Infinity, progress from Arasaka

The luxurious crystal cup was thrown out, shattered against the wall, and crystal fragments flew everywhere.

In the suite, Arasaka Yorinobu's body was now slumped powerlessly in front of the TV wall.

On the TV wall, there was a speech in which the younger Saburo Arasaka appeared. He was talking about new products in bioengineering and the result of the Stairway of the Sun project, the R-618 'Rebirth' potion. Lai Xuan knew very well that it was the result of Vera Adelheid's trip to Africa!

"I've said it before, pay attention to it, and let you pay attention to it... That immortal Saburo Arasaka is really immortal now. As long as Vera Adelheid is still alive to advance the research project, that immortal can concentrate on constructing his dark world that should not exist and should never exist!"

"A rotten tree cannot be carved! It's useless!"

Just as Lai Xuan raised his satellite phone and cursed the other party to vent his dissatisfaction, "Ding." It was another private mobile phone on the coffee table, with a new email notification sound. He took a look.

They are subordinates of the so-called 'hawk' faction led by him.

From their euphemistic words, Lai Xuan dissected the words and found that they were all alienating him or persuading him to actively support Saburo.

For a moment, Lai Xuan's face became even uglier, but soon he let it go.

As he expected, the group of chameleons were well-informed and had sensed the changes in the situation within the company.

It was normal for a group of middle and senior managers of the company who were influenced by opportunism to support the crown prince to take the throne. They just wanted to climb up the ladder by showing their support. Now that the "old emperor" has recovered, they naturally stopped their activities.

"Damn..."

"Military technology... all companies are the same, you can't trust them. The government authorities are even more useless, they can only crawl at Saburo's feet, grovelling and fawning... can I only rely on myself?"

Leaning against the sofa cushions, Lai Xuan put down the satellite phone in his hand and no longer had the intention to curse the military intelligence contact in a noisy mood.

"I, defeat and regain the youth of Saburo?"

He murmured in confusion.

"Will you win?"

But soon, Lai Xuan's eyes became determined.

Life is a struggle, and he wants to atone for the evil deeds of his family. Saburo's behavior is absolutely immoral and incorrect. If he gives in...

He touched the private data pad at hand and swiped it. A picture appeared. Under the pale light, a giant monster-like being blocked and restrained in the laboratory was seen. "Stairway to the Sun, Progenitor Virus..."

"As long as we can destroy Saburo."

...

"Why don't you take it seriously enough? Who is Vera Adelheid? She must have her reasons for personally carrying out that lazy Stairway to the Sun project. You got it and then failed. What are you doing here? You shouldn't have any luck or slack mentality!"

Far away in North America, the NUSA agent in charge of Tokyo's infiltration intelligence work had just finished a call with an insider of a liberal sympathizer inside Arasaka, and then he raised the microphone with an expression as if his father had died and listened to a scolding that came directly from Washington.

Is this because I don't pay enough attention?

Otherwise, you can do it. TMD, first, there is no heavy firepower, and second, it cannot send mecha and power armor troops. The firepower of individual soldiers is not enough. What can they do if they can't win with the little equipment and prosthesis on the infiltration agents? He has already issued a suicide order and rejected the hacker attack team's request to retreat.

Of course, he would never dare to say this.

Just be the leader's punching bag. Obviously, the leader has also been criticized by his superiors.

Holding the microphone, he looked exhaustedly at the live press conference of the Tokyo Arasaka Tower on TV. That old bastard Saburo Arasaka succeeded in extending his life and coming out of retirement. Damn, it's going to be hard to handle in the future.

"Please compile all the information you know about Vera Adelheid Russell's life, the details of her trip to Africa, the combat footage of the Johannesburg Spring Operation, and the information about the so-called Stairway to the Sun into a book, the most detailed ones, as they are needed above."

Doodle.

The phone hangs up.

He looked at the address of the document: [Washington, White House Situation Room]

This matter has obviously alarmed President Miles.

But that's true, that's the old emperor of Arasaka.

"Arasaka Saburo, how come you become younger?" He rubbed his forehead tiredly and frantically.

The Arasaka led by the three younger generations, Arasaka Yorinobu, Arasaka Hanako, and Arasaka Michiko, and the Arasaka led by the energetic Kenken Saburo are two completely different concepts.

"Fuck!"

...

On this day, sooner or later, all over the world, after a delay, the exaggerated headline of "Arasaka Saburo's Rejuvenation" was delivered to thousands of households, and information about the drugs used by Arasaka Saburo and Vera Adelheid, the person in charge of the project, was placed on the desks of CEOs and heads of intelligence departments of major companies almost at the same time.

Arasaka Tower, Tokyo.

At this moment, Saburo's speech has come to an end.

"In the past, Arasaka led the world in high-end arms and light and heavy manufacturing. Today, Arasaka will proudly announce that we are still leading the trend. Now, we will chase and grasp the dawn of the mystery of human life with our own hands."

clap clap clap-

There was thunderous applause.

Vera followed suit and applauded. Seeing Sanlang's high-spirited state, she was very curious about how Lai Xuan would break the impasse. Did she need to develop a powerful virus for him to "steal"?

And just as Vera's consciousness was connecting with another 'self' as usual, preparing to give instructions and take a closer look at something she had just acquired -

Bo~

It was like the sound of a steam drum breaking. From Vera's perspective, the endless other side of the sky was filled with turbulent waves, as if a stone had been thrown into the calm lake, and ripples began to appear.

"what?"

Double happiness.

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PS: Ahem, today, I rarely have a py.

Readers who are familiar with me know that sake is basically not py.

The last book had almost 360 million words, but that was the only time it reached that level, and it was only because a reader reminded me of it. Uh, it seems like it was a jinx.

o(￣▽￣)ｄ.

Without further ado, you're welcome to check it out. If you find it to your liking, just treat it as a recommendation for those who are short of books about sake brands.

Chapter 065 The power of five 'wei'!

The noise in the press conference hall of Tokyo's Arasaka Tower seemed to have been muted at this moment.

From the introspective perspective of a superimposed soul and mind, Vera gazes at the deep reflection called 'herself'.

It's like looking down one of those old-fashioned bottomless shafts in real life.

A pool of water.

The only difference was that Vera seemed to be standing in front of countless "wellheads" in an instant. Wherever she looked, front and back, left and right, looking up to the top and down to the bottom, all she saw was the endless water.

Deep and peaceful, as if it could swallow and embrace everything.

She couldn't describe this feeling accurately, but every time it appeared, it brought her different insights. Especially every time she embraced "God's Gift", she broke through the boundaries and interacted with each other, turning the virtual into the real.

And it was the second time that Vera felt the breaking membrane, shattering windows, climbing... so clearly.

The first time was when she was studying hard at Arasaka Academy in Night City.

She reclaimed and embraced what she knew to be her Resident Evil self.

What will it be this time?

Standing in front of the 'wellhead', Vera looked at the other side of the dark abyss, like seeing a leopard through a tube, dimly glimpsing the bubbles and balls popping in the outer membrane, and the circles of light and shadows rising and falling. Her soul was expecting and longing.

Longing for unity.

And rejection, fear...

Just like the instinct of a living being to seek benefits and avoid harm, a very metaphysical intuition told Vera that some of her "soul fragments" were not something she could recover now.

Especially those that are too far away, or indescribable, or distorted and silent, or eerie and strange, or extremely dark and oppressive, or a mess of chaos and smog, or a hodgepodge of colorful and filthy things stuffed into it...

Through the sky, Vera felt a very slight but incomparably pure and real tingling and dizziness just by looking at the traces of the incidental infection on the soul of her "self".

Connectivity means both unparalleled benefits and opportunities, but also unknown negative risks.

There are endless temptations and unknown fears.

Vera chose to follow her heart.

She followed the desire deep in her heart, followed the invisible and unspeakable sense of connection and connection, and under the indescribable sense of restraint, she took a steady step forward.

Penetrate the barrier that is so far away yet so within reach.

At the moment when the 'tide' of the boundless sea rose, Vera reached out to the 'veins' surrounding her, hum——

She stayed in a state of complete harmony with "Heaven's Gift". It seemed like only a moment, yet it seemed like a very long time had passed.

Well.

An unprecedented feeling of fullness and a numbing sensation as if everything from perception to thinking to body and soul was filled up.

Countless chaotic images began to overlap, and the light and shadow were slowly and accurately classified, summarized and focused. Vera closed her eyes, touched her forehead with her fingers, and quietly smoothed out the fresh thoughts that echoed continuously in the same frequency "vein".

Three.

Vera had a flash of realization.

This is the maximum limit she can currently safely connect to.

This time, she caught and retrieved three 'him and me'.

That’s it, huh?

How should I put it? It feels a bit weak.

Could it be that her subconscious, her true self, is just picking on the weak and doing what she wants?

The first one is the world that seems to be the safest in Vera's "intuition". As the synchronized memories continue to pour in, Vera's expression becomes very dull.

It is just an ordinary modern secular world, without weird urban legends, devoid of history, hidden superpowers, strange subspecies, mutants, or well-known international powers...

The ordinary story of a young arms dealer's rise to wealth and entrepreneurship.

Perhaps from the perspective of ordinary people, that life is exciting and fulfilling, but for Vera, who is used to working in the field in the cyberpunk world and has been a senior executive of an international pharmaceutical giant and current CEO of a military-industrial enterprise in the Resident Evil world for a long time, it is dull, too dull.

However, she quickly accepted her 'ordinary' self and did not complain too much about it.

Come to think of it, there are not so many good things in the world. If you can win the best lottery every time and have the natural "intuition" to avoid harm, just be happy. Things have good and bad sides, as long as they are not the worst, there is no need to complain.

A mosquito's legs are also meat, aren't they?

The second is the world that Vera chose based on her feelings. It is suitable for digesting at this stage, consolidating the foundation, experiencing different things, and accumulating some fresh skills.

As the synchronized memories of this life were sorted out, Vera's expression became slightly strange.

Some of the institutions and things inside look more and more familiar.

This world also embarked on the industrial revolution and entered the modern secular world of the 21st century. History did not go astray, but there were more man-eating things in the cities.

Generally speaking, there is no difference between their appearance and that of ordinary people, but their physical strength is higher than that of humans, they have hunting organs called kagune, and they can only eat human flesh and coffee - ghouls.

The Ghoul Countermeasures Bureau (CCG) is an organization that conducts investigations to resolve ghoul-related incidents around the world.

A special living weapon called Quinque is made by killing ghouls or taking out their kagune and using their kagune to make it, as well as the manufacturing technology.

This is a story about a ghoul investigator (Shirataki) who goes to work every day, punches in to kill ghouls, and obtains the Hekaku-zo Quinque, and then advances in the CCG and continues to be promoted within the system.

Vera nodded with a hint of satisfaction.

It’s okay. Although it’s not a delicacy, it can be considered a rich side dish.

Vera is very interested in Quinque's manufacturing technology and related transformation processes.

Third...

"Vera."

"Vera?"

"Vera Adelheid..."