Tonight, Alice joins the hunt.

The middle-aged woman opened her eyes to find herself in a palace drama set before her 'transmigration'. She was, in fact, the main antagonist, and within days she quickly adapted to this fantasy martial arts dynasty world. She soon transformed herself, changing her villainous persona from a vicious empress in a palace intrigue drama to that of Wu Zetian in this other world—after exhausting all her scheming, she ascended the throne like the Wu Meiniang she knew, enjoying all the glory and wealth she had ever desired.

This is only one lifetime, and many lifetimes will follow. Zheng Zha's single finger strike is enough to create two extraordinary beings who will not spiral out of control. Furthermore, their past identities as reincarnators and Zheng Zha's gaze will allow them to avoid a potentially inevitable epochal calamity and exist in the world forever.

They...were very happy. A happiness that aligned with Zheng Zha's philosophy, and also with their own personal beliefs.

Then, time continued to flow.

Mu Gang, who died outside the laser corridor, had already made arrangements, so there was no need to worry. As for the souls of the deceased mercenaries, Zheng Zha had collected them and created several parallel worldlines based on Resident Evil for them to reincarnate in—after all, with an infinite number of individual entities, there were countless parallel worldlines. What impact so many 'urban soldier king rebirths' would have on those parallel worldlines was not within Zheng Zha's consideration.

He can save people.

But he will only save those who are right in front of him, those he can see and recognize. The consequence of this is that everyone in Raccoon City who becomes a zombie or is bitten by a zombie receives the privilege of being reincarnated in an independent parallel world. But this cost is not even a fraction of the extent of his expansion.

"Hypocritical," Zhan Lan complained.

However, Zheng Zha simply smiled.

Whether something is good or bad is not for you to decide. It is for me to decide.

Zhan Lan's lips twitched, and she fell silent. Zhang Jie, on the other hand, smoked the entire time, perhaps unsure of what to say.

Meanwhile, Li Xiaoyi, who was still waiting for his turn to leave, stared blankly at this group of guys who seemed like big shots all along but did nothing, feeling like he might have stumbled into a pyramid scheme.

Unfortunately, it's a bit too difficult for mortals to foresee the actions of beings beyond their species. However, this also has its advantages; at least when it's time for him to leave, he won't have too many distracting thoughts, which would prevent him from needing a lot of time to adapt when facing a new destiny.

So, the story continues. The reincarnators, who were maintaining the operation of the original world line, arrived at the very end of the Resident Evil universe without doing anything—the reincarnators were separated from the protagonist team, the Red Queen was remotely shut down, and in a few minutes the new reincarnators would be able to return to the main god space.

Naturally, there's an unexpected twist. The unexpected twist is that the death of a certain deity has greatly amplified the T-virus, a key element in the Resident Evil series. While the Reincarnators are killing time in the power-deprived control room, a super-mutated creature capable of devouring the Earth's core and becoming a celestial being is rapidly developing. And it will undoubtedly be able to unleash its first cry, silencing all sentient life on Earth, the instant before the Reincarnators return to the God Realm.

"This is your problem, Zhang Jie." Luo Ye and Zhan Lan both looked at Zhang Jie, who helplessly lit another cigarette—cigarette butts littered the ground at his feet, and his face was full of helplessness and resignation.

—This is indeed his business. Because Luo Ye doesn't belong to this point in time, while Zhan Lan and Zheng Zha have both transcended it. Therefore, a transcendent life form born in the past can only pose a threat to his past as a second-tier member who hasn't yet transcended the world—he took a deep breath and finished the entire cigarette in one go.

The next moment, at this point in time, only the double-A-level enhanced psychic power silently surged forth. It seeped into the sky, penetrated the atmosphere, and, in a butterfly effect, disturbed the outer layer of the atmosphere to a perfectly controlled range.

Thus, harmless sunlight transformed into lethal radiation specifically targeting a particular type of organism. And a life form about to be born, an ideal being born at an extraordinary level, was thus eliminated by Zhang Jie in a morally sound way—using the AA enhancement and third-order gene lock that only existed at this point in time—without affecting the stability of his own timeline.

All things thus come to an end.

The Resident Evil story has come to an end.

And when the end of all things is reorganized and reborn, what appears in Luo Ye's eyes is an alien world that she has never experienced before.

She saw Zheng Zha, Zhan Lan, and Zhang Jie again, as well as Li Xiaoyi, who was almost ready to leave. At the same time, she also saw a large group of newcomers whose names she hadn't yet asked, along with Ba Wang, Ling Dian… and Chu Xuan.

She nodded to Chu Xuan, while Ba Wang and the other two greeted the people in their group. During this simple greeting and exchange of information, Zheng Zha arranged the paths to reincarnation for the newcomers, whose names he hadn't even been asked.

He hadn't paid attention to them before. After all, back then, Zheng Zha acted and thought like an ordinary person, possessing the virtues and vices of an ordinary human being. So, naturally, he wasn't interested in those clueless hooligans and self-important white-collar workers... Therefore, he had forgotten about these people. But now, everything is different.

Because he walked the path of pioneering, and those who were destined to be there would naturally receive his blessings. While compiling the universes and destinies for the reincarnation of the newcomers to the Central Continent Team who would soon be leaving the scene, he also created parallel world lines for all the victims on this ship.

As before, mortals could neither observe nor perceive the actions of the transcendents. Furthermore, the transcendents never entertained the worthless thought or behavior of flaunting their divine manifestations before mortals—the newcomers, as had happened before, left the Central Continent Team after the story began. And they all quickly exited the stage.

So, only one remains. A young man named Li Shuaixi, who will soon die. He will follow the Zhongzhou Team for the foreseeable future until he decides that the team is no longer worth his time.

then……

Chu Xuan, who hadn't said much until now, suddenly spoke up.

"Houtu is dead," he said, adjusting his glasses.

Chapter Thirty-Four: The Path of Destiny, Part Two

"Houtu?" Zheng Zha frowned, his thoughts churning but he couldn't find the entry. "Is it a person? This name sounds a bit strange..."

He looked at Chu Xuan, somewhat puzzled.

"Or is it that person outside...?"

“It’s outside,” Chu Xuan replied, clutching his glasses. “I don’t know exactly who it is. But through calculation and elimination, we can deduce that the individual whose name is a combination of the characters ‘Hou’ and ‘Tu’ has already perished. And its death has made the transition between life and death unstable… perhaps it’s more difficult, perhaps it’s simpler.”

"Is that so..." Zheng Zha still looked confused.

At that moment, Luo Ye, who was standing to the side, suddenly asked a question.

"What are we?" she asked, in a questioning tone. "What kind of squad is ours? And what are we called?"

"We are the Central Continent Team, the Reincarnators of the Central Continent Team... Wait, what does the word 'reincarnation' mean? It sounds like it was just randomly put together and made up?"

Zheng Zha's face showed surprise, but it quickly turned into understanding—he combined and pieced together the words 'life and death,' 'cycle,' and 'reincarnation' using literal translations. Then, he recalled a large number of allusions and legends from his memory for reference—he roughly understood what had happened and what it meant.

"Is that so..." He sighed softly. "The Reincarnation Squad. The Reincarnation Squad... I see. So the fighting outside has gotten this bad. In that case, our final battlefield has become the safest place?"

“That’s true,” Luo Ye replied.

So the group continued on their way.

Chu Xuan didn't explain why he mentioned the name 'Houtu' here. And the others didn't press him further—they were all so familiar with each other that many things didn't need to be explicitly stated; they understood each other implicitly. Besides, this wasn't a bad thing for the Central Continent Team.

Leaving a way out for 'Houtu' might be considered a deal Chu Xuan made himself. But 'Houtu' does indeed have some conceptual connection with the group of reincarnators—perhaps this can be considered settling a karmic debt. So this sacrifice can be seen as gaining a substantial benefit.

So the group continued onward...onward.

Li Xiaoyi was eliminated, just like in the original script, abducted by a sudden alien attack. The other newcomers also perished, becoming incubation containers for the aliens—of course, Zheng Zha didn't let them suffer the agony of death, but instead replaced their bodies with substitutes before their inevitable demise. And after that, it was a satisfying reincarnation in another world or urban rebirth.

Zheng Zha made arrangements for all of them.

Of course, this did not prevent him from being chased up and down by the aliens according to the script of the online world—the aliens at this time of time were about 270 percent stronger than the batch in his memory due to the change in concepts—which slightly increased the amount of exercise for the reincarnators.

Of course, this doesn't affect the final result. After all, even if these aliens' attributes all increased by 270 trillion times, in the eyes of the transcendental species, they wouldn't look much different from their original appearance. Moreover, they didn't become that much stronger.

Luo Ye adjusted her glasses—in her vision, deep within the universe, ancient life was growing stronger. It was a sign of the resurgence of the creator of the alien creators, the ancient alien serpent god. And this enormous life form, which even at its peak would have been nothing more than an interstellar serpent, was expanding due to the loss of ownership of many concepts in the universe, and was rapidly touching upon the workings of time and space.

The ouroboros, the serpent of order—this is the ultimate form that the origin of the aliens can touch in Luo Ye's eyes. It is the pinnacle of the true god's status, with the opportunity to touch great beings that transcend realms. And its time loop will soon be formed, after which it will use the aliens existing at any point in time as tentacles to invade the world lines of the true gods.

She glanced at Bawang and Lingdian, and then at Zhang Jie, who had just dealt with a young extraordinary being—clearly, for beings below the level of True God who hadn't yet reached the transcendent realm, having another True God from a different faction within their own source world was extremely detrimental to their physical and mental health. And since it was a bad thing, then should it be corrected?

"Do you need my help?"—She didn't say it directly, but simply conveyed the meaning.

"No need, I/we can handle it." — That was the feedback she received.

Thus, the members of the team, including Zhang Jie and Zero Point, reverted to their former forms. Their true nature, however, detached itself from the cramped starship. They journeyed to the far reaches of space, found the ancient serpent god outside the area where the story unfolded, and were immediately subjected to a merciless beating.

It was a truly massive battle, the entire galaxy ablaze with fire—endless stars were swallowed by nightmares, and the Serpent God's material home ground was forcibly replaced by a spiritual home ground. Its true form was locked in close combat and immobilized by a Wolf God of equal power, unable to budge an inch even as the energy surges from each struggle were enough to engulf a planetary system. And in the instant it finally revealed its only weakness in this endless, protracted battle, a single, once-in-a-lifetime magical bullet pierced through every moment of its image.

The ancient serpent died, its path to true godhood forever halted at the pinnacle of transcendent life. And as the three shameless brawlers returned to the cramped interior of the starship, the script unfolded exactly at the final scene of the original story.

With the demise of the Protoss, the enhanced Xenomorph horde weakened from its original form and reverted to its previous state. Overlord temporarily withdrew at this point. The remaining Xenomorphs, after paying a heavy price, defeated the Xenomorph Queen who had taken over the starship.

Everything is going smooth.

Except for one.

Just as the Alien Queen died and the story was about to end, Luo Ye raised his hand and stopped time.

All the reincarnators of the Central Continent Team turned their heads in unison, looking at the new individual who shouldn't be alive at this point in time.

Li Shuaixi, a newcomer to the Zhongzhou Team. He was originally supposed to uncover Chu Xuan's scheme within the Alien's script and severely injure most of the Zhongzhou Team members with a grenade—strictly speaking, he might be the only Reincarnator on record to have managed to frustrate Chu Xuan. Although there were various reasons and hidden circumstances involved, he accomplished what he set out to do. Even though he ultimately fell short and died due to Chu Xuan's scheme, his achievement is undeniable.

—He should have done it this way, died this way.

But while he was online during that time, he did nothing. He didn't get angry, he didn't betray anyone; he fulfilled every duty assigned to him by the Central Continent Team and survived to the end alongside the other members of the team.

And so, Chu Xuan watched him in the stillness of time.

"You deserve to die," Chu Xuan said indifferently, his tone devoid of any emotion.

During the pause, Li Shuaixi, who should have been just an ordinary mortal, revealed a slight smile.

"I am Di Jun," he said—he simply spoke, without his aura suddenly becoming stronger or displaying any special effects.

"I know," Chu Xuan replied coldly, "but you deserve to die too."

“Yes, damn it.” Di Jun nodded, not objecting to Chu Xuan’s statement.

He glanced around, his gaze unmistakably not fixed on the reincarnators but directed towards other distant places. Perhaps everything within the entire finite multiverse of the final war had already come into his view, and a satisfied smile appeared on his face.

“This universe is wonderful.” He raised his hand and chopped off his own neck with a chop to the neck.

"Perhaps you can avert our tragedy—even if it's an eternal war, at least all races and all civilizations can coexist under the same sunlight."

he died.

When he died, all the stars in the entire multiverse—both inside and outside—dimmed for a moment.

The sun, the stars, the light—they became ownerless. And the records belonging to the individual 'Di Jun' quickly faded from the minds of all sentient beings. Not a trace remained.

And so, the corpse lying on the ground became Li Shuaixi again. He became an ordinary, unremarkable mortal, simply possessing a little bit of cleverness.

"Is this also a matter of fate?" Zheng Zha glanced at Chu Xuan—although he no longer remembered anything about the individual 'Di Jun,' he still remembered what Chu Xuan had just said. And that was enough for him to deduce the truth—even with his muscular brain, he could estimate the truth with a high degree of accuracy.

Another Holy Emperor has died.

But even this deceased Holy Emperor still had a sliver of hope left.

Perhaps after countless eons, another similar yet different 'he' will rise again from here. Perhaps... perhaps it won't even take countless eons.

However, whether or not that sliver of room for maneuver is left depends on the decision of the reincarnator at this moment.

"If you think so, then so be it." Chu Xuan pushed up his glasses, giving what was already a very clear answer for him.

Zheng Zha chuckled, stretched out his hand, and with a flick of his finger, he completed Li Shuaixi's reincarnation without assigning him any kind of fate—he even placed Li Shuaixi's reincarnation point outside his observation range. As for what kind of fate this newly reincarnated person would experience in the new world, that would depend entirely on his own talent and capacity.

Perhaps bitter, perhaps glorious, perhaps full of honor, perhaps tragic and desolate—he, Zheng, has already paved a path, and how those who walk on it will end up is not something he will consider at all.

So……

Luo Ye, who never commented on the past, raised a finger, causing the working order of time to reappear in this universe. Then, the world moved on to the next scene.

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The Grudge.

The next world that Luo Ye saw was the Ju-on II world, one second before the arrival of the reincarnators.

It is the Earth that has not yet been cleansed by Patchouli, and has not yet turned into a desolate dead star.

At this point in time, due to the life-and-death changes brought about by the death of 'Houtu', this planet has become a desolate wasteland.

In the original script, the Ju-on 2 universe consisted of only one female ghost, Kayako, and two male ghosts, one large and one small, who were the main targets that the Central Continent Team had to face and deal with. However, now—

Luo Ye looked around and found that the entire city was covered by rampaging vengeful spirits. The streets were deserted, with only shadowy ghostly figures drifting about. The sky was filled with dark clouds, and within the cloud curtain were thousands of faces watching the earth. And deep within the earth's veins, a web of hair, seemingly alive, seeped into every corner of the rock strata.

There is no one left living in this city.

As Luo Ye extended his gaze, he discovered that there was hardly any living thing left on this planet—the vengeful spirits had killed every living person, every living animal, and in the end, even the life of every tree, every blade of grass, and every microorganism was taken away, leaving this planet with a death and loneliness even more thorough than that brought by Patchouli's cleansing.

The situation was slightly awkward, but not difficult to resolve—she reached out, intending to make some changes. However, at that moment, a voice stopped her.