With a feeling of half-dream and half-awake coming over him, when Ye Zi opened his eyes again, he was already standing in a cabin made of all metal and full of futuristic high-tech feel. And just as she glanced around, Chu Xuan, who was holding hands with her, calmly withdrew his right hand... Such an incomprehensible and charming action made Ye Zi couldn't help but curse.
(Really... there is no reason to hold a girl's hand and just pull it away without saying a word.)
Ignoring Ye Zi's little thoughts, Chu Xuan walked to the console of the landing craft and quickly tapped the virtual keyboard on the desktop to query various data about the spacecraft. After a moment, he pressed a button, causing the cabin door not far away to open. Then he nodded to Ye Zi and left the cabin immediately.
Following Chu Xuan's steps out of the cabin, what came into view was the hangar of the spacecraft "Sulak": Different from the original plot, due to the complete annihilation of the Marine Corps, this huge space battleship, together with the aircraft it carried, The backup landing craft is still parked quietly in the synchronous orbit.
According to Ye Zi's understanding of the settings, the "Sulak" is about 400 meters long and weighs about 80,000 tons. It can be called a steel fortress floating in space. Due to its huge size and the complexity of its internal structure, it would be easy to get lost inside this maze-like hull if it were not for the crew members who lived with it day and night. But Chu Xuan had just glanced at the structure diagram of the spacecraft before, and now he was able to shuttle through the aisles with familiarity. It only took him less than ten minutes to reach the main control room of the spacecraft by the shortest route.
"If I guess correctly...are you planning to eliminate all the aliens on planet LV-426 to complete this possible hidden branch?" Ye Zi, who also walked into the main control room, looked at Chu Xuan's back. After pondering for a moment, he whispered his guess: "I remember the original plot of Alien 2. It was mentioned that the 'Sulak' was carrying a nuclear bomb. As long as it goes to the 'Hadley's Hope' colony, there is also Alien 1." If we drop one on each of the alien spaceships, we should be able to annihilate all the aliens on the entire planet."
"It's generally true, but there are some minor discrepancies in the details." Chu Xuan turned to glance at Ye Zi, and nodded approvingly: "The 'Sulak' is indeed equipped with nuclear bombs, but only one, so my The plan is...to use this nuclear bomb on an alien spacecraft, and if Hadley hopes to colonize it, just use the Surak to hit it."
(As long as we set the course of the "Sulak" and let it hit the target, we can leave on the backup landing craft... No wonder Chu Xuan specially set the landing and return locations on the landing craft. This plan is impeccable. but…)
After a brief silence, Ye Zi spoke calmly: "I have no doubts about your plan... I just want to go back there first before destroying the 'Hadley Hope' colony."
"What's your reason...?" Chu Xuan was operating the central computer of the spacecraft, but he frowned when he heard this, stopped what he was doing, and looked at Ye Zi.
"I hope to save the 'Bishop', the artificial man who once provided us with information." Ye Zi played with the hair beside his cheek and expressed his thoughts: "I have no intention of discussing whether robots have human rights. 'That question...but given the choice, I don't want him to be buried with the aliens in the Hadley Hope colony.'
Chu Xuan took a deep look at Ye Zi and didn't know what he was thinking about. After a moment, he sighed and said helplessly: "This kind of thing will indeed not have a negative impact on my plan, but it simply won't. It's just necessary...Forget it, I'll let Surak spend a few hours accelerating around LV-426's orbit before impact."
"And this time should be enough for you to save people."
Seeing Ye Zi nodded slightly and approved his arrangement, Chu Xuan continued to operate the central computer and at the same time made arrangements: "Previously on the computer of 'Hadley Hope', I found the action records of exploring alien spacecraft... The coordinates of the spacecraft are 692.17, 701.9. You are responsible for using the secondary computer to control the weapon system and drop the nuclear bomb at these coordinates, is that okay?"
"Understood." Ye Zi agreed and began to set various parameters for nuclear bomb launch: This 22nd century weapon system is surprisingly simple to operate. You only need to enter a series of necessary data, and the built-in AI system will automatically Calculating the required ballistic trajectory does not require much expertise at all.
After obtaining the authorization from the central computer, Ye Zi took a photo of the "launch" button with great enthusiasm and saw with satisfaction a line of bright red countdowns appearing on the screen. Seeing that Chu Xuan's route setting had not yet been completed, she left the main control room leisurely and walked to a porthole, ready to observe the effect of the nuclear bomb.
Calculating in his mind that there were still ten seconds left in the countdown, Ye Zi suddenly cleared his throat and began to sing some lines of unknown meaning.
"My name is Ye Zi."
"Far deeper than black, deeper than the darkness of darkness, desire to merge with my true red. The time of awakening has arrived, and the truth falls into the realm of infallibility, turning into invisible distortion and appearing."
"Explosion!"
As soon as she finished speaking, an obvious bulge appeared on the thick atmosphere of LV-426. It was obvious that the nuclear bomb she dropped had successfully released its full power.
After admiring his "masterpiece" for a few more seconds, the refreshed Ye Zi returned to the main control room with brisk steps. After rendezvousing with Chu Xuan who had completed the route setting, the two boarded the backup landing craft, headed by Chu Xuan. Xuan drove and landed on the "Hadley's Hope".
And watching Chu Xuan skillfully manually control the landing craft, Ye Zi was once again convinced of the fact that "Chu Dingdang is omnipotent": This is obviously a science fiction spaceship. Hey, why are you so skilled! ? Is it possible that your father was also in Xiawei... and taught you at Longyin Base?
After sending Ye Zi to the main entrance of "Hadley's Hope", the cautious Chu Xuan did not choose to stop where he was, but drove the landing craft to circle around the building to prevent aliens from sneaking up like the original plot of the movie. Landing craft. Ye Zi, who is an expert and bold artist, entered "Hadley's Hope" single-handedly.
The small number of aliens in the building did not pose much of a threat to Ye Zi, who was in full swing at the moment. Occasionally, a few ignorant aliens came to attack her. She didn't even bother to take out a weapon, and only relied on gene locks and magic power to fight them with her bare hands.
After finding the android "Bishop", Ye Zi didn't explain much. He just asked him to enter a dormant state. Then, holding his upper body in one hand and a Gauss pistol in the other, he killed "Hadley Hope" 's main entrance.
After being picked up by Chu Xuan on the landing craft, she placed the bishop in the back cabin, while she returned to the front cabin, sat in the co-pilot's seat, and quietly waited for Chu Xuan to drive the spacecraft back to the satellite orbit.
During the whole process, there was a strange silence in the cabin. Ye Zi didn't know how to open the topic, and Chu Xuan...God knows what he was thinking.
Fortunately, this dead atmosphere did not last forever. When the "Sulak" completed its acceleration, under the gaze of the two people, it almost turned into a meteor, tearing apart the atmosphere of LV-426 and carrying it with it. With a decisive momentum, after hitting the surface at full speed, the Lord God's cold notification sound also sounded in Ye Zi's mind.
"Assist in wiping out all the aliens on planet LV-426, and get a D-level side plot, with 500 reward points."
At the same time, Chu Xuan also broke the silence in the cabin and said: "I got a C-level side plot with 1,000 reward points... If my prediction is good, the side plot you got should be in D-level." Between level C.”
"Back to the main story, the reason why I want to talk to you this time is that after studying the 'dream' meme, I discovered that there is a lot of mystery in it." Although his face was expressionless, there was something deep in Chu Xuan's eyes. A touch of dangerous fanaticism flashed through again: "According to some information from the Lord God, as well as some of my personal understanding, I think the concept of 'meme' can probably be understood as a 'bug' in the world."
"If 'dreams cannot change reality' and 'all things come and go' are normal laws of the world, they will be distorted to varying degrees after being affected by memes. This is why memes can ignore logic. This is the reason for ignoring rationality and ignoring the laws of physics.”
"But in the final analysis, no matter how chaotic and disorderly it is, as long as we can penetrate the 'illogical' appearance and get to its core, we can study it and discover the secrets hidden in it."
(Awesome, awesome! Did you guess the essence of the meme in less than a day!?)
"However, with modern scientific methods, let alone digging out its core, we can't even conduct basic research. Only through the special enhancement from the Lord God can I gain the ability to analyze its essence."
"And this is one of the reasons why I'm looking for you this time. I need your support to exchange for a B-level branch plot enhancement."
Hearing this, Ye Zi didn't show any expression on his face, but he shouted in his heart: Since Chu Xuan plans to exchange, it means that his thirst for knowledge has defeated his world-weariness. In this way, he will probably not be in the next horrific scene. In the film, he is no longer as obsessed with death as in the original film. To achieve such a result, no matter how many side plots and reward points are required, it is completely worth it.
"The enhancement I like is called..."
"Arcanist Initiation."
