Mu Xing pressed his hand on the doorknob and gently applied force.
Ultimately, he couldn't open the door; it would remain locked unless unlocked with an ID card.
Mu Xing stood on the chair and carefully climbed into the ventilation duct, trying to minimize any noise.
Occasionally, the zipper of his clothes rubbing against the duct would make him stop for tens of seconds, only feeling slightly relieved after confirming that he hadn't attracted the baby monster.
After climbing into the ventilation duct, he didn't leave immediately but waited a few minutes to save his progress.
One must take things one step at a time, and tasks one by one; there's no need to rush.
Mu Xing moved cautiously inside the ventilation duct, slowly crawling towards the initial passage.
He thought this would allow him to evade the baby monster, but facts proved it wasn't that simple.
Because this baby monster searched in a patrol-like manner, it... had returned.
The moment he saw the baby monster at the end of the ventilation duct, flailing its limbs, Mu Xing suddenly accelerated, rushing towards the end of the passage with all his might.
The baby monster also discovered him; its three blood-red tentacles on its back allowed it to disregard terrain limitations like Doctor Spider.
It quickly pursued him.
Mu Xing used both his hands and feet, moving at the fastest speed he had ever achieved in his life.
The moment the baby monster caught up to him, he jumped directly out of the ventilation duct.
The instant he landed, Mu Xing quickly rolled to the left.
Ignoring the damage caused by the impact of landing, he ran desperately towards the changing room.
After the changing room door opened, it would automatically close after 30 seconds.
Once closed, it required re-identification to open again.
These few seconds felt like years to Mu Xing.
The baby monster had already lunged down after him, spitting venom at him.
After several encounters with venom attacks, Mu Xing was already familiar with the venom's trajectory and flight speed, dodging the moment the venom was spat out.
The venom landed on the floor, and the hard space alloy began to bubble violently, showing its corrosiveness.
"Hiss..."
The door finally opened.
Mu Xing rushed into the changing room without hesitation.
He knew the monster in the changing room should also be awake.
Mu Xing's goal was the ID card on the resting chair; he first needed to confirm that the ID card could unlock the Plasma Cutter in his hand.
Just as he rushed over, the monster with its arms splayed out also lunged towards him.
It was truly a tiger in front and a wolf behind; there was nowhere to hide, nowhere to escape.
Mu Xing rolled again.
He dodged the sharp scythe-like bone spikes.
He grabbed the blue ID card.
The moment the card touched the Plasma Cutter, he saw the red text on the screen turn green.
It displayed "Unlocked."
He sharply turned around and pulled the trigger.
However, the scythe-like bone spikes were faster than him, piercing through his chest.
"Die, you bastard!"
The hatred, anger, pain, and despair accumulated from so many death cycles all converged, transforming into a dazzling, high-temperature plasma energy body.
The blue, high-temperature plasma blasted the monster's face, directly smashing its head.
The smell of blood mixed with the charred scent of high-temperature searing; at this moment, Mu Xing even forgot the pain, forgot death.
There was only the joy of having avenged a great wrong.
However,
This joy didn't last a second before it was ended by the continuously stabbing bone spikes.
In the second before he lost consciousness, no matter how much he racked his brain, he never imagined that this monster, even after its head was blown off, could still move and continue its killing behavior.
Does it have no weakness?
...
Waking up again,
Mu Xing's face was terribly grim.
He had thought that with the Plasma Cutter, having a self-defense weapon, he could walk freely on this spaceship.
But he never expected that monster couldn't be killed; even after its head was blown off, it could still be alive.
He vaguely remembered that after the monster killed him, it could still wander around without a head.
He lowered his head, pondering, "Is the monster's weakness not its head, but its heart?"
Based on past experience, the weaknesses of monsters in various movies and novels are generally two: brain or heart.
Of course, it's not ruled out that it might have some kind of parasitic core, and only by eliminating that core can these monsters be truly killed.
He gripped the Plasma Cutter in his hand; if the head wasn't the weakness, next time he would aim for the heart.
Although he experienced a failed death, he was very satisfied with the power of the Plasma Cutter.
The monster was headshotted with one shot, and he finally got revenge for being cruelly tortured and killed before.
This time,
Mu Xing sped through the ventilation duct; since the baby monster was bound to discover him and he was bound to be attacked from both sides, he might as well face it head-on.
Just as he was about to reach the end of the passage, the baby monster also caught up.
As he jumped down, he didn't forget to flip the baby monster off before landing directly.
Rolling to dodge attacks, identifying, opening the door—all in one smooth motion.
This was the advantage of death rewind.
He was completely familiar with the baby monster's attack methods and what kind of attacks it would launch.
However, this time, when the door opened, the monster in the changing room was already waiting for him at the doorway.
Mu Xing rolled to dodge the swing, quickly running towards the resting chair.
Suddenly,
A heat spread across his back, and intense pain struck; venom burned through his skin and muscles.
The intense pain caused Mu Xing to falter.
This brief moment of error made him miss his chance, and he was caught by both monsters simultaneously.
...
Waking up again.
"No, I can't face two monsters at once; there's no chance of winning like that."
Upon waking again, Mu Xing summarized his previous failure.
His crawling was too noisy, which prematurely awakened the monster in the changing room.
1v1 was fine, but 1v2 had no chance of winning.
Mu Xing decided to quietly reduce his noise again, trying his best not to awaken the monster in the changing room.
At the same time, he calculated the time it would take for the baby monster to pursue him.
This time, he didn't rush out but waited quietly.
He silently calculated the baby monster's patrol time, intending to make his move when the baby monster was at its farthest patrol distance.
This would buy him more time.
If it was 1v1, Mu Xing believed it wouldn't be a problem.
This time, he waited for two patrol cycles.
During the third cycle, he was discovered, and the baby monster entered the side passage.
He died again, but this time Mu Xing figured out the baby monster's patrol mechanism.
At the same time, he completely gave up the idea of hiding there.
Because he would be discovered during the baby monster's third patrol.
Mu Xing, who woke up from the death cycle, began to plan his actions.
This time, he was full of confidence.
First, he waited for the baby monster to patrol to its farthest point, then carefully crawled to the end of the passage.
His goal was to deal with the changing room monster first, then the baby monster in the ventilation duct.
Of course, he also had to be wary of the monster in the adjacent lounge.
There was another monster in the lounge; what if it heard the commotion and rushed over?
1v3, he had even less chance of winning.
The only possibility of victory was to deal with them one by one, always keeping himself in a 1v1 state.
Bang...
When Mu Xing jumped down from the ventilation duct, the baby monster had just reached above the lounge, and it hadn't even awakened the monster in the changing room.
This time, he had plenty of spare time.
Mu Xing quickly went through identification and waited for the door to open.
With a hiss, the door opened.
It also simultaneously awakened the sleeping monster in the changing room.
It needed two seconds to fully wake up.
Mu Xing rushed over, grabbing the ID card to unlock.
The moment the monster rose and lunged at him, flailing its limbs, Mu Xing pulled the trigger.
This time, he aimed for the thigh.
