Landing on Planet Huangquan

"Main God, exchange one day of return time for the Alien World for us."

If it's not enough, I can always renew it at any time anyway.

Clearly, Uchiha Xiu had taken his own preference for speedrunning into account; he was unwilling to waste time and reward points on a world with no further utility after squeezing it dry of all resources.

He still had to return to the Naruto world.

That place was more worthy of lingering and plotting.

While the Great Light Sphere was sometimes as rigid and indistinguishable from a brain-dead machine, it was exceptionally intelligent in certain aspects.

Normally, It would default to transporting reincarnators to locations and timelines where side quests existed.

"Travel expenses are to be provided by each individual."

The response arrived immediately.

A pillar of teleportation light shone down!

The perception of all things became blurred. Uchiha Xiu was half-dreaming and half-awake; although he was more than ten times stronger than when he first entered the reincarnation cycle, he still could not remain conscious during the phase of inter-world travel.

However, this unsettling, chaotic state did not last long.

Uchiha Xiu sat up and raised his eyes to survey the surrounding environment.

He was lying in a familiar cryo-pod. Outside the glass lid was a spacious area with soft lighting and various high-tech instruments scattered about.

It was just that the computer mainframes... were exceptionally retro.

The Alien worldview was truly bizarre—humanity had achieved interstellar travel, yet the monitors, keyboards, and the like were still in the style of the 1980s and 90s.

Of course, there was no need to dwell on such minor details.

Uchiha Xiu now clearly understood his location and the point of transit.

The same old place: the Nostromo freighter.

The time point: Aliens.

[Mission: Completely annihilate the Aliens on Planet Huangquan, LV-426. Completed. Reward: All members of the East Sea Team receive 2 Grade C side quests and 3500 reward points.]

The data on his black wristwatch updated.

"This much?"

Kobayashi Yoshito, a pauper who understood exactly what this purchasing power meant, was full of excitement.

The Main God was actually more generous than in the official trial!

"Don't get too cocky; high returns mean high danger."

Kitagawa Nacai, the former healer, had more composure. "I didn't expect the Great Light Sphere to jump the timeline decades ahead from the Alien 1 we just participated in."

"Indeed, the true starting point of the Alien film series."

Uchiha Xiu stepped out of the cryo-pod.

LV-426, Planet Huangquan, its name derived from Ancient Greek, meaning the river of sorrow leading to the afterlife.

Located 39 light-years from Earth, it was one of the three moons of the gas giant Calpamos. The atmospheric conditions were terrible, but the Weyland Corporation had detected rare mineral deposits there and decided to invest resources to implement atmospheric processing, building a large-scale colony base on it.

However, the Alien disaster that caused the freighter's destruction, with only Ripley surviving, originated from this very place!

A large group of human immigrants had been reduced to nutrients, breeding a disaster of even more exaggerated proportions.

"Hey, Captain... we seem to still be on the Nostromo freighter. Could it have been drifting in this star sector for decades!"

At this moment, Kobayashi calmed down, looked at the extremely familiar environment, and realized belatedly, "So everyone is currently absorbing nuclear radiation?"

"There are indeed many invisible energy beams hitting us."

Nacai added.

Since the damage was not high and none of them were fragile ordinary people, she did not make a fuss.

"According to what Ripley said, there is a shuttle with a pre-programmed flight path on the ship. Let's board it and head down."

As the culprit who had destroyed the engine room, Uchiha Xiu did not want to get hung up on minor details.

Land, kill the Aliens!

Squeezing gold coins out of them was the only goal.

If they happened to encounter Ripley, or the Colonial Marines involved in this Alien movie, and triggered a rescue or escort side quest, that would be even better.

Five minutes later.

"Entering the 5x5 flight path."

"Passing through the ionosphere."

"Turbulence ahead, please do not move about... passing through rapidly..."

At this very moment, a dropship detached from the freighter and, after being captured by the gravity of Planet Huangquan, plummeted at extreme speed.

Heading toward hell.

Kobayashi Yoshito strapped himself into a seat, his body swaying along with the small dropship as his mind instinctively latched onto that thought.

If an accident were to happen hundreds of kilometers above the ground and the ship crashed... even the Great Mamba would die, right?

This guy would fall into these wild flights of fancy from time to time.

The healer sitting right next to Uchiha Xiu was calm and composed, stating simply:

Just trust the captain, and that's all there is to it!

It's a guaranteed win.

Another fifteen minutes passed.

The craft stabilized, and a mechanical prompt sounded over the broadcast: "014 degrees, preparing for landing."

The cameras mounted outside the dropship began to function, transmitting real-time footage to the interior, and a silent, desolate, and strange planet shrouded in thick water vapor immediately appeared before the eyes of the reincarnators.

There was at least one Xenomorph Queen and an unknown Xenomorph that had absorbed the superior genes of the Space Engineers, serving as the BOSS.

Needless to say, only Uchiha Xiu, the captain, had the ability to kill them!

"There's no strategy to speak of. Once we land, the two of you will pair up. Accompanied by my Shadow Clone, find a few regular Xenomorphs to practice on, earn some extra points, and adapt to your new abilities through actual combat."

"Yes!"

"Received."

Through the mist and the torrential rain, Kobayashi, gripping his greatsword, soon saw a hazy, massive shadow that filled the entire screen—it was the colony established by over a hundred Earthlings on LV426 in the plot, a sprawling complex of interconnected structures stretching for dozens of kilometers!

"The alien coliseum has welcomed three ancient Roman Champions."

Hearing this slightly chuunibyou remark from Kobayashi, who had undergone the Soul Bender enhancement, Uchiha Xiu unbuckled his seatbelt and retorted:

"I never would have guessed you were so good at overthinking things."

Click, a soft sound echoed.

The aircraft landed successfully.

"Let's go, head into the base to investigate first."

As always, the decisive Uchiha Xiu threw open the hatch and charged out at the front.

Because he deliberately slowed his pace, the two members, whose physical stats had been improved, struggled to keep up.

The base entrance was wide open.

On the other side.

The Colonial Marines, who had arrived two hours earlier than the East Sea Team, had already driven two armored vehicles and successfully reached the interior of the atmospheric processor.

Soft.

Stepping off the vehicle and leading the way, the black Sergeant looked vigilant; he felt as if he were walking on the foul-smelling intestinal walls of some creature.

Before his eyes, metal walls covered in various gelatinous substances swallowed up the human colonists like a quagmire.

If Ripley was right, these poor wretches were completely beyond saving.

Monsters could burst out of their chests at any moment.

In the nearly one hundred years the company had been exploring the universe, this was the first time they had confirmed the existence of extraterrestrial life!

"You should have waited longer; it takes time to wake the genetically modified warriors from their long slumber on the cargo ship."

"They've been asleep for over fifty years in one go..."

Inside the command vehicle, Ripley held little Newt and complained to the white commander, who wore the rank of Captain:

"With that man's cooperation, the mission wouldn't have any danger at all."

Thanks to cryosleep technology, fifty-seven years had passed, yet she remained in the same state as when she had last parted ways with Uchiha Xiu.