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Chapter 63 The Nest and the Lickers (Revised) (4400)

"System, how much money do I have now?" Fang Qingzhou asked, as it was time for the money settlement, a time he both looked forward to and wasn't too excited about.

I'm excited because I'll know just how rich I am now; I'm not excited because knowing I'm super rich will make me work even harder.

The host currently has 140 billion in available funds.

Fang Qingzhou hadn't expected to join the ranks of billionaires so quickly; it was much faster than he'd anticipated. It seemed Claire's DL...

It made him a lot of money.

However, although he earns a lot of money now, like he has a money-printing machine, he also spends a lot.

It cost 800 million just to buy the tyrant, and another 200 million to hire special police, buy helicopters, and build a complete security system for the factory. It also spent 500 million to bribe the Nusantara government, and another 100 million to buy an online army to attack the Japanese government.

However, all the money spent was worthwhile, and subsequent investment in security should not be reduced.

"Let's begin the journey." Fang Qingzhou closed his eyes, and as the dizzying sensation returned, he once again entered the world of Resident Evil.

The moment he opened his eyes, he saw Claire with the little girl.

The two continued the conversation they hadn't finished when they left.

"So, you're looking for serum for the G virus?" Fang Qingzhou asked.

This is basically consistent with the Claire DLC storyline he saw in Liao Yunkai's live stream.

"Yes, so you're looking for samples of the G virus and then handing them over to the FBI so they can sanction Umbrella Corporation?" Claire asked.

Fang Qingzhou nodded and continued, "The serum and the virus should be stored together. It seems we can finally work together this time."

Upon hearing this, Claire's expression brightened noticeably. Having a reliable teammate in such a godforsaken place was the best thing ever.

She had led Sherry all the way from the orphanage to the Mother Nest, clearing out the zombies in front of them while protecting the children behind them – no easy task.

Fang Qingzhou crouched down to be at eye level with Shirley.

The little girl looked very pale; the faint red lines on her cheeks had spread from her cheekbones to her ears, like blood seeping from ruptured capillaries.

Her eyes were still a clear blue, but a faint yellowish turbidity could be seen spreading from the corner of her eye toward her pupil in the whites of her eyes.

"How are you feeling?" Fang Qingzhou tried to make her voice sound as gentle as possible.

"My stomach...it hurts a little," Shirley whispered, pointing to her abdomen with her little finger. "It feels like something is moving."

"It seems we don't have much time left," Fang Qingzhou said to Claire as he stood up, then led the way.

The interior of the mother nest is completely different from the chemical plant above.

Chemical plants are typical industrial buildings, with exposed pipes, rusted steel plates, and rough cement floors.

But the interior of the nest is more like a high-tech medical complex, with smooth white alloy panels on the walls, much like the advanced laboratories in movies and TV series.

The place they came down from by cable car was the visitor reception area of ​​the Mother Nest.

Although the virus has leaked and there are almost no living people inside the nest, the facility's automated systems are still operating normally.

The sensors at the front desk detected the green visitor bracelet that Ada had given him on Fang Qingzhou's wrist, and a gentle, female electronic voice came from a speaker hidden in the ceiling.

Welcome to the Mother Nest! Enjoy your visit!

Fang Qingzhou felt a little regretful that the Mother Nest's system wasn't the super-intelligent Red Queen from the Resident Evil movies, but rather an ordinary, idiotic artificial intelligence system.

If he could bring super artificial intelligence like the Red Queen into the real world, I wonder how awesome that would be.

"This place is completely different from what I imagined," Claire murmured as she looked around.

She had imagined that the Umbrella Corporation's underground research facility would be a sinister and terrifying biological weapons factory, but the Hive in front of her looked more like a top-notch private hospital or the executive floor of a five-star hotel.

"The Umbrella Corporation has been operating underground in Raccoon City for so many years, and this is their real headquarters, so it's normal for it to be a bit luxurious." Fang Qingzhou was also somewhat amazed by the luxuriousness of the research institute.

They quickly passed through the visitor reception area and arrived at a heavy, double-sealed door.

Fang Qingzhou placed the bracelet against the door panel, but the door did not open; only red text popped up on the panel.

This area is for full-time employees only.

"Looks like we need to upgrade our wristbands first." Fang Qingzhou didn't expect the visitor wristbands to have such low permissions; they couldn't even open the corridor door.

Claire nodded, and then walked with Fang Qingzhou toward the door that didn't require authorization.

They entered the restaurant first, and the moment they stepped inside, the gentle, female electronic voice of the Nest System rang out again from the speakers hidden in the ceiling.

Welcome to our restaurant! Our food is designed specifically to meet your nutritional needs based on cutting-edge biological research. Enjoy your meal!

The Mother Nest system was giving Fang Qingzhou and the others a detailed introduction to the luxurious food that would be offered in the restaurant.

However, Fang Qingzhou and the others had no appetite at all, because there were many Umbrella employees in white coats who had turned into zombies and were gnawing on the torn corpses on the ground.

"It seems our researchers don't really like the healthy food here," Fang Qingzhou said, aiming his gun at the zombies before pulling the trigger and blowing the heads off the zombies in white coats one by one.

He quickly found a blue bracelet among the corpses; it was the bracelet of a full-time employee.

However, Fang Qingzhou also noticed that something was wrong with the torn corpses on the ground. It seemed that the corpses had been cut open by something extremely sharp.

Such a wound reminded him of a licker, but a licker's wound could not possibly be this smooth.

Just then, a crawling sound came from inside the restaurant. Upon hearing the familiar sound, Fang Qingzhou confirmed that it was the Licker making the noise.

It seems these mangled corpses were indeed the work of the Lickers.

"Claire, take Sherry and go outside first. I'm going to meet an old friend." Fang Qingzhou handed the blue bracelet to Claire and then took the shotgun.

Fang Qingzhou hadn't forgotten the monster that had taken his first blood. He didn't expect to run into it here again, which was perfect since he hadn't had his fill of killing before.

Claire took the bracelet, hesitated for a moment, but after seeing the pale-faced little girl beside her, she nodded and led Sherry away from the restaurant.

Soon the Licker emerged from the darkness deep within the restaurant.

Its limbs climbed up the wall alternately, moving slowly upside down from the ceiling. However, this Licker was completely different from the Lickers Fang Qingzhou had seen before.

Not only had it grown larger, but it also had bluish-gray skin, and its two claws had become increasingly deformed, resembling two knives.

Its biggest similarity to the previous red-skinned lickers is that its brain is also exposed.

The previous Red Lickers were an accidental evolution of ordinary zombies. Umbrella researchers didn't think much of them, believing they weren't qualified biological weapons. So, they injected a large amount of T-virus into the Lickers, creating the current Licker Mod.

Licker Modified is much stronger than a regular Licker.

"You little brat, you think I won't recognize you just because you've changed your disguise?" Fang Qingzhou looked at the mutated Licker without feeling any fear.

So what if the Licker got stronger? He got stronger too.

Upon hearing Fang Qingzhou's words, the licker's exposed brain bulged with bluish-gray blood vessels, and its two razor-sharp forepaws reflected a cold, sharp light under the restaurant's lights.

It hung upside down from the ceiling, and the next moment, all four legs exerted force simultaneously, rushing towards Fang Qingzhou like an arrow released from a bow. Its speed was on a completely different level from any Licker he had ever encountered before.

However, after the basic combat skills were upgraded to advanced levels, Fang Qingzhou's reaction speed was greatly enhanced, making him even faster.

Just as the Licker's front paws were about to sweep across his face, he dodged to the side, pressed the muzzle of his shotgun against the Licker's abdomen from below, and pulled the trigger.

The shotgun shells struck the Licker's bluish-gray skin at point-blank range, exploding into a dark red mist of blood. The Licker Modified's body was blasted to the side and moved half a meter.

However, the grayish-blue skin did provide the Licker Mod with formidable defense; the shotgun pellets only left a few shallow dents on it, without causing much damage.

"Thick-skinned." Fang Qingzhou pulled the pump handle, and the scalding hot cartridge case ejected from the barrel and fell to the ground.

As soon as he finished speaking, one of Licker's claws swept across from the side again. He didn't dodge and directly triggered the Super Armor of the Advanced Steelback.

His muscle density surged instantly, and his skin's resilience reached its limit in a fraction of a second. The licker's claws swept across his side ribs, producing a crisp metallic clang, only tearing his clothes and leaving a shallow white mark on his skin.

Fang Qingzhou seized this fleeting opportunity. He turned to the side, his left arm blocking the Licker's forepaw before it could retract, while his right hand slammed the butt of his shotgun into the Licker's exposed brain.

The Licker let out a sharp, piercing screech as it was slammed to the ground by the blow.

It struggled to stand up again, but Fang Qingzhou didn't give it the chance. He pressed the muzzle of the shotgun against the center of the exposed brain and kept pulling the trigger until the grayish-blue brain was blasted into a pile of unrecognizable fragments. The Licker's body twitched violently a few times in its last nerve reflexes, and then remained completely still.

[Kill a Licker (Modified) x1, gain 120 experience points]

Fang Qingzhou glanced down at the Licker's corpse on the ground, then looked at the still-smoking shotgun in his hand, and a slight smile appeared on his lips.

For the first time, he truly felt that his strength had greatly improved. Monsters that could easily kill him before could now be easily dealt with by him.

He reloaded the shotgun, then crouched down. Li Sanguang's skill was triggered, and a faint glowing mark that only he could see popped up next to the Licker's corpse. He reached in and pulled out twenty Lightning Eagle bullets.

After getting his hands on the Lightning Hawk, he barely used it, since .50 Magnum ammo was so scarce. Now that he had found so many, he didn't have to be so frugal with them anymore.

After quickly tidying up their equipment, Fang Qingzhou pushed open the restaurant door and reunited with Claire and Sherry.

Claire stood outside the restaurant, clutching her submachine gun, ready to rush in at any moment. She only breathed a sigh of relief when she saw Fang Qingzhou come out.

"You really killed it? All by yourself?" After letting out a sigh of relief, Claire looked Fang Qingzhou up and down, who was completely unharmed, still finding it hard to believe.

She also encountered one at the police station, and it almost blew her head off with its tongue. She finally managed to kill it with a flashbang she found.

Fang Qingzhou went in alone, without using flashbangs or calling for backup, and came out within minutes. Apart from a few tears in his clothes, he didn't have a single decent wound.

"Of course, I said I would protect you." Fang Qingzhou slung the shotgun, now fully loaded with bullets, back onto his shoulder, slightly raised his chin, and spoke with undisguised smugness.

Sherry peeked half her head out from behind Claire, her face still deathly pale, but her blue eyes held a newfound adoration as she looked at Fang Qingzhou.

She whispered, "Uncle Leon is amazing."

Fang Qingzhou's lips curled up even more. No wonder those Jiahao guys liked to show off in front of girls; it felt so good to be admired.

Claire looked at Fang Qingzhou's somewhat smug face and couldn't help but chuckle.

"Let's go, we still need to find serum for Shirley." Fang Qingzhou hadn't forgotten the important matter. He took the blue bracelet back from Claire and went to the closed door.

This time, the airlock door opened smoothly, but Fang Qingzhou was stunned when he saw what was behind the door.

There were a lot of zombies behind the door, and the zombies inside were not wearing clothes. Their skin, including their brains, was pale, and they swayed their heads as they walked.

"No wonder it's the Umbrella Corporation's lair, so many mutated zombies," Fang Qingzhou said, then raised his shotgun again.

The shotgun blast knocked one of the zombies' heads off, but the wounds from the shotgun blasts began to heal at a visible speed the next moment.

Pale Head, a mutant developed by Umbrella researchers, possesses powerful regenerative abilities. Their movement and attack speeds far exceed those of ordinary zombies, requiring damage exceeding their healing limits to kill them.

Fang Qingzhou pulled out the Lightning Eagle, which had just been reloaded with bullets, and pulled the trigger again. This time, the pale head in front of him exploded and never healed.

However, the surrounding zombies were all attracted by the gunshots and surrounded them.

Fang Qingzhou kept pulling the trigger, firing the .50 Magnum bullets he had just picked up. Claire was also firing a submachine gun beside him, but it took her seven or eight shots to blow the pale head off.

Finally, after a hard-fought battle, the heads of all the pale-faced people in front of him were blown apart. However, Fang Qingzhou was also very distressed, as the Magnum bullets he had just picked up were gone before he could even enjoy them.

He had planned to use it on G William or the Tyrant, but he ended up using it on mobs.

"Let's keep going." Fang Qingzhou sighed and continued on with Claire and Sherry.

Soon they encountered another large number of zombies. The good news was that they were ordinary zombies, but the bad news was that the zombies were wearing anti-infantry armor developed by Umbrella Corporation, also known as A-armor.

When the virus leaked into the Hive, the rapid response forces inside immediately began donning A-armor to suppress the attack. This armor, specially prepared by Umbrella Corporation for such situations, is extremely strong and can withstand direct hits from rifle bullets.

However, before these A-grade equipment could be put to use, all members of the rapid reaction force were infected.

Fang Qingzhou was almost laughing in anger; the ghostly things here were all incredibly strong.

If he hadn't upgraded his Steelback to advanced level this time, he didn't know how many times he would have died here. Fortunately, he did upgrade it to advanced level, which meant that ordinary zombies could no longer penetrate his defenses.

He put down his shotgun, then walked alone towards the zombies wearing A-grade equipment, carrying only a tactical knife.