wandering planet

Tang Mo turned around and ran out of the room, and ran downstairs.

"They...they are coming!" She yelled at the four people who were squatting on the ground looking at their weapons, "The predators are coming!!!"

At this moment, Pierre knocked open the falsely concealed door of Building Zero and rushed in.

He was sweating, out of breath, and frightened in his eyes.

"Marauders...over our heads."

Just now, under Song Junxing's reminder, he ran to the lifeboat to turn off the communication, but unexpectedly heard the sound of strong wind blowing.Pierre subconsciously raised his head and looked around, and immediately saw the predator ship covering the starry sky.

The shape of this ship was indeed similar to the one they saw in the Sirius planetary belt.It is huge, like a huge rock, slowly falling silently and cautiously.

Pierre's hairs stood on end.He had never seen a Marauder ship this close!

The fear that surged up at this moment made him almost unable to move his legs.But at the next moment, he didn't know where he had the courage to run, ran into the lifeboat, and quickly turned off the communication equipment.

On the way back to building zero, fear followed closely behind him like a giant beast with its claws open.It's dark, it's powerful, and Pierre's ears are filled with the sound of the wind as he sprints.

The looters are coming so fast, they have nothing to set up yet.

Song Junxing immediately made a decision when he got the news: "Hidden!"

Jiang Che and Lin Ni quickly picked up the guns on the ground and carried them on their backs, and ran towards the underground ammunition depot.

There were a lot of things that were moved out, and they couldn't be transported in one trip. Tang Mo and Pierre also hurried forward to help.

It was only on the third trip that Jiang Che realized that Ovid was missing.

He ran to the kitchen to look for Ovid, but there was no one there, and when he returned to the spot, he happened to see Ovid coming in from the outside.

"Hide quickly." Jiang Che urged him, "Where did you go?"

"I'm going to feed the animals on Song Junxing's farm," said Ovid.

He released all the livestock and poultry on the farm, and then sprinkled the ground with food.Chickens, ducks, calves and lambs all ate supper in the dim light of Building Zero.

If marauders attack creatures, those animals are sentinels.

Linney thought that Ovid was out of his mind, but Song Junxing agreed with Ovid's approach: "That's right. If predators use weapons to kill animals, we can collect information about their weapons."

He turned on the surveillance devices located around Building Zero.

Jiang Che went to the underground ammunition depot with a few shotguns on his back, and couldn't help sighing deeply when he walked down the stairs.

"pity."

Ovid immediately understood his words.

"Yes." He regretfully added the part that Jiang Che didn't say, "We haven't had a good meal of beef and mutton yet."

The two walked into the ammunition depot with frustrated expressions, which frightened Tang Mo and Pierre.

A few minutes later, the lights in Building Zero went out.

After the only artificial lighting on the Black Sea disappears, the entire planet is like a sphere that is exceptionally clearly divided: the side illuminated by the star Anubis is bright, and the other side is completely dark.

When the Black Sea was a rogue planet, it couldn't form a rich ecosystem because it didn't have enough constant heat.It wasn't until it was captured by the Anubis galaxy that more diverse forms of life slowly appeared on its surface.

But for a planet, the hundreds of years bestowed by the Anubis galaxy are still too short.

And tonight will be the first time the Black Sea welcomes uninvited guests after it was occupied by the Maasai.

There is a control room in the underground ammunition depot, which could have dispatched all kinds of weapons around Building Zero, including the activation of explosive devices capable of destroying Building Zero.

But now, with ground facilities removed, most of the equipment in the control room is useless.Song Junxing just turned on all the monitoring equipment around Building No. [-] and let the pictures be displayed on the big screen in the control room.

The picture was so dark they had to turn down the lights in the control room.

The Marauder's ship was hovering over the landing pad—more precisely, it was hovering over the lifeboats.

The communication equipment of the lifeboat was turned off, and they were temporarily unable to receive signals.At the same time, the engine of the lifeboat has stopped running, and the temperature is dropping rapidly in the cold night of the Black Sea.

"They hesitated." Song Junxing said, "Although the Black Sea is a big piece of fat, Marseille is under strict supervision, and they have never had the opportunity to touch our piece of fat."

The underground ammunition depot is very strong, even if the looters use infrared rays or temperature detection, they will not be able to find them staying underground.

Song Junxing's explanation made Tang Mo and Jiang Che doubtful.

The two of them are not very clear about the Marseille fleet and the current level of scientific development in Marseille, so they don't quite understand Song Junxing's words: "Infrared rays or temperature detection are all human means. The intelligence of predators is comparable to ours. Maybe they will have more advanced technology than us."

"According to our contact with the predators, there should be no such technology." Song Junxing said, "The Marseille military ship is equipped with a mimic system, which is specially used to deal with predators. When you are not sure of defeating it, turn on the mimetic system, which can shield all biological activities on the military ship, reduce the engine temperature, and at the same time perform a mimetic change in appearance, disguising the military ship as a star without life."

"Did you make it?"

"Successful. Military ships have passed by predators many times near the Sirius belt and the Black Sea, but they have never been found." Song Junxing said.

Tang Mo asked curiously: "Since we encountered it, why didn't we deal with it? Should we hide or run away?"

"I can't beat it." Song Junxing said succinctly, "The ray weapons and hot melt weapons on the Marauder ship can penetrate the shell of the military ship, and only one military ship can't deal with it at all. Even if there are a lot of military ships, you need to use strategies."

Ovid added on the side: "So this time, if we want to deal with the marauders, we don't have to go head-to-head with their ships. Lure the marauders to the ground."

"Yes." Song Junxing said with a smile, "Thank you for releasing these little things."

The looters know that there are resources in the Black Sea, and there is currently no Maasai activity on the Black Sea.They originally lived by plundering resources, and they were definitely not willing to destroy these resources.

"How to lure them to leave the ship?" Tang Mo was very curious, "Even if they want to obtain resources, there is no need to leave the ship at all. Just turn on some equipment or machine, and suck what they want to the ship. Movie That's what the TV said."

Song Junxing wiped his hair and cleared his throat: "It's a long story, this—"

"It has something to do with the shape and habits of the predators." Lin Ni was annoyed by Song Junxing's tone of speech, and interrupted him decisively.

The Marseille Science Agency has conducted in-depth research on the marauders based on the interactions between the Maasai and the marauders over the years.

The term "predator" does not just refer to a specific group of creatures on a specific planet—it is a cosmic creature that cannot rely on production to obtain or transform resources, but must obtain resources from the outside through violent means Collectively.

Not all planets that can be born with living things can have a complete and rich ecological circle.

The conditions for the formation of an ecosphere are very complex. Suitable temperature, moisture, various resources, and the interaction between organisms are inseparable from the ecosphere.

Although the planet where the predators are located can produce creatures like "predators", due to its own cold or barrenness, it cannot support the survival of the predators.

This forced the predators to leave their own planet and seek new resources outside.

This "hunting" method gave predators a strong imitation ability and predatory intelligence.In the star field where predators are active, the ecology of each planet will be severely damaged. After occupying a new planet, the predators will imitate the form and lifestyle of the inhabitants of the original planet and carry out activities on this planet.

Since "predator" is a general term, predators living on different planets often have different forms.

Linney glanced at the screen.The predator's ships remained silent. The chickens, ducks, cattle, and sheep around Building Zero had finished their supper and began to wander around. Some of them had already found a suitable place to sleep.

He took out a piece of paper and explained it to Jiang Che and Tang Mo seriously.

"Originally, the Science Department wanted to classify the predators in detail, but later found that it was too complicated, not easy to memorize, and not convenient for teaching, so they were roughly divided into three categories."

Jiang Che expressed his understanding of the idea of ​​the Science Department.Anyway, the Science Department has always followed the two principles of easy memory and easy teaching when naming planets or other things.

Linney drew three patterns on the paper.

"The first type, we call it humanoid predators." He pointed to the first stick figure pattern.

Humanoid predators have an outline similar to that of a human, but there are slight differences in facial features, the number of heads, the number of fingers and even hands and feet, whether they have tails or other growths.

"The second type, we call it non-human predators." Linney drew a circle on the second pattern, "Non-human predators are the most numerous, liquid, solid-liquid mixture, or weird shapes solid state, it’s all possible.”

Tang Mo and Jiang Che looked at the third pattern together.

The third pattern is very peculiar.It has a large, round body, but on top of that body, there is a human head and hands, making the odd pattern look like a poorly made tumbler.

"The third type, the most complicated one, we call it the hybrid type," Linney said. "We haven't seen much of the third type."

Jiang Che looked at the three patterns, and a strange idea came to his mind.

"Linney...I have an idea."

He pointed to the second non-humanoid marauder.

"Hybrid predators, are non-humanoid predators trying to transform into—"

Jiang Che's finger pointed to the first pattern, a humanoid predator.

"—a transitional form attempting to transform into a humanoid predator?"

So there are very few hybrid predators.Because the Marauders are humanoid if not inhuman.The hybrids that the Maasai sometimes see are because the Marauders are in the process of changing, and when the transformation is complete, they will become humanoid Marauders.

Lin Ni, Song Junxing, Ovid, and Pierre, the four who had received the basic education of the Marseille Academy or the Fleet, were all dumbfounded.

"You just said that predators have a very powerful imitation ability, so they are imitating humans..." Jiang Che stopped suddenly.

Everyone looked at him.

If predators were mimicking humans, when and where did they come into contact with humans?

Jiang Che's face darkened. Among the ships that disappeared during the "Great Retreat", did the marauders capture other ships besides the Phoenix?

Just as he was thinking, Tang Mo, who had been paying attention to the screen, suddenly raised his hand: "Something has come down!!"

In the pitch-black picture, there is a shimmering object slowly descending from under the Marauder ship.