Nonhuman Evolution Guide

As soon as Zhang Lin entered the cargo hold containing the protozoa jars, he felt a similar aura.

He didn't even react, his body reacted before his mind.A few seconds later, he realized that he had released pheromone, telling the other party that he was approaching, and the other party actually responded.

The news from the pheromone was tentative, cautious and ignorant.

These are all worms infected with the protozoa, and they can barely be regarded as the same origin as the alien—but Zhang Lin doesn't intend to recognize relatives.Just kidding, humans share 80.00% of their genes with cows. Will humans recognize their relatives with cows?

The mutated worm showed no hostility.Although Zhang Lin was drilled out of a human's chest, and had stolen many human genes, the part that belonged to the protoform always dominated.No matter how he smelled, he didn't look like some kind of food or parasitic host.

At this time, the biologists and geologists from the Prometheus expedition team hadn't arrived in the cargo hold yet, so Zhang Lin didn't have to worry about anything. Didn't know what would happen if he touched that thing - nothing should have happened, but he didn't want to take any chances.

In "Prometheus", from the beginning to the end, this group of no-name expeditions did not think about studying this liquid in detail, but set their sights on any object with a "humanoid" standard, such as the engineer heads of people, such as the engineers themselves.

Except maybe the artificial intelligence David.

After thinking about it, Zhang Lin couldn't remember any more detailed description of the protozoa in the film besides the word "organic".But this thing is obviously the source of everything, so he wants to take the original body back.

The viscous liquid on the ground was flowing slowly, making an extremely subtle sound, which made Zhang Lin unable to bear the illusion that it was the sound of molecular friction.But in fact, it is just that the frozen and refrigerated protozoa swelled and overflowed due to the change of the environment.

This cargo hold is very large, and the murals around it are exquisitely carved, but they have been slightly damaged due to the entry of oxygen. In the middle of the cargo hold is a huge sculpture of a human head.

Zhang Lin has already begun to doubt Sheldon's theory. Even if it is true that the relief in the middle of the mural is alien, what happened to the engineer's 3D photo sticker in the middle of the hall?

Putting his head so big and placing it in the center... Anyway, he felt that the brain circuits of the engineers were a little weird.

Zhang Lin nimbly jumped onto the wall, and the protruding part of the mural just provided him with the conditions to crawl, and he could easily avoid the sticky protozoa all over the ground.

He observed the head in the center from the side, and suddenly felt that this thing was full of contradictions.

It's like... some kind of tribute.

Zhang Lin felt that his brain was about to split open again... Since engineers and humans basically have the same face, he was not sure whether it was an engineer's head or a human's head.

But one thing he was sure of was that the xenomorph really liked the primate gray matter.In this regard, they coincide with the hobbies of zombies.

Zhang Lin endured his doubts and crawled to the rear of the cargo hold, which was the center of the mural.

He came here to confirm what Sheldon said, to see if the so-called "alien in the mural" existed.He doesn't think Sheldon's hypothesis is correct, but if there is an alien in the mural, it can at least prove that this species has existed for at least 2000 years.

It can also be proved that they have a group of their kind in distant places.

Zhang Lin made up a lot of brainstorming and assumed a lot before, but everything must be based on the condition that the alien is indeed a superior species, otherwise it is just a pure fantasy.

If you have too many fantasies, you will get sick.

The closer he got to the central statue, the more tense Zhang Lin felt.This emotion even spread out through pheromones, causing a few small alienated worms to probe their brains.

Zhang Lin spent too much time with humans, and he even forgot that "emotional contagion" is very easy to happen in his own group, after all, humans cannot receive his pheromones.

Before he looked up to observe the mural, he suddenly noticed something.

How did he "see" things in the absence of light in the cargo hall?Although the alien has no eyes, it also has photoreceptors. With the infrared receiver, it can be more sensitive than humans.And even if there is only a little light, they can capture it.

In many times when the light is insufficient and there are no living things to emit heat, Zhang Lin relies on the feedback of this little light to "see" things.

But it stands to reason that there should be no light in the spaceship.

Since aliens can also see through light sensitivity, just like humans, when the light is very dim, it will also feel that things are very blurry, just like Zhang Lin's current situation.He could only vaguely see the huge head in the center of the cargo hold, and he had to get closer to see the mural in the center clearly.

He hadn't even realized it before.

When he was consciously looking for a light source, an inconspicuous thing caught his attention.Right below the mural, there is an olive-shaped crystal-like thing placed obliquely, the whole body is emerald green, and it seems that there is a faint light that cannot be observed by human eyes emanating from it.

Zhang Lin approached this thing slowly, circled it a few times, but didn't touch it.

This angle is a bit strange... If it's just for decoration, it doesn't seem necessary to inlay it obliquely.The slope seems to be able to turn it around, like some kind of joystick.

What would happen if he actually pushed the thing down?

Considering that there were still four trembling homeboys staying on the side of the spaceship, but at least they came from afar for him, he tried his best to restrain the idea of ​​giving it a try.

Restraint, at least temporarily.

He sprinted up the wall, the rough skin of his claws scraping against the slightly weathered fresco relief.This is indeed an alien, and based on what he saw, it seems that it should be the queen of the alien.The fan-shaped bone helmet on the head is the queen's symbol, and even the appendages around the neck are carved out.

It's just that Zhang Lin felt that the posture of the alien queen was a bit strange, just like everything on this spaceship, there was a strange sense of disobedience.

The alien has never assumed such a posture with its forelimbs spread out to the sides and its lower limbs hanging straight down.This is a human pose, like Jesus on the cross.

There are mysteries everywhere, and Zhang Lin feels that his IQ is not enough.

However, there is another emerald-colored olive-shaped crystal object on top of the Queen's head, which is a little smaller than the one under the mural, and the inlay angle is normal, so it should be just a decoration.

Zhang Lin hesitated for a moment, but still climbed up a bit, approaching the emerald stone egg.

He looked at it solemnly for a long time, and concluded that no matter what material it is, it should be worth a lot of money.

It's a pity that money is useless to him now.

Zhang Lin still didn't touch this thing, he just watched it closely, breathing on it, giving this beautiful little thing a little wet feeling, and it seemed that the light had increased a little.

The next second he felt dizzy.

His first thought was that he was wearing it again, but then realized he wasn't.

That stone wall was a very common cheat mechanism. After being triggered, it flipped up and down and threw Zhang Lin to the other side of the stone wall.

...a lot of dead bodies.

What's going on with this classic suspense-solving rhythm, what's wrong with passing through a stone wall and seeing a lot of mummies of engineers!

The dead body doesn't affect Zhang Lin, but the problem is that he seems to be trapped. It's unscientific. No one here can save him. How could such a plot happen!

He raised his head and glanced at the place where he fell. Like the opposite side, it was the relief of the Alien Queen. The round stone on it seemed to pass through the stone wall to reach both ends.

It's so simple that it doesn't look like suspense... Zhang Lin climbed up again with doubts, thinking about what he did to this emerald stone egg just now-he really didn't seem to do anything, except breathe into it.

Breathe.

He sprayed a little saliva on the emerald stone egg with embarrassment, and sure enough, the stone wall turned over again, throwing him into the cargo hold just now.

It is impossible to have such a trap in the world, how can there be a trap that can be triggered by spitting!

But the fact is that it is irrefutable.

Just when Zhang Lin was about to spray it back to try again, there was noise and light outside, as if the geologists and biologists from the Prometheus expedition team had finally found this way.

Zhang Lin quietly hid himself.

"I... I seem to have heard some movement here just now." A younger man said in a voice.

"Don't talk nonsense," another deep voice replied wheezingly, "the captain said that the signs of life are on the west side, let's go east—it's impossible for there to be a... alien robot or something, how could there be a sound."

The young man chuckled, as if deliberately convincing himself.

With Zhang Lin's memory, he couldn't tell which of them was which.But he knew very well that these two people were going to die here, and his alienated worm friends would have sex here.

And he didn't even have the idea of ​​saving people.

There was a faint thought in his heart that he couldn't change the original historical process—otherwise, there might be no future aliens.From a personal point of view, even if this is just a parallel world, it is definitely not what he wants to happen.

But again, it's two lives.

Zhang Lin stared closely at the actions of the two of them in the dark, something wavered in his heart.

The two voices were getting closer and closer, as if something had passed through his mind suddenly——Zhang Lin reminded himself that those were indeed two lives, but he was a strange shape.