Survival in the game world starts with Resident Evil 2

Chapter 739: Confrontation between the Master of Fungus and the Sea of ​​Consciousness

“Uhhhhhh——!!”

After the mutation, Miranda roared, spread the black wings behind her, and flew into the sky.

She has many ways of attacking. She can manipulate imaginary mold to generate giant tentacles to slap, or she can accelerate her body to an extremely exaggerated level and then impact at high speed.

At the same time, her body also has derivative changes. The wings behind her can be transformed into spider-like legs, or other forms to adapt to different types of combat needs.

At this moment, when she flew into the air, the wings behind her expanded to twice their original size. They could stir up strong winds when they waved, and the size of the wings could be changed at will. When she dived, Leon and Chris had to avoid her sharp edge.

However, her diving attack had a big flaw. As long as they avoided her charging route, it would be their chance to attack. Leon and Chris dodged left and right, then immediately raised their guns and fired. The dense bullets hit the wings behind her, tearing the fungal tissue.

Miranda roared again, flapped her huge wings, changed direction in the air, and swooped down again, but still did not hit anyone. Instead, she was hit by many bullets.

This aggregate of consciousness, Miranda, is obviously far from her original self and lacks experience in combat. Perhaps, like the fake Duke, even her main consciousness is distorted.

However, no matter how inexperienced she was, she was not stupid. After two failed dives, she finally reacted, screamed sharply, then leaped up and slammed down!
This time he did not dive, but instead hit the ground. The sudden change of tactics caused some trouble to Leon and the other man, but he was unable to achieve anything. Apart from the splashing snow and gravel that slightly interfered with his vision, all Miranda got in return was a barrage of bullets.

"Ta-ta-ta-ta-ta-"

In fact, because the flaw revealed by this attack was big enough, Chris even stepped forward and hit Miranda hard with his arm shield. As for Leon, he just commanded Yege's flying sword to attack, and he could still output with the typewriter.

Although Leon and Chris have known each other for a long time in this world, they have not had much cooperation.

However, just like the few times they collaborated in the original world view, the two of them obviously did not understand each other, but they were able to cooperate seamlessly.

For example, at this moment, they only need to look at each other and they can understand each other's meaning, and then they switch their positions. Leon continues to shoot and output, and does not affect Chris's close combat.

"boom!"

Chris's powerful shield strike made the mutant Miranda stagger. She was enraged and immediately turned around, using her wings to cut back like knives, but Chris, who had anticipated this, blocked it with his shield.

"clang--!!"

Miranda's wings collided with Chris's arm shield, making a sound similar to metal knocking. Chris was forced back a few steps by the blow, but he took the impact lightly and was unharmed. Meanwhile, Ye Ge had already flown over!

Wesker, who was standing by, just watched without any reaction as Leon and Chris showed off their skills to Miranda, making this obviously not-so-smart aggregate of consciousnesses run around in circles, but he still had no intention of helping or giving any reminders.

With his authority in this world, he could naturally see that the strange weapons taken out by Leon and Chris were the products of external forces.

Rather than caring about the outcome of the battle between Chris and Miranda, which had no impact on the final outcome, Wesker was more concerned about finding the guy who had sneaked into the sea of ​​consciousness of the Fungus Master and was manipulating and assisting behind the scenes.

If Wesker's guess is correct, then the fact that Li You and others were able to smuggle into this world should also be attributed to that guy.

At this moment, Wesker's consciousness merged with the Fungus Master, searching for the virus that had infiltrated the server. He had a feeling that he would soon be able to catch that guy.

By then, all the aid from Li You would be cut off by him, and his victory would be certain.

But at this moment, an alarm came from the other side!
Wesker suddenly opened his eyes, temporarily put aside his search for the server virus, and turned to look at the layer domain monitoring screen on the other side. The image that appeared on it made him open his eyes wide for a moment.

In the layer constructed as the Arklay Research Institute, the closed hall at the end of the waste disposal facility was originally the place where Claire fought with the Leech Queen.

But at this time, all that was left here was the chopped body of the Leech Queen, and the people who fought with it were nowhere to be found.

Wesker clearly remembered that not long ago, when Chris just arrived at this layer, he saw Claire still entangled with the leech queen. How come she disappeared in the blink of an eye, and the leech queen had been chopped into pieces?
Looking at the current situation, the battle is actually quite one-sided.

Thinking of this, Wesker suddenly realized something: "Wait, could it be..."

Wesker immediately separated a small part of his consciousness and projected it to that layer. Thanks to his high authority with the Fungus Master, he could also do something similar to splitting his body.

The part of consciousness he separated was not large, and did not even have a fixed form, so it was teleported to the hall of the Leech Queen.

His consciousness fell on the body of the Leech Queen, and he discovered that the battle here had actually ended for some time.

Or rather, the battle didn't last long at all.

"Someone... obscured and distorted my perception of this place?"

Seeing this scene, Wesker naturally understood everything, "Who is it?"

As perhaps the biggest gossip lover in the biochemical world, Wesker is well aware of the relationship between Claire and Li You, otherwise he would not have placed her and Li You in the same realm, yet so far apart. This is a delaying tactic.

Originally, in Wesker's eyes, Claire's fighting ability was the least important, but he still paid the highest attention to Claire because of her special identity.

Unexpectedly, the problem came from Claire's side. She dealt with the Leech Queen extremely quickly and escaped from here. At the same time, someone cooperated with her to block Wesker's perception and conceal the truth.

Claire’s unexpected fighting ability is not a big deal, the key lies in the latter.

Who could, while Wesker was focusing all his attention, almost perfectly interfere with his cognition and make him mistakenly believe that Claire was still there?

And what is Claire, who escaped early, doing?
Wesker immediately grasped these two key issues and then shifted his consciousness elsewhere to look for answers.

However, the next moment, a light blue halo emerged and instantly extended into a cylindrical barrier, accurately enveloping his invisible consciousness!

"Om-"

A strange echo sounded, and this part of Wesker's consciousness was bounced back the moment it touched the blue halo barrier. Even though he had no body at all, he felt dizzy. When he came to his senses, he found that he was actually imprisoned in the same place by the blue halo!
"This is……!?"

A vague human outline emerged, the face and figure were so blurry that it was impossible to see clearly. It could only be determined that it was a female.

This was the manifestation of Edge's consciousness. She looked at the part of Wesker's consciousness that was covered in the halo and said, "Don't struggle. With the power of this part of your consciousness, it's too early for you to break through my interference. How do you feel? You thought it was your territory, but ended up being tricked by someone. "

Wesker listened to her words, and then this part of his consciousness took on a human form, saying, "How could you interfere with the Master's sea of ​​consciousness to this extent? It seems that you already have similar abilities, otherwise it would be impossible... You are the inconspicuous woman beside Li You, right? I didn't expect you to have such power."

Edge replied: "If you think I'm insignificant, then that's your perspective. Anyway, I don't need to say more to you. This part of your consciousness cannot escape and will soon be worn away."

Following her words, the blue halo that trapped Wesker's consciousness began to shrink. Just by touching the barrier formed by the extended halo, Wesker's consciousness felt a burning sensation. He immediately realized that if this blue barrier was erased, this part of his consciousness would probably disappear directly.

Seeing that part of his consciousness was about to be destroyed, Wesker did not panic. Instead, he looked at Edge and analyzed calmly: "Obviously, you already have mental abilities. I guess it was you who caused Li You and the others to invade here."

"However, I know the rules of the Master's sea of ​​consciousness much better than you do. If you are just trying to sneak across and provide them with a little support, it would be fine. But if you want to conceal the situation here and imprison my consciousness, it is definitely not something you can do so easily... It must be a consciousness with high authority that is providing you with help!"

Wesker's last words were decisive, and he looked over with a gleam in his eyes.

"And the only ones who can do this are you...Donna, Heisenberg!"

As he finished speaking, a man and a woman appeared beside Edge's blurry figure. They were the two lords named by Wesker.

At this moment, Donna looked at Wesker, her face covered with a black veil, without saying a word, while the doll in her arms stared at him angrily, as if she wanted to rush in and tear him to pieces. Heisenberg's brows revealed anxiety, and he looked at Edge: "We can't wait any longer! You must immediately wipe out this part of his consciousness, so that it is possible to cut off the connection between this part and his body, so as not to expose our affairs!"

"...Hurry up, I will give you all my authority and power!"

Edge shook his head. "It's too late. You don't know Wesker. Since he chose to speak out his inference, it proves that he has already thought of how to pass the message on. As expected of you, your reaction is really quick."

Wesker laughed: "You do know a little about me, Li You, or Chris's analysis? Besides, maybe I should feel honored? After all, I am valued by you so much."

Although he said so, it was obvious that he had no such idea at all.

"Then, time is indeed running out. That's all I have to say. We'll...see you later."

As he said this, Wesker's consciousness suddenly collapsed on its own the next moment, turning into countless scattered points of light that flew into the sky.

The instinctive rules of the fungus master immediately began to work, and the boundary of this layer absorbed all those light spots.

Aggie and the two lords beside him could only watch all this happen, but could not interfere. Absorbing the scattered soul consciousness was the underlying logic of the fungus master's sea of ​​consciousness. Unless the main consciousness itself was willing, no one else could stop it.

Although the self-destruction method would affect Wesker's body, it could pass on key information. Wesker's body only needed to read the memory bank of the fungus master's sea of ​​consciousness to know what happened here.

The two lords also understood the current situation and could not help but panic. Heisenberg showed signs of going crazy again and asked anxiously: "What should we do now? Wesker's real body may come at any time! We can't escape!"

Donna still didn't react, but her doll was shaking nervously and muttering things like "I don't want to die".

"Calm down. As long as you stay near me, he won't be able to pull you back remotely." Edge had to speak to stabilize the troops. "As for his real body coming... it shouldn't be possible. Compared to us who already know the whole story, he should prioritize dealing with the other side's problems."

The two lords were still a little confused, but Aggie's mind had already flown to another place: "...Claire, you have to move faster."

……

In the core layer domain.

Wesker's consciousness, who was standing still and watching the surveillance video, suddenly trembled violently. He staggered, twisted his body, and almost fell down.

But he immediately steadied himself, stood up straight, and began to communicate with the consciousness of the fungus master. Soon, light spots of light floated down from the sky, and liquid black areas emerged on the ground, covering Wesker's legs to help him repair the damage to his consciousness.

After reading the records in the master's sea of ​​consciousness, Wesker immediately understood the whole story.

"...I see. It seems that I really underestimated the people around Li You."

Wesker muttered, and then looked at Leon, Chris, and Miranda who were still fighting over there, frowning, "Now that things have come to this, I'm afraid we still have to find Claire first. No matter from which angle you look at it, she has become the key... Haha, interesting."

After making up his mind, Wesker immediately separated a part of his consciousness again and transmitted it to the Acklay layer.

——The deepest part of the Acklay layer at this time.

Claire was standing in the basement of the research institute, in a prison-like area that was supposed to be the battlefield for Lisa's boss. She had just used a mechanism to open the heavy sarcophagus in the center of the venue.

The original sarcophagus should have contained the remains of Lisa's mother, Jessica, but in the world of this fungus master, inside the sarcophagus was a strange black and red fruit.

The fruit has a black skin, pale pink flesh inside and a deep red receptacle at the bottom.

If Li You were here, he would definitely recognize that this is the "sclerotium" in the game DLC, which is the base station for the expansion and maintenance of the liquid black domain.

However, the mycelium here is different from those in the game. First of all, its volume is more than twice that of the mycelium in the game. Secondly, it is connected to not only a part of the imaginary mold and liquid black domain, but this mycelium core maintains the operation of the entire layer domain.

In Wesker's hands, the hyphae function differently.

And this is Claire's goal.

As for why she knew all this, it was because of Donna's betrayal.

Surprisingly, Donna was not like Heisenberg, who was found by Edge before breaking free from Wesker's control. She had self-awareness from the beginning, but she hid it well.

After all, she was an illusionist when she was alive, and she could really be considered Wesker's predecessor in this regard.

When she was assigned to monitor Claire and realized that Wesker was extremely interested in her, he paid extra attention to her.

Later, Donna accidentally discovered traces left by Edge, who was trying to bypass Wesker's surveillance and establish contact with Claire.

After weighing the pros and cons, she immediately took the initiative to propose cooperation to Edge, which led to the scene where the three of them worked together to deal with Wesker.

Unfortunately, Wesker also had his own judgment and quickly saw through the betrayal of the two lords, causing their plan not only to fail, but also unable to delay Wesker for a little longer.

So now the key lies in Claire, as she is the core of the layout.

Previously, Donna betrayed Wesker and told him more information about the master's sea of ​​consciousness, and Edge also learned about the existence of the sclerotium.

After understanding the meaning of the mycelium, she immediately made a decision. With the help of the authority and power of the two lords, she came to the sea of ​​consciousness in a vague form. Then she found Claire, discussed with her, and sent her to the deepest part of this layer.

Unfortunately, as an outsider, Edge cannot get close to that area, and the two lords must stay in the shallow layer, otherwise they will be discovered instantly by Wesker, so Claire can only go by herself.

Now Claire became the decisive link.

If Claire can successfully contact the mycelium that maintains this layer, bring it back to the shallow layer, and then cooperate with Edge and the two lords to exert influence, it may even be possible to seize this layer from Wesker... By then, they will have a real foundation to fight against Wesker.

At this point, Claire was only one step away from success.

But she didn't have time.

After opening the sarcophagus, she was about to bend over to touch the mycelium when a large area of ​​liquid black emerged from behind her and Wesker had already strode out!

He glanced and saw Claire. His eyes immediately flashed red. He raised his hand like a knife and stabbed Claire in the back!

It was only at this moment that Claire noticed Wesker's sudden appearance. She turned around hastily, but she only had time to raise the Asari sword in front of her, hoping to avoid serious injuries as much as possible.

at this time.

"call out--"

A strong wind blew from the side, and an ancient spear with an unusually long tip stabbed from the side, blocking Wesker's knife in an instant, and then he turned his hand and swept it across, forcing Wesker to retreat!
They were both surprised, but Claire was naturally pleasantly surprised, while Wesker was astonished.

Looking at the tall figure that suddenly appeared and blocked his way, Wesker raised his eyebrows and asked in confusion: "Li You? How did you get here?"

Li You stood up and protected Claire behind him, saying coldly: "The dead don't need to know so much."

(End of this chapter)