100 Meters

"Run! Live! Don't run! Die!" Ye Siyu said with a cold smile, looking at the panicked fatty and middle-aged woman. Then he raised his axe and swung it at them again. "Lunatic!" Seeing the axe come down toward their heads, the fatty and the woman were terrified. At the same time, they unleashed tremendous potential and ran twice as fast as before, the fat on their bodies jiggling in waves with every step.

No matter how they shouted, Ye Siyu kept chasing and slashing at them, his axe whistling through the air. They could clearly feel that if they stopped, the axe in his hand would strike them without hesitation or mercy.

Before long, the fatty and the woman, who had nearly fallen a hundred meters behind the mercenary captain, caught up with the main group ahead.

Hearing the fatty talking with the other reincarnators at the bottom of the stairs, Ye Siyu smiled faintly and walked down.

Of all the missions, aside from the hidden missions he had to discover himself, the most troublesome was side mission three: keeping all the reincarnators alive. He didn't need to worry about Zheng Zha and the others who survived in the story, but the fatty and the woman gave him the most trouble.

To help the two of them catch up with the main group, Ye Siyu had tried many methods: dragging them along, getting the mercenaries to slow down, asking Zhang Jie and the others for help, and more. Every attempt had ended in failure.

Finally, after more than twenty failures, he could no longer stand it. He picked up an axe, intending to chop them to death and vent his frustration. The Lord God would erase them anyway, so he might as well put them out of their misery sooner. But during that chase, the two of them miraculously stayed within a hundred meters and survived.

After that, Ye Siyu finally found a way to keep the fatty and the woman alive.

That hundred-meter stretch determined whether Ye Siyu could complete side mission three, and it was also the distance between the fatty and the woman and death. Once they safely made it across, everything afterward would be much easier.

As long as they didn't deliberately court death and stayed close to Zheng Zha, the protagonist, they would be able to get through the mission safely.

After learning the conditions for completing side mission three, Ye Siyu continued searching for ways to complete the other side missions and hidden missions. While gathering that information, he killed the fatty and the woman thirty-three times.

They weren't lucky enough to unleash their potential every time; the odds were roughly fifty percent. This time, they were very lucky and managed it. Otherwise, Ye Siyu would have had to kill himself and start over again.

"Are you trying to kill me?!" the middle-aged woman shouted when she saw Ye Siyu come down.

"Can you stop saying that every time? My ears are getting calluses from hearing it," Ye Siyu said coolly.

"Psycho!" Hearing the impatience in Ye Siyu's voice, the fatty cursed him too, convinced that Ye Siyu was a psycho.

"Heh!" Ye Siyu chuckled at the fatty's insult and raised the axe in his hand. The woman and the fatty were so frightened that they backed away several steps and hid behind Zhang Jie and the others.

Ye Siyu glanced at their reaction, then, under everyone's astonished gazes, threw the axe down the stairs. He didn't want to carry an axe weighing a pound or two all that way, so throwing it away was the best option.

After throwing away the axe, Ye Siyu walked straight past everyone and continued down, paying no attention to their surprise and confusion. During his first few rebirths, he had shown off by explaining himself, but after so many rebirths, he couldn't be bothered anymore. Doing so was simply a waste of his time and breath.

What followed unfolded just as before. The group soon reached the laboratory area at the bottom of the Hive. Since they didn't know one another, they didn't question Ye Siyu much about what he had done.

They were merely wary of Ye Siyu, thinking something was wrong with his head. In the laboratory area, the group was startled by a woman's corpse floating in water, while Ye Siyu yawned in boredom. He had been startled by the corpse at first too, but after experiencing it so many times, he no longer felt anything.

Before long, Kaplan led everyone to Dining Hall B, which was full of Lickers. After the mercenary captain made arrangements, the group headed to the second major obstacle in Resident Evil: the laser corridor.

This was also the location of the second hidden mission: saving the mercenaries who were supposed to die. Having been through it many times already, Ye Siyu easily rescued everyone from the laser corridor, just as he had last time.

The hardest part of the entire laser corridor was the final laser grid. Ye Siyu could rely on his memory and experience to save everyone from the first two lasers, but memory alone wouldn't get them past the final grid. That required intelligence.

At first, Ye Siyu had no idea what to do. After dying more than ten times, he finally came up with a solution: stall for time.

The lasers were all controlled by the Red Queen. He only needed to stall her for a few seconds, giving Kaplan time to crack the laser corridor's defense system. So he claimed that something installed in the Hive would explode if he died—a lie the Red Queen only had to check the recorded footage to expose.

Those few seconds the Red Queen spent checking were enough for Kaplan to crack the laser corridor's defense system.

"Hahaha!"

"We're not dead!"

"Hahaha! We're still alive! We're still alive!"

"Thank you! Thank you!"

The mercenaries who came out of the laser corridor shouted excitedly at having survived, while looking gratefully at Ye Siyu as he emerged from the corridor.

"You're impressive," Zhang Jie said, looking at Ye Siyu with a grave expression, a trace of killing intent in his voice. Ye Siyu had already disrupted the plot, and the difficulty of the remaining missions might change. This greatly angered Zhang Jie, who wanted to get through this world without trouble.

If Ye Siyu had been a straightforward person, Zhang Jie wouldn't have been so angry about him disrupting the plot. On the contrary, he would have been delighted, since it would have been very much to his advantage. But the problem was that Ye Siyu was someone he couldn't control, and he could easily do something that harmed Zhang Jie's interests. That was why he was so angry.

If he got the chance, he would kill Ye Siyu without hesitation.

Ye Siyu paid no attention to Zhang Jie's killing intent. He knew Zhang Jie had no chance to kill him, unless Zhang Jie wanted to make himself out to be a villain in front of Zheng Zha and the others.