"Roar, roar, roar—!!!"
After completing his second-stage mutation, Chief Mendez didn't immediately go after Javier, who was closest, but instead locked onto Ada in the distance.
The exploding crossbow bolt just now was fired by this girl, and because of this, Chief Mendez harbored immense hatred for Ada, who had pushed him into such a desperate situation.
That's why he went after Ada first…
"Tch!"
"Trying to pick on the soft persimmon, are we? Then you've made the wrong choice. I'm not some easy persimmon to handle; I'll prick your hand!"
Ada, half-crouching behind a tree and aiming her crossbow, saw this and muttered with disdain.
Although somewhat surprised by Chief Mendez's choice, Ada was completely unfazed. She quickly stood up from the ground, re-shouldered her crossbow, and watched as Chief Mendez approached her. Ada drew the grappling hook gun from her thigh and fired rapidly.
"Bang…"
"Whoosh—!"
The grappling hook gun immediately hit the roof of the small cabin in the lake nearby. Propelled by the grappling hook gun's power, Ada was swiftly pulled upwards, agilely swinging onto the cabin's roof. From her elevated position, she looked down at Chief Mendez charging below.
By relying on the grappling hook gun's agility, Ada could easily shake off any monster and avoid excessive combat.
Besides being graceful and cool, the ability to quickly escape the battlefield and save her life was the true reason Ada loved this high-tech weapon.
"But now…"
"Let me give you a taste of your own medicine first."
With that said, looking down at Chief Mendez, Ada quickly pulled a micro submachine gun from the back of her vibrant red cheongsam. Truly, a woman's dimensional pocket; there are so many weapons she can hide under her dress.
Ada gripped the gun with both hands, steadying her aim. The cold, dark muzzle was pointed at Chief Mendez below, unleashing a fierce spray of bullets. She never went easy on her enemies!
"Da da da da da—!!!"
"Da da da da da—!!!"
Tiny metal bullets furiously ejected from the side casing, clattering to the ground. The small muzzle erupted with violent flames, as bullets fiercely assailed Chief Mendez's body.
Large amounts of flesh splattered. Even Chief Mendez had to raise his arms to block, otherwise, he would have lost most of his health.
The agent's pistol, grappling hook gun, and micro submachine gun—these three were the weapons Ada always carried on missions.
They were light enough to be easily carried and well-concealed, especially the micro submachine gun, which was small but packed a powerful punch. It could occasionally suppress some special bio-organic monsters with ease.
Undoubtedly, as a world-class female agent, Ada's professional competence was indeed far superior to that of the half-baked Leon.
If it were Leon, he would always have a high-powered agent's pistol and a small knife.
He would often find himself struggling in certain special situations.
"Roar, roar, roar—!!!"
Although Chief Mendez sustained some damage from the micro submachine gun's spray, he blocked most of the damage with his arms, preventing severe depletion and allowing him to conserve energy.
Chief Mendez directly spread his large hand, controlling the two pairs of giant pincers on his back to open. The sharp pincers immediately slashed fiercely at the support pillars of the small cabin in the lake, where Ada stood!
"Clang—!"
"Rumble—!!!"
His terrifying body, nearly three or four meters tall, crashed into the fragile small cabin in the lake. Combined with the destroyed support pillars, Ada immediately felt the roof beneath her feet begin to shake violently, giving her the distinct impression that it was about to collapse.
Before she could even react, the entire small cabin in the lake collapsed with a roar, turning into ruins in an instant. Ada's expression changed, and she quickly fired her grappling hook gun again, hooking onto a distant cliff face in the valley. As the small cabin in the lake completely collapsed, she swung away and escaped.
"Thud…"
With a muffled thud, Ada landed steadily in a corner of a cliff face.
She turned her head to look at the small cabin in the lake behind her, which had completely collapsed into ruins, a hint of apprehension flickering in her eyes.
This Chief Mendez was truly a madman. To get her down, he actually destroyed the entire house in an instant. She didn't know if he was truly foolish or just stupid.
But it didn't matter.
Seeing this situation, Ada quickly jumped down from the valley cliff face in a few steps, her high heels clicking. At the same time, she drew her agent's pistol and fired two shots randomly into the sky, giving Javier in the distance a signal to retreat. She then swiftly fled and disappeared from the area.
Javier, hearing Ada's retreat signal from afar, also dared not linger.
He nodded, gathered his belongings, and quickly made his escape from the area…
"Rustle, rustle, rustle…"
"Gasp, gasp, gasp…"
By the time Chief Mendez, covered in dust, pushed aside the large amount of rubble, dust, and wooden planks to free himself from the buried cabin, he found that Ada and Javier had already vanished.
Feeling the dust covering his entire body and the loss of his prey, Chief Mendez was furious. He couldn't help but let out another deafening roar from his mouth.
"Roar, roar, roar—!!!"
He swore he would definitely catch these two pesky rats who had invaded the village.
However, if Chief Mendez were to return and discover that his luxurious villa had also been ransacked by Javier and Ada, those two rats, who had plundered his hard-earned granary of many years, he wondered how he would feel. He would probably wish he could dismember Javier into ten thousand pieces!
…
On the other side—
The Cathedral.
Luis and Leon encountered a slight problem.
Although Ada had told Luis to meet her at the church first, she forgot to tell Luis that she had just rung the church bell a short while ago, which meant the church was no longer the peaceful place it once was.
Instead, a great many Plaga Parasite Villagers had gathered on the road, making Luis, who was carrying the 70-80 kilogram muscular Leon, feel extremely exhausted.
Damn it, he was Don Quixote, no doubt, but he couldn't squander his strength like this. Normally, he just stayed in the Laboratory doing research. Even though his basic physical fitness was good, he couldn't carry seventy kilograms cross-country. He wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and felt his aching kidney.
Luis felt his inadequacy for the first time; he had indulged in too much wine and women, making him too frail. In desperation, Luis, having lost too much strength, could only carry Leon and hide in a corner of the bushes to rest first.
The Plaga Parasite Villagers of the Plaga parasite were, in a sense, very stupid…
They didn't have such sensitive senses of smell, sight, or even hearing, so there was no need to worry about being discovered so easily.
"Sadler… Lord… Sadler… Lord…"
"Long live The Illuminados…"
Luis, hiding in the corner of the bushes, watched the Plaga Parasite Villagers slowly moving away from him. His hand, gripping the pistol, couldn't help but relax. Damn it… he could finally get some good rest.
Thinking of this, Luis ignored Leon, who was lying unconscious on the ground.
He himself slumped onto the ground. Carrying a big man cross-country was simply too tiring. He would never do such a troublesome thing again.
However, before he could fully relax, he suddenly heard the sound he least wanted to hear:
"There's a stranger here! (Hay un forastero aquí!)"
"He's there! (I know him! Ahí está!)"
A parasitic villager, walking aimlessly on the church road, suddenly discovered Luis and Leon hiding in the bushes for some reason and quickly shouted to the surrounding villagers.
Suddenly… the villagers, who had initially had blank stares, all began to move towards where Luis and Leon were hiding, with various harsh Spanish voices continuously echoing.
This made Luis's eyes widen instantly. He looked at the young villager in the distance pointing at him, and couldn't help but curse:
"Damn it…!"
"Who just said they were stupid—?!"
Chapter 16: Negotiation
Seeing that the surrounding Plaga Parasite Villagers had discovered him, Luis quickly raised Leon's USP9 agent's pistol and aimed at the nearest target, firing. As a "knight," Luis's marksmanship was not bad; on the contrary, due to his passion for chivalry, Luis had honed this skill.
Therefore, "Bang bang bang—!!!"
A series of gunshots rang out.
One parasitic villager after another was quickly shot in the head by Luis's exquisite marksmanship, their heads exploding like watermelon juice. However, such a display of skill did not last long.
Some Plaga Parasite Villagers, whose heads had burst open, did not completely die. Instead, sharp, razor-like tentacles grew from their necks.
"Gurgle, gurgle…"
"Splat, splat—!!!"
The front had serrated blades, and below were elongated fleshy tentacles, waving like high-speed rotating whips. Yellowish-white eyeballs even grew at the neck, as if replacing the original head.
And this was the second stage of the Plaga parasite. Some rapidly growing Plaga parasites would not completely die even if the host's brain was blown out. Instead, they would directly replace the host's head, growing their own eyeballs to attack the target.
The second-stage types varied greatly, with many different kinds.
For example, the scythe-like one now, or biting steel teeth, or even the shape of a brain-sucking man-eating flower. In any case, their evolved forms varied, all being special self-preservation methods evolved by the Plaga parasite after parasitizing a host to increase their survival rate. After all, as selfish parasites, they could not always rely on the host, nor would they perish with the host.
These waving scythe-like tentacles were exceptionally sharp, with a very large attack range. They could basically attack a target within two or three meters, easily wrapping around the target and then performing brutal cutting and tearing.
Their appearance was very similar to the alien monsters in Parasite.
This was also the inspiration for RE4.
"…"
"Damn it, have they evolved?"
Seeing one of the Plaga Parasite Villagers suddenly explode its head and grow such bizarre razor-like tentacles, Luis muttered with a very grim expression. As the father of the Plaga parasite, he naturally understood the abilities of these Plaga parasites very well.
He just hadn't expected the Exploding Bug rate among these villagers to be so high.
Normally, only those guarding the castle and on the island would have such a high Exploding Bug rate. The villagers outside were injected with un Improvementsed Plaga parasites, so their evolution speed should be very slow.
But there was no more time to think now.
Seeing that the Exploding Bug villager was getting closer and closer to them, Luis quickly used all his strength to carry the unconscious Leon on his back and ran quickly. He promised… this was the biggest burst of potential he had ever had in his life, because if he didn't burst, he would die.
However, just then, Luis suddenly heard several swift whooshing sounds near his ear. Black arrows shot rapidly from a distance!
"Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh—!!!"
"Thud… Thud…!"
The incredibly hard arrows easily hit the Plaga parasite's eyeball hidden in the spine area. That was the weakness of this second-stage Plaga parasite. After all, it had now moved from the spine to the neck, and once attacked there, it would also be fatal.
Of course, that's provided your aim is accurate enough.