If Leon were to compete with Ada now, he certainly wouldn't be suppressed like before. After all, the inherent physical disadvantage of being female had already been compensated for.
In an arm-wrestling match, Leon might not even be as strong as Ada.
She had completely evolved into a 'Vajra Barbie.' Fortunately, the T-Virus's strength enhancement didn't make a person's muscles bulky; otherwise, Javier would have rather not given Ada the T-Virus agent.
In short,
Ada had become much stronger now.
Javier felt more at ease letting this woman roam around. With the T-Virus protecting her, combined with Ada's naturally cautious nature,
Ada likely had the ability to venture anywhere in the world now. As long as she didn't do anything suicidal, she certainly wouldn't die.
The thought of having another follower on his path to immortality
made Javier feel much better. After all, he didn't want to live alone in the future; living forever would be too boring otherwise.
"Ahem..."
"By the way, Ada, have you finished investigating? The matter regarding Simmons and Carla."
After a dry cough,
Javier looked at Ada and shifted the topic to serious business.
Seeing this, Ada didn't continue to dwell on the previous matter. Instead, she took her smart communication device from her bosom and tossed it to Javier.
"Most of the information I could find is in there."
"Carla was originally a female researcher under Simmons. She's a very clever woman with quite a talent for biology. To repay Simmons's kindness, she stayed by his side to help research bio-viruses."
"But that bastard Simmons's ambition was too great. To have me, that pervert attempted to use the chrysalid properties of the c-virus to create an identical clone of me. Many of his previous experiments failed until Carla personally intervened, and then he barely succeeded."
"I've seen photos of Carla from before. Her facial features were already quite similar to mine, so the success wasn't an accident."
"Unfortunately, after becoming me, Carla didn't receive the affection she wanted. On the contrary, Simmons treated her as a tool for venting. Perhaps because he could never have me, he took out his perverted urges—things he wanted to do but couldn't—on my replica instead."
"After realizing she was just a substitute, Carla broke with Simmons and planned to take revenge on the old pervert who ruined her life. Subsequently, Carla secretly built a new Umbrella Corporation to serve her. That's the gist of what happened."
Lifting the tea on the table and taking a light sip, Ada explained calmly.
Over the past year or so, she had practically stripped Simmons and Carla bare, stopping just short of investigating exactly how many times the two of them had 'played cards' together.
Of course, Ada could have investigated that too, but it was just disgusting. After all, she didn't want to see her own face doing those sorts of things with Simmons.
"Furthermore..."
"I discovered a submarine in the North Atlantic. It doesn't belong to any nation; it's a privately manufactured submarine. Many of the devices and facial recognition systems inside automatically recognized my face and voice."
"I suspect that's the submarine equipment Carla has been using. She's plotting something big. After searching the submarine, I finally discovered some secrets."
"Carla plans to destroy the world. She intends to launch a c-virus missile at Hong Kong. From Hong Kong, it will spread to the rest of China, and then the whole world."
"This woman is full of hatred. If she had behaved herself, I might have even considered helping her eliminate Simmons, but now, this woman has gone mad."
"So I have to consider how to deal with this imposter as quickly as possible. If I'm not mistaken, Carla and Simmons will arrive in Hong Kong within the next week."
After finishing her tea,
Ada brought up all the data from the smart communication device for Javier to see, while continuing her calm explanation.
In addition to the plot between Carla and Simmons, there was also some data regarding the c-virus, which was very important.
As for Carla's plan to use a c-virus missile to launch a sneak attack on Hong Kong,
Javier was also quite helpless. He didn't understand why Carla insisted on choosing this place for her revenge. Was it simply because it was Ada's hometown?
Or was it just that 'Capcom' simply needed a map with Chinese elements, or they thought China's high population density would make the bio-virus spread faster?
Uh... then they should have gone to India. After all, they are one of the most populous countries in the world now; China can't compare anymore...
At this moment,
as the two adults talked,
Sherry, sitting to the side, was stunned. What kind of grand conspiracy was being discussed? c-virus? Simmons and Carla? Destroying the world? All of Hong Kong being infected by a c-virus missile?!
Was this something a beautiful girl nearing thirty should be hearing? And with such an important matter, why didn't her old man Javier call the police?
And thinking about how her father Javier usually handled such dangerous matters, Sherry felt even more incredulous. Was he planning to be a superhero?!
"Ahem, that... Javier,"
"How about you give me back my gun now? I'm a bit excited... bah, I mean, I'm a bit scared. I didn't realize we were on such a grand mission."
"Why didn't you tell me before? If I knew we were more capable than the BSAA, I would have skipped school to go on missions with you, Javier. Saving the world, how cool is that!"
At this moment,
Sherry's excited heart finally couldn't take it anymore, and she hurriedly spoke to Javier.
She even reached out, wanting her equipment and weapons back, but... after seeing Javier's scrutinizing gaze,
Sherry gave a sheepish, awkward smile,
reverting back to her 'good girl' persona. She knew that if she continued to talk back to Javier, she would definitely get a beating when they got back, so it was better to be sensible.
"We don't need to worry about the extra stuff; leave professional matters to professional people. Ada, we only need to deal with the two masterminds, Simmons and Carla."
"Also, retrieve the c-virus samples. Leave the rest to the BSAA. They are better at this sort of thing; after all, protecting civilians is their duty."
Too lazy to deal with the girl Sherry, Javier calmly gave instructions in response to the information Ada had revealed.
They didn't have the spare energy to look after the people of Lanxiang City or all of Hong Kong. There were only three of them; how could they save an entire city? So it was best to let the BSAA handle it.
As he spoke,
Javier took out his smart communication device, found the number he wanted in his short contact list, and pressed the call button.
"Beep... beep... beep..."
"Beep... beep... beep..."
"Beep... beep... beep..."
"Hello... who is this?"
After quite a while,
a raspy, heavy voice finally came from the other end of the phone, sounding as if the person had just gotten out of bed and was utterly exhausted.
The person Javier was calling was Chris.
As a member of S.T.A.R.S., Javier had once obtained Chris's number from Jill, but Chris likely didn't remember that this was Javier's number.
So he was slightly puzzled.
After all, not many people knew his number, and this was the first time Chris had seen this unfamiliar number.
Since being beaten by Jake that day, his fighting spirit had cleared a bit. Now Chris was planning to take his BSAA squad
and withdraw from the border of the Edonia Republic to return to the North American branch base to await new orders. Chris knew he couldn't continue to be decadent, so he planned to start over.
But he didn't expect that just as they were about to leave,
an unknown number would disturb him. This was something that surprised Chris...
"Long time no see, Chris. It's Javier."
"I have something I need the BSAA's help with, but I don't know if you still trust me?"
Slowly,
Javier's calm, familiar voice came through the phone, giving Chris a slight shock.
They hadn't seen each other for nearly three years since parting on the cargo ship in West Africa. He hadn't expected Javier to be the one to contact him first this time.
Thinking about how Jill had retired from the front lines to the logistics department, and now he was the only one from the former S.T.A.R.S. team left fighting alone,
Chris felt a bit of melancholy.
But undeniably, they were still friends. So as a friend, Chris didn't mind hearing what Javier had to say.
"We're still brothers-in-arms, Javier. After all, I haven't caught you abusing bio-viruses yet, have I?"
To this,
Chris seemed unusually cheerful.
After all, being able to chat with one of the few remaining acquaintances was a very rare thing. He hadn't communicated with Barry, Jill, or Rebecca for a long time.
Because his missions were numerous,
and he had spent a month drowning his sorrows in alcohol,
he was surrounded by subordinates. There weren't many people he could talk to normally as peers anymore; Javier was probably the last one. Chris thought to himself that he was quite lonely sometimes.
"I'm glad you're still willing to trust me, Chris."
"From your voice, you seem to have regained your fighting spirit from your slump. That's a good thing. After all, I've rarely seen you suffer setbacks. After this, your state of mind and will should be even more determined."
"Sorry, I'm rambling. You've likely already experienced the Revolutionary Rebel Army in the Edonia Republic using biological weapons in their civil war. The virus they use is the new c-virus; you should know this as well."
"What I want to tell you now is that in about a week, the bioterrorist organization behind the development of the c-virus plans to launch a c-virus nuclear missile to detonate in Lanxiang City, Hong Kong, thereby infecting the entire city. This is just an experiment."
"If the c-virus nuclear missile works well, then the whole world will suffer from such attacks. This new bioterrorist organization calls itself Neo-Umbrella. If you believe me,"
"I hope you can mobilize the BSAA Asian branch to come to Hong Kong to investigate and prepare protective measures!" Javier calmly explained everything to Chris over the smart communication device.
Volume 9 Resident Evil 6: Chapter 16 Lepotitsa
United States—
In Tall Oaks City, the city had completely turned into a living hell at this moment. Zombies wandered everywhere in the streets.
Screams rose one after another, and the sounds of explosions and gunfire drifted over continuously. Flames shot into the sky, and the pitch-black night was lit up from time to time, as terrifying as if a war had broken out.
"Vroom..."
"Boom—!!!"
The car engine roared.
At this moment, Leon was focused on driving the police car beneath him. The situation on the streets was becoming more and more complex.
It had been several hours since the outbreak of the biohazard in Tall Oaks City, and the range and speed of the virus infection were very fast.
The streets, which originally didn't have many obstacles,
were now piled high with all sorts of collided cars and corpses. Because people had fled too quickly, many vehicles on the streets had crashed into each other.
This made it difficult for the police car Leon was driving to move an inch on the street.
At this speed, escaping Tall Oaks City before dawn would undoubtedly be an extremely difficult task.
"Damn it, this is trouble..."
His eyes were fixed on the situation on the street ahead.
Gripping the steering wheel, Leon couldn't help but curse under his breath.
The windshield of the police car was already covered in quite a bit of blood, all caused by the zombies Leon had hit with the car.
But because the police car's chassis was too low,
after hitting fewer than a few zombies, the police car's engine had already malfunctioned.
Looking at the red light flashing on the dashboard, Leon had a headache. Did they have to leave Tall Oaks City on foot?
That would likely take a full 24 hours to accomplish.
After all, Tall Oaks City was a real city; trying to traverse a city on foot without a vehicle was no simple matter.
But there was no choice,
because Leon could feel that the police car in front of him wouldn't last much longer, and they didn't have any weapons on them.
Besides a vehicle,
they also needed to find some weapons for self-defense within Tall Oaks. Otherwise, with just the few handguns they had, it would be hard to fight their way out of the city.
"Helena, help me turn on the GPS and find the nearest weapons shop in Tall Oaks City on the map. This police car won't last much longer."
"We have to find a place to regroup before we can continue. A weapons shop can help us temporarily get through the danger. It would be even better if we could find a few cars near the shop; motorcycles would be even better."
While manipulating the steering wheel of the police car,
Leon hurriedly gave instructions to his partner Helena beside him.