On the main road of Dome City Seven.
There are dried human blood stains everywhere, with only a few traces corroded by Corrosive Acid's blood. It seems that City Seven's guarding power was broken by Xenos in an instant.
William, wearing special Power Armor, led eight Sparta from the blue team and Shadow Team, walking on the main road of the city heading to Hozette Tower.
William, who was walking in the center of the team, didn't see a single human corpse at all. It seemed that he had been dragged away by Xenos to breed their 'next generation'.
"Boss." Serena's avatar appeared in the upper left corner of the William helmet screen, reporting to him:
"I have only detected a very small amount of movement on the surface. It seems that the number of Xenos in City Seven is much less than we previously predicted."
"Haha." William just shook his head and chuckled, speaking out his analysis:
"Based on the habits of the Xenos race, there is indeed no living person on City Seven's watch, because the 'living people' are all in Hozette Corporation's laboratory, and the current laboratory has long been Xenos's lair. The number of Xenos there is unpredictable."
With that said, William turned on the helmet communication again and reminded everyone Sparta said:
"Everyone, now we can basically confirm that the laboratory under the Hozette Corporation building has completely become the nest of Xenos.
Moreover, the structure of the nest allows them to blend perfectly into the darkness, making thermal imaging useless in the Xenos nest.
Dynamic Detection can detect them only when they are moving.
So don't let your guard down just because you are Sparta, otherwise these beasts will make you capsize in the gutter."
All Sparta responded respectfully, "Yes, boss."
After William finished speaking, Serena asked curiously, "Boss, how did you... know the characteristics of Xenos's lair?"
"This is the doctor's guess, not mine." William replied breathlessly without blushing.
"Okay." Serena on the screen also nodded lightly and stopped asking about Xenos's lair.
Soon.
A group of nine people arrived at the main entrance of the Hozette Corporation building.
As the building of a giant arms company, its specifications and appearance are the most luxurious and high-end buildings in Dome City Seven.
But the glass in the front hall was completely broken, and there were dark black dried blood stains everywhere, as well as a lot of crumbs of clothes.
And because the entire city almost lost power, this extremely luxurious-looking building looked a bit like a location that would appear in a horror movie.
But William didn't seem to care about this and took the lead to approach the lobby of the building.
Spartans, who was present, saw that the boss was not afraid, and immediately followed William into the hall, and quickly spread the formation to the entire hall, alerting all movements inside the hall.
"Boss, no movement has been detected on the first floor yet."
"Okay." After listening to Serena's report, William ordered her again, "Look for the entrance to the nest."
"Yes, it is being scanned... Boss, it has been found."
While Serena is reporting, he will also share the route plan to the underground laboratory on the thumbnail of everyone's helmet screen.
Seeing this, everyone followed the route given by Serena and went through the stairwell to the underground garage of the building. They came to a gate elevator that looked like the entrance to a secret facility.
Since the chip of Serena is inside William Power Armor, she can crack the system permissions of Hozette Tower at close range.
About half a minute later.
The elevator gate opened, allowing William and others to enter the elevator and go to the laboratory built directly below the building.
"Ding~!" a reminder.
"Click-!" The somewhat rusty gate slowly opened.
What greeted William and others' eyes was not neat, bright, and clean like Umbrella's the Hive. Instead, it was damp, dark, and filled with thick fog.
The floor and walls of the corridor outside the elevator are wrapped in black tissue that looks like a creature.
This place has been transformed into their nest by Xenos.
Seeing this, William led Spartans out of the elevator, stepping on the somewhat soft Organic Tissue.
And reminded him softly, "Remember what I said, be careful of your backs and tops of your heads, and adjust Dynamic Detection to the most sensitive state for me.
This is Xenos's lair, which means there will definitely be Xenos Empress here, as well as the powerful Xenos responsible for guarding Empress. They are not comparable to those miscellaneous fish outside."
"Yes, boss." Spartans all responded quietly.
"Very good." William said to Serena, "Looking for Control Room of this Underground Facility."
"Yes..." Serena on the screen was silent for a moment, and then the planned route map was updated to everyone's thumbnail.
Immediately afterwards, a group of people walked slowly in the dark passage with soft tissue, heading towards this Underground Facility Control Room.
The reason why William makes everyone Sparta cautious is not because he makes a fuss out of a molehill.
You must know that the species Xenos reproduces and evolves very quickly. Moreover, the Xenos here is also being studied by Hozette who has certain experience in biotechnology. God knows what Xenos Empress will be like this time.
Moreover, when William was in high school in his previous life, he often played the two games "Xenos vs. Predator (AVP) 2010" and "AVP2".
Among them, the Xenos Boss in <AVP2010> has the guard of Xenos Empress--
Alien Praetorian.
Alien Praetorian is a stronger individual from the ordinary Xenos. After they receive a certain signal hormone from Xenos Empress, they 'evolve' in a short period of time.
It is much taller than the ordinary Xenos, its skin and bones are almost impossible to pierce or penetrate, and it has unparalleled destructive power.
That's Xenos who can fight against the Predator and win with certainty.
However, the price of becoming Alien Praetorian is that their IQ is also controlled by hormones. By the time they become guards, their IQ has already degraded.
After all, Xenos Empress doesn't want a coexistence of intelligence and strength, but only a strong guard who obeys his orders.
For example, the Xenos protagonist in <AVP2010>, 'No. 6', made perfect use of its physical strength and intelligence to kill countless Colonial Marine Corps, even three Predators and an elite Predator.
There is no need to explain how powerful the Predator race is, but it will still suffer when facing Xenos, so you must be careful.
Of course, be cautious, William is still confident that he can successfully obtain all the research data of Hozette Corporation.
Moreover, the number of people who can go deep into Xenos's nest cannot be large. A large number of people will not be able to exert their advantage in a narrow place like Xenos's nest.
Four Spartan Primarch, four Spartan-II, and his boss with super speed are enough to cope with all crisis situations.