"Is the God Hall pulling a prank? Don't tell me my mission suddenly jumped from incomplete to complete?" Wang Zhen raised his eyebrows, asking with keen interest, "If that's the prank, then I have to thank the God Hall!"
"Of course, I also have to thank Zheng Zha!"
"He really is a good man who loves to help others!"
Hearing Wang Zhen's strange words, Zhang Jie knew he had to explain this; otherwise, it would be too easy for people to overthink it!
The three of them had completed their respective missions, but when he and Zheng Zha returned to the God Hall, Zheng Zha was still in a critical, near-death state with his waist severed. If this wasn't explained clearly, it would be easy to be labeled as someone who harmed a teammate. Although he didn't care, wouldn't it be a huge loss to wear this label when I didn't even lift a finger?
"You already know your mission wasn't completed because the last Xenomorph was inside Selene, right? Actually, it's not just your mission that's linked to the mandatory Mission 1; my Mission 2 is also connected!"
"Because that android spy, Ash, had already taken control of Selene and held her hostage right in front of the door to the cryo-chamber room! When I found Ash, I saw Zheng Zha confronting him and the hostage, Selene. If it were just that, it wouldn't be a big problem; Zheng Zha and I could have easily saved her and finished the mission. If we worked together, we could have even completed both our missions simultaneously!"
"You and Zheng Zha... I guess you both thought the same, right? Completing two missions at once is a huge temptation! Besides, there was only one android, Ash. This guy is just an automaton or a corporate spy, not a Terminator T-1000 or T-X. I wouldn't say he has no combat power, but it's definitely not high! At least not as dangerous as a Xenomorph. You two... got played?" As soon as Wang Zhen heard Zhang Jie, he guessed that Zheng Zha had definitely fallen into a trap; as for Zhang Jie, it was hard to say.
"Exactly! Just as you guessed!"
"Zheng Zha and I both felt it was a perfect opportunity. So, while Zheng Zha was talking, he slowly approached Ash to distract him. Then, I seized the chance and fired two consecutive shots to break Ash's neck. Zheng Zha rushed forward to save Selene, and then..."
"Then, Selene's stomach suddenly swelled up. That was when Zheng Zha and I realized the Xenomorph embryo inside her had activated and grown. We both knew we absolutely couldn't let the embryo tear through her body. Zheng Zha opened the cryo-chamber door, dragged her inside, and shoved her into a pod. Just as he pressed the switch to eject the pod into space, that Ash guy wasn't dead!"
"Even without his head, he crawled into the cryo-chamber room while Zheng Zha and I were focused on Selene. Just as Zheng Zha pressed the ejection switch and opened the launch tunnel, this headless thing—I don't know when it crawled in—turned its arm into a laser blade and sliced Zheng Zha in half. Then, it took Zheng Zha's lower half, jumped into another cryo-chamber, and ejected itself from the spaceship." As Zhang Jie said this, a strange expression flickered across his scarred, ugly face.
"Huh?"
"What the hell?"
"A sci-fi version of the Headless Horseman?"
"Understood! That makes perfect sense!" Wang Zhen fell silent for a moment, then nodded.
What else could he say?
After all, Wang Zhen wasn't at the scene, so he didn't know what had happened. Furthermore, Zheng Zha hadn't died, and Zhang Jie wouldn't lie about the procedure. In other words, the process happened exactly like that—though only Zhang Jie knew how much he had held back!
At the very least, Wang Zhen was certain that even if Zhang Jie didn't know the headless Ash was still alive at first, he would have sensed it the moment that headless body moved even a millimeter! Under such circumstances, for that headless body to crawl from outside the door, grab Zheng Zha's leg, reveal a laser blade, and slice him in half—even if this Ash were the best works of Skynet, the T-1000 or T-X (referring to their movie incarnations), they wouldn't have had a chance to succeed in a sneak attack within Zhang Jie's psychic range!
Wang Zhen estimated that Zhang Jie had held back an entire ocean's worth of effort, hoping to let Zheng Zha die "legitimately" under Ash's attack. After all, no one could have predicted that this android spy would be so dishonorable as to not die even after losing his head!
Then, Zheng Zha was sliced in half by this loyal android spy, who took a portion of Zheng Zha's body back to Earth to turn in the mission, leaving the severed Zheng Zha to die a miserable death.
That makes perfect sense!
Thinking of this, Wang Zhen couldn't help but look up at Zheng Zha, whose full-body restoration was nearing its end. His expression turned strange, "The God Hall is too stingy! After collecting so many reward points, they could at least provide a pair of disposable shorts. Walking around naked—what is that about? This is a public space!"
In reality, Wang Zhen was using Zheng Zha to distract himself from his own emotions. After all, the thought of Zhang Jie holding back an entire ocean's worth of effort and still failing to let Zheng Zha die "reasonably" in the mission made his own tone carry genuine emotion; his composure was clearly cracking!
Therefore, Wang Zhen actually wanted to laugh!
But no matter what, he couldn't let it out, or Zhang Jie might just flip the table!
Therefore, Wang Zhen simply...
"Selene, how long was I gone?"
"Master, you were gone for one second."
"One second? Doesn't that mean I never left?" Wang Zhen sighed softly and muttered to himself.
The God Hall's control over time and space refreshed Wang Zhen's understanding. He felt that his journey in the Infinite Space was a long and arduous one, and he needed something new to help his small, helpless self grow strong quickly, so that others would speak to him with gentle words!
"Good Luck Cheat, I've cleared another plot world. Where's my gift package?"
Relying solely on the God Hall, when would he ever be able to overtake them and make the God Hall speak to him nicely?
Therefore, Wang Zhen called out the "Good Luck Cheat" that had been hiding for the entire plot world!
To surpass, one must have a cheat!
"1 Golden Blind Box has been sent... Please collect it."
Wang Zhen saw a truck glowing with golden light roaring through his consciousness space, coming to a screeching halt. The cargo bed shimmered with an intense golden luster.
A Golden Blind Box, true to its name!
Wang Zhen used his consciousness to open the cargo bed... the blind box. The golden truck dissipated, leaving behind only a black coffin.
A pitch-black coffin with a blood-red cross on the lid.
A pitch-black coffin with a blood-red cross on the lid, and an inscription written in Gothic font underneath.
"The Bird of Hermes is my name, eating my wings to keep me tame!"
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