There is no way to hold a decent funeral. In Hengguang, far from home, they can only choose to be cremated, and then scatter their ashes on this land.
The smoke and dust of the explosion in the sky rose to the upper level, and the foggy sky, which did not clear for a long time, seemed to be lamenting the departure of these people.
Despite their grief over the loss of their comrades, their mission is not yet complete. There is no clue about closing the canopy passage, and because of their explosion, there is a scorched earth nearby, and there are no edible plants. Although Liu Peiqi brought some seeds of food to make them feel full. Still that problem, the amount of salt is limited and their time is running out.
Fu Shiwu, Tang Xuhai, Liu Mian, Wei Li, four people, they studied around the light column for a long time without any clue.
Because of the big explosion, no aliens have set foot here for a long time, so they don't have to be distracted.
These days, they try to throw things in, and they also try to throw things in with ropes, and then pull them out. Of course, the result was not ideal, because the power inside the channel, the end that entered the beam of light was torn to shreds by the energy inside.
There were also people who volunteered to try it out, but were ordered to forbid such a dangerous attempt.
"No clue at all!" Liu Hong scratched his hair irritably.
Tang Xuhai sat on the side calmly, watching Fu Shiwu and Wen Zhaoming, Miao Jia and the others squatting near the beam of light and doing various attempts patiently.
Liu Mian walked to his side and asked, "How long can the salt we carry last?"
Tang Xuhai said: "Save some food, you can eat for a month and a half."
Liu Mian looked back and said, "If we can't find a way to install the bomb today, we'll go northwest."
Tang Xuhai frowned and said, "There is no specific goal, just a direction..."
Liu Mian said, "Trust Qin Ruo, he won't go wrong."
Tang Xuhai was silent for a while, then nodded.
During dinner in the evening, Tang Xuhai told Liu Mian's decision.
Fu Shiwu listened and nodded and said, "We can only hope in the direction Qin Ruo said before his death."
Wei Li sat beside the fire and said, "Don't worry too much about the salt issue, not to mention that there are reserves on the space shuttle. Just say that if we really can't solve it in a short time, we have to fight for a long time. This planet is so big, it should be There is salt. Salt mines, saline-alkali land, and finally, let’s go to the beach to dry a batch of salt.”
Salt is one problem. Another problem is that they can temporarily only eat plants and not eat meat, but it is impossible to eat meat all the time, right? In addition to small birds, there are only insects on Hengguang Star. Do you want to eat alien meat? Thinking of this, Wei Li's whole body felt bad.
Wen Zhaoming thought farther and said, "If you can't find salt on land, you should consider going to the seaside to dry it as soon as possible. This place is inland, so we can't walk there on foot, and we need to drive a space shuttle."
Their force is stronger than Zhou Qi and the others. In addition, the last large lair took an empty road, and it took 20 days to arrive here. If the return schedule is deducted, then their time will only be two about fifteen days.
Thinking about it like this, it suddenly made people anxious.
Fu Shiwu said, "Let's go tomorrow!"
Early the next morning, they packed their backpacks and headed northwest.
Leaving the vicinity of the canopy passage that became a piece of scorched earth, they finally saw the edge of the explosion. The power of the energy bomb explosion was quite large, and the impact of the explosion did not completely disappear until it reached one-third of the large nest.
The aliens in the large lair were also affected, with all the aliens shrinking into the remaining two-thirds.
When this change made them pass again, they clearly felt that the density of the fifth-level aliens had increased. However, having faced the Alien Emperor, fighting against the fifth-level alien again gave them more confidence and higher fighting spirit.
Without anyone's instigation, the people from the task force rushed up directly. This time, it took three hours to dig through the large lair, carrying flying devices on their backs. They didn't find a place to rest until they were far away and no level-5 aliens caught up.
After a silent break, drinking water and eating to replenish the energy potion, Bai Qifeng said, "Why do I think these fifth-level aliens are getting more and more fierce?"
Liu Mian chewed the jerky and said, "I haven't seen anyone before, and I haven't had any natural enemies for a long time. They just don't get used to it for a while. When they get acquainted with people, maybe we will be chased into the sky by then. escaped."
Tang Xuhai said in agreement: "The aliens in these large nests are different from those that go out separately, and they don't roam around like the ones on Earth. But when they find out the existence of our 'prey', they will definitely run out to attack us. ."
Fu Shiwu stared straight at one place, his face full of awe, silently chewing the food. Tang Xuhai knew that he was acting out of the sky, so he touched Fu Shiwu who was sitting beside him and said, "What did you think of?"
Fu Shiwu blinked and realized that because of Tang Xuhai's words, everyone else was looking at him. Fu Shiwu pushed his glasses and said, "I just have an idea..."
Liu Mian said with interest, "Tell me."
Fu Shiwu sorted out his thoughts and said: "The grading of these aliens is very obvious, and even aliens with different levels have different body structures. This difference is not caused by different births. You see the ones we saw just hatched from eggs. The aliens that come out are all exactly the same. Dr. Zuo said before that the evolutionary ability of aliens is very strong, and the genes of this evolution, every alien has…”
The people listening to him were confused and didn't understand what Fu Shiwu wanted to express.
Fu Shiwu organized the language and said: "Let's put it this way, when there were no two-level aliens before, the first-level aliens evolved into the second-level aliens, the third-level aliens evolved into the fourth-level aliens, and the fourth-level aliens will evolve into The sixth-level alien. So it seems that the fifth-level alien does not know what kind of alien evolved."
Tang Xuhai understood what he meant: "You mean, now that the Alien Emperor is dead, there will be a new sixth-level alien that evolves into a seventh-level alien?!"
Liu Mianruo said with understanding: "It seems that the fifth-level aliens are more aggressive, and it is also because the alien emperor who suppressed them near their lair died, and they became more active!"
Fu Shiwu shook his head and said, "No, this evolution will not be completed so quickly. I mean, this planet is so big, will there be an evolved alien emperor?"
The meat in Zhen Zi's hand dried out, and Miao Jia said with a dry smile, "Captain, this joke is not funny at all!"
Fu Shiwu said seriously, "I'm not kidding."
Miao Jia wailed, because it was not a joke, it was more scary!
Liu Hong swallowed and said, "Isn't it called the Alien Emperor? Isn't the emperor all the best, should there be only one?"
"The Alien Emperor is the name given to it by human beings." Fu Shiwu said calmly: "It is correct to say that it is the leader of several large alien dens, and it rules these large alien dens nearby, as if it were an ancient one on the earth. It's like an empire made up of several princes."
Tang Xuhai nodded and said, "The abnormity is very dense on this plain. But this planet is not only the plain, there are probably other places where the abnormity gathers on other continental plates, and there may also be others. Alien King."
Shi Wei of the Xun group touched his face and said, "Even if there is, as long as it's not necessary, we don't need to fight it, right?"
No one spoke, because no one knew whether they would encounter another alien gathering place if they continued to walk.
Fortunately, for the time being, they don't have to consider this issue. As they get farther and farther away from the beam of light, the size of the alien lair gradually decreases, and even the lair gradually disappears.
Entering the mountain range where there are only nested aliens, the number of aliens they encounter has gradually decreased.
After walking for another day, Miao Jia said impatiently, "We have been walking for more than ten days and have found nothing. If we continue like this, the salt will not be enough."
On the way, they did not find the existence of saline-alkali land or salt mines, because there were no large mammals, and they could not find soil containing salt according to the habits of animals. The emotions of the team members were obviously floating. Although they were not afraid of death, it was worth dying to die, at least in a vigorous battle with aliens. Lack of salt will reduce their combat effectiveness, and if they are defeated and die for this reason, they will be very unwilling.
Fu Shiwu looked at Tang Xuhai helplessly, then asked Liu Mian, "Are we going back?"
Liu Mian stood there, thought for a while, and said, "There are very few aliens around here, so let's reduce the salt intake to two-thirds from today, so we can walk for another three days." Mian glanced at the team members who were hesitant to say anything and said, "I know what you are worried about, don't worry, when the salt intake returns to normal, the amount should be enough for us to go back."
Wei Li also said: "Anyway, we have already verified this distance. When we go back, we can directly use the flying device to cover half of the distance, so that we don't need to save salt."
Liu Mian's eyes lit up, and he couldn't help hugging him and kissing him fiercely. Wei Li glared at him angrily.
Liu Mian laughed loudly: "Okay! Just do it!"
After walking for another three days, the weather became more and more dry, and the wind and sand gradually increased. They crossed the mountains with rich vegetation and entered a Gobi that was completely rocky.
The barrenness that fills the eyes, sparse plants grow on the ground, and all of them are huge rocky mountains at a glance.
Fu Shiwu's perception started scanning from time to time, for fear of missing some clues. At this time, their confidence was actually insufficient.
However, Qin Ruo lived up to their trust after all. At the end of his perception, a spectacular scene appeared in Fu Shiwu's mind.
Fu Shiwu widened his eyes in disbelief and said, "There is something!!"
"What?" The others looked at him hopefully.
Fu Shiwu raised his hand and pointed at a huge rocky mountain several thousand meters away, and said loudly, "There is something on that mountain wall!!"
Liu Mian said decisively: "Fly over!!"
Everyone started the flying device one after another and flew towards the mountain. At this time, a group of alien aliens found them and rushed towards them.
The excited team members did not hesitate to use the weapons in their hands, and threw the few grenades directly. They were slaughtering the people who were flying in the sky and running on the ground. They didn't even stumble upon their footsteps. The corpses were left on the ground, and they rushed under the stone mountain.
Stopping in front of the huge stone mountain, they were stunned and stared at the mountain wall with their mouths open.
"This is... what?" Miao Jia rubbed her eyes desperately.
Zhen Zi said in a dreamy tone, "...Rocks, murals?!!"
Fu Shiwu pushed his eyes, slowly landed on the ground and raised his head to look at the huge rock carvings on the high and flat stone wall in front of him.
Yes, what appeared in front of them turned out to be a huge, tens of meters of super-large rock carving murals!
This is incredible. How can they not be shocked by the sudden appearance of traces left by man-made or other intelligent creatures on this alien-shaped planet.
I don't know how long this large fresco has existed. After the weather, it seems to be a little incomplete, but the pictures on these carved images can still be seen.
Fu Shiwu was the first to calm down. He turned around and said to the others, "Take a photo of this and send it to everyone's storage."
All the equipment on them has been carefully designed, and none of them will take up space for nothing. On the wristband two fingers wide on the wrist, there is a small screen that displays the time, as well as complex data such as north-south, coordinates, temperature, humidity, atmospheric pressure, air quality, and so on. At the same time, there is also a storage here, which can back up some important data through wireless transmission.
Fu Shiwu's meaning is obvious, everyone should store it just in case, to ensure that no matter who can go back alive in the end, they can bring this image data back.
After taking a picture from various angles with the camera device on his body and passing it on to everyone, Fu Shiwu and the others had the intention to carefully study what the mural was about.
Because the engraved pictures were so weathered that some parts even fell off completely, they had to make up their minds according to the trend of the images while looking at them.
The more Fu Shiwu looked at it, the more shocked it became. This turned out to be the last message left by the human beings of Hengguang Star. It was the real owner of Hengguang Star, not those alien aliens who occupied the magpie's nest!
The amount of information was so large that Fu Shiwu was stunned for a long time before he could slowly digest the content.
The whole picture scroll is told from the beginning, and the whole thing is completely told through a continuous picture scroll, including the rise and fall and the demise of Hengguang Star People. The Hengguang stars in the image are slender, they have limbs and facial features similar to humans, and the pictures show that their technology is very developed. Because of the difference in energy structure, this makes their technological development appear in a completely different direction from that of people on Earth.
The picture shows that they have built a very complex device. After the device is activated, a beam of light appears that reaches the sky. This device is specially used to find new planets suitable for their survival. By the way, they can also visit other creatures that also have intelligence. Of course, if there are no intelligent creatures, they are happy to develop a colony planet.
The beam of light opened up two different worlds, but they did not know at the time that it was not the door of a new world, but a door of disaster that brought nightmares and catastrophe!
At that time, the Hengguang Stars not only had to pass through the passage, but even came back through the device, so they also built this kind of complex structure on the opposite side. But what happened next was that it was not their compatriots who came back through this open door, but an endless stream of aliens! !
There is no indication on the picture scroll what kind of accident happened at that time that the device on Hengguang Star was completely captured by aliens. At the beginning, the Hengguang Stars resisted stubbornly and completely closed the channel. However, at this time, the aliens had already penetrated deep into the mountains. The extermination of Hengguangxing was not complete. As a result, the aliens succeeded in building their nests and began to reproduce offspring. The huge population became the ration for the aliens to attack everywhere.
With sufficient food, the ability of aliens to breed is very terrifying. Alien nests are almost blooming everywhere. No matter how you kill them, you can't kill them. Instead, the stars of Hengguang are too tired to cope, and the city has suffered huge damage.
I don't know how long this tug of war went on, the stars of Hengguang fought less and less, and there were more and more aliens, and finally the figure of the alien emperor finally appeared.
Under the cover of thousands of flying aliens, the Alien Emperor who could launch gas bombs completely destroyed the capital of the Hengguang Stars, the country was completely shattered, and people fled.
And the group of people who left this mural is the last group of humans on Hengguang Star.
They stood in front of the mural and watched for a long time, until it was dark before anyone moved.
They started to set fire to cook, sat around the bonfire, and couldn't help discussing the contents of the mural.
"Isn't this a typical introduction of wolves into the house? It feels like a lesson from the Huo Department's plan!" Miao Jia said, "Although the development of Hengguangxing's human technology is not the same as ours, it is not too bad. It seems that they finally used a large scale. The aliens have not been cleaned up with all the lethal weapons. I am so worried now, what if we follow the Earth?"
Fu Shiwu said solemnly, "So we should bring this image back. As long as we have this information, Huo Xi's claim will be completely bankrupt."
Tang Xuhai tilted his head and said: "Don't look at this picture, the progress is very fast, but they should have gone through many years from closing the channel, to destroying the failed aliens, starting to build nests, and then to the emergence of the alien emperor."
Liu Hong said in confusion: "I just don't understand it. It's not bad to look at those Hengguang stars. How could they lose to Alien?"
Fu Shiwu pushed his glasses and said, "Asexual reproduction has defeated the viviparous species with too long a pregnancy. This is a victory for the species."
As soon as these words landed, everyone around him suddenly looked at him, and couldn't help but worship him, not knowing it.
Fu Shiwu was embarrassed for a moment, then coughed lightly and said, "Dr. Zuo also told me this. Alien reproduction is asexual reproduction, and every ovulation is at least hundreds. In terms of reproduction form, reproduction speed, and number, they are all different. Stronger than us humans. And although the aliens are not as smart as humans as a whole, their individual advantages are too great, and the entire species is suppressed. On the food chain, we are just their food."
Wen Zhaoming touched his chin and said: "This is the species invasion of Chiguoguo, just like the rabbits in Australia. There is no such species in this place. The original biological chain destroyed after the entry of foreign species has caused natural imbalance. Alien is also In this way, here they eat a lot and breed fast, and the native humans lose to the characteristics of the species, and the ecology of Hengguang Star completely presents a one-sided abnormal development."
Fu Shiwu said lonely: "So, is it too late for us to close the channel now?"
Tang Xuhai took him into his arms, patted his head and said, "It's not too late! Now the fourth-level aliens have just started to build their nests, and they have not evolved into sixth-level aliens. We are different from the Hengguang people, except for the development of technology, we are now There are also abilities! As long as you kill all the aliens before the alien emperor appears, you will be able to defeat them!"
The author has something to say: This chapter opens up a question as to why aliens, which apparently have not developed a civilization, come to Earth through high-tech things like the Sky Curtain Channel.
It's just that the stars of Hengguang have committed their own sins, and they have also spread to other planets.