Do Aliens Also Have Arranged Marriages? - Chapter 13

Chapter 13 – Shen Yan To The Rescue

In the dark passage, the three people walked in disorder and breathed heavily.

The antidote injected into their body is taking effect, and the condition of the people has recovered a lot.

At this moment, one of them suddenly stopped.

The thin man said hoarsely, “We can’t leave that kid alone there.”

Letting an Omega stay behind to cover their retreat, what kind of thing is that?

Facing an alien of that size head-on is like hitting a rock with an egg.

The girl next to him also stopped, looking reluctant.

They were able to escape just now thanks to Jian Ning, but in the end they left Jian Ning behind and went away.

She hesitated and said, “But our weapons are no match for that alien.”

Such a terrifying alien of huge size, which was also suspected to have the ability to set traps to lure prey, was simply not something they could deal with.

Chris, of the three, had been immersed in the slime the longest. He could not speak clearly at this moment. “Let’s go first. There is no other way. There is no signal here. We have to go and find the military for help.”

The thin man turned around and saw darkness and silence behind him. The young man who was supposed to help them hold back the alien showed no signs of catching up.

The skinny Omega might have been eaten by the alien.

The thin man’s face was tense, and he gritted his teeth and said, “Hurry up!”

The three of them hurried out of the passage.

At the same time, Jian Ning was fighting with an octopus creature on the shore.

The octopus has too many tentacles. Whenever Jian Ning gets close to its brain, the octopus always reacts very quickly by waving its tentacles to attack. Jian Ning has to close his bony wings to protect his body.

After a few rounds, the octopus seemed to realize something – its prey actually wanted to eat it?

In anger, the tentacles attacked more fiercely.

Jian Ning used his bone wings to block most of the attacks, but he was still hit by the barbs from time to time. Wounds kept appearing on his fair skin under his black sweatshirt, bleeding and healing quickly in the blink of an eye.

Jian Ning flew back a little, gasping in pain. Even though the wound had healed, the pain from having his skin and flesh cut was still painful and the pain stayed for a long time.

If he continued to fight, his physical strength would sooner or later fail to keep up, and it would be difficult for him to find another opportunity to kill the alien, or even to escape.

Every time the tentacles attacked, he would subconsciously dodge and give up the attack.

But what if… he doesn’t hide?

——The result is that those terrible barbs will pierce his skin fiercely, like a rain of knives, leaving hundreds of wounds on his body in an instant.

But at the same time, he could also seize that opportunity and use his bony wings to cut open the octopus’s head.

Although the octopus species has a certain level of intelligence, it is unaware of the cunningness of humans.

When Jian Ning flew towards its head with its bony wings again, the octopus just looked at its prey’s overconfident behavior with mockery, raised its tentacles high and wrapped them around its prey’s body.

But this time, the prey on the opposite side did not choose to protect its body with the bone wings, nor did it make any evasive movements. Instead, it continued to maintain an attacking posture, with the two ferocious bone wings close together above its head, like a sharp knife.

The octopus suddenly realized the danger, and the circles of eyes on its head showed panic at the same time. It tried to wave its other tentacles to protect its head.

But by this time, it was too late. The cold and sharp bone wings had already pierced deeply into its vitals.

While the bone wings successfully broke through the octopus’s moist and sticky skin and pierced into its brain, Jian Ning was also tightly entangled by several tentacles of the octopus, and hundreds of barbs pierced into his body like fish hooks.

Severe pain surged up at the same time.

Jian Ning’s face was pale, but his two scarlet eyes stared at the black mist hidden in the octopus’s brain without blinking. He reached his hand in, pushed aside the scattered and tender parts of the white brain, and grabbed the black mist in his sight.

The black fog trapped in the brain was motionless, as if it had lost its vitality long ago.

But when Jian Ning took out the octopus’s body, the black mist finally couldn’t help but tremble in fear, and the next second, it quickly merged into Jian Ning’s palm in the same way.

After the black mist was absorbed, the alien died completely. The tentacles wrapped around Jian Ning’s body lost their strength, but the barbs with curved hooks were still stuck in his skin.

Jian Ning pursed his lips tightly, thinking that a short pain is worse than a long one. He raised his bony wings and peeled off all the tentacles wrapped around his body.

Puff——

The moment the barbs were pulled out, countless bloody holes appeared on his body, and the wounds made sounds of blood gushing out.

When he landed again, Jian Ning’s legs went weak and the pain was so severe that it was enough to make a person faint, and he collapsed directly to the ground.

He didn’t have the strength to move anymore, and he gasped to ease the sharp pain coming from all over his body.

The wounds on his body were healing quickly. Jian Ning took a breath and slowly stood up from the ground.

After gradually absorbing the black mist, the fatigue from fighting just now was swept away, and Jian Ning was now in a very excited state.

‘Oh no, I seem to have eaten too much.’

Jian Ning felt like a fire was burning inside his body, and even his internal organs seemed to be burned through. Heat emanated from every pore of his body, and the presence of the area behind his neck, which he had tried his best to ignore, was even stronger at this moment.

Jian Ning felt uncomfortable all over, the corners of his eyes turned red, and his fair cheeks also turned a charming blush.

He tugged at his collar irritably, trying to expose the skin on the back of his neck to cool it down.

But as he moved, there was a “hissing” sound, and the already torn clothes were torn open completely, hanging on his body, about to fall.

“…”

During the final blow, the barbs on the octopus’ tentacles hooked holes of varying sizes throughout his sweatshirt, completely destroying it.

Jian Ning twitched the corner of his mouth.

‘Brother Octopus, thank you so much for turning my sweatshirt full of holes.’

Thinking that Talia and the others were still in other passages, Jian Ning temporarily ignored his physical discomfort and turned around to walk back.

Returning to the fork in the road again, he went directly into the passage on the far right.

This passage is very long and the road conditions are more complicated.

Jian Ning felt that the road was going down all the time, at least across the height of several flights of stairs. It seemed like a passage leading to the basement.

After a long time, some metal walls began to appear around. Going forward, there were glass rooms on both sides. Looking inside, there were large and small pieces of equipment everywhere.

This seems to be an abandoned laboratory somewhere.

Jian Ning continued walking forward and came to another long and narrow metal corridor. When he was still some distance away from the corner in front, he suddenly stopped.

There’s movement ahead.

It sounded like someone was singing something quietly.

The sound is ethereal and vague.

Underneath the singing, there was a faint sound of some strange sound caused by the friction between mucus-covered scales and the ground. The sound came closer and closer, becoming clearer and clearer.

Something was crawling toward him around the corner.

Sure enough, there are alien species here too.

Jian Ning paused for a moment and became alert.

Just as he was about to release his bone wings, a hand suddenly grabbed him in the darkness.

Jian Ning: “!!”

•|•

On the other side, the three people in the dark finally walked out of the passage, but the ticket center was empty.

The girl’s voice trembled slightly, and a trace of despair appeared in her eyes: “Are we the only ones out? Captain…Captain and the others are still in there?”

A heavy dark cloud hung over the heads of the few people. They had encountered that terrifying alien species, and the situation of the others was probably also extremely dangerous.

“Contact the military first.”

The thin man wiped his face, turned on the star brain, and was about to contact the base when they heard the bursts of low and powerful roars of engine outside the ocean center.

They turned around and saw several armored vehicles with the base’s military logo parked at the door.

“It’s the military!”

Several people’s expressions brightened and they ran out quickly.

A man in black combat uniform got off the leading armored vehicle.

The man had a tall and slender figure, and his metal military boots made a dull sound as they stepped on the ground.

The moment they saw this man, they felt for the first time that this admiral, who was rumored to be cold and cruel, was so safe.

Shen Yan got out of the car and glanced at the three people who were in an embarrassing state, covered in mucus. His expression was cold, “Where are the others?”

After seeing the message sent by Jian Ning, Shen Yan immediately suspended the extermination mission and brought a team over.

But since Jian Ning sent him that message, Shen Yan had been unable to contact him again.

On the way, Feng Qi, the captain of Team 1, sat next to Shen Yan. Seeing his usually cold and ruthless friend with a serious expression and trying to contact someone again and again, he felt like he was watching a familiar scene.

Oh, isn’t this the state of their team members every time Shen Yan goes to clean up the aliens without saying a word?

Feng Qi felt a sense of emotion in his heart, and couldn’t help but complain: “Now you know how you felt when we couldn’t contact you.”

The result of his bad mouth was that he was beaten up by Shen Yan’s increasingly violent mental power.

When the girl saw Shen Yan asking, she answered anxiously, “Admiral Shen, everyone else is still inside. There are aliens inside!”

“Jian Ning is in there too?”

“Jian Ning?” The girl was stunned, not understanding why the admiral suddenly asked about the young man who had just joined the team.

In the base, the news that Shen Yan was married was not announced. In the search team, except Talia, no one else knew that the young man who had just joined the team was the partner of Admiral Shen in front of them.

Thinking of the young man who held back the alien for them, the girl’s eyes were sore and she choked up and said, “Jian Ning helped us escape from that alien. That thing is, it’s an octopus-like alien, it should be very high… He… He might…”

The air pressure around Shen Yan instantly dropped to freezing point. Everyone’s heart trembled, and they all silently took two steps back.

The Star Brain in his hand made a prompt sound. Shen Yan lowered his eyes and found that it was a prompt that the contact had failed again.

His eyes swept over the embarrassed people calmly, and his voice was cold: “You guys wait outside first. Feng Qi, let the people in Team 1 take all the equipment.”

The alien species have various forms, so when the mopping-up troops go out to perform mopping-up missions, they will be equipped with various heavy weapons in case of emergency.

Soon, Shen Yan led a dozen team members to the ticket hall.

Only a few team members were left outside, responsible for observing the situation of the three people who had come out from inside. Anyone who has had close contact with alien species may become alienated within a certain period of time.

Entering the dark passage, Shen Yan and Feng Qi walked in front, and the rest of the team members followed closely behind them, paying close attention to changes in their surroundings.

Feng Qi noticed that the passage was too dark and spoke with difficulty: “I was the one who brought people here last time. This place is not the same place as last time!”

The cleanup mission half a year ago went very smoothly. The route was clear and the passage was made of transparent material, so the light from outside was very bright. They quickly reached the research institute in the back and dealt with the only alien species.

But now, starting from the passage they just entered, everything has changed.

In the darkness, Shen Yan vaguely heard a rustling sound, like the sound of tens of thousands of insects overlapping each other and colliding with each other as they crawled.

The sound was extremely subtle, and was even harder to detect under the cover of the breathing sounds of more than a dozen people.

But those things didn’t attack them.

Shen Yan glanced over coldly and ignored it for the time being.

A few minutes later.

Shen Yan: “Stop.”

In the darkness, his cold amber eyes narrowed slightly, and he keenly sensed the alien breath coming from three directions ahead.

“There are three passages ahead, so act in groups.”

After a simple grouping, Shen Yan led the three people into the rightmost passage.

•|•

Jian Ning was suddenly grabbed in the dark and shivered with fear.

Looking up, with the help of his superior Alien vision, he saw that the vent on the top had been opened and Talia was sticking half of her body out of it.

“Shh-”

Talia said in a very soft voice, motioning for him to stretch out his hand.

Jian Ning understood, so he grabbed Talia’s hand and used his strength to climb up.

As soon as he entered the ventilation duct, the strong smell of blood caught Jian Ning’s attention. He looked behind Talia and saw the middle-aged man called Lao Yang.

The man’s right hand below the wrist was missing, as if something had bitten off his entire hand. He had a painful expression and clenched his teeth without making any sound.

Lao Yang used his other hand to press his wrist tightly to reduce the rate of blood loss.

The alien creature had crawled under the ventilation duct. It seemed to have smelled food and was hiding nearby. It kept wandering in this corridor. As it could not find any prey, its ethereal singing gradually became sharp and terrifying.

“Ahhhh!! Aaaaaaaah!!!”

The three of them hid in the vent, not daring to move, and held their breath at the same time.

However, the remaining blood on Jian Ning’s body had not yet completely dried up, and fresh blood was constantly gushing out of Lao Yang’s severed hand. The strong smell of blood continued to spread out, and the alien quickly found the location of the vent.

Jian Ning looked towards the vent, where he could hear the heavy, rapid breathing sounds like a wild beast, as if something was putting its face into the gap and sniffing carefully.

They were discovered.

The alien determined their position, its singing became louder and more excited, it stood up and pushed the vent open with force.

The alien species that suddenly appeared had thick long hair like seaweed, a deformed face, and facial features that looked like a hybrid of a turtle and a snake.

The moment she saw the vent being pushed open, Talia immediately said, “Go forward!”

Lao Yang had previously hidden in the innermost part so that Talia could help block some of the smell of blood from the front, but now his position was discovered by the alien. Lao Yang, with a broken hand, had difficulty moving in the ventilation duct where he could only bend over and crawl, and he ended up blocking the way.

Jian Ning was closest to the vent. He did not turn around but raised his gun decisively. Dense bullets hit the alien’s face. Although they were not fatal injuries, they were enough to temporarily force it back.

The alien retracted its body but did not leave. Its eel-like lower body slapped the ground angrily. It stayed under the vent, staring at the vent above its head with greed.

The alien began to sing again, and the ethereal singing seemed to carry some strong hint.

Jian Ning looked at the open vent, and for a moment, he actually had the urge to jump down and feed himself to the alien.

“Jian Ning! Wake up, its singing can cause hallucinations!”

Talia and Lao Yang were attacked by this song when they first arrived. Hearing the song, Lao Yang walked to the alien in a trance and immediately had his palm bitten off by the hungry alien. Fortunately, he was awakened by Talia who woke up first and the duo managed to escape temporarily.

“Hmm…”

The heat in his body lingered and Jian Ning felt as if he had a fever. Now the alien’s mental control confused him even more.

Without realizing it, the glands on the back of his neck began to emit a sweet, enticing scent.

Jian Ning covered his ears, lowered his head, and blinked blankly, as if he had just finished a feast of poisonous mushrooms.

Talia behind him seemed to have sensed something. In the small space filled with the smell of blood, a sweet and tempting lychee scent suddenly wafted out.

Talia’s expression became a little uncomfortable: “Jian Ning…you…”

She hesitated for a moment, but did not directly ask the young man whether he was in estrus.

It seems that Jian Ning and the admiral don’t get along well. So many days have passed, and the marking has not been completed yet?

Several people hid in the ventilation duct and covered their ears. After a while, the alien below stretched its head up again, but was beaten back again.

After several rounds of fighting, as the stalemate with the aliens got longer and longer, the three people’s gun magazines had used up all the bullets in the final resistance.

The alien below seemed to know that its prey had no chance to fight back. It swayed its body slowly, with a strange arc hanging at the corner of its cracked mouth. It continued singing and put its head into the vent again.

“Ah…Ah…Ah…”

Seeing the familiar seaweed head again, the alien’s smug expression and cheerful singing, all these made Jian Ning, who was in an abnormal state, very irritated. The corners of his eyes turned red, and the heat that continued to spread in his body left him no time to think.

So annoying.

It shouldn’t be a big deal to eat another one.

Jian Ning threw away the gun in his hand, prepared to release the bone wings, and was ready to discuss the issue of etiquette with the alien in front of him.

Suddenly, below the duct, there was a sound of a sharp object piercing flesh. The singing of the alien in front of him stopped abruptly, and a hint of surprise appeared on his face. Then he seemed to be dragged down by something.

The three of them breathed hard at the same time.

There was silence for a moment, and suddenly a voice called out: “Jian Ning?”

Hearing the familiar voice, Jian Ning, who was almost dizzy, suddenly woke up for a moment.

It’s Shen Yan!

It seemed like some kind of instinct from his body told him that Shen Yan could relieve his current uncomfortable condition.

But this inexplicable joy did not last long and soon dissipated.

‘Oh no, Shen Yan is here.’

‘I can’t run away.’