Chapter 51: Cooperation Escape One‑Shot

Project: Chris Redfield.

After this system's inspection, the project, having undergone early training against B. O. W., participated in the "Lockford Island Campaign", and is currently facing a battle, has consequently reached its peak state ahead of schedule.

The project's current attributes are as follows:

When in a desperate situation, it greatly increases its own reaction speed and strength, and its luck also rises dramatically.

Humans or other species sharing the desperate situation with the project will have their luck drop to the lowest point, and with high probability will shield the project from fatal damage.

Moreover, when the project triggers the "Lucky" effect, it can severely affect the subjective judgment of surrounding creatures.

For example, in the world of the Resident Evil game, although the antagonists have multiple chances to diminish the project, they repeatedly change their decisions due to the project's "Lucky" effect, causing the project to repeatedly escape.

Note:

The "Lucky" effect has a usage limit in reality; it can be used three times within each six‑month period.

If the project exhausts all uses and the situation far exceeds what it can endure, the project still faces the possibility of death.

This system detects the activation of the project's "Lucky" effect.

Affected by the "Lucky" effect, the iron‑blooded youth nicknamed Kelt, after being rescued by the project, began to change his attitude toward the project.

"…"

Sitting in the operations conference room, Sui Bian, after hearing the system's words in his mind, kept his usual expression and showed no overt surprise, as if he had long anticipated that Chris possessed a "hidden attribute".

Otherwise, Sui Bian would not be so confident that Chris could complete the mission.

Currently, under his command are three anomalies: Hank, Chris, and the Plague Doctor.

The Plague Doctor stays in the nest, using Class‑D personnel for various experiments, and also assists the company in further researching the T and G viruses.

Although the Plague Doctor has so far complied fully with researchers' and security's orders and shown no aggressive intent, he remains a very dangerous "individual".

Therefore, Sui Bian chose to leave the most steady Hank, along with the Alpha and Zeta USS squads, in the nest to secure his foundation.

Keeping Chris by his side is sufficient.

At this moment, the soft screen still shows Chris's chest camera feed, watching Kelt take the shoulder cannon and quickly mount it on his left shoulder.

Next…

Kelt became a humanoid self‑propelled cannon.

Using the three red lines on his mask to aim, Kelt fired several plasma bursts emitting blue light.

Pfft! (x4)

The shoulder cannon is not perfectly accurate, but the moment the plasma bursts struck the four Xenomorph worker bees, sparks flew and their black bodies were blown to pieces.

While Kelt used the shoulder cannon to eliminate the four workers, Chris employed a carried grenade and the remaining. 40‑caliber Samurai Blade to take out two more.

Seeing Kelt and Chris's fierce assault, the Xenomorph side, sensing an unfavorable turn, began to retreat.

If the movie's plot were followed, the surviving Xenomorphs would use their strong acidic blood to free the Queen, allowing her to escape onto the ice layer.

Upon seeing this.

Sui Bian furrowed his brow, thought briefly, and asked the Red Queen: "Red Queen, with the company's current technology, can we clone iron‑blooded, Xenomorph, and facehugger specimens using only tissue and blood samples?"

Hearing this, the Red Queen did not answer immediately; after a brief silence she said through the headset to Sui Bian: "Yes."

"Alright, I understand," Sui Bian nodded lightly and continued: "Find an opportunity to promptly inform Chris, tell him that if the iron‑blooded youth wants to blow up the pyramid and destroy everything, the technicians will lose the chance to go to the pyramid."

Ask him to obtain Xenomorph or facehugger tissue samples; after all, he has acid‑resistant sealed containers. Finally, remind him to beware of a surprise attack from the Queen when returning to the ice layer.

"Yes, sir," the Red Queen replied.

While responding, the Red Queen had already contacted Chris, who was a hundred kilometers away, via communication.

Inside the pyramid.

Chris kept a wary eye on Kelt beside him, guarding against any move, since Kelt's temperament was indeed volatile.

Fortunately, Kelt was reckless to the point of folly, but he realized the current situation far exceeded prior expectations; the Xenomorph Queen could likely escape using the workers.

Thus they maintained their alliance and left the pyramid together.

Soon, the two arrived at the sacrificial chamber that serves as the mandatory passage out of the pyramid.

The sacrificial chamber had been converted by the workers into a hatchery, containing countless facehugger eggs and the corpses of Class‑D personnel affixed to the stone walls by slime and secretions.

Each corpse's thorax bore an opening from inside outward, from which worker larvae emerged.

The floor of the sacrificial chamber was littered with facehugger corpses.

Seeing this, Chris took a slightly larger acid‑resistant sealed bottle from his waist pouch, sliced off a "leg" of a facehugger with a dagger, and carefully placed it into the bottle and sealed it.

As for the dagger corroded by the strong acidic blood, Chris simply discarded it.

Meanwhile.

Kelt indeed chose to start the wrist computer's countdown and tossed it aside.

Immediately, unlike Blade, it did not patiently explain anything to a human; instead, with its left hand it grabbed the Chris who had just finished sampling and sprinted toward the outside of the pyramid.

The external road was clear, and the two escaped the pyramid smoothly, then headed straight to the cave beneath the elevator ropes.

There, they were attacked by the remaining three workers.

The result was that they turned the tables on the three workers without any suspense.

Without time to think, they immediately grabbed the rope; the Red Queen, seeing the scene via the chest camera, instantly remote‑controlled the elevator to quickly retrieve the rope.

The two began sprinting toward the ice layer 600 meters above.

Boom——!

Soon after, a deafening explosion rang out.

The wrist computer's self‑destruct device activated, a dazzling blue light enveloped the entire pyramid, followed by a high‑temperature flame shockwave that expanded outward at extreme speed.

Fortunately, Chris and Kelt acted much faster than the Black female lead and Blade in the film, returning to the ice layer well in advance, so they avoided the dramatic effect of being trapped by the shockwave as in the movie.

Even so, after returning to the ice surface early, Chris and Kelt could not let their guard down, because the escaped Xenomorph Queen had already appeared in their view.

The Xenomorph Queen was massive, at least three to four times the size of a worker, far beyond anything a normal worker could compare to.

Even the most experienced Iron‑blood Warrior must be extremely cautious when facing the Xenomorph Queen, but…

Kai'ertu has a shoulder cannon, huh…

The movie, for dramatic effect and to build tension, lets Scar's shoulder cannon be knocked off by a worker bee, but in reality, where are so many coincidences?

Two cannons.

The Xenomorph Queen was blasted by Kai'ertu into fragments.

(End of chapter)