Ada Wong was truly glad she had no feelings for Javier; otherwise, this queen of hers might not have been able to outwit Lisa, that master actress and green tea movie star, and she would likely have been a very difficult and deadly rival in love.
"…"
"The subway train has successfully started, and there are still two minutes until the Institute self-destructs, which is enough time for us to leave this hellhole. It's been a pleasure working with you, Mr. Javier. Here's my business card. If you're interested… we can continue our cooperation next time. After all, I think we have quite a good understanding!"
Although she didn't plan to conquer Javier,
Ada Wong was very interested in disgusting Lisa, that G Virus infected individual. Seeing the danger was resolved, Ada Wong slowly pulled out a black and red heart-shaped rose card from the deep V neckline of her red hip-hugging dress and handed it to Javier, speaking in a very seductive tone.
At the same time, she didn't forget to tilt her neck and give a quick, alluring wink, emphasizing the words "good understanding" a few times.
It was as if, the next time they met,
some unspeakable special relationship would develop between them.
This intimate interaction made Leon, who was nearby, feel a pang of heartache, while Lisa silently gritted her teeth, her gaze towards Ada Wong gradually becoming unfriendly.
"Hmm…"
"The enchanting fragrance of red roses is indeed very alluring. I just don't know if it's shower gel or natural body scent. In any case, I will seriously consider it, Miss Ada. I also hope Miss Ada can seriously consider what I said before. If Miss Ada has nowhere to go, she can also come work for me; I guarantee a satisfactory salary!"
Taking the black and red heart-shaped rose card from Ada Wong's hand, Javier removed his gas mask, sniffed a small breath with a feigned profound look, and said teasingly with a faint smile on his face. In terms of bad character, no one could currently compare to Javier.
But Ada Wong didn't mind Javier's teasing.
Perhaps she was already used to Javier's bad character; instead, she seriously rejected Javier's suggestion. Currently, Tricell's remuneration was very high, and even though Ada Wong's personality was as cold as a cat,
it was difficult for her to quickly change her affections, let alone work under Javier. She really couldn't imagine what funds this guy had to hire her.
"Sorry…"
"Javier, for now, I still say the same thing…"
"Boom—!!!"
However,
just as Ada Wong was about to continue stating her thoughts, a violent tremor suddenly erupted. It seemed there was some malfunction in the train car behind them, which immediately made Ada Wong and the others, who had been relaxed, tense and uneasy. They didn't want to mess up at this critical moment.
"Da da da…"
"Clang—!"
"This is bad! This is bad! That… that, the train's power output is starting to drop, and the speed is already slowing down. At this rate, we absolutely cannot leave the Institute's explosion range within the time limit. It seems something huge is dragging the subway train back, preventing it from going at full speed!"
As the violent shaking of the subway train began,
Catherine, who had been driving the train at the front, suddenly ran in with small steps, explaining anxiously to Javier and the others, her face flushed and out of breath. The sudden drop in the subway train's power would affect their progress in leaving the G Virus Research Institute. If they got stuck halfway, they would truly be finished.
After all, the G Virus Research Institute's self-destruct range was very wide,
basically, the central urban area of Raccoon City would be blown down. Therefore, if their speed wasn't fast enough, they would be buried in the abyss along with the subway train.
"Whew…"
"It's about the same as the expected time. It should be the G Virus monster chasing us again. Catherine, go to the main control room and continue driving the train. Make sure to keep the train at full speed. The rest is up to us; we'll quickly deal with that lingering shadow of a tail."
Javier's face didn't show much panic upon hearing this huge commotion,
but instead, he calmly instructed everyone around him.
However, Ada Wong and Leon's expressions instantly changed when they heard this news. What a joke, that G Virus monster had been riddled with holes by the M2 Heavy Machine Gun; how could it still be alive?
And even able to catch up to the subway train at such a fast speed? It was simply too incredible… No… it should be said it was utterly preposterous!
"How is that possible?"
"I clearly used the M2 Heavy Machine Gun to severely wound it. Even if it's still alive, it shouldn't recover so quickly!"
Facing this conjecture, Leon still couldn't believe there was truly a monster that could withstand the M2 Heavy Machine Gun's firepower.
"Perhaps it's decided to go all out, who knows?"
"After all, once that monster goes insane, it's hard to imagine what terrifying form it will take, especially when it's desperately trying to survive…!"
Facing Leon's disbelief,
Javier didn't explain much, because that's how the G5 Monster was; its recovery speed was unimaginable, especially when it was desperately trying to survive. People would struggle desperately when they were about to be killed, let alone a G Virus monster?
Therefore,
Javier chose to take direct action,
and began opening the subway train car doors one by one—
"Clang… Clang… Clang…!!!"
Several car doors slowly opened,
until the last car door was opened, and everyone was shocked by the scene before them, because this last car was a space solely for the monster!
That's right,
it was a space,
the entire interior of the car was wrapped in bloody red tumors, as if the entire mechanical steel car had been assimilated into the G Virus monster's flesh. Disgusting tumors adhered to every corner, with pulsating blood vessels constantly throbbing, making the entire car seem alive and terrifying.
And the creature in the very center,
was an extremely disgusting, hideous, and twisted Meat Mountain. Yes, it was a Meat Mountain, like a hill formed from a pile of rotten flesh, also resembling Grimer from Pokémon. Its entire body constantly pulsed with moving tumors. Various "garbage" were stuck into every corner of the Meat Mountain's body.
"Gurgle… Gurgle gurgle…"
Javier and the others saw zombie heads and arms, cloth shirts, stark white skeletons, Licker heads and arms, and other severed limbs on the body of this garbage Meat Mountain, like a hideous criminal burdened with countless evil deeds and deep sins.
The countless zombies and Lickers it had devoured were all used as energy and stuffed into its belly. On the huge Meat Mountain body, one could vaguely see a white skeletal head and small red eyes, which were actually the G Virus monster's head.
But such a massive body paired with such a tiny head could no longer be described as cerebellar atrophy; it could simply be called a foolish creature with negative intelligence.
Under its atrophied cerebellum, there was also an incredibly terrifying gaping maw, truly resembling a tunnel boring machine this time, horrifying. Thousands of densely packed sharp teeth were clustered on the outside of the tumor, constantly sucking and expelling like a millstone, capable of crushing any creature in front of it into powder and swallowing it whole at any moment.
On both sides, there were also incredibly strong tumorous tentacles, standing straight like a snail's antennae, which could help it entangle and bind its prey and deliver it into its mouth to replenish energy.
And this ultimate mutated creature, resembling a garbage Meat Mountain, Grimer, and a snail or slug, was the G5 Monster—the final struggle form displayed by the G Virus to survive—G5—!
"Gurgle… Gurgle gurgle…"
G5 not only represented the end of the G Virus's life, but when Javier saw G5, he didn't find it as terrifying as Ada Wong and Leon did; instead, he felt sorry for it, even mourning it.
Because it was no longer a living being; it no longer had the dignity of individual survival. It seemed to have become a monster that possessed only power, but no thought, no humanity…
Chapter 32: Return My Beauty Punch
"Gurgle gurgle…"
A massive, hideous, and ugly Meat Mountain squirmed in the last car of the subway train. Because it had devoured too many zombies and Lickers that it hadn't finished digesting, it had turned into this monstrous appearance. Its flesh constantly emitted strange sounds, and its movement relied solely on the slow-moving tentacles beneath its feet. Its speed was no different from a snail's.
And this was the fifth mutation of the G Virus, G5—!
A form born solely for survival.
Upon realizing that it truly would die, the G Virus began an indiscriminate devouring mode. It didn't care whether the target was Lisa, the G-Virus original; anything that could provide it with energy would be completely absorbed into its body.
Therefore, the zombies and Lickers around the G Virus Research Institute suffered, being tightly entangled by the tentacles extended by the G Virus, which desperately wanted to survive, and then stuffed into its body for digestion.
However, due to the inability of the G Virus and T-Virus to quickly fuse, G5 suffered from indigestion. While the zombies and Lickers did provide energy, it also turned into this monstrous state due to indigestion.
In short, it was very pathetic.
This was also the G Virus's final struggle for survival…
Although G5 was not the limit of the G Virus's life, it was the limit of its evolution. Therefore, since G3, the subsequent G4 and G5 no longer belonged to evolution, but rather to mutation. The word "evolution" has always been used to describe species changing into a more "perfect" form.
But what about G4 and G5…?
That massive and bloated appearance, without a doubt, could not be described as "perfect." Therefore, it cannot be described as evolution, but merely the G Virus's endless "mutation" for survival. Its upper limit has not increased; it has only endlessly expanded its lower limit. Therefore, G5, having gone in the wrong direction, failed from the very beginning—!
"…"
"Get out of the way, I'll deal with it!"
And seeing the massive G5 Monster still slowly squirming towards them, and the train car gradually being assimilated and corroded by life, Leon, who was nearby, couldn't sit still. His expression changed, and he quickly shouted to Claire and Ada Wong in front of him.
"Click—!"
A new box of heavy M2 Heavy Machine Gun bullets was slowly loaded by Leon. Shaking out the orange-yellow ammunition belt, Leon unhesitatingly pulled the bolt to chamber a round. The old iron sights and the dark, massive muzzle were aimed at the G5 Monster dozens of meters away. Leon directly pulled the M2 Heavy Machine Gun's trigger again.
Relying on the opened car passage,
Leon could directly hit the G5 Monster in the very last, 6th car from his position in the 2nd car.
"…"
"Da da da— Da da da— Da da da— Da da da— Da da da—!!!!!!!"
Again, powerful bursts of roaring machine gun fire,
one after another, large bullets, carrying terrifying impact and penetration, assailed the massive body of the incredibly ugly, hideous, and twisted G5 Monster in front of them. This time, Leon originally thought it would be like before, directly riddling the G5 Monster's massive body with holes and turning it into a mess.
But when he saw the truth with his own eyes… Leon realized he had severely underestimated this monster's terrifying survival ability!
"Pfft… Pfft… Pfft…!!!"
The sound of bullets penetrating the G5 Monster's body instantly rang out, and fist-sized blood holes immediately appeared. But what Leon completely unexpected was that these attacks… seemed to have absolutely no damaging effect on the G5 Monster!
Yes,
they had absolutely no damaging effect,
as if a clay ox had entered the sea, stirring no waves. These seemingly powerful heavy machine gun bullets, when shot into the G5 Monster's massive, mountain-like body, splattered blood,
but had no impact on the G5 Monster itself. Because the zombies and Lickers inside its body were its last energy reserve, it could completely rely on these zombies and Lickers to infinitely recover its injuries.
Therefore, at this time,
the M2 Heavy Machine Gun also had no effect whatsoever on the G5 Monster. The bullets would penetrate and then get stuck inside the G5 Monster's body, then be slowly digested and expelled, like an endless slime. Simple ordinary physical attacks had lost their effectiveness.
At the same time…
the G5 Monster would also gain considerable benefits from Leon's frantic M2 Heavy Machine Gun fire. Because the more injuries the G5 Monster had, the faster it would need to absorb energy, and indirectly, the faster it would digest the zombies and Lickers inside its body.
After all, the G Virus was only unable to quickly convert the large number of zombies and Lickers inside its body into effective energy for storage; it wasn't actually constipated. Because digesting too much energy from zombies and Lickers would only make its body larger and larger, and more and more difficult to move.
And Leon's negligible damage, on the contrary, truly became a digestive stomach medicine, helping the G5 Monster continuously digest the excess energy within its body. At that time… if the G5 Monster really slimmed down, it might truly re-enter the correct evolutionary path, and Leon would be the greatest contributor!
Thinking of this…
Javier's face immediately darkened.
This guy, Leon, seemed to be helping him increase the game difficulty. If the M2 Heavy Machine Gun's ineffective attacks continued,
it might truly allow the bloated G5 Monster, which had been hit by the "Facial Disfigurement Kick," to receive Leon's "Return My Beauty Punch" attack and regain its slender, agile, and perfect form.
That would truly be bad.
"Stop!"
"Leon, stop attacking! Haven't you realized that the M2 Heavy Machine Gun is completely ineffective against this lump of meat in front of you? I have a better way to deal with it. You two go get the train's seat cushions, cloth, and curtains to tie into a rope and bind it to me."
"I'll just disconnect the 6th car. Then this lump of Meat Mountain Monster will fall back into the G Virus Research Institute along with the car it assimilated!"
Quickly reaching out to stop Leon from continuing to use the M2 Heavy Machine Gun to perform his "Return My Beauty Punch" traitorous idea, Javier proposed a very simple and effective method.
Yes,
as long as the car connection was severed, the G5 Monster could be made to fall back into the Institute. After all, the subway train's power source was the locomotive; if the car was disconnected and lost power, it would be nothing. They could easily shake off this monster.
But the only problem was,
the subway train's car connection used the most primitive and safe manual connection method, which was the "pin-and-link" type of "Janney coupler." This coupling method was safe and stable, rarely causing problems, but the only issue was that disconnecting it was very troublesome. Aside from stopping the train, trying to uncouple it while moving at full speed was extremely dangerous.
Not to mention…
at this very moment, the G5 Monster had slowly squirmed to the position of the 4th car. There was only one car's distance between the 2nd car and the 4th car. At this point, trying to disconnect the coupling would undoubtedly lead to being attacked by the G5 Monster midway—!
After all,
although the G5 Monster's movement speed was slow, even describable as a snail's pace, its tumorous tentacles could extend several meters like rubber, allowing it to attack prey even from a car away.