Chapter 004: Bedside Night Talk
What happens to a young and handsome man and a woman who stay in the same room at night and sit in the same bed?
The answer is "chat".
Pure chat.
Fulfilling his promise in advance, Lance, who put on his pants, did not recognize people, but calmly walked to the end of the bed and sat down, keeping a comfortable conversation distance of about one meter from the head of the bed occupied by Rebecca.
"So... Officer Chambers, please let me know in the simplest language why I am under threat of force. Having put on his clothes as he wished, the young man smiled and said the opening words he had come up with.
Although he had already used the past two minutes to roughly figure out how to make up his resume, it was a safer option to let the other party talk about it first.
After all, as long as you observe a little, you can find that there are many suspicious places on him, which are too obvious to ignore.
For example, where did he get the shoes, the tactical boots of the police standard? Besides, why did he appear on this train with dead passengers close to midnight, hiding naked in the room and getting dressed?
All of this needs to be justified, and preferably psychologically explained. It would be even more ridiculous to tell Rebecca that she had just returned from a decade of quarantine on a desert island and that she now had a very slight antisocial personality.
However, despite his racking of his brains and foresight, the other party didn't seem to think so much at all, and showed a very calm attitude.
"No problem, thinking back to the conflict just now, I want to say sorry to you first, tonight is my first time out of the field." She touched her nose embarrassedly, "Maybe I'm too nervous, but this mountainous area... I don't know how to describe this train, and the strangely dead passengers, make people feel depressed and uncomfortable......"
With that, the female officer took out a folded prisoner escort book, opened it and handed it to Lance, "And the reason why I immediately raised my gun to warn is that I mistook you for this man, a former second lieutenant in the Marine Corps, the criminal who killed 23 innocent civilians. Cohen. ”
The young man took the prisoner escort book, which was labeled Billy. Cohen's photo is a handsome guy with thick eyebrows and big eyes; Although he doesn't have the star faces of Tom Cruise or Brad Pitt, he is already very good, only a hundred million points worse than himself.
According to the above account, he will be sent to the nearby Regasson base to be executed......
Rebecca continued, "I'm a paramedic from the S.T.A.R.S. Bulava squad of the Raccoon City Police Department, and I'm traveling with the team to the mountains of Acre tonight to investigate the recent series of hunting killings, and maybe you've seen on the news that the victim's body was gnawed.
However, the engine of the helicopter suddenly failed during the process.
At the site of the temporary landing, we found a prisoner van, and the gendarmes responsible for escorting Billy Cohen were in a tragic death, so the team leader ordered a manhunt.
Then this 'Zodiac Express' parked on the tracks, I don't know if you saw the passengers in the dining car in front of you, they all looked like the dead man on the ground, and their eyeballs were directly stabbed by the skewers.
I suspect it's Billy. Cohen's usual method of action is unimaginably cruel and tyrannical, and that evil scum must be stopped! ”
The front was normal, but Lance's eyelids jumped when he heard the last few words. This chick pointed at the monk and scolded the bald donkey, but her face was frank and sincere, as if she really didn't doubt herself.
Coughing twice, she folded the escort book and returned it to Rebecca angrily, and through her narration, she also found that this Officer Chambers had a lot of knowledge and was completely out of the situation.
Because as long as you have seen the resurrection of zombies, you will bite people in the face of bullets and bullets, and you will not be too surprised by the "eye-catching" precautions.
So the question now is how to convey the right information to the other party subtly and without arousing suspicion.
"I see...... I understand the law enforcement style of country M, and I ask you to forget that my counterattack is excessive. Lance picked up her pistol and put it on the bed, slowly pushing it to the side of the opponent's thigh, a gesture of trust and friendliness.
"And then I think you're right, there are indeed quite a few terrifying monsters active in this mountainous area tonight, and there is some kind of evil force spreading...... Don't look weird, I'm not kidding, maybe you should take a look at this first. ”
Lance picked up the Passenger's Diary and opened it to Rebecca.
"For the private life of the gentleman on earth, please note the three days of July 14th, July 16th, and July 19th.
Based on the above account, I suspect that there are man-eating monsters in the Akure Mountains due to the leakage of a virus researched by Ambrera. And the passengers in this car either died from the virus or from the biochemical weapons catalyzed by the virus. ”
…… Rebecca flipped through it quietly.
After a moment, she shook her head, her expression a little incredulous, "So Ambrera Company, those people in the carriage are all ......!?" ”
In the face of doubt, evidence is more useful than words.
Lance didn't speak, but took out the Ambrera Company again. The Order of Investigation was handed to her, a document that could have reached a similar suspicion by anyone if it had been compared to the Passenger's Diary.
……。
A quiet minute passed, and Rebecca frowned and stuffed her diary and papers into her carry-on bag, "Thank you, Mr. Lance, you're impressive. I promise that the Raccoon City police will investigate in depth in the future. But our dialogue is not over yet, and there are a few things that I would like you to clarify. ”
"For example?"
"For example, the tactical boots on your feet belong to my friend, helicopter pilot Kevin. He loves Garfield so much that almost everything that belongs to him has Garfield stickers on it. ”
Lifting his foot slightly, Lance saw the orange cat's bright smile on the heel of his shoe, and it was clear that Rebecca had seen it earlier.
"Then you are clearly not an employee of Ambrera. So why are you showing up on a train full of dead people at this time, looking for clothes to wear? ”
Lance noticed that the pistol was still on the side of Rebecca's thigh, and it was clear that the conversation had not been in vain, and the other party had no intention of using force, which was good news.
"What I'm going to say next is ridiculous, and I don't have any proof, but it's all true," staring deeply into the girl's eyes, the young man's mellow voice sounded unusually sincere, "I'm an ordinary traveler, I just arrived in Raccoon City last night, and I was about to find a place to rest, but I don't know why I suddenly lost consciousness.
When I woke up, I found myself lying naked under a tree, and everything was gone...... It's the reason for the lack of clothes – I guess it's being stunned and looted. ”
I listen to you talking nonsense!
Silently complaining, Rebecca resisted the urge to roll her eyes and stare at people, with the strength of the decisive and swift counterattack just now, it is not easy to sneak attack you.
Uninterrupted, Lance's story continues, "and then on to shoes, I woke up groping around in the forest, stumbling upon an overturned vehicle and a malfunctioning helicopter.
Here's an unfortunate news that must be notified to you of the helicopter pilot. Your friend Kevin may be dead, but at least there's a body in the driver's seat, wearing a uniform similar to yours.
His death was similar to that of the gendarmes in the escort car, and his body also showed signs of being bitten.
Of course, I was scared to see the corpse, and I was afraid that I would be attacked by an unknown beast if I stopped in the wild, so I had to put on my shoes and leave quickly; After about ten minutes of travel, I found this train, and I felt a little cold, so I came up to look for clothes to wear. ”
Don't mess around, okay!! Are you scared to see a corpse? You don't have any awe for the researcher on the ground!
Rebecca roared inwardly.
But on the other hand, she was a little flustered, because Lance mentioned Kevin's death, which was probably true, and there was no point in saying such an easy lie.
Reflecting on this, the girl looked into the young man's beautiful eyes and felt a kind of contradictory confusion - why couldn't she help but want to believe this guy even though she knew that this guy was not telling the truth?
The silence and subtle atmosphere lasted for a moment.
Suddenly, "Bang! ”
The sound of large pieces of glass breaking could be heard in the hallway.
Rebecca picked up her pistol, opened the crack in the door and glanced out, and the sight made her rush out.
And Lance, who followed up, just happened to be a witness to witness the life and death of teammates.
"Edward! Edward! You okay? What happened? Squatting next to the man covered in blood, the fledgling Rebecca looked a little helpless.
The police officer who smashed the glass into the carriage and sat on the floor gasped for breath and waved his hand to stop the girl from trying useless treatment.
"It's useless...... I can't. And then, perhaps, it was a flashback of light that made his words speak exceptionally clearly, "Listen...... You have to watch out, Rebecca. The forest is full of ...... Zombies and monsters ......"
"Zombies and monsters!?" Two special nouns instantly dilated the girl's pupils, especially a few minutes ago, a certain young man also told her about monsters in the forest.
The next second, Officer Edward hung his head and died.
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