January 27.
Umbrella's private airport on the outskirts of Raccoon City.
Afternoon.
Two C-17 Globemaster IIIs landed at the airport one after another. The passengers and cargo transferred to the convoy that had been waiting for some time, then returned to the first level of the Hive through a hidden tunnel in the southern mountains.
The Living Dead went to the second level's private Cold Storage Room, while Charon was given a day off.
Rebecca led the researchers and technicians in taking the centipede carcass and samples of Blood Man secretions to the third level, where they immediately began more in-depth research and analysis.
Sui Bian personally handed William Birkin the Pursuer's combat data, along with Rebecca's preliminary analysis of the Blood Flower.
After watching the combat footage and reviewing the analysis, Birkin reacted even more intensely than Rebecca had at first.
The appearance of the Blood Flower meant that control over the G-Virus had entered a new stage, and their hopes had multiplied.
In October, November, and December of 1998, 144 D-Class Personnel had been used just to breed Xenos.
Most of the Xenos they bred were used in G-Virus research, while a tiny fraction were sent to the Plague Doctor for his so-called "vaccine" creation.
Starting in January, Birkin began injecting Sui Bian's clones with the G-Virus and then having Facehuggers implant themselves in them.
He then extracted an improved G-Virus from the Xeno offspring gestated inside the clones.
These versions of the G-Virus, improved by the Xeno species, were considerably more stable than the original, giving Birkin practically limitless inspiration.
Sui Bian, on the other hand, felt somewhat uncomfortable. Even though they were only his clones, he still couldn't help feeling a chill.
Sui Bian had spent all of January 1999 in Peru, and he knew how