A beehive, there was literally nothing else that came up inside my head the first thing I had my eyes set on something big in front of me, except that each cell had an octagonal shape instead of the hexagonal ones. That, and the fact that the extraterrestrial structure was built inside another part of the cave, albeit larger.
First of all, I had not necessarily exited the cave yet; I had just gone out from the narrow and smaller one to the far larger and more spacious one. Just like the way it was before I came out, there were also countless bioluminescent planktons were gathering in the ocean just on the other side of the ceiling and walls of the cave, and they were dispersed homogenously in a very perfect order.
I took a spot to take cover with, very carefully; I did not want to raise any alert because I can only defend myself with a handgun with only one spare magazine. The structure was pretty far; maybe no less than fifty meters from the way out of the cave, but I was able to look at it clearly thanks to my good eyesights, and strangely also because of the countless glowing bioluminescent planktons scattered around the other side of the ceiling and the walls of the cave.
The whole structure had approximately ten cells vertically, and twenty cells horizontally. Based on how countless of the aliens come in and out of the cells, I can be quite sure that the diameter, or rather the height of each cell is roughly four meters; nearly twice the height of the distance from the ground to the ceiling of a regular house.
It was also that fact that ensured me each cell functioned as some sort of a housing, or at the very least a room to the aliens. Based upon that conclusion, there had to be no less than two hundred aliens housed there, if all the cells had a proportional space inside them. But the shape of the structure was not the thing that really caught my curiosity.
It was the technology that powered the whole structure-completely out of this world.
To the top of the structure on the right side, the rooftop was connected to the ceiling of the cave. Somehow, they managed to connect that side with the ceiling, and perhaps to the extent of also creating a hole inside it that the sea water from the outside flowed inside the walls of the structure, but without crumbling it.
Instead, the bioluminescent planktons were also coming in and out of the structure walls, giving out brighter light while they were inside the walls. I had to admit, if that kind of lighting system can be implemented in daily lives all around the world, I could not imagine how many quadrillions of dollars we could save each year.
To the opposite side of the structure of the same rooftop, was perhaps a charging station-especially for weapons. Five years ago, I witnessed for myself how the invaders exploited the solar energy and used them with perfect efficiency in powering their mothership, their entire war vehicles, beam rifles, and their beam spear. This time however, it was completely different.
They literally exploited the lights of the bioluminescent planktons by absorbing them with the panels installed right at the middle of the rooftop. The panels were connected directly to the charging station where there were multiple racks for them to store their rifles and refill their beam or laser rounds. That way, there was no doubt that they practically had infinite ammunition if they were to decide they wanted to wipe us all out.
Oh, I cannot imagine the faces of those old farts at the Pentagon when they see this….
I thought that it will be the top feature of the base, but I was gravely mistaken.
The gigantic snapping turtle alien from earlier was there too!
At first, I caught a silhouette of something with particularly larger shadows and with a far more well-built posture was coming out from the middle of the structure at the first floor. I was not sure what it was right when it came out, until it began to move forward and further away from one of the cells. The very same beam halberd that was resting on its back further confirmed that I did not have my eyes misidentified it.
What the hell is it doing here?!
Even after falling from such height earlier, I did not notice any dents, bruises, let alone injuries on its body, as if that fall did nothing to it. There was absolutely no way it could just walk away fine without a scratch!
Wait… unless it used its beam halberd by sticking it to the walls, and somehow managed to climb down from there. Difficult, and extremely unlikely but still not impossible.
Truly, a fully determined and insistent behemoth….
At that time, that behemoth approached few of the aliens near it, and seemingly communicating with them about something. Apparently, even these extraterrestrial creatures were in fact, a social living thing just like humans. It was another trait that I could confirm at that moment even though I had already had a hunch about it from five years ago. Then again, I never really had the chance to witness it directly up until now.
I was about to move a little closer, to make sure if I could somehow hear what they were saying, before suddenly I heard a clear footstep from somewhere close. My head ducked down immediately in reflex.
Shit!
My ears only heard a footstep belonging to one individual, but it seemed that there was another approaching it, regardless of being called by the other or not.
This time, another revelation caught by my ears felt like it shocked my every bones.
"The chief told us something."
"Yes. Go on."
They can speak human language?! And it is English of all language!!"
It was indeed English, but their Russian accent was also rather apparent.
"The hindrances have been taken care of by him."
"Should we be surprised anymore?
'Him'? So these things also have and acknowledge different genders?
"We must be grateful though. That one taller human with dark skin, large green eyes, and short red hair was-"
"Very difficult. I agree."
They are talking about me. So, these two were among the ones that encountered us back on the surface….
"Although, if he did have taken care of that human, I still do not get why we must talk in his language."
"I guess it is to confuse and discourage him. But that means probably the chief is also still not fully sure yet."
"That he has taken care of all of them? If so, I just hope that it is not that difficult human who survived."
"And until further orders, we are to communicate by using their language."
"Okay."
Their chief is that giant snapping turtle monster. 'He' is not fully convinced yet that I am already dead….
I must keep my guard up.
"If you are going inside the quarter, tell someone to get outside. Chief hates it when it gets too crowdy there."
"But what about the gunship schematics?"
A gunship?! Aside from amphibious tank, they also bring along with them a gunship?!
"Just take someone with you to guard the special room."
"Understood."
First a tank, and now a gunship. What is next, a stealth bomber?
I must find that schematics!