Roaming the universe, all thanks to your many dark skills!

"Correct."

"Please describe it in detail."

"That one is different," William Cage said. "It's a little bigger and a little blue."

"And you got its blood on you?" Rita asked.

"Yes, it is stained."

"They know we're going to the beach tomorrow," said Rita Witaski. "It's going to be a bloodbath, isn't it?"

Suddenly, she glanced at Rosen next to her and asked, "Have you seen him?"

"The situation was too chaotic, and I wasn't very familiar with Team J, so..." William Cage looked at Rita Witaski and said, "How do you know what I know?"

Then he looked at Rosen again and said, "Rosen, can you explain to me what happened?"

"I've been through what you've been through." Rita Witaski looked at him and said word by word, "I've had it before, but I lost it. Are you satisfied?"

"Great, that means it can be cured. How can I..." William Cage was interrupted by Rita before he finished speaking, "First, we need your help."

"What help?" William Cage asked in surprise.

"Win the war." Rita Witaski said this, but her eyes fell on Rosen.

Rosen curled his lips helplessly.

Then Rosen drove the car and the three of them came to an exoskeleton armor manufacturing factory not far from the military camp. (Note)

Then he found a bearded technician on the production line and followed him to the weapons maintenance room.

This person is Dr. Carter, who has always trusted Rita and tried to help her.

"Rosen, what is this?" William Cage asked curiously as he followed.

"What are you doing here?" Dr. Carter turned on the light and said unhappily, "You had to tell me in advance?"

"He's me before the Battle of Verdun," Rita Witaski said, pointing at William Cage. "He can help us."

"How did he die? Where?"

"On the beach, tomorrow."

Dr. Carter asked, putting his hands behind his back.

"How should I know?" William Cage looked at him as if he were a fool, and then he saw the two fingers he showed.

"So this is the first time we've had this conversation?" Dr. Carter looked at Rita Witaski. "Can he see it?"

"What did you see?" William asked puzzledly.

No one paid any attention to him, and Dr. Carter continued talking to Rita and Rosen.

This made William Cage very confused and also very unhappy. He raised his voice and asked, "Listen, excuse me, who are you?"

He looked at Dr. Carter and asked.

"I'm Dr. Carter, particle physics, advanced microbiology." Dr. Carter introduced himself, wiped his hands on his body, and then shook hands with William Cage.

"He is also the only one besides Rosen and me who believes what happened to you." Rita said: "No one understands the biology of mimics better than him. He is the top analyst."

"That was before I met Rita. Now I'm just..." Dr. Carter helplessly raised his fingers and made a rabbit ear gesture, "a mentally deranged technician."

Dr. Carter then retrieved the data from the computer and told William Cage: "First of all, you are not fighting against an army, you have to imagine them as a single organism."

He pointed to the red holographic image in front of him, which showed the most common-looking monster.

"These are the most common drones. They have no souls and are equivalent to the minions of monsters. There is no point in killing any number of them."

"Alpha, the one you killed, is even rarer," Rita interrupted to explain, adjusting the holographic image to show a larger, more ferocious monster.

Although it is on all fours, it has sharp tentacles all over its body, and it is obvious that it is not a good person.

"Yes, the probability of their appearance is one in 618 million." Dr. Carter said firmly, and added: "I guess."

"They are like the central nervous system of the monsters, responsible for collecting all kinds of intelligence on the battlefield and feeding it back to..."

At this point, Dr. Carter changed into another holographic projection and said, "This, this is the monster's brain."

This is a thing shaped like a crown, and when it is spread out, it looks like an inverted jellyfish or anemone.

Dr. Carter said: "It controls all alien creatures, just like the brain controls the nerves and minions, and it is Omega."

"Omega can control time." (Note 2)

Rita continued, "Whenever Alpha is killed, an automatic reaction mechanism will be triggered, just like when our fingers are cut and the nerves are damaged, we will retract our hands, and Omega will start over from the day before."

As she spoke, she looked at Rosen and said, "This is what Rosen calls a reset. What's even more terrifying is that it can remember what is going to happen, just like you."

"It knows what we are going to do before we do," said Dr. Carter.

"Knowing the future enemy can't lose," Rita said.

"If this is true, how did you win the Battle of Verdun?" William Cage looked at Rita Witaski.

"I originally thought that I won through my own efforts." Rita Witaski said gloomily, "But then I realized that they made us win. They wanted us to believe that we could win."

"It wants us to throw everything we have into this war." Rita Witaski said angrily: "Operation Extinction is not our victory, but the enemy's."

"You have to understand that this is a perfectly evolved organism that conquered the world." Dr. Carter looked up at the sky and said, "As far as we know, there are millions of asteroids that they parasitize, floating in the air, like viruses in the universe."

"They are just waiting for a planet with the right environment and then crash into it."

Dr. Carter analyzed: "What they need is for the dominant species on the planet to attack and then destroy them all at once."

"Then there will be no force that can stop them from conquering the rest of the world." Rita said this, looking at William Cage and said, "Unless you can change the outcome."

"Me?" William Cage pointed at himself suspiciously.

"After you killed that Alpha, you were lucky enough to enter the enemy's nervous system." Dr. Carter said, "Believe me, the probability of success is very small."

"Indeed." Rosen said at this time: "At least I tried many times and failed."

If he hadn't already gotten used to the basic rules of this world, he would really want to swear.

Because Rosen had been in Team J long before the story began, and he often killed ordinary monsters and Alphas, but it was of no use.

Not to mention any equipment dropped, there isn't even the most basic merit value.

He also tried to use the Talent Skill: Close Encounters of the Third Kind to capture an Alpha and obtain some random skills or items from it, but in the end he got nothing.

After waiting for a long time for Will Cage to appear and the plot officially began, something happened that made him want to curse even more.

Although he could gain merit points and obtain benefits through close encounters of the third kind, every time William Cage died, the time was reset and all the gains would disappear completely.

All of this is just like the operating rules of this world. Even if he has a system, he still has to abide by it.

The only thing that makes him different from the characters in the plot is that he can also remember the changes every time the plot is restarted.

To be honest, this feeling is not very pleasant, especially when there is nothing good to be gained and it is really annoying to repeat it over and over again.

If not for this, Rosen would not be in a hurry to meet William Cage so early. Otherwise, he could reap the benefits repeatedly, so it would not matter to him how many times he reset, and he would not leave until he had earned tens of millions of merit points. (Note 3)

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