Resurrection

Facing Wesker's "earnest advice," Xia Tianming remained silent, responding only with attacks.

Since his opponent was agile enough to dodge his strikes, he simply had to be faster.

Xia Tianming channeled the core power of the Blacklight Virus into his legs, causing his muscles to bulge instantly with explosive force.

The Blacklight Virus was like a brick in his body; it could be moved wherever it was needed.

With a slight push from his feet, he shot forward like an arrow released from a bow, the ground beneath him collapsing from the sudden burst of power as shards of concrete flew outward.

Seeing his opponent launch another attack without a word—and at a speed his eyes could barely track—Wesker hurriedly retreated against the wall, needing only to defend his front.

He endured the excruciating pain of his severed arm, focusing all his attention on sensing the enemy's movements and offensive intent.

Here it comes!

Wesker once again sensed wind pressure hitting his front; the opponent made no attempt to hide or use any wasted movement, launching a direct, frontal assault.

It was savage and violent, leaving no room for negotiation, with the sole purpose of killing him.

"Urgh!!"

Wesker let out a low roar, exerting every ounce of his strength to kick out a lethal whip-kick, the resulting gale blowing away the surrounding dust.

Seeing him resort to this move in his desperation, Xia Tianming let out a cold snort. Perhaps it was the playfulness of a cat before devouring its prey, but he chose to use the exact same attack, throwing out a whip-kick of his own.

BANG!!!

The two legs collided, erupting with a sound like two trucks crashing into each other.

A visible shockwave rippled outward from the point of impact, kicking up dust within a ten-meter radius, a testament to the terrifying power of their exchange.

When the dust settled, both were kneeling on one leg, their collided lower legs bent at grotesque angles, effectively shattered.

The power of their full-force whip-kicks was actually evenly matched?

However, Wesker's broken right leg could not heal in the short term.

As for Xia Tianming, his broken right leg was stitched back together by viral tendrils in less than three seconds, even his torn pants repairing themselves perfectly.

The agony from his severed arm and leg left Wesker drenched in cold sweat; he had never been this miserable, not even when fighting Alice one-on-one.

He was no match for this man at all!

Looking at the mysterious and oppressive man standing before him, Wesker's pupils trembled uncontrollably.

It seemed he was not a gift from the heavens, but a Pandora's Box that would bring destruction to the Umbrella Corporation...

"Can't you reconsider..."

Wesker slumped in the corner, trying to say something more.

But Xia Tianming had no interest in listening to his drivel; he transformed his arms into blade forms and swung them repeatedly, launching a frenzied slaughter.

The sound of tearing flesh and Wesker's screams filled the room, blood splashing onto Xia Tianming's face and body, soaking in to become nutrients for the Blacklight Virus.

The Blacklight Virus had to kill or maim its prey to fully consume them.

Because Wesker had been strengthened by the T-Virus, his vitality was incredibly tenacious; he was hacked at by Xia Tianming for nearly half a minute, enduring half a minute of hellish agony before finally drawing his last breath.

This time, his tenacity became a stumbling block to his suffering—it would have been better to just die instantly.

Wesker's mangled corpse lay on the ground, his unfocused eyes filled with unwillingness, his signature sunglasses shattered to the side.

Xia Tianming felt no pity, plunging his blades into the remains to begin the consumption.

A massive surge of viral energy poured into his body, a refreshing sensation washing over him as all the fatigue and pain from the battle vanished into thin air.

Ten seconds later, Wesker had been consumed entirely, not even a hair left behind; only the shattered sunglasses remained to prove he had ever existed.

By consuming this T-Virus host, Xia Tianming gained a total of 2800 points of viral energy, half again as much as the Tyrant had provided.

Most importantly, after consuming the shareholders outside and Wesker, almost all the memories regarding the Umbrella Corporation flooded into his mind.

The specific location of the headquarters, the organizational structure, every laboratory, their dark dealings, the ultimate boss behind the scenes, and everything else!

It could be said that no one understood the Umbrella Corporation better than him now.

This included the "Extinction" project Xia Tianming wanted to access, revealing the location of the rocket silo.

However, the launch codes were known only to the ultimate boss and founder, so he would have to go and consume that boss next.

Possessing the [Memory Deep Web] ability to consume memories saved him from a lot of tedious trouble; no need for torture, no need for coercion.

Want to get useful information out of someone?

Just let them enter his mouth.

However, having consumed so many people, with a massive influx of useful and useless memories, he wondered if it would have any impact on his own psyche...

*******

Meanwhile, in a room not far from the site of the battle.

The room was neatly lined with a large number of human-sized, translucent metal containers.

These were cloning tanks, each filled with nutrient solution in which a naked body was submerged.

Every body possessed perfect muscle lines as if carved by the hands of God, possessing both aesthetic beauty and a sense of raw power.

If one were to look at the faces of these clones, they would discover that they all looked exactly the same!

That's right, this was none other than Wesker's private cloning chamber!

Every time he died, his consciousness would be automatically transmitted here by the system and infused into one of the vessel bodies, allowing him to be reborn and resurrected!

At the same time, he was also capable of transmitting multiple consciousnesses into several vessels simultaneously, creating multiple versions of himself.

If all of the hundreds of "Weskers" inside were to be resurrected, it is estimated that they could destroy everything in the world.

However, this also came with a drawback, as every Wesker was an individual entity with an independent self-consciousness, and they were all equally arrogant.

Since they were all the same person, no one was willing to be a foil to another or obey the commands of another "self," so it was highly likely that none would submit to the others, leading them to slaughter one another.

In the end, only one "Wesker" would be able to survive.

Therefore, unless a special situation arose, he would never allow an extra Wesker to exist.

About five minutes after Wesker had been killed and devoured by Xia Tianming, the red light on the first cloning tank in the front row suddenly began to flash!

Immediately following a "beep," the cloning tank was activated, and the Wesker body soaking inside began to twist violently within the nutrient solution!

Crash!

Wesker punched through the glass of the cloning tank, his body spilling out along with the nutrient solution.

He lay on the ground, coughing incessantly, the viscous nutrient fluid sliding off his muscular frame and onto the floor.

After a long while, he slowly sat up from the ground, his originally indifferent expression now filled with hatred and rage...