Chapter 223: Investigating the Enemy Situation

The silver-white spaceship lay quietly on the north side of the nameless island, its stern extending into the sea. Inside, it was extremely quiet.

The hull of the spaceship was slightly charred. It was evident how intense the burning had been when the spaceship descended to Earth, and it also showed how sturdy and heat-resistant the metal on the ship's surface was.

Despite such intense burning and violent impact, the spaceship had not suffered significant damage; only the stern of the ship showed some slight breakage.

"If it were based on current human technology, a spaceship in this condition would have been completely shattered," Ye Nan sighed slightly. "Just this sturdy material alone exceeds human technology by at least a hundred years—no, at least two hundred years."

"I wonder if this is a Predator spaceship or a ship from some human civilization in 'Alien 1'." Ye Nan felt a bit of anticipation, looking forward to the arrival of alien technology, which would allow Earth's technology to make another great leap forward.

"Alien technology, huh." Duan Yan looked at the spaceship, listening to Ye Nan's exclamation, and he also let out a sigh. "If the alien civilization that manufactured this spaceship were to attack Earth, we might all be enslaved."

"You underestimate human strength too much." Ye Nan gave Duan Yan a meaningful look. "Do not underestimate human strength. In this world, there are still too many unknown existences. I believe that if this civilization dared to attack Earth, Earth would absolutely not be enslaved; instead, it would develop crazily because of the alien civilization's attack. Technology would skyrocket, and in the end, we would wipe out this civilization."

This world had already seen many people and things that only existed in movies. If one day a guy wearing his underwear on the outside, claiming to be Superman, popped out from some corner, Ye Nan felt he probably wouldn't be the least bit surprised.

"Does humanity have some hidden trump card?" Duan Yan was quite surprised. As a subordinate of Douglas, he had also come into contact with many things that ordinary people could never touch in their entire lives. He believed he had already seen the entirety of the world, but now Ye Nan was telling him: You underestimate this world too much.

If an ordinary person had said this, he wouldn't even have bothered to pay attention; he would have just dismissed the other person as a lunatic. But the person saying this to him was Ye Nan, the president of the ICQ company. This left him no choice but to believe it.

"Could it be that there are existences in this world that I don't know about?" Duan Yan fell into deep thought.

Ye Nan ignored the deep-in-thought Duan Yan and instead looked at the spaceship before him, feeling a bit worried.

He felt he had seemingly underestimated the Alien Queen. According to his original plan, it was to directly kill the Alien Queen with the strength of the three of them. But when he truly stood before the spaceship, he realized how ridiculous he was.

How big was the spaceship? In Ye Nan's original idea, the spaceship was only about a few dozen square meters. Excluding some necessary instruments, it could hold about two or three people. The Alien Queen would lay eggs inside. After laying the eggs, she would throw the Aliens out. Therefore, in his estimation, they only needed to deal with one Alien Queen.

But when he saw this spaceship, he was completely dumbfounded. What "only a few dozen square meters"? It wasn't that at all. Just from what he could see, it was at least several thousand square meters, not to mention the part submerged under the water.

This was entirely because he had used Earth's technology to measure the volume of the spaceship. Of course, this also had to do with the fact that there was no reference object when the satellite originally photographed the spaceship.

"With such a large spaceship, how many Aliens must be inside?" Ye Nan felt a bit depressed. In his mind, a scene suddenly appeared: he, Duan Yan, and Storm Ororo swaggering into the spaceship, wanting to deal with the Alien Queen, only to be stared at by thousands of Aliens simultaneously the moment they entered...

"Fine, even if there aren't thousands of Aliens in here, there are at least hundreds. Who the hell can tell me how to break through the defense of over a hundred Aliens and attack the damn Alien Queen?"

Ye Nan's expression was ugly, and consequently, the expressions of Storm Ororo and Duan Yan also turned ugly. It was true; they could handle one or two Aliens, but facing hundreds, no matter how strong a person was, they couldn't handle it.

"Maybe it's empty inside." Storm Ororo cautiously proposed a hypothesis that even she herself didn't believe. "Why not find a way to test it?"

"That's true." Ye Nan thought it was reasonable. Rather than leaving just like that, it was better to hold onto a glimmer of hope. He slowly raised his right hand and connected with Pan Duola. "Pan Duola, can you detect the situation inside?"

"I can't, Brother. This spaceship is very strange; it shields satellite detection," Pan Duola said.

"Damn it..." Ye Nan cursed under his breath, falling into a dilemma.

Either keep waiting until all the Aliens inside left, or leave now and wait for personnel from other countries to come and engage the Aliens. Once those countries discovered the life form known as Aliens, he could take the opportunity to push the council to use nuclear bombs.

After all, if the Aliens really continued to develop as Ye Nan imagined, using nuclear bombs was the only way out.

Hiss!

The Alien that had been subdued by Ye Nan kept swaying its head back and forth, as if it wanted to go back, but for some unknown reason, it didn't take action.

The hissing sound of the Alien startled Ye Nan. Ye Nan slowly looked at this Alien and made up his mind.

"Duan Yan, can you control it?" Ye Nan pointed at the Alien and said.

"I'll try." Duan Yan hesitated for a moment, his eyes fixed on the Alien's mung bean-sized eyes, and strands of consciousness were transmitted into it.

After waiting for a good while, Duan Yan finally turned around and spat out a mouthful of blood.

"What's wrong?" Storm Ororo reached out and patted Duan Yan's back, smoothing it out for him, while her other hand supported his chest.

"It's nothing, just got hit by the Alien's violent consciousness and almost got stuck inside, unable to come out." Duan Yan shook his head, a hint of joy appearing on his face. "Deep in the Alien's mind, it's all about slaughter. However, I didn't fail the mission; I successfully controlled it."

"That's good. Now, manipulate the Alien to go and investigate the situation inside. If possible, trick all the Aliens inside to come out. As for how to trick them!" Ye Nan was silent for a moment. "Just tell the Alien Queen that many strong individuals have come to the island, and their genes are very powerful."

Ye Nan silently pried open the Alien's mouth, and his finger slashed fiercely across the tip of the Alien's tongue. A drop of blood flowed out and fell into the Alien's mouth.

"For example, this kind of gene."

"Presumably, my genes will pique the Alien Queen's interest. As long as she believes what this Alien says, that will be enough."

Ye Nan believed that his genes would absolutely attract the Alien Queen's attention and would absolutely pique her interest. Unfortunately, all she got was just a drop of blood, which was fundamentally insufficient to breed new Aliens, so Ye Nan wasn't worried that a powerful Alien would be born based on his genes.

"Alright." Duan Yan agreed to Ye Nan's words and manipulated the Alien, rushing toward the spaceship in the distance. "I will manipulate the Alien with all my might. You guys protect me."

After Duan Yan finished speaking, he felt a bit uneasy and added a mental barrier to himself for protection, even though this mental barrier had been proven in practice to be unable to withstand an Alien's attack. Yet, he still added it, just for a little bit of comfort.

The Alien slowly approached the spaceship. Just from the surface, there were no Aliens near the spaceship, and given the wide terrain, it was impossible for there to be an ambush. But Duan Yan still very carefully manipulated the Alien, looking around, wanting to trigger a trap to see if there was an ambush nearby...

"No ambush." Duan Yan said softly, and then manipulated the Alien to pass through the gate and walk into the spaceship.

Once inside, Duan Yan was stunned. The entire spaceship didn't have any metallic feel at all, because everywhere was covered in cocoons, and there were many spider webs.

"Do Aliens spit spider webs?" Duan Yan asked.

"No." Ye Nan answered without hesitation, then added, "If it parasitized the genes of some kind of spider, it would indeed spit spider webs."

The Aliens in the movie didn't spit webs, but according to the Alien's characteristic of plundering genes, they very likely obtained the genes of some kind of spider, thus giving birth to a Spider Alien.

"What's wrong? Is there any situation inside?" Ye Nan asked.

"There are spider webs everywhere inside. Also, I saw many cocoons, cocoons wrapped in spider webs. If I didn't know that there were Aliens inside, I would have thought that some kind of spider had occupied this spaceship." Duan Yan gave a bitter smile and continued to manipulate the Alien forward.

"Spider webs everywhere?" Ye Nan was silent for a moment. Spider webs had strong stickiness. If he wanted to attack the spaceship, the first hurdle would be facing the spider webs.

"Yeah, a lot of spider webs, but I don't know if they are sticky, because the Alien is walking on them and doesn't feel any stickiness at all." Duan Yan stated the feeling of manipulating the Alien.

"Alright, let me think. You continue." Ye Nan said, and then began to ponder.

Spider webs—he didn't know what kind of spider webs they were, but from the current situation, they were quite tricky. If it were outside, he naturally wouldn't be afraid; at worst, he could just burn all the spider webs with a fire. But the problem now was that these spider webs were spread throughout the spaceship. If he used fire, he might accidentally burn some important things inside the spaceship. After all, inside was not outside; the spaceship with a sturdy shell was equally fragile on the inside.

"Damn Aliens, I don't know if they did it unintentionally or intentionally. If it was intentional, that would be too terrifying." Ye Nan thought to himself.

Once a race possessed intelligence, even if only the Queen possessed intelligence, the power generated would be formidable, because this meant that this race had learned schemes and tricks.

Of course, this intelligence referred to intelligence like that of humans, not the simple intelligence like that of a Velociraptor.

Duan Yan continued to manipulate the Alien to move forward. Its movements were heavy, deliberately making the quiet spaceship become noisy. He wanted to confirm the number of Aliens inside through this method.

Soon, many Aliens were startled by the commotion caused by Duan Yan. They stretched out their long heads one after another, and when they saw it was their companion, they all shrank back.

"So many." Duan Yan silently noted the number just now, pondered for a moment, and made up his mind. "I will search every corner first, so that I can remember all the Aliens, without missing a single one."

Thinking and doing, Duan Yan manipulated the Alien and walked toward the depths of the spaceship. (.. Your support is my greatest motivation.) ===== CHAPTER 224 =====