Chapter 62 ·The situation changes
Chapter 11·The situation changes
Cheng Xiao and Ling Dian looked at each other, and they saw a solemn look in each other's eyes. Both of them can see what kind of person the other is at heart, so there is no need to say more.
Two minutes ago, Chu Xuan issued a report to the black surveillance area here through the broadcast system in the main control room. At that time, Jiang Yu's Thunder Cloud Armor was approaching the warehouse lair. Chu Xuan operated the machine at that time and lowered all the safety gates in the entire spacecraft zone, except for the main road directly connected to the main control room.
The path is a bit circuitous, as some areas were damaged in previous battles - but for someone who has walked through it once, it won't be a big problem to backtrack. The newcomers only need to follow Chu Xuan's instructions and cross one or two aisles at most, or even simply wait where they are. They can take advantage of the gap when the alien lair is attacked, and wait for support and guidance from Ling Dian and Cheng Xiao in a few minutes.
There shouldn't be any omissions - Chu Xuan even asked Zhan Lan to scan the area around the newcomer after issuing the order. Make sure there are no aliens in the zone and that the area's broadcasts are not broken. While Zhan Lan was devoting all her energy to supporting the main battlefield, the newcomer she was scanning had already raised her feet in the right direction in accordance with the broadcast instructions.
Did you miss it?
Cheng Xiao frowned, and his nose and ears opened slightly as a result of the poison in his belly. The sensitivity of smell and hearing has been greatly improved driven by Miao Jiang's strange skills. But there was no sound or smell in the air that he expected to be the worst.
"There was a fresh smell of blood, but that was the direction of the aircraft... and there were no sounds of escaping footsteps. They should not have been disturbed."
Zero nodded and looked at the ground. "There are no new footprints here, they didn't pass here... No, there are some abnormal footprints at the intersection over there."
Ordinary people can't see the footprints on the ground at a glance, let alone the footprints a few meters or more than ten meters away. However, Zero Point obviously has an observation ability that far exceeds the professional average. He discovered the problem one step ahead of Cheng Xiao. Then the two people quickly approached and found a complex set of crisscrossing footprints at the intersection not far away. And eventually, the footprints pointed to another area.
The new people have been here... The new people were originally only one intersection away from the meeting point and outside the surveillance black zone. But they chose to go to another area. The pace of their departure was not long, and they were not fleeing. They even had a small argument, or conversation, at the intersection. Finally they chose to go in another direction.
What are they doing?
The two of them did not stop and quickly moved towards the direction pointed by the footprints. Zero point was confirming the route in front, while Cheng Xiao's nose and ears were relaxing and trembling as he walked.
"I heard crying... over there! There's also a little bit of fresh blood!" Cheng Xiao found the target. This clue clearly points to an ominous possibility. The two people who failed to execute their first team commission could not help but feel a sinking feeling in their hearts. The running speed couldn't help but speed up a little again.
It's a door.
A door blocked from the inside by something. The light behind the door was dim, accompanied by the muffled sobs of a woman. Cheng Xiao knew from the sound that the woman was not standing near the door. Besides the woman, there was only one other very weak heartbeat inside the door!
"Don't get close to the door!" Cheng Xiao didn't hesitate anymore, jumped up, and approached the door with only a gap left before zero o'clock. As he clapped his hands and turned around, the door that was stuck by something suddenly popped open, accompanied by the sound of the cabinet and some soft and heavy object rubbing against the ground.
Everything in the room appeared in front of his eyes, and he was stunned for a moment. Then step in. The next moment, the panoramic view of the room also appeared in Zero Point's eyes, which turned on the flashlight in the next step.
Four newcomers, two died. The gangster clutched his throat and fell diagonally across the room with a look of horror on his face. The white-collar man was pressed under the collapsed metal cabinet and his head was smashed. A bloody trophy, which might have been placed on the top of the cabinet, rolled down not far away. The man's hands were corroded and twisted, and the jointed limbs of a facehugger fell to the ground. The still-living white-collar woman hid in another corner of the room and sobbed. And in the center of the room, the body of the middle-aged man with the briefcase, covered in facehuggers, fell next to a corpse whose body was cracked, but with pipes peeling off instead of blood.
The wreckage is the synth--the company's eyes and ears, the synthetic Ash who was killed by the protagonists with a flamethrower in the original game. It is tasked with bringing extraterrestrial life forms back to the company. According to Chu Xuan's inference, it was this synthetic man who successfully contacted the company in some way before his death, so the advance team attacked.
So where do facehuggers come from? Zhan Lan has obviously scanned this area. If there is facehugger activity, it is obvious that it will be discovered in advance.
The answer was not complicated. Zero Point just turned his sight slightly and saw a dried alien egg. The egg is placed behind the remains of the synth, blocked by another small cabinet. There is a complete visual blind spot, and Zhan Lan may not be able to detect it immediately even if it is immobile. In theory, the eggs laid by the queen should not appear so far away from the mother's nest.
It's obvious that this is a trap. The aliens noticed that the synths were unusual among the survivors, so they set up a plan here. What I didn't expect was that the advance teams in front of them had no interest in Ash's remains. But it was a newcomer among the reincarnations who happened to bump into him.
I see.
Cheng Xiao was beside the white-collar woman, comforting her and helping her up. And at this moment, everything that happened in this room was fully reflected in Ling Dian's deductive thinking as a professional killer.
It's a chain reaction.
The middle-aged briefcase man discovered Ash's remains, but was caught in a facehugger trap - he was facehugged, and the young white-collar man subconsciously tried to pull the facehugger off him. However, the alien has a very mature way of dealing with this situation. The facehugger's capture was extremely firm. The male white-collar worker tried his best to pull it off, but only one of its limbs was torn off.
However, the Facehugger didn't finish his mission before. The intensity of the acid blood in the body is equivalent to that of a regular alien. The torn off limbs threw out an arc-shaped acid-etched line. And this line just hit the little gangster's neck. When the latter suffocated and collapsed in the pain of having his throat cut, the white-collar worker who was frightened and retreated subconsciously knocked down the cabinet behind him - his head was broken by a heavy object and his body was crushed by the cabinet. But his body and the cabinet just blocked the door behind him.
If all this is a coincidence, then this would be a bit too 'death is coming'. Zero Point is more willing to believe that the alien made some arrangements in this room when placing the eggs. Increase the likelihood of 'accidents' happening.
However, there is still a question that is difficult to answer...
——Why would these people give up following Chu Xuan’s command and come here? How...how did they know that Ash's remains were here?
Crying interrupted Ling Dian's thinking. The female white-collar worker who was covered with a coat by Cheng Xiao finally burst into tears, and then stammered to explain.
"Brother Jin... Brother Jin said he was engaged in architectural design. This way... is the right way. When we got here... he, he went to see the body... and then... wuwuwu ..." I burst into tears, but my experience was roughly explained clearly. She clutched Cheng Xiao's arm tightly, like a drowning person holding onto straw.
The doubt was partially resolved—but not completely. Cheng Xiao comforted her while exchanging glances with Ling Dian. The latter immediately understood, stretched out his hand, and touched the facehugger. Unexpectedly, the facehugger, which was supposed to be untied until it was about to hatch, had already experienced large-scale calcification, and fell to the ground with just a slight push.
Briefcase man, motionless. But whether he wakes up or not, there must be a reason for appearing here.
Zero Point's gaze shifted and looked at Ash's remains. Unlike ordinary urban men and women, he can easily discover some relatively hidden details. For example... Ashna clenched her fist tightly and hid her right hand behind her back.
"Cover me." He said softly, and saw Cheng Xiao raising the gun easily despite the drag from the female white-collar worker. Then, he stretched out his hand and opened Ash's clenched fist in his right hand.
He saw a chip and... a crisis!
‘Bang——! ’ Ash’s left hand suddenly shot up, but faster than his left hand was Cheng Xiao who pulled the trigger. The synthetic flesh and blood and pipelines broke into pieces together, accompanied by the mechanical voice coming from the torn skull of the synthetic man.
"Ji——protect...ji——the company's property..." The synthetic man's eyes, which lit up slightly, dimmed again. The final stress-triggered action also has the ability to harm ordinary citizens.
But Ling Dian, who was originally calm, suddenly tightened his eyes!
——[Complete the side mission and obtain the coordinates and jump route of Planet 426 from Ash. Get 500 bonus points. 】
What is this stuff! ?
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At the same time, another part of the spacecraft. With a flash of lightning, an alien that was chased and cornered finally died under the bombardment of a thunder pulse cannon.
The world doesn't end.
In the Thunder Cloud Mecha, Jiang Yu frowned slightly.
"Strange... this should be the last one. Could it be that the Facehuggers are also considered aliens? If so, wouldn't even the Eggs of the Facehuggers be classified as aliens?"
Unreasonable, even illogical. After Chu Xuan put down the isolation door, the remaining aliens could not escape the pursuit of the reincarnation no matter how hard they tried. And now, he couldn't even hear the sound of his companions firing.
But he received a communication from Zhan Lan.
"Zhan Lan? What happened? Did we miss anything?" He asked before Zhan Lan spoke.
then……
"Uh... you guys should come back first." On the other end of the communication, Zhan Lan's tone contained a little hesitation. "There have been some unexpected casualties among the newcomers. And...some special circumstances have indeed occurred."
"It's not a situation we handle very well."