"You go ahead, Chris."

August 31, 20:18.

The sea area approximately 100 kilometers from the pyramid.

The weather is fair with a light breeze; yesterday's fleeting aurora has vanished, and the night sky is once again filled with stars.

Currently, the icebreaker and the Boreas are anchored in this frozen expanse, having reached the limit of where the icebreaker can travel.

The ships are brightly lit, and the crew and ground staff on both vessels are busy preparing for the upcoming operation.

Inside the Boreas combat briefing room.

The space is rather cramped, only large enough to accommodate about twenty officers listening to the mission plan, yet it is fully equipped with all the essentials, including whiteboards and projectors.

At this moment.

Marini and Chris of the Charon Task Force, Victor and Carlos of the Spear of Olympus, the Epsilon Lieutenant, five elite security sergeants, and several researchers are seated on folding chairs within the room.

Sui Bian, standing with his arms crossed over his chest, is positioned to the right of the projection screen.

The lights are dimmed, and the projector displays a satellite overhead view of the pyramid, along with a three-dimensional model rendered by the Red Queen.

"Gentlemen," Sui Bian says, scanning the room in a low voice, "at 03:30 this morning, the company discovered a massive pyramid constructed by an unknown civilization 100 kilometers west of our current position. The pyramid is located 600 meters beneath the ice."

A pyramid in Antarctica?

600 meters under the ice?

"Sir, we don't have professional drilling equipment. Should we contact Africa Base to have specialized machinery transported here for excavation?"

Although Chris, Victor, the Lieutenant, and others are skeptical, they are combat personnel and refrain from asking further questions. However, a middle-aged researcher wearing a down vest and black-rimmed glasses poses the aforementioned question.

"No need, because 'someone' will dig it out for us in advance," Sui Bian replies.

"Someone?"

"That's impossible. Could another company have discovered it?"

After Sui Bian finishes speaking, several researchers voice their confusion.

He remains silent for a moment, then, deciding not to speak in riddles, says bluntly: "Everyone here is a backbone of the company and its most loyal employees. You are aware of the existence of the Plague Doctor and understand that there are unknowns and darkness behind this world that humanity has yet to comprehend.

This time...

We may be making contact with an extraterrestrial civilization."

!!

"What??"

"Extraterrestrial civilization... aliens?"

"Aliens? Are there really aliens?!"

At this, even the combat personnel begin to express their bewilderment; after all, no matter how rough and tumble they are, they are familiar with urban legends about UFOs and aliens...

Now it seems that aliens might not be urban legends, but a reality.

"Ahem, alright, let's settle down," Sui Bian says with a light cough to remind them.

Seeing Sui Bian speak, the briefing room quickly returns to silence.

Next, relying on the content of the movies he has seen, Sui Bian explains to those present the relationship between the Xenos, ancient humans, and the Predators.

He emphasizes the custom of young Predators needing to kill prey to reach adulthood, as well as their code of not bullying unarmed women and children, and their respect for powerful opponents, enemies, and even prey.

Following the introduction to the Predators, he moves on to the Xenos, the Xeno Queen, and the Facehuggers.

He covers details such as their extendable inner jaws, their tough exoskeletons, their ability to hide in the darkness, and the acid blood that requires the most caution.

(Predator: Predator / Yautja.

Xeno: Xeno.)

"Sir..." After listening to Sui Bian, Chris is the first to speak up: "Do you need us to eliminate these so-called Xenos and Predators?"

"No," Sui Bian shakes his head slightly, explaining: "Judging by our company's current... or rather, humanity's current technology, it is best to avoid antagonizing a race capable of interstellar travel.

They are capable of interstellar flight, while we struggle just to make a trip to the moon, not to mention that the physical capabilities of their adolescents already exceed the limits of what humans can achieve."

"Then what is your meaning, sir...?" Chris asks again.

"It's simple," Sui Bian says, the corners of his mouth curling upward as he looks at Chris: "Lieutenant Redfield, I need you to assist the young Predators in completing their rite of passage.

Although I do not wish for the company or humanity to be at odds with the Predators, Lieutenant, I still need you to acquire their weapons. As for the method...

I believe you can handle it."

"Yes, sir. Wait... just me alone?"

21:00.

The icebreaker deploys ten snow crawlers, which then form a convoy and travel across the ice toward the pyramid 100 kilometers away.

Just as Sui Bian stated over half an hour ago, this operation is to be carried out by Chris 'alone'. Those accompanying Chris are not from the Task Force, the USS, or elite security, but rather temporary D-Class Personnel.

These D-Class Personnel were selected from the thirty-six captives.

After the captives were transferred to the Bohandong, they underwent brief interrogations. Once their names and birthdays were recorded, the Red and White Queens conducted investigations, unexpectedly discovering that twenty-four of them had irregularities in their accounts.

Although the remaining twelve individuals had no issues with their accounts, they still required repeated questioning and investigation to determine who was truly innocent.

Therefore, the twenty-four individuals who clearly had problems were designated as D-Class Personnel and sent to the pyramid under the leadership of Chris.

Among these twenty-four people were researchers from the underground facility, engineers, and, most notably, armed security from Rockfort Island; the variety of staff was quite complete, enough to form a temporary task force.

The captain of this temporary task force was Chris.

Before departure, Sui Bian did not inform these temporary D-Class Personnel of their mission objectives, nor did they have any way of knowing about the existence of the Xenos or the Predators.

However, Sui Bian gave these D-Class Personnel his word: as long as they performed their duties honestly and diligently, the company would let bygones be bygones regarding their entanglement with the Ashford family. After undergoing memory erasure, they would be released, and the company would provide subsidies to their families.

When mentioning their families, Sui Bian emphasized his tone slightly.

As for killing Chris to escape?

The fuel was only enough for the snow crawler to travel one hundred and sixty kilometers, and there was only two days' worth of food and drinking water. Attempting to escape on foot in the uninhabited Antarctic wilderness...

Such an act would be no different from suicide.

Even ants cling to life, let alone human beings.

Furthermore, with the company holding their families as leverage, it didn't matter if they died themselves, but they could not let their families suffer a catastrophe because of it.

The final point that allowed Sui Bian to rest easy was that Chris, who possessed anomalous attributes, could not be killed so easily.

In the movie, even that Black woman could survive until the end and earn the favor of the Yautja Elder; if Chris, the protagonist, didn't end up being the death of those twenty-four people, the Xenos, and the Predators, it would be a miracle.