"Sigh."
William looked at the satellite phone and shook his head helplessly.
Back when he was still mingling among the 'flowers,' Andre had lectured him that, being so young, he shouldn't recklessly overtax his body.
Yet now, Andre was telling him to hurry up and find a partner? Were partners really that easy to find?
Afterward, he stopped thinking about such things, sat back down in front of Halsey, and said:
"The spartan project needs to be delayed by half a month before it can be implemented. In a few days, I need to rush to New York to negotiate an agreement with the United Nations."
"Is that so..." Hearing her explanation, Halsey nodded slightly.
Although she was a member of the Olympus Board of Directors, she only wanted to focus on her research and did not interfere with other affairs.
This was also the reason why Halsey had become the most mysterious director within Umbrella.
"Oh, right~" She leaned against the soft sofa cushion and said to William:
"Allocate more funds to the Hive recently. I have some new ideas, and I might need to spend a little more money."
William didn't even think about it and said: "No problem. How much?"
He knew that Halsey was planning to work on the herundin and a series of related technologies.
"Hmm~" Halsey tilted her head, looked up, and thought for a moment. After a few seconds, she said:
"Let's start with a billion... No, that's not enough. Let's make it five billion~"
"Cough, cough!"
Hearing this number, William couldn't remain calm.
This was really 'a little more' money, indeed.
Five billion, in Halsey's mouth, sounded like fifty yuan.
One had to know that the annual GDP of some provinces in Canada didn't even exceed four billion dollars.
After catching his breath, William touched his chest and panted: "Okay... I'll arrange it once the plane lands."
"Haha~ The boss is still the best~"
"Ah, ah, just don't waste the money."
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The formation consisting of an A380 and two F-22s returned to Troy Base from the high-latitude Containment Center No. 1.
Upon landing, Halsey was escorted back to the Hive by the USS personnel specifically assigned to protect her to continue her research.
And William, before being caught by Andre, hurriedly had Hank take him to 'escape' Troy Base and head to his original seaside Villa residence.
However, this Villa had long since been renovated by the Engineering Team.
The top of the Villa had been expanded, and the materials upgraded, allowing Hank's Alpha squad to live with William.
Furthermore, a hundred meters diagonally below the Villa was a bunker and a 'subway station'.
Although William didn't particularly like the heavily modified resident evil movies, the first one was still very classic and provided him with a lot of inspiration.
Nowadays, there was a massive tunnel system beneath Halifax, connecting the Villa, the Hive, as well as Troy Base and other secret locations.
And underground, there were still many facilities under construction.
Of course, the 'subway' didn't usually operate; only hundreds of workers and Security Personnel who had signed non-disclosure agreements were maintaining its normal functions.
The massive underground complex in Halifax was actually equivalent to William's insurance policy.
If... just if.
If something appeared that could not be contained no matter what, and at that time Umbrella didn't have the capability to travel to other Planets... then Halifax would be the last bastion for Olympus, its elite armed forces, and even humanity.
To put it nicely, William was someone who prepared for danger in times of peace. To put it bluntly, he was just afraid of death.
Fortunately, the rewards given by the system this time included nuclear fusion technology.
And it was fortunate that the starter pack was Halsey.
Nuclear Fusion + Halsey = Life Insurance.
After all, William clearly remembered one sentence from the system: all living things, and even Earth, would be destroyed.
If he couldn't stop it, he could at least run, right?
Because Halsey absolutely had the capability to create an anti-gravity system, and even a warp drive could be created.
But these things took time, so William wasn't in a rush. Being in a rush wouldn't help anyway.
After the convoy returned to the seaside Villa, William, exhausted from the day, washed up and prepared to rest.
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Date: February 1, 2007.
Location: Manhattan Island, New York State.
Time: 13:37.
Five days had passed since the first containment. Today was the day William was to hold a meeting with the United Nations.
During this period, Agents around the World also began to discover various abnormal phenomena.
But none of them required the UBCS to be dispatched; the equipment carried by the Agents was enough to contain them.
(The author will place the Agent equipment diagram in the pinned post; if it doesn't get censored, everyone can take a look~)
For example, the Half-Cat.
As the name suggests, it was a cat that only possessed the front half of its body. Yet it could exhibit the behaviors a normal cat should have, such as walking and excretory actions.
When the Agent discovered and contained it, they were only scratched by it due to their own rough movements.
The classification of containment objects is as follows:
1. Safe: Will not cause large-scale commotion and is easy to contain. Like the Half-Cat.
2. Euclid: Harder to contain than Safe; if not controlled, it will cause massive casualties. Like 049.
3. Keter: More difficult to contain than Euclid; generally possesses peerless destructive power and has high hostility. Umbrella has not yet encountered a Keter-class containment object.
(The author won't write in detail about these three levels, otherwise it would be filler; those who don't know can look it up online~)
4. Exafanistei: Greek. Meaning hell, purgatory, destruction. As the definition of this level explains, if not contained, human civilization will be destroyed. Umbrella has not yet encountered an Exafanistei-class containment object.
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On East 44th Street, on the far east side of Manhattan Island in New York, a convoy of twenty black SUVs was driving toward the United Nations building.
Tourists and citizens on the street, upon seeing the convoy, took out their cameras to take photos as souvenirs, even though they didn't know who was sitting in the cars.
These twenty SUVs had arrived in New York five days ago, driven overland by the USS personnel dispatched by Andre.
When William's private jet landed at Kennedy Airport today, they drove directly into the airport to pick up William, as well as Hank and Alpha squad.
The United States had proposed to be responsible for security, but was refused.
William and Andre still trusted their own vehicles more.
After receiving approval, the convoy successfully drove into the garden beneath the United Nations building, finally stopping in a long line in front of the entrance.
"Clang—clang—" The sound of doors opening in unison could be heard.
Sixty USS personnel in suits quickly got out of the cars and stood guard in the surroundings.
Shortly after, the voice of the USS personnel hidden in the shadows came through their earpieces: "All high ground has been occupied. Confirmation: secure."
That's right.
The surrounding high-rise buildings were all occupied by USS snipers and observers wearing optical camouflage.
They had already been secretly scouting the area long before the convoy arrived.
This wasn't William making a mountain out of a molehill.
Political figures from all over the World knew he was coming to the United Nations headquarters, and with Umbrella's highly aggressive expansion, he might be targeted by jealousy and hatred.
Moreover, the United States had seen multiple assassination attempts on its President; one couldn't be too careful... As the saying goes, preserving one's life is the most important thing.
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