The Slacking Big Shots, and the Rewards

Everyone followed Zhang Jie's gaze toward the train.

They saw Li Xiaoyi, Mou Gang, the quarrelsome chubby guy, and the middle-aged woman running with all their might. They sprinted past the train and raced back along the tracks in the direction they had come from.

Their speed alone showed that the sudden outbreak of gunfire had scared them out of their wits.

By then, only their retreating backs could be seen.

Boom!

Then, once the four had gotten a hundred meters away from the Black mercenary captain, a violent explosion rang out.

Uchiha Gen could clearly sense that the life auras of the four people in the distance had vanished.

At that moment, Zhang Jie said with a cold sneer, "See that? The Main God has erased all four of them. We talked for so long, but they didn't take any of it seriously. They couldn't accept reality—they thought this was a movie world, or that they were dreaming."

"Now they've suffered the consequences, haven't they? Everyone only gets one life!"

In an instant, Zheng Zha and Zhan Lan, the two who had survived, felt as though they had fallen into an ice cellar.

Beyond their fear, they also felt fortunate—fortunate that the gunshots had not terrified them into running away, and fortunate that they were still alive.

At that moment, they truly understood that they had entered a terrifying game where they had to struggle to survive.

The right to live, something they had once taken for granted, now had to be earned with every ounce of their strength.

Nearby, Uchiha Gen remained calm. The sudden turn of events did not stir his emotions in the slightest.

Although he had lived in peaceful times in his previous life and was only a little over twelve in this one, he had experienced plenty of killing since graduating from the Ninja Academy at the age of ten.

He had long cultivated the composure to remain unshaken by sudden changes.

"Slacking big shots?"

Uchiha Gen fell into thought.

Although he had been fighting the mercenary team just now, Uchiha Gen had kept part of his attention on Zhang Jie the entire time, guarding against him stepping in to stop his quick clear and score grinding.

Because of that, he was certain that Zhang Jie's mental fluctuations had remained steady throughout. He had not acted against those Reincarnators who had chosen to slack off, which fit the kind-hearted character setting Zhang Heng had assigned him.

According to Zhang Heng's later settings, the Main God Space was a rehabilitation center for great powers. Every Reincarnator chosen to enter the Main God Space was the reincarnation of some big shot.

But some of those big shots were unwilling to awaken, so they chose to slack off.

They would not integrate into the team, would not unleash their potential, and would throw their lives away the moment they found an opportunity.

It seemed that the four who had died were exactly like that.

The Main God's erasure of four teammates left the Reincarnators silent for a while.

Then they resumed what they had been doing and tied up all the movie characters.

"This guy is the culprit behind the Resident Evil outbreak, right?"

At the end, Uchiha Gen pointed at the corporate spy Ryan and asked Zhan Lan beside him.

After knocking down all the mercenaries earlier, he had received rewards from the Main God: two Rank B Side-Story Missions and nine thousand reward points.

If nothing unexpected happened, killing the culprit in front of him should earn him another reward.

"That's right."

Zhan Lan nodded.

Then Uchiha Gen casually drove the Kunai in his hand into Ryan's chest.

As expected, the Main God rewarded Uchiha Gen with one Rank C Side-Story Mission and 1,500 points.

Zhan Lan turned her head away in discomfort, her face slightly pale, but she said nothing.

Zheng Zha was the same.

Killing an evil person did not disgust them. What made them uncomfortable was seeing the lives of people like themselves being taken away.

As the scent of blood gradually spread through the air, they once again realized that they had entered the reincarnation world of Infinite Horror.

The platform remained silent for a long time.

By then, Uchiha Gen had gone to retrieve the case containing the T-virus and the antidote.

This time, there were no additional rewards. Or rather, the plot item itself was a reward.

When Uchiha Gen returned, Zhan Lan had finally recovered enough to break the silence. "Thanks again, little brother Gen. If you hadn't acted, we would have followed those mercenaries into the dangerous Hive. We might have died to Zombies at any moment."

"From now on, we'll have to rely on one another for survival. How about we introduce ourselves?"

After thanking Uchiha Gen, Zhan Lan introduced herself. "My name is Zhan Lan. Zhan as in Zhan Tianyou, Lan as in mountain mist. Before coming here, I was a writer..."

Although Zhang Jie and Uchiha Gen had introduced themselves to each other earlier, Zhan Lan and Zheng Zha had unfortunately still been unconscious and had not heard them.

The retired soldier Zhang Jie and Zheng Zha, formerly a white-collar employee and business supervisor, had no objections either. Everyone wanted to stick together.

After everyone had introduced themselves in turn, they all turned their eyes toward Uchiha Gen, the strongest member of the Central Continent Team on the surface.

"Uchiha Gen, a Chunin of Konoha's Uchiha clan. Please take care of me."

Uchiha Gen introduced himself with a smile.

In the reincarnation world, before one possessed Fourth Stage combat power, sticking together offered a higher chance of survival.

Although Zheng Zha and Zhan Lan were only ordinary people for now, they had great potential for future growth. Thus, despite being far stronger than the others at the moment, Uchiha Gen had no objection to becoming part of the team.

"So you really are from the Naruto World. At first, I thought you were a veteran player doing cosplay. Thanks to you, we were able to get through this Horror movie so safely."

Zheng Zha sighed.

At last, Zhang Jie found an opportunity to instill his slacker mentality in everyone. "I wanted to say this earlier: don't change the plot. You succeeded this time and took down those mercenaries, but what if you had failed? Your teammates could very well have died because of you."

As he spoke, Zhang Jie stared at Uchiha Gen with a hint of reproach.

He saw that Uchiha Gen was young and wanted to use moral pressure to restrain him, making him become a slacker like himself.

However, Uchiha Gen merely smiled gently without getting angry. "I simply chose the easiest and most efficient way to complete the mission. In my view, the best approach was to keep teammates who are civilians out of dangerous areas."

"It's a pity that the Main God's missions cannot be abandoned. Otherwise, based on my past mission experience, I would choose to give up dangerous missions directly and bring my teammates home safely."

Those simple words instantly made Zheng Zha and Zhan Lan, who were ordinary people, feel much more favorably toward Uchiha Gen.

After all, they were the ones being protected.

Zhang Jie actually agreed with Uchiha Gen's ideals of kindness and mutual support. At that moment, he had already acknowledged the warm-hearted and caring Uchiha clan youth before him.

It just did not align with his interests.

So he continued, "In order to make Reincarnators evolve, the Main God will constantly raise mission difficulty. It may even alter the plots of Horror movies, so in the future, it's better to follow the movie plot as much as possible. That way, everyone will have a better chance of surviving—"

Before he could finish, Zhang Jie heard a teeth-grinding screech of steel scraping against steel.

The group instinctively looked toward the sound and discovered that the Hive's doors had opened automatically at some point.

A dense mass of Lickers had silently appeared. They were now staring hungrily at the Central Continent Team.