Infinite Horror: The Strongest Zhongzhou Team

"Yes, you just said that the timeline of this prequel is two years before Alien 1, which is 2120."

"An alien spaceship accidentally lands on Earth, triggering a crisis, which is then resolved, and finally, alien technology is acquired, leading to technological progress."

"Okay, the script is very clichéd; eight out of ten sci-fi movies are like that."

"Forget it, let's keep it simple. Since it's a prequel to Alien and also the time when the Alien first appeared on Earth, let's call it 'Alien: Earth'."

The Mediterranean man nodded and wrote four large words at the top of the messy draft paper.

It's just a name, it doesn't matter.

Li Xiao, who had just casually come up with a name, had no idea.

This name is like a boomerang of fate.

After their Central Continent team traversed countless worlds, it turned out that he himself had arrived in this special world.

Beyond Earth, the Space Station.

That's this moment.

Li Xiaocai suddenly remembered everything he had almost forgotten.

Succeeded?
Yes!

Such a status is only attainable through success.

"I see!"

"That's why Zheng Zha was identified as a user of special privileges!"

Li Xiao had initially thought that Zheng Zha's identity in the previous horror movie was a plot device bestowed by the main god.

But it seems that's not the case now.

The real reason was a casual remark he made back then.

Do not!
It must be because of those few strokes the Mediterranean made on the paper.

Thinking about this, Li Xiao wanted to slap himself.

Why be a general? Wouldn't it be better to be a creator god or savior?
If that's the case, then I can directly inherit the supreme godhood, unlock the fifth stage of the gene lock, and kick them one by one.

They crushed the Celestials and the Demons.

The bewildered Reeves and his companions saw Li Xiao raise his hand and slap them.

Then this person closed their eyes and pressed their hands against their head.

No, I can’t think about it anymore.

It's fortunate that it wasn't that outrageous, otherwise I wouldn't even know how I died.

All of this giving Li Xiao a strange and inexplicable feeling.

Because no matter what, they actually did interfere with some of the settings in the story world.

And they kept what they wanted.

Li Xiao is just a pity now.

Unfortunately, I was focused on training at the time and didn't participate much in the plot and story development of Alien: Earth.

Otherwise, at the very least, you could equip yourself with a Doraemon, the kind with a four-dimensional pocket.

Just kidding!
Li Xiao hadn't forgotten, in the real world.

From the very beginning, Chu Xuan established several inviolable rules.

That is, all the films produced, including their content, plot, and story outline, must not have any impact on existing films in the same series.

It is for this reason that the Alien series chose a timeline outside the main storyline.

If he remembered correctly, that was two years before Ripley landed on the mining ship.

That is 2120 years.

This timing sounds familiar. Right, Ripley mentioned before that this was the time when the space elevator began its testing.

Li Xiao stood there, rubbing his temples vigorously.

He felt like he needed to develop a brain.

Li Xiao forced himself to stop thinking and took two deep breaths.

"Sakura, why don't you give it a try?"

The girl stood in the scanning area.

Zhao Yingkong's identity is that of a colonel, whose rank also shines with a green light.

This time, Li Xiao was absolutely certain.

Because he casually mentioned at the time that he would arrange for all members of the Zhongzhou team to have military identities and retain them permanently.

Then something interesting happened.

That is, when Cole walked across the doorway, the detection machine did not react at all.

It's like it's broken.

Li Xiao even attempted to launch an attack, destroying several of the door frame robots.

However, none of them elicited any special reactions.

However, it was precisely this behavior that made several mercenaries, including Ripley, look extremely nervous.

They were afraid of triggering an alarm on the space station.

They only realized it was true when the huge space station remained completely unresponsive.

Li Xiao's title of general might actually be true.

"So what's going on?"

After some attempts.

Li Xiao looked at the group who could no longer hold back and explained with a wry smile:
Can I say I don't know either?

"As for my and Zhao Yingkong's identities, you can assume that we have lost our memories of Earth."

After finishing his sentence, Li Xiao changed the subject and looked away.

"By the way, since I now have the highest authority over this space station, it should also have a main program system, right?"

"Ripley, do you know where he is?"

The female lead nodded.

"Come with me, General Li Xiao!"

Even though Ripley turned away as soon as he finished speaking.

But Li Xiao could imagine the strange expression on this person's face when they said those words.

After passing through the security checkpoint and around the most conspicuous space elevator, the group went through a long metal corridor with a glass dome.

Then they headed towards the latter half of the space station.

Along the way, the open doors proved that the mechanical voice from earlier was not lying.

They were all shimmering with a green light.

It was as if they were just short of holding up a banner that read: "Welcome, General, to inspect and guide our work."

A dozen minutes later, the group arrived without any obstacles at a place filled with various display terminals and input devices.

Revis found a terminal host on his own and began to operate it.

Just a few minutes later, Reeves reluctantly stood up and said to everyone:
"No, I've never seen the operating system on this before, so I can't even upgrade it."

"Much content is unreadable."

Upon hearing Reeves' words, Li Xiao immediately realized something and looked to the side:
"Cole, do you want to give it a try?"

"I remember that as a cyborg, you were also able to connect to a terminal and directly read data, right?"

"If there really are digital life forms here, they are most likely in this place."

"In a sense, you are very similar to a digital life."

"It should be someone similar to you."

Cole, who had originally wanted to refuse, couldn't refuse after hearing Li Xiao's last words.

"Are we the same kind?"

"maybe!"

As he spoke, Cole sat down in front of one of the screens.

"What an ancient existence!"

As he spoke, Cole exposed his arm.

Veris then retrieved two connecting cables from under the screen, skillfully disconnected them, and simply and brutally inserted them directly into Cole's arm.

After the connection was successfully established, Cole's eyelids began to flicker rapidly without his awareness.

A normal person blinks between 0.1 and 0.3 seconds, about 15 times per minute.

Now, Cole's blinking speed is clearly longer than 0.1 seconds, and it's continuous.

Reeves explained:

"This is an overload reaction of the cyborg's body. I actually noticed it last time."

“When Cole has acquired a lot of information, his eyelids will enter this state.”

"It should be fine."

And so, after waiting for a minute...

Cole, who had been sitting on the ground with his back straight and motionless, suddenly went limp and returned to his normal appearance.

He covered his head with one hand and kept rubbing it.

It seems that this can relieve some kind of headache.

"So, what did you find?"

Ripley was the first to ask.

Cole shook his head:

"How strange, there's nothing on this space station?" Li Xiao was taken aback: "What do you mean?"

Reeves looked at the garbled text flashing across the screen during the week and thought of something.

He looked enlightened and stood up to answer:

"In fact, no matter what type of planetary space station it is, its function is nothing more than to conduct experiments, verify new technologies, or serve as a transit station and interstellar port for docking spacecraft."

"Does Cole mean that this space station doesn't have all of the above information?"

Cole nodded: "That's right, exactly."

Suddenly, Reeves remembered something: "Where's the log?"

"Even a space station from two hundred years ago should have had the ability to automatically record logs."

After a while, Cole, who had been keeping his eyes closed, spoke again:
"found it."

"The log seems to be incomplete and has been edited. Take a look."

As Cole spoke, Reeves, without any input, began rapidly editing the screen on one side.

Sections of text marked with emphasis began to appear.

Li Xiao looked down, his brows furrowed, and said:

"This is more like a diary than a logbook, isn't it?"

"And it's described from one person's perspective."

【………！ ！ 】

By 2100, human technological development has been stable. With breakthroughs in biological and genetic technologies, average human lifespan has increased once again, and the Earth's population has exceeded 10 billion for the first time!

In 2102, a crisis that would destroy the Earth emerged.

The latest iteration of weak artificial intelligence uses quantum computers to calculate the potential impact of human development at its current pace.

Thirty years from now, the Earth's ecological environment will reach its limit, after which the world will suffer a devastating blow.

The calculations show...

The ever-growing and massive population is increasing the demand for various resources.

Food, fresh water, oil, coal, natural gas, etc.

The energy crisis was the first to emerge.

Subsequently, industrial production, transportation, greenhouse gases, and global climate entered a period of dramatic change.

The warming crisis followed closely behind.

Then, deforestation occurred, soil degradation occurred, the ecological balance was tilted, and biodiversity began to decline.

The crisis facing the Earth is also a crisis facing humanity.

However, calculations are always just calculations and are unproven assumptions.

This inference was washed away and disappeared by the flood of information.

[2103]

The crisis, which was originally projected to occur 25 years later, has actually come forward.

During this year, the Earth's environment suddenly began to deteriorate rapidly.

That summer.

A heatwave hits the Northern Hemisphere, with high temperatures causing deaths in Europe and prompting red alerts to be issued in several cities.

At first, no one paid attention to these disasters that were irrelevant to them and only appeared on news channels.

They believed it was just a wildfire.

A drought.

An earthquake.

The extinction of a species.

Or perhaps it's the disappearance of a peripheral city.

[2104]

Until this disaster became relevant to everyone.

Because they are the disaster itself.

The information that disappeared two years ago has reappeared.

Compared to before, the results calculated this time are even more alarming.

In the conclusions of artificial intelligence calculations.

Humanity has entered a chain of self-destruction.

Population explosion → excessive resource consumption → ecological imbalance and climate crisis → mass extinction (the 6th biological catastrophe) → population reset or "civilization collapse"!
This is the end.

The population issue was first raised by those scientists.

It has gained attention from all of humanity.

However, at this very moment, the Earth is aging rapidly.

The concept of population carrying capacity.

It appeared before the world's ten billion people.

New calculation results have emerged in the face of an extremely changing living environment.

Thirty years later, humanity is destroyed!
Sixty years from now, the Earth's surface will be devoid of any life due to extreme weather events.

[2105]

Humanity is facing this inevitable catastrophe.

My first reaction was war!
The scarcity of resources has accelerated the pace of plunder by various powerful nations.

War thus inevitably broke out.

The survival of the fittest in nature is vividly demonstrated through war.

[2115]

The same year the war ended.

Humanity on Earth established the first unified political system in history.

It is called the Federal Government.

A decade of global nuclear war consumed more than two billion people worldwide.

Those who survived thought that eliminating these two billion people would solve the problem.

However, this was also the year the federal government was established.

Because of the large-scale, concentrated deaths of humans and other organisms in a short period of time.

This led to the successive outbreaks of viruses, epidemics, diseases, and nuclear radiation.

The human population has once again plummeted.

The already rapidly changing Earth has now embarked on a fast track.

Extreme weather events occur frequently, including high temperatures, extreme heat, extreme cold, and storms.

Nuclear explosion, war, and finally unification.

Everything comes at a price.

[2116]

Federal government scientists have determined that in twenty years, the Earth's surface will no longer be suitable for any life to survive.

War accelerated this change.

In order to cope with the crisis and find a way out for humanity.

One year later.

In 2117, the federal government presented four contingency plans to all of humanity.

Contingency Plan 1: Interstellar Migration Plan.

We will pool global scientific research resources and go all out to develop and overcome the relevant technical challenges.

Create enough spaceships to forcibly usher in the era of interstellar civilization.

Contingency Plan Two: Population Elimination Plan!

By implementing reasonable disinfection procedures and ensuring safety, half or two-thirds of the current population could be eliminated to guarantee the possibility of human continuation.

Contingency Plan Three: The Digital Life Project!

Human consciousness can be extracted as digital life and stored on hard drives to reduce the rigid demand for water and food, while also reducing carbon dioxide emissions.

Contingency Plan Four: The Underground City Project!
Abandon the Earth's surface and move all of humanity underground.

[2119]

The four feasibility plans were announced.

Something unexpected happened.

The original plan to deal with the crisis became the crisis itself.

计划
……………！！

What humanity fears most is not the absence of a future, but the absence of direction.

Faced with multiple choices, humanity is caught in the dilemma of self-justification.

But time is running out for humanity.

Over time.

The environment is deteriorating further.

The ecological balance is about to be completely destroyed.

..............................

…Therefore, Contingency Plan One was ultimately chosen. (End of Chapter)