Three seconds after the question was asked, the Alien Intelligent Individual began to move.
It swiftly surged toward the nearest ring of parasites and began devouring them.
Three, five, ten, twenty, fifty...
Sweat was already beading on the questioner's forehead. He knew the price of this question would certainly be far greater than something like "What is your name?"
But judging by the speed at which the alien entity devoured the parasites, they seemed to have underestimated the cost.
In less than a few minutes, all two hundred-plus parasites in the inner ring had been devoured. The alien entity did not slow down in the slightest and immediately began sweeping through the next ring of parasites.
Even the soldiers at the very edge began to panic, their palms slick with sweat.
As for the members of the Contact Delegation, their scalps went numb. Some of the more timid ones did not even dare look anymore.
Sigaoxin, the on-site commander, watched the parasites being rapidly consumed and began to worry whether they had enough.
"Quick, bring more parasites down from the trucks!"
There were roughly a thousand parasites arranged in several rings around the alien entity, while more than four thousand parasites had been transported to the Landing Site in total.
The alien entity had already swallowed two rings, with two remaining. They had to place new ones in front of it before it finished eating, or it might attack the soldiers or members of the Contact Delegation.
For their own safety, the soldiers did not dare delay. They moved the parasites out of the trucks as fast as they could.
The live scene was broadcast simultaneously onto the screens of the UHC remote conference. Although the representatives and committee members from various nations could not be harmed through a screen,