Wendigo

Given Dr. Halsey's unknown location, Captain Lance made an exception and requested assistance from entity 049.

Time: February 25, 2007.

Location: Containment Center One.

Video playback.

The perspective is presented through the interrogation room's surveillance camera.

049 sits against the wall, legs together, hands on its knees, waiting quietly.

The gate opens.

Four security personnel in protective suits bring the restrained containment object on a gurney in front of 049.

The gate closes.

Security personnel armed with flamethrowers stand in the four corners, responsible for 049's safety.

049 stands up, approaches the gurney, and observes carefully.

The bound containment object struggles significantly more upon seeing 049.

Lance: (Speaking over the intercom) Doctor, can you...

049: (Interrupting, extending its right index finger towards the monitor) Shh, Captain, please don't disturb me.

Lance: Understood.

049: (Nodding in satisfaction) Very well.

Subsequently, 049 did not use its medical kit to conduct any experiments on the containment object.

Instead, it rubbed its temples with its right hand and tapped the edge of the gurney with its left.

The audio recording equipment was turned up to maximum, and 049's self-talk could be heard.

049: (Sighs) Ah... I feel like I've seen this patient somewhere before.

My memory loss, I really wish someone could help treat it, my goodness.

(Taps its head lightly with its right hand) Hurry... hurry... I remember now!

Then, 049 took out a notebook from its medical kit and flipped through it rapidly.

Soon, 049's behavior indicated that it seemed to understand the containment object's infection process.

049: (Walks beneath the monitor) Captain.

Lance: Doctor, have you found anything?

049: (Nods) Yes.

(Looks at the notebook) According to my previous travels, yes, that's right.

The patient was infected by a kind of, um... what should I call it...

(Slightly annoyed) Ah, damn it!

(After a long pause, suddenly enlightened) Wendigo! A kind of evil spirit!

Lance: (Disbelieving) Evil spirit? Doctor, are you sure?

049: (Shakes its head) That's just the closest description.

(Puts the notebook back in its bag and walks towards the containment object) I forget which era I encountered them in, but I remember it was a very cold winter.

In conditions of extreme cold and lack of food, Wendigos would appear.

They would guide people who had lost their minds to engage in cannibalism.

If anyone couldn't resist the temptation and acted upon it, their plan would succeed.

They would possess the patient, turning them into this (points to the containment object), trapping them in an endless abyss of hunger.

Hmm... it's a bit like the Plague.

Lance: One of our agents was bitten by a Wendigo. Will he mutate? Or... be possessed?

049: Yes, as long as that brave soldier does not consume his own kind, he will not become a patient.

Lance: Then how can they be completely controlled?

049: (Says cheerfully) Ah, simple, just burn the patient completely with fire, much easier to deal with than the Plague!

Lance: Then how can it be contained?

049: (Rubs its temples again) Hmm...

Wendigos only appear in extreme cold and certain specific mountainous regions.

As for containment, that's not my area of expertise. I'm afraid I can't help you there, Captain.

Lance: No, Doctor, you did very well. Thank you for your help.

049: (Smiling) It's my duty.

Oh, and I'm running low on experimental subjects. Could you help me restock?

Lance: No problem, Doctor.

End of video.

Containment Center One has classified the Wendigo as Euclid.

Agent Adam Gale was sent to Regina, the capital of Saskatchewan, after confirming there was no risk of mutation or possession.

The agent will receive the best treatment at Umbrella General Hospital in Regina.

The surviving Wendigo 01 was confirmed dead under the experimentation of 049.

Wendigo 01 was sent to the incinerator for complete destruction by Containment Center One security.

The transmission method of the Wendigo is special, an anomaly that cannot be fully contained.

Therefore, under the command of Colonel Andre, the Blackwood Mountain area where the incident occurred was completely sealed off, with human entry prohibited within a three-kilometer radius.

The special agents dispatched to the town of Deschambault Lake have been resupplied, and will take over as sheriff once Adam Gale recovers.

Subsequently, the company utilized Dr. Halsey's perfected brainwashing technology to downplay the cases of eight missing high school students and two sacrificed Royal Canadian Mounted Police officers, and had agents warn the town residents not to go into the Blackwood Mountain area.

End of reading.

Time: (EST) March 1, 2007

Airspace: Above Cairo, the capital of Egypt.

Flight Clearance: Special permission granted by the Egyptian government.

William's A380, escorted by two F-22s, is en route back to Troy Base in the west.

Inside the cabin;

William is sitting on the sofa, reviewing the content on his laptop screen.

Beside him, Halsey has her arms crossed around William's right arm, her gaze also focused on the screen.

"..."

After William finished reading about the Wendigo containment operation, he couldn't help but question the System in his mind:

'System, didn't you say that anomalous phenomena only started appearing in January?

But that Wendigo, transformed from a miner, has existed for at least fifty years. What's going on?'

[Replying to Host, this anomalous phenomenon did indeed exist fifty years ago.

However, it was the extreme cold weather that caused its awakening. This aligns with the characteristic of appearing successively.]

'So...

This world's Earth has had anomalous phenomena for a long time, and now they are starting to reawaken successively, right?'

[It's very similar. Host, you can think of it that way.]

'Alright.'

Regardless...

The anomalous phenomena are there. Dwelling on it is useless.

It doesn't matter.

"Sigh." Halsey beside him suddenly sighed.

?

William looked at her, confused, and asked, "What's wrong?"

"Boss."

Halsey looked up at William, her face filled with sadness, and said:

"I feel it's such a shame for those three agents. If they had AAES, those Wendigos wouldn't have stood a chance."

"There's no other way," William said helplessly. "A set of AAES costs over twenty million, and even UBCS can't be fully equipped with them yet.

But the sacrificed agents' families also received benefits ensuring they wouldn't have to worry about food or clothing, so I guess that's a way to let them ascend peacefully."

"That's good~"

Halsey tightened her arms around him, resting her chin on William's shoulder and smiling with her eyes closed.

"I declare, from this moment on, you are no longer a heartless boss~"

"I never was, okay."

{The Wendigo is a man-eating monster that is part of North American folklore. There is also a real mental illness with this name, and there are many actual cases.

As for the inspiration for the appearance of the contained Wendigo, it comes from a game released in '15 called Until Dawn.}