Before Leaving, You Still Have to Say...

"By the way, big brother, what do you want this thing for? Didn't Umbrella already spread the virus across the entire world?"

"I'm just planning to use it for research."

Fang Zheng shrugged as he looked at the suitcase in Little Black's hand.

"Umbrella's methods may be questionable, but I have to admit, their ideas are pretty bizarre."

That was also why Fang Zheng had asked Little Black to steal the "catalyst." When he first came to this world, influenced by the movies and games he had seen before, Fang Zheng had subconsciously assumed that Resident Evil had been caused by a virus. Even after examining Rea, Kuru, and the others' bodies and discovering the mutations, he had believed those changes had resulted from viral invasion and infection.

However, after hearing the "truth" Shitō had told Xia Shi and the others through the Personal Terminal, Fang Zheng suddenly realized that he had been thinking about it the wrong way.

Thinking about it carefully, why did he assume those mutated viral cells had not been there from the beginning, but had come from outside? In fact, out of the 20,000 genes in the human genome, humanity had only truly researched around 2,000 of them—at most one-tenth. That meant humans knew only slightly more than nothing about their own bodies.

Under such circumstances, what gave them the right to assume this Resident Evil wasn't the result of dormant genes within humanity itself being stimulated and mutating?

Looking at it from another angle, Umbrella could use something like a "catalyst" to "activate" unknown human genes. The failure rate might have been high, but once it succeeded, just look at Rea and those zombie idols. They practically had no weaknesses. Their lives had transformed from "individuals" into "collective swarms." There was no such thing