Chapter 19

The residence of Sawyer is actually a warehouse, but she only occupies a small part of it. The warehouse itself is very large. It used to be a workshop, but it was abandoned later. Li Yexing didn't know much about what happened during that time. Before Li Yexing came to Roples, Sawyer was already a permanent cleaner in the warehouse.

Sawyer led Li Yexing and his group to the front door of the warehouse, opened the big lock on it, and pushed it hard. The internal structure of the entire warehouse appeared in front of everyone.

There were all kinds of containers piled up in the warehouse, looking like a maze. Kelly shuddered and pointed at these containers and asked, "Are these all corpses?"

Sawyer didn't say anything, just gave Kelly a disdainful look.

"Some are empty, and some are goods from other organizations piled up here," Li Yexing said, patting Chris on the shoulder and asking, "How about this place?"

"It's enough," Chris replied.

"That's good. Let's set up the stage before that guy catches up," Li Yexing said.

"What are you guys doing here anyway?" Sawyer asked.

"We are receiving a troublesome guy..." Li Yexing said to Sawyer, "Now, I need you to take Kelly and Lilith away."

"I don't trust you messing around in my warehouse," said Sawyer.

"Tsk, what's the matter with you? I think my reputation in Roples is still decent," said Li Yexing, slightly annoyed. "Listen to me, take these two girls and leave. I'll give you $100,000 after tonight."

Li Yexing had blown his cool before, but now he didn't have $100,000 in his pocket.

Lilith hugged Li Yexing's arm and said, "Lilith wants to stay and help Li Yexing."

Li Yexing was about to refuse when Chris said, "I think she should come with us."

Li Yexing turned his head to look at Chris, his face darkening.

"She'll be safer with us. If Nemesis finds us but doesn't see this child, it may change targets. We can't hold it down with just you, me, and that unreliable security team member," Chris paused and said, "And...she's a powerful B.O.W., we need her as a combat force."

Li Yexing wanted to say more, but after looking at Lilith's stubborn eyes, he eventually gave in.

"Fine," Li Yexing said reluctantly.

"Rest assured..." Chris said, "She's not that fragile, and I won't easily let her get hurt, I promise."

Sawyer, who was beside them, stared at Li Yexing with her lifeless fish eyes, expressionless. She didn't know what she was thinking, but in the end, she just reminded them, "Don't make too much noise." Then she left with Kelly.

"Are you satisfied now?" Li Yexing roughly rubbed his hand on Lilith's head, his face full of displeasure. Despite Li Yexing's dissatisfaction, Lilith just smiled lightly.

"Let's get started then." Chris checked every cartridge carefully and said to Li Yexing and Norman, "We'll make some simple arrangements and try to take it down here."

Li Yexing shook his head and said, "That's not practical."

Last time, Jill took down Nemesis in Raccoon City with an electromagnetic cannon. Li Yexing looked at the pile of containers and thought that Chris seemed to plan to rely solely on footwork to confront the powerful B.O.W. Where did he get his confidence?

"Even if we don't take it down, we have to hold it back until reinforcements arrive," Chris said. "Okay, enough talk, let's get started."

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The military vehicle of the local troops in Roples passed by the road, with people in the car holding loudspeakers and shouting to ask the citizens not to go out. After experiencing fierce battles, the local troops have completely given up frontal combat with Nemesis.

They can only wait for support from the BSAA and UN forces. The gangsters are divided into several groups, hiding far away in a safe range to track Nemesis and reporting its positions in real-time. The city's flames of war seem to have been temporarily extinguished, and everyone is waiting for the moment when the dust settles.

The B.O.W. Nemesis carrying a heavy machine gun is looking for its little princess, the new tyrant "T-Lilith," with perseverance following the guidance of the traces. It came to a large warehouse near the block, and the iron door of the warehouse was wide open as if waiting for it. But it had almost no consciousness of its own, relying solely on instructions. It walked in without hesitation.

The warehouse is filled with rows of containers, and the ground and containers are covered with unrecognizable marks. Without hesitation, it directly headed towards the most densely marked area and walked into the rows of containers with heavy footsteps.

The arrangement of these containers is very dense, and the gap between them is barely enough for two people to pass side by side. This makes its job classification very narrow. With the ability to search for traces, it quickly shuttles between the containers. The front traces show that the target turned right, so it went straight up. However, the moment it turned the corner, it felt something touch its calf.

It was a wire!

Just as a loud explosion sounded beside it, a rolling heat wave carried the fragments of a grenade and swept over it. Nemesis, who was caught off guard and unstable, stumbled.

"Now is the time!" Chris shouted.

With Chris's shout, Lilith, who had already been lurking on the container, suddenly exerted her strength and pushed a container from above. Nemesis below had not yet steadied itself or had time to dodge, so it stretched out a bunch of tentacles from its back and twisted them into one, fiercely hitting the container that was falling down on its head.

At this moment, Chris and Li Yexing appeared in front of them, and they crazily fired at Nemesis' face. Nemesis couldn't hold on, and the container fell and slammed onto its body, then it fell to the ground. Just when Nemesis was trying to lift itself up from under the weight of the container, Norman walked out holding the HIK-416, and with an expressionless face, he aimed the grenade launcher hanging from below at Nemesis' head and fired a shot.

In an instant, the explosion's flames and shockwave swept through the narrow space, and Nemesis' head was solidly hit by the grenade. "Doesn't seem too difficult," Norman commented.

"We got it?" Chris asked as he looked at the burning container in front of them.

Li Yexing shook his head and said, "It's not possible. It's not that easy."

"T-LILIIITHHH---!!!"

As if to confirm Li Yexing's words, a beast-like roar came from the flames. This roar echoed in the enclosed warehouse, making it particularly terrifying, even Chris, a tough guy, couldn't help but take a step back.

Accompanied by a terrifying roar, the burning container was slowly lifted up, and a monster with flames burning on its upper body drilled out from underneath. Its skin above the chest was burned and cracked, and its face was like a skeleton with a large piece missing, looking extremely fierce. It stood up and casually pulled off the bent machine gun barrel in its hand. Its gaze was not on Li Yexing and the others, but on Lilith who was hiding in the container.

"Run!" Li Yexing shouted at Lilith, who turned her head and ran away. Nemesis with flames burning on its upper body obviously wouldn't let Lilith go so easily. Several tentacles suddenly shot out from its back, heading straight for Lilith. Li Yexing raised his gun and shot at the tentacles of Nemesis, breaking several of them in half. The broken tentacles sprayed blood, making a hissing sound as they hurriedly retreated back into the pursuer's body. However, Nemesis did not care. It turned its head, leaped up, and went straight for Lilith.

"Son of a b*tch!" Li Yexing cursed and ran in the direction where Nemesis had left. He couldn't jump onto the container and could only judge Lilith and Nemesis' approximate location by sound. Chris and Norman followed closely behind.

"Be careful not to step on the explosive wire!" Chris shouted from behind. Li Yexing had lost his mind. When he passed the corner, he suddenly slid and slid past the explosive wire, making Chris and Norman behind him break out in a cold sweat.

The plan had gone completely awry. They had originally used grenades and explosive wires to create many simple traps, but now these traps were not working. Not only that, but they had also become stumbling blocks for Li Yexing to reach Lilith.

Another terrifying roar sounded, and Li Yexing saw Nemesis on the container violently tearing off the metal pieces that were used to protect its body and the restraints that were fixed on its body. A pile of tentacles drilled in and out of its body like a riot.

Suddenly, Nemesis' body swelled up, and its pants were torn apart by the swelling muscles. Its upper body was deformed like an inflated balloon, and the head that was about to be burned by flames suddenly split open in the middle, turning into a big mouth full of uneven sharp teeth. Several tentacles danced wildly like tongues from inside. Its left arm mutated rapidly, and the rapidly developing muscles tore the skin and turned into claws hanging on the ground, while the other arm seemed to shrink to maintain balance. Dozens of tentacles surged from behind, entwining around the right arm until it was as long as the mutated left arm.

In just a few breaths, a B.O.W. that was over two meters tall and humanoid had swelled and mutated into a nauseating monster that was over three meters tall and looked top-heavy.

"T-LILIIIIITTTHHHHH@$%#%$#...&%$...*!!" An almost unrecognizable distorted roar came from the mutated mouth.

This is Nemesis' power liberation. Although Nemesis was developed based on the tyrant, its way of power liberation is completely different from that of the tyrant. Chris looked at the monster with teeth and claws, and the shock on his face could no longer be added. Even Norman's face became very ugly.

Li Yexing gritted his teeth and watched the monster's legs bend in fear, then jumped up like a fish about to prey, and slammed into the already fleeing Lilith, who couldn't dodge in time and was heavily hit on the lower back by the mutated tracker. The two B.O.W.s fell heavily, crashing into the containers in front of them, and the nearby stacked containers all collapsed and fell on them.

"LILITH!!!" Li Yexing yelled and ran in the direction of the collapsed container. He saw the collapsed container suddenly lifted up and an ugly monster, with its already tentacle-like right arm, stood up from under it.

In Li Yexing's almost flaming eyes, the monster grabbed Lilith with its snake-like tentacles, holding her body and choking her neck. Lilith struggled in pain, trying hard to tear off the tentacles choking her neck, but no matter how many tentacles were torn off, new ones immediately replaced them.

"You damn bastard, GO F*CK YOURSELF!!!" Li Yexing roared and fired his gun at Nemesis while rushing forward.

The bullets exploded into bloody flowers on Nemesis' body, but it seemed completely unaffected. When his AR-15 ran out of bullets, Li Yexing dropped the gun and picked up the dagger from his waist. He jumped up and grabbed the mutated right arm, crazily stabbing it again and again. "LET GO OF HER!!! DAMMIT!!!" he roared.

Nemesis' two tentacles fiercely struck Li Yexing's chest, causing him to fly out and experience a tearing pain in his chest, almost unable to breathe. But he still stood up and charged toward the monster again.

With his eyes glaring red, he jumped up again, holding his dagger high and shouting, "BASTARD!!! LET GO OF HER!!!"

Then he stopped in mid-air. Why... did he stop? Damn it, he still needs to save Lilith. The child needs him! Lilith... Lilith? Why are you looking at me like that? What kind of expression is that?

Following Lilith's panicked gaze, his eyes slowly lowered, and then he saw the monster's tentacles, as well as his own abdomen pierced by the monster's tentacles. So that's how it is. Fortunately, it's just piercing my abdomen. I can still...I can still... Li Yexing finally couldn't hold on and spat out a mouthful of blood. He felt his vision going black, his consciousness fading away.

He struggled to wave the dagger in his hand toward the monster's right arm, but as his vision went black, his dagger slipped out of his hand and fell to the ground. With a sudden swing of the tentacle that pierced his abdomen, Li Yexing was thrown to the ground like a broken bag.

Blood bubbles were coming out of his mouth as he struggled to reach for his Glock at his waist. His vision was darkening, but he saw Lilith, who was caught by the monster, with tears streaming down her eyes.

"Don't...don't cry...I'll be there to save you soon..." Pulling out his Glock from his waist, Li Yexing gritted his teeth, raised his gun, aimed at the monster's right arm, and fired a shot. His vision went completely black. He vaguely heard Lilith's cry and Chris's curses. Li Yexing wanted to stand up again, but his body was losing warmth. 'Ah...I'm going to die...I'm not willing...I promised...to go together...with that girl...I'm sorry...Lilith...I'm sorry...'