Matthew Addison looked at him coldly and said, "I suspected you all from the very beginning. Although your identities are registered in the company files, you don't look like company security at all. Now you're trying to stop us from rebooting the Red Queen? Enough, Brian Carter, let's go in together."

Brian Carter felt a chill all over his body. He still felt uncomfortable in his stomach after vomiting, but Matthew Addison showed no mercy, grabbing him and heading inside with the other mercenaries.

As soon as everyone entered the corridor, just like what happened in the movie plot, the doors on both sides closed simultaneously. Matthew Addison no longer cared about Brian Carter; he and the other mercenaries held their guns and watched cautiously. At the same time, he spoke into the communicator, " Kaplan?"

Kaplan replied urgently, "Some kind of dormant defense mechanism. Once too many people pass through the door, it activates after entry."

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

Kaplan was sweating profusely, his hands frantically tapping the keyboard as he answered, "I'm trying my best!"

Matthew Addison said helplessly to his subordinates, "Stay where you are. Don't move."

After hearing this, Brian Carter felt a chill run through him. He knew the plot had started, and he had become a part of it. Sure enough, the lights on both sides of the opposite walls suddenly dimmed, and a thin laser line appeared between the glass walls. As soon as it formed, the laser line slashed toward the mercenaries and Brian Carter!

Matthew Addison reacted the fastest, suddenly tackling the two people beside him to the ground. Brian Carter, who had been watching that side closely, instantly dropped to the floor the moment the laser appeared, so the laser only grazed his shoulder. The sharp, burning sensation seemed to brush right past his shoulder, and apart from that, his mind went completely blank.

"Medic! Medic!"

Matthew Addison's voice shouted loudly, snapping Brian Carter out of his daze. He turned his head and saw the female mercenary who served as the medic's head slowly moving, then falling straight to the ground in front of him. Her wide, dead eyes seemed like a curse, or perhaps a mockery.

"No, no! I don't want to die!" Brian Carter screamed frantically. Strangely, the more he screamed, the calmer he felt inside. He began to recall every detail of this scene from the Resident Evil movie.

Matthew Addison was supporting a mercenary whose fingers had been severed by the laser. At that moment, another mercenary shouted, "Sir, another one is coming!"

This time, the laser formed at leg height. Brian Carter recalled the details of this scene in his mind. He remembered that after the laser cut through the first mercenary, it would rise when the second mercenary jumped, slicing the second one apart. He had only one chance—if he failed, he would be killed by the laser! He didn't know if the plot would change here, so he could only choose to trust what he knew from the movie.

The laser began to sweep rapidly toward the four of them. The mercenary on the ground couldn't move and was quickly killed. The remaining two mercenaries kept retreating. Brian Carter stared wide-eyed, focusing intently on the mercenary's movements. One second, two seconds—at this life-or-death moment, Brian Carter felt as if time had slowed down. He couldn't hear any sounds; everything around him seemed to move in slow motion.

"Mental threshold exceeded! Reward: 500 points. Mental value increased by 20. Neural reaction speed increased by 30!"

A stiff but solemn voice rang in Brian Carter's ear, but he couldn't hear anything anymore. He could only focus on the mercenary's movements. Finally, at the moment the mercenary jumped, Brian Carter suddenly dropped to the ground. The laser swept past his eyes, the white light like the scythe of death. In that instant, Brian Carter believed what Michael Bolton had said—they really had entered this so-called game with their physical bodies. This was the work of the gods, or perhaps the game of demons. They... would die!

Sure enough, as the mercenary jumped, the laser suddenly rose, slicing him apart. After the laser passed, Brian Carter jumped up from the ground. He looked back and saw, through the glass window in the steel door behind them, the girl with glasses standing outside, her eyes filled with tears.

Brian Carter only had time to give her a slight smile, then he dragged Matthew Addison to press tightly against the door at the entrance where they had come in. Now, all he could do was pray that the plot wouldn't change at all. The laser would end when it neared the door. Don't even think about dodging it—it would turn into a grid and tear anyone apart. The only thing he could do was press tightly against the door and pray to the heavens, just as the plot showed, to end it all!

Matthew Addison struggled desperately and said, "Let go of me! We'll both be cut in half here! Let go of me!"

But Brian Carter grabbed his collar tightly and said, "Trust me! Trust me! This time, there's no way to dodge. Stay close to the door—it's the only way we might get lucky! Trust me!"