Chapter 10

(Please take it easy on my English skills. It is my second language.)

Note #1: Nicholai Ginovaef, one of the three UBCS soldiers that Jill Valentine encountered during Resident Evil 3, was one of the secret supervisors of Umbrella. And he was NOT dead in one of the three possible alternatives. Although in 2 out of 3 alternatives he was killed, but the one he escaped with T-Virus combat data was the one preferred by Capcom.

Note #2: A hollow point bullet, also called a hollow tip, is a bullet that has a pit, or hollowed out shape, in its tip, generally intended to cause the bullet to expand upon entering a target in order to decrease penetration and disrupt more tissue as it travels through the target. As a result, the targets often suffer holes of MUCH larger than the bullet itself. Hague Convention, Declaration III, prohibits the use hollow point bullets in warfare due to its destructive power seems to be too cruel.

Over 10,000 miles away in the United States, Raccoon City was still completely deserted six years after being destroyed by the nuclear bomb. Six years ago, after the government failed to stop the outbreak of T-Virus, the entire city population had become zombies. The government then dropped a nuclear bomb sometimes during the dawn of October 1st, 1998 in an attempt to stop the further spreading of the virus.

Despite the T-Virus's primary weakness was radiation. After the destruction of the Raccon City, there were still small traces of active T-Virus and G-Virus strains found in surrounding areas. The ruins of Raccoon City and twenty miles around it were declared a possible biohazard threat and became a highly-classified, restricted area that only the U.S. military could enter.

The entire area was now surrounded by several layers of high steel fences and one high voltage electrical fence. Military towers, bunkers, were built along outside of the fences, with soldiers patrol the entire defense line constantly. Although the entire area outside defense perimeter was surrounded by endless forests, all nearby roads were closed, and there were numerous check points nearby along the way.

The nearest town was about 70 miles away, Zion Township. Current population about 35,000. Many original residents had moved out years ago because of fear being so close to the Raccoon City even it was destroyed. Over the years, there were some new comers moved in. The new comers and the people who stayed were all either like to be in a quiet place without too many people, or find business opertunities which were based on the scare tactics of the zombie outbreak, or because of the dropping prices of land and houses.

It was one of the regular evenings. A group of 6 patrolling U.S. marines were walking along outside of the fences with M16 assault rifles. The sky was clear, no cloud, nor wind. Every watch tower had a searchlight pointed across the fences search through the areas inside.

"There is ever anything going on since I got here 3 years ago. Why do we still have to patrol this area every day?" One of the soldiers asked. "I am just curious." He added

"If you really want to know…Six years ago after the nuclear strike, there were still traces of T-virus. Later there were some movements being detected by the surveillance planes, it obviously can't be humans. Although nothing has happened yet, the high command expected there were still surviving mutants within the area." The squad leader answered "Which is why we built the fences around entire old Raccoon City, with numerous bunkers and towers along it manned with weapons 24 hours a day and 7 days a week."

"How could anything survive a nuclear strike with this close to the zero ground?" Another soldier asked

"Think about it. There must be something in the basements, or in the sewer systems, or in any of the underground facilities, when the bomb was delivered on the surface. We can't be sure. Besides, the surveillance cameras on the planes don't lie."

The soldier nodded

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Not too far from the patrolling marines, 20 meters under the ground, Nicholai Ginovaef was commanding a group of almost naked workers digging a tunnel with spades.

"Faster!" Nicholai ordered the workers

"Tell me again why do we have to use spades? This is ridiculous! Why can't we just continue to use the more civilized methods?" One of the workers asked, and he was not happy. They were the ones doing all the work, while Nicholai did nothing but bossing them around.

"This is the last time I am going to repeat myself. Any machinery will make too much noise, we can be detected. We are already very close to the fences. According to the old sewer system map, we are only about 70 meters away from our objective, which is a sewer that leads to the central sewer system below the old city. Now shut up and go back to work quietly!" Nicholai replied with strong Russian accent.

"It is way too hot here!" Several workers complained as they were already in their underwear.

"You will all be paid very well once this is done. 70 meters more, every one of you will all be on your way with a check of large numbers. So stop complaining!" Nicholai replied like it was real, when he knew his order was to disposal all of them when the digging was done.

Six years ago, Nicholai was working for the highest department of Umbrella too, the same department as Hunk's. He and Hunk were unspeakable rivals. As Hunk followed the led of the old department into a new mini-Umbrella, Nicholai took a different path. He joined Blackwater, a private military company. He was not very satisfied with the pay, it was nothing compare to his old job. But opportunity had knocked on his door.

Just a year ago, a different Umbrella reminder located him and asked him to rejoin. They promised him very high payment, because they knew Nicholai's capability. So he joined.

This time Nicholai's order was to dig a tunnel across the fences, and to connect it to a sewer which will lead them right into the complex sewer system right below the heart of the old Raccoon City. His superior told him that the surviving mutants in Raccoon City must have developed some kind of resistance to the nuclear radiations. In the other word, more or less these remaining creatures must have mutated further and become closer to perfection. He was ordered to capture one or two mutants and bring them back for experiments. If he could succeed, his company would have the better evolved T-Virus than their rivals. If they were lucky enough, they might find better evolved G-Virus mutants as well. Either one can allow his company to make better B.O.W. than the rivals. He would be rewarded highly if he could succeed.

For the past 4 months, they had been digging through a 2 mile long tunnel under the forest that was surrounding the restricted zone. First they had been using machinery since they were still far away from fences where nobody could hear. As they were getting closer to the outer perimeter set up by the military, they switched to the more quiet method in order to avoid the detection.

Thinking about the huge amount of money he would be getting, Nicholai smiled as he watching the workers in underwear kept digging.

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On the other side of the earth,

Sherry extended half of her head out of the water from the sea. She was wearing a diving suit and carrying a water-proof bag pack. Just a day ago, she accepted this assignment from Wesker to recover the T-Veronica and G-Virus data from the backup system inside the base which was attacked by an unknown military force. And to find out what happened. The next day she took a plane went to Philippines, where a small submarine took her to just 500 meters off the shore to the island where the secret base was on.

Now it was evening, the sky was already dark. It did not bother Sherry, since she could see perfectly clear in the dark. Everything looked so peacefully and quiet on the island. After made sure there was nobody else, Sherry came out of water quietly and immediately entered the forest behind the beach. It was an island of about 5 square miles. The secret base of Wesker was in the middle of the island, where the trees within 500 meters of the building were cleared.

After entering the forest, Sherry quickly took off her diving suit and her wet underwear. Then she took out a dry towel from her waterproof bag pack. The wind came through the forest made her wet skin feeling a little chill, even though she could never get a cold. After she quickly dried herself with the towel, she put on an all black suit from her bag pack without wear any underwear. From her experience, she felt the underwear only getting in the way when she moving around so fast. The black suit she was wearing looked like ninja style. It covered her entirely include her hair and lower part of the face. Only the upper part of her face was visible. After she put the black ninja style suit on, it stuck pretty close to her skin and reflected all her curves. Then she put on a bullet-proof body armor that Wesker had prepared for her. With the body armor covering her curves, nobody could tell she is a woman from far away. She took out two machine pistols, one on the side of each of her thighs, two backup pistols beside her knees, two sharp knives behind her hip, a couple of different types of grenades into the extra pockets on the body armor, plus a few extra "toys". Everything was prepared by Wesker, with a few stuff were requested by Sherry.

Everything was ready and set. Sherry took out a communicator and tried to reach Wesker to report that she was ready to move in. The satellite link was unable to connect for some reason. Then she tried to contact the submarine, it did not work either.

"Jammed! Whoever attacked this place might still be around somewhere" Sherry thought "Whatever, I will just go ahead. I just need to be extra careful."

It was only a mile before she reached the other side of the forest and saw a wipe open field in front of a large 2 floor building. Two small runways and a few heliports were on one side of the huge building. There was no sign of any damage on the outside, but nor there was any sign of any person still around. The front gate and all emergency exits were closed, all windows were originally sealed because they used vent for fresh air.

Sherry spent whole half an hour tried to find any trace of what happened by moving through the woods around the entire building. There was nothing at all except the place was awfully quiet with not a single person being seen. There was no sign of any lights from inside the building. Wesker told her there were over 300 researchers, guards work here. There should be patrols outside the building all the time. One single road through the woods connects the research center to the farther end of the island where there was a small dock.

"This is weird! I thought this place was attacked. Why there isn't any damage outside the building? Not even a single broken window." Sherry thought

Sherry continued to look around, while installing needle like spy cameras onto the trees which Wesker told her to. He told her that if she can retrieve the data first, just leaving the island. Those needle cameras could be used the tracking any movements. Even though the transmission was still jammed somehow, the jamming would eventually stop, and then the hidden cameras would transmit what was recorded back to Wesker. It was easy to install the cameras. She only needed to simply stick them onto the trees.

Without her knowledge, there were already some of such similar hiding cameras in the woods. And they were transmitting! Obviously whoever planted these cameras knew the jamming frequency range.

After done installing 30 needle shape spy cameras, Sherry was ready to go in. When she was circling the building inside the woods, she had noticed on the second floor on the one side of the building, there was the entrance of one vent. It was high up on the second floor's wall about 7 meters from the ground, where there was no place to climb up but the flat wall. But it was no big deal for Sherry. After she circled back to the closest point from the trees to the vent opening, Sherry quickly left the woods and ran through the open field in the dark as fast as a cheetah. Just a few seconds later, she jumped and ran a few steps onto the flat wall and reached the vent opening with her arms, and she immediately disappeared into it.

Inside the secret lab, after a long moving forward in prone position, Sherry finally broke a part of the vent and she landed onto the floor inside a dark hall. It was dark everywhere inside the building. With the help of the map of the entire building prepared for her by Wesker, she landed right outside the specimens' laboratory. The door of the room was creepily half open. There was nothing in the hall, but Sherry swore she could smell blood, and it was very close.

There goes nothing, Sherry pushed the door fully open quietly and quickly sneaked into it without making a sound. Once inside the room, the first thing Sherry noticed was the two lines of the tubes on both sides of the room next to the walls. There were about 30 plus of them on each side, and all of them were broken. Lots of broken glasses were everywhere. The floor was still wet with some kind of liquid all over the places. Most of the equipments inside the room were messed up physically. Sherry walked through this large room with her machine pistols in both hands. It was not too long before she had almost reached the counter where the secret passageway to the underground backup computer system was.

Suddenly, she noticed some human body parts on the ground. They looked like were physically torn apart. Some almost dried blood was everywhere, with a few cartridge cases of bullets on the floor. Not too far from the pills of human remains, there was a pistol with a few fingers still on it. A broken flashlight was also on the floor with blood around it.

"Err! This is very disgusting, and very creepy!" Sherry couldn't help it and chilled for a bit. She tried to boost her own morale.

After making sure there was nobody else in this room with her, she took out a small remote control and pressed a few buttons. Immediately the counter moved aside quietly and there was a stairway leading down into even a deeper darkness.

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Meanwhile, inside a hotel room in Shanghai, China, Leon was sitting inside Ada's room watching TV shows that he couldn't even understand a word. Ada told him that her family moved around quite a lot due to her father was in the military. Now her home was at Xingjian, because her father was working in a base there. It was near the other side of this country. They would be taking another plane to there early tomorrow morning.

Ada was inside the bathroom taking a shower. Leon switched the channel again with a remote control "Hey, there is English news!"

On the TV, it replayed the news he saw the other day at the U.S. embassy in Spain, but with some extra footages. On the screen, Leon was clearly displayed as he stepped off the helicopter with Ashley while surrounded by secret services and soldiers.

"Heh, at least now I am famous!" Leon laughed. It was the first time he was on TV. And it was one heck of worldwide top news!

From inside the bathroom, aside the sound of running water, Ada was singing a beautiful song with a very cute low voice as she was washing herself.

Leon turned around and looked at the bathroom's door and thought

"How lovely she is! Just please come out naked! Please come out naked!" He prayed quietly. Although Ada has never done it in the past few days, this time she had clearly not brought in her bath towels or clean clothes. Leon felt like it was a big chance he had been waiting for.

It was not long before the sound of water stopped. Leon's heart was beating fast as he thought "She should be coming out by now. Be naked! Be naked!" And he couldn't stop laughing at himself for acting like that.

Soon Ada opened the bathroom door for a little tiny bit,

"Leon? Could you please hand me a towel and my clean clothes? They are right on the bed, I forgot to bring them in." Ada spoke from the small opening before she closed it

"Oh, no!" Leon was disappointed big time and he unwillingly stood up to get Ada's clothes and towel

After Leon reached the bathroom door, he knocked on it.

"I am here, honey"

Ada opened the door from its behind by only just enough room for Leon's hand to get in, and Leon could see her hand extended from behind the door which was waiting to take the clothes and towel from him. Suddenly an idea came up to Leon's mind.

"Sweetheart?" Leon asked

"Yes? What is it?" Ada answered while her hand was still in the position waiting for Leon to hand her clothes and towel

"Honey, you have officially become my girlfriend for almost 5 days by now, but I still don't know how you look like under that dress! May I take a peek please?" Leon asked "Oh, come on! You love me with all your heart, don't you?" He never knew Ada was in fact this conservative despite how sexy she usually dressed herself.

"Umm, no! Not yet. Please be patient." Ada replied after being silence for a short moment

"Oh honey, come on! Are you a shy virgin? Saving for marriage?" Leon usually wouldn't say these things, but since he already started it, he wouldn't stop.

"Yes!" Ada replied sweetly from inside.

It is in fact a shocking truth to Leon, in a good way.

Ada grew up in China, a still very much traditional country, where majority people still believe in "saving for marriage". The kids are closely watched by their parents and the teachers. By the time she graduated from a regular college with a biochemistry degree, she was recruited and trained in a spy specialist school where men and women were separated. Although, seducing men was one of the exams that every female spy had to pass. Her father used his influence and bribed the Russian coach who was hired by himself for the military. Ada kept her innocent even as her outfit looked quite opposite. She was quite exposed for a "good girl". It was a requirement to attract her targets. John, a Umbrella researcher fell for it. Even he did ask Ada for sex multiple times. Until John was dead at the mansion incident, Ada had never given in. Her excuse was that she was a very traditional girl raised by a traditional family in China. Besides, John was nothing more than a step stone to her objective in the first place anyway. John was still madly in love with her because she is such a beauty with very good seductive skills. Although Ada did not really like to play with people's feelings, it was a job she had to do. It did not make her feel better though.

"I don't believe you! Not until you let me check!" Leon replied with a higher voice

"What …?" Ada tried to say something

Before Ada was able to finish what she was saying, suddenly Leon pushed the door open and he entered. He quickly closed the door behind him and put his back against it.

"ah!" Inside the warm room filled with water vapor, Ada half screamed half laughed as she was protecting her breasts with both arms as she was facing Leon.

"Cute!" Leon smiled while he took a good look at the rest part of Ada's exposed body "Very sexy! Ok sweetheart, now stop pretending! I know you could have stopped me from entering if you wanted to. You are faster and stronger than me! You allowed me to push in because you wanted to show me!"

"No! I was embarrassed by your questions and the demand! I was really distracted, plus I wasn't expecting you would just push in" Ada replied

"Well it doesn't matter now, does it? I have already seen the most part!" Leon laughed out loud "Now please remove your hands and let me see the rest!"

Ada was just looking at him and smiling, while it looked like she was trying to make the decision,

Leon suddenly opened his arms and grabbed her naked body against himself. He was giving her a bear hug.

"Ha ha, I am still all wet! Now you need a change of clothes again!" Ada laughed

"I don't mind to get ride of these clothes right now." Leon smiled and he started to kiss Ada's gorgeous face wildly. His sudden advance made Ada laughed even harder while she still slightly trying to avoid.

"Ok, Miss Wong! I know you really wanted this! Or please explain how your superhuman speed failed you once again?" Leon tried his best to make Ada to admit "You wanted me to do this, didn't you?"

"Maybe…" Ada's smiling pretty face was slightly flushed.

"Ok, then!" Leon suddenly let go of his right arm and he couched down a little to grab Ada's beautiful long legs with it, then he lifted the naked beauty into air with both hands with the holding bride style.

He quickly opened the door with a finger and walked out of the bathroom while holding the still partially wet naked Ada.

"Leon, I don't like it when men play rough!" Ada said but without a struggle as Leon was carrying her

"I promise I will be gentle!" Leon replied

"I might catch a cold with this water all over me." Ada argued without much real effort as Leon held her in the air walking toward the king sized bed.

"No, you won't! Tyrants never catch cold!" Leon replied without thinking

"Ah, that one is NOT funny!" Ada slapped Leon in the head, and Leon almost dropped her because of the pain.

"Hey! Please don't knock me out. You will regret it if I pass out." Leon laughed as he put the beautiful naked girl onto the bed. The slapping on his head was totally worth it, because Ada had to remove her hands from her chest in order to do it. Now her alluring breasts were completely exposed inches away from Leon. And she was not covering them up again!

"Just don't call me that again please. It is getting old. I am totally serious this time! If you do it again, I will crash the ring!" Ada said as she waves her hand to show Leon the promise ring he had given to her a few days ago. "Besides, it is the truth! Tyrants don't even need food or sleep! The T-Virus inside them produces all the energy they need. On the other hand, you know I require food and sleep. We are completely different!"

"Ok, honey! I promise!" Leon knew when to quit. That joke was getting old and Ada was getting more upset by it. Besides at that moment, he would do anything to please Ada in order to make her allow him to do what he had always wanted.

"Now you won't catch a cold for sure!" Leon lifted up a towel and dried Ada's wet beautiful body with both hands with super fast speed. It made Ada giggled when he was touching her naked body so fast with the towel.

"What are you doing?" Ada asked as she watching Leon took off his practically wet clothes.

"Isn't it obvious? I am going to make you my woman!" Leon replied as he pulled his shirt off his head

"I am not your property!"

"Of course not, honey! In process I will make myself your man. So we are even!" Leon laughed

Suddenly Ada's phone rang,

"Hand me the phone please, honey." Ada told Leon

"AH! Leave it! We have a more important thing to do!" Leon did not like the sudden interruption. It was really a bad timing when he had almost succeeded.

"No, I can't! Honey, please hand me the phone. I need to take a look at the incoming number first. It is not Wesker for sure, because I had turned off that phone. It could be something else very important." Ada replied as she grabbed a blanket to cover herself

"Alright, here you go." Leon threw the phone onto the bed, and Ada caught it in middle air.

"It's my dad! Leon, hide yourself! Please don't come into the front of the screen, or make any noise." Ada told Leon after she checked the incoming number. Leon just walked to the sofa and sat down quietly.

"Hi, dad!" Ada turned on the phone and started to speak Chinese.

"Hello, Ada! It is nice to finally have you back! I know you will only stay for a few weeks, but that is good enough for now!" General Wong's voice on the communicator "What were you doing?" He suddenly noticed Ada was naked under the blanket

"Oh, I was just finishing a shower." Ada replied "I am in a hotel at Shanghai right now. Tomorrow I will take another plane to see you!"

"Ok! I am looking forward to it." General Wong said excitedly "Although you will have to join the meeting of the agency a few times."

"How many times do I have to attend?" Ada asked

"Depends on how long it takes to solve the issue!" General Wong replied "Ada, there is a problem among our decision makers. We have to solve it as soon as possible or many things we have done in the past years will be screwed."

"Uh?" Ada did not know what was really going on

"Ada, I will tell you everything once you get home. Don't worry about it for now. Your mom is looking forward to see you too after all these years. You'd better be ready! Buy her some gifts!" General Wong said "For all this time, she thinks you are studying Ph.D. in the U.S."

"Ok, I will." Ada replied "Don't worry about anything."

"Then I will talk to you by tomorrow noon. If you can arrive on time, we can have lunch together. I will come to the airport to get you." General Wong said "Colonel Lee will be there too. He missed you very much as well."

"Dad?" Ada said slowly

"Yes, my little darling?"

"I…I have a boyfriend, and he is coming with me. Is it ok with you?" Ada said with a little combination of shyness and worry

"A boyfriend? I didn't know you have got yourself a real boyfriend while on the mission." General Wong was surprised

"Well, it is a long story! We have known each other for a very long time. And I really love him" Ada tried to convince her dad that this boyfriend of hers was worthy

"Is he a Chinese?"

"No, he is an American." Ada added "Caucasian"

"Well, you know Colonel Lee will be very disappointed. I told him you were still single!" General said on the phone "I thought you would be glad to see him. After all, he liked you since high school. I know it had always been one sided, but now he is a very successful young man. You might want to reconsider. Both your mom and I were starting to worry about your marriage since you never mentioned you have met any good man."

"Dad! I am sorry for not telling you. I will explain everything to you tomorrow. Please notify Lee in advance, so he won't be too…excited when he meets Leon" Ada said

"Leon? So that's your boyfriend's name. May I talk to him right now?"

"No dad, he is not available right now." Ada turned the screen further away from Leon's direction who did not have any cloths on at that moment. Leon sat there quietly, and he did not understand a single thing they said. He was just staring at Ada's every moment as she was answering the phone. He has been completely seduced by her, although he was trying to seduce her.

"Alright, then I will see both of you tomorrow. Talk to you later, Ada!" General Wong said "Please respect yourself! There are certain things you girls shouldn't do before the marriage!" He added.

"Dad! You are worrying too much! I am an adult! I make my own decisions! Bye dad! See you tomorrow!" Ada replied and quickly turned off the phone.

The communication has ended

Leon did not understand a single sentence aside when Ada mentioned his name "Leon", and the word "dad" in Chinese sounds really close to "papa".

"Ok, I am not interested in anything else right now. You can translate to me later. Where were we just now?" Leon immediately stood up from the sofa and walked toward the bed

"I don't know. Making babies?" Ada put down the phone and smiles at him with a very sexy very seductive face.

"Oh, yeah! Making babies! How could I forget something that important? Let's do it while we are still young, sweetheart!" Leon laughed and he jumped onto the bed like a tiger trying to grab a deer…

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Over 2,000 miles away on an island in South China Sea,

Sherry had returned from the secret underground chamber. Although the power on the surface was knocked out, the underground computer system had its own small generator. Now she had done the primary task, which was to retrieve the data from the backup files. She also had sabotaged the hard drive of the computer after she was done. Her face looked a lot more relieved as she now had the little disk inside one of her inner pocket behind her body armor.

"As long as I bring back the data, Mr. Wesker will be pleased even if I do not find out who had attacked the island." Sherry thought as she moved the counter to cover the secret passageway like it was before. Now she was wondering if she'd ever find out who attacked this place.

Sherry cautiously walked out of the door of the specimens room. She now was standing in the hall right below the broken vent where she came in. Sherry couldn't decide if she should just go back out by the same route, or she should look around try to find the evidences of what happened. This place really creep her out, even she is a superhuman. Inside her heart, she is still just a teenage girl. And she had never been to such situation where there were pieces of torn human remains, not since when she was 12 at Raccoon City. The memory of the old incident of Raccoon City only brought back more creepy feelings to her.

"Ok, this is why I was sent here. I was desperately in need of real assignments, because I need real experience. Now I finally got some, I should make the best of it." Sherry thought "I will get use to this."

As a superhuman trained by Wesker, Sherry was more than ready for this task physically. She just needed to work more on strengthen herself mentally in such creepy situations.

Suddenly, there was a weird noise coming from far end of another hall behind her. It did not sound like footsteps, but it was getting closer and closer. Sherry quickly turned around and took cover right back into the specimens room without making any noise. She quietly closed the door. Both of her machine pistols were ready to fire. She had installed silencers on them, so she was not worried the sound of her guns firing would go too far. Wesker had prepared special ammunitions for her. All the clips in her pockets were filled with either armor fierce rounds for dealing with soldiers who were protected by bulletproof body armors, or Hollow-point bullets which are more efficient against mutated creatures who can take lots of damage. Sherry had both types of ammunition loaded, one type in each of her guns.

As the very strange noise getting closer and closer, sherry took a peek from the window on the door…

To be continued…

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