[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-player-reboot":3,"chapter-player-reboot-player-reboot-chapter-607":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","Player Reboot",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},2272572,4438,"Chapter 607","player-reboot-chapter-607",607,"\u003Cp>Current execution countdown: 1 hour 38 minutes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Repair progress: 21%.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the central control hall, the eight surviving repairers stood in a circle, their center holding the corpse of Valkyrie—her chest caved in, neck twisted backward—and a wrapped parcel of plastic containing the remains of a humanoid entity.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Creak—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Amid the group’s strange stares, Li Cheng dragged over a magnetic levitation chair, sat down, and with a reusable dining knife taken from the mess hall, patiently sliced through the humanoid’s half-dead body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After a moment, he set down the knife and murmured, “Autopsy results are in—the cause of death was dissection.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“?? Who asked you that? And this is clearly a gunshot wound.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhong Lou suppressed the urge to retort and said sharply, “I asked what this thing is.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Half-human.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Cheng, seated upright on the magnetic levitation chair, dragged his toe across the floor and said casually, “The uterus, ovaries, fallopian tubes—all organs are fully developed, matching adult female size and function. But the epiphyseal lines of the long bones are far from closed.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The degree of epiphyseal closure is a key standard for assessing sexual development and age.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhong Lou blinked in surprise. “Space alien?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“No. According to the noisy kid’s description, true space aliens have extraordinarily vigorous cell vitality—physical damage like blade cuts or sword stabs struggles to kill them.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“But this half-human’s cell vitality vanished too cleanly. And...”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Cheng pried up a piece of organ with the knife. “Human uteruses are inverted pear-shaped. This one consists of two elongated uterine horns and a short uterine body—it’s a bicornuate uterus.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Considering the curvature of the uterine horns, it more closely resembles even-toed ungulates—cows, sheep, pigs, deer.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the embryo storage room, there were thirty-nine intact embryo incubators, each containing specialized biological bags designed to hatch human embryos.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only one was already damaged.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Edith hesitated. “You mean...”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Cheng nodded. “This humanoid isn’t a true space alien.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It’s more like a biological embryo incubator, originally fused with a small portion of cow and sheep genes and mostly human genes, contaminated by a space alien—grew a body from nothing, and acted on primal instinct: nurturing offspring. That’s why it abducted Edith.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Laughing God reacted instantly. “The noisy kid said there was another group of repairers who had infiltrated the space alien before us.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Exactly. Perhaps due to insufficient exposure time, this humanoid lacks the original space alien’s infection capability. But for safety, I still recommend launching it into deep space.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Cheng said casually, picked up a wet wipe he’d taken from the restroom, and meticulously wiped the blood off his hands.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Xinxiang Base has separate male and female restrooms; the smart toilets there have built-in control panels. Press a button, and a panel slides out from the wall—footrests, handholds, and thigh restraints identical to those on the space station, designed to assist astronauts in using the toilet.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Press another button, and it switches to airflow suction to remove waste.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That’s still strange. Flush toilets are a hundred times more practical than air-suction ones. Was this designed for astronauts? Afraid they’d grow too accustomed to the sealed ship and lose adaptation to surface life?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Or did the base designer watch too many issues of Yi Lin and Reader, fearing some Japanese craftsman might steal a sip from the toilet?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Cheng fell into deep thought, muttering involuntarily: “Even a simple biological incubation bag could be infected, growing a humanoid body from nothing.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“The aggressiveness of space alien cells is too extreme. No wonder the noisy kid treated it like a dire threat...”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Out of Control paused, then turned and asked, “So Valkyrie was killed by this humanoid?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This question seemed to flip a switch. Edith, Zhong Lou, Midnight Dad, and Out of Control—all who had been present during the incident—remained silent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Hehehe.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Cheng let out a quiet, eerie laugh, lifted the humanoid’s thigh slightly. “This humanoid was already dead before Valkyrie’s cervical vertebrae snapped.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In other words, Valkyrie was murdered by someone inside the embryo storage room during the dim lighting.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The time window was short—from the white lights extinguishing, to the dim red emergency lights flickering on, to Dir and Su Nisheng triggering the emergency button in the middle-level central control hall, restoring normal white light—less than thirty seconds.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Strength—space suits offer protection comparable to military-civilian riot gear. To kill Valkyrie with a single blow through the suit, you’d need strength far beyond human capacity.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Same method as the Blood Lion’s death.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hydra murmured to himself—he and Laughing God had remained in the dome shield control room to continue repairs and hadn’t witnessed the scene firsthand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But after a moment’s thought: the only threatening humanoid in the embryo room had been killed by Edith’s armed hand, then Valkyrie had her neck broken in the dark...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Didn’t that mean the space alien was among the people present when the lights went out?!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Out of Control raised his hands. “Don’t look at me. When Edith fired, she hit the wiring inside the wall, triggering the blast door to shut automatically—I was locked outside and saw nothing.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Don’t look at me either.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Cheng raised his hands too. “During the incident, I was still moving through the pipes with my engineering hand. I only arrived when the lights turned white again.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had searched the embryo storage room—the only exit was the main blast door (a complete violation of fire codes), and there was no second humanoid present.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Everyone fell silent, turning their gazes to Edith, Zhong Lou, and Midnight Dad.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Not me!” Edith exploded instantly. “Valkyrie saved my life! How could I possibly kill her?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“‘Saved your life’ only applies if you truly needed saving.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dir paused, then said suddenly, “According to your accounts and the 3D reconstruction of the scene, Valkyrie was killed while Edith stood right beside her...”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What are you barking? If I were the space alien, would I be stupid enough to personally kill Valkyrie—the person closest to me?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Edith laughed bitterly, and amid the gasps of those around her, suddenly raised her left armed hand and pointed it at Dir. “Try me. I’ll blow you away right now.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Calm down!” Out of Control shouted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Don’t start a firefight!” Li Cheng quickly drifted backward on his magnetic levitation chair.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I love watching women fight!” Laughing God was delighted—if only his helmet wouldn’t open, he’d have smashed open the vending machine and eaten popcorn right there.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Go ahead and try.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dir wasn’t intimidated. He raised a finger toward the ceiling-mounted sentry armed robots in the central control hall—each had already extended electromagnetic rods. If Edith fired a shot here, she’d be electrocuted instantly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I’m not the space alien.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After a few seconds of stalemate, Edith kept her armed hand raised and said coldly, “As for the killer... during the dim red light, I glimpsed a black space suit flash past.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A fleeting shadow—almost no footsteps.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Black... wasn’t that Midnight Dad?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All eyes turned to Midnight Dad, who jumped in place in reflex. “You Mo—Fcker are lying! When I heard the noise, me and Out of Control rushed over immediately—and now you’re turning on me?!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Midnight Dad was furious, spewing a rapid-fire stream of Black American slang, complete with rap rhythm, yet still laced with sharp logic.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Where’s your brain?! If I were the space alien, why kill Valkyrie and not you? You were already exposed—you’re the one with the armed hand, the greatest threat to space aliens!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Edith shot back just as fiercely: “Precisely because you’re the space alien and smart enough to fear me turning the tables—if my armed hand leaves even a scratch on you, even a kinetic bullet grazing your suit, once the lockdown alarm sounds, the other repairers can vote to exile you into deep space!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The standoff held firm—until Zhong Lou, after a long silence, spoke softly: “When Valkyrie was killed, I also glimpsed a black space suit moving...”\u003C\u002Fp>",1320,"2026-06-19T22:31:26.401Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","515fb37a09fc307f8f173ce534d395aaf1936385d2e8a21c37eedc2ef81a78be","player-reboot-chapter-608","player-reboot-chapter-606",612,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fplayer-reboot-cover.jpg"]