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Chapter 76: Horn mutant, cosmic insect nest!
While Bai Xing was still in a daze, Xu Min quickly started operating on the console with trembling hands.

Bai Xing could only cooperate with her and began to check the normal operation of the weapons bay and other systems.

"This is the lair of the Horn mutant!" After seeing Bai Xing, Xu Min swallowed and said tremblingly.

Horn mutant?

Bai Xing was stunned for a moment, but soon searched for the name in his mind.

She had heard of it!
This insect-like creature that can live in space was not discovered by a well-equipped space exploration fleet until a few years ago. In the same year, the General Society of Interstellar Biology named this new creature after the surname of the captain of the expedition team. Entered Odin's Galaxy Biology.

According to reports from that year, this expedition team was conducting star mine gold panning in a natural star field in the PT6 plane. They accidentally discovered this black insectoid with gliding wings, a bowed back, a short neck, and a slender body and a long tail. The creature was secretly spying on their team members, and after the team members discovered its existence, it suddenly attacked the staff in space suits. For a time, the expedition team lost several professional team members.

Although it is said to be an expedition-oriented team, there are quite a lot of weapons in this configuration. At that time, Captain Horn ordered to open fire. The insect-like creature suffered a heavy blow and escaped with its injured body, dragging its injured body and escaping. It will follow the expedition team all the way. Brought into the insect nest they built deep in the star field.

In the end, the expedition team destroyed the insect nest with abundant firepower and brought back several dead insect bodies to prove to the world the existence of this creature.

This discovery caused a stir in the galaxy at the time. Many people were worried that the insect infestation in the galaxy had now reached an imminent level. The insects had evolved to such a dangerous level that they could build nests in space. It was hard for people to believe what the Federation said. It is said that pests will not infect and migrate to each other on the planet.

Some people also believe that this news is a rumor and gimmick artificially created by the Horn expedition team, using some genetic variants found from unknown sources and some fake video records in order to gain more investment in the expedition.

After all, no one else has encountered this legendary alien species since then.

Of course, what would these people think if they could really see these scenes with their eyes, like Shirahoshi and the others?

The operation of the cabin seemed to disturb the Horn mutants in the dark. Both Bai Xing and Xu Min felt more crashing sounds above their heads.

It seemed that more Horn mutants had jumped onto their aircraft ship. In the darkness, the two of them could not judge the number of these mutants, but looking at the densely packed insect eggs in front of them, it seemed that there would not be too few.

Even the aircraft and ship warned that the load was about to be overloaded. They could not imagine how many monsters were above their heads.

The number of Horn mutants must be reduced immediately.

Bai Xing and Xu Min both thought in unison.

So, it was still the previous arrangement, with Xu Min in charge of driving and Bai Xing in charge of shooting.The propulsion of kinetic energy awakened the silent aircraft ship. Xu Min raised the angle of the machine and saw the upside-down egg sacs from bottom to top, completely revealing the thoughts of this new species building a nest in space.

It was a pile of old machine wreckage of different colors and models, empty light boat keels, fragmented wings, twisted hubs, leather seats with only frames left, propellers missing wings, large and small Stacked together, there are still many complete machines that have not been broken down into fragments. Some of the original outlines can be seen. As the spotlights of the aircraft and ships shine over, there are many things that can be detected in the obstacles of these machines. Less black and shiny head.

These machines may be passers-by who encountered the same situation as Shirahoshi and others, and entered this place by mistake, or they may be small expedition teams, traveling teams and other weakly armed organizations passing by in the distance, encountering Horn unpreparedly. Due to the sneak attacks of alien species, the people in the machines became their food, and the occupied machines were moved here bit by bit from distant places.

Here, they use these machine graveyards suspended in the air to create special nursery cradle. All newborns are hung on the remains of the machine to wait for hatching, while the adult Horn mutants repeatedly travel to the roads that humans often pass. Only by setting up an ambush and attacking can you bring back building materials and food.

Who would have thought that the inclined mouth of the gravitational current would be in this place. Perhaps it is because this place will send adventure teams that are sucked into the gravitational current from time to time, so the Horn mutants built their nest in this location.

No wonder these creatures hidden deep in the universe are not afraid of human aircraft and ships at all.

Baixing cut out the weapon hatch and began to preheat the weapon energy. The crosshair on the screen was calibrated left and right. As the aircraft and ship glided in an arc, a series of hot bullets were fired at the rows of insect eggs. Under the electro-optical cannon fire, those who had not yet The hatched eggs were penetrated one by one, and the pulpy pink larvae were wrapped in dark green mucus and scattered around, and then they were scrambled and swallowed by the Horn mutants gliding down.

At the same time, Bai Xing and Xu Min both saw clearly from the window the appearance of the group of Horn mutants and how they moved freely in the universe.

They have a large scaly shell that resembles an insect beetle. The long tail covered with inverted scales is thin and long, and can be curled as a point of strength for holding the hook in the air. The tail is connected to the arched back, resembling human limbs, but only There are three fingers, and a short and thick neck is connected to a smooth, black and shiny head. The top of the skull is cone-shaped, with two giant nodules that fall backwards. Small eyes that are almost degenerating are on both sides of the nodules. The mouth is square, with the mouth located under the cone. It has no lips, only four rows of sharp teeth on the top and bottom of the mouth, and a tongue as long as the body and covered with fine barbs pokes out from the middle.

They stretch out their forelimbs and pull out a soft flying membrane from their armpits. Relying on the flying membrane, they can adjust their landing point and move freely in the nest they have built.

This group of guys probably flew to their aircraft ship in this way.

Bai Xing aimed at the Horn mutants that were eating their own children, and used precise shots to greet them. If it weren't for the fact that he didn't know the scope of this lair, Bai Xing would not save ammunition so much, trying to hit these guys with every bullet. With his mouth, he punched the heads of these Horn mutants through.

As a result, she was so focused that she completely ignored the sound of alien beings destroying the fuselage with their hands and mouth.

Xu Min was obviously very angry about the development of the machine being destroyed. She controlled the aircraft and ship to move greatly in the air, make a sudden landing, and perform figure eight turns. The aircraft and ship passed between countless insect eggs, and the wings cut off the broken pouch. The connection with the machine graveyard continues to expand the flying space in the insect nest.

Under such a rapid aerial stunt, even an experienced pilot like Bai Xing could not help but feel weightless and nauseated. However, the abnormal noise above his head only stopped for a short while, and not long after, it became more serious, and only heard a burst of The scratching sound climbed from the back of the head to the top of the head, and a black head hung upside down suddenly appeared above the window of the aircraft ship.

(End of this chapter)