Chapter 296 Facehugger

[After entering the pyramid ruins, the task force members immediately launched a comprehensive investigation along the way, recording everything they saw and sending it back to the storage unit via video so that more researchers can conduct research.]

[“Through the murals and texts in the pyramids, we know that aliens have existed since ancient times. We just don’t know how humans in ancient times fought against aliens.”]

[“Logically speaking, the power of the aliens should be enough to massacre the ancient humans. The ancient aliens did not seem to do so. Perhaps in ancient times, humans had some power to fight against the aliens.”]

[“We will do other research on this matter.”]

[“Now we still have to focus on the alien.”]

[“When the mobile task force was investigating deep into the pyramid, they were attacked by aliens. There were quite a lot of them, about a dozen or so. Fortunately, the task force members were equipped with laser weapons and electromagnetic rail weapons. The power of these two weapons was enough to penetrate the bodies of the aliens. In addition, the tactical armor worn by the task force was very strong and could withstand the bombardment of tanks head-on. The concentrated acid of the aliens was difficult to melt.”]

[“But despite this strong firepower, there were still casualties. At the beginning, the task force members were able to kill the aliens head-on with firepower. Later, when the aliens realized the strong firepower of the task force, they used assassination tactics.”]

[“They tried every possible means to leave the task force members alone, or attacked them when they were not paying attention, which resulted in casualties on the mobile task force side.”]

[“And what’s terrifying is that the aliens tried to seize the task force’s laser weapons and attack them in return.”]

[“There was actually an alien that did this. It used a surprise attack to knock a member of the task force away, then it grabbed the electromagnetic railgun and shot through the bodies of several members of the task force. Fortunately, the others focused their fire to kill it in time, otherwise the consequences would be unimaginable.”]

[“This greatly increases the difficulty of fighting the aliens, and also makes the task force members more cautious. They must hold their weapons tightly and never let them fall into the hands of the aliens. Once a member dies, the weapons must either be recovered or destroyed.”]

[“As the task force continued to go deeper, they collected more and more strokes and information. The researchers of the containment society worked day and night, trying their best to decipher the ancient information and obtain more data.”]

[“During this period, the task force members encountered a more powerful species that looked significantly different from other aliens. They were more powerful and more cunning, and their bodies were covered with sulfuric acid. That is to say, their attacks were not only extremely powerful, but also corrosive with concentrated acid. Perhaps they were the further development of the aliens. Their appearance made the exploration of the task force members more dangerous, and casualties began to increase. We had to send more support.”]

[“Later, the task force members came to a strange room. There were many eggs the size of footballs in this room. We suspected that they were alien eggs.”]

[“So we first arranged for the task force members to bring all these eggs back for research.”]

"When they brought the eggs back and handed them over to the researchers, something pretty horrible happened."

[“The eggs shattered one after another, and many strange bugs jumped out and hugged the heads of those researchers.”]

[“This strange phenomenon immediately caused the battle-hardened task force members to open fire without hesitation. Their marksmanship was excellent, and they killed the bugs from the side without harming the researchers.”][“However, after examination, it was found that the researchers were already dead. The cause of death was suffocation due to the destruction of the throat and the influx of sulfuric acid into the body.”]

[“These bugs have very long tails, which are enough to wrap around a person’s neck and break it. It’s very disgusting.”]

[“We felt something was wrong, so we immediately recovered the bodies of the researchers and began to study them. According to X-rays, we found that worm eggs were present in their bodies, and that the eggs were developing.”]

[“These studies immediately made us understand what was going on. The worms were injecting eggs into the researchers, perhaps to cultivate something. So we immediately took all the corpses to the laboratory for observation, and at the same time studied the ancient paintings and the remaining eggs, hoping to get the answer.”]

[“Later, we learned from the ancient writing that the insects were called facehuggers, a type of alien. Their natural duty is to sacrifice themselves and inject their eggs into humans who get close to them, even if they will be killed.”]

[“When the face huggers deposit their eggs into the human body, they will die. This is their mission.”]

[“We captured several live facehuggers and studied their characteristics. We found out that they have the ability to sense the body temperature of living things. They usually hide in their eggs and wait for a living thing to approach. When they detect the body temperature of an animal approaching, they will run out of the eggs, hug the animal’s face, and insert their tails with syringes deep into the animal’s throat to inject eggs. They will then kill the animal and turn the entire body into nutrients for the eggs.”]

[“Among them, their favorites are mammals, especially humans, perhaps because they are more suitable for breeding aliens.”]

[“As for why it didn’t appear during the initial task force, it might be because the task force members at that time were wearing armor and couldn’t sense body temperature.”]

[“After a few hours, the insect eggs in the bodies of the researchers took shape one after another, giving birth to alien larvae, which dug a hole in the bodies and ran out.”]

[“After the shelter captured the young, they immediately started an experiment and divided them into two groups. One group was placed in another place and given animal food, while the other group was given nothing to eat for comparative observation.”]

[“The group with food grew very fast, gradually growing into the powerful aliens we know, while those without food naturally could not grow. In order to get food, they actually hurt their own kind and used them as food. After a fierce fight, only one alien was left alive. It ate the corpses of its own kind and finally grew successfully.”]

[“Now we know how the alien grows, but there is still one problem that has not been solved, that is, where the alien eggs come from.”]

[“According to our research, the aliens at this stage do not have any reproductive organs at all and cannot lay eggs. This means that they have aliens that specialize in laying eggs, or they can be said to be mothers.”]

[“This makes us realize that there are even more terrifying monsters in the ruins of this pyramid. If we continue to go deeper, we may really encounter the mother body.”]

(End of this chapter)