Virus Throne

That...

What was that...

When everyone saw the demon appear, its entire body covered in black armor, they were so shocked they couldn't speak, as if someone had hit pause.

Using a "shortcut," Xia Tianming had covered in ten minutes a distance that should have taken several hours, crashing all the way from Spencer's office to this Rocket Silo!

Through the huge holes in the collapsed walls behind him, they could see dozens of concrete walls, each punched through by a massive human-shaped hole...

Once everyone came to their senses and realized this must be an unknown enemy, the staff at their posts panicked and scattered in every direction!

But they had barely taken a few steps when they felt something winding around their ankles.

Looking down, they saw writhing, bizarre black-and-red tentacles wrapped around them, nearly giving them heart attacks...

And all those tentacles had erupted from Xia Tianming's body!

After fighting G-William and devouring him, Xia Tianming had already reached the Blacklight Threshold. So the moment he arrived, he unleashed [Myriad Tentacles]!

Then, heart-rending screams echoed through the dome of the Rocket Silo. Hundreds of staff and armed soldiers disappeared, devoured in the blink of an eye, and the entire base fell silent!

As for why Xia Tianming had slaughtered them all, it was because the staff had been given an order: if the Rocket Silo was compromised and exposed to the enemy, they were to immediately activate the base's self-destruct sequence, even if it meant dying in the flames themselves.

This was Umbrella Corporation's contingency plan in case the Rocket Silo was seized by the resistance or other enemies opposed to the company.

Word was that Alice had already obtained the virus Serum. If she put the Serum in a rocket and detonated it in orbit around Earth, all the viruses on the surface would be eradicated, and every one of the company's plans would be ruined in an instant.

After clearing out everyone here who might interfere, Xia Tianming climbed down from the rubble and made his way beneath the rocket's launch platform.

He looked up at the hundred-meter-tall rocket held in place by mechanical arms. Then Blacklight Wings unfolded from his back, and he flew toward the rocket's nose!

Some of the people he had just devoured had been rocket designers, so he easily found the entrance at the top and landed beside it.

He entered the rocket and expertly found a lever. When he pulled it, a five-meter-wide cylindrical container, protected by several layers of security measures, came into view.

The glass container was filled with a strange liquid that glowed blue.

It was an improved strain of the T-Virus, weighing more than ten tons!

Once launched into space around Earth and detonated, it would spread across the globe with the help of various natural conditions, reaching every corner of the surface. The air would be saturated with the bio-virus, wiping out the remaining resistance fighters and survivors and bringing about the "Extinction" plan!

Afterward, the environment and resources on Earth, ravaged by humanity, would gradually recover over time.

Once Earth returned to its former glory, they would carry out the next step, the "Genesis" plan: release genetically enhanced virus carriers onto the surface, where they could repopulate the planet.

That was Spencer's vision: eradicate the inferior genes of the old era and let a new humanity reclaim the Earth through the "Extinction" and "Genesis" plans!

It was all so absurdly melodramatic...

Too bad Spencer wouldn't live to see it.

Looking at the glass container full of improved T-Virus, Xia Tianming raised his right hand, and countless tiny Blacklight Tentacles extended from his palm.

As if they had minds of their own, the viral tendrils crawled up to the opening at the top of the container and slipped through the fine ventilation holes, which had been left to preserve the T-Virus's activity.

Then the Blacklight Tentacles surged inside and submerged themselves in the T-Virus solution, spreading and multiplying like crazy!

The Blacklight Virus was like an unstoppable army of Spartan warriors, devouring every foreign virus it touched and rapidly "blackening" a thousand times its volume in T-Virus!

In less than ten seconds, the more than ten tons of blue T-Virus solution had turned completely black, as dark as the depths of outer space!

After converting the entire vat of T-Virus into Blacklight Virus, Xia Tianming turned and left. He jumped straight off the top of the rocket, dropping from a hundred meters up and landing on the ground!

He looked at the complicated rocket launch control panels, now unattended, and reached out both hands again. Dense viral tendrils extended from his fingertips, spreading across every keyboard like a vast web of stars.

Next, he controlled the tendrils all by himself, using the skills he had gained by devouring the staff to work nimbly across every control panel!

His efficiency alone far surpassed that of hundreds of staff working together, a feat that would have made capitalism ecstatic!

A minute later, all the rocket parameters were set. Xia Tianming entered the final launch code he had retrieved from Spencer's memories.

BOOM!!!

The dome above the rocket began to open in two directions, shaking the entire base and revealing the dim sky, which had not seen sunlight for many years!

Then the rocket powered up, its entire frame trembling violently as crimson flames began to shoot from its tail to warm the engines.

Rocket launch countdown—120 seconds.

119 seconds

118 seconds

The rocket, loaded with Blacklight Virus, needed another two minutes before it could launch.

Unfazed by the searing heat of the rocket's exhaust, Xia Tianming sat down directly in front of it, though there was no chair behind him.

The instant the idea of sitting crossed his mind, countless tentacles extended from his back and drooped to the ground. The black-and-red tendrils quickly wove and gathered together until they formed a massive Virus Throne made entirely of Blacklight Virus tentacles!

Xia Tianming sat down. The tentacles of the throne writhed erratically, like something out of Lovecraft.

He rested his elbow on an armrest made of hardened tentacles, propped his cheek on his fist, and leaned back. His gaze calmly fixed on the Rocket Silo's only exit, making him look like a king in a breathtaking portrait, regal and imposing!

His mission in this world was almost complete. Who knew what was going through his mind at that moment...

When the rocket countdown reached 99,

the door he was staring at was suddenly shoved open. A group of people appeared in the doorway, panting, staring in shock at the rocket about to launch!

They were a varied group of men and women.

One was a gorgeous woman with short hair, wearing a red dress and skirt; one was fully armed and wore a multifunctional combat helmet that concealed their face; one had neatly parted blond hair and a cold, stern expression; another woman carried all kinds of lethal weapons, looking like a walking arsenal, and so on.

They were Ada Wong, Hunk, Leon, Chris, Claire, and the others!

The blond woman at their head, with crimson eyes and an unusual aura, was none other than Umbrella Corporation's number-one enemy—Alice!

Well, well. Every character from the games and movies had shown up. Was this Biohazard world some kind of all-out crossover battle?

Facing these "protagonists," Xia Tianming remained calm on the Virus Throne, as if he had foreseen their arrival all along...

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