Chapter 15
(Please take it easy on my English skills. It is my second language)
Note: A squad in Chinese army has 14 soldiers. A company has over 360 soldiers.
"Sorry, Sir. You can't carry a knife into an airport." A security guard blocked the way
"Would you please hold onto it for me?" Chris Redfield pulled out the knife from above his left shoulder and handed it toward the airport security guard.
"Sorry, I can't." The guard did not extend his hand "You can only stay in the lobby if you want. Just don't come across the check point"
"Alright, looks like I have to stay here."
"No problem. I will come back in just a few minutes. I am sure he is already here." Jill walked into the check point
Just 5 minutes later inside the security line, Carlos walked out with two big cases. He seemed to be really happy since he was smiling at everybody he saw. Soon, he saw a pretty woman ahead. She was wearing a blue low chest outfit, and a mini-dress. Carlos' eyes suddenly increased in sizes. He put on one even better looking smile.
"Jill, it's SO nice to see you! You look great." And he increased his pace toward Jill
"Carlos. You look great yourself. I am glad you are still in perfect shape." Jill smiled and moved forward
When they were one step away face to face, Carlos dropped his two big cases onto the floor. And he opened both of his arms. The two of them bugged for a long time.
"Just you?"
"Oh no, I figured that I need to come by myself to check things out first. Over half of my men agreed to stick with me. They will come if I give them a call."
The two of them walked out of the check point and arrived in the lobby. There, Chris Redfield moved forward immediately.
"Carlos, I want you to meet Chris." Then Jill turned to Chris "Chris, this is Carlos."
"Nice to meet you, Chris." Carlos put down one of his cases and extended his arm
"I am Chris Redfield, Jill's boyfriend" Chris had seen Carlos hugging his girl through the glass at the security line. He was not happy, but he did extend his hand too and shook hands with Carlos.
Carlos froze for a moment and then he took a good look at Chris. He could tell Chris's "Jill's boyfriend" saying meant to warn him to stay away from Jill. Although the two of them were shaking their hands, their four eyes looked at each other for quit a while, while their hands were holding in the middle air not moving. When they looked each other, it was like there was a fire spark between their sights.
"Grow up, boys! You are getting too old for this." Jill figured it out and she couldn't believe it "You suppose to make friends."
"We are friends." The two men both replied immediately with forced smiles while having one arm around each other's shoulders.
"Ok Chris, if you said so. Now help Carlos carry one of his cases"
"Of course." Chris immediately bent down and picked up one of Carlos' cases and walked toward the gate.
Carlos almost laughed, but he controlled himself.
"Follow me, Carlos" Jill slightly touched Carlos' shoulder and walked toward the gate too
Outside the gate, a big dark red van was already waiting. Chris helped Carlos putting two cases onto the back.
"Carlos, you go ahead sit in the front" Chris quickly opened a door and sat down beside Jill on the second row.
"Err" Carlos really wanted to sit beside Jill, but his sights stopped as soon as he got into the front seat. Beside him, a pretty girl with auburn hair and blue eyes was in the driver's seat. She was wearing short jeans and a pink shirt.
"Hello, I am Claire. Nice to meet you!" The girl smiled at Carlos
"I…I am Carlos." Carlos's attention was all switched onto Claire now "Nice to meet you too, cutie!"
"She is my sister! Claire Redfield." Chris leaned forward from the backseat and said loudly beside Carlos' ear. To him, this man who had just bugged his girlfriend for a good 20 seconds now must be up to something about his younger sister.
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Near Raccoon City in the forest, about 5 miles away from the defense perimeter of the biohazard zone
Seven college boys were walking through the trees and approaching a small river,
"Hey, that's the small river I was talking about. Let's cross it."
"Are you serious? Across the river, it will be too close to the Raccoon City. You know there were zombies!"
"You were right, there WERE zombies. You are such a crowd. Raccoon City was destroyed by a nuke six years ago. Besides, there are still 5 miles ahead before the fences. There are a lot of bunkers, watch towers, and soldiers there patrolling the fences. Nothing get pass them. Not to mention, the fences are still 20 miles away from the Raccoon City!"
"Yeah, he is a crowd. Let's go for some adventures. I want to see some zombies"
"He never had any sense of adventure at all."
They all laughed as they continue to walk toward the river. The water was shallow, easy enough to just walk across without getting wet much.
Over an hour later of walking through the woods, they started to see lots of fresh dig out dirt everywhere. Soon they found an abandoned house in the middle of the forest.
"Let's go check it out."
"I am not so sure about that. There could be serial killers in there."
"HAHAHA" Everyone laughed
After opened the unlocked door, they all walked in. There were several rooms inside the house. In one of them, they found a big hole on the ground.
"Hey, come to look at this. It's a tunnel"
"No kidding. I'd bet it goes to the direction of the Raccoon City."
"Want to find out?"
"No way. This is getting more dangerous than we planned."
"Chicken!"
Suddenly they noticed the two AK-47 assault rifles beside the wall near the entrance of the tunnel.
"This is AK-47! I played it in Counter-Strike, a first person shooting computer game. They kick ass."
"Wow, these are the real things! Totally cool!"
"Come on now. We have real AK-47s! What are you afraid of now?"
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"So what would my first assignment be?" Carlos asked curiously
"Not yet. We just want to brief you with our latest intelligence information face to face. And give you a tour of what we have." Jill replied "Although, there is something about to happen according to one of our agents"
"What is it?"
"At Zion Township, a small town about 70 miles away from Raccoon City's biohazard zone, our agent had spotted your old U.B.C.S. fellow Nicholai multiple times in a local bar."
"Wow, he is still alive?"
"I know you would be surprised. We don't know what he is up to, but one thing for sure. He does not live there."
"Wouldn't it be easy just to follow him around to see what he is up to?"
"Not that easy. Every time he showed up at the bar was close midnight. There was almost zero traffic on the roads in that small town during midnight. Our agent would be easily spotted if try to follow Nicholai." Jill sighed
"I see. That bastard! He tricked us to think we were going in to save the civilians at Raccoon City, while he was really using us to collect combat data of T-Virus for Umbrella!" Carlos knocked his teeth together "Just give me the word. I will put a bullet between his eyes."
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Leon was sitting beside Ada and General Wong on a military helicopter. They were heading to the headquarter of Ada's agency which was located within a military base inside the Taklamakan Desert. After flying for one hour over the endless sand, they finally landed.
It was a huge military base entirely surrounded by endless desert with not a single road come in or out. High fences completely circled the entire base at the edges, with lots of watch towers and bunkers built along the inside of it. Many buildings were spreading across over a kilometer long and over 500 meters wide. Several huge runways and many heliports were close to each other on one side. Two J-10 fighter jets left a building and rose into the sky just before Leon's helicopter landed. A few different types of helicopters were circling the base. Across the military base, Leon could see tanks and APCs and many soldiers everywhere. Leon did notice there was also a small commercial airline on the runway.
As soon as they landed, several jeeps came to the heliport. After got onto the jeeps, they passed a couple buildings before entered an underground parking lot below one of the biggest buildings in the base. Soldiers in green uniform with QBZ-95 assault rifles were guarding in every corner. There Leon followed Ada and her dad walked into an elevator. Even the elevator had a soldier inside the whole time. Leon could see surveillance cameras everywhere inside this building. Soon the elevator had reached even deeper level below the underground parking lot. After stepped out, Leon saw more soldiers guarding there. When they reached a checking in desk, Ada and her dad both put their hands on a finger print scan machine and passed. General Wong talked to the check point officer for a short conversation and showed him a piece of note before he gave Leon a sign to follow them in.
Inside the check point, all the guards' uniform had changed. They looked more like secret services than soldiers.
After a long walk passing through another check point which scanning eyes instead of hands, they finally arrived in a meeting room. Once again, Leon was able to pass after General Wong showed a note to the check point officer.
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30 minutes into the meeting,
"Mr. Kennedy. What else do you know about Wesker and Umbrella." One of the men from military council asked after Leon told them everything he knew already.
"Nothing more. I just know the attack you did on the island in South China Sea was completely exposed." Leon replied. "Wesker had learned it was you"
It was a fact that the military council approved General Zhao's attacking plan because he guaranteed that nobody would ever find out what happened.
"Do you have any proof?"
Leon turned around to look at Ada who was sitting right beside him. Ada replayed the call that Wesker had made to contact her last evening. Then everyone silenced for a moment.
"Now Wesker knew it was the Chinese military. What if he has another lab on our mainland? What if this mad man plans to revenge?" Someone finally spoke "He could release T-virus in our cities and …"
"That will not be possible." General Zhao stopped him "I had already taken out his the other lab in China."
"Oh?" Everyone looked at him
"Yeah, just yesterday my men had shut down another lab of his. It was right under our nose at Sand City." General Zhao said proudly. He made himself looking like the center of this show in front of the military council representatives.
"What makes you so sure it was Wesker's lab?" Ada questioned him "It could be another Umbrella remainder's."
"The T-Virus samples we captured." General Zhao replied
"Wesker is not the only one having T-Virus." Said General Wong
"You never had the proof."
"From the way I understood Wesker's saying, there must be more labs in China, because he also loved the nice foreign investment policies here." Ada replied
"But you don't have the absolute proof." General Zhao refused to admit there were the possibilities of the existence of other labs.
"Either way, are you so sure you have captured the last personnel and the last sample of T-Virus inside that lab at Sand City?" General Wong questioned General Zhao
"Do you have any proof of there was someone or some sample had escaped our assault? My plan was so secret even you did not know. My men surrounded that facility completely and seized everything." General Zhao looked like he was so sure of himself "That place is completely clean now. All their personnel and virus samples are in our custody."
"Good job." One of the council representatives looked pleased. And his complements made General Zhao looked even cockier "Yesterday you said you have something to show us. What is it?"
"Here" General Zhao took out a small disk. "All Wesker's latest researches on G-Virus and T-Veronica virus are here. We can construct the weapons ourselves if we want…"
"We had agreed not to develop such bio-organic-weapons years ago." General Wong stopped him "It would be insane."
One of the council representatives nodded. It made General Zhao threw a hate looking at General Wong.
"Anything else you want to show us?"
General Zhao took out a remote control and pressed a button. One side of the wall was lifted. Behind it, it was a special wall. From their room, it looked like glass and they could see the other side clearly. While on the other side, people could only see a wall. Inside that room which was one level below their floor, they could clearly see a blond teen girl who was restrained on a chair by several metal chains. She still had the tear marks all over her face. The pants below her left knee had a big hole, which was exposing the perfect skin of her knee.
"Wesker's daughter. I wouldn't know if Agent Wong here hadn't shown us the replay of Wesker's call. We only thought she was an agent of Wesker's. Now she turned out to be someone much more important."
"Impressive." A representative complimented General Zhao
"There is also something about her. She was captured after being shot in the left knee by a 12.7mm Magnum round. Her leg was almost blown off, but as you can see. She had already made a complete recovery. It is a known fact that Wesker had some way to turn a human into a so called superhuman." General Zhao took a look at Ada when he said that "We could study her."
"You will have to release her and make it look like Ada saved her. Or Ada's mission might be over" General Wong jumped in "We will never gain more valuable information on Wesker without Ada."
"Are you out of your mind?" General Zhao raised his voice "She could tell us much more information on Wesker. And we could use her as a hostage"
"What about Ada? Wesker told her to break this girl free" Leon wasn't happy that General Zhao did not care about Ada's part at all "If she can't do it, Wesker will no longer trust her or at least no longer use her for important missions. Besides, who guaranteed Wesker's adopted daughter knows more than Ada or even would tell you anything at all?"
"Agent Kennedy, since you had already made your presentation on Wesker and Umbrella. You have no more part in here. Please leave the meeting. The helicopter will take you back to Sand City." General Zhao looked at Leon
"I am not an agent any more. I quit."
"So you have claimed. How could we know this is not a trick of the United States government?" General Zhao was determined to kick Leon out of the meeting.
A few representatives nodded.
"You can't do that after he just told you everything he knew" General Wong protested
"So he claimed, once again. You are too trusty, General Wong."
"Guards, please show Agent Kennedy the way to the heliport." General Zhao ordered
"Leon…" Ada looked at Leon as he was standing up
"Don't worry, honey. I will just leave since I am no longer welcomed here. I will just wait you at home." Leon replied as he walked out of the door
Ada threw a hate looking at General Zhao but she only made him smiled more.
"Let's get back onto the topic. I say we keep this girl. Agent Wong can tell Wesker she failed to break his daughter free." General Zhao continued
"She can't gain more trust from Wesker if she does that!" General Wong was starting to get angry
"You are putting family in front of the work. I know Agent Wong is your only daughter, but this is about the safety of our entire nation. You have to know what is more important." General Zhao tried to use a random accuse to make General Wong look bad in front of all these important people.
"We can talk about this matter later. Let's hear some more reports from our other agents first." A representative suggested
"Agent Fong Ling, what do you have to say?" A representative turned to another female agent who was wearing a white outfit
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Near Raccoon City,
"Where are our guns?" One of the two guards who were posted at the abandoned house by Nicholai froze as he saw their AK-47s were no longer beside the wall where they put them.
"Shit! Maybe Nicholai had come to check on us and took the guns as proof to punish us later?"
"I don't think so. He never came early."
"Then who took the AKs?"
"Well, this isn't important. Nothing seemed to be happening other than our Ak-47s are missing. It could be one of the workers come back and stole the guns when they saw nobody was here. Let's just pretend nothing happened when Nicholai come back."
"I guess…"
The two of them left the room and sat down near the front door.
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Leon waited at Ada's home for a whole day. It was already 5:30pm. Leon's satellite phone rang.
"Leon, the meeting had reached a critical point. So they have decided to continue after dinner. It looks like I can't go home until very late." Ada said on the other said "I'll miss you"
"I miss you too, honey. That General Zhao was really an ass, wasn't he?"
"Yes. He was always mean to my dad because of their unpleasant past. He picked on me too since years ago because of he hated my dad so much. Now he picked on you, I am not sure why, maybe he already knew something about our relationship. I am really sorry, Leon." Ada's face looked a little sad "It was SO mean to kick you out right after you told them everything you knew. I am sorry they used you…"
"Don't worry about it, honey. I'll get over it. Besides I won't be seeing them any more even if they invite me again." Leon tried to make Ada smile on the other side. He hated to see Ada being sad.
"Then I will see you later. If I come back too late, please just go ahead get some rest. No need to stay awake to wait for us." Ada smiled
"Ok, sweetie. You take care of yourself too." Leon almost kissed the screen
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9pm at the meeting where Ada was at,
Everyone was in the meeting room continuing to discuss the issues.
Suddenly the base alarms were set off. The alarms' frequency indicated there were intruders.
"What is going on?" The head of the representatives was getting nervous. He clearly was not a military man.
"Let me ask. I am sure there is nothing to worry about." General Wong quickly picked up a phone.
"Report!"
"Sir, we have just found a patrol of six soldiers killed near the fence. They were torn into pieces! It seems none of them had the chance to fire a single shot before they were killed. So we had raised the base alarm to search for the intruders"
"Have you found anything yet?"
"No. We are on high alert now. All searchlights had been turned on. And all the soldiers had been called up from their beds."
"Report immediately if there is any situation change." General Wong put down the phone.
"So what is going on?" The head of the council representative asked
"They found six soldiers dead near the fence."
"How were they killed?"
"Not sure, but they were torn into pieces."
"WHAT?!?!" The head of the council representative was obviously freaked out
"Sir. There are over 5,000 soldiers in this base. There is absolutely nothing to be worried about. Everything will be under control soon." General Wong tried to clam the man
The representatives and everyone else looked around inside the meeting room. Aside the members of this meeting, there were only 4 secret agents armed with pistols standing on 4 corners of the room. Everyone else in the room was unarmed. The council representatives obviously did not feel safe enough.
"Maybe you should call in more guards. What if the intruders are coming this way?" A council representative suggested
"Yes, right way sir." General Wong picked up the phone again
"Surround the entire Agency building with tanks immediately. And bring in a company of infantry soldiers to this level now. We can also use two squads of marines right inside our meeting room. Do not delay!"
As General Wong put down the phone. The representatives looked a little tiny more relaxed as they heard what General Wong had just ordered on the phone.
It was not long before they heard lots of footsteps in the hall. Soon two squads of marines walked into the meeting room with QBZ-95 assault rifles. All of them were wearing body armors and helmets with green uniforms. They all looked really tough. As soon as they entered the room, they all spread out to stand in front of the walls in a circle which completely surrounded the huge meeting table. There were still lots of footsteps outside the room in the hall. They were clearly from the company of over 300 infantry soldiers who were just ordered to reinforce this level.
Although the representatives no longer looked freaking out, they still had worries in their eyes.
Outside the Agency building, at least forty Type99 Main Battle Tanks completely surrounded the building with loads and loads of heavily armed soldiers around them. All of the tanks had their lights on, with their 125mm main guns pointing at every direction. The machineguns on the top of them were also manned.
The intruder alarms could be heard all over the base. All the searchlights from the numerous watch towers were waving around to search at everywhere. All stationary weapons were also manned. Armed vehicles, APCs, tanks were circling around on every road inside the base. Lines after lines of soldiers were running around to check every corner and every building. Over a dozen Z-10 attack helicopters had rose and were patrolling from the sky with their searchlights pointing at the base below. Six J-10 fighter jets were also launched into the sky, and they were flying at low altitude near the base.
"How did intruder get in here?" A representative asked "I thought there is no road. Everyone and everything comes in and out by air, and were checked before they could step off the runway"
"I was thinking the same thing. Anyone who attempt to come through the 80+ miles sandy desert to this base would be immediately spotted by our planes and satellite even if they could survive the trip on foot. Everyone got here by air…" General Wong replied
"Perhaps we should call in more reinforcement from Sand City" General Zhao suggested "I wish my special forces commandos are here…"
"Your special forces are overrated. There are over 5,000 soldiers inside this base! Any more is not needed. It's only some intruders. What could possibly happen? It would take a massive air strike to take us out, but who would dare??? So stop…"
Suddenly all the lights in the meeting room went off. The entire Agency building went all dark…
To be continued…
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