Joining the Glorious Evolution

It is unknown how much time had passed.

The cloning hall, once neatly organized, was now a scene of utter devastation, as if it had been struck by a massive earthquake; cloning pods lay scattered and overturned across the floor.

The viscous nutrient fluid had drained from the pods, but the Wesker clones inside had all vanished.

Because they had all become nutrients for the Blacklight Virus!

Xia Tianming stood before the final intact cloning pod, watching as the last Wesker body inside gradually "resurrected" and stirred to consciousness.

The Wesker soaking in the pod slowly opened his eyes; the anger and fear that once resided there were gone, replaced only by a vacant, listless gaze.

He had been "killed" by Xia Tianming 107 times, and the physical and psychological agony of each death was automatically transmitted to the next clone, leaving him completely numb.

In truth, Xia Tianming had not intended to wait for them to revive at first, wanting to simply consume the clones that had not yet received the consciousness transfer.

However, he discovered that merely consuming these soulless husks only yielded about a third of the viral energy, and the "taste" was like chewing wax.

Thus, he had no choice but to wrong this Wesker, forcing him to endure a cycle of 107 deaths, with every method of execution being different.

Consuming 107 Wesker bodies had granted Xia Tianming nearly 300,000 points of viral energy, allowing him to break through the Blacklight Threshold five consecutive times to achieve evolution!

He had unlocked the Blade Form, Armor Form, Whip-fist Form, Shield Form, and several other viral techniques!

He had essentially unlocked every viral ability that had ever appeared in the game!

It was likely that even the mysterious force that brought him to this world could not have imagined he would "grind experience" here until he hit the level cap.

No, the Blacklight Virus had no evolutionary limit.

Moreover, every breakthrough of the threshold enhanced Xia Tianming's perception, explosive power, muscle capacity, and every other aspect of his being!

His overall strength had increased geometrically!

Just by standing still, the density of his body was enough to crush the floor beneath him into a crater!

When he first started "dining" on Wesker, this little snack would fight back with his dying breath, putting up a desperate struggle.

But as Xia Tianming's strength grew, Wesker's struggles became increasingly futile.

To test his current strength, Xia Tianming had even stood motionless and let him attack.

When Wesker's pride-and-joy whip kick struck Xia Tianming's head, Xia Tianming remained unmoved, while Wesker's knee snapped backward in the opposite direction...

Consequently, Wesker had completely abandoned all resistance, hoping only for the other to grant him a quick release, his heart filled with deep regret for why he had created so many clones, only to subject himself to over a hundred instances of agony worse than death...

But this was the final clone now, and Wesker stared with dull eyes at the man he had brought into the base.

No...

He was not a man; he was a demon!

This demon was still staring at him with a greedy gaze, hungry for flesh. Had he not grown tired of eating him 107 times already?!

The Blacklight Virus was certainly not tired.

Wesker had modified his clones to be so "appetizing" that they were quite literally the most delicious food the Blacklight Virus had ever consumed since appearing in this world!

Seeing that he had revived, Xia Tianming tore through the metal cloning pod as easily as if it were paper and hauled Wesker out like a chick.

Having died 107 times, Wesker weakly lifted his head and muttered in a mechanical, despondent voice: "I have no more clones left for you to enjoy. Just kill me already..."

Xia Tianming looked at him with a calm expression, neither snapping his neck as he had before nor speaking a word.

This sent a chill down Wesker's spine. What else could he possibly want to do???

Suddenly!

Xia Tianming raised his right hand and extended a finger.

A massive amount of black tentacles rapidly extended from that finger and gathered together; in a moment, they condensed into a black-red tumorous ball with tentacles writhing wildly on its surface!

Seeing this scalp-tingling mass of tentacles, Wesker's eyes widened in terror once more, as if he had guessed what this demon intended to do.

"No... I won't let you—"

Before Wesker could finish his sentence, Xia Tianming moved with lightning speed, shoving the viral tumor into his mouth before tossing him aside onto the floor to observe the changes!

Wesker could never have imagined that, having spent his life using living people for viral experiments and finding their screams pleasant to the ear, he would one day become someone else's lab rat. Was this the cycle of karma?

He instinctively tried to spit it out, but the moment the tentacled mass entered his mouth, it began to writhe, quickly burrowing down his throat!

As the Blacklight mass slid down his throat into his stomach, the black-red tentacles on its surface began to grow frantically, piercing through the stomach lining like bamboo shoots after a spring rain, rooting themselves into every organ in his body!

In less than three seconds, Wesker's body was riddled with dense Blacklight tentacles resembling banyan tree roots. As for the T-Virus, it had, unsurprisingly, become nothing more than viral nutrients!

"AHHH!!!!"

Wesker rolled frantically on the ground, his pupils eroded by darkness, dense black veins bulging across his skin as he let out a heart-wrenching, shrill scream—a scream that sounded even more agonizing than his 107th death!

However, Xia Tianming was not torturing him out of malice, but attempting to "purify" him for the first time.

So-called purification meant expelling those low-grade biochemical viruses and allowing the Blacklight Virus to "cleanse" Wesker's soul and body!

Breaking through five consecutive evolutions had allowed Xia Tianming to trigger the [Wolf Pack] ability of the Blacklight Virus.

This meant implanting the Blacklight Virus into other organisms to control them through commands, and he was the so-called leader of the Wolf Pack!

To make all things in the heavens join the glorious evolution of the Blacklight Virus was his only dogma for the time being!

Xia Tianming looked at Wesker, the "lucky one" who had been the first to be implanted with the Blacklight Virus; if his genes could perfectly fuse with the virus, perhaps he could become the next version of himself?

Of course, he would certainly never reach his current level of strength, and even if Wesker successfully fused with the Blacklight, he would still kill and consume him regardless.

This was because Xia Tianming would not leave behind a hidden danger that harbored extreme hatred toward him.

Much like James Heller, whom Alex Mercer had cultivated in Prototype 2.

Although, in the end, it was Alex Mercer himself who wanted to die and threw the final battle...

Therefore, from beginning to end, Xia Tianming had only ever treated Wesker as a lab rat for his experiments; he would never let him survive.

However, watching Wesker's body twist in agony on the ground, it seemed that the Blacklight Virus did not favor him either.

Wesker, who had been able to perfectly fuse with the T-Virus, had been abandoned by the Blacklight Virus.

And the consequence of being abandoned was to turn into a mindless monster!

Viral tentacles from within his body tore through his flesh and erupted from his skin, his cervical vertebrae protruded from his back, and sharp bone spurs sprouted out; even his skin began to crack and peel away, exposing raw, scarlet muscle tissue!

Wesker's originally handsome and cold face split at the corners of his mouth all the way to his ears; his original teeth fell out, and sharp fangs rapidly grew in their place!

His fingernails also hardened and became incomparably sharp, tearing deep gouges and scratches into the concrete floor!

Finally, he—no, it—crawled on all fours, and in less than five seconds, it had completely transformed into an ugly, hideous monster with foul-smelling saliva constantly dripping from its maw...