"Die, Leon—!"
"Whoosh—!!!"
Ignoring the damage to his snake-shaped dagger, Krauser lunged forward again, slashing fiercely at Leon's neck. Leon quickly raised his knife to block, and a terrifying monstrous force struck, causing Leon's arm to tremble slightly, almost unable to parry.
Noticing the anomaly,
Krauser smirked, raising his large foot and kicking fiercely at Leon's abdomen. With a "thud," Leon was kicked, his face turning ugly as he retreated several meters.
But Krauser's attack was relentless, still charging fiercely towards Leon. With a "whoosh," this time it was a spinning roundhouse kick aimed at Leon's head. Leon, sensing the immense power, dared not meet it head-on and chose to dodge again!
But—
"Let's see how you escape this time,"
Just as Leon was about to continue dodging,
Krauser, however, did not play by the rules. The spinning roundhouse kick was merely a feint. As he spun and lifted, Krauser simultaneously thrust his sharp snake-shaped combat dagger forward.
"This is bad…"
"Pfft—!"
This time,
Leon had nowhere to hide, and another wound was cut open on his right arm. Although it was shallow, blood still began to flow, causing Leon to fall into a bad premonition.
His left arm had already been ambushed and slashed by Ashley, who was controlled by Sadler. He had just bandaged it, and now his right arm was hit again. It was simply unavoidable.
Moreover, being in the midst of battle, the bleeding injury had a huge impact. It was not guaranteed that Leon might actually lose to Krauser!
"Leon…"
"Are you alright?!"
From a distance, Ashley, seeing Leon injured, couldn't help but show a worried expression on her pretty little face. She clasped her hands together, asking with a very nervous expression.
In response, Leon quickly shook his head, indicating he was fine, and at the same time, he extended his hand to prevent Ashley from coming closer. This little princess just needed to stay put and not cause trouble. After all, Leon couldn't imagine what would happen if Ashley was suddenly caught by Krauser and threatened.
"Ashley, stay put, don't run around. I'll go help Leon…"
And Luis, seeing this from the side,
also gradually sensed that something was amiss. If Leon continued to fight alone, all three of them would die. So Luis decided to help Leon fight.
"Whoosh whoosh whoosh—!!!"
"Thump thump thump—!!!"
At this moment,
Seeing that Luis and Leon intended to gang up on him, Krauser did not get angry but laughed instead, accelerating the speed of his blade swings. Each strike was as fierce as a meat grinder, and Leon felt like he was about to lose his ability to parry.
The tactical dagger was already covered in dense marks. His dagger, which had accompanied him since Raccoon City, was it also going to fall here?
"Bang bang bang—!!!"
At this moment,
Luis entered the fray. He fired his Mouser C96 wildly at Krauser. Although he couldn't hit Krauser effectively, he could easily repel him.
At the same time, Luis also had a steel pipe in his hand, picked up from a corner of the corridor. Although his close combat ability was not strong, he at least needed something to help defend himself.
Luis's addition,
allowed Leon to catch his breath. While dodging, he took out a bandage and hastily wrapped his injured arm. Although the bandaging was sloppy, it was better than nothing. Bleeding during combat was a very painful thing, and it could potentially lead to a complete loss of stamina!
"Enough…"
"You're really a bunch of unkillable cockroaches,"
Shaking his head, Krauser's expression turned cold as he watched Luis join. He also drew the weapon from his waist and began to fire. Although he loved close combat and was a knife expert, it didn't mean he couldn't use weapons.
Although the feeling of killing prey with a pistol made him very uncomfortable, now that Luis had joined, he didn't want to deal with these troublesome guys at the same time. He planned to kill Luis first, and then fight Leon to torture him properly.
However…
Just as Krauser raised his pistol, preparing to shoot and kill Luis, and Luis was also about to dodge and flee, a gunshot rang out first. Was it Leon?
It was not.
Krauser had been on guard against Leon's situation, with most of his attention on Leon. If Leon had tried to shoot and ambush him, he couldn't possibly not know.
This meant,
It was a fourth person who fired the shot.
Everyone turned their gaze towards the direction of the gunshot, and it was none other than Ashley, the girl, holding the USP9 agent pistol Leon had given her for self-defense. She had fallen onto the ground in a panic, her expression flustered, and white smoke billowed from the gun in her hand.
The gunshot just now,
was clearly fired by this little girl. She instinctively aimed based on what Leon had taught her, pointing the gun at Krauser. But the recoil was too great, causing the aim to shift slightly, resulting in the bullet not hitting Krauser's head but rather his incredibly thick arm.
It was the left arm again.
That year, the neurotoxin bone needle from the Amazon Rainforest had pierced this exact spot, rendering his arm useless. And now, it was still this spot, with a hideous blood hole 貫穿ing his arm…
Chapter 64: The Power Man
Krauser looked at the gunshot wound on his left arm with an expression of disbelief. It was the same familiar spot, and the bloody bullet hole caught him off guard. The shot just now was too cold, so cold that no one present had noticed it.
Because whether it was Krauser,
Even Luis and Leon hadn't expected Ashley to fire a shot, let alone successfully hit Krauser's arm. This was too incredible.
And Krauser had not expected this little girl Ashley to actually use a firearm. This was something he had never seen before, so he only guarded against Luis and Leon, thus overlooking this most harmless little lamb.
The little lamb that made people drop their guard the most, yet precisely became the most deadly assassin—!
"Heh heh…"
"Good, very good, but I won't repeat my mistake. Today, all of you must die here, ah ah ah—!!!"
At this moment,
The thoroughly enraged Krauser ignored the pain from his left arm, ripped off his Red Berets, and used his snake-shaped combat dagger to forcibly pry out the bullet from the ground.
As the hard bullet head was pried out, making a "clank" sound as it fell to the ground, Krauser also began to roar towards the sky.
And the next second,
To everyone's disbelief,
Krauser's arms began to mutate.
His left arm, which had been shot by the pistol bullet, suddenly stopped bleeding and began to swell and harden. The entire arm was undergoing keratinization, especially the foremost hand, which was pierced by a sharp, protruding blade. This bio-organic blade grew larger and larger, gradually reaching about a meter in length.
The tail end was barbed, like a terrifying execution tool, and surrounded by various blood-red veins.
His right arm, on the other hand, mutated into an umbrella-shaped white bone bracer, and the five fingers at the front became incredibly sharp.
And this was the powerful power ability that the two types of Plaga within Krauser granted him—
He had completely mutated into a killing machine.
At the same time,
Not only that,
Besides his arms transforming into terrifying and dreadful instruments of torture, Krauser could also feel the enhancement of his internal strength, a sensation that he could instantly shatter anything.
And this was merely the power of the two types of Plaga. If he could obtain the power of the Dominant Plaga, Krauser simply couldn't imagine to what extent he could evolve?
"Ah ah ah—!!!"
"Do you feel it? This unparalleled power… This is its charm, this feeling of looking down on all living beings as ants, something you foolish people cannot comprehend,"
Raising his huge bio-blade on his left arm high, Krauser felt the powerful force surging within him and couldn't help but exclaim.
Leon and Luis in the distance looked at everything before them in disbelief. Krauser, this guy, had actually injected himself with the Plaga parasite, and had even gained the power of the Plaga parasite. What was most unbelievable was that Krauser could perfectly suppress the Plaga parasite to provide himself with power.
This guy's willpower is truly not ordinary…
"Krauser…"
"You've been blinded by power. This kind of power is not something you can control; it will only lead you to destruction."
Nevertheless,
Leon still sarcastically remarked to the mutated Krauser. When a person resorts to any means for so-called power, even becoming a monster, he has already completely embarked on the path of self-destruction. This power will ultimately only destroy him.
In reality,
What Leon said was indeed true.
The power of the Plaga parasite was not something Krauser could control, and the Plaga parasite's lower limit was too low. From the very beginning, Krauser chose the wrong path to become stronger because he was too impatient and too eager for power!
The Plaga parasite, this thing,
is essentially a vile parasite, and a parasite will not care about its host. It will only consider how to obtain more nutrients from the host. Unlike viruses, although viruses and hosts also have a parasitic relationship, viruses cannot leave the host to parasitize another person.
Because viruses exist between cells, once the host dies, the cells will also die, and then the viruses will also perish. They cannot change hosts, so they will naturally do their best to protect the host.
But parasites can change hosts at any time, so they don't care about the host's life or death. Therefore, parasites could abandon Krauser at any time.
Additionally,
The power of the Plaga parasite is too weak. Besides providing the host with powerful physical qualities, it has no other abilities, not even recovery effects. Once it enters the Exploding Bug state, which is the current transformed state,
Then the Plaga parasite cannot revert. It can only continue to survive in its transformed state.
After all, they have no recovery ability, so once their biological form changes, they naturally cannot change back. This is the most annoying point.
Just these conditions alone,
Are enough to show how weak the Plaga parasite is, completely incomparable to viruses, not even the lowest level T-Virus. If Krauser could have obtained the modified T-Virus from Wesker, perhaps he wouldn't have injected himself with the Plaga parasite. But he was too impatient, eager to obtain the so-called power. Now, it's somewhat like picking up sesame seeds and losing a watermelon, a bit of a net loss!
However,
As a middle-aged man in his thirties,
How could Krauser admit his mistake?
What's more, he was now deeply immersed in the immense power brought by the Plaga parasite, unable to extricate himself.
"Shut up!"
"You are just jealous and shocked by the power I possess. Now I will show you the truly absolute and powerful power I have, an unrivaled power!"
A furious roar directly interrupted Leon's taunt.
Krauser turned his gaze towards Leon and, without hesitation, charged fiercely at him. His speed had increased significantly, and the hideous, terrifying bio-blade thrust directly at Leon's chest. If it connected, it was enough to disembowel him!
And Leon, seeing this,
quickly unslung the pump-action shotgun from his back. Facing such a monster with astonishing defense, only a shotgun could inflict fatal damage.
"Bang—!"
"Boom—!!!"
A fatal sneak attack passed,
Successfully dodged by the agile Leon,
The terrifying and hideous bio-blade directly pierced into the wall of the adjacent corridor, creating a deep, cavernous hole. Countless 碎石 tumbled down, causing astonishing damage. If hit by it, it would absolutely be a 100% fatal outcome!
"…"
"You're beyond saving, Krauser!"
And Leon, after dodging the recent fatal attack, immediately raised the pump-action shotgun in his hand and launched an attack, aiming at Krauser in front of him and quickly pulling the trigger. The distance between them was less than two meters.
This distance would be the most powerful range for the shotgun—
"Bang… Boom—!!!"
A gunshot,
Hot shotgun pellets splattered,
All blasted towards Krauser's face, but to Leon's surprise, Krauser did not dodge the shotgun pellets. Instead, he raised his mutated massive arms and brought them together, forming a perfect shield.