Synthesis of Terror: On the One Thousand and One Ways of Death of the Protagonist

Out of touch with society for 57 years, Ripley can no longer adapt to the current life, he can only do some work as a dock porter.

Parker was originally a spaceship repairman, but over the past 50 years, technology has developed rapidly, and he can no longer understand many things about spaceships. However, his son is still alive, has married a wife and has children, and Parker decided to visit his child.

When he and Ripley were separated, Pike said a long paragraph. He said that the alien thing has passed, so forget it if you have to, and don't trap yourself in the memories of the past.

The bitterness on Ripley's face was even stronger. She couldn't sleep peacefully every night. In her dreams, she was full of terrible scenes of being broken out of her body by alien larvae. She might never forget such a nightmare in her whole life.

Pike left, and Ripley lived his life in a daze. The man named Buck would come to her occasionally, and sometimes he would talk to her about things on planet LV426, and sometimes he would just sit quietly and look at her Work.

Naturally, Ripley would not narcissistically think that Pike fell in love with her. Her biological age was much older than this young man, and she was more than enough to be his grandma.

Time passed by, and Ripley slowly adapted to the current life. She deliberately forgot those tragic memories. Although the effect was not great, it was better than nothing.

A few months later, Buck came to the door with a strange man.

The man Buck brought was Lieutenant Goldman of the colony, and he brought back a bad news: something happened to the colony, and it hadn't been in contact with Earth for a long time.

Ripley remembered the thousands of alien eggs that existed on that planet, and opened and closed the door.

Buck looked at Ripley's slightly haggard face, and felt a little worried in his heart. He just thought of the tasks assigned by the company. Buck's eyes were dim, and he led Lieutenant Goldman into Ripley's simple home.

This apartment is a low-cost apartment provided by the government. The rent is very low. Relatively speaking, the conditions are naturally simple. Except for the most basic things such as beds, tables and chairs, there are no other superfluous things.

Buck's eyes swept around the narrow room in this house. The metal walls made the room look cold, without a trace of popularity. There was no decoration in this room, and it didn't look like home at all.

Ripley noticed Buck's gaze and said casually: "For me, this is just a place to live. I don't have a home anymore."

Buck was very clear about Ripley's matter, and he didn't get too entangled in this issue, and brought up the matter of the colonial planet.

Ripley was unwilling to re-enter the nightmare that was so far away from her. She looked at Buck's handsome face expressionlessly and said, "I'm not an officer anymore, I'm busy, I don't want to to that planet."

Because of Ripley's refusal, the atmosphere in the room was a bit awkward. Lieutenant Goldman wanted to say something, but Buck stopped him. Buck, who had some contact with Ripley, knew exactly what Ripley was worried about.

"The company can help you restore your identity as a flight officer. As long as you go to planet LV426, I can guarantee that the company will help you restore your identity."

Ripley's expression wavered a bit, and Buck continued his efforts, and continued: "The alien has become your nightmare, don't you want to completely wipe out this nightmare?"

This sentence was self-defeating, Ripley immediately changed his face, and unceremoniously drove the two of them out, Buck put a business card on the table, and said: "You can think about it, I will wait for your news at any time. "

Ripley didn't speak, and drove them out with a gloomy face. Lieutenant Gorman was annoyed by Ripley's attitude, turned around and strode away, leaving only Buck standing blankly beside Ripley. in front of the door.

Looking at the metallic door in front of him, Buck felt a strange feeling in his heart. Some fragments appeared in his mind, dimly, indistinctly, as if there was a voice calling out to him over and over again. strange name.

Ford?Who is that?

Every time after meeting Ripley, sporadic images would always appear in Buck's mind, all of which were inexplicable scenes he had never seen before.

A barren planet, a strange spaceship, a bionic man whose head was severed...and, Ripley.

Buck wanted to find out the reason, and kept looking for excuses to get close to Ripley, but Ripley didn't seem to have a good impression of him, and he was always indifferent and had no deep friendship.

Thinking of the task assigned by the company this time, a trace of disgust appeared in Buck's eyes, and he took a deep look at the closed door. Buck didn't stop, turned around and strode away.

Ripley would agree, Buck was sure, so Buck was not surprised when Ripley called in the middle of the night.

"Tell me one thing, Buck."

"You are going this time to eliminate the aliens, not to study them, nor to bring them back, but to destroy them, right?"

Buck looked at Ripley's sweaty face across the screen, his fingers on the bed tightened slightly, and he grabbed the sheet: "Yes, I promise."

Ripley couldn't hide the tired look on her face, and she said, "Okay, I'll go."

After finishing speaking, he turned off the communication, and Buck's expressionless face was reflected on the darkened screen. He slowly let go of his hand, and looked down at the crumpled sky-blue bed sheet that he had scratched.

His wife Emily's even breathing came from behind him, and the expression on Buck's face softened a little, before he bent down and gently kissed his wife's smooth and plump forehead.

The touch under his lips was strangely cold, Buck's eyes flickered slightly, he straightened up, and looked at Emily's familiar face.

She sleeps well.

She always sleeps on her back, with the quilt covering her chest one foot above her chest, no more and no less, no matter whether it is spring, summer, autumn or winter, her arms are always exposed, and her hands are clasped on her abdomen.

Even after a night, her quilt will not be scattered, and the hair under her body is still as neat as when she fell asleep, without any mess.

A strange feeling emerged in his heart, and before Buck could get to the bottom of it, there was a pinprick-like pain in his head, his clear eyes became dull, Buck stood up mechanically, turned to the other side of the bed, and lay down.

***

The company didn't give them much time. Almost on the third day after Ripley agreed, the spacecraft took off and rushed to planet LV426.

To Ripley's surprise, in addition to members of the Marine Corps, Buck, a civilian, was also traveling with him.

Under Ripley's extremely weird gaze, Buck touched his nose, coughed, and explained: "I'm also dealing with some things on the colony planet, and it will be helpful for me to go there."

Ripley was noncommittal, took off his coat, and lay down in the hibernation chamber.

This combat spaceship is much better than Ripley's commercial ship, but it will take about five months to rush to the LV426 planet. Such a long time will naturally use the dormant cabin.

This is Buck's first alien journey, but look at his posture in using the dormant compartment.Ripley had already connected some instruments to his body, and when he turned his head to see Buck's movements, Ripley suddenly asked, "Have you used this before?"

Buck's hands paused a little, and there was some hesitation in his eyes: "Yes, I have never traveled on an interstellar journey before."

"Oh, that's it."

Ripley was not talking, and opened the dormancy chamber, the transparent cover slowly closed, a burst of white smoke emerged, and Ripley had already entered dormancy.

With such an interruption, the surrounding marines went into hibernation one after another, and Buck was the only one who hadn't opened the hibernation cabin in the entire dormancy cabin.

Buck looked at the rows of dormant cabins, and felt that this scene was very familiar. He took off the connected instruments one by one, and walked out of the dormant cabins.

This is a battleship with a lot of weapons and equipment. Most of Buck don't know it well. The battleship is much smaller than ordinary merchant ships. Buck circled around and returned to the dormant cabin.

A tall, brown-haired man stood in front of his hibernation pod, watching him quietly.

"What did you do?"

The man asked, but Buck didn't answer, looking at the tall man in black robe.

He didn't see this man just now, so it can be seen that he is not from the Marine Corps. Buck suddenly remembered the identity of this man. When the people on the spaceship go into sleep, there must be a bionic person to observe the situation.

This man is the bionic man on this battleship, Bishop.

"It's nothing, I just wandered around, and now I'm going to enter the hibernation chamber."

As Buck said, he walked to his dormant cabin, raised his head slightly, and looked at the man who was a head taller than him: "Trouble, please make way."

The bishop looked at Buck very strangely. He seemed to want to say something, but seeing Buck's appearance, he didn't say anything, and silently took a step aside.

Buck smiled at the bishop, thanked him, and lay down in the dormant cabin. The transparent cover slowly closed, and faint smoke filled the cabin, and Buck's consciousness gradually became blurred.

The bishop stood in front of Buck's dormancy chamber, staring at the man in dormancy, and muttered to himself, "Bionic man, why do you want to dormant?"

He couldn't figure it out, and there was no instruction in the program to ask him to investigate the reason. The bishop stopped paying attention to Buck in the dormant cabin, turned around and left the dormant cabin.

There are still five months to reach the destination, and he wants to find some entertainment to pass this long time.

***

The spaceship was about to reach its destination, and the dormant compartment opened automatically, and the people lying in it quickly woke up.

Everyone is a member of the Marine Corps, and their physical fitness is quite good. Apart from some discomfort at the beginning, they recovered quickly after coming out of the dormant cabin.

Ripley got up and subconsciously glanced at Buck next to him. His eyes were closed tightly and he didn't show any sign of waking up. Ripley couldn't help feeling a little worried. He walked over and touched his arm lightly: "Buck , wake up, Buck? Buck?"

The sleeping man suddenly opened his eyes, and his right hand was raised as fast as lightning, grabbing Ripley's wrist.

Ripley looked at the emotionless eyes, startled in her heart, and the sharp pain from her wrist made her snort: "Buck, what are you doing? Let me go!"

A hint of warmth gradually returned to the cold pupils. Buck seemed to have just woken up. He was startled when he saw himself holding Ripley's hand. He withdrew his arm abruptly and looked at Ripley's face anxiously. He stammered: "I'm sorry, I didn't mean it, and I don't know why it happened..."

On Ripley's white wrist, five finger prints were shocking, showing how much effort Buck had used just now.

Goldman noticed the situation here, and walked over. Seeing the fingerprints on Ripley's hand, Goldman froze for a moment, and looked at Buck who was still lying there in astonishment: "You did it?"

Such a thin man who seems to be able to poke him down with a single finger actually has such great strength?What are you kidding?

The surrounding marines were attracted by what happened here, put down what they were doing and surrounded them. When they saw the fingerprints on Ripley's hand, everyone was amazed. Originally, these people looked down on Buck, but look at him With such a fragile appearance, but with such great strength, everyone's perception of him has improved a bit.

The medical soldiers helped Ripley deal with the wound on his hand, and Buck followed Ripley's side, wanting to explain something, but looked at Ripley's indifferent face, but didn't know what to say.

In the end, it was Ripley who spoke up, expressing that he didn't care about the matter, and then revealed the matter.

This episode was quickly forgotten, and everyone entered the restaurant for dinner.

Hudson teased the bishop, but was taught a lesson by the bishop. He was immediately persuaded, obediently daring not to speak provocatively again.

Buck saw the white liquid oozing from the bishop's wound, his face changed slightly, something surged out of his mind, his face changed suddenly, and he covered his head that was in pain as if it was about to burst.

Some chaotic memories appeared in his mind, and those deliberately tampered and erased memories returned to his mind. When the pain subsided, the expression on Buck's face had completely changed.

Everything happened between lightning and flint, Buck recovered his memory, and Ripley attacked the bishop, all happened at the same time.

Buck, that is, Qin Yue stared blankly at the angry Ripley, and swallowed what she originally wanted to say.

After Ashe's incident, Ripley hated the bionic man, even if the bishop wasn't Ashe, Ripley still didn't like him.

Qin Yue rubbed her swollen brows, and gave a wry smile. Now is really not a good time to recognize each other. You know, she is also a bionic person transformed by Welland Company. Ripley probably won't treat her like that. How much favor.

Just recovering her memory, Qin Yue's mind was still a little confused. After she was rescued back to Earth, the Welland Company took her back, changed her face, made a new body for her, and changed her program to make her think, I am a man named Buck.

The main chip was changed, and even Qin Yue's memory had problems. Only now did she recover her original memory.

Where did Elizabeth go, Qin Yue didn't know, seven years had passed since they were rescued, and she had completely changed her appearance, even Elizabeth might not recognize her anymore.

Thinking of that strong and brave woman, Qin Yue sighed, feeling a little sad, and wondered if they would have a chance to meet again.

Compared with these, what is more important is the immediate matter.

Qin Yue has personally seen the alien eggs on the planet LV426. Now that the planet has lost contact, that planet may have fallen, but now I don’t know how many aliens exist on that planet. There are more than [-] of them. Although there are powerful Fire support, but facing an unknown number of aliens, the outcome is really unpredictable.

In particular, the purpose of the company this time is to bring back as much alien research as possible, the people on the colony planet, and the life and death of these marines, the company doesn't care at all.

Qin Yue couldn't understand why these people from Welland Company were so mad. In the eyes of those high-level people, human life was not as good as unknown alien creatures. It was like this on Ripley's spaceship back then, and it's still like this now on this colonial planet. .

After the meal, everyone gathered in the weapons room for a meeting.

These marines didn't even know what the purpose of their visit was.

Qin Yue is well aware of the horror of the aliens. The aliens may not be able to use weapons, but their defense is extremely high, and they have high intelligence. A single human can only be killed in seconds when facing them.

"The blood of the alien juveniles is highly acidic, which can easily corrode the bulkhead of the spaceship. They will use humans as hosts and lay alien eggs."

"The alien shape develops very quickly. It takes only one hour from laying eggs to the alien shape breaking out of the body, and it takes no more than two hours to grow into an adult body."

"The adult aliens are twice the size of humans. They are very powerful and can easily break through the bulkhead. It is unknown whether the blood is strongly acidic."

Looking at Buck who was telling the marines about the horror of the alien, Ripley felt a strange feeling in his heart. Buck seemed to have seen the alien with his own eyes and fought against the alien.

He even knew something she didn't know. Ripley looked at Buck who was standing not far away, his eyes darkened.

The Welland Company probably knew about the existence of the Alien for a long time.

Qin Yue's expression was too serious, she explained everything about the alien clearly, and these people couldn't help but believe it. People who were a little careless about this mission all became serious.

"This is related to the safety of everyone present. I hope you can firmly remember what I said. Don't be a hero in the face of aliens. Even if you are all elite fighters of the Marine Corps, don't take risks! Don't take risks! Don't take risks! I hope Everyone can return to Earth safely."

The author has something to say: there are still about five chapters left in the alien part, skip the third part, go directly to the fourth part, and then enter the next story, do you have any good suggestions~~~~~~~~~