Infinite Terror: I Have a Chat Group

"My second question is, what do you think is the biggest reason we can survive in horror movies?" Zhang Jie continued to ask Zhan Lan.

Zhan Lan paused for a moment, then touched her forehead and said, "Power? No, luck? No, it's too unpredictable, sometimes good, sometimes bad... It must be that I know the plot well, right?"

Zhang Jie laughed and said, "Bingo, you got it right. Knowing the plot is our greatest advantage, so I will never change the plot before I am absolutely sure. And if anyone tries to forcibly change the plot to get reward points, I don't mind sending him to hell."

Without a doubt, Zhang Jie was misleading the Zhongzhou team so that they could become "ordinary" and he could live longer.

However, Lin Yu didn't care. Zhang Jie's actions were exactly what Lin Yu wanted. For Lin Yu, the less danger there was, the better, as long as the plot wasn't changed at this stage.

As for reward points and side quests, we'll talk about those after we've gained enough strength through the chat group.

After passing through several steel gates, the group arrived at a central computer control room. Of course, the central computer, Flame Queen, was now out of control, so it was no longer possible to directly control the entire laboratory from here.

The most computer-savvy mercenary was named Kaplan. He immediately turned on three laptops and started typing away on them. However, several minutes passed, and the door leading to the central computer remained tightly shut.

"Why isn't it open yet?" a mercenary couldn't help but ask.

Kaplan, without turning his head, said, "The Flame Queen is an intelligent computer with a very complete defense system. If it were so easy to breach its firewall, it wouldn't be used as the main computer for the laboratory..."

As they were speaking, a soft sound rang out, and the tightly closed door slowly opened. Matthew Addison nodded and said, "Pack the things up!" After saying that, he turned around and looked at Zheng Zha and the others.

"You stay here."

After Matthew Addison finished speaking, he walked inside on his own. He walked very cautiously, each step showing great care. Even so, when he reached the middle of the passage, he was still startled because the glass walls around him suddenly lit up. This abrupt feeling was enough to make an ordinary person's hands and feet go weak.

Kaplan's voice came through the intercom: "Don't worry, it's just an automatic sensor light, nothing to be concerned about."

[Ha, automatic sensor lights? I don't know where you get your confidence from!]

Lin Yu sneered inwardly, but showed no sign of anything unusual on his face. This was a crucial moment, and he absolutely could not show any abnormality and attract attention.

Matthew Addison had already placed the transmitter, a device resembling a mobile phone, on the door's sensor. Kaplan then started typing on the keyboard, and after a short while, with a soft click, the door leading to the central computer finally began to slowly open.

Matthew Addison sighed and called out to the crowd outside the passageway, "Alright, bring the stuff over."

Alice suddenly asked, "What? What is that?"

Kaplan, who was closest to her, said, "This is a device that can shut down the Flame Queen. It releases a powerful electric current, disrupts the mainframe, and forces it to restart..."

Just then, the mercenary carrying the device was about to enter the passage when Zheng Zha finally couldn't help but shout, "Wait, wait a minute! Don't you think something's strange? This AI computer is far too useless. You just let it restart like that. I don't think things are that simple. There might be something peculiar in this passage."

The mercenaries all stopped abruptly, and everyone looked at him strangely. Janan sighed inwardly, silently left him, and stood next to the heroine, Alice.

Lin Yu had naturally hidden in a corner, trying his best not to attract the attention of the mercenaries.

Matthew Addison walked out of the corridor. He looked at Zheng Zha silently for a long time before finally saying, "Alright, you, and you too, come in with us."

His finger pointed at Zheng Zha and the middle-aged man next to him, Mou Gang.

Lin Yu breathed a sigh of relief. Although he had been trying to keep a low profile, he was still worried that the fanfiction author might cause trouble. Fortunately, his worries did not come to pass.

Zheng Zha and Mu Gang felt their hands and feet turn ice cold. They knew what was going to happen next and were filled with immense fear.

Unable to withstand the pressure, Mu Gang suddenly clutched his head and screamed, "No, I don't want to! I don't want to go in!"

As he spoke, he suddenly yelled and ran back the way he came. Before Zheng Zha and the others could react, the mercenaries had already drawn their guns and shot him away. When he landed, he was already a corpse riddled with bullet holes.

Looking at Mu Gang's corpse, Lin Yu felt a pang of pity, but then he thought that being shot to death was actually a relatively easy death. If he couldn't adapt to the God Space, there were many other deaths that were a hundred times more tragic. Perhaps for Mu Gang, dying here was a good thing.

Once the final battle is over and people have the ability, someone like Mu Gang can resurrect them and let them live comfortably for the rest of their lives, which can be considered compensation.

Matthew Addison looked coldly at Zheng Zha and said, "I suspected you from the beginning. Although your identities are registered in the company's records, you don't seem like company security guards at all. Now you're planning to stop us from restarting the Flame Queen? Alright, Zheng Zha, let's go in together."

After saying that, Matthew Addison didn't stand on ceremony and pulled him and the other mercenaries inside.

As soon as they entered the passage, just like in a movie, both doors closed simultaneously. Matthew Addison, no longer caring about Zheng Zha, and the other mercenaries cautiously observed the situation with their weapons in hand. At the same time, he asked into the intercom, "Kaplan?"

Kaplan said urgently, "It's some kind of dormant defense mechanism that will activate once too many people pass through the gate."

Matthew Addison said, "Then let it remain dormant!"

Kaplan was sweating profusely with anxiety, his hands flying across the keyboard as he replied, "I'm trying!"

Matthew Addison told his men with a sigh, "Stay where you are and don't move."

Upon hearing this, Zheng Zha was filled with immense fear. He knew that the plot had begun to unfold, and he had become a part of it!

Sure enough, the light on the two walls directly opposite suddenly dimmed, and a thin laser line appeared between the glass walls. As the laser line formed, it suddenly slashed towards the mercenaries and Zheng Zha!

Matthew Addison reacted the fastest, tackling the two people next to him to the ground. But the female mercenary in front wasn't so lucky; a laser slashed her head, and blood stained the ground.

Another mercenary shouted, "Sir, another one is coming!"

One of the mercenaries tried to dodge the first laser by jumping up, but the laser suddenly changed course and cut him in half. Meanwhile, the mercenary who was behind him lay down the moment he jumped, thus avoiding the laser. As for the mercenary captain Matthew, he clung to the ceiling and narrowly escaped the laser.

But soon, a third laser beam came. Matthew tried to see the trajectory of the laser, but Zheng Zha grabbed Matthew and pressed him against the door.

Matthew Addison struggled desperately, shouting, "Let me go! We'll be cut in two right here! Let me go!"

Zheng Zha gripped his collar tightly, saying, "Trust me! Trust me! This time we can't hide. We have to stick close to the door; that's the only way we can try our luck! Trust me!"

Zheng Zha knew that the laser would turn into a net, leaving no room to dodge, and could only pray that Kaplan would stop the mechanism quickly.

The third laser beam transformed into a net-like pattern in the middle. Matthew, who was struggling to lie down, could only close his eyes in despair as he watched the laser beam turn into a net. But at the last moment, Kaplan finally shut down the mechanism, and the laser net disappeared. Zheng Zha and Matthew slowly opened their eyes and looked ahead in disbelief. If it weren't for the burning sensation on their faces, they would have thought that everything just now was an illusion.