Red Queen and the Stairway of the Sun (Part 1)

"This guy really injects any virus into his body." Although Shen Fei said he would act together with Ada, it wasn't a matter of leaving on the spot—preparations were needed. During these few days of preparation, Shen Fei began analyzing the viruses inside Wesker's body.

T-Virus, G-Virus, a Parasite, and a mysterious virus that, without a doubt, should be the Progenitor Virus. Four viruses mixed together in one body, yet he could still maintain human form without mutating—truly worthy of Wesker.

At the same time, Shen Fei was preparing to hypnotize Wesker. Someone like Wesker had an extremely firm will, making hypnosis very difficult. Even the Purple Man, a famous hypnosis expert in the Marvel world, would be useless against a Wesker like this.

But for Shen Fei, this wasn't a problem at all. With the power of the Op-Op Fruit, he could simply cut open the brain. The reason he needed a few days to prepare was that he had never considered extracting information from someone's brain before—he first needed to familiarize himself with the brain's structure.

For others, getting familiar with the brain's structure was extremely difficult, but for Shen Fei, it wasn't an issue. He could just cut it open and look directly, and it wasn't as disgusting as a real brain.

"So that's how it is." After consulting a neurology professor from the Empire's New York University, Shen Fei finally understood what to do.

For ordinary people, performing surgery on the brain was extremely difficult, but for Shen Fei, it was very simple, and he didn't even need a specialized sterile room.

The Room space of the Op-Op Fruit was a perfect operating theater.

Since he could obtain information this way, Shen Fei no longer had any interest in persuading Wesker. Of course, threatening him with his son was even more unnecessary.

"I never expected a pleasant surprise—Spencer hasn't been killed by him yet." After a round of operations, Shen Fei immediately obtained a lot of information from Wesker's mouth.

After the Raccoon City incident, the stubborn remnants of Umbrella Corporation still obeyed Spencer's leadership. This faction was led by Sergei, who was also the leader of Umbrella's USS forces and Spencer's loyalist.

This man was also the prototype of the Tyrant, possessing a virus adaptability similar to Wesker's.

He was the only subordinate still loyal to Spencer after the Raccoon City incident. The Raccoon City incident pushed Umbrella Corporation into the spotlight, and the laboratory directors scattered around the world were no saints—they all started harboring their own agendas.

With the subsequent encirclement and suppression by S.H.I.E.L.D. and various countries, these laboratories quickly changed hands.

As for Sergei, Wesker lured the BSAA to breach his base, and Wesker himself personally killed Sergei.

Wesker's motive for killing Sergei was simple. First, to find Spencer's whereabouts. The reason Wesker betrayed was that he discovered he was merely one of Spencer's test subjects—a lucky survivor.

In infancy, Wesker and many other babies were taken in by Spencer and injected with the Progenitor Virus. Only two survived: a male and a female Wesker.

Naturally, Wesker couldn't tolerate such a situation.

The other motive was to obtain the Umbrella Corporation data that Sergei had taken. Raccoon City was Umbrella's headquarters, and all of Umbrella's research data was stored in the company's AI, the Red Queen.

It had to be said that Wesker was a very vengeful person. Even if an AI had offended him, he wanted revenge. So after killing Sergei, Wesker formatted the Red Queen. Of course, he backed up the data before formatting, but this shows just how vengeful Wesker was.

Originally, Wesker planned to go straight for revenge, but after hearing Ada's report, he decided to kidnap Shen Fei first before settling accounts with Spencer.

Whether it was because discovering he was a test subject twisted his thinking, Wesker planned to use biochemical viruses to select new humans, and he would become their god.

To achieve this goal, the first priority was to perfect the current virus. Someone like Shen Fei was exactly what he needed. Wesker hadn't come specifically to deal with him—he just happened to be in New York negotiating a business deal and came by.

Shen Fei also knew who Wesker was doing business with: Daniel Whitehall, one of Hydra's leaders. This man was obsessed with genetic technology, making him the perfect partner for Umbrella Corporation.

Besides cooperating with Hydra, Wesker also worked with Tricell, a company that, like the former Umbrella Corporation, ranked among the top ten in the Global Pharmaceutical Alliance.

Money. Without money, research was absolutely impossible, and it required a lot of money. Although Wesker had obtained Umbrella's core data, without money, those files were just documents on the Red Queen's hard drive.

"The Stairway of the Sun and the Red Queen are finally in hand." Wesker's arrival allowed Shen Fei to achieve both of his major goals. From Wesker's memories, Shen Fei learned that the Stairway of the Sun was on a small island in West Africa.

This island, along with the Raccoon City base, were Umbrella Corporation's true cores. The other branch labs didn't even know the island existed.

"How should I dispose of Wesker's body?" After obtaining the information he wanted, Shen Fei fell silent as he looked at Wesker's body.

The Op-Op Fruit had a transplant ability. That is, if Shen Fei wanted, he could transplant a person's consciousness into Wesker's body, giving that person Wesker's physical capabilities.

Originally, Shen Fei had decided never to expose the transplant ability. This was completely different from revealing his magical powers in front of Rebecca. If Rebecca found out about this, he would probably have no choice but to kill her to keep the secret.

The fundamental reason Shen Fei hadn't made any friends since coming to this world was the vast difference in values and worldviews between East and West.

After all, he wasn't the Shen Fei who had grown up in America.

Loving to show off and seek fame was a common trait in the Western world. Iron Man and Spider-Man were typical examples. Even Hydra was the same—they had endured in hiding for so long only to finally emerge.

"Forget it, I can't keep him." After thinking it over for a while, Shen Fei finally made his decision. He wouldn't take the risk. With his current strength, hypnotizing someone wasn't difficult, but hypnosis couldn't guarantee absolute certainty.

Humans were very mysterious creatures. Just like a mother seeing her child in danger could burst out with astonishing strength, even with the power of the Op-Op Fruit, he couldn't guarantee it.

Although the probability was very small, Shen Fei wasn't willing to take any risk of exposure. If he really wanted subordinates, he could just strengthen them with viruses. Even if they couldn't match Wesker, that was fine.