74: Destroying the World in Thirty Days (1/2)

After the two landed, Tony removed his armor, letting Jarvis take control.

"Everything started after Master Lyon left.

On the morning of September 29th, after you had departed, Jill Valentine and Sheriff Marvin led the officers of the police department in a city-wide search for survivors.

By nightfall, the entire city was cleared, with over ninety percent of the zombies eliminated. However, just as you had warned, Umbrella Corporation noticed the city's unusual state.

They air-dropped six Tyrants into the city, but fortunately, they were all killed by the group using the serum bombs.

To avoid further severe attacks, Sheriff Marvin decided to lead everyone out of Raccoon City overnight. A massive group of over ten thousand people left the city, and even the military, which had set up checkpoints around the outskirts, did not dare stop them.

With the city now empty, all interested parties lost interest in Raccoon City. After several special forces teams were sent in but returned with nothing, no one paid attention to the suddenly desolate city anymore."

"A day later, with no sign of your return, everyone temporarily went their separate ways.

Jill and Sheriff Marvin, along with the other officers, were abruptly transferred to the New York Police Department.

Miss Sherry and Mr. Bard chose to leave with your newly acquired subordinate, Ada Wong.

The other survivors were officially relocated, though the compensation they received was not particularly favorable.

However, after a brief period of stability, Miss Ada Wong, having not submitted the G-virus, was attacked by the HCF organization.

As a result, she had me bring Sherry and Bard to join her in hiding in rural Canada.

While there, I connected to the internet and made all of Umbrella's crimes public."

As Jarvis spoke, he projected video footage taken by Lyon's super mark I suit, providing visuals to complement his explanation.

During this, Tony couldn't help but comment that Lyon had chosen well this time when it came to his girlfriend.

Lyon, however, frowned after hearing this. "Though there were some complications, things were heading in a positive direction. What happened afterward?"

Jarvis responded, "The turn of events occurred on the morning of October 1st.

—A bioterror outbreak happened in New York City and quickly spread globally.

But later, Miss Ada Wong infiltrated Umbrella Corporation and connected me to their internal network."

"We then found the real cause.

The global crisis that seemed to originate in New York was actually rooted in Raccoon City.

It all started in the early hours of September 30th.

While Sheriff Marvin, Jill, and several other officers were leading the survivors out of the city, an Umbrella special operative, who had blended in among the group, quietly stayed behind.

This operative's name was HUNK.

He infiltrated the underground research lab alone, with the mission to recover the G-virus.

Fortunately, Mr. Bard had already destroyed all the viruses and vaccines in the lab.

HUNK left empty-handed.

However, as he was exiting the lab, he was bitten by a rat that had emerged from the sewers.

And this rat, half a day earlier, after we had left the lab, had visited the experimental room you destroyed.

It had become infected with the prototype S-virus."

Jarvis projected security footage.

"A rat slipped into a collapsed laboratory and emerged shortly afterward.

The timestamp marked it as 11:00 AM on September 29th, less than an hour after Lyon had left the Resident Evil world.

Jarvis continued explaining:

''HUNK, after being bitten, didn't think much of it.

He killed the rat and then left Raccoon City, heading for New York.

By the evening of September 30th, HUNK arrived in New York.

On October 1st, HUNK went to the Umbrella subsidiary in New York, but he was in terrible condition.''

In the security footage projected by Jarvis, HUNK, still dressed in his tactical gear, stumbled into the office building.

The video sped up.

Ten minutes later, screams began to erupt from inside the building, and crowds poured out in panic.

RoooAAArrr!!

Soon after, explosions rocked the building, and a massive, three-meter-tall creature burst through the flames.

It was covered in blood, howling toward the sky.

The Umbrella task force's weapons couldn't kill it. Instead, each attack triggered further mutations, making it even stronger."

"Even those splattered with its blood began to undergo grotesque mutations, just like it...

The surveillance footage flickered, skipping to two hours later.

In front of the Umbrella building, a massive horde of zombies had already gathered.

Discarded heavy weapons littered the ground.

But the creature HUNK had turned into still stood amidst the horde, its eyes blood-red."

"HUNK mutated inside the Umbrella corporation, rapidly infecting everyone he encountered.

According to the data, the chances of an infected person turning into a zombie exceeded 98%.

Those who survived the infection without turning into zombies fell into comas and were soon devoured by the surrounding zombies.

This crisis quickly engulfed all of New York.

The final survival rate for local residents was less than one in a thousand.

Jill, Marvin, and the others, who had just arrived to take up their posts at the NYPD, managed to escape the city later that afternoon with my remote assistance, though it was a difficult escape.'"

Jarvis switched the video footage, projecting an image of New York engulfed in flames.

''But this was only the beginning.

After the situation in New York became irreparable, the military began deploying high-powered weapons.

However, each of these zombies possessed physical abilities that were more than twice what they had before infection.

And in every group of a hundred zombies, there would emerge a monster similar to HUNK.

These creatures were incredibly resilient.

Even if hit by a 125mm tank shell and left with only half a charred head, they could still struggle to survive.

To kill them, extensive bombardment was necessary.

But the number of these monsters was overwhelming.

Among the millions of zombies in New York, there were tens of thousands of such creatures, and their numbers were continually increasing.

Ordinary people only needed to catch a whiff of the blood scent from these monsters to be infected and undergo the same mutation.

In the end, as the situation spiraled out of control, the U.S. government resorted to using nuclear weapons.'"

Tony was shocked: "Nuclear weapons?"

Jarvis responded, "Yes, at 7:30 PM on October 1st, three nuclear bombs were dropped over New York, marking the beginning of global chaos.

After that night, New York was reduced to rubble.

However, Umbrella's personnel gained access to the ultimate evolutionary step.

They extracted the virus from the zombies.

After repeated experiments, they discovered that, although only one in a hundred zombies turns into a super zombie, they had stumbled upon something far more significant."

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