The group was now at the entrance to the police station.
Further inside was the reception desk.
Around the desk lay brown marble tiles and rows of antique load-bearing stone pillars.
Because Leon's Freeze Breath had not reached the interior.
Everything here remained exactly as it had been.
The entire hall had a retro style. The wall lamps embedded in the stone pillars were dusted with gold, their light close to the color of sunlight.
Behind the reception desk stood a Statue of Liberty sculpture.
Leon remembered that this police station had originally been a museum.
It had later been remodeled into its current form by the chief.
The purpose was to conceal the entrance to Umbrella Corporation's underground laboratory.
That entrance was beneath the Statue of Liberty sculpture, and three stone slabs were needed to unlock the mechanism.
The group went around the reception desk.
Between the Statue of Liberty sculpture and the reception desk was a temporary emergency room set up with medical partitions.
A pale-faced man lay on a stretcher inside.
He was powerfully built, all muscle padded with fat, with neat short hair. But his body temperature was frighteningly low.
"He's infected!" Bard immediately saw what was wrong with him.
He moved the man's body slightly. "The wound is on his arm. Judging by this, he was infected less than three hours ago. He can still be saved!"
"But I don't understand why you kept an infected person in the police station. That's very dangerous."
Over the past few days.
Bard had seen far too many cases where people refused to abandon their companions and ended up getting even more people killed.
The joy on the faces of the three officers, who had been delighted to hear their teammate could be saved, now faded into silence.