Seeing her best friend Bucky pulling her toward the door without looking back, Rebecca, having regained her senses, hurriedly called out to Javier.
But Javier shook his head at Rebecca.
He signaled that he would stay behind to cover their retreat, and that the two women should run first.
As for why he said "two women," to be honest, Sissy Becky's combat strength was no different from a woman's.
"Roar—!!!!"
Meanwhile, during the conversation,
A zombie researcher in a white lab coat had instantly reached Javier. It was a refined-looking man wearing glasses.
Those conspicuous gold-rimmed glasses were still hanging on the bridge of his nose, but his pale face and bloodshot eyes looked incredibly hideous and terrifying.
His mouth was full of blood stains seeping from his gums.
Baring his teeth, he lunged at Javier's shoulders with both hands, immediately preparing to bite down hard on Javier's neck.
However,
Facing such a low-level threat,
Javier didn't panic at all. To be honest... given his current physical condition, his skin and muscles had already been hardened.
Even if he stood still,
The zombie's teeth probably wouldn't even be able to bite through Javier's skin and muscle defense; it might even break its teeth.
But to avoid the misunderstanding of being infected by a zombie bite,
Javier gave a sudden shrug of his shoulders, immediately breaking free from the zombie's grasp. With his body enhanced,
The Baji Bengquan he had been studying for a long time finally found its use. He sank his energy into his dantian, assumed a horse stance, and tensed his arched back.
A Half-Step Bengquan suddenly shot out.
It was incredibly fast, like a bow.
Once the arrow was notched, it was fired rapidly. His fist turned into an afterimage, and his hard fist landed squarely on the face of the gold-rimmed glasses zombie man.
"Crack—!"
"Splat..."
Almost without exception,
As the punch landed, the gold-rimmed glasses were shattered, and the glass lenses broke into countless pieces that embedded themselves into the eye sockets.
The zombie man's nose bridge was snapped clean off.
The entire facial bone followed suit, shattering. Javier's fist sank nearly an inch deep; it wouldn't be an exaggeration to say he had smashed the entire face.
After this punch landed,
The zombie man, who had been aggressive just a moment ago, collapsed.
He instantly lost all signs of life because the shattered facial bones had pierced his brain, leaving no possibility of movement.
Essentially speaking,
These zombies still had a chance of recovery, because they could be restored just by being injected with the vaccine antidote.
Javier's actions were undoubtedly the malicious killing of innocent humans who very likely could have survived.
But unfortunately, Javier was no saint.
Whoever dared to attack him, he would dare to kill that zombie.
The only act of kindness he could maintain was to stand there quietly and wait for the zombies' attacks; as long as they didn't attack him, Javier would ensure he didn't kill them.
Furthermore,
Who knew how long it would take for all these zombies to be injected with the vaccine? Javier didn't have that kind of time to waste.
Moreover, the initial vaccine antidote was unstable.
Even if injected, it might not lead to a rapid recovery. For various reasons, Javier still felt it was better to just kill them.
"Roar—!!!!"
However,
Unfortunately,
These zombies were brainless creatures that only acted on instinct. After the first zombie man fell,
The remaining zombies didn't feel the slightest bit of fear and lunged forward one after another. This time it was a female zombie.
She also wore a white lab coat, black-rimmed glasses, and had brown Curvy hair. She wore a hip-hugging skirt and black stockings. If one could ignore the hideous expression on her face,
It wouldn't actually be impossible to have a go while she was still warm.
After all, her figure was quite good. But unfortunately, this female researcher zombie still harbored killing intent toward Javier.
"Inch Punch—!"
"Splat...!"
And so,
Without any hesitation,
After Javier spoke coldly, his palm formed an inch-strike position and pierced out fiercely. His hard fingers, like steel bars, instantly penetrated the skull of the female researcher zombie.
Yellow and white fluids splattered out. Seeing this, Javier only gave a casual glance and flicked the liquid off his hand, continuing to look at the remaining zombies.
"Crunch, crunch—!!!"
Seeing that these zombies still showed no fear and wanted to continue killing him, Javier didn't hesitate.
He decisively opened his palm.
Suddenly, a snow-white bone spike pierced through the skin at the center of his palm and grew out.
It was about thirty to forty centimeters long, sharp at the tip and keen on the sides, suitable for both cutting and thrusting.
"Next...!"
Having obtained the weapon he wanted,
Javier didn't hesitate and decisively began his slaughter. The sharp bone spike moved rapidly in his hand like a divine weapon.
It drew arcs of cold light, and with every move, zombies fell one by one. With a Whirling Slash, the blade carved out a circular white strike, instantly severing a zombie's neck.
Skyward Awl.
The bone spike shot up and pierced through a zombie's jaw, penetrating the head. With a Heart-Piercing Thrust, a zombie's entire ribcage shattered, and its upper and lower body were nearly separated.
Finally, with an Iron Mountain Lean,
He even smashed a zombie's bones to pieces. It collapsed on the ground, unable to struggle, completely limp.
Within just a few minutes,
Javier had dealt with the seven or eight zombies in the corridor very quickly.
There were other zombies in the Institute, but because they were on different floors, they didn't encounter them. Otherwise, killing thirty or forty zombies in one night would have made Javier feel a bit guilty...
Volume 10: Resident Evil Village & vendetta: Chapter 6: The Knight and the Princess
"..."
"Bucky, quick, hide behind me! Let me handle them!"
But while Javier was easily dealing with the zombies at the rear, Rebecca and Bucky, who were busy running, ran into trouble.
They were surrounded and blocked at the door by a zombie. Looking at this hideous zombie,
Sissy Becky decisively hid behind Rebecca.
Rebecca herself brandished a clothes hanger rod in her hand, staying alert. Her eyes darted around as she thought about how to deal with this zombie monster.
"Rebecca..."
"Are you sure you can handle these zombies? If not, let's just run back. Didn't you say your boyfriend used to be a cop? It'll definitely be fine to leave these monsters to him!"
Watching the zombies gradually approach,
Sissy Becky was a bit scared and couldn't help but try to persuade Rebecca to retreat.
After all, he knew his best friend Rebecca very well; she spent every day in the lab.
She had never exercised, so how could she be a match for these zombies? Of the thirty-six stratagems, fleeing is the best; running away quickly was the right choice.
"What boyfriend..."
"He's my partner. We're just partners, not in a relationship yet..."
Hearing Sissy Becky's words, Rebecca couldn't help but retort with a blush under her gas mask.
But soon there was no time for Rebecca to continue speaking, because at this moment, the nearest zombie had already lunged in front of them.
"Roar—!!!!"
A low growl came,
And a zombie instantly lunged forward. Its foul teeth and hands immediately grabbed the clothes hanger rod Rebecca was using to block.
The two grappled and pushed against each other.
But to her surprise, Rebecca's strength was completely no match for the zombie in front of her. The hanger rod was held in a death grip.
Before long, it was ripped away.
The hanger rod was snatched by the zombie and tossed aside, making a "clatter" sound.
Rebecca herself was pushed to the ground by a massive force, falling clumsily along with Sissy Becky behind her.
"Damn it, we're doomed...!"
Looking at the hanger rod on the ground,
Rebecca couldn't help but curse under her breath, an embarrassed expression appearing on her face. This was so humiliating.
Rebecca knew she had become weaker,
But she didn't expect to become this weak, unable to even fight off a single zombie.
Now, forget about helping Javier fight; she had become a complete burden. This was momentarily unacceptable for Rebecca, who had strong self-esteem.
"Roar—!!!!"
Seeing that the blocking hanger rod had fallen to the ground,
The zombie in front of them didn't hesitate. Its hands immediately seized Rebecca's shoulders, and it prepared to open its mouth to bite her neck,
Wanting to taste that delicious blood.
But Rebecca didn't plan on just waiting for death. Instead, she forcefully extended her fair arms to give a push,
Planning a final struggle. She didn't intend to die so pathetically.
Even if she had to use her fists to beat the zombie to death, she would, otherwise, as a former member of the S.T.A.R.S squad,
Dying at the hands of an ordinary zombie would be too embarrassing. After all, she was one of the protagonists who had cleared the Mansion Villa instance!
"Bang—!!!!"
However,
Before Rebecca could make a move,
A deafening gunshot rang out from a distance. A bullet shot out of the barrel rapidly,
Accurately hitting the zombie's head from over a hundred meters away. Blood splattered onto Rebecca and Bucky.
The zombie, its head blown apart, instantly lost all ability to move and fell to the ground. The two of them hurriedly turned their gaze toward the direction of the gunshot.
There was only one person who could use a handgun to accurately land a headshot from over a hundred meters away, and that was the former S.T.A.R.S shooting genius, Javier Li.
As his former partner, Rebecca remembered all of this very clearly.
A handgun's precision range is about thirty meters, and its effective range is about fifty meters. Although it can still hit at a hundred meters,
There is no accuracy at that distance anymore.
It's not that the bullet would drop, but that the shooter simply wouldn't be able to accurately hit a target at that distance.