Survival in the game world starts with Resident Evil 2

Chapter 713 Identification of the Mastermind

Radames, a madwoman who wanted to destroy the world, ended up having her brain, which had grown gigantic due to mutation, removed and placed in a culture tank in the deepest part of the secret department.

Of course, she was conscious and alive.

After all, this is not only to fulfill his promise, Li You also wants to dig out more information from her.

For other people, even if Radames is truly an unforgivable criminal, they may not be able to accept this method. Therefore, in the secret department, besides Kara, only Emma and Louis know about this.

Needless to say, as for Kara, Emma and Louis, one was brought up by Kara and the other was a former core researcher of Umbrella, so they are not very averse to such things. But it is hard to say about the others.

As for the Harlan virus being useless, Radames only had a brain left, so how could he get information from it? This was not a problem for Emma and the others.

But that would take some time, and Li You wanted to know the details now, so as soon as he learned that they had "dealt with" Radames, he immediately rushed over with Yuzu.

Just leave the rest of the work to Yuzu.

At Li You's signal, Emma opened the culture tank. Yuzu came to the culture tank, stretched out her hand, and three tentacles extended out and connected to Radames' brain.

There are still many connected lines in Radames' brain. Although she has no body, she still has many external devices to ensure that she can sense everything in the outside world. Otherwise, Li You's previous greeting would be just talking to himself.

At this moment, she also felt what Yuzu was doing, but she was powerless to do anything. Various numbers were jumping on the monitoring instrument next to her, showing Radames' mixed emotions of fear and anger.

Li You didn't care at all. Radames' good days had just begun.

And Yuzu used her tentacles to connect directly to Radames' brain, and began to look through her memories bit by bit, digging out the key information that Li You wanted.

This process lasted for a while before Youzi finally withdrew her hand and nodded to Li You. Radames' condition had obviously deteriorated a lot.

Watching Emma press the button and put the lid of the culture tank back on, Li You stepped forward, tapped the tank gently, and said with a smile: "Okay, that's it for this time. Have a good rest, I'll come to see you again."

The lonely brain naturally wouldn't react at all, but after looking at the monitoring data on the side, Li You took Yuzi away contentedly.

After that, it’s time to verify the intelligence with Yuzu, and this still requires the help of Edge’s ability.

Edge was naturally curious about what they were doing without telling her, but she actually had a rough guess, so she consciously didn't pay attention to it, but just pulled Li You and Yuzu back into the mental link, and asked Li You to look through all the memories Yuzu extracted from Radames's brain. If Li You were to say, it felt like watching an immersive movie, which was very similar to Mewtwo in the cyberpunk world.

Li You flipped through the book quietly but carefully, not letting go of any detail in his memory. Combined with Simmons' previous memories, he understood a lot of things that were previously unclear.

For example, the reason why the family has to cooperate with Tri-Union and Wesker is because compared to the original world line, Simmons, who doesn't even have the C virus in his hands, has gone crazy. He sees no hope of creating Aida, so he finally chooses to cooperate with Wesker.

The reason why he wanted to kill Wesker was out of his "sense of responsibility" as the leader of the family. After all, developing the virus to create Aida was one thing, but his partner was thinking about destroying the world, which was not in the interests of the family.

For the same reason, after obtaining the blacklight parasite, Simmons became even less patient and kept urging Radames to conduct experiments. In the end, he even refused to act, which forced Radames to rebel.

For another example, Li You only learned at this time that the family's logo and signature on the ship of Sanlian Company were also deliberately left by Radames in order to guide BSAA to deal with the family and create opportunities for himself.

These are the truth completions. For Li You, they are of little significance except that they can make the logic more logical. However, there may be some clues that have been overlooked by the parties involved, so he will not let them go.

Sure enough, Li You soon found something valuable.

Type III Plaka, this parasite was independently developed by Tri-Union, and later shared with the family along with the information stolen from Trasefer. Radames then improved it and produced their own Type III Plaka, which was also the one she used most often when she did things later.

This shows that some discoveries can indeed be made through the Plaka samples previously recovered by the warship.

Looking further down, Li You quickly found another point worth noting.

Previously, Radames urgently evacuated Lanxiang City. Was it someone behind the scenes who reminded him?
And Radames didn't even know who this guy was?
Li You cheered up: Got it!

This is absolutely the key!
However, just in case, he still read all of Radames' memories until she was captured, and confirmed that the accident of the family warship in the end had nothing to do with her.

Now we have all the information we need.

Li You had been very curious before, why Radames could leave so decisively. He had just arrived in Lanxiang City with light luggage and she ran away immediately.

At that time, the number of people who knew Li You's whereabouts was definitely no more than a handful, even if the secret department, BSAA and even the Shen family were included. Even the itinerary and hotel were arranged by Mr. Shen Yunen himself.

It would be too exaggerated if there was a traitor among them.

Therefore, the most likely possibility is that there was a traitor among the people O'Brien sent to take over the Idonia border base at that time.

Li You had already asked O'Brien to control those people in advance, and someone would go to check them one by one next.

Now it seems that there is indeed a traitor, but that traitor was not sent by Radames, which is somewhat intriguing.

He is familiar with Radames's plan, has great connections and is able to plant a spy in the most elite unit of BSAA, and can also hide behind the scenes to manipulate everything and watch how events develop... There are not many people with such abilities in the Resident Evil series.

If it was just this bit of information, Li You might not be able to be sure, but with some previous traces, including the doubts Chris raised about him after the plot of Resident Evil 5, and many small clues, if Li You still can't associate anything, then his brain would be in vain.

"call……"

Li You slowly exhaled a breath and had a basic guess.

Albert Wesker... is probably still alive! And he is probably the one exerting influence behind the scenes!
As for the person who had actually died in front of him, maybe he was a clone, or some similar substitute. In this biochemical world full of black technology, this is really not something surprising.

Li You didn't think about it in this regard at first, because Wesker in the original game died very hastily, and he was sure that Wesker was dead at that time.

But if you think about it carefully, you will understand that even among the players, there are many who think that Wesker actually faked his death. What's more, Wesker used this trick in Raccoon City back then, and it worked quite well.

In this case, given that there is clearly Li You, a guy he cannot deal with, why can't Wesker escape again and divert the attention of Li You and the BSAA away from himself?
This is really his style. He decided to betray Umbrella based on similar ideas.

At this time, Li You also received a message from Louis: "We have tested the Plaka on that battleship... It is the most primitive type III Plaka eggs!"

In this way, the evidence is basically complete.

Wesker is the mastermind!
...Li You wanted to say this, but then he was stunned.

It doesn't seem right. If it was Wesker, why would he attack the family's crew when Radames was about to fail? Wouldn't that expose his existence?
With Wesker's personality, he would never do such a thankless task. Having had close contact with Li You, he would not think that an ordinary battleship could deal with Li You and others. Even if he really wanted to test Li You's current strength, he would not have thought of not being able to use the original Type III Plaka.

"So, there are other people involved?"

Li You thought about it for a while, and then, although there was no concrete evidence, another name popped up in his mind.

There aren't many candidates who show up at this time and are suspected to be related to Wesker.

Li You turned his head to look at the world map hanging on the side, and his eyes fell on the waters near Eastern Europe.

“… Could it be her?”

……

Eastern Europe, Sabiti Island.

In a base hidden in the deepest part of the island, Alex Wesker was sitting in his office, looking at the reports sent back by his subordinates.

This report is quite detailed and recorded from the first-person perspective. The camera captured the entire process of Li You intercepting missiles and destroying warships outside the unnamed island.

Such a record, of course, could not appear in the hands of someone who had nothing to do with the matter - yes, the infection on the family warship was caused by Alex. She sent her trusted soldiers, who had been following her since the Umbrella period, to go undercover and observe, and finally got such a report in return.

As for that man, he had already died on the battleship.

Alex's ability to infiltrate the family's warship may sound surprising, but it's actually not too strange.

She is also one of the only remaining children of Wesker. Her intelligence and ability are not much worse than Albert Wesker. It's just that she is unlucky. Unlike Albert, she has the ability to adapt to the Progenitor virus and the T virus variants. Instead, her body is getting weaker now.

So in the original work, she betrayed the frail Spencer, and led her people to Sabiti Island, transformed it, and used it as a base to develop her own immortality virus - the T-fear virus.

Alex, who has been suffering from a weak body, has an ultimate goal that is somewhat similar to Spencer's.

She wants eternal life.

Immortality is a means rather than an end for Spencer. Spencer's ultimate goal is to become a "God" and rule and guide the entire world. This part was inherited by Albert Wesker, and the immortality part became Alex's pursuit.

From this perspective, the will of Spencer, the founder of Umbrella, has indeed been passed on by his good children. I believe he would be relieved if he knew about it.

However, compared to the original work, the reason why Alex did not stay quietly on the island to develop the virus was indeed because of the appearance of Wesker.

Wesker found her some time ago and proposed cooperation with her. Considering the power comparison between the two sides at that time, Alex had no right to refuse.

Fortunately, at least Albert had no intention of cheating her at the beginning. She established a close cooperative relationship with Albert, sharing technology, knowledge and resources with each other. There were some news that she didn't know in the past, but after Wesker revealed some fragments of information to her, it was enough for her to find an opportunity to get involved - this was exactly the case with family affairs.

After carefully reading the intelligence obtained by his most trusted subordinates at the cost of their lives three times, Alex propped himself up from in front of the screen, leaned back in his seat, raised one hand and pinched the bridge of his nose between his eyes.

If Alex had not had absolute trust in that subordinate and had not repeatedly studied the video to confirm that there was no fraud, she would really have thought that her subordinate had been captured and that the other party had sent a movie special effects video to fool and mock her.

But sadly and horribly, this is not the case.

"Albert...is this what you meant at the beginning?" Alex couldn't help but mutter.

When Wesker worked with her before, he provided her with a lot of things, and of course exchanged them for the technology he needed. After all, the two sides are half-siblings, and there is still basic trust in their cooperation.

But when Alex asked Albert what he wanted to do, he was always evasive or just a riddle man.

Until Wesker finally left, Alex had no idea what his real purpose was.

As soon as Wesker left, there was no news of him, and Alex only heard shortly afterwards that he had died in South Africa.

Alex, who had worked with him before, immediately understood what was going on and roughly guessed at least Wesker's most superficial thoughts, but she didn't understand, were his enemies really that scary?
But Wesker didn't tell her anything. Before leaving, he warned her not to interfere or make it public, otherwise her plan would be in vain.

Alex listened, but didn't take it in.

Although the "Wesker's children" raised by Spencer are all geniuses and have their own personalities, if there is anything in common between them, it is probably that all of them have inherited Spencer's suspicion to a certain extent.

——Could it be that Albert is plotting against me in secret?

They are obviously partners and siblings, but Albert still hides things from her. Alex can't help but think so.

Some time after Wesker left, Alex, who was feeling uneasy on Sabiti Island, finally decided to do something, such as... letting his trusted men who had previously infiltrated the family start causing trouble.

The confidant had enough adaptability and often communicated with Alex remotely. The timing of their entry was just right, when Simmons was preparing to bring his men to cause trouble for Radames. So out of the mentality of preparing for a rainy day, Alex asked his men to make preparations - dropping the Plaka Type III parasite on the ship, a precious gift shared by Albert.

Needless to say, Alex received the report that made her jaw drop.

Looking at the picture on the computer screen, which stopped at the moment before the fire dragon swept down, Alex thought for a long time and finally realized something else.

The enemy destroyed the entire battleship's firepower system in an instant, suppressed the ship, but was able to control it from being destroyed.

With such strength, he is not alone. He is obviously the backer of Trasefer.

In this case, would the tampering of the ship by our people be discovered?

Alex frowned for a moment, but after thinking about it, he relaxed.

What she used were the Plaka parasites that Albert had given her before. On the surface, they had nothing to do with her. She lived in a remote corner and had no contact with the outside world. No matter how capable Li You was, he couldn't find the fault with her. At most, he would suspect Wesker.

Although he realized that he might have betrayed his non-blood-related brother, Alex did not feel too much psychological burden.

"You can only blame yourself for not telling me anything... Albert, wherever you are now, take care of yourself."

(End of this chapter)