Perfect

Thanks: God-Level Devil tipped 100 Qidian coins; Good Support tipped 100 Qidian coins; Secretly Crushing Cat tipped 100 Qidian coins; Ding Haifeng tipped 100 Qidian coins. At first, the mission interface had contained no hidden missions, only main and side missions. What struck him as strange, however, was that the scores for the main and side missions added up to only ninety points, which made very little sense.

If the mission rewards had been points, he might not have thought much of it. But the rewards were scores, and scores and points meant entirely different things: the former were awarded based on performance, while the latter were something to spend.

Ye Siyu did not think these things were meaningless. If they existed, there was a reason for them.

So he thought it was very likely that hidden missions existed.

He had read plenty of infinite-flow novels and knew exactly what the three most valuable things in the first Resident Evil were: the T-virus research data, the T-virus stock solution, and the Red Queen's motherboard.

The T-virus stock solution that the bastard Spence Parks had hidden in a secret compartment on the train, and which was also the source of everything that happened, was undoubtedly the first hidden element in this world. It was therefore the item most likely to be connected to a hidden mission.

For him, getting the combination case containing the T-virus stock solution was a major problem. If he missed it, he would have to come back for it at the end of the plot, but that would be far too dangerous, so he ruled it out immediately. He had to get it before everyone went deep into the Hive.

Besides that, there was an even more important problem: Ye Siyu's identity.

At the beginning, if Ye Siyu did anything suspicious that the mercenaries considered dangerous, they would shoot him on the spot. They treated him completely differently from Matt, whose identity was also unknown. This frustrated him greatly, so finding a legitimate reason to obtain the T-virus stock solution's combination case was a very troublesome matter.

After dying more than fifty times, he finally thought of passing the case off as a bomb.

After more than ten more rebirths, he finally put the idea into practice perfectly, ensuring his safety for what came next. This way, he could carry the T-virus stock solution while also making sure that whatever suspicious actions he took afterward would not cause the mercenaries to shoot him.

Of course, completing just one hidden mission was not enough to satisfy Ye Siyu.

Anyone who knew Ye Siyu knew that he was a mild perfectionist. When he played games, for example, he always completed every achievement and found every hidden element, so he treated this world as a game too, one where he could save and reload endlessly.

Although dying countless times caused him pain, whenever he discovered and completed a hidden mission, he felt that the pain was worth it. That was also why he had been able to die so many times without going mad—or perhaps he had already become a madman. Even he could not explain it.

At the same time, however, it also made him start thinking about his ability to be reborn.

At first, he had thought rebirth was a perk, but after dying so many times, he had rejected that idea.

It made no scientific sense. If people could really come back to life, then the scores for these missions would be meaningless. Anyone could keep being reborn until they completed every mission and obtained an extremely high score. So he felt that it was an ability of his own.

As for where the ability had come from, he could not explain that himself, but at this stage, he did not need to dwell on it.

For him at this stage, investigating how he had gotten here, where his ability had come from, or whether someone had tampered with things behind the scenes was unimportant. Or perhaps he lacked the power to resolve those matters.

Rather than spend his energy thinking about them, he would be better off discovering and completing the missions in this world at the lowest possible cost.

By the time Ye Siyu caught up with the others ahead, the bag on his back, Kaplan had opened the Hive's iron door just as before. The mercenary captain was also ordering J.D. to go in and check things out, while the others stood guard outside.

"Don't go in! It's dangerous! Watch out!"

Ignoring the mercenary captain's warning, Ye Siyu walked straight past the people standing guard and entered the pitch-black Hive. He had entered the Hive and turned on the lights more than a hundred times and knew there was no danger. He could have found the switch and turned on the lights with his eyes closed, so he paid the captain's warning no attention.

Ye Siyu soon turned on the lights in the office area, and the others who had been waiting and standing guard outside came in as well.

While they chatted and joked around, Ye Siyu walked over to a fire cabinet not far down the corridor. He wrapped his fist in his clothing, smashed the locked cabinet, and then took out the fire axe inside.

"What are you doing?!" Hearing the crash of breaking glass, everyone turned to look at Ye Siyu. The mercenaries immediately raised their guns and aimed them at him.

"Nothing. I'm just looking for a weapon to defend myself with. You can ignore me," Ye Siyu said with a shrug. With the "bomb" on his back as insurance, he paid no attention to the muzzles pointed at him.

Having convinced the mercenary captain that what he carried on his back really was a bomb, Ye Siyu knew that, unless he did something to endanger their lives, the captain would turn a blind eye to everything else he did. So he was not worried in the least.

Just as in his previous rebirths, the mercenary captain said a few words to his companions and then stopped paying attention to Ye Siyu, instead looking for the stairs to the Hive's lower levels.

Watching the others leave, Ye Siyu followed them, dragging the axe behind him.

As before, the group moved at a decent pace at first, and the gaps between them did not widen. Before long, however, they spread out into three groups.

At the very back, the corners of Ye Siyu's mouth lifted slightly. Gripping the axe's wooden handle with both hands, he chased after them.

"Phew! Phew! Phew! I can't run anymore! I can't run anymore!"

The fat man and the middle-aged woman at the rear were "running" along like snails.

"Clang!" Looking at the woman in the back, Ye Siyu swung his axe hard into the wall beside her, producing a loud metallic clash.

"What are you doing?!" The woman and the fat man immediately turned around at the sound, only for Ye Siyu to answer them with another swing of his axe.

"Clang!"

The axe struck the steel wall, sending out a metallic clash and a shower of sparks.