However, just as Ada had already opened the window and was lifting her high-heeled leather boots to step over the sill and jump down, inside the blazing hospital room, a stream of white liquid suddenly flowed into the room, quickly coalescing into a figure as Ada turned around.
With lightning speed, a white tentacle lashed out like a whip, striking hard toward Ada's thigh!
"Crack—!!!"
A crisp sound rang out, the white whip accurately hooked Ada's thigh and pulled her back with a violent jerk; a massive force surged through.
Forced into a split, Ada was instantly dragged back into the blazing hospital room, where a hideous spore clone had appeared before her at some unknown moment.
"Sizzle, sizzle..."
But that wasn't all.
Those white tentacles were just as corrosive as the spore clones themselves.
"It hurts..."
Soon, a sizzling, smoking sound came from Ada's thigh; her pitch-black leather pants were being scorched, and the sudden pain caused a grimace to form on her beautiful face.
"Hiss, hiss...!!!"
However, the attack was not over.
Taking advantage of Ada being bound by a tentacle, the spore clone in front of her rapidly secreted even more and larger white tentacles from its chest, which shot out to strike her body.
Ada had no chance to react.
She was soon bound tightly, the white tentacles tracing over sensitive areas of her body in a humiliating fashion, almost turning into a bondage play performance.
Her thighs, chest, waist, and armpits were all tightly entwined. Combined with the corrosive burning pain from the white tentacles, Ada couldn't help but writhe; was this about to turn into some R-rated scene?
"Let me go...!!!"
Being humiliated like this made Ada quite emotional; if she ever caught Carla, she would definitely pay her back twofold.
*Splurt...*
"Boom—!!!"
Fortunately, at this moment, the raging fire in the hospital room had spread to the side of the bed, and the fragments of the bedsheet originally tied to the bedpost were completely burned through.
This triggered a chain reaction that pulled the pin of the High-explosive grenade on the floor.
As the pin was pulled, the High-explosive grenade entered its detonation phase and immediately released a terrifying shockwave—!!!
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"Bang... BOOM—!!!!"
The sudden explosion of the High-explosive grenade created a powerful impact within the narrow hospital room.
It wasn't just the fire and the force of the blast; it was also mixed with shattered shrapnel, which cut through everything around like sharp blades.
The spore clone that had just bound Ada with its white tentacles was also caught in the blast instantly.
After all, it was the one closest to the High-explosive grenade.
Sharp shrapnel pierced right through its body, while the terrifying flames of the explosion vaporized it completely, and the powerful shockwave sent it flying.
Of course, this included Ada herself.
With an explosion occurring in such a narrow room, Ada certainly couldn't avoid it. At the moment of the blast, searing flames rushed toward her.
Countless debris and shrapnel easily sliced open her body; her abdomen, shoulders, cheeks, and even her neck were instantly pierced by the exploding fragments.
*Splurt...*
Bloody wounds appeared one after another.
But what was truly fatal was the sheer force of the shockwave; Ada's slender body was slammed hard against the nearby glass window.
With a "crack," the entire window shattered instantly, and Ada fell uncontrollably out of the window and down the building.
"Bang—!"
"Shoosh...!!!"
At the critical moment,
her lingering will caused Ada to snap awake.
She didn't faint from the concussion of the High-explosive grenade. Summoning her last ounce of strength, she pulled the trigger of the Grappling Gun she had already been gripping.
After a sharp sound of piercing air,
the wire of the Grappling Gun shot out instantly, accurately hitting the windowsill from which Ada had just fallen. The hook caught firmly on the edge.
"Clang—!"
"Ngh...!"
The wire rope suddenly stabilized.
Ada's body jerked, and she was left hanging in mid-air, feeling the cold night wind outside the Biological Research Institute building.
This caused Ada's dazed consciousness to clear up immediately.
It was as if she had been doused with a bucket of cold water. When she noticed the injuries on her body, she couldn't help but gasp; it was too painful.
The shrapnel from the High-explosive grenade had instantly pierced her abdomen, with the fragments stuck deep inside.
Bright red blood flowed uncontrollably, making her already scarlet shirt even bloodier.
Then there was her shoulder, sliced open by shrapnel to reveal the white bone beneath. Finally, there were her neck and cheeks.
Her throat had been cut open, and a bloody gash had appeared on her cheek, forming a long wound.
All of these wounds were fatal, causing Ada unbearable pain. She could only clutch her stomach and grit her teeth to endure.
*Hum...*
Very soon,
the passive recovery ability of the T-Virus began to work. Although it wasn't as fast as the light-speed recovery of the G-Virus,
the T-Virus still possessed a certain level of healing effect.
It was just a bit slow; she had to endure the pain for a while. Soon, those wounds began to heal slowly.
The shrapnel embedded in her abdomen was forcibly pushed out,
falling from Ada's abdomen. Even the wounds on her shoulder and throat began to stop bleeding and recover, which made Ada let out a long sigh of relief, a look of relief appearing in her beautiful eyes.
"Javier, you've saved my life again. It seems my choice to fuse with the T-Virus was the right one,"
Ada muttered to herself, clutching her Grappling Gun with one hand while touching her abdomen where the bleeding had stopped.
This time, the T-Virus really saved her life.
After all, the wounds she just sustained were fatal; it would have been very easy to die from shock due to excessive blood loss, especially with the deep wounds to her throat and abdomen.
If it were the old, human Ada,
unless she could get into a hospital immediately, she would have been doomed; within less than a minute, she would have fainted from blood loss and died.
But now,
she had escaped the clutches of death.
While marveling at her survival, Ada couldn't help but understand Wesker, William, Spencer, Javier, and the others—
why they were so desperate for the power of bio-viruses.
Because Ada herself was now starting to desire this power; something that could save one's life was truly precious!
"But now is not the time for sentiment. I need to move quickly and not waste this hard-won opportunity..."
Realizing her metabolism had sped up and her wounds were no longer a major issue, Ada didn't linger. She pulled the trigger of her Grappling Gun again,
extending the wire rope further down. Ada rappelled down slowly until the wire rope was fully extended, then she retracted the Grappling Gun and stood by a window ledge,
continuing another round of descent.
After repeating this twice, Ada successfully rappelled from the seventh floor of the Biological Research Institute down to the solid ground.
*Tap...!*
She landed steadily.
The whole process took less than a minute.
At this moment, the fire in the top-floor hospital room was still raging. The flames were conspicuous, and a large number of spore clones were still converging toward that burning room.
This played right into Ada's trap.
Taking advantage of the last bit of time, Ada needed to hurry to the first basement floor; she couldn't let her long-prepared plan go to waste.
However,
the situation in the first-floor lobby of the Research Institute was beyond Ada's imagination, as it had undergone an earth-shattering transformation since she first arrived.
The spore queen, Carla, had completely turned the first-floor lobby into her territory.
Spore liquid flowed like a spring from the center of the lobby, and the entire first-floor ground was covered in this mass of white sludge.
Even the walls had turned a viscous white, with countless white tentacles densely clinging to them, looking like spiderwebs spread everywhere at first glance.
This had completely become Carla's nest.
spore clones were even being continuously produced from corners and sent up to the higher floors of the Research Institute.
It was like a toy factory.
And Carla was that non-stop processing machine, churning out spore clones as if they cost nothing; the scene was truly horrifying!
"Gurgle, gurgle..."
"Heh, heh, heh, heh..."
Heavy panting echoed in the center of the dark lobby. Carla's head hung low, and the white slime all over her body had become massive.
Her lower body, in particular, had completely turned into a bloated mass of octopus tentacles; she was now as busy as a breeding queen ant.
Because she had bred and split off too many spore clones,
Carla, the queen, was now mentally unstable. She was desperate to catch Ada.
This had become an obsession, making Carla look quite crazed, like a madwoman obsessed with witchcraft.
"..."
"What... what on earth happened here?"
Looking at the horrifying scene in the lobby of the Research Institute, a look of disbelief appeared on Ada's beautiful face as she watched from the side.
She hadn't expected
that in just the half-hour she was gone,
Carla would have transformed this place into her nest. This instantly reminded Ada of the Plaga parasite nest during the Spain Incident.
She suspected
that if Carla were allowed to continue like this, she might turn the entire Lanxiang City into her own nest territory.
"But there's really no other way now. Even knowing it's a dragon's den or a tiger's lair, I have to charge in. Otherwise, just sitting and waiting will only result in losing the last chance!"
Though surprised by the horrifying sight in the lobby, Ada still chose to force her way through.
After all, if she didn't get the liquid nitrogen, her only chance of victory would be lost. Thus, Ada could not back down.
*Sigh...*
After taking a deep breath, Ada prepared to storm the checkpoint. However, her current appearance was quite disheveled, with her clothes messy and tattered.