Chapter 63: Killing Isaacs

"Who on earth are you?"

Dr. Isaacs stared fixedly at Yu Fei's projection.

"Who am I?"

Yu Fei smiled faintly.

"If this is your last words, then so be it."

"You! Bastard!"

Dr. Isaacs looked at Yu Fei with utter hatred and resentment.

Without the slightest intention of continuing the conversation, Yu Fei simply waved his hand.

The glass cover closed, and ultra-low temperature cryogenic freezing engulfed him once more. Isaacs tried to do something, but it was utterly futile.

He had been awake for far too short a time; aside from his mouth being able to speak, the rest of his body had not yet recovered. It was difficult for him even to twitch a muscle right now, let alone put up any resistance.

Dr. Isaacs opened his mouth wide, seemingly hurling curses at the top of his lungs.

Pity.

The glass enclosure had long since sealed off all sound, and his furious curses could not pass through at all.

As the temperature inside the chamber gradually dropped and his body cooled, even his sole remaining ability to speak vanished, until he was finally transformed directly into an ice sculpture.

This ambitious villain, who intended to rule the world by destroying all of humanity, died on the very second day of his grand plan's initiation inside the "coffin" he had built for himself.

"Ding!"

"The host is kind to others, and your accumulated merit is boundless!"

"Event merit points +1000!"

A notification prompt appeared, signifying that Dr. Isaacs was truly and thoroughly dead.

"One thousand merit points? Not bad."

Yu Fei felt quite satisfied in his heart. It was a value fitting for a major villain like Isaacs!

In the pure Resident Evil world, Isaacs would undoubtedly be worth far more than a thousand merit points—even a thousand strands of merit might be a bit low. After all, he was the primary culprit behind the annihilation of all humanity!

However, in this amalgamated world, following the normal timeline, the T-virus would not cause catastrophic devastation on a global scale, and consequently, the bounty value of a villain like Isaacs shrank significantly.

One thousand event merit points, upon settlement, were equivalent to a strand of merit. This harvest was already far from small.

Not to mention……

Yu Fei scanned his surroundings.

He saw that the surrounding walls were densely packed with numerous stasis pods, with hundreds of people lying inside them in suspended animation.

These were not merely people from the Umbrella Corporation. To be more precise, less than a tenth of them were actually high-ranking executives of Umbrella.

The remaining hundreds were pivotal figures from key departments and corporate conglomerates across the globe.

They might not necessarily hold towering positions of absolute power, but every single one of them wielded extraordinary influence.

For instance, the head of the news division for a major media conglomerate, the deputy director of a certain nation's intelligence agency, the deputy chief of a national security bureau, and so on.

While their authority still fell short of the absolute peak, they were all vitally important, capable of playing a decisive role at critical moments.

Such as news blackouts, lowering the perceived threat level of intelligence, providing state-level support, and so forth.

In the original plot, it was precisely by relying on these individuals that the Umbrella Corporation managed to successfully "jump the gun."

Even after a crisis as massive as Raccoon City broke out, they were still able to successfully unleash the T-virus upon the entire world.

If the Umbrella Corporation was the primary executor of the plan, these people were undeniably its accomplices!

"If I wipe all these people out, how many merit points can I get?"

Yu Fei felt a surge of anticipation, but he did not act immediately. Instead, his gaze shifted to Alicia standing off to the side.

"Do you want me to let you out?"

Among the thousands of people sleeping in this underground hive, if there was one person who was entirely innocent, it was her.

Although the T-virus was born because of her, that could not be blamed on her—she was merely a pitiful patient.

When her father researched the T-virus, she was still a child of just a few years old, and her legs were even paralyzed. What could she possibly have done?

Although she owned a large share of the Umbrella Corporation—even slightly more than Isaacs—not a single person, let alone Isaacs, ever took her opinions to heart, not even the board members who supposedly answered to her.

She was merely a tool pushed to the forefront.

From beginning to end, she wielded no actual power within the Umbrella Corporation; she didn't even have the power to refuse entry into this place, as the others still needed her existence to balance out Isaacs's administrative privileges.

Her entire life had been one of confinement and restriction.

"No need."

Alicia looked at the deceased Isaacs, a genuine smile blooming on her face.

"It's quite nice here. If I am to sleep eternally in this place, I suppose that wouldn't be so bad."

Yu Fei fell silent for a long moment.

In the end, he decided to respect her choice.

She had never been granted the right to choose from her birth until now; if he were to strip away even her right to choose death at this moment, it would be far too cruel.

"I understand."

Yu Fei did not attempt to persuade her otherwise.

However, after a brief moment of thought, he decided to tell Alicia about the existence of Alice.

"A…… healthy version of me?"

Alicia looked stunned, tears welling up in the corners of her eyes unbidden.

"How wonderful! Truly wonderful!"

She found a sense of release.

"Let her live in my place—no, let her choose what kind of future life she wants to live for herself!"

"You mentioned earlier that she lacks memories of her childhood? Please bring my memories to her. But whether she chooses to accept them or not, leave that choice entirely up to her. Can you do that?"

"Of course!"

Yu Fei nodded solemnly.

"Thank you, thank you so much."

Tears streamed down Alicia's face.

"Sir……"

"My name is Avery."

"Mr. Avery, I would like to ask one last thing. Is the Red Queen…… is she still around? If she is, could you let me speak with her for a moment?"

"…… She is."

With a mental prompt from Yu Fei, another projection materialized beside them, revealing none other than the Red Queen.

Although he had defeated the Red Queen and seized control of the entire underground hive, he had not directly erased her existence.

Upon appearing, the Red Queen first glanced at Yu Fei, and then turned her gaze toward Alicia.

With sharp perception, Yu Fei noticed that the Red Queen's gaze seemed to flicker with fluctuations that were distinctly un-machinelike.

'Could this be…… the birth of genuine human emotion?'

A trace of surprise rippled through Yu Fei's mind.

At that moment, he recalled that in the cinematic world of Resident Evil, the Red Queen's emotions were indeed rich and complex, bearing little resemblance to what a standard artificial intelligence should possess.

At times, her level of intelligence and emotional expression even surpassed that of Tony Stark's Jarvis!

Yet, when Yu Fei observed her through his quasi-electronic perspective, he could detect no structural alterations within her code; she still appeared to be nothing more than an artificial intelligence designed solely to execute human commands.

"Interesting."

Yu Fei glanced between the two of them, then left the space to them, turning his attention back to the rows of stasis pods.