Chapter 70 Powerlessness_1

That night, in Apartment Block C, Qin Ming, who had been busy all day, prepared to go to bed in his room.

A knock on the door echoed through the room as the door automatically opened, and a beautiful woman dressed in a white lab coat appeared at the threshold.

It was Ada Wong.

Seeing the woman who had suddenly appeared, Qin Ming was not surprised.

For, for the past month, her every move had been monitored by the Nano System.

"Madam, may I help you?"

Ada Wong stepped into the room carrying a case, hitched up her white lab coat and sat down on Qin Ming's bed in a seductive pose:

"What, my Dr. Qin, don't recognize me just because I've changed my clothes?"

Never mind changing clothes, he wouldn't recognize her if she were to put on clothes.

Qin Ming noncommittally shook his head:

"I still prefer you in a cheongsam."

Ada Wong's slender fingers played with the AR glasses in her hand, a gadget that had certainly broadened her horizons.

"Sometimes I really want to crack your head open to see what makes you different from us."

Qin Ming let out a chuckle:

"Ada Wong, for which organization are you working?"

"I'm a free agent. I work for whoever I want, as long as the price is right."

"Very well, then your boss is now me."

"What's in it for me?"

"The thing I left on you is a down payment."

"Complete my task, and I'll give you something the whole world is yearning for."

Qin Ming looked at her intently, "And that's a benefit beyond your wildest dreams."

"Something the whole world yearns for sounds very tempting."

Ada Wong propped herself up on the bed, lazily tilting her head: "Well then, I suppose I'll give it a try."

"Lies come easily to a man's lips."

"I hope you're not just painting me pie in the sky."

After finishing, she stared intently at Qin Ming, "Talk about your task."

"A remote village in Eastern Europe. Make a visit. The detailed information and specific task have already been sent to your glasses terminal."

"What's there?"

"An ancient castle, and a Lord Hachishaku."

That Eastern European village was the setting of the eighth installment of the Biohazard Crisis, and if the story hadn't changed, it contained something older than the Sun Ladder itself – the "Fungal Heart" [Mycelium Host], capable of absorbing and storing the consciousness of the deceased.

Souls, consciousness, memories.

Qin Ming was a staunch materialist who did not believe in the existence of souls, at least not in the Biohazard Crisis and Three-Body principal worlds.

Even if they did exist, such a world would operate under rules entirely different from the real world; possibly even the fundamental laws would have changed.

Because the [Mycelium Host] had absorbed the consciousness of Miranda's already deceased daughter, Miranda wanted to use the "Fungal Heart" to revive her daughter, which also prompted the storyline of the seventh and eighth entries of the Biohazard series.

To achieve her goal, she first had to create a vessel capable of perfectly harboring her daughter's consciousness.

Through improvements to the mold, Miranda created the Four Great Nobles, who, in fact, were failed vessels: They were infected by the E-Mold and had special abilities.

The one that left the strongest impression on Qin Ming was Lord Hachishaku, a gorgeous mature woman who, due to a mold mutation, grew to a height of 2.4 meters, with a voluptuous and towering stature.

When he played Biohazard VIII in his previous life, his brain was full of her because she was just too large…

As he played, he couldn't resist opening up his web browser…

And then…

Qin Ming snapped back from the memories of his past life's tissues; one effect of the NZT was the revival of memories, and he remembered everything clearly from the age of two up to now.

After a brief, profound exchange with Ada Wong, she left with her assignment, leaving behind a black case.

"Dr. Qin, the case contains what you need."

Qin Ming knew what was in the case; it was the enhanced C-virus that Carla had manufactured,

Ada Wong was indeed considerate, although it was of little use to him.

Qin Ming wasn't worried about the woman betraying him. Everything was recorded by the Nano System's surveillance; he could control every nerve in her body with the Nano System and make her strike any pose he wanted.

...

At the BSAA North American Branch, on the training grounds.

Chris led the USS Squad as they were about to embark on a mission to South America.

——All the villagers in a small village had been infected into monsters overnight. The squad's mission was to eliminate them and investigate the source of the mutation.

At this moment, Chris and Piers, among others, were gearing up and about to board the plane to carry out their mission.

They saw a vehicle from the neighboring Strategic Research Institute pull up, and Dr. Qin emerged from the vehicle, carrying a black case in his hand.

Chris glanced at the black case and heard some good news from Dr. Qin.

"Chris, the nanobots have already been produced for you in part."

"Is this the nanotechnology that can strengthen the human body?"

"Yes."

Chris joyfully received the case and opened it, but his eyes betrayed a hint of disappointment after seeing the contents: "Only five doses?"

"This is the result of the lab running at full capacity for half a month."

Chris was silent for a while.

There were only five doses in the case, but they had twelve people. How should they be distributed?

He looked back at his teammates, pondering in his mind.

Piers, Charles, Mores, Chels, Alex — give them to these five first.

Chris had intended to allocate them all to his teammates, but under their insistence, he had no choice but to inject one into himself first.

After the injection was complete and he discarded the empty syringe, he felt the HK416 assault rifle he was holding seemed much lighter.

Chris knew it was an illusion caused by the increased strength in his body.

Once they had all received their injections, Qin Ming said:

"I need a blood sample from you to observe the compatibility of the nanobots."

"No problem, Dr. Qin," the excited Piers and the others readily agreed.

Qin Ming took out the prepared syringes from his bag, and to avoid attracting attention, he took blood samples from all five men, taking a particularly large sample from Piers.

A hundred thousand volts Pikachu blood sample, get!

Cells capable of producing the high-voltage electricity to kill a "Chaos Giant Beast" — perhaps he could draw inspiration to improve the nanobots from them.

Qin Ming was aware that he was under constant surveillance by American officials, which is why he seized the opportunity to obtain Piers' blood sample.

In fact, under his precise control, the lab had already produced nanobot doses for fifteen people, but the American officials only allowed him to bring five.

This was actually an experiment targeting Qin Ming's nanotechnology.

Using the USS Squad as experimental subjects,

the experiment was divided into experimental and control groups; the nanotically enhanced soldiers and the regular soldiers were the two sets of test subjects. They wanted to collect different data from the two groups when facing bio-organic monsters.

The so-called mission itself was also concocted by figures behind the government to test and verify nanotechnology.

They thought their plan was flawless and went unnoticed, yet they hadn't escaped the discerning eyes of Qin Ming.

The main role of the BSAA now was to eliminate opposing forces' BOWs, and to clean up biohazard leaks the government had created.

Chris might be aware of this, but he was powerless to fight it alone, so he had to turn a blind eye for the time being.

It was only through Xiao Ai's supercomputer hacking into the global network that Qin Ming discovered the Biohazard Crisis World was rotten to the core; every nation, both overtly and covertly, was researching viruses and BOWs.

There was never anything like a true prohibition in the military world — only endless competition.

Was Umbrella's backing really just so-called "anonymous funding" and "fake project investments" unknown to the government?

Even a small Eastern European country mired in civil war had the capability to improve upon and create a Tyrant on their own; wouldn't the "sponsors" behind the BSAA have the same capacity? The destructive power and mass production utility of BOWs have long been recognized by military intelligence and research institutions across nations.

Admittedly, developing BOWs is very expensive, even prohibitively so, but once successful, the cost to manufacture them is relatively cheap. A single Tyrant can match the combat effectiveness of a standard special forces team of seven, but the cost of creating one Tyrant is far lower than the expenses and equipage needed to train a seven-person special forces team.

And now, Tyrants are becoming almost completely controllable, which equates to being able to direct a cheap, highly capable combat robot from the rear, fundamentally altering the laws of warfare.

Just like nuclear weapons, Chris's efforts to eradicate bio-terrorism organizations are in vain because he is up against the nations and powers of the entire world.

In this world, World War III might not come from nuclear annihilation, but rather from the bio-weapons and viruses they crafted, which could lead to the extermination of human beings.

Take for instance, this time's enhanced C-virus, which could pose a major threat to all humanity.

Chris, I will build the peaceful world you long for, without war, without pain.

Gazing at the two helicopters ascending into the sky, Qin Ming's eyes grew deep and profound.