This was the flame Alexia herself had unleashed earlier.
Of course, Lisa did not replicate this skill; she did not possess the power of the T-Veronica Virus within her, and her blood could not possibly react and burn upon contact with air.
This was merely the G Virus evolving a fire-resistant armor to defend against biological flames, allowing the evolved armor on her body to absorb the flame's energy and convert it for her own use.
This meant that Alexia's subsequent flame attacks would be completely ineffective against Lisa, because if she were to release biological flames again, they would only be completely absorbed by Lisa and returned as an attack.
This was the most counterproductive thing to do.
At the same time, this was also the power of the G Virus's infinite evolution.
It could rapidly mutate and evolve to adapt to its environment, provided it could withstand near-death experiences.
Theoretically, the G Virus was indeed a bug virus.
"Bang—!"
"Thump...!"
After an unknown period, the flame energy Lisa had absorbed earlier was completely depleted.
Flames could no longer be spewed from her palms, and the power of the magical girl of fire, Mahou Shoujo, completely vanished.
After all, she was merely a carrier for Alexia's flames; now that they were depleted, she naturally couldn't use them anymore.
She could only continue to wait for Alexia to foolishly continue her biological flame attacks on Lisa herself.
And at this moment, ba yi si jiu ling san qi ba jiu, Alexia herself was scorched and scarred by her own biological flames.
She was sent flying dozens of meters, slamming hard against the Laboratory wall.
Seeing this, her brother Alfred's expression changed, and he quickly flapped his Soldier Ant wings, flying towards his sister Alexia.
Upon landing, seeing the extremely disheveled Alexia before him, Alfred's face immediately contorted into an expression of immense anger and ferocity.
Because at this moment, Alexia's injuries were very severe, her entire body covered in festering, charred burn marks.
Her face was almost disfigured, a charred, sunken mess, making it impossible to recognize her as the beautiful Alexia from before.
If not for the continued connection between them as the Queen Emperor class and Soldier Ant subordinate, Alfred would have almost suspected that his sister Alexia was already dead.
But in this situation, it seemed there was no difference from being half-dead.
And Lisa had actually hurt his beloved sister like this.
How could Alfred, the ultimate sister-con, endure this?
An immense rage swelled in his heart, and a strong killing intent flickered in his black ant eyes.
He turned his head, ready to fight Lisa to the death—!
However, at this moment, the anticipated "accident" still occurred.
At this moment, Alexia had been knocked out of her boss mode's first health bar and status by Lisa, causing her to be directly forced into her second health bar state.
The charred burn marks on her skin now began to rapidly recede, and Alexia's heart also began to beat rapidly.
"Hehehe..."
A strange laugh continuously emanated from her mouth.
Alexia's body suddenly underwent a massive transformation.
Her originally slender body began to rapidly swell, and her legs disappeared, replaced by a massive red flower bud.
Alexia herself was like a pistil, situated at the very center.
Besides the giant red flower bud, dark gray, grotesque tentacles also appeared below, serving as Alexia's replacement for her legs for movement.
At the same time, large plant root tentacles grew from the back of the flower bud, their gray outer shell covered in numerous thorny spikes.
And at this moment, Alexia's arms also disappeared, becoming like Nosferatu's earlier, growing four pairs of large, segmented, pitch-black scythes, as sharp and terrifying as a praying mantis's curved blades.
The disfiguring charred scars on her face also completely recovered, and Alexia's face became even more crimson.
Her drooping, fleshy, petal-like hair had now fully bloomed, like a gradually unfolding flower.
The surrounding petal-like hair became rosy and began to stand upright.
This indicated that the shriveled flower had begun to gradually blossom and bloom, which was Alexia's second stage of evolution—!!!
To keep my Dao heart from shattering, I rarely read comments, but at the end of the month, I secretly peeked and, as expected, was scolded.
However, I actually don't care, because last time, after listening to the advice of you Minasan, one of my books ended up being badly written.
So, everyone's advice is advice, and scolding is scolding, but I won't change too much.
I can only follow my own ideas.
Currently, this book's performance is decent, and the backend data is stable, which only goes to show that it's hard to please everyone, and it's not particularly collapse (collapsed).
As for the so-called "giving away female characters" issue, actually, besides Wang Auntie, I don't seem to have given anyone away.
Leon and Wang Auntie are almost turning into Grandpa Li and Grandma Wang; they haven't even been officially paired in the game, which is too pitiful.
I'm really too lazy to mess with that, so that's excusable, but what about the others?
I haven't given anyone away.
Jill currently interacts more with Javier, and it's not stated that she's paired with Chris.
Lisa, as an original character, is just there to replace Wang Auntie.
Rebecca's storyline can also be added in later movie versions, and there's Manuela from the Javier operation, and even Alexia can be forcibly whitewashed and added.
As for Claire, who everyone discusses the most... um, do you really think it's appropriate?
Claire is currently 19 years old, a college student, and Chris's sister.
If I were to pursue Claire, wouldn't I have to call Chris my brother-in-law?
My plan for Claire is to leave her as a single woman.
Anyway, in the Redfield family, Claire still doesn't have a normal romantic partner in the game, right?
Steve doesn't count; I didn't write about giving him away either.
Steve is even a 17-year-old kid; he's also not a match for Claire.
So, here, whether you scold me for being self-indulgent or for whatever else, just scold if it makes you feel better.
Writing novels is very normal; you often get scolded.
I'm used to it.
Don't even mention you guys; why wouldn't I want to write well myself?
Who doesn't want to be popular?
Who doesn't want their novel to make a lot of money?
I actually want it more than you, but there's no helping it; my skill level is just here.
When the word count gets high, problems slowly start to emerge.
I can only try my best to adjust slowly, so it's actually quite good if everyone scolds more.
Reading novels is for fun; there's no need to torment yourselves.
If you don't like it, just drop it.
Of course, I also thank the friends who are still able to persist in reading until now.
Your subscriptions are really important.
You are all my benefactors.
Thank you to all my fathers, mothers, uncles, aunts, grandpas, grandmas, and all my relatives for your care.
I, your humble servant, am extremely grateful, haha.
Explanation complete, off I go (dog head for self-preservation).
Chapter 24: Mutual Harm
Looking at Alexia, who resembled a giant carnivorous plant, her brother Alfred was also stunned.
He had not expected his sister to transform into such a state.
However, due to his extreme doting on his sister, Alfred at this moment still did not find Alexia ugly; instead, she had become incredibly powerful.
She had only lost a bit of her charm, nothing serious...!
"Has she entered phase two?"
"It seems this woman is starting to fight with all she has.
Then it's time to advance the plan, or else we won't be able to retrieve the T-Veronica Virus later."
Meanwhile, looking at Alexia, who had transformed into her complete Queen Ant state, Javier murmured faintly to himself.
This form was Alexia's complete Ancient Queen Ant form.
Her massive size made her difficult to move, but she was highly offensive.
Just like a Queen Ant with a large belly that can only reproduce, her mobility was extremely difficult.
However, in this form, Alexia would also possess the abilities of a Queen Ant, able to profusely spew infectious toxic gas, rapidly infecting surrounding organisms and turning them into her Soldier Ant dependents, which she could then command and order to attack.
But Alexia made a wrong choice.
That was, the location she chose for the low-temperature fusion with the T-Veronica Virus was Antarctica.
This place was extremely cold, which indeed effectively helped her achieve a perfect fusion with the T-Veronica Virus.
However, this place was also desolate, not to mention a single person, there wasn't even a shadow of an animal.
Therefore, even if Alexia in her second stage transformed into her complete Queen Ant form, she could not exert her full power, because there were no organisms around for her to infect and command.
This was a very awkward situation.
Without biological material for her to infect and turn into a subordinate, this form loses its meaning for her, and instead makes Alexia's own movement difficult, which is simply not worth it—!
So, it truly can be said that she succeeded because of Antarctica, and failed because of Antarctica...!
The Antarctica Research Institute indeed helped her perfectly fuse with the T-Veronica Virus, but this desolate place was also the biggest reason she couldn't grow stronger.
After all,
As the "Emperor" strain of the T-Veronica Virus, Alexia also possesses a powerful ability: absorbing the strength of her subordinates for secondary fusion.
Any creature infected with her T-Veronica Virus will be driven and commanded by her, and can even fuse with her body to become an even more powerful existence.
At that time, the more she absorbs, the more Alexia might truly become unbeatable and reach her strongest state, but unfortunately... it's still the same old story, there are no targets for Alexia to absorb here.
"Die—!!!"
However,
Alexia didn't seem to care about this point.
Having entered her second-stage form, she looked at Lisa, who was within arm's reach, and a terrifying killing intent flickered in her dark gold ant-like pupils.
The plant root tentacles from the huge flower bud beneath her rapidly shot out, attacking swiftly towards Lisa's direction.
There were four tentacles in total, each incredibly thick and hard enough to easily penetrate walls, possessing considerable destructive power.
"Whoosh—!!!!"
This was Alexia's only long-range attack method, as she currently dared not easily use the blood bio-flames again.
Her identity as a fire element mage could only be temporarily put aside, because once she used the blood bio-flames, Lisa's abnormal G Virus fire-resistant armor would completely absorb her flames and return them to attack her.
Alexia no longer wanted to experience the sensation of her own flames burning her...
But—
Without the threat of bio-flames,
Lisa showed no fear of Alexia, as when it came to tentacles, she had never been afraid of anyone.
"Gurgle gurgle..."
Lisa's drooping hair Plaga parasite tentacles suddenly began to surge in an instant.
Under Lisa's control, the power of the G Virus was rapidly strengthened and injected, and the surface of the dozens of Plaga parasite tentacles on her hair began to harden into a dark gold film, while their volume also began to swell rapidly.
The Plaga parasite tentacles instantly expanded to the same size as Alexia's plant root tentacles and rapidly charged forward!
"Bang...!"
"Boom—!!!"
The two collided with each other,
emitting a deafening roar.
White airflow scattered as the tentacles from both sides intertwined and clashed, forcefully attacking each other, attempting to wildly twist and break the opponent's tentacles.
Neither was willing to show weakness.
In terms of strength competition,
the two were still evenly matched.
However, Alexia's plant root tentacles couldn't withstand the sheer number of Lisa's Plaga parasite tentacles, and under the enhancement of the G Virus, the dark gold film was as hard as if it were covered in metal.
As time passed,
the four plant root tentacles still couldn't withstand the high pressure and immediately began to be twisted and broken one by one, just like a sika deer being constricted, twisted, and torn by a giant python, its joints and bones being crushed inch by inch.
Upon seeing this,
Alexia, who could finally no longer endure it, used her bio-flames.
The plant root tentacles immediately broke off on their own.
Despite their plant root appearance, they splattered a large amount of crimson blood, and as soon as this blood touched the air, it immediately burst into raging flames.
"Hiss..."
The scorching heat was like magma,
quickly melting several of Lisa's Plaga parasite tentacles.
The intense pain caused Lisa to quickly retract her Plaga parasite tentacles, and her gaze towards Alexia gradually narrowed.
She truly hadn't expected Alexia to dare continue using bio-flames; she had been careless in their previous exchange.
From a distance, Alexia looked down at Lisa from above,
her dark gold ant-like pupils filled with apprehension.
This so-called G Virus life form, though seemingly small, was even more difficult to deal with than she had imagined.
This was going to be troublesome.
However,
since she couldn't win in terms of combat power,
Alexia would just try viral infection.
And... thinking of this, Alexia's dark gold ant-like pupils glanced at Javier, Claire, and Steve around her.
If these few people could be infected by her T-Veronica Virus mist and become her subordinates, then not only could they fuse with her, but they could also be used as hostages to threaten Lisa.
It was simply killing two birds with one stone.
Alexia was very satisfied with her plan.
She immediately made a decisive move, quickly manipulating the large pink flower bud beneath her.
What appeared to be a giant flower bud was actually a special reproductive organ, like the abdomen of an ant queen.
Besides being able to shoot out tentacles for predation, it could also spew out large amounts of toxic mist for infection—!
"Puff puff puff puff..."
Just as Lisa was momentarily stunned,
Alexia had already launched her toxic mist attack.
Besides causing her own blood to burn into flames, the T-Veronica Virus could also generate toxic mist within the body for direct infection, and the area of infection was terrifyingly vast, capable of assimilating creatures within a radius of several miles in an instant.
Therefore,
in a sense, the T-Veronica Virus's strongest aspect was not its offensiveness, but its infection speed.
The two outbreaks of the T-Veronica Virus occurred in the desolate Antarctica and the equally sparsely populated South America rainforest.
And even in sparsely populated areas, it still gave birth to Alexia's massive Ant Queen form, as well as the later giant plant V-Complex created by drug lord Javier.
So, it's impossible to imagine the scenario if the T-Veronica Virus were to break out in a city.
Tens of thousands of humans would probably turn into Alexia's "Soldier Ant," and they would be the kind that could be freely controlled and commanded.
Imagine that scene: tens of thousands of Soldier Ant fusing with Alexia, directly transforming into a monster as massive as a skyscraper.
It's no wonder Alexia would have ambitions of conquering the world; it truly has that possibility.
And now...
"Whoosh whoosh whoosh...!!!"
Large amounts of purple toxic gas emanated from Alexia's massive flower bud body and rapidly spread in all directions.
The amount of mist was no less than the throwing of several smoke bombs.
This sudden change made Javier's face instantly change, and he hurriedly shouted a warning to Claire and Steve behind him:
"Watch out for the toxic gas! You absolutely must not inhale this toxic gas; it's a biochemical virus gas.
Once it enters your body, you're very likely to completely turn into an ugly monster like her, and there's no antidote serum.
Get out of here quickly!"
While Javier shouted warnings,
he quickly put on his gas mask.
He also didn't want to be infected by the T-Veronica Virus's toxic gas, as that would completely turn him into one of Alexia's Soldier Ant.
This was unacceptable.
Upon seeing this, Claire and Steve also decisively took off running, quickly escaping the Laboratory.
Without gas masks, this would be a battlefield where ordinary people could not intervene—!
In just a few seconds,
Alexia's toxic mist had already filled the entire large Laboratory.
Purple smoke was everywhere, making it impossible to open one's eyes or distinguish directions.
Such dense toxic mist would immediately cause infection with even a slight inhalation.
At the same time,
Javier's gaze quickly turned towards Lisa.
He wasn't sure if Lisa, as a G-Virus entity, would be infected by the T-Veronica Virus, so his gaze was filled with worry, to the point that he couldn't help but shout loudly:
"Lisa!"
"Are you alright? Has this toxic mist had any other effects on you?!"
On the other side,
Lisa, in the center of the purple toxic mist, was half-kneeling, clutching her chest with a somewhat pained expression.
Her already pale skin and forehead were now covered with purple blood vessels and bulging blue veins, as if she were enduring some strange pain.