Alice used her telekinesis to knock away the Virus Throne's countless tentacles, clearing a path straight to Xia Tianming, who sat upon it.
She gritted her teeth, fighting through the gradual weakening of her mental power, then seized her chance to leap more than twenty meters and bring both blades down on the man atop the throne!!
Just as the sharp blades were about to slice through his neck, they suddenly stopped dead, unable to advance another centimeter.
Alice stared in shock. At some point, the man had casually reached out and grabbed both her wrists—the ones holding the Nepal Machete?!
No matter how hard she struggled, she couldn't break free of his palm, as immovable as a hydraulic clamp!
Xia Tianming looked at the "leading lady" he had once seen in the movies. She had been his childhood goddess.
But now, seeing her stirred nothing in him. After becoming a Blacklight Virus, he saw no difference between anyone.
"Bastard..."
With both hands seized, Alice twisted her face into a snarl, then suddenly jerked her head down and smashed her forehead hard into Xia Tianming's face, hoping to knock him senseless.
Thud! She felt as if she'd slammed her head into an iron Buddha. He didn't budge, but she nearly gave herself a concussion. A wave of dizziness washed over her...
Sixty seconds remained until the rocket launch.
Meanwhile, over with the other "protagonists," they were still struggling to hold back the Blacklight Zombies, but two of them broke away from the group and ran toward the rocket.
They were Ada and Claire.
"Don't worry about us! Hurry and blow up that rocket booster!!"
Claire's brother, Chris, lifted his heavy machine gun with a savage expression and unleashed a furious barrage at the Blacklight Zombies surging toward them.
Leon, meanwhile, relied on his powerful martial arts to weave through the horde, doing his best to buy them time.
There was no time for hesitation. Ada and Claire grabbed the powerful explosives and ran toward the rocket launch site.
Seeing two stragglers slip through, Xia Tianming stopped playing around with Alice. His arm shifted into Claw Form and pierced her neck, infecting her. Then he prepared to leave her behind and go after the two women.
Suddenly!
Alice's eyes flew wide open. Before she could be completely assimilated, she unleashed her telekinesis once more. At such close range, it felt to Xia Tianming as if a high-speed train had slammed into him head-on, sending him flying in an arc!
But using her telekinesis twice in a row had also gravely wounded Alice. She spat out a mouthful of blood and gritted her teeth. "Take that! That was the last of my telekinetic power!!"
With that, she lost consciousness and collapsed.
After being hurled away by the telekinetic blast, Xia Tianming quickly got back to his feet. He had suffered no real injury, and immediately resumed chasing the two women carrying explosives.
Everyone was stunned to see the man take one of Alice's telekinetic attacks head-on and act as if nothing had happened. Alice's powers were strong enough to twist steel bars into corkscrews!
Xia Tianming pushed off with his feet and shot after them like a bullet, leaving dents in the ground with every step!
Ada Wong felt pressure bearing down on her from behind. Without hesitation, she spun around, drew her Desert Eagle from the holster on her shapely thigh, and pulled the trigger at the oncoming shadow!
Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!
A burst of gunfire rang out, but her target had vanished. She couldn't tell whether she'd hit him.
Suddenly!
She sensed someone appear behind her. Instinctively, she raised her elbow and swung it back, only for a cold palm to catch it with ease?!
Trembling, she turned her head. The man had appeared behind her at some point.
Xia Tianming looked coldly at Ada Wong, whom players hailed as the sexiest character. Without a moment's hesitation, his right hand became a Blacklight Blade and plunged into her abdomen!
Then her face twisted, and her pupils turned pitch-black in an instant as the Blacklight Virus assimilated her!
"No!!"
Leon, who had been fending off the Blacklight Zombies, saw the woman he loved get stabbed in the abdomen. Ignoring the horde behind him, he opened fire wildly at Xia Tianming!
But Xia Tianming ignored him completely. He left Ada Wong behind and continued after Claire, who was still heading toward the rocket.
Leon ran over with bloodshot eyes and lifted Ada Wong into his arms, remembering how they had loved and fought when they first met at the Raccoon City Police Department.
Wait...
Why wasn't she bleeding? Where was the wound???
Leon suddenly noticed that while the clothes over her pierced abdomen were torn, there was no wound. Her skin was completely unbroken.
What was going on?
Had his eyes deceived him? Then how had those claw marks appeared on her clothes??
Suddenly! Ada Wong opened her eyes, her irises completely black!
Before Leon could react, she opened her mouth and sank her teeth into his neck!
The two lovers who had never managed to be together in the game finally "embraced" at last...
Thirty seconds remained until the rocket launch.
Elsewhere, Claire clutched the explosives and saw that half her companions had fallen. Her brother Chris was also in grave danger, surrounded by zombies. Fighting back her grief, she kept running toward the rocket. She couldn't let their sacrifices be in vain!
Who was that man? How had he defeated her powerful companions in the blink of an eye?!
When she saw him coming after her again, anger and fear warred within Claire. But she couldn't let revenge cloud her judgment. Once she blew up the rocket, she'd find a chance to take him down with her!
Just as Xia Tianming was about to catch up, a whistling sound came from behind!
A rocket-propelled grenade, trailing flames, shot straight toward him!
Xia Tianming immediately transformed his right hand into a Blacklight Spike Shield to withstand the blast!
Boom!
With a deafening crash, Xia Tianming stood firm and blocked it head-on!
As the flames cleared, a fully armed man wearing a combat gas mask dropped the empty rocket launcher tube. Firing his weapons, he advanced on Xia Tianming!
The Grim Reaper—HUNK was said to be the only one who ever survived his squad's missions, earning him the title of the Grim Reaper!
Xia Tianming naturally remembered this popular hidden character from the game.
Could the Grim Reaper really never die?
HUNK kept pulling the trigger, firing at his opponent and stopping the man from intercepting Claire.
His magazines seemed to never run dry. He used grenades, stun grenades, flashbangs, explosive charges, and everything else he had, as if he were carrying an entire arsenal.
Even a Tyrant would probably be forced to one knee after taking such a vicious barrage all at once.
Seeing how much HUNK liked using firearms, Xia Tianming reached out. A mass of viral tendrils suddenly extended from his empty palm. At his command, they rapidly converged, hardened, and wove together, until they formed the outline of a bio-engineered firearm!
This gun had no metal parts. It was made entirely of viral tendrils, and so were its bullets!
A layer of writhing tendrils covered the eerie gun, making it seem almost alive. The sight was unsettling!
Tubular tendrils extended from the grip and pierced Xia Tianming's wrist, hardening the viral blood inside his body into bullets and firing them. There was no need to reload.
In other words, as long as its wielder had enough nutrients, this biological viral firearm had an unlimited supply of ammunition!
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