Chapter 62 The Situation Changes

Chapter 62 · Situation Changes

Section 11 · Situation Changes

Cheng Xiao and Ling Dian looked at each other, and saw a hint of solemnity in each other's eyes. They both could see what kind of person the other person was in his bones, so there was no need to say more.

Two minutes ago, Chu Xuan issued a notice to the monitoring black area here through the broadcasting system of the main control room. That was when Jiang Yu's Thunder Cloud Armor was approaching the warehouse nest. Chu Xuan operated the machine at that time and lowered all the safety gates in the entire spacecraft partition, except for the main road directly connected to the main control room.

The road is a bit roundabout, because some places were destroyed in the previous battle-but for those who have walked through it once, it is not a big problem to go back and walk back. The newcomers only need to follow Chu Xuan's instructions and cross one or two aisles at most, or even just wait where they are. They can take advantage of the gap when the alien nest is attacked, and they can wait for the support and guidance of Ling Dian and Cheng Xiao in a few minutes.

This should not be missed - Chu Xuan even asked Zhan Lan to scan the newcomer's surroundings after issuing the order. Make sure there are no aliens in the area and the broadcast in the area is not broken. While Zhan Lan used all her energy to support the main battlefield, the newcomer she scanned had already raised his feet in the right direction according to the instructions of the broadcast.

Did he miss it?

Cheng Xiao frowned, and the poison in his stomach drove his nose and ears slightly. The sensitivity of smell and hearing was greatly improved under the drive of Miaojiang's strange arts. But there was no worst possible sound and smell in the air.

"There is a fresh smell of blood, but that is the direction of the aircraft... There is no sound of running footsteps. They should not be harassed."

Lingdian nodded and looked at the ground. "There are no new footprints here, they didn't pass here... No, the footprints at the intersection over there are a little abnormal."

Ordinary people can't see the footprints on the ground at a glance, let alone footprints a few meters or more than ten meters away. However, Lingdian obviously has an observation ability far beyond the professional average. He discovered the problem before Cheng Xiao. Then the two of them approached quickly and found a complex patch of footprints at the intersection not far away. And in the end, the footprints pointed to another area.

The newcomers had been here... The newcomers were only one intersection away from the meeting point and outside the surveillance black zone. But they chose to go to another area. The span of their steps away was not large, and they were not fleeing. They even had a small dispute, or conversation, at the intersection. Finally, they chose to go in another direction.

What are they doing?

The two did not stop and quickly moved in the direction pointed by the footprints. Zero confirmed the route in front, while Cheng Xiao's nose and ears were dilating and shaking back and forth while moving.

"I heard crying... over there! There is a little fresh blood!" Cheng Xiao found the target. This clue obviously pointed to a bad possibility. The two people who failed in the execution of the first team commission could not help but feel depressed. The speed of running and running could not help but speed up again.

It was a door.

A door blocked from the inside by something. The light behind the door was dim, accompanied by the suppressed sobbing of a woman. Cheng Xiao knew from the sound that the woman was not standing near the door. And inside the door, besides the woman, there was only another very weak heartbeat!

"Don't get close to the door!" Cheng Xiao did not hesitate any longer, and rushed to the door with only a gap before midnight. With a clap and a turn of his hands, the door stuck by something suddenly bounced inward, accompanied by the sound of the cabinet and some soft heavy object rubbing against the ground.

Everything in the room appeared in front of him, and he was stunned at first. Then he stepped in. And the next moment, the panoramic view of the room was also presented in the eyes of Zero Point, who took a step back and turned on the flashlight.

Four newcomers, two dead. The gangster covered his throat and fell diagonally in the room with a look of horror. The white-collar man was pressed under the collapsed metal cabinet, his head was smashed, and a blood-stained trophy that was originally placed on the top of the cabinet rolled not far away. The man's hands were corroded and twisted, and a facehugger's limbs fell to the ground. The white-collar woman who was still alive hid in another corner of the room and sobbed. In the center of the room, the body of the middle-aged man with a briefcase, covered with facehuggers, fell next to the remains of a body that was cracked, but with pipes instead of blood peeling off.

The remains were the synths - the company's eyes and ears, the synth Ash who was killed by the protagonists with a flamethrower in the original work. It was responsible for bringing extraterrestrial life back to the company. According to Chu Xuan's inference, it was this synth who successfully contacted the company in some way before his death, so there was an attack by the advance team.

So, where did the facehugger come from? Zhan Lan had clearly scanned this area. If there were facehuggers active, it would obviously be discovered in advance.

The answer was not complicated. Zero just slightly deviated his sight and saw a dried alien egg. The egg was placed behind the remains of the synth and blocked by another small cabinet. It was a complete blind spot, and Zhan Lan might not be able to spot something that didn't move immediately. In theory, the eggs laid by the queen shouldn't appear so far away from the mother's nest.

Obviously, this is a trap. The aliens noticed that the synths were unusual among the survivors, so they set up a trap here. But they didn't expect that the first few advance teams had no interest in Ash's wreckage. It was the newcomer among the reincarnationists who happened to run into it.

So that's it.

Cheng Xiao was comforting the white-collar woman and helping her up. At this moment, everything that happened in this room was also presented in the deduction and thinking of Zero Point as a professional killer.

It was a chain reaction.

The middle-aged briefcase man found Ash's wreckage, but was caught by the face hugger trap - he was hugged, and the young white-collar worker subconsciously tried to tear the face hugger off him. However, the aliens have a very mature way to deal with this situation. The face hugger's capture is extremely firm, and the male white-collar worker's strong pull only pulled off one limb.

However, before the face hugger completes its mission. The acid blood strength in the body is equivalent to that of a regular alien. The limbs that were torn off threw out an arc-shaped acid corrosion line. This line just cut the gangster's neck. When the latter fell down in the pain of slit throat, the white-collar worker who was frightened and subconsciously retreated knocked down the cabinet behind him - his head was broken by the heavy object, and his body was crushed by the cabinet. His body and the cabinet just blocked the door behind him.

If all this is a coincidence, then it is a bit too "death comes". Zero is more willing to believe that the alien made some arrangements in this room when placing the eggs. Make the possibility of "accidents" increase.

However, there is still a question that is difficult to answer...

-Why did these people give up following Chu Xuan's command and come here? How did they... know that Ash's remains were here?

The cry interrupted Zero'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 an architectural designer. We have to go this way... which is the right way. When we got here...he, he went to see the body...and then...wuwuwu..." She cried but explained her experience roughly. She held Cheng Xiao's arm tightly, like a drowning person holding on to a straw.

The doubt was partially solved - but not completely. Cheng Xiao comforted her and exchanged glances with Lingdian. The latter immediately understood, reached out and touched the face hugger. Unexpectedly, the face hugger, which was supposed to be untied until it was about to hatch, had already undergone large-scale calcification. With just a slight push, it fell to the ground.

The man with the briefcase, motionless. But whether he was awake or not, there must be a reason for him to appear here.

Zero's sight shifted and looked at the remains of Ash. Unlike ordinary city men and women, he could easily find some more hidden details. For example...Ash's right hand, which was tightly clenched and hidden behind his back.

"Cover me." He said softly, and saw Cheng Xiao still easily raised the gun despite being dragged down by the female white-collar worker. Then, he reached out and broke open Ash's clenched fist.

He saw a chip, and... a crisis!

'Bang!' Ash's left hand suddenly rose up, but Cheng Xiao pulled the trigger faster than his left hand. The synthetic flesh and pipelines broke into pieces, accompanied by a mechanical voice from the torn head of the synthetic man.

"Ji-protect... Ji-company property..." The synthetic man's eyes, which had slightly lit up, dimmed again. The last stress-triggered action only had the ability to harm ordinary citizens.

And the eyes of Zero Point, which was originally calm, suddenly tightened!

——[Complete the side quest and obtain the coordinates and jump route of Planet 426 from Ash. Get 500 bonus points. 】

What is this...! ?

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At the same time, in another part of the spaceship. With a flash of lightning, an alien that was chased and trapped to a dead end finally died under the bombardment of the lightning pulse cannon.

The world did not end.

In the Thunder Cloud Mech, Jiang Yu frowned slightly.

"Strange... This should be the last one. Could it be that the face hugger is also considered an alien? If so, wouldn't even the eggs of the face hugger be classified as aliens?"

It's unreasonable, even illogical. After Chu Xuan put down the isolation door, the remaining aliens could not escape the pursuit of the reincarnationists 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.

And then...

"Uh... You guys come back first." On the other end of the communication, Zhan Lan's tone was a little hesitant. "There were some unexpected casualties among the newcomers. And...some special situations did occur."

"The kind of situation we are not very good at handling."