Infinite Terror: Infinite Reversal

Chapter 55 Planning

Mu Xiang had originally intended to rush over, but upon hearing that Zheng Zha's side had finished, he stopped rushing. So he first took Zero and Overlord back to the control room to check on Chu Xuan's situation.

Upon arriving at the control room, they found a cat-like alien lying motionless on the ground, its head nearly blown apart. Judging from the severed tongue lying nearby, the alien had likely been attacked through its mouth, its jaws breached and blasted open.

Chu Xuan, who was standing to the side, looked much better. He had just been pricked on his right wrist and was pressing on it to stop the bleeding without any expression.

"So you really have unlocked your genetic potential," Mu Xiang said, tossing him a roll of bandage wrapped around a hemostatic spray and looking at the corpse on the ground.

Chu Xuan did not deny it, but simply applied medicine and bandages to himself.

Mu Xiang sighed: "You're really amazing. I knew you would activate it as a pioneer in gene lock research... But we really miscalculated. I originally thought there was only one cat alien."

“That is indeed strange.” Chu Xuan nodded. “I found the bodies of four cats in the surveillance footage, all in the same room. But I’m not sure if there are any blind spots in the surveillance.”

Mu Xiang shook his head helplessly: "Do you remember what I said before? If there's more than one, then there might be more than two. I guess four is all there is."

Chu Xuan looked up at him: "Do you have any evidence? I won't make pointless inferences."

"It's funny... I don't know if it's just God's twisted sense of humor." Mu Xiang removed his helmet and, seemingly out of nowhere, produced a lemon candy. "Because during the filming of the movie 'Alien,' the director used four identical cats to play the same character. So after discovering that there was more than one cat-like alien, I guessed the number might be four. Compared to guessing the number randomly without any basis, this absurd reason suits my taste much better."

Chu Xuan remained silent for a moment. Mu Xiang thought that if he had any emotions, they would be "speechless." Then he nodded: "Perhaps. Judging from the current situation, this explanation might be the only one that works...maybe."

Mu Xiang took out a bottle of pain relief spray from the oath and handed it to Zero: "Your calves are still a little uncomfortable, right? Use this to deal with it for now. You and Chu Xuan can rest here. Ba Wang and I will bring Ripley and the others back right away."

Lingdian didn't stand on ceremony and nodded to Mu Xiang after accepting the gift.

Just as Mu Xiang was about to leave with Ba Wang, Chu Xuan suddenly said from behind, "Let me see your bracelet when you have time later."

This guy's had another episode...

Mu Xiang chuckled inwardly, then waved his hand to indicate that there was no problem, and walked out of the control room with Ba Wang.

They encountered no further problems along the way and soon reached the fork in the road. After exchanging a few more words with Zheng Zha, Mu Xiang heard a scream in each of his ears.

Okay, it's the same person, except one side is being transmitted to him via an earpiece.

Having confirmed it wasn't Zheng Zha's group, Mu Xiang felt somewhat relieved. After giving Zheng Zha a few more instructions, he used a directional corrosion canister to remove the isolation wall. Now that the cat alien incident was basically resolved, the isolation wall was no longer needed, so he could safely destroy it.

Chu Xuan lowered all four barriers at this fork in the road. Mu Xiang only needed to destroy three of them. One of them was insignificant; he had only destroyed it because he was worried the cat alien would escape.

Mu Xiang gave Ba Wang a jar, and Ba Wang was very interested in this kind of advanced technology. He rubbed his hands together and went to break through the wall on Zheng Zha's side.

Then Mu Xiang saw a corroded hole in the wall beneath the other side of the isolation wall… apparently, it was corroded by the cat-like alien. This time, Mu Xiang didn't use a jar; instead, he used his hands to tear a passage through the wall himself. During this process, the sounds of flesh being torn apart and increasingly faint screams came from behind the wall, but Mu Xiang didn't speed up. After all, slow and steady wins the race… no, what he meant was, "I will only tolerate someone who abandons their teammates once," just as he had said when he first confronted Chu Xuan. Actually, those words were also meant for Li Xiaoyi, but clearly Li Xiaoyi didn't understand or take them to heart, otherwise he wouldn't be in his current predicament.

Mu Xiang realized he seemed too cold and indifferent in some ways… but he wasn't surprised. He wasn't a particularly emotional person; he reserved his limited positive feelings for those who deserved them, remaining indifferent to everyone and everything else. This was how he acted in his real world, and coming to the Main God Space only amplified this trait under extreme circumstances. Besides, this plan was something he had already conceived long ago.

Both being transmigrators, he was dishonest, abandoned his teammates multiple times, and showed obvious malice towards him... If Mu Xiang had been a little more ruthless, Li Xiaoyi wouldn't have survived this long, even if he had only committed one of those acts.

But Mu Xiang wasn't some saint; he wouldn't have a change of heart at the last moment when carrying out his evil intentions.

After tearing open the isolation wall, Mu Xiang went inside and saw a half-human being who could barely still be called Li Xiaoyi and a cat-like alien torturing him.

Mu Xiang wasn't that freakish, so he knocked the cat alien out with a single shot.

Li Xiaoyi stared at him with his lifeless left eye, but that eye was already unfocused. His right eye was long gone, leaving only an empty socket where the bleeding had barely stopped.

Before Mu Xiang could squat down to examine Li Xiaoyi's condition closely, he heard the breathing of the severed body completely stop.

Li Xiaoyi is dead.

Mu Xiang didn't feel anything special; he simply raised his foot and kicked away the cat-like alien that lunged at him. On the other side lay a cat-like alien that had been dead for some time. It was quite something that this guy had killed a cat-like alien...

[Wait... he's at most a double D-level enhanced being, how could he possibly face two cat-like aliens alone and even kill one?]

Mu Xiang sensed something was wrong; he had to go back and check the surveillance footage. He raised his hand and locked onto the head of another cat-like alien. This cat-like alien wasn't moving as fast anymore, and with Mu Xiang's reflexes, he could easily keep up with its movements. Before it could even launch a counterattack, its brain was blown apart by the caseless bullet after being penetrated by armor.

"Kill one Messenger Alien, obtain one D-level side quest, and receive 1000 reward points..."

Mu Xiang glanced at Li Xiaoyi's severed upper and lower body and the mess on the ground, frowning... This kind of side quest monster is definitely harder to kill than the Xenomorph. If this cat-like Xenomorph hadn't been so exhausted, Mu Xiang wouldn't have been able to shoot it to death.

If Li Xiaoyi hadn't unlocked his genetic potential, could he really have achieved such a record?
Mu Xiang saw a large sword on the ground, the same one he had spotted during their first encounter. He tried to pick it up, but the moment he touched the hilt, the sword crumbled into dust.

It seems this is some kind of weapon that is connected to Li Xiaoyi's life.

Mu Xiang ignored all that and walked towards the room ahead. This was the real Room 38… also known as the cold storage. The hibernation pods on the spaceship required coolant, and a sufficient amount obviously needed a room to store it. Clues found on the main control room computer indicated that the cold storage for coolant also contained spare hibernation pods; these related supplies were stored together. According to the surveillance footage, Ripley's last appearance was indeed in this passageway.

Once again, the directional corrosion tank was used. Mu Xiang opened the door of the cold storage and found a hibernation pod in operation in the corner.

"To unlock the Alien side quest, thoroughly clear the spaceship, and escort Ripley to safety, the entire team will receive one C-level side quest and 2500 reward points. If Ripley dies or the spaceship is not fully cleared, each member will lose one C-level side quest and 3000 reward points..."

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