Earth Will

Xia Tianming did not understand why some people always felt the need to deliver a grand speech before doing something; did they think it made them look more sophisticated?

If Spencer had just stayed silent and secretly injected himself with the hybrid virus, he could have enjoyed his ill-gotten gains in peace. Instead, he had to hold the syringe up high, as if terrified that Xia Tianming wouldn't see it.

Spencer stared at his own severed wrist, which was spurting blood, and after a brief moment of shock, his expression twisted as he let out a shrill, heart-wrenching scream!

"Ah!!!!"

Xia Tianming walked over with steady, calm footsteps, ignoring the old man's wailing as he clutched his stump, and picked up the syringe that had been tightly gripped by the severed hand.

He sensed that the syringe was filled with a liquid composed of various mixed viruses. Without a moment's hesitation, he snapped it in half, letting the liquid splash onto his hand to be consumed.

After devouring this so-called ultimate hybrid virus cocktail, Xia Tianming frowned.

What kind of chaotic mess was this? It was completely devoid of nutritional value.

Spencer had mixed every type of virus together, but they had long since cannibalized and attacked one another, dying off to become a puddle of meaningless, foul-smelling sludge.

Even if Spencer had injected this into his body, he wouldn't have become the powerful viral amalgam he imagined; instead, he likely would have died in agony from the injection of such strange fluids.

So, had Xia Tianming actually saved the old man's life?

Though, it only bought him a few more seconds of existence.

Spencer tremblingly lifted his head, his pale lips quivering as he spoke: "Now that you have killed me, and you have eliminated the shareholders in the company, the Umbrella Corporation belongs to you. Can you tell me now which faction you belong to? The Resistance? Or the remnants of the government..."

He could not fathom the purpose behind this man's appearance.

Relying on himself alone, he had fought from the impenetrable testing grounds to this office in less than a day, slaughtering almost every high-ranking official in the base!

Wesker had truly brought back a Pandora's Box...

"I do not belong to any organization. I come from the Earth Will..."

Xia Tianming's eyes held no emotion. He looked down at the dying Spencer with the detachment of a god, his tone calm and gentle.

He had no personal conflict with the people he had killed along the way; they were merely obstacles he had cleared while pursuing his goal.

"Earth Will? What is that..." Spencer's cloudy eyes widened, asking with desperate longing.

In his dying vision, the face of the man in the black hoodie was shrouded in a misty shadow, seemingly radiating an indescribable divinity...

Had he spent his whole life researching viruses, only to be taken away by one in the end?

But Xia Tianming himself could not answer. The Blacklight Virus had existed since the dawn of Earth, predating all the biochemical viruses in this world.

Spencer would not live to receive the answer he craved. Already in his twilight years, the trauma of his severed wrist left him in a state of shock from blood loss. His head, covered in age spots, slumped onto his chest, and he drew his final, ragged breaths.

Xia Tianming stopped wasting time; if he waited for the old man to die completely, he might not be able to extract his memories.

He reached out toward the thinning hair on Spencer's head as the man lost consciousness. A multitude of viral tendrils instantly extended from his palm to envelop him, and in less than a second, he had consumed and absorbed him, bringing Spencer's complex and turbulent life to a definitive end.

After devouring the half-dead old man, the nutritional gain was negligible, but the primary goal was to obtain the memories in his brain. Suddenly, a vast amount of details, conspiracies, and plans regarding the Umbrella Corporation flooded into Xia Tianming's [Memory Deep Web]!

However, Xia Tianming had no interest in any of that; he only wanted the rocket launch codes for the "Extinction" plan.

Having obtained them through Spencer's memories, he only needed to head to the rocket silo next.

In the fish tank, Leech Marcus cheered in the water upon seeing Spencer die, the only regret being that he hadn't been the one to personally finish off the old man who had caused his demise.

"Hey, little brother, this base belongs to you now. What are you going to do next? Why not let this old man be your assistant? I helped create a part of this base; no one understands the Umbrella Corporation better than I do," Marcus said, his tone feigning obsequiousness.

If it had known that Xia Tianming had already acquired the memories of all the shareholders and Spencer himself, it likely wouldn't have said such a thing.

Xia Tianming ignored the chattering leech head in the tank. Once the rocket was launched, he would return to the bio-garden to have a proper "chat" with it.

The Leech Queen Virus, capable of creating clones—he wondered what abilities he would gain after devouring it.

With the rocket launch codes in hand, Xia Tianming immediately proceeded to the next step.

The rocket silo was located within a hidden base near the surface, camouflaged as a hill.

If he were to go there, returning to his original path would likely take half a day of detours.

But Xia Tianming chose to take a shortcut. He shifted into his Rhino Armor Form once more and charged directly at the wall behind Spencer's office!

He would use this "shortcut" method for the entire journey, smashing his way to the destination!

Marcus, in the fish tank, saw him leave without a word and shouted at the top of its lungs: "Boss! Where are you going? Take me with you..."

Ten minutes later, inside another base, a group of Umbrella Corporation personnel were working in a frenzy, making preparations for the "Extinction" plan's rocket launch.

They were just waiting for their boss, Spencer, to arrive and give the order to launch the hundred-meter-tall rocket into Earth's outer orbit, carrying out the final purge of the survivors on the surface—a total purification!

"Hey, did you hear some kind of wall-smashing sound?" A staff member sitting at a console, monitoring the rocket's parameters in real-time, pricked up his ears and asked his colleague.

The colleague glanced at him and said with disdain: "What wall-smashing sound? I think you've been working that 007 schedule so hard you're starting to hallucinate."

"It's real! If you don't believe me, listen closely!"

With that, he led his skeptical colleague to the sturdy concrete wall and began to listen.

It seemed...

There really was a thumping sound coming from behind the concrete wall???

BOOM!!

Suddenly, a deafening roar erupted. The concrete wall they were leaning against collapsed instantly, burying the two unlucky fools under a pile of rubble before they could react!

Everyone in the facility was startled by the massive commotion and turned their heads in shock.

As the dust began to settle, a demonic silhouette nearly five meters tall emerged from the debris.

It stood atop the collapsed rubble, and a heart-stopping aura instantly permeated the entire launch silo base...