Therefore, Javier had always believed that an evolutionary form like Wesker's, which still lacked the ability to control its own physical size, was flawed—a mutant evolutionary branch.
In contrast, the human body Wesker had reconstructed by devouring a mass of Ouroboros splits when he was down to just a head was actually the correct path.
Had he maintained that human form and recovered slowly, he might have been able to perfectly fuse into the true evolved state of the ouroboros virus.
But unfortunately,
the ouroboros virus consciousness within his head was exceptionally greedy; although it had gained self-awareness, its intelligence remained low.
Its primary objective was still to devour and propagate through all living things.
Unable to resist its gluttonous desires, it fused with Excella, who was the Ultimate Ouroboros, resulting in this current form.
If the manifestation of the ouroboros virus is a snake,
then Javier speculated that a perfectly fused Wesker should have a body covered in snake scales; however, he would now never be able to reach such a state.
"Heh..."
"This guy really is a failure. Wesker has fallen into the demonic path. Anyone can see that such a massive thing is nothing good. What kind of perfect virus host would look like this—neither human nor ghost?"
And it wasn't just Javier.
Even Alexia, standing nearby, spoke with ridicule toward the massive King Ghidorah not far away.
As the former golden girl, Alexia—
how could she not see what Wesker's current monstrous appearance truly signified?
It signified that his evolution had failed.
He had turned into a monster through and through, rather than a virus host. He couldn't even be called a higher life form or a transcendent being; he could only be barely labeled a monster, and nothing more.
When Alexia had entered her Queen Ant state, it was also a form of mutated degradation; her body became bloated and massive.
She had continuously laid eggs from her giant abdomen to birth soldier and worker ants to attack her enemies. While she appeared to be a queen in control of everything, she herself was unable to move.
And when she shed that form to become a winged flying ant, she lost a vast array of offensive means; aside from being agile, she became incredibly fragile.
Thus, both subsequent forms were degradations.
To this day, Alexia had not used those two subsequent forms because she knew they were defective products.
Only by maintaining her current human form and gradually strengthening her power could she truly step onto the path of a higher life form.
She did not want to become a monster.
Because of this... the moment she saw Wesker's appearance, Alexia couldn't help but mock him.
Though her power was not as great as the current Wesker's, at least she was still a higher life form and not a total monster.
It was like a hunter holding a weapon.
An unarmed hunter certainly couldn't defeat lions, brown bears, tigers, rhinos, hippos, or elephants, but a hunter armed with a spear, a bow, or even a shotgun could surely subdue these beasts at will.
And now...
Wesker was that fierce beast, and Alexia was the hunter. Unarmed, she could not defeat the fierce beast that was Wesker.
But even so,
she was still a human, not a beast! In the future, as long as she obtained a weapon, she could surpass Wesker and subdue this wild animal!
"While that's true, it seems we still have no possibility of defeating this guy."
"Even if Lisa wanted to deal with this behemoth, it would likely take a very long time. The previous Ultimate Ouroboros was already so troublesome, let alone this three-in-one form."
Hearing Alexia's disparagement and sarcasm,
Javier shook his head helplessly.
Although Wesker had strayed from the track of perfect fusion, it didn't mean he would be easy to handle.
Currently, Lisa still lacked the offensive means to face such a gargantuan creature.
It had taken so long just to deal with one Ultimate Ouroboros; now, there was likely no way to even harm the King Ghidorah before them.
To hurt Wesker, Lisa would probably have to unleash the power within her body, just like Alexia had done before.
She would have to discard the perfect fusion human form,
and infinitely release the viral power within her. Only then would Lisa possess the strength to harm Wesker.
But doing so might affect Lisa's future evolutionary path, making it a method where the losses outweigh the gains.
"What a pity..."
"I wonder if Josh has reached the BSAA headquarters base in West Africa. If he has, he should have requested support from headquarters long ago."
"How great it would be if they sent a fleet of air forces. If not fighter jets or bombers, even a fleet of Apache attack helicopters would do!"
"However, there's still Chris, Jill, and the others. They should be returning to the research base in the mountains now. For now, we just need to stall this three-headed snake monster for a bit. If we really can't hold it off, we can escape first."
"With the distress calls from Chris and Jill, even if Josh, the captain of Delta Squad, died unexpectedly, Chris and Jill should still be able to call in quite a few troops for support."
Sighing deeply,
Javier felt it was a bit of a shame that the BSAA's support was somewhat lacking. For such a major event, it was far too difficult that only the few of them had discovered it.
Saving the world indeed requires heroes,
but you can't have heroes do everything. Without a bit of solidarity, cooperation, and sacrifice, it wouldn't matter if the world was destroyed.
Fortunately,
Javier had let Chris, Jill, and the others escape first. As long as they could get away,
they would surely be able to request support from the BSAA headquarters. When the time came, an air force fleet carrying several missiles could blast even an Ouroboros monster like King Ghidorah to death.
But for now,
Javier and the others could only try to stall King Ghidorah for a little while. If they truly couldn't win when the time came,
they would flee immediately.
In any case, the BSAA would clean up the mess afterward, so it shouldn't be too big of a deal. If they found they couldn't kill King Ghidorah,
they would likely resort to nuclear strikes.
Although such massive bio-monsters were strong, their ability to escape and hide was too poor; they would easily become targets for concentrated firepower. Under a few nuclear bombs, they would have to die even if they didn't want to.
After all, with so many satellites in space,
where could such a massive body hide? Conversely, Wesker in his human form was much more troublesome,
because he could evade detection and secretly release viruses to infect the world. By the time the humans reacted, it would be too late.
"ROOOAAAR——————!!!!!!"
"BOOM BOOM BOOM...!!!!"
And just at this moment,
the sky-scraping King Ghidorah launched its attack, an ear-splitting roar echoing through the heavens.
The heads, having disagreed, did not argue for long before turning to launch an assault on the entire freighter.
The massive octopus-like tentacles of its lower body began to coil,
thick, giant tentacles tightly wrapping around the whole freighter. Under the immense pressure, the ship's hull began to slowly be squeezed and distorted,
showing signs of being twisted into a braid.
At this instant, the three giant snakes opened their abyssal maws, and from those three maws erupted a terrifyingly powerful serpent's breath.
The giant snake head controlled by Wesker spat out terrifying black flames—the very ability of the T-Veronica Virus blood from before.
The black, searing flames poured onto the freighter's hull like a blowtorch, and the solid steel deck melted into molten iron in an instant.
The entire freighter's hull began to disintegrate uncontrollably, being easily destroyed like a toy ship.
"WHOOSH WHOOSH WHOOSH...!!!!"
And that wasn't all.
The giant snake head controlled by Excella immediately spat out a cloud of purple toxic mist; this was entirely composed of ouroboros virus gas.
Any living creature that inhaled it would be infected and turned into an Ouroboros monster. Although it couldn't spread to the stratosphere to be carried worldwide by the westerlies,
this poison-spitting ability alone was enough to prove that the King Ghidorah before them possessed the capability to infect the entire world.
As for the middle giant snake head, it could not spit any elemental ability; it was the host for the ouroboros virus consciousness itself.
Its sole ability was absorption.
Opening its fangs filled with sharp teeth, this giant snake began to crazily gnaw at the entire freighter, swallowing a large amount of iron plating and steel frames into its belly.
That abyssal stomach could devour and absorb all things.
The iron elements contained in the steel could help it strengthen the hardness of its body, similar to the principle of a dragon swallowing white phosphorus to increase the temperature of its fire breath.
The three-headed giant snake frantically destroyed the entire massive freighter; in just a few dozen seconds, the ship was on the verge of falling apart.
The deck of the freighter shook violently,
as terrifying as a magnitude ten earthquake. Javier gripped the only remaining railing nearby to steady himself and hurriedly took out a gas mask and a radiation protection suit from his storage space to put on.
To avoid infection from the toxic gas, Javier estimated that within a few minutes, this freighter would be completely scrapped.
"Alexia,"
"Hurry and strengthen your skin, and seal off all your respiratory organs like your mouth and nose. You must not inhale that purple-black toxic gas. If you don't want to turn into ouroboros virus 'zha jiang mian,' then do as you're told."
Javier, having barely managed to put on his protective suit amidst the violent shaking, hurriedly reminded Alexia beside him.
He always carried protective suits and gas masks for fear of one day being infected by a virus; he hadn't expected to use them at a time like this.
On the other side, Alexia obediently did as Javier said, because she also knew what the toxic gas overhead meant.
She must not be infected.
Alexia not only thickened her bark-like skin but also sealed her mouth and nostrils; a higher life form like her could go without breathing for an hour without issue.
Even if she truly lacked oxygen,
she could extend vine tentacles into the seawater; the ocean also contained oxygen, and Alexia could breathe using seawater just like a fish.
Even Lisa, flying in the sky, showed a look of wariness when she saw King Ghidorah spitting the toxic mist.
She hurriedly shut down her respiratory system and increased her skin protection; before she was certain she could fuse with the ouroboros virus, Lisa did not dare to absorb these toxic gases recklessly!
"Damn it, at this rate there's no point in fighting. With this level of destruction, even the Electromagnetic Particle Cannon won't have any effect."
After putting on his protective suit and gas mask, Javier looked at the King Ghidorah monster still wreaking havoc on the freighter and muttered with a very helpless expression.
He now only wanted to quickly jump from the freighter into the sea to escape, because Javier couldn't think of any way to deal with the King Ghidorah before him.
Even the Electromagnetic Particle Cannon in his hand would only be like scratching an itch.
At most, it could only blast a small hole in its body, unable to kill it. And even if he could land three headshots to blow off King Ghidorah's heads, it would likely be to no avail.
After all, at this stage, the head was no longer its weakness, so the only way now was to escape.
But where venomous snakes and insects dwell, the antidote is surely within seven steps—!
Even the ouroboros virus and King Ghidorah were no exception.
On this freighter existed an ultimate weapon that could destroy ouroboros virus monsters, and this weapon had been found by Chris, Jill, and the others.
After they escaped from the cabins to the deck,
they didn't leave immediately but intended to go to the main bridge to use the communication system to request support. And by sheer coincidence,
Chris and Jill saw a secret weapon prepared by Tricell on the freighter. It turned out... Excella, once fearing that the proliferation of the ouroboros virus would become uncontrollable,
had applied to Tricell headquarters for the usage rights of an attack satellite named "Shango." By firing a targeting rocket launcher from the freighter's main bridge,
and embedding a positioning beacon into the target's body,
the "Shango" satellite in space could lock onto the target's position via the beacon and fire a laser beam from space for a powerful strike.
That was a high-tech weapon dozens of times more powerful than a man-portable Electromagnetic Particle Cannon. To this, Javier could only say: why on earth were you researching bio-viruses instead?