Li Ling had never seen another person like Chu Xuan in all the worlds he had experienced.
Li Ling considered himself to be far inferior to a wise man like Chu Xuan. While his own resolute character played a part in his journey, the benefits and rewards provided by the Wishing Star System were even more significant.
If Li Ling were to ask who among all the worlds is similar to Chu Xuan, the only person he could think of was the Moon Worship Cult Leader from the Legend of Sword and Fairy series.
One of them relied on genetic modification, and the other on talent. Both of them had an uncontrollable desire for the unknown and tirelessly explored the mysteries of the world.
Similarly, they are extremely extreme when it comes to "emotions".
One is devoid of emotion yet yearns for it; the other possesses emotion but, due to childhood trauma, contradictorily denies its existence.
The world needs people like them, but it can't have too many of them, because if we're not careful, they could bring irreparable disaster to the world.
Compared to this type of person, Li Ling still belongs to the 'human' level, and has more of a human nature.
At this time, the other newlyweds also woke up one after another.
Some of them, like Chu Xuan, sat up, but remained seated on the ground without any intention of standing up; others stood up from the ground, but they all had one thing in common: they were looking around at their surroundings.
The most conspicuous among them were three young men with brightly colored, flamboyant hair. The leader of the group, dressed in a hippie style with a nose ring, grinned at the crowd and said, "Who are you guys? We were just surfing the internet at an internet cafe, how did we suddenly end up here?"
Li Ling glanced at the three of them and gave a look to the chubby boy next to him.
After undergoing inhumane training, "Little Fatty" Zhang Li understood Captain Li's look perfectly. He immediately stepped forward to the group of new recruits and said coldly, "Everyone, please be quiet! We will explain the specifics in detail later."
Then he looked at Chu Xuan and said, "Now, Chu Xuan, could you tell us about the details of the horror movie Alien 1? Is that alright?"
Chu Xuan paused slightly, then nodded and said, "If you insist, the story begins on a space merchant ship..."
The three punk youths were startled by the "fat boy's" cold tone, but when they saw his tall, handsome appearance, they all felt a little envious.
If they were that handsome and stylish, why the hell would they bother with the "emo" look?
The leader, a young man with a nose ring and a flamboyant style, was consumed by jealousy and yelled at the "fat boy," "Damn it, who do you think you are? Daring to order us around? I know you! I know where you live! Believe me or not, we'll bring some men and kill your whole family!"
Upon hearing this, the entire scene fell silent. Chu Xuan stopped speaking, Zheng Zha and the others looked coldly at the three punks, while some of the newcomers were indifferent, while others were somewhat afraid.
They were already somewhat fearful upon arriving in such an unfamiliar environment, and now, seeing the arrogant behavior of these three punk youths who kept talking about killing people's entire families, clearly indicating that they were 'thugs', they became even more worried.
The chubby boy scratched his eyebrows with his little finger, a gesture he had learned from Captain Li. He was about to step forward and give these uneducated young people a lesson in love when he saw Zhang Jie coldly pull out a mask from his pocket and point it at the punk youth with the nose ring.
"Shut up! This is a crucial time for gathering intelligence. Don't provoke me!"
When Zhang Jie stepped forward, the chubby boy stopped what he was doing.
The three punk youths and some newcomers panicked upon seeing the sniper rifle.
"Splash splash~~"
The newcomers quickly moved away from the three punks.
In an instant, an open space appeared around the three punk youths.
After a brief moment of panic, the three punk youths burst into laughter, especially the one with the nose ring, who pulled out a sniper rifle from his pocket.
He brandished his sniper rifle smugly and said, "Where do you think you are? Damn it! If you're going to buy counterfeit goods, you'd only buy this Type 54?! That's ridiculous! You think just anyone can get their hands on one? It's obviously fake..."
"Bang!"
Before the boy with the nose ring could finish speaking, Zhang Jie pulled the trigger. With a gunshot, the boy's arm holding the gun was hit, and due to the great power of the shot, it almost broke the boy's entire arm in two.
The punk youth was stunned for a moment, then shook his empty arm in disbelief, followed by a sharp pain that made him howl in agony.
"Ahhh!!"
Amidst the piercing wails, the other two punk youths knelt on the ground.
If it's not a fake, then it means that the other party is someone that small-time thugs like them can't afford to mess with...
When the shooting occurred, several newcomers around screamed loudly, while a few others remained very calm, simply watching silently; they were clearly not ordinary people.
If ordinary people were to witness a gun-related incident, I doubt anyone could remain so indifferent and calm.
Li Xiaoyi ran over, picked up the sniper rifle from the blood-stained ground, fiddled with it for a moment, and then scoffed, "This is a fake, not the real thing."
Zhang Jie put the gun back in his pocket, glanced at the newcomers, and warned, "All of you newcomers, remember this: don't point guns at me, or I'll get nervous! I might do something reckless!"
Li Ling looked at Chu Xuan and gestured, "Continue!"
Chu Xuan nodded and calmly said, "The story of Alien 1 begins on a space merchant ship. According to the regulations of the time, any ship that encounters an unknown electronic signal while traveling on an interstellar route is obligated to investigate the signal to determine whether it was sent by intelligent beings."
In the story, a merchant ship encounters a signal during its voyage. It does not belong to any known human frequency and uses strange runes as its language, which is likely an electronic signal sent by extraterrestrials.
The merchant ship crew landed on the planet from which the signal originated. After investigation, they located the source of the signal: a massive ruin that may have been a spaceship.
"Among them, they discovered the remains of a massive alien creature, which had been dead for perhaps tens of thousands of years..."
They had completely turned into fossils, but the merchant ship crew found some cocoon-like things in the ruins, which were still living organic matter.
One of the crew members on the merchant ship touched the cocoon out of curiosity, and then a highly corrosive creature sprang out of it.
Its shape resembled a starfish, and it completely enveloped the crew member's face. After the incident, the crew member's teammates brought him back to the expedition ship.
"This starfish-like creature is an alien. To be precise, it is the earliest form of alien, that is, an alien egg. It must find a host and parasitize inside the host in order to survive and develop."
The merchant ship crew member was then parasitized. Although he did not appear to change outwardly, an alien was constantly evolving inside him.
Then, when everyone returned to the merchant ship, the alien inside the ship's crew member had finally completed its growth and hatched from its chest.