Chapter 6: Different Paths
"That monster should be blind."
Yang Ren let go of Claire's hand and explained.
At the same time, he did not forget to pull his cuffs.
Claire also seemed a little shy, and calmly touched the hand that had just been held.
Then, the two began to check the room.
The emblem pattern on the wall indicates that this should be the STARS (Special Tactics and Rescue Squad) office.
There is an armory on the left side of the room, with a UZI submachine gun lying in it, but it is blocked by an electronic door.
Hanging on the wall next to the middle desk was a black jacket with a pattern on the back that matched the one Claire was wearing.
It must be Chris's.
There was a note left on the desk, and Claire picked it up and looked at it.
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To STARS members
"Jill, if Claire wants to contact you...please let her know I'm okay, but don't let her know where I am or what I'm doing..."
"She's just a child, she's my only family... I don't want him to get involved in this..."
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After reading the contents of the paper, Claire's brows furrowed even more deeply.
"That's not something Chris would say..."
Judging from my brother's ability and temperament... to write something like this, he must have encountered some big trouble.
After all, Chris had been out of contact for almost a month before Claire went to Raccoon City.
Otherwise, she wouldn't have ridden a motorcycle all the way to Raccoon City to find Chris.
Yang Ren found a battery on a desk in a separate office, with a family photo next to it.
Claire happened to enter the office at this time. Yang Ren pointed at a man in a green STARS uniform in the photo and said:
"Is this your brother?"
Claire took the photo and nodded.
"Yes, he taught me a lot of survival skills and things related to firearms. I didn't expect it to come in handy today..."
Yang Ren exclaimed:
"Wow, no wonder the brother and sister are so amazing~"
Claire smiled:
“Thank you~”
Putting the battery into the electronic timer is like getting a detonator.
After a brief search of the office, the two also found a photo in the drawer of the desk.
Basketball babe, a girl with a baby face and short hair.
There are two more lines written below:
"Rebecca Chambers"
"——Albert Wesker"
Yang Ren couldn't help but laugh. Claire, who was standing next to him, also had a weird expression on her face after seeing the photo.
Chris seemed to have told him that Wesker seemed to be...the captain of the STARS team...
Wow…
Looks like I discovered something amazing...
After putting the photo down and preparing to leave, Yang Ren suddenly stopped him.
"Wait... Leon will definitely come to this place later, we have to leave him some information..."
Claire found a piece of paper and wrote a few lines on it.
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"Leon, I hope you'll find this memo useful."
"The police station has been taken over. Get out of here quickly."
"Don't worry about me and Nikolai, we'll be fine, and don't worry about my brother."
"You just have to find a way to get out alive."
"—Claire."
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After writing this, Claire came to the door, gently pushed it open, and stuck her head out to look around.
After making sure that the licker was gone, he called Yang Ren out.
The two came to the corner at the end of the corridor.
The licker just wandered here and is now "sleeping" on the ceiling.
The two men quietly passed under it, unlocked a door, and saw the third statue.
After turning the mechanism according to the pattern on the diary, you can easily get the second medal.
The room next to the statue is the library.
The last time I passed by, I ignored the zombies inside, but I wasn’t so lucky this time.
As soon as the two entered the room, they saw two zombies in police uniforms lying on the ground, one of them holding a dagger in his hand.
Claire put it away, and at the same time did not forget to make a hole in the heads of the two corpses.
Those who were sleeping, sleepwalking, and eating in the library all failed to escape the disaster.
Go up the stairs to the attic and place the [Detonator] on the C4.
It was set to explode in 20 seconds, and the two quickly left the attic and returned to the second floor of the library.
boom--!
With a huge explosion, Yang Ren could feel the floor shaking even through the wall.
The two pieces of TNT stuck on the wooden board have an equivalent of at least one kilogram, which is two pieces of 500 grams.
Using TNT to blow up wooden boards is not impossible, but the amount is a bit too large.
When I went back into the attic and looked at the pile of wooden boards, they had disappeared without a trace, leaving only sawdust and a big hole on the ground.
Even several iron fences on the side were blown off.
The corpses behind the cave had been blown into a bloody mess, and human shapes could barely be seen.
A horrifying roar came from the ceiling, followed by a dark and twisted crawling sound.
The two men immediately became alert and pointed their guns at the ceiling.
After waiting for a long time, nothing came down and the horrible crawling sound also disappeared.
The pattern on the last statue was covered with a lot of dirty blood, but the outline could still be seen.
The two men nervously turned the mechanism, obtained the last medal, and prepared to leave.
As soon as he stepped out of the cave, a red figure dropped from the hole in the ceiling onto all fours.
This is another licker.
It raised its eyeless head and looked at the two people who had just received the medals and walked out of the cave.
Then he stood up, raised his huge and sharp front paws, and pounced towards Yang Ren who was walking in front of him with a howl.
"careful!"
Claire pushed Yang Ren away and quickly dodged the pounce.
He took a step back, raised his grenade launcher, and fired a incendiary grenade at the licker's head.
The flames immediately enveloped the entire Licker. The thousand-degree heat roasted its brain, which had no skull to protect it, causing it to sizzle and ooze oil. It rolled on the ground wailing.
When the flames died down, the licker was still struggling to get up and was immediately hit by a second incendiary bomb.
After a while, all that came into view was a charred, unidentified object that exuded a strong barbecue aroma.
“Grilled bullfrog…”
Yang Ren looked at the unidentified object and uttered a sentence in Chinese.
"what?"
Ke Mei was puzzled.
“I’m a little hungry…”
Claire was shocked when she heard this.
"Now that you mention it, I feel a little bit..."
One cannot, at least one should not.
Unless coated with breadcrumbs and egg liquid.
……
Return to the hall with the two medals and place them in the two remaining slots under the giant statue.
The mechanism turned, revealing an entire underground passage.
Claire turned on the flashlight and shone it downward.
“It looks like there’s a direct path to the underground.”
"Great, we can get out of this place now!"
Looking back, Marvin was still lying on the sofa, groaning in pain from time to time.
"Hey, Marvin, we found the exit!"
"Come on, let's get you out of here!"
As Claire spoke, she walked towards Marvin and tried to help him up from the sofa.
Yang Ren and Elliot stood side by side and watched quietly.
As soon as her hand touched Marvin, he quickly sat up from the sofa, bared his teeth and let out a low growl, which scared Claire.
"Are you OK?"
Claire asked, squatting down.
"No, I just... leave me alone..."
"You guys should run away..."
Marvin said, breathing heavily.
The hand covering the wound on the stomach was stained red with blood, and the exposed white bones could be vaguely seen at the wound.
"No, you are seriously injured, we have to send you to the hospital..."
Claire refused decisively.
"Listen to me, Claire!"
Marvin's voice suddenly rose several notches, interrupting Claire directly.
“We all know what the outcome will be.”
"Hurry...escape from Raccoon City!"
"So you can see your brother again."
There was a sense of responsibility and determination in Marvin's eyes, and his trembling lips revealed the great pain he was enduring.
"But...we can't abandon you..."
Claire still didn't give up, which made Yang Ren, who was standing beside her, feel distressed.
Maybe she will treat me like this the moment I mutate...?
Or maybe it's just self-inspiration...
"Just go, please..."
“Just think of it as being for me…!”
Marvin turned his head away, trying his best to hide his painful expression.
Hearing this, the three of them felt a heaviness in their chests.
It’s like an invisible pressure suddenly presses down on your chest, making it impossible for you to breathe.
To Yang Ren and Claire, this is a good policeman who does his job conscientiously.
For Elliott, this was a comrade he had worked with for many years.
Now, he could only watch helplessly as the other party approached death step by step.
Claire stood up and was silent for a moment. In the end, she could only say two words:
"Ok."
The three of them entered the secret room, looking back every three steps. At the last moment before Elliot entered, Marvin stopped him.
"Elliot..."
"Protect them..."
After a brief silence, Elliot looked back at Marvin for the last time and replied:
"I see…"
The secret passage was closed, leaving Marvin alone in the empty police station hall, quietly waiting for death to come...