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Chapter 37 Shortest Path

Half asleep and half awake, Fang Ge opened his eyes.

The view changed dramatically. What caught my eye was the outline of the laboratory, and the street was full of noisy sounds.

The sky was gradually darkening, and the modern city was filled with the chaotic sirens of police cars, people hurried around, and from time to time there was the sound of a car accident...

In addition, there are some strange sounds that are difficult to describe.

The biochemical crisis has arrived, and chaos has become the main theme of Raccoon City.

[Enter the horror movie world pre-plot early, with the difficulty increased to the maximum. Completing it will double the number of side quests and bonus points. Escort Alice out of Raccoon City before the nuclear explosion, and the entire team will be rewarded with two D-level side quests and 2000 bonus points. If Alice dies, the mission fails, and the entire team will lose two D-level side quests and 2000 bonus points.]

The plots of Resident Evil 1 and 2 flow seamlessly together.

Before the members of the Zhongzhou team could even take a few breaths of [free air], the Lord God had already issued the [main mission].

This did not surprise Fang Ge. He immediately looked at his watch and saw that the kill reward on it had changed slightly compared to before.

[Zombies: 1 bonus point/50]

[Crawler: 50 reward points/item]

[Tracker: D-level side story *1 + 1000 reward points/item]

"The reward for killing has been reduced by more than half! That's fine, after all, we're more than twice as strong... What's with this forced, highest-difficulty mission?"

Before the action started, Zheng Zha complained:

"We haven't even seen Alice yet, and you want us to help her escape?"

Hearing this, everyone looked at him in silence.

"When you confirmed the transmission, didn't you pay attention to the coordinates chosen by Fang Ge?" Zhan Lan couldn't help but ask a soul-searching question.

Zheng Zha, however, acted as if it was a matter of course. He stiffened his neck and said, "You guys aren't going to hurt me, so why should I care about that?"

"First it was the Golden Bell Cover, then the Iron Shirt... Now my mind is full of those twelve kicking techniques. My mental state has reached a critical point, and I don't want to bother thinking anymore."

These days, Zheng Zha has already had a great enlightenment. He concluded:
"Anyway, I don't have the decision-making power, nor do I need to act alone. If I offer any opinions, you'll all reject them...so why don't I just do what I'm good at?"

"Don't you know that even the most cunning people can't match the quick thinking of a fool?"

"Who says they are stupid..." Zhan Lan covered her face helplessly, unable to understand Zheng Zha's train of thought.

——Your pig brain is overloaded, right?

Fang Ge put his arm around Zheng Zha's shoulders, motioned him to look forward, and said softly:

"Is there a possibility, I mean possibly... that this is the entrance to the laboratory where Alice wakes up in the plot?"

Fang Ge was very particular when choosing the teleportation coordinates and didn't want to waste any extra time.

Whether it is the doctor's daughter - Angel, or Jill from the police station, or Carlos among the mercenaries.

As long as you get close enough, the main quest will be triggered.

Alice was chosen because she has high combat power, good physical fitness, and powerful telekinesis.

At the same time, Alice is indispensable if he wants to convince Alicia, the major shareholder of Umbrella.

At present, the primary goal of the Zhongzhou team is to quickly deal with the upper echelons of the Umbrella in the lower level of the hive, so as to prevent the nuclear bomb from falling.

Then release the [special antidote] to completely end the biochemical crisis!

Just talking about terminating the nuclear explosion, it is a C-level side quest for the whole team. If it is triggered in advance, the reward will be doubled, which is 2C level.

Complete the [Final Chapter] content ahead of time, ending the series and receiving rewards for the entire team's B-level side quests.

In fact, the Zhongzhou team had no intention of escorting these plot characters away, and Alice was no exception.

First of all, they are scattered all over Raccoon City. It would take a lot of time and energy to search for them one by one, and escorting them all out would only reward you with 4 D-level side plots.

Secondly, if the nuclear explosion is terminated prematurely, the world line will change drastically, and the task of "escorting plot characters away before the nuclear explosion" will become invalid.

Fang Ge had been fooled like this before. He spent a lot of time and effort but only got a reward.

Both essentially have the same goal of "protecting plot characters", but with different ways of accomplishing it.

The Lord God is not a philanthropist and will not let you take two rewards at the same time.

You can only choose one between 2C and 4D.

The answer is clear: of course, choose the former, as the path aligns with the ultimate goal and offers greater rewards! "The bomb will be dropped on the morning of October 1st. It's now the evening of September 29th, giving us a day and a half. Based on online information and news, we can tell that this is the [movie version] storyline..."

Chu Xuan took out a laptop and started typing frantically on the keyboard.

"Now, I will paralyze the entire Raccoon City surveillance system. At the same time, I will expose the information about Umbrella's secret research on biological viruses and biological weapons to the world through the Internet, thereby putting pressure on Umbrella."

Fang Ge knew that in the game world line, Umbrella was jointly sanctioned by the United States and other economies because of the impact of this incident, and eventually went bankrupt.

Even though the power of the movie version of Umbrella is far greater than that of the game version, it is even to the extent that it can privately possess nuclear weapons.

But such a big scandal cannot fail to have an impact on them!

After all, Umbrella is a company, and it must focus on efficiency.

In the original plot, the virus swept the world, almost leading to the extinction of mankind. It took several years to complete, which was like boiling a frog in warm water.

If Umbrella's stock price plummets now and it goes bankrupt soon, can the top management sit still?
Even if the frozen senior executives can sit still, can the unaware [clones] outside sit still?
The clones don't know they're clones! If they lose their composure, the Zhongzhou team will have an opportunity to take advantage.

"Evidence? Where did you get the evidence?" Zhan Lan was surprised.

It is true that they were eyewitnesses to the Hive Incident, but they did not obtain the [Red Queen Motherboard] and did not have the opportunity to take any footage.

Where does the evidence come from?

"Bullshit." Chu Xuan said bluntly.

"There's no need to talk about morality when dealing with these evil capitalists!"

Fang Ge kicked open the door of the laboratory and shouted:
"FBI! Open the door!"

Unfortunately, what greeted him was not some panicked researchers, but a group of hideous zombies!

——It seems the plot has changed, forcing us to rescue Alice as soon as possible
Swish!
The high-frequency long sword hummed softly as it was unsheathed. Fang Ge waved it lightly, and it extended an invisible air blade over three meters long!

Only the vibration of the air proves its sharpness.

The air blade swung out, encountering no resistance when it came into contact with the zombies. Human flesh and blood were no different from tofu in front of such high-tech weapons!
Dozens of zombies' bodies were broken into two and fell down like wheat being cut.

Fang Ge had no intention of finishing off the enemy. He simply looked down upon this insignificant reward. He slashed with his sword a few more times, and a section of the wall collapsed!

It was a refreshing and violent act. Through the hole in the wall, Fang Ge saw the familiar figure.

"Zheng Zha, use the symbiote to capture Alice, and we'll head straight for the hive!"

"Shh!"

Zheng Zha stretched out his hand and the scarlet symbiote popped out from his palm, like a flexible tentacle, wrapping up and grabbing Alice's naked torso.

Just like Spider-Man, Alice fell into Zheng Zha's hands in an instant.

Chu Xuan walked forward indifferently, took out a tube of injection from the space bag, and injected it into Alice without hesitation.

"Ouch!"

The moment the potion entered her body, Alice suddenly woke up and looked at the people in the Zhongzhou team in a daze.

"Fang Ge, Zheng Zha, Chu Xuan... What's going on? Why am I here?"

"The virus has been completely leaked. This is all a conspiracy by Umbrella. We must stop them."

Chu Xuan casually threw a combat uniform to her and signaled her to put it on as soon as possible: "We are going to the Hive to prevent this tragedy. If you have any questions, we can talk on the way."

"Where did you get it from? This bag is so small..."

Alice was still immersed in chaos and was a little confused about the current situation.

"The top brass at Umbrella have gone crazy. They want to destroy the entire world!"

Fang Ge spoke at this time, emotionally speaking: "Listen, Alice, right under the hive, there is an antidote that can stop all this, and only you can get it, do you understand?"

"Only you can save this city. Save millions of people from this abyss of death, from the mushroom cloud of a nuclear explosion!"

As a classic saintly protagonist, and with her already established trust, Alice took on the responsibility even though she didn't understand the situation: "OK! OK! What should I do?"

"Heading to the Hive, we need a vehicle... and someone just happened to deliver it!"

Fang Ge looked up and saw an armed helicopter coming straight towards him.

"Chu Xuan, can you fly a helicopter?"

(End of this chapter)