The strange scene before him had put Ma Hong on high alert.
He was familiar with the soldier standing there. They'd even sparred during the training camp.
The man was pretty capable, too.
In fact, everyone who'd made it here was good at what they did. Ma Hong had simply pushed past the limits of the human body earlier than the others, which made him a little stronger.
But this soldier could hold out against him longer than the rest.
And now he could communicate with aliens. There was no way he'd had a chance to learn an alien language.
Just then, the soldier finished speaking with the Octopus-headed alien.
He turned to Ma Hong and said, "Captain Ma, don't point your gun at a fellow soldier. Let me explain what's going on."
"Talk," Ma Hong replied, keeping it brief.
The soldier immediately explained. "It's that Octopus-headed alien's doing. His species has a special ability: their big heads secrete a kind of egg. The egg can implant itself in another creature's brain and merge with its nervous system."
At that, Ma Hong and his men immediately aimed their guns at the Octopus-headed alien.
You had to be kidding.
Without their permission, the alien had implanted some kind of egg in their heads.
That was a provocation.
The soldier quickly said, "Captain Ma, don't worry. The egg doesn't harm me. It actually gives me another ability: I can understand their language. That's how I'm able to communicate with him. It's also why those green-skinned aliens have kept his people around—they use them to implant those eggs in the brains of other aliens."
Ma Hong understood at once. They had a natural translator.
In other words, as long as they kept these aliens under control, they could use them to communicate with