Longevity Gene Type-II (Remember Wesker, strike through!)

Chapter 26 "Longevity Gene Type-II (Remember Wesker—Strike That!)"

Meng Yi ordered the 'Little A' beside him to dig "Hope Town: Elizabeth Greene" out of the monster's body.

Alex pointed at his own face beneath the hood.

'Huh? Me?'

Meng Yi tilted his head, glancing sideways at Alex with a squint.

'If not you, do you expect me to do the dirty work?'

Alex shrugged and accepted the grunt labor. A job paying ten million dollars a year wasn't something he could afford to lose.

With a 'monster' like Firefly setting the bar, a little oddity on his part couldn't be considered anything unusual.

Black and red flesh crawled, twisted, and solidified over Alex's hands, forming two massive bone claws.

He walked up to the Red Light Mother and started clawing away without a word.

Ignoring the reduced-to-labor 'Little A,'

Meng Yi approached Firefly and looked down at the patterns on her body, which were glowing even brighter.

"Is your body alright?"

Firefly scratched her hair and said uncertainly, "At this low intensity, I can probably last a few more days before burning out."

"..."

Meng Yi shut his mouth and dropped the subject, as if he'd never asked.

'A few days. Speed of Sound times five, demolishing buildings, high-temperature flames—you could wreck half the country, make America open its mouth and shut its eyes, and eat nothing but losses.'

With Doctor Meng's level of 'moral' cultivation, he would never stoop to the crude, uncouth likes of Luo Ji, blurting out something as plain as 'Awesome' to express his awe.

"No notification from the Paradise?"

Meng Yi lowered his voice, asking with some curiosity.

By common logic, beating a boss should yield a 'side quest reward,' but "Evolution Paradise" didn't seem like the usual flashy type, so Meng Yi wasn't sure for the moment.

"Notification? Let me check."

"A Grade E Evaluation plus 2,000 Paradise Coins."

Firefly's blue-pink eyes blinked, clear and foolish like a college girl's. Her level was too low; she didn't seem like she was lying.

"What's wrong?"

"Nothing."

"Oh!"

Ending the topic of exploring the Paradise's side quest reward mechanism, Meng Yi decisively abandoned the 'grind monsters to level up' plan.

No other reason—the efficiency was too low. How many could even be called 'bosses'?

"Evolution Paradise" seemed to offer two paths: the Brute Force Stream and the Research Stream.

Given the time it would take to scour the world for monsters to grind, he'd rather gather knowledge, explore the essence of evolution, and use that to interfere with civilization's progress to earn side quest rewards from the Paradise.

Meng Yi simply couldn't imagine a day when he'd stoop to being a 'crude brute.'

He figured bosses of different challenge difficulties would give different rewards.

If an Ordinary Person like Luo Ji soloed the Red Light Mother, he might even complete a Grade B or even Grade A side quest. Of course, the more likely outcome was Luo Ji becoming the Red Light Mother's meal.

After a wait, the hard-luck Alex finally dug out "Hope Town: Elizabeth Greene."

The Red Light Mother's fairly delicate face had its brows tightly furrowed. Even unconscious, it seemed to be having a terrifying nightmare.

"Randall."

"At your command!"

Meng Yi looked at the Blackwatch general with his broken arm and said unhurriedly, "I'll take 'Hope Town: Elizabeth Greene' back to Raccoon City on the western coast of the American continent first. The cleanup in Manhattan City is yours."

"Oh, and I don't want news of this fight to leak. Understand?"

"Yes, sir!"

General Randall replied with a resounding voice, silently admiring Chairman Bai's thorough planning.

By sealing off a five-kilometer radius around Gentek Corporation in advance to experiment with the secret bio-soldiers, he'd reduced the cleanup difficulty by several levels.

He made up his mind to eliminate all disloyal witnesses and delete the relevant records from the military satellites under Blackwatch's control.

Loyalty to America, or loyalty to Chairman Bai?

That question didn't even need thinking. Any second of hesitation would be disloyalty to Chairman Bai!

Meng Yi, Firefly, Alex, Dana, and the spoils of war "Hope Town: Elizabeth Greene" boarded the armed transport plane back to Raccoon City.

Midway, the Red Light Mother woke up once. It opened its mouth to speak but immediately got hit with Firefly's real-deal girl punch. It slept soundly the rest of the way.

The transport plane landed and took off. The great Chairman Bai had arrived at his loyal Umbrella Corporation's underground Hive.

Meng Yi placed the Red Light Mother in a lab built from high-strength materials, guarded by the supremely powerful Firefly.

Then, Meng Yi told the Alex siblings to do as they pleased, while he himself changed clothes without pause and walked into the lab, intending to check on the development of the "Ouroboros Virus."

Inside the Sterile Lab.

The 'loyal' Dr. Isaacs and Alexia Ashford, leading dozens of researchers, had toiled without rest for two days and one night.

There was no need for pleasantries. Meng Yi extracted their research memories from the past few days.

After digesting and absorbing them, Meng Yi abandoned any hope of these 'incompetents' developing the "Ouroboros Virus" in a short time.

It wasn't that they had no clue; it was more like they'd just created a new folder, still in the most basic stage of exploring the direction forward.

Without "Psionic Power" to interfere in the Microcosm Domain, scientific research had to be measured in 'years.'

Meng Yi didn't blame his subordinates for their inefficiency. He stepped up himself, making Alexia and Isaacs continue working without rest as his assistants.

The remaining Small Fry Level researchers worked in shifts, including time for eating, drinking, excreting, and sleeping, totaling eight hours of rest.

The researchers praised Meng Yi's 'lofty virtue' and 'noble character.'

My god! They could actually rest for a full eight hours! The Chairman was truly too considerate of his employees!

Day twenty-one of the Selection Dungeon. The relentless research had finally shown a glimmer of hope.

The simple synthesis formula of "Progenitor Virus" + "T-Virus" + "G-Virus" + "T-Veronica Virus" + "Las Plagas parasite" was correct.

As early as two and a half days ago, Meng Yi had completed the most basic version of the "Ouroboros Virus" development.

But he was clearly not satisfied with just the "Ouroboros Virus." He added his own developed "Longevity Gene Type 1," as well as the "Abyss Virus" and "Mutamycete Mold" that existed in the Blue Star Ecology Circle.

If you're going to do it, do it best. He aimed to develop a virus that was the culmination of all Progenitor Virus series strains.

"Red Queen, notify Wesker. Tell him to come lie down on the test table himself."

"Yes!"

'Little Wes' arrived, 'Little Wes' was anesthetized, 'Little Wes' changed into medical clothes and was sent to the test table.

The 'kind-hearted' Meng Yi injected a pitch-black, high-concentration raw virus strain into Albert Wesker's vein, microscopically manipulating the raw strain to fuse with Wesker's special cellular structure.

Even someone with Wesker's special genes and extraordinary constitution couldn't withstand Meng Yi's abuse.

Fortunately, 'Little Wes' died a worthy death, contributing his special genetic structure before dying and helping Meng Yi solve the final problem.

[Prompt: New virus developed. Unnamed.]

[Name: ???

Creator: White Devil (Meng Yi)

Evaluation: Grade D- Comprehensive Viral Agent

Effects: ① Basic Elemental Resistance; ② Underwater Breathing; ③ Life Extension (300 years); ④ Self-Combusting Blood; ⑤ E+ Grade Body Strength (Super Regeneration, Instant Burst Speed Mach 3); ⑥ High-Intensity Virus Transmissibility (Droplets, Water Sources, Contact, Air); ⑦ High-Intensity Virus Erosiveness (Judgment fails below E Grade Physique); ⑧ Supreme Command over Progenitor Virus-type Infected; ⑨ Blood can serve as secondary viral derivative.]

[Prompt: Killed Biohazard Crisis series boss: Albert Wesker. Obtained 1000 Paradise Coins.]

[Prompt: Slightly altered the world pattern. Obtained Grade D Evaluation·1 + 5000 Paradise Coins.]

Meng Yi's expression was serious as he solemnly closed Wesker's eyes, which refused to shut in death.

"Wesker, you were thoughtful! I won't forget the sacrifice you made!"

Before dying, he didn't forget to send 1000 Paradise Coins. Loyal! He was too loyal!

Extracting the completed virus from Wesker's body, Meng Yi ordered the researchers to throw Wesker into the incinerator, sending him off on his final journey, ending his life full of heinous crimes.

Meng Yi named his finished product [Longevity Gene Type-II (In Memory of Wesker--Strikethrough!)].

"Someone, go drag Elizabeth Green and Alex Mercer into... ahem, I mean, invite them into the lab!"