Wang Zhen had always been highly alert!
The moment he sensed a Xenomorph sneaking up behind Li Shuaixi, he didn't play the hero and rush to save the unlucky guy. Instead, he focused on sensing what was behind him!
Following the analyses he'd read online, and erring on the side of caution, Wang Zhen had guessed that the Xenomorph wasn't alone, since this wasn't the same as the original plot. The moment it attacked, it was almost certainly not acting alone. Like a pack of wolves or other beasts, multiple Xenomorphs were probably working together!
Sure enough, just as Li Shuaixi was dragged into the passage, Wang Zhen sensed a vicious, bloodthirsty killing intent behind him.
"Shit! Xenomorphs! Everyone, move!" Wang Zhen twitched his right hand. A small flame sprang from the device in his palm, and then he flung his left hand behind him. A basketball-sized, pale orange-red fireball slammed into the ground not far away.
Sparks flew in every direction, instantly lighting up the area. A blue-black Xenomorph with a metallic sheen appeared in the dark passage. The instant the light revealed it, the hulking, two-meter-tall monster abruptly dropped its camouflage and charged at Wang Zhen.
Wang Zhen was a professional, too. Even if he couldn't act like one, in a life-or-death crisis, there was always room for an adrenaline-fueled burst of strength, a stroke of good fortune, or the help of his ancestors. So he didn't hold back. Though he looked thin and frail, his body actually concealed tremendous strength. Using what looked like the Fire Control superpower, but was really a heavily scaled-down version of a Flame Alchemy Circle, he exposed the lurking Xenomorph. At the same time, he bolted into a nearby passage without looking back!
First, Li Shuaixi had been ambushed and dragged away. Then Wang Zhen had launched an attack, drawing the Xenomorph's attention and leading it away!
Everything had happened in the blink of an eye, and Zheng Zha and the others were completely thrown into confusion! It was as if a single-threaded computer had suddenly been given two urgent tasks at once. The computer had frozen, unable to decide what to do.
"Move! There's more than one Xenomorph. This isn't a good place to fight. Get out of here!" Chu Xuan, with his IQ of 220, was the first to react. Seeing one Xenomorph follow a person into another passage, he immediately told everyone to leave.
Just as Chu Xuan had said, the place was strewn with scattered fragments of corpses, and the floor was covered in sticky blood. Fighting an alien more than two meters tall in a place like this would only make things harder for themselves.
Someone had risked his life to draw one Xenomorph away, opening up a path to safety for the rest of them. There was still at least one Xenomorph nearby, but they could take the passage Wang Zhen had gone down, since he'd led the creature away from it!
"Wang Zhen may have been a timid wreck in the last world, but he's finally grown up in this one. He's found his courage! Sigh, we really have to thank him for this..." Zhang Jie looked deeply gratified, as if he'd found a kindred spirit. As they ran, he passionately recounted Wang Zhen's story. "I hope fortune smiles on him and he escapes the Xenomorphs."
"He'll be fine! I believe in Wang Zhen! He even exchanged for that superpower with all its obvious flaws so he wouldn't hold us back. He's determined to get stronger!" Zheng Zha, too, praised Wang Zhen's resolve. After all, Wang Zhen had unhesitatingly taken on the danger of leading a Xenomorph away by himself. If they didn't praise him, wouldn't they seem heartless?
What would Zhan Lan, who'd joined the team with them, think? What would Chu Xuan and the other two newcomers think?
How could they build a team without praising this selfless spirit of sacrifice?
Chu Xuan was practically a human computer, but the incident had happened so suddenly, and someone had been blocking his view. He hadn't seen exactly what Wang Zhen had done. He'd only heard him yell for everyone to move, then seen a Xenomorph chase Wang Zhen into another passage. Although something felt off afterward, he hadn't seen clearly, and there was still a Xenomorph lurking nearby. If they didn't retreat to somewhere better suited for a fight, how could they deal with it?
And if they didn't deal with the Xenomorph, how would they have time to catch their breath and plan their next move?
Zheng Zha and the others had just reached a nearby intersection when footsteps sounded behind them. Within seconds, they had drawn closer.
"Everyone, move! Get your backs against the walls! A Xenomorph's tongue can attack from a distance like a lizard's!" Chu Xuan heard the footsteps and immediately warned them.
Zheng Zha and the others hurried to either side. But after running at full speed for so long, and having vomited earlier, Zhan Lan wasn't enhanced and was beginning to run out of stamina. She was a little slower in moving toward the wall...
Then the long, sharp-tipped tongue that had pierced Li Shuaixi shot silently toward them. It sliced away a chunk of flesh from Zhan Lan's shoulder, exposing the pale bone. She cried out in pain and fell to the ground.
With the Xenomorph on their heels, the group had no choice but to turn and fight!
After all, the only one among them who could outrun a Xenomorph was probably Zheng Zha, thanks to his Vampire Baron and Intermediate Internal Energy Enhancement upgrades!
"Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom..."
On the other side, Wang Zhen—whom Zheng Zha and Zhang Jie had praised as a martyr—was certainly fighting like one!
He snapped the fingers of his left and right hands in turn, sending basketball-sized balls of blazing, violent orange-red fire hurtling toward the Xenomorph like meteorites that had appeared out of nowhere!
The fireballs were still basketball-sized, but their power was now completely different. The earlier one had been no more than a thin outer layer, like a balloon. When it struck the Xenomorph, it hadn't even scratched it, let alone injured it.
But now, with no one else around, Wang Zhen could fight at full strength. The fireballs were still the same size and the same orange-red color, but they were made of flame all the way through, not just a thin outer layer. They were far more powerful as a result.
There were so many of these solid fireballs, and they came so fast. The Xenomorph was too large to dodge them all, and it couldn't run away either. It could only block them with its claws or take the hits on its exoskeleton.
In no time, the Xenomorph's blue-black shell, with its metallic sheen, had begun to glow a dull red...
Wang Zhen couldn't help grinning when he saw it!
His chance had come!
Wang Zhen shook both hands. He was still snapping his fingers, but instead of orange-red fireballs, crystalline ice spears appeared!
Each spear was as thick as an arm, with a sharp point at both ends. As they struck the Xenomorph's shell, which was already tinged with a dull red glow, it let out a piercing, high-pitched shriek. At the same time, its tough shell, which could withstand rifle bullets, suddenly developed a network of fine, crisscrossing cracks!
Then viscous liquid began to seep from the hairline cracks. It was the Xenomorph's distinctive corrosive bodily fluid. As this highly corrosive fluid oozed through the cracks and out of its body, the fine fissures began to widen before their eyes...
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