Remains

Captain Kromi heard the nonsensical reply and realized he had no chance of surviving today.

Furthermore, dying at the hands of this monster meant not even a corpse would remain, let alone the possibility of bringing his brain back to transfer these memories to the next clone.

It would be better to end it himself!

Kromi glanced down at his watch; the five-minute mark was nearly up, meaning he had successfully lured the target to the strike point of the Rod of God!

He struggled to suppress the terror in his heart, lifted his head to look at the horrifying enemy walking toward him, and grinned hideously with wide eyes: "I'll be waiting for you in hell! Hahaha!"

With that, he quickly swapped his pistol magazine, but this time, instead of aiming at the enemy, he pressed the muzzle against his own chin, intent on suicide!

Seeing this, Xia Tianming lunged forward in a flash. Before Kromi could pull the trigger, he swung his claws in a horizontal sweep, shredding the man's entire hand along with the pistol!

Captain Kromi stared with dull, wide eyes at his own spurting, severed wrist. He won't even let me die?!

Xia Tianming offered a rare smile. "A brain that has been destroyed is no longer delicious."

Kromi...

"Ah!!!!!"

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Consuming and absorbing this commander granted him 10 points of Blacklight energy.

Xia Tianming's current Blacklight Threshold is: 735/3000.

Most importantly, he had successfully extracted quite a few useful memory fragments from the man's brain via the Blacklight Virus's [Memory Deep Web] ability.

For instance, the location of the Umbrella Corporation's main base, the deployment of troops within a radius of several hundred kilometers, and information regarding some of the company's high-ranking figures.

Furthermore, through Kromi's memories, he learned of a portion of the "Extinction" plan, discovering that the Umbrella Corporation's main base had constructed a launch silo equipped with rockets loaded with biochemical viruses, capable of spreading the virus to every corner of the globe!

If he were to replace the biochemical virus in the rocket warheads with his own Blacklight Virus, wouldn't that save him a lot of trouble, sparing him from having to personally travel to every corner of the world to "sow the seeds"?

Wait... why was there a Rod of God...

Finally, memory fragments of the conversation between Captain Kromi and Wesker before the former's death surfaced!

So this commander was a lure, intentionally leading him to the strike point of this space-based weapon?!

Viral tendrils symbolizing danger perception extended from Xia Tianming's body once more, and his scalp began to tingle as light gradually appeared in the dark night sky above him.

Without a second thought, he tried to flee the danger zone.

But the space-based laser weapon, having already locked onto Xia Tianming, would fire at a speed of 300,000 kilometers per second; to be targeted meant to be hit!

Before he could even take a step, a pulse beam over five meters in diameter with a temperature approaching 100,000 degrees Celsius descended from the sky, instantly engulfing him!

Three seconds later, the pulse beam fired from the Rod of God in space vanished, as the laser's temperature was so high that the satellite's materials could not sustain it for long without melting and disintegrating.

But with such power, three seconds were more than enough.

The patch of land touched by the pulse beam instantly formed a cylindrical crater nearly five meters deep, with the surrounding sand and soil scorched into transparent crystals in an instant!

It could be said that no living creature could survive the judgment of the Rod of God, let alone that guy who was at the very center of the beam!

Sitting in his office, Wesker couldn't help but sneer as he saw the target eliminated.

Since the target could not be captured alive to serve the company, he would simply be evaporated from this world.

Anything that could not be utilized by the company was considered an enemy; otherwise, he might have become a second "Alice."

Moreover, the main reason was that the body parts the guy had left behind earlier—shredded by the Vulcan Cannon—remained on the ground and could be collected and brought back to the company for cloning research, which was why he was willing to destroy him.

However, for the sake of caution, he still needed someone to observe the five-meter-deep crater scorched by the pulse beam to see if there were any signs of life.

"Hey, is anyone still alive? Go over and see how that guy is doing."

Wesker picked up the communicator, opened the channel to the entire squad, and asked in a languid tone.

Because the large crater scorched by the Rod of God was billowing with thick smoke, satellite surveillance could not see through to the bottom, leaving only visual inspection as an option.

As it happened, there were a few soldiers who had luckily survived on-site. Upon receiving the order from their superior, they walked over, still shaken.

The clone soldiers, who should have been accustomed to death, had developed an instinctive fear of it after witnessing Xia Tianming's terrifying and brutal methods of slaughter.

The few soldiers approached the edge of the crater tremblingly, carefully craning their necks over, terrified that some tentacle might reach out to wrap around their throats and drag them in...

When they moved their gaze with extreme caution to the bottom of the smoking crater, the sight below immediately made their eyes widen in disbelief!

There, lying at the bottom of the pitch-black crater, was a twisted, charred humanoid figure, even blacker than before!

Its clawed, outstretched posture looked as if it might spring out of the crater at any moment!

The soldiers hurriedly reported what they had seen to Director Wesker.

Upon hearing this, Wesker's cold, stern face also revealed a look of shock.

There was actually a carbon-based organism that left behind a corpse after being engulfed by 100,000 degrees Celsius?!

In the past, when the company tested the power of the Rod of God, they had used captured resistance fighters as targets. The moment they were engulfed by the descending pulse beam, they were instantly evaporated and vaporized, leaving nothing behind—not even time to scream.

Therefore, it was considered a relatively "humane" space weapon, as it didn't let you feel any pain before you instantly met your end...

Could his biological structure even be classified as a terrestrial organism anymore?!

Engulfed by a space-based beam for three seconds, enough to scorch a deep crater into the ground, and he still managed to leave a corpse behind??

No, it couldn't possibly be a corpse...

Thinking this, Wesker stood up, his heart in a state of flustered agitation, and grabbed his communicator to shout out an order: "Fire your weapons at that corpse! See if it still shows any signs of movement!!"

Upon hearing their superior command them to do something no different from suicide, the soldiers' eyes trembled with fear, yet they had no choice but to obey; they knew the consequences of defying orders would be far more miserable.

And so, this group of clone soldiers lowered their muzzles, aimed at the "charred corpse" at the bottom of the trench, and after a brief moment of hesitation, pulled their triggers.

BANG BANG BANG BANG!!!!

After a dense volley of gunfire, each soldier had emptied a magazine, hundreds of rounds slamming into the twisted, charred body and kicking up clouds of black dust!

One of the soldiers accidentally inhaled some of the black dust rising with the heat and couldn't help but sneeze.