Alex Mercer, 29, holds a PhD in genetics from Columbia University. He was later hired by Gentech and became the chief researcher of the Black Light Project.
He spent the first nine years of his life in an orphanage and returned to his mother who had just been released from prison when he was 10 years old.
However, he would rather remain in the orphanage.
A cruel childhood left him with no friends, no trust in anyone, and almost on the verge of being antisocial.
Work is his only pleasure.
The main work of his team is to study virus samples given by the government.
Alex's talent in genetics not only makes Alex's scientific research far superior to other competitors, but also gives him the opportunity to get rid of his gloomy past.
But his outstanding ability did not make his career prosperous, but instead attracted the attention of Black Watch.
As a special elite force affiliated with the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Black Watch was specifically established to deal with biological and chemical warfare.
Alex, who is proficient in virus research, is naturally regarded by them as a potential disadvantage.
Soon after, Congress learned of some of the results of the Black Light Project and decided to inspect Gentech and demand the handover of all research reports.
Since the existence of black light has always been regarded as a taboo by the government, Black Watch was worried about intelligence leaks and decided to launch a purge of all relevant personnel.
On the other hand, Alex, who has paranoid tendencies, also realized that black light is not just a medicine to treat diseases, so he began to secretly investigate Gentek.
With the help of his sister Dina, he discovered that many people related to the project had been silenced one after another.
In order to save his life, the frightened Alex planned to escape. He stole a sample of the Blacklight virus from the quarantine area, carried it with him as a last resort, and sent a laptop containing confidential files to his sister in advance.
Unfortunately, Black Watch's actions were much faster than he expected.
At Pennsylvania Station, Alex, who was trying to escape by train, was cornered by Black Watch.
(The original story of the murder took place around 1989. The aviation industry was not as developed as later generations, so I chose to escape by train, probably)
Out of rage and revenge, he shattered the test tube, releasing the virus.
The virus spread slowly and silently throughout the station. Alex was first infected, and then shot by Black Watch. Finally, his body was transported back to Gentech for dissection and research.
Captain Charles, who came back with the corpse, was tasked with destroying the research materials in the laboratory. He happened to encounter Leon and Tommy and arrested them.
According to the plot of the game, they will first be frightened by Alex who has come back from the dead, and then they will be silenced by the Black Watch soldiers in a panic. They are the old unlucky ones.
Of course, with Li Ang, the situation is different.
Captain Charles was a little surprised when he received the news from his subordinates. He knew that the virus had spread, but he did not expect it to spread to other areas so quickly, so he immediately issued an order: "You, and you, stay and watch them, the others Come with me!"
Due to the danger of the black light virus, the army's takeover of the city is a foregone conclusion, and he and his soldiers must prepare in advance.
At this time, a soldier in charge of staying behind asked Charles in a low voice.
And Charles responded in the same tiny voice.
But this little trick couldn't be hidden from Leon, who was very smart. He clearly heard Charles saying that he and Tommy would be dealt with after Brother A was dissected.
After explaining, the captain left with most of the soldiers.
The cold morgue suddenly became less crowded, and Tommy, who had been under tremendous pressure, secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
Unexpectedly, just after relaxing for a while, a soldier raised his gun and threatened: "What are you waiting for, do it quickly!"
Tommy looked at Leon, as if to say: "We can't delay it any longer. If we don't start, we will be the ones who die!"
Li Ang, however, remained calm and observed the positions of the two soldiers left behind.
When the soldier's patience was almost exhausted, he pulled out wolfsbane from the equipment slot and suddenly pulled the trigger.
The tongues of fire spit out like lightning, and the roaring gunshots were life-threatening.
The two soldiers fell to the ground in an instant, each being shot with a bullet in the middle of their eyebrows.
They never understood until their death why a man who had just been searched and was wearing a bulky chemical protective suit had a gun.
Li Ang deliberately opened the mask of the chemical protective suit, blew away the smoke coming from the muzzle, and asked: "Isn't he handsome?"
The power of Black Watch is that it is a formal organization with strict discipline. Organization aside, a single ordinary soldier is relatively easy to deal with.
Tommy, who was asked the question, was thinking about another thing at this time: "You killed someone!"
Seeing his frightened look, Li Ang smiled nonchalantly and said, "Aren't you killing people every day?"
At the same time, he put his hands on his waist and shook them up and down.
Tommy immediately blushed and defended: "I have a girlfriend!"
"That's because I underestimated you." Li Ang put away his playful spirit and said seriously: "Run Tommy, take your girlfriend and leave this city, the sooner the better!"
"This is my last advice to you as your boss."
Being admitted to Columbia University proved that Tommy was not a fool. First, Alex died, then the virus spread, and now the new boss killed the Black Watch people.
No matter what happens here, he, an ordinary researcher, cannot get involved.
"But supervisor, what will you do if I leave?"
Li Ang said coldly: "You are not qualified to worry about me. Go wherever you should, and get out of my sight!"
Tommy then recalled that the man in front of him was decisive and decisive, and he was obviously not an ordinary person.
"Then take care of yourself." After leaving a few words, he turned around and ran away. Before leaving Gentike, he didn't forget to take a set of chemical protective clothing for his girlfriend.
After the young man left, there was only one living person and three corpses left in the morgue.
How long Alex has been 'dead' is not stated clearly in the game, but with the terrifying evolution speed of black light, he should wake up soon.
Li Ang must hurry up.
Find a syringe and a test tube.
Use a syringe to extract some of the blood from Alex's body and put it into a test tube for storage.
During the process, Li Ang could clearly see that Brother A's eyes were moving slightly, and his brows were wrinkled in pain.
It shows that he can already respond to external things, and the reconstruction of the body by black light is about to be completed.
After Li Ang got what he wanted, he left the morgue without staying too much.
He wanted to find a safe place to drink the blood.
The black light virus is an infinitely evolving active chimeric pathogen with extremely strong infectivity. It will randomly find a cell in the human body and quickly assimilate it to obtain everything from that cell.
It then replicates on a large scale and forcibly transforms surrounding cells until it takes over the entire human body.
During this period, it will lead to drastic physiological changes, expand the genetic capacity, accommodate high-quality genetically modified bodies, and increase cell activity, that is, phagocytosis, fusion with other organisms and evolution.
However, these changes are too drastic for ordinary people. 99.99% of infected people will die from severe organ decay and cell saturation. Only a handful of lucky people can survive and gain unexpected benefits.
The black light virus in Alex's body is the most successfully evolved and stable variant so far, so Li Ang chose him instead of directly injecting the original virus solution.
Take the elevator all the way up and finally reach the 51st floor of the building.
A dangerous person is imprisoned here, and few people usually set foot there, which allows Li Ang to survive the early stages of infection safely.
Since he is a dangerous person, he must be guarded by guards.
After quietly getting rid of several heavily armed Black Watch soldiers, Li Ang took out a permission card from the corpse and opened the alloy door in front of him.
Behind the door is a huge and strange room, with several steel beams crisscrossing it, and a transparent cell made of glass in the middle.
The situation inside was clear at a glance. There was only a flat steel bed with no softness at all and a woman curled up on the bed.
The woman looks very young, even immature, very short, and her hair is a rare orange-red color. Wearing a jumpsuit specially made for the experimental subjects, it has nothing to do with good looks, but it does show off her figure.
Her name is Elizabeth Green, the perfect host for the red light virus.
Red light and black light can actually be regarded as a kind of virus. The latter was created based on Elizabeth's blood sample with red light virus, and it has enhanced infectivity, longer incubation period, and effectively reduced the fatality rate.
Although there doesn't seem to be much difference between 99.99% and 99.999%.
In Li Ang's plan, in addition to spending the early stages of the infection on the 51st floor, the second purpose was to meet Elizabeth.
However, the two did not have any formal communication at the beginning.
Elizabeth pretended that Leon didn't exist and continued to curl up on the bed, while Leon went straight to the corner at the back of the glass cell and drank Alex's blood.
A few minutes later, Elizabeth seemed to suddenly sense something, and turned to look at Leon, who had fallen to the ground.
She is only interested in infected people, and ordinary people cannot attract her attention at all.
As time went by, many densely packed small blood vessels appeared on Li Ang's body. They were intertwined and accumulated, gradually forming a giant scarlet cocoon, wrapping him tightly inside.
Elizabeth's eyes lit up instantly, and she got out of bed and walked in the direction of Leon.
Then he placed one hand on the glass of the cell that separated the two, and slowly closed his eyes, as if praying for him.
At this time, Li Ang, who was in the giant cocoon, was conscious, but his body was twitching violently uncontrollably, and the memories in his brain flashed back in front of his eyes like a marquee.
At one point he thought he was going to die.
Because I once heard someone say that the presence of a marquee in front of your eyes means that your life has come to an end.
But soon Li Ang felt that he had never felt so good before, and every cell and tissue in his body was extremely active.
Due to being too active, his body temperature rose rapidly and his whole body became extremely hot.
Strange patterns that seemed to be corroded began to appear on the surface of the skin, mainly concentrated on the chest, abdomen and back, which would emit a red light following the breathing.
The external changes are secondary, but the internal changes are earth-shaking.
Before Li Ang was infected with the black light virus, he had three powers in his body, but only two were left after the infection.
Among them, the weakest green herbal medicine was devoured almost immediately.
Adhering to the principle of joining if it can't be defeated, the mold chose to actively integrate into the black light and retain some of its own characteristics.
Only the upgraded bloodline power is the most stubborn. It prides itself on being noble and vows not to bow its head.
Even though he was beaten back by the black light, he still refused to give in.
After careful observation, Li Ang found that the power of his bloodline was also quite idealistic.
Even if the black light replicates and assimilates all his cells, as long as Li Ang thinks that he is still himself and not a collection of viruses, the power of blood will continue to give birth to new powers.
Magic versus technology, although I can't beat you, you can't explain me either.
The situation suddenly became so deadlocked.
Li Ang is happy to see the result. With multiple powers and multiple trump cards, in the future he will not have to lose the ability to resist like Brother A when encountering the medicine specially developed by Black Watch to suppress the Black Light Virus.
After approximately several hours of replication and recombination, the infection is nearing its end.
In addition to the fact that the power of his bloodline is still strong, every corner of Li Ang's body is filled with black light virus.
Feeling that it was almost time, he tore open the thick blood cocoon and returned to the world.
"You finally woke up, my child, I am your mother." A slightly loving voice resounded in his mind.
Li Ang's first reaction after hearing this was, who is so bold and dares to take advantage of me!
Looking up, it turned out to be Elizabeth in the glass cell.
But because the cell was soundproof, she didn't do it through sounds, but through thoughts.
Elizabeth possesses an ability called brood consciousness, which is equivalent to some kind of internal network, allowing her to mentally connect with other infected people and control those low-level infected people.
Other infected people can also communicate with each other through the mother nest.
It sounds a bit similar to the fungus master's bacterial net.
The difference is that the bacterial net is a passive skill and will be automatically absorbed if it dies within the range. The mother nest must be allowed by Elizabeth to enter.
Or use another method like Brother A to devour other infected people who can access the mother nest.
"My mother is not like you." Li Ang walked around to the front of the glass cell, grabbed the handle of the cell door, and without much force, the entire door was torn off.
He was stunned for a moment. He expected that his strength would become stronger due to the infection, but he never thought it would be this big.
No wonder Brother A can lift a main battle tank with one hand. This is so cool!
Elizabeth was not surprised by this. She slowly walked to the deformed door frame and said to him: "You haven't learned how to control your power yet. I can teach you."
Then he added: "My child."
Li Ang frowned when he heard these words and almost couldn't help but punch her.
It's a pity that we can't fight for the time being.
Brother A can slap the main battle tank away with one slap, and Elizabeth can slap Brother A away with one slap.
Even though it was in the early stages and Brother A hadn't evolved many times yet, it was enough to illustrate Elizabeth's strength after being infected with the red light virus for decades.
Terrifying strength, never-aging appearance, liking to be someone else's mother, plus a mother's nest consciousness similar to a bacterial web.
Who does it remind you of?
Miranda?
No, she's Elizabeth Greene.
Although he is still in "The Prototype of Murder", Li Ang feels like he has returned to "Resident Evil 8".
Question Heisenberg, understand Heisenberg, become Heisenberg
"Please change your name. I don't like it."
Elizabeth plausibly said: "Why? My blood is flowing on you, you are my child!"
The black light virus originated from her blood, and Li Ang's body was now filled with black light, so from a certain perspective, she was right.
The extra update will be in the afternoon, and I will report the results to everyone in the afternoon, such as how many chapters are owed in total.
(End of chapter)
