan mountain. He had even heard people say that some of the passages in the cave led to an underground river.
It was precisely because the cave's terrain was too complex and the terrain was dangerous that the scenic spot could only be shelved, as tourists could easily get lost or have accidents inside, and the development funds were not in place for a while.
In fact, when the apocalypse first came, Yunhai had planned to take refuge in the cave.
However, he couldn't be sure if there were more terrifying mutated creatures in the cave, and he also didn't want the existence of the alien Queen to be discovered, so he finally gave up the idea.
Liu Ming and others naturally knew about the cave, perhaps with the same idea, or perhaps the endless stream of mutated creatures had scared them out of their wits, and they didn't dare to leave the hotel half a step.
Until the hotel was breached by the swarm...
The messenger aliens who went out hunting continuously sent back hosts, but the porcupine and lynx aliens were nowhere to be seen.
Fortunately, the faint mental connection still existed, at least confirming that they were still alive, so Yunhai was relieved.
One of the two messengers exploring the cave returned with a mutated bamboo rat, and at the same time brought Yunhai an unexpected piece of information.
Through mental communication, even though the aliens who were only good at killing had difficulty describing the situation in their simple minds, Yunhai still understood.
The alien searching the cave not only found a passage leading to the outside, but also found humans like him.
In fact, in the mental communication of that messenger, it described creatures with a similar aura to Yunhai.
Its simple mind was a little confused as to why the supreme ruler of the swarm would issue an order not to attack creatures with the same aura as him unless they were actively provoked.
Why did the ruler have the same aura as those creatures that looked delicious, but were very weak?
However, the ruler was above all else. This absolute submission originating from genes was not something a small messenger could question.
The Queen, dripping with sweat, laid eggs while eating the empty eggs that the messengers brought to her. Compared to the days when she was all alone, she was much more comfortable.
More aliens went in and out, bringing back hosts and handing them over to their comrades who stayed behind, and then ran out tirelessly.
Confirming that nothing would go wrong if he left, Yunhai grabbed his backpack and followed the messenger to find the humans it mentioned.
He guessed it was Da Tou and the others. Yunhai didn't know what the outside world was like now due to the breakdown of communications, but in the apocalyptic world of biological mutation, he didn't think anyone would seek their own death by running to the mountains and forests with more creatures.
Following the passage in the cave all the way down, Yunhai and the messenger passed through countless holes, sometimes climbing upwards, and sometimes sliding down along nearly right-angled cliff terrain.
After running for a long time, Yunhai estimated that at the current speed, they would have run down Yangshan if they were outside. Finally, an abnormality appeared ahead.