You've Already Been Killed by Me 33 Times

Hearing Zhang Jie say something strange, Zheng Zha asked in confusion, "What do you mean, three of them are out?" Zhan Lan also looked at Zhang Jie curiously, waiting for him to explain.

Zhang Jie sneered. "Them! Don't let my words go in one ear and out the other. This is a real world, and we can die here. Maybe you haven't realized that yet and still think this is a movie? Move a hundred meters away from him and you explode. That's one of the rules. We can't even see them now, so they're probably more than a hundred meters away. And that guy whose name we don't know is carrying a combination lockbox. So they're... dead for sure!"

Having said that, Zhang Jie fell silent and waited for the explosions that would mark the three of them, including Ye Siyu, being eliminated.

"Ah! Don't kill me!"

"Don't chase me!"

Before long, however, instead of explosions, two screams like pigs being slaughtered came from above the stairs, drawing everyone's attention, from the mercenaries at the bottom to Zheng Zha and the others at the rear.

The mercenaries nervously raised their rifles and aimed at the stairwell. Zheng Zha and the others grew extremely tense as well. They had all seen the movie and thought the plot had changed and the zombies had come out early.

"Ah! Don't kill me!" The voice drew closer, and two chubby figures appeared on the stairs, one behind the other. They were the chubby young man and the middle-aged woman Zhang Jie had just said were dead for sure.

"What happened?" Seeing the two of them rush down, gasping for breath, Zhang Jie reached out and grabbed them.

"Th-that... guy's a m-maniac! He chased us with an ax, trying to chop us up!" The chubby young man, brought to a halt by Zhang Jie, pointed at the stairwell as he spoke, panting.

Clang! Clang! Clang!

Soon, the sound of metal striking the stairs rang out, and Ye Siyu came into view, dragging an ax behind him.

"Why did you stop?" Ye Siyu asked with a smile as he dragged the ax along.

Everyone's faces darkened. They had thought there was some danger, but they had never expected Ye Siyu to be behind it all.

"Are you trying to kill us?!" Seeing so many people standing nearby, the middle-aged woman pointed at Ye Siyu and began cursing him.

"No, I've already killed you thirty-three times." Ye Siyu showed not the slightest anger or shame at the woman's cursing. Instead, he spoke with a completely indifferent expression, as though human lives meant nothing to him.

"Psycho!" Hearing the utter indifference in Ye Siyu's voice, the chubby young man immediately cursed him too. Although Zhang Jie had just shoved a gun into his mouth, he knew Zhang Jie wouldn't fire. Ye Siyu was different. While Ye Siyu had chased him with the ax, he could clearly feel that if he ran a step slower, the ax would come crashing down on him and send him to his death.

"Heh." Ye Siyu chuckled softly and raised the ax high in his right hand.

Seeing him raise the ax, the chubby young man and the middle-aged woman immediately recoiled in fear. Zheng Zha and the others felt their hearts tighten and watched Ye Siyu warily.

Whoosh! Clang! Clang! Clang!

To their surprise, Ye Siyu didn't bring the raised ax down on them. Instead, he threw it straight down from the upper floor, and it landed with a loud clattering.

After throwing the ax down, Ye Siyu sauntered down the stairs, past the others, and said, "Nothing to see here. Keep moving."

Everyone exchanged glances, utterly baffled by what Ye Siyu was doing. Unlike the others, Zhang Jie watched Ye Siyu's retreating figure with some confusion. He knew Ye Siyu had done it deliberately. If Ye Siyu hadn't chased the chubby young man and the middle-aged woman with the ax, the two of them would surely have died.

At the same time, he decided that Ye Siyu was nothing but trouble. If he got the chance in the future, he would definitely deal with this trouble.

"Let's catch up.

The mercenaries have gone far ahead." After giving Ye Siyu a long look, Zhang Jie spoke to Zheng Zha and the others, who were still standing there in a daze. Hearing him, they immediately quickened their pace and followed.

As they approached the bottom level, the mercenary captain called to Kaplan, who was walking ahead, "Report!"

Kaplan tapped the miniature computer on his wrist several times and replied, "Sir, the Flame Queen has locked onto us. She knows we're here."

Alice, the female lead, was following the mercenary captain. She immediately asked in confusion, "Who's the Flame Queen?"

The mercenary captain glanced at her and replied, "The best artificial intelligence system in the country. She controls the entire Hive. She's the central mainframe that runs this place."

As they talked, they reached the bottom of the Hive.

Zhang Jie turned back and looked with a sneer at Zheng Zha and the others, who were panting. Shaking his head, he said, "Hang in there. If you survive, you should thank the heavens. Honestly, you've already been lucky enough. This horror movie has a very low danger rating. In fact, it's one of the few horror movies where bullets can solve your problems. Keep going. As long as you survive this horror movie, you'll get a thousand Reward Points to improve your physiques."

When Zhang Jie finished speaking, he glanced at Ye Siyu walking ahead. Ye Siyu had picked up the ax he had thrown down from the upper stairs and was dragging it along as he continued forward, gasping for breath.

They continued on their way, and before long, they reached the Hive's testing area. Every room had been sealed with a thick iron door, dividing the area into separate enclosed chambers. They could see inside the laboratories through reinforced glass.

The laboratories were filled with yellow water, and visibility was so poor that they could see no more than a meter into it. Besides lighter objects such as papers and books, the water contained even more corpses, one after another, their skin bleached pale from soaking.

The corpses' faces were twisted and contorted, their eyes wide open. It was plain to see how much the victims had suffered before they died. Looking at them, Zheng Zha and the others all wore frightened, panicked expressions, because they knew that before long, these corpses would escape the water confining them and become zombies that devoured anyone they encountered.

A movie was a movie, after all. Even if you could watch its bloody, horrifying scenes with relish on a screen, that certainly didn't mean you could remain calm when you actually faced them.

It was just like clinical medicine: no matter how many textbooks and demonstration videos you had studied, the first time you picked up a scalpel and faced a bloody corpse, those who were going to vomit would vomit, and those who were going to faint would faint.

Unlike Zheng Zha and the others, Ye Siyu dragged his ax along without any change in expression, as though he couldn't see the corpses at all.