Sudden upheaval

"I'm sorry I didn't trust you just now. You saved the lives of my team, and I won't forget it," the mercenary captain said gratefully, gripping Ye Siyu's hand in excitement. "I was only saving myself. Also, I've remembered a few things about the inside of the Hive, so please call your two teammates outside back. It's extremely dangerous out there," Ye Siyu said, his expression indifferent as he heard the captain's thanks.

If saving these guys hadn't been connected to a hidden mission, why would he have put himself in danger, risking his life to save mercenaries who had killed him who knew how many times?

Ye Siyu swiped his watch with his left hand, and the mission interface appeared, displaying a new notification that a hidden mission had been completed.

Hidden mission two (completed): Hero of the Laser Corridor. Save those fated to die in the laser corridor. 30 points.

After a glance, Ye Siyu exited the mission interface. He had completed this hidden mission no fewer than ten times, relying entirely on memorization, so there was nothing to get excited about.

What happened next followed the same course as on previous attempts. Ye Siyu stopped the mercenaries from shutting down the Red Queen and had her kill the Lickers in Dining Hall B.

"Red Queen, inject all the Lickers with poison and kill them," Ye Siyu ordered, holding the switch for the discharge device.

"That is against company regulations," the Red Queen refused without hesitation.

"If you don't kill them, I'll press the switch. Then they'll be released," Ye Siyu said coldly.

"All right." Threatened with the switch again, the Red Queen fell silent for a moment before she could only agree to Ye Siyu's order.

Ye Siyu knew that although the Red Queen was an artificial intelligence program belonging to the Umbrella Corporation, she had long since developed thoughts of her own and could already be considered an intelligent life-form. Otherwise, she would not have been so easily threatened into doing things against the Umbrella Corporation's interests.

She knew what would happen if she was shut down, so she had no choice but to agree to carry out Zuokong's order.

The image on the projection changed to green images of containers, which turned red one by one, indicating that the Red Queen was killing the Lickers.

As before, Zheng Zha and the others watched Ye Siyu with admiration, all shocked by what he had done.

But then Ye Siyu said something that surprised everyone present.

"Do you think I'm an idiot? If you still won't eliminate the Lickers, I'll press the switch right now," Ye Siyu said, looking at the Red Queen with the same cold expression. He knew she hadn't actually killed the Lickers, but had merely injected them with an anesthetic to put them to sleep.

If the Red Queen had really killed the Lickers in the containers, his watch would have notified him that he had completed the mission.

Besides, Ye Siyu had already fallen for this trick once, the first time he had asked the Red Queen to eliminate the Lickers.

Under everyone's astonished gazes, the Red Queen fell silent. The containers on the screen turned green again, then vanished one by one.

Her actions proved that she hadn't eliminated the Lickers at first and had merely been deceiving them.

"All Lickers have been dealt with," the Red Queen said again after the last container vanished.

At that moment, Ye Siyu's watch vibrated, and the score displayed on it changed from 40 to 70, proving that he had completed his side mission to kill the Lickers.

"I imagine you don't want to continue this mission now, do you?" Ye Siyu asked the mercenaries after confirming that the Licker side mission was complete. Now that it was done, it was time to carry out the mission to eliminate the zombies.

Things continued to unfold as before,

The mercenaries were all persuaded by Ye Siyu to eliminate the zombies. ...

"Rat-tat-tat!"

Gunfire erupted in Dining Hall B as Ye Siyu and the others cut down zombie after zombie. The heavy stench of blood and rot filled the hall.

"I'm out of ammunition. Everyone, get ready to retreat into the laser corridor!" After firing several magazines and killing more than thirty zombies, Ye Siyu felt his watch vibrate. The number 70 changed to 80, and he immediately shouted to everyone.

With that, he jumped down from the container and picked up the fire axe lying on the ground. He retreated, swinging the axe and knocking away the zombies that came near him.

Hearing Ye Siyu's order, Zheng Zha, the others, and the mercenaries continued shooting zombies as they retreated in an orderly manner.

"Zheng Zha! Zhan Lan! Zhang Jie! Alice! Get in here, quickly! James! Kaplan! J.D.! Keep shooting the zombies!" Ye Siyu, the first to retreat into the laser corridor, called to Zheng Zha and Zhang Jie, who were still shooting zombies alongside the mercenaries.

Zheng Zha and the others stopped shooting and quickly retreated into the Red Queen's mainframe room at the far end of the laser corridor.

"Red Queen! Close the door at the far end of the laser corridor!" Ye Siyu suddenly said when he saw that Zheng Zha, Zhan Lan, Zhang Jie, and Alice had all retreated into the mainframe room, leaving only the mercenaries outside.

"What?!" Zheng Zha and the others standing beside Ye Siyu were stunned by his words. The mercenaries were still shooting zombies in the central control room outside the laser corridor; if Ye Siyu had the Red Queen close the corridor door, they would surely be killed by the horde of zombies.

"Hiss!"

Before everyone's astonished eyes, the laser corridor door closed, trapping the mercenaries outside.

"What are you doing?! Tell the Red Queen to open the door, now!" Seeing Ye Siyu make the Red Queen close the laser corridor door, Alice immediately grabbed his clothes and demanded that he order her to open it.

"Bang!" Ye Siyu answered Alice with a fierce knee strike. He showed her no mercy just because she was beautiful, driving his knee into her abdomen. Her stomach churned, and she fell to the floor clutching her belly in pain.

"Fu-ck!"

"Open the door, now!"

The mercenaries shooting zombies outside the laser corridor slowly fell back, but when they retreated into the corridor, they found the door tightly shut. Everyone froze, unable to understand what was happening.

Unfortunately, no one answered their questions. Standing beyond the laser corridor, Ye Siyu watched quietly through the window in the metal door as the mercenaries fired at the zombies pouring in and pounded frantically on the door.