Sure enough, wearing plastic gloves and collecting blood from the monster's body with a plastic bucket did not cause corrosion.
Everyone was stunned. The biologist worshipfully asked, "Mr. Xiao, do you know this creature?"
"I haven't seen it, but I've seen this liquid."
Su Xiang hurried over upon hearing that Xiao Xun had returned and recounted everything that had happened here to Xiao Xun.
Xiao Xun nodded. "Is there any surveillance?"
"Only in the corridor."
"Just this one?"
Su Xiang nodded. "So far, no other suspicious species have been found."
"Alright, I understand. Perhaps, our victory or defeat hinges on it."
Su Xiang looked puzzled. "Don't be fooled by this monster's large head; I feel it has very little intelligence and is extremely aggressive."
"It's obvious that this is an alien creature. If we can find its home planet and refine the highly corrosive blood within its body, it might be of great use."
"That won't be easy to find; this is an extraterrestrial visitor. Who knows which planet it flew from."
"Alright, let's not talk about this. Has the training for the adapters begun?"
Su Xiang checked his watch. "It's late at night, what training are we doing?"
"To build courage..."
"Why?"
Xiao Xun explained to Su Xiang, "We are facing aliens. If they all looked like Chu Ningxiang, it would be fine. But if they all look like this monster, or even uglier, wouldn't we lose before the fight even begins!"
Su Xiang nodded. "That makes sense."
"And I heard that alien attacks, besides physical attacks, also include mental attacks. We must pay attention to this as well."
Su Xiang was very curious. "How do they attack mentally?"
"Have you heard of fear, panic, and breakdown?"
Su Xiang suddenly realized. "This is a mental attack?"
"Yes, the main method is through hallucinations."
"How do we train for this?"
Xiao Xun patted Su Xiang's arm. "Find the best psychologists to create a mental barrier for our pilots."
After saying that, he returned to his office.
He lay on the sofa and called his parents. The reply was still the same, "The number you have dialed is temporarily unavailable. Please try again later..."
"Where did they go? Did they block me? That shouldn't be the case!"
As Xiao Xun was suspecting, there was a knock on his office door.
Xiao Xun called out, "Come in."
Then he sat up, and at this moment, the guard captain walked in.
"Mr. Xiao..."
Xiao Xun saw the guard captain's serious expression and knew that something urgent had happened.
"What's wrong?"
"That alien escaped."
Xiao Xun stood up in shock, directly went to the confinement room, and looked at the corroded iron door, furious. "What's going on? Where are the guards?"
Seeing that no one was speaking, the guard captain had to say, "The situation was urgent at the time, and the team members were concerned about the safety of the base, so..."
Xiao Xun calmed down instead. "Did you search?"
"We did. A vehicle is missing from the base. According to the surveillance, this vehicle has ascended to the ground and driven out of the base."
"It seems there are still security flaws."
As he spoke, he took out his phone and dialed a number. "Hello? This is Xiao Xun. You've been exposed, hurry up and leave."
"Mr. Xiao, your call is too late..."
Chu Ningxiang's voice came from the earpiece.
"What have you done with my people?"
"I have to say, you really have your ways. I almost couldn't recognize the disguised person. But I'll tell you, we of the Tuoluo tribe have a special skill called 'face kneading'."
"What is face kneading?"
"It's being able to change one's face into any desired appearance, for example, into your appearance."
Xiao Xun glanced at everyone, his brow furrowed. "What do you really want?"
"I originally wanted to play for a few more years, but since you are so eager for your queen, I will have to act sooner."
After saying that, she hung up the phone.
Xiao Xun, enraged, smashed the phone in his hand, then calmed himself down. "This is not your fault; I was too careless. That alien knows disguise, she disguised herself as me, so you couldn't..."
Xiao Xun stopped mid-sentence and extended his hand. Everyone was confused. "Phone, give me my phone."
The guard captain quickly handed him the phone. Xiao Xun dialed 'z's number, but it showed that the number you have dialed is switched off.
Xiao Xun quickly asked the technical department to find Chu Ningxiang's number and called it.
"Hello? Who is it!"
Xiao Xun's face was grim. "Stop pretending, I know you are not Chu Ningxiang at all. Where is the real Chu Ningxiang?"
"I thought it was someone else, but it's Mr. Xiao! But you're really slow. How can you determine that I'm not the real Chu Ningxiang?"
"Since you can shape your face into mine, you can shape it into hers."
"Hahaha..., your reason is also valid, but you guessed wrong. This old lady is Chu Ningxiang, and I've been called this name since I was in the womb. Put away your little tricks and accept the judgment of doomsday!"
Just as Xiao Xun was hung up on, Su Xiang's voice came from the broadcast, "Mr. Xiao, come to the command center quickly, Mr. Xiao, come to the command center quickly."
Xiao Xun returned the phone to the guard captain and asked him to take out his SIM card and replace it with a new one.
When he arrived at the command center, he saw a solemn Su Xiang.
"Brother Xiang, what's wrong?"
Su Xiang pointed at the large screen and asked the staff to zoom in. On the far side of the moon, a square cuboid was slowly emerging and heading directly towards the Blue Star.
Xiao Xun made a decisive decision. "Quickly report this to headquarters, then have people from various areas take their original people away, and all residents in the urban areas should move into air-raid shelters."
Su Xiang nodded. "I'll report it immediately."
Xiao Xun picked up a special microphone. "Attention all personnel, Area Eight is entering Level One combat readiness. All non-combat personnel, please withdraw to designated civil defense facilities. All combat personnel, prepare for battle. Target: Sky, unidentified cuboid flying object."
Air raid sirens blared in various cities, and the streets were in chaos. Many people drove towards the countryside, causing numerous stampedes and traffic accidents along the way.
However, some people believed the air raid sirens were fake and stayed at home, eating and drinking as usual, paying no mind to it.
"It was clear skies just now, why did it suddenly get dark?"
Everyone looked up. A huge spaceship was floating above Area Eight. This behemoth could be seen in different cities.
Although there had been traces of aliens before, seeing it up close with the naked eye was still astonishing.
"There really are aliens in this world."
A beam of laser light shone down, and a tall skyscraper instantly turned into a pile of sand, moving extremely fast, leaving no time for reaction.
However, the people inside the building were all unharmed, but they were scared stiff. They scrambled out of the sand and headed for the nearest civil defense tunnel.
The country mobilized all its forces. Ground-to-air missiles, intercontinental missiles, and even nuclear weapons were unable to damage the spaceship's light shield.
Xiao Xun looked at the large screen, his eyes deep. "It seems conventional weapons cannot effectively attack the opponent's spaceship."
Su Xiang was extremely excited. "I didn't expect us to be fighting aliens so soon."