"We've been watching for months, and there's still no sign of that woman. Could those Zombies have eaten her alive?"
A Monitor propped his chin in his hand and scanned the screens listlessly. He couldn't help yawning as he spoke.
His colleague laughed. "How's that possible? I'd believe it if you said she ate the Zombies. What Zombie could possibly eat a woman who can tear a tank apart with her bare hands?"
The woman they were talking about was none other than Alice, a perfect T-Virus evolution!
She had originally been an employee of the Umbrella Corporation, but an accident had exposed her to the leaked T-Virus.
But unlike the other infected, she hadn't turned into a bloodthirsty, mindless walking corpse.
Instead, her genes had fused perfectly with the T-Virus, making her a godlike being!
Not only did she possess superhuman strength, speed, reflexes, and physical endurance, she had even gained psychic abilities!
This highly unusual case had piqued the Umbrella Corporation's intense interest. They had launched a massive search for her, hoping to use her in experiments and develop more superhumans for the company.
After learning of the Umbrella Corporation's crimes against humanity, Alice naturally refused to let them get their way.
Using the incredible abilities the T-Virus had granted her, she had fought the Umbrella Corporation and destroyed many of its facilities around the world, trying to put a stop to its evil plans.
That had made her the Umbrella Corporation's number-one thorn in its side.
But like a ghost, the woman vanished every time she destroyed one of the company's facilities, giving its executives a massive headache.
Now they were at their wits' end and had decided to launch their ultimate plan: "Extinction."
They would launch rockets carrying concentrated virus into the atmosphere, infecting every corner of the globe and sparing no survivors, all to force her out of hiding!
And if they still failed to find her today, the rockets, fully loaded with virus and ready for deployment, would be launched.
After chatting for a while, the Monitor turned back to the screens and continued searching for the woman, without much hope.
Suddenly!
He noticed something strange in the feed from Monitor 305, a hundred kilometers from the base!
There should have been a medium-sized horde there, numbering around 1,300 Zombies.
The company had deliberately gathered them together to form one wall of Zombies after another.
The Umbrella Corporation had deployed numerous Zombie hordes within a hundred kilometers of the base to guard against an Alice incursion, without the people stationed there realizing it.
If the woman wanted to get close to headquarters, she would have to pass through those Zombie hordes. The chaos would alert the company for sure.
But now the Monitor saw that the horde in feed 305 had descended into chaos, and its numbers were visibly dwindling!
It was as if an "eraser of God" had fallen among the Zombies. Every Zombie in its path was wiped out, leaving not even a corpse behind!
He immediately focused on the screen and zoomed in on the footage.
When the image came into sharp focus, what he saw left him stunned in his seat.
In the high-definition satellite footage, a humanoid creature about the length of an arm, resembling Edward Scissorhands, was using a pair of pitch-black clawed arms to tear through and reap the Zombies, who were desperately trying to flee!
Wait... those bloodthirsty Zombies were actually retreating and trying to escape?!
Under Edward Scissorhands' claws, they were slaughtered without the slightest chance to fight back, swept away like leaves in a gale!
As soon as those Zombies were cut apart by the enormous black claws, they melted into dark red blood globes and were absorbed by the creature's demonic claws. That was why no corpses had been left behind!
But the strangest thing was that after devouring so many Zombies nearly its own size, the creature hadn't changed size at all???
That completely violated the law of conservation of energy. Where had all those Zombies gone???
The horde had originally numbered around 1,300, but now, judging by eye, only half remained. Had the creature eaten the missing half?!
At this rate, it would devour the other half in less than ten minutes!
"What the hell is that... Could the virus have produced a new Mutant???"
It took the Monitor a long moment to recover. Panicking, he hurriedly sent the footage to his supervisor's office.
Such a major incident had happened within the area he was responsible for monitoring. If something went wrong because he'd failed to report it, he would never be able to take responsibility!
Meanwhile, in the supervisor's office on the same floor.
A cold-looking man with a buzz cut, dressed in a black suit and wearing sunglasses, sat in his office chair. As he watched the holographic screen before him, the corners of his mouth curled upward despite himself.
His name was Wesker. He was one of the Umbrella Corporation's senior executives and the head of its Security Department.
Capturing Alice was his top priority, bar none.
He was also a successful T-Virus fusion subject, with strength beyond that of an ordinary person.
But whenever he encountered Alice, she always managed to defeat and kill him.
Fortunately, he had stored a large number of clones at the company. Whenever he died, he could quickly transfer a backup of his consciousness into a clone and "come back to life."
Still, being defeated by that woman every time had left him feeling humiliated. His standing and reputation within the company had rapidly declined as a result.
So he had set aside all his other assignments and ordered the company's satellites in outer space to search for Alice around the clock.
But months had passed, and she still hadn't shown herself. It was as if she had vanished from the world, and he was growing more and more impatient.
Even if she was dead, he wouldn't rest until he saw her body!
But the footage his subordinate had just sent over had once again piqued his interest for the first time in a long while.
This was the first time he had seen an infected person with this kind of appearance.
The rest of its body looked no different from an ordinary person's, yet it could change the shape of its arms alone, transforming them into a pair of terrifying black claws!
Even Wesker and Alice, who had fused perfectly with the T-Virus, had only gained enhanced bodies. They couldn't alter their body structures.
The G-Virus, which could alter the body's structure, would turn a person into a monster and rob them of their sanity. It was still uncontrollable at present.
He wondered whether the creature had retained its own consciousness.
But what interested Wesker most was that the Zombies it killed had all been absorbed and vanished, turning into nourishment inside that man's body?!
He rewound the footage and saw that the man seemed to have fallen from the sky into the horde. He also saw what happened afterward: the man had cocooned, then transformed his arms into claws.
Could this creature have been sent by God to save humanity?
"Hmph. What a load of crap."
Wesker had never been religious. He sneered, picked up the phone on his desk, and called the Umbrella Corporation's U.S.S. secret unit, which was patrolling near the site.
"Bring him to me. Remember, I want him alive."