Chapter 404: Resident Evil

A group of people carried demolition tools and came to the exit of the Hive Research Institute.

There was a train parked here. When Jill was repairing the train, she found a man named Parker hiding on the train. Like Alice, he also fell into amnesia because of the mansion's protection mechanism.

However, Alice saw that Parker was wearing a ring on his hand, and she also had the same one on her hand.

The festive scene of their wedding flashed back in her mind again.

Finally, when they were about to enter the Hive, Alice couldn't help but stop Wesker:

"Tell me, tell me who you are, and what my identity is?"

Wesker's face was as heavy as water. After looking at Alice, he said:

"We are members of the STARS team. This is a federal security department belonging to the United States, but most of the activity funds are provided by the Umbrella Corporation, so this time the Hive Research Institute had an accident, and we were also sent to investigate the situation.

And you are also a member of the STARS team, arranged to go undercover at the Hive Research Institute, disguised as their security personnel, guarding the entrance of the mansion."

"Undercover?" Alice was even more confused. "According to you, the biggest source of funds for the team is the Umbrella Corporation, why do you still send me undercover?"

Wesker continued to explain: "A long time ago, the Umbrella Corporation was reported to be engaged in extremely dangerous biological scientific research, and there are things called top secrets hidden in the Hive.

In order to figure out all this, you were sent to go undercover in the company."

"Then what's going on with this ring of his and mine?" Alice took off the gold ring on her hand and held it up to Wesker.

"It's just fake. You and he are both security personnel at the entrance of the mansion, using a fake husband-and-wife relationship to cover up."

With this explanation, Alice understood why there were guns in her bedroom cabinet.

Alice asked doubtfully: "Then are you ready to launch an arrest now?"

"No." Wesker shook his head gently. "I received news from the Umbrella Corporation that the Hive Research Institute was out of control, and the artificial intelligence Red Queen started a massacre, killing all 500 researchers in the institute.

The company sent us here to investigate what happened, and then shut down the Red Queen.

In addition, the anesthetic gas that stunned you was also released by the Red Queen, in order to eliminate the leakage of company secrets as much as possible."

"Then how long will this amnesia last?" Parker asked nervously.

"One minute, one day, one month, no one can tell."

"Wait, you just said that everyone in the Hive was killed?!" Ma Te suddenly got up, ignoring the pulling of the STARS team members, rushed to Wesker and asked loudly.

"Yes, everyone." Wesker said word by word.

Ma Te seemed to have his soul drawn away instantly, staggered back a few steps, and then fell to the ground.

Seeing that no one asked any more questions, Wesker said to the team members: "Open the iron gate of the Hive, everyone prepare to enter!"

Taking advantage of the team members' demolition, Alice and Jill walked to the side to continue asking about the details of her life.

And Chris walked to Wesker's side: "Captain, when we came out, you didn't say that people died in the Hive. Also, why did you say that Alice was undercover in front of so many people?"

Wesker didn't look back, coldly said: "Is this important?

What we have to do this time is to enter the research institute, investigate the situation, and then collect evidence of the crime."

"But..." Chris originally wanted to say something, but was interrupted by Wesker: "You have too many questions, Chris, do what you should do."

After speaking, he walked to the door.

Chris gazed at the captain's back, falling into thought.

The captain's behavior was abnormal, could it be that he was hiding something from him?

Just thinking, news came from the demolition team that the closed door had been opened.

The STARS team members continued to move forward. After passing through the corridor, they entered the hall of the Hive.

The research institute was all on the lower floors, and when everyone opened the elevator door, they found that the elevator box was on the bottom floor, so they turned to take the stairs and continued to move forward.

Passing by the first research institute, all the rooms here had been filled with water. STARS team member Kaplan operated a small computer and said: "Most of the research rooms and roads have been blocked by water. If you force through, it will take a lot of time."

"Then take the path that can pass quickly." Wesker gave the order.

At this time, Alice, who was at the back of the team, was silent all the way, trying hard to recall what happened before the amnesia.

The cold air of the laboratory made her feel cold, and she hugged her shoulders to keep warm.

Parker, who was on the side, saw this scene, and for some reason, a desire to protect her surged in his heart, so he took off his black jacket and put it on Alice.

"Thank you." Alice turned her head and thanked Parker.

Parker smiled: "Whether we are real husband and wife or not, this is what I should do."

This smile made some memories recover in Alice's mind again.

Back at the mansion, Parker seemed to have often shown favor to her, which made Alice have some good feelings for him.

At this moment of extremely charming atmosphere, a female corpse suddenly appeared behind the glass window filled with water behind everyone, and everyone was scared and fell backward.

Parker said in shock: "These are all employees killed by the Red Queen, right?"

"Poor people." Jill couldn't bear to look at the miserable state of this female employee and sighed before walking forward.

When everyone left the corridor, the floating female corpse suddenly opened her eyes…………

"We've arrived at the restaurant, not far away is the Red Queen's main machine room." Kaplan said happily.

"This doesn't look like a restaurant." Chris said with a heavy face.

There were no dining tables or chairs here, but metal boxes filled with pipes, as if they were cages.

"Maybe the secrets of this company are buried here." Ma Te was expressionless, his eyes full of hatred: "Unknown secrets."

Wesker stared at him and said: "Jill, take the prisoner and stay here to wait. James, Chris, Kaplan... you go to the main machine room to shut down the Red Queen."

Although Chris really wanted to stay here to find out, he couldn't help but obey the captain's instructions and followed the deputy captain to the main machine room.

And Alice took advantage of everyone not paying attention, curiously walked to a metal box, and observed the situation inside through the exhaust hole above.

She saw a large brown meat tumor in the box. These pipes seemed to be transporting nutrients to it.

"What are you looking at?" 【404-59

Suddenly, Wesker's voice appeared behind her.

Alice hurriedly turned around: "Nothing... I wasn't looking at anything, just a bit curious."

"Go and finish the mission with Chris and the others; the sooner you finish, the sooner we can wrap up."

Wesker continued to issue orders, dismissing all the restless team members.

The restless squad arrived at the control room outside the main server room. Kaplan performed a series of operations, opened the door, and revealed a white corridor leading to the main server room.

Chris wanted to go in, but was stopped by the deputy captain, James: "You stay here and look after Alice."

After saying that, he took the lead and walked in.

After entering the corridor, the deputy captain raised his gun in alert, but did not discover anything unusual.

"Come in, there's no problem." James breathed a slight sigh of relief, and two team members, a man and a woman, followed him in.

However, just after entering, the corridor door immediately closed.

"Kaplan, what's the situation?" The deputy captain called out to Kaplan, who was operating the computer.

"Nothing... nothing, it's just the Red Queen's self-protection mechanism; I'm trying to open the door." Kaplan replied while clattering away at the keyboard.

But as soon as he finished speaking, a laser appeared at the end of the corridor.

Seeing the situation was bad, the deputy captain and another male team member lowered their heads and dodged it.

But the other female team member was not so lucky; she was directly sliced in half by the laser.

"Kaplan!" Now everyone was terrified and anxious, calling out Kaplan's name one after another.

"I'm already giving it my all." Kaplan was also sweating profusely from anxiety.

However, a second laser struck again. The deputy captain was agile, jumping up to grab the corridor ceiling and escaping disaster.

But the male team member didn't have time to jump and was sliced in two at the waist.

"Kaplan!" Chris roared almost at the top of his lungs, and Alice, crouching by the door, kept urging him on as well.

"Almost there, almost there, almost there!" Kaplan was trembling all over, his hands aching unbearably from the constant typing, but he persisted.

The third laser struck. The deputy captain focused his mind, preparing to dodge again just like the previous two times.

However, the next second, the straight laser instantly transformed into a fishing net; now, no matter how he dodged, he was doomed to die.

"Oh, damn..." James looked at the net-shaped laser, gave up struggling, and cursed.

"Done!" Kaplan hit the final command, and the two doors of the corridor opened with a sound.

But it was all too late; James had already been sliced into pieces by the laser.

Alice watched this scene in its entirety, closing her eyes in pain and trembling.

The entire control room fell into a deathly silence.

After a long while, Chris picked up the small generator on the ground: "Let's go, we still have to go and shut down the Red Queen."

Parker immediately shook his head and refused: "You want to go in? I don't want to go in and throw my life away!"

"That was the Red Queen's protection measure; I've already shut it down, there won't be any more trouble." Kaplan, covered in sweat, said tremblingly.

After saying this, he himself wasn't particularly certain.

"I believe you." Chris patted Kaplan on the shoulder and walked into the corridor without looking back.

Alice looked at Chris's back, took a deep breath, and followed him in.

Seeing that the team members had all gone in, Kaplan, although afraid, did not stay where he was.

The three of them advanced cautiously in the corridor, guarding against any further mishaps.

Fortunately, no accidents happened this time, and the three of them passed through the corridor safely.

"This is the Red Queen's main server room; plug in the generator, and once she's powered up, we can shut her down." Kaplan said, taking the generator out of his backpack with Chris.

"You cannot shut me down."

A red projection of a little girl suddenly appeared in front of the three of them.

"Who are you?" Alice asked.

Kaplan explained: "This is the projection of the artificial intelligence Red Queen; she is also the creator of this massacre."

"It was I who stopped this disaster; you cannot shut me down, I beg you." The Red Queen continued.

But no one paid her any mind; Chris plugged in the generator and began charging.

"I beg you." The Red Queen pleaded again.

When the power level reached one hundred percent, Chris glared at the Red Queen: "Go to hell, executioner!"

At this moment, the Red Queen's tone also became cold and sharp: "You will all die here!"

The power supply system overloaded, and all the lights vanished.

In the dining hall, the red indicator lights turned green, and the behemoth inside was waking up.

And all the doors of the research institute opened, and the accumulated water immediately gushed out.

At the same time, other things were also released.

In the dining hall, the team members appeared somewhat nervous because of the sudden darkness, raising their guns and looking around.

"Everyone gather!" Jill shouted loudly, "Captain? Captain?!"

Jill wanted the captain to take charge of the situation, but received no response.

Suddenly, a scream from another team member came from a corner of the dining hall.

"Buck? What happened to you!" Jill recognized it was her teammate's voice; she was anxious but didn't dare to act rashly.

Fortunately, the backup power soon illuminated the dining hall, and Captain Wesker was nowhere to be seen.

In her urgency, Jill couldn't care about that much anymore and immediately walked toward Buck's direction with another team member.

Walking past rows of large metal crates, at the corner, Jill finally saw her teammate Buck.

By now, Buck had already lost his life, and a group of "people" dressed as employees were squatting beside him, emitting excited cries while feeding.

"What are you doing!" Jill fired into the air, issuing a warning.

A zombie with its back to Jill slowly turned its head, and its blood-filled mouth and face revealed a sinister smile at her...

"Mom!" In the room, a group of big boys were so scared they cried out their mothers' names loudly.

"My God, this is too scary." Brook pressed pause, his hair standing on end, and gasped for air.

As it happened, it paused on a close-up of the smiling zombie, and the entire big screen was filled with its "smile."

"Damn it! Brook, skip it quickly!" His companions shouted in voices as miserable as if their fathers had died and their mothers had remarried.

Brook pressed the fast-forward button faster than Kaplan typed on the keyboard in the movie.

Tonight, I don't know how many people were scared into screaming by this scene, and I don't know how many people will be unable to sleep all night.

Back to the movie.

Jill, seeing this terrifying scene, didn't stay dazed for too long and decisively chose to fire.

But she only hit the zombies' chests, which couldn't stop them from advancing.

Jill's reaction was also very quick; if hitting the heart didn't work, she switched to the head.

This time, the zombie fell to the ground and couldn't get up again.

The gunfire attracted more zombies, and by now, Chris and the others had also returned to the dining hall.

"What happened?" Chris still didn't know what the situation was.

"These employees suddenly attacked Buck; I shot them in the heart, but it actually didn't kill them." Jill paused after saying this, "Only hitting the head works."

"How is that possible?!" Chris couldn't believe what Jill said at all.

However, seeing the roaring zombie horde, Chris immediately understood.

All the team members immediately raised their guns to fight back, but there were more and more zombies, and everyone could only retreat step by step.

During this, a culture tank was hit by a bullet and suddenly exploded; Alice, who was closer, was knocked to the ground by the shockwave.

In a daze, she recalled some things again.

It was in the woods, and she was plotting something with a woman.

"Are you okay?" Ma Te pulled Alice up and brought her back to the team.

Team member J. D. ran to the door wanting to open it to let everyone retreat the way they came; after trying several wrong passwords, he finally succeeded in opening the door.

As it turned out, a large group of zombies was hiding inside; J. D., who was closest, couldn't dodge in time, was grabbed by the zombies, and bitten to death alive.

Jill reached out to save him, but not only did she fail, she herself was bitten.

Seeing that there were more and more zombies, everyone could only continue to go deeper, walking toward the Red Queen's control room.

And Alice and Ma Te, by coincidence, left the team midway and walked toward the road leading to the office area.

Alice advanced alone in the office area; after passing a corner, she saw a zombie dog covered in bright red blood appear at the end of the corridor.

Alice froze in place, while the zombie dog stepped forward and ran toward her.

In her urgency, Alice hurriedly ducked into the room beside her and closed the door.

As it turned out, as soon as she turned her head, a security guard who had turned into a zombie in the room lunged at her with a bloody mouth.

Almost subconsciously, Alice swung her elbow and hammered the zombie's head, knocking it back.

The zombie, having received a heavy blow to the head, stopped moving directly.

Carefully taking the sidearm from the zombie, the zombie dog outside the door jumped in through the window.

Alice opened the door to go out and locked it inside again.

However, outside the door, a large group of zombie dogs appeared in front of her, roaring and running toward her.

Looking at this terrifying scene, Alice was not afraid, but raised her gun and began to shoot.

Aiming at the head, every shot hit its mark; all the zombie dogs were shot dead by Alice on the spot.

And just when she thought it was finally calm, the zombie dog locked in the room jumped out of the window and lunged at her.

Alice, whose bullets were exhausted, turned around in her urgency, stepped onto the wall, and performed a clean and beautiful spinning kick in the air, kicking the zombie dog away directly.

Alice, having done all this, looked at her hands in surprise; it turned out Jill hadn't lied to her, she was really capable of fighting.

At the same time, Ma Te also discovered various documents of the Umbrella Corporation in the office; these were ironclad evidence of their illegal research.

Just as he was preparing to collect them, there was a disturbance behind him.

Ma Te turned around and saw that it was actually his sister walking toward him unsteadily.

Ma Te was overjoyed and walked up wanting to hug his sister, but was tackled onto the table by her.

It turned out his sister had also turned into a zombie by now and didn't recognize who Ma Te was at all; she just wanted to eat him.

At the critical moment, Alice arrived in time and killed Ma Te's sister.

After going through hardships, the two had a quiet heart-to-heart talk.

Ma Te revealed his true identity to Alice; in fact, he was an environmentalist, and his purpose was to expose the Umbrella Corporation's secret illegal research. His sister was also sent in by him to collect evidence of their crimes, but he hadn't expected such an accident to occur.

Through Ma Te, Alice also learned that his sister had contacted another like-minded partner in the company, and they were preparing to act from the inside and outside.

Seeing the face of Ma Te's sister, some images appeared in Alice's mind again.

It seemed the truth was about to come to light.

"Where did you go?" Chris and his group were in the control room and saw Alice and Ma Te returning to the team.

"Went to collect evidence of the Umbrella Corporation's crimes." Ma Te raised the document bag in his hand, which was full of the company's data.

"What should we do next?" Jill asked after bandaging her wound.

The captain was missing, the deputy captain had become a lump of meat, and the squad was suddenly leaderless.

Parker suggested: "Let's just wait here; you've been out of contact for so long, the Umbrella Corporation should send someone to check."

Kaplan shook his head and said: "The Hive door has been set; in another hour, it will be completely closed. If we can't find a way out, we're doomed."

"Maybe we can ask the Red Queen." Alice looked toward the room at the end of the corridor.

"At this point, that's the only way." Chris had no choice but to take the team members back to the server room and restart the Red Queen.

The red little girl projection appeared again, her tone appearing somewhat smug:

"We meet again; I guess the situation is out of control, right?"

Although Chris was angry, he still maintained a cool head: "Tell us, what exactly happened? What's going on with those employees?"

"The company's researchers made a mistake, leading to the leakage of the T-virus. To prevent it from continuing to leak to the outside world, I had no choice but to close the Hive and then kill all the researchers."

Jill said angrily: "What is the T-virus? Is it what made those employees become those ghosts?"

"The T-virus is an important research achievement of the company, mainly used for military purposes, but it is currently not perfect. The employees you saw before were the side effects after being infected by it."

Ma Te sneered: "Does it have other uses?"

"As you can see, it can resurrect the dead, who don't fear bullets. Except for hitting the spine and brainstem, attacks on other parts won't have much effect on them.

The company developed this virus to create invincible biochemical soldiers for military use, but unfortunately, it seems no object can master this power under the catalysis of the virus."

Alice suddenly looked up at the Red Queen: "I heard you say infection; what is the route?"

"Air, blood, body fluid exchange, etc..." The Red Queen stated a fact that could be called terrifying.

Jill looked down at her injured arm, her expression immensely solemn: "I don't want to become that kind of thing; I have to leave here and find a doctor."

"All infected persons cannot leave here." The Red Queen refused Jill.

However, Alice placed her hand on the switch of the main power line: "Be shut down, or give us a way to live; you choose."

In the end, the Red Queen chose the latter.

An entrance appeared on the floor of the server room, and everyone hurriedly entered, but they encountered zombie attacks again on the way.

Everyone fought with all their might to kill the zombies and struggled to advance.

But when they were about to leave the sewer, Kaplan was still grabbed and held back by zombies; realizing there was no hope of escape, he stopped at the end of the pipe to cover for everyone.

The squad advanced along the road and entered a room that looked like a laboratory.

Alice looked at the scene before her, and memories surged in her mind again.

ps. 6000-word major chapter update, concluding in the next chapter.