Her inquiry was merely out of curiosity.
She was curious about Javier and the others' purpose, and which faction they belonged to, to come and stop her!
Because up until now,
no matter what evidence she gathered or what she guessed, she simply couldn't figure out the power behind Javier and the others, which is why she took the initiative to ask.
However,
to Alexia's disappointment, all of her previous guesses were wrong. Javier and the others were neither spies sent by the United States Government, nor from rival pharmaceutical companies like Tricell, nor were they affiliated with the Umbrella Corporation. Javier was merely a selfish and interest-driven passerby, nothing more.
"Wrong,"
"Alexia, we don't belong to any faction; we only belong to ourselves. As for the purpose of coming to the Antarctica Research Institute, it's very simple: to prevent the spread of the T-Veronica Virus. Of course... if you insist on giving us a title, then I would be very happy to accept the codename 'the People.' After all, there's nothing more honorable than serving the People."
Facing Alexia's questioning,
Javier responded with a calm expression. There was no doubt... cloaked in the false guise of 'the People,' with the slogan of'serving the People,' but in reality being selfish and self-serving, this was basically a common tactic for Javier and various politicians.
After all, no one can refuse the pretense of carrying the banner of justice, while secretly plotting for personal gain. It's about gaining both reputation and profit. Where in the world are there so many good things?
And facing this answer—
Alexia's pretty face was undoubtedly covered in frost. Serving the People? What kind of nonsense was that? As a so-called child prodigy, she had lived for so long and this was the first time she had heard such a foolish answer. No one in the world could truly serve the People; everyone would be selfish. Javier's behavior was undoubtedly mocking her intelligence.
"If you want to mock me, you can continue with such despicable jokes..."
"But before that, I have something to tell you: there is no extra T-Veronica Virus here. All of the current T-Veronica Virus is within my body. There is no other way to obtain it except by forcibly extracting it from me."
"So, do you want to become my Soldier Ant dependents, or do you want me to submit to you...?"
Without any surprise,
facing Javier's words, Alexia no longer intended to continue chatting with him. After all, Javier's conversational skills were extremely poor, leaving Alexia with no desire to continue. In that case... it was enough to just get straight to the point.
Alexia, this Queen Ant, gave Javier and the others only two choices: one was to become her possession after being infected with the T-Veronica Virus, like her ant-transformed brother Alfred; the second was for her, the Queen Ant, to submit.
But undoubtedly...
the second option was simply impossible.
After all, given Alexia's personality, making her bow to others was harder than ascending to heaven. Such a self-important genius had long since made herself the center of everything. How could she possibly submit to others?
Wouldn't that be tantamount to her admitting that Javier and the others were superior to her? And how could her pride allow such an admission!
"Oh...?"
"Interesting premise, but what if I insist on making you submit to me? Alexia, I've always enjoyed dealing with self-important geniuses. How about we make a bet? If I defeat you... no, if I make you say the words'submit' with your own mouth, then how about you become my slave?"
"After all, even an ancient Queen Ant is still just an ant, and ultimately has natural predators. Unfortunately, I am that natural predator."
Snapping his fingers,
looking at the haughty Alexia before him, Javier couldn't help but feel a mischievous urge to make a bet again. After all, conquering a genius seemed like a very challenging endeavor. Although Javier knew from the start that it would be difficult to persuade a formidable figure like Alexia, his temple was too small to accommodate her,
yet upon truly seeing Alexia, this genius girl who looked down on people, Javier still couldn't resist the urge to tease her.
And undoubtedly,
Javier's recent unrestrained words had indeed angered Alexia. Her sapphire eyes stared intently at the man before her, Alexia's pretty face filled with lingering fury. Javier's words continued to echo in her ears, causing her proud expression to gradually twist into a distorted, ferocious grimace:
"What did you just say...?"
"Natural predator? And you want me to willingly say the words'submit' to you? Heh heh heh... Come on, try it! Man, but I promise you'll die a very ugly death right now!"
Without any hesitation,
an unimaginable anger surged across Alexia's pretty face.
She slowly descended from her throne, the sound of her white high heels clacking on the steps. Each step involuntarily grew heavier. Alexia's eyes were fixed on Javier, and then their bodies gradually approached each other.
"Javier..."
Meanwhile, Lisa, seeing the situation,
quickly positioned herself in front of Javier, drawing the thin white blade from her waist. Lisa could feel Alexia's growing malice. Undoubtedly... this woman intended to attack Javier, so Lisa intended to protect Javier.
However,
facing the approaching Alexia,
Javier still showed no sign of panic.
Instead, he calmly held Lisa's arm, gave her a reassuring look, and then stepped past Lisa's protection to face Alexia directly. He still wanted to experience the T-Veronica Virus's fire magic firsthand, so how could he allow Alexia and Lisa, two women, to start fighting first?
Although watching women fight was a very good thing,
men fighting women also had a good flavor to it,
for example... now—!
"Crack—!"
The moment he pushed Lisa behind him,
Javier, without any hesitation, quickly pulled out a Molotov cocktail and lit it. The oil-soaked rag quickly ignited, sending up a flame. Javier threw it forward and swiftly drew his Desert Eagle pistol, pulling the trigger.
"Bang—!"
A gunshot rang out,
the Molotov cocktail exploded in response,
sending countless glass shards flying. The large amount of gasoline and flames inside ignited into an intensely blazing wall of fire, rapidly sweeping towards Alexia. As always, the fire magic fireball spell launched the first attack, accompanied by Javier's sudden sneak attack and the raging inferno approaching her.
Alexia extended her white long-sleeved silk gloves to shield herself, her purple evening gown rustling violently in the hot wind from the flames, her golden hair also wildly fluttering. Looking at the rolling heat and raging fire before her, Alexia's icy, pretty face showed no change in emotion.
Instead, she walked straight forward to meet it...
as if the blazing wall of fire created by the Molotov cocktail explosion could not affect her at all.
The next second...
"Buzz—!!!"
A buzzing sound,
under the astonished gaze of Javier and the others,
Alexia completed her transformation. The rolling flames rapidly burned away her clothing, turning into black ashes that dissipated in the strong wind. What was revealed underneath was not suffocatingly pale skin and a beautiful body exposed to the air,
but a mutated, blackened body—!
All the blood color quickly faded from her body,
Her beautiful and captivating figure transformed into pale gray mutated skin, and Alexia's brilliant, waist-length golden hair completely disappeared, replaced by a hairstyle made of accumulated tumors, piled around her head like petals surrounding a flower pistil.
Her sky-blue eyes turned into dark golden insect eyes, completely black with no whites, just like an ant's pupils, covered with particles invisible to the naked eye.
Her entire body also underwent this mutated differentiation.
Half of her body was covered in gray, petal-like plant tumors, resembling a plant stem, while the other half of her body had a normal human arm.
Her long legs in the lower body were also like this, half plant and half human body, and the contours of her female chest were perfectly preserved.
Alexia herself had undergone this evolutionary mutation.
And the current form was Alexia's Ancient Queen Ant Mode—!
Chapter 20: Flaming Monkey Wine
It could be said that Alexia's Ancient Queen Ant Mode at this moment was full of a unique, suffocating, and bizarre charm, just like a deadly venomous snake.
Everyone knew how dangerous a venomous snake was; its fatal fangs and venom could easily put a living person to death.
But even so, many people still flocked to venomous snakes.
On the contrary… the more venomous the snake, the more it aroused their interest, leading them to pursue it with crazy obsession.
And Alexia, in front of them, was like an incredibly charming, shimmering-scaled snake.
Her body appeared dark, but under the sunlight, it could emit a dazzling array of colors, deeply captivating people.
Of course… this shimmering-scaled snake was not simply beautiful; she was not a non-venomous snake, but a very deadly one, more deadly than any venomous snake in the world.
A tiny bit of venom squeezed from her fangs could infect and kill tens of thousands of people.
This was the most terrifying aspect of Alexia in her current Ancient Queen Ant state!
"How about this…"
"Can you understand the immense power of my current form? With just a flick of my finger, I can destroy everything.
Nothing can go against my will.
This is the absolute power I seek.
I am born perfect; I should naturally be above all beings, to guide you foolish and ignorant Soldier Ants in evolution.
So, you should be grateful to me."
"After all, I am the leader with absolute wisdom.
I will lead you forward, and you only need to obey my commands like Soldier Ants, that's enough.
Is something so simple still not understood? Why must you oppose me?!"
Spreading her mutated gray arms, the Ancient Queen Ant Alexia wantonly displayed her absolutely proud posture.
Her dark golden ant eyes looked at Javier and the others, and she began to speak her self-proclaimed queen ant speech, completely lost in some kind of delusion.
And Javier, looking at the eloquently speaking Ancient Queen Ant Alexia, couldn't help but shake his head.
It seemed that geniuses all had this common flaw of self-righteousness.
Although they were truly intelligent and their wisdom was far superior to ordinary people, what puzzled Javier was… why did these geniuses always self-righteously choose paths for others?
This was the thing Javier understood the least.
Whether it was Wesker, or William, or even the genius prodigy Alexia in front of him, these famous geniuses seemed to share a bizarre common flaw: they liked to choose paths for all of humanity, proclaiming themselves as great creators.
Either they wanted all of humanity to evolve, or they wanted to transform all of humanity into a new race, or they wanted to enslave all of humanity.
These were the common flaws of Alexia and the others.
This was what Javier understood the least.
By what right could they represent the majority of humanity in making choices?
Furthermore… evolution was not necessarily a good thing.
Species were certainly born with certain differences.
If every existence of a species were perfect, then that species would have no reason to exist, because it would lose the competitive aspect of difference.
Although it was cruel, without this so-called competitive difference, that species would quickly head towards extinction.
Just like the utopian society in modern people's minds… it was incredibly captivating and longed for, but in reality, it was something that could not be completed or realized.
It was just a piece of fat hanging in front of countless people, leading countless people to indulge and move forward, but no one knew what the final outcome of that pursuit would actually be…
This was the natural concept of survival.
Compared to geniuses like Alexia, Wesker, and William, Javier sometimes felt that his own rational and cold thoughts were the most correct and cruelest law of survival—!
"Sorry…"
"I cannot understand.
If you just want to be a queen ant above all others, then modern society is also an ant nest; everyone has their own class.
Relying on your own intelligence and wisdom, it's not impossible to become a so-called queen ant.
Why must you be obsessed with ruling all of humanity?"
"Wouldn't it be better to be like England and be a Queen of England? Manipulating power is much more effective than dabbling in viruses, after all, legitimacy is far more important than anything else."
Facing Alexia's self-righteous theory of being above all others, Javier once again expressed his rejection and offered a fundamental suggestion.
That's right… if you like being a queen, you can go be the Queen of England.
There are many cases of women in power in the world.
If you are truly a genius prodigy, why not go through the trials and tribulations of the workplace?
Or perhaps… Alexia believed that her intelligence and wisdom would be useless in the workplace, which is why she chose to use a mindless method of violence like a virus?
Did this also indicate that Alexia's reputation as a prodigy was actually just an empty name—?!
After speaking, Javier didn't give Alexia a chance to retort.
He quickly raised the M82A1 sniper rifle on his back.
The massive, dark muzzle instantly locked onto Alexia's head in front of him.
The high-magnification scope revealed Alexia's face and weaknesses in full view.
Seeing that Alexia was already enraged by Javier's words, and her pale, grayish face began to twist again, Javier directly and swiftly interrupted her pre-casting animation, quickly pulling the trigger.
With a loud "boom"!
A bullet thicker than a thumb instantly shot out of the barrel.
A burst of white smoke erupted from the long, dark barrel of the M82A1 sniper rifle.
The muzzle brake consumed and redirected a large amount of recoil.
Carrying incredibly powerful kinetic energy, a metal bullet broke through layers of air resistance, heading straight for Alexia's head.
This was not a.50 caliber Magnum bullet.
The power of the two was completely incomparable.
Because the firearms used for firing were already worlds apart, the power of a bolt-action rifle was terrifying, not to mention one of this anti-material caliber.
If there was no special defense or intentional blocking, if caught by surprise, even a T-103 Tyrant would instantly die on the spot, regretting their demise.
However, Alexia was clearly not a boss of that level.
Her wisdom and controlled power were far superior to ordinary bosses.
Facing the M82A1 anti-material sniper rifle bullet that Javier suddenly fired, Alexia not only showed no panic but was at ease.
After all, if she couldn't easily handle an M82A1 anti-material sniper rifle, she wouldn't be qualified to talk about ruling the world, ruling all of humanity, or acting as a supreme queen ant and other irrelevant statements—!
"…"
"Firewall retreat—!!!"