The Only Player in Infinite Terror

Still shaken, the newlyweds fought, searched, and retreated until they found a dormitory room where they planned to rest briefly.

But as soon as they entered, Zhu Wen and Ming Yanwei, who were in charge of the reconnaissance, couldn't help but scream.

"what!"

The others were startled by the two of them, thinking there was an alien attacking the room, and hurriedly followed them into the room.

More than a dozen corpses were neatly bound to the walls or pillars, just like they were at the beginning of the mission.

However, unlike them, each of these corpses had a bloody, mangled hole in their chest, deep enough to expose the internal bones and muscles!

Everyone looked solemn.

In a daze, they vaguely remembered that a very good-looking person had once told them some information.

The aliens inside the parasites in Deck A should still be some time away from hatching...

No, there were only eleven new recruits in this mission, so where did the others come from?

They must have misremembered.

Right...right?

So what about their equipment?

Oh, oh, oh... Yes, yes.

Suddenly it dawned on them: in this mission, the identities assigned to them by the God of War were retired space marines hired by the Weyland Corporation at high salaries.

It is reasonable that they are fully armed because they need to deal with emergencies and suppress riots.

Zero silently stepped forward and touched the jaws and necks of the corpses.

Based on his experience, the top assassin made the judgment: "The bodies are still warm, and there is no rigor mortis in the jaw and neck. They haven't been dead for very long."

"Don't you find it strange? Aliens should be considered a kind of creature, but don't they need food to develop? Why would they leave so much fresh meat here?" Zhu Wen asked, suppressing the urge to vomit.

Before Chu Xuan could explain, Li Shuaixi preemptively answered, "If it were a creature from Earth, your doubts would be very valid."

"However, the Xenomorphs are not creatures that evolved naturally; they are more like a perfectly designed biological weapon."

"Judging from the movie, they have already plundered enough energy and material reserves when they parasitize the host's body."

"However, there is also speculation that they can absorb matter and energy directly from their surroundings through their exoskeleton and skin."

"But one thing is certain: although they do eat people, they don't actually need to eat to develop."

"In a post I saw on a forum, an expert calculated that the amount of flesh eaten in the movie was simply not enough to support the alien's growth to that size."

"They hunt humans primarily for reproduction and simple killing, rather than for food to replenish their energy."

"Of course, it's also possible that these alien larvae knew we were coming through their pheromones, so they had to leave in advance."

The group replenished their magazines, drank some water, and rested for a while.

In just a short while, despite his efforts to restrain himself, Zhang Heng couldn't help but take off his helmet due to his psychological trauma and ran to the corner of the room to vomit repeatedly.

Ming Yanwei was about to comfort him, but Zhang Heng's psychological defenses had clearly been completely shattered by the gruesome deaths of the corpses.

He roared and completely lost his mind. He threw down his helmet, took off running, and ran out the door alone, screaming wildly.

He even abandoned his Gauss pistol and Gauss rifle out of fear of fighting.

His escape speed was so fast that it was beyond reason; among the newcomers present, none of them except Zhao Yingkong reacted in time.

Zhao Yingkong hesitated for a moment, but ultimately gave up on activating the first-stage gene lock to catch up with Zhang Heng who had fled.

Although the side effects of unlocking the first-order gene lock were not significant for her, she would still be weak for a short period of time.

In this kind of dangerous horror movie, she was unwilling to put herself in danger just to save a good-for-nothing she had only known for a short time.

Ming Yanwei gritted her teeth, but did not choose to chase after him alone.

She carefully collected the weapons and equipment Zhang Heng had abandoned, then suggested to Chu Xuan, "Colonel Chu, let's follow him. At the very least, we can use him as bait to lure the aliens away."

With her helmet covering her face, Chu Xuan couldn't see the expression on her face.

But Chu Xuan didn't say anything more, just nodded and replied calmly, "Okay."

"However, if we can't find him around here, it means he was most likely taken by the aliens to the lowest nest."

……

Zhan Lan, who was watching the newcomers' performance with her mental power, couldn't help but complain in the mental chat group of five veterans after seeing this scene.

"This newcomer is quite bizarre. You might say he has no potential, but he unlocked the first stage of his genetic lock with the T-virus, and then unlocked the second stage just to escape."

"You could say he has potential, but for a grown man to be so timid and have such poor mental fortitude!"

Zheng Zha said somewhat dejectedly, "Sigh, don't even mention it, this kid fainted because of the aftereffects of the gene lock."

"I just cured him of the aftereffects of unlocking his genes, and now the aliens have picked him up and taken him back to the nest."

"What should I say? Should I intervene again and save him, and take him near the newlyweds?"

Zhang Jie chimed in with his own complaints: "What's up with that guy with glasses? I have a feeling he found out I hypnotized them."

"That doesn't make sense. He's a newbie without any enhancements; logically, he shouldn't be able to resist my Eye of Suggestion."

"Wait, why do I have a feeling that he awakened telekinesis because of the T-virus?"

"There's another little girl too, she seems to have awakened telekinesis as well."

"Wait, isn't there a slightly higher proportion of geniuses among these newcomers?"

Ling Qi wasn't particularly surprised. After all, the remaining newcomers were all characters with names and identities from the original work, so they all had potential.

Ling Qi said to Zheng Zha, "Don't worry about Zhang Heng for now. The aliens won't kill him directly. Right now, he's an excellent host in their eyes."

"After it's parasitized, Zheng Zha, you can extract the alien larva from its body. Killing it after it's fully developed should yield a decent reward."

Zheng Zha was still somewhat conflicted: "But the aliens in the movie are said to absorb the host's genes to evolve."

"This newcomer has unlocked the second-tier gene lock and undergone T-virus modification. What if the main god intervenes and dynamically adjusts the difficulty, causing the hatched alien to evolve into a super alien...?"

"I'm not worried about losing; I'm worried that the aftershocks of our battle might destroy the spaceship, and all the new recruits would die."

Ling Qi joked, "Zheng Zha, this is a typical example of inferior thinking. You make rash judgments without understanding the fourth-order gene lock and microscopic perception."

"But it's not your fault. We haven't practiced together in a long time, so it's understandable that your impression of me is stuck in the last version."

"Besides, have you forgotten that I have the Eye of the Threads?"

"No matter how strong that alien is, it will be instantly killed by me in the face of telekinetic instant death."

"I'm worried that the newbies won't get enough of one mutant, so I'll send them an upgraded mutant to play with."

"I'm doing this for their own good. They're having such a smooth time right now. They need to experience more hardships to grow."

"Don't worry, Zhan Lan is keeping an eye on things the whole time, nothing will go wrong."

At this point, he instructed Zhan Lan, "In that case, don't use the Reverse Xenomorph on the new recruits for now. Once they injure the Reverse Xenomorph, you should directly annihilate its spirit."