Brian Carter was also standing beside the two at this moment. He had been quietly listening, but noticed that Michael Bolton was watching him with a strange look, which made him very uncomfortable. That look carried both pity and mockery, as if... as if he were looking at a dead man. This made Brian Carter feel extremely uneasy.

Just then, the mercenary captain Matthew Addison said, "Alright, let's move out. The rest of you, come with me."

Michael Bolton was acting very naturally at this moment, always following behind the main group. From the way he looked, it seemed like he was constantly searching left and right for something. The mercenaries saw this but didn't say much; only Brian Carter and the others understood the reason—Michael Bolton couldn't be more than a hundred meters away from Matthew Addison, so he had to stay at the back of the main group.

They passed through several more steel doors along the way, and then everyone arrived at a central computer control room. Of course, the central computer, the Red Queen, was already out of control, so it was no longer possible to operate the entire laboratory from here.

The most computer-savvy mercenary was named Kaplan. He immediately opened three laptops. From Brian Carter and the others' perspective, his computer skills were top-notch. His hands clattered rapidly across the three keyboards, but after several minutes, the door leading directly to the central computer remained tightly shut.

Another female mercenary couldn't help but ask, "Why is it taking so long?"

Without turning his head, Kaplan replied, "The Red Queen is an intelligent computer. Its defense system is extremely complete. If it could be hacked so easily, they wouldn't use it as the main computer for the lab..."

As he spoke, there was a soft sound, and the tightly sealed door finally began to open slowly. Matthew Addison nodded and said, "Pack up the equipment!" After speaking, he turned to look at Brian Carter and the others.

"You stay here."

Beyond the door was a corridor more than ten meters long, with glass walls on both sides, completely different from the steel walls outside the door.

After Matthew Addison finished speaking, he walked inside on his own, moving very cautiously, each step full of care. Even so, when he reached the middle of the corridor, he was still startled, because the glass walls around him suddenly lit up. The abruptness of it was enough to scare an ordinary person out of their wits.

Kaplan's voice came through the intercom: "Relax, it's just the automatic sensor lights, nothing to worry about."

(It’s obviously the laser from the automatic defense system, not some sensor light, and nothing to worry about...?)

Brian Carter thought to himself. He suddenly wanted to say something, when a small hand grabbed him. Turning his head, he saw the bespectacled girl standing beside him, gently shaking her head.

At this moment, Matthew Addison had already set up the transmitter, a device similar to a cell phone. All he had to do was place it on the door’s sensor. Kaplan immediately started typing something on the keyboard again, and before long, with a soft sound, the door to the central computer finally began to open slowly.

Matthew Addison let out a breath and called to the others outside the corridor, "Alright, bring the equipment over."

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

Kaplan, who was closest to her, said, "This is a device that can shut down the Red Queen. It can release a strong electric current, disrupt the mainframe, and force it to reboot..."

At this moment, the mercenary holding the device was about to enter the corridor. Brian Carter finally couldn't help but shout, "Wait, wait! Don’t you think something’s off? This intelligent computer seems way too useless. You’re just going to reboot it like this? I don’t think it’s that simple. There’s probably something strange about this corridor."

The mercenaries all stopped immediately, and everyone looked at him strangely. The bespectacled girl sighed, let go of his hand, and walked far away to stand beside the heroine Alice.

Matthew Addison walked out of the corridor, silently looking at Brian Carter. After a long while, he finally said, "Alright, you, and you, come in with us." He pointed at Brian Carter and the middle-aged man Eric Bennett.

Brian Carter and Eric Bennett instantly felt cold all over. Anyone who had seen this movie knew that this corridor was a death trap—anyone who entered would definitely die. Even the most skilled mercenary captain died under the lasers, and died in an extremely gruesome way, sliced into countless tiny pieces by the lasers.

Brian Carter finally understood why Michael Bolton had looked at him that way. Yes, he couldn’t help but want to change the plot, but the inertia of the plot itself was not so easily altered. Even if it was changed, the 'Lord God' might increase the difficulty several times over, just like now.

Suddenly, Eric Bennett clutched his head and screamed, "No, I don’t want to! I don’t want to go in!" As he shouted, he turned and ran back the way they had come. Before Brian Carter and the others could react, the mercenaries had already drawn their guns and shot him down. When he hit the ground, he was already a corpse riddled with bullet holes.

"Ah!"

Brian Carter and David Thompson suddenly vomited. A living person had just been shot dead in front of them. Brian Carter felt especially awful, because this man had basically died because he had meddled.