Tokyo.
A white-collar office worker suddenly suffered a seizure on the street, then quickly collapsed. Within minutes, he had stopped breathing.
The nearby pedestrians screamed in surprise at the sight. Some slowly approached and asked, "Hey, are you all right?"
The office worker lay motionless. Someone nearby slowly leaned in to check on him, only for the office worker to suddenly return from the dead and sink his teeth into their shoulder. Blood splattered everywhere, drawing terrified screams from the onlookers.
Cries to call the police and loud shouts to stop rang out. In just over ten minutes, the street descended into complete chaos.
It was not just Tokyo. The situation gradually spread through France, Britain, Germany, Australia, and other places as well.
However, the Umbrella Corporation made preparations immediately. They had branches throughout the country, and their public companies worked together with companies secretly under Umbrella's control to cover up the side effects of the T-virus.
Umbrella had specifically established a Biohazard Countermeasure Service, with over seventy bases worldwide and more than three thousand armed soldiers under its command. Many people who turned into zombies were shot dead and taken away directly by the Umbrella Biohazard Countermeasure Service, without ever passing through the hands of the police or forensic examiners.
Afterward, they only needed the local police to clean things up. There were plenty of excuses: cooperation with Umbrella due to insufficient police manpower, police commissions, and the like.
Although civilians in various countries suffered considerable casualties, bribing local government personnel was enough to distance Umbrella from the incidents.
Of course, as the incidents multiplied, they would also arouse suspicion, but suspicion was all anyone had. They could not find a shred of evidence.
All the medicines containing the T-virus that Umbrella sold to outsiders were unfinished products. It