Chapter 16

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

Note: Fong Ling is a main character from Resident Evil Dead Aim. Check my profile for the link to see full RE games recorded in videos.

After about three seconds of silence, the meeting room was turned into a chaos in the total darkness. Everyone was asking "What is going on?" A few representatives from the council were panic once again.

"Everybody please come down." General Wong raised his voice in the dark "It will only make the situation worse if everyone doesn't stop talking right now. We have 28 marines inside this room, and over 300 infantry right outside in the halls all over this level, plus the many regular guards. There is nothing to be worried about just yet."

One after another, the two squads of 28 marines inside the meeting room had all turned on the flashlights attached to their QBZ-95 assault rifles. They also turned on the green laser aiming beams. The huge meeting room was lighted up a little by all the flashlights. All the people stopped talking, but everyone had stand up from their seats. Many of them looked worried even after General Wong had tried to calm them already.

"Why didn't the backup power kick in?" Someone asked

"There is only one explanation. The backup power system was sabotaged before the main power was cut. The intruders might have inside contact to know exact locations of all those systems," General Zhao said as he took out his communicator "That's it. I am calling my Special Force commandos from Sand City right now. They will crush the intruders like bugs!"

"Don't bother. This building was designed to block all transmissions and energy signatures. There are lots of energy absorption materials inside the walls. Not even EMP pulse can get through. You will have to use the wired phones to dial out. The radio can only be used on this level, because the signals will not get through to another floor."

"Give it to me then." General Zhao demanded as the only wired phone on the table was in the hand of General Wong.

"It's down. The intruders had cut the primary phone system too," General Wong put down the phone in front of him on the table and stood up to walk toward a wall "We have one emergency phone system. Usually it uses the same line as the regular ones, but in such situation it automatically switched to a secondary line which nobody knows it but a few high rank officers of this base. They are the phones on the walls," General Wong picked up the phone on the wall beside the door.

"Did the entire base just lose power or only the Agency building?" General Wong asked on the phone with a very clam voice. He obviously tried to set an example for everyone how to deal with such situation.

"Sir, it is only the Agency building. Everything else is fine." Someone reported on the radio

"Go triple the guards around the central power generator now."

"Yes, Sir…but the intruder might be inside your building from the look of it. What do you want us to do?"

"Keep guarding outside. Make sure no more intruders can come in. It is already very crowded on this floor, and we don't need more soldiers here just yet. But do send more men to search the other levels. Restore the power as soon as possible. It is way too dark here even with all the flashlights."

"Yes sir."

As soon as General Wong put down the phone, General Zhao took it over and he was telling his commandos at Sand City to come. Even though he knew it would take them up to an hour just to arrive at the base by helicopters.

"Does that mean the intruders are inside OUR building?" A council representative spoke with shaking voice "Oh my god, let's get out of here right now!" This man's body was shaking as much as his voice.

"Calm down. We are six levels under the ground. Both the main power and the backup power systems are located six levels above us. Since the power was just cut a short moment ago, the intruder must still be six levels away from us. There are numerous of check points and guards on the way, not to mention the one extra company of infantry soldiers we had just brought in. I had just sent some men to search the other floors. The intruder should be neutralized momentarily," General Wong talked like he was in total control and there was absolutely nothing to be worried about.

"You assumed there is only one intruder? We can't be sure. For all we know, they could be anywhere inside this building already," General Zhao disagreed. He already finished ordering his commandos on the phone.

"Nobody should be able to get down here. All the stairs and elevators are heavily guarded. Elevators are down right now since the power was out. Don't you think we should have heard something by now if the intruders are fighting their way downstairs through all the guards?"

"What about the ventilation systems?"

"There are loads of laser alarm systems inside the vent with independent power sources. Not even a rat could get in without setting off the alarms."

"How did the intruders get here in the first place? How did they manage to get pass all the eyes before entering this building? We are at the center of a military base with over 5000 soldiers, aren't we?" A representative raised his voice after each sentence. This man did not believe the "safe" talk from General Wong at all.

"This is not what we should be worrying about right now. It looks like they must have already entered the building before I called in the tanks to surround it…"

"Who could the intruders be? Who sent them? Could it be Wesker? The phone call Agent Wong replayed for us earlier showing that Wesker knew our location from the beacon on the girl." Another representative asked.

"It can't be. Wesker would have notified me for sure if it was him," Ada replied "Since he sent me to free the girl. He always tells me everything about my missions. Besides, he is not that crazy. I am sure of it."

"We have to get out of this building right now." General Zhao urged. He was annoyed by all the questions and answers at this circumstance. He worried about himself obviously, although he did not show the panic like the representatives did since he was an experienced military man who had lots of combat experiences.

"Yes we will, but we need a plan first. Or we might just run right into the intruders," General Wong replied

"Give me your pistol, soldier." General Zhao ordered a marine near him. The marine obeyed as he quickly took out his pistol and handed it to the General.

"Give me a pistol too," Ada asked a marine close to her "And all your pistol ammos please." The marine gave everything she asked for right way. Ada got a full loaded pistol and two magazines of ammos.

"My mistake…I should have asked them to bring in extra weapons…" General Wong said "And night vision glasses"

General Zhao and Ada had started a chain reaction. Soon every single agent and the military officer who was attending the meeting got themselves a pistol from the nearest marines. Only the council representatives and General Wong were still unarmed. About half the two squads of marines had only their QBZ-95 assault rifles left, after giving away their secondary weapons.

"Now listen, here is the plan to get out of this building in the most secured way." General Wong spoke. He still sounded so calm.

Sherry was restrained onto a chair by some very thick chains inside a holding cell beside the meeting room. She was not able to see a thing beyond the wall, nor able to hear anything. There was nobody but her inside the room. The hall outside her door was guarded by General Zhao's men.

Although she did not care about anything any more after she was captured two days ago, the sudden intruder alarms followed by the sudden blackout did nervous her as well. She was alone in the dark, unable to move a muscle but her head. With her superhuman abilities, she could see everything in the room. The guards outside her room started talking something she couldn't understand, but from their tones she could feel they were nervous. It made her nervous too.

She had given a thought on what could have happened. Maybe Uncle Wesker had come to her rescue? She was not sure.

Soon she heard something strange. It was not coming from outside the door. It was from the above…the ceiling. She nervously looked up, and she saw small vibrations along a vent. Suddenly some things accidentally penetrated the bottom of the vent and made a line of small holes. She could see clearly, they were the tips of a claw! Sherry was not expecting it and she was scared. She tried to stand up before she suddenly remembered that she was unable to move at all because of the chains.

"Help! Help!" Sherry shouted at the door

The guards outside the door certainly heard her screaming. Among them, there was an English speaking officer who was purposely posted there. He immediately understood what Sherry was saying, and he quickly translated it to the other soldiers. Immediately the door was opened from outside, Sherry could see 5 soldiers in green uniform armed with pistols and flashlights. 3 of them stepped into the room. They pointed their flashlights at Sherry.

"Something is in the vent! Look, up there!" Sherry tried to use her head to point at the direction where she saw the claw a moment ago.

The three soldiers quickly moved their flashlights at where Sherry tried to show them. They saw a line of small holes on the ceiling where the vent was. The tips of the claw were no longer there, but the soldiers could tell something was not right by those small holes.

"Sir! There was something in the vent. It had just made some holes on the ceiling inside the girl's holding cell. What should we do?" One of the soldiers reported on the radio. He was worried and confused.

"Move her out of the room right now, and come to the direction of the meeting room." General Zhao's voice on the radio "I will send someone to meet up with you and give you further instructions"

Although Sherry's holding cell was next to the meeting room, its door was on the other side in another hall which was located in another part of this level far away from the meeting room. It would take a while for anyone from the holding cell to reach the meeting room.

"The laser alarm systems in the vents are obviously not working!" General Zhao put down the radio and told everyone in the meeting room as he walked in front of the special wall which was between their room and the holding cell of Sherry.

A few people followed General Zhao to step in front of the special wall. They watched the 3 soldiers tried to carry Sherry along with the chair out of the room. Suddenly, there were gunshots heard from far end of this level. It was the sound of many automatic weapons' firing, along with the shouting of many soldiers.

"What is going on?" General Wong asked on his radio

"Three intruders just came out of a vent from the ceiling at the check point #1…they are killing everyone!"

"Can't you just shoot them?"

"They are too fast! And they are not …" The man's voice suddenly stopped

"Hello?"

"General! This is Lieutenant Jin," Another man's voice "It looks like the intruders had passed the first check point, and they are coming this way. I had already sent 3 squads to reinforce the first check point. If they can't stop the intruders on the way, we are ready for them here!"

"You see to it!"

"We have to get out of here right now. Three intruders are coming this way from the main entrance direction…they came out of the vent right above the first check point of this level. We can no longer reach the main stairs without running into them," General Wong told everyone in the room "We have to use the emergency passage two more levels below us on the other side of this building. It will lead us right into the building beside us. There we can exit to the ground level where more of our troops are waiting"

General Wong turned to the council representatives "I think it is a great opportunity to let Ada 'break' the girl free. Wesker will not be suspicious. We still need Ada to be highly trusted by Wesker in order to gain more information"

There was no answer. The council representatives did not look like it was a good time for them to make any decision. General Wong knew it was a critical moment that he had to take the chance before it slipping away. He was holding his position in front of the door inside the room and made it look like the earlier the representatives could say "yes", the earlier everyone could exit the room and start to get out of the building.

"Besides, we could have the girl tailed. And follow her all the way back to Wesker," General Wong added

"But how could Agent Wong get her out of this base and make it look like real? Soldiers are everywhere. Not to mention, there are fighter jets in the sky which suppose to be able to shoot them down easily. They can't possibly take a helicopter and get out of the base while make it look like real," The head of the representative replied with doubtful tone.

"The girl is a super soldier. She can make out of the desert on foot. All Ada needs to do is to let go of her outside the fence."

"That will not be necessary. Agent Fong Ling, you go ahead get the Wesker's daughter and meet us outside the next building," General Zhao did not want to let go of his trophy just yet. Fong Ling was an agent directly under his command. General Zhao wanted to hold onto Sherry with his own agents.

"Yes, General," Fong Ling got around General Wong and walked out of the room with a pistol in her hand "You, you, and you follow me," She randomly pointed 3 soldiers in the hall, and they followed her.

"You can't do that," General Wong raised his voice and almost shouted at General Zhao. And he was angry. Then he turned to look at the head of the representatives again.

"Let's get out of here first. Agent Wong can do her job after we get to safety," The man took his chance and made the demand

General Zhao got around General Wong too and walked out of the door into the hall.

"Ada, go set the girl free," General Wong turned around and told Ada. He knew the representatives had pretty much agreed, and they would not say a thing once it was done.

"No dad, I am staying with you. We can do that later when you get to safety," Ada was clearly worried about her dad first. She wanted to protect him herself.

"I will be just fine with so many guards around. Just go before the opportunity slipping away."

"At least let me escort you to the secret passage first,"

"You just won't give up, girl! Alright, let's hurry then," General Wong picked up the phone on the wall again "Secure the other end of the secret passage under the Agency building, we are going out of the building from there."

Everyone in the meeting room walked out into the hallway. There, over a hundred soldiers were standing by along both sides of the hall. There were also quite a lot of regular guards who looked like secret services. All the soldiers had their flashlights turned on. Many of them were talking about the situation in low voices, and they all looked either quiet confused or quiet worried. They all stopped talking as soon as they saw General Wong appeared at the doorway.

"Ok everyone. Let's use the secondary stairs. It will only lead us to the floors below. We have to reach two levels below us and get out of this building by the secret passage." General Wong ordered

Immediately the 100+ soldiers started to walk toward the opposite direction of the intruders, with all the members of the meeting in the middle. The two squads of marines were the closest right around the group of these important people. Ada was by her dad's side, and she was holding a pistol in her hand. All the marines and soldiers were using the flashlights attached to their assault rifles to light up the way. They were six levels under the ground. Without the power, it was pure dark. The flashlights could only light up so much…

At the other side of the building on the same level, the first check point had no more moments. Everything was so quiet. About 15 regular guards and a squad of soldiers were lying in pools of blood. They all had huge claws' marks on them. Some of them had lost their arms, legs, or even heads, while some others had big penetrated holes on their bodies. All their guns and flashlights were dropped everywhere on the ground, with lots of cartridge cases of bullets everywhere. There was lots of blood on the walls as well. Majority of these dead men still had their eyes widely open, which indicated every one of them was killed instantly in a flash. There was a head separated from a body on the ground, it had a microphone attached onto its face…he was the officer who was reporting to General Wong that check point #1 was attacked.

Just two halls away from the first check point, 3 squads of 42 soldiers were cautiously walking forward in the narrow hall with their assault rifles and flashlights pointing ahead. The halls were so dark even with their flashlights, since the flashlights did not cover every direction and the only lighted up where they were pointing at. The soldiers couldn't really see very well beyond 40 to 50 meters. Or even right beside them unless another flashlight was pointing there.

Suddenly there was a very creepy roar coming from ahead of them. It was unlike anything they could think of. It was just too creepy. The platoon leader immediately raised his hand to signal everyone to stop walking. All the 42 soldiers stopped their footsteps. They quietly spread out onto both sides of the hall to take defensive positions along side of the walls. They spread across a line with about 40 meters between the first soldier and the last soldier. Everybody slowed their breath.

Many flashlights were pointed the hallway ahead, but nothing was seen. The very creepy roar continued coming from ahead every a few seconds without a pattern. The soldiers held their positions, and everyone was quite confused. It was not long before the roars stopped. Everyone waited. Nothing was heard any more, no more roar or any sound at all. Some soldiers turned to look at the platoon leader.

"Hold your positions,"

They continued to wait with high alert. Suddenly, there was a small noise coming from above. Everyone looked up and with flashlights search through the ceiling. They noticed there were small vibrations on the vent. The noises were coming from inside the vent.

"Shoot the vent!" Platoon leader ordered as he raised his own assault rifle

The soldiers immediately opened fire wildly at the spot on the vent where the vibrations were seen. At the rate of 600 rounds per minute for each of their guns, their assault rifles quickly shot many holes into the vent. Some soldiers did not feel it was enough, and they kept shooting through the entire vent across the hall. Soon every part of the vent within 50 meters was full of bullet holes.

"Stop firing!" Platoon leader felt it was a little overdoing it so he made the order.

A part of the vent suddenly cracked open. Immediately every soldier fired another blast onto that spot. After their firing stopped, that one part of the vent fell off onto the ground, and made a loud metal impacting sound. A soldier right beside the platoon leader almost fired another blast at the broken vent on the ground, but the platoon leader quickly stopped him with an arm. There was nothing in there. Nothing could be seen inside the broken part of the vent on the ceiling either.

As the nervous soldiers continued to pay attention on the ceiling, none of them was still pointing their flashlights at the hallway ahead of them. In the dark, two shadows were moving toward their position fast and silently from the hallway ahead. Both were crawling on the walls on either side of the hall.

By the time the two shadows were moving within just 6 meters ahead of the first two soldiers, they suddenly patted forward with high speed and each attacked one soldier. In a flash, one of the two soldiers screamed as he fell onto the ground, while the other one collapsed without making a sound. The entire platoon of soldiers immediately turned their attention to the hall in front of them. With a few more screaming, four more soldiers were slaughtered before the next a few soldiers opened fire at the two shadows.

The two shadows moved around with incredible speed. They kept jumping around onto the walls, the ceiling, and the floor. None of the soldiers were able to fire a fixed shot in time before the creatures moving away from where they were aiming at. None of them were even be able to take a good look at how the creatures really look like. All they saw were two black shadows with arms and legs.

The two creatures continued to move around with super fast speed dodging the soldiers' aiming while taking more and more of them down one by one with a single strike each. Their claws were able to completely pierce through the soldiers' chests and stomachs, or cut off their arms and legs with a slash. But they did prefer to attack the chest, the neck, and the face. Majority of the victims had their chests penetrated by the claws, or had their throats cut, or had their faces smashed as they fell. The remaining soldiers were continuing to fire at the creatures while shouting in confusion and panic. Then suddenly, another part of the vent above the soldiers fell off. A third shadow fell down from the ceiling directly toward two soldiers below who were firing at the other two creatures. In a flash, the third shadow's two claws slashed through both soldiers' throats before it landed on the floor. The two soldiers collapsed with both of their heads separated from their bodies.

Within 20 seconds, there were only less than half the soldiers of the original 42 soldiers of the platoon still standing. The three creatures continued their attack. Now they were right among the group of soldiers. With such close range, it was really difficult to get a clear shot on something moving THAT fast. And the creatures were obviously using the darkness to their advantage. The soldiers were continuing to drop like flies while their assault rifles were firing wildly. The creatures were just way too fast for them, and the hall was too narrow and dark. The soldiers' guns could never even aim at the creatures long enough for them to pull the triggers before the creatures moving out of the way.

"We need reinforcement NOW! Somebody HELP!" The platoon leader screamed desperately on the radio

In another part of this level, the 100+ soldiers were escorting the high rank officials toward the other end of the level. They could clearly hear the many gunshots from the far end of this level. The officers who had radios could clearly hear the screaming of the soldiers who were engaging the intruders. General Wong was one of them, and he obviously looked more worried than before. By the time he passed a room where there was a phone on the wall beside the door, he stopped and picked the phone up. Ada stopped right beside him, while everyone else kept walking.

"Send in more soldiers with night vision equipments into this level now! Take extreme caution! The intruders are not easy targets! And fix the power system quickly! The intruders have the advantage in the darkness," General Wong ordered before he continued to join the stream of people. Ada followed. She wouldn't leave her dad's side by even a second.

Outside the Agency building, half of the tanks and the soldiers who were surrounding the building had turned around to face the building. The lights on the tanks were pointing everywhere on the building. Some more vehicles and APCs had joined them. Lots of them had searchlights and were pointing at the building as well. Three Z-10 attack helicopters also moved quite close to the building and had their searchlights directed at the windows.

"Send in another company to level 3. Use the night vision glasses. And take extreme cautions!" A Colonel inside a tank ordered on his radio. He was the one that General Wong was talking to on the phone earlier.

"Go! Go! Go!" A company leader ordered and he waved his arm to signal his men to move in.

Immediately several hundreds heavily armed infantry soldiers stormed forward. This company all equipped with night vision glasses. They could see in the dark.

The Agency building was surrounded by roads on all sides, but there were a few meters of sand between the roads and the building. When the soldiers rushing onto the stairs which connected between the road and the front gate of the building, there was a small pill of sand beside the stairs suddenly moved.

The small pill of sand suddenly stood up and jumped right into the middle of a group of the soldiers who had just arrived on the stairs. It was another creature! It had the same color and texture of the sand. No wonder nobody noticed it earlier while it was right there on the sand beside the stairs. But as soon as it left the sand its color and texture changed to dark green, which matched the infantry soldiers' uniforms at night. It could quickly change its own color for camouflage!

None of the soldiers on the stairs had noticed it until it jumped right into the middle of them. The creature started killing everyone around it. Within seconds, seven soldiers were slaughtered. Remaining tried to point their guns at the creature but there were too many other soldiers around. The creature was moving so fast among them, the soldiers could have shot each other instead of the creature if they had fired.

"Pull back, pull back!" The Colonel ordered on a speaker

Immediately majority of the soldiers turned around to run back toward the defensive lines set up by tanks. About half a squad of soldiers who were the closet ones to the creature couldn't retreat while still under direct attack, so they tried to fight it. None of them could get a clean shot before they were slaughtered. Many of them had their throats cut, faces smashed, or had a claw went right through their chests or stomaches. A few seconds later, about 15 dead bodies and many body parts were on the stairs with blood splashed everywhere.

The moment the creature killed the last soldier on the stairs,

"Fire NOW!" The Colonel in the tank ordered

All the soldiers at the defensive line close to the front gate opened fire with their assault rifles onto the stairs. Heavy machineguns on the tanks opened fire as well. The sound of so many weapons' firing immediately made the base sound like a war zone. The creature quickly dodged the first wave of aiming with a sudden jump of over 10 meters far, and it rushed toward the defensive line which was only 50 meters away. Within two seconds, the creature was already on the top of an APC, and it ripped the machinegun gunner apart before it entered the APC from the opening on the top. There were men's screaming coming from inside the APC. All the soldiers who saw it were shocked. They all turned their guns at the APC but they did not know what to do. As they continue to hear the screaming coming from inside the APC,

"Everyone get away from that APC right now!" The Colonel shouted and the turned around to tell the tank gunner who was sitting beside him "Destroy that APC!"

"But Sir, there are still people in there!"

"They are dead. Fire the main gun now!"

A moment later, a Type 99 Main Battle Tank opened fire with its 125mm cannon. With a huge fire spark and a huge "BOOM", the air shook, and the dust on the ground in the front of the tank was blown into the air. A 125mm armor pierce round pounded through the APC's side armor and made it exploded just after the soldiers around it got out of the way. The explosion also took out an armed jeep beside it. The APC's upper half was completely blown away, while the remaining bottom was burning rapidly. Lots of smoke was rising into the sky. Nothing in the APC could have survived.

"Eat shit!" The Colonel was obviously really mad at a single intruder could take out over 15 soldiers in the matter of less than 20 seconds, and made him destroyed one of their own APCs and a jeep. He ordered the company resuming to move into the building to reinforce level 3 which the meeting room was located. Despite the total surprised attack which had just killed about 15 of their men in the most freaking cruel ways, the one company of soldiers had to follow the orders. They rushed onto the stairs once again, and stepped over their dead comrades. Blood and body parts were all around them on the stairs, but they were in no position to complain. They stormed into the front gate of the Agency building in two long lines. Within two minutes, the new company of 300+ soldiers had all disappeared into the building.

Inside the dojo at Sand City,

"Colonel Lee. It is getting late. Why are you still here?" An old man about sixty with shaved head and Buddhist monk's outfit asked. He was an invited guest of the dojo. He was a Shaolin monk, a master of Shaolin style kungfu. He came to this town once every two months from Shaolin temple, and every time he stayed in this dojo for one week to teach the people here a few things. He had just arrived this morning.

"Master Zhang. May I have a copy of 'Iron Shirt' scroll?" Colonel Lee asked

"I thought you were not interested in defensive Chi techniques, because it was useless against firearms," The old monk replied curiously

"It is true that the defensive Chi can't handle a bullet. But it would be useful in a hand to hand combat or a melee weapon combat…"

"I am glad you finally realized it. What made you changing your mind? What happened really?"

"I met someone with high speed. I was no match because of being too slow compare to her. I figured only defensive Chi such as 'Iron Shirt' could allow me to take her on. With Iron Shirt technique, I could take damage without being hurt. Even with slower speed, I can match her."

"A woman? Interested, how fast was she?"

"At least 30 percent faster than my top speed. I couldn't land a single hit during the duel. She might be even faster than you…I am not certain but she just might"

"The best way to fight a speedy opponent is to boost your own speed. Maybe you should talk to Master Lin. His ancestors were imperial assassins, the origin of ninjas. And he is faster than I am. He might be able to teach you how to boost your speed."

"I will, but I would like to also master Iron Shirt defensive Chi technique."

"I don't have a scroll on me right now. I will mail you one copy once I get back to the temple. Meanwhile I can teach you how to get started, by tomorrow. You already had lots of basic trainings of Chi. It won't take you too long to master it. When I am not around, you could ask Colonel Tao if you have questions. He had already mastered both Iron Shirt and Eagle Claw." Even though Master Zhang did say it wouldn't take too long, both of them knew it would be a few years.

"Thank you, Master Zhang. I will be seeing you again tomorrow." Lee turned around and walked out. He was surprised to learn that Colonel Tao was in fact far beyond him in martial arts. That guy had never shown off his skills.

About 15 minutes later on the road somewhere in a remote area of Sand City, Colonel Lee was sitting in a front seat of a military jeep. A soldier was driving him back. Just after the jeep turned at a corner of a crossroad, the soldier suddenly stepped onto the brake really hard. Both of them almost hit their heads even with the safety belts on.

"What's the matter?" Colonel Lee asked

"There is a dog in front of the car."

Colonel Lee took off the safety belt and leaned forward to take a look through the front window. There was indeed a dog right in the front just inches away from the jeep, if it wasn't the soldier had stepped onto the brake so hard it would have been hit. The dog was standing there not moving a muscle. It was breathing heavily, while looking right at them. With the lights from the jeep, they could see the dog was a little…unusual. It was a big dog. It sat there over 3 feet tall. They noticed that the dog had lost lots of hair on multiple spots, which completely exposing its skin. And there was some blood on its face.

The soldier pressed the brass a few times hoping it would scare the dog to move out of the way. The dog did not move, and it still stood there looking at them. The soldier used reverse. He tried to move backwards a little then get around the dog. To his surprise, the dog followed the jeep as it was reversing. After reversed over 25 meters, the dog was still right in front of the jeep inches away.

"Stupid dog!" Colonel Lee cursed

"I got this, Sir" The soldier in driver's seat opened the door and stepped off the jeep. He was going to make the dog move out of the way.

"That is one ugly dog," Colonel Lee spoke after taking another good look through the front window. "Why don't you just go away? Nobody wants to be your friend."

As the soldier stepped off the jeep, before he turned to the direction of the dog which was in front of the jeep, he suddenly noticed there was a person lying on the sidewalk with face down. There was blood all over him.

"Oh my god, Sir..." Before the soldier was able to say more, suddenly the dog in the front had moved to his side of the jeep. It patted right onto the soldier and started biting him wildly.

"Help!" The soldier screamed as the dog was biting him on the ground.

Immediately Colonel Lee got out of his jeep and jumped over the engine to the other side. He kicked the dog in the stomach, but the dog did not stop biting the soldier on the ground. Colonel Lee kicked it again with much more force. This time the dog was kicked aside onto the ground. Before Colonel Lee was able to say "Are you ok?" to the soldier, the dog already stood up and patted at Colonel Lee. Colonel Lee stood his ground and dodged to his left at the last moment. The dog missed and landed on the ground behind him.

"You are one crazy dog!" Colonel Lee cursed as he saw the dog once again patted at him "I am going to teach you never mess with another human!"

Before the dog was able to reach Lee, Lee quickly raised his right foot and suddenly stopped in the air. The dog hit its face on Lee's big hard leather shoe and it dropped onto the ground.

Lee put down his foot and turned around to look at the soldier. The soldier had blood all over his forearms which he had used to protect himself. He was standing up. At that moment, Lee heard noise from behind. He turned around his head.

The dog was once again patting at him at top speed, and it was already in the middle air behind him. Lee quickly did a whirling kick toward his behind with his left leg, and the dog was kicked away. It flew 6 meters and hit the ground heavily.

"Let's get you to the hospital right now, it could be a diseased dog…I will drive"

"Sir, watch out!" The soldier pointed behind Lee

Lee turned around again, and he saw the dog was on its four again and it was rushing toward them.

"You asked for it" In a flash Colonel Lee took out his pistol and shot the dog in the head. He blew a breath at the tip of the pistol as the dog collapsed. It was no longer moving.

"Sir. Why didn't you use that 'Cat Palm' move you were talking about last time? You said it could take down a bull in one hit".

"Tiger Palm! Not Cat Palm".

"Oh ok, Tiger Palm. Why did you use it just now? It would be so cool! I always wanted to see some killing moves in real action".

"I would if I know how, but I haven't mastered it yet. Those high level techniques take years to learn. I could have broken its spine or the neck with my brick breaking move, but this dog was too disgusting. No way I would touch it with my hands," Colonel Lee got into the driver's seat. "Let's go to the hospital."

"What about him?" The soldier walked onto the sidewalk to check the man on the ground. "Never mind, he is dead…"

"We can't take him with us, can we? This jeep has only one row of seats," Colonel Lee gave his cell phone to the soldier "You call the cops, it's their job."

Back in the military base inside the desert,

Deep underground somewhere on the level 3, five soldiers were trying to get Sherry to General Zhao. One officer walked in the front, two soldiers were carrying Sherry along with the chair she was restrained onto, and two more soldiers were behind them. All of them were only armed with pistols. And they had flashlights in their hands.

"Couldn't you just free me for now?" Sherry protested. She did not think the soldiers would carry her on the chair. She obviously did not feel safe enough without being able to move on her own.

"Be quiet," The English speaking officer replied. Although he tried to sound tough, Sherry could feel he was scared by the situation.

When they just turned around a corner into another hall, suddenly a shadow fell down from the ceiling onto them. In a flash, two soldiers' throats were cut. And then a third soldier's stomach was penetrated by a claw. A creature about the size of a human stood up on two legs just as Sherry's chair was dropped onto the ground. Sherry fell onto her side along with the chair, and she couldn't move at all but her head. Some of the blood of the killed soldiers was splashed onto her.

The remaining two soldiers tried to point their pistols at the attacker. But before they were able to do so, a slash from the creature's claw cut off one soldier's arm. The broken arm dropped onto the ground while still holding the pistol. A quick extend of the claw, the creature had its claw inside the last soldier's face. After the creature pulled back its claw, the last soldier dropped onto the ground with his face completely messed up. There was only one soldier still alive, and he was screaming in pain on the ground with one arm left as the creature now turned around to him again.

With superhuman sight, Sherry was able to take a good look at the creature unlike everyone else. The creature looked like humanoid, but it was different from the humans. Its body was in black, same color as the surrounding without the lights on. It stood up less than six feet tall, and it did not look like very massive at all. Instead, it looked like it was built for speed. It had four exactly same legs, but it was able to stand on two. All four of its legs were armed with very sharp claws. The claws were able to extend out to a foot long at the creature's will. Sherry just saw how one of its claws had shrunk. Sherry could tell the tips of the claw she saw earlier on the ceiling at her holding cell were from this creature. The creature had a head bigger than humans. It had only one eye, a big eye formed with many tiny eyes just like a fly's but 500 times larger. It had a mouth full of sharp teeth, every one of those teeth looked like the K9 teeth of a Siberia tiger. There was something else about this creature…there were tentacles extended out from its upper body. They looked like Nemesis parasites' body parts. Sherry remembered how Uncle Wesker had shown her a sample of Nemesis parasite before. There was no mistake. But this creature was obviously not a Nemesis Tyrant. Its base creature was completely different, with a Nemesis parasite hosting on it.

As Sherry watched the creature walked toward the last living soldier, she saw the creature opened its huge mouth and extended out a one-foot long bloody red tone. There was blood dropping down from it. The creature was approaching the wounded soldier on the ground slowly. It looked like it was taking its time, since there was no longer any threat to it. It was making really creepy roars from deep inside its throat. It made Sherry felt her skin chill.

The last soldier was screaming on the ground with lots of blood rushing out of his broken arm. Sherry closed her eyes. She couldn't break herself free from the turned over chair. Only her head was able to move. She did not want to see the creature slaughtering the last soldier. It freaked her out how the other 4 soldiers were killed so fast in such horrible ways. Blood were everywhere on the ground and on the walls. Sherry knew she could be the next victim as soon as the creature done with the last soldier, and she did not want to see it coming.

There was another sound of slash. The last soldier had stopped screaming. He must have been killed.

"It is over… I will be killed by this hideous monster in a second…" Sherry thought while had her eyes closed. She did not expect to live more than another few seconds…

To be continued…

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