The transfer time was approaching.
Xia Ren packed all his gear, put on a black tactical suit, and loaded himself up with weapons.
As he picked up the suitcase containing the Red Queen and headed for the door, he saw a group of team members with worried expressions yet chatting and laughing.
Zheng Zha and the others were dressed in a completely different style from him.
He smiled and greeted them, "Yo, guys! Are you heading out on vacation?"
Zhan Lan smiled and explained, "Zheng Zha has a storage ring. All the important luggage is inside it."
The light of the giant transparent sphere of the Lord God grew increasingly dazzling. Immediately after, twenty pillars of light extended from the sphere, bathing the plaza.
Everyone heard a prompt ring in their minds:
"Enter the light pillar within thirty seconds. Transfer target locked. Alien 1 transfer commencing..."
Eyes closed, eyes opened.
A dim scene came into view.
This was a rather cramped room, surrounded by steel, with all kinds of instruments covering the walls.
Looking at the floor, there were eleven newcomers.
Aside from Chu Xuan, who wore glasses, and Zero, dressed in black whose build was as massive as a grizzly bear...
Xia Ren felt somewhat reassured, because everything was still going according to the script.
Soon, Zheng Zha, Zhang Jie, Zhan Lan, and Li Xiaoyi woke up one after another.
Exchanging a glance, they formed a single file line, maintaining a five-meter distance from Xia Ren.
Seeing the newcomers lying on the ground, Zhang Jie's face turned pale. "Fifteen-person difficulty! Is Alien really this hard? The Lord God must have changed the difficulty. This is utterly terrible!"
Zheng Zha looked at his wristwatch. "Kill the Alien. Every member of the team is rewarded with 1,000 reward points and a grade D side story!"
Zhang Jie took out a cigarette with trembling hands and lit it.
"I've never encountered a situation like this... Rumor has it that situations like this generally end with the death of the entire team."
His words cast a heavy shadow over the hearts of the Zhongzhou Team members.
Zhan Lan looked at Xia Ren, took a deep breath, and said,
"You heard what Jie-ge said. The difficulty of this mission is extraordinary, and the Lord God has most likely altered the plot. I think we need deeper cooperation."
Xia Ren smiled and nodded. "Sure. You guys follow my lead this round. We're guaranteed to win."
Seeing that he was still acting unserious and grinning, Zheng Zha instantly flew into a rage.
"Xia Ren! This is a life-or-death moment, can you be serious for once?!"
Xia Ren was utterly baffled and pointed at the casual jacket the other man was wearing.
"No, bro, can you say that with a straight hand on your heart? Look at you guys, dressed like you're going on vacation, and you're telling me I'm not serious?"
"Enough! At a time like this, what's the point of arguing over this? Who still remembers the plot of Alien?"
Zhan Lan remembered, and just as she was about to speak, she saw Xia Ren kick the suitcase beside him. "Red Queen, brief us on the plot of Alien."
Beep, beep, beep, beep~~~~
There was no projection, only a voice.
Red Queen: "In the year 2122, the commercial spacecraft USCSS Nostromo is returning to Earth with a crew of seven and a large cargo of ore..."
Hearing this familiar voice, Zheng Zha and the others instantly widened their eyes and pointed at the suitcase.
"This is the Red Queen's voice! You brought her out?"
A sense of intellectual superiority washed over Xia Ren. He calmly replied, "I'm not here on vacation."
Zheng Zha awkwardly rubbed his nose.
The Red Queen continued her briefing: "The Alien plot has the following key nodes where we can attempt to exert influence."
"One, landing on an unknown planet..."
"Based on the surrounding environment and the information displayed on the wristwatch, the Alien has already boarded the ship and completed gestation. There is probably very little we can do to influence the plot now."
A voice interrupted the Red Queen's analysis. A plain-looking man in glasses sat up from the floor.
Although that man looked ordinary, his eyes were exceptionally cold and radiated wisdom.
The Red Queen stopped her briefing, and everyone looked toward the uninvited speaker.
Zheng Zha reacted first, reaching out a hand. "Zheng Zha. Welcome, new partner."
Chu Xuan looked around, took in the positioning of the veteran members, and immediately understood the situation. He shook Zheng Zha's hand and said,
"Chu Xuan. If I'm not mistaken, we are currently inside this movie world called Alien?"
Zheng Zha gave a bitter smile. "You guys really are calm. That's right, we're on that spaceship right now. As for more details, let's wait until everyone wakes up..."
"So noisy! First thing in the morning and I have to listen to people talking nonsense..."
Three youths with brightly dyed hair looked impatiently at the veterans.
A guy with his face covered in nose rings swaggered forward with an arrogant gait and said flippantly, "What the fuck kind of people are you? I was surfing the net just fine, how the hell did I end up here?"
Zheng Zha said very politely, "Everyone, please calm down..."
Chu Xuan, whose glasses flashed from time to time, secretly sized up the veterans while observing the newcomers' behavior.
Those three punks paid no heed to persuasion and even pulled out a toy gun to frighten Zheng Zha.
It took Jie-ge making a move; his face darkening as he drew a heavy-caliber handgun:
Bang——!!
"Aaaaah~~~~"
The punk's arm was instantly blown into two pieces by the sheer power of the Desert Eagle.
Zhang Jie shouted, "Get the spray and stop his bleeding... Listen up, all you newcomers! Anyone who dares to act up again and ignore orders, my gun won't have eyes!"
This display terrified the remaining newcomers, save for Zero and Poom, and the surroundings finally grew quiet.
Xia Ren patted the Red Queen, signaling her to continue her briefing.
"Act Two: Alien embryo gestation..."
"Act Three: Hunt in a confined space..."
"Finally, boarding the escape pod..."
The Red Queen's logic was exceptionally clear.
When she finished explaining the plot, Zhan Lan volunteered, "Explaining things to newcomers—let me handle it this time."
Seeing that no one had any objections, she began explaining to the newcomers:
"Think carefully..."
After listening, the newcomers wore varied expressions. Only Chu Xuan's eyes lit up, and without hesitation, he said,
"Your statements have a very high probability of being true. Before I lost consciousness, I remember seeing a strange webpage..."
With a flurry of dazzling operations, he reeled off a string of difficult professional jargon, successfully shocking everyone into silence.
Zheng Zha was so dumbfounded he could only call it terrifying in his heart.
The newcomer who arrived this time was truly an incredible fellow!
He hesitated for a moment and asked, "Why are you so certain? What if we're just tricking you?"
Chu Xuan smiled and said, "Let me reintroduce myself. My name is Chu Xuan... Major. Coming from the Longyin Base, the second-largest classified military base right after the Longxing Base, I really don't believe anyone could abduct me without my noticing the slightest bit."
With that, he showed his wristwatch.
"...This detector shows no anomalies, which indicates that the space I was in shifted instantly without any physical displacement."
Oh! No wonder you're so badass; you're a legendary king of soldiers!
And a high-tech king of soldiers with an IQ of 220!