Chapter 94

The next day.

The electrostatic storm mixed with silica dust raged for a full six hours before completely stopping.

The captain, Hannek, immediately organized maintenance workers to go to the lower power cabin to repair the energy core cables.

On the other hand, he organized the remaining expedition members, preparing to retrieve the two people who were left in the ruins yesterday.

This matter, when mentioned, makes people laugh and cry.

Because of the communication problems caused by the electrostatic storm, a geologist and a botanist got lost in the ruins.

The personnel configuration for this expedition did not change; it was still the members from yesterday: Elizabeth, Ford, Charlie, and David.

But just as they were about to assemble and set off, they were stopped by the forceful Vickers.

"Wait a moment."

Vickers' right cheek was swollen, drawing surprised looks from everyone. She endured the humiliation and tried to appear as calm as possible: "Besides you, there are a few more people... who want to participate in this expedition."

"Ms. Vickers, besides us, are there other people here?" Elizabeth asked suspiciously.

"It's me."

Suddenly, an old voice came from the corridor.

Everyone looked in the direction of the sound and saw David pushing an old man sitting in a wheelchair, and there were several unfamiliar faces around.

"You are... Weyland?"

For this investor, Elizabeth naturally knew him, but she didn't expect him to have been hiding on the spaceship all along!

"That's right, I am Peter Weyland."

Weyland admitted indifferently, his eyelids half-closed: "For this ruin expedition, I will go in with you, and of course, there is also this... my guest, Mr. Alvin Valerius."

"This..."

Elizabeth hesitated a bit.

But Charlie on the side couldn't help but frown: "Mr. Weyland, this ruin was discovered by us. Are you planning to snatch our 'fruits' of victory?"

"Mr. Holloway, please mind your language." Weyland didn't even lift his eyelids and sneered: "If I hadn't sponsored two trillion and provided this spaceship, you would only be able to stay in a cave for the rest of your life, studying the savages on the murals. So it's not snatching; it originally belonged to me."

A simple sentence choked Charlie, making him unable to breathe properly, not knowing how to answer.

"You can go prepare. We set off in fifteen minutes."

Weyland completely ignored Charlie, as if looking at a clown.

"The one next to you, wouldn't he be your illegitimate child?"

Who knew, Charlie seemed a bit unconvinced and had to jump out.

He didn't dare to directly offend the big financier Weyland, so he aimed his spearhead at Alvin, mocking and satirizing: "We are a professional scientific expedition team. I hope that after you go in, don't touch or poke around everywhere, so as not to destroy the ruins, kid."

Hearing this, the atmosphere in the cabin suddenly became much tenser.

Elizabeth keenly noticed that not only Vickers, but even Weyland and David, all looked at Charlie in unison, revealing a look of pity.

For a clown-like character like this, Alvin was too lazy to pay attention to him at all.

No wonder, in the plot, there were so many people on the spaceship, yet David chose him as the tool for the 'Black Goo' experiment. It was purely seeking his own death!

He had to mock David with his mouth. As a result, people don't take revenge overnight. After being mocked, he was directly fed 'Black Goo'. It was purely asking for trouble.

"Ha, what? Did I hit the nail on the head?"

Charlie seemed to have grabbed a 'pain point' and, ignoring Elizabeth's pulling on the side, his expression became even more excited.

"I hope that later, your mouth can still be this hard, Dr. Holloway."

Alvin glanced at him, stopped paying attention to this clown, turned around, and walked away directly.

Charlie was clearly unconvinced and wanted to retort.

But he was stopped by a cold look. Weyland's face was gloomy, and he said chillingly: "Charlie Holloway, if you dare to slander my guest again, I will have them strip you naked and throw you outside. If you don't believe it, you can try!"

Weyland, who was in a high position, was naturally not joking!

If Charlie dared to have another word of nonsense, he wouldn't mind getting rid of this foolish idiot before entering the ruins.

Seeming to have sensed Weyland's undisguised killing intent, Charlie immediately closed his mouth. He didn't dare to bet his life on whether Weyland would really throw him out.

"I invested two trillion, not to listen to your nonsense, understand?" Weyland, although at the end of his rope, still had an intimidating momentum.

It was like a sick and weak tiger, but his eyes were still fierce and sharp.

In the cabin, there was suddenly silence!

"Change clothes, prepare to set off."

Weyland glanced at Charlie coldly and secretly marked this guy as a dead man.

Even if the alien life form didn't mind, he would get rid of this troublesome, mouthy, foolish idiot after the ruin exploration ended.

Under Weyland's high pressure, everyone changed into light spacesuits, and after disinfection in the airlock, they stepped onto this expedition journey.

Soon, they arrived at the entrance of the ruins again.

With the experience from last time, everyone soon arrived at the depths of the ruins, the location explored last time.

The overall style of the 'ruins' looked very much like the intestines of some creature.

In the corridor and on the ground, one could see the shadow of bio-technology, completely different from humans, as if mixed with a strange religious style!

Just entering the ruins, they saw Charlie impatiently taking off his helmet, taking a deep breath of the air in the corridor, and explaining to Weyland, who was visiting for the first time: "The air environment here is completely adapted to humans. Everyone can take off their helmets and feel the greatness of the Creators at a closer distance!"

David testified to his point of view: "The air environment here can indeed be breathed directly."

However, Weyland, who should have trusted David, hesitated for a few seconds, did not take off his helmet directly, but looked at Alvin, seemingly asking for his opinion.

"Why look at me?"

Alvin said in surprise: "If you want to take it off, take it off. I won't. This is an unknown field. Who knows if there are any microorganisms inside? Since you are a scientific expedition team, you shouldn't lack even this bit of common sense, right?"

"What you said makes a lot of sense. Being cautious is not wrong."

Weyland decisively gave up taking off his helmet and looked at the crowd who had all taken off their helmets, suddenly having a feeling of having invested two trillion, only to be cheated by a bunch of idiots.

Turning his head back.

He found that except for his girlfriend, Elizabeth Shaw, the biologist Ford, and even the android David, all put their helmets back on.

Charlie's mouth twitched, he glared fiercely at Alvin, and still insisted on not wearing a helmet: "I will prove to you who is correct, kid!"

After a brief disagreement, everyone continued to go deep into the ruins.

Until they arrived at the location explored yesterday, a huge human face statue, with seven or eight points of similarity to the human face. The whole room looked like some kind of storage room, piled full of black canisters.

Alvin, who was familiar with the plot, naturally knew that those black canisters were all sealed with a virus capable of destroying the planet... 'Black Goo'!

"Good stuff."

Alvin said secretly in his heart.

Although 'Black Goo' was very dangerous, from a biological perspective, the greater role of Black Goo was not to destroy life, but to create life.

In fact, the Engineer race in the movie did not create Black Goo to destroy life, but to use Black Goo to create the god of their race, Deacon!

Because of the excessive development of bio-technology, the Engineer race lost the ability to reproduce offspring, so they split into two factions. The Engineer race among them advocated using Black Goo to create their 'Creators'.

The Engineers firmly believed that Deacon's blood would re-endow them with the ability to reproduce offspring. And the Space Jockeys were the faction in the original work that wanted to destroy humans, using Black Goo for destruction.

But ridiculously, the Engineers who pursued creating life never managed to create Deacon until they died, while the Space Jockeys who were keen on destruction eventually became the embryos that nurtured Deacon by mistake... It was simply a great irony.

Suddenly, just as everyone was dispersing to explore the ruins.

Charlie fell straight to the ground as if he had completely lost consciousness.

"Charlie? Are you okay?"

Elizabeth on the side hurriedly went to support Charlie, but when she straightened his head and saw the fine tentacles filled with black lines, especially wriggling like horsehair worms from his eyes, mouth, nose, and ears, she immediately let out a sharp, explosive scream!

"Ah——!"

A scream immediately attracted everyone's attention.

"Shaw, are you okay? What happened?" Ford was one of the two women, and she had a good relationship with Elizabeth on weekdays. Seeing her terrified appearance, she immediately went up to support her.

But when supporting Elizabeth, as it happened, she turned her head and also glanced at Charlie. Her face turned pale, her pupils shrank to the size of a needle point, and she couldn't control herself and let out a scream: "Ah ah ah..."

The successive screams made Weyland feel a bit terrified.

But soon, the fallen Charlie stood up again shakily, but his entire spine began to be twisted to the extreme, and his bones crackled all over, just as if something in his body was about to break out of the shell!

"It shouldn't be this fast, right?"

Alvin was clearly a bit surprised, then seemed to have guessed the reason and looked at David, the culprit of this matter: "How much Black Goo did you feed him?"

"One bottle."

David smiled at the corners of its lips and said politely: "Originally, I intended to let him be an experimental subject, but since he offended you, I added a little more before entering the airlock."

Good guy, one bottle!

David was afraid that a drop wouldn't be enough, so it added a lethal amount!

It is estimated that Charlie would never know until he died that just because he had to be mouthy, he was forced to receive his lunch box in advance.

There is an unspeakable problem, hemorrhoids are acting up. The stock is about to be consumed. I am coding while revising. I will try my best to reach ten thousand words today. It's really bad luck. These few days, I can't sit, and it hurts to walk. My whole mind is on my butt.