What do you mean the games you make are all real?!

Chapter 67 Obtaining the Virus

The passage to the West District Laboratory opened quickly, and Fang Qingzhou led Claire and Sherry forward.

The walls on both sides of the corridor were inlaid with cold white light strips, illuminating the entire corridor as bright as day. Midway through, they saw the body of a USS team member lying on the ground.

This shows that the West District was indeed the core target area of ​​the USS team's operation, proving that they were on the right track.

Before long, the three of them arrived at the entrance to the West District Laboratory.

The West Zone is completely different from the overwhelming greenery of the East Zone Botanical Garden. The walls on both sides of the corridor are made of snow-white alloy without any superfluous decoration.

Ahead was an office with walls covered in data. The computer screen on the desk was still lit, and the screensaver was slowly rotating the Umbrella Corporation's red and white umbrella logo. Clearly, the office's owner had left before the disaster struck, without even having time to turn off the computer.

"This is my father's office—" Shirley stood at the office door, looking at the familiar furnishings in the room, and said softly.

As the daughter of the laboratory's director, she had visited the underground research institute several times.

Upon hearing this, Fang Qingzhou began to carefully examine the office for any useful information. Soon, he found several emails on the computer still lit up on the desk.

According to the emails, in the period leading up to the disaster, Umbrella Corporation headquarters repeatedly urged William Birkin to submit the latest research progress and experimental data on the G-virus.

William kept making excuses to delay, and eventually he simply stopped replying to emails altogether.

After repeated urgings went unanswered, Umbrella Corporation executives finally lost patience and sent a strongly worded email announcing the closure of the Raccoon City underground research facility and the removal of William Birkin from his position as principal investigator of the G-Virus project.

But William clearly had no intention of handing over his life's work so easily.

Unwilling to lose the G virus, he secretly contacted a mysterious organization referred to as BE in the email, claiming that he was willing to bring the G virus sample and all the research data to join them.

In the email, the BE organization described itself as the best-funded company in the United States, and expressed its willingness to provide William with a brand-new laboratory, unlimited research funding, and complete independent research autonomy.

Subsequently, the Umbrella Corporation headquarters apparently learned through some channel that William had been secretly contacting a third-party organization.

They sent a strongly worded warning email, claiming that they had detected William engaging in private dealings with the U.S. military and demanding that William immediately respond to the investigative committee's subpoena, or face further coercive measures.

The warning email was timestampd before the disaster, and William never replied to any emails after that.

What happened next was what Fang Qingzhou and his group had just seen in the holographic video on the USS member's corpse at the transit station.

William attempted to flee with the G-virus sample and data, but the Umbrella Corporation sent the USS team to intercept and retrieve it. During the process of seizing the virus sample, the USS team members accidentally shot William. As William was dying, he injected himself with the G-virus and turned into a monster. During the mutation process, he shattered the T-virus sample, causing the T-virus to spread throughout Raccoon City through the Hive's ventilation system.

"So—the government is also researching these things—" Claire stood behind Fang Qingzhou and read the emails with him, completely shocked.

The Umbrella Corporation is bad enough for conducting biological experiments, but at its core, it is a commercial company, and the bottom line of a commercial company can be measured in money.

But the government is different. The government is elected by the people and should protect the people. But now, the US government is not only not stopping the Umbrella Corporation's experiments, but is also secretly funding them.

"It seems so—" Fang Qingzhou wasn't surprised at all. Umbrella was researching these bioweapons to make money, and the biggest buyer was obviously the US government.

"So you still plan to get the G virus sample and hand it over to the FBI?" Claire asked.

She no longer really trusts the government, after all, the US government is one of the masterminds behind Raccoon City becoming what it is today.

"Are there any other options?" Fang Qingzhou countered, knowing full well that even if he gave the G-virus to Aida, it wouldn't end up in the hands of the US government.

Claire fell silent. Yes, it seemed there was no other choice but the government.

"Let's go, not everyone in the government is a bad person." Fang Qingzhou patted Claire on the shoulder.

Claire took a deep breath, suppressing her chaotic emotions, readjusted her submachine gun, and nodded.

Fang Qingzhou and his group continued walking forward. As they passed a brightly lit white passageway, he felt uneasy.

Because this tunnel is exactly the same as the laser tunnel in the movie Resident Evil.

He was afraid that as he walked, the door behind him would close, and then several red lasers would sweep over and shred him. The laser net in the movie Resident Evil was a childhood nightmare for him.

Fortunately, no lasers emerged after passing through the passage, which relieved Fang Qingzhou.

The next moment he was drawn to his surroundings, which were filled with cylindrical culture chambers containing mutated limbs.

Fang Qingzhou also saw a huge eyeball, just like the one in G William's hand.

"Are these all G-virus test subjects?" Claire asked in a low voice.

"They're all children from the orphanage." Fang Qingzhou picked up an experimental report, which included the record of subject number 628, the child who had run back to the orphanage earlier.

In the file folder of Subject 628, there was a photo of a thin boy, about seven or eight years old, wearing a faded blue T-shirt, standing in front of the dusty piano in the orphanage, giving a timid smile to the camera.

"Sigh—the Umbrella Corporation is truly heinous—" Fang Qingzhou sighed and put the file back.

Continuing onward, we saw a device containing virus samples and serum, but it was locked up.

"So how do I get this out?" Fang Qingzhou placed the purple bracelet on the device, but there was no response. There was a dent in the middle of the device, so it seemed that another key was needed to open it.

"Do we have to find Annie Birkin first?" Fang Qingzhou asked Claire beside him.

"Shirley's mother knows we're looking for the antitoxin serum. She should be in the lab; we should be able to find her," Claire said.

Sherry, who had been silent the whole time, looked at the dent in the device, took off the pendant from her neck, and put it inside. Soon the device opened.

"This was given to me by my mother," Shirley said softly.

Fang Qingzhou and Claire were both somewhat surprised. They hadn't expected that such an important key would be given to the little girl as a necklace. These parents were really carefree.

But now is not the time to think about these things. Claire couldn't wait to take out a bottle of yellow liquid from the top. This was the serum for the G virus, something that could save Sherry.

Fang Qingzhou held a bottle of blue medicine in his hand. It was a sample of his target, the G virus. To be honest, the blue virus sample was quite pretty.

However, the moment the G virus was brought out, the artificial intelligence of the nest issued a warning.

[The system has detected unauthorized removal of a Level 4 virus. Facility lockdown procedures have been initiated. Upon completion of the lockdown, the system will self-destruct.]

All the hidden red emergency lights on the ceiling lit up at the same time, and a piercing alarm sounded repeatedly throughout the entire nest, accompanied by the cold, artificial intelligence-controlled voice.

"Holy crap! Is it going to explode?!"

Upon hearing the prompt from the artificial intelligence, Fang Qingzhou was stunned. The logic of the Umbrella Corporation was simply outrageous.

With such strong leak prevention measures and self-destruct programs, why not use them when the virus is leaked? He just took the G virus sample out of the freezer, and the entire hive is going to perish with him. Isn't that a bit of an overreaction?

"Run!" Claire, who was still figuring out whether to inject or feed the antidote serum to Sherry, also changed her expression drastically when she heard the instruction.

Fang Qingzhou quickly put the G virus away, then tucked the little girl under his arm and started running back, with Claire close behind him.

As they ran back to the open circular platform of the transfer station, Fang Qingzhou saw an unexpected figure on the other side of the platform.

Ada Wong was seen walking towards them, limping, from the direction of the cable car platform.