My Anime Girlfriends

Chapter 18 The Beginning with the Opposite Sex 2

Facing these three fluent and arrogant young men, Zheng Zha, who was standing next to me, ignored them and said loudly, "Please be quiet, everyone. We will explain the specifics in detail later. Now, let's ask Chu Xuan to tell us about the details of the horror movie Alien 1."

Upon hearing this, Chu Xuan nodded and calmly said, "Next, the crew on the merchant ship naturally planned to eliminate the aliens. They didn't have many weapons. The one that impressed me the most was the flamethrower. Of course, based on my calculations, this kind of close-range high-temperature weapon has almost no lethality against the aliens, who possess super-fast speed and extremely high defensive shells... but it can tear you apart in an instant at close range..."

The three youths seemed startled by Zheng Zha's tone. When they saw that we ignored them and continued talking, they became enraged and roared. The one with the bronze rings on his face yelled at Zheng Zha, "Damn it, who do you think you are? You dare to order us around? I definitely know you. I know where you live. Believe me, we'll bring some men and chop up your whole family!"

At this moment, Zhang Jie sneered and pulled the Desert Eagle out of his pocket. He pointed at the young man with a face full of bronze rings and said, "Shut up. Now is the most important time to gather intelligence. Don't make me angry."

The three youths and their companions panicked upon seeing the pistol. The bystanders quickly moved aside, creating an open space around the three youths. They exchanged glances and burst into laughter. The youth with the bronze rings on his face even pulled out a pistol from his pocket, saying as he did so, "Where are you from? Damn it, if you're going to buy fakes, you'd buy a Type 54. A Desert Eagle? That's fucking ridiculous. You think just anyone can get a real Desert Eagle? It's obviously a fake..."

The moment he drew his gun, Zhang Jie pulled the trigger without hesitation. With a loud bang, the young man's arm holding the gun was completely severed. The power of the Desert Eagle was immense; after hitting the arm, the enormous force tore it apart. By the time everyone came to their senses, the young man's entire arm had been broken in two by the bullet.

The young man was initially stunned. He shook his arm as if he didn't believe it. When the excruciating pain traveled from his nerves to his brain, he finally screamed wildly. He and the two young men next to him immediately knelt on the ground because they finally realized that the Desert Eagle in Zhang Jie's hand was not a fake. This realization terrified them so much that they wet themselves. The three of them were no longer as arrogant as before.

Zheng Zha glanced around and nodded secretly. I think he noticed those few very calm people.

At this moment, Li Xiaoyi ran over and picked up the pistol from the bloodstains. He fiddled with it for a moment and said, "Brother Zhang, this is a fake, not the real thing."

Zhang Jie nodded and put the Desert Eagle back into his inner pocket. He said calmly, "Get him some spray to stop the bleeding. And all the new recruits, remember this: don't point guns at me. I'll get nervous! I might do something rash!"

I chimed in from the side, "Zhan Lan, help him with the treatment, so he doesn't make a mess here."

Zhan Lan glanced at me and nodded, then walked to the young man's side and waved her hand. A green light floated towards the young man, and his wounds began to heal. Soon, the bleeding stopped, and his severed arm no longer looked like it had been broken earlier, but rather like an old wound from long ago.

He pulled out a pack of cigarettes from his pocket, handed one to Chu Xuan, and said, "Aren't you afraid? Those are real guns."

Just then, Chu Xuan recovered from the way Zhan Lan had rescued him. He pushed the cigarette back and laughed, "I don't smoke, it'll kill my brain cells. How about it? Do you want me to continue talking about the plot details of the horror movie Alien 1?"

Zheng Zha smiled, lit a cigarette, and said, "Then I'll have to trouble you."

"The horror of the alien exceeded everyone's imagination. As the number of people on the merchant ship dwindled, a bug appeared in the horror movie, namely a contradiction in the plot logic. The movie's plot was that the protagonists discovered that one of them was a robot. This robot was sent by the government to monitor them. The robot's mission was to bring the alien back to Earth and hand it over to the Earth government, and it could decide whether to abandon the lives of the merchant ship's crew."

"This is the bug I was talking about. According to the robot in the movie, the government knew there were Xenomorphs at the alien ruins before the merchant ships even arrived. The government's plan was to sacrifice the merchant ship crew in exchange for a living Xenomorph. But is that even possible? Instead of sending scientists or soldiers to retrieve the Xenomorph, the government sent a robot to infiltrate the merchant ship crew. And this robot wasn't even the leader of the crew. In other words, there's a high chance the merchant ship crew won't bring back the Xenomorph. They just need to take a look at the ruins and come back. Doesn't that mean the government is relying on a 'possible' chance to get the Xenomorph? That's impossible. No government would make such an idiotic move, abandoning an army that absolutely obeys orders, and choosing a merchant caravan that might or might not bring it back. That's absolutely impossible!"

Chu Xuan adjusted his glasses and continued, "Let me give you a small analogy. If a country knows that there is a nuclear bomb buried in its desert, will that country send its army to closely monitor it and bring back the nuclear bomb, or will it put a soldier in a merchant caravan and let him discover the nuclear bomb by chance when passing by? It can be said that the director of Alien 1 could not make sense here, which is why such an obvious bug appeared."

We exchanged glances without speaking. Chu Xuan carefully observed our expressions and continued, "Afterwards, the remaining crew members of the merchant ship planned to blow up the ship so they could escape to the space escape pod. However, two more were killed during the escape, leaving only the protagonist. She successfully escaped to the escape pod, and the alien followed her in. After discovering the alien, the protagonist put on a spacesuit and opened the door of the space escape pod. Due to the vacuum of space, the air inside the pod quickly escaped, and the pulling force also dragged the alien out. Only then did the protagonist survive; she was the only survivor among all the crew members."

"I've finished explaining the plot. Now, can the four of you tell me something? For example, where is this place? If I'm not mistaken... this is the space merchant ship with the alien creature, right?"

Aside from Zheng Zha and the others, we exchanged surprised glances. At this moment, Chu Xuan smiled and said, "I was just testing you out, but now I'm somewhat certain... However, I would appreciate it if the three of you could explain the situation, otherwise I still can't understand why I'm here."

Zheng Zha paused for a moment and asked, "When did you watch the horror movie Alien 1?"

Chu Xuan adjusted his glasses and said, "It was about seven years ago. It's something I saw in such a short time, so I still remember it quite well."

Hearing his answer, everyone around him was secretly astonished. He still remembered things from seven years ago so vividly. Did that mean they were people who had no memory?

Chu Xuan suddenly addressed the group of newcomers, saying, "You all probably saw the option 'Do you want to understand the meaning of life? Do you want to truly...live?' on the webpage, right?"

People around answered, and although their accents varied, they all answered yes, and everyone who came chose "YES".

"I was writing a program on my computer at the time, and this option suddenly appeared in the programming interface. The most crucial thing was that my computer was disconnected from the network at the time, and I didn't know that any virus could infiltrate my self-made firewall. So I immediately started to decipher the source of this option and its source code. But guess what I found?"

Chu Xuan adjusted his glasses and continued calmly, "This text is not composed of computer 0s and 1s. Its source code is not an electronic program, but rather a peculiar set of symbols. If I remember correctly, these symbols are composed of three scripts: oracle bone script, papyrus script, and cuneiform script—the three oldest scripts in the world. It also contains a large number of inexplicable and strange symbols, which makes it impossible to translate without a point of reference."

"I was extremely curious. You know, when computers break through the limits of 0 and 1, that's when artificial intelligence emerges. Not to mention that this text actually uses so many characters at the same time. So I chose the 'YES' option with far more characters and abandoned the 'NO' option with only a few characters. The result was quite surprising. I actually ended up here. Although I don't know where I am, this place should be very, very far away from Beijing, right?"

I looked around at the stunned crowd, clapped my hands, and said, "As expected of someone from Dragon's Shadow, your reasoning ability is truly amazing, Chu Xuan... Colonel."

Chu Xuan looked at me and smiled, saying, "Not bad. If I can't deduce these problems with my IQ of 220, then I've really lived in vain. But I have a question. I've clearly left the Dragon Shadow Base, but the detector shows that I haven't left even a step."

Chu Xuan showed his watch. According to him, the watch had been redesigned. For national treasure-level researchers like himself, in order to prevent being hijacked by spies, the watch could communicate with the main computer of the Dragon Shadow Base. In addition to constantly sending signals to the main computer to determine the location, the watch would also show how far he had left the Dragon Shadow Base.

"That means I instantly left the space I was in, so naturally the watch couldn't receive electronic signals from the Dragon Shadow Base's main computer in that space. It would still think I was in the Dragon Shadow Base, which is the only reason I can deduce. Now it seems that this incredible reason is actually true?"

We exchanged glances, and Zheng Zha suddenly said, "Zhan Lan, why don't you explain to them where this place is and why we're here?"

Zhan Lan smiled and said, "Then I thank you... but no need, let Li Xiaoyi explain to them."

I chimed in from the side, "Let's listen to Zhan Lan. Her physical abilities are probably only slightly worse than Zheng Zha's, so let Li Xiaoyi explain it."

Then Li Xiaoyi explained the situation to everyone, especially detailing that everyone would be endlessly cycling through countless horror movies. Surviving each horror movie would earn them a thousand reward points, which could be exchanged for weapons or to enhance their bodies. Right now, they were standing in the horror movie Alien 1, and the newly appeared watches on their wrists displayed their mission: to kill the alien. Of course, the boy was still hiding the side plots of the horror movies from them, as he couldn't tell every newcomer.

Most of the newcomers either looked incredulous or appeared panicked. Apart from Chu Xuan, who calmly looked around, there were two other newcomers who calmly looked at us, one of whom was a tall white man.

At this moment, Zheng Zha walked up to the two men, reached out his hand, and asked, "What are your surnames, gentlemen? Does this gentleman understand Mandarin Chinese?"

One of them was slightly thin, but it was obvious that his body was covered in very taut muscles. He did not shake hands with Zheng Zha, but instead took a step back and said, "You can call me Zero Point. I don't want to answer the other questions."

The white man, on the contrary, casually shook Zheng Zha's hand and said, "Kampa Rovsky, you can call me Campa. Of course I can understand Mandarin Chinese, but I'm not used to speaking it yet... You have a strong hand."

As for the rest of the people, apart from the three thugs who were kneeling on the ground, the other five were two middle-aged men with big bellies and three guys who looked like white-collar workers. The two men looked to be young men in their twenties. One of them was quite clever and looked around, while the other was flirting with the white-collar woman.

Zheng Zha said loudly from the side, "Now, please tell us your previous profession, age, and what you are best at, so that we can assign your respective responsibilities."

Here, unlike in the novel, no one showed any doubt or demanded confirmation of the truth, because Zhan Lan had already made it clear during the rescue that we were not lying.

Campa Rovsky said casually, "I'm an international mercenary, a top-notch gunner. You can call me by my nickname, Overlord. To be honest, I'd rather you were lying. This is really a terrible place."

Zero coldly replied, "I don't have a name. Just call me Zero. I'm a professional assassin specializing in long-range precision sniping. Unfortunately, this horror movie doesn't seem to need my skills, and there aren't any sniper rifles here."

Chapter 19 The Aliens Have Arrived!

At this moment, Zhang Jie laughed and said, "Not bad, you guys are all quite strong. We all survived the last horror movie. I survived four horror movies, and the other four survived one. But it seems we really made a mistake. We should have exchanged for some heavy weapons with limited ammunition to use in the first place. Anyway, the exchange points for those consumables are very cheap."

At this moment, Chu Xuan adjusted his glasses, pointed at me, and asked Zhang Jie, "He's the strongest of the five of you, right? Why is that? Didn't he only survive one horror movie?"

I smiled and said, "Actually, it's okay to say it, because I was already very strong before entering this space, which is why I'm the strongest among them. Is there any other question?"

Chu Xuan... Senior Colonel.

Chu Xuan glanced at me, adjusted his glasses, and said, "It's nothing."

Seeing his reaction, I saw no need to continue. So I took out three rifles that looked very similar to M16s and a sniper rifle from my Qiankun Ring and said, "These are what I exchanged in the Main God Space. These guns have been modified, and the bullets are specially made, so they can easily break through the alien's shell and cause fatal damage to them. Here you go." After saying that, I handed them to Zero, Overlord, Chu Xuan, and Zhang Jie.

Ba Wang, Chu Xuan, and Ling Dian stared at me blankly for a moment, then each picked up a weapon. Ba Wang and Chu Xuan chose the M16, while Ling Dian chose a sniper rifle. I glanced at them and handed them a few magazines, saying, "Don't worry about saving ammo, I have plenty here." But I sensed that Chu Xuan's gaze had become a little strange.

After seeing me take out a gun, Zhang Jie patted me on the shoulder and said, "I didn't expect you to be so thorough in your work. From now on, I'll leave the logistics to you."

I chuckled, and at the same time handed each of him, Zheng Zha, and Li Xiaoyi an M16 and a few magazines, saying, "Although the guns are very powerful, they are not unlimited, so be careful, or I won't be able to save you if something happens."

Zhang Jie and the other two looked at me and said with a smile, "Don't worry, we'll be careful."

Just then, the only door in the room slowly opened, and everyone looked in that direction, but there was nothing outside the open door.

"The horror movie is starting!"

Zhang Jie suddenly pointed the M16 towards the gate, but after several minutes, there was still no one in sight.

Then they saw the two middle-aged men carrying briefcases walking casually towards the door. Zheng Zha was so frightened that he quickly said, "Don't go out like that! This is your first horror movie. You are much more vulnerable than us, and you are also much more in danger than us in this horror movie! If we are to gather information, it should be us who go out."

Zero sneered from the side, "Do you think they're going to gather intelligence?"

As they spoke, the male and female office workers followed them out, and then three thugs ran out like madmen. Zheng Zha then vaguely heard the two middle-aged men carrying briefcases say, "Hey, do you think we don't know? You think you can just set up a movie scene and hire some shills to scam money? Spend more money on production costs. Look at your poor appearance, a professional assassin, huh? If he's a professional assassin, then I'm Superman!"

The male and female white-collar workers echoed in hushed tones. Only three thugs, as if fleeing for their lives, pushed past the others and ran into the depths of the corridor without saying a word. In the end, only four people remained among the newcomers: Chu Xuan, Overlord Campa; Rovsky, Zero Point, and that ordinary young man who looked somewhat clever.

The young man cautiously approached the group and said, “Can I join you? Although it all sounds incredible, I still hope to be by your side. By the way, my name is Li Shuaixi, and my occupation is… Hehe, I just graduated from university and don’t have a job yet. But before coming here, I watched a lot of horror movies and read a lot of horror stories at home. By the way, I’ve also read fantasy novels online and myths from various countries.”

I didn't say anything. Zheng Zha and Zhang Jie exchanged glances. He smiled and extended his hand to Li Shuaixi, saying, "Welcome to the team. Although we may not all survive, at least we won't abandon our comrades." I immediately handed him an M16. It was probably the first time he had ever held a real gun, and he played with it for a while.

Zhang Jie asked, "What should we do next? We can't just stay here forever, can we?"

"intelligence!"

Zhan Lan and Chu Xuan spoke at the same time, then they both smiled at each other. Chu Xuan waved his hand and said, "You should speak. My strength lies in analysis, but I really don't have much confidence in the layout."

Zhan Lan touched her forehead and laughed, "Hehe, I'm a writer, so I'm most confident in my plot. Of course, if there's anything wrong, please let me know."

“We did an analysis before you woke up. To be honest, Alien 1 wasn’t that difficult. There was only one alien in the whole movie. If we’re just talking about the survival difficulty of horror movies, it’s not even as difficult as Resident Evil 1. Both of them are science fiction horror movies that can be explained by modern technology. But why did Resident Evil only have seven people, while this movie has sixteen? We think the plot has changed, so the difficulty has been increased accordingly by the ‘God’.”

Chu Xuan nodded and said, "Resident Evil 1? If we compare them like that, the crawlers in Resident Evil 1 are actually no worse than the aliens, and there are many more of them. I think your reasoning is correct. The difficulty of survival in Alien 1 is definitely not greater than that in Resident Evil 1. If it's a change in the plot of a horror movie... what do you think we should do now?"

"Intelligence!" Zhan Lan said confidently. "We need to understand to what extent the plot of this horror movie has been changed, and why the difficulty has been increased so much. Also, we can't see the true power of the alien just from the movie. We have to fight it face to face to understand its speed, strength, and other factors, so we can decide how to kill the alien."

I nodded and said, "In that case, let's explore this merchant ship now. It would be best if we could encounter some characters from the story. If we encounter an alien, I'll fight it while you guys provide cover. Also, Zhan Lan, didn't you learn the Vajra Talisman and the Swiftness Talisman? Can you buff them? As for the skill to summon heavenly soldiers, their attributes are 10 times that of ordinary people, so they are also an important fighting force. However, it has a time limit, so use it at crucial moments. Now, let's go."

After I finished speaking, Zhan Lan began to use Taoist magic, and then successively blessed us with Vajra Talisman and Swift Travel Talisman. After being blessed, we all had a faint golden light on our bodies, and Chu Xuan and the other two were stunned for about 10 seconds.

After Chu Xuan and the other two realized what was happening, they were about to ask something...

Just then, several screams suddenly came from the other end of the corridor. Judging from the voices, they should be those two middle-aged men and the male and female white-collar workers. The nine people in the room exchanged glances and ran towards that direction at the same time. With the blessing of the Swiftness Talisman, the speed of the group was astonishing, about twice as fast as usual. Only the young man named Li Shuaixi was panting heavily even with the blessing of the Vajra Talisman and the Swiftness Talisman.

The screams came from a large hall of several dozen square meters. The middle-aged man and three others were sitting on the ground screaming in terror. Opposite them, three corpses lay stiffly on the ground. Zheng Zha and the others saw this scene as soon as they entered. The three corpses were a blonde woman, a black man, and a white man. Their faces were extremely distorted, as if they had experienced something very painful before they died.

Upon seeing our arrival, the middle-aged man and the male and female office workers ran in terror to the corridor at the other end of the room. Zheng Zha squatted down next to the corpse and examined it carefully. After a few glances, he asked with a pale face, "Alien One... how many aliens appeared in total?"

Chu Xuan said confidently, "Firstly, my memory would never make a mistake on such a detail."

I chimed in, "The difficulty has increased. Remember the message on your watch? It said: Kill the alien, and each member of the team will be rewarded with 1,000 bonus points plus one C-level horror movie side quest. Do you think it'll be as simple as just one alien? So we'll soon be facing three... or even more and bigger aliens."

After seeing the three corpses at midnight, he squatted down silently, wiped some blood with his hand, smelled it, and said, "They've been dead for about four to five hours."

Chu Xuan also squatted down beside the corpses. He gestured with his finger over the holes in the chests of two of the corpses, and then gestured over the corpse with a large hole in its chest. After a long while, he stood up with a heavy expression and said, "It really is the Empress. This is terrible. The mission is to kill all the aliens. If there really is an Empress on the merchant ship... I think we are probably doomed."

Zhan Lan touched her forehead and said, "I remember the Queen refers to the female Xenomorph that lays eggs and is several times larger than a regular Xenomorph. Are you referring to this kind of Xenomorph?"

Chu Xuan nodded and said, "Yes, that's the kind of alien we're referring to. It's nearly ten times more powerful than a regular alien. Although we have the ability to easily break through the shell of a regular alien, in terms of size..."

Zhan Lan glanced at me and said, "Don't worry, we have Brother Tian with us, right? He'll definitely kill the Empress, won't he, Brother Tian?"

Zhang Jie and Zheng Zha exchanged a glance and said, "Oh right, how could we forget that you pervert Dong Tian are here? I feel much more at ease now."

“Dong Tian… are you the Dong Tian you know? If so, I’m much relieved,” Chu Xuan said from the side.

Zheng Zha asked, somewhat puzzled, after hearing Chu Xuan's words, "Why are you so much more at ease when he's Dong Tian?"

"Want to know?" Chu Xuan asked back, glancing at me as he did so. When he saw my expression, he took a deep breath and slowly said, "He is Dong Tian, ​​the butler who has been wanted by R country in the underworld for ten years, with a net worth of 10 billion, and who has been called the God Butler by all the butlers active around the world in the past 10 years."

"What? Dong Tian has been wanted for 10 years, and there's a bounty of 10 billion yuan." Zhang Jie and his group weren't from the underworld, so they only cared about the huge bounty, not the title. But Zero and Overlord were different; their eyes were full of admiration.

I chuckled and said, "That was 10 years ago. Now I'm just a butler."

Just as they were about to continue asking questions, cries of alarm and pleas for help suddenly came from the depths of the corridor. The cries grew increasingly pitiful and painful, and after more than ten seconds, the cries finally disappeared without a trace.

Zero stared coldly into the corridor and said, "It was those three thugs... they were attacked."

Chapter 20 Parting Ways

Zheng Zha sighed and said, "Let's go take a look. If we find any aliens, we can eliminate them while we're at it... The aliens should be quite weak now, right?"

Chu Xuan nodded and said, "Yes, the aliens are still in their infancy. Our weapons are enough to eliminate them. To be honest, ever since I watched the Alien movie, I have always thought that this fictional creature is the most perfect creature in terms of physical evolution. They can change their form and environmental adaptability according to the host's genes, and they can constantly modify their genes to evolve. How similar this is to humans who have unlocked their genetic potential."