[Do you want to understand the meaning of life? Do you want to truly... live?]
[YES–or–NO]
"As long as their strength is even slightly greater than ours, they'll naturally develop a desire to kill us. If they make a move, we'll only be able to fight back with our lives. Otherwise, once this horror movie ends, there's a very high chance the God's Dimension will erase us. After all, none of us have any extra reward points to let God deduct..."
"Ahhhhhhh!!!"
"What the hell are you screaming for?!"
"Where is this?"
...
Wen Lie woke up amidst a cacophony of screams and noise. The space, which should have been quiet, was filled with a hubbub that gave him a throbbing headache. The cold, uneven floor made his back and the back of his head feel extremely uncomfortable.
In an environment like this, no matter how exhausted someone was, it would be hard to keep sleeping, right?
Besides, Wen Lie didn't remember being asleep before he lost consciousness.
What on earth was going on here?
Wen Lie forced his eyes open. What came into his view was an unfamiliar ceiling—not only unfamiliar, but filthy, with blackened walls that looked like they had never been cleaned, inspiring an innate sense of revulsion.
He had mild mysophobia and couldn't stand this kind of environment.
Besides, wasn't this his bedroom?!
Wen Lie quickly sat up, and an unfamiliar scene presented itself before him.
It was a dim, enclosed room with nothing in it except iron bars and iron-framed windows, making him want to sing a song of prison sorrow.
Four men and two women stood together, seemingly discussing something with relatively calm expressions, looking like they were completely clear on their situation.
Four men and one woman stood nearby, making a chaotic racket to the point that Wen Lie couldn't hear what the first six were discussing.
A heavy sense of déjà vu washed over Wen Lie.
Wen Lie carefully observed the six people who appeared to be in the know: a young man with a few knife scars on his face, a young woman wearing glasses, a strikingly handsome man with an uncanny and mesmerizing appearance, a somewhat thin young man with tightly defined muscles, a pale-skinned cold girl with gender-neutral features, and an utterly unremarkable young man.
The noisy group nearby consisted of a fierce-looking bald brute, a scholarly-looking man in glasses, a baby-faced young man, a boy who looked at most like he had just graduated from elementary school, and a tall, beautiful woman dressed in elegant yet sexy attire.
The sense of déjà vu grew even stronger.
Wen Lie panicked a little. Setting aside the déjà vu for a moment, this looked like a prison cell.
Had he been thrown in a cell? He mused that he hadn't broken any laws, nor had he ever offended anyone.
The strikingly handsome man heard the noisy shouts and sighed, saying to the woman in glasses beside him, "You explain the situation to them."
The bespectacled woman smiled bitterly, nodded, and said to the six clueless people, "Everyone, think carefully. God has already implanted the information directly into your brains."
"...Damn it!"
Did he even need to think? Just hearing that familiar line was enough for Wen Lie to know what was going on.
Still, he had to give it some thought, or he wouldn't be able to verify if it was real.
Wen Lie concentrated, carefully recalling according to the words of the person who looked like Zhan Lan.
It was as if he had taken hold of a key, unlocking the gates of the memories sealed away in his brain, and a massive amount of information flooded his mind.
Survival and life, games or challenges, an unknown creator, chosen ones disappointed in reality, reincarnation teams, horror movie adventures...
The information that suddenly appeared in his mind wasn't scientific at all, and this unscientific phenomenon proved Wen Lie's guess.
God's Dimension! And the original version of God's Dimension at that.
Judging by the environment, this should be the beginning of The Mummy 1.
Those people over there must be Zheng Zha, Zhang Jie, Ling Dian, Qi Tengyi, Zhan Lan, and Zhao Yinkong.
Wen Lie rubbed his hair, narrowing his eyes as he sorted through his thoughts.
How absurd. His very first horror movie was The Mummy 1—that was the kind of treatment reserved for Alice sweeping the geniuses. What virtues or abilities did he possess as an ordinary wage slave and struggling web novel author?
Wen Lie was an ordinary person. He didn't know martial arts, had no superpowers, had never studied magic, and practically had no special skills. His family had just bought an apartment two years ago, so naturally, he had no capital to cultivate any hobbies.
All he had was a reasonably healthy body, the intelligence of a normal person, and an enthusiast's understanding of the Infinity series.
Zhan Lan had already begun introducing the basic information about God's Dimension: death, enhancements, horror movie reincarnations...
Wen Lie divided his attention, half-heartedly listening to Zhan Lan's explanation while reviewing the plot of *The Infinitely Terror*.
The Mummy 1 was the fourth horror movie the China Team experienced. He really didn't know whether to be happy or worried.
Entering the China Team during this horror movie meant that as long as one stuck with the group and didn't run around recklessly, there was a survival rate of over seventy percent, plus a free D-grade side quest.
The next horror movie was Final Destination 2. As a veteran, he would be controlled and protected by Zhang Jie, getting through the horror movie safe and sound to return to God's Dimension.
The movie after that was Alien 4. As long as he prepared properly, he could get a free B-grade side quest.
In other words, across three consecutive horror movies, as long as he didn't court death, he could secure one D-grade side quest and one B-grade side quest, with a mortality rate of no more than thirty percent.
That was the benefit of entering the China Team in The Mummy 1.
Naturally, there were downsides too. Once those three horror movies were over, it would be Resident Evil 2: a showdown with the Devil Team. By then, it would basically be certain death, and he could only wait for Zheng Zha to resurrect him.
After all, a single D-grade side quest coupled with 9,000 reward points couldn't accomplish much. No matter how he enhanced himself, it wouldn't reach a level where he could return to previous horror movies to farm points.
Even getting a B-grade side quest in Alien 4 would be useless because Zhang Jie would die during the Final Destination movie.
Nightmare Street 1 and Scream 2 were closed horror movies, making it impossible to enter them to farm points.
As for the Final Destination 2 horror movie, although the Final Destination plane mentioned in *The Infinite Future* stated that vampires and werewolves existed, whether they existed in this Final Destination movie world remained an unknown.
Even if they did, weak vampires couldn't farm enough side quests to break the deadlock no matter how they killed them, and strong vampires couldn't be beaten with mere C-grade attributes.
It was a dead end!
Wen Lie frowned.
Although he didn't have any particular attachment to death, upon coming to this infinite multiverse, he still wanted to experience a different life and try out a more magnificent way of living.
Otherwise, wouldn't his coming here have been for nothing?
After thinking it through carefully, Wen Lie reached a conclusion.
To survive Resident Evil 2, he had to secure two extra C-grade side quests during The Mummy 1 horror movie, and enhance attributes and skills targeted against evil forces.
The reason was simple: the only horror movie worlds with the opportunity to acquire side quests were Ju-on, Final Destination, and Nightmare Street.
The monsters in all three worlds belonged to the Undead race. Without attributes providing positive energy, C-grade skills to manipulate that energy, and a large arsenal of targeted items, it was utterly impossible to acquire enough side quests.