Therefore, without hesitation, he took out the T-Virus Serum with no side effects that he was carrying.
A thumb-sized green glass vial was placed on the table. Pointing at the T-Virus medicine, Javier finally began to explain slowly,
"The T-Virus..."
"No side effects... How is that possible?!"
Upon hearing Javier's explanation and seeing the green medicine on the table, Rebecca also fell into a brief moment of shock.
As a Doctor of Biology, she understood perfectly well what this meant. It meant that Javier had achieved the feat that the US Government and the entire human world wanted to accomplish—the so-called evolution.
One must realize, up until now, although the US Government was also studying bio-viruses, the best they could produce were merely vaccines and cures.
The difference between the two was immense.
A vaccine or cure only disrupts the virus's infection and host colonization within the human body. As long as the sequence of the virus's structure is understood, a cure is only a matter of time.
But a bio-virus with no side effects...
No one has been able to research such a thing yet, not even the US Government.
Even for the most common and widespread T-Virus, no version without side effects had been developed.
This is because after being injected with the T-Virus, the virus causes infections and changes within the body. At this stage, if a vaccine is injected before one completely turns into a zombie, they can be saved.
But if they have already become a zombie and then receive the vaccine, the zombie will die along with the virus itself. After all, the vaccine cure is designed to kill the virus.
Therefore, the ideal scenario of injecting the virus first and then the vaccine to gain the power of the T-Virus simply doesn't exist.
You have to understand one thing:
The power of the T-Virus is obtained after infection, not before. Only by becoming a zombie does one gain that power.
It's not that you get power by injecting the T-Virus without turning; once you turn, you die if you take the vaccine.
And if you take the vaccine without turning, you won't get any power.
This created a dead end, which is why the US Government hadn't developed a T-Virus without side effects.
Thus, to obtain a Bioweapon Soldier,
they basically had to rely on a mountain of test subjects to hope for a miracle, selecting those with strong physiques and high immunity.
They would undergo various special training and enhancements before finally attempting the T-Virus injection.
If lucky...
These experimental soldiers would, like the warriors of the Dibaya Tribe in West Africa thousands of years ago, gain the power of the Stairway of the Sun and become sacred warriors!
Javier's T-Virus with no side effects was undoubtedly the pinnacle product of human civilization's evolution, offering enhanced physical attributes and a 200-year lifespan.
Once popularized,
it would be a massive leap forward for human civilization, allowing humanity to enter a new level of civilization once again.
Just like the Bronze Age, Iron Age, Steam Age, Electrical Age, and the current Information Age,
except...
the power of the virus would make the span of human civilization's leap even greater—at least three levels of civilizational evolution!
Volume 10: Resident Evil Village, vendetta: Chapter 12: Death is the Fairest Judge
Soon, Rebecca left the room, but she also took that vial of green T-Virus medicine with her. Faced with Javier's words, she needed a long time to digest and consider them. After all, Javier's speech had been far too shocking for Rebecca.
She had originally thought Javier had injected a T-Virus with side effects, never expecting it to be a T-Virus without side effects. This was the evolutionary product humanity so desperately craved, so Rebecca had to think long and hard about whether or not to inject it.
After all, once the US Government learned of this thing, it would inevitably cause a frenzy. Death is the fairest judgment nature gives to humanity.
In the human world, so-called order and law have no true fairness to speak of; they are merely rules used to restrain the majority.
For certain people, they are completely useless.
On the contrary, order and law become tools for them to manipulate society. As long as they don't break the law, they can do whatever they want without restraint.
And so-called ideological education has always been just a method to bind humanity.
The reason the philosophies of Confucianism and Legalism could be used by monarchs is that their educational nature can guide the ignorant masses, deeply engraving into their genetic memory what can be done and what should not be done.
It is a restraint on the spirit and thought, while law is a physical restraint. Only with the double shackles of both can the human heart, which yearns for freedom and wildness, be constrained.
Some people
will be at the bottom for their entire lives, and even for generations.
In developed countries, one can use books to change their destiny—go to school, find a good job,
and slowly improve their situation. But they can never touch high-level positions; that requires the accumulation of several generations.
And for some, even generations cannot change anything—for instance, the typical example of India's caste system.
Even if you study and find a good job to improve your situation, you are still a low-level Shudra, or even an untouchable Dalit.
This is a destiny that cannot be changed simply by reading, because your dark skin is like a label indicating your status.
The fairer and yellow-skinned races are the marks of nobility. To change the fate of your offspring, you must marry a "fair, rich, and beautiful" person—meaning a Vaishya or someone of a higher caste.
Changing bloodlines allows one to slowly rise, but this also requires generations of accumulation. This is the class division between human power and status.
But fortunately, humans still have death as the fairest form of judgment.
It is the world's fairest judge. No matter how noble your bloodline, how great your status and power, or how much wealth you possess, you will still die.
Once those at the top die, it is like a whale fall where ten thousand things flourish.
Even if those resources don't reach the bottom layer, they will reach the middle layer. When the middle layer dies, their resources will fall to the bottom layer.
And so it goes, in a cycle. No matter how unfair the world is, one day, so-called miracles will still descend upon the people at the bottom. Though rare, they still exist.
Relying on this glimmer of hope, human society continues to operate in this cycle, making one marvel at the wonder of the world.
The so-called cycle of heaven really exists; after all, death is the only means to penalize those at the top who hold excessive resources.
But now, if the T-Virus with no side effects appears, and begins to serve those in power, and their lives are no longer claimed by death, then the world's only balance—death—will cease to exist.
The world would fall into chaos, and countless people at the bottom would be completely enslaved, never seeing any hope. Indeed... immortality is the greatest calamity!
It was because of this that Rebecca fell into deep thought. Perhaps she shouldn't have helped the US Government study bio-viruses.
After all, if they one day truly developed a T-Virus without side effects, the beneficiaries would only ever be a few people, not the so-called common folk, and her actions might become an aid to tyranny.
Too many questions suddenly emerged and troubled Rebecca, so she left Javier's room.
She lay on her soft, large bed, staring at the dark starry sky outside, lost in deep reflection. Sometimes people are just like that, inexplicably falling into distant, unknown problems.
Of course, as for whether Rebecca would hand over the T-Virus without side effects to the US Government, Javier wasn't worried at all.
Because he trusted Rebecca.
She wasn't that kind of person. Since she knew the dangers of bio-viruses, she wouldn't hand it over easily. In fact, in a worse-case scenario, Rebecca might even resist injecting the T-Virus herself.
However, as Rebecca was thinking, she suddenly closed her eyes and found herself still awake around two in the morning. Due to her troubled thoughts, she was unable to fall asleep.
And at that moment, lying in her room, Rebecca suddenly heard a tiny bit of movement. She slowly opened her eyes, and looked suspiciously at the large floor-to-ceiling window of the hotel. There seemed to be a dark shadow outside.
Rebecca instinctively wanted to go up and check, but a white gas slowly drifted in and entered her nostrils. A sense of dizziness immediately hit her, and within seconds, Rebecca quickly fell unconscious.
...
The next day—
Knock, knock, knock...!!!
Just as dawn broke,
Javier's room door was violently knocked upon. A confused Javier slowly woke from his slumber.
Because of the virus, he didn't need deep sleep, so he could wake up easily.
Since the door wasn't locked, Sissy Becky soon burst in with the three BSAA Squad Members who had been guarding outside.
"What happened?"
Seeing the nervous and ashamed looks on everyone's faces,
Javier realized something was wrong. He guessed that something had happened, and if he wasn't mistaken, it was likely that Rebecca had been taken, as she was nowhere to be seen. After all, this was a typical kidnapping plot triggered by events.
"Javier, Rebecca is gone!"
"When I woke up this morning, I found she was missing. No matter how I knocked on the door, there was no response. When I opened the door and went in, I realized Rebecca wasn't in the room."
"Furthermore, a hole had been cut in her floor-to-ceiling window. There were no signs of a struggle on the floor. She was likely kidnapped. Javier, do you have any way to find Rebecca's location?!"
As expected, the "bestie" Bucky had a very anxious expression and couldn't wait to explain to Javier as soon as he entered.
Upon seeing this, Javier helplessly covered his face. Sure enough, the predicted event had happened.
At the same time, Javier looked at the three BSAA recruits nearby, who were sporting dark circles under their eyes. Sensing his gaze, the three of them lowered their heads in shame.