8. Umbrella

After 3 days, S.. L.D.'s investigation is over, and there's really nothing to investigate, vampires aren't humans, and they don't leave anything behind when they die.

The Aegis Witchers surveyed the site of the explosion, and they were only able to confirm that a vampire had died there.

So the mercury accident was conclusive, and now, several years after the end of the vampire war, vampires in the whole of North America have been suppressed and can only obey the new order of aliens, and the death of a pure-blooded vampire is not a big problem worth paying attention to.

"You're free, congratulations."

In an office building in a small valley town in Colorado, Mrs. Larson, who was in a wheelchair, threw an accident report with the S.H.I.E.L.D. insignia in front of Mercury's pale face, and said softly to the vampire who had escaped death at the last moment by exchanging a magical tanuki for a prince:

"That scoundrel can't control you anymore, Lovely Miss, and you've finally held your new future with your own hands."

"Who are you?"

Mercury is not happy, compared with the blind obedience to others a few years ago, can be called a big brainless self, now Mercury has been in a long prison sentence, learned to think rationally.

Pain always makes a person wise.

She stared at the kind woman in front of her with her blood-red eyes, she knew that this woman was a powerful spellcaster, and she had to be careful when dealing with spellcasters.

So she asked more directly:

"What did you go to such lengths to save me for?"

"Well, it's easy, we have a trial that we need your cooperation on."

Mrs. Larson, the resurrected Lady Hydra, smiled at Mercury and said:

"We need a pure-blood test subject, rest assured, this trial has been done many times, and we have gathered enough information to guarantee the success of your trial."

"You'll have the power to take revenge... As for who we are, hehe, our former names have been forgotten. ”

"You can call us now... Umbrella. ”

"Umbrella?"

Mercury looked at the great red and white intertwined umbrella pattern on the wall behind Mrs. Larson, and she hesitated for a few seconds, then said:

"What experiments would require purebloods? Are you humans trying to start studying the secrets of the Bloodlines again? With all due respect, you can't make it. ”

"No, no, no, a little bit of confidence in us, miss."

Mrs. Larson rang the bell on the desk, and soon a handsome young man in a black leather coat, with a large golden back and sunglasses, walked out of the office, and he gently pushed Mrs. Larson's wheelchair like a most qualified assistant.

"Wesker, take us to the test area."

Mrs. Larson gave a word to her assistant, and then looked back at Mercury, and said:

"Come with me, Miss Mercury, if you need to make a choice, you'll need to gather enough information in advance... I will give you this opportunity, please trust us, we have good intentions towards you. ”

"Goodwill?"

Mercury followed Mrs. Larson and the silent Wesker, and she whispered:

"Who would have good intentions towards a vampire? No kidding, ma'am. ”

"Okay."

Mrs. Larson was not angry, she said:

"Then you will understand that we have a common enemy, Mr. Merlin, a difficult and terrible adversary. If false kindness doesn't unite you and me, then I believe that shared hatred will eventually make us friends. ”

"That's a good statement, I like it."

Miss Mercury nodded, and she did not refute again, but followed the principal and left the office building.

They sat in a black van, with the silent handsome Wesker in charge of the drive, a man with an unexpectedly murderous temperament, looking like a fighter ready to strike, but also like a ruthless decision-maker.

"You're interested in Wesker?"

Mrs. Larson, who was sitting in the back seat, noticed Mercury's curious gaze, and she said with a smile:

"I advise you not to be too interested in him. Wesker was the best senior staff member of the Umbrella, and he was one of our first 13 test subjects, I mean, the only one who survived and got the power. ”

"His will, his strength, his wisdom, are all we need, in fact, Wesker is a 'template', he is the most outstanding product of the umbrella, the most powerful protective force of the new order, and our most perfect treasure."

"Thank you for the compliment, ma'am."

Wesker, who was driving, said in a very calm and magnetic voice:

"It's an honor to serve our cause."

"Look, he's always so humble, and that's why I like him."

Mrs. Larson smiled and said:

"But Wesker's success is only due to good luck and luck, Lady Luck's dice have seriously affected the progress of our plan, we need to absorb more external forces to correct the element of luck, unfortunately, technology can not help us too much, the establishment of the Future Technology Foundation, so that a large number of outstanding talents have been gathered on the side of our enemies."

"We'll have to turn to ancient magic for help, and luckily we've found the key."

The powerful caster, like a dying old woman, kindly stretched out her hand and placed it on Miss Mercury's cold fingers, and said:

"You are the key we need, the ancient bloodline inheritance will inject new vitality into our cause."

"All that said, and you haven't told me what I need to do?"

Mercury frowned and said:

"I feel more and more that maybe it was the wrong choice to accept your help... Is it too late for me to quit now? ”

"Hehe, look at you little girl, you can really tell jokes."

Mrs. Larson looked out the window, the small valley town where the Umbrella Company is located is called Raccoon City, it is a very peaceful place, even if the outside world has been turned upside down by the superhero and intelligent robot incident, it is still isolated and quiet.

It's like a paradise.

The car was quiet, and Mercury stopped talking, she knew that she had no choice, and not to mention how powerful the old witch sitting next to her was, so she said that Wesker who was driving...

This guy is dangerous.

Mercury was a vampire, she could feel the flow of life force, and Wesker in front of her, his life force was obviously abnormal, like a raging and twisted sea, like a round of rising sun.

In terms of vitality alone, this guy is even better than Deadpool Wade, who loves to tell yellow jokes and tries to ask her out to do some bad things.

He's a bio-modified monster, a man-made monster, and despite his human form, Mercury doesn't think this guy is as easy to deal with as a normal man with a brain full of white turbidity and muscles.

The official car drove all the way to the valley outside Raccoon City, and soon they reached a research base in the mountains, with the Umbrella Company's distinctive logo printed on the exterior wall and a steady stream of trucks transporting new products for sale around the world.

It looks like a normal pharmaceutical factory.

"We're a pharmaceutical company, and of course we do some 'legal' biological experiments."

Mrs. Larson, who was in a wheelchair, was pushed into the base's research building by Wesker, and as she went, she introduced the mercury beside her:

"Every one of our studies is officially filed, we pay our taxes on time, we do charity work, and we provide thousands of jobs in the city, so the government of Raccoon City loves us and they make a lot of things for us."

"You seem to have a lot of business."

Miss Mercury looked at the samples in the lobby of the laboratory building with a strange expression, the boxes that looked like cosmetics, and she turned to look at Mrs. Larson, and said:

"Even make cosmetics?"

"Of course."

The old lady smiled and introduced:

"The first drug we developed was called Adravil, which is an ibuprofen-based analgesic, which is now widely used by the military in 113 countries, and that was the first pot of gold we made."

"Then there's Safsprin, our flagship product, which can be used to treat a variety of common ailments, and many people call it a 'panacea', but it's not a panacea, and if you're seriously ill, I would recommend you go to a regular hospital. And this wound ointment called Aqua Cure, which is also selling well, and has made us a huge profit after a year on the market. ”

"Oh, of course, it's because our biggest competitor, Abstergo Pharmaceuticals, has been forced to shut down, and while it gives us a chance to rise, it's a shame that some of their drugs are good too."

Mrs. Larson put down the ointment in her hand with some regret, and she picked up her usual milky white makeup, and said to the mercury:

"It's called Regenerate, and it makes the girls scream because it maximizes the activation of dead skin cells and makes you look younger... Of course, I don't think you want to know what its raw materials are, but that doesn't stop girls all over the world from buying it and using it. ”

The lady chuckled and said:

"Seriously, if it weren't for our ambitions, I would have wanted to leave everything behind and run this company well, it really has potential, and with the current development trend, in a few years, I might be on the Forbes rich list."

"Sounds like a pity."

Mercury put the free cosmetics in her bag, and she followed Mrs. Larson and Wesker into the elevator, all the way down, and she said:

"In this human-dominated world, money can do many, many things."

"Yes, money is a good thing."

Mrs. Larson agreed:

"But for us, who are destined to control the world order in the future, what is the value of more money? Setting rules is the most profitable business. ”

"Make the rules?"

Mercury listened to this astonishing target come out of the mouth of Mrs. Larson, who was as usual as if she were talking about what to eat in the afternoon, which made Mercury feel a kind of absurdity.

Even though the pharmaceutical company has a big background behind it, even if they are doing some experiments that even vampires find dangerous, they are still just a pharmaceutical company.

"Click"

The elevator door opened a few minutes later, and judging by the speed of the elevator's downward spiral, Mercury felt like he had reached a depth of nearly a thousand meters.

In front of the elevator, there is a quiet underground building, like an upside-down building, which is made to look indistinguishable from the buildings on the surface with artificial simulated light.

Mercury followed Mrs. Larson into the building, flanked by laboratories of precision mechanics and many researchers busy.

Mercury saw them open a refrigerated cabinet and take something odd out of it.

It looked like a cylindrical test tube containing some liquid, and the blue liquid in it was contained in the form of a double helix.

"What's that?"

Mercury asked.

“T。”

Wesker Says:

"You just need to know this."

"Don't be so rude, Wesker."

Mrs. Larson stopped Wesker's indifferent remarks, and she took the initiative to explain to Mercury:

"That thing, you can understand that it's something similar to a super serum, but it's more dangerous than a serum, it's essentially a virus, it's super contagious, a small bottle of liquid can contaminate a city, and as for what will become of those who are infected, I don't think you want to know."

"You know what's the most ironic? Mercury. ”

Mrs. Larson said without looking back:

"T, and its other 'sibling product', G, are extracted from your own kind."

"It's a very magical legendary bloodline, theoretically it can evolve infinitely, but it can't control this evolution pattern, it gets out of control, so it dies, but it leaves a valuable legacy, and we, too, have cracked the secret of evolution."

Mercury didn't answer, and she continued on, into the deeper lab, which was more like a warehouse for various test subjects.

Miss Vampire saw the strange twisted mass of flesh stored in the giant jar, it didn't look like any life at all, the flesh and blood all over its body were horribly twisted, and Deadpool's disgusting face was extremely handsome compared to it.

On the other side of the warehouse, in an even larger jar, there was a large creature over 2 meters tall, which appeared to have a humanoid form, but its naked muscles were a strange grayish-white color, but it was not rotten.

Its two arms are thick and covered with abnormal disgusting musculature.

Its right arm has been transformed into exaggerated claws, like some kind of, and each finger has saber-like claws. The most disgusting thing was that his heart was exposed to his body, with a thick, bright red aorta that was constantly beating even in a liquid-filled jar.

Mercury could see through the liquid, and the creature's face was expressionless, like a zombie, its face was covered with scars, and it looked like it had experienced a terrible thing.

"Well, that's a 'tyrant', it's a pity it's a failure, well, maybe it's more appropriate to call it an incomplete product."

Mrs. Larson pushed the wheelchair herself to a sealed safe, and while unlocking the safe with her fingerprints, iris, and magical powers, she said to the curious mercury:

"It's a real biological weapon, with huge strength, agility, self-healing, and a complete sense of combat, but unfortunately it doesn't have intelligence, and can only be used as enhanced cannon fodder, but I have to say that in the work of cannon fodder, they perform quite perfectly. But we now have a small problem, that is, the tyrant's virus adaptation is too low..."

"There is only one natural fit in millions of people, and that's obviously not what we want."

"Cannon fodder, there must be a lot of it, so we hope you can help us solve this problem and use the ability of the Bloodline to manipulate blood... Of course, we also have a 'gift' for you. ”

"Look, it's right in front of your eyes."

The old witch pushed the wheelchair out of the way, exposing the contents of the safe to Mercury's eyes, a delicate triangular conical bottle with a few drops of blood inside.

It was no ordinary blood, and when it was seen, Mercury's body trembled abnormally as if it sensed some kind of force.

"That's..."

"Your ancestor, Blood, Miss Mercury, from the legendary Count Dracula."

Mrs. Larson whispered:

"We've spent years refining it, and now, it's yours... Of course, if you can't withstand the pressure, your ancestors will be resurrected within you, and your will will will be completely erased, but I think..."

"There is a price to be paid for ingesting any power... That's fair, isn't it? ”

PS: The serial number of the previous chapter is wrong, don't care~ Thank you for the reminder from the brothers in the group.

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