Chapter 14 Ugly Rejection
At the request of Pete Wellan (order), the search team quickly completed a series of preparations.
Ethan also changed into equipment on the Prometheus, and Hill was with him.
Logan and Ada did not go together. They stayed on Prometheus, ostensibly monitoring Meredith to prevent her from doing anything extreme, such as directly ordering Prometheus to take off and throwing everyone on this planet.
Although Ethan is not afraid of such a thing happening, as long as Logan stays on the ship, the other party will not do this, which will save a lot of trouble and allow these mentally retarded groups to continue to work hard to die.
This time Elizabeth did not make any "high arguments" about Jackson, Ethan and others preparing weapons, because it is no longer the turn of her, the "working" person, to issue orders. Here is the big boss Pete Wellan. Even if she wants to say something, Charlie, who is a little more normal than her, stopped her in time.
Even though he still thinks that this is a simple scientific investigation and does not require weapons, he cannot guarantee that he will not encounter any danger, especially if Pete Wellan is also involved, something really will happen...
In this case, Charlie was not in the mood to complain about David's robot, who actually put a hood on himself like an ordinary person. Everyone was doing preparations quietly, and then quietly got on the car and headed towards the building in the distance.
The search team successfully entered the target building, and the process went smoothly. At this moment, the Prometheus sent a signal.
"The silica storm is coming, you'd better withdraw it within fifteen minutes."
Ganek gave a very normal suggestion, but both Pete Wellan and Elizabeth Shaw, who were determined to die, refused to retreat at this time.
Just kidding, they finally came here, but they were about to get the answer but they had to leave. Even Charlie, who was still rational, could not accept it.
"We are not threatened by storms here, we can wait until the storm is over before going back."
"We don't know how long the storm will last, and I strongly recommend that you return immediately, otherwise you will have a big trouble if the oxygen in the protective suit is exhausted."
At this time, the exploration team had also completed the analysis of the air composition in this "cave". They found that the air in this place did not have that high carbon dioxide content.
As expected, Charlie began to commit suicide like the original plot, and this guy actually wanted to take off his hood.
Seeing the behavior of these scientists, Hill frowned and wanted to stop her, but Ethan stopped her: "Let them do it... After all, this is the final madness."
Charlie took off the hood, and Elizabeth followed closely behind to remove it.
Several other scientists wanted to do this, but when they turned their heads, they found that Ethan was still standing there, and then looked at the two people with a look of fools.
"Hey."
Geologist Feafield waved at Ethan and let Ethan look at him.
"The air here is breathable, don't you take off your hood?"
Because of Fefield's inquiry, Wellan, who had originally wanted to remove the hood, stopped his movements and quietly looked at Ethan and Hill who were still wearing the hood.
"I know the air here can breathe, but so what? Do you think you can go to a completely unfamiliar planet just because the air can breathe, and you can breathe casually?"
Ethan's words made several scientists a little confused, but several experienced security consultants understood what they were the first to understand.
The oldest and experienced Weilan immediately stopped his movements and even stopped David from helping.
"I'll just wear it."
"Okay, sir."
David had already taken off his hood, but he was a robot. Although he realized the problem, he did not put the hood back.
Feifield didn't understand Ethan's words and continued to ask: "What does this mean?"
"The air in some isolation areas is also harmless to the human body. Would you walk in without wearing any protective equipment?"
These scientists are actually not idiots, they just live too much in their own world, focus on the matters they are interested in, and do not think comprehensively about many things.
In addition, someone took the lead and immediately began to imitate it without bothering to think about what consequences would be.
Ethan said so clearly that several people who wanted to take off their hood gave up on this idea, and even the people who had just taken it off immediately put the hood back on.
Only Charlie and Elizabeth are awkward now. Charlie also realized that he had done something stupid, but he was a little embarrassed, so he looked at Elizabeth with his hood in embarrassment.
"It doesn't matter, it's just a possibility after all."
Elizabeth is more silly than Charlie and firmly supports her husband. However, Charlie is more normal than her. He feels that his face is not as important as the lives of him and Elizabeth, so he finally put his hood back obediently.
At this time, Ethan said to the two of them: "Remember to do a comprehensive cleaning and a meticulous physical examination after going back, and you two will be isolated before you get reassuring results."
“We have nothing to do.”
"You have the final say whether there is anything or not."
Elizabeth was choked by Ethan for a while and couldn't speak, but in this case no one supported them. Several other scientists even blamed the two guys for cheating them. After all, it was the two guys who took the lead in taking off their heads.
"In this case, if the storm lasts too long, will we carry enough oxygen?"
This is the biggest problem now. I originally thought that the air in this cave could breathe, which solved a problem. They could explore here with confidence, wait for the storm to pass before returning to the Prometheus.
But now it seems that even if there is oxygen that can be breathed here, they still have to prevent various unknown dangers. They still have to rely on the oxygen they carry. If the oxygen is exhausted and the storm has not passed yet...
“Enough…”
What everyone can't understand is what judgment did Ethan give such a positive answer based on?
What they didn't know was that in Ethan's view, the plot had changed now, and the search team trapped here due to the storm may not be able to live until the moment when oxygen is exhausted.
Even if these people did not take off their hood because of their own reminder, this does not mean that these people are safe.
Because of the entry of the search team, this seems to be a place where a building is actually a spacecraft. Some objects inside that are trapped in a "dormant" state due to sealing will wake up and come over the black liquid that can parasitize in the organism and then obtain genes and finally form new life.
In the following time, Ethan did not express any comments, but just followed the search team quietly to wander around here.
They found the room with a lot of "cans" and also found several engineers' bodies.
Elizabeth and Charlie were both excited, and these findings proved that all of their previous inferences were correct.
Wellan was also excited, which seemed to mean that his chances of gaining a new life became even greater.
Hill was very curious. When he joined Ethan's team, he rarely participated in Ethan's various "plane activities". This was the first time she officially participated in this type of action, and she had truly witnessed new life forms and another civilization.
She realized that she had missed too many things before, and it seemed that she would have to participate in this kind of activity frequently in the future.
"What exactly are these?"
"Some kind of weapon that can destroy a planet."
Seeing all the scientists scattered everywhere for searching and checking, Hill took the opportunity to ask Ethan.
She noticed that Ethan always kept a certain distance from these jars, not only without any curiosity, but also a little disgusted and disgusted. It was obvious that he knew what these were.
But she never expected that these things were such dangerous things.
A weapon that can destroy a planet?
"The black matter preserved in this type can parasitize in the bodies of most organisms in the universe, adjust and optimize their own genes through the genes of the host, and eventually become a more powerful organism."
Ethan briefly introduced this thing.
"You should know what this thing is, in fact, this thing is an alien..."
Hill's face became very strange. Of course she had watched that classic video, but the alien didn't look like this, right? Isn't it an insect egg?
"That's a more refined product after improvement, and these...you can treat them as prototypes."
The monster produced by this black liquid after parasitization does not seem to have a fixed form. At least David "poisoned" it into Charlie's body and then was born after it was infected by Charlie. It looked like an octopus (or squid). The new life form after this octopus was born again through a parasitic engineer. It was closer to the famous alien.
After staying in this 'weapon warehouse' for a while, everyone continued to explore in the cave, and it didn't take long for them to finally find the control room.
After a period of exploration, and with the existence of David, a robot that has already studied the language of engineers, they quickly realized that they were not in a cave or temple, but in an engineer's spacecraft.
Hill looked at the cab and suddenly thought of something.
"Since you're looking for a spacecraft, why don't you?"
This spacecraft should have no owner now, right? It is much easier to drive away if you want to, than to take away the Prometheus.
But Ethan shook his head firmly.
Chapter completed!