Chapter 14: Kiss in the Cable Car
The place where Ada was at this moment was exactly where Claire found Shirley before.
It can be said that Ada fell here just after Claire and the others left.
Ada tried to pull out the metal tube herself, but the severe pain prevented her from doing it.
The door of the warehouse was closed remotely by Annie, and the roar of monsters could be heard from outside the door from time to time.
"It would be nice if Leon was here..."
In a critical moment, Ada thought of the young rookie policeman Leon.
But due to restricted movement, he could only lie on the ground and wait for Leon to come to the rescue.
"Hey... Yang... I can hear you... Let's... go to the lab..."
On the other side, Yang Ren's walkie-talkie rang, but the signal was intermittent, probably because the distance was too far.
But I could barely understand what they meant. Claire and the others should have arrived at the laboratory.
The pursuers were temporarily blocked, and without any worries, Yani and Yang Ren quickly set off for the laboratory.
The two men came to the cable car platform, and a cable car just happened to return.
The electronic screen on the door displayed a green Roman numeral [I] (Level 1).
The authority card on Annie's wrist is purple [IV] (level four).
After opening the cable car door with the authorization card, pull down the joystick and the cable car will start again.
Along the way, the two were silent.
Annie stood in front of the cable car control console, looking ahead, wondering what she was thinking.
She is also under tremendous pressure at the moment.
Millions of lives, her husband's change, and her daughter might also be lost to her.
Yang Ren didn't have any questions to ask.
Sit quietly with your eyes closed and feel the double helix DNA dancing in your brain.
As he felt it for a longer time, he felt that the missing memory became a little clearer.
Something seems to have been implanted near the spine of this body, causing it to lurk in the spinal cord.
It seems to be called something...γ(gamma)
And the scene he saw after he and Brian died together was not a dream at all.
That was the real picture from the pursuer's perspective.
The reason why he was able to be resurrected was because of the tentacles of the NE-a parasite extended by the tracker, which were attached with high concentrations of T virus secretions.
So, what exactly is this γ?
If you think carefully about the entire Resident Evil, it seems that the only thing that needs to be injected into the spinal cord is the NE-a parasite.
NE-β is a monster that looks like a horror robot or a spider.
Could it be... NE-γ?
Like the dominant Plaka parasite?
But the parasites in the NE series feed on viruses. How come I didn’t die because I couldn’t withstand the growth of the parasites?
A bunch of questions pop up one after another like diarrhea...
The cable car soon arrived at the laboratory gate.
This huge laboratory built underground in Raccoon City is guarded by three heavy, high-tech electronic alloy doors.
The two approached the electronic door, and the sensing device detected Annie's permission card, and the door slowly opened.
"For your safety, please do not approach until the door is fully opened..."
"Dr. Annie, welcome back to the NEST!"
The front desk is on the right hand side of the door, and there is the Umbrella Corporation's logo on the wall.
But the front desk clerk had a bullet hole in his head.
On the left was an infirmary, and when they opened the door, they saw Shirley lying on the bed, still wearing Claire's red leather jacket.
Elliot, who was sitting nearby, heard the noise and immediately raised his head and raised his gun.
Only after seeing that the people coming were Yang Ren and Yani did he let down his guard.
"You are here...hiss..."
Elliot's movement was so big that it pulled the wound, causing him to gasp in pain.
Yang Ren went forward to check, and saw two shocking huge claw marks on Elliot's chest extending all the way to his stomach.
Fortunately, the wound had been treated with coagulation spray, forming two long and hard scabs.
Annie came to Shirley's side, bent down and held Shirley's hand.
"Shirley…are you okay?"
"It's okay... Mom is here..."
Yani's image as a strong woman and workaholic disappeared at this moment.
Leaving some space for Annie and Shirley to be alone, Yang Ren pulled Elliot out of the infirmary and asked:
"Where's Claire?"
Elliot glanced at the door leading to the interior of the mother nest and replied:
"She couldn't wait for you to come over, so she went to look for the antidote on her own."
Yang Ren was stunned.
This silly girl, why didn’t she just wait for us to arrive?
Annie has the authority card so she can go get the antidote directly. If she wants to go find it herself, won’t she have to get a higher authority card?
After a while, Yani came out of the infirmary with red eyes and called Yang Ren to go get the antidote together.
The two passed through the Level [II] authority door on the side and came to a platform.
Next to the platform lay the body of a soldier wearing a black combat uniform and with a broken red lens on his gas mask.
There was bottomless darkness below, with several huge blue energy cores constantly rotating, and an elevator in the center.
Two aerial passages connect the east and west areas of the hive.
The G virus research area is in the P-4 laboratory, which is the west area.
At this moment, the passages connecting the East District and the West District have been extended. It seems that Claire has already entered the West District.
I have to say that this massacre... is progressing really fast.
Yang Ren unceremoniously stripped off the body's bulletproof vest, MP5 and magazine.
After the two entered the West District, they saw several bodies of soldiers and a door that was torn apart by violence.
These soldiers are all affiliated with the USS (Umbrella Security Service rapid reaction security force).
After they were ordered to seize the G-virus, they killed all the researchers in the mother nest.
On the way of evacuation, he was killed by William who had been injected with the mutated G virus.
After passing through a disinfection room, the two were about to move on.
"Roar--!"
Suddenly, a huge monster roar was heard from behind the door in front.
"It's William!"
Annie immediately took out a flare gun and loaded it with a round of ammunition.
After the door opened, what came into view was a long and narrow passage, and underneath the passage there looked like a testing site.
Claire was facing away from the two of them, holding up an M640 revolver with an extended barrel and confronting William in his second form.
There were some fallen rocks at the other end of the passage, and a big hole in the ceiling. William should have come in from here.
"William! That's it!"
Annie, wearing high heels, staggered to Claire's side and shot William.
After the bullet hit William and exploded, a large amount of transparent liquid covered William's body and bursts of white smoke emerged.
Sulfuric acid bomb?
This "sulfuric acid bomb" directly knocked William back several steps. He fell to his knees on the ground with one hand and twisted in pain.
Yani quickly reloaded the ammunition and fired another shot.
After two "sulfuric acid bombs", William could no longer hold on and soon became motionless.
"So, what is this?"
The three of them walked forward to check it out. Claire looked at the lump of meat with sharp claws, frowned and asked questions.
What he had not been able to say on the intercom before, Yang Ren once again explained in full the causes and consequences of William's transformation, as well as the reasons for the tragedy in Raccoon City.
It completely refreshed Claire's worldview.
"What about Shirley...how could you leave her alone?"
"Raccoon City has become a living hell!"
Claire, who learned everything, seemed to blame Annie.
In fact, when she and Elliot were looking for Shirley in the sewers, they saw a group of soldiers who died in the sewers and picked up a videotape from them.
The content of the videotape was that after the group of soldiers were massacred by William in his first mutated form, all the samples of G virus and T virus were scattered on the ground and were eaten by a group of rats.
Later, she also found a videotape on the two soldiers in the western area of the mother nest, which seemed to be a video of the soldiers' action of breaking into the laboratory.
They entered through the ventilation ducts and the door, but accidentally shot Dr. William Birkin who was transferring G-Virus samples.
But it seems that William was seriously injured and injected himself with the G virus when he was on the verge of death.
Then there was the incident where the mutated William slaughtered soldiers in the sewer, causing the virus to spread.
"You don't have to blame Annie too much. She is also dedicated to the public good."
"If William is allowed to escape from Raccoon City, the casualties will definitely not be lower than they are now."
Yang Ren was standing next to Claire, patted her shoulder gently and said.
Because of wading through the sewer before, Claire had a faint sour smell on her body.
But at the same time, there was a smell like disinfectant.
There was no obvious dirt on the clothes and skin, so I guess they had been carefully cleaned in the disinfection room just now.
"I can't let my daughter live in a world with the G-virus!"
Yani said to Claire the same words she had said to Yang Ren before.
Speaking of the G virus, Yang Ren suddenly recalled the two "sulfuric acid bombs" that Annie had just fired at William.
Are sulfuric acid bombs so powerful?
"Was that a sulfuric acid bullet you just shot at William?"
After thinking about it, Yang Ren decided to listen to Yani's opinion.
"It's 'Devil', the antidote to the G-Virus."
After Annie finished speaking, some subtle changes occurred to William on the ground.
The huge eye on the shoulder gradually turned, which of course could not escape Yang Ren's enhanced keen senses.
"careful!"
The sharp claws stretched out like lightning, but Yang Ren was faster and pushed Yani away before the claws grabbed her.
After escaping danger, Annie quickly retreated and put some distance between herself and William.
Seeing that his sneak attack failed, William turned his attention to Claire, who was also very close.
But before the claws could be stretched out, a shadow flashed by, and Claire appeared at the door being carried by Yang Ren.
Before Claire could react, she felt the scene change instantly and she appeared on Yang Ren's shoulder.
"Wow, cool!"
Yani said jokingly.
After gently putting Claire down, William in the middle of the passage finally began to change dramatically.
Phew! Phew!
The muscles on his back surged wildly, and along with the sounds of two cuts of flesh being pierced, the third and fourth claws pierced the muscles and suddenly grew out.
Combined with the two auxiliary hands in the front, she looks like the Alien Queen, and her face looks very much like the Revenant in Alien 4.
There were also huge eyes on its legs and back, and in the center of its chest was a cluster of smaller eyes protected by bony spikes.
At this moment, William looks like a fallen angel!
……
Sewer, cable car platform.
Leon woke up from a coma and after some adventures, he finally found Ada who was trapped in the garbage disposal warehouse.
After simply treating Ada's leg wound, the two came out of the cable car.
Ada used the permission card she found in the incinerator to open the cable car door.
Then I sat in my seat in the cable car and began to rest quietly.
Lyon came to the cable car's operating console and pulled the control lever.
The cable car started and headed towards the mother nest.
"You know, I can't wait for the FBI to get to the bottom of Umbrella and bring those bastards to justice."
Leon turned around and said to Ada with a firm face.
"I agree...but I have to make it clear in advance that you may not have sufficient authority. This is a case under the jurisdiction of the FBI."
"Once we get the G-Virus from Annie or from the mother nest, I will continue to act alone."
Ada looked up and answered.
As Leon continued to pace, he nodded slightly, as if he was thinking.
"Leon, do you believe me?"
Ada asked the question without warning.
Leon paused slightly.
Then he turned around, walked up to Ada, and stared into her eyes:
“Do you believe me?”
Ada was silent for a moment, her eyes falling on the bandage on Leon's shoulder that had a faint stain of blood.
"Honestly, if I didn't believe you, you would be dead a long time ago."
Leon stared at Ada's delicate face and was a little absent-minded for a moment.
He turned his head away from Ada's sight and nodded slightly:
“That’s right…”
Ada sighed and continued:
"If you can get hold of the G-Virus, I promise that a tragedy like what happened in Raccoon City will never happen again."
Hearing this, Leon came and sat down next to Ada:
"But, you just said that this is a case under the jurisdiction of the FBI, and I don't have the authority..."
Before he could finish his words, Ada interrupted Leon and pointed to her injured leg:
"Leon, look at me..."
"I am only holding you back now."
"You are my last hope if I want to complete this mission."
Leon glanced at Ada's bandaged thigh and was still worried:
"I can't leave you here alone. What if you're in danger?"
Ada looked at Leon's serious expression.
After a brief inner struggle, he slowly stretched out his left hand and gently stroked Leon's cheek.
Then, he kissed her.
The moment their lips touched, Leon's young heart was shocked and his eyes widened.
Feeling the soft touch on my lips, my heart seemed to stop beating at this moment, and my mind went blank.
However, good times are always short-lived.
Maybe it just lasted three seconds before the sudden kiss ended.
Ada gently pushed Leon away, put one hand on Leon's chest, and a hint of shyness and determination appeared in her eyes.
Leon was still immersed in the scene just now.
His heart seemed to be beating out of his throat and he stood there in a daze with a blank look on his face.
"I'm fine, don't worry about me."
"I have to fix this."
As she spoke, Ada placed her hand on Leon's thigh.
"And I want to see you again..."
"I also have many reasons to live, believe me..."
Leon looked down at Ada's hand on his thigh and felt even more at a loss.
"About to arrive at the hive..."
A mechanical synthesized sound rang out, and the cable car had arrived at the gate of the mother nest and slowly stopped.
Ada took off the permission card in her hand and handed it to Leon.
"Go ahead, time is running out."
Leon slowly took the permission card, looked at Ada, and stood up:
"All right…"
As they were about to exit the cable car, Ada called out to Leon again:
"Leon...it all depends on you."
Feeling the sudden weight of a heavy burden on his shoulders, Leon slowly turned his head and gave Ada a firm look.
"I see."
Then, Leon left the cable car and walked towards the mother nest gate.
Looking at Leon's departing back, Ada's eyes were full of complexity and a little reluctance.