After the progenitor virus and ouroboros virus within his body fused, an evil form began to grow, and those yellow eyes, looking as if they were newly born,
gazed at the surrounding environment with immense curiosity—not just curiosity, but also longing and anticipation,
because the world outside was the world it was about to conquer and rule, where all living beings would become tools for their reproduction, infection, and parasitism.
Although such a thing was absurd and laughable,
Wesker couldn't help but suspect that the bio-virus had developed self-awareness, which was a truly terrifying prospect.
A virus should only constantly replicate and multiply, being a creature without consciousness, but now... by replicating every cell and DNA strand within Wesker's body, they had developed a self-awareness of their own.
And this eyeball was the best proof of that.
It intended to use Wesker's body as a vessel to be born into this world; once it devoured Wesker's consciousness, the world's first sentient virus monster would be born.
Just like G3 William once was,
except that G3 William's intelligence wasn't that high back then—he was just a virus monster that wanted to constantly replicate and multiply.
But the one inside his body...
Wesker sensed something unusual; it possessed an extraordinary consciousness, completely different from mindless bio-monsters.
"Who are you—?!" +2
Carrying a hint of rage,
Wesker looked at his reflection in the pool of blood and couldn't help but ask.
The only answer he received was a raspy voice that sounded like a crude imitation, along with that eyeball that kept turning on its own, which made Wesker even more furious.
He could not accept such an outcome.
While it was true that he wanted to become the Creator of a new world and a new humanity, it couldn't be in this form—Wesker could have accepted even becoming an Ultimate Ouroboros like Excella.
Even if he became a mindless monster, as long as he could infect the entire world, it would be enough.
Once a transcendent human capable of perfectly merging with the ouroboros virus emerged from the six billion humans to deal with him, Wesker would still be the pioneer who led humanity toward evolution.
But now,
Wesker felt no possibility of leading human evolution from the body before him; all he saw was thick greed and desire.
Wesker was certain,
that if he were devoured by the ouroboros virus monster within him, this body would absolutely not lead human evolution.
Instead, it would turn all of humanity into virus monsters like itself, and if that happened... humanity would be completely extinct!
To be honest,
Wesker had a very strict set of theories regarding his ideal goals; what he wanted to do was not, in essence, to destroy the world,
nor was it to plunge the world into a doomsday crisis,
but rather to make humanity evolve.
To leap to a new level of civilization, just like the great leap from apes to primitive men, and from primitive men to humans.
The reason Wesker wanted to use the ouroboros virus to infect all of humanity was the same; he wanted to use the ouroboros virus to give all of humanity a baptism and a screening.
To allow humans with superior genes to evolve and reproduce anew, while those humans who were inferior and unable to withstand the virus's power would choose death.
As long as humanity could achieve an evolutionary leap,
it would be acceptable even if only tens of thousands remained out of the world's 6.1 billion people; as long as the evolved humans did not die out, they could multiply once more,
bringing humanity into a new era and civilization.
And Wesker would be their leader, the so-called Creator God—this was Wesker's true ambition.
Therefore,
in a sense,
Wesker really wasn't so insane as to want humanity's total extinction; after all, even God never completely wiped out humanity.
From the humans of the Golden Age to those of the Silver Age and the Bronze Age, these humans evolved step by step to the present day through God's various punishments, including the Great Flood.
Wesker's ouroboros virus was an imitation of God's Great Flood.
Only humans with superior genes could board the Noah's Ark he had built, thereby creating a brand-new world—this was his ambition.
But now,
what did he see? After the progenitor virus and ouroboros virus fused and went berserk, these viruses actually used his body as a shell to give birth to a consciousness.
This was the thing Wesker found most unacceptable.
It would have been fine if he had no consciousness after the infection and mutation,
even if he were just a lowly monster like the Ultimate Ouroboros, but this monster actually seemed to possess intelligence—this was what Wesker could least accept.
Once this sentient virus was allowed to infect the whole world,
the true purpose of the Great Flood and humans boarding Noah's Ark could not be achieved; instead, humanity would be completely wiped out because of it, turning into tools for the virus to reproduce...
This was certainly not what Wesker wanted to see!
"Damn it,"
"These viruses have developed self-awareness? Listen... I can feel you making trouble inside my body. It would be fine if you were just a low-intelligence bio-monster,"
"but now you're attempting to absorb and devour my wisdom to infect the entire world. I'm telling you... that's impossible!"
Thinking of this,
Wesker looked at his reflection in the pool of blood and began to curse; this body gave him immense power,
but it was also full of danger.
In short, Wesker could not allow the virus within him to infect the whole world; he could not accept such an outcome. How could he allow everything he had painstakingly prepared to become someone else's gain?
"Jie jie jie jie jie jie..."
"You... cannot resist... your... body is mine... everything... is mine..."
Hearing Wesker's cursing,
the dark and orange-yellow non-human eyeball on the left suddenly turned on its own, and such a raspy voice involuntarily issued from Wesker's throat.
Such a response made Wesker beyond furious.
Despite all his calculations, he never expected the virus to turn the tables on him. Truly, one can hunt geese all their life only to be pecked blind by a goose in the end.
Who would have thought that a virus, which only knows how to parasitize, replicate, and multiply,
and isn't even considered a cell, could one day control its host and attempt to seize the throne, just like a Plaga parasite.
However,
when he considered that the ouroboros virus also contained fused components of the Plaga parasite, then the fact that the ouroboros virus could develop self-awareness now,
didn't seem like such a miraculous thing after all.
After all, everyone knew the nature of the Plaga parasite—it was skilled at parasitizing and controlling its host. The hundreds and thousands of Majini monster villagers in the Kijuju Autonomous Region in West Africa were all caused by the second-generation Plaga parasite.
And now,
Wesker facing this disaster,
could be considered reaping what he sowed!
At the same time, it served as a reminder to everyone that the power of viruses must never be used recklessly. Although they have no intelligence,
and aren't even considered conventional organisms, barely qualifying as microorganisms, it is precisely because of this that they have the ability to turn around and devour humans at any time.
"Javier, kill me! All of you, kill me now!"
"I've been infected and parasitized. Damn it... I didn't expect these viruses to develop self-awareness,"
"they want to use the entire world as a breeding tool. By then, even if humans are infected with the ouroboros virus, they won't evolve; they'll only become objects for their reproduction."
At this moment,
having no other choice, Wesker could only glare deathly at Javier and the others with his crimson snake-like pupils, suddenly speaking to explain.
At the same time, Wesker ordered Javier and the others to hurry up and kill him; after all, he could feel the power within his body.
If it wasn't stopped,
by the time the progenitor virus and ouroboros virus completely devoured him, there would truly be no way left.
However,
how could the ouroboros virus, which had already half-seized the throne, let Wesker have his way? His entire body had already become a virus-infected body.
Except for his speaking mouth and his brain, Wesker had no control over this body at all, unless he could accept the erosion of the ouroboros virus, but that was undoubtedly impossible.
And regarding this shitty outcome,
Mr. Uchiha, who was also a big villain boss, felt a strong sense of familiarity; finally, someone else had been tricked just like him,
giving away all their hard-earned efforts for someone else's gain, with their body becoming someone else's too. This ending was all too familiar!
"Javier..."
"Has he gone mad?!"
Beside him, Alexia looked at the Wesker before her who was acting so crazily. She was completely baffled and couldn't help but ask Javier.
After all, who would insult themselves in public and ask others to kill them? Even if the virus infection was severe, it shouldn't lead to such a serious mental illness!
"Uh..."
Hearing Alexia's remark,
Javier looked at Wesker with a rather helpless expression. Seeing that state of being divided against himself, along with the yellow eyeball turning wildly in Wesker's left eye and the raspy voice issuing autonomously from his throat,
Javier had already roughly guessed the situation.
Wesker was very likely like his fellow student William, about to be devoured by the power of the bio-virus within him.
The only difference was,
the G-Virus monster didn't have much extra intelligence besides wanting to reproduce, but the ouroboros virus before them, because it possessed Plaga parasite genes, was very likely going to replicate Wesker's brain to gain wisdom. This was a terrifying thing!
But,
this made Javier unable to resist complaining.
Now you know to beg and be afraid, you should have known better earlier. Why did you have to go and try to destroy the world?
If you, Wesker, had just stayed put and researched viruses without such great ambitions, Javier wouldn't have bothered with you.
Now look...
you've overreached. The Earth isn't being taken over by Cockroach-men, but it seems it's about to be taken over by virus-men. What a hassle.
"Alright,"
"Prepare for battle. Alexia, don't tell me you didn't see what's going on. If you really didn't, then your title as a genius is just a boast,"
"Wesker is being controlled by the ouroboros virus. That thing contains Plaga parasite genes. Of all the things to fuse, why put parasite genes in? Isn't that just asking for death?"
Looking at Wesker,
and then glancing at Alexia beside him, Javier shook his head irritably and quickly ordered in a low voice.
He had decided now,
that this ouroboros virus was absolutely not to be touched.
Javier would rather take the c-virus and the Super Fungus than play with the ouroboros virus; Wesker had fused Plaga parasite genes into this thing,
and Javier was extremely disgusted by it.
After all, viruses and bugs are different; the fact that the ouroboros virus could parasitize and control Wesker was probably half due to the Plaga parasite genes at work.
If Lisa were to merge with the ouroboros virus in the future, wouldn't she possibly follow Wesker's old path?
If Lisa were controlled...
then Javier's only backer and the person he relied on for protection would be gone. So, the ouroboros virus had already been struck from Javier's list!
"No one can leave here..."