The probability of being reborn as a prototype after being infected by the virus was extremely low.
As the first two targets to be infected, they had both succeeded. This meant that the Blacklight virus that had been transformed by the alien energy was more powerful than he had imagined.
This power was temporarily not reflected in combat strength due to the harsh environment of Mars.
However, from the tenacious vitality of the virus, it was very smart and had a certain degree of instinctive thinking.
If the virus had not transformed the two into prototypes but ordinary zombies and other monsters, then they would have been wandering on Mars until their lives ran out because they did not have enough intelligence to think.
Therefore, the virus chose DNA fusion instead of ordinary infection and combined with the two humans to form prototypes. This new humanoid creature and the infected were two different things.
The two of them were no different from real astronauts. Their bodies had memorized the skills of piloting the spaceship. They could pilot the spaceship back to Earth. At that time, they would leave the barren land of Mars and step onto a planet rich in life.
However, they were abnormally weak. Therefore, when Zhao Bu approached them, he could not help but expose himself and wanted to devour them.
Lan Mu's presence prevented the Blacklight virus from doing so.
Lan Mu did not waste time on Zhao Bu and rushed to the location of the alien energy at full speed. He only needed to absorb the alien energy and remove the firewood from under the cauldron. Without the continued existence of the alien energy, the harsh environment might have eliminated the virus.
Unless the Blacklight virus evolved an adaptive talent, Lan Mu did not need to care about some residual virus that had not been found.
As for the two prototypes that he had received into the space, Lan Mu felt that they were of great research value and planned to bring them back to extract the virus.
"It should be here, right?"
Lan Mu searched for a long time and finally found a man-made mud cave. There was a detection vehicle covered in red colonies parked at the entrance of the cave.
"The life sphere's reaction is very weak..."
His Spirit penetrated the ground and Lan Mu saw some residual scarlet fungi, but there was no trace of the so-called Xenomorph. Not only that, even the body of the so-called Old Nie was gone.
Recalling Zhao Bu's description, the creature that popped out of the sarcoma must have been a facehugger. It should have become the Xenomorph Queen and eaten the body.
From fungi to sarcomas, and finally xenomorphs, the carriers of xenogeneic energy were mobile living things.
This was the first time Lan Mu had encountered a xenogeneic that could run. If he wanted to absorb it, he'd have to capture the xenogeneic.
"He won't be able to run far!"
Lan Mu absorbed the leftover xenogeneic energy and destroyed all of the Crimson Fungi there. He burned them all to ashes.
After dealing with this, Lan Mu's mental strength spread out and covered the entire hemisphere. While processing a huge amount of information, it was fortunate that there were no large creatures on Mars. Hence, under the cover of his mental strength, the Xenomorph was unusually obvious.
"How shrewd, to actually dig an underground tunnel. This direction … is it to the landing site of the spaceship?"
Lan Mu realized that the Alien Queen also possessed a high level of intelligence. Based on the direction that the two prototypes had chased after, it had determined the most advantageous hunting direction for it. It must have thought that there was an abundance of food there, so it had secretly rushed there.
Lan Mu sneered and transformed into a nightmare.
"I'm too lazy to dig a hole."
He said in his heart, "Turn off the lights."
In an instant, half of Mars sank into darkness. To be precise, only Lan Mu and Zhao Bu had lost their sense of light.
Earth's exploration of Mars was not disturbed in the slightest, including the Pathfinder rover on Mars. The light was still good.
As long as there were dreams, they would fall into darkness at this moment.
Could the xenogeneic dream? Lan Mu didn't know. He wasn't trying to interfere with the vision of others, but to pursue and attack.
In the darkness, Lan Mu could perform directional displacement and directly locked onto the Alien Queen on the surface of Mars. In the next second, a shadow flashed past, penetrating the ground, ignoring the terrain, and arriving behind the Alien Queen at supersonic speed.
"It's really hard on you to be born on Mars."
The Alien Queen clearly felt the cold aura. It swung its tail and stabbed toward Lan Mu.
However, the shadow turned into blazing flames in the next moment. A tall magma demon stood there. The Alien Queen's tail sank into the magma and was burned fiercely.
"Ang!"
In the thin underground atmosphere, the Alien Queen's voice was very strange. However, Lan Mu could tell that it was a scream.
Even the Alien Queen's sulfuric blood was burned dry. Only a small section of the melted tail was left.
"Pa!"
With a slap, the Alien Queen, who hadn't grown up yet, was severely injured. It fell to the ground and struggled.
Lan Mu didn't kill it. Instead, he stood silently beside it, pressing down on the Alien Queen and activating the life sphere to absorb the energy of the Alien Queen.
"So … so much!"
The absorption time was proportional to the amount absorbed. However, as the life sphere was replenished more and more, the absorption rate would also increase.
As a result, even though the amount before him was five times more than the amount in Shennongjia, Lan Mu only needed six days to absorb it.
At this moment, he was silently immersed in it. The life sphere spun, stripping the Alien Queen of the Alien Queen's energy.
The pitiful Alien Queen had no way to resist. As the days passed, it became weaker and weaker. In the end, it stayed there as if it was dead.
…
For six days, Lan Mu stayed underground. Naturally, no one could find him.
Zhao Bu had already returned to the spaceship. He didn't inform Earth immediately. Instead, he drove the spaceship to find Lan Mu.
However, when he returned to the old haunt, he didn't find anything. After taking back the specimen from the Mars rover, Zhao Bu contacted the Chinese National Space Administration.
"Martian creature? Lan Bai Society … Special Envoy? "Regarding Zhao Bu's report, Qianlong and even higher level leaders quickly paid attention to it.
After they understood the situation, the reply they gave Zhao Bu was very simple.
"Send the Mars rover and return immediately!"
Zhao Bu wanted to know who the Lan Bai Society Special Envoy was. However, after Qianlong's people thought about it, they didn't tell him. Instead, they said that they would wait until he returned.
"He should still be on Mars now. Am I just going to leave him here and return?" Zhao Bu saw that the country knew about the Lan Bai Society Special Envoy. In his heart, he thought that it was a mysterious organization of the country. After all, with the name Lan Bai Society, some people would believe that it was a Chinese organization.
From Lan Mu's tone and behavior, Zhao Bu mistakenly thought that they were people from different departments.
Director Qianlong was very speechless. It was inconvenient to explain too much, so he let a big leader directly give an order.
"Return immediately! This is the highest order! "
"Your life is above everything else. You must bring back Guitian No. 1 and all the specimens. Returning safely is a victory! Otherwise, the loss will be immeasurable! "
Zhao Bu understood. National interests were above everything else. He was the only one left on the spaceship. If something happened to him here, not only would the spaceship be left here, but the important biological specimens would also not be able to be taken back.
"Yes!" Zhao Bu accepted the mission and silently launched the satellite and related detectors. These were all part of the mission. Now, he was the only one who could do it.
However, he didn't realize that the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter that required many people to move was easily moved by him alone.
Under the relatively low gravity of Mars, Zhao Bu didn't feel any change in his strength. After all, this was not the Earth he was familiar with.
After successfully receiving the satellite information, he also deliberately looked for Lan Mu. Unfortunately, he found nothing.
"Sorry, I'm leaving first."
…
Underground, Lan Mu finished absorbing. However, he didn't feel anything. The only change might be that the star-like light spots in the life sphere seemed to be clearer and brighter …
"This time, I absorbed more than all the previous times combined. I really don't know what benefits there are …"
Lan Mu was going to transform today. The seven days were almost up. He planned to wait until the forced transformation period to decide on a new transformation before studying it.
"Its vitality is very tenacious. It's actually still alive."
Lan Mu checked on the alien queen. Although it was seriously injured and weak, it retained its alien bloodline very well. It was just on the verge of death.
With a wave of his hand, Lan Mu stored it in his space and prepared to leave.
However, suddenly, he discovered that there were intricate tunnels underground. After a careful inspection with his mental power, he found that these tunnels were not dug by the alien queen.
To be precise, there was originally a wide network of tunnels underground. However, due to the long natural transformation, these tunnels were filled with mud. The aliens just dug them up again.
"This is iron …"
The mud was gray, and the soil and rocks of the tunnels were red. Lan Mu studied it for a while and found that this was the color of rock and soil mixed with extremely rich iron and oxidized.
"This is a city?"
Lan Mu's mental power continued to scan and found that there were similar tunnels under the entire Asidalia Plains. They crisscrossed like an underground city.
"The entire ruins are almost impossible to see. Most of the empty spaces underground are filled with rock, soil, and even mud. If I didn't have my mental power, I wouldn't have found out that this might be a city …"
"The geological changes have almost completely covered up this city. I can imagine that it must be an extremely long process to erase it …"
"Eh?"
Suddenly, Lan Mu found something inconspicuous. It was a fist-sized iron ball. Of course, the iron had completely returned to nature and merged with a large number of rocks. If it wasn't for his mental power, he wouldn't be able to see it at all.
However, this was not the main point. The main point was that the iron ball was actually a box. It was hollow inside and was obviously man-made.
"Boom boom boom!"
Lan Mu opened the way boldly and decisively. When he arrived there, he split open the material blocking the way and took out the iron ball.
"Identify it."
"Preciousness 5, from 15 million years ago?"
Lan Mu was shocked and looked at the comment again: "The last inhabitants of the Dragon Continent exterminated the Mance civilization's garbage."
“？？？”
He really didn't understand. What was the Dragon Continent? Maybe Mance was referring to Mars, but what the hell was garbage?
Did garbage exterminate a civilization? Was it a biological weapon?
Lan Mu thought about it and returned to the Lord God's space to get an answer from the Lord God.
"Exchange for the ability to look back in time. You can see what happened in the past in a scene." The Lord God didn't give him an answer but provided a skill exchange.
Lan Mu looked at the price and suddenly lost interest. He was dissatisfied: "You don't know anything about the ruins?"
The Lord God said: I don't know.
It was righteous.
Lan Mu thought about it and agreed. The Lord God wasn't omniscient and omnipotent. Before Lan Mu exchanged, the Lord God didn't actually have the items and skills. Only when Lan Mu really paid the points would the relevant items appear. As for information, the Lord God did have the ability to search, but unfortunately, it was only born less than a month ago.
It was impossible for Lan Mu to let the Lord God find out what happened in the past.
"Okay." Lan Mu took out Alien and the two Black Light prototypes and let the Lord God extract the bloodline genes, earning another sum of points.
Then he went to ask the Book of Time. Sure enough, it didn't know about the ruins on Mars.
When the Amon civilization arrived in the solar system, Mars was already like that. In other words, the city had long been destroyed.
And a long time had covered all traces, so no one could see it at all. Even the Amons from eight thousand years ago couldn't see it. They were focused on Earth.
"I'll rely on myself! As long as I find enough relics, I can see the big picture … "
"Use the gas of identification to learn some information."
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