A Difficult Mission...

Meanwhile, Fang Zheng returned to the yacht with Rea, Kuru, and the others, who were still shaken. The two girls had been quiet and dejected the whole way.

Fang Zheng could understand how they felt. After all, the enemies they had faced along the way had all been zombies. Perhaps because of that, deep down, the girls had still believed that humanity would unite against an outside threat. Yet the cruel reality before them told them that the world was clearly not as beautiful as they had imagined.

When everyone returned to the yacht serving as their base, they discovered that it too had been attacked by the clone soldiers. Fortunately, Xia Shi, Tina, and the others had worked together to drive them off, and the yacht had not been damaged.

"Mr. Fang Zheng, why... why did those people attack us?"

Looking at the wreckage and smoke covering the Dock before them, Rea could not understand why this had happened. They had done nothing wrong, so why were they being hunted down?

"I don't know either."

Faced with Rea's question, Fang Zheng shrugged helplessly. To be honest, he truly could not understand what Umbrella was trying to accomplish with such a brain-dead move. If Umbrella wanted to "raise" survivors in captivity, there were plenty of better methods than directly attacking and capturing them. Fang Zheng had plenty of experience in that regard. When he had taken in the Cursed Children in the Pitch-Black World, he had rarely resorted to force. After all, Fang Zheng knew very well that as long as you genuinely delivered what you promised, people would naturally come to you.

With Umbrella's scale and resources, even allocating a tiny fraction of them would have been enough to build a shelter capable of housing everyone. Then, with a