"A perfect plan, yet you are the biggest beneficiary.
Truly disgusting behavior!" Jill harshly expressed her opinion of Zhou Yi, her gaze like she had seen something filthy, which made Zhou Yi inexplicably annoyed and very displeased.
He frowned and asked.
"Miss Valentine, I am very curious. Why do you look at me this way? If it's just about the previous issue, I can swear it was just a misunderstanding!"
"It has nothing to do with that, Mr. Rich!" Jill waved her hand, cutting him off. "You want to know why? I can tell you directly. I detest you because of everything you've done."
Zhou Yi sat up straight, assuming a posture of attentive listening.
"You clearly knew everything Umbrella was doing. You could have exposed them much earlier. Why did you wait until now to step forward? You're just a profiteering scoundrel, a vulture waiting for its prey to die, wanting to get a piece of Umbrella's remains. Everything you've done is merely for your own benefit. You've never considered how many people have died because of your inaction."
This was Jill's truest sentiment, and her most genuine feeling after learning of Zhou Yi's knowledge of Umbrella's secrets and his identity. Her heart was filled with hatred for Zhou Yi; this was something she had buried, but after a special encounter, she no longer concealed this emotion, instead exposing it directly before Zhou Yi.
A strange impulse drove her to do this. She wanted to know how Zhou Yi would face her inner resentment.
As for the raw emotion Jill displayed, Zhou Yi's reaction was very calm.
"Finished? If you're finished, you can get ready to start your mission. Time is pressing; Umbrella can no longer rein in the monsters they've raised."
After speaking, he stood up, seemingly intending to leave. But Jill found this action completely unacceptable. She had imagined many scenarios, but never that Zhou Yi would be so calm, so calm that it seemed as if none of this had anything to do with him.
This situation made her feel angry, perhaps at Zhou Yi's indifference, or perhaps for her fallen comrades. Either way, it was enough for her to block Zhou Yi's path and accuse him.
"Don't you feel even a little guilty? Aren't you ashamed of what you've done?" She widened her eyes, her expression as sharp as a sword.
"Ashamed? Why? Just because I stepped forward and said I knew all this?" Zhou Yi's expression finally changed, not to the furious embarrassment Jill imagined, but to a look of playful mockery, as if watching a farce.
"Do you really think I'm the only one who knows this? I can tell you, there are many more than just me. It's only because I appeared before you and told you everything I know that you can speak such nonsense to me. If I hadn't said anything, what right would you have to question me?"
"If we're talking about sin, many people are guilty. At this moment, Miss Valentine, you should be thanking me, not hating me. Because among those in the know, I am the only one willing to save you. As for those who have already died, I am very sorry. But if you're talking about guilt, then I can only be even more sorry."
After all this, Jill's expression became extremely strange. She stared intently at Zhou Yi, seemingly wanting to see a trace of psychological change on his face. But this was futile. So in the end, she could only turn her head away.
"You are a cold-blooded devil!" This was her final accusation.
"But this devil can save the remaining people in this city!" Zhou Yi didn't mind such verbal attacks; he merely pushed open the door, signaling for Jill to follow him.
Jill silently followed Zhou Yi. Although she still hated him in her heart, at this moment, she had to follow him, because, as Zhou Yi said, only by following him could more innocent citizens be saved.
The Umbrella affiliated branch, once bustling floors, had become much quieter. Umbrella had evacuated a considerable number of key personnel. To avoid arousing suspicion, they even gave all employees two weeks of paid leave.
This made the unsuspecting employees thank the company for its generosity. They naively believed this was a protective measure taken by the company due to the chaotic situation in Raccoon City. Ignorance is sometimes a blessing, but sometimes it also means being closer to Death. These employees were just like that; they were all Umbrella's pawns, things abandoned along with the city.
However, the building was far from empty. In the central laboratory of the building, a group of people was monitoring a pile of sophisticated instruments. The instruments displayed the structure of a human body, and from the outline of the chest, it was a woman.
Woman, one of the two major categories of human beings. But here, she lost her meaning, because no one here would see her as a woman. The people here only saw them as experimental subjects, on the same Rank as lab mice. They had already experimented on many such beings, and had long since disregarded her true identity.
"No problems, the experiment can begin!" Such a voice rang out from among the group. Soon, someone responded with things like "Ready, experiment starting." The instruments began to work, and as these instruments operated, at the other end of the building, a place resembling an operating room made a sound.
Lights came on, and various medical devices began to operate. A certain special agent was injected into a woman lying on a hospital bed by a robotic arm. As this strange agent began to take effect, the woman on the bed slowly woke up.
She first looked around with some confusion, then immediately covered her head and screamed loudly. Intense pain assailed her brain, making her recall all of her memories in this agony.
However, her painful screams also attracted the attention of some people. Two armed Umbrella Soldiers pushed open the emergency room door. Seeing the awakened woman, they seemed a little surprised. But soon they walked forward, wanting to subdue her first.
Fully armed Soldiers and a naked woman, which one would have the advantage? It seemed obvious, but in reality, it was quite the opposite.
As the Soldier's hand just pressed on the woman's shoulder, she countered by grabbing his wrist. The bent joint forced the Soldier to twist his body, and at that moment, the woman had sprung from the bed, delivering a knee strike to the Soldier's waist.
The sound of bones breaking was unusually clear in this ward, meaning that even if this Soldier didn't die, he wouldn't be able to walk on his own two feet for the rest of his life. And this sound clearly startled his companion.
He quickly raised his gun and fired in the woman's direction. However, the woman very cleverly crouched down, shrinking behind the Soldier who was paralyzed on the ground.
The firing Soldier was unwilling to harm his companion and quickly moved his muzzle. But the woman seized this opportunity, directly pulling out the pistol strapped to the Soldier's thigh.
A single shot, and the bullet directly pierced the Soldier's head, causing the armed man to fall into a pool of blood.
Having dealt with the threatening individual, the woman reached out and grabbed the neck of the Soldier with the fractured spine. With a sudden burst of strength, this Soldier also followed the path of his companion.
The woman, having done all this, grimaced. The sudden movements had caused the needles in her body to tear her veins. She hadn't felt it during the fight, but now the pain immediately surged in.
She quickly pulled out the needles, but was surprised to find her wounds healing at a visible rate. This eerie scene instantly cast a Shadow over her eyes. At the same time, she also had a very bad premonition.
She quickly searched her body, and soon, she found a somewhat strange needle mark on her arm.
The evenly distributed, plum blossom-like needle marks instantly turned her face pale. As a former member of Umbrella, especially one who knew the inside story, she naturally knew what these needle marks meant. She had become an experimental subject, a monster that could change at any moment.
This was something she found hard to accept, yet had no choice but to accept. Because a more serious problem lay before her: her own safety.
Dense footsteps came from outside the door, the somewhat heavy sound immediately recognized by the battle-hardened woman as a fully armed team running. Clearly, the gunshots had attracted enough attention.
Being able to easily deal with two Soldiers didn't mean she could handle a team of well-trained Soldiers. Without the element of surprise, she had no confidence at all in surviving organized gunfire.
So, without a word, she pulled the bedsheet from beneath her and directly crashed through a floor-to-ceiling window on one side. The glass window offered no resistance to the woman's impact; in an instant, glass flew everywhere, and the woman, wrapped in the bedsheet, had burst out of the building, plummeting straight down from the fifth floor.
A container truck was directly beneath the woman; her body slammed onto the truck, immediately denting the truck's cargo compartment. With the truck in such a state, the woman naturally wouldn't be much better off.
Her arm was twisted into a strange posture, and a section of bone even protruded from her forearm. This was because she had used her arm to break her fall when she landed. And her internal organs had obviously also suffered a certain degree of impact, as a large amount of clotted blood emerged from her nostrils and mouth.
For an ordinary person, this would undoubtedly be a fatal situation. But it didn't apply to this woman, because she had already struggled to her feet and tumbled off the truck, then moved with great speed, quickly disappearing down the street.
It must be said, it was fortunate that Raccoon City was already deserted at this time, with most people hiding in their homes. Especially the street in front of Umbrella, there wasn't a single person. Otherwise, the woman's current appearance would definitely have scared many people.
And just after the woman disappeared down the street, a Soldier leaned out from the top of a building not far away. In his hand, he held a sniper rifle of considerable caliber; if you looked closely, you would notice that his scope's crosshairs were constantly locked on the woman.
However, he did not fire, but watched the woman enter a shop. Only at this moment did he press the communicator by his ear and speak.
"Officer, target has entered the experimental zone. Repeat, target has entered the experimental zone."
Edward's voice came through his earpiece.
"Very good, you can return to your unit."
"Yes, Officer!" The sniper replied, already shrinking into the Shadow behind him with the sniper rifle, as if he didn't exist at all.
And when he left his original position, the woman suddenly turned her head. Through the shop window, she stared at the place where he had just been monitoring her. Although she found nothing, she still knew that someone had been watching her.
This made her feel uneasy, so she quickly pushed open the back door of the shop and quietly left through the alley.