Infinite: Starting from Resident Evil

He couldn't let Claude escape; he had to follow the original script of fate, knocking Claude off the disc and sending him where he was meant to go.

Shen Ye had been running behind the group to guard against this scene, and immediately dodged and swung his sword to block Sephiroth's blade.

boom!

The clash of swords produced a deafening roar, and the resulting shockwave not only shattered the ground beneath their feet into dust, but also swept outwards from them, leaving the ground cracking in its wake.

Hearing the commotion behind them, the fleeing group immediately stopped and turned around to help Shen Ye.

"Run! You'll only get in my way if you stay here!" Shen Ye shouted anxiously upon seeing this.

Avalanche and the others, needless to say, are only of average strength except for Tifa; staying would only be a burden to him. As for Cloud… well, Shen Ye simply didn't want Cloud to stay, not because he cared about his life or death, but because he didn't want fate to repeat itself.

Moreover, Cloud's strength is not very good at this time, and he is also easily influenced by Sephiroth. If a real fight breaks out, he will probably cut Shen Ye's head with his sword, since Shen Ye has already stolen two women he likes.

However, although Barrett, Cloud, and the others hesitated after hearing his words, Tifa and Jessie ignored them and rushed towards Sephiroth. This made Shen Ye a little anxious. Wasn't this just sending them to their deaths? He immediately raised his hand and used the Four Symbols Pull on them, grabbing them out of thin air and throwing them back.

Tifa and Jesse got up from the ground, still wanting to help Shen Ye, but at this moment, a large number of Shinra special forces soldiers appeared above them in helicopters, jumping off continuously. So Barrett gave Biggles a look, and the two of them each forcibly carried one person, and under the cover of Cloud and Wedge, they left Mako Reactor No. 5 according to the planned evacuation route.

As Claude disappeared from sight, Sephiroth suddenly stopped, jumped to the side, and coldly stared at Shen Ye.

When Sephiroth stopped, the Grey Fera began to gather around him, spinning wildly as if to urge him to hurry up and catch up.

Sephiroth remained unmoved, but when he looked at Shen Ye, his gaze no longer held the same resolve as before; instead, a rare hint of hesitation appeared.

Of course, he wasn't hesitating about whether to chase after him, but rather whether to continue persisting. The sky was gradually brightening, and it was now the next day. What had happened in the past was an unchangeable fact. Even if he caught up with Claude now and threw him off the disc, it would still happen on the next day and have nothing to do with what was destined to happen.

Perhaps realizing that it was already beyond repair, the gray filaments stopped, then turned into wisps of gray mist and slowly disappeared into the air.

“You won this time.” Looking at the disappearing Grey Fera, Sephiroth slowly said to Shen Ye, “But fate will not give up so easily. Next time, and the time after that, it will still make its move. However, I am suddenly looking forward to seeing if you can continue to change things then.”

"It definitely can." Shen Ye nodded confidently.

“Okay, I’ll be waiting.” Sephiroth nodded and then disappeared.

Chapter 205! Fate is beginning to smile upon you.

(I somewhat regret focusing on the remake; if I had followed the original, the writing process would have been much easier.)

……

Sephiroth's last words left Shen Ye somewhat dazed.

Does the phrase "I'm waiting" mean waiting to watch the show, or waiting to see how he changes his fate?

After thinking about it, Shen Ye felt that it was most likely the latter.

"Sephiroth, you actually wanted to change your fate, you actually... you wanted to live, right?" Shen Ye said softly to the spot where Sephiroth had disappeared, then turned to leave.

However, it wasn't so easy for him to leave now. After Sephiroth left, Shinra special forces soldiers who arrived a step too late had already surrounded him. Among those special forces soldiers, Shen Ye also saw Scarlett.

Scarlett's face was full of anxiety. Although the special forces soldiers she brought had been implanted with chips and obeyed her orders completely, she shouldn't forget that the Shinra president was still monitoring the area. She didn't have the strength to turn against the Shinra president right now.

Shen Ye noticed Scarlett's expression and saw that she was so anxious she was almost stamping her feet. He felt a warmth in his heart, gave her a reassuring look, and then transformed into a streak of light to break out of the encirclement.

As soon as Shen Ye made a move, Scarlett naturally couldn't just stand by and watch, so he ordered the Shinra special forces to give chase, but the order was to capture him alive and not to hurt him.

In fact, although these Shinra special forces soldiers were soaked in Mako liquid and injected with Genova cells, their strength was still very average and had not yet grown. They were even far inferior to Roche. When Shen Ye broke through the encirclement, he only used the Four Symbols Pull to push more than a dozen special forces soldiers away. The seemingly impenetrable encirclement was easily breached by him.

Before the gap closed, Shen Ye jumped out and ran for several hundred meters before arriving at a bridge connecting the discs.

Below the bridge lies the fifth block of the lower district, but its height of three hundred meters made Shen Ye feel dizzy.

At this moment, the Shinra special forces soldiers had caught up. Shen Ye glanced back at them and saw that Scarlett had also followed. He blew her a kiss and then jumped off the bridge.

Seeing Shen Ye jump off the bridge, Scarlett almost fainted from fright. That was a height of three hundred meters. Even an iron ball would be smashed into a disc if it fell from that height, let alone a person.

Covering her mouth to stifle a scream, Scarlett ran to the bridge and peered down, her heart pounding with relief. Just one glance, and her anxiety vanished completely, for a parachute appeared in her vision…

……

It's not surprising that Shen Ye has a parachute. Back in Roanapura, Coco and Farmer both used parachutes when they got off the plane.

They originally planned to throw them away after use, but Shen Ye recycled them because they were using military-grade parachutes, which are not easy to buy on the market.

Carefully controlling the parachute, Shen Ye tried to drift towards a less crowded area. However, he was probably unlucky. When he was about 100 meters above the ground, a gust of wind suddenly blew him off course.

This veered several hundred meters, and Shen Ye could even see the buildings below. Moreover, due to the drop in altitude, it was too late for him to control his parachute to drift to another place.

As they got closer to the ground, Shen Ye became increasingly puzzled, wondering if it was really such a coincidence.

The gust of wind happened to blow him near Alice's house, because the place he was about to land was the church where Alice used to plant flowers.

Bang!

Shen Ye landed on the roof of the church. As soon as he was on his feet, he began to retrieve his parachute to prevent the wind from blowing him off again. Although he wouldn't die from the fall at this height, it would definitely hurt.

Just as he retracted his parachute into his system space and was preparing to find a way down from the roof, he saw the large hole that Zack had made in the roof. Curious, he took two steps forward and heard a crack as the tiles beneath his feet and the roof shattered at the same time.

He fell.

The church roof is nearly twenty meters high from the ground. For an ordinary person, falling from that height would either kill them or leave them crippled. However, given Shen Ye's current physical condition, he only felt a little pain, especially since there was a layer of flowers underneath him.

and many more……

Shen Ye was suddenly stunned. How could there be flowers under him? Weren't all the flowers here already pulled up? He remembered that the soil had been dug up.

Realizing something was wrong, Shen Ye suddenly sat up from the flower bushes and saw Alice staring blankly at him, holding a small hoe.

Shen Ye was a little dumbfounded, and even wondered if he had transmigrated again, and to a parallel world of Final Fantasy VII.

But that doesn't make sense, the system didn't give any notification!

Just as Shen Ye's mind was in a complete mess, Alice finally made a move. She threw away the small hoe in her hand, pounced on Shen Ye, and pushed him back down from where he had sat up.

"Shen!" Alice called out in surprise in Shen Ye's ear.

At this moment, Shen Ye was relieved. He had not time-traveled, and Alice was still the same Alice.

But he quickly frowned, grabbed Alice's shoulders, and asked seriously, "What are you doing here? And what's with all these flowers?"

Looking at Shen Ye's serious expression, Alice blinked her eyes, sniffed at him with her delicate nose, and seemed to smell something. Suddenly, a smile bloomed on her face. She guessed what Shen Ye really wanted to ask.

Alice pulled away from Shen Ye's grip on her shoulders, leaned down and gently kissed Shen Ye's lips, then rested her head on Shen Ye's arm and said, "Did you think I deliberately restored this place to its original state so that someone would fall from the sky?"

Shen Ye didn't speak or make any movement, but his body suddenly tensed up.

"Alright, don't overthink it, let me explain." Alice pressed Shen Ye's chest and said, "It was those Gray Fila who did this. They restored this place and then drove me here early this morning, not letting me leave. Humph, of course I couldn't let them have their way, so I tried to move these flowers with a hoe, but I couldn't succeed. No matter how many I moved, they restored them. Then we were at a stalemate. But somehow, not long after, all the Gray Fila who were watching me suddenly disappeared. I was still in a daze when you fell from the sky."

Alice glanced at the large hole above her head and continued, "I was worried it was that person and was even planning to leave, but I never expected it to be you... Shen, it seems like fate is starting to smile on you."

Chapter 206! It doesn't matter who the protagonist is.

……

"I'm sorry, Alice." After hearing Alice's words, Shen Ye blushed, feeling extremely embarrassed and guilty. He felt very ashamed for doubting Alice.

However, this is quite normal. What just happened was almost exactly the same scene as when Claude and Aerith met in the original story. The only difference was that he was the one who fell.

At that moment, he suddenly understood Alice's last words; fate seemed to have truly changed...

Do not!

Suddenly, Shen Ye had another idea. Perhaps fate hadn't changed, but was still following the original plot, only now he was the protagonist. After all, not only were the two female leads in the story his people, but he was also involved in most of the events, leaving the original protagonist, Claude, with nothing to do and turning him into a passerby. So fate simply gave up and let him take Claude's place.

Thinking of this, Shen Ye frowned. It seemed that he had changed his fate, but in reality, there hadn't been much change. The events of the past few days were almost identical to the original plot. The collapse of Mako Reactor No. 1 and the failure of the Mako Reactor No. 5 operation plan hadn't changed at all. So now, perhaps as far as fate was concerned, as long as things were still going according to the script, it didn't matter who the protagonist was.

So Alice's words were a blessing in disguise, reminding him that if he didn't do something that could truly change the plot, fate would continue to unfold according to the original script.

"No wonder you left so decisively." Recalling Sephiroth's words when he left, and Black Fira's abrupt disappearance, Shen Ye understood somewhat.

While he was deep in thought, Alice did not disturb him. Instead, she lay quietly beside him. She enjoyed the time she spent alone with Shen Ye, especially now that they were lying together in the flowerbed, surrounded by flowers, which she found extremely romantic.

"I wish I could stay here forever!" Alice exclaimed.

Awakening from his reverie, Shen Ye heard Alice's words, affectionately put his arm around her shoulder, and then said something that particularly displeased her: "There will be other opportunities like this in the future, but for now, let's leave it at that.

"Let me lie down a little longer!" Alice insisted, pleading sweetly.

But Shen Ye remained unmoved, forcibly got up, then picked Alice up and carried her out, saying, "We'll find another place to lie down later, and you can lie down for as long as you want, however you want. But for now, we'll go back to your house first, check on Ms. Emina, and then we'll go to Seventh Street. Don't forget what will happen tonight."

tonight……

Upon hearing this, Alice immediately stopped struggling and obediently let Shen Ye carry her home...

Amina only sprained her ankle. Apart from having some difficulty moving around, she was perfectly fine. In fact, she even cooked a meal for Shen Ye and Alice after they returned.

Although Shen Ye didn't have much of an appetite because he was thinking about what to do that night to prevent the destruction of the Seventh District, he was starving after fighting all night and not eating anything in the morning. He ate and stuffed himself until he was full before saying goodbye to Emila with Alice and heading to the Seventh District by car.

However, due to what happened last night, traffic throughout Midgar was under control. Although vehicles were still allowed to pass, the efficiency was shockingly low. By the time Shen Ye and Alice arrived at the Seventh District, it was almost evening.

……

Inside the conference room of the Shinra Empire, a group of Shinra executives were gathered for a meeting.

The Shinra president, seated at the head of the table, crossed his arms, propped his chin on his hand, and coldly watched his subordinates gossiping loudly.

Their most frequent topic of discussion was how to handle avalanches and how to deal with Sephiroth's resurrection.

In fact, such meetings had been held several times before, but before Sephiroth appeared, they discussed the issue of how to deal with avalanches the most.