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"But as a great superhero, I must find a way to save this city, I must save America, I must save the World for the children…"
Homelander's gaze swept back and forth, his voice becoming increasingly impassioned. "So, I called you here today simply to give you an opportunity to do your part in this great endeavor."
"Of course, I know this won't be easy…"
"But we must make changes, not only for greater profit, but also for a better tomorrow for Vought Corporation!"
"Perhaps many fools will jump out and criticize you along the way, believing this to be a heartless, or even cruel, thing, but I can assure you, this will be an effective method that can quickly resolve the current situation in America!"
???
Everyone listening had a bewildered look on their faces.
No, what in the World are you talking about, without any context?
Although we can understand every single word, why can't we understand the meaning when they are put together?
Wait a minute, are you trying to get rid of the President and take his place?
A sudden, inexplicable panic arose in the hearts of the executives present.
What should they do if Homelander asks them if they support him becoming President?
Answering yes is treason!
Answering no means instant death…
Damn it, if I had known there would be such a deadly multiple-choice question, I should have taken sick leave today!
Fortunately, however, the worst-case scenario that the executives had envisioned did not happen.
Homelander seemed to sense the unconcealable panic on everyone's faces, smiled contemptuously, and immediately stopped keeping them in suspense, saying directly:
"I'm sure you've heard by now that I've been busy developing a new project called the Metaverse during this time… Today, I want to officially tell everyone that the biggest problem with the Metaverse project has now been successfully overcome!!"
Hoo~~
Everyone couldn't help but let out a long sigh of relief upon hearing this.
Thank goodness, we thought you were going to assassinate the President!
As long as it's not assassinating the President, Grandpa Homelander, we support whatever you want to do… After all, everyone who didn't support you is dead!
As Homelander's words fell, the door to the conference room was pushed open from the outside, and a blonde woman in her forties, wearing a white business suit, walked in from outside.
"Hello everyone, my name is Alex Wesker. I was the chief researcher at the former Umbrella Corporation's Sonide Totoka Island Research Base, and now, at the invitation of Mr. Homelander, I have become the new head of the Metaverse project's virus laboratory."
Along with the blonde woman's self-introduction, everyone's minds, which had just calmed down, immediately became tense again.
What the heck?
Umbrella Corporation?
Is it the Umbrella Corporation that caused the 'zombie crisis' in Raccoon City, which ultimately led to the entire city being 'nuked' into oblivion?
Wait a minute, shouldn't the Metaverse be related to the field of electronic technology?
How did it get involved with viruses?
Could it be…
Holy crap, Grandpa Homelander, you absolutely must not mess around!!
A global zombie crisis is absolutely unacceptable!!
As if she had guessed everyone's thoughts, Alex Wesker explained with a smile:
"Don't worry everyone, and don't have unnecessary panic, things are not as bad as you imagine…"
Then she turned to look at Homelander, "Mr. Homelander, it seems I need to explain the operating principle of the virtual reality technology called the Metaverse that you want to develop."
Homelander didn't speak, but just nodded slightly, agreeing to the other party's request.
So Alex Wesker continued, "First of all, to explain the operating principle of the Metaverse clearly, we must first understand what the concept of the Metaverse actually means."
"The so-called Metaverse can also be called the spiritual realm, the meta-realm, the hyper-sensory space, the virtual space, and so on."
"You can simply think of it as a virtual space that can interact with the real World online, or a physical reality enhanced by virtualization.
The World within it is no different from the real World, and events happening in the real World in real time will be synchronized in the Metaverse.
It is a 3D virtual space based on the internet, featuring a new type of consciousness uploading and sensory interaction, as well as spatial sharing technology and many other high-precision technologies."
"As the first step of the experimental phase, Mr. Homelander intends to conduct necessary technical tests first in major prisons and homeless shelters."
"Once the Metaverse project is successful, we will then extensively promote it in other fields closely related to human production activities, such as social networking, gaming, office work, and even medical treatment and education. This will surely trigger an unparalleled boom globally, and completely subvert future human behavior."
"And by then, Vought Corporation, as the issuer of the Metaverse, will surely become the most profitable and eye-catching super business empire in the World!!"
Huh?
If there's money to be made, then we're not sleepy… Ah, no, we're not scared anymore!
The vast majority of people present were attracted by the 'big picture' painted by Alex Wesker, as this was a 'blue ocean' area that no one had yet ventured into.
Perhaps it could really make Vought Corporation and all of them a fortune!
However, a few people still remained calm. It wasn't that they didn't want to make money, but rather that they were worried about Alex Wesker's identity.
After all, very few researchers who could become executives at Umbrella had normal minds!
"Um, excuse me…"
At this moment, a female executive asked with a slightly trembling voice, "How exactly can those test subjects enter the Metaverse?"
"It's actually very simple."
Alex Wesker revealed a mysterious smile and explained concisely:
"I have successfully developed a special virus that can digitize human consciousness. At that time, we just need to place those prisoners and homeless people in specially made hibernation medical pods, and then we can easily upload their consciousness into the Metaverse."
As the only two surviving 'experimental subjects' from the Wesker project, Alex Wesker and Albert Wesker (male Wesker), under the careful cultivation of Oswell E. Spencer, both became heads of important projects within the Umbrella Group.
Before the official collapse of the Umbrella Group, Alex Wesker and her research team were stationed on a small island in E Ross called Sabiti Island. By setting up mines and helping the local people restore their economy as bait, they secretly kidnapped large numbers of miners as experimental subjects for virus research.
But the good times didn't last long.
Three years later, with the complete collapse of the Umbrella Group, Alex Wesker did not choose to directly betray Oswell E. Spencer like Albert Wesker did.
Instead, at his dispatch, she went to an old experimental facility on Sonide Totoka Island to conduct a new round of project research.
However, this time, Alex Wesker's research focus shifted from Bio-Organic Weapons (B.O.W.) to using the Progenitor Virus to create a special virus that could inhibit the contraction of human cell telomeres.
Oswell E. Spencer wanted to break the natural law of 'aging caused by telomere shortening' through this special virus, thereby achieving true 'immortality' in a biological sense.
However, the dying Oswell E. Spencer ultimately overestimated his prestige a bit too much.
The real Alex Wesker was not as loyal as she appeared in front of Oswell E. Spencer.
Although during this period, she outwardly reported the experimental progress and other specific details to Oswell E. Spencer on time, it was merely a facade she deliberately put on to continuously obtain resources and funding support from him.
In secret, Alex Wesker used all the resources on her private project, and this project was the T-Phobos Virus (also called T-Phobos Virus)!!
The T-Phobos Virus is a variant of the T-Virus, but it does not have the strong transmission ability of the latter, and after infecting the host, it does not immediately cause mutation, but rather lies dormant and slowly integrates, and will also react accordingly with the change of the infected person's physical and mental state.
Simply put, for those infected with the T-Phobos Virus, as long as they can avoid feeling panic and fear no matter what happens, the T-Phobos Virus will not only not cause any harm to the host, but will also strengthen the host's physical functions.
But if the infected person experiences intense fear, the T-Phobos Virus will be instantly activated, infecting the entire body in a very short time, causing mutation and forming various kinds of monsters.
However, just as Alex Wesker and her experimental team were racking their brains to reduce the probability of the T-Phobos Virus killing the host, they suddenly heard the news of Oswell E. Spencer's death.
The other party was actually killed by Albert Wesker?
While feeling angry, Alex Wesker couldn't help but start to worry about her own future.
Because with the death of Oswell E. Spencer, it meant that from then on, her experiments would no longer have a continuous source of funding.
So after much consideration, Alex Wesker had to entrust the experiment to a trustworthy researcher in the team for the time being, and she herself left Sonide Totoka Island to find a new backer from outside the island!
During this period, she also unintentionally heard a piece of gossip from a black market merchant.
Someone had seen the figure of Albert Wesker, who was wanted by multiple organizations including the International Criminal Police Organization and the BSAA Bioterrorism Security Assessment Alliance, in a certain country in Africa!
If it were just the other party alone, Alex Wesker wouldn't have cared at all, because without the support of a backer, no matter how capable Albert Wesker was, he couldn't make any waves.
As long as her T-Phobos Virus experiment was completed, she would surely be able to step on this 'strong rival'!
But the informant said that another person was seen with Albert Wesker, and that was Excella Gionne, the head of Tricell's Africa branch!!
Later, there were rumors that a biochemical virus seemed to have broken out in that small African country where the two had appeared at the same time, and a large number of local natives were infected, becoming flesh-eating zombies.
Needless to say, it must have been Albert Wesker who was causing trouble there. He should be developing a new variant virus, just like her!
This made Alex Wesker feel a little restless.
Because she had always regarded Albert Wesker as her only competitor.
And this idea was actually forcibly instilled in her by Oswell E. Spencer when she was a child, and he called it 'competition makes people progress'.
So after repeated deliberation, Alex Wesker finally approached the powerful Vought Corporation and promised Homelander that as long as Vought Corporation invested in her experimental team, she could help Vought Corporation create a vaccine that could resist the biochemical virus that broke out in Africa, thereby allowing Homelander and Vought Corporation to gain both fame and fortune.
In this way, Alex Wesker could not only obtain the much-desired financial support, but also make her competitor Albert Wesker's newly developed virus instantly worthless.
It could be said to be killing two birds with one stone!!
However, unexpectedly, Homelander seemed uninterested in the biochemical virus outbreak in Africa, but was very interested in the T-Phobos Virus that Alex Wesker was developing.
Because in addition to the effects described earlier, the T-Phobos Virus actually has another hidden feature, which is the ability to digitize the consciousness of infected people through certain means.
It was based on this characteristic of the T-Phobos Virus that Homelander's personal strategist, the Shadow, helped him formulate a plan to expand the Slaanesh Cult—which is the Metaverse project that is now coming into being!
However, what truly made Alex Wesker feel incredible was that when she informed Homelander of the drawback that the T-Phobos Virus would mutate due to fear, the other party said dismissively that he had a way to solve this problem.
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No, are you kidding me?
A fatal flaw that our team spent several years and billions of dollars couldn't overcome, and you, a super pervert who only knows how to kill, can easily solve it?
Who the hell are you trying to fool?