Brood Mother

After leaving the chaotic GENTEC facility, Li Wei stopped hiding his presence. With several leaps, he wove through the buildings, dodging the Blackwatch hyenas, and arrived at the designated television tower in two minutes.

Alex, who had been pacing in extreme agitation, spoke the moment he saw him, "My sister Dana has been captured. I can't deal with Elizabeth Greene alone. She wants me to go there, and I need your assistance!"

After being injected with a serum specifically designed for him by Robert, Alex had lost many of his abilities and returned to Dana's apartment.

When Dana saw that Alex was injured, she took him to a hospital.

The two found a doctor with a unique professional background, and the mutation on Alex's back was cured, making his body even stronger.

But when Alex returned to the apartment, his sister Dana had been snatched away by a Hunter leader—a leader that was highly unusual.

The Hunter leader lacked strong subjective consciousness; everything behind it was being controlled by someone else.

When Alex chased it all the way to the destination the Hunter leader wanted him to reach, he saw a heavily contaminated Hive and sensed the presence of Elizabeth Greene there.

It was a trap!

So, he chose to "steal" the serum from GENTEC, wanting to give Elizabeth Greene a dose of the very medicine that had tortured him to the brink of death.

He also wanted to slaughter his old superior while he was at it, but he unexpectedly ran into Li Wei and naturally issued a request for assistance.

"Alright, alright, we go straight there and slaughter Elizabeth Greene? But what do we do after that? How about we split her in half? I'll take the bottom half, and you take the top?" Li Wei slid down onto a steel frame, his expression somewhat helpless as he tried to soothe the frantic Alex: "She definitely has some kind of goal. If she's trying to lure you in, it might be a trap specifically for you. We should observe first; impulsiveness won't solve the problem."

"My sister is in that woman's hands!" Alex growled, his eyes filled with fury, but he soon lowered his head, seemingly trying to steady his emotions.

After lifting his head, his expression was a bit calmer as he said to Li Wei: "I will drive a thermobaric tank to blast open the mycelium of the Hive. Once it's blown open, please help me find my sister Dana. Leave Elizabeth Greene to me!"

Li Wei stared deeply at Alex for two seconds, then nodded, "Fine, location?"

"Just keep heading in that direction and you'll see it. I'm going to take action now!" Alex handed a photo to Li Wei and then jumped off the television tower, presumably to go find a thermobaric tank.

Looking at the young, beautiful girl with short hair in the photo, Li Wei gave a slight whistle, stuffed the photo into the pocket of his biomass-composed clothing, and then leaped in the direction Alex had just pointed.

Alex's current mindset seemed to have become somewhat neurotic from assimilating too many humans; the Alex outside the game was a very popular so-called anti-hero.

But upon actually coming into contact with Alex, Li Wei only felt all sorts of negative emotions coming from him.

He should have been happy to send Director Raymond to meet God, but after being influenced by Alex, his good mood vanished instantly.

That arrogant, serious, and eccentric aura was slapped right onto his face. Alex had been viewing this world through the eyes of a predator and didn't care at all about exposing his abilities in front of ordinary people.

To put it bluntly, the current Alex was a creature dominated by the parts that "Alex Mercer" was missing.

He was different; he had witnessed his own transformation process, retained all his memories, and received an education under the red flag. Even if he were to go astray, he wouldn't go as ridiculously off-track as Alex.

There really are a lot of weirdos in the Western world...

However, he had previously taken an arm from Alex to accelerate his own evolution process and avoid wasting time, so he owed him a favor and had to help.

Although he had mostly forgotten the game's plot, as long as he assimilated Elizabeth Greene, things should be over, right?

Whoosh~!

The sound of air rushing past his ears, Li Wei glided like a flying squirrel across the better part of the midtown area, finally arriving at the infected zone where artillery fire was still raging.

Many buildings had already collapsed, thick smoke and firelight dyed most of the sky red, and the surroundings were filled with chaotic noise.

Manhattan was now even more chaotic and terrifying than the Middle East, and the fighting had never stopped since the beginning.

From above, Li Wei could see that the infected fighting the soldiers were not limited to ordinary human infected and advanced human infected, but also included giant tentacle monsters emerging from underground.

In the most heavily infected areas, a large number of Hunters and monster birds danced wildly, causing the humans to wail in terror.

Both the infected and the Blackwatch troops suffered casualties, but the exchange ratio was worse for the Blackwatch troops.

At the same time, Li Wei saw the Hive mentioned by Alex. It was a rectangular building, its surface wrapped in countless mycelium, with only a few outer walls exposed, looking like a terrifying silkworm cocoon.

Li Wei temporarily landed on a building near the Hive, waiting for Alex to bring the tank. He needed a thermobaric shell to pierce the Hive, otherwise, he couldn't get in.

Those unassuming mycelium had extraordinary toughness and strength. He had encountered less contaminated buildings before when assimilating infected to charge the keys.

Using the Claws form to try and destroy the eroded concrete walls took a considerable amount of effort. Alex clearly knew this, which was why he suggested driving a tank.

Everyone is a highly intelligent life form; one must learn to use tools!

After waiting for only five minutes, a tank with black paint and armor significantly thicker than standard Marine tanks entered the battlefield.

It crushed both Blackwatch soldiers and infected under its treads indiscriminately, and after parking in the center of the battlefield, its thick cannon barrel aimed at the Hive.

A powerful blast fired, a large amount of dust and smoke rose, and the thundering sound felt rather mediocre.

Li Wei picked at his ears. After becoming a Prototype, he no longer needed to rely on organs like ears to receive sound. Perhaps if he assimilated some bats, he could also learn echolocation?

He definitely had to try that after leaving this hellish world!

Clinging to the window sill where he was hiding, Li Wei crushed the sill and leaped out, immediately flying toward the Hive building that had been pierced by the thermobaric shell.

At the same time, Alex also ran out of the tank that had just finished firing, following closely behind Li Wei as he entered the Hive.

The interior of the Hive was extremely dim. Aside from the large hole just blasted by the shell, it was almost airtight.

Li Wei stood on the second-floor slab of the Hive, his eyes scanning the surroundings, his ears twitching slightly as he heard strange noises behind him, aside from the sound of artillery fire.

Immediately after, Alex landed beside Li Wei, showing no intention of making small talk.

Both of their eyes emitted a faint red glow at this moment, allowing them to see things clearly in the darkness. The two did not communicate, but instead vigilantly surveyed their surroundings.

They could both feel the presence of Elizabeth Greene. Li Wei's perception was even clearer, and he felt a sense of unease in his heart.

There is a Chinese idiom that describes this: "One mountain cannot contain two tigers"—they were mortal enemies.