T-103 Tyrant.
It first appeared in Resident Evil 2 in 1998.
It was one of the most mature models developed by the Original World Umbrella Corporation, and was also designed for mass production.
William still remembered playing Resident Evil 2 Remake in the Original World. When he encountered the Tyrant, he had been so frightened that he threw his controller and nearly smashed his monitor.
The Remake had once again cast both old and new players under the Tyrant's shadow, and the "Mr. X gon' give it to you" meme had exploded in popularity.
That nightmare Tyrant was now alive and kicking in the testing grounds—and it had even been developed from an Andre genetic clone.
How could he not be shocked...
"Humm~"
Seeing that William remained silent, Halsey dropped her earlier, credit-seeking expression. She reached out and forcefully poked him in the waist as she complained:
"Hey, you heartless boss, say something already."
"Ah!"
The slightly long fingernail had stabbed a sensitive spot. William shuddered all over and was forcibly brought back from his shock.
He rubbed his waist without blaming Halsey for anything. Instead, he looked at her and asked:
"Can this T-103 really be controlled by us completely? There aren't any technical problems?
"If we have it cooperate with UBCS or USS operations, could it suddenly lose control and injure our own people?"
"Are you questioning me?" Halsey rose onto her toes and leaned close to William as she challenged him.
"Uh... no."
"Hmph." Halsey rolled her eyes at William, turned, and walked over to the control console. After entering a string of codes, she said:
"Here, take another look."
"Hm?" William shifted his gaze back toward the testing grounds.
When he saw what was happening inside, the calm expression he had finally recovered vanished again!
The T-103 Tyrant was using its massive body to clumsily perform the moonwalk.
At the end, it even spun around and struck Michael Jackson's classic finishing pose.
"This... this..." William truly had no idea what to say.
"Haha~ How is it?" Halsey seemed to enjoy William's uncultured, wide-eyed look as she said:
"When I obtained the virus and vaccine from you, I took the genes of those big soldiers and discovered that Andre had the highest compatibility with the virus."
Hearing this, William crossed his arms over his chest and continued staring at the Tyrant as he said:
"Then if we directly inject T-Virus into Andre's body, can it give him superhuman physical abilities?"
"Of course not." Halsey patiently explained:
"Tyrant is an RNA virus, an extremely powerful retrovirus. That also means it has a mutation tendency that's difficult to control.
"Precisely because of this characteristic, the name Tyrant suits it perfectly.
"Andre's genes have a low mutation tendency. That only lets me conduct experiments and control it more effectively.
"It doesn't mean that directly injecting someone with the virus will turn them into a superhuman.
"According to my calculations, only one person in forty million can directly withstand the virus's activity. Approximately, anyway."
"What about me?" William asked hopefully.
"Impossible for you. I tested you already." Halsey didn't spare him even a shred of dignity.
"Fine." William wasn't particularly disappointed. It would have been nice, but it was no big deal if he couldn't.
After all, he was the owner of a giant corporation. There was no way he would personally enter the fray.
Next, he walked over to Halsey's side and asked, "How is the Spartan Program going?"
"I was just about to tell you about that. We'll discuss it in detail later."
As Halsey answered William, she also gave an order through the control console's microphone: "Group B, you can take the little cutie back to its cage."
As soon as she finished speaking, the gate on the right side of the rear of the testing grounds opened. A group of fully armed UBCS members entered and guided the T-103 Tyrant downstairs to be frozen.
Only then did she wave her hand, signaling William to follow her out of the observation laboratory.
The two of them then walked side by side through a spacious, brightly lit corridor with the clean white design typical of Umbrella Corporation.
Halsey led William toward her office and said to him:
"Do you remember that two months ago, I proposed having all the hospitals under the company provide free physical examinations for residents across the provinces and cities?"
At that moment, two UBCS members on patrol approached from the opposite direction. The moment they saw William, they stood straight and saluted. "Boss."
"Mm."
William nodded in response. Only then did he look at Halsey beside him and ask with a slight dip of his head, "I remember. What about it?"
Halsey pinched the tip of her chin with one hand and looked at the clean, gleaming floor as she said:
"The hospitals collected blood samples from approximately six million people, and my team and I conducted a large-scale screening.
"In the end, only fourteen children had genes that barely met the Spartan Program's requirements, and they were all between seven and eleven years old."
"Whoosh—the sound of the automatic sliding door came from beside them.
During their conversation, the two had already arrived inside Halsey's private office.
William looked around.
Documents were scattered all over the computer desk. Tools lay strewn haphazardly across the floor, while uncollected bath towels and underwear sat on the simple bed.
"Sniff, sniff..." Surprisingly, there wasn't even the slightest unpleasant odor.
Strange.
Seeing William's reaction, Halsey's cheeks instantly flushed red. She hurriedly used a blanket to cover the things on the bed.
While gathering up the documents and tools, she also glared fiercely at William, inadvertently revealing her pointed canine as she said:
"What are you looking at? Never seen a girl's room before?"
"Uh..."
After Halsey gave him that tongue-lashing, the words William had been about to say got stuck in his throat.
Something wasn't right.
Wasn't he the boss?
How had he ended up with such an overbearing employee?
William normally wasn't fond of losing his temper, but the more he thought about it, the angrier he became.
Forget it. I'll let her off this once. I should deal with the important matter first!
"Ahem." William cleared his throat and said sternly to Halsey, who was tidying the room:
"So you're saying you want me to secretly replace those children, right?"
"Heh~!" Halsey accurately tossed a pencil into the pen holder, clapped her hands, and nodded.
"Exactly.
"The clones of those children are being frozen downstairs. I also implanted the relevant memories in them based on the data sent back by those overseas agents.
"However, I manually adjusted all the cloned children, leaving them with severe defects. They won't live for more than two years at most."
"Mm." William gave a soft acknowledgment. He didn't object to anything she had said and added:
"Give me the children's detailed information. I'll arrange for USS to secretly switch them out."
"Hehe~" Hearing William's answer, Halsey covered her mouth and smiled.
"Boss, this is a serious crime involving the kidnapping of children. Aren't you afraid of a federal investigation?"
"Afraid?" William laughed disdainfully. "I've already had you clone people. Why would I be afraid of something this minor?"
However, before he could start gloating, the system's voice came down like a basin of cold water and quickly cooled him off.
It said:
[It has been exactly one hundred and eighty days since the host opened the Novice Reward Pack. All anomalous phenomena are beginning to appear one after another.]
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