Chapter 15 Planet Terror
The professor walking in the front was habitually clearing the bushes, and suddenly found a plump fruit that fell on the ground, and subconsciously prepared to let the fat man who is familiar with various alien plants come to identify it.
When he turned around, he suddenly found that there was one person missing from the team.
"Where's Fatty?"
Hearing his question, everyone was taken aback for a moment before realizing that the fat man had disappeared.
Professor suddenly had a bad feeling, and quickly directed everyone to go back, looking for the fat man who was left behind.
Before walking far, they saw the fat man who was slumped on the spot, shivering as if he was frightened by something.
Cowper quickly shouted: "Fatty! What are you doing!" and then walked forward quickly.
But he froze in the middle of the journey, with a look of fear in his eyes.
I saw a huge "spider" standing on top of the forest, with eight appendages deeply inserted into the soil, supporting its heavy body.
Under the bright red eyes, there are mouthparts that constantly move, and saliva flows out of them, dripping onto the bewildered fat man's head below.
No one knew how Fatty provoked this terrifying alien creature, but the professor was the first to react and took out the laser cutter that he carried with him.
This kind of high-energy laser used to cut metal can also kill creatures within a certain distance, and it is also one of his few weapons.
He pointed the sight at the spider, and then shouted: "What are you doing in a daze! Bring the fat man here!"
Others suddenly came to their senses, and frantically prepared to drag the fat man whose legs couldn't move back.
Professor also fired at this time, letting the green cutting beam hit the spider.
But after the high-energy laser that can easily cut through ordinary alloys was shot at the spider, nothing happened like nothing happened.
Spider didn't even respond by being irritated, but after seeing the fat man being dragged away, some wanted to chase him back.
Professor's expression changed again and again. This cutter was already the most powerful weapon in his hands, but at this moment he couldn't do anything to this alien creature.
There was no other way, he could only escape with the students while taking out the flare gun.
In his years of alien exploration, he knew that the best way to deal with such large alien creatures was to make them feel intimidated.
And light and flames are the best weapons to intimidate primitive creatures.
In addition to emitting light, the signal flare is also a good source of combustion. If it explodes on the ground, it will form countless ignition points and spread rapidly.
The forest here just provided fuel, so the professor aimed at a dense bush and fired a signal flare.
The eye-catching and intense light suddenly lit up, and even the giant spider stopped for a while.
Followed by the scattered accelerants and the ignited forest.
The fire suddenly became larger, and soon formed a burning wall. The high tongues of flames burned straight into the sky, blocking the path of the giant spider.
Professor was delighted because of this, and felt like he had escaped from the sky.
However, the next moment, not only did the giant spider not retreat, but seemed to be enraged, it directly swept away the burning trees and came straight towards them.
The sound of the "dong dong dong" giant moving echoed in the forest. This time even the professor was frightened and ran away desperately.
But no matter how two legs can run faster than eight legs, the distance between them is still shortened rapidly.
The young man in the second-to-last position turned cold, and took a peek at the fat man who was running in a panic at the end.
"...This alien creature seems to be provoked by the fat man. If he is handed over, he may be able to escape." Under his expressionless face, there is hidden malice that no one can detect.
Seeing that no one noticed him, the young man quietly slowed down a little, kept the same position with the fat man, and then tripped the fat man.
Fatty, who was running away in a panic, could not have expected this kind of change. He fell to the ground after losing his balance, and only managed to stop after rolling a few times.
In the dizzy eyes, there is a smile of the young man's scheme.
Others didn't notice that someone had been left behind, and the fat man's body stiffened suddenly, because a thick appendage had been firmly inserted into the soil beside him.
He raised his head tremblingly, aiming at the suddenly enlarged mouthparts.
"ah-!!"
Fatty's scream pierced everyone's ears. When Cowper turned around, he saw Fatty half-swallowed by a giant spider.
But at the moment of escape, no one said much.
After running for a long time, everyone stopped to take a breath when they left the forest completely.
At this time, a dark cloud hovered over everyone's heads.
Fatty's tragic death is still vivid in his memory, obviously they were too careless before.
“…‘Under the influence of high technology for a long time, explorers tend to ignore many dangerous factors that should be paid attention to, with arrogance and arrogance, and eventually die at the hands of the indigenous people’…”
Professor read out a line with bitterness on his face. This is a famous line from the popular interstellar book "Cosmic Crusoe", which tells the reason why explorers hate foreign lands.
After hearing this famous line, everyone was also silent for a while.
Although they attach great importance to this place on the surface, in fact, they still harbor the arrogance of being an interstellar civilization deep in their hearts.
Even if there used to be civilization here, they still feel from the bottom of their hearts that "it's just an old antique, your technology is outdated."
Otherwise, they would not approach this planet rashly, and then inexplicably lose control of the spaceship, making a wrong step, until a companion died just now.
The rotation of the planet is still going on, and soon the sky here will step into black.
Everyone finally fell asleep in silence, but everyone had different thoughts.
...
In an artificial forest next to the guardianship core, the synthetic man controlled by Li Wenyuan was sitting on a tree stump and sighing.
Lilian on the side sat upright and obediently, but her eyes drifted to the game console on the side from time to time.
In order to teach a primitive man to speak, Li Wenyuan spent a lot of effort, using a three-inch tongue to explain the lesson plans.
Finally came to the conclusion: he is not suitable to be a teacher.
It's not that he doesn't teach well, but that the students are so stupid that he doubts himself because of his ability.
"...Um, Master Guardian, can I go and play?"
"...Go, go, alas..."
Looking at Lilian's cheering appearance, Li Wenyuan supported his forehead and called out the scene from the other side of the earth.
A fat alien is wrapped in something like spider silk and hangs upside down from a tree branch, unconscious.
In the picture not far away, a giant spider is active in the background, spraying liquid to extinguish the fire from time to time, or cutting off the fire source with tall and powerful appendages.
"Hey, did the gardening robot move again?" Li Wenyuan was a little surprised when he saw this giant spider.
This giant spider-like "creature" is actually an old-fashioned robot. Its model in the database is much older than the synthetic human, and it is probably a museum-level cultural relic.
Just like its name, it is a gardening robot responsible for pruning, but the trees it usually repairs are tall trees with a height of 50 to 60 meters.
Its hardware is too old to establish a connection with the Guardian Matrix. When Li Wenyuan discovered it, it was in a standby state for an unknown period of time, buried deep under the soil.
Since he couldn't find a way to wake it up, Li Wenyuan simply ignored the gardening robot.
But he didn't expect that the group of aliens somehow activated it, and one of them was even caught, which made Li Wenyuan very interested.
So he called up the monitoring screen of this area.
But I saw these aliens walking carefully in this synthetic forest, constantly clearing the bushes blocking the way.
Looking at it, Li Wenyuan suddenly understood how they activated the gardening robot.
The professor at the front felt that it was too troublesome to travel in the forest, so he directly swept forward with the laser cutting machine, cutting off a large area of shrubs and dozens of tall trees in an instant.
It must be convenient for them to hurry, but the gardening robot that detects that the gardening has been "destroyed" must not be happy.
So it woke up directly from standby, ready to arrest these "lawbreakers", but because of the fire caused by the professor, it temporarily switched its target and changed it to put out the fire.
The fat man is just a person who was caught up by accident. He was hung on a tree branch by a gardening robot, waiting for its former owner to come to check on these "lawbreakers".
"I was so embarrassed on the first day, these aliens don't seem to be very good..." Li Wenyuan in the virtual world was a little bit depressed.
"Hurry up and drive them to the ruins, so that you don't have to spend a whole day dawdling..."
Thinking this way, he controlled a synthetic man and gradually approached Cowper's camp.
(end of this chapter)