"Boom—Boom—Boom—!!!"
Rebecca frantically pulled the trigger of the M1897 pump-action shotgun, her trench sweeper artifact.
12-gauge shells flew out, and the dark muzzle, like a red dragon spitting fire, rapidly spewed out a spray of hot pellets, all aimed at the venomous snakes chasing them!
"Don't come any closer…!"
"All of you, go to hell—!!!"
With a nearly closed-eyed, hoarse shout, Rebecca completely disregarded accuracy, wildly firing the shotgun.
The crosshairs almost hit Javier himself.
After a round of bombardment, the shotgun ran out of ammunition, spent casings clinking and falling all around them.
The muzzle, overloaded, billowed with white smoke.
And the snake swarm in front of them… was a complete mess.
Yes, it was truly a complete mess.
The ground was covered in countless broken pieces of flesh, with radial bloodstains splattered on every corner of the walls and floor.
Over 40 of the'spicy strips' (snakes) were slaughtered.
The power of the trench artifact was terrifying; the dragon's breath-like spray of pellets had an extremely wide attack range.
These ferocious venomous snakes were annihilated by the shotgun pellets before they could even get close.
The broken pieces of flesh on the ground, and the scene of Rebecca, holding the shotgun, covered in blood…
Uh… how should I put it?
Javier truly exclaimed, "Awesome!"
This is a violent loli! In the original work, even without him, she could solo the Prototype Tyrant. It seems her strength hasn't diminished at all.
When faced with danger, she can still unleash terrifying potential. Of course… she's just a bit "fiery"!
Jill, Rebecca… none of the female protagonists in Resident Evil are simple.
They all have some eccentricities that are out of the ordinary; it's quite unbelievable.
"Amazing!"
"That wild spear dance just now, was that 'Birds Facing the Phoenix'? Entering and exiting among over 40 'spicy strip' snakes seven times, slaughtering all in your path, just like Changshan Zhao Zilong, who became famous in the Battle of Changbanpo.
Go on, I believe in you!"
Patting Rebecca's shoulder, Javier couldn't help but praise her sarcastically.
That girl was too fierce just now; she just closed her eyes and sprayed the shotgun wildly, completely disregarding friend or foe.
She almost hit Javier.
If Javier hadn't dodged in time, he would have become one of Rebecca's unsung victims.
Next time that girl goes crazy again, Javier vows to stay far away to avoid being affected—!
…
After clearing out these venomous snakes, Javier and Rebecca continued walking deeper into the passage.
The door earlier only opened a path into this area; there were still more rooms waiting for Javier and Rebecca to search.
However, surprises often come much faster than expected.
At the end of the passage, by a wooden cabinet, a figure was leaning against it.
S.T.A.R.S uniform, orange vest, short blonde hair, a communication device on his waist, and a modified shotgun gripped tightly in his hand.
The man's face was pale and bloodless, his skin covered in swollen, congealed blood clots, as if he had died from poisoning.
"Richard—!!!"
Upon seeing the figure's face, Rebecca's expression changed slightly, then she immediately cried out in surprise, rushing towards Richard.
That's right, the man leaning against the wall was Richard Aiken, the S.T.A.R.S Bravo Team communicator.
Earlier, Javier and Rebecca had tried to call other Bravo Team members on the walkie-talkie, but without success.
It turned out that Richard, the communicator, had already been killed, and the communication device was damaged.
Naturally, they couldn't connect.
Walkie-talkies require terminal equipment to receive and transmit signals.
Although walkie-talkies don't need the internet, they are actually not much different from it, and signal interference is also a part of what hinders their development.
The communication device on Richard, the communicator, was a simple terminal.
Like a mobile Wi-Fi, it was specifically used to connect the walkie-talkies in Javier's hands.
And now that the Wi-Fi was down, Javier's walkie-talkie naturally had no signal.
You can't expect to have signal deep in the mountains and old forests.
Therefore, Richard was killed, and naturally, their Bravo Team walkie-talkies couldn't contact each other—
"…"
"How is it? What exactly happened to Richard's body?"
Looking at Richard's pale face, and the dense bite marks all over his body, as well as the black blood clots, Javier already knew Richard was beyond saving, completely dead.
But Javier still wanted to ask Rebecca how Richard died.
"…"
"It's poison… venom from snakes.
These bite marks are from snake fangs, and those hard blood clots are also symptoms only caused by snake venom.
Richard is beyond saving; his breathing has stopped.
But besides these, there are other tearing marks on his body, as if he was attacked by some much larger creature."
Hearing Javier's question, Rebecca stopped searching Richard's clothes, finally sighing deeply as she replied.
Her small face was filled with sorrow and self-reproach.
It seemed Richard's death had greatly impacted Rebecca.
As the team's medic, she hadn't been able to save anyone in time, which made Rebecca feel very helpless.
Richard's nose had no breath, and his pulse had stopped.
This was a sign that he had died one or two hours ago.
If it were just snake venom, Rebecca would still have a chance to deal with it, but the person had been dead for nearly two hours.
This… Rebecca was also powerless.
(PS: The original setting is a bit outrageous. Richard was supposed to die protecting his teammates in the mouth of a mutated giant snake, but the mutated giant snake's setting is too ridiculous, completely like a horror movie from Anaconda.
But why would such a large snake attack by injecting venom?! With fangs thicker than elephant tusks, even if injected into a human body, the amount of venom would be enough to drown a person's blood system.
Richard, after being bitten, didn't die? Unbelievable… Even more unbelievable is that the giant snake could completely swallow Richard in one bite, but it insisted on injecting venom.
Tsk tsk… Therefore, I can only let Richard be bitten to death by small venomous snakes first, which makes more sense.)
Listening to Rebecca's explanation, Javier nodded faintly.
It was indeed quite tragic, but this also indirectly showed that this area was not simple, and there must be many snakes.
However, what made Javier even more vigilant were the large wounds on Richard's body.
Those were not simply caused by venomous snakes; even if they were from snakes, they had to be several times larger than the dead, broken'spicy strips' on the ground.
Therefore, Javier guessed… This was very likely similar to the Cadre Training Institute before.
This area also hid a big boss, just like the giant mutated centipede and giant mutated bat they encountered before, both creatures that had grown enormous after being infected with the T-Virus.
"Rebecca, you should be carrying antitoxin serum, right?"
"Be careful not to get bitten by those snakes.
Although antitoxin serum can save a life, those snakes are infected with the T-Virus.
It's very possible that even if you do save a life, the poisoned part of your body will be crippled."
Slowly standing up, Javier no longer bothered with Richard's corpse.
Instead, he took the modified shotgun from his hand and spoke seriously to Rebecca, who was squatting on the ground.
He had only joined S.T.A.R.S a short time ago, and many people hadn't even met him.
Therefore, apart from Rebecca, Javier basically had no feelings for many of the S.T.A.R.S members.
That's why he wasn't so sad.
Of course, Rebecca and Richard didn't have that deep of a relationship either.
She simply felt guilty seeing so many S.T.A.R.S members' corpses and not being able to provide any medical treatment as a medic.
"Rustle, rustle, rustle…"
"Hiss—!!!"
However, at this moment, a series of strange noises interrupted their thoughts.
In the room at the end of the passage, it sounded as if something huge was crawling, the friction sound on the ground was incredibly clear, and occasionally accompanied by a low hiss.
This sound was exactly like the previous snake warning.
This made Javier and Rebecca suddenly look at each other, quickly holding their breath, and cautiously bending down, slowly and quietly retreating towards the door.
As an intuition… neither of them had to doubt that there was a terrifying monster behind the room.
Otherwise, how could the crawling friction sound make the entire floor creak, and how could the low hiss be as terrifying as a snoring tiger with white markings on its forehead!
Chapter Thirteen: Rustic Hero
Hearing the rather terrifying sounds coming from the end of the passage, Javier and Rebecca dared not act rashly.
After all, in this environment, the corridor was narrow and cluttered.
If some big creature really rushed out, it would be extremely difficult to dodge.
Therefore, Javier and Rebecca did not want to provoke this monster in this area.
Even if they had to fight, they should at least retreat to the previous room.
At least that place connected to the stairs, allowing them to run up and down freely between the first and second floors of the Mansion Villa.
This would make maneuvering easier, and having an escape route would make Javier and Rebecca feel more secure.
But… unfortunately, Rebecca's magnificent "Birds Facing the Phoenix" spear technique just now, where she transformed into Changshan Zhao Zilong, entering and exiting the snake swarm seven times with sharp gunshots, had completely alerted the monster inside.
Moreover, the monster inside had a huge temper when waking up.
The moment it was startled awake, it immediately sensed that two smelly rats had come to its cave entrance.
How could a horned snake, just awakened from its slumber, let go of delicious food that was already at its mouth?
And its stomach happened to be hungry—!
Therefore, "Hiss, hiss, hiss—!!!"
A more piercing, low hiss came.
Javier only felt a sharp pain in his eardrums.
He immediately stopped crouching, instantly straightened his back, grabbed Rebecca's small hand, and pulled her to run wildly outside.
What a joke, he still thought the monster inside was sound asleep, but he didn't expect this guy had already woken up.
He regretted how cautious they had been just now; he should have just run earlier.
"Bang, bang, bang—!!!"
And in the next second, the fragile wooden wall immediately emitted a series of violent noises, as if something terrifying was frantically crashing into the wall.
And at a visible speed, cracks were slowly appearing on the wooden wall, wood chips flying.
It seemed it wouldn't hold up much longer.
"Crack… Boom—!"
Before the words fell, an even louder sound rang out.
The already fragile wooden wall was instantly smashed, just like the church roof smashed by the giant mutated bat.
A huge hole was blasted through the fragile wooden wall, countless wooden fragments scattered on the ground, and a huge dark shadow was finally exposed before Javier and Rebecca.
Scales as hard as a shield reflected a faint light, the enormous body was like a wriggling gray pipe, a pair of yellow-green vertical pupils the size of truck tires—those were snake eyes, there was no mistake.
Crimson forked tongues, stained with foul-smelling mucus, occasionally flicked out, and hot breath exhaled from its nostrils.
This was an incredibly massive, terrifying giant snake, twenty meters long and two meters in girth.
When it raised its body, it was as tall as a two-story building, its head as large as a car.
Even more bizarre were the horns on its head, very prominent.
Coupled with its enormous size, was this thing about to become a dragon?
And those cold pupils were staring intently at Javier and Rebecca, filled with desire as if looking at two mice.
Undoubtedly, this was just a giant snake infected with the T-Virus.
But that the T-Virus could make a snake grow to such an enormous size was what Javier found most astonishing.
Even if the T-Virus could accelerate metabolism and speed up the conversion of food into energy, eating a lot doesn't necessarily mean growing fast.
A'spicy strip' (snake) that was only the size of a bamboo stick, actually transformed into an incredibly huge snake, capable of swallowing a cow whole, just by being infected with the T-Virus.
This was something Javier found difficult to understand; it violated the principles of biological evolution.
But soon… Javier felt relieved.
His Gun Kata could curve, which already severely violated Newton's laws of physics.
Then, for the T-Virus to violate biological laws seemed perfectly normal.
Who said this world was normal to begin with?
The old-fashioned laws were already very inapplicable in this world, and indeed, some should be eliminated.
However, the giant snake in front of them apparently had no intention of discussing biological principles with Javier too many times.
After all, that stuff was too boring, and not as practical as filling its stomach.
Of course… if Javier intended to emulate ancient sages, such as the rustic hero Xu Hanwen, the undead knight Ning Caichen, the immortal master Han Dong Yong, the insect-controlling sword immortal Luo Shiyi, the Quanzhen Sect dragon knight Yin Zhiping, and the rising Sun Lotus God Emperor Zhang Ruochen, among other famous anecdotes and stories,
Then the giant snake in front of them could perhaps be persuaded to discuss a little, after all, it was too big, and it was a female.
Those few small'spicy strips' on the ground simply couldn't satisfy its desire to reproduce.
It was like stirring a large vat with a toothpick, or stuffing a clay stove with a wooden stick—it just couldn't be filled!
Therefore, if Javier was willing, the giant snake might reluctantly let Javier and Rebecca, the two smelly rats, off the hook.
Since its own kind couldn't satisfy its restless desires, it could only look for other species…
Of course, if Javier knew what this flirtatious snake was thinking, he would definitely spit, saying, "Big sister, even if I wanted to, I wouldn't be qualified.
My size is also like a toothpick stirring a large vat, completely no feeling.
If you put my head and body in, that would be more like it.
If you're feeling amorous, I can find a Tyrant to help you quench your fire; I guarantee it's well-equipped and good at it…"
Cough, cough, wait, Javier almost forgot something.
Tyrants don't seem to have that thing.
Alas! How pitiful.
No wonder Tyrants are so strong; it turns out they practiced the Sunflower Manual: 'To master divine skills, one must first castrate oneself!'
To become a terrifying killing machine like a Tyrant, one must first eliminate desires.
Tsk tsk… the ancients were indeed right.
The seven emotions and six desires are the root of disaster.
Just look at this Tyrant; without its 'little brother,' it became so strong.