"Main God, exchange for one day back in the Xenomorph world."
If that wasn't enough, they could always extend it later.
Uchiha Xiu had clearly taken his preference for speedrunning into account. He wasn't willing to waste time and reward points on a world that had little to offer after squeezing it dry of all its resources.
He still had to return to Naruto, after all.
That world was far more worth staying in and making plans for.
The Great Light Sphere could be rigid to the point of seeming like a stupid machine at times, yet it was remarkably intelligent in other ways.
Normally, it would default to sending Reincarnators to locations and points in the timeline where there were side missions.
"The travel expenses will be provided by each of you."
The response came at once.
A beam of light descended!
Their perception of everything grew hazy. Uchiha Xiu was half asleep and half awake. Though he was now more than ten times as powerful as when he had first entered the cycle of reincarnation, he still couldn't stay conscious while traveling between worlds.
But this unsettling state of chaos didn't last long.
Uchiha Xiu sat up and looked around.
He was lying in a familiar cryo-pod. Beyond its glass cover was a spacious room, softly lit and scattered with all kinds of high-tech equipment.
The computer, though... was unusually retro.
The Alien universe really was bizarre. Humanity had mastered interstellar travel, yet its monitors, keyboards, and other equipment still looked like they belonged in the eighties or nineties.
Of course, there was no need to worry about such little details.
Uchiha Xiu now knew exactly where he was and when he had arrived.
The usual place: the cargo ship Nostromo.
The time: Alien 2.
[Mission: Exterminate all Xenomorphs on LV-426, Planet Huangquan. Complete. All East Sea Team members receive two C-rank side mission credits and 3,500 reward points.]
The data on their black wristwatches updated.
"So many?"
Kobayashi Yoshito, a poor man who understood what that kind of purchasing power meant, was beaming with excitement.
The Main God was even more generous than during the official trial!
"Don't get carried away. High rewards mean high danger."
The former team medic, Kitagawa Nacai, was much more composed. "I didn't expect the Great Light Sphere to jump the timeline from Alien 1, which we just took part in, straight to decades later."
"Yeah. This is where the main Alien series really begins."
Uchiha Xiu climbed out of the cryo-pod.
LV-426, Planet Huangquan. Its name came from ancient Greek and meant the sorrowful river that led to the afterlife.
Thirty-nine light-years from Earth, it was one of the three moons orbiting the gas giant Calpamos. Its atmosphere was terrible, but the Weyland Corporation had detected rare mineral deposits there and decided to invest in terraforming the atmosphere and building a large colonial base.
And yet the Xenomorph disaster that destroyed the cargo ship, leaving only Ripley alive, had begun right here!
A huge number of human colonists became host to the creatures, giving rise to an even more catastrophic outbreak.
"Hey, Captain... It looks like we're still on the Nostromo. Has it been drifting in this sector for decades?"
Kobayashi came to his senses. Looking at the all-too-familiar surroundings, he belatedly realized, "So we're all getting hit with nuclear radiation?"
"There are indeed plenty of invisible energy beams hitting us," Nacai added.
The damage wasn't severe, and none of them were ordinary, fragile people anymore, so she didn't make a fuss about it.
"Ripley said there's a lander with a preset flight program. Let's take that down."
As the one who had caused all this by destroying the power core, Uchiha Xiu had no interest in dwelling on the little details.
Land, kill Xenomorphs!
Their only goal was to farm as many rewards as possible from them.
And if they ran into Ripley, or the Colonial Marines featured in this Alien film, and triggered an escort or rescue side mission, so much the better.
Five minutes later.
"Entering the 5×5 corridor."
"Passing through the ionosphere."
"Turbulence ahead. Please remain seated... Passing through at high speed..."
At that moment, a lander broke away from the cargo ship. Caught in the gravity of Planet Huanghuang, it plummeted at ever-increasing speed.
Straight toward hell.
Kobayashi Yoshito secured himself in a seat. As the small lander bucked around him, a word came instinctively to mind.
If something went wrong a hundred kilometers above the ground and they crashed... even the boss would die, wouldn't he?
He kept drifting into wild imaginings.
The team medic sitting next to Uchiha Xiu, on the other hand, remained perfectly calm. She had only one thing to say:
Just trust the captain!
We've got this in the bag.
Another fifteen minutes passed.
The craft steadied, and the mechanical voice came over the speakers again. "014 degrees. Prepare for landing."
The cameras mounted outside the lander switched on, transmitting live footage inside. A silent, desolate planet shrouded in thick moisture came into view.
There was at least one Alien Queen, as well as an unknown Xenomorph that had absorbed the superior genes of an Alien Engineer, serving as a boss.
Needless to say, only Uchiha Xiu, their captain, could kill them!
"There's no real strategy. Once we land, you two stick together and practice against a few ordinary Xenomorphs with my Shadow Clone accompanying you. Earn some extra points, and use actual combat to get used to your new abilities."
"Understood!"
"Got it."
Through the mist and torrential rain, Kobayashi quickly spotted a hazy, towering mass while gripping his greatsword. It filled the entire screen: the colony built by more than a hundred people from Earth on LV-426 in the story, a sprawling complex of structures stretching for dozens of kilometers!
"The alien arena welcomes three ancient Roman warriors."
Hearing the somewhat chuunibyou remark from Kobayashi, the Soul Bender, Uchiha Xiu unfastened his seat belt and ribbed him.
"Didn't know you had such an imagination."
Click. A soft sound rang out.
The lander touched down safely.
"Come on. Let's check out the base first."
As brisk as ever, Uchiha Xiu opened the hatch and charged out first.
He deliberately slowed down so the two team members, whose physical abilities had improved, could keep up.
The base entrance stood open.
Elsewhere.
The Colonial Marines, who had arrived two hours before the East Sea Team, had already driven two armored vehicles into the interior of the atmosphere processor.
Squish.
The Black sergeant got out of the vehicle and led the way forward, cautiously probing ahead. It felt as if they were walking on the foul-smelling, slimy intestinal walls of some creature.
Metal walls coated in all kinds of gelatinous substances stretched before them, swallowing one human colonist after another like a swamp.
If Ripley was telling the truth, there was no saving these unfortunate people.
The monsters could burst out of their chests at any moment.
After nearly a century of exploring the universe, the company had confirmed the existence of extraterrestrial life for the first time!
"You should have waited a little longer. It takes time to wake the genetically modified soldiers from the cargo ship."
"They've been asleep for over fifty years..."
Inside the command vehicle, Ripley held little Newt in her arms and complained to the white commander with captain's bars:
"With that man helping us, the mission wouldn't have been dangerous at all."
Thanks to the cryogenic technology of the sleep pods, fifty-seven years later, she still looked exactly as she had when she parted ways with Uchiha Xiu.
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