"Hundreds?!" Ada exclaimed in shock, quickly adding, "Let me have a look!"
Bai Youwei, leading the way, said, "Then keep your voices down, don't let those little aliens down there hear... These things are really disgusting, they can crawl so fast just after being born..."
She muttered under her breath, moving forward.
Shen Mo followed behind her to a ventilation opening. Through the vertical, lattice-like partition, he saw beneath him a marsh of even thicker, mud-like mucus. Eggs were encased within it, some already broken open, with small aliens emerging, their heads large and bodies slender.
These newly hatched aliens scurried around like cockroaches, agile and sharp-toothed, occasionally tearing off pieces of eggshells to eat, growing at an alarming rate.
But it seemed they could not walk upright, probably because their limbs were not yet strong enough to support their disproportionately large heads.
