Zheng Zha's Health Bar Was Thick and Long

If you took a beating, you had to stand up straight!

Wang Zhen's face hurt, but he knew that although the Main God was messing with him this time, he had also been far too presumptuous!

If he'd taken into account that the Main God was either messing with him or getting ready to mess with him, twenty-four hours a day, anywhere and anytime, then he would have carefully analyzed every word of the mission!

So, even though the Main God had successfully messed with him, Wang Zhen could only give a thumbs-up and say, "Brilliant! Absolutely brilliant!"

Wang Zhen smoothed down his heaving chest and reminded himself to steady his emotions, stay calm, keep his temper in check, and...

"The world is so beautiful, yet I'm so irritable!"

"That's no good... no good!"

Wang Zhen tried all sorts of ways to calm himself down. After a few minutes of struggling, his tumultuous emotions finally settled, and his mind grew calm as still water. In truth, he wasn't the sort of person with deep reserves or a high threshold for stress. He was even rather petty, with a strong tendency to hold grudges, and couldn't exactly be called broad-minded.

He'd simply been taught by an organization of assassins from a young age. You could say he'd been beaten down by society since childhood. If he couldn't control his emotions, the grass on his grave would probably be three meters tall by now. So his personality and emotional state had their flaws, but he understood himself clearly and could keep himself in check. Even now, despite the Main God having stirred up his emotions, a few minutes were enough for him to readjust and calm down as quickly as possible. That was the real reason he'd survived in the assassin organization into adulthood.

"Clearly, the Main God counted the Xenomorph embryo inside Ellen Ripley as a Xenomorph, too. Whether an embryo counts as a living thing is a contentious question, with people in both the East and West arguing over it. But Xenomorphs aren't like humans, so counting this embryo as a Xenomorph makes sense. After all, one of the Xenomorphs' methods of reproduction is to implant themselves in a host and grow inside them before bursting out. In that sense, the embryo inside Ripley could indeed be considered a Xenomorph larva."

"But if that's the case, Zheng Zha's mission will probably change accordingly, too. At the very least, for it to qualify as a Xenomorph, the embryo will have to go from a dormant state to an active one. That means... fuck..." Wang Zhen couldn't help cursing as the thought struck him.

Because only then did Wang Zhen realize that the Main God was playing a grand game of chess...

No, that was wrong!

It was just pulling off a massive stunt!

The mission mentioned rescue because the Xenomorph embryo inside Ripley had entered an active state. In other words, it was about to devour her heart, liver, spleen, lungs, and kidneys. Once the embryo became active, it met the criteria for a living Xenomorph. That meant no matter how quickly Wang Zhen killed it, how stylishly he did so, or how impressive he looked doing it, he still wouldn't complete the mission. The Xenomorph embryo inside Ripley would already have entered its active state and met the criteria for a Xenomorph!

"If it were just this level of a stunt, the Main God probably wouldn't be satisfied. As far as it's concerned, two of the three missions are already connected. So why leave Mission 2 out?" Wang Zhen murmured, his eyes half-closed as he gently rocked his chair.

"That android, Ash, was a spy sent by Weyland Corporation. Its mission was to gather information. Could it be information about the Xenomorphs?"

"Very likely. I remember there was a later movie about the head of Weyland Corporation, who was so old he was close to death. That was why he kept searching for the Engineer race, the creators of the Xenomorphs. According to a wild and daring theory, the Engineers came to Earth in ancient times and helped create humanity! In other words, to Peter Weyland, the head of Weyland Corporation, the Engineers were essentially the God who created humanity in the Bible. Naturally, if he wanted eternal life, he'd have to find God."

"The Xenomorphs were also created by the Engineers. Weyland Corporation would almost certainly be interested in these creatures. Then... the spy Ash would capture one! That would connect Mission 2 to Mission 1!"

"Heh. So it really is a mandatory mission! This difficulty certainly befits a mandatory mission! Now Zheng Zha has to deal with the Xenomorph embryo inside Ripley entering its active state, fend off attacks from the android Ash, and make sure Ripley doesn't die!"

"This is interesting! Very interesting! Neither the Xenomorph embryo nor the android Ash is particularly powerful in a fight, but their circumstances and positions make the mission much harder. In a head-on fight, Zheng Zha has unlocked the Gene Lock, fused his body with the Mutant Vampire Bloodline, and already started transforming into a vampire. He could handle both of them easily."

"But..."

"But this time, it's not about winning a head-on fight. It's about keeping Ripley alive!" Wang Zhen suddenly opened his eyes and said with a smile.

"Mission 1: Complete!"

"Mission 2: Failed!"

"Mission 3: Complete!"

"Alien I plot-world mission... concluded!"

"The Alien series plot worlds are beginning to merge..."

"Return!"

Before the words had even faded, the Main God's emotionless electronic voice rang out in Wang Zhen's mind...

At the same time, Wang Zhen felt as if someone had whacked him hard on the head with an enormous, long stick. He passed out, and when he woke up again, he was in God Hall.

"Main God... fully heal Zheng Zha. He'll pay for it himself!" Zhang Jie shouted.

Hearing Zhang Jie, Wang Zhen turned to look and saw that Zheng Zha was in a pretty miserable state!

He'd only returned with half his body!

That's right!

Zheng Zha was missing his lower half!

He hadn't been castrated—he'd been cut in two!

Everything below his waist was gone. The wound at his waist showed obvious signs of having been seared by intense heat, and some of the tissue had even been charred. With an injury that severe, Zheng Zha was somehow still alive!

"As expected, even a Mutant Vampire without any weaknesses is still a vampire. As long as his head isn't cut off, his heart isn't pierced, and his heart core isn't crushed, even being cut in half won't kill him! Zhang Jie's probably pretty annoyed, huh?" Wang Zhen couldn't help marveling at Zheng Zha's incredibly long, thick health bar.

"How'd you end up this badly hurt? All you had to do was rescue Ripley, put her in a cryo pod, and launch it into space. Did Ripley refuse to let Zheng Zha have his way with her, turn into a Valkyrie, and slice him in half?" Wang Zhen asked deliberately.

Watching Zheng Zha's lower half regenerate at a visible speed beneath the pillar of light from the Main God, Wang Zhen saw countless emerald-green specks of light appear inside it and swarm into Zheng Zha's body. His emaciated frame began to fill out, his skin grew fair and smooth, and he looked positively delectable!

"What else could it be but the Main God messing with us?" Zhang Jie said with a deeply frustrated air.