"Anyway, I called you here to help me with a mission, not for a vacation barbecue. Just do your best; I won't trouble you with anything else."
Seeing this, Leon continued to explain. These two police officers were only there to guide him, and he wouldn't ask them to risk their lives with him. That would be too much.
Everyone was just a small employee earning a few thousand American dollars a month. It was impossible for them to run around with him just to save someone. Leon understood this, so he explained it early.
"Hey, that's too formal..."
"Anyway, American, let me tell you something, but remember not to spread it around. Actually, quite a few people have gone missing in this area. Last week, we even went in to search for some hikers, but unfortunately, apart from some bloody animals, we didn't even find a trace of torn clothing."
"This area is resource-poor, with basically no minerals to excavate, and scarce arable land. It's also inhabited by a group of old-fashioned people who are extremely hostile to outsiders. Every time we go to investigate and question them, they don't answer a single word."
"It gives us a lot of trouble, so the missing person cases are left unresolved. The government is also too lazy to develop this place. If there's nothing too outrageous, they just let them fend for themselves."
Waving his hand, the older police officer couldn't help but chuckle at what Leon had just said. As a kind person, he still explained the situation around Wolf's Valley to Leon, the agent.
As the name suggests, this place is a valley, overgrown with weeds on all sides. Due to the primitive wild environment, hikers often come to visit, but some people are unlucky and mysteriously disappear inside.
In fact, these police officers also suspected the residents of the Wolf's Valley Village, but those old-fashioned people were very rigid, and they were unusually united and numerous. They wouldn't answer anything they were asked and even acted as if they wanted to drive them away. The few young police officers didn't dare to say much, after all, their salaries were only a few thousand American dollars, so they gave up on investigating many murder cases.
Now that Leon wants to go inside, he probably needs to be very careful of the strange villagers inside...
"..."
And when Leon heard these words, he frowned deeply.
As he looked at the strange signposts by the roadside, his brows furrowed even deeper. His intuition told him that this mission would be anything but simple.
"Wait..."
"Buddy, pull over. I need to pee. I drank too much at the bar earlier, and my crotch can't take it anymore."
And just as they were about to approach the village, the older police officer, unable to hold his urine, quickly told the young glasses-wearing police officer who was driving the police car beside him.
Immediately, the police car slowly pulled over to the side of the road. Opening the car door, the drunken older police officer staggered out, swaying, and looked back, saying:
"It might take a while. I have too much pee built up; I could fill a pot. Maybe I even need to take a dump. Don't run off, just wait for me."
"Hey, you didn't drink all the alcohol in the bar, did you? Be careful not to fall into a cesspit."
Facing the words of the older police officer, the young glasses-wearing police officer couldn't help but tease.
After the older police officer had gone far, the police car fell into silence. He turned on the radio, wanting to listen to some broadcast, but it was likely due to poor signal in the mountainous area, there was only static.
Helplessly, the young police officer could only turn off the broadcast, take out a cigarette, light it, and put it in his mouth to relieve boredom, and then offered one to Leon.
But Leon, engrossed in his thoughts, shook his head.
He wasn't into that. Leon didn't like smoking, but he liked drinking. His gaze was still drawn to the strange signposts erected on the road. They didn't seem like road signs, but rather a symbol of some kind of insect?
Chapter 7: Bandits Entering the Village
The older police officer had been gone for some time. Leon and the young glasses-wearing police officer, who were in the car, were getting a bit impatient. Even if he had to take a dump, it shouldn't really take nearly 20 minutes, should it?
Constipation?
Undoubtedly, while this possibility existed, it was very low.
The young glasses-wearing police officer glanced at Leon, who remained unmoved in the back seat, and finally couldn't help but speak first:
"The probability of falling into a cesspit is ten percent."
"But unfortunately, there's no such thing as a cesspit in the wilderness. So... why don't you go down and take a look?"
"You know, the most I can do is get you this far. There's no road past the suspension bridge a little further on. How you get up the mountain and into the village is something you need to figure out yourself. I can't leave; after all, if I get a ticket, I'll have a hard time explaining it."
The young glasses-wearing police officer had a timid and cautious look, which made Leon shake his head helplessly.
These people were indeed unreliable, but it didn't matter. He hadn't expected these two police officers to help him from the beginning. It was already a blessing that they had brought him this far.
Immediately, Leon pushed open the police car door and stepped onto the muddy ground. He glanced at the wooden signpost with the strange pattern in front of him, then walked into the narrow, overgrown path.
His intuition told him that the bloodstains on the strange wooden signpost earlier were not animal blood, but human blood...
"Thump, thump, thump..."
Sure enough, not long after he crouched and darted into the overgrown path, Leon saw many strange stone statues on the road in the distance. There were also some lit white candles on the ground, seemingly offerings or prayers to deities. And those strange stone statues clearly weren't good things either.
"..."
"Cult... is it?"
He muttered to himself, Leon felt more and more that this mission was becoming confusing. Perhaps... this wasn't just an ordinary kidnapping case—
...
On the other side—
In Wolf's Valley Village, Javier looked down at the village from the side of the valley rock wall. Undoubtedly... this village was designed unusually strangely. The village was located in the center of a small valley. Although it was surrounded by valleys and sheltered by rock walls, making it very safe,
If there was a heavy downpour, the entire village would be submerged, and even a drainage system would be useless. It seemed as if it was merely designed to prevent outsiders from intruding.
And under the hazy moonlight, Javier clearly saw the layout of the entire village.
The iconic large windmill, the familiar tower, where in the game, one could hide on top and use a ladder as a tool to easily knife a large number of villagers to death, as the villagers' intelligence was limited and they couldn't scale walls, they could only foolishly climb up.
There was also the two-story house next to it, the hunter's home, where a hunting shotgun was hidden. That was Leon's initial divine weapon, and also the main battlefield against the Texas Chainsaw Killer.
However, the game is the game, and reality is reality.
The Plaga parasite might not be as easy to deal with as imagined, so Javier decided to observe here for a while before acting.
There was a small church in the village, and walking along the path behind it led to a large cemetery. It was very normal for a church to have a cemetery nearby, as priests could pray for deceased relatives, helping them cleanse their sins and ascend to heaven.
But the cemetery here... was probably more for experimental subjects who died after being infected by the Plaga parasite and unable to adapt.
They wouldn't go to heaven, and might even go to hell...
Behind the cemetery was the main church, where Bishop Sadler usually began to pray and preach to the villagers.
And if the plot hadn't deviated, the President's daughter Ashley was trapped in a small compartment somewhere inside.
The top of the church was the bell tower. The huge bell could be used to ring and summon villagers to the church. This was an order from the Plaga parasite residing in the villagers' heads. Once the church bell was heard, it meant that the morning prayer was about to begin, so it could serve as a distraction.
And Javier's plan was to spend the night on top of the bell tower tonight...
The current time node was 12 AM, before the dungeon started, and the villagers began to move at 6 AM.
There were still 6 hours until the dungeon started, so Javier didn't need to wander around the village at this time. He just quietly waited on the bell tower, resting and dozing.
After all, from the top of the main church's bell tower, one could directly overlook the entire village's situation.
If Leon truly wasn't as invincible as he was in the game, Javier could timely pull the bell to make a sound and save Leon's life.
Of course, Javier was more inclined to wait for the rabbit, after all, not only did he want to save Leon's life, but someone else also wanted to save Leon's life.
Javier planned to meet Ada. Since their last farewell in Raccoon City, this mysterious woman had disappeared without a trace.
In addition, Ada still hadn't responded to the cooperation proposal from last time. As a virus hunter, Ada often walked on the edge of various dangerous missions and gathered a lot of secret intelligence.
Therefore, Javier also wanted to engage in intelligence-based employment and cooperation with Ada. After all, who would refuse a little wildcat who constantly provided various intelligence, right?
No responsibility, no worries, just give her some food each time. Although this little wildcat had a big appetite, Javier could still barely afford to keep her—
Thus, Javier, having made up his mind, did not hesitate and began to slowly walk towards the main church. And there was no need to worry about danger.
At this moment, there weren't many people in the main church. Besides a few believers guarding the President's daughter Ashley, there were basically only a few villagers scattered about, who could be easily dealt with.
Moreover, Plaga parasites are not like zombies. Once infected by a virus, zombies will have enhanced senses of smell and hearing, and they can easily detect any disturbance. Even if Javier hid on the bell tower of the main church, he might be tracked down by scent.
But Plaga parasites are different. They are very difficult to enhance the senses of smell, hearing, and other organs. They can only strengthen the host's body muscles. Therefore, there is no need to worry about being found while sleeping.
"Thump, thump, thump..."
Not long after, Javier stealthily climbed to the top of the main church's bell tower and took out binoculars from his ring storage to observe the situation in the village. It was a pity he forgot to bring potato chips and soda.
He only had some chewy emergency food, otherwise he could have been a war correspondent up there, providing 100% live commentary on Leon's battles when the dungeon started. After all, this was a live broadcast, with real picture quality, very exciting—
...
Night, 12:30 AM—
Leon found the body of the older police officer, Fernandez, in the forest cabin after the suspension bridge. There were severe ligature marks on his neck, indicating that he died from strangulation and suffocation.
At Leon's feet was also the body of an old man with a twisted head. He was the owner of this forest cabin. When Leon first entered the house, he actively tried to communicate with him.
But the old man in front of him remained silent, instead muttering various strange incantations, like some kind of prayer. Even though Leon understood Spanish, he didn't understand what it meant.
And when Leon turned around, revealing an opening, the old man quietly picked up an axe from the corner of the wall and swung it fiercely at Leon's head.
Fortunately, Leon dodged the blow. The axe was stuck firmly in the wooden wall, and Leon kicked him with a turning roundhouse kick, breaking his neck.
Logically speaking, in most mammals, after the neck is broken, the head loses connection with the body's nerves, leading to brain death or paralysis.
But the old man in front of him, when Leon was investigating the wooden house's basement, suddenly lunged at Leon with a twisted head, which greatly surprised Leon, subconsciously associating him with zombies.
But this old man had no zombie characteristics, nor did he want to eat people, which again plunged Leon into a certain mystery.
It wasn't until the tactical knife, which Leon had kept since Raccoon City, forcefully pierced the old man's head, and Leon shook off the blood, that the old man completely lost the ability to live.
It seems these strange villagers, like zombies, must have their heads pierced to truly die!
Now, things were getting stranger and stranger...
After dealing with the old man, Leon found traces of the President's daughter Ashley in a small room in the house. A photo was pasted on the wooden wall, which was clearly Ashley struggling and in pain when she was kidnapped. It seemed that his judgment was correct; the President's daughter Ashley had stayed in this house for a period of time. As for where she was transferred to?