"What do you mean?" Boken frowned.
Sanders did not answer. Instead, he stood up, walked around the table to stand in front of Boken, reached out his left hand to grab Boken by the collar, and then...
!!!
"Mr. Sui, what are you doing!!"
Amidst Boken's exclamation, Sanders effortlessly lifted Boken with one hand, then released him before Boken could struggle to breathe.
"This..." Boken, with his feet back on the ground, looked at Sanders with a stunned expression.
But soon, Boken forced himself to calm down.
Because of Sanders's actions, Boken intuitively felt that Sanders possessed strength far beyond that of a normal person, which instantly piqued the genius's curiosity.
Doing is always more persuasive than saying.
This was exactly the effect Sanders wanted.
However, when he saw that Boken's eyes seemed to be glowing, Sanders immediately took two steps back to put some distance between them.
"Ahem." Coughing twice and raising his hand to adjust his tie, Sanders explained to Boken:
"Dr. Boken, not long ago I injected a serum that can elevate my physical fitness to the human limit."
"Due to certain reasons, I lost the formula for this serum, so I need you to use my blood to extract it again. I wonder if you are interested, Doctor?"
"Serum? Human limit? Hmm... I have no reason to refuse."
Boken was not prepared to delve into how Sanders obtained this serum; he had the basic decency not to ask questions that shouldn't be asked.
Moreover, Boken was both a genius and a madman; facing the 'temptation' of the serum, he naturally agreed quite readily.
"It's just..." There was one more thing Boken needed to ask Sanders: "Mr. Sui, I want to know how I can trust you not to harm me and my family after I finish the g-virus and serum extraction?"
There was another sentence Boken couldn't bring himself to say: How do I know if you and Spencer are not birds of a feather?
After all, Sanders had just said that he would completely control Umbrella, and back then, Spencer had also done many underhanded things to control the company.
Sanders could naturally hear Boken's concerns and chuckled: "Doctor, no matter what I say, it won't eliminate your doubts, and you also have a history of colluding with the US military."
"But I can reveal one thing to you: completing the g-virus and extracting the serum is not for the benefit of the company or myself, but for the continuation of our human species."
"Human... continuation?" Boken was stunned.
"That's right, I'm doing this for humanity." As he spoke, Sanders walked to the automatic sensor door of the conference room.
As the automatic door slid to the left, Sanders glanced at Boken from the corner of his eye and added: "Doctor, rather than dwelling on this here, it's better to refocus your energy on your work. It won't be long before you get closer to the truth."
After saying this, Sanders walked out of the conference room, and the automatic door closed behind him.
Inside the conference room, only Boken remained, his brow furrowed.
Arriving in the corridor, the Lieutenant who was waiting outside stepped forward and asked Sanders in a low voice: "Sir, how should we handle William Birkin and his family?"
"Send two teams to monitor them separately. Try not to interfere with William Birkin's work, and do not use his family to threaten him," Sanders said.
"Yes."
Next.
Omicron dispatched two combat teams to 'protect' Boken's wife and daughter, as well as Boken's personal safety.
As for the fact that Wesker was already dead, Sanders planned to inform Boken only after establishing a stable cooperative relationship with him.
Boken and Wesker had a deep relationship. Even though Boken understood Wesker's ambition, there was still a sense of shared fate; if Sanders had told him in advance, it would only have torn apart the tiny bit of trust that existed.
After dealing with William Birkin, the remaining task was the seven hundred or so employees.
Two days ago, the Red and White Queens had already conducted a comprehensive investigation and analysis of these employees, categorizing them into four groups: loyal, those who just do their jobs for money, slackers, and those with ulterior motives.
For the employees who were purely slacking off or had ulterior motives, Sanders prepared to arrange memory erasure surgery for them and then forcibly dismiss them by sending them home.
That's right...
Umbrella already possessed 'brainwashing' technology, but the surgery to modify memories had significant side effects and a high probability of causing brain death.
However, the technology to erase a specific memory was relatively mature and had almost no side effects.
As the first and most important base Sanders arrived at in this world, he had to ensure the secrecy and security of the Hive, so that the outside world and society would not know about it.
After a round of culling, there were still over six hundred employees; the slackers and those with ulterior motives were ultimately in the minority.
The employees of the Hive returned to their respective posts, and Boken continued his follow-up work on the g-virus under surveillance. Sanders planned to talk about the serum extraction after Boken finished the g-virus.
June 1st, 09:00.
Sanders officially moved into the second floor of the Hive to reside. The Hive also became the station for Alpha and Omicron, while Wesker's body was frozen on the fourth floor of the Hive.
The red queen modified Boken's permissions, and the current supervisor and person in charge of the Hive was Sanders.
The employees adapted to this very quickly.
As the former supervisor, Boken was focused solely on viral research and didn't care much about the management of the Hive; in fact, he had very little presence.
After successfully occupying the Hive, the system determined that Sanders had completed the main mission, and 150 points were credited to his 'account' as expected.
So, the challenge mission of eliminating the leech queen Marcus was his next goal, but before that, Sanders still needed to 'bring' the power of the Raccoon City Police Department 'under his wing'.
Chris, Rebecca, Jill, and Leon, who would only join the force at the end of September—these were all special talents, or even anomalous phenomena, and Sanders certainly wouldn't let them go.
Moreover, there were many tough guys and tough gals in the Raccoon City Police Department, especially Deputy Chief Raymond, who sacrificed himself to wipe out a zombie horde on an entire street.
If it weren't for Chief Brian Irons deliberately cutting off communications, providing false information, and strictly forbidding the use of heavy weapons, the disaster in the game might have had a chance to be controlled.
Although Sanders favored Deputy Chief Raymond and wanted to help him get promoted, Brian Irons was also a loyal lackey of Umbrella.
Therefore, in order to eliminate Marcus with minimal casualties, Sanders still needed Irons' cooperation to deploy the Raccoon City police force to assist him fully.
Of course, during this period, Umbrella's top management also noticed the incident where two USS teams, originally executing missions in Europe and South America, disappeared for no reason.
Based on the report from the Red and White Queens, Sanders learned that Spencer, hiding in his family castle, seemed to attach great importance to this incident, fearing that some mishap might occur at such a critical juncture.
Spencer even dispatched Colonel Sergei Vladimir, the prototype for various models of Tyrants, to personally investigate this incident.