It was a creature covered with dark brown bristles, and its appearance was similar to the prototype of the "wolf spider" all-terrain mecha, but it had eight pairs of limbs on both sides of its body, exactly twice as many as a wolf spider.

"...Huh, it was just a false alarm." The old dog let out a long sigh and turned off the energy shield.

They are not unfamiliar with this kind of creature. In addition to Leviathan, it can often be seen in some ruins with dark and humid environments. This creature is named "dark spider" by biologists. Dark spiders are afraid of light and people. Although the bristles covering their body surface carry paralyzing toxins and the jaws as mouthparts have strong bite force, their aggressiveness is very weak. Since the discovery of this creature, there has never been an incident of dark spiders actively attacking humans.

This terrifying-looking insect is actually one of the most docile creatures on Alpha. They mainly feed on fluorescent moss that grows in the radiation zone and rarely hunt living things. They are at the bottom of the food chain on Alpha.

After being startled by the strong light of the flare, the dark spider quickly fled into the depths of the tunnel.

"Strange." Ke Lan said.

"What's so strange?" The old dog turned his head and looked at him puzzledly.

"If the territory ahead is that of those unknown creatures, why are there dark spiders here? Aren't these insects on their menu?"

"Maybe you don't like these two ounces of meat?"

"No, the food in the depths of the mine must be very scarce, otherwise those unknown creatures would not have looted all the bodies of the fallen." Ke Lan shook his head, "Unless...they are not eating those bodies..."

"If I don't need to eat it, then could it be..." The old dog swallowed a mouthful of saliva with some difficulty, "Okay, stop talking, I get it, I'm afraid I'll vomit what I just ate."

Besides food, the most common use of corpses is as "reproduction resources."

Many Alpha native creatures would lay their eggs inside the bodies of corpses, using the temperature generated by the fermentation of the corpses to help hatch them. Moreover, when their next generation emerged from the eggshells, the heavily decayed corpse tissue would become a source of nutrition for the rapid growth of these young...

Except for the old dog, the faces of the other people were also a little pale... Obviously, similar scenes also appeared in their minds.

"I don't want to become like that. If I die accidentally, please burn my body." Layton muttered in a low voice.

"Don't say unlucky words. I don't have time to cremate you." The old dog cursed.

"Keep moving forward. Stop guessing. There's no point in scaring yourself." Ke Lan took a deep breath and continued to walk to the front of the team.

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The last fifty meters of the tunnel in the mining area was almost blocked by various debris. These obstacles were all created by the third exploration team. When they fled here, they moved almost everything that could be moved in the mining area: ore cutters, discarded gas cylinders, bundles of polymer pipes and cables, and carts for transporting ore... Every time Ke Lan and his team moved forward one meter, they had to spend a lot of time clearing the road, especially those discarded gas cylinders. No one knew whether there was any unused flammable gas left in them. In Lao Gou's words, "Moving these things feels like moving bombs..."

"I don't know how that crazy guy got out of here..." Layton said as he used the welding gun on his mechanical arm to cut the metal frame of a heavy machine, "Why is there no space here for a person to pass through?"

"It's possible that it was there before, but that person reinforced the obstacle again after coming over, so it became what we see now." Ke Lan raised the arm of the power armor, and on his fingertips, there were some iron-gray debris - this is a common quick-drying metal glue, usually loaded in sprinklers, it can harden quickly after oxidation in contact with air, and is used for joining metal parts. Although the strength is not as good as welding, it is more convenient and quick.

The large metal rack in front of him that blocked the tunnel tightly was made of the outer frames of several machines glued together. Iron-gray glue stains were splashed everywhere, showing how panicked and nervous the man was when he was spraying the glue.

"In my opinion, these obstacles they built are useless except for causing us trouble... The acid of those things is so strong, I can spray them a few times. If these things can last for more than ten seconds, I will consider them powerful-Kurwa!!"

Before the old dog could even utter the word "harm" in his "powerful" words, a Polish curse came out instead!

If it weren't for the power armor supporting his back, he would have probably fallen backwards to the ground...

"What's wrong?" Ke Lan looked towards the old dog in a hurry. She saw a severely decayed head pressed under a heavy bundle of cables. The entire facial bones were severely deformed, and the two eyeballs were gone. Only two black eye sockets were left. Due to the strange angle of the head, it looked as if it was turning its head to stare at them...

"Fuck!" Although he had prepared himself mentally, Ke Lan was still so scared that he couldn't help but spit out the word "fuck". It was indeed terrifying that this thing suddenly appeared in front of him. No wonder the old dog was scared out of his mother tongue.

"Fuck his grandma's legs! Who the hell stuffed a dead person's head in here?" Being so scared by the head, the old dog felt a little embarrassed. Just when he grabbed the head and wanted to throw it back, Ke Lan grabbed his arm in time.

"Calm down, old dog," Ke Lan said quickly, "...This may be the only body left of the victim! Ivan, come over and take a look. What killed this guy?"

"Wait a moment." Ivan nodded to Ke Lan, took out a pair of gloves from his pocket and put them on, took the horrible head from the old dog's hand, and examined it carefully.

"There are multiple fractures in the skull and facial bones, probably caused by blunt force... It could also be due to being squeezed by a heavy object. There are lacerations in the eye sockets, which means his eyes were dug out by claws or something like that... The cervical vertebrae are tensile fractured, and the muscles and skin in the neck are severely rotten, but the traces of tearing can still be distinguished..." Ivan suddenly took a breath and said, "This head was torn off the neck by brute force!"