Chapter 41: Don't Kill Me!

"Are you okay?" Clark asked, supporting the leader of the black ops team as he sat on the ground, leaning against the control box beside him.

The leader of the black ops team did not speak. He just grabbed his helmet and struggled to pull it off.

Clark was startled by the face beneath the helmet. Judging by his features, this man was a typical blond Caucasian. However, his face was now purple with redness, and sweat was continuously sliding down his face.

"That damn thing... it's toxic..." he gritted his teeth in pain.

On their way to sector A, they had successfully taken down a monster that had run out of the warehouse, but at the cost of the commander being injured.

Clark wanted to say something more, but the man waved his hand to interrupt him.

"I'm done for..." he told Clark, "That thing... is a variant of Hunter Alpha, codenamed Elite Hunter III. It's a B.O.W. that hasn't been put into mass production yet, and it can secrete highly toxic substances. You need the relevant serum to detoxify."

"Where can I find the serum?" Clark asked.

"There's no serum. It's not on the ship," the man shook his head in pain.

"Dammt!" Clark angrily stood up and kicked the wall of the cabin, "What the hell is going on with this ship? Do you know anything?"

"...Experiment," the leader of the black ops team, who was now spitting out black blood, said painfully, "This ship... is a test site... Our supervisor... said he wanted to conduct B.O.W. experiments on this ship. Those monsters... are humans infected with the T-Abyss virus."

"...T-Abyss virus?"

"That's right... Do you remember the Floating Island incident?" the weakened leader of the black ops team said, "Our organization... obtained the virus used in the terrorist attack from our partner. After being modified by our technology department, it became what it is now..."

Clark looked at him but did not speak.

"They... the technical department... were testing the performance of a new virus on this ship, and then a supervisor suggested... why not also release several prototype B.O.W.s on this ship? When the time comes, we can remotely open the cargo containers and let the security team on board serve as practice targets, testing the practical combat performance of these B.O.W.s..." He coughed up black blood and gave a self-deprecating smile, "But in the end, the real practice targets weren't you, but us."

"This is just a repeat of the Raccoon City incident..." Clark gritted his teeth. "To be honest, I don't think you deserve to live. You all deserve to die!"

"Heh, say what you want," the man with a wry smile said. "Take my gun and go. Your toy won't stand a chance against those things."

"I would have done it anyway," Clark said. "But I don't think you should die. You have to hold on because if you die, no one will be able to tell the truth about what happened on this ship."

"Be... careful... there's one last cargo container..." The consciousness of the black ops leader was starting to fade. He whispered, "That container... is from... Raccoon City..."

With his pupils dilated, the black ops leader had completely stopped breathing.

Clark silently looked at his body, gritting his teeth. He stripped off all of the tactical gear from the commander's body and put it on himself. Holding his HK-416, Clark went to the control panel and took a deep breath.

"I have to survive and bring the truth of this place to the outside!"

With that, he firmly pressed the emergency protocol button, and with a roar, the three gates blocking the lower deck of the ship all opened.

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Li Yexing was navigating with his phone, following the map's instructions as he raced towards the control room with Lilith. The map indicated that they needed to go to the third level of the cruise ship and then cross the entire section B to reach section A.

It was taking too long, and Li Yexing was getting worried that Ada wouldn't be able to hold out until he got there to open the door for her. Their communication had been interrupted a while ago, but Li Yexing believed that Ada's current situation was probably safe.

The lower deck cabins were separated from the middle and upper deck cabins by three sturdy gates, so Li Yexing thought that the infection had not yet spread to the lower deck. The communication system on the ship was also down, and the lower-level staff probably didn't even know what was happening above them. They were probably just stuck there, waiting for someone to open the gates and let them out.

The gates would definitely be opened, but there was no guarantee that what was going down there would be human.

They took the elevator to the third level of the cruise ship and were greeted by a relatively clean and tidy corridor. Various wooden decorations were placed along the corridor, and all the bedroom doors on both sides were tightly closed. If it weren't for the white mucus still sticking to the floor, Li Yexing would have thought that this level was still safe.

"Be on high alert," Li Yexing turned to Lilith, who was following behind him, and said, "It's too quiet. I don't think something is right."

The two of them slowed down their pace, walking slowly on the corridor floor. There were no monsters or bloodstains, which seemed very strange. Of course, this could also be because when the infection broke out, most of the people were concentrated on the main level of the ship. When Li Yexing and Lilith returned from the captain's room to the banquet hall, they had seen many nobles who had fled from the banquet hall and were running for their lives.

Where did all these guys go?

As Li Yexing was thinking, he leaned against the wall and crossed the intersection, suddenly hearing a scream from a young girl next to him. Li Yexing hadn't even reacted to what was happening when he suddenly felt a heavy blow to his head.

"Goddammit!" Li Yexing sat down abruptly on the ground, caught off guard by the sudden attack. He held his head and looked up, only to see a little dwarf girl in a blood-stained yellow dress screaming and swinging her stick at him.

Li Yexing didn't hesitate and raised the gun in his hand directly at the girl. With the black muzzle pointed at her, the girl was instantly frightened and trembled. She lost grip of the stick and it hit Li Yexing's head, causing him to wince in pain.

"I'm...I'm sorry...I didn't mean to..." The girl looked into Li Yexing's cold eyes and tears were about to fall. "I thought it was...a monster, wu~ wu~..."

"Crouch down!" Li Yexing said harshly to the girl.

"I'm really not intentional!" The girl pleaded.

"Crouch down for me!" Li Yexing almost roared.

The frightened girl instinctively hugged her head and crouched down, muttering, "Don't kill me, don't kill me, don't kill me..."

The next second, Li Yexing fired his gun. Accompanied by the sound of gunfire, the girl screamed and vaguely heard something falling to the ground.

Finally, the gunshots stopped, and the girl crouched on the ground, sobbing, and dared not move.

"Stand up." Li Yexing said coldly while holding his sore head.

The girl did not dare to move.

"I said, stand up! Are you deaf?" Li Yexing couldn't help but curse.

"Yes, yes, yes, I'm standing up!" The girl stood up straight like a spring.

"Dammit..." Li Yexing cursed and changed the magazine of the pistol. The panicked girl trembled and turned around, only to see a monster lying behind her, with several holes in its head.

She was...saved.

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