Chapter 17

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

Sherry was lying on the ground on her side, restrained on the turned over chair, unable to move. She kept her eyes closed really hard. The creature's footsteps were completely silent, but Sherry could tell it was getting closer by the moment from its creepy roars. She had wished she could have covered her ears as well, so she could just die in peace without so much fear.

Suddenly there was a sound of something being dropped onto the ground about 20 meters away from them. It sounded like a metal can hitting the ground, but it was heavier. The creature immediately made a 180 degree turned around with lighting fast speed. There was nobody but an object about the same size and shape of a Pepsi can in grey color coming from that direction. The "can" was rolling toward the creature. When it had reached about 10 meters away, suddenly it flashed for a second. It was a Flash Grenade! The extreme bright light in a complete dark hall totally blinded the creature temporarily. The creature screamed as it could no longer see anything. It was still standing on two legs, but it was not moving a step because it couldn't see the direction for the moment.

At that moment, a woman in white outfit carrying an assault rifle stepped out from behind a corner from another hall. The moment she stepped out, she turned on the flashlight attached to the gun because it was turned off. She opened fire while walking forward toward the creature. Her assault rifle's green laser beam was pointed right on the blinded creature's chest. Three soldiers stepped out from behind the corner and they were all right behind her. Two of them were carrying assault rifles, and another one was holding a pistol. As the woman continued to fire while walking forward, the blinded creature was shot repeatedly in the chest and it was forced moving backwards while screaming with a different roar which sounded quite painful. Lots of black liquid was coming out of its chest as the bullets entered.

Within seconds, all 30 round bullets of woman's assault rifle were shot into the creature's chest. The creature collapsed onto its back just as the woman emptied her magazine. She gave the assault rifle to the soldier and got a pistol back. The soldier immediately started reloading the empty assault rifle with a new magazine of ammo. The woman walked toward the creature on the ground with her pistol pointing. All three soldiers followed her.

When they arrived about 10 meters away from the creature, the woman shot 2 rounds of pistol bullets into the creature's head, but the creature on the ground did not have any reaction at all.

"I think it is dead," A soldier said. "Nice tactics, Agent …?"

"Fong Ling," The woman said.

"Nice work, Agent Fong Ling!"

Sherry heard everything, and she now heard the footsteps of several people walking toward her. She opened her eyes. The creature was lying right beside her only a meter away. Its chest was shot into a bee hive like with many bullet holes. Lots of black blood came out of its chest and leaked onto the ground from its body. There were also two bullet holes on its face. It was not moving a muscle.

What a relief! Sherry took a deep breath as she was just saved. For the first time, she was happy to see her captors.

"Check it now. It might still be alive!" Sherry said with a very worried voice to the people walking toward her.

Little to Sherry's knowledge, Fong Ling and the three soldiers were not too far away when the 5 soldiers who carried her were attacked. By the time the 5 soldiers carried Sherry toward a left turn, the creature was right around the corner waiting for them on the ceiling. Fong Ling and the three soldiers were just 30 meters away from taking a right turn into the same short hall of where the creature was. By the time the last one of the 5 soldiers was screaming in pain with his broken arm, Fong Ling and the three soldiers heard it. Immediately she grabbed an assault rifle off a soldier's hands and gave her pistol to him. She turned off the flashlights attached to the gun and told the other two soldiers to do the same. She did not want the intruder to notice the lights coming from their hall. With her special agent's training, the green laser aiming beam was enough for her to walking forward without hitting onto the wall. The soldiers couldn't see the way but they followed her lead. They quickly and quietly reached the corner and hid behind there. Fong Ling took a peak into the hall where Sherry and the 5 soldiers were ambushed. The flashlights from the 5 soldiers were dropped on the ground, but they were all still working. With the reflected lights, she could barely see a weird shadow standing there and she was sure it couldn't be a human. After Fong Ling pulled her head back, she signaled one of the soldiers to give her a flash grenade. After she tossed the flash grenade into the hall at the creature, she quickly pulled back her arm to hide behind the corner. The creature heard it and turned around, then "boom"…It was blinded…

"It is very dead".

"What the heck is this thing?" The soldiers looked at the creature on the ground and asked each other.

"Some kind of bio-engineered killing machine," Fong Ling replied to them.

Fong Ling picked up a flashlight from the ground which was dropped by one of the five dead soldiers. She pointed it at Sherry. Sherry was looking right at her.

"You two carry her," Fong Ling ordered

Two of the three soldiers immediately walked forward to get Sherry and her turned over chair up from the ground.

"You gotten be kidding me! I can walk on my own. Please just untie me for now. I don't want to die if you get killed too," Sherry protested. She never wanted to go through that again. She was helplessly to defend herself with all the chains tied around her. She was almost killed!

"What did she just say?" A soldier asked Fong Ling as he did not speak English.

Fong Ling translated for him.

"Shut up! Stop bringing us bad luck!" The soldier shouted at Sherry even though he knew Sherry couldn't understand him. He was being superstition. To him, saying things about "getting killed" and "die" might really make it happen.

Just as the two soldiers pulled Sherry's chair up, the dead creature was on the ground right behind their backs. Suddenly, one of the soldiers froze, while the other one fell down onto his back. The first soldier who was frozen there looked down, there was a tentacle about as thick as his forearm had penetrated him from behind and the tip of it had come out from his stomach. He collapsed. The second soldier had a different tentacle around his neck and he was pulled onto the ground on his back by it. He tried to free himself with both hands, but in just a second there was a sound of crack and his neck was broken. He too died.

Fong Ling and the third soldier turned their faces. They saw the creature they had just "killed" was still lying on the ground, but the tentacles around its upper body were extended out and were moving around in the air.

"HOLY SHIT!" The last soldier shouted in shock

Both of them opened fire immediately. The soldier shot all 30 rounds of assault rifle bullets all over the creature, while Fong Ling shot over 10 pistol rounds into the creature's head. The creature stopped moving again. More black blood was coming out from it.

"Oh my god! Please just untie me for now! I beg you! I only want to be able to defend myself from these monsters!" Sherry was so scared as more of these people who guarded her were dead. "I promise I won't do anything stupid!" She was desperate. For the moment, even herself believed in she wouldn't try anything stupid if they untied her.

Fong Ling and the last soldier looked at each other for a moment. The soldier was simply waiting for a translation.

"She wanted us to untie her for now," Fong Ling said "Well one thing for sure, we can't carry her while on guard with just the two of us".

"Then why don't we just untie her for now? She can walk on her own. What could a little girl possibly do?" The soldier obviously had no knowledge of Sherry was a super soldier. To him, Sherry was just a teenage girl regardless whatever reason she was detained for.

Fong Ling did not have the time to explain everything, but she knew they couldn't possibly handle another attack if both of them were carrying the girl on a chair.

"If you promise be a good girl and do as I say, I will untie you for now," Fong Ling looked at Sherry

"I promise!" Sherry would say anything to get untied at that moment.

"It's for your own good! There is no way for you to get out of this base. Our troops are all over the places right outside this building. You are not going anywhere without our permission. If you want to live, you'd better not to try anything funny".

"I know, and I won't! I promise!" Sherry couldn't wait any longer to get untied "Please hurry!"

"Untie her," Fong Ling ordered the soldier. She wanted to stay on guard.

The soldier quickly moved closer to Sherry and took a quick check on the chains.

"Where is the key?" He found there are a couple huge locks tied the chains together.

"Just shoot the chain."

"Alright…" The soldier adjusted his gun and fired three shots at the chain near the bottom of the chair. The chain broke. And the soldier quickly started to pull them off Sherry.

Now untied, Sherry stood up from the chair which she had been sitting on for quite a while.

"Thank you!" Sherry took a deep breath while stretching her arms and legs a bit. "Much better," And then she bent down to pick up one of the guns on the ground

"Umm…STOP!" Fong Ling pointed her pistol at Sherry as she saw it.

Sherry froze in a bending position where her right hand was really close to a pistol on the ground.

"I need a weapon…" Sherry said as her movement was frozen in that bent down position while had her head turned to look at Fong Ling. Fong Ling's pistol was pointed right at her from just 2 meters away. "I just want to defend myself from the monsters…" Sherry said in a low voice. She sounded like she was almost crying.

"A Wesker's super soldier can't handle a couple of monsters without a gun?" Fong Ling questioned with doubts.

"Of course I need a gun. Besides, I had never encountered these monsters before. Please don't think so highly of me. I wouldn't be captured if I was invincible".

"True".

"I need a weapon…please…" Sherry was still in that bent down position with her hand opening right at the pistol on the ground just inches away. "I don't want to die…I am only 18…" Both her expression and her voice were almost crying.

Under the flashlights, Fong Ling could clearly see Sherry's cry face with all the tear marks from two days earlier.

"Alright," Fong Ling finally softened. Sherry's almost crying voice and her cry face surely had worked on Fong Ling. Fong Ling had a younger cousin who had just turned to 18, and she still treated her like a baby. This young girl in front of her was the same age. She started to feel a little sorry for Sherry. "Just remember, you are still my prisoner,"

"I won't. And I won't forget about you had just saved my life from that monster," Sherry already started to try acting like a good girl that she had promised Fong Ling. She knew she probably could easily seize Fong Ling's pistol in a split second if she wanted to, but it would do her no good since this entire base was filled with troops.

"I suggest you use an assault rifle instead of a pistol," Fong Ling said as she picked up an assault rifle herself from a dead soldier. And she also took a few magazines of ammos from him.

"Ok".

Sherry quickly checked the pistol she had just picked up. Then she bent down again to pick up an assault rifle from another dead soldier. She checked it and then picked up a few magazines ammos. She had decided to take both, just like Fong Ling did. She was still wearing the tight black suit she was wearing 2 days ago. Without the body armor, all her curves were exposed completely. The soldier had just noticed that. Under the flashlights, Sherry's nipples could be clearly seen extending from behind the thin layer of fibers. The soldier moved his flashlights directly onto Sherry's chest, and the green dot of his gun's laser beam was right on one of Sherry's cute breasts. Sherry looked down and she suddenly realized it. She quickly put one arm crossing her chest to block the view. She never intended to dress like that without a body armor on the outside. She was so embarrassed.

"What are you doing? In THIS situation?" Fong Ling too had noticed what the soldier was up to. "Stop it right now!"

The soldier quickly moved away his flashlights without saying a word. He was embarrassed as much as Sherry was, since his action was just caught. He was a 20-year-old young man after all.

"Ready?" Fong Ling asked Sherry.

"Yes".

"Let's go then." Fong Ling turned to the last soldier and spoke in Chinese. "Let's go"

Three of them quickly walked away from the dead soldiers and monster toward where Fong Ling came from. As the three of them had just disappeared at the corner, a tentacle of the Nemesis Parasite on the creature slightly moved…

At another part of level 3, over 100 soldiers were escorting all the important people toward the secondary stairs. With all the members of the meeting, the marines, and the regular guards, there were just so many people. The first one and the last one had a distance of over 50 meters apart. Everyone was side by side with someone else, because of the fear of being picked off alone.

"General Zhao. I got the girl. We had encountered an intruder. All soldiers were killed but one left. We are heading your way," Fong Ling's voice came from General Zhao's radio

"Good work! Who was the intruder?"

"Umm, it was obviously a bio-engineered creature. It is hard to describe, but we killed it".

"Impressive as always, Agent Fong Ling. I will be waiting for you and the girl at the ground level. Make sure nobody else gets hands on her".

Suddenly, there was heavy machinegun firing heard from far end of the level, along with many other automatic weapons' firing. The heavy machinegun shots were different and were louder than the assault rifles' firing. All guns' firing had stopped after just a few seconds.

"Report!" General Wong was very worried. "Is everyone ok?"

"General, this is Lieutenant Jin. We just neutralized one of the intruders with a 12.7mm heavy machinegun we had set up in defensive position near check point #2".

"Finally! Some good news," General Wong really had thought the reason gunshots stopped was because the intruders once again passed another defense position. "Some descriptions of the intruder?"

"I do not know exactly how to describe it, but it is some kind of monster with huge claws and teeth. It is about 6 feet long, with 4 legs, and some tentacles around its upper body. It was fast! Too fast! Good thing we had set up a good machinegun position. The creature had to pass a long narrow hall of 80 meters straight. It was killed by our machinegun before it could reach us. Its head was completely blown off clean by some 12.7mm rounds".

"Check point #1 had reported 3 intruders. Did you see any more of them?"

"Not yet. But if they try to get through here, we will slaughter them all like we just did with the first one".

"Very well, Lieutenant. If you can neutralize more of them, you will be promoted 3 ranks in a row," General Wong knew motivation would be good at such situation. "The transmission between the two of us will be terminated shortly, as I am about to leave this level. But the reinforcement is already on their way down from the main entrance. Until then, you must hold your position".

"Yes, General!" Lieutenant Jin's voice sounded excited. In a peaceful period, military officers did not get promotion as often as during the war time. This unexpected attack on the base granted Jin such golden opportunity.

"Keep your guard up. The intruders could access the vent system without setting off the laser alarms in there".

"Yes, General".

After the communication with Lieutenant Jin, General Wong told the people around him,

"My men had just neutralized one of the intruders with a heavy machinegun at check point #2", He said it with a smile in the hope of further calm the council representatives down.

"So did my Agents. They had just killed an intruder too," General Zhao tried to compete with General Wong in front of the council representatives, and he tried to take credit from the creature which Fong Ling had just killed.

Soon the soldiers in the front started to walk downstairs. It did not take long before General Wong and all the important people walked onto the stairs as well. Ada was still side by side with her dad the whole time.

After walked downstairs to the bottom level, which was level 1. General Wong told the soldiers to walk toward the other end of the level. To reach the secret passage, they had to walk across the entire level 1.

"Which dumb moron designed this building?" A council representative asked and he did not sound happy. He was upset that they were pretty much walking back and forth across the levels. "I swear we had already walked over a mile, and why are we still inside this building?"

"General Wong did," General Zhao replied immediately

"No! As I recall, I was transferred here to be the commander of this base just two years ago. You were the commander before me, and this building was constructed during your time here. You approved the design and you oversaw the project. If anyone was to be blamed, it was you!" General Wong did not expect General Zhao would point finger at him again.

"The building wasn't like this when I left!" General Zhao argued. "Lots of changes were made under your nose".

"Yes, the energy signal absorbing walls, the laser alarming systems in the vents, and the secondary phone system. BUT, the pattern of the hallways, the secondary stairs, and the secret passage were there before me," General Wong was getting angry at how General Zhao would try to make him look at fault in front of the representatives every chance he got.

Back at level 3 at the check point #2, it was a crossroad of two main halls.

Two platoons of over 80 soldiers were spreading across the halls and rooms near the check point and taking defensive positions. A heavy machinegun was set on the ground in front of an 80-meter-long hall which was the only way coming from check point #1. A dead creature was lying on the ground just 30 meters away from the machinegun position in a big pool of black liquid. Its head was separated from its body, and it was rolled to a few meters away from it.

A machinegun gunner and his ammo supplier were prone on the ground. About a squad of soldiers were right beside them holding assault rifles. Everyone had their flashlights attachment waved around to point at between the far end of the hall and the vents on the ceiling. Lieutenant Jin was right in the middle of the crossroad sitting comfortably in a chair in front of the check point desk with his legs crossed. He was there to oversee the defenses of all directions. He was holding an assault rifle himself. There were soldiers at all directions from him. A squad of soldiers were right around him as his guards.

"General Wong? Can you hear me? This is company 2 of the third Battalion. We have just reached level 3 from the stairs," Someone's voice came from Lieutenant Jin's radio

"This is Lieutenant Jin from Company 3. We have two platoons holding position at check point #2. Remaining soldiers of our company are either right behind us in other defensive positions, or are escorting the Generals and the council members out of the building from another direction. General Wong had already left this level. He can't hear you," Lieutenant Jin replied immediately. He was exciting to hear the reinforcement had arrived on this level.

"Check point #2? We will be there in just about 2 minutes".

"Great! But be careful. There are intruders on the way between us. We had gunned down one of them right here, but there were more of them. They are not humans!"

"Gotten that. We had unexpectedly encountered one creature before entered the building. It took out about a squad before being killed. We now know what we are up against, and we all have night vision glasses".

Suddenly, there were screaming, shouting, and gunshots coming from one of the rooms near the check point #2. There were many huge rooms connected to each other along the halls close to the check point. Lieutenant Jin had sent soldiers into every one of those rooms. It must be the soldiers in one of those rooms were attacked, and that room was in the hall at left of the check point, not in the direction of the entrance.

"Crap! How did the intruders get in there…" Lieutenant Jin was surprised. The vent in every room was only connected to the main vent in the hall right outside it. There was no movement spotted on the main vent in the hall. "Hurry, go help them!" Jin shouted at the one squad around himself, and he stood up from the chair.

They obeyed and immediately rushed at the doorway of that room. The one squad of soldiers quickly arrived outside the room where the screaming and gunshots were coming from. They stopped at outside the door for a second, and used their flashlights to point at inside. Their squad leader turned his head to look back at Jin. Lieutenant Jin waved his hand really fast to signal him hurry move in. They entered the room just as it became silent. Just in a few seconds, there were gunshots and screaming from that room again. Jin looked at the doorway for a second before he turned around to look at the hall at his right. There was another squad of soldiers in that direction just 20 meters away.

"Go help them!" Jin shouted while waving his arm.

Immediately the other squad of soldiers rushed toward the hall at Jin's left. In a few seconds, they passed Jin and arrived at the doorway of the room where the first squad had just entered. There were still gunshots, shouting, and screaming coming from inside the room.

"Go! Go! Go!" The second squad of soldiers rushed into the room without any delay.

More gunshots of assault rifles' blast firing were heard, along with more screaming. The heavy machinegun squad right in the front hall turned their faces back to look at Jin.

"Keep focusing your attention in front of you!" Jin ordered, and the men obeyed.

A few soldiers extended their heads out of different rooms in the halls. They were curious about the situation.

"Go back to guard your own rooms now!" Jin shouted at them "Do not come out unless you are ordered to, or … if everyone outside is dead!"

Everyone obeyed and disappeared from the halls.

"What is going on?" Jin tried to ask about the situation on the radio

Nobody answered him. Everyone who was still alive in that room was too busy to reply. As the continuous gunshots and shouting came from the room in the hall at left of the check point, Jin took a quick look around. There was another squad right in the hall 20 meters behind him. Remaining of the two platoons were all spread out in the rooms nearby.

"You come here," Jin ordered the squad 20 meters behind him to get closer.

The 14 soldiers walked forward and stopped around Jin.

"Why haven't they arrived yet?" Jin asked himself about why the company 2 was still on the way.

Suddenly there were lots of gunshots coming from the direction of check point #1.

"What is going on?" Jin thought the soldiers of company 2 were attacked by other intruders on their way, "How many intruders?"

"No, it's your soldiers are attacking us!" A man was shouting on the radio from the other end.

"What?!?!" Lieutenant Jin couldn't believe what he just heard. "All my men ahead of check point #2 were dead! How could they attack you?"

"They are mad! They are crazy!! They are trying to bite us!!!" The man shouted on the radio as there were lots of other soldiers' shouting along with intense gunshots in the background.

"Impossible!"

At that moment, the gunshots and the screaming from the room in the hall at the left of check point #2 had stopped. Jin used his hand to signal the new squad around himself to check it out. The soldiers left him and ran toward the opening doorway. Just when the first two of them had arrived in front of the door, a shadow patted out of the room and its two claws penetrated both soldiers' chests simultaneously.

At the same time, suddenly the vent above the heavy machinegun was cracked open, and a shadow fell down. In a split second, both the machinegun gunner and the supplier had lost their heads. Both collapsed in their prone positions. Before anyone could open fire, both creatures continued to kill the two different squads at the two different directions of Lieutenant Jin.

Poor Lieutenant Jin turned his head to look at the left, then to look at the front, then to look at the left… The unexpected suddenly attack really slowed his reaction. Although the soldiers tried their best to shoot at the creatures, their guns were unable to follow the creatures' movements. The creatures were way too fast. At such close range, there was no way to get a clean shot on something moving around that fast. It did not take long before everyone in the hall was dead.

Lieutenant Jin was all alone, standing in the middle of the crossroad. All the soldiers in the hallway were lying on the ground motionlessly. The blood was everywhere on the floor and on the walls. Guns were tossed everywhere.

Both creatures had stood up on two legs. They started slowly approaching Lieutenant Jin from two different directions, one from the left, the other one from the front. Out of the shocking truth that he was now in big trouble, Lieutenant Jin raised his own assault rifle and opened fire at the creature at the front. The creature easily dodged his aim with a sudden jump, and it stopped on the ceiling on four legs up side down. Lieutenant Jin turned his gun to the ceiling and opened fire again. The creature took another lighting fast jump and it stopped on the wall at right of the hall, and it was crawling toward Jin. During the same time, the creature at Jin's left had never stopped its slow pace walking toward Jin. Now it was closer to Jin than the creature at the front. Jin switched his target to the closer creature at left, and he fired his assault rifle again. A blast shot of bullets hit the wall and made a bunch of bullet holes. The creature had moved out of the way of his aiming easily just like the other creature did. It took Jin another two tries before he emptied all 30 rounds in the magazine. Before he could reload, in a flash both creatures were already right in front of him only 2 feet away.

One of the creatures suddenly waved its claw and it knocked the assault rifle out of Jin's hands. Jin immediately pulled out two pistols, one in each of his hands. Before he could open fire, both pistols were gone already. In a flash Jin pulled out of two knives, but in an even faster flash he found his knives were no longer in his hands.

"Shit! I am done for!" Jin thought "So much for the promotion..."

The two creatures did not attack him just yet. It looked like they were trying to toying with Jin. Somehow it looked like they could tell Jin was the one in charge. Lieutenant Jin stepped backwards, but the two creatures followed and kept their distance of 2 feet away. Jin took another step backward, and his back was against a wall. The two creatures had him completely cornered.

As the two creatures moved even closer, both of their faces were only less than a foot away from the face of Lieutenant Jin. Jin's right hand was behind himself, and it looked like he was supporting on the wall with it

Then all the sudden, with a sound of a small metal ring hit the ground. Lieutenant Jin moved his right hand out from his behind. He was holding a High Explosive grenade, and he had already removed its fuse ring.

"For a second, I thought you had me. It looks like I am taking you after all. Too bad I am not getting promotion for this…" Lieutenant Jin smiled as he was holding the HE grenade right in front of the two creatures. It almost looked like he was trying to hand an apple to them.

Somehow the two hideous creatures immediately reorganize what a HE grenade was. Both of them quickly jumped toward two different directions trying to get away. Just as their feet had left the ground, the HE grenade in Lieutenant Jin's hand exploded.

"BOOM!" An explosion took place in the middle of the crossroad at check point #2.

"What was that?" A council representative asked as they heard a small "Boom" from the floors above. He was scared by it when it took place.

"Must be a grenade had just exploded," General Zhao replied.

"This is getting out of control!" The head of the council representatives sounded very upset.

"Yes. No intruder could ever get into this building if I was still the commander of this base," General Zhao had found another chance to make a fool of General Wong.

Amongst all the people who attended the meeting, the council representatives were walking behind everyone else.

Soon the soldiers ahead made a left turn into a different hall. By the time the group of important people arrived at the crossroad, there was a half opened door before the left turn. One of the soldiers walked in front of it and closed the door as the two Generals and Ada had made their turn around the corner. The council representatives were right behind them still in the hall before the left turn.

The soldier who closed the door was about to turn around to rejoining the stream of people. Suddenly, a claw penetrated the door from inside the room and went right through the soldier's chest and extended out from his back. The soldier collapsed right on the spot as soon as the claw was pulled back into the room. There was a big hole on the door where the claw had penetrated.

Immediately everyone close to that part of the hall stopped their steps, including the council representatives and the soldiers around them. Every soldier who was the closest to the door quickly fired a blast onto the door with their assault rifles. When the firing stopped just few seconds later, the door was filled with several dozens bullet holes. The council representatives were so scared because it took place right in front of them.

Suddenly the door was blasted down from the inside. In a flash, a creature patted out and jumped right into the middle of the group of people in the hall. Before anyone could react, the creature had removed the head of the leader of the council representatives with a slash of its sharp claw. In the next three seconds, the remaining council representatives were all killed in different cruel ways. The soldiers around them shouted and fired at the creature even though they were so close to each other and could have shot each other instead of the creature. Their best efforts were not able to put a single bullet into the creature while they were picked off one by one.

General Wong, Ada, and General Zhao had all turned around to look behind them. They all had just turned into the other hall while the fighting took place just around the corner behind them.

As the creature continued to move around with super fast speed in the middle of a large group of soldiers and took them down one after another, General Zhao quickly grabbed a HE grenade off a marine's waist who was standing right beside him. He pulled off the fuse ring and threw it into the other hall right in the middle of the groups of soldiers and the creature, just as everyone around him noticed. Everyone along with General Zhao quickly turned around to get away from the crossroad section. A few seconds later a "BOOM" took place just as a huge fire spark lighted up the other hall behind them for a split second.

"Go! Go! Go!" The marines around the Generals pushed both of them toward the direction of the secret passage way. They wanted them to get away from danger zone quickly.

As both generals were running forward along with the marines, Ada was right beside her dad.

"You bastard!" General Wong knocked his teeth together and shouted at General Zhao, "You killed our own soldiers!"

"They were going to die anyway. I had just saved more lives by killing that monster," General Zhao took it so lightly like it was nothing. "By the way, they were your soldiers, not mine. My men wouldn't be this useless."

"What are you talking about?!?! They are the men who joined this military on their own to serve our nation!!!"

"They served their purposes".

Everyone around them couldn't believe what General Zhao just said. Many of the marines wished they could just shoot General Zhao, or dump him into the hall behind to feed the monsters.

With running, soon they arrived at the end of a small hall where there was a coded metal door. A small screen was below a bunch of buttons with digits on the wall.

"Make the way please," General Wong walked through the soldiers in the front and arrived at the door. Ada was right behind him.

After input a long number, General Wong put his hand onto the screen. A laser beam scanned his hand, and the metal door was opened on its own. A long narrow passage appeared. There were lights in it, which made the entire passage completely bright.

"I thought the power was out," General Zhao said with a curious face.

"I figured the power of this building might go out in the situation when we need to use this passage, so I ordered to reroute the power from the building on the other side," General Wong replied

"Good for you".

"You should thank me as you are about to use it".

General Zhao ignored it and he went right ahead into the passage right behind some soldiers and agents.

"Ok, Ada. Our troops are waiting right on the other side of this sealed passage. There is nothing to be worried about any more. I will be just fine. You should go ahead to get the girl and set her free before this is all over," General Wong turned to Ada.

"Ok, dad. I will see you soon," Ada kissed her dad on the cheek before she turned around and started to walk back toward where they came from.

"Ada. Maybe you should take some marines with you".

"Dad, there is no need. I will be better off alone, and you know why already. Besides, I can't set the girl free while making it like real if the marines are with me".

"Alright, darling. Just be careful!" General Wong already knew Ada was turned into a super soldier by Wesker since Ada had already told him after Leon's encouragement. He knew perfectly well what Ada was capable of.

"Let's go, soldiers!" General Wong walked into the passage as the remaining marines all followed.

Ada walked into the darkness behind them without a flashlight, and she was only armed with a pistol.

Leon was sitting on a sofa in the living room at Ada's home. He was still waiting for Ada even though she told him not to. There was some news on TV he couldn't understand a word. But from the look of it, it was the local news. He recognized one of the places which were showed on TV. It was a tourists' hot spot he had just visited with Colonel Tao yesterday. The footage did not show much except there were lots and lots of police, and there were also some military soldiers.

"I wish I could speak Chinese. Something big is going on…" Leon thought as he picked up the phone.

He dialed Ada's number. There was nothing, not even a phone ring on the other side.

"Strange," Leon said to himself after two more tries.

He then dialed another number. It was a cell phone number given to him by Colonel Tao the other day. Colonel Tao was very friendly to him, so they quickly made friends and exchanged the numbers.

The phone rang on the other side, but Colonel Tao was not picking it up.

Leon started to hear lots of police cars' whistles coming from far away. And there were also the sound of many helicopters in the sky from a long distance.

"What is happening…" he was getting upset

Sherry, Fong Ling, and a soldier were walking toward the secondary stairs on level 3. Each of them was carrying an assault rifle. Sherry and the soldier were side by side in the front with Sherry slightly ahead. There was about a meter between the two of them. Sherry was the one at left. Fong Ling was right behind them, and she was on the line of between the two of them.

As they were walking, there was the sound of lots of gunshots coming from somewhere far away on this level. Fong Ling suddenly stopped her steps. Both Sherry and the soldier continued to walk a few steps before they realized they could no longer hear Fong Ling's footsteps. Both of them turned around and saw Fong Ling was standing right there in the middle of the hall less than 3 meters behind.

"What's wrong?" The soldier asked

Fong Ling put a finger against her lips to signal him to stop making any noise. She held her position, and her eyeballs were rolling around along the edge of her eye sockets. It looked like she had heard something a moment ago, and she was trying to figure out where it came from. She slowly turned her face to look at the ceiling, then she quietly to look at the right. There was a door 3 meters at her right, and a vent was above her. The soldier was about 2 meters away and he was closer to Fong Ling than Sherry. Sherry was one meter further away from the soldier, and she was just looking at the two and then looked at the door and the ceiling. She had too much on her mind, which explained why she did not notice anything just now.

After a couple of seconds, there was a really small noise coming from the door. It sounded like something was touching the wooden door from inside the room. Immediately Fong Ling turned to her right and fired a blast at the door with her assault rifle. Just as the first a few bullets had penetrated the door, in a flash the door was broken off from inside by a huge force and it flew right toward Fong Ling with lighting fast speed. Fong Ling was only 3 meters away from the door, in a split second the high speed flying door was already only inches away right in front of her…

To be continued…

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