Resident Evil: Striking the Heart of Umbrella
Chapter 3 of my Resident Evil story, enjoy.
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Disclaimer: Resident Evil belongs to Capcom.
Chapter 3: An Unusual Test Subject
Lisa came to the first floor, entering through the door and found herself in a thickly carpeted corridor with paintings along the walls. She sighed and shook her head at the blatantly display of opulence.
'All this is wasted on Trevor; he doesn't give a damn about all this.' She thought darkly. 'He only cares about power; this stuff is all for show.'
She continued down the corridor when something caught her eye. There was writing on one of the paintings. She read it carefully:
"Only the sinless one can help you here. Mistakenly pull on a criminal's rope and your reward will be returned to you in a shape most wondrously strange."
Lisa was confused by this strange poem. However it was soon driven from her mind by the all too familiar sound of Hunters. She spun around, pulling out her submachine guns. There were three of them, slavering as they charged towards her. She immediately opened fire on them, eventually managing to kill one before they leapt at her. She fired more bullets, killing another before she ducked to avoid being hit. She spun around and fired her handgun, point blank, into its chest. The monster keeled over and died as she reloaded.
Catching her breath Lisa pondered. 'This writing must have some meaning. But is it relevant though. Guess I'll find out soon.'
With that she turned and entered the nearest room, looking for clues.
She found two matters of great interest within the large office like room. One of the objects she found partially answered her thoughts on the writing, proving is relevance sooner than she thought. On the desk was a sheet of paper and next to it was a folder with documents inside it. Lisa picked up and read the sheet of paper first:
"This is…" She realized, "Now that writing out there makes sense."
It was a note referring to the strange writing; it was part of a puzzle that was keeping the second floor locked. She would have to solve it to unlock the door and check the second floor.
"The hanged man puzzle; one of the chairman's prize puzzles. I have written the riddle solution down but for safety reasons have locked it, in two parts in the safes on this floor. Hopefully I won't need it, but things have become strange lately; I hope things don't come to what I fear but if so, we must liquidate the special test subject on the second floor. Therefore we must enter the second floor. If I do not make it, whoever reads this, please finish what I tried to do. Find the innocent man and pull his noose.'
That took Lisa by surprise; she checked the folder and noted it contained details of all the experiments performed on this new test subject. Smiling at this chance for direct evidence Lisa put the folder in her pack and prepared to search for the two part answer to this puzzle.
The moment she left the room she found herself under attack by infected bats. She did her best to fend them off and run. She was aware of heavy footsteps and out the corner of her eye saw Crimson Heads approaching.
"Shit, shit!" She growled before making up her mind.
After gaining some ground Lisa set up a trap, using some of her grenades and wire to connect them. She then retreated into the nearby room and listened carefully. The explosion was a relief to her. She opened the door slightly and verified that her trap worked. With the B.O.W.s blown up she turned back to the room. She then spotted what she was hoping for, a safe. She examined it carefully and then finally made up her mind. It took her a really long time but she slowly worked out the combination and opened the safe. Sure enough there was a piece of paper inside, written just like the writing on the picture. Lisa carefully read what it said:
"He committed an evil crime; he turned a happy home into a pile of ash, for that he should die. They also committed crimes; they tried to fraud and trick others, so their reward too is natural. Even he cannot be forgiven, my friend without his left hand, and so his death bothers me not."
The rest of the note was missing. Lisa sighed; she would have to find the rest of the note. Bracing herself she slipped out of the room and back into the corridor.
She noted the remains of the B.O.W.s and hoped she would not run into anything else on this floor. She remembered the layout of the building she had researched before coming here. There were several other rooms on this floor, but only one other room was an office like this one. It was at the other end of this corridor, the other end of the building. She hurried down the corridor, listening for any pursuit, nothing. Breathing a sigh of relief she slipped into the next room. There was a dead body slumped over the desk. Lisa aimed carefully at him, just in case he woke up, infected. She approached the safe and got to work figuring out the combination; watching the dead body carefully. She finally opened the safe and pulled out a second sheet of paper, containing the rest of the puzzle solution:
"And what of him, he also is not sinless; there is only one here who is innocent. The missing child was nowhere to be found, and so there was no proof of his guilt, his death was a tragedy. That is all I wish to say, it was neither justice nor retribution."
Lisa pondered this for a moment, from what she could read the only innocent man appeared to be a man accused of kidnapping. Deciding to see how it would help her find the right noose she hurried down to the basement. She found the entrance, underneath the staircase and descended.
She found that in the basement were six nooses, arrayed in rows. Each had a plaque attached to it, each naming the man who was hanged with the noose. Lisa found the kidnapper's noose and pulled it down. There was a mechanical noise and Lisa, noting that nothing seemed to have happened, guessed that the second floor door was open. She slipped out of the room and began to climb the stairs, searching for more clues and evidence.
End of chapter, hope you enjoyed it, read and review please.