"Okay! Let's go!"
Bevin finally made up his mind and planned to give it a try.
The two of them opened the door and walked out with the gentlest movements in their lives, arriving in front of the central control room twenty meters away.
The door to the central control room was still closed at this time, but Bevin and Reddy were both astronauts on the new Apollo 1, so they could easily open it.
First, they looked inside for a long time. When they saw that there were no monsters, they continued to set off.
"Buzz buzz~"
As the command was input, the heavy valve made a slight sound and slowly opened.
The two people watching this scene were anxious, feeling that a monster might rush behind them at any time, like a light on their backs.
"Gululu~roar!"
Sure enough, out of fear, an unpleasant cry suddenly sounded from behind. The monster was alerted by the sound and had already rushed over.
"Hurry up!!"
Bevin screamed anxiously, and before the valve could continue to expand, he and Reddy squeezed in together.
"boom!"
From behind, a dull crashing sound came.
At the critical moment, the valve closed again, and the black monster hit it head-on and failed to rush in.
“Dong dong dong dong!!”
The previous knocking sound sounded again, accompanied by the harsh noise of sharp carapace scraping against metal.
The valve in the central control room is not as fragile as the one in the locker room. At least for now, there is no way to get in with this monster's method.
Seeing this, the two finally breathed a sigh of relief.
"It, it shouldn't be able to get in..."
Bevin collapsed on the ground, panting heavily. The frightening moment just now almost scared his soul out.
"Yes, that's right... This door is a safety valve. It's stronger than the cabin of a spaceship. It shouldn't be able to get in..."
Ruidi wasn't much better either. He lay there like mud, his whole body soaked in cold sweat.
"Let's go quickly. There should be a few spacesuits on the lunar rover, just in time to put them on and leave..."
After a moment, Bevin stood up with difficulty.
The movement outside disappeared, and the monster seemed to know that it could not break through the door, and gave up its pursuit of the two.
At this moment, the surroundings fell into an eerie silence again.
Ruidi ran to the valve and watched for a while, and then he breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that the other party had really left.
Recalling the scene I just experienced, I couldn't help but feel a sense of fear.
"That guy seems to be bigger than at the beginning... He's now over two meters tall. Is it because... he ate Hersey... Is it evolving...?"
"I don't know... these must be the creatures living on the moon. They followed us in... It was us who killed everyone..."
"Impossible! When we came in and out, we went through external valves for pressure regulation and disinfection, and we didn't bring anything back. How could they follow us in? They must have been lurking on the ship before, and they didn't hatch until now, just like the aliens It’s the same inside!”
"What kind of aliens are there! These monsters must be alien creatures on the moon. Have you forgotten those holes in the ground? They must have come out of the ground! Think about it, when the external valve of the spacecraft is depressurizing, The vents on both sides then opened, and these guys must have gotten in through the vents at that time!"
"..."
The surrounding crisis was temporarily lifted, and the two began to argue about the appearance of the monster again.
This is not to say that they have to distinguish right from wrong at this time. In fact, the two of them are in a tense mental state at this time, and they need to relieve it in this way.
After a brief debate, the two sides finally stopped and turned off the flames.
However, there is no consensus on how the monster appears.
Of course, none of this is important anymore. What is important is how they can escape now.
"Bevin! Wait a minute!"
Ruidi suddenly called out to his companion.
Then, in the latter's puzzled eyes, he pointed to the valve at the other end of the central control room.
"What's wrong?"
"Look there...the door is closed...the door we came in through is also closed...then...where did the original monster inside go...?"
As soon as these words came out, Bevin seemed to be petrified in an instant, and his whole person froze in place as if he had been struck by lightning.
Yes, since the two doors at the entrance and exit are closed, where did the monsters inside go?
You know, when they first escaped here, they saw three black monsters inside.
The few pools of blood on the ground now are enough to show that the two of them were not dazzled before, and they were indeed attacked by monsters here.
Otherwise, Lacey and the others would not have died quietly inside without even having time to send out a distress signal.
But the two of them did observe carefully before entering, and only came in after ensuring that it was safe inside.
So now the question is, since there are no monsters inside and the door is closed, how did they sneak in before?
A bone-deep chill suddenly enveloped the two of them, making them feel as if they had fallen into an ice cave.
"Reddy...you just said...how did these guys get into the spacecraft...?"
Bevin seemed to realize something suddenly, and asked with some stuttering.
Ruidi was also frightened to the point of confusion at this time, and subconsciously replied:
"They should have gotten in from the pressure relief valve and ventilation duct, just when we were entering and exiting the spacecraft..."
Speaking of what happened next, he suddenly reacted and looked at his companions with a horrified look on his face.
To be precise, it was the ground in front of my companion.
There, streaks of transparent mucus dripped from above, and some of it even poured on Bevin's head, making the latter tremble with fear.
"Click click click click..."
His upper and lower jaws trembled uncontrollably. Ruidi raised his head little by little and looked at the top of the other person's head.
There, a terrifying black monster was hanging upside down from the ceiling, staring unblinkingly at the two people below. The white mucus was its saliva.
"ah!!!"
Wails of despair and pain echoed throughout the new Apollo 1.
The two young astronauts were not able to escape from this desperate situation like the protagonists in the movie.
The swarming monsters didn't give them any chance to resist, and quickly devoured the two of them.
Fortunately, they didn't do nothing before they died.
Reddy used his last breath to press the emergency button of the spacecraft, allowing the alarm to be successfully sent to the command hall of the NASA Aerospace Center.
But this button is more symbolic than practical.
Even if an alarm is sent, due to the current conditions in the United States, there is no way to send a rescue team to the moon to rescue people. Most of them can only be used as a death notice.
In front of the command podium, Lu En was looking at the red warning light in front of him with a livid face, and his mood was already freezing.
Although it is not yet certain what happened to the new Apollo 1, he knows the meaning of the alarm.
Even when the spacecraft has a secondary failure, the astronauts will not press this button easily.
Once this button is activated, it means that the spacecraft has entered an irreversible situation.
Various instruments will stop unnecessary operations, mobilize information resources at maximum power, and then send them to the satellites of the NASA Aerospace Center.
This is a black box-like method that allows people on the ground to understand how the spacecraft crashed.
At this moment, the entire command hall was silent and silent.
Everyone had an expression of disbelief, looking at the dazzling red warning light that kept flashing.
They can't accept this.
Obviously everything was fine just now, everything has been going well all along.
The lunar rover even discovered a passage hundreds of meters deep, and the secrets behind the moon will soon be deciphered.
But at this moment, a thunderbolt struck from the blue, catching everyone off guard without any warning.
The exploration team ahead was about to produce results, but as a result, they were told that their hometown behind them was gone. How could this be accepted?
Sure enough, after a brief silence, there was a flood of exclamations.
"It's impossible," "it's fake," "the system is wrong," and the list goes on.
Lu En had a cold face, and his mood was so bad that he wanted to sew all these guys' mouths shut.
People at the Aerospace Center may not know it, but as the director of the Hurricane Bureau, he is very aware of the capabilities of those monsters.
If my previous guess is true, then the new Apollo 1 is very likely to have fallen.
I thought I would be able to find the secret of Longinus' Spear this time.
But what I didn't expect was that such a huge plan, with so much manpower and material resources invested in the new Apollo 1, was declared destroyed after only two days of landing on the moon.
It was because of Lu En's concentration that he felt a little dizzy at the moment.
"No...no! We haven't completely failed yet! We still have a chance!"
Suddenly, Lu En raised his head and stared at the location of the moon base on the big screen.
"Although the New Apollo Project has failed, the Longinus Project is still there! Hurry! Inform Ramsey that there is a alien attack in their area, and prepare for battle! Fully protect!"
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At the same time, on the other side, in the moon base.
Tony Michelit Ramsey also received a red alert from the new Apollo 1.
In an instant, everyone in the room was stunned. Their expressions were exactly the same as those of the people at the aviation center before, and they were even more horrified.
After all, unlike people on the ground, they are immersed in it.
There are still many supplies on the new Apollo 1 that have not had time to be transported.
Now that the spacecraft is destroyed, it means that they have become rootless duckweeds here and have no living supplies. In the space environment, it is simply a death sentence for them.
"Captain, there is news from the command center that the new Apollo 1 is likely to be destroyed by alien species. Let us prepare for protection..."
On the side, safety officer Ottos said with a pale face.
Of course he knew what the aliens were. He had even served in the Hurricane Team before and had personally fought against those monsters.
But the more you know, the more scared you become.
Those guys are still difficult to deal with on Aquamarine, let alone the moon.
At this time, the spider robot that was sent to explore underground also made some movement, and a new picture could be seen uploaded back to the display screen.
Different from the previous narrow passage, what is now in front of everyone is an extremely huge underground cavity.
At a glance, everything is endless darkness, and it is impossible to see to the end.
At a glance, the size of this cavity is no less than a few hundred meters, and it is actually a super underground world hidden underground.
It's just that no one is in the mood to pay attention to this right now.
Engineer Odell gave the spider robot an order to stay put, and then switched the screen to the lunar rover on the ground.
"Then, what are those..."
Incredible gasps came from everyone's mouths, and the scene they saw before them was beyond their expectations.
I saw that the ground was covered with dense black holes at some point, just like the hole next to the lunar rover. At a glance, there were no less than a hundred.
At this moment, in front of everyone's eyes, seven or eight ferocious insect beasts covered in black carapace emerged from the hole on the side, swarming towards the new Apollo 1 fifty meters away, like It was like a diner rushing to attend a banquet, full of impatient feelings.
"Bugs...bugs...such big bugs...there is really life on the moon..."
Surveyor Abbott was already stammering and almost speechless.
Although he had made this conjecture at the beginning, when he actually saw that scene with his own eyes, he was still a little unable to accept the reality.
That passage was not left by the movement of the earth's crust hundreds of millions of years ago at all. It was clearly an insect tunnel dug by those insect beasts!
All confusions and doubts were explained at this moment, but everyone in the base couldn't be happier.
The new Apollo 1 is finished, and they are only 2.5 kilometers away from there, and they may become the target of the insect beasts at any time.
In such a short time, hundreds of insect beasts have emerged from the holes on the ground one after another, and the number is still increasing, all rushing towards the new Apollo 1 not far away.
Soon, the new Apollo 1, the most advanced space vehicle in the history of the NANS Aerospace Center, was overwhelmed by the black sea of insects.
The hull made of alloy was torn off like delicate leaves, chewed, and devoured. Those insect beasts actually ate the entire spacecraft directly.
