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1.03% Terror Infinity / Chapter 8: 8

Chapter 8: 8

Editor: DragonBoatTrans

Zheng thought for a moment and asked, “And the fourth category? The first three seem to have included everything already.”

Jie said with a mysterious smile, “The fourth category has the good stuff. You know everyone will break down when they’ve been here long enough. So the last category is entertainment items.”

“There’s tobacco, weed, heroin, these are cheap. One reward point can be separated into 1000 parts. A kilo of heroin only takes 5 parts of a point. How’s that? God analyzed that a normal person only needs about 300 points in cell vitality and 350 points in immunization to inject heroin without constraints.”

“Other than these, you also exchange for time to live in a normal world through this category. There are also music albums, movies, and even women!”

Jie was laughing hysterically at this point. Zheng said, “I am not interested in silicon.”

Jie patted Zheng’s shoulder. “What are you talking about, it’s real women. God can create real women! They have intelligence, they have their personality, and even memories. When you buy a woman you can choose their face, body, age, race, every detail. You played that Artificial Girl game (by Illusion)?[1] This is much more detailed.”

Xiaoyi’s eyes were shining, while Lan snorted.

Jie stopped laughing and said in a serious tone, “No one knows if they can live through the next movie. So I want to have a woman that I like by my side. You will know once you tried it, she’s not a doll. Even though she’s a life created by God, she’s more realistic than a lot of women in the real world. And she really loves you. You can share the terrors you experience with her. God said once you get enough points to go back, you can keep your enhancements, all the items you exchanged, and this woman can go with you. If I can go back I will marry her. She’s the one that I will love with the rest of my life.”

These words were said with sincerity and passion. In the modern age, people only cared about money and sex. Zheng and the others admired someone that can truly love someone.

Lan touched her head. “Stop this topic. Gentlemen, there’s a lady here. Jie, tell us about God’s lobby. What will happen after a mission?”

“Nothing special. You will go to God’s lobby after the mission. God is a sphere of light floating in the center. You can communicate with it just by thinking. There are twenty rooms to the side, though they were never all filled. You will have your own room. Only people you give permission to can enter your room. Other than this, you will have ten days in the lobby between every mission.”

Lan was going to ask something else when Jie suddenly stood up. He ran to the door and looked out through the window. The rest of them was shocked and followed behind him. But they couldn’t see anything in the corridor.

Jie turned around and shouted, “Red Queen, report what happened outside the room.”

A little girl’s voice sounded, “Two Hunters are attacking the outer door. It will last forty seconds.”

“F*ck. I knew things won’t be so easy. Those Hunters must’ve sensed our smell. The outer door couldn’t block them. Good thing we hid here already.” Then Jie looked at his watch.

Zheng and the others looked at their watches also. The countdown still had seventeen minutes remaining, there were three doors and a corridor between the hunters. They couldn’t fight the Hunters face to face with the weapons they had.

Zheng didn’t want to die here, especially when there’s hope. He shouted, “Red Queen, how long can we last?”

That voice didn’t respond. Then Zheng pointed his gun at the computer, “I know you’re programmed to prevent the spread of T-virus. In other words you want to kill anything that has a possibility of spreading it. That includes us, right? Make your decision, either you protect us with the defense system or you let the Hunters come in here. But we will destroy your main circuit before they do. Once you lose control of the Hive, how much of the virus will get to the outside world?”

The girl’s voice finally came back, “Can I ask why are you still struggling? You’ve decided to stay here, aren’t you going to sacrifice yourself?”

Lan answered before Zheng could say a word, “Computers are not supposed to question humans. You have to be aware of being just a computer. Understand? Also since we are already here, we won’t be able to spread the virus even if we live. Then why won’t you protect us, Little Girl?”

“Understand. The Hunters won’t be able to penetrate the defense system.”

At this time, there were loud bangings on the door at the other side of the corridor. You could see the Hunters through the window and the metal door was losing its form.

“Impressive power, no wonder it’s worth 100 points. If I had a RPG with unlimited grenades I could be earning points now,” Jie laughed.

Zheng asked without thinking, “How much does it cost?”

“Of course it’s going to be expensive. A normal RPG costs 2000 points. I would rather enhance myself if I have that many. And it isn’t effective in every movie.”

The door had totally deformed, then the Hunters’ claws ripped it apart and appeared in front of their eyes.

They were several meters tall, a whole body of red muscles. They had no eyes, probably sensing targets through heat and smell. Their tongues could extend out three feet. Their claws were harder than steel.

Zheng looked at the two Hunters then at his gun. He didn’t think this gun could even injure it, not to mention kill it

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The Hunters turned to them and one started to charge, the second followed. Bang! They could feel the door tremble.

“Red Queen!”, Zheng and Jie yelled.

At the same time a laser formed inside the corridor and moved toward the hunters. When the Hunters were about to charge again, the laser moved past them, then disappeared. The Hunters stopped moving, then their upper body slowly fell off.

The four exhaled. They felt so small in front of the Hunters. It would only take one claw to take a life. Even Jie was just a stronger normal person. He wouldn’t be able to survive against these monsters.

Jie sat on the ground and took out a few cigarettes. He also threw one over to Xiaoyi this time. “Know that fear and terror? I’ve experienced it many times already. I don’t even know how I got myself through those three movies. Shit. This place is unbearable.”

Zheng and Lan smiled bitterly. The moment the Hunters charged over, they reacted worse than Jie. They could barely keep themselves standing with the shivering. Thank god the defense system saved them. Otherwise they couldn’t even run away.

“Keep waiting. This defense system is good enough. We could probably…”

Suddenly the whole room darkened. They ran to the door and looked out. The corridor was totally black. The power had went out.

“Shit. The plot. How did I forget about this? You still remember this plot?” Jie kicked at the door and started screaming.

Zheng tried to recall the plot. This movie was over ten years old already. Even though he’d seen it he had forgotten the details. After a while, he and Lan both said, “Kaplan shut down the Red Queen!”

When the main characters were locked in a laboratory and a Hunter was attacking the door, Kaplan turned off the Red Queen to save them. So then the four of them lost their defense. The only thing they had left was the last door.

They gradually calmed down. They knew that any sound could catch the attention of Hunters. So they kept their mouths shut. Even then their breath sounds were still so noticeable in this darkness.

Time passed, then a heavy breathing sound came from the darkness, along with the abrasive sound between two metals. They didn’t have to look to know what’s outside.

Zheng remembered it only takes a few minutes for the main characters to go back to the ground after the power went out. That’s about the same time their mission ends.

Zheng asked Lan in a low voice, “What’s the time on the watch?”

“I don’t know. Couldn’t see in the dark. Maybe a few minutes.”

‘Few minutes? That’s how many minutes?’

Zheng couldn’t open his mouth again. The breathing had approached their last door. Everyone’s heart clenched. Then they heard the sound of scratching on the door.

‘How much longer? How much time left? Hurry!’

Zheng was staring at the door intensely. He held onto his gun, even though he knew this couldn’t do anything against the Hunter. That was the only form of support he had.

Bang! With a loud bang, a sharp object almost penetrated the door. Their heart skipped a beat then they ran to the back of the room. Even Jie was keeping his body close to the wall.

The door started to deform then finally a claw penetrated it and ripped this 10cm thick metallic door apart like butter. They could see that terrifying face of a hunter.

“Ahhh!”, Zheng and Jie started screaming and shot at the Hunter. They had lost their cool to the horror and along with the darkness, none of their bullets hit the Hunter. The Hunter threw away the piece of door on his hand and charged at the four.

1. Artificial Girl is a Japanese hentai dating game where you can adjust the girl to your choosing.


Chapter 9: 9

Editor: DragonBoatTrans

‘Am I dead?’

Zheng stood there with his eyes out of focus. He remembered in the previous moment that monster out of a nightmare jumped at him. Those huge claws were right in front of his eyes. It would only take an instant, just an instant to rip him to pieces.

‘Then… am I dead?’

Zheng stood there looking at his surrounding in a daze. He was standing in an open platform with a huge sphere of light in the center. It lit up the whole platform light the sun. Beyond the edge of the platform was darkness. A kind of darkness where not a hint of light could be seen. Just looking at it for a few seconds made his head dizzy.

“We lived, shit, that was close! We finally lived.”

Jie’s voice brought Zheng’s mind back. There’s him, Jie, Lan, Xiaoyi and a fifth person here. A girl that came out from one of the rooms on the edge. She was crying as she ran toward Jie. This man showed a kind of tenderness not belonging to his character. He ran to the girl, embrace her and started kissing.

“If you have any questions, just ask God. Communicate to him with your mind.”

“Other than creating your own person, don’t exchange anything. Wait until tomorrow. Oh right, choose a room, just imagine how you want the room to look like.”

He carried that girl and ran to his room before anyone could say anything. Zheng and the others stood there looking at each other, then they fell on the floor.

“Well he’s strong. He can still run and have energy for some sexy time,” Lan said as she was lying on the ground. “I was so scared, I still can’t move my hands and legs. And he’s acting like nothing happened.”

No one responded her, she turned around to see the two men had their eyes closed under the sphere of light, with a tent on their crotch. Probably designing their women.

“Two freaking idiots. Men are idiots! We lived through that and experienced so much terror, yet the first thing they think about is ecchi stuff.”

Lan ran toward a room in anger and closed the door with a bang. It woke the two men from their thoughts. They laughed with embarrassment then closed their eyes and continued.

This is a wonderful feeling, as Zheng closed his eyes under the sphere of light, he felt as though he merged into the light. A screen appeared in front of him, it’s similar to a computer program. There were four categories of items, and the six stats of enhancements, it also showed him the amount of points and rewards he had.

Zheng’s stats were: intelligence 107, mental capacity 122, cell vitality 97, reaction speed 131, muscle density 112, immunization 103. It seemed like only his muscle density was a little above average from going to the gym, the extra points from mental capacity and reaction speed were rewards in the movie.

He had 6502 points, 1000 from the basic mission, 5000 from the hidden quest, 2 points from killing twenty zombies, and 500 from something else.

“Create a woman. Create a woman…”

Zheng was not planning to use his points yet. He recognize the importance of it after experiencing life and death. Even though he had quite a lot of points, he wanted to consult with Jie first. There’s only one thing on his mind.

‘Lori, can I create her?’

God seemed to recognize Zheng’s thoughts. It opened up the entertainment category, then the rigid voice said. “The first humanoid creation is free. Following creations cost 500 points each. Please simulate the type of being, gender, face, height, age, skin color, race… in your mind.”

Zheng sunk into his memories. That year when he was still a teen, when he had secret feelings for her. Her smell, her smile, her voice, her memories were still so vivid.

‘So it turned out that my boring life was because of the loss of her. That I was falling into darkness because her hands were no longer holding me.’

“As long as you are by my side, I will never fall to darkness…”

Tears fell out of his eyes, then disappeared when they reached the ground.

When he opened his eyes again, a girl of 15 was standing in front of him. This girl was the same as the one in his memories, Lori.

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They grew up together. Even though they had grown accustomed to each other to the point where they weren’t even aware of the presence of the other person; they were aware of the importance of the other person. Kids that grew up in the urban city were mostly lonely. The doors across the apartments were usually shut. Sometimes you don’t even know who your neighbors are even after living there for a few years.

Zheng always thought he was fortunate. His parents were bold and forthright. They would invite the neighbors over for food and coincidentally, their neighbors were the same type of people. This type of people were rare in the cities. And the luckiest thing was he met that girl one year younger than him.

She was like gifted by the gods. Perfect as a pure crystal. She was smart, kind hearted, tough, liked to laugh out loud, wasn’t scared of any difficulties.

He thought as long as she was there, his heart would never feel cold.

But why was human life so fragile? She was only fifteen when she was lying on that white bed. Long periods of chemo took away her long hair. That pale face was no longer lively. All that remained was her smile. But he knew that smile was just there to comfort those close to her.

What is life? Why did that beautiful smile suddenly turn to ashes? That’s not what he wanted, he wanted to see that gentle smile, he wanted to see her rolling on top of him, and talking by his ear…

Paddling through a sea of people in a black and white world. He kept falling, rotting, one woman after another, bars, ecstasy, ice, and maybe sooner or later, heroin.

“As long as you are here. I will not fall…”

When Zheng woke up, it was already past eleven o’clock. He reached for the cigarette on the nightstand when he touched something soft.

“Stop. Let me sleep a little more…”

The computer screen, Resident Evil, death, and Lori. Memories were coming back to him. He suddenly flipped over the blanket and there she was. A girl of fifteen, with traces of tears on her face, and blood on the sheets.

Zheng could only remember when he was creating a human, he recalled everything about her. And when he saw her face he could no longer contain the years of suppressed feelings.

He’s now staring at that familiar face. There were so many things he wanted to say. And before he knew it, he was full of tears.

The girl was feeling cold, she reached for the blanket again but couldn’t catch anything. She opened her eyes and saw Zheng staring at her. She felt embarrassed and snatched the blanket from Zheng’s hand. Then she started crying.

“Stupid Zheng, you made me so painful last night and now you’re teasing me. And I made you breakfast this whole month. You said you would give me a ring when I am eighteen and marry me after twenty two. You idiot, I am not even sixteen yet.”

Zheng shivered as he heard those words. He held onto her hands and asked, “You… Lori, you have memories? You remembered everything?”

She stopped crying and asked him curiously, “What do you mean if I still have my memories? And, Mr. Pervert, please put on your clothes, then go over to my house and get me that green dress. You ripped my clothes last night. Thank god my parents are at work.”

Zheng was shocked. This girl’s attitude, tone, and actions were exactly the same as how he remembered her. Then he realized this room was the same one he lived when he was a teen. Even the details were the same.

“Oh my god, your parents probably heard our voices last night. They will probably think I am that kind of girl. You idiot, pervert… I don’t know how to face your mother anymore.”

“Wait, maybe I’ve been dreaming this whole time? Everything that happened yesterday? Even when you were sick? Haha. That was all a dream!”

Zheng held onto her and laughed loudly. Then after a while he started weeping. Lori also stopped struggling and held on him tight.

‘Thank god that was all a dream. I don’t want a future like that…’

Then there was a knock on the door. Lori slid into the blankets. “Your parents are back, pervert, how am I going to go out? I don’t have clothes.”

Zheng suddenly felt cold. He could recognize someone calling his name, that voice was Jie. In other words, he’s not dreaming, the Lori in his arms was just a being he created.

He forced a smile. “Lori, I will take a look outside and bring you some clothes. Stay here and don’t move.”

Zheng sighed, put on his clothes, and went to the platform.

He opened the door and saw Jie and the others. He looked past them and the sphere of light was still in the center.

“Give me a few moments.”

He ran towards God. “Tell me, God. Isn’t she a being you created? Why does she have memories? Why is she exactly the same as her? Does she know about this place? What is happening?”


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