Chapter 47: The Benefits of Being the Boss

These three people with old black dirty braids are exactly the iron-blood youths about to undergo the trial.

"Stomp! Stomp!"

Just look, wearing a Celtic-style mask and still the most robust of the iron-blood youths, he walks slowly to the side of the D-class security still struggling on the brink of death.

This Celtic is the captain of the three-iron-blood-youth team, with a strong build, agile movements, and seasoned combat skills.

But this also makes Celtic arrogant and overconfident, so that when he first faced the aliens, although he had many chances to instantly kill the opponent, he neglected the acidic blood and was counter-killed by a headshot.

At this moment.

"Gah… gah…"

Celtic looks down on the D-class security from above, and also emits the unique voice peculiar to the iron-blood clan, as if he is curiously observing the struggling prey.

"Cough… cough… damn it… spit!"

And that D-class security, pinned to the ice by the invisible spear, also realizes he's being treated as a toy, and immediately uses his last bit of strength to spit a thick mouthful of bloody phlegm at Celtic.

"Pah." The bloody phlegm sticks to the skin under Celtic's thigh's fishnet attire.

Seeing this, Celtic is somewhat stunned.

"Cough… cough… damn it… spit!" This time, it's actually the D-class security who laughs interestingly.

"Roar————~!" Immediately after, Celtic lets out an earth-shaking roar to the heavens.

While roaring, Celtic grips the spear with his left hand, pulls it out, bends down, extends his right hand to grasp the D-class security's neck, and with a little force lifts him up.

"Ma… Ze… Fa…" Even with his neck restrained, this tough security guard still spouts vulgarities.

"Roar!" Even if Celtic hasn't learned human language, he can guess it's not something nice.

"Crack!" Then he squeezes hard with his right hand, fully understanding that security guard.

Celtic seems still not appeased.

It first retracts the extendable spear, freeing the left hand to cooperate with the right hand's "rip" sound, forcibly pulling out the D-class security's spine together with his skull.

After tossing the headless corpse aside and hanging the skull on his waist as a trophy, Celtic then, satisfied, walks toward the cave beneath the ice.

The remaining cat-faced iron blood (in the movie, he only made a cameo and was easily assassinated by the alien) hurriedly follows Captain Celtic into the cave.

And the scarred iron blood whose mask hasn't yet been etched with scars (in the movie, the iron-blood protagonist, after removing his mask, was impregnated by a facehugger) silently glanced at that D-class security, then turned and left this place in a suave manner.

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Meanwhile.

Inside the strategy meeting room of the Wave Cold Winter.

Red Queen controls the projector, projecting the chest-mounted camera footage of Chris and the D-class personnel onto the front screen of the meeting room.

Sui Bian, wearing an earpiece in his left ear, sits in the center of the meeting room, right hand pinching his chin as he gazes at the screen.

"Sir, I have saved the records of the firefight between the D-class personnel and the Iron Blood Clan, so that our researchers can analyze their customs and technology."

"Hmm." Listening to the report from Red Queen over the earpiece, Sui Bian gave a soft acknowledgment.

Through the suicide experiment of those six D-class personnel, Sui Bian has once again 'witnessed' the ferocity of the iron-bloods.

The movie has limitations of special effects, props, plot, and dramatization, making audiences think the iron-blood warriors are strong, but not extremely outrageous.

But the video footage Sui Bian is currently watching is an unedited 'live broadcast', and those six D-class personnel couldn't even last ten seconds.

Moreover, these three iron-blood youths are only just a hundred years old, far inferior to adult iron-bloods in every way; if the 'Lonely Wolf' from the second installment were to come…

Sui Bian really ought to worry a bit for Chris.

He eased up a bit.

Sui Bian again said to Red Queen: "Red Queen, tell Chris to continue following the original plan."

"Yes, sir."

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…

Beneath the ice layer.

Chris and his party have already arrived at the top of the pyramid and entered the passage leading inside the pyramid.

This passage is extremely spacious, with an iron-blood warrior statue every five meters on each side, and the walls also have murals and text explaining the relationship between humans, aliens, and iron-bloods.

Moreover, this passage is full of mechanisms.

A D-class researcher, while walking with the group and taking photos of the statues and murals on both sides of the passage with a camera, stepped on a special floor tile with his left foot.

Not long after the D-class researcher left, that floor tile slowly descended.

The mechanism triggered, thawing the alien queen imprisoned in the lowest layer of the pyramid.

Then, under the electrical stimulation of the iron-blood clan's technology, the alien queen fully revived and began producing facehugger eggs through her external sacs.

The alien queen produces the eggs on the conveyor belt, and sensing the weight of the eggs, the conveyor belt begins transporting them upward.

Soon, Chris and his party arrived at the sacrificial chamber from the movie.

Subsequently, following Sui Bian's reminder, Chris, based on the content of the researched text and murals, had the six D-class personnel of Team C stay in the sacrificial chamber.

In response, Team C, entirely composed of researchers, gladly accepted the assignment to stay here and focus on research.

Leaving Team C behind, Chris led Teams A and D downward, and shortly arrived directly beneath the sacrificial chamber.

Here are stored the plasma shoulder cannons prepared for the three iron-blood youths.

In the movie, because the human male lead was proficient in ancient script, he opened the password lock and took out the three shoulder cannons sealed inside, thereby prematurely triggering the start of the adulthood ceremony, and also causing the three young iron-bloods to fight the aliens in their disadvantaged state without shoulder cannons.

However, among the research team brought by Sui Bian, there is no researcher proficient in ancient culture and script.

But he has Red Queen.

Sui Bian, who has watched the movie several times, remembers that the password lock is the year, month, and day when humanity triggered the pyramid's mechanism.

He let Chris's chest-mounted camera aim above the coffin-like weapons box, allowing Red Queen to observe the combination lock, and he also gave Red Queen the crucial hint for unlocking the password.

Hong Hou, as the top‑most artificial intelligence, its "brain" computes far faster than the human male protagonist in the movie.

Without any suspense, Hong Hou easily cracked the code and, through the headset, told Chris how to open the lock.

Open the lock.

Weapon crate opens.

At the moment all shoulder cannons are taken out, it immediately triggers the start of the coming‑of‑age ceremony, just like in the movie, and the entire pyramid begins to shift its layout like a Rubik's Cube.

At this moment, seven insect eggs appear within the sacrifice.

As researchers of Umbrella, the six members of Team C, unlike the scientists in the movie who stood stupidly, quickly drew pistols to defend themselves.

However…

Face‑hugging insects act swiftly; the researchers are not elite security, and the outcome remains that everyone gets their faces wrapped by the face‑hugging insects for "fertilization".

Thus, everything proceeds as Sui Bian's plan: first put the Iron‑blood youths at a disadvantage against the alien, and the rest depends on how Chris performs on the spot.

Not only must two of the Iron‑blood youths die, but also a way must be found to preserve the bodies of the Iron‑blood youths, and to earn the respect of the surviving Iron‑blood youths.

Anyway… the mission is quite daunting.

But he is the boss, and he fully disclosed the content and action plan, like a "walkthrough", before assigning the mission to the employee; the rest can be left to the employee to accomplish.

Moreover, Sui Bian believes that Chris, this outstanding employee, is capable of handling it.

(End of chapter)