The Counterattack of the Villains

Chapter 284 Reason and Human Touch

Central control room.

Eight people, Li Mu, Zhang Qin, Chu Xuan, Zhang Jie, Li Xiaoyi, Lingdian, Bawang, and Li Shuaixi, all gathered in front of the surveillance video.

They looked at the surveillance video. After Zheng Zha killed an alien queen, he fell to the ground and twitched all over, while Zhan Lan continued to give him artificial respiration.

Chu Xuan said: "That's right, when Zhan Lan was captured by the Alien Queen just now, Zheng Zha opened the gene lock. Whether he can survive the sequelae depends on his luck."

Li Mu glanced at him and said: "Open the isolation door, I will go to meet them, he will definitely survive. Don't forget, he strengthened the blood of the blood count, so he will not die so easily."

Chu Xuan adjusted his glasses and said calmly: "I don't recommend doing this. The sequelae of opening the gene lock are the collapse of the gene level and have nothing to do with blood."

"You are now the most important force in the team. You are the key to whether we can survive this horror movie smoothly and let everyone survive. They are only two people, and we have eight here."

Zhang Qin looked at Chu Xuan in disbelief and said: "So in your heart, you only measure others by their value? Don't you consider personal feelings at all?"

After speaking, she looked at Li Mu and said firmly: "Husband, Zheng Zha is my brother, and Zhan Lan is also my good sister. I will go with you."

"Qiang"

Zhang Qin's reaction determined Li Mu's attitude. He nodded, then drew his sword out of its sheath, pointed the tip of the sword at Chu Xuan, and said in a cold voice: "I said, open the door."

Chu Xuan looked at him for a while, his eyes flashing constantly, just like the processor indicator light that keeps flashing when a computer is performing high-speed calculations.

After a while, Chu Xuan turned to the console, operated on it, and opened the isolation doors leading to Zheng Zha and Zhan Lan in sequence.

"I can only give you three minutes at most. After three minutes, I will close the isolation doors from where Zheng Zha is to here, and control other isolation doors to turn the entire spacecraft into a maze."

"Remember, to get to where Zheng Zha and Zhan Lan are, the path is left, front, left, front, left, front, front, front. If you can't run back and forth within three minutes, I can only say sorry.

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Li Xiaoyi on the side suddenly took a few steps back, turned on the safety of the AK in his hand, raised the muzzle of the gun and pointed it at Chu Xuan, saying: "Brother, don't worry, go rescue Brother Zheng. If he dares to close the door before you come back, I will kill him."

He chugged."

Li Shuaixi also ran behind Li Xiaoyi and echoed: "Don't worry, I have learned how to operate the isolation door. Brother Mu, please be sure to rescue Brother Zheng."

Although this kid is narrow-minded, he also knows who among the people he can rely on.

Zheng Zha has always been the only one who has shown concern for his safety, so he is the one who wants Zheng Zha alive the most.

Zhang Jie looked around, silently pulled out the sand eagle, walked to Li Xiaoyi and stood side by side with him, expressing his attitude.

Then came Overlord, who also walked to Zhang Jie.

There was only Ling Dian left beside Chu Xuan. Faced with everyone's gaze, Ling Dian frowned. He did not choose to stand in line, but walked to the side to express neutrality.

Li Mu returned the knife to its sheath, patted Li Xiaoyi on the shoulder, and said: "It doesn't have to be like this. The isolation door can block the Alien Queen, but it can never block the Adamant alloy knife."

"Especially when the knife is in my hand, even if he closes the door, I can still open it."

"What he did was not wrong, it was just too rational and lacking in human touch, but there is no need to be hostile to him."

After listening to Li Mu's words, Li Xiaoyi lowered the muzzle of the gun, but did not put it down completely, nor did he turn off the safety.

The isolation door slowly opened, and Li Mu nodded to Zhang Qin. Zhang Qin jumped onto Li Mu's back without saying a word, and the wind immediately enveloped their bodies.

The next moment, Li Mu disappeared into the control room.

His own speed, coupled with Zhang Qin's wind energy, made his movement speed directly exceed the limit that ordinary people can detect with the naked eye.

At this speed, it would take less than half a minute to reach Zheng Zha and Zhan Lan's location.

Zhang Qin's special ability caused the air to turn into wind wherever they passed, assisting Li Mu without causing any obstacles to him.

Therefore, even if Li Mu's speed exceeded the speed of sound, there was no sound barrier.

After Li Mu and Zhang Qin left, Chu Xuan silently turned to look at the screen, his hands clenched into fists unconsciously, and he murmured silently: "Human touch..."

When Li Mu took the knife and Li Xiaoyi pointed the gun at him, he knew that he should be angry at this moment and even feel revengeful.

But there was nothing. He didn't know what kind of emotion anger was, let alone revenge.

He was just calculating in his mind calmly and rationally, what he should do was the best way to deal with it.

Even the personal feelings in Zhang Qin's mouth are just one of the calculation conditions when he calculates various possibilities.

Human touch is exactly what he has been looking for in this short half of his life.

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"Don't die, please, don't leave me alone again, please live with me..."

Zhan Lan hugged Zheng Zha, crying and murmuring.

When Zheng Zha heard her words, his chest twitched inexplicably.

Is it because you have experienced people leaving you before that you are so afraid of losing them again?

Zheng Zha seemed to be able to feel her thoughts, and he felt that they were the same kind of people.

After losing something particularly important, I swore in my heart that I would never lose it again, so I became so attached to this life.

That’s why I feel extremely kind to people who are also like this and give me a helping hand.

But at this moment, another face suddenly flashed in Zheng Zha's mind. It was the person he had lost and found, and he would never lose him again.

So after he recovered a little, he used gentle but firm force to push away Zhan Lan, who was holding him tightly, and said, "I'm much better."

Zhan Lan was crying miserably at the moment. She was suddenly pushed away, and she was stunned for a long time.

It wasn't until Zheng Zha sat up against the wall that he smiled unnaturally and said: "Are you okay? You really scared me to death just now. You suddenly seemed to be having epilepsy, and you kept vomiting blood...

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Zheng Zha only felt weak and weak all over, but compared to the pain of death before, he felt as if he was in heaven at this moment.

He smiled bitterly and said: "Thank you so much. Fortunately you just... kept helping me breathe, otherwise I would have suffocated."

"If I were suffocated and unconscious in that situation... I think I might have turned into a corpse by now."

Zhan Lan's emotions also calmed down. She smiled and said, "I want to thank you. If you hadn't saved me, I really don't know what would have happened to me."

"What happened just now? Is it your disease?"

Zheng Zha shook his head, he really didn't know how to describe the state just now.

In that critical moment of life and death, he felt as if something was unraveling inside his body.

That period of extremely smooth fighting, precision down to the millimeter, every ounce of strength used to the limit, fighting instinct without mercy or fear...

If I had to use one phenomenon to describe it, it would be very similar to an animation he once watched called "Seed". At the most critical moment, he exploded.

"That's not a disease, it's a genetic lock."

At this moment, a strong wind blew through the passage, causing the two of them to stumble and almost roll out. Then Li Mu and Zhang Qin appeared in front of them.

Li Muxiao looked at Zheng Zha and said, "That's what Chu Xuan called the gene lock. I have experienced it before. That time I was surrounded by hundreds of rebels. At the critical moment of life and death, I entered a strange state."

"At that moment, my control over the battlefield reached its peak. Not only could my eyes vaguely see the trajectory of the bullet, but my ears could also hear the sound of bullets hitting the air, and I instinctively made evasive moves."

"When every rebel on the other side raises his gun, I already know where the bullet will land."

"I just made all kinds of incredible evasive moves in the hail of bullets, fought my way out of the encirclement, and fought my way out of the encirclement."

"However, I also experienced the pain afterwards. Even my internal organs were spasming. It was simply worse than death."

Zheng Zha and Zhan Lan listened to Li Mu's story attentively, and even their surprise of suddenly appearing here were ignored by his words.

After listening to what he said, Zheng Zha immediately asked: "Then if the gene lock is turned on for the second time, will it still be so painful?"

Li Mu nodded and said: "It will still hurt, but the degree of pain will be much lighter than the first time. Every time it is turned on, the sequelae will become a little lighter until you fully adapt."

Zheng Zha breathed a sigh of relief and said happily: "That's good. If I have to endure such pain every time I open the gene lock, maybe I won't have the courage to open it a second time."

Li Mu smiled and said: "This is not up to you. When you are in a life-or-death situation, your subconscious mind will open the gene lock on its own. You won't open it just because you don't want to."

Zheng Zha suddenly said: "That's true."

While the two were chatting about gene locks, Zhang Qin quickly treated Zhan Lan's shoulder injury.

First, he used hemostatic spray to clean the wound, and then wrapped her shoulder with a strong therapeutic bandage.

After the two of them finished talking about the gene lock, Zhan Lan asked Zhang Qin: "Sister Qin, why are you here suddenly?"

Zhang Qin said: "We are in the central control room and saw your situation through the surveillance video, so we rushed over to pick you up."

Li Mu looked at his watch and said to several people: "Okay, we only have three minutes, and one minute and twenty seconds have passed now."

"And the aliens are very sensitive to the blood of the same kind. The alien you kill will soon attract the other three. We have to rush to the control room as soon as possible."

Upon hearing this, Zhang Qin quickly squatted in front of Zhan Lan and said, "Get on my back, and I will fly with you on my back."

Zhan Lan didn't show any pretense. He thanked her and lay on Zhang Qin's back.

Li Mu lifted Zheng Zha up, and then the four of them headed towards the control room at full speed.

Zhang Qin activated his powers with all his strength and flew forward at a speed of tens of meters per second. The strong wind roared in the passage. Even Li Mu and Zheng Zha, who were running, felt extremely relaxed, almost being carried forward by the strong wind.

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It only took Li Mu and Zhang Qin less than half a minute to come here, but it took nearly a minute to talk. Although it was a little slower when they returned, it only took a little over a minute.

And just as they rushed through the last isolation door and returned to the room where the control room was located, and the isolation door began to close, they noticed that there were three large, two small, and five aliens chasing after them.

After the isolation door was closed, the sound of banging on the door was heard one after another. The force was so fierce that the entire cabin was shaking.

Fortunately, the aliens stopped after a few collisions.

Zheng Zha exclaimed in surprise: "Aren't there only three heads left? How come there are five heads?"

At this time, Li Xiaoyi and others came out of the control room. After hearing Zheng Zha's words, Zhang Jie explained: "It's not five heads, but seven heads. The four newcomers were also parasitized."

"Fortunately, what they gave birth to was not an alien queen, but an ordinary alien. Now there are a total of three alien queens and four ordinary aliens."

Chu Xuan then walked out and said to Li Mu: "This shows that your previous speculation is completely correct. The Alien King has grown into a mature body after getting the flesh of the three gangsters."

"They no longer need nutrition, so those four people have become parasites instead of simple food. Their own flesh volume is enough for ordinary aliens to grow."

"We must act as soon as possible to deal with the Alien Queen and other aliens first, otherwise we will be in danger when the Alien King also moves out."

Li Mu frowned and asked him, "What are your plans?"

Chu Xuan pondered for a moment, then looked at Zheng Zha and asked, "Is your injury serious? How long will it take to return to your previous fighting strength?"

Zheng Zha smiled and said: "You know nothing about the bloodline of the Vampire Clan. As long as my blood energy is not exhausted and my head and heart are not destroyed at the same time, there will be no injuries."

"With my current condition, I can return to full strength in less than an hour."

"That is, the bloodline strengthened by the Lord God, while eliminating the weaknesses, also eliminates the advantages of the bloodline."

"Otherwise, all I need now is for each of you to give me a little blood, and I will be able to return to full strength immediately."

Chu Xuan nodded and said: "That's good. We can still afford to wait for an hour. Let's go to the control room. Everyone has consumed a lot. Let's replenish some food."

When everyone returned to the control room, Zhang Jie took off the backpack filled with food and water that had been carried on his back and distributed it to everyone.

The food prepared by Zhang Qin is very rich, including bread, biscuits, ham, cheese, sandwiches and other dry food, as well as self-heating food for individual soldiers, and even self-heating hot pot.

For drinking water, two pieces of Nongfu Mountain Spring were placed directly at the bottom of the backpack. This food and water were enough for ten people to eat for two or three days.

If you follow the minimum rationing conditions, it won't be a problem to last for a week.

Taking advantage of the meal time, Li Mu asked Chu Xuan to explain in detail about the issue of gene locks, which also made Zheng Zha mentally prepared.

Each time the gene lock is opened, you will endure the greatest pain, and then you will slowly adapt.

The higher the degree of gene lock opening, and then opening the lower level gene lock, there will basically be no sequelae.

After eating and drinking, Li Mu said to Chu Xuan: "Okay, now tell me your plan!"

Chu Xuan nodded and said: "Originally, I prepared three plans, but since Zheng Zha can restore his combat effectiveness within an hour, two of the plans can be abandoned. I will directly mention the plan I am planning to implement."

Zheng Zha said quickly: "No, let's talk about the three options. Maybe the one you think you can give up will be better for others!"

Chu Xuan said indifferently: "Okay, the first plan I gave up was to enter the hibernation-like freezer, set the spacecraft to return to the earth, and use the earth's army to fight against the aliens."

"However, this plan may lead to another situation, that is, humankind is completely defeated, humans in this world are exterminated by aliens, and we will face tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, or even endless aliens."

Li Mu waved his hand and said, "Don't think about it. If you choose this option, the situation you mentioned will definitely happen."

"From the fact that the plot difficulty of this horror movie has been raised so much by the main god, we can deduce one or two things."

"In the last plot world, Aqin changed the plot significantly, received a large reward, and then received a huge enhancement. The Lord God backhandedly gave a plot with a difficulty of 17 people."

"So the Lord God will not let the reincarnators take advantage of such a big loophole, let alone allow the reincarnators to easily gain points and pass the level."

"Trying to take advantage of loopholes will only put you in a desperate situation. On the contrary, only by having the courage to fight and working hard can you gain the greatest benefits."

After listening to Li Mu's words, Zhang Jie immediately echoed: "I agree with my brother-in-law's inference. This is my fifth horror movie, and I have the most say."

"From my personal experience, although it is dangerous to face the difficulty of the plot, the danger is often obvious. If you can't handle it, you will die. But as long as you handle it, you will definitely get huge benefits."

"And if you want to take shortcuts, or take advantage of any loopholes, and win directly, you will face greater crises in other aspects. The original narrow escape will directly become a ten-death escape."

"So when you experience the plot world, you can have some layouts and plans. After all, wisdom is also a kind of strength, but it must be within a certain range and limit."

"Exceeding this limit is self-destruction. It is absolutely not advisable to return to the earth in a spaceship and use the human army to deal with the aliens."

"I will tell you that one possibility is that the blood of the alien is so corrosive that the isolation door cannot stop it. The aliens in Alien Four used the corrosiveness of their own blood to escape from the cage."

"If we really enter a state of hibernation, the most likely possibility is that we will turn into alien parasites in our sleep and die inexplicably."

Chu Xuan adjusted his glasses and said calmly: "Everything you said is on point, so I gave up on that plan, unless I really can't defeat the aliens, and there is really no other way."

Zhang Qin asked: "What about the other plan you gave up?"

Chu Xuan said: "Another plan is for us to board the space shuttle and break away from the spacecraft, set the spacecraft to self-destruct, directly kill all the aliens, and everyone will return with guaranteed rewards."

"This plan is the safest, but obviously you won't be willing to accept it."

Zheng Zha immediately said: "Of course I'm not willing to give in. We obviously have the strength to kill the Alien Queen, but we can only get a guaranteed reward. Who can be willing to do that?"

"Okay, I'm too busy. These two plans are not reliable. You can think of the third plan!"

Chu Xuan said calmly: "The third plan is to throw out a bait, open a certain part of the isolation door, and then lure the aliens into the passage distribution I designed."

"During this process, I will gradually separate the aliens one by one by controlling the timely closing of the isolation door and lock them individually in sections of passages."

"At this time, Li Mu and Zheng Zha will be able to eliminate the Alien Queen one by one with their combat power, and finally go to the Alien Lair together to kill the Alien King together."

After listening to Chu Xuan's words, Li Mu nodded and said: "It's a good plan. If we can win a Grand Slam for this horror movie, you should be the first to take the lead."

Zheng Zha and others also nodded. The wisdom displayed by this man was enough to become the strategist of the team.

A wise man is of great significance to the team.

Zhang Jie said: "Now the question is, who will do this bait?"

Chu Xuan lowered his head slightly, adjusted his glasses out of habit, and said: "I heard Zhang Jie say before that every horror film will add new people, and the quality of these new people is really difficult to guarantee."

"In many horror films, the power of one person is too small. After this time, we will enter more and scarier plot worlds. Only an elite team can ensure that we continue on."

"So I hope that my team will at least have the courage and strength to survive, so that I can give my best, otherwise everything will be meaningless."

"In our team of ten, at least nine of us are elites with strong qualities. I am very satisfied with this team. I hope that we can all survive, at least nine of us will survive."

After hearing Chu Xuan's words, Li Shuaixi's face suddenly changed wildly. He was an ordinary young man with no special skills, so he could naturally hear the hidden meaning in Chu Xuan's words.

Zheng Zha patted him on the shoulder and comforted him: "Don't worry, as long as you can survive, you will continue to get stronger. Don't give up on yourself."

Li Shuaixi glanced at him gratefully and nodded silently.

But I heard Chu Xuan say: "Zheng Zha is right. If a person is of poor quality and doesn't even have the courage to fight, then such a person is not qualified to be with us."

"So the bait in the plan is you... Li Shuaixi, you can think of this as a test, or you can think of it as a letter of nomination."

"In this team, Li Mu, Zheng Zha, and Zhang Qin are all top fighters. I can formulate the optimal action plan in any environment."

"Zhang Jie is a veteran who has experienced the most horror movies and has rich experience. Zero Point and Overlord are the top snipers and firepower respectively."

"Although Zhan Lan and Li Xiaoyi are slightly weaker, they are also veterans who have experienced strengthening, and their growth rate and potential are very strong."

"So what do you think your role is to the team?"

Li Shuaixi's face turned red, but he couldn't say a word.

Li Mu's eyes flickered, and the corners of his mouth curved slightly.

Under normal circumstances, Chu Xuan would never say so much, nor would he be so calm. In the original plot, Li Shuaixi could still ask "Why me?"

But after Chu Xuan spoke so clearly, he had nothing to say.

Li Mu knew that this was the change he had brought about, because the "human touch" shown by the couple and Zheng Zha made Chu Xuan have to consider one more personal relationship issue when calculating everything, so his behavior style changed.

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This is a good phenomenon, at least it will no longer be so unacceptable that it pits Zheng Zha and Chu Xuan against each other like in the original plot, causing the team to split.

"That's not what I said. I was just an ordinary person when I came in. It was only after strengthening that I could achieve my current skills. You can't conclude that Li Shuaixi is useless based on this."

Sure enough, Chu Xuan was not the only one who changed. Although Zheng Zha also spoke out against his words as in the original plot, his words were no longer so fierce and sharp, but had a discussion tone.

Chu Xuan said seriously: "What I said may be a bit direct, but in such a situation, there is no need to beat around the bush."

"No matter what happens in the future, at least now everyone must show his value. Our team should not unconditionally protect newcomers."

"It doesn't matter if newcomers are weak. After all, it's normal for ordinary people to be weak, but at least you have to show that you are worthy of the team's protection and then cultivating your value."

"Although I don't know what happened in the last horror movie, but for you and Zhang Qin to be able to strengthen to this level during a horror movie, you must have risked your lives to do it, right?"

"If you are weak and don't even have the courage to fight, then it is worthless."

Even Zheng Zha had nothing to say at this time, so he just asked: "Then tell me the truth, can he survive with Li Shuaixi as the bait?"

Li Shuaixi also stared at Chu Xuan. Chu Xuan looked at him calmly and said calmly: "Of course there is some danger in being a bait, but I have accurately calculated Li Shuaixi's ability."

"With his physical strength, as long as he doesn't lose control, for example, if something happens and his hands and feet become weak due to fear, he will definitely be able to complete the bait plan."

"After all, whether we can complete this plan is related to whether we can survive this horror movie smoothly and get all the rewards. His survival is in the best interest of the team."

Everyone agreed with this statement. It would not be of any benefit to them to trick Li Shuaixi to death. It would be most beneficial to the team only if he survives and successfully completes the task.

(End of chapter)