Chapter 3: The Broken House
In the early morning, the rain had stopped.
Now they are sitting on their stone house eating barbecued vegetables while waiting for the water to recede.
Lan Ximeng was eating barbecue while looking at the alien corpse that was pushed under the stone house by the flood. She thought for a moment and said, "Mom, do you think this meat is edible?"
"Snap!" Feeling the burning sensation coming from her head, Lan Ximeng ate the barbecue in her hand obediently and did not dare to act rashly.
On the other side of the universe, on a cargo ship with Hope Research Institute written on it.
"Report to the colonel, the left wing warehouse has been cleared!"
......
"Report, the rear wing warehouse has been cleared!"
"Report, there is an empty culture chamber in the central warehouse!"
The colonel standing in the cockpit heard this, picked up the tightly tied man beside him, and said fiercely: "Where did you put the experimental subject!"
“Bah!” The man being carried had difficulty breathing, but he still said stubbornly, “I won’t tell you. It’s been so long now, it must have started killing people haha! Maybe it has even given birth to several litters of puppies, hahahaha, my greatest invention.”
"Come here, intensify the search!" The colonel threw the man away.
"yes!"
"It's useless! Haha! Just wait to be punished! Hahaha! Running dog of the Federation! Orcs are the masters!" the man laughed wildly.
"You bastard!" The soldier nearby heard this and wanted to step forward and teach the man a lesson.
"Don't waste time here, ask the technicians to crack the operating information of this cargo ship." The colonel looked at the darkness outside the window. There was no star nearby, but there were still a few planets with life.
"yes!"
I hope everything is not too late. Once this monster multiplies, the consequences will be immeasurable.
The focus turns back to the four members of the Lan family.
A day had passed since the alien attack, and the flood receded at noon.
They started another day of farming and hunting.
"It's all that alien's fault. If it hadn't appeared, we wouldn't have to come out today." Lan Ximeng felt very distressed when she thought about the deer that she and her elder brother had hunted with great effort and then it was contaminated by the flood after they had only eaten a little.
"Who can I blame for this? They said it would rain in the next few days, and I told you to put it in the cave, but you didn't go." Lan Yuncheng looked around. After the flood, some fish would be trapped on the ground. This was the only time his family could eat them in the past ten years.
I remember that time when I went down to the river to catch fish and almost became fish food. The huge mouth of the abyss makes me tremble just thinking about it.
"I won't go. I'm afraid of the cold. If it's over 5 meters high, it's like going to Antarctica. I won't go to such a high place."
The two bickered with each other, but no animal was seen along the way.
After the flood, all that was left on the ground was water and a lot of animal footprints.
"Why can't we see any animals this time? They should all be running down to avoid the cold." The two walked for a while and still didn't see any animals. Lan Yuncheng felt something was wrong.
Was he scared away by the alien?
"Brother, look, what animal's footprints are these?" Lan Ximeng asked, pointing at the deep footprints on the ground.
Lan Yuncheng looked down and saw that the footprint was very deep, with only four toes, and was larger than his foot as a boy.
"There are no creatures with four toes near us. It seems that there is only the one from yesterday." Lan Ximeng said slowly.
"This should have been left yesterday. The footprints have been washed away." Lan Yuncheng looked around and found that this was the only relatively intact footprint nearby.
Lan Ximeng nodded, thinking that the alien was similar to the one in the movie except for some details.
"Brother, I remember that the aliens in the movies reproduced by parthenogenesis." Lan Ximeng blinked and looked at Lan Yuncheng who had already stiffened.
"Don't overthink it. It's not such a coincidence." Although he retorted, Lan Yuncheng was also a little worried in his heart.
They have all seen the entire Alien series, including Origins. In addition to parthenogenesis, the Alien also has the terrifying facehugger parasite.
It took no more than five minutes from the time it landed to the time it attacked them, so if it really laid eggs in that short a time, why would it attack them?
They were the smallest and weakest of the edible animals nearby.
But now the animals nearby are nowhere to be seen, which is also a problem.
"Let's look around to see if there are any clues."
The two searched for an entire afternoon, but not only did they find no clues, they didn't even see a single animal.
The two didn't want to go back empty-handed, so they had to find some edible fruits.
Seeing Lan Ximeng coming back dejectedly, Chen Chuntao said while standing on her homemade loom, "Didn't you catch any prey today?"
"No." Lan Ximeng washed the fruit and started eating it with a crunch. It didn't taste good, with little water and a light taste.
"Where's your brother?"
"I went to the fields to look for my dad."
"We're back." Lan Guoqiang's voice came from outside the house, without the mother and daughter noticing.
"Bang." The sound of a heavy object falling to the ground attracted Lan Ximeng out.
When I went out, I saw a fish bigger than a car lying at the door, its eyes were white and its densely packed teeth were shining coldly.
"Wow, Dad, where did this come from?" It was the first time that Lan Ximeng saw such a big fish. The ones she had picked up before were only bigger than humans.
"In the field, this thing got stuck on a tree. It took me a long time to pull it out." Lan Guoqiang wiped the sweat from his head. This thing was so heavy that his waist was almost broken.
He asked his son who was walking behind him to give him a massage.
What my family members called a field was actually a small forest, and the plants there were yellow grains similar to rice, only a little taller and with larger grains.
It is about three stories high and each fruit is as big as a head. Because the pieces are too big, they can only be crushed, otherwise they will be difficult to cook.
Lan Ximeng alone can handle two of them.
"You're in for a treat today. I'll make you some pickled fish." Chen Chuntao, who heard the noise outside, looked at the fish and immediately decided what to do with it.
The four did not eat in the house this time. The aurora would appear on the first night after the flood.
It is such a pleasure to eat delicious food and enjoy the beautiful scenery.
At this time, Lan Yuncheng said in a servile manner: "Sister, do you know how the aurora is formed?"
Lan Ximeng said nonchalantly: "Isn't it just a natural phenomenon?"
"Hehe." Lan Yuncheng said in a mean way, "Those are bugs that are bigger than my head, about the same size as fireflies."
"Huh!" Lan Ximeng's hair stood on end. She was most afraid of insects.
"Bang." Lan Yuncheng was hit hard on the head.
"No one will think you are dumb if you don't speak!" Chen Chuntao slapped her older brother a few more times. The bad boy always did bad things, and she was also afraid of insects.
It was such a beautiful scenery, but now when I think about it, I can see huge bugs flying all over my head.
"Hey, another meteor!" The sharp-eyed Lan Ximeng saw another meteor.
The four of them looked at the shining shooting star.
"Could it be that weird thing again?" Lan Guoqiang swallowed his saliva. He felt that they couldn't stand it again.
"It shouldn't be. This is bigger than the last time, and I can't detect any life." Lan Yuncheng said confidently. He dared to guarantee that there would be no problem this time.
After the words fell, several people looked at the meteor that was getting closer and closer, their cheeks turned red by the flames.
There was no time to react.
With a "bang".
The alien object smashed the four stone houses to pieces.
"Ah! My house!" the four people screamed.
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