Group Alienization
"No more!" Zhuo Wangsun sprang to his feet and unzipped his Protective Suit. "The ground isn't any better. Thank goodness these stones are so high, but the temperature hasn't dropped at all!"
"The high temperature in the Stone Forest Maze isn't caused by sunlight either." Xu Huo looked up at the sky, then reached down and touched the ground. After a pause, he brushed the dust from his hand.
The extreme heat made it impossible to sleep, so after resting for a while, the three of them continued on their way.
They encountered several people along the road. Everyone dragged their exhausted feet forward without a word, silently pressing on.
By midnight, Xu Huo's group had picked up more than a dozen soldiers along the way. Almost all of them had taken off their Protective Suits and were slowly walking with their feet never leaving the ground.
Xu Huo had reached his limit as well. His Protective Suit was practically filled with sweat. He had just taken it off and shaken out the water when a dense burst of gunfire suddenly rang out ahead.
Before anyone present could react, they heard thunderous footsteps surging toward them from the front. In the blink of an eye, an uncountable number of split-headed Aliens appeared. They clung to the stone pillars, leaping up and down as they charged fiercely at the exhausted crowd.
"Open fire!" someone shouted in panic. But the Aliens surged forward like a tide, reaching them in an instant. Those who had raised their guns and those who had not all crashed into one another, and the bullets fired in the chaos killed only a few Aliens.
The people behind them began fleeing in all directions. When Xu Huo grabbed the Strings, he saw Zhuo Wangsun and Jin