The Counterattack of the Villains

Chapter 286: Incompatible Souls and Inhumanity

The moment Li Shuaixi died, Chu Xuan controlled the door of Room 26 to close to prevent the Alien Queen from entering and causing damage to the computer room.

Then he sighed softly, walked away from the console, sat on a chair, and remained silent.

Li Mu stepped forward and patted Zheng Zha on the shoulder, saying: "Don't blame yourself too much. This is not your fault. Everyone is not at fault. The team gave him a chance, but it's a pity that he didn't seize it."

Zhang Qin echoed: "Yeah, if he didn't look back at that time, but ran to the room by himself, this kind of thing wouldn't have happened."

"In the world of horror movies, the boundary between life and death is often just a split second. Any mistake may cause irreparable consequences. Everyone should take this as a warning."

Zhan Lan, Li Xiaoyi and others all nodded in agreement. Zheng Zha silently walked to a chair and sat down, and suddenly asked: "Sister Qin, brother-in-law, are you afraid of death?"

The couple looked at each other, and Li Mu smiled bitterly and said: "Of course I'm afraid, there is great terror between life and death, especially for those who are worried about it."

Zheng Zha lowered his head and said in a low voice: "Yes, everyone is afraid of death, and I am afraid too, so I understand the feeling of facing death head-on and facing terror."

"Li Shuaixi is just an ordinary person. Even us strengthened veterans are inevitably afraid. How can he overcome it?"

Speaking of this, he suddenly looked up at Chu Xuan and said, "With your wisdom, would you really ignore this?"

Chu Xuan lowered his eyelids and said noncommittally: "That was just an accident."

"Accident?" Zheng Zha's voice suddenly increased. He stared at Chu Xuan and asked, "I'm afraid this kind of accident is also part of your plan? Why do you have to ask him to be the bait?"

"Both I, Sister Qin, and my brother-in-law can easily complete this task and even kill the last Alien Queen. Why do we have to use this thing as a test?"

"Is human life just a statistic in your eyes? Do you have any humanity?"

Facing Zheng Zha's questioning, Chu Xuan's expression remained unchanged, and he just said calmly: "I just chose the best thing for the team."

Hearing his words, the anger in Zheng Zha's chest completely exploded.

He suddenly stood up and was about to walk towards Chu Xuan, but Li Mu's words made his movements suddenly stop.

"You don't need to be angry with him, it's completely meaningless, because he really has no humanity, he is a person with a broken soul."

Zheng Zha turned his head to look at Li Mu in confusion, and asked subconsciously: "What do you mean?"

Chu Xuan was also looking at Li Mu at this time, while the other people's eyes were glancing back and forth between Chu Xuan and Li Mu.

Li Mu looked directly at Chu Xuan and said: "Since you have a deep understanding of the gene lock, you should know that after the gene lock is opened to the fourth level, you will get some magical power, right?"

Chu Xuan's eyes flashed slightly and he asked tentatively: "Light of the soul?"

Li Mu shrugged and said, "I don't know what that kind of power is called. Since you call it the light of the soul, then it must be the light of the soul!"

"Anyway, after you have this power, you can see some things that ordinary people can't see."

Chu Xuan said calmly: "Then what did you see from me?"

Li Muzheng said seriously: "From the first moment I saw you, I discovered that your soul is defective. To explain it using the Taoist theory I have studied, it means that the soul is not homogeneous."

"Humans have three souls and seven souls, which control the spirit and the body respectively. At first, I only knew that your souls were missing, but I couldn't tell which soul you were missing."

"But now I can basically confirm that what you are missing is the Heavenly Soul."

"The so-called three souls are the soul of heaven, the soul of earth, and the soul of life, which respectively represent life, wisdom, and destiny."

"The earth soul is also called the ghost soul. It is the origin of life and carries people's memories and thoughts. When the earth soul leaves the body, people will become vegetative."

"The soul of life controls a person's wisdom. If the soul of life is missing, the person will be a fool or an imbecile. And your soul of life is very strong, so your IQ is at least over 200."

"Finally, there is the Heavenly Soul. The so-called sex is what we call human nature. The Heavenly Soul represents a person's character and controls his seven emotions and six desires."

"If you are living well and have normal thinking, and your thinking is even much more sensitive than that of ordinary people, then your earth soul will naturally be fine and will be much stronger than ordinary people."

"You have an IQ of over 200, so of course you will have no problem with your soul."

"The state you show is that you turn all external conditions into data, and all calculations and layouts are based on data, without any regard for human nature."

"And I can't feel any emotional changes from you. Joy, anger, sadness, joy, love, evil, and desire are completely absent from you."

"So I can now be 100% sure that the soul you are missing is the heavenly soul that represents sex."

After Li Mu finished speaking, there was silence in the control room. After a long time, Zhang Qin cautiously said: "You mean, Chu Xuan is an emotionless person?"

Li Mu looked at Chu Xuan and nodded: "It can be understood that way, you can completely treat him as a humanoid computer."

"Although it hurts to say this, it doesn't matter. He won't be angry anyway. He doesn't even understand how to generate anger."

"In addition to the lack of the heavenly soul, he should also be missing a soul, which is the second soul that controls the body's perception of external things - the corpse dog."

"When you ate before, you only ate brightly colored foods. If my guess is correct, in addition to not having normal human emotions, you also have no sense of taste!"

Everyone looked at Chu Xuan quietly, but saw him adjusting his glasses and said calmly: "Not only the sense of taste, but also the sense of pain."

Li Xiaoyi said dumbly: "You don't even feel pain, so if there is a disease in your body, wouldn't it be impossible to detect it until you die?"

Zhan Lan said: "And if you are injured, if you don't pay attention to the wound, you may bleed to death."

Chu Xuan said calmly: "So I usually do a full-body checkup every three to five."

"..."

Zhang Jie suddenly said: "Let me tell you, I have always wondered before that as an officer, you are still a high-level colonel, how could you not find the meaning of life? It turns out that this is the case."

After understanding the truth of everything, everyone felt relieved, and their eyes towards Chu Xuan gradually changed.

Zheng Zha, who was originally extremely angry with Chu Xuan, now looked at Chu Xuan with a bit of sympathy.

Chu Xuan looked at Li Mu expressionlessly and asked: "Since you can see all this, do you know how to make up for my missing soul?"

Li Mu smiled and said: "Don't you already know about it? Gene Lock, as long as you can unlock the gene lock to the fourth level and awaken the light of the soul, then your missing soul can be made up."

"If not, you wouldn't study the gene lock so deeply, would you?"

Chu Xuan shook his head and said: "It is too difficult to open the gene lock. Is there no other way?"

Li Mu thought for a while and said: "If it were in the real world, there is really only one way to open the gene lock, but in the main god space with infinite possibilities, there are indeed other ways."

Chu Xuan said: "Go on."

Li Mudao: "Cultivating immortals, even ghosts with only earthly souls can complete their three souls and seven souls through cultivation, and then reshape their physical bodies, and then become immortals. You just lack one soul and one soul, so there is no reason why you can't.

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"I think if you choose to cultivate as an immortal, the moment you complete your deeds and become an immortal, that's when you complete your soul and have feelings."

"As for those who cultivate immortality, they should pay attention to controlling their emotions and desires and not to be affected by external objects."

"But you don't even have any emotions or desires. Maybe the cultivation process will be smoother than ordinary people, at least the inner demons will not be able to seduce you."

Chu Xuan's eyes lit up imperceptibly, he nodded silently, and said to Li Mu: "Thank you."

Zhang Qin smiled bitterly and said: "Don't thank me so early. Although cultivating immortality is also a way, it is not an easy road to follow, because in the main god space, all exchanges related to cultivating immortality are horribly expensive."

"I've seen the redemption list. Just to redeem your cultivation during the Qi training period, you need a B-level branch plot and 5,000 reward points, while in the foundation-building period, you need an A-level branch plot and 8,000 reward points."

"Exchanges for other bloodlines of the same level, such as my beta-level Storm bloodline and Zheng Zha's Bloodline Earl bloodline, will kill as many cultivators as they come during the Qi training period."

"The A-level Alpha-level Storm bloodline and the bloodline of the Vampire Marquis can also kill foundation-building cultivators like dogs."

"The highest level of redemption on the side of cultivating immortals is only up to the Golden Core stage, which is S level. There is no advanced redemption for cultivation levels after the Golden Core stage, so you can only rely on your own cultivation."

Li Mu frowned and said, "How could this happen? Does the Lord God discriminate against immortal cultivators, so he encourages reincarnators to exchange for other bloodlines?"

Chu Xuan pondered for a moment, then suddenly asked: "What you just said was to directly redeem your cultivation level. What if you don't redeem your cultivation level, but only exchange it for the secrets of the exercises, and then practice by yourself?"

Zhang Qin was stunned when he heard this, looked at Zhang Jie, Zheng Zha and others: "I didn't pay attention to this, have you noticed it?"

Zheng Zha shook his head blankly, while Zhang Jie said: "I have noticed in this regard, whether it is martial arts secrets or immortal cultivation techniques, you only need to exchange them directly for one-tenth of the price of cultivation."

"But not to mention whether you can understand the secrets or whether you can practice any tricks, but cultivating immortality is the most time-consuming system."

"It takes 50 reward points a day to redeem life time. The guaranteed income from a horror movie is 1,000 reward points, which is only enough to redeem for 20 days. What can you achieve by practicing?"

Chu Xuan thought for a while and said: "It's too early to say this now. Let's wait until we return to the main god space and then slowly consider this issue!"

Li Mu nodded and said: "Yes, what you see may not be comprehensive enough. We will talk about everything after we return."

Speaking of this, he looked at Chu Xuan and said, "But Chu Xuan, I have to make something clear to you first."

Chu Xuan nodded and said, "You say."

Li Mudao: "We already know your situation and are very willing to help you achieve what you want, so you can fully trust these team members."

"The team needs your wisdom very much, but since you are too rational, team members have personal feelings and are not a group of machines."

"So sometimes the plan you make may not be accepted by everyone. Therefore, the team will discuss the plan you make in the future and finally vote to decide whether to implement it. Can you accept it?"

Chu Xuan nodded and said: "It's acceptable, but I still want to say that the starting point of my plan is to let everyone survive and become stronger and stronger."

"If faced with a situation where sacrifice is necessary, even if the person who needs to sacrifice is me, I will not hesitate. However, if you refuse to implement the plan, it is likely to cause more sacrifices."

"So I hope that when you consider the problem, you will not only pay attention to human touch, but try to be more rational."

Li Mudao: "Of course, after all, no one wants to die."

Through this frank communication, Li Mu completely eliminated any signs of team division.

Everyone understood Chu Xuan's situation, and while officially establishing his position as the team's military advisor, they were also a little more tolerant of him.

Chu Xuan looked at the time and said, "Ten minutes have passed and you still have twenty minutes to prepare."

"There is a big gap between Zheng Zha's combat power with and without weapons. We'd better find a way to get him a weapon!"

Li Mu nodded, looked at Zheng Zha and said, "You used steel bars as weapons before and successfully killed an alien queen, so let me help you optimize it!"

Zheng Zha said with great interest: "What are you going to do?"

Li Mu smiled, pulled out his embroidered spring knife, and walked towards a wall. Everyone followed him curiously to see what he wanted to do.

I saw Li Mu selecting the structures on the wall, and then with a few swipes of his knife, he removed a steel bar about one meter and two meters long, twenty centimeters wide and three centimeters thick from the wall.

Then he showed everyone what it means to cut iron like clay.

He just used an Adamantium alloy knife to cut the steel bar into a machete, just like people use hatchets to cut wood swords.

Generally speaking, the shape of this knife is a giant Tang Hengdao that is lengthened, widened, and thickened. It has no hand guard. The handle is oval, about thirty centimeters long, and is integrated with the blade.

Because the blade is cut directly, it is extremely sharp. The tip has no curvature and is straight and oblique.

The handle of the knife was too smooth, so in order to increase the friction, some cloth strips were wrapped around the handle.

Generally speaking, this improvised sword looks very powerful, and it is a bit like the Zanpakutō "Zangetsu" used by Kurosaki Ichigo, the protagonist of the anime "Bleach", before he was released.

"The quality is not enough, just make up the weight, try it and see if you can take advantage of it."

Li Mu smiled and threw the giant horizontal knife, which weighed forty or fifty kilograms, to Zheng Zha. The onlookers stepped back to give way to the venue.

Zheng Zha took the knife in his hand, held it with both hands, and made several slashing and slashing movements with great interest.

"Buzz...buzz...buzz..."

A scalp-numbing sound of breaking through the air suddenly sounded in the control room. Looking at the giant horizontal knife being swung away by Zheng Zha, even Zero Point and Overlord had a look of fear in their eyes.

Zhan Lan exclaimed: "Is this the legendary horse-cutting sword? With this sword strike, not to mention the horse, even the rhinoceros will be split in half!"

Chu Xuan adjusted his glasses and said: "This sword is much more terrifying than the horse-zanting sword. The Mo Dao from the Tang Dynasty only weighed 22 kilograms, the Song Dynasty Dao weighed 18 kilograms, and the horse-zapping knife from the Ming Dynasty only weighed 12 kilograms."

"This knife weighs about 50 pounds, and the steel is much stronger than in ancient times. In ancient times, only those powerful generals with divine power could use it. If this knife is used, both men and horses will be shattered."

Zheng Zha waved it for a few times before stopping, and said excitedly: "It seems that I am more suitable for using a broadsword, and the Xiuchun Dao is a bit less interesting to me."

Li Mu smiled and said: "Then work hard to earn rewards, and try to exchange them for a magical weapon such as the Snow Drinking Crazy Knife when you go back this time."

Li Xiaoyi said enthusiastically: "No, no, no, if you don't understand the Six Arts of Aohan, it would be a waste to exchange it for the Snow Drinking Knife. It is better to exchange it for a golden ring knife of the White Eyebrow Hero. It might be cheaper."

Li Mu laughed dumbly and said: "At your age, you actually know the White Eyebrow Hero?"

Li Xiaoyi chuckled and said: "I watched it when I was a kid, and I remember the golden ring sword and the moonlight sword of shame."

Zheng Zha also joked: "Then I might as well exchange it for a dragon-slaying knife! At least it's bigger than the two you mentioned, looks more powerful, and the name is powerful enough."

Zhang Jie joked: "So you are planning to take the mighty route, right? Then you shouldn't have redeemed the vampire bloodline in the first place. Human vampires are all about speed."

Zheng Zha slapped his forehead and said with some annoyance: "You are right. If I had known earlier, I should have exchanged for advanced qigong, so that I can learn some martial arts in the future, such as the Six Ao Han Jue mentioned by Xiao Yi."

Zhang Qin gave him a helpless look and said: "Since you have made your choice, don't regret it. Among the same level, the Blood Count is better than the advanced Qigong in terms of combat effectiveness and cost performance."

"If you had chosen advanced Qigong, you might have died the last time you challenged the Alien Queen. After all, Qigong does not provide a vitality bonus."

"Uh... that's true." Zheng Zha scratched his head and said with a smile: "Fortunately, the blood count's strength is enough. He can handle weapons weighing 180 kilograms, and it won't affect his speed much."

Chu Xuan looked at the time and reminded: "There are still two minutes until half an hour, you should prepare to go out!"

Li Mu remembered something and said to Chu Xuan: "I remembered something. When killing an alien, not only the killer will be rewarded, but as long as you have done something and helped kill the alien, you can get an assist reward."

"When I killed the first Alien Queen before, I got a C-level side plot with 3,000 reward points. Zheng Zha also got a D-level side plot with 1,000 reward points because of his assists."

"So, do you think it's necessary for everyone to participate in hunting the aliens? Maybe even if you just hit the aliens with a few shots, you can get a reward?"

Hearing this, Zhang Jie, Ling Dian, and Ba Wang all brightened up and looked at Chu Xuan expectantly.

As for Zhan Lan and Li Xiaoyi, there is no need to think about it. They are both wounded. Because their shoulder was penetrated by the Alien Queen's tongue, one arm was temporarily disabled.

They still can't master the difficult operation of shooting with one hand. Moreover, with the speed of the alien's movement, they can basically only use casual shooting without even thinking about aiming.

Chu Xuan thought for a moment, but finally shook his head and said: "It's better not to do it. First of all, you said it yourself, the Lord God will not let the reincarnations gain points easily."

"The criteria for judging assists are likely to be very harsh. It is absolutely impossible for you to say that you will be rewarded for just hitting a few shots. With the abilities of newcomers like us, we will probably not be able to meet the criteria."

"Secondly, our joining will not only have no assisting effect, but may actually get in the way and disrupt your battle rhythm."

"Maybe if you are not careful, a bullet will hit you. There is also a possibility that there will be casualties, and you will have to rescue people at that time."

"So if you want to get assists, only Zhang Qin can try. Others should stay out of the way."

After listening to Chu Xuan's words, Zhang Jie and others stopped thinking about assisting.

Li Mu nodded, looked at Zheng Zha and Zhang Qin, and said: "Then the three of us will act together and try to ensure that every alien gets a kill reward and two assist rewards."

"Honey, when you open the door, first use wind energy to blow the alien to the opposite end of the passage, and then find an opportunity to use a single strand of lightning to attack the alien."

"Try to be as accurate as possible. If you are not sure, you would rather not take action. If lightning falls on the spacecraft, let's not say whether the circuit of the spacecraft will be damaged. Zheng Zha and I will be the first to be affected."

After listening to Qian Li Mu's conversation, Zhang Qin nodded and said, "Understood."

Li Mu then said to Zheng Zha: "As for the two of us, let's take turns and take charge of the attack! The first one comes first."

"Remember to carry two bottles of water. Alien blood is highly corrosive and the alloy sword in your hand cannot withstand it. Therefore, if it is contaminated with alien blood, you must rinse it with water immediately."

Zheng Zha suddenly understood, nodded and said: "Understood, I hope this knife can resist for a while longer."

"I'll bring you water, you can just fight with peace of mind." Zhang Qin turned around and took out three bottles of water from her backpack, tied them with cloth strips and carried them in her hands.

Li Mu pulled out the Xiuchun knife again and said, "Then, let's go!"

(End of chapter)