After adapting for a moment, Sanders returned to his seat in front of the computer desk in the bedroom. Facing the old-fashioned screen, he continued to ask the red queen and White Queen about his doubts.
1. How is Umbrella's military power?
2. Exactly how rich is Umbrella?
Regarding the military aspect, the red queen answered in her usual emotionless tone, while simultaneously displaying relevant files and images on the screen, allowing Sanders to understand Umbrella's current situation more intuitively.
Umbrella has a total of 2,744 armed personnel, with 77 in the reserves.
The main armed forces are divided into three parts, ranked from low to high according to equipment and elite status as follows:
Umbrella Armed Security, Umbrella Biohazard Countermeasure Service (UBCS), and Umbrella Security Service (USS).
There are 2,544 Armed Security personnel, who are usually retired soldiers or former police officers. They are responsible for protecting Umbrella's assets around the world and have formal employment contracts and non-disclosure agreements.
The UBCS has four combat platoons, totaling 120 members, most of whom are mercenaries, war criminals, and retired soldiers.
Judging purely by equipment, salary, and elite status, the UBCS crushes the Armed Security in every aspect.
However, in reality, the UBCS is just a "disposable product" for Umbrella, used to test the combat data of Bio Organic Weapons (B.O.W.s), and the UBCS has no loyalty to speak of.
Finally, there is the USS and the reserves.
The USS is the company's most elite private army, with members drawn from elite veterans of various countries. Even high-level Umbrella employees cannot access any files regarding the USS.
There are currently 80 members, divided into four squads.
The number of reserves is variable; there are currently 77. They train year-round on Rockfort Island, and when the USS suffers casualties, the reserves replace the fallen or injured USS members.
In the files, Sanders also discovered many familiar faces.
Such as Carlos Oliveira, Mikhail Victor, Nicholai Ginovaef, who appeared in "Resident Evil 3", and—
"HUNK".
Sanders had a deep impression of Carlos, Victor, and Nicholai, after all, "Resident Evil 3" was the second Resident Evil game he had played.
The remake of "Resident Evil 3" was also happily added to his library, but after he spent four hours beating it...
Damn Capcom.
Although the red queen clearly stated that the UBCS is Umbrella's disposable "product," there are many people like Carlos and Victor.
In many game versions, Carlos tries his best to rescue civilians, ensure the safety of his teammates, and is loyal and reliable.
Victor is even a good platoon leader who used a self-destruction method to take on the Nemesis head-on.
In the original plot, there was another nameless UBCS member who, until the moment of his death, was still protecting the little girl in his arms.
However, guys like Nicholai who only care about money make up the majority.
And "HUNK".
If one says the protagonists have skill as a supplement and luck as the main factor, then HUNK is a ruthless man where skill is the main factor and luck is the supplement.
HUNK first appeared in "Resident Evil 2's" "The 4th Survivor" mode. Players need to control HUNK, who wears an "octopus head" mask, to escape the underground laboratory in Raccoon City.
Along the way, he has to face zombies, zombie dogs, crows, lickers, giant spiders, plant humans, G-larvae, and the Tyrant.
Sanders admitted that he was bad at games; he never finished the original version when he was a kid, and even the remake required cheats to pass.
But game levels can be retried, while life in reality only has one chance.
In such a harsh environment, HUNK was still able to escape successfully, which is enough to prove how powerful this Grim Reaper is.
It's just that HUNK's teammates and subordinates have it rough; when encountering nine-death-and-one-life missions, in most cases, HUNK is the only one who survives.
Subsequently, while browsing the files and images, Sanders also judged from the attire of the UBCS and USS that this world is not only leaning towards the game but is specifically the remake version of the game.
"It seems there is no Wolfpack squad," Sanders thought to himself.
The codenames of the four squads in the USS files are Alpha, Omicron, Epsilon, and Zeta.
Each squad specializes in different fields.
Alpha: Recover important company assets or secretly plunder important assets from rival companies.
Omicron: Assassinate senior executives of rival companies or government officials who hinder Umbrella's development.
Epsilon: Rescue board members who have been held hostage or kidnapped.
Zeta: Responsible for supporting the other three squads.
And the funding Umbrella provides to its private army every year is as high as 430 million US dollars.
430 million in 1998...
Moreover, the USS takes up the bulk of the funding, having top-tier individual weapons and equipment, and all kinds of sea, land, and air vehicles.
When executing missions in areas like Africa and the Middle East, the USS even has the authority to call in gunships and airstrikes.
Hmm...
As expected of Umbrella.
Next is "exactly how rich is it?"
It's a very vulgar question, but it's also a question Sanders wanted to figure out before he transmigrated.
The White Queen, who was responsible for explaining this aspect, also used the method of uploading files and data to the computer and oral narration to clear Sanders's doubts.
Her voice was as cold as the red queen's, with almost no emotion, and her way of answering was also very stereotypical.
Through the White Queen, he finally understood the scale of Umbrella and to what extent it had reached.
Truly wealthy enough to rival a nation.
The industries Umbrella is involved in on the surface include the production and sale of chemicals and pharmaceuticals, industrial machinery production, digital products, health food, transportation, tourism, entertainment, and film and television.
In this world, Umbrella is the first company with a market value exceeding 600 billion US dollars, with a current total market value of 650 billion US dollars.
The data also mentioned that the United States' GDP in 1997 was 8 trillion US dollars, accounting for 27.26% of the world's total.
Although company market value and GDP are completely different things, it also proves that in the eyes of the public, Umbrella is a "behemoth" with both strength and reputation.
Privately, Umbrella also has mining areas and oil fields in Africa and the Middle East, mining resources for sale.
The colonization and plunder prevalent in the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries allowed a large amount of money and resources to fall into the hands of European nobles and families.
Among the three founders of Umbrella, Spencer and Alexander Ashford were European nobles. These two provided the capital to establish the company, while James Marcus, who held a doctorate in biology, contributed technology.
In fact, Umbrella is a microcosm of Western countries, relying on occupation and monopoly to make huge profits, while beautifying it as making the world more "free."
Free my ass.
Excluding the above industries, since the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Umbrella has purchased a large amount of weapons and equipment at extremely low prices, sold them to Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and Africa, and incidentally recruited quite a few Soviet weapons experts.
Energy.
Medicine.
Arms.
Umbrella is an absolute giant in these three areas, no wonder it is being targeted.
—"A tall tree catches the wind; those who seek fame often lose their lives because of it."
As for the subordinate research institutes, facilities, and military bases...
There are too many, so Sanders had to ask the White Queen to create a new document to list the important assets with heavy human and material investment.
1. Paris Underground Laboratory.
Location: Below the headquarters building in Paris, France.
2. Sixth Laboratory.
Location: Below the Ireland branch building.
3. Africa Laboratory.
Location: Located in Burkina Faso, West Africa, next to the ruins of the Dibia tribe north of the capital, Ouagadougou.
4. Rockfort Island.
Location: Indian Ocean, north of the St. Luke Islands.
Specific coordinates: 10° 43' S, 165° 55' E.
5. Antarctic Laboratory.
Specific coordinates: 74° 41' S, 164° 16' E.