Chapter 13: Claire's Maternal Instinct
The scene turned to Yang Ren and Yani, who came to a small monitoring room.
Yani was checking the surveillance footage in front of the computer, looking for William, while Yang Ren's intercom rang.
"Hello? Yang... can you hear me?"
Yang Ren picked up the intercom and said, "Very clear!"
"We found Shirley!"
There was a hint of surprise in Claire's voice.
On Annie's side, William was not found in the surveillance video.
After hearing the content on the intercom, he quickly switched the screen and soon found where Shirley and Claire were.
The picture appears to be a garbage disposal warehouse.
Shirley was lying on the ground unconscious. Claire was squatting down, holding Shirley up with one hand and holding the walkie-talkie in the other hand.
Elliot, on the other hand, leaned against the wall, holding his stomach.
"What are you doing?"
Yani asked into the microphone next to the computer.
"We're here to help!"
Claire replied.
But Shirley's situation is clearly not optimistic.
One of her eyes was swollen, and several huge bloodstains were visible spreading along the blood vessels.
"Shirley has been implanted with a G-larva... She is beyond saving..."
Yani lowered her head somewhat at a loss and sighed.
In the surveillance video, Claire turned her head slightly:
"What bullshit are you talking about? You're his mother, come here quickly!"
Yani shook her head, her voice a little choked:
"You don't understand... William is still alive. If I don't stop him, millions of people will be in danger..."
At this moment, Annie was completely struggling between her own selfishness and public-spiritedness.
"I have nothing to say to you!"
Claire picked up Princess Shirley and stood up, wanting to find a solution alone.
Before standing up, he also picked up a small golden pendant that had fallen next to Shirley.
"Wait! Wait a minute... I... I can treat her, go to my lab, it's not far from here...!"
"There's a cable car near you that goes directly to the lab! The bracelet on Shirley's hand is the lab's access card!"
In the surveillance footage, Shirley seemed to have heard Annie's voice and opened her eyes dazedly.
"…Mommy?"
Hearing the word "Mommy", Annie's solid psychological defenses completely collapsed.
"Sorry Shirley...Mom loves you..."
After Annie apologized in tears, Claire disappeared from the surveillance screen holding Shirley.
"Don't worry, it'll get better."
Yang Ren patted Yani's shoulder and comforted her.
After taking another quick look at the surveillance footage, the two immediately headed for Annie's laboratory.
"Claire, what's wrong with Elliot?"
Yang Ren followed Yani while communicating with Claire.
He still remembered seeing Elliot holding his stomach on the surveillance camera just now.
"We met William..."
The first thing Claire said was shocking news.
“We used a crane to fight it off.”
"I'm fine, but Elliot was hit hard by the monster and was seriously injured..."
Yang Ren frowned slightly, but he was glad that Claire was okay.
"William is likely to go to the laboratory with Shirley, so be careful..."
Annie heard what was said on the intercom and gave a reminder.
Yang Ren shared the reasons for the fall of Raccoon City with Claire through the intercom, while following Annie closely.
Yani had no objection to this.
Until the two of them passed through a corridor, an elevator carrying Ada appeared behind a thick tempered glass on the left.
“She’s really good at chasing.”
Yani glanced at her casually.
"Who is she?"
Yang Ren put down the walkie-talkie and asked.
Although Yang Ren knew Aida's true identity...she was nothing more than an international spy, working for Wesker, who had now defected, and came to the underground laboratory in Raccoon City to seize the G virus.
However, the necessary procedures still had to be followed to avoid arousing Annie's suspicion.
"Agents, or mercenaries."
Annie's answer was concise.
The two men immediately turned into a large iron gate and locked it.
Ada, who was chasing behind, saw that the door was locked and had to take a detour.
"You can really run, Yani."
However, as the elevator that Ada came from started to operate again, a T-103 Tyrant appeared.
This was obviously not the same one that William had torn apart with his claws before.
Yang Ren and Yani watched on surveillance as Ada was chased by the tyrant.
Ada used a magnetic field imager to make a large exhaust fan spin at an overspeed, rendering it useless, and then she grabbed the partition and passed through the gap.
The tyrant couldn't get through and tried to punch the wall, but he couldn't break it open.
I have to say that the quality of this sewer wall is quite good.
After getting rid of the tyrant, Ada's speed of movement increased significantly, and she soon arrived in front of a crematorium.
There was a long-dead corpse in the crematorium, with a green authority card on its wrist.
Ada narrowed her eyes and decisively entered the crematorium.
Annie immediately seized the opportunity and closed the crematorium door remotely.
Ada, who had just received the authorization card, heard a loud noise behind her and the whole environment fell into darkness.
"Kang—"
The crematorium's observation window was opened.
"Great...are you planning on burning me alive?"
Looking at Annie outside the observation window, Aida muttered to herself.
"You'll never get the G-Virus with your dirty hands."
Yani said without any emotion.
The height difference inside the crematorium caused Annie's face outside the observation window to look full of disdain and contempt.
Yang Ren, who was standing by, even came over to take a look at Ada in the crematorium.
She looks pretty and is in line with oriental aesthetics.
But... I don't think it's as good as the soft and fragrant little Claire~
"I think you know that I'm not the only one who wants the G-Virus."
Faced with such danger, Ada didn't seem to be afraid at all and responded calmly.
"Hmm... Then you have someone to be buried with you~"
Yani's words were truly filled with disdain.
There was no need to show mercy to Ada, who was of the same nature as the soldiers who killed her husband.
After he finished speaking, the observation window was pulled up.
The temperature in the crematorium suddenly began to rise, and the heat wave made it almost impossible for Ada to open her eyes.
Without caring about Aida's life or death, Yani and Yang Ren immediately left the place through a side passage.
However, the agent was worthy of being an agent. Within half a minute, he had hacked into the crematorium's operating system and completely paralyzed it.
The iron door of the crematorium was almost completely blown down.
Ada wiped the sweat from her forehead and walked out of the crematorium.
But even the shadows of Yani and Yang Ren were nowhere to be seen.
"Does that bitch know what she's doing?"
……
Sewer, cable car platform.
Claire, holding Shirley, came to the cable car that Annie mentioned, and Elliot followed closely behind.
The three of them approached the door on the side of the cable car, and the sensor door opened automatically.
After entering the cable car, Claire looked around and finally placed Shirley steadily on the seat in the cable car.
Elliot sat opposite the two of them and rested alone.
Being scratched by William's claw in the second form is not a pleasant feeling at all.
"Hold on a little longer, Shirley, you'll be fine."
"Take a good rest~"
Claire said gently after patting Shirley's head.
"Why are you helping me..."
Shirley really couldn't understand why anyone would care so much about a stranger.
"Because I care about you."
Claire replied with a smile.
After taking off the red leather jacket and putting it on Shirley, she walked to the control console of the cable car.
After a final check to make sure nothing was missing, he pulled the control lever.
"This bus is heading to the 'Mother Nest'. Please do not get off before reaching the terminal."
With the rumbling sound of the cable car, the three began to head towards the mother nest.
Shirley behind her kept groaning in pain, and Claire returned to Shirley again.
"Are you ok?"
She squatted down and touched Shirley's head and asked.
Shirley's left pupil has now turned into the orange color unique to the G virus, just like William's. The situation is not optimistic.
"Your coat is so warm..."
Feeling the warmth inside her leather jacket, Shirley turned over and said.
"My brother gave it to me. It brings good luck."
Claire replied, smiling as she took Shirley's hand.
"I don't know what I would do without you..."
Shirley said as she groaned in pain.
“What are you talking about…?”
"You were clearly fine, but I dragged you into this mess."
Claire stood up with a warm smile on her face.
"By the way, this thing is yours, right?"
As she spoke, she took out a small golden pendant from behind her belt.
"I don't want it anymore..."
Seeing the pendant, Shirley turned her head away, looking somewhat disgusted.
"Why? She's very beautiful."
Claire inquired.
When I turned over the pendant, I saw Shirley's name "Sherry" written on the front of the pendant.
On the reverse side is a two-headed snake symbol that symbolizes medicine, with some small English words "Reincarnation" on it, which means "reincarnation."
"This was given to me by my mother as my birthday present last year..."
"But I just wish she could come home more often..."
After saying that, Shirley slowly closed her eyes and exhaled a breath.
"I know your mom might not seem to care about you, but..."
Claire tries to tell Shirley that her mother loves her.
But before she could finish her words, Shirley let out an even more painful groan.
"Are you okay, Shirley?"
Claire quickly helped Shirley up and patted her back to comfort her.
Elliot, who was standing by, looked at Claire, who was radiating maternal love, and nodded silently.
"Arrived at the 'mother nest'."
Amidst a rumbling sound, the cable car arrived at the end, and the mechanical synthesized sound was heard again.
"It's okay, I'm with you, come on."
Claire picked up Shirley again, and left the cable car with Elliot, walking towards the alloy gate in front.
……
On the other side, Yani and Yang Ren came to a control room.
Yani came to the control console and started debugging the machine.
"By the way... can you bear to treat William like this?"
Yang Ren behind him asked.
“Honestly, we put our work before each other.”
"I could have killed him right after he was injected with the virus, but I couldn't bring myself to do it..."
"If you have a chance to get out alive, you must expose the company's evil deeds to the media, just as this will clear our name."
As Annie spoke, she did not stop adjusting the machine.
The implication of this statement is very clear, which is that he has no intention of leaving Raccoon City alive.
"What do you mean? You're not going to leave?"
Yang Ren behind him frowned slightly.
If possible, save Annie, maybe she can be of great use in the future.
Not only because she is the chief researcher of the G virus, but also for Shirley's sake.
After all, Shirley has already lost her father. If she loses her mother too...
You can't let Yang Ren and Claire raise her in the future?
"I know the capabilities of the G virus. If I don't get rid of William and let him leave Raccoon City, millions or even more people will die."
"Besides, someone needs to take the blame for such a huge mistake as destroying a city..."
Hearing this, Yang Ren's eyes twitched:
"What about Shirley?"
Yani obviously didn't expect Yang Ren to ask this, and she fell silent.
Seeing this, Yang Ren didn't ask any more questions.
Soon, a figure in a red dress gradually appeared in the passage below the control room.
In Ada's view, Annie in the control room above had her hands in her pockets, looking at her teasingly as if she were a mouse.
Yang Ren, who was standing aside, just stood beside Annie with his hands hanging naturally and an expressionless face.
"That's enough, the cat and mouse game ends here!"
Aida looked up and said to Annie in the control room above.
"The game is over, you lose."
Annie sneered and turned back to press the red button on the console.
A large number of red warning lights lit up in the passage below, and a crane-like engineering machine slowly descended on the path Aida had taken.
"Tell me, is your husband still alive?"
"Or did you kill him so that you could monopolize the research results of the G-Virus?"
As Ada asked, she slowly moved in the opposite direction of the engineering equipment, as if she saw Annie's intention.
“This inference is really interesting~”
Annie controlled the machine and moved it to the path Aida came from.
"If you refuse to cooperate, I can go to the mother nest and get the samples myself."
Ada said again.
Hearing this, a hint of ruthlessness flashed in Annie's eyes.
"I will never let you succeed!"
Clang——!!
As Annie pulled the operating lever, the huge engineering machinery suddenly fell down, sweeping across the entire passage with devastating force.
Seeing this, Ada ran away.
But there was nowhere to hide in the narrow passage, and there was a closed sewage treatment pool below.
Racing with the huge engineering machinery all the way to the end of the passage, the impact force blew Ada away.
Fortunately, he grabbed a guardrail in time at the moment of flying out and avoided falling.
However, the grille under the guardrail does not seem to be very strong.
Click-click-
The section of guardrail and the entire grating fell into the waste disposal warehouse below.
When Ada stood up and looked again, she saw a piece of metal pipe stuck in her thigh.