In West Africa, amid the mountains, a tall, ancient castle stood atop a nameless peak.
"Looks like this is the place." After making preparations, Shen Fei had decided to meet Umbrella Corporation's only remaining founder first.
"Let's go." After carefully examining the castle's layout, Shen Fei immediately opened a Portal, and the two of them appeared beneath the castle walls.
"Let's take a look first." Shen Fei then opened the Mirror Dimension and used it to inspect the castle's layout.
"Looks like there was quite a bit of chaos here." Through the Mirror Dimension, they could clearly see damage throughout the castle. Bloodstains and bullet holes were everywhere.
"Four Ivan Tyrants. The security measures are pretty good." After looking around, Shen Fei discovered that aside from Spencer, who sat in a wheelchair with an IV drip, and four Ivan Tyrants, there were no other living people in the entire castle.
The Ivan Tyrant could be called Umbrella Corporation's most successful bioweapon. It could permanently maintain a human form and understand commands, making it the ideal bodyguard.
Its only problems were its exorbitant cost and maintenance expenses. Those two factors prevented the Ivan Tyrant from becoming a mass-produced bioweapon; it could only serve as a bodyguard for Umbrella Corporation's High Command.
"Leave it to you." As Shen Fei spoke, he opened a Portal the size of a watermelon in the wall. Ada then set up the Barrett Sniper Rifle she had prepared on a wall Shen Fei had created and began aiming at the Ivan Tyrants outside.
Kamar-Taj's methods of using the Mirror Dimension and Portals were far too primitive. Even Kaecilius was the same, using magic against magic.
But in Shen Fei's view, the combination of magic and technology was the most powerful. In a situation like this, it was simply unbeatable for assassination.
Believe it or not, I could open a Portal beside your head and shoot you dead.
Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!
Four consecutive shots rang out. Before the four Ivan Tyrants could discover where their enemy was or who it was, they were all shot in the head and killed.
Only after confirming that all the Ivan Tyrants were dead did Shen Fei and Ada step out of the Portal, appearing directly before the somewhat panicked Spencer.
"I'll check the surrounding area." Without waiting for Shen Fei to speak, Ada left after saying that.
As a top agent, Ada was naturally excellent at reading the room. Her stated reason for leaving to scout the surroundings was not false either. After all, when viewing reality through the Mirror Dimension, it was normal to overlook certain things.
But more importantly, Ada did not want to interrupt Shen Fei's conversation with Spencer. Spencer was still one of Umbrella Corporation's founders, after all, and he might know some hidden secrets of the company.
Unlike Rebecca, Ada knew what she should ask and what she should not.
"Who are you people? What do you want?" As expected of Umbrella's founder, Spencer quickly regained his composure after his initial panic.
"Looks like you're about to die." Shen Fei glanced at Spencer's IV bag, then expanded the Op-Op Fruit's domain, shook his head, and spoke calmly.
Spencer's body had long since failed him. The only reason he was still alive was thanks to Umbrella Corporation's years of research. Although Umbrella Corporation had repeatedly suffered setbacks with bioviruses, the medicines derived from them had steadily boosted the company's profits.
The IV bag contained something akin to life force. Spencer had been barely clinging to life through it. For an ordinary person, a single bag might cost more than they could earn in a lifetime, but Spencer had to remain continuously hooked up to it.
"I won't die. I absolutely won't die!" The word "die" seemed to provoke Spencer, and he suddenly went mad.
"I could have become a god! It was all them, all of them holding me back! I could have become an immortal god!"
"An immortal god? How laughable." Shen Fei helplessly shook his head as he watched Spencer spiral into hysteria. Even someone as powerful as Odin had died in the end.
"I came here to watch you die. Oh, and I forgot to tell you, I'm a survivor of Raccoon City." Perhaps it was the words "Raccoon City" that made Spencer calm down again.
"You came to kill me."
"That's right." Shen Fei pulled out Spencer's IV.
Spencer tried to stand and stop Shen Fei, but Shen Fei flashed aside. Spencer's hands grasped at empty air, and he immediately fell to the ground. Already weak, Spencer's breathing grew fainter and fainter after the fall.
If it had been someone else, like Rebecca, Sherry, or Coulson, they would surely have pitied Spencer in his current state. They might even have sent him to a hospital.
Unfortunately for him, Shen Fei did not have their saintly compassion.
Saintly compassion could also be called kindness. It was originally a very fine quality, yet in reality, most people deeply disliked such individuals, Shen Fei included.
Shen Fei did not hate kindness. On the contrary, he greatly respected people like that. But he kept his distance from people with a savior complex, because they were the typical useless teammates who only sabotaged their own side.
They forgave every evil deed committed by bad people, and the result was that those bad people harmed even more people.
That was why Shen Fei sometimes could not understand such people. Did they intend to reform villains using even more lives? In the end, that so-called saintliness was nothing more than self-satisfaction. As long as they felt satisfied, why would they care whether anyone else lived or died?
"He's about to die. I should ask him first." Seeing Spencer's breathing weaken, Shen Fei thought it over and used the Op-Op Fruit to hypnotize him.
"What? The Super Soldier Serum used by Captain America was formulated from the Progenitor Virus?" Shen Fei was thoroughly startled by what he heard from Spencer.
"That actually makes some sense." But after thinking it over, Shen Fei realized that it was indeed possible. Where the Super Soldier Serum used by Red Skull and Captain America had come from, and how it had been made, had always been a mystery.
"Maybe someday I can use the Quantum Tunnel to go to the moment Captain America appeared and see exactly how it was done." Captain America's strength did not come only from the Super Soldier Serum, but also from the method used to administer it.
Red Skull's method of using the Super Soldier Serum had been simple: direct injection. But Captain America's treatment had used numerous supplementary drugs, while simultaneously drawing on half of New York's electricity at the time to convert it into energy and catalyze the serum. No one had been able to replicate that to this day.
Not even Shen Fei.
"So that's how it was. Is that the origin of the Stairway of the Sun? That really is surprising." Having obtained the information he wanted, Shen Fei left Spencer there to fend for himself.
Perhaps because he was a man of that era, Spencer's residence had little of modern society's atmosphere and was instead filled with a classical air.
After throwing Spencer's corpse and the bodies of the four Ivan Tyrants into the Mirror Dimension, Shen Fei walked out through the castle gates. Ada was waiting outside, carrying a case.
"Let's go."
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