Umbrella Interstellar Group
Chapter 23

Super Soldier and Money Soldier

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Although Isaac retained his sanity after mutating, his physical form was gradually evolving into something non-human.

Using an unfinished version of the enhancement virus caused him to bloat excessively, but it also granted him telekinesis.

Isaac glared fiercely, and the ground before him shattered and collapsed like tofu; an invisible force destroyed the glass corridor beneath his feet.

Tony, hovering in mid-air, had no time to react before the formless shockwave sent him flying.

This crude application of telekinesis was limited; the shockwave dissipated just as it reached Steve's feet. Isaac also suffered a momentary lag, allowing Steve to step forward and smash a fist into his head, forcing his upper body to bend at a ninety-degree angle.

The headache caused Isaac's smile to vanish. His head was buzzing—not from the punch, but from the side effects of using his telekinesis.

The tugging sensation on his left hand brought Isaac back to his senses. He lunged his right claw toward Steve; the bone-like talons were razor-sharp, and a single touch would surely leave deep, bone-reaching wounds.

Seeing this, Steve didn't dare to take the hit, but he didn't abandon his shield either. He twisted his body in mid-air and kicked Isaac's chest with both feet.

The stolen shield was ultimately not as comfortable for Isaac to use as it was for Steve, and Isaac was sent flying, losing his grip on the shield.

Tony, who had been sent reeling, flew back. Taking advantage of Isaac's instability on the ground, he aimed his palms at Isaac's head and fired.

The full-power blast from his repulsors was immense, capable of easily denting steel plates, and the intense heat could cauterize wounds.

When dealing with ordinary people, Tony would hold back, controlling the power of his repulsors to merely knock them back or shatter internal organs without leaving visible surface damage. But facing a monster like Isaac, he held nothing back.

Isaac's upper body, which he had been trying to prop up, was slammed back down by the repulsor blast, his head colliding with the hard tiled floor and creating a shallow crater.

Compared to Steve, who had fought in a world war, Isaac's combat experience was pitifully scarce.

Compared to Tony, who possessed artificial intelligence and a mountain of advanced technology, the combat chip implanted in Isaac's brain held no significant advantage.

Much like the final battle in Resident Evil: The Final Chapter, where Alice used her brain to calculate and simulate combat outcomes, Isaac had relied on superior technology to counter Alice's attacks, fighting with ease.

However, when facing two people who defied logic, the chip in Isaac's brain was useless and even hindered his judgment.

After the repulsor blast, Tony followed up with a punch. Accelerated by his thrusters, the blow was heavy and hard, knocking Isaac back down just as he was trying to crawl up.

Tony even mounted Isaac to continue the assault, his fists moving in a mechanical rhythm, landing with heavy, rhythmic thuds!

"Enough!"

Being suppressed repeatedly caused Isaac's sanity to steadily erode.

He raised his hand to swat Tony away, but his right claw was struck hard by Steve's shield. The force, concentrated on a single point, slammed into his arm, causing Isaac to howl in pain.

Except for the brief moment he dodged bullets at the start, Isaac, despite his enhancement serum, was being completely overwhelmed by the super-soldier and the "money-soldier."

However, as the attack continued, although Isaac had no way to fight back, his formidable regenerative abilities kept him from dying, and he continued to struggle stubbornly.

Natasha, unable to join the fray, looked around, hoping to find something in the environment that could help deal with Isaac.

She didn't find a solution, but she did notice a stasis pod beginning to thaw.

Isaac's telekinesis had plowed through the ground, accidentally damaging the wiring buried beneath. The stasis pod, following its safety protocols, began an emergency thaw.

The white mist cleared from the pod, and an elderly woman slowly opened her eyes, a flicker of confusion passing through them.

She soon discovered the chaos in the room and Natasha, who was pointing a pistol directly at her.

"Are you with Umbrella Corporation too?" Natasha had intended to pull the trigger immediately to avoid another monster like Isaac, but she hesitated after seeing what kind of person was in the pod.

The woman inside was so old her face was covered in wrinkles; could she really be as fierce as a monster?

In fact, the old woman was trembling as she walked, barely managing to sit in a wheelchair beside the pod, seemingly unbothered by Natasha's gun.

Once seated, she regained a bit of spirit. She turned her head to look at Isaac, who was being beaten, and her eyes widened slightly.

"Hehehe! Hahaha!"

A raspy laugh escaped the old woman's lips, making Natasha frown; the sound was unsettling.

"You must be with Umbrella Corporation, too!"

This time, the old woman turned back to look at Natasha, who still had her gun trained on her, and smiled: "Don't be nervous. I am Alicia Marcus, a co-owner of Umbrella Corporation. Decades ago, it was my father and Isaac who founded Umbrella Corporation."

"Your father?" Natasha raised an eyebrow. Alicia looked old enough to be Isaac's mother. If her father founded the company with Isaac, was this a story of a subordinate seizing power?

Seeming to sense Natasha's confusion, Alicia turned her head back, watching Isaac get beaten while explaining the origin of the story.

Simply put, Marcus used the T-virus to treat his daughter's progeria, and while developing various drugs, they discovered that the drugs had the side effect of turning people into man-eating monsters.

Marcus wanted to recall the drugs from the market, but doing so would bankrupt the company. Isaac, having tasted the power, had his men kill Marcus and then seized the company for himself.

Then came Isaac's descent into madness and his plan to wipe out humanity.

Natasha lowered her gun. She had a knack for reading people, and Alicia's expression didn't seem fake. She chose to believe her and asked, "Do you have a way to deal with the leaked virus?"

"The virus... has it leaked after all..." The light in Alicia's eyes dimmed. She continued to watch Isaac get pummeled and sighed, "I once implanted a program into the Red Queen's system to protect humanity. When Isaac's plan began, the Red Queen's program should have been activated to protect people. Did it fail in the end, then..."

After sighing, Alicia turned to Natasha and asked, "What is it like outside now?"

Natasha recalled the situation on the surface and said uncertainly, "Um... I think it's okay?"

"If the outside world is still as it was, you can go to Africa to find a specific plant to create the Airborne Serum. The specific production method is in the Red Queen's database."

Alicia looked back at the beaten Isaac and said, "Isaac has a vial of the Airborne Serum, but..."

She didn't finish her sentence. The tidy office had become a mess after she woke up, and there was no telling if that vial of serum had been accidentally destroyed.

Tony and Steve had been beating Isaac for over ten minutes, but Isaac always managed to recover; his current body possessed an exaggerated level of both defense and regeneration.

After fighting for so long, both Tony and Steve felt their bodies reaching their limits. Since physical strikes and repulsor blasts couldn't solve the problem, it was time for something explosive!

"Cap, pin his arms down, I'll take care of him." Constant muscle exertion leads to accumulated damage, and Tony had already thought of a way to deal with Isaac.

Having coordinated with Tony many times, Steve immediately dropped to the ground, grabbing Isaac's right hand with both of his own while wrapping his legs around Isaac's left hand, tensing his body to pull Isaac into a cross shape.

A missile popped out from Tony's right forearm, and he grabbed it with his left hand to shove it into Isaac's caved-in mouth.

If the laser component hadn't been used up while clearing the path, he wouldn't have to go through all this trouble; he could have just sliced Isaac in half and been done with it.

While in his recovery state, Isaac was completely oblivious to the object shoved into his body. He only felt his body lighten as he was tossed away, slamming into his desk and cracking it.

The next second, the light of the explosion swallowed his upper body!

The Airborne Serum should be gone now...

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