Rod of God

Six or seven grenades had gone off right beside him. Even if he wasn't dead, he'd be badly maimed. Even a Tyrant, a high-level T-Virus infected, would have struggled to withstand that!

After the violent explosions, the soldiers waited a while. When no more sounds came from beneath the tank, they cautiously approached.

One of the soldiers crouched down, wanting to see what had happened to their target.

But the moment he lowered his head, he found himself staring straight into a pair of pitch-black eyes...

The instant those eyes, as demonic as a devil's, fixed on him, a bone-deep chill swept from head to toe, as if he'd fallen into an abyss of ice!

Xia Tianming was curled up beneath the tank, his entire body covered in writhing tentacles. Grenade shrapnel was embedded all over their surface, making for a gruesome sight!

The Blacklight Virus had automatically wrapped around him, shielding him from every fragment produced by the grenades!

When the soldier came to his senses, he opened his mouth to warn his comrades. Before he could make a sound, a tentacle shot out from beneath the tank like an arrow and pierced his throat, choking off his words!

The soldier was dragged beneath the tank. After a single, bloodcurdling scream, he vanished without a trace...

The other soldiers could only watch their comrade disappear before their eyes. Terrified, they tried to get away.

Spurt!!

Xia Tianming gave the Blacklight tentacles a sharp twitch, launching the shrapnel embedded in them with force no weaker than a grenade blast!

The fragments shot out in every direction from beneath the tank, embedding themselves in or tearing through the ankles of soldiers who hadn't managed to get far. They fell one after another!

A dozen more tentacles whipped out from beneath the tank, wrapped around their ankles, and dragged them under, leaving only a trail of frantic claw marks on the ground!

Then came a series of agonized screams...

After devouring the soldiers he'd dragged beneath the tank, Xia Tianming's lower body—blown apart by the Vulcan Cannon—regenerated.

But he knew that if he crawled out from under the tank, the two circling attack helicopters would badly wound him again. He had to deal with them first!

Beside him lay a soldier's corpse he hadn't devoured. He'd deliberately saved it to use as a projectile.

No more hesitation. Hesitation meant defeat!

Xia Tianming grabbed the corpse, kicked off with both feet, and shot out from beneath the tank. Before the enemy could react, he concentrated Blacklight energy in his right arm. His muscles swelled instantly, and his strength surged!

Then he hurled the corpse at one of the helicopters!

The soldier's body shot through the air like a cannonball, rising dozens of meters until it slammed into the helicopter's rapidly spinning rotor blades!

The blades shredded the corpse like a meat grinder. Blood and bits of organs splattered across the helicopter's windshield.

The pilot's vision was obscured. Panicking, he lost control, and the helicopter lurched as it dropped more than ten meters!

Xia Tianming seized his chance and leaped onto the tank. He bent his knees slightly and channeled Blacklight Virus energy into his legs. His muscles formed sleek, powerful lines, coiled with explosive strength.

Then he pushed off hard and leaped toward the helicopter, now flying lower. He soared more than twenty meters—just high enough to reach its landing gear!

Xia Tianming grabbed the landing gear, swung himself with a powerful twist of his waist, then kicked through the cabin door and forced his way inside!

The crew members saw the terrifying enemy burst into the cabin and were scared out of their wits!

A moment later, another bloodcurdling scream came from inside the helicopter!

The pilot of the other Black Hawk Helicopter saw the first one shaking wildly. Terrified, he shoved the controls forward and pulled away from it.

Before long, the hijacked helicopter steadied, but its windows were covered in blood, obscuring everything inside.

"Shoot that helicopter down." Seeing this, Captain Kromi immediately gave the order over the radio from the jeep.

"What?"

The pilot thought he'd misheard. Training a pilot was difficult enough, and in this resource-starved apocalypse, every piece of advanced equipment lost was one less they'd have.

Captain Kromi roared hysterically, "I said shoot that helicopter down!!"

Too frightened to argue, the pilot obeyed. He turned the helicopter around and locked the mounted Stinger missile system onto the aircraft that had been invaded. Then he flipped open the safety cover, ready to press the red fire button.

Clang!

Suddenly!

The blood-smeared window of the targeted Black Hawk Helicopter was kicked clean out, revealing everything inside!

The pilot, just about to fire the Stinger missile, froze for a moment and looked closely.

The man in the pilot's seat wasn't the colleague he knew. It was Xia Tianming, his face cold and impassive!

Xia Tianming had never flown a helicopter before, but after devouring the pilot, he'd automatically gained the man's thousands of hours of flying experience.

While the pilot across from him hesitated, Xia Tianming pressed the fire button first.

Boom! Boom!

Two Stinger missiles shot out of their launch tubes, trailing flames as they streaked toward their target!

At such close range, there was no way to dodge. The pilot could only stare in despair, eyes wide, as the two missiles bore down on him, their searing trails reflected in his pupils...

BOOM!!!

A deafening blast rang across the wasteland, and the explosion lit up half the night sky!

The precious Black Hawk Helicopter became a flaming wreck and plunged toward the ground...

The shock wave from the close-range explosion nearly sent the helicopter Xia Tianming was piloting tumbling out of the sky. He gripped the controls tightly and steadied it. A rare, cold smile appeared on his calm face.

Now it was time to switch roles in the cat-and-mouse game.

He ignored the soldiers below shooting at the aircraft, pushed the controls forward, and headed straight for the speeding camouflage jeep.

After Captain Kromi saw his squad's pilot get killed, he ordered the driver to speed up and flee.

An infected had actually hijacked a helicopter by force?!

This guy was even more terrifying than Alice!

And Xia Tianming had displayed abilities Kromi had never seen before. Had the virus evolved again???

"You bastards! When you gave me this mission, why didn't you tell us this guy had so many freakish abilities?! Self-healing, shapeshifting, regeneration, superhuman jumping—he's far more terrifying than that woman!" Captain Kromi glared with bloodshot eyes and roared at Monitor over the radio.

But this time, it was Wesker's signature sneer that came through the radio: "What's wrong, Captain Kromi? Has the all-powerful captain finally met his match?"

"You've still got the nerve to laugh?! Send reinforcements right now! Do you still want us to capture this guy alive or not?!" Hearing him laugh, Captain Kromi's fury burned even hotter.

Wesker replied, "Calm down. Just hold him off for five more minutes. Rod of God, which we've deployed in space, is charging up. Once it's ready, we'll try to take him out in a single strike."

Rod of God was a space-based weapon that the Umbrella Corporation had recently deployed in Earth's outer orbit. It could fire a powerful Plasma Laser Beam that would reach any point on the planet in an instant!

No life on Earth had ever been able to withstand an attack like that!

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