Chapter 562 "Anthropologist"
Li Wenxi knew that there was a battle going on on the ground, and she wanted to go back to help Xu Xin and the others.
"Go back..." Xu Ying hesitated.
"Since this place has been exposed, then we don't need to be careful and afraid of being discovered down there, right?" Li Wenxi turned the watch on her wrist.
This watch has completely lost its ability to communicate since it came down.
"Well... Having said that, I always feel that this matter is a bit strange." Xu Ying frowned and thought.
"Weird? What do you mean..."
"I suspect that the human strongholds in the underground world have not been completely discovered."
"...Huh?" Li Wenxi was a little confused, "What do you mean? Not completely discovered? You mean, the other party only discovered part of the human underground stronghold? It's unlikely, human strongholds are not connected together as a whole. Film? Moreover, this is the center of the human base, right? You have discovered those mutated humans here, isn’t that..."
Doesn't that mean that the underground human base has been completely explored?
"Ah, that's not what I meant when I said it was not completely discovered." Xu Ying waved her hands hurriedly, "I mean, the fact that there is a base for human survivors in the underground world is not widely known among the alien invaders. Spread it around and let them all know.”
"...I don't understand..." Li Wenxi was a little confused, "Why do you think so?"
"Well, it's normal that you don't understand. After all, you don't know the attitude of those alien invaders towards humans." Thinking of this, Xu Ying sighed softly.
"Attitude? What do you mean?"
"Well..." Xu Ying tapped her lips with her index finger and gave an example, "Are you afraid of cockroaches?"
"...cockroach?" Li Wenxi blinked, "...a little bit."
"What if they crawl on you?"
"...That's simply scarier than mutant creatures!" Li Wenxi thought about that scene, suddenly trembled, and shook her head violently.
"Those alien invaders also see us this way." Xu Ying spread her hands and said, "Some of them are even afraid of us. They will scream loudly and call us monsters when they see us."
"...Huh?" Li Wenxi's eyes widened, "Why? We are much weaker than them, and we can't hurt them."
"Can cockroaches hurt you?"
"Ah this..."
"So."
Xu Ying walked to the window, lay on the window edge and looked out.
"If the fact that we have a base in the underground world is known to their entire group, they will not let hundreds of millions of people survive. They have now regarded the earth as their backyard, and you will let hundreds of millions of cockroaches survive. Thriving in your backyard? ”
"Of course it won't happen. I can't stand it at all. What if I crawl home..."
"This should be what they think." Xu Ying turned and leaned against the window sill. "If they knew that there was such a huge human base in the underground world with a population of hundreds of millions, would they let it go?"
"Then what you mean is that they just...certain individuals discovered this place?" Li Wenxi understood Xu Ying's thoughts.
"That's what I mean." Xu Ying nodded, "One of them discovered this place, but maybe because he was very interested in this place, he did not report it to the superiors. Instead, he sent people down to investigate privately."
"And there is such a thing...an entomologist who likes cockroaches?" Li Wenxi half-joked.
"Don't tell me, it's really possible." Xu Ying looked at her seriously and said, "Even your farce of survivors could be caused by this 'entomologist' or 'anthropologist' The ghost.”
"Are you saying that the collective survival activities of the survivors were also carried out privately by this 'entomologist'?" Li Wenxi asked in surprise.
"That's not the case." Xu Ying walked to the bed and sat down. "It is impossible not to be discovered on the ground, but it may be a research project of it or its team, which was implemented after convincing other monsters. Plan. But because they are still disgusted with humans, the survivor plan is carried out in another hemisphere very far away from them."
"Is this all your guess, or is there already evidence?" Li Wenxi asked.
"Oh, although there is no evidence, this guess is reasonable, right?" Xu Ying lay on the bed and sighed, "If this is the case, maybe our situation is not so bad."
"Hey, do you think this so-called 'entomologist' can communicate with us?" Li Wenxi suddenly had a whim, "Maybe it does this because it likes humans?"
"It's unlikely that I'll like you... But I have the idea of communicating with the other person. Since the other person can tolerate the existence of hundreds of millions of humans, he should also be able to tolerate the communication of humans."
With that said, she sat up again: "So, don't think about going up now, sister-in-law. If this is the case, if you go up and other intruders find out, it will be really cool."< br>
"Well, okay, okay." Li Wenxi was a little disappointed.
Xu Ying raised her chin, looked out the window and muttered to herself: "What should I do? Do you want to go over there to explore? No... let's search here first. If we can catch those mutated humans who came down to explore, Come out, maybe you can learn something.”
Li Wenxi thought for a while and then asked: "Um, how many alien invaders are there?"
"Quantity? Hmm..." Xu Ying thought for a moment and said, "I really don't know how many alien invaders there are in the world now, but at that time, the number of alien invaders resident on the earth was about ...nearly a thousand.”
"Nearly a thousand? Well... how should I put it, a little less than expected?" Li Wenxi tilted her head, "Didn't you say that they regard the earth as a very important colony? In the end, it was...nearly a thousand Are they huge? ”
"Huge? No, no, actually, it's about the same size as us humans on Earth."
"Then..."
Nearly a thousand individuals about the same size as humans can colonize this huge planet...?
"Nearly a thousand, that's the number when the world finally collapsed. In fact, there were only a few hundred who invaded the earth in the first place."
Xu Ying explained: "When they first came to this planet, they actually just wanted to plunder resources in the short term. When the planet's resources useful to them are exhausted, they will leave."
"So when we were first captured, we were told that these invaders would only stay on the earth for about ten years at most before leaving. So at that time, our group of captives was divided into three factions. ”
“One group believes that after they leave, we survivors can stay and rebuild our homes.
Another group believes that they will take us away to conquer the entire universe with them.
The last group believes that after they have used us, they will slaughter us when they leave. ”
"But you also know the result. They don't know why, and they suddenly stayed."
"I think they want to obtain the unique bloodline of giant beasts on this planet to strengthen their interstellar plundering army. Their subsequent actions are indeed centered around the bloodline of giant beasts. But I always feel... It’s not that simple.”
With doubts in Xu Ying's eyes, she turned to look out the window again: "Is the bloodline of giant beasts really that important in the face of high-tech weapons? What about the huge changes in the earth? The size of the earth has expanded a thousand times. This is Can the blood of giant beasts extracted from fossils be comparable?”
"Perhaps..." Li Wenxi guessed, "The bloodline of giant beasts is indeed their goal, but it is just one of their goals."
"Well, I think so too." Xu Ying looked up at the crystal stones scattered above the dome, "The energy contained in these crystal stones is extremely huge, and these things may also be one of their purposes."
She then shook her head: "Forget it, who can guess their purpose... Where did I just talk about? Ah, the number of these alien invaders."
"At that time, we were three hundred years after the disaster, and the number of alien invaders increased from less than a hundred to more than a thousand. But now it is a thousand years later..."
Li Wenxi took over: "The number of them is likely to be more. For example, tens of thousands?"
"Well, it's very possible." Xu Ying nodded, "Tens of thousands. Tens of thousands..."
After repeating this sentence, she suddenly smiled bitterly.
"That's not a lot."
"...If you saw what they looked like, you wouldn't think so." As she said that, Xu Ying showed a look of extreme disgust on her face, "Their looks are really too random. Put them in the cold." Takeji, that's all a monster..."
Cambrian period, an era of life on earth 500 million years ago.
Because all things are still in the initial exploration period of life, unlike modern organisms that have experienced a long period of natural selection, all Cambrian organisms have a very random appearance.
Put the life of the Cambrian period into the present, and enlarge the individuals to human size, and the magical appearance is comparable to that of the Cthulhu monster.
Even in the Cambrian period, it was a monster, what on earth would it look like...
To be honest, Li Wenxi was a little curious: "So what does it look like?"
"This... you should go and see it yourself, sister-in-law, you will come into contact with it in the future." Xu Ying said helplessly, "Their individual differences are not small, each one looks a little different, and I can't even describe it if you ask me. ”
"That's it." Li Wenxi became even more curious.
"Moreover, those alien invaders are not only very powerful individually and almost impossible to kill, but most importantly, their means of controlling other life forms are so powerful that one individual is an endless army. What kind of mutated creatures are there? I’ll say it again.”
"Indeed..." Li Wenxi nodded.
Xu Ying was a little troubled: "So, the number of those monsters doesn't need to be too many at all. Hundreds are enough to rule this planet. If there are tens of thousands, then it's really... Brother, he really left me It’s a mess..."
"Well..." Li Wenxi now feels more and more that it is really powerless to take back this planet.
"Okay, okay, you should rest quickly. I...I'll go outside and see if I can run into those lackeys again." Xu Ying stood up.
"You've been tired all day, right? Don't you want to rest?"
"I'm not tired, I'm just getting sleepy again. Sister-in-law, do you have any more oranges? Share some with me."
"Okay."
After getting the orange, Xu Ying immediately sank and disappeared into the purple-black vortex.
Li Wenxi lay on the bed, thinking about the things she had just talked with Xu Ying, and finally felt tired.
"I wonder how Xu Xin and the others are doing up there..."
Thinking this, she closed her eyes.
……
On the ground, Shi Wanyun had already told Xu Xin everything that happened next.
After the monster left, Shi Wanyun calmed down in the hall for a few minutes. Before he could leave the hall, mature woman No. 5 came up again.
In order to prevent No. 5 from seeing her gaffe, Shi Wanyun quickly wiped the tears that appeared in the corner of her eyes with her sleeves due to fear.
As a result, the skin on her face immediately peeled off.
Although Shi Wanyun did not explain in detail, Xu Xin always felt that Shi Wanyun might have been even more out of character at that time than when he saw the monster.
Maybe they even screamed.
No. 5 was quite familiar with this scene, so he comforted her immediately and took her to the bathroom.
In the bathroom, she told No. 5 the monster, the "master"'s request.
No. 5 had already received the news through some unknown channel and immediately asked her to go to her room after taking a shower.
At Xu Xin's request, Shi Wanyun used memory transfer to show him what happened after the bath.
After that, things are simple.
No. 5 told Shi Wanyun that she would be transported to an underground space, where she would meet her target Xu Xin.
"After your target reaches there, it will begin to recover. And your mission is to complete your mission before it recovers completely. If you can't do it, stay with the target and look for another opportunity. If you can't complete it, don't come back. ”
No. 5's voice was a little cold, and then his tone softened again: "These are the master's exact words. I didn't expect that you would be sent out on a mission just after you arrived. Be careful out there."
Her instructions made Shi Wanyun feel warm in his heart.
But thinking of what that monster looked like, her face turned pale again.
"What's wrong? Are you still feeling uncomfortable?"
"Hmm... the effect of the medicine is too strong, I still need to recover." Shi Wanyun forced a smile.
Now, she has almost no idea of staying here.
"...Although I don't think you will do this, I still want to remind you." Mature Woman No. 5's voice became colder, "Although the master's appearance is indeed scary, you must not try to betray the master. You have to know, The Survivor Plan was initiated by the Master. ”
"What?" Shi Wanyun immediately raised his head in surprise.
"Yes, it is the master who sent us to this world, so it can also determine our life or death."
...That weird thing is really the owner of that mysterious voice? !
No...probably not. The mysterious voice spoke very smoothly and was completely different from the monster.
"The master just told me that if you choose to betray, he will not only turn you into an ugly monster, but also kill all the fifth batch of survivors."
The mature woman looked at her: "But you won't betray, right? There's nothing good about betrayal."
"Well, of course." Shi Wanyun smiled softly, "There are humans in the city, which is my destination."
They have all been brainwashed.
That kind of terrifying monster may just use humans as experimental props.
In its dense eyes, humans are probably just livestock. What should she do?
(End of chapter)