Mutation

"Red Queen, activate the lasers. Kill them." Watching the mercenaries pounding on the iron door, Ye Siyu spoke calmly. His words hit Zheng Zha and the others like a bomb, and they looked at him with shock and fear. "Bzz!"

As soon as Ye Siyu finished speaking, the Red Queen carried out his order.

The lights at the end of the laser corridor dimmed. A thin laser beam rapidly formed a grid and swept toward the mercenaries and the swarming zombies, instantly slicing them into chunks of varying sizes. The sight was revolting.

"Bleurgh!" Seeing the mercenaries cut to pieces by the laser, Zheng Zha and Zhan Lan felt their stomachs churn inside the server room. Although the iron door separated them from the scene, they could not shake the feeling that a thick stench of blood lingered in their noses. It made them sick.

"What happened?" At that moment, the medic, who had remained in the server room, came over, drawn by the strange commotion.

"Bang!" A bullet from Ye Siyu answered the medic, leaving a hole in her head.

After killing the medic, Ye Siyu ignored everyone else and walked straight into the server room. He fired another shot, killing the mercenary lying on the floor, unconscious from the shock of having his fingers cut off.

The moment he shot the mercenary, Ye Siyu's watch vibrated. Its number changed from 80 to 110, indicating that he had completed another mission.

Hidden mission three (completed): Mercenary Killer. Kill all mercenaries. 30 points.

Looking at the latest mission notification, Ye Siyu nodded in satisfaction. He had only discovered this hidden mission after dozens of rebirths. Hidden mission two had to be completed before this one could be completed. If any mercenary died in the laser corridor, the hidden mission would not appear.

"What the hell are you doing?" Matt, whose hands were locked in the server room, stared in shock and anger after seeing Ye Siyu kill the wounded mercenary.

Ye Siyu ignored him and turned his gaze to the equally shocked Spence Parks. He gently pulled the trigger of his rifle, and a bullet took Spence Parks's life.

After seeing Ye Siyu shoot Spence Parks after killing the mercenaries, Matt, Li Xiaoyi, and the others were dumbfounded. The fat man and the middle-aged woman, whom Ye Siyu had hunted down before, and Mou Gang, whose leg Ye Siyu had broken with an axe, were especially frightened and shrank into a corner.

Although killing Spence Parks earned him no points, Ye Siyu still had to kill him. He knew that if he did not kill him now, once Spence recovered his memories, he would try to seize the T-virus stock solution on Ye Siyu's back, causing him considerable trouble.

To avoid that trouble, Ye Siyu killed him first.

"Red Queen, show me the locations of all the Licker containers in Dining Hall B." After killing Spence Parks, Ye Siyu spoke again.

"Bzz!"

A red light appeared, and a projection of the containers in Dining Hall B materialized before Ye Siyu.

"Inject this container with the maximum dose of poison." Looking at the projection, Ye Siyu reached out and pointed to the container in the very center.

"Why? All the Lickers are already dead," the Red Queen asked in confusion upon hearing Ye Siyu's order.

"When I say inject it, inject it. There's only one thing you need to know: carry out my orders, or you'll be shut down." Ye Siyu took the switch for the discharge device out of his pocket as he spoke.

The Red Queen's projection glanced at the switch in Ye Siyu's hand and fell silent. The container Ye Siyu had just pointed to then turned red, and a progress bar appeared over it.

"Ye Siyu, what the hell are you trying to do?!" Alice, supported into the room by Zhan Lan and Zheng Zha, stared coldly at Ye Siyu as she demanded an answer,

while pointing a handgun at him. She had already seen Spence Parks lying dead on the floor. Her memory had not fully returned, and as far as she knew, Spence Parks was a friend with whom she had shared a more-than-friendly relationship. Seeing him dead, she was furious.

"Red Queen, tell her what Spence Parks did." With Alice's gun trained on him, Ye Siyu glanced at her calmly, then gave the Red Queen an order.

"Okay." Hearing Ye Siyu's order, the Red Queen nodded. A projection appeared, showing Spence Parks stealing the T-virus and dropping a vial of it on the floor.

Seeing the footage, Alice covered her mouth in disbelief. She had never imagined that Spence Parks was the one responsible for everything.

"Beep! Beep! Beep!"

"Anomaly detected in container seventy-five!"

Suddenly, an alarm sounded, and a container on the Dining Hall B projection in front of Ye Siyu began flashing continuously. It was the same container Ye Siyu had ordered the Red Queen to inject with poison.

"What happened?" Hearing the alarm, Zheng Zha and the others looked at the Red Queen in alarm and confusion as they asked.

"The Licker that should have been dead has mutated," the Red Queen's projection said, looking at Ye Siyu. Her laser-projected face showed a remarkably human expression: alarm and confusion.

Ever since Ye Siyu entered the Hive, she had been watching him. He was unlike any of the other people who had entered. It was as if he knew what would happen next, predicting everything with uncanny accuracy.

"Red Queen, switch the poison to anesthetic. Inject the maximum dose." Unlike the others, who were alarmed and confused, Ye Siyu remained perfectly calm.

He had known about this situation all along. Although he had ordered the Red Queen to inject all the Lickers with the virus to kill them, this was Lord God Space, not a normal world. Everything here was controlled by the Lord God.

In a normal world, those Lickers would have been thoroughly dead after being injected with poison. Unfortunately, this was Lord God Space, and the Lord God would never let people eliminate the Lickers so easily.

In several previous runs, even when Ye Siyu had the Red Queen inject poison or other drugs, one Licker would still survive and mutate, then break out of its container and come after Zheng Zha and the others in the server room.

After confirming that the Licker had mutated, Ye Siyu walked over to Matt and said, "Matt, take Alice and leave this place."

"Huh?!" Matt was completely dumbfounded by Ye Siyu's words. He had no idea what Ye Siyu was trying to do.