Chapter 798

"La la la..."

"I'm a happy little player..."

??(′?｀?)???

After finishing her first exploration of the Umbrella Corporation's Hive, completing the mission to retrieve the data, and using the "memory eraser" to wipe the memories of the special forces and survivors who had barely managed to escape the Hive research facility beneath Raccoon City, she'd made them obediently board the subway train and leave, believing that she herself had gotten lost in the Hive long ago and might already have been eaten by zombies. Only then did she open a long-distance portal straight back to Manhattan. Her first stop was the entrance of the building whose outer wall stubbornly still bore the words "Bridge and Tunnel Authority."

Bam!!

As expected, she once again rudely kicked open the building's decades-old, dilapidated wooden door and barged right in. She seemed to be planning to take the elevator down to headquarters to report on her mission—and, while she was at it, enjoy the admiration and envy of all those men in black and pretty ladies?

(*?′╰╯`?)?

Lately, little Annie had been enjoying not only the admiring looks those men and women in black gave her, but also the envious, jealous, and helpless glares from her own people! She loved seeing the mortified looks on their faces when they realized that they, grown adults, couldn't even match a little girl!

(...)

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"Eh?!"

It seemed like something was missing.

∑(′△｀)?!

As soon as she'd kicked the door open and gone inside, little Annie quickly realized something was wrong... because one particular fellow, who always tried to lecture her whenever she came back, wasn't here?!

The bald Black man who usually sat reading a newspaper by the entrance passageway was nowhere to be seen! That fellow always showed up for work right on time every