The Savior of American Comics? I'm the Subspace Evil God!

Chapters 455, 826, and 827: A Mysterious Person Appears

Lyon frowned slightly, looking warily at Josh Stone, and asked, "Now that you've encountered him, why don't you take action and capture him?"

"Hey, do you think I don't want to?"

Josh Stone said, somewhat annoyed, "But he has a very skilled bodyguard with him, and several of my brothers have died at his hands..."

"bodyguard?"

Leon and Sheva Allom exchanged a glance, and the mysterious figure who had rescued Ricardo Irwin from the mine both appeared in their minds.

If it's that person, Josh Stone really has no way to deal with them.

So Lyon didn't ask any more questions and immediately nodded, saying, "Let's go, let's go to the docks and catch Ricardo Irwin!"

"We'd better split up."

Josh Stone did not follow Leon and Sheva Allom, but walked in another direction. "I'll see if I can get a speedboat on the other side of the dock. Even if you fail to catch Ricardo Irwin in the end, we won't have to stay here and wait to die."

"Okay, Josh, then you must be extra careful."

Sheva Allom gave him a word of advice as they parted, and then followed Lyon toward the dock behind the factory.

Before long, the two of them finally arrived at a corner of the dock, from where they could see a large, modified yacht moored in the harbor in the distance.

Ricardo Irwin was standing there, leisurely enjoying the view from the deck.

"Huh? You two actually chased me all the way here?"

Ricardo Irwin quickly spotted Leon and Sheva Allom running rapidly toward the yacht, but his face showed no fear whatsoever; instead, it was filled with schadenfreude.

He immediately clapped his hands in exaggerated praise at the two of them, saying, "Truly worthy of being the elites of [BSAA]! But you two arrived just in time; now you can enjoy the upcoming fireworks display... BOOM!!!"

"Hahaha……"

As he spoke, the cruise ship started moving and quickly rushed out of the port area.

"Damn it, I'm starting to really hate that arrogant guy now."

As Leon watched Ricardo Irwin's figure gradually disappear into the distance, he angrily lowered his gun. If he didn't need to capture him alive, he could have easily blown the man's head off with a single shot.

“Me too.” Sheva Arom was clearly furious as well.

Just then, Josh Stone's voice came through both of their communicators at the same time, "Sheva, Leon, can you hear me? I got a boat on the other side of the dock, I'm coming over there to pick you two up now."

"received, thank you."

Less than a minute later, a speedboat sped over and docked at the pier where Lyon and Sheva Allom were.

Josh Stone, who was piloting the small boat, waved hurriedly to the two of them and said, "Get on the boat quickly, this place is about to explode, we have to get out of this area quickly."

The three then boarded a speedboat and continued to travel outwards. They had only traveled about a kilometer when they heard a series of loud explosions behind them.

Boom! ...
Behind the three, the massive oil refinery was engulfed in a towering inferno.

Those huge oil storage tanks, originally installed for refining crude oil, exploded like missiles, creating boundless blast waves and scorching 'fire rain'!
Even the small boat carrying Lyon and his two companions, who were a kilometer away, was nearly overturned by the surging air currents.

Within minutes, the oil refinery, which cost hundreds of millions of dollars to build, was reduced to ashes, turning into a sea of ​​fire that would never be extinguished.

The entire area, which had been shrouded in darkness, was illuminated by this towering flame.

"call……"

Sheva Allom patted her heavy chest, looked at Josh Stone who was steering the boat, and said with lingering fear:
"Josh, thank you. Otherwise, Leon and I probably wouldn't have had a chance to escape!"

"Thank you." Leon also gave the other person a grateful look. The situation just now was too dangerous. If they had been even a minute later, they would have been buried in the fire in the aftermath of the explosion.

"Let's save our thanks for when we're able to leave here alive."

Josh Stone pointed to the faint lights coming from the yacht in the distance and said in a deep voice:

"Luckily, Ricardo Irwin's ship hasn't gone too far. I think we might be able to catch up with him!"

The speedboat then sped off at full speed, like an arrow released from a bow, rapidly chasing after the direction Ricardo Irwin had gone.

……

on the yacht.

A tall figure wearing a bird-beak mask and completely shrouded in a cloak looked expressionlessly at Ricardo Erwin. "The trouble you've caused is back. How do you plan to deal with them this time?"

"There shouldn't be anything here that you'd want to blow up again, right?"

"Hmph, how dare you speak to me like that?"

Ricardo Erwin said arrogantly, "You're nothing but a toy Iscoira sent to protect me. She's your master..."

However, before he could even utter the word "person," the figure opposite him had already rushed in front of him. A delicate little hand swiftly emerged from under the cloak, grabbed Ricardo Erwin by the neck, and lifted him up.

"Remember, that woman is not my master. My master is Wesker!!"

"Ugh... Let go, I can't breathe."

Ricardo Erwin struggled with his hands and feet while reluctantly admitting, "Okay, I understand, I'll never say that again."

thump--

As the masked man released his grip, Ricardo Erwin fell to the ground in a sorry state, panting heavily.

"Help...help me get rid of those two bastards. If it weren't for them, I wouldn't be in this state now."

"I'm not your subordinate."

"I know, but you probably don't want to delay Wesker's plans because of these people, right?"

Ricardo Irwin said, mustering his courage, "Icosella told me that his plan is about to begin. If anything goes wrong now, he'll probably be furious, right?"

"Moreover, this place is so close to the research institute. If we don't deal with those BSAA people, and they discover the exact location of the institute and figure out what they're researching inside, it will inevitably cause immeasurable damage to the reputation of Trassel Pharmaceuticals..."

"By then, the cooperation between Iscolla and Wesker will likely be over!"

The masked man remained silent for a long while after hearing this, then said in a deep voice, "Just this once. If you dare to order me around again, I'll kill you on the spot!!"

……

As dawn broke, Lyon and Sheva Allom climbed the gangway up the side of the yacht and carefully made their way to the deck. Ricardo Irwin then emerged from the shadows with a sinister expression.

"You two damned bastards, are you immortal?"

"It's because of what you two did that I had to burn down the entire foundation I've built here..."

“You’ve put me in a really bad situation. Both Iscola and those people in the Resource Development Department will definitely look down on me because of this.”

"I know that the reason you've been so persistent in pursuing me is because you want to know who the mastermind behind this whole thing is, right?"

"Alright, then I'll just tell you..."

"However, you may not know that almost all biochemical experiments themselves have no economic value."

Therefore, they often can't attract much investment before successful research and development. This is why, generally speaking, only well-known large pharmaceutical companies have the capability to conduct biochemical experiments.

However, before he could finish speaking, Leon stepped forward, took out his phone, found the photo with Chris and Jill, and asked impatiently:

"Stop wasting time and tell me... Where is the research institute where these two people in the photo are located?"

"What else is the [Ouroboros Project]?!"

Seeing that the other party had so tactlessly interrupted him, Ricardo Erwin was about to get angry, but he paused when he heard the name "Ouroboros," clearly surprised to hear this from the other party, and then exclaimed with curiosity:

"As expected of the BSAA, your intelligence network is truly amazing. You even know about such a secret plan..."

“No, this information didn’t come from the BSAA,” Leon corrected seriously, but offered no further explanation.

"Forget it, it doesn't matter."

Ricardo Erwin waved his hand dismissively, then continued backing away while sneering:

"Because even if you knew now, it would be too late. The world's格局 (geju, a concept encompassing both structure and overall structure) will soon undergo a cataclysmic change because of this grand plan, and you will witness the arrival of a new world!"

"What major change?"

Sheva Allom, sensing something amiss, quickly pressed, "What nonsense are you spouting... and what does this have to do with Icosela?"

"Could she also be involved in Project Ouroboros?"

At this moment, Lyon asked with some doubt, "Do you know that guy named Iscolla?"

Sheva Arom nodded emphatically and immediately explained, "The other party is the head of the African branch of [Trassell Pharmaceuticals], and also a senior executive of [Trassell Group]. I just don't understand why she would be involved?"

clap clap-

Ricardo Irwin clapped his hands and couldn't help but exclaim, "It's truly remarkable that he even knows Iscolla..."

"But it's too late for you to notice the Ouroboros Project now. Even if you knew the details of the plan, it wouldn't stop its progress."

"However, I can tell you that the [Ouroboros Virus] will change everything. You, your family, and your friends will all be among those selected on the day [Evolution Day]!"

Leon pointed the gun at the other man's head and said in an unfriendly tone, "What does 'Evolution Day' mean? What do you know?"

"Hahaha……"

Ricardo Irwin showed no fear whatsoever. Instead, he pointed to the lush, green island in the distance, bathed in the morning sun, and said:
"The answers you seek are all in the cave on that island, but... it seems you won't survive to get there!!"

boom--

Just as Leon, tired of the Riddler, was about to arrest Ricardo Irwin with his gun and take him back for questioning, a huge explosion suddenly came from the right side of the yacht.

"Oh no, it's Josh?!"

Seeing this, Sheva Allom's face immediately showed a look of anxiety. She ran to the railing and looked out. She saw that the speedboat that Josh Stone had just been driving had now turned into a ball of fire that was burning fiercely. A 'fireman' whose whole body was covered in flames struggled a few times before slowly sinking to the bottom of the water along with the wreckage of the speedboat.

"No, Josh!!!"

With red-rimmed eyes, Sheva Allom rushed to Ricardo Irwin, pressed the muzzle of her gun against his head, and roared in a trembling voice:

"What the hell have you done, you bastard..."

However, at that moment, a tall figure wearing a mask and shrouded in a huge cloak took advantage of the sliver of darkness before dawn and flew down from the blind spot of Leon and Sheva Allom like a ghost.

bang bang-

The masked man kicked Leon and Sheva Allom away with two consecutive kicks, but Leon pulled the trigger before falling to the ground.

boom--

The masked woman seemed to have eyes in the back of her head; almost the instant the gun went off, she twisted to one side, and the bullet grazed her cheek as it flew past.

Although the shot missed her, it knocked off her mask, revealing a cool yet beautiful face beneath.

bang bang bang-

bang bang bang-

Leon and Sheva Allom kept firing at each other, but the bullets were all calmly dodged by the other, as if she had some kind of premonition of danger.

"Hahaha……"

Seeing this, Ricardo Irwin's face was full of arrogance. Pointing at the mysterious cloaked figure blocking his way, he shouted arrogantly at Leon and Sheva Allom:

"How about it? Aren't my bodyguards pretty awesome?"

"You two won't be long before you die here, just like that black guy steering the boat down there!!"

"However, I thought you would be happy to see an old friend, but I didn't expect you to choose to draw your swords against me..."

"An old friend?" Leon looked puzzled, but then his gaze shifted to the mysterious man whose mask had just been knocked off.

"You...you are Jill?"

Although the other person's head was slightly lowered and the area above the nose was obscured by the hood, making it impossible to see the full face, Leon was still able to identify the other person's true identity based solely on the general outline of the chin and the shape of the mouth.

whoosh-

Seeing that her identity had been exposed, Gilles Valentian ripped off the cloak draped over her body, revealing her shapely, tall figure and the special combat suit with bulletproof capabilities.

"Jill, it really is you... It's me, Leon!!"

(End of this chapter)