"This...!"
"What are those?"
"My God..."
After William Russell finished playing the combat video of the Remover Company, the vast majority of the national representatives in their seats were no longer calm.
He, however, maintained a smile, giving those dignitaries some time to react and digest the information.
"Mr. Russell."
The United States Secretary of State raised a hand first and asked: "May I ask if the humanoid creatures in the video are patients infected by some kind of virus or bacteria?"
"No." William Russell shook his head slightly, and before operating the computer to play the next video, he explained:
"Those anomalous phenomena are all caused by a special containment object.
I declare here that the test subjects in the video are all death row inmates, and they signed the contract voluntarily.
All consequences are borne by themselves, and have nothing to do with Umbrella."
As he spoke, the second video began to play on the projection screen.
The following video content is the observation record of number 049 at Shelter No. 1; the perspective is from a camera in a large medical laboratory.
The laboratory contains surgical tables, consoles, and various instruments.
049 in the video is pixelated, and only its outline can be vaguely seen.
049 is next to a console in the laboratory, seemingly conducting some unknown experiment.
The video fast-forwards.
It returns to normal after a few seconds.
The laboratory gate opens, and a D-Class Personnel wearing an orange jumpsuit, number 9527, walks in.
The gate suddenly closes.
9527 seems frightened by the strangeness of 049, turns around, and begins to knock violently on the door.
9527: (Emotionally agitated) What are you doing! Let me out!
Researcher: (Speaking emotionlessly over the broadcast) Number ■ ■, we had an agreement.
9527: To hell with the agreement! I'm done!
Researcher: Number ■ ■, you signed the contract voluntarily.
049 is attracted by the agitated 9527, approaches quickly, and makes direct contact with him.
9527 instantly falls to the ground and dies, and is dragged to the surgical table by 049 for the experiment.
The video fast-forwards again.
It returns to normal.
The confirmed dead 9527 gets back up, stands blankly behind 049, no different from the enemies the Remover Company engaged in battle with earlier.
The video ends.
...
Before those dignitaries could ask questions, William Russell spoke first:
"The numbered personnel in the video committed fifteen crimes between 1994 and 2003, all of which were child molestation and murder.
He was sentenced to death by the federal court and was supposed to be executed by electrocution in the autumn of 2008. But this person was transferred to our private prison in November 2006 and signed the relevant contract."
"..."
The representatives who had originally wanted to make trouble fell silent after hearing William Russell's words.
Canada in this World has not abolished the death penalty, and William Russell occupies the moral and rational high ground.
Of course, he would not tell them about using survivors as D-Class Personnel, or that non-death row inmates were also used for experiments.
The dignitaries of various countries didn't need William Russell to say it; they all knew it clearly.
Because the current government is much darker than Umbrella.
At least for now.
After a pause, William Russell continued:
"This unknown containment object possesses many supernatural abilities.
For example, a touch can cause a living being to cease all physiological activities, or it can resurrect a corpse, turning it into a 'living dead lifeform' without thoughts.
Umbrella has rated these containment objects, from low to high: Safe, Euclid, Keter, and Exafanistei.
This containment object is rated Euclid."
Hearing this, the dignitaries present felt a deep chill.
If a containment object that could cause two thousand people to die is only Euclid, then wouldn't the highest, Exafanistei, mean the destruction of the World?
In an instant, everyone took it very seriously.
The United States Secretary of State was still the first to speak: "Mr. Russell.
According to what you said, after the Athabasca incident since January 27, will such supernatural anomalous phenomena occur one after another?"
"That's correct." William Russell did not deny it.
Then he projected photos of several Safe-class containment objects onto the screen as well.
"Mr. Russell, how did you know that the World would erupt with such anomalous phenomena?" asked the British Minister of Defense.
"Haha." William Russell said calmly:
"My Russell Family originated in Great Britain and became one of the largest families in the World from the 17th to the 19th century.
The 44th Family Head of the Russell Family, who was also my great-great-grandfather, was guided by some mysterious force to prevent such anomalous phenomena in advance.
As for the decline in the 20th century, it was actually a facade that my Grandpa deliberately hid from my father.
The purpose was to allow me to truly inherit the family assets, and the original intention of establishing Umbrella was to deal with anomalous phenomena."
The Russell Family has a long history, true.
Once one of the largest families, true.
Mysterious power, false.
Hiding from father, false.
A mix of truth and lies.
Moreover, William Russell would never let Umbrella go public, and he had even bought the bank, so the rest of the World had no way of knowing exactly how many assets he had.
Not going public and acquiring banks were things he learned from the Rockefeller family in his original World, which provided absolute security.
At this time, Paul spoke up appropriately to assist:
"The Canadian military and government signed relevant terms with Umbrella two months ago.
If it weren't for Mr. Russell, we would have suffered incalculable losses; after all, the general public cannot accept the existence of such phenomena."
The United States Secretary of State glanced at Paul not far away, squinted his eyes, looked at William Russell, and said in a deep voice:
"Mr. Russell, you wouldn't just want to popularize the existence of anomalous phenomena for everyone, would you? What is your real purpose?"
"Good question." William Russell looked around at all the representatives present and said:
"The existence of anomalous phenomena must absolutely not be known to ordinary society, otherwise the existing order will fall into absolute chaos.
The economic and political losses would be incalculable.
And Umbrella's private troops are specially trained to face anomalous phenomena and also have extensive combat experience.
So my request is very simple.
If any of your countries have Euclid or higher level anomalous objects appear in the future...
I hope your military can assist Umbrella in blocking the news, just like the Canadian military.
As for the containment, just leave it to us."
"Canada expresses approval."
"Britain expresses approval."
"Tuvalu expresses approval."
As William Russell's voice fell, the Commonwealth countries led by Canada and Britain expressed their agreement one after another.
France and Russia, the permanent members of the Security Council, also indicated they would observe but not oppose, while the United States did not express a stance.
Over the next few days, the United Nations launched various discussions around this event.
It finally ended with the establishment of 336 detailed clauses, including that Umbrella must pay for various containment operations itself and send experienced UBCS to train the special forces of various countries.
On February 6, 2007, countries around the World secretly signed the athabasca agreement with Umbrella.
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