The reason Chen Chen attached a safety rope to the Black Knight was just in case. After all, the Prometheus spaceship was destroyed at the end of the movie.
If the passage was in the room on the spaceship, Chen Chen was not sure if the coordinates would still be useful. There was a possibility that the other side of the passage would turn into the void of outer space. There was also a possibility that all they would see was the wreckage of the spaceship.
However, to Chen Chen's surprise, in less than ten minutes, the Black Knight returned from the other side of the passage.
However, unlike before, this time, the Black Knight with the serial number T0421 was covered in a layer of grayish-brown dust as if there was a sandstorm on the other side of the passage.
At the same time, the Black Knight also brought back a recording.
"Detected a trace of radiation!"
Little X's voice came immediately. "Sir Godfather, be careful, the dust on T0421 is radioactive dust."
"It's fine, this amount of radiation is just a few X-rays. Besides, I'm wearing the GS Combat Suit."
Chen Chen waved his hand. "The other side isn't the void or planet LV-223?"
After muttering a few words, Chen Chen sent the Black Knight to disinfect while he took the recording and played it.
In an instant, a vast world was reflected in Chen Chen's eyes.
In the image, it was a scene of ruins. The sky was filled with the dusky hue of doomsday. Endless sandstorms were flying everywhere and the ruins of cities in the distance could be vaguely seen. These were once skyscrapers that represented the supreme mark of human civilization.
In the video, Chen Chen even saw a black tower-like building that had collapsed in half. That was — the Eiffel Tower in Paris.
When he saw this, Chen Chen could not help but narrow his eyes.
The other side of the passage was not planet LV-223, nor was it the void of outer space, but Earth...
"This scene is very familiar, isn't it?"
Chen Chen wore a meaningful expression. He looked at Little X. "If I'm not mistaken, the scene that the Black Knight recorded is the ending scene of Alien 4, right?"
"Yes."
Little X replied, "I've done some research. There are two possible endings for Alien 4. The first one is the protagonist Ripley and the cyborg Cal gazing at the beautiful mountains and rivers of Earth from the spaceship. The second one is the spaceship descending and the two of them walk out of the spaceship only to discover that the cities on Earth are in ruins and that humans have gone extinct."
"And it's worth noting that in the second ending, there's also an image of the broken Eiffel Tower. Apart from the angle being different, it's almost identical to the image captured by the Black Knight …"
"As expected!"
Upon hearing this conclusion, Chen Chen could not help but nod and smile wryly. "USB drive, you're really something. The movie I chose was Prometheus but it directly jumped to the timeline of Alien IV. Prometheus' timeline is set in 2091 while Alien IV's timeline is set in 2381, spanning nearly three hundred years..."
"Sure enough, any dimension opened by the USB drive can't escape the fate of destruction."
"Then, do you want to continue with the mission?"
Little X asked, "Although the Earth is in ruins, the holographic imaging technology we need may be found in the ruins."
Chen Chen immediately fell silent when he heard this.
At this moment, the test results of the Black Knight numbered T0421 also came out. Other than a layer of radioactive dust covering the Black Knight's body, there were no abnormal bacteria or viruses in the dust. It seemed that the bacteria had been killed by the radiation.
"Since it's radiation dust, the situation seems clear."
Chen Chen said, "In other words, the Earth once experienced a nuclear war, resulting in the destruction of the Earth's environment and the termination of human civilization. This is the only way to produce so much radiation dust.
"But compared to the nuclear war, what I'm more concerned about is..."
Chen Chen suddenly changed the topic. "In the Alien dimension, what was the reason for the nuclear war. Or rather, could it be that the reason they fought the nuclear war was because they encountered some kind of threat?"
"You mean... The war between humans and the aliens?"
Little X was puzzled. "That shouldn't be the case. If everyone in the movie Alien 4 knew that the Earth was destroyed by the aliens, then there's no need to keep the aliens in outer space. In my opinion, the characters in the movie don't even know that the Earth has been destroyed. It's not until the protagonist returns to Earth in the end that he discovers all of this. This is completely illogical."
"That's a good analysis, but you're going too far."
Chen Chen thought for a moment and replied, "First, the ending of the movie only shows the Earth as a barren wasteland, but there's no mention of the extinction of human civilization. This means that the nuclear war did break out, but humanity wasn't completely wiped out.
"Second, the conflict in the Alien series isn't just between humans and aliens. There's also a deeper and more subtle undercurrent. If that undercurrent were to break out, the reason for the nuclear war between human civilization would be obvious."
"You mean?" Little X asked doubtfully.
"A cyborg."
Chen Chen nodded. "Starting from Prometheus, a cyborg named David appeared in the movie. If he did not bring the black goo onto the spaceship and secretly feed it to the scientist Halloway, the female lead Elizabeth Shaw wouldn't have gotten pregnant and given birth to that octopus-like monster.
"After that, in the next movie, Alien: Covenant, this David directly used the black goo to destroy the 'Engineer' race. He even killed the female lead of the first movie and transformed her into the alien queen. It can be said that the emergence of the aliens was single-handedly controlled by David.
"Not only that, but from the first to the fourth movie, there are traces of cyborgs. The first three movies were still fine and humans were still relatively friendly toward the cyborgs. However, until the fourth movie of the Alien series, the attitude of all humans suddenly took a huge turn. After learning that Cal was a cyborg, they expressed obvious distrust and disappointment. What else can you think of?"
Chen Chen asked.
"You're saying that there was a war between humans and cyborgs? And the devastation on Earth was caused by the war between humans and cyborgs? "Little X asked in surprise.
"Yes, that's exactly what I'm thinking."
Chen Chen snapped his fingers. "The theme of the Prometheus movie is nothing more than the core of the relationship between the creator and the created. For example, the 'Engineers' created humans but later wanted to destroy them. For example, humans created the cyborg 'David', but David destroyed the 'Engineers' race and created the aliens. Perhaps the director's views on religion and even God are involved in this, but the way I see it, the most important thing is David's attitude toward humans.
"It's obvious that as a new life form, David harbors malice toward humans and all other living creatures..."
Chen Chen could not help sighing when he thought of this. "No, perhaps it's not malice, but a kind of 'heartless' attitude. The life and death of humans and all living creatures are not as important to him as an experiment..."
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