Zhong Zha walked on and on, then suddenly said, "This is no good. I'm completely lost. Ever since we turned that corner, I've lost all sense of direction."

Zhang Jie, walking beside him, laughed heartily. "Tell me about it. This place looks exactly the same everywhere. Walk in any direction and it's just these disgusting things. Trying to find your way here is simply..." "I can."

Chu Xuan said faintly, "If it's just about recreating a map I've seen in my mind, that's something I can handle. Walking straight down this path will indeed lead us to Warehouse Two. However, I'm considering whether it's appropriate to just walk in directly..." Zheng Zha interrupted him immediately: "It's appropriate! There are five of us here, and every single one of us is the last line of defense. Don't even think about using words to sway the majority into agreeing with your opinion, and then bullying the minority into being some kind of bait. Do you know what it’s called when the majority uses legitimate 'fairness' to oppress the minority? It’s called fascism! Damn it, if you’re going to be the bait, I’ll agree right now. Stop treating other people's lives like a game!" Chu Xuan said calmly, "I can be the bait too, but can you guarantee you can kill the Queen the instant she shows her head? Since you disagree with having someone scout ahead, then come up with another plan. I'm all ears."

Seeing the atmosphere between the two growing colder, Zhan Lan suddenly intervened with a laugh. "Don't be so serious. I actually don't think having someone scout ahead will necessarily be useful. Xenomorphs aren't mindless creatures; they are experts at ambushes. If only one or two people walk together, they will definitely attack the one closest to them first. But if one person walks ahead, followed by four people armed with firearms, the Xenomorphs won't foolishly crawl out in this situation. They will definitely choose to ambush those four people behind first. Do you agree with my inference?" Chu Xuan bit his finger. "Correct. That inference is very accurate... Is my thinking becoming muddled due to fear and tension? Next... I will not offer any more opinions. I will continue to carry out the task of leading the way. That settles it."

With that, he started walking in a certain direction.

Zheng Zha looked at Chu Xuan's retreating back, then turned to Zero Point. "Zero Point, I felt danger several times when I encountered the Xenomorphs before. I remember you and Ba Wang also have this precognition ability, right? Later, whoever feels the danger first, we will immediately open fire in that direction, okay?" Zero Point spoke silently. "I feel the danger right now... It's as if some gaze is constantly fixed on us, very cold, as if we are being treated as food. This feeling is absolutely awful. Do you know why Chu Xuan is so agitated? He probably feels this danger too. Honestly, I'm so vexed right now that I feel like grabbing a gun and just shooting everywhere. This feeling is truly the worst."

Zheng Zha looked at Chu Xuan again in surprise. The man's expression was still calm and quiet, but looking closely at his eyes, one could see a trace of agitation and fear—emotions that should absolutely not appear on someone as brilliant as Chu Xuan.

While they were talking, the five of them had walked out of the corridor. Before them lay a vast, open flat space. The ground was still covered in a thick layer of white, phlegm-like secretion. Besides that, there were dozens of large crates lined up in this area. This place should be the location of Warehouse Two.

Zheng Zha was still pondering Zero Point's words when a strange palpitation suddenly made him look up. Hanging upside down from the ceiling were four unconscious people: two middle-aged men, plus one man and one woman who looked like office workers. Except for their heads, their entire bodies were encased in the white secretion, suspended upside down from the ceiling.

Chu Xuan also looked up with Zheng Zha, then immediately said without hesitation, "Zero Point! Shoot them all down! It doesn't matter if you kill them!" As soon as he said that, he immediately turned to Zheng Zha. "What is our mission to return alive to the 'Main God' space? Kill all the Xenomorphs! They definitely have Xenomorphs inside them, and we must kill them before the Queen appears! Otherwise, even if we kill the Queen, we will die due to the Queen's corrosive blood. It might corrode through the merchant ship, so we must leave the ship as soon as possible after killing the Queen. But what if the Xenomorphs inside them suddenly hatch? Will we then have to chase after those four little Xenomorphs?" Zheng Zha watched Zero Point raise his gun to shoot and nodded silently. "You did the right thing. I have nothing to say... We are all just struggling. I will only reserve my mercy for the companions beside me; don't think of me as being that pedantic..." Chu Xuan smiled faintly, looking closely at the four people overhead. Zero Point had already shot two down, and the remaining two were about to be brought down as well, when suddenly, as if remembering something, his expression changed drastically. "Wait, wait a moment, Zero Point, everyone, run away from here quickly! This is a trap!" The moment the words left his mouth, everyone felt the ground beneath their feet sink, as if the entire floor was suddenly collapsing downwards.

Chu Xuan immediately shouted, "Everyone, don't move! Listen to me carefully! Warehouse One is below Warehouse Two. Hanging those four people here is likely a trap set by the Queen. It wants us to stand here motionless! Zero Point, quickly kill them! The Queen must be directly beneath us; the steel here has already been corroded through by it. Everyone..." Just as Zero Point swept the remaining two figures with gunfire, the steel plate under their feet began to grind violently. Before anyone could react, the entire floor plunged downward with a jerk, and everyone inevitably fell into the darkness below! Whether by luck or misfortune, the thick secretion unexpectedly saved everyone. Falling from a height of over ten meters, the dense secretion left everyone unharmed. Especially Zero Point and Zheng Zha, who sprang back up with a surge of strength from their waists.

As soon as he was upright, Zheng Zha frantically shot upwards with his gun. He could already feel danger approaching, and the source of that danger was directly above him! Since this horror movie started, he had experienced several premonitions of danger, but none had been as intense as this one—the danger felt like a blade slicing toward his face! Sure enough, a massive dark shadow crashed down from the ceiling with a deafening roar. The shadow landed in front of the five people. Zheng Zha looked closely: it was an exaggeratedly huge Xenomorph! It was at least three times the size of a regular Xenomorph, with a body seven or eight meters tall and a total length of over ten meters including its tail. Such a monster was the most terrifying harbinger of death from a nightmare! Zheng Zha didn't even see its movement before the Xenomorph's tail whipped viciously across his stomach. A massive pain struck, and in front of everyone's eyes, he was sent flying over ten meters away, his life or death unknown...