Earth Will

Xia Tianming didn't understand why some people always liked to make grand speeches before doing anything. Did it make them seem more impressive...

If Spencer had just kept quiet and secretly injected himself with the mixed virus, quietly reaping the rewards, that would've been one thing. But he just had to hold up the syringe, as if he were afraid Xia Tianming wouldn't see it...

Spencer stared at his severed wrist, which was still spurting blood. After a brief moment of stunned silence, his face twisted as he let out a bloodcurdling scream of agony!

"Ah!!!!"

Xia Tianming walked over with steady steps, ignoring the old man as he clutched his severed wrist and wailed. He picked up the syringe still tightly gripped in the severed hand.

He sensed that it was filled with a liquid concoction of various viruses. Without hesitation, he crushed it with a loud crack, letting the liquid splash onto his hand and be absorbed.

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

What kind of nonsensical mess was this? It was utterly devoid of nutrients.

Spencer had mixed together every kind of virus. They had devoured and attacked one another until they'd all perished, leaving behind nothing but a foul-smelling, meaningless sludge.

Even if Spencer had injected it into his body, he wouldn't have become the powerful viral composite he'd imagined. Instead, the strange liquid might have caused him to die in agony.

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

But only for a few more seconds.

Spencer tremulously raised his head, his pale lips quivering as he said, "Now that you've killed me and dealt with all the company's shareholders, Umbrella Corporation belongs to you. Can you tell me which faction you're with? The resistance? Or one of the surviving government organizations..."

No matter how hard he tried, he couldn't understand what this man's purpose was.

In less than a day, this man had fought his way from the impregnable test facility to Spencer's office, nearly wiping out every senior figure at the base!

Wesker really had brought back Pandora's Box...

"I don't belong to any organization. I come from the Earth Will..."

Xia Tianming looked down at the dying Spencer without a trace of emotion. His expression was calm, his tone gentle, as if he were a god speaking to a mortal.

He had no real grievance with any of the people he'd killed along the way. They had simply been obstacles he needed to clear to achieve his goal.

"The Earth Will? What is that...?" Spencer asked eagerly, his cloudy eyes wide.

In his dying gaze, the face of the man in the black hooded sweatshirt was shrouded in a dark, misty shadow. He seemed to possess a truly indescribable divinity...

He'd spent his whole life researching viruses, only to be taken by one in the end...

But Xia Tianming couldn't answer that question himself. The Blacklight Virus had existed since the dawn of Earth, predating the various biological viruses in this world.

Spencer never got the answer he wanted. Already near the end of his life, he had suffered a severed wrist and lost so much blood that he was barely conscious. His head, covered in age spots, drooped onto his chest as he hovered on the brink of death.

Xia Tianming wasted no more time. Once the old man died, he probably wouldn't be able to obtain his memories.

He reached toward the thinning hair on Spencer's head as the old man slowly lost consciousness. A mass of viral tendrils instantly extended from his palm and enveloped Spencer. In less than a second, they had devoured and absorbed him, bringing Spencer's turbulent, complicated life to a definitive end.

Though devouring the old man, who was already halfway in the grave, yielded almost no nourishment, Xia Tianming had mainly wanted the memories in his brain. In an instant, every detail, conspiracy, and plan concerning Umbrella Corporation flooded into Xia Tianming's [Memory Deep Web]!

But Xia Tianming had no interest in any of that. All he wanted was the rocket launch code for the "Extinction" plan.

Now that he'd obtained it by devouring Spencer's memories, all he had to do was head to the Rocket Silo.

In the fish tank, Leech Marcus saw that Spencer was dead and bounced jubilantly through the water. The only shame was that he hadn't gotten to kill the old man who had once killed him with his own hands.

"Hey, young man, this base belongs to you now. What are you going to do next? Why not let me be your assistant? I helped create part of this base back in the day. Nobody knows Umbrella Corporation better than I do," Marcus said, trying to sound ingratiating.

If he'd known Xia Tianming had already obtained the memories of all the shareholders here, as well as Spencer's, he probably wouldn't have said that.

Xia Tianming ignored the blabbering leech head in the fish tank. Once the rocket had launched, he'd go back to the Biochemical Garden and have a nice little "chat" with him.

He wondered what kind of abilities the Leech Queen Virus, which could create duplicates of itself, would grant him if he devoured it.

Having obtained the rocket launch code, Xia Tianming moved straight on to his next step.

The Rocket Silo was in a hidden base somewhere near the surface, disguised as a hill.

If he went there, returning to his previous location first would probably mean taking a half-day detour.

But Xia Tianming took a shortcut. He transformed into Rhino Armor Form again and charged into the wall behind Spencer's office!

He would take this "shortcut" all the way to his destination, smashing through anything in his path!

Seeing him leave again without a word, Marcus shouted from the fish tank, "Boss! Where are you going? Take me with you..."

Ten minutes later, inside a base, a group of Umbrella Corporation personnel were working frantically, preparing to launch a rocket as part of the "Extinction" plan.

All they had to do was wait for Boss Spencer to arrive and give the order. Then they would launch the nearly hundred-meter-tall rocket into Earth's outer atmosphere and finish eliminating the remnants on the surface, purifying it!

"Hey, do you hear something hitting the wall?" A staff member sitting at the control console, monitoring the rocket's parameters in real time, pricked up his ears and asked his colleague.

His colleague glanced at him and said disdainfully, "What wall-banging? I think working around the clock every day has made you start hearing things."

"I'm serious! Listen carefully if you don't believe me!"

With that, he led his skeptical colleague over to the sturdy concrete wall, and they leaned in to listen.

It sounded like...

There really was a thudding noise coming from behind the concrete wall???

RUMBLE!!

Suddenly, a deafening crash rang out. The section of concrete wall they were standing next to collapsed, burying the two unlucky men beneath a pile of rubble before they could react!

Everyone in the room was startled by the enormous noise and turned to look in shock.

As the dust gradually cleared, the outline of a nearly five-meter-tall demon emerged.

It stood atop the fallen rubble, an unnerving presence spreading throughout the entire launch facility...