Infinite Horror: The Strongest Zhongzhou Team

It's as if after this cultivation, the indestructible body integrated everything in its body into one.

The spirit remains the same, but the body that carries it has changed.

From the paddleboard sailboats made entirely of wood, we have made a leap to the steel-powered mechanical ships of today.

The world is still the same world.

People have indeed changed.

Ignoring his bruised bottom, Reeves, who was sitting on the ground, started rubbing his eyes.

He felt he must be seeing things.

Because in his eyes.

After stretching his muscles and bones, Li Xiao suddenly transformed into a gilded being without any warning.

Of course, it only lasted for a moment before he disappeared again and returned to his normal appearance.

That's why.

Reeves began to doubt his own brain and eyes after watching this.

Li Xiao looked down at his hands and forearms.

A hint of weariness flashed across his eyes, and he murmured:

"Is this the Primordial Chaos Technique mentioned in the introduction to the main god?"

"And then there's the Hunyuan Ruyi Jin?"

As he spoke, Li Xiao raised his hand to his eyes and then inexplicably trembled.

A simple action.

The air around him suddenly exploded, and then an inexplicable force burst out from his palm.

An invisible force struck the metal ground through the air.

There was a slight "pop" sound.

Keep in mind that this was done without any external release of true energy or entering an explosion mode.

If previously it was golden armor that condensed and appeared on the surface of the skin.

Now we are one.

It could even be said that the two became indistinguishable from then on.

After Li Xiao and Zhao Yingkong gave the order to continue, they disappeared into the shower room.

Reeves, who was sitting on the ground, finally came to his senses from the shock.

He picked up the communicator and started calling his friends.

This time, it took less than a minute.

Ripley and his group rushed in.

Then, everyone gathered around.

Looking at the clump of dust on the ground, and the handprint etched on the metal floor in front of the dust.

They all fell silent.

After a while.

"So you mean that Li Xiao just stood up, stretched, and then made a thunderous sound?"

"After the thunder stopped, he just raised his hand and casually shook it."

"Then the air exploded."

"This palm print was left on the ground?"

Seeing Reeves nod, John, expressionless, drew the dagger from his leg and looked at Wells:
"Captain, can I stab him twice to bring him to his senses?"

"Revis must have been secretly sleeping while piloting the spaceship."

"I wouldn't even dare to do that in my wildest dreams."

Another figure.

Cole loosened his grip on the dust: "It's true, this is cellular dust expelled by the human body as well as this metal base plate."

"I'm sure it was flat yesterday."

Female mercenary Christie pressed further:

"Cole, how powerful would Li Xiao need to be to achieve this?"

"Just like Reeves said, a casual snapshot."

What kind of physical fitness is required?

All the mercenaries present looked at him, and Cole shook his head.

"It can't be calculated because it seems impossible to me."

It's like air can turn into steamed buns, but it can't turn into meat.

"There is absolutely no possibility between the two."

"What if, and I mean what if?"

Christie pressed for more details.

After thinking for a moment, Cole said:

"Do you still remember the Alien Queen?"

Seeing everyone nod, Cole continued:

"The difference in physical strength between striking through the air and striking directly is about ten times greater."

"In other words, Li Xiao's physical attributes, skin strength, and everything else in his body must be ten times stronger than the Alien Queen for it to be possible."

"That's still possible, because I still don't think it's feasible."

Upon hearing this...

The mercenaries present looked at each other.

The scene fell silent once again.

"But isn't this a good thing?"

"The stronger Li Xiao and his companion are, the greater our chances of survival, right?"

Wells said.

John shook his head: "Even if an individual is incredibly powerful, so what?"

"Can it survive in the universe?"

"Can it withstand a planet-destroying cannon? Or an antimatter bomb?"

"The individual is too insignificant in the face of the universe."

Reeves interrupted several people:

"Everyone, everyone, I think that's not what we should be thinking about right now."

"I forgot to tell you,"

"Li Xiao has just issued a new forward command. At the speed of the Betty, we should be able to reach the front line of Earth's coordinates in about seven hours."

"So, I think we should make some preparations!"

Hearing Reeves' reminder, the group snapped out of their daze and forced themselves to stop thinking about the question they had just been asking.

One by one, they returned to their dormitories and began to make the most of their time to rest and prepare.

When Li Xiao returned to the control room feeling refreshed, he discovered that Cole was now piloting the spaceship.

It's called driving, but you don't really need to.

Because Moss had already merged into the Betty.

It is fully capable of autonomous driving.

However, as is the professional habit of mercenaries, they would still leave one person in the cockpit to supervise.

Have you ever seen Earth?

After sitting down, Li Xiao was taken aback by Cole's words.

He didn't expect this person to reach out and chat with him.

"Us, me and Sakura?"

Cole nodded.

Li laughed:
"Of course I've seen them. Don't forget that we were from the same era as Ripley more than two hundred years ago."

"She has experience growing up and being trained on Earth, and so do we."

"After all, back then, Earth was the only planet, unlike now."

"By the way, Moss has received the database you transmitted."

"If I remember correctly, there was a statistic that showed the federal government now has more than a thousand colonized planets, right?"

Cole nodded:

"That's right, but what you don't know is that none of these thousands of planets are natural planets like Earth."

"Even now, after the breakthrough in space jump technology, the federal government's official data remains the same."

Li Xiao frowned: "What do you mean?"

Cole didn't even turn his head.

"It means exactly what it says: no colonized planet is without the need for modification and overcoming."

"In the history of the federal government, Earth is the only planet on which humanity can survive without any human intervention."

Li Xiao nodded, understanding what Cole meant.

But Li Xiao, who knew more, sat directly in the mechanical chair next to Cole. He leaned back and said in the same calm voice as before:
"Then how do you know that the Earth hasn't been processed?"

Cole was stunned for a long time.

Seeing this, Li Xiao couldn't help but admire how Cole was able to fool that group of cunning mercenaries at the beginning of the fourth movie.

Such behavior is exactly the same as that of a human being.

When Cole pressed him for an answer, Li Xiao remained silent.

Li Xiao didn't think the storyline of the Engineers, Pioneers, and suspected creators of humanity had anything to do with Cole.

However, he could also understand the cyborg's current psychological state.

Just like humanity's search for the origin of life.

The same applies to cyborgs who are machines, but they don't need to explore because they are born with the ability to do so.

People kept telling them this fact.

Cole was created by a robot made by someone else.

It's like a Russian nesting doll.

A few hours later.

Without the obstruction of various satellites, planets, and asteroid belts.

For the first time, Earth appeared clearly in the naked eyes of Li Xiao and Zhao Yingkong.

What exists to the naked eye will never be the same as a projection millions of kilometers away.

It has the light of a star, namely the sun.

Compared to its previous dull and gray appearance, Earth now has a more real feel to it.

And it's also much clearer.

For example, everyone's eyes saw that existence extending from above the earth.

"This, what is this?"

Christie was the first to raise a question.

Everyone noticed immediately that it looked like a long needle had grown out of the Earth, with one end on top of the Earth.

The other end connects to a metallic construct existing outside of Earth.

The average person can only see a rough outline with the naked eye.

However, with Li Xiao and Zhao Yingkong's eyesight, they could see it clearly.

The building, constructed entirely of metal components, was larger than the two had ever imagined.

Keep in mind that this perspective is from space.

It is easy to imagine how incredible this "pin" on Earth is.

Whether in the fictional world or the real world, this is the largest building they have ever seen.

It wouldn't be an exaggeration to call it an architectural marvel.

If Li Xiao wasn't mistaken, this "pin" seemed to be rotating along with the Earth.

Moreover, it achieved full synchronization without being left behind.

Although Li Xiao didn't know the underlying principle, he was certain that this thing was technologically advanced.

On the Betty.

Ripley, the only one with memories of this Earth, looked at everything in his line of sight and said with a complicated expression:

"This is a space elevator."

"As the name suggests, it is a means of transportation that can travel directly from the ground to the space station by breaking through the atmosphere."

"Responsible for the daily round-trip transportation of personnel, supplies, and materials for the construction of warships and spacecraft."

"It was an important step for humanity at that time in moving from terrestrial civilization to interstellar civilization."

"It was also the lifeline of human technology at that time."

Ripley stared intently at the two hundred or so beings outside, who were nearly three hundred years old, as he explained to the others.

"Cole, do you have any information about this space elevator?"

Li Xiao turned around and asked.

Cole, with his short hair, nodded and addressed everyone:

"The space elevator, built in 2120 and completed after seven years, is a major artery that has carried out more than 90% of outer space experiments, laying a solid foundation for the interstellar era that followed."

"The concept of a space elevator originated from Tsiolkovsky's 'space castle' idea proposed in 1903."

"A building that is 90,000 kilometers long, seven times the diameter of the Earth, is also the tallest building in human history, bar none."

"It can reach the space station directly from the Earth's surface outside the atmosphere in a very short time."

"It is composed of several cutting-edge technologies such as equatorial base, carbon nanotube cable, and static track counterweight."

Li Xiao shifted his gaze to the other end of the pin:
"So that's a space station?"

"A space station connected to Earth?"

Ripley and Cole nodded simultaneously:

"Yes."

"Master, we have received an audio message sent from a nearby location."

Moss's voice suddenly rang out in the control room.

The mercenaries' expressions changed from shock to one of knowing it was true.

Then they all sat down on the ground, dejected.

"It seems that Earth has discovered us."

"Can't run away."

Reeves, being the most composed of the four, chuckled and said directly:
"Don't tell me you have no ideas about Earth."

"I refuse to believe that you mercenaries aren't curious about the situation on Earth?"

"Since things have already come to this, we might as well accept reality."

"What if we can escape by following those two?"

Clearly, Reeves' words of comfort had no effect.

Li Xiao then said directly, "Play it, Moss."

"Please land commercial spacecraft number 031172963 at parking position 423 on the space-based space station."

"This is Earth, welcome home..."

I heard this broadcast, which was both normal and absolutely abnormal.

The group of people looked at each other in bewilderment.

Is this normal? Absolutely.

The content, manner, and tone are all perfectly normal.

But the premise is that this is a normal Earth, not the Earth they describe as a place of no return, or even an Earth that drives people insane to suicide.

Reeves swallowed hard.

"A space station that's three hundred years old? A space-based space station?"

"The idea of ​​'basic' is reasonable, but..."

"This thing can still be used?"

Upon hearing Reeves's complaints, John noticed something else: this black man always had a wildly imaginative mind.

This person stood up and looked at the pin:
"My goodness, I thought it was impressive that the Betty had been in service for over a hundred years, but I didn't expect this space station to be even more impressive."

"A typical space station has a service life of thirty years, but this thing is over three hundred years old, right?"

This time, instead of Wells, Christie slapped him across the face.

"Is that the point? The point is that there are people on this space station."

"Make us land right now!"

The mercenary squad, realizing what was happening, looked expectantly at Li Xiao, the actual owner of the Betty warship.

However, Li Xiao didn't watch their performance at all.

There wasn't even a chance to think about it.

In that short time, the spacecraft, propelled by inertia, has gotten closer and closer to the space station.

They could even see the docking port that the other side had opened and the huge mechanical gate valve.

Li Xiao and Zhao Yingkong remained expressionless throughout.

Behind them were Ripley, Cole, and four mercenaries.

Everyone's expression is different.

Guided by the light, we arrived at the berth.

After the entire warship shuddered.

The faces of the four mercenaries twitched.

Because they knew this meant the connection was complete, and now that it was in someone else's hands, they couldn't run away even if they wanted to.

However, I don't know if it was Reeves' words that had an effect.

Wells and his companions pressed themselves against the transparent glass to observe the scene.

"Interstellar port, no one in the docking bay."

"There's no one in this control room either." (End of Chapter)