"For the past month, we've already lost eight bases in a row—Philadelphia, Los Angeles, New Mexico, and so on. Does anyone know what's going on?"Inside the virtual conference room, Umbrella's Executive President Wesker was questioning his subordinates.
Because the apocalypse had caused the complete collapse of all ground-based industrial systems, even with Umbrella's power, it was impossible to fully monitor every movement happening on the surface.
Relying solely on orbital satellites, the amount of intelligence they could gather was far too limited.
"New Mexico contacted me right before it fell. They said they had found traces of the enemy and were preparing to organize a counterattack. But when we tried to contact them again five minutes later, there was no response at all!" The man seated at Wesker's left immediately reported.
"The enemy took the New Mexico base in five minutes?"Not only Wesker—everyone present exchanged bewildered looks, their faces full of disbelief.
As the heads of Umbrella's various regional divisions, they knew very well just how massive and well-fortified their own bases were.
Even a fully organized armored division wouldn't be able to break through a base's defenses without at least an hour!
And now, in just five minutes—maybe even less—the enemy had completely destroyed one of their bases?
Even an inside job wouldn't make that possible!
"What is it?"Just as everyone was trying to figure out how the enemy had pulled this off, one of the projected figures at the conference table suddenly turned toward the empty air beside him and asked a question.
His behavior seemed strange, but everyone in the meeting knew that all participants here were holographic projections. For someone to communicate with his subordinates during such an important conference, something urgent must have happened.
"President Wesker, my men just reported that someone is attacking the base's main gate!"The man in the suit relayed the information anxiously after receiving it from his subordinate.
"Have your men prepare to defend immediately. Stall the enemy at all costs—I'll dispatch reinforcements now!"Wesker quickly issued orders. At last, they had a trace of the enemy—they absolutely could not let this chance slip away.
"Understood, I'll order them right awa—"
The suited man had just nodded, but before he could finish his sentence, the holographic projection representing him abruptly vanished without warning.
"Rio de Janeiro Base has been overrun!"On the world map displayed at the center of the table, a red dot dimmed and went dark, and everyone present felt their hearts sink.
From the moment they received the attack warning to the base's fall—only a few minutes had passed?
If that mysterious enemy came for their own bases next, none of them felt confident they could escape.
"All orbital satellites—redirect them to Brazil immediately! All field teams—assemble at once!"Although Wesker's massive sunglasses concealed his expression, the cold, biting tone in his voice made it clear: the Executive President was truly furious.
"Yes, sir!"If Wesker had issued such an order earlier, the base commanders might have pretended to comply while actually resisting. After all, those satellites and field teams were technically independent assets of each regional division. Even as Executive President, Wesker didn't have the authority to freely commandeer each division's resources.
But now?No one knew when the enemy would come for them next. If they didn't concentrate their forces and destroy this threat immediately—what were they going to do? Sit and wait to be wiped out one by one?
"Yay!"
On the Osprey tiltrotor transport, Claire grinned and slapped palms with Li Qingyuan.
Over the past month, they had traveled across the entire Americas, basically wiping out every Umbrella base on the continent!
The battles had gone so smoothly that it almost felt unreal.
The plane would fly near a base; someone would go down and blow open the base's main gate, or an air vent, or an elevator shaft—whatever he felt like—then toss in a small nuclear warhead. Done!
The whole process took less than three minutes—brutal and efficient to the extreme.
Normally, detonating a nuclear warhead required a series of complicated procedures. But after Li Qingyuan's "magical modifications," he could trigger the detonation via sheer thought from within ten kilometers.
Though, usually, he preferred to run back onto the aircraft and snap his fingers lightly!
Watching a column of blue light suddenly surge up from underground, followed by a massive glowing sphere rising from below—its beauty was dazzling, like a galaxy bursting open. He never got tired of watching it.
And Li Qingyuan felt that when he carefully observed the intricate details of each explosion, he seemed to slowly understand and analyze the data model of a nuclear blast.
The sensation was vague, but he believed that if he kept blowing up nuclear bombs whenever he had nothing better to do—maybe even played around by detonating a few Tsar Bombas—he might one day comprehend the very essence of nuclear explosions.
Of course, this idea was mostly just fantasy. He had done the math—if he really wanted to reach that level, he would probably have to blow up the entire Earth dozens of times over.
Sure, he considered himself pretty evil by now, but destroying the world just to master a single skill? Even he wasn't capable of that.
He'd wait until he entered some large-scale scenario script someday—then train the skill slowly.
Assuming there would even be enough nuclear bombs for him to waste.
"The Americas seem to be fully cleared out. Should we head to Europe now?"Jill asked while piloting the aircraft, not turning her head.
To be honest, as two of the main heroines of this universe, Jill and Claire were fully showcasing just how dazzling a protagonist's cheat-like life could be.
Besides mastering every kind of combat and firearm, the two could pilot planes and submarines, possessed hacker-level technical skills that stunned Li Qingyuan, and even had exceptional lockpicking abilities.
As for all those other miscellaneous skills—they had too many to count. Though the two women modestly claimed they only "knew a little," that modest "little" was enough to outperform entire groups of top-tier professionals.
Of course, they had their flaws too.
Neither of them could cook. For days now, all their meals had depended on him—truly something to lament.
Couldn't they learn something women were "supposed" to learn for once?
"No rush for now. Let's find a place to settle down first."Li Qingyuan sat beside Jill and smiled.
"Why?" Claire crawled forward from the back to chime in.
"We've destroyed every Umbrella stronghold in the Americas within a month. You think they're not going to send people to hunt us down?"
Li Qingyuan had never underestimated Umbrella's capabilities.
The only reason this operation had gone so smoothly was because they had caught the enemy completely off guard—and because Umbrella never expected someone to literally blow open a door and throw in a nuke.
Anyone would be stunned by such a 'nuke-to-the-face' tactic!
I mean, in all the big action movies—who starts a confrontation by discussing peace?
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