Infinite Terror: Infinite Reversal

Chapter 353 Zheng Zha and Mu Xiang

When Mu Xiang's team found Alice, she was changing vehicles... The motorcycle she got from near the hospital had run out of gas by the time she got here.

All the weapons she had acquired earlier had fallen into the hands of the Umbrella Corporation, leaving her somewhat unarmed and forced to avoid combat with any powerful zombies she encountered.

Otherwise... if they waste time and are caught up by the Umbrella Corporation, they will never have another chance to escape.

The Umbrella Corporation was far more powerful than she had imagined. Alice might have had some confidence if it were the incompetent manager from before, but now that someone from above had arrived with his cronies and taken over the cleanup operation in Raccoon City, they were determined to take her and the others in the know.

Alice glanced at the bespectacled man, and a deep sense of dread welled up within her—it was her instinct reminding her!
To Alice's surprise, her long-lost colleague, Zheng Zha, was also under this man's command. The last time she saw Zheng Zha was at the Hive... At that time, he seemed to have not yet regained his memory and could not even remember the physical techniques he had been trained in; but now he was far more terrifying than he had been then.

Although he still often wears an optimistic smile, the scar on his face that runs from his left cheek down to the right corner of his mouth tells a story of what he has been through.

Alice knew that Zheng Zha was no longer the security guard he used to be. Now, even the slightest movement from Zheng Zha made Alice feel an almost suffocating sense of oppression.

To Alice's surprise, Zheng Zha secretly rescued her from the hospital's laboratory. Zheng Zha told her that the Umbrella Corporation was modifying eligible individuals, and both she and Zheng Zha were being modified. The Nemesis who had previously defeated Alice was Matt, who had been modified... As an experimental subject without any mutations, Alice was the most important person to the company.

"how about you?"

“Me?” Zheng Zha hesitated for a moment, the scar on his face stilled, like a lurking worm. “I’ve been modified too much. Once I make a move, I’m easy to lose control… I’m no different from those monsters.”

"So run! Don't let the company catch you... Your two companions will also be released. I'll imitate your habits and take out the guards to confuse the situation. Right now, your most important thing is to survive, or everything will be over."

And so Alice escaped. Regardless of how much she believed Zheng Zha's story, the fact that she had escaped was undeniable... And Zheng Zha did indeed kill all the experimental personnel in charge of her before she was anesthetized and placed in the petri dish.

While Alice was changing vehicles, several more people found her, including two acquaintances.

One is Mu Xiang, who used to be a cadre in the R&D department. He was sent by the company to Hive and was not directly under her management; the other is Zhan Lan, who is indeed her subordinate.

Although as the head of security, Alice wouldn't have much interaction with the lower-level security guards or the R&D department, they had a life-or-death bond from going through that catastrophe together.

"Long time no see." Mu Xiang pushed up his glasses. "What happened?"

After Alice told Mu Xiang what had happened, Mu Xiang frowned and said, "Zheng Zha? He was clearly with us... Are you sure it was Zheng Zha who released you?"

"What do you mean?" Alice was stunned.

Mu Xiang thought for a moment, then took out a communicator: "Here, I'll connect you to Zheng Zha..."

Soon, a familiar face appeared on the communicator's small screen. Although it wasn't very clear due to the lighting, Alice quickly recognized him... Zheng Zha!
And on his face... there were no scars.

Zheng Zha saw Alice and showed a surprised expression, then greeted her. Alice greeted him in a daze, and after exchanging pleasantries for a while, Mu Xiang took the communicator back.

"So, the Zheng Zha you encountered... must be a clone." Mu Xiang pushed up his glasses. "You should know that the company has this kind of technology. Even among ordinary soldiers, those with potential will be cloned as consumables. And Zheng Zha is an excellent virus receptor. Although he is not as stable as you, it is still worthwhile to clone him at a great cost."

Alice asked urgently, "You mean, the Zheng Zha I met was cloned by the Umbrella Corporation? Why would he do that?"

“So that’s Chu Xuan’s scheme… Oh, it’s a bespectacled, expressionless man.” Mu Xiang mimicked Chu Xuan’s expression. Seeing Alice’s eyes, he knew that Alice had already seen the clone of Chu Xuan. “This guy is my old nemesis. I came back this time to stop him.”

"Wait, I don't understand..."

“You don’t need to understand. My companions will pick up your partner soon. You can leave with them from the southern checkpoint, or you can choose to come back with me.” Mu Xiang pushed up his glasses. “I will make Umbrella Corporation pay the price.”

Alice paused for a moment, then said, "Let's go back. You were the one who helped us escape from the Hive, so I'll trust you for now."

"That's great, welcome to work together again." Mu Xiang shook hands with her, then spotted a van. "Let's go."

Zhan Lan's voice echoed in Mu Xiang's mind: "We've scanned them, and there's nothing unusual about the three characters... Could it be that we're overthinking it?"

"It's alright, let Zheng Zha take the hits with his own body," Mu Xiang thought to himself.

Zheng Zha muttered, "I can hear you."

"Zhan Lan, I don't understand this... If you secretly attach your mental energy to something beforehand, can you interfere with it remotely?" Mu Xiang pondered for a moment and asked in his mind.

Zhan Lan paused for a moment: "Uh...theoretically, it's possible, and unless your mental strength far surpasses the other party's, it's difficult to detect the attachment of mental energy. Unless you guess the location beforehand and then conduct a deep investigation."

“Then there’s no problem… Zheng Zha, since you’re still in the car, let’s test the waters first before going to find LJ, anyway, he’s still up north.”

Zheng Zha's somewhat disgruntled voice rang out: "Easy for you to say... So what are you going to do then?"

"Let's head straight for Umbrella Corporation... After that, a mental shield will be applied to you, and then we'll charge straight in," Mu Xiang said.

Zheng Zha glanced at the other girl sitting next to him, who was smiling and looked just like Zhan Lan: "Uh... Won't they think there's a problem?"

The girl touched her forehead and said, "Don't worry. Using the mental power controller as the center to scan and compress mental power is a shielding method, but condensing mental power at a specific location within the mental power coverage area is also a shielding method... They probably don't expect that all three of our teams can use mental power shielding."

(End of this chapter)