Chapter 152: On the Application of the Aliens

  Before heading to Earth, Alex had already discussed the modification of the Aliens with Miruune and developed a general pn.

  In the Alien series, the creatures followed a distinct lifecycle: the Alien Queen id eggs, facehuggers emerged from the eggs, attacked hosts, and birthed new Aliens, which then expahe species.

  However, in Miruune’s opinion, this lifecycle rimitive and ineffit. While Aliens could absorb the superieic traits of their hosts, it was fually different from the Zerg. The Zerg actively collected and assimited superienes, while Aliens passively ied them. It was almost a game of ce—what the host was like, the Alien would reflect. Despite their high reproductive rate, Aliens didn’t retaiihas across geions.

  This approach might work well during the early stages of a species, dispersing risks and improving through host gene assimition, but if they couldn’t ie superior traits permaly, it was ultimately meaningless.

  It was like a puter that painstakingly installs optimized software, only to lose everything when you switch to a new device. This level of geic efficy wasn’t even worth Miruune’s attention.

  So, Alex and Miruune decided to optimize the Aliens’ inal geic tempte. They eliminated unnecessary elements like facehuggers and the Alien Queen, fog solely on the core Alien form.

  Alex’s requirements for the Aliens were stealth, assassination, and explosive impact. He wahem to act like a virus—initially dormant, spreading silently, and theing into a deadly pgue to sweep everything away. Uhe adjustments made by Miruune and Lurana, the Aliens underwent signifit ges.

  First, the Aliens’ forms were fixed into their bat variant—the fully mature, jet-b seen in Alien vs. Predator. They would no longer ge based on their host, a step toward fully iing them into the Zerg swarm. Sed, the dorsal tubes on their backs were modified into sharp, spike-like structures, simir to those of Hydralisks. This allowed the Aliens not only to kill at cle but also to uneak attacks from a distance.

  The Aliens’ most terrifying trait was their reproductive capability, and Miruuook it to an even deadlier level. inally, Aliens relied on eggs te with host genes for optimization. With the Zerg’s modifications, this dependency was eliminated, and the facehugger became obsolete. Instead, the modified Aliens gained a far more horrifying ability: they ied a geic virus into their enemies during attacks. Whether through scratches, bites, or stabs, the virus would ihe victim.

  Onfected, the virus rapidly ed the host’s nutrients, regardless of whether the host was dead or alive. This meant anyone injured by an Alien would iably bee a host for new Aliens, leading to the birth of more creatures.

  When Alex first heard Miruune’s proposal, he couldn’t help but shudder. If the Aliens had possessed this capability from the beginning, humanity and the predators would have been wiped out long ago, making the Alien series unnecessary.

  It was no wohe Zerg had bee the overlords of the universe, while the Aliens were relegated to being side characters in movies… such was their fate.

  “...!!”

  While Alex was lost in thought, the dimly lit hall suddenly grew brighter. Electric currents surged along the s binding the Alien Queen, striking her body. Seeing this, Alex immediately refocused and turned his gaze forward.

  “Roar…!!”

  The Alien Quee out a frenzied roar. Her genes had been pletely overhauled by Lurana, leaving her devoid of her inal strength. Her massive body trembled violently as new lifeforms began to take shape within her uhe stimution of the electric currents.

  “---!!---!!”

  Realizing her power was fading, the Aliehrashed wildly, trying to break free, but the s used by the predators were far to. Soon, with a final, pierg wail, the Alien Queen vulsed and colpsed, motionless. Moments ter, her massive ovipositor burst open with a wet sound, and Alex watched as three rvae gleefully leapt out, scurrying around the Queen’s corpse.

  “Only three?”

  Frowning, Alex g Lurana beside him.

  “This experimental subject’s strength was too weak to sustain more rvae.”

  That made sehe Alien Queen had been frozen here for over a tury without feeding. She’d been forced to y eggs earlier, likely depleting her pletely.

  “Begin incubation.”

  Shrugging, Alex didn’t dwell on it. Using psionic power, he had already detected three predators leaving their mothership and arriving on the icy pin. If everythi as expected, these predators were about to begirial.

  Perfect. They would make excelle subjects for the swarm-modified Aliens.

  Humans are often brave out of ignorance.

  Meanwhile, the exploration team sponsored by Weynd Industries had also ehe pyramid, seeking to uhe “mysteries of human history.” If they had known terrifying monsters were lying in wait to hunt them, or that invisible aliens po cim their heads as trophies, they might have been a little more apprehensive.

  Unfortunately, they remained blissfully unaware.

  “Ikaros, seal the doors.”

  Watg the group of explorers heading toward the hall, Alex raised an eyebrow and immediately issued a and to Ikaros. In the movie, the group triggered the trial by entering the hall and taking the predator warriors’ ons. However, Alex’s current goal was to test the strength of his swarm-modified Aliens against the predator warriors. A predator without its full gear wasn’t a good test subject, so he wasn’t about to let these thrill-seekers grab the predators’ ons.

  “Yes, Master.”

  Hearing Alex’s and, Ikaros, stationed on the ship, extended her hand and lightly tapped on the virtual keyboard before her.

  “Boom…!”

  “What’s going on? What happehe sudden rumbling and tremors startled the explorers. Moments ter, they saw the stone door of the hall rapidly desding.

  “Quick, we o get ihe woman leading the group rushed toward the closing stone door, trying to make it through before it shut pletely. Unfortunately, her speed couldn’t match the door’s dest. By the time she reached it, the massive door smmed shut with a loud boom.

  “Damn it!”Frustrated, the ounded her fist against the sealed door. The other stists, still shaken, began nervously looking around.

  “What’s going on? What just happened?”

  “This is it for today.”Ign their panic, the woman shouted firmly and poi her watch.

  “We o head back to the camp immediately. It’s obvious this pce isn’t safe. If we get trapped here, we’re in serious trouble!”

  Hearing her words, the group hesitated, uainty written all over their faces. Then, they turoward an elderly man walking at the ter of the group. In the movie, it was in this hall that they found the predator warriors’ ons, kig off their self-destructive journey. But now, unaware of what y ahead, they didn’t strongly oppose the woman’s and.

  “Fine… let’s head back for now…”

  Uhe group’s expet gaze, the old man pondered for a moment before nodding. He too seemed to believe staying here was dangerous. Relieved by his decision, the woman took out her radio and began tag aeam stationed elsewhere.

  “This is Team A. We’re heading bap. What’s your status? Please respond.”

  “This is Team B! We’re trapped in here!”

  “What?”Everyone was shocked by the reply over the radio.

  “Is anyone injured?”

  “No, but this damn pce… figure out a way to get us out of here! Wait, something’s moving… Damn it, what is that? Watch out!”

  Bang! Bang!

  “Team B? Team B?!”

  Hearing the screams and gunfire over the radio, the explorers were thrown into chaos. Rushing to the sacrificial chamber, they found it sealed by a massive stone door, which they were powerless to open.

  Out of options, they decided to return to the camp, retrieve explosives, and bst the door open. After reag this decision, the group hurriedly left the pyramid, pletely unaware that three translut figures brushed past them unnoticed.

  As expected.

  Watg through his psionic vision, Alex nodded. It seemed that for the three predator warriors, pleting their trial was still the top priority. In the movie, even after their oaken, the predators refrained from attag Weynd himself, an elderly man. Now that the ons had not been taken, the predators clearly had no reason to bother the humans.

  Before long, under Alex’s watchful gaze, the predators moved through the passageways and arrived at the hall. They easily unsealed the door, opehe stone coffin inside, arieved their ons.

  At that moment, the trial officially began.

  (The chapter ends.)

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