Chapter 24

"Who is that Nemesis... huff huff huff... what exactly is it... huff huff huff..." In an abandoned construction site, Rebecca leaned against the wall, sitting on the ground, panting heavily as she asked.

Her face was very pale, and her eyes faintly revealed signs of pain and fatigue, like a regular high school student who had just run five kilometers. Her chest heaved and her breathing was labored, indicating that her physical strength had reached its limit.

"An Umbrella Corporation bio-engineered organism... or more accurately, a bio-engineered weapon. But I'm seeing it for the first time too, so I don't know much about it... uh!" Alice replied. Her condition was slightly better than Rebecca's, but she also looked quite disheveled.

As she spoke, Alice was gripping her middle finger, which was bent irregularly upward, and then forcefully pulled it down. The intense pain from her fingertip immediately made her forehead break out in a cold sweat.

Earlier, when they were being pursued by the Nemesis, the situation for the three of them was extremely dangerous. For them, the most terrifying aspect of the Nemesis was not its physical abilities, but the heavy firepower that left them with no means of resistance. Rebecca was hit by a few stray bullets while trying to dodge, which, although not severe, significantly affected her movements.

Seeing this, Alice separated from Tang Cheng and Rebecca, attempting to draw the Nemesis's fire to herself so that the other two could quickly escape. However, things did not go as smoothly as she had hoped. After a moment of hesitation, the Nemesis did not pursue her but instead intensified its attack on Tang Cheng and Rebecca.

With no choice, Alice had to return and face the Nemesis head-on. One was fully armed, at the peak of its condition, and had powerful regenerative abilities, while the other was poorly equipped and not yet fully recovered. The outcome of the battle was clear; Alice was almost completely overpowered, and it was only thanks to Tang Cheng's counterattack that she managed to gain a slight advantage.

But in the end, the three of them could only continue their desperate escape. Fortunately, after more than an hour of fleeing, they managed to use the terrain to shake off the Nemesis and narrowly escape.

However, despite escaping, Alice and Rebecca were not in high spirits. At such a critical moment, their companions were still missing, and they did not know if they were alive or dead. They had also encountered such a terrifying enemy as the Nemesis. Since the Nemesis was here, it was likely that the Umbrella Corporation was also monitoring them. In such a situation, escaping Raccoon City was out of the question, and even surviving was uncertain.

Thinking about this, the two of them could not help but feel heavy-hearted. Even Tang Cheng's sudden appearance with a large amount of food and water, which seemed like magic, did not interest them. They just ate to replenish their strength while frowning and deep in thought.

"Hmm, things have become complicated..." Across from them, Tang Cheng finished a bread roll, using a military knife to scrape his fingernails, muttering to himself.

During the escape, to save Alice, he had no choice but to activate his superhuman mode again. Of course, the range of activation was not as large as when he fought the crawler, just a slight adjustment of his neural responses. Even so, his combat power at that time was not to be underestimated.

However, when facing the Nemesis, he and Alice were still completely overpowered. While the suppression of weapons was one reason, the more important factor was the Nemesis's own strength.

In the movie, the Nemesis and Alice were on equal footing, and the result of their confrontation was that Alice had the upper hand. But after the actual battle, Tang Cheng calculated that the Nemesis's combat power exceeded Alice's in every aspect.

In other words, the Nemesis had become stronger than in the movie!

Tang Cheng did not know whether this was a pre-set change in the cycle world or a sudden enhancement due to the increase in their own combat power. He only knew that such a change was fatal for their side.

Moreover, activating the superhuman mode again had brought his body to the brink of collapse. Although it was not obvious from the outside, Tang Cheng knew his own condition. At this moment, he could not even fight a regular adult.

If the Nemesis came again, they would be doomed.

At this point, Tang Cheng had to start thinking seriously about a strategy.

Just as he was thinking, a series of footsteps came from a distance.

Someone was coming!

Not just one!

One... two... three... four... five... six!

From the footsteps, Tang Cheng could tell that six people were approaching, both men and women, and their steps were hurried. He immediately went out to meet them.

Alice and Rebecca looked at him in surprise and instinctively stood up.

Standing on a small hill in front of the factory, Tang Cheng looked in the direction of the sound. A moment later, six figures appeared before him.

The group consisted of two men and four women, four of whom were familiar to Tang Cheng: Tang Ya, Li Guodong, Su Xiaoqing, and Lu Xiaotian. The other two women were a beautiful police officer in tight clothing, who looked very sexy, and a more ordinary woman holding a DVD, which was also quite distinctive.

"Hey, it's been a while." Tang Cheng smiled and waved to them.

Hearing the sound, the beautiful police officer instinctively became alert, but before she could react, excited voices rose around her.

"Tang Cheng!"

"Big Brother Tang!"

"Great, we finally found you!"

Tang Ya, Lu Xiaotian, and Su Xiaoqing looked very happy and immediately came forward. Only Li Guodong's eyes flashed with a complex expression before he quickly followed.

At the same time, when the beautiful police officer's gaze swept over Tang Cheng, she also showed a look of surprise and shouted, "Rebecca!"

"Senior Jil!" Rebecca was initially stunned, but upon seeing the other woman's appearance, she immediately looked excited and ran over to embrace her.

Tang Cheng turned his gaze to them and smiled.

The beautiful police officer's name was Jil. Although she did not have a significant role in the movie, appearing only as a secondary character in the second part, she was a main character in the game version of Resident Evil. She was also a member of the elite force STARS, and it was not strange that she knew Rebecca, who was also from STARS.

However, it was quite amusing that these two game heroines would meet in a movie plot that was not their home turf. With Alice added, it was truly a scene with three heroines.

However, Tang Ya and the others were missing Zhang Yi, and the characters they brought back were only Jil and a female journalist, missing the black police officer. Those two unfortunate individuals were probably already gone.

Indeed, when Rebecca asked Jil if anyone else was alive, Jil's face showed a hint of sadness.

Tang Ya and the others also informed Tang Cheng of Zhang Yi's death.

Of course, no one dwelled too much on this, as death was a common occurrence in such an environment. Not just the characters, even Tang Ya and the others had gradually become accustomed to it.

"Big Brother Tang, I heard you killed a crawler. Is that true?" Lu Xiaotian asked Tang Cheng excitedly.

Tang Cheng smiled calmly and waved his hand dismissively, "It's a small matter, not worth mentioning."

"Amazing!" Lu Xiaotian expressed his admiration sincerely, "We five almost got wiped out by just a dozen zombie dogs, and you managed to kill a crawler. If I had gone with you to the research institute, it would have been great."

Lu Xiaotian's admiration was genuine, but if he had gone to the second research institute, he would have only been a burden. So, he was just saying it casually, but Li Guodong felt quite uncomfortable after hearing this.

They learned about Tang Cheng killing the crawler while they were in the church. This information was recorded in the information panel in their minds, but it did not have a sound notification like a mission. When Tang Ya checked her information, she was surprised to see this content, almost blinded by it.

Although they did not know whether Tang Cheng had killed the crawler alone or with the help of Alice and Rebecca, either way, it was beyond their capabilities.

Li Guodong did not think Tang Cheng could take on the crawler alone, but seeing this content, he felt a bit regretful. According to the information, Tang Cheng had killed the crawler before they left in the car. If he had known this earlier, he might not have suggested leaving.

Of course, Li Guodong did not know that this mechanism was a rule in the cycle world. When a challenger encountered an event in the副本 world, there were two types of notifications. For example, the triggering, completion, and changes of main and side missions had sound notifications, and the cycle world would inform you actively. In team battles, certain special situations also had sound notifications, but that was a different story.

As for notifications like "someone killed a monster," "triggered a mechanism," or "obtained a treasure," these were silent and only displayed on the challenger's information panel.

The reason for this setting was, first, to protect the challenger. For example, if a weak challenger obtained a treasure, it would give them time to prepare before other challengers came to kill and take it. Second, it was to cultivate a habit among all challengers to always pay attention to the information in the cycle world.

In the current situation, not just Li Guodong, even Tang Cheng rarely paid attention to the information panel in his mind, as they were still new and did not know its importance. But experienced players would always pay attention, as a seemingly insignificant piece of information could often be the key to survival.

Of course, this was a different story and did not need to be mentioned further.

Afterward, the group rested in the factory, and Tang Cheng finally had the chance to ask Tang Ya for medicine.

"Are you injured?" Tang Ya asked, taking out medicine from her backpack.

"Sort of." Tang Cheng took the pill, and immediately, information about the pill appeared in his mind.

"Name: Golden Clarity."

"Type: Consumable."

"Level: None."

"Effect: Can eliminate a series of physical side effects, including diseases, injuries, and mutations. It is also highly effective in replenishing physical strength and mental energy, but it cannot heal fatal injuries or regenerate severed limbs."

"Note: This medicine was created by a mad alchemist named God Suppresses Dogs, rumored to have the power to bring the dead back to life. However, it is not as powerful as claimed, but one pill is still better than two."

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Tang Cheng looked at the pill for a few seconds, feeling speechless again. He then patted Tang Ya's shoulder and said earnestly, "The future of African agriculture depends on you."

Tang Ya ignored him.

Tang Cheng did not continue to tease her. To become cute again, he quickly swallowed the Golden Clarity. Immediately, a warm current rose in his abdomen, spreading throughout his body, making him feel as if he were bathing in a hot spring. His back no longer ached, his legs no longer hurt, and he could easily climb Aincrad without any effort.

It had to be said, although the description was misleading, it was indeed highly effective.

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