After hearing the Lord God's reminder about the huge number of reward points, Su Yu couldn't help feeling a surge of excitement.
A few minutes later, the group that had escaped finally recovered from their shock. Matthew Addison walked over to Zheng Zha, patted him gratefully on the shoulder, and said, "Thanks for saving me."
Then he bent down toward Su Yu. "And thank you for saving us. If it weren't for you, we'd all be dead by now."
His eyes drifted toward the left-hand door that had been blown off its hinges and the dented wall where it had landed, then back to Su Yu. Never in his life had he imagined that a fourteen-meter—no, fourteen-year-old—little girl could be the cause of such destruction. The most dangerous creature in the world… could it actually be a loli? God, are You a lolicon?
"Let's keep moving," Su Yu said.
"Keep moving?!" Ryan, the lead actor, shouted. "You've got to be kidding! I'm not going anywhere near that passage again."
Matthew Addison turned to Kaplan, the tech-savvy mercenary, who was sweating profusely."Yes, yes," Kaplan said quickly. "I've shut down all the defense systems. All of them."
"All of them? Confirmed?" Addison pressed.
Without waiting for an answer, he grabbed a piece of equipment from the ground and cautiously made his way down the passage. Step by step, he approached the central computer, but the deadly laser grid never reappeared. He exhaled in relief.
Just as in the original plot, Alice—the heroine—entered the Red Queen's control room. The heavy doors closed behind her, and Zheng Zha and the others exchanged glances, knowing that the next stage would bring the zombie outbreak from Resident Evil.
Zhan Lan whispered to Zheng Zha and Li Xiaoyi, "Stay close to Sister Su Yu. Don't let a zombie touch you. In the movie, anyone infected with the T-Virus turns within thirty minutes. I ran the numbers after watching it before—it takes about ten minutes for the antidote to work. So stick with her, and survival should be easy with her strength."
"Captain Matthew," Su Yu suddenly called, stopping the Black captain as he powered down his computer and headed back.
"What is it?"
"Do you have any extra weapons? We could use some for self-defense."
Her request made the reincarnators stir in surprise—and hope. A gun would make facing zombies much less dangerous.
"Self-defense? The mission's done, and the defense systems are down. What danger's left?" Addison asked.
"Call it a hunch. I've got a bad feeling."
After a pause, he handed Su Yu a pistol and two boxes of ammunition. "Fifteen rounds per box. Be careful." Addison wasn't worried about giving her a weapon—after what he'd seen, if she wanted to kill them, she wouldn't need a gun. One punch would do it.
Su Yu examined the pistol, then handed it to Zheng Zha. "I don't know how to use it. Give it to whoever does."
"I do," Zheng Zha said after a moment. "Learned during military training at school."
"Then you use it," Su Yu replied casually.
"You don't know how to shoot?" Addison asked, genuinely surprised. Given her strength, he'd assumed she'd had special training.
"Hmm? Got a knife? Or maybe a sword?" Su Yu asked instead.
Addison thought for a moment, then unfastened the dagger from his belt. "Polymer composite. Can withstand an instantaneous impact of a hundred thousand newtons. As long as you're not trying to chop solid metal, it'll hold."
Su Yu weighed it in her hand—it felt incredibly light. "High-tech, huh? If I brought this back to my original world and gave it to the government, they'd probably hand me hundreds of millions… maybe even make me an academician," she thought.
Before she could test it further, a gunshot rang out from Restaurant B.
"The real show's starting," Su Yu murmured.
"Move!" Addison barked, sprinting toward the noise.
They heard two more shots, then the steady roar of machine-gun fire. When they arrived, a staff member in a white lab coat was flung backward by the bullets.
"What happened?" Addison demanded.
"Captain, we found a survivor—"
"And then you just shot her?!" Addison interrupted.
"She went crazy and bit me," said the female mercenary who had been searching earlier, hastily wrapping her bloody hand in gauze.
Addison frowned, clearly displeased. "But firing on a civilian—"
"Maybe she wasn't human," Zhang Jie cut in. "Look—she's gone."
Sure enough, the spot where the woman had fallen was now empty.
"That's impossible," the female mercenary muttered. "No human could survive that barrage."
"What if it wasn't human?" Addison said, staring at the strange, clotted blood on the floor. A bad feeling gnawed at him.
"Sir?"
"No more talk. This is beyond expectations. We're getting out of the Hive. Now."
"But… weren't we supposed to shut down the host computer and wait for reinforcements?"
"There are no reinforcements!" Addison snapped. "Our only mission now is to survive."
The mercenaries exchanged grim looks, then nodded. "Understood. Evacuate."
"We can move freely now," Zhang Jie announced.
"What?" The reincarnators stared at him.
"Didn't you notice? Our watches no longer list 'stay within 100 meters of Matthew Addison.'"
Sure enough, when they checked, the restriction was gone.
"Our mission's the same as theirs now—stay alive, no matter how," Zhang Jie said.
Before anyone could reply, dark shapes appeared in the distance. Rotten skin, dead eyes, chunks of flesh hanging loose—clearly not human.
"Stop, or I'll shoot!" Addison shouted. The creatures ignored him, shuffling forward.
A gunshot rang out. One was knocked back several meters, hit the floor hard—and got back up again.
Another shot, this time from Zhang Jie, sent one down for good. "Hit the head. That's their weak point."
The mercenaries adjusted their aim, and soon gunfire echoed through the corridor. Zombies fell in droves.
Zheng Zha even got a couple of kills, grinning proudly—he'd earned reward points. Su Yu, however, was annoyed. Everyone else was racking up kills with guns, while she had a dagger and no chance to get close.
"Damn it, where are they coming from?" she muttered.
"Probably the Hive's big secret," someone replied.
"Doesn't matter. We need to move! Kaplan, open the door," Addison ordered.
"On it."
With a beep, the electronic door slid open—only for rotting hands to reach through and grab Kaplan. Behind it was a wall of undead.
Su Yu instantly activated the Illusion Sheath, manifesting a pair of shoes. She dashed forward, sliced through the zombie's arm holding Kaplan, then cleanly decapitated the closest one. Blood sprayed, but none touched her thanks to the sheath.
Skill or no skill, with Su Yu's raw speed and strength, zombies fell like vegetables before a chef's knife.
Kaplan collapsed, gasping, oblivious to the severed arm still clinging to his jacket.
"B-rank branch plot complete. Reward: 5,000 points."
The cheerful announcement in her ear instantly lifted Su Yu's mood, and she hacked away with renewed vigor. Within minutes, over a hundred zombies lay in pieces at her feet. Not a drop of blood marred her clothes.
And in that moment, one thought flashed through everyone's mind: God must definitely be a lolicon.