Javier hoisted the rocket launcher onto his shoulder, quickly aimed at Simmons, and pulled the trigger.
Another powerful RPG rocket roared out instantly, trailing white gas and flames. The rocket struck Simmons' Saber-toothed Tiger body, dealing almost maximum damage.
"Rumble...!!!!"
A terrifying explosion swept through the area.
Flames splattered everywhere.
The shockwave and fire ravaged Simmons' Saber-toothed Tiger form, shredding a massive amount of flesh into countless bits of meat and blood. He had taken the full force of the blast while completely unguarded.
The damage caused Simmons excruciating pain.
His entire body was nearly torn to pieces. Fortunately, his C-Virus-driven splitting and regeneration abilities were truly terrifying; otherwise, he really would have met his end right here.
"Zheng...!"
"Swoosh—!!!"
However, Javier didn't simply end his offensive after firing the RPG. He quickly stowed the rocket launcher back into his inventory.
He drew a sharp Steel Blade, taking advantage of the rolling smoke and dust from the explosion that obscured everyone's vision.
Javier rushed swiftly into the center of the explosion crater.
Gripping the Steel Blade, he intended to engage Simmons in close-quarters combat. After all, Simmons had just suffered a heavy blow.
He would certainly be busy repairing his injuries. This was his weakest moment and Javier's best opportunity to attack.
"Tap, tap, tap...!!!"
Therefore,
The sound of rapid footsteps rang out.
Javier's figure vanished from his original spot, charging toward the explosion crater. The sharp Steel Blade glinted with a cold, chilling light.
Tearing through the billowing dust and black smoke, Javier reached close range and immediately saw the figure slowly pushing itself up from the ground.
It was Simmons' Saber-toothed Tiger body, with countless pieces of flesh rapidly regrowing. His back had been blasted into a pulp, with only a few scraps of meat hanging off.
Yet, it was as if it had come back to life.
Massive amounts of flesh quickly reconnected and grew, and white skeletal structures stacked up. It soon regained a rudimentary shape.
But Javier didn't care about that.
Instead, he looked at the Saber-toothed Tiger head that had suddenly snapped upward. Without a word, Javier raised his sharp Steel Blade high.
Using all his strength with both hands, he hacked down fiercely at the neck of that Saber-toothed Tiger head!
"Swoosh—!!!!!"
"Puchi..."
The sharp Steel Blade fell.
Empowered by Javier's virus-enhanced strength, the blade cut through Simmons' tiger head as easily as a guillotine. Blood splattered instantly, drenching Javier.
That hideous and terrifying Saber-toothed Tiger head quickly rolled onto the ground. Simmons' Saber-toothed Tiger body, which had been undergoing high-speed splitting and regeneration,
Also because of this strike from Javier, Quickly became stiff and withered, and the progress of its recovery came to a grinding halt.
The entire massive body collapsed onto the ground with a 'thud,' as if its weakness had truly been found and it had been killed.
But unfortunately,
Only Javier himself knew,
That Simmons, who possessed multiple C-Virus forms, could not possibly die so easily. It was just that this strike had indeed dealt Simmons a significant blow, causing him to be unable to recover for the time being.
"Heh, heh, heh..."
As expected,
In the next second, that Saber-toothed Tiger body began to writhe frantically. Countless pieces of shredded meat and parts suddenly collapsed and scattered, like a pile of earthworms that had been sprinkled with salt.
The body began to twist madly, and as a large amount of shredded meat fell away, Simmons returned to his human state once more. He was completely naked, his skin covered in various stitched-up wounds.
At this moment, Simmons' face looked terrible.
He was gasping for breath heavily, looking extremely exhausted. At the same time, his eyes were blood-red; but rather than being tired, he looked more like a starving ghost who was famished to the extreme.
Two instances of high-speed recovery,
Had made Simmons' body very unstable.
The C-Virus inside him had also become irritable and frenzied due to the lack of energy reserves. If he didn't replenish his energy with food,
Simmons might gradually lose control over this body,
Leading to his consciousness being completely dominated by the instinctive will of the C-Virus. Therefore, the most urgent matter at hand was to find food.
But how was he to find food...?
Thinking of this,
Simmons frantically scanned his surroundings. Soon... Simmons noticed the C-Virus Zombies wandering the nearby streets.
Because of the massive explosion just now, some zombies from the city center were gradually being drawn over, resulting in a large number of zombies wandering the streets.
And these zombies,
Were no different from a delicious feast in Simmons' eyes. The C-Virus's diet was not fixed; as long as it wasn't plants or steel, it could eat almost any living thing,
Including creatures like zombies.
On the contrary, the faint C-Virus contained within these zombies could actually strengthen Simmons' power. They were essentially mobile, high-quality protein food.
Therefore, without any hesitation,
Faced with these wandering zombies, Simmons was like a hungry tiger pouncing on its prey. He quickly rushed toward a C-Virus Zombie, pinned it to the ground, and began to feast ravenously.
The scene was once very bloody,
Causing both Javier and Sherry to frown involuntarily. Javier hadn't expected Simmons to start capturing C-Virus Zombies to strengthen himself so soon.
After all, in the game's plot, Simmons only devoured a large number of C-Virus Zombie corpses to replenish energy when he transformed into the Emperor Scorpion and the Giant Fly.
But now he was already devouring them in the first stage. This meant the damage Simmons had taken was indeed not light, or perhaps the C-Virus in his body was so desperate for food,
That it was driving Simmons to perform such an unusual action. But regardless, this was also a very good opportunity for a sneak attack.
Therefore, without hesitation,
Javier once again set up a third RPG rocket launcher.
Taking three of Resident Evil's ultimate weapons in the first stage—one had to say Simmons' treatment was quite high. After all, in the game, Wesker only took two RPGs at the same time...
"Neigh...!!!"
"Hiss—!!!!"
However,
In the next moment,
After devouring several C-Virus Zombies, Simmons underwent a sudden mutation. The sound coming from his mouth was no longer a tiger's roar,
But the neighing of a wild horse.
The flesh and parts all over Simmons' body swelled and gushed out again, and the dense meat parts began to reassemble.
"Crack, crack..."
Like a transformer, a monster form resembling a Centaur soon appeared before Javier and Sherry.
Though it was called a Centaur,
It was actually just a new skeletal torso growing from the upper spine, making it look like a Centaur. The lower body was still the beastly form of a Saber-toothed Tiger.
But the tiger head that Javier had cut off did not grow back. Instead, several layers of white bone covered the blood-red muscle armor,
Further strengthening its defense.
On the spine of the back, a long skeletal torso extended out, with a sharp head lined with jagged bone spikes.
Its appearance was very much like an armored Centaur knight; the only flaw was the lack of arms.
This was Simmons' second stage form, the Centaur. At the same time, his size had reached something comparable to a small giraffe.
In the second stage Centaur form, Simmons' speed and agility would be greatly improved. Just in terms of running speed and mobility,
He was much stronger than before.
Now, trying to blast Simmons openly with an RPG might not actually hit him, since he could dodge.
Then there was that white bone armor.
In addition to the muscle armor, there was now bone armor. Now, pistols really wouldn't be able to cause him any damage. Only large guns like rifles could barely make him feel pain.
And that massive spinal head spike, like a rock crusher, was like a sharp spear that could easily pierce through any object.
At the same time, the large amount of bone attached to his body,
Could also be turned into bone bullets and fired out under Simmons' control, giving the previously attack-limited Simmons an additional and rare ranged attack method.
"Hiss...!!!!"
And Simmons, having turned into a Centaur,
After feeling the full transformation of his body, let out a rapid neighing sound. Then he raised his long spinal skull,
And began to fiercely plunge the sharp bone spikes at the front into the large number of C-Virus Zombies on the ground. Like iron skewers at a barbecue, he skewered pieces of meat onto the iron spikes,
And then fed them all into the bloody mouth derived from his body.
As he devoured them one by one, Simmons could clearly feel the storage of energy within his body. This feeling of having surplus grain in the warehouse made Simmons unable to help but let out a long sigh of relief, his whole body shivering uncontrollably...!
Volume 9 Resident Evil 6: Chapter 55: Scream
On the other side—
Outside a large biological research Institute, following Javier's tip, Ada had lured Carla, the spore queen, into the largest biological research Institute in Lanxiang City.
If you wanted to know where the most liquid nitrogen was stored, besides specialized chemical plants, it was the biological research Institutes that held the largest quantities.
But chemical plants were generally unlikely to be located in the city center; they would only be set up on the outskirts of the city or in plains and wastelands.
Because the building area of the city center did not allow for such unreliable things as chemical plants, and they didn't provide as much economic profit as building another commercial skyscraper. Therefore, it was hard to find a chemical plant in the city center.
But biological research Institutes were different.
Ever since the Resident Evil incidents and the establishment of the BSAA, the existence and danger of bio-crises had been confirmed internationally.
Therefore, in order to prevent the outbreak of a bio-crisis,
Almost many cities had specialized biological research Institute buildings, which were places that specifically distributed virus vaccine injections and the like,
As well as each country's and city's own research data on bio-viruses, and so on.
Thus, one could still see a biological research Institute in the city center. After all, this thing was like a hospital; you couldn't do without it.
Therefore,
Without any hesitation,
Ada lured Carla to this place. Originally, Ada wanted to lure Carla to a hospital,
Which also had liquid nitrogen storage,
As it was needed for some medical conditions. But considering that the liquid nitrogen stored in hospitals might not be much, Ada very decisively came to the biological research Institute instead.
The chemical supplies stored here were definitely not few, and liquid nitrogen was considered a conventional chemical supply, so there should be a certain reserve of it.
"Whew..."
"Finally here..."
Looking at the tall white building behind her and the Chinese characters described on the outside, Ada let out a heavy sigh of relief and murmured.
Research Institutes were originally places where unauthorized personnel were not allowed, so there were much fewer zombies here, and there wouldn't be situations that hindered Ada's actions.
Ada estimated that this biological research Institute would have at most forty or fifty zombies inside. So, making this place the site for the final battle was a very good choice.
"Gurgle, gurgle..."