The Emperor at the top floor can control all infected creatures; higher-ranking ones transmit commands to lower-ranking ones through extrasensory perception, and the lower-ranking ones completely obey them, though there have been instances of resistance to orders, which is caused by a high degree of self-awareness recovery.
However, the infected group also has the same survival relationship as a queen ant and an ant colony; when the Emperor dies, the infected group will collapse from the top down until it is completely destroyed…
For example, Alexia, a perfect viral fusion, is the Emperor at the very top, essentially the queen ant. As long as she releases toxins or injects the virus into other organisms, she can continuously create her own "worker ants" to command. Compared to other T-Virus and G Virus strains that lack obedience, the difference is enormous!
At the same time, the T-Veronica Virus also has the ability to merge like magic cards. As long as the Emperor or queen ant needs it, it can summon surrounding infected "worker ants" to merge, thereby transforming into more terrifying and powerful giant monsters. This is also something other viruses do not possess.
Additionally, infected individuals generally produce a special toxin that can react with air to gasify, possessing strong lethality to organisms and requiring a special serum for detoxification. For infected bodies highly assimilated with the virus, the virus can also combine with their blood and react with air to cause combustion and explosion.
This is also the primary attack method for T-Veronica Virus infected individuals, relying on the special combustion and explosive flames produced by the reaction of blood, virus, and air to attack!
This burning explosive flame is not an ordinary flame; in addition to high temperature, it possesses extra lethality to organisms!
This is also the real reason why the T-Veronica Virus is called a magic virus. After all, you cannot imagine an infected person using flame projection; that is entirely a superpower, not some so-called viral mutation.
Of course,
the T-Veronica Virus also has its flaws.
That is, it has a very strong invasiveness to biological cells. Once it enters an organism, it will enter the cell's interior and cause cell alienation, leading to severe mutation in the individual organism in a short period.
For humans, this short-term mutation far exceeds the limits of what a normal human body can withstand. The result is the destruction of body tissues, and brain cells will also mutate under the catalysis of the Veronica Virus, which often leads to the infected person losing most of their consciousness and intelligence (depending on the individual's physical quality and the virus's alienating effect on the brain).
However, it is worth mentioning: although the Veronica Virus has extreme invasiveness to organisms, compared to other viruses in the Resident Evil series, its external destructive effect on the human body is the smallest (however, the human body cannot even withstand the smallest destructive power).
The infected body possesses basic intelligence and partial human consciousness, can retain a large amount of memory, and there have even been individual cases where humans under conventional infection recovered full consciousness and intelligence.
And because the mutation causes little damage to the human body, has a high lower limit, and can gain great power once perfectly integrated, the T-Veronica Virus is also recognized as the most successful and perfect virus.
After all, there are currently two known methods that can perfectly overcome the T-Veronica Virus's destructive flaw on human cells:
One is Alexia's low-temperature freezing, entering a nutrient capsule for decades of low-temperature freezing, relying on the slowed activity of blood cells during low-temperature freezing to infinitely delay the virus's speed of destroying human cells, thereby achieving perfect fusion.
The second is periodic organ transplantation every 15 cycles. Because the T-Veronica Virus destroys cells within the human body, the appearance only mutates when the human body can no longer bear it, unlike the T-Virus and G Virus which directly turn people into monsters.
Therefore,
as long as periodic organ transplantation is performed regularly for 15 cycles, the T-Veronica Virus can be perfectly suppressed, achieving another state of perfect fusion, just like organ failure, where organs can be replaced regularly. Another highly integrated T-Veronica Virus individual, Manuela Idalgo, is the best successful case.
Don't ask which one,
it's that magical girl who used flame magic to burn her father's giant man-eating plant (awkward laugh)! For details, please see the VCR…
And this is the entirety of the T-Veronica Virus.
Currently, whether it's low-temperature freezing or organ transplantation, both are within human control. Compared to the uncontrollable T-Virus and G Virus, the T-Veronica Virus is indeed a relatively perfect and successful one.
It not only grants powerful strength but also allows the infected to maintain a human appearance. Compared to the T-Virus's skin-rotting zombies, Lickers, and Tyrants, or the bloated and massive G William, the T-Veronica Virus appears safer and superior in every way.
Moreover, the power gained is not weak,
it just lacks a little potential for evolution compared to the G Virus—
… …
Meanwhile—
"Buzz buzz buzz…"
"Buzz buzz buzz…"
On Rockfort Island Prison,
two transport planes bearing the Umbrella Corporation's logo slowly landed on the Island's runway. The surrounding area was filled with fully armed soldiers, all of whom were the Umbrella Corporation's private armed forces, specifically tasked with guarding the experimental subjects and BOWs on the Island.
Several experimental subjects were escorted from the transport planes. These individuals had been secretly detained by the Umbrella Corporation through various means and channels, all for the purpose of providing experimental material for bio-viruses. Among this group, there was also a striking red silhouette.
Her tall blue bell-bottom jeans fit snugly on her long, straight legs, with small leather shoes on her feet, and a shining leather belt buckled at her waist. A little further up was a breathtakingly fair midriff, with her proud abs clearly visible.
Her upper body consisted of a black crop top underneath, covered by a vibrant fiery red phoenix vest, and black small gloves, making her both handsome and charming.
Her striking flaxen red hair was tied into a neat high ponytail casually behind her head. There was a unique heroic spirit in her brows, and her face was filled with stubbornness and an unwillingness to admit defeat. Without a doubt, this was a sunny, athletic, and beautiful goddess.
And this was the strongest college student in Resident Evil, Claire Redfield—!
But at this moment, she was somewhat disheveled.
Because her hands were tightly bound by handcuffs, she was held down on the ground like a death row inmate, her pretty face covered in soot, looking as disheveled as a kitten that had just crawled out of a stove hole and woken up.
And recalling what she had experienced,
Claire sighed deeply,
her face filled with embarrassment.
Because she did not heed Javier's warning, after the Raccoon City incident ended, she continued her journey alone to find her brother, even directly running into Umbrella's branch research base in Paris, which left the Umbrella Corporation dumbfounded.
It was already good enough that they didn't cause trouble for her during the Raccoon City incident; now she was actually delivering herself to their doorstep? Faced with this experimental material that was too good to pass up, the Umbrella Corporation's army unhesitatingly detained and took her.
And when Claire woke up from her unconsciousness, she had already been detained on a transport plane. Before she could react, she had already arrived on this dark Island. Looking at the surrounding iron fences, the dim sky above, and the various buildings around her, it was like a devil's prison from a movie.
This filled Claire's face with surprise, and she couldn't help but murmur in confusion:
"What on earth is this place?"
However,
the fully armed soldiers who quickly descended from the transport plane gave Claire the answer. They pressed firmly on Claire's shoulder, forcing her to lower her head, and put a metal tag around her neck, engraved with the letters and numbers "wkd4496", seemingly some kind of serial number:
"…"
"Welcome to Rockfort Island. From today on, your number is wkd4496. This will be your new home. Hope you like it!"
The soldier standing behind Claire said indifferently.
Then, before Jill could react, he raised a rifle butt and slammed it hard onto the back of Claire's head again. Claire, whose head suffered a heavy blow, froze for a moment, immediately lost her ability to resist, and fell heavily to the ground, unconscious.
However,
whether it was because Claire's protagonist halo had activated or not,
at this moment, although Claire had been detained in Rockfort Island Prison, a plot that was initially thought to be a narrow escape from death, high above the clouds, a number of fighter jets and transport planes were already rushing towards Rockfort Island Prison.
The fighter jets were all gray-black, making them extremely inconspicuous in the already dim sky above Rockfort Island Prison.
In the transport plane in the very center, it was fully loaded with armed soldiers, but their attire varied, indicating they were not a privately owned armed force, but rather mercenaries gathered from various places. Their mission was to parachute over Rockfort Island Prison and then raid Umbrella Corporation's Rockfort Island Prison.
In front of these mercenaries, there stood a towering figure who seemed out of place.
His golden pompadour was impeccably slicked back, his chiseled face had sharp angles, and he maintained a poker face at all times. Dark sunglasses adorned his face, making him appear even more ruthless, like a cold, emotionless killer.
He wore a simple tactical bulletproof vest, a short-sleeved shirt, and long pants. Other than a pistol and a dagger, he had no other weapons. His sunglass-clad eyes were fixed intently on the distant Rockfort Island Prison.
He indeed looked very out of place among the fully armed mercenaries, as if he wasn't there for a mission but for a leisurely trip.
But even so, none of the tough mercenaries around him dared to underestimate the cold figure standing in the transport plane, for his name was Albert Wesker!
Because Umbrella Corporation strongly resisted the Raccoon City incident, it was not brought down by the overwhelming public pressure from the American people, nor was it drowned by the United States Government's opportunism. Instead, Umbrella Corporation managed to cling to life.
Facing this situation, its old rival, Tricell, could no longer sit still. Tricell did not want Umbrella Corporation to continue to linger on like this. The saying 'a lean camel is still bigger than a horse' was not something Tricell wanted to see.
Therefore, Tricell decisively ordered Wesker to lead the mercenaries to attack Umbrella Corporation's logistical lifeline, which was the Rockfort Island Prison right before their eyes!
This was Umbrella Corporation's main research Institute, and also a factory that produced a large number of BOWs. As long as this place was destroyed, Umbrella Corporation would temporarily be unable to mass-produce BOWs like Tyrants and Hunters for sale on the black market, and a large amount of experimental data would be lost.
This would instantly cut off Umbrella Corporation's logistical and financial support, which would be one of the biggest blows to Umbrella Corporation!
Of course, in addition to the mission of destroying Rockfort Island Prison, Wesker was more interested in finding traces of the T-Veronica Virus. Because when he was still a researcher, he had already learned about the masterpiece T-Veronica Virus created by the prodigy Alexia.
And it wasn't just G William; even Wesker himself, and another Alex Wesker, were incredibly shocked and pressured by it. It was because of this incident that Wesker gave up his virus research, because he couldn't even compare to G William, let alone the monster Alexia.
But then, Alexia's mysterious death, coupled with Umbrella Corporation's previous attempts to recover the T-Veronica Virus, but only finding hastily conducted experimental cycle data at the Antarctica Research Institute, with no trace of T-Veronica Virus samples whatsoever, made Wesker suspicious.
And the only surviving descendant of the Ashford Family, Alexia's brother Alfred, served as the military training commander on Rockfort Island Prison. So Wesker planned to interrogate Alfred while destroying Rockfort Island Prison, to see if this useless person was hiding something…
And the strongest active female college student, Claire Redfield, had just been imprisoned, and now Wesker was bringing people to destroy the prison. This level of luck, one can only say, 'It's truly you!' Without Wesker's inside-outside coordination, it would have been a pipe dream for Claire to escape Rockfort Island Prison with her abilities.
Chapter 3: Steve Burnside (Young Iori Yagami)
And who knows how much time passed…
Claire, who had been unconscious in the interrogation room of Rockfort Island Prison, slowly woke up. There was a sharp pain in the back of her neck; the soldier before had completely lacked restraint, knocking Claire unconscious with a rifle butt.
"Hmm… Ugh…"
"Damn it, where am I? What is this place?!"
Opening her eyes, Claire looked at the dark walls of the interrogation room, muttering to herself with a confused expression. The interrogation room was a completely enclosed space, with only a small iron window for ventilation in the top left corner. Other than that, there was nothing else.
A table, two stools, and a light bulb overhead were all that was there, with no other tools that could help Claire escape the interrogation room. The iron door leading out was incredibly sturdy, making Claire sigh deeply. Was she really going to be trapped here for the rest of her life?
She should have listened to that bastard Javier. It would have been better not to act rashly. Now she wouldn't have been caught by Umbrella Corporation, and there was even the tragic possibility of being used as an experimental subject, injected with a virus, and infected to become a zombie!
But fortunately, her handcuffs had been removed.
Perhaps the Umbrella Corporation soldiers thought she had no ability to resist in the interrogation room, so they removed the handcuffs. This gave Claire a chance to fight back. Her gaze locked onto the only chair in the interrogation room, and she lifted it high into the air with her hands. Then Claire hid behind the iron door, ready to launch a surprise attack at any moment!
Her plan was simple: wait for whoever opened the door for interrogation to fall into her trap. The moment the door opened, she would immediately knock them out, and she could easily escape.
However,
"Rumble…!!!"
Just as Claire was quietly waiting for her prey to fall into her trap, a huge sound echoed throughout Rockfort Island Prison. The ground shook violently, as if a massive earthquake had occurred, causing Claire, who was preparing to ambush, to stumble and fall heavily onto the ground, hurting herself quite a bit.
But as luck would have it, at that moment, the sturdy iron door of the interrogation room suddenly opened.
This caught Claire, who was preparing to ambush, off guard. She had just been getting ready to ambush; why was she thrown to the ground by a violent tremor? Did the person opposite have X-ray vision? Could they predict the future?!
Actually, no. The commotion outside was caused by Wesker leading his mercenaries in an attack on Rockfort Island Prison. The violent tremor just now was the huge explosive power generated by fighter jets launching missiles. Dozens of terrifyingly powerful missiles fell from the sky over Rockfort Island Prison, mercilessly bombing the Island, attempting to level it.
At the same time, the powerful destructive capability also caused severe damage to many of Rockfort Island Prison's BOW factories. Some zombies, Hunters, and even Tyrants and other monsters were released, and the viruses contained within were wantonly infecting everything on Rockfort Island Prison.
"Clang—!"
The sound of a key turning in the lock slowly echoed.
The iron door of the interrogation room was instantly opened, and the person who walked in was not some ferocious pervert, but a pale-faced middle-aged man. He wore a simple white tank top and jeans, and his chin was covered with a weathered beard. At this moment, the middle-aged man's forehead was covered in fine sweat, and bloodstains permeated the white tank top on his abdomen. Without a doubt, he had been shot and wounded.
One hand covered his abdominal wound, while the other held an oil lamp and a pistol as he stumbled in. Seeing Claire's astonished expression, lying on the ground and still holding the chair, the middle-aged man instantly understood what Claire was trying to do. If it hadn't been for the missile explosion and earthquake just now, he probably would have been knocked out by a chair to the head.
What a clever girl…
But what the middle-aged man understood even less was why a girl who had just graduated from college would run to such a dangerous place as the Umbrella Corporation branch research Institute in Paris. Was she looking for death?
"Don't move—!"
"I'm not here to hurt you. Put down the chair in your hand," the middle-aged man quickly shouted to stop Claire, facing the stubbornness and defiance in her eyes. Although he knew he wouldn't live much longer, he didn't want to be killed by a little girl with a chair.
On the other side, after Claire saw the appearance of the person who had come, she…