Chapter 266: The Battle of the Aliens (7)

Luo Qi had too many things on his mind; half were serious matters, and half were wild thoughts he couldn't restrain. Even in the world of Yajian, he felt dizzy and muddled. Subconsciously, he opened the Alien's memory bank, only to find himself plunging headlong into an emerald dream.

Everywhere he looked was green, and not just green, but a high-saturation green.

Luo Qi, possessing thousands of brains, still froze for a moment before he could soften the impact of the colors on him. He was in the bug's memory; he should have realized that an Alien's visual range was far better than a human's. It seemed that 256*256 RGB true-color mode probably couldn't satisfy an Alien's entertainment needs.

Besides the colors, Luo Qi also tasted air with a high oxygen concentration—air that was sweet in the Alien's memory—as well as a faint breeze blowing through the leaves. There was also a trace of happiness belonging to the Alien that Luo Qi was unwilling to accept.

That kind of happiness was like sugar-free soda; although it wasn't intense, it still had a familiar sweetness. It was true happiness, relaxation, ease, and self-satisfaction.

Luo Qi was in the perspective of the Alien Queen. They swept across the treetops of the jungle together, their body light and their movements agile. Although there were thrilling moments from time to time where they almost failed to grab a branch, the Alien's body was more agile than Luo Qi had imagined. Even though he had seen all the Alien's physiological parameters and had seen them launch attacks, personally experiencing the Alien nimbly twisting its waist to grab a slight protrusion on a tree trunk, and feeling the powerful fingers—needing only two to firmly hang the weight of the entire body—was still a strange sensation. It was like entering a game world, running wild in a marvelous first-person role-playing VR game.

When the Alien leaped a distance of ten meters between treetops, Luo Qi felt like he almost screamed; that stimulating feeling was just like flying. The Alien jumped to the second tree, the third tree... until she found the tallest tree in the rainforest. Luo Qi felt danger was with her; even she was challenging her limits, but the feeling was still too good. Luo Qi uncomfortably realized that he could distinguish that her excitement outweighed her fear.

She climbed upward frantically. Luo Qi recalled the feeling of riding a roller coaster and sincerely hoped she wouldn't suddenly want to go bungee jumping after climbing up. But if it were just that, there would be no point in this memory being specifically sought out by the Ghosts. As a creature born in this forest, her life must have had many memories of climbing, playing, and looking down at all the other trees.

Luo Qi patiently followed her as she kept rising. Actually, this was a very interesting thing; Luo Qi was almost breathless. They rose higher than many tree crowns; the darkness under the trees was no more. They passed through the clouds and mist drifting in the rainforest. They kept going upward, as if climbing the tower of a god, as if they would eventually reach the kingdom of the gods. Until, suddenly, the clouds and mist vanished, the forest vanished, and the mist and forest were both far beneath their feet, with golden sunlight spilling onto them. Here, the air became thin, sounds became scarce, and loneliness arrived quietly, but she felt an indescribable happiness and freedom.

Luo Qi uncomfortably recalled that this habit of hers was a bit like his; he also liked to dash to the top of a tree and stay there. Others couldn't see him, and he was free and comfortable. He actually didn't want to find any more common ground with the Alien; the more common ground they had, the more it proved they were both higher-order beings. Humans didn't even kill gorillas now; wasn't the logic very simple?

He didn't know which bastard had created the Seal Beast in the first place, or how they had created it. Luo Qi really worried that they had modified humans, or Mage humans; whichever it was, it was damn well heartless.

He was unhappily letting his thoughts run wild when, suddenly, he heard an abnormal sound. It wasn't a noise; it was like a node in a network warning him. Luo Qi came to his senses and realized that this feeling wasn't his—it was the Alien Queen's. But this feeling was very familiar to Luo Qi, truly very familiar, just like when he was connected to the Ghosts of the Society and a Ghost initiated a communication request to him.

The message the Queen received was just as clear and understandable. Luo Qi read this memory—someone was coming.

It was other Aliens sending her a message.

No, that wasn't right. Luo Qi corrected his interpretation of the Queen's Yajian—the gods were coming again.