The members of the action team did not fail to anticipate that someone would dare to attack them. It was just that the original vigilance was mostly worn away by repeated failures. Even if there was still some, it was all used on the aliens. They did not expect that humans would use killing moves on them without hesitation. Of course, this was also related to the fact that the members of the action team were all wearing power armor suits. Although this armor suit seemed a bit useless against the claws of the aliens, it was not afraid of the civilian-grade weapons stored in the space station. At least they knew that unless they approached the vital points, they would never be able to kill with one blow. They were professional scavengers with powerful weapons and equipment. With a little buffer, they could easily kill the opponent. Unfortunately, they met the alternative Amanda this time. Although the knife made by Robo was hastily made under simple conditions, the technology was there, and the sharpness was far beyond the general concept. It can even be said that if the action team can obtain this knife, then there is no need to obtain the alien egg. Just handing in the knife will get the job done, and it will overflow to meet the above requirements. The main reason is that the material and manufacturing process of this knife have both the characteristics of human technology and contain high-level skills. It is the type that is relatively easy to reverse engineer.
An example of a difficult reverse engineering is the "donut" starship of the Engineer Clan. Although the origin of humans in the Alien Universe is the Engineer Clan, they have a certain inheritance of genetic information. In theory, they will reflect certain convergence characteristics. It is even possible that the skills pointed out by humans are the tree monkey version of the skills of the Engineer Clan. But in fact, the technical differences between the two are enough to discourage capital. It is too expensive to do public relations, and it is also very time-consuming. It takes decades or even hundreds of years of continuous investment, but there is no psychological preparation for sufficient practical feedback. After all, not everyone can be as brilliant as Peter Weyland, the founder of Weyland… In short, the shutdown provided Amanda with more convenience for stealth; the confidence in the equipment and the focus on the alien egg acquisition operation made the mercenaries ignore the threat of the survivors. But when Amanda performed the charge and slash, the mercenary did not even hear the sound of the long sword breaking the wind from behind in time. The mercenary wearing armor was directly split in half by Amanda's shoulder. Beside him, Marcus, who was also wearing armor, only had time to scream half a time before Amanda spun around and chopped off his head. In this way, the two-member action team occupying the main control room of the terminal were ambushed and killed. The key is that the timing is particularly good. The action team just happened to be short of manpower, so the Delta team was withdrawn. Only a technical sergeant and Marcus were here to control Apollo and provide auxiliary services for the action team. Moreover, a large number of workers who originally gathered in this area were also transferred away. All these became a strong foundation for Amanda's success in this operation. Next, Amanda calmly controlled Apollo, monitoring the situation of the action team while trying to obtain a more comprehensive information backup. In the new D area, Rob subconsciously raised his eyebrows when he saw Amanda's performance. He thought to himself: "This Ripley is much more cruel and ruthless than his mother!" It can be understood. After all, Amanda grew up as an orphan who lost her parents. It is not surprising that she has some extreme ideas while she has clear likes and dislikes. And her strong action ability and daring temperament and courage obviously inherited the characteristics of the Ripley family. At the same time, the final acquisition operation of the action team entered a critical stage.
Facts have proved that opening a skylight for the aliens to cool down is still very effective. The originally humid and hot area has now become an ice storage. The aliens are not calm and calm, and they have started the moving mode and ran into the action team head-on. Now, there is no need to go deep into the nest, just grab the eggs from the aliens. Another advantage of the action team is that the action team constantly learns from the lessons of failure. This time, they no longer use clumsy heavy power armor, but use temporary rubber tower shields. With the production, manufacturing and maintenance capabilities of the Adventurer, it is actually easy to make such a thing. The laborious part is that the materials are not easy to collect. But forced by objective reality, the mercenaries are still more willing to spend this effort, rather than gamble their lives. This account can be calculated. So the metal plate tower shield wrapped with rubber is available. Of course, its cutting and hitting resistance is not much stronger than the armored suit material. The alien's claws can tear it off like a piece of paper in a few strokes. But this is not tearing on a person after all. With this buffer, the alien will not be hit by just a few bullets. Especially when the shield wall is formed by combined forces. When the two sides start to tear, the actual situation is more optimistic. When they produced this shield, they had already considered the harsh conditions of decompression and temperature loss on the battlefield. Therefore, rubber does not become hard and brittle and lose its proper performance in a low temperature environment. However, the acid blood of the aliens and the acid sprayed by the new alien species are seriously affected by temperature. To put it bluntly, the acid corrosion is an organic chemical reaction. In a sufficiently low temperature environment, the activity of organic matter is obviously low. In short, one of the killer weapons of the aliens has become not so good. The equipment of the action team has obviously taken a step forward in terms of targeting. As one rises and the other falls, the threat of the aliens has also decreased. This drop gave the mercenaries of the action team more time to unleash their firepower, and their confidence returned. They also showed their skills and entered a positive cycle. Therefore, the action team fought well in four consecutive encounters. It's just that the aliens are very well organized. As long as the queen is alive, there is no such thing as the team being defeated due to heavy casualties. The death of the alien warriors in front does not prevent the alien worker bees behind from doing what they should do. For a while, the action team was unable to break through the front line and snatch the alien eggs carried by the worker bees. "Hold on! Hold on! Kill all their living combat power, and the alien eggs will be taken away at will. Be careful not to fall into their trap..."
The more this kind of fat meat is in front of his mouth but he can't eat it, the more calm and experienced Adams is. He has seen the wisdom of the aliens, ambushing and digging pits, that's really good. The action team finally found a little bit of the feeling of lotus step by step, but they can't fall into trouble because of rushing for success. So the mercenaries suppressed their impatience and advanced steadily under the leadership of Adams.
"Claws call Hawkeye, calculate the best interception point immediately, we have to split the alien's transport chain into two!" Adams sent an information assistance request to the terminal. 'Squeak! Squeak...' Amanda guessed that Adams was contacting this side, but she didn't dare to speak at all, as she would be exposed as soon as she spoke, so she made some electric current sounds for the other party to hear. "Damn! Nuclear reactor leak? The electromagnetic radiation is not high!" Adams took a look at the relevant monitoring data and complained in his heart that the chain was broken at the critical moment. However, there is no butcher Zhang, and there is no need to eat hairy pigs. The structural diagram of Area B has long been stored in the computer system of each soldier's armored suit. He can manually call it out and plan it, and he can also calculate a rough idea. It's nothing more than a waste of time, and he feels that things have developed to this point, so this little time is not bad. Of course, this is an illusion. In fact, this is the real race against time. Amanda used this time to complete the information packaging and transmit it to the communication station terminal. In addition, because she was wary of Samuel, she was more careful and copied an extra copy on a mobile hard drive. In addition, she also asked Apollo to package and transmit the new and immediately obtained battlefield information every three minutes. The most important thing is that she locked Apollo's authorization authority. The authority structure of Sevastopol's central AI is also a bit complicated. Using Windows substitution as an example, since Higson was acquired by Wieland Tangu, the administrator authority of the space station has been in the hands of Wieland Tangu. Whether it is Marcus or the so-called top-level authority ID in Amanda's hands, they are actually users in the Users group. But Marcus has a bit of hacker flavor. Before Higson was acquired, he had already obtained the real highest authority and left a backdoor. Although this backdoor cannot allow him to regain all the administrator's authority in a blink of an eye, it can also use the loophole to do something. For example, the modification of the work Joe base rules. He can change it back when necessary, and then blame Work Joe's killing behavior on the old model and logical failure. This trick may not be used, but more planning wins, less planning loses, and being fully prepared can hold on when problems arise. This is also the basic operation of a shrewd person. As a result, this "corpse counting grass" met Amanda, a female man who beat the master to death with random punches. Without saying a word, she chopped off her head. At this time, Apollo's permission lock has been released, and Amanda only needs to use it and go with the flow. In this case, unless the Weyland Tanggu Company sends someone with the highest permission key to take over, or Marcus is resurrected, otherwise after the AI permission is locked again, even Amanda herself cannot make deep changes again, let alone others. Therefore, Amanda is now the owner of the space station. Even if she leaves the terminal, she can order Apollo to assist her through the human-computer interaction system everywhere. In this way, with the help of Apollo and Worker Joe, Amanda repaired Marcus's armored suit, put it on herself, and then entered Area B from the Central (Terminal)-B Channel. It was really a direct and fast breakthrough, because with the assistance of Apollo, the position of the action team could be confirmed immediately, and there was no worry of being discovered. More importantly, through Apollo, Worker Joe, and the wiring system, Amanda successfully captured the traces of the alien.
Therefore, Adams's conservatism became a feint to help Amanda attract the attention of the alien. Amanda's infiltration flow successfully snatched the alien egg from the alien worker bee with no combat special ability. It must be said that the thinking consciousness that Robo opened for Amanda was a bit big. When she was wearing a simple homemade exoskeleton, it was not very prominent. When she changed into a power armor suit, the shortcomings of strength and agility were immediately made up, and there were various monitoring and intelligence information to assist, which made Amanda, who was instilled with good knife skills, kill randomly. Although she only had three tricks, she was lucky. The team stepped on all the new and experimental aliens. She faced old aliens, so the knowledge that Robo had taught her came in handy. She didn't even encounter an alien guard, but got an alien egg. Also, thanks to the knowledge imparted by Rob, Amanda knew the conditions for the activation of the facehugger by the alien eggs. Therefore, she could just pick it up and leave like picking up a courier package, without being too cautious. The action team did not have these advantages. After finally intercepting a batch of alien eggs, the facehuggers all jumped out and launched a nearly suicidal attack as soon as the ‘petals’ opened. Not to mention, relying on their small size and large number, the effect was quite good. The action team was in a panic, using a cannon to hit a mosquito, but there was still one unlucky guy who was successfully hugged by the facehugger. The invasion principle of the facehugger is to tighten the long tail, suffocate and instinctively open the mouth, and then successfully deliver the cub. However, the neck protection of the armored suit is a frame + module, a cylindrical hard shell, which cannot be tightened at all. Therefore, even if it can break through the helmet visor, it is not easy to make the target open its mouth. What's more, the armored suit's visor is weapon-grade, and its ability to withstand explosive fragments is not bad, which is better than the helmet visor of ordinary space suits in terms of protection. The tongue of an adult alien is comparable to that of a bullet, and it may be able to poke a hole, but the face hugger really does not have the ability to break the shell. Of course, this can also be adjusted, but at least the batch of face huggers faced by the action team do not have such ability. The action team escaped without danger, but encountered a new situation when they saw the alien eggs. The alien eggs are not hairy eggs, nor are they fresh eggs, but have a mechanism to fight back autonomously, and even die rather than surrender. This point was not expected by the action team in advance. Their main source of relevant information in advance was Marcus. Marcus did not see the entire process of the alien parasitism. He just used the authority of the central AI to see some things through the monitoring system, knew the existence of the eggs, and thought that the alien was a regular egg-laying hatch. This wrong cognition was also taken over by everyone in the action team. After all, it is easier to understand this way, especially since the alien has a bit of the shadow of the velociraptor from a certain perspective. As a result, with the twists and turns in front of us, making a joke is secondary, the key is to waste time. Amanda used the time very well. The action was not dragged out at all, and even the professional equipment was prepared by Apollo and 3D printing by Worker Joe. After the alien eggs were obtained, they were packed directly. She knew very well that the alien eggs did not need to be refrigerated at low temperatures. The eggs themselves were a safe house. The face huggers had enough ability to control the environment in the safe house and adapt to the external environment. As long as the environment was not too extreme, the face huggers could maintain sufficient activity for a long time. Therefore, this box mainly features isolation and shock absorption. After the eggs are placed in it, the synapses will directly stabilize the eggs from six directions, but they are also flexible enough to ensure that the forces in the easy directions will first pass through the hydraulic buffer of the synapses. Then, Amanda carried the box and went straight to the communication station. Also, she used the Work Joes not to kill them, but to let them help her prepare or arrange. For example, she prepared explosives to replace explosives, so that the explosive separation capability of the drifting cabin plan could be implemented. For example, she asked the Work Joes to transport explosives to Area B and place them in key positions, so that they could remotely control the explosion and cause trouble for the aliens and even the action team. In short, as the owner of the space station, Amanda is no longer alone, but has a team that obeys her orders.
In this situation, Adams still thought that time was on his side, which was very sad...