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Chapter 404 Progenitor Alien
boom--! ! !
Amidst the violent tremors, the light paths on the walls, resembling nerve pathways, flickered wildly and erratically. Large, bone-like fragments peeled off from the dome and crashed to the ground with a dull thud.

"what happened?!"

Zhan Lan steadied herself, her face pale.

Chu Xuan's reaction was astonishingly fast; he switched to the Central Continent Team's communication channel almost immediately after the tremor occurred.

"Zheng Zha! What's happening outside? Report the situation!"

A series of heavy breathing sounds and a piercing metallic scraping noise came through the communicator, mixed with the sharp hiss of some kind of creature.

A few seconds later, Zheng Zha's voice, suppressing shock and anger, finally rang out, each word seeming to be squeezed out from between his teeth:
"Aliens...it's aliens! Damn it...countless aliens! They've crawled out from underground!"

"A large number of aliens?!"

Upon hearing this, Zhang Qi also got up from the huge driver's seat, his brows furrowed tightly beneath the armored faceplate.

This doesn't make sense. According to the plot of Prometheus, LV-223 only has the most primitive ecosystem and no advanced life forms.

Even if the alien queen had the ability to lay eggs and was born from the engineer's body at the end of the movie, there wouldn't be enough hosts for it to parasitize and reproduce on this barren planet.

"and many more……"

In a flash, a previously overlooked detail suddenly magnified in Zhang Qi's mind.

The creation of "Deacon" incorporated the DNA of engineers.

At the beginning of the movie, the engineers drank the black water and then decomposed their own genes, integrating them into the Earth's primordial ocean, thus creating the entire life cycle system, including humans.

What if... what if the one that inherited the Engineer's genes also gained this terrifying ability to construct a complete biosphere using itself as a blueprint?

This idea, like a black lightning bolt, cleaved through all the fog.

Zhang Qi instantly understood everything; no wonder the main god gave so many rewards.

Because what they were facing was not a lone monster, but a civilization that had multiplied and evolved from it over decades... an alien civilization!
"go!"

Having figured out the key to it, Zhang Qi no longer hesitated.

He grabbed Chu Xuan with one hand and protected Zhan Lan with the other, then let out a low shout and charged towards the breach they had come from.

The three of them quickly retreated along the passage that resembled a biological organ.

When they burst out of the spaceship through the huge breach, the sight before them sent chills down their spines.

The once desolate Gobi Desert has now been transformed into a boiling inferno.

Countless bottomless ravines split open in the earth, and countless monsters of all shapes and sizes surged out from the ground like a tide.

Some of them retain the classic alien silhouette, but are much larger and more ferocious;
Some have mantis-like sickle-shaped forelimbs and move like the wind;
Even worse, some of them resemble bloated mountains of flesh, constantly spraying highly corrosive acid from their bodies.

This is a bizarre and fantastical legion of death, brimming with wild imagination.

On the opposite side of the monster horde, hundreds of android warriors calmly and efficiently unleashed a hail of bullets.

Before them, the alien army that Zhang Qi had brought was tearing each other apart with the newly appeared members of their kind, black blood and severed limbs flying everywhere.

In the center of the defensive line, several figures clad in dark gold iron-blooded armor stood out conspicuously.

Zheng Zha, Ba Wang, and others are charging across the battlefield with the powerful performance of their Ironblood equipment.

Beams of blazing plasma shot from the particle cannons on their shoulders, blasting out spheres of destructive energy among the alien horde. Each strike sent tremors through the earth.

The violent tremors inside the spaceship just now originated from this.

Upon seeing this hellish scene, Zhang Qi did not hesitate at all.

The anti-gravity unit on his suit's waist activated, instantly lifting Chu Xuan and Zhan Lan into the air. They soared over the chaotic battlefield and flew towards the distant "Pioneer."

After safely returning the two to the bridge of the USS Pioneer, Zhang Qi did not linger.

He hovered in mid-air, looking down at the battlefield below that had completely spiraled out of control, the control crystal on his forehead shining brightly.

"Thought Wave Amplification Unit, activated. Band Synchronization... Lock onto our alien unit!"

An invisible, unseen fluctuation of spiritual energy, centered on Zhang Qi, swept across the entire battlefield like a giant ripple.

The next moment, a strange scene unfolded on the battlefield.

The alien legion of the Central Continent Team, who had been fighting on instinct and acting like madmen, suddenly froze.

Immediately afterwards, this massive alien army seemed to be instantly taken over by an invisible commander and became organized.

A portion of the aliens quickly retreated, forming a thick defensive formation to protect the flanks of the android forces.

The other group, like the most elite hunting dogs, moved in small squads at high speed, precisely separating large groups of enemy aliens from the main formation, and then encircling and tearing them apart.

The initiative on the battlefield changed hands in just a few seconds.

"Now! The counterattack begins!" Zhang Qi's voice calmly conveyed to everyone through the tactical channel.

Having gained a respite, the Zhongzhou team immediately launched a thunderous counterattack.

"Come on, you bastards!"

The Overlord roared as he stood side by side with his android bodyguard, Arno, the two of them resembling two mobile fortresses of fire.

The specially made pulse vulcan cannon in his hand spewed out destructive flames, and the dense rain of bullets tore swathes of aliens into pieces.

Arno calmly controlled the twin particle cannons on his shoulder, each precise shot blasting an elite alien to pieces.

On the other side, Zheng Zha, Li Xiaoyi, and Hua Sheng transformed into the sharpest blades, plunging deep into the enemy ranks.

Zheng Zha wielded the Iron Blood Spear, his movements elusive and unpredictable, each strike aimed directly at a vital point.

Li Xiaoyi's fighting style was completely different. Facing a giant alien that pounced on him, he neither dodged nor avoided it, but directly met it with a punch.

The force of tens of tons erupted instantly, and the alien's hard chitinous shell shattered into pieces as if it were made of paper. Its massive body was forcefully thrown into the air and disintegrated into a bloody mess of fragments in mid-air.

Although his power control and combat skills were still somewhat rough, any beastly enemy would be no match for his pure physical destructive power.

Watson, also a Shocker cyborg, was much more elegant, relying on his skillful combat techniques to meet the challenge.

Thus, with the coordinated efforts of all units, the battle situation became one-sided.

Zheng Zha and the others began efficiently harvesting the monsters that kept emerging from the ground.

However, Zhang Qi, who was suspended in mid-air, did not relax at all.

These are all just "soldiers." The real "general," the one who created all of this, has yet to appear.

"Zhan Lan!"

He gave instructions to James Lan aboard the Trailblazer.
"Focus your mental scan range, turn the power up to maximum! Find the strongest one! I need its precise coordinates!"

"understand!"

Inside the bridge, Zhan Lan closed her eyes, unleashing her spiritual power without reservation, transforming it into an invisible giant net that covered the entire battlefield.

One second, two seconds...

Suddenly, Zhan Lan's body trembled violently, as if her soul had been struck hard by an invisible hammer.

Her face turned deathly pale instantly, and then streaks of bright red blood began to seep from her eyes, nostrils, ears, and the corners of her mouth!
"Look... found it..."

"There..."

Before she could finish speaking, her head lolled to the side and she fainted completely.

The moment he received the coordinates, Zhang Qi abandoned all attempts to probe and immediately chose the strongest attack!

The armor on the chest of the suit slid open to the sides, revealing two crystal-like energy cores inside.

Terrifying energy rapidly gathered within, emitting a humming sound that sent chills down one's spine.

The next second, two thick beams of destructive energy, like pillars of light, instantly ripped through the dim sky, carrying the power to purify everything, and precisely struck the coordinate point indicated by Zhan Lan!

Boom——! ! !
A deafening roar, louder than thunder, rang out, and a small mushroom cloud rose from the distant wasteland.

The shockwave from the explosion swept in all directions, blasting away all the aliens within hundreds of meters.

The whole world seemed to fall silent for a moment after that attack.

However, it was only for a moment...

The next second, a roar filled with endless pain and rage shot into the sky from the core of the explosion.

As the smoke and dust slowly dissipated, a massive figure, so large that just standing there was enough to suffocate anyone, appeared in everyone's sight.

It was a gigantic monster that was over five meters tall.

It has the Xenomorph's signature long head and skeletal body, but its size is far more robust and powerful than any Xenomorph.

Its skin had a pale, marble-like texture, covered with mysterious and eerie patterns, just like the outer shell of that crescent-shaped spaceship.

The particle cannon that was powerful enough to destroy a small city only left cracks in its exoskeleton, far from being fatal.

With this earth-shattering roar, the alien army led by Zhang Qi suddenly froze in place.

Then, slowly and in unison, they turned around.

Those狰狞 and ruthless faces, those mouthparts gleaming with cold killing intent, were no longer aimed at their enemies, but... at Zheng Zha, Ba Wang, Li Xiaoyi who were right in front of them... at their "allies" who had been fighting side by side not long ago...

(End of this chapter)