Chapter 14
Li Yexing had to admit that he underestimated Lilith's combat power. Whether it was the kick that sent Black Uncle flying or now lifting a small car directly, Li Yexing was surprised.
Seeing Lilith hammering the security forces, Li Yexing felt that his tactics were wrong from the beginning.
He should have let Lilith go directly, and she could probably crushed the security forces and the gang directly. But this also led to another problem.
Because Li Yexing was too engrossed in watching Lilith's amazing performance, he relaxed his guard down and did not protect his backside, which allowed someone to touch him directly.
"Don't move, put your hands up!"
With a powerful voice, Li Yexing felt the cold barrel of a gun on the back of his head. In that instant, Li Yexing reacted.
He quickly turned around and grabbed the gun with his hand, pushing it to the side. The gun went off, and the sound shook Li Yexing's eardrums, but he had no time to react.
He kicked the person in the stomach, and the person stumbled back two steps. This was not what Li Yexing expected. He thought the kick would knock the person down, but he didn't have time to think.
He quickly picked up the gun and aimed it at the person, who also aimed their gun at him. The two of them entered a standoff.
Then Li Yexing was stunned. The face of the man in front of him was too familiar, that resolute face, explosive muscles, and BSAA uniform...
"Chris?!" Li Yexing exclaimed.
Chris was also stunned. He frowned and asked, "Do you know me?"
'Yeah, not only do I know you, but I'm also thinking of saying, "Chris, I'm your fan!" Maybe he could gain some advantage if he really does that.' Li Yexing joked to himself in his mind.
In fact, Li Yexing was very clear about the combat power of the guy in front of him.
This was the protagonist of the first-generation Resident Evil series. He had been fighting since the first-generation Resident Evil in 1998 and continued until the "Not a Hero" DLC of Resident Evil 7.
He was known as the Resident Evil Duo with a certain CIA agent who burned, killed, and looted a small village in Spain. Even the Chosen One who could dodge bullets like Keanu Reeves was killed by him in Resident Evil 5.
Although Li Yexing now was a mercenary instead of a laborer from his old world, if they really fought later, he was afraid that he would not be able to handle him with just one hand.
"You shouldn't interfere, Chris..." Li Yexing smiled, "O'Brian has been finished, and no one will back up your actions."
Chris looked even more puzzled. Didn't this mercenary know too much?
Seeing Chris's puzzled face, Li Yexing relaxed a little. To be honest, he was afraid that Chris would challenge him to a real-life duel, so he wanted to create some mystery and buy some time.
It seemed that he couldn't help Lilith right now. Unexpectedly, there was a problem on his side. He just hoped that Lilith could hold on for a while.
"I know more than you think," Li Yexing said with a smile, and then put down his gun and said to Chris, "We're not enemies."
Perhaps based on his trust in the protagonist of the Resident Evil series, he wanted to take a gamble. As long as he put down his gun and adopted a let's talk attitude, Chris would not resort to physical force. However, Chris was clearly not buying it, and his trust had turned into overconfidence in Chris' eyes.
"Who are you exactly? Who do you work for?" Chris asked with a furrowed brow.
Li Yexing felt extremely uncomfortable. In order to delay time and even eliminate Chris's hostile attitude, he had to be careful about what he could and could not say. He also couldn't reveal too much, as changes in the timeline would be terrifying for transmigrated fans who knew the plot inside out.
"I am just myself, someone who eats by using guns and bullets. I don't work for anyone. I just happen to know a lot of things because of my job," Li Yexing looked at Chris and said, "Could you stop looking at me like that? I put down my gun already. If you want me to speak, you need to show some sincerity, don't you think so? Trust me, we can peacefully solve the current problem."
Chris thought for a moment, hesitated, and then put down his gun, asking, "Is this enough?"
Li Yexing smiled, luckily it was Chris. He was a more straightforward person. If it were the other protagonist of Resident Evil, he would probably have been knocked down the moment he put down his gun.
"Don't worry, Chris, go ahead and ask. I will tell you everything."
'Fat chance. I'm just stalling for time to save my wife!' Li Yexing thought in his mind.
"You are Li Yexing, right?" Chris asked.
"Yes, that's me."
"A few days ago, you took the BSAA's target when you were on escorting mission, right?"
"To be honest, I did."
"Why?" Chris asked, frowning. "To protect the employer's property or to sell the B.O.W. to the black market on your own? Or were you instructed by someone?"
"I did it for love. Do you believe me?"
"Answer me!" Chris sternly demanded, his gun trembling slightly in his hand.
"I'm not lying to you. If I knew the employer was transporting B.O.W.s, I wouldn't have taken the job." Li Yexing couldn't help but complain to Chris, "I didn't expect to be ambushed by the BSAA that night, let alone find two tyrants in the truck. I was shocked too. Then suddenly a little girl fell out of the truck during the fight. I sympathized with her and took her away from the battlefield. What's wrong with that? Isn't that something any person with love and justice in their heart would do? How come I become someone with ulterior motives in your eyes?"
"Love and justice?" Chris laughed incredulously. "A mercenary who makes a living by killing, talking to me about love and justice?"
"Well... you're not wrong to say that," Li Yexing admitted. "At first, I planned to return the child to the employer for money... but the child changed my mind. She said she liked me, and to be honest, I like her too. So I changed my mind, and I'm not going to hand her over anymore."
Looking at Chris's face, Li Yexing smiled and said, "Although it's nice to be alone, I have to admit that having a partner is also great."
Chris's expression was as if he had seen a ghost. His rationality told him that Li Yexing was talking nonsense, but Li Yexing's natural happy expression told Chris that what he said and his cheesy smile were from the heart.
This guy! He genuinely wants to date a B.O.W.!
Chris vaguely remembered the last time he saw such a bizarre view of love was on Rockfort Island many years ago.
There was a happy British brother and sister on the island. The brother was a cross-dressing pervert, and the sister was a B.O.W. who had been frozen for 15 years. But that was still considered a deep relationship. Meanwhile, the mercenary in front of him was too much. He fell in love at first sight with a B.O.W?!
What a lunatic!
"Nevermind... I don't think you, a typical straight man, would understand," Li Yexing waved his hand and said,
"I'm sorry, you can't take that child away today. I will deal with the security team along with that child later. Please spare our lives, hero of the BSAA."
After clearing his mind, Chris shook his head at Li Yexing and said, "That's not possible. I can't allow an extremely dangerous B.O.W. to stay among civilians. That child should be handed over to the BSAA."
"How will the BSAA handle that child? Dissect it or destroy it?" Li Yexing sneered and said.
"Honestly Chris, I believe in you, but I don't trust the BSAA, especially after O'Brian was dismissed. In my eyes, this NGO has become a violent organization without any humanity left."
Faced with Li Yexing's ridicule of the BSAA, Chris wanted to refute him, but couldn't find the words.
In the end, Chris just shook his head and said, "I'm sorry, but it has to be this way. That child must be handed over to the BSAA. But I will do my best to ensure humane treatment for that child. If you can join the BSAA, I will try to arrange a visiting opportunity for you."
Li Yexing sighed, there was only one option left now.
"As long as this matter ends here, I will tell you something you can't find out anywhere about Wesker," said Li Yexing, looking at Chris's eyes, emphasizing each word.
Hearing the name, Chris was stunned. Albert Wesker, this old brother can be said to be Chris's biggest enemy. Judging from the timeline of Lost in Nightmares, the plot should not have happened yet. If Li Yexing leaks information, there will be a huge change in the world line. However, Li Yexing can no longer care. He needs to persuade this god to leave.
Li Yexing could see Chris struggling.
"Don't worry, Chris, I'm just a Roples mercenary. Lilith and I will stay in this dump and won't affect anyone outside." Li Yexing said.
"Just turn a blind eye, and I'll give you Wesker's intel. I will tell you where he is, and what his purpose is, and you don't want to harm the child who has just opened his eyes to the world, do you? In fact, you can't be sure how BSAA will handle this child, can you?"
In the end, Chris just shook his head and said, "Sorry, I must take this child away. As for Wesker's matter, we can chat about it later."
"It seems that there is no other way, but to be honest with you... you had no say in this matter from the beginning" Li Yexing shook his head, and a foxy smile appeared on his face. "Didn't you notice? The gunshots below are much quieter than before."
Chris: "?"
In the next second, Chris saw a figure soaring into the air and then landing heavily next to Li Yexing, kicking up a cloud of dust. In the dust, the silver-haired girl knelt on one knee, carrying a gun on her back as she slowly stood up. Her red eyes seemed to be burning as she looked at Chris.
'Crap…' Chris thought to himself.
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On the road to Roples, local ZF soldiers stopped a heavy truck with a huge iron tank behind it that looked somewhat similar to an oil tanker.
"This is troublesome... If I had known from the beginning, I would have come myself. The security department is useless and far inferior to USS." a man wearing a white coat and black-framed glasses complained while holding a tablet computer as he got out of the truck.
"Who are you? What are you transporting in the middle of the night?" The soldier holding a gun demanded.
"Oh, sorry, sorry." The man in the white coat humbly smiled at the soldiers while holding his tablet computer. "This is an emergency transport. I forgot to notify you in advance. My memory is bad. Don't worry, let me contact my boss first."
He then tapped a few times on his tablet computer and, in the next second, the rear tank of the truck slowly opened, emitting a hissing white smoke.
"See, my boss is here." The man in the white coat smiled at the soldiers and, in the next moment, the sound of machine gun fire erupted. The man in the white coat smiled and opened his arms as if conducting a symphony. The bullets that were shot at him precisely avoided his body, tearing the unprepared soldiers in front of him into pieces.
With heavy footsteps, a figure over two meters tall stopped beside the man in the white coat. The thing looked like a human but also not quite.
It had a bald head similar to a tyrant, brown skin, and wore a heavy black exoskeleton. In its right hand, it held a machine gun, while it carried a rocket launcher on its right shoulder and a heavy ammunition box on its back. Its grotesque tentacles danced frantically from the gaps in its exoskeleton.
"Go ahead and hunt to your heart's content," the man in the white coat said with a smile to the monster.
"T-LILIIITHHH---!!!"
With the man in the white coat's words, the monster let out a terrifying roar, stepped over the soldiers' corpses, and walked into Roples step by step.