Devil?

Kaplan's voice came over the communicator. "Don't worry, they're just motion-sensor lights. There's nothing to be concerned about." Hearing Kaplan's words, the mercenary captain relaxed slightly, though he remained on guard. The glass around him appeared to contain nothing but light tubes, yet he continued forward carefully, one step at a time, in case anything unexpected happened.

Before long, the mercenary captain reached the end of the passage. He placed a device resembling a mobile phone on the door's sensor, then notified Kaplan outside over the radio. "Transmission device in position."

"Understood. Running the decryption now!" Kaplan pressed the keys again and began decrypting the iron door at the other end of the passage.

Soon, a soft sound came from inside the passage. The gears on the door to the central computer began turning slowly, and the door opened.

Once it was open, the mercenary captain cautiously checked the interior from outside. After confirming there was no danger, he said to the people outside the passage, "You can come in. Bring the equipment."

Alice asked curiously, "What equipment? What is that?"

Kaplan immediately explained, "This device can shut down the Flame Queen. It releases a powerful electric current that scrambles the mainframe and makes it reboot..."

As the mercenaries were carrying the shutdown equipment inside, Zheng Zha suddenly shouted to stop them. "W-wait! Don't you think something's strange? This AI is a little too useless. It's just letting you reboot it. I don't think things will be that simple."

The mercenaries stopped, and everyone looked at him strangely. Zhan Lan, however, sighed and discreetly stepped back, putting some distance between herself and Zheng Zha before moving over beside Alice. She was clever and knew what she could and couldn't say. She could tell Zheng Zha was about to run into serious trouble.

The mercenary captain soon came out of the passage. He gave Zheng Zha, whose eyes flickered with panic, a long look. "Why do you say that?"

"Uh, instinct... instinct..." Zheng Zha answered awkwardly. Because of the Lord God's restrictions, he couldn't say he had seen it. If he did, reward points would definitely be deducted, and the story characters would also grow suspicious.

After quite a while, the mercenary captain pointed meaningfully at Zheng Zha and the middle-aged man, Mou Gang. "All right. You, and you too, come in with us."

Zheng Zha and Mou Gang's hands and feet immediately went cold. Everyone who had seen the movie knew the passage was a death trap. Anyone who went in would surely die. Even the most skilled mercenary captain had died under the lasers, and his death had been particularly gruesome: the lasers had cut him into countless tiny pieces of flesh.

Zheng Zha finally understood why Zhang Jie had said not to change the plot carelessly. Changes to the plot could very well bring enormous danger, just like now.

Mou Gang suddenly clutched his head and screamed, "No! I don't want to! I don't want to go in!"

Still shouting, he tried to run outside, startling everyone.

Seeing Mou Gang flee, all the mercenaries raised their rifles and aimed at him. But just as they were about to shoot, Ye Siyu's back, with the bag slung over it, came into view and blocked their line of sight.

When the mercenary captain saw Ye Siyu appear, he immediately shouted for the other mercenaries to stop. After all, Ye Siyu had a "bomb" on his back. If they fired recklessly, they might trigger an explosion.

"Whoosh!" Blocking the mercenaries' view, Ye Siyu threw the fire axe in his hands with all his strength at the fleeing Mou Gang.

"Ah!" A scream rang out as Mou Gang fell to the ground. The fire axe Ye Siyu had just thrown had struck his leg.

"Brwy! It hurts!" Mou Gang lay on the ground, clutching his right leg where the fire axe had hit him, his face twisted in pain,

crying out in pain without pause. Although the axe blade hadn't cut him, Ye Siyu had thrown it with considerable force, and the impact had left his right leg swollen. "You've run away fifty-three times already. You might not be tired of it, but I am..." Ye Siyu said calmly. As he spoke, he walked over to Mou Gang and picked up the fire axe. Then, under everyone's astonished gazes, he raised it and swung it at Mou Gang's thigh.

"Crack!" The other end of the axe slammed into Mou Gang's thigh. The sharp sound of bone breaking echoed through the small central control room as Ye Siyu broke his thigh.

"Ah!" An even more agonized scream came from Mou Gang.

"I'll go in with you." After breaking Mou Gang's thigh, Ye Siyu turned to the mercenary captain, who had long since been left dumbfounded by his actions. What had just happened hadn't affected his mood in the slightest.

Zhang Jie narrowed his eyes, a meaningful glint in them as he looked at Ye Siyu.

He's a devil!

Those words sprang to the minds of Zheng Zha, the mercenaries, and everyone else except Zhang Jie, who seemed to have thought of something. A trace of fear entered their gazes as they looked at Ye Siyu, because no one wanted someone beside them to be a madman whose actions couldn't be predicted by ordinary reasoning.

While everyone was still dumbfounded by Ye Siyu's actions, he had already walked to the entrance of the laser passage. He looked calmly at the mercenaries and asked, "Are you going in or not?"

With that, he was the first to step into the laser passage.

The mercenary captain took a deep breath and, after calming the shock Ye Siyu had caused him, pulled Zheng Zha into the passage. "Let's go in."

Unlike Ye Siyu, who didn't care in the least, Zheng Zha was cold all over, his eyes filled with fear. He knew what they were about to face: deadly lasers that could easily cut a person to pieces.

Once everyone had entered, the doors at both ends of the laser passage closed at the same time, just as they had in the plot.

The sudden development startled the mercenaries, who gripped their guns and watched the passage warily. Zheng Zha was so frightened his legs went weak. He knew danger was coming.

Seeing this, the mercenary captain asked over the communicator, "Kaplan?"

Outside, Kaplan hurriedly replied, "It must be some kind of dormant defense system. If too many people pass through the door, it activates after they enter."

The mercenary captain shouted, "Then keep it dormant!"

Kaplan was already sweating profusely with anxiety. His hands kept flying over the keyboard as he answered, "I'm trying!"