It was Jill in the distance, who, seizing the moment Wesker attacked, immediately opened fire.
It turned out that Chris hadn't been using firearms earlier because he intended to use his body to attract Wesker's attention, thereby giving Jill an opportunity to ambush him.
And now it seemed, their timing was excellent.
Their plan had succeeded; Wesker had just launched his palm strike.
But in the blink of an eye, Jill's pistol bullets had already reached his face.
This distance gave Wesker no time to prepare, making it very difficult to dodge.
"..."
"Interesting...!"
Seeing this, a hint of surprise and bewilderment flashed in Wesker's eyes.
He had somewhat underestimated Chris and Jill; it seemed these two weren't so foolish after all.
To exploit the time difference, they actually employed such a perfect feint tactic.
But the same principle still applied: trying to defeat Wesker with such petty tricks was a difficult endeavor.
And so, to Jill's astonished gaze, Wesker suddenly extended his palm.
Was Wesker planning to catch the bullets again? No, not this time... the distance was too close.
It gave Wesker no time to react; instead, extending his palm was Wesker's instinctive, subconscious blocking motion.
"Pfft... Pfft... Pfft...!"
The bullets struck.
But they struck Wesker's arm.
Originally, Jill had aimed the bullets at Wesker's head, but Wesker raised his arm to block, simultaneously protecting his head.
He intended to use his arm to stop all the bullets, after all, the head was many times more important than the arm!
Bullet after bullet embedded themselves in Wesker's arm.
Blood immediately flowed down his arm.
These 9mm pistol bullets, unlike the large-caliber, high-power Desert Eagle rounds, couldn't penetrate the human body and retain subsequent kinetic energy.
Therefore, the bullet heads could not penetrate Wesker's arm; they were all stopped.
It was a great pity.
Blood rapidly flowed from Wesker's arm.
Feeling the pain in his arm, Wesker paid it no mind.
Because he possessed the enhancement of the progenitor virus; although it didn't have the abnormal regenerative ability of the G-Virus, it was sufficient to heal mere gunshot wounds.
"..."
"A little improvement, but it's a pity.
Next time you should switch to a sniper rifle.
That way, perhaps you could penetrate my arm and head at the same time to kill me.
That little toy in your hand is too weak."
Looking at his bleeding arm, Wesker raised his head and turned his gaze towards Jill in the distance, praising her lightly.
But his tone quickly shifted to mockery.
Because the progenitor virus in Wesker's body had already begun self-repairing; soon, the blood on his arm stopped flowing.
New flesh rapidly grew over the numerous bullet holes, and the embedded bullet heads were squeezed out one by one, falling to the ground with a crisp clinking sound.
But in reality, whether it was a sniper rifle or a barrett heavy sniper rifle, it would be very difficult to kill Wesker, because he had perfectly fused with the progenitor virus.
Even if his entire head were blown to smithereens, it would be difficult for him to die.
As for why Wesker would still guard his head? This was mainly because Wesker feared he would no longer be himself.
What did that mean?
This was actually similar to G William.
Humans were initially the hosts of the virus, but it was still the human who truly controlled the body.
Therefore, in a state of perfect fusion, the human still maintained dominance.
But if your head was blown off, it would mean the host body was in grave danger, and the parasitic virus, fearing death, would subconsciously contend with the host for control of the body.
The virus, after seizing control of the body, would use all its power to arm itself, to avoid its own demise.
This was actually the virus's autonomous defense system.
But once the virus gained dominance, the original host's consciousness would disappear, gradually turning into a mere bio-organic monster, just like William in his G3 state, completely losing himself and becoming a monster.
And although Wesker had a perfect fusion with the progenitor virus, he feared this very thing, which is why he would try his best to protect his head.
Being shot in the head wouldn't kill him, but he would be severely wounded, and the virus's power would suddenly surge out.
If he couldn't control it, Wesker would also walk the same path as his junior, William...
Simply put, this was like the relationship between robbers, hostages, and the police.
Rumor had it that Russian special forces were extremely brutal; when encountering robbers holding hostages, to quickly complete the mission, they would include the hostages in the robber count when reporting to their superiors.
This way, there would be no hostages.
Without hostages, they could unleash full firepower, and the hostages, fearing death, would take up arms and shoot back at the police, just like the robbers.
And the virus's autonomous defense behavior was actually no different from this.
Therefore, when people were about to die, they would take up arms and resist the target that threatened them, let alone a virus?
Furthermore, a theorem was mentioned earlier: the virus was selfish.
It didn't care about the host's life or death, only its own.
Therefore, Wesker, wanting to perfectly maintain his human-like state, had to avoid critical areas like his head being blown off.
Lest the progenitor virus, fearing death, suddenly take over and control him, after all, Wesker didn't want to become an ugly monster...
But for such an example, there was one exception: Lisa.
Because Lisa, unlike Wesker, William, and others, was a pathogen, not a parasite.
The G-Virus was born within Lisa's body.
In a sense, Lisa was the G-Virus, and the G-Virus was Lisa.
Therefore, even if the G-Virus went berserk, Lisa would still be Lisa, not just a simple G-Virus monster.
There was such a distinction between the two, which is why Javier repeatedly marveled that Lisa was the true perfect virus fusion—!
She could evolve infinitely...
Just like Alex Mercer from Prototype, she could become the apex of the food chain.
Now, Lisa was only missing a c-virus to become like Alex Mercer.
If Javier could later obtain a sample of Simmons' c-virus, he could allow Lisa to undergo infinite transformations.
Her body could reorganize into any desired shape or form.
Furthermore, if Lisa could absorb the power of the Mold, then Lisa would be the first person to truly step through the gate of eternal life.
She would also be the most perfect and flawless creation in the world.
Javier himself harbored this selfish mentality, keeping Lisa by his side.
Although he was reluctant to admit it, unknowingly, Javier had also come to regard Lisa as the most perfect experimental subject, no different from the people of Umbrella Corporation.
The only difference was that Javier was slightly more humane than the people of Umbrella Corporation, not purely exploitative, nor overly selfish.
"..."
"Now, do you two have any more tricks? Let me see if your wisdom can truly surpass a god's..."
After squeezing out all the bullet heads embedded in his arm, Wesker took off his sunglasses, revealing his terrifying eyes.
At this moment, Wesker was completely dehumanized; the pupils in his eyes were blood-red, like a thoroughbred beast.
Looking at Chris, who was writhing in pain on the ground clutching his stomach, and then glancing at Jill beside him, Wesker asked calmly.
Facing two amusing pets, Wesker didn't intend to kill them directly.
He wanted to enjoy himself thoroughly, after all, in this remote, impoverished mountainous Mansion Villa, there wouldn't be any damned police to disturb his good time.
Wesker could slowly torment Chris and Jill.
And he had already thought of a good idea.
These two liked to oppose him, didn't they? The BSAA?
Then, once Wesker had tormented them enough, he would take them back to his base for bio-organic research, injecting the virus into their bodies.
When the two became bio-organic monsters, he would see if they would still hate bio-organic viruses.
What... you say I, Wesker, am doing something foolish?
How is this different from empowering the protagonists? Giving them the power of bio-organic viruses for free, then Chris and Jill could use the power of bio-organic viruses to fight against him!
In response, the clever Wesker extended his finger to shake his head, saying "NO NO NO."
Things weren't that simple.
Wesker wouldn't be so foolish.
He wouldn't inject them with too strong a bio-organic virus; he would only inject the initial T-Virus.
This would ensure that even if Chris and Jill possessed the power of the bio-organic virus, they wouldn't surpass him.
After all, the upper limit was very low.
Secondly... Wesker would transplant parts of bio-organic monster limbs onto these two, making them completely half-human, half-monster existences.
Thirdly... Wesker also planned to inform the US Government about Chris and Jill's perfect fusion with the bio-organic virus.
This way, the greedy and selfish US Government wouldn't let go of the experimental subjects delivered to them for free and would send people to personally capture Chris and Jill for human experimentation.
After these three schemes, the scene of turning enemies that Wesker wanted to see would be achieved.
He was already looking forward to the wonderful expressions on Chris and Jill's faces when they heard the news of being captured by their own country and government for human experimentation.
Then, he would see if they still hated bio-organic viruses.
You should know... the most terrifying weapon in the world is never some bio-organic virus, but humanity itself—!
"Hmph!"
Hearing Wesker's mockery, Chris slowly got up from the ground.
Intense pain shot through his abdomen, but Chris's powerful willpower directly crushed the pain.
Wiping the bile from the corner of his mouth, Chris let out a low growl and charged towards Wesker with his bare hands.
It was the same old foolishness, not using weapons to attack, but instead engaging in close-quarters combat.
This simply couldn't defeat Wesker.
"Chris, can you be any more foolish?"
Looking at Chris charging towards him, Wesker was speechless.
It was the same tactic over and over again; hadn't this guy realized yet?
Simple close-quarters combat could not defeat him at all.
Under the enhancement of the progenitor virus, it was very difficult for any human to win against Wesker in close-quarters combat.
After all, in terms of sheer physical attributes, they simply couldn't compare to Wesker himself; speed, strength, explosive power, and stamina all offered no advantage whatsoever.
"Wait..."
"Something's wrong—!"
However, Wesker quickly realized something was amiss.
If Chris's previous close-quarters combat with a dagger was to buy Jill time and an opportunity for a sneak attack, then what was the purpose of this close-quarters combat?
Thinking this, Wesker decisively glanced towards Jill with the corner of his eye.
At this moment, he saw Jill reloading her pistol.
This made Wesker's mouth twitch.
The same old trick again.
Was there no novelty at all?
A feint tactic, once used, could not succeed a second time.
"Hmph...!"
"Very uninteresting.
Since that's the case, let's end this farce.
After I capture both of you and bring you back to my base, I'll torture you slowly."
Muttering to himself, Wesker decided not to play around any longer.
He was now determined to directly apprehend both Chris and Jill.