Virus Weapon

The zombie continued to approach, its highly decomposed face twitching in synchronization with the tremors of the cocoon.

Just as it uncontrollably extended its withered palm, about to make contact with the cocoon.

Swoosh!

Suddenly, there was the piercing sound of a sharp blade tearing through fabric!

Three massive claw marks were ripped into the cocoon from the inside out!

At the same time, the approaching zombie instantly froze in place, three bloody lines appearing across its body!

A second later, the zombie finally moved, only for its body to be vertically split into four pieces, the cuts smooth and level, as it scattered and collapsed to the ground...

Finally, the cocoon began to disintegrate on its own, the dried tentacles peeling away into black dust and scattering with the wind, revealing Xia Tianming, who had been encased within, to the eyes of the surrounding zombies.

However, his hands had transformed into a pair of imposing black-red claws!

The claws were composed of four biomass blades, each about half a meter long, with the edge of every blade emitting an eerie, black-red cold light that made one's hair stand on end!

The junction between the claws and his arms was wrapped in dense Blacklight tentacles, as if welded shut, and was covered in sharp barbs!

The overall aesthetic was one of pure, violent beauty!

It left no doubt that any carbon-based life form would be no different from tofu under these claws!

Seeing the claws his hands had transformed into, Xia Tianming subconsciously recalled one of the signature viral abilities from the Prototype game—the Blacklight Claws!

The Blacklight Claws were a viral weapon condensed through the immense plasticity of the Blacklight Virus.

Thus, this first breakthrough of the viral threshold had unlocked the claw ability for him!

However, at the same time, the evolution value for the next stage in his mind had changed to [Blacklight Threshold: 0/3000].

In other words, if he wanted to break through the threshold again, he would have to consume nearly three thousand zombies?!

But fortunately, in this biochemical apocalypse, zombies were blooming everywhere, visible at every turn.

He could fully evolve his abilities to the maximum level in this world; the little zombies here posed no threat to him, they were all just snacks.

However, the Blacklight Virus seemed to have no evolution cap; he wondered if he would eventually be able to consume an entire planet.

Right!

Xia Tianming suddenly remembered that when he first transmigrated into this world, a mission prompt had appeared in his mind.

It was to "purify" this biochemical apocalypse.

What did this so-called purification mean?

Eliminate the biochemical virus and save all of humanity?

Or, perhaps, let the Blacklight Virus permeate every corner of this world to achieve this so-called purification...

Because in the second Prototype game, the protagonist Alex had become completely disillusioned with humanity and decided to use the Blacklight Virus to infect the entire world.

In this way, everyone would possess the same virus and the same abilities, allowing humanity to evolve together, with no more distinctions between you and me, no more disease, poverty, status, or any other divisions, and no more war, conflict, or disputes.

For Alex, this was what was meant by purification.

So, was his mission also to infect the entire world with the Blacklight Virus?

But the world was so vast; it would be no easy task to infect the entire globe in a short time.

Forget it, don't dwell on this problem for now; it was more important to improve his strength first. Who knew if other troubles existed in this world? It was still too early to consider himself invincible.

Xia Tianming flexed the Blacklight Claws his hands had become; they were extremely agile, as if they had been born that way.

The remaining horde of zombies did not continue to attack, but instead stood ten meters away from Xia Tianming, baring their fangs and brandishing their claws in impotent rage, yet not daring to take another step closer.

The T-Virus within them instinctively sensed that the man was extremely dangerous, yet they simultaneously craved his fresh flesh.

This was because the Blacklight Virus was also emitting a bait-like aura, making other viral infected creatures unable to resist wanting to approach, just like the zombie that had actively approached the Blacklight cocoon earlier.

That was why they were currently hesitating, hovering at a distance neither too far nor too close to Xia Tianming.

"If you won't come over, then I'll come to you."

Xia Tianming let out a cold snort, his pupils once again eroded by darkness, and he charged into the zombie horde, brandishing his Blacklight Claws!

Wherever the claws swept, zombie bodies were as fragile as paper, with severed limbs and broken arms flying through the air!

As the Blacklight Claws tore the zombies apart, they could simultaneously absorb and consume them, which was faster than using tentacles to shred and then consume them!

The sounds of tearing flesh and roaring rose and fell, converging into an eerie score playing out over the wasteland!

He was like a human meat grinder, charging through the army of the zombie tide, leaving a trail of emptiness in his wake!

His Blacklight ability value was also continuously increasing!

However, just as Xia Tianming was intoxicated by the sea of blood and forest of flesh.

At this moment, hundreds of kilometers away, inside a base a hundred meters underground, over a hundred staff members wearing uniform black uniforms were staring intently at a massive electronic screen in front of them.

The giant screen was divided into thousands of smaller screens, each playing real-time footage from different regions, all of which showed nothing but the desolate, apocalyptic wasteland and the hair-raising zombie tide.

They were using satellites to monitor various important regions on the surface, and in addition to searching for endangered human survivors, they were also attempting to locate the resistance and the woman who had been opposing the company for many years.

And on the chest of these people's uniforms, a red and white umbrella-shaped logo was uniformly embroidered.

That's right, these people were none other than employees of the Umbrella Corporation, and this place was the Umbrella Corporation's main base!

The Umbrella Corporation, also known as Umbrella, was the world's largest conglomerate specializing in biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, weaponry, and security, and it was the primary culprit behind the current biochemical apocalypse.

Under the guise of "extending human life and evolving the human physique," they resurrected the Progenitor Virus, also known as the T-Virus, to conduct various inhumane live-subject experiments.

As a result, an accident led to a viral leak, creating the situation that exists today.

Yet, the Umbrella Corporation still refused to give up, delusionally hoping to create an improved virus capable of evolving humanity, and they eventually stumbled upon the creation of the G-Virus by pure chance.

The G-Virus, also known as the God Virus, causes any host selected and infected by it to mutate at an extraordinary speed, adapting into different forms based on the surrounding environment with immense adaptability and even the potential for infinite evolution!

However, this G-Virus still lacked stability, was difficult to control, and made it nearly impossible for the infected to retain their sanity, with the exception of a few individuals with unique genetic makeups.

Therefore, the Umbrella Corporation deployed the Sky Eye monitoring satellite network across the globe, solely to track down the perfect T-Virus evolution—Alice!

They intended to use her as a test subject for the G-Virus and force her to serve the company!

If she still refused to appear, they would have no choice but to launch rockets to disperse biochemical viruses into the atmosphere, thoroughly infecting all survivors on the surface to force her to abandon her pointless notions of saving humanity and come to them of her own accord!