Entering Alien

However, against the Yu Tian Ring, the Pulse King had little power.

A burst swept across it, dense bullets making ripples bloom and tremble across the Yu Tian Ring's light shield, but that was all.

The Pulse King fired continuously for ten seconds without causing any substantial harm to Zheng Zha beneath the Yu Tian Ring's protection.

Then began the second round of defensive testing for the Yu Tian Ring. A one-megaton Nuclear Bomb was materialized by the Main God and detonated inside Uchiha Gen's room.

Zheng Zha activated the Yu Tian Ring and stood one kilometer from the edge of the bomb's blast center.

At that distance, even without the Yu Tian Ring, Zheng Zha's powerful regenerative abilities meant the blast would not likely kill him, ensuring the test was safe.

When the nuclear explosion finally ended, he was completely unharmed under the Yu Tian Ring's protection.

"The energy reserves are still plentiful. It should be able to withstand a nuclear blast even from the center of the explosion. Looks like a one-megaton Nuclear Bomb is still considered low-yield by the Main God."

In the end, Zheng Zha made an estimate and reported the test results.

"Not bad. We'll end it here, then."

"Next, we need to prepare to enter the Horror movie world. Dismissed."

Uchiha Gen nodded in satisfaction.

The Central Continent Team's gathering came to an end. Everyone went their separate ways, and Zhan Lan returned to her own room rather than staying with Uchiha Gen.

A person's energy was limited. Focusing too much on romance would cause one to neglect other matters.

During this final day or so in the Main God Space, everyone rested and recuperated while making their final preparations for battle.

Uchiha Gen reset and restored his room, which had been blasted to pieces, then sat cross-legged atop Konoha Shadow Face Rock and meditated.

He gradually cast all distracting thoughts from his mind, recovered his strength, and entered his optimal combat state.

Uchiha Gen also dug up and read materials related to the Alien films.

Soon, it was time to depart.

On the evening of the tenth day, the Central Continent Team's four members assembled at Main God Plaza, all dressed in matching white Central Continent Team exoskeleton armor team uniforms.

Once everyone had arrived, Zheng Zha asked the only veteran in the team, "How do we enter the Horror movie world later?"

"Do we vanish instantly like when we returned to the Resident Evil World, then come back the moment the mission is complete?"

Zhang Jie answered, "Twenty beams of light will appear. Just stand inside one. If you don't enter within the specified time, the Main God will consider it a violation and erase you."

"Returning is a little different from Exchanging to return to a Horror movie world. No matter how long we spend completing missions in the Horror movie, only exactly one day will pass in the Main God Space after we return."

"For example, if we experience only one hour in the Horror movie world, one day will pass here. Even if we stay in the Horror movie world for a hundred years, only one day will pass here."

Hearing that, Zheng Zha breathed a sigh of relief. "I see. Then I won't have to worry about Li'er waiting alone in the Main God Space for too long. She'd get too bored by herself."

At that moment, the great sphere of light at the center of Main God Plaza began to shine. Twenty beams of light appeared across the plaza, and the Main God's voice rang within the minds of the Central Continent Team.

"Enter the beams of light within thirty seconds. Transfer target locked. Transmission to Alien 1 commencing..."

The moment the Central Continent Team entered the beams of light, they fell into that familiar state between dreaming and wakefulness.

When he awoke, Uchiha Gen found that he had left the Main God Space and arrived somewhere entirely new.

Looking around, he saw that this was an enclosed metal room.

Its layout carried the atmosphere of futuristic science fiction.

If nothing unexpected happened, this was the spaceship where the plot of the film "Alien" took place.

After examining the surroundings, Uchiha Gen turned his gaze to his teammates.

"Fifteen-person difficulty. Aside from the four of us veterans, there are eleven newcomers."

"Chu Xuan, Zero Point, and Ba Wang—the three newcomers somewhat worth noticing—have arrived as expected. The rest are hardly worth mentioning..."

Theoretically, every Reincarnator had great potential and was the reincarnation of some former powerhouse.

But not every powerhouse was willing to return.

Some would lie flat, take extreme paths, or throw their lives away the moment they found an opportunity.

Under such circumstances, Uchiha Gen naturally prioritized newcomers who had shown promise in Original Infinite as his future teammates.

After looking over this batch of newcomers, Uchiha Gen temporarily ignored them and looked down at his Reincarnator Wristwatch to check this mission's Main Mission.

'Kill all Xenomorphs. Every team member will receive one Rank D Sub-plot and 1,000 reward points. Return to the Main God Space upon mission completion.'

It was exactly the same Main Mission the original Central Continent Team had experienced.

Rank D represented simple difficulty.

The Main God believed that, given the Central Continent Team's current combat strength, completing this Main Mission would be an easy task.

However, Uchiha Gen was not optimistic.

A Rank D reward did not mean the difficulty was as simple as Rank D.

The Main God had two rules for determining the Horror movie difficulty of a Reincarnation Squad.

The first rule was that the next Horror movie a Reincarnator would experience was decided the moment the previous one ended.

Taking the Central Continent Team as an example, their first mission had been Resident Evil 1. The instant Resident Evil 1 ended, the Main God determined that their second Horror movie would be Alien 1.

The second rule was that actions which increased one's strength during the interval between missions—such as Score Grinding, unlocking the Gene Lock, creating one's own skills, and training independently—would not immediately be included in the Main God's evaluation.

In other words, although Uchiha Gen and the other two had unlocked the Gene Lock between missions and returned to the Resident Evil World for Score Grinding, greatly increasing their strength, the resulting surge in the Main God's evaluation would not be reflected in the second mission, Alien. Instead, it would be reflected in the Central Continent Team's third Horror movie world.

Therefore, if one wanted to thrive in the Main God Space—

If one wanted to overcome the Main God's ELO system and avoid becoming a trapped player in the Reincarnation World, then Score Grinding between missions was an essential course.

Looking at the mission prompt on his Reincarnator Wristwatch, Uchiha Gen pondered inwardly:

"In Original Infinite Terror, the Main God included Zhang Jie—a Fourth Stage fighter who could not act and could only coast—as part of the Central Continent Team's evaluation."

"Using Fourth Stage strength to fight the Alien Queen, who at most counted as a bare Second Stage fighter, really was easy enough for anyone with hands."

"Under those circumstances, completing the Main Mission of killing all the Xenomorphs was only worth the difficulty of one Rank D Sub-plot. Giving the entire team a Rank D Sub-plot could even be considered the Main God taking care of newcomers."

"But in reality, Zhang Jie was restricted by the Main God. He couldn't act as a primary combatant and could only let the newcomers with little combat ability deal with the Xenomorphs."

"And because the Main God would not issue an unavoidable death mission, it ultimately used Zheng Zha's Rank B Enhancement without the Gene Lock as the combat standard when setting Alien's Main Mission and monster strength."