Chapter 13

Chapter 13

Although according to the political tradition of the United States, these people will basically not be directly imprisoned after stepping down, and at most they will only be fined or subject to restrictive punishment, but some people will not let them go.

Fang Yuan, who is in urgent need of tolls, has no psychological barriers to using these bastards and their families to refine the Philosopher's Stone.

As for the issue of harming innocent people... In Fang Yuan's view, those guys who use the blood-stained money squeezed from truly innocent people and live a life of luxury every day are far from being innocent. Every one of them deserves to die, even if someone really says that Fang Yuan is implicating others, he will admit it.

Therefore, when the senior government officials who resigned in the Raccoon City incident were found dead in their own homes, and even their wives, children and relatives died together, the whole country was boiling - although it was already boiling after the Raccoon City incident.

Moreover, Fang Yuan did not just kill the person and leave the matter alone. He also left a blood letter at the scene saying "Blood debt must be paid with blood". After killing the person, he also published the black materials of these politicians to major news media, which once again caused a major earthquake in the political arena.

Naturally, he was immediately identified as the most dangerous murderer and terrorist by the US government for such a mess, and was directly wanted worldwide, but... the wanted photo showed him wearing the Deathstroke suit, and even his face could not be seen, and no one knew who they were wanted for...　　(The master does not kill people, so as a stylish Coser, Fang Yuan would not kill people while wearing that suit.

)　　Of course, since he dared to use high-ranking US government officials to refine the Philosopher's Stone, Fang Yuan would naturally not let go of the high-level officials who protected him.

Rather, his real target was actually this group of so-called "scientists" who had lost all conscience - this group of people really brought shame to the word "scientists" - but this group of people were indeed born in the Year of the Rat, and they hid too well.

Fang Yuan had just started to kill one or two guys, and the others seemed to have heard the wind and immediately hid themselves tightly. No matter how many tricks Fang Yuan used, he couldn't catch them all.

But what made him more relieved was that the executive who had troubled him several times in Raccoon City was caught by him.

This so-called "elite" who had originally been ambitious to mobilize the power of the Umbrella Company to catch Fang Yuan, so that he could go further in the Umbrella Company, immediately said everything he knew after being tortured by Fang Yuan.

Not only did he bring out a large group of behind-the-scenes culprits, but he also tortured out the whereabouts of Angela's father - the little girl still hasn't been reunited with her father, and she is depressed all day long, which makes Fang Yuan feel distressed.

Fortunately, Angela's father, the senior researcher of Umbrella named Charles Ashford, was not killed on the spot, and because of his physical condition (paralysis), he was not suitable as an experimental subject, so he was just locked up in a base.

But because the Umbrella Company encountered so many troubles during this period, everyone forgot about him in the end - even the executive who ordered his arrest almost forgot about this person.

Well, poor Dr. Ashford, he was forgotten for three months... I wonder if he is still alive now.

')046'\u003eChapter 46 Saving Private Ashford

It has been more than a month since he was controlled by the company's senior management in the Raccoon City incident.

Every day, he stayed alone in this dark cell of less than five square meters. No one talked, no one tortured him. Except for the food that was so hard to swallow that even dogs didn't want to eat that was delivered at the time of three meals a day, he seemed to be forgotten by everyone.

He felt like he was going crazy! 　　But he wouldn't give up, Angela was still waiting for him! 　　Yes, at the last moment of being detained, he heard from those people that Angela had escaped from Raccoon City, and those people did it! 　　So, Angela, wait for me, Dad will definitely get out! ... It was unknown how long it had passed. In fact, he had been too lazy to calculate the date long before.

Until this day, there was some commotion outside, and even some gunshots, but it soon subsided.

Soon after, the iron door that would not make any noise except for a plate of food thrown in through the small hole opened! 　　Being in the dark for a long time made his eyes unable to adapt to the light outside the door. He could only vaguely see a tall figure standing at the door.

Is he finally going to be executed? 　　Yes, he has lost his value, and it is natural to be dealt with... Angela, I'm sorry... I didn't get to see you again after all...　　"Mr. Ashford, you are safe!"　　The figure said.

Wait, what did he hear? 　　Charles Ashford was a little unbelievable. He wondered if he had finally gone crazy because of being imprisoned in the dark for a long time.

"Don't worry, Umbrella Corporation is finished - or it will be finished soon, I'm here to save you."

The man who finally got used to the light saw the person coming clearly. It was a tall figure wearing a full-covering combat suit and a monocular hood. The black and yellow paint that seemed like a warning color showed its own danger. He didn't care that this color combination would become more conspicuous on the battlefield. He carried a long knife, a short stick, a submachine gun on his back, and two pistols on his legs. He gave people an amazing sense of oppression and threat.

If Dr. Ashford has read DC comics, he will know that this is the costume of an anti-hero named Deathstroke - but it is a pity that he does not like to read comics, and there is no DC or Marvel in this world, so He just thought he was a powerful warrior who liked to dress up in fancy clothes.

"You...are..." As a result of not speaking for a long time, Dr. Ashford almost forgot how to speak when he wanted to speak, but he still expressed what he meant.

"Me? I'm Carlos and Gil's friend, and I'm also the one who rescued Angela from Raccoon City.

Don't worry, she is safe now and will stay with us. We will see her right after we take you out! ” The person who cosplayed as Death Knell was none other than Fang Yuan.

As he explained, he walked forward, pushing a wheelchair in his hand. He picked up the poor man who was paralyzed and smelly and sat on it, and pushed him out the door.

That's right. As a disabled person who has trouble even walking, how could Dr. Ashford still keep his body clean and tidy when he was locked up in such a small dark room alone? In fact, Fang Yuan was surprised when he found that the other party's body was not stained with feces, urine or other filth - this guy could actually go to the toilet by himself! Fortunately, the absence of those disturbing things made Fang Yuan feel a lot more relaxed. Otherwise, it would have been a bit uncomfortable for him to push a pile of human-shaped filth all the way out of the umbrella branch.

The doctor in a wheelchair left the cell where he had been imprisoned for an unknown length of time. After squinting his eyes for a while to adapt to the light outside, he finally saw the scene outside clearly.

Corpse! There are corpses everywhere! Just a dozen steps away from this cell, there were two bodies lying motionless on the ground wearing black combat uniforms and holding assault rifles in their hands.

They were Umbrella's private security force, and the Doctor recognized their attire.

In the corridor further away, there were also combatants wearing the same uniform lying on the ground - there was no doubt that they were all dead.

But there was no blood! Yes, Dr. Ashford only noticed this when he was pushed halfway.

Logically speaking, looking at this strong man who looks like a super soldier and is fully armed, the battle scene should be more bloody and terrifying, such as a pool of blood covering the ground and stumps scattered everywhere. Arms were broken, corpses were sieved by bullets, etc.

However, as he was being pushed along, he found that few corpses had wounds or blood stains on them. Every deceased person was lying on the ground quietly, completely intact, as if they were asleep. .

But the doctor is certain that these people are definitely not asleep or unconscious! At least a person who is asleep or unconscious will never stare forward with a ferocious expression and his eyes wide open.

Could it be that he was poisoned to death? The doctor could only think of such a logical answer.

Of course, Fang Yuan would not know what was going on in this poor father's mind. He was very satisfied with such a "clean" battlefield that he had created with his own hands - it could not only ensure that he would not be contaminated by those unpleasant smells It's bloody, and you can harvest a large number of souls and turn them into stones. This is much better than actually charging all the way in with a gun! Yes, even though Fang Yuan cosplayed like Deathstroke and the knives and guns on his body were real, he had never drawn a knife or fired a gun since he stepped into the secret base of the Umbrella Company! This Cos costume was really wasted... But Fang Yuan said that it would be a pity to kill him directly with a knife and a gun! After all, there are hundreds of people in this base, and each one of them is a very rare refining material, which cannot be wasted casually! Well, Fang Yuan, who claims to be a stylish cosplayer, actually doesn’t care much when cosplaying. At least the Deathstroke’s nature of being killed in a mountain of corpses and a sea of ​​blood is something he can’t express in cosplay—the Deathstroke who kills without showing any blood. Have you seen it? ! ... The doctor arrived outside the base unimpeded. When he was near the perimeter, the doctor finally saw some blood - but it was not human. From the bloody stumps and severed arms on the ground, it could be seen that they should be developed by the Umbrella Company. Those biological weapons should be lickers and the like.

But looking at it, it looks like it was torn into seventeen or eighteen pieces by hands. How on earth was this done? ! However, although the researcher's instinct drove Ashford to ask something, he still knew that now was not the time to ask these questions. Everything would wait until he saw Angela - he couldn't wait to see her again. My own little angel! ... "Dad!" When Angela saw her father being pushed down from the helicopter, she ran and jumped onto the wheelchair, ignoring the dirty appearance and bad smell of the man in front of her. The stench.

"Angela! My baby!" Dr. Ashford had no consciousness that his current appearance was not suitable for intimacy with others. He held the little girl very hard and was unwilling to let go for a long time.

Fang Yuan, who had changed out of his death knell costume, did not get involved in the long-awaited reunion between father and daughter. Instead, he walked aside and watched the scene quietly with Gilcarlos and others.

"It's such a beautiful relationship, isn't it?" Carlos sighed with a smile. After experiencing the Raccoon City incident, he had not been so happy for a long time.

"We have to thank Fang, this is all your fault!" Jill patted Fang Yuan on the shoulder. She was also very happy to see this scene.

"You're welcome! I can't keep watching Angela look unhappy all day long!" Well, although this little loli still doesn't like him very much, Fang Yuan is quite cute with this little guy.

In any case, Fang Yuan's arrival changed something after all. At least he allowed a child who was supposed to be an orphan to have a father again. He no longer had to struggle to survive alone in the crisis-ridden apocalypse like in the movie plot.

... "What are your plans next, to continue being your 'superhero'?" Jill asked jokingly.

What she said was an interesting thing.

After Fang Yuan was wanted for killing everyone around the world, he was reviled by some, but admired even more. Many people regarded his cosplayer Deathstroke as a real-life superhero, and some comic book publishers even planned to publish a novel based on him. This comic - I just don’t know if DC in another world will sue them for copyright infringement.

"No, I still hope to find a place to do research quietly."

Fang Yuan shook his head. Although Cosplay was fun, and hunting those scumbags was also very fulfilling, but after all, these were just diversions in his spare time. His true calling was still an alchemist.

"Studying the T virus?" Jill's expression was a little worried. She didn't want her friend to become an anti-human mad scientist one day.

Fang Yuan waved his hand and said: "Don't worry, I'm not one of those careerists! This is just a personal interest. Some properties of the T virus concern me very much..." "...Well, I don't care about magicians either. I understand, but I believe you!" Jill didn't think that Fang Yuan would really become a scumbag like those at the top of the umbrella, and the worry just now was just a reflexive reaction.

... It is still two chapters and 6,000 words. The recent chapters are more difficult to break into chapters, so this is the only way.

')047'\u003eChapter 47 The Origin of the Virus (Part 1)

Time passes like water and does not stop for anyone.

Nearly a year has passed since the Raccoon City Incident. Although the Umbrella Company has not completely gone bankrupt, it is no longer a pill but an ethane state.

However, the research on biological and chemical weapons and the black market transactions by various legal and illegal organizations around the world have not stopped, but have become more and more intense.

Therefore, the United Nations has specially established an organization called B.S.A.A. (Biological and Chemical Terrorism Defense and Assessment Alliance) to respond to the endless biochemical terrorist attacks around the world.

... "Hi, Fang! Where are you? I can't find you at your residence, and the landlord said you haven't been back for several weeks!" Jill's voice came from the other end of the phone.

Gil Valentine, the former Raccoon City S.T.A.R.S. police officer, has already joined the B.S.A.A. organization. He spends about 90% of his time fighting fires and dealing with various biohazard incidents around the world, but from time to time he still Contact Fang Yuan.

This time she came to the door without saying hello, only to find that the owner of the room had been "missing" for a long time before calling.

"I'm in Africa. It's a shame you were able to find my number!" Fang Yuan used a satellite phone, and it seemed that he never told Jill this number.

"I have my own channels... What are you doing in Africa?" Jill was vague. It was probably some channels between legal and illegal... "I came here to find the Stairway to the Sun..." Fang Yuan discovered He said something and quickly shut up.

"Stairway to the Sun? What is that?" Although she had never heard of this name, Jill's intuition told her that it was important! "..." Silence.

"Fang?" Jill pressed.

"Well, it's the source of biochemical weapons developed by Umbrella Company. It's a special plant. The virus extracted from it is the prototype of the later T-virus."

Fang Yuan thought for a while and felt that it would be okay to reveal this information in advance.

"...I won't ask you where you got the information.

So, what are you looking for this plant for? Don’t you really want to change your job to become a mad scientist? "Jill joked.

"How could it be! I discovered something while studying the characteristics of the T virus, so I need to find its source and figure out what is behind it!" Fang Yuan was actually talking about something in the game that makes people feel indifferent. But in reality, it is something very incredible.

That is, where do the energy and materials required for virus-infected people to rapidly mutate or even grow to giants come from? This phenomenon is not particularly obvious in the biochemical weapons of the T virus series, but in the mutation process of the G virus, from stage one to stage five, every mutation challenges the basic rules of physics. This biological virus is so awesome. force? ! As for the villains in the fifth and sixth generation games, they were even more exaggerated. From a person to a giant crocodile, to a dinosaur, to a fly bigger than an airplane... Fang Yuan wanted to ask, what about the laws of physics? Were you eaten? ! ! Fang Yuan didn't know why people in this world didn't have doubts, but he was really puzzled by this point - does the law of conservation of mass become invalid when it is used in biological and chemical weapons? And there is another point that Fang Yuan is very concerned about, that is, the Philosopher's Stone can be extracted from the corpses of zombies.

At first, Fang Yuan didn't have any doubts about this matter. After all, they are all humanoid, and the IQ of the infected in the later generations of games is quite high. It is very likely that there are souls that can be identified as the same species by the alchemy array.

But as the research deepened, he finally realized that something was wrong.

The Philosopher's Stone extracted from the zombies and the Philosopher's Stone extracted from ordinary people are actually two different things! 　　Although they look very similar on the outside, both are blood-red liquid or solid, but when Fang Yuan tried to penetrate his spirit into the Philosopher's Stone in an experiment, he finally found the difference.

The Philosopher's Stone refined by the soul of an ordinary human, as Hohenheim said in Fullmetal Alchemist, is composed of countless independent souls. If the holder has enough patience, he can even talk to these souls one by one. A saint like Hohenheim can even make the soul in the stone give up his resentment and actively cooperate with him to perform alchemy.

However, the Philosopher's Stone made from zombies is completely chaotic inside. Countless extremely subtle consciousnesses, even weaker than the cell consciousness of bacteria, follow certain rules that Fang Yuan cannot understand, connect and integrate with each other, and finally become a huge soul that is much larger than a single human soul in terms of macroscopic scale.

What makes Fang Yuan most uneasy is that when the two Philosopher's Stones are mixed together, the latter will devour and assimilate the former - that is, the originally independent human soul will "melt" in the huge soul composed of subtle wills, and can no longer be separated.

These characteristics add up to make the T virus, which looks like a science fiction concept, suddenly become weird.

Fang Yuan feels that in order to figure out these doubts, it is inevitable to go to the source of the T series virus.

So, he came to Africa, where the Stairs of the Sun were discovered.

... Although Jill was a little worried that Fang Yuan would follow the old path of the Umbrella group, he turned around and thought that he was a "magician" with extraordinary power, but he had never used this power to seek any power, nor did he look down on all living beings as a superior god, so in the end he just told him to be careful and hung up the phone.

"...It feels good to be cared for by others!" Fang Yuan put down the satellite phone and looked up at the cave in front of him.

Deep in this cave is the place where Spencer, the founder of Umbrella Corporation, discovered and studied the Progenitor virus - Umbrella Africa Research Center.

The so-called ancestral virus is the virus extracted by Spencer (one of the three elders of the Umbrella Corporation) from a plant called "Stairs of the Sun" by some African tribes. It can be said to be the initial version of all subsequent T-series viruses, whether it is T virus, G virus, T-Veronica virus, T-Abyss virus, T-Nemisis parasite, Las Pl agas-II parasite (Makini), Las Pl agas-III parasite, Uroboros virus, C virus or other subspecies not mentioned in the plot, all come from this.

And this abandoned research center was built on the basis of the underground cave where the Stairs of the Sun was discovered. It was once the real core of the Umbrella Corporation.

At the same time, this is also the scene of the important plot in the game Resident Evil 5 10 years after the incident in the mansion. At that time, it had been reactivated by Albert Wesker and another villain company, Trinity Group, which replaced Umbrella, and a new virus called Urobros was developed based on the mutant virus remaining in Jill's body. It is said that it can promote human evolution and create a new world, and Wesker himself will become the god of the new world-although Fang Yuan does not think that the kind of mutation with tentacles and other messy limbs can be called evolution.

But it is only 1999 now, and Jill has not fallen off the cliff and fainted in the battle with Wesker, so naturally she will not be brought here by Wesker to become his research object, and Trinity Group has not taken over here.

Even because of Fang Yuan's butterfly effect (previously hunting down Umbrella Corporation-related personnel), Wesker is now being hunted by B.S.A.A. all over the world, and has no time to do research here.

However, it is not that there are no other humans here.

The Diya people, an indigenous tribe in West Africa, are well-known for their mature house building capabilities and heritage protection technology, but in fact, thousands of years ago, the ancient West Africa was ruled by the Diya Empire.

The king of the empire has unlimited authority and is worshipped by his people as the god "closest to the sun god".

There is a myth circulating in the Diya tribe that their king has a lifespan of hundreds of years, is brave and fearless, and is invulnerable to swords and guns.

However, becoming the king of the Diya Empire is a very difficult road.

Because the throne inheritance of the Diya Empire does not rely on blood relations, they maintain the traditional way of election of primitive tribes.

The elected leader must pass the test of the sun god to become the king, and this test is the "Sun Stairs" ceremony.

In the underground core area of ​​the Diya Empire, there is a flower bed, on which the sacred object of Diya - the "Sun Stairs" flower is planted.

Yes, it is the kind of plant that Fang Yuan mentioned before.

This is a flower with highly toxic substances. Only a few people who can be recognized by God can survive after eating the flower.

To become a king, eating the flower is an inevitable test, and the flower will also bring a long life and powerful power to the new king.

For thousands of years, the Dubaiya Empire has relied on this method to choose its leaders and regard them as people recognized by God.

Until one day, a disaster occurred underground, and the Dubaiya Empire disappeared in the dust of history, leaving only the myths passed down by word of mouth in the Dubaiya tribe.

And this cave occupied and transformed by the Umbrella Company is actually the underground ruins of the ancient Dubaiya Empire, and it is also where the Stairs of the Sun is located.

When Spencer and others occupied this place, the Dubaiya people rose up to resist these foreign invaders, but were suppressed under the threat of guns and cannons.

But when the Umbrella Company left, they immediately came back to reoccupy this place. Fang Yuan, who wanted to go deep into it, had to face this tribe of primitive people with oil paint on their skin, bows and spears in their hands, and who couldn't even use AK-47.

')048'\u003eChapter 48 Origin of the Virus (Part 2)

However, although these natives stood in front of Fang Yuan, he didn't intend to kill them like he killed the running dogs of the Umbrella Company.

After all, these people were not the infected people who were injected with the Urobros virus in the plot of the fifth generation game, but just ordinary humans. They blocked outsiders from entering just to protect the holy place in their minds, and he was able to find this place thanks to these people.

So, Fang Yuan just knocked out everyone he saw along the way, and then gave them a sedative to ensure that they slept until dawn.

Well, this should be considered a perfect stealth! The layout of the ruins is just like what has appeared in the game. Various extremely unscientific ancient black technology mechanisms emerge in an endless stream. Fang Yuan can't understand how those primitive people in ancient times built such complex and advanced mechanisms.

Unfortunately, no matter how complex the mechanism is, it is meaningless to Fang Yuan who can go through walls and hide underground. He simply ignores all kinds of annoying mechanism puzzles, finds the location and digs a hole, and walks straight all the way to the deepest part of the underground.

As for destroying the ruins of ancient civilizations... This has been almost ruined by the people of the Umbrella Company, and it doesn't matter if he comes a few more times! 　　After knocking out all the natives stationed outside the Stairs of the Sun, Fang Yuan used alchemy to lift the earth and rocks, temporarily blocking the way in and out. He finally had time to study the things in front of him quietly.

This is a stepped stone flower bed with a radius of about ten feet, on which grow hundreds of dark red flowers with white spots on the surface.

This seemingly inconspicuous plant is the source of all T-series biochemical weapons in this world-the Stairs of the Sun.

This is a very magical plant. It is said that humans who take this flower, as long as they can survive the poison, will have strength and lifespan far beyond that of ordinary people.