What Are You Doing?

Alice's expression turned exceptionally serious, and Xiao Miao did not look much better. He gasped sharply in his heart!

He was certain that those "extraordinary people" captured by Umbrella Corporation were most likely Travelers of All Heavens from the Main World, just like him!

The panel had never included a rule forbidding the disclosure of information about the Main World. Those captured Travelers of All Heavens would very likely spill everything they knew to buy time.

As long as Travelers of All Heavens remained alive, they could continuously earn Fate Points. The first traversal mission only required 200 Fate Points. Once they reached that number and settled the mission, they could immediately return to the Main World.

When the time came, Umbrella Corporation would surely go mad upon discovering that a large number of captives had vanished. Their later measures would only grow more forceful, which was undoubtedly bad news for Xiao Miao.

Because he wanted to complete more missions. Traversal missions could only be considered basic welfare, and 200 Fate Points were barely worth mentioning—not even enough for him to draw a few times.

No ambitious Traveler of All Heavens would think much of traversal missions. Side missions were where the money was. That meant Xiao Miao would have to stay longer, and an Umbrella Corporation targeting Travelers of All Heavens would undoubtedly create countless obstacles for him.

"What help can you provide?" Alice asked.

"I can find the routes of every special operations unit, including the supply transport planes. Once my daughter is rescued, I'll provide you with a landing site for a transport helicopter. You can hijack a plane and leave the city."

Alice and Xiao Miao exchanged a look. After communicating with their eyes, Alice turned toward the screen. "Deal!"

Dr. Ashford smiled and began describing his daughter's location. After confirming that the intelligence was accurate, they ended the call and left the priest's secret bedroom.

Inside the church, in a place without surveillance cameras, Alice and the other two women looked at Xiao Miao. "What were you about to say earlier?"

"Dr. Ashford's plan is very thorough, but he's too confident. He's an expert in genetics and viruses, and it really is impressive that he can use a computer to hack into Raccoon City's surveillance system. But I don't believe Umbrella has no one who understands computers better than he does," Xiao Miao voiced his concerns.

It was not that he was overthinking things. That was exactly how the original plot went. Confidence and arrogance were often separated by a single thought. Dr. Ashford's supposedly perfect plan was actually entirely under Colonel Cain's surveillance.

Alice quickly grasped the key point and immediately sucked in a cold breath, contributing to global warming.

Considering that this world had the colossal Umbrella Corporation, it would probably ruin humanity long before global warming could.

"You mean every move we make is under Umbrella Corporation's surveillance? Then how are we supposed to do anything?" The female reporter nearly broke down upon hearing this. Umbrella Corporation felt like a mountain pressing heavily upon their shoulders, blocking every hope of escape.

"They're not that free, and they don't have enough manpower to monitor us the entire time. But Dr. Ashford's computer is definitely under surveillance. Umbrella Corporation knows about our deal with the doctor, and they may focus on us from now on," Xiao Miao concluded, laying the cruel reality before them.

The three women looked dejected, like eggplants struck by frost. They had just gained hope of escaping, only for Xiao Miao to dump a bucket of cold water over their heads. Their mood was easy to imagine.

Alice, their strongest fighter, paced back and forth with a worried expression.

She did not want to die. She still had a score to settle with Umbrella Corporation. But the situation did not look good. She was merely a T-virus test subject, not Superman. Faced with special forces armed to the teeth, she had no particularly good solution either.

Xiao Miao also found things troublesome. He silently opened the panel, his gaze moving back and forth among the cards in reserve.

[Handsome Black Leather Jacket]? Pass. [Crown of the Spartan Queen]? Useless, also pass. [T-virus Stock Solution]? Don't be ridiculous. As for the [Original Flavor Holster]...

Honestly, unless every member of Umbrella Corporation's special operations units was Jill's simp and willing to kill one another over an Original Flavor Holster, Xiao Miao had no idea why this item card existed.

Jill was right beside him. If he wanted, given his relationship with Jill, he could get as many Original Flavor Holsters as he wanted.

As for [Character Card: Nemesis]... it might indeed be useful against one or two special operations units, but Nemesis was strong because he could carry all kinds of heavy weapons by himself. Xiao Miao only had light weapons on hand. Even if he used the Nemesis character card, he still could not deal with organized special forces or helicopters.

He still had 395 Fate Points left. If he could draw something good from Alice...

The atmosphere in the church dropped to freezing point. No one spoke for a while. After a long silence, Alice suddenly walked up to Xiao Miao. "Those abilities you used before... is there really no way to use them again? Even once would be enough..."

I want to as well!

Xiao Miao shook his head. "There really isn't a way, but..."

He glanced at Alice, then shook his head. "Ah, forget it. It's nothing."

His hesitant manner drove Alice mad. "But what? At a time like this, stop hemming and hawing. Say what you have to say."

You're the one who told me to say it. I'm being forced!

Xiao Miao took a deep breath. His expression changed several times, as though he had made up his mind. Throwing caution to the wind, he said in a low voice, "If, Alice, you could trust me more... or if our relationship could go a step further and become the kind of friendship that goes beyond ordinary friends, then maybe I could awaken some new temporary abilities."

Alice, Jill, and the female reporter: "Huh?"

Xiao Miao's wording was a little too abstract, and they could not understand what he meant at first.

A moment later, Alice was the first to understand what Xiao Miao was implying. Her expression immediately became extraordinarily colorful. Her beautiful eyes fixed on his, trying to see whether he was lying.

Because it was simply a little... unbelievable!

Women had a magical ability called intuition, or a sixth sense, that allowed them to tell whether men were lying to them.

Of course, if the man being judged was ridiculously handsome, that was another matter entirely. Their lower bodies would unilaterally declare the sixth sense invalid, and they would deceive themselves.

Alice's sixth sense told her that Xiao Miao was not lying.

After a moment of silence, Alice's gaze swept over Xiao Miao's face. Feeling that she would not be at a loss, she raised a hand and grabbed his collar. "Come. Into the room with me!"

"Wait!" Jill suddenly bristled and blocked the two of them. "What are you doing?"

Alice nodded. "Yes!"

After saying that, she pulled Xiao Miao around Jill.

The female reporter looked somewhat lost. "No, you actually believe this man's nonsense?"

Jill chimed in from the side. "Yeah, Xiao is obviously joking, right, Xiao?"

Xiao Miao wore a serious expression. "No. I'm serious."

Jill crossed her arms over her chest. "Then after you... finish, what ability can you awaken?"

"That depends on luck. If my luck is bad, I can only get you out of the city. If it's good, I'll beat Umbrella Corporation into the ground."

The three women: "???"