Chapter 21: All Is Ready

The operation to hunt the aliens was devised by Chu Hao.

This plan was proposed after several people had taken refuge in the shelter, aiming to hunt the aliens in the safest possible way.

Desire is a powerful motivator, especially with Chen Mo and Jenny serving as living examples. Killing aliens grants reward points and side quests, and with reward points and side quests, there is nothing one cannot buy in the Main God Space.

Everyone has desires, and the members of the North Ice Continent team each had things they wanted to obtain from the Main God Space or wishes they sought to fulfill.

Chu Hao wanted power strong enough to confront the C Organization and the X Organization.

J wished to emulate his idol and gain mysterious power from the East.

Ares sought to resurrect someone.

Jenny simply wanted to survive and use the Main God Space to buy medicine to save her mother.

Osas wanted to change the extreme and radical faith of the people in his reality.

As for the woman whose name still hadn’t been revealed… well, it didn’t really matter.

In short, everyone on the North Ice Continent team had their own wishes and desires. The saying “interest moves the heart” holds true; even if there is danger, when the rewards are great enough, many would be willing to risk their lives to try.

Chen Mo was no exception, though the dangers he faced were considerably less, and thanks to his foresight into the storyline and help from friends, he could acquire even more side quests and reward points.

For example, the two South Flame Continent team members he had blown up, and these three new members of the South Flame Continent team before him.

These three newcomers looked dazed, their eyes hollow, like walking corpses—lifeless expressions suggesting their minds were controlled by others, mere puppets.

Indeed, their minds were controlled by a psychic who had hypnotized and brainwashed them into obedient puppets. Chen Mo’s Kyouko clones found these three South Flame Continent newcomers in a small bungalow about two thousand meters southwest of the police station.

Though he successfully brought back the South Flame Continent newcomers, Chen Mo’s face showed little joy.

“So few, only three?” Chen Mo frowned.

When the North Ice Continent team first entered the story world, there had been twelve newcomers—four times as many as the South Flame Continent team! Four times!

Clearly, the North Ice Continent team had been severely targeted… no one had been targeted so harshly as they had.

Chen Mo sighed softly.

It seemed that even if they killed these people, including the South Flame Continent team captain, and ensured no casualties on their side, they would only be able to break even on the newcomers’ death team scores, gaining no extra team score rewards.

Without any sympathy for these South Flame Continent newcomers, Chen Mo took them away from the safe house, executed them outside, and then returned inside.

After hearing the Main God’s voice announce in his ear three times, “Killing an unlocked gene-lock member of the opposing team will earn 2000 reward points and one C-level side quest,” he began to calculate.

Including the two South Flame Continent team members he had killed earlier, he had already acquired five C-level side quests and 10,000 reward points.

If he could kill the captain, he would have nearly an A-level side quest and over ten thousand reward points.

Add the side quests from rescuing story characters—considering the generous rewards of the third generation and estimating conservatively, rescuing one story character counted as a C-level side quest. In total, including the story characters from “Skyline Catastrophe 2,” he had five, amounting to five C-level side quests.

Moreover, his team’s formidable combat power—

The North Ice Continent team’s strength, collected firearms of various types, enough to handle ordinary squid-like aliens, and if arranged properly, could even take down a gorilla-like alien as in the original story.

The power of Kyouko’s clones—he had obtained nearly 32 clones from the original, each with seven days of activity time, and every clone possessed strength evenly matched with the South Flame Continent captain…

Indeed, these Kyouko clones were absurdly powerful. Though copies, their spirit-armored defenses could resist regular bullets without harm. The power of a single flintlock bullet was comparable to an anti-tank missile, and each clone had the strength to tear apart robots with bare hands.

Each clone could fight the South Flame Continent captain evenly, meaning they could kill him five times in five minutes. A single clone even had the strength to solo a gorilla-like alien.

Plus, good news from Valon’s side—relying on the “Jackie Chan Adventures” storyline provided by Lu Mingfei, they gained a prophet advantage and secured a talisman that hadn’t been obtained in the original story!

—— The Pig Talisman!

Hiss… it felt a bit odd. As a child, Chen Mo had always thought the Pig Talisman’s effect overlapped with the Dragon Talisman’s and considered the Pig Talisman a lesser version of the Dragon Talisman.

After growing up, he believed this even more.

But the talisman’s power was still quite remarkable. If the laser fired from its eyes was adjusted to maximum power, it could even pierce through a building. If he could later obtain the Chicken Talisman, he could cosplay as a high-end version of a native.

This terrifying laser beam seemed undefeatable by either squid-like or gorilla-like aliens.

In other words, if Chen Mo really wanted to farm points, with these resources in hand, he could easily farm an S-level side quest…

Though the difficulty would skyrocket, the rewards would be absurdly high—too outrageous for even science fiction novels to dare incorporate. He wasn’t sure how the Main God of the storyline world would torture him afterward.

Moreover, the more points he farmed, the greater the difficulties the Main God would impose. It might even be like the first generation’s “Legend of the God and Demon” oasis monkey, where the alien ship released Saiyans instead of aliens.

So Chen Mo decided not to farm too many points… two A-level side quests would be enough. Besides, even if he farmed an S-level side quest, he wouldn’t be able to purchase an S-level exchange item.

In short, everything was ready; only the time had yet to come. The characters on the stage appeared one by one.

A commotion came from the room, apparently the “Skyline Catastrophe” story characters Chen Mo had captured were waking up. Chu Hao and the others were explaining to these characters what had happened in this world.

Chen Mo turned his head, lay down on the bed, and closed his eyes.

Once the operation started tomorrow or the day after, he would find time to sneak out with the Kyouko clones, or maybe even act tonight—hunt down a few aliens on the street for practice. That should suffice.

Oh, and as for his plan to use the Hypnotic Eye to control the human military to attack the aliens… that probably wouldn’t succeed. The technological gap between the two sides was too great; there was no chance of winning.

But don’t worry, once the Zheng Ape arrives in a few days, everything will get better!

Thinking this, Chen Mo felt much more at ease. He lay on the bed and soon fell asleep.