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Chapter 1

"Ack!"

I held the wound on my hand, blood flowing from it. I cursed the alien claw that had hit my arm as I tried to escape the Orion Tower. Luckily, I managed to survive, even though I lost my weapons just to leave the place.

Orion is the name of the alien base that is currently invading Earth. Earth has been heavily colonised by the aliens for the past five years. There are very few natural resources left for humans to use outside the alien base.

"Tsk, I'm losing instead of gaining," I complained.

My name is Lana Evangeline, I was left alone after my parents died on the first day of the alien invasion of Earth. It left me deeply traumatised, but I had no choice but to fight alone in this world.

Today I have been reassigned by my group to hunt again, as a survivor of the post-apocalyptic alien invasion, the entire human race is facing a new phase. We don't know where they came from, but due to the limitations of technology to trace their origins, all we know is that they came to Earth to colonise and control the planet, the rest of the technology we use to survive, such as making weapons for fighting and hunting.

They knew that leaving power to human civilisation would make humans capable of fighting them, so they made Earth completely unsuitable for humans. But humans are not that stupid, and the remaining scientists continue to try to develop devices to sustain human life with the remaining resources.

Even though we live in a place as unfit as a sewer rat.

I winced, my hand really hurt. The aliens' bodies seem to have a poisonous substance that causes quite unpleasant effects in humans who come into contact with it.

I saw a torn scarf on my weapon, the last thing I saw of my teammates during the hunt. They were all dead. Yes, they died at the hands of the vicious aliens who attacked us as we tried to infiltrate in search of food to continue our lives.

Inside their base, life was truly a paradise, food was plentiful and natural resources were abundant. But on the outside, everything was hell. The dystopia was so obvious, humans were barely given a chance to live, but they knew humans were still out there. And they let them.

For what reason? It could be that they wanted to make it their entertainment.

"Help me! No!"

The sound of a woman screaming made me narrow my eyes and sharpen my hearing. Someone was screaming. But it definitely wasn't a member of my hunting team, because I didn't recognise the voice and all my comrades had been eliminated inside the alien base.

"No! Get your hands off me!"

I saw a woman struggling. She seemed to have been caught trying to infiltrate the human-free area (as the alien-controlled area is called). The woman was crying her eyes out, obviously afraid of being mistreated by the aliens. That is, if you're not careful.

From my hiding place, I watched from a distance. It was safest to stay out of other people's business.

"Don't! Don't eat me!"

The woman's body was being dragged away, as if to be taken to the alien base. The woman looked weakened, she must have just fought the aliens too, it was obvious from her helpless body and lack of weapons.

I'd better hide, if the aliens find out I'm here it will be very bad.

The aliens had tentacles on their faces, looking like tentacle modified creatures, metal air cavities for face coverings, and huge bodies covered in slime but full of muscle. Their bodies were wrapped in metal plates that looked like clothing, but were not tight and had gaps. It was still a question for human scientists with their simple equipment.

"Please somebody help me."

The woman's moans and cries of pain were rather pitiful, but I shook my head, trying not to care and biding my time until I found an opening to escape without the aliens noticing. I hid behind a scrapyard car and endured my beatings, but the woman's screams kept breaking my concentration.

I crawled on all fours again, peering around the corner of the car at the crowd of aliens carrying the woman away. I swallowed, my heart beginning to suggest a stupid idea, but my body slowly refused to follow my mind.

"Damn, at least I had a cigarette last night," I said and ran towards the crowd of aliens.

With a plasma rifle with four rounds of ammunition, I risked my luck and my only life. As I ran towards a crowd of those creepy looking creatures, they grunted as they saw me coming. Even their grunts smoked from the air cavities in their faces.

Some of them reacted and crawled quickly like gorillas ready to attack. They were about to pounce on me, but I ran fast enough and skilfully avoided them.

I ran and stopped right in front of the woman being held hostage, firing a shot at the right moment and the bullet from my plasma rifle managed to free the woman from the clutches of the creepy creatures.

The creature behind me roared. I wasn't paying attention and didn't realise that I was being attacked from behind. My plasma weapon fell and was thrown away as my body was hit by the flailing arms of the monstrous aliens behind me. I fell to the ground and some of the aliens tried to hold me down.

"Hey! You can use that! Do me a favour, we can both get out of here," I bargained with the woman I had just helped.

The woman looked up at me from where she was standing, panting and looking alternately at me and the plasma weapon that had been thrown 20 feet away from where I was now surrounded. The woman swallowed and seemed to think.

"What are you waiting for? Do me a favour and we can both get the hell out of here," I said, rather anxiously and fearfully.

The woman thought for a moment and a few seconds later she ran over to my plasma weapon and picked it up.

I cheered inwardly, thinking that this woman would save me. But in fact, the damned woman just walked off in the same direction she had come from, without even looking back at me. She really has no shame, a human I should have just let die at the hands of these violent aliens.

"Hey! Come back, you bastard! Don't bring the weapons that others used to help you! You ungrateful bitch!" I shouted with emotion.

I let my emotions out by screaming, but it only helped for a moment before I had to accept the fact that there were already at least ten giant aliens swarming around me. They were pulling my body roughly, even lifting my body by pulling on my arms, making the wound on my arm even more painful.

"No! Stop it! Let me go!"

Now it was my turn to suffer the fate of that damned woman.

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