The Only Player in Infinite Terror

"I'm sorry, Captain, based on my experience, the director not only has extensive muscle tears, but also severe internal bleeding. I'm afraid..."

The medic, who looked like he was of Native American descent, gave Ling Qi a brief diagnosis and then reported to the Black captain Matthew with a troubled expression.

"No!" Black Captain Matthew slammed his fist on the floor in anger.

At this moment, his expression was even more grief-stricken than if his own father had died.

It was the first time I had met a senior executive at the company, and the first time I had a powerful backer. Two happy things happened at the same time.

But why did everything vanish in the blink of an eye?

Ling Qi, who had been in a coma, found himself in a mysterious space, becoming an audience member watching a stage play being performed within that space.

A handsome young man with parted hair was chopping wood in the yard when suddenly a beautiful woman wearing a red, high-slit cheongsam walked in through the gate.

"Have you ever saved a girl in Raccoon City?" the beautiful woman asked.

The handsome man with his hair parted turned around and immediately beamed with joy: "You're Ada?"

The beautiful woman replied coldly, "No, I am a tyrant!"

After she finished speaking, her body suddenly grew larger, bursting out of her cheongsam and transforming into a muscular super tyrant.

"What utter nonsense! It's an eyesore! Whoever showed me this scene should pay me for the emotional distress caused by watching it!" Ling Qi, who was on his deathbed, sat up in shock.

"Director, you're awake!"

Seeing Ling Qi, who had been given a death sentence by the medics, do a sit-up, the black captain Matthew was overjoyed.

Upon waking, Ling Qi examined his internal body and, with his extensive experience, immediately determined that his current condition was caused by genetic collapse and physical damage resulting from the activation of the genetic lock.

He chuckled and declared, "I'm awake, but I'll probably die soon."

"Huh?!" Everyone else was stunned upon hearing this.

Dude, you're about to die, and you're still laughing?

What does it mean?

Just as everyone was stunned, Ling Qi, who had regained his strength for the last time, smiled and lay back down on the ground, clearly having died just like that.

The medic girl trembled as she reached out to check Ling Qi's breath, then bent down and pressed her hand against his chest to listen to his heartbeat.

After doing all that, she silently shook her head at the onlookers.

The black captain, Matthew, was heartbroken. At that moment, he thought about many things.

Although he completed the company's task, he failed to protect the boss's beloved apprentice. Will he be able to make progress now that he's back?

Based on his understanding of the company, he probably won't be able to get promoted this time; he'll probably just end up in the lab as experimental consumables!

Of course, he wasn't the only one heartbroken on the field.

Zhang Jie was equally devastated at that moment.

No, how could Ling Qi be dead? Wasn't he a player from outside the box? How could he be dead!?

More importantly, Ling Qi hasn't told him how he can escape his destiny as a guide and survive!

How could he die? How could this be allowed?!

What's even more frustrating is that he used telekinesis to examine the body and found that Ling Qi's cause of death was genetic collapse caused by the activation of the gene lock.

If Ling Qi's injuries are only to his muscles, bones, or internal organs, even if they are fatal, Zhang Jie is fully confident that he can heal him with his AA-level telekinetic abilities, even if he is punished by the main god.

However, he simply cannot cure the damage caused by genetic collapse!

Although he could use the exchange ability 100% with the authority of the guide, and his combat strength was comparable to that of a fourth-tier gene lock expert, he had not mastered "microscopic" at all.

Looking at Zhang Jie's dejected appearance, Zheng Zha, who was also grieving over the loss of his leg, thought to himself, "Brother Jie is such a kind person. We haven't even known each other for very long, yet he's so saddened by the death of his comrade."

The distraught Black captain, Matthew, pondered the matter with increasing despair, even contemplating suicide.

"Kids, I'm back." Ling Qi, whose death had already been confirmed by autopsy, did a sit-up and greeted the onlookers with a toothy smile.

One of the mercenaries thought Ling Qi had come back from the dead and turned into a zombie, so he was so frightened that he raised his gun and pointed it at Ling Qi.

The black captain, Matthew, was terrified: "Damn it! Put the gun down!"

Even faster than his words were Zhang Jie's actions.

No one could see how Zhang Jie teleported from one side to the other.

With lightning speed, he completed the multiple shots before most people could even react.

Moreover, it seemed to be an illusion, but everyone present felt their consciousness momentarily lapse.

"Director, you're alive? No, wait, Director, you're not dead?" Black Captain Matthew slid in and knelt down in front of Ling Qi.

"I died, but I came back to life." Ling Qi stood up and dusted off the corner of his clothes. "Just as I said, the T-virus is a miracle that can bring people back to life."

"Of course, some people can only become zombies after being resurrected, but I am a perfect T-evolver that is hard to find even among billions of people, so I can die and be resurrected perfectly."

This is a lie.

Looking at the Rebirth Cross (fake) that had been consumed in his inventory, Ling Qi realized that his resurrection was thanks to this item.

However, he wasn't flustered at all, because he had a new True Rebirth Cross in his inventory.

【True Rebirth Cross】

【Consumables (1/1)】

[Item Description: Automatically activates when placed in the inventory. For players only, this item grants immediate and perfect resurrection upon death. Within three days of resurrection, players can choose to remove all rewards and penalties from the current horror movie and return to the Main God Space.]

[P.S.: Something that shouldn't exist... Man! What can I say...]

Clearly, this is the item given by reward option 1, GG's resurrection. The scene I vaguely saw before must have been the so-called GG.

"There's no point in having too many resurrection items; we still have to use them when necessary." Ling Qi calculated in his mind: "Dying this time will definitely clear up a lot of the evaluation from the main god; this is a worthwhile trade."

In fact, death was entirely within Ling Qi's plan.

The only thing he hadn't expected was that the side effects of unlocking the gene lock would be so painful!

He used to open the game quite often before.

Of course, because I'm too afraid of pain, I always set the pain level in Lingqi games to 0%.

"It must be a bug caused by the version update that made my pain shielding fail. I'm going to file a complaint. I'm definitely going to file a complaint after this game."

Ling Qi secretly made a vow.

The mercenaries looked at each other, and finally had no choice but to reluctantly accept this explanation.

Otherwise, what? You can't exactly say that Ling Qi is actually a savior, can you?

That's why he was able to rise from the dead like the legendary savior Jesus.

Moreover, Jesus had to wait three days to be resurrected, while Ling Qi's resurrection took less than three seconds.

On the other side, Zhang Jie, Zheng Zha, and Zhan Lan were now even more convinced of Ling Qi's previous claim that he was an outsider to the game.