Infinite Terror: Infinite Reversal

Chapter 501 The Derivative World

"Why was I assigned here?" Zhang Heng muttered to himself as he stood on the telekinetic floating cannon. "I really wanted to show my skills on the front lines."

Mu Xiang pushed up his glasses: "Zheng Zha and Zhang Jie were both there. Weren't you nervous when you were showing off your skills?"

"Ahem, let's keep things separate..." Zhang Heng quickly changed the subject, "By the way, why bring Alice along? Is she the real Alice?"

Mu Xiang shook his head: "If the Alice in the movie is the same one from beginning to end, then she is indeed the Alice we are most familiar with... but she cannot be said to be the original."

Zhang Heng was stunned for a moment: "It can't be said to be the original body... Huh? Could it be that the rumors on the internet are true, and the protagonist Alice is also a clone?"

"Isn't it obvious..." Liu Xi said calmly, "Anyone who has seen the movie would have doubts."

Zhang Heng, of course, wouldn't admit that he only watched movies for enjoyment (and even less that he watched pirated DVDs). Just as he was thinking of how to change the subject, Mu Xiang smiled:

"Don't ask so many questions. I'll give you a task later."

"What mission?"

"Dr. Isaacs's main body is now in your possession."

Zhang Heng was clearly not afraid. After all, he had crushed the clone of Dr. Isaacs that had been injected with the virus. What kind of fighting power could the original body, which had been dormant for many years, have? With that thought in mind, he set off with the squad towards Raccoon City.

This team wasn't very large. Besides Alice, who was a character in the story, Mu Xiang only brought Zhao Yingkong, Zhang Heng, and Liu Xi. The rest of them went to the main battlefield. In Mu Xiang's words, they also needed to practice their teamwork skills on a large scale.

Even without deliberately traveling, this squad quickly reached the outskirts of Raccoon City.

Raccoon City had only recently been razed by the nuclear reactor, yet its blockade was extremely tight. The pretext of the nuclear power plant explosion provided ample justification for this tight blockade.

What the military and other forces could not understand was that the Umbrella Corporation seemed to take the blockade of Raccoon City very seriously. Although the military was officially involved in designating the radiation isolation zone, in practice, the Umbrella Corporation had absolute control over its implementation.

Before the military could coordinate any sabotage, Mu Xiang and his team broke through the Umbrella Corporation's blockade and entered the crater left by the nuclear explosion in Raccoon City.

"Raccoon City is so much smaller now than it was back then... and some details have changed too." Mu Xiang pushed up his glasses. "Perhaps the Supreme God's manipulation of parallel dimensions has exceeded my imagination..."

[After Resident Evil, our return mission sparked a parallel world… and after the team battle in Resident Evil 2, yet another parallel world emerged… How exactly does the Supreme God influence the creation of these planes?] In his eyes, the underground, which had previously held little mystery, now revealed far more… During Resident Evil 2, Mu Xiang had used his X-ray vision to examine the underground of Raccoon City while resting. To his disappointment, aside from the underground Hive replicating the explosion marks he had left after Resident Evil, there was nothing else.

It's as if the setting of Resident Evil 6 doesn't exist in this horror movie. In fact, the area beneath Raccoon City is simpler than the other Resident Evil world Mu Xiang visited before. That world, which was connected to the game, had more than one underground laboratory, while here there was only a destroyed Hive, even though Raccoon City was unimaginably huge.

Now, Raccoon City has returned to its normal size, but its underground structure has revealed even more mysteries.

The hibernation pods mentioned in Resident Evil 6... are located beneath the Hive. This is where the T-virus leaked, but it's also the true headquarters of the Umbrella Corporation, because all their most important personnel are asleep here!
Not to mention that no one else could have imagined it, even the writers before Resident Evil 6 probably couldn't have foreseen it... This is pure retconning.

Zhang Heng directed several scattered floating cannons to descend together, asking curiously, "Didn't you say you took the Red Queen's motherboard? So how are they going to repair the Hive's defense system?"

Mu Xiang pondered for a moment: "It's a very simple logic. The mercenaries' mission was to bring back the motherboard, which was actually to ostensibly recover the accident data and the faulty AI... But there was internal strife within Umbrella Corporation behind this operation, so it can't explain too much. Judging from the later plot, the Red Queen's power is definitely not limited to the surface of the Hive... In other words, that Red Queen is not the real Red Queen."

"This is why the Resident Evil series has received poor reviews," Liu Xi said calmly. "The logic of the entire series cannot be examined too closely, and in the end it can only become a popcorn blockbuster... But speaking of the world itself, this is the only explanation."

Zhang Heng shrugged: "Okay, let's just treat that Red Queen as a save point... but this AI with an uncertain stance can't do much more."

Mu Xiang smiled and said, "She had better clear her name like in the movies I've seen, otherwise bringing Alice here would have been a waste."

As the telekinetic floating cannons descended into the pit, they ceased their conversation. Although they weren't afraid of the main god making nonsensical requests, Alice, in her inquisitive nature, would inevitably cause trouble if she overheard anything.

Soon, the entrance to the Hive appeared before them. Although he hadn't witnessed a nuclear bomb strike in this world, Mu Xiang had a feeling it was located in a similar spot to those in the movies… almost completely blocking the surface of the Hive when it was blown up. The entrance was somewhere at the very bottom of the crater; who would believe it wasn't intentional?

The various traps and monsters along the way posed no threat to the group, and even Alice possessed considerable telekinetic abilities. Without the forced nerfs following Resident Evil 4, her strength was among the top in this world.

When they encountered obstacles, Mu Xiang simply used his fists to clear a path... Finally, while the battle raged on the main battlefield, this squad arrived at their destination: the hibernation place of the Umbrella Corporation's senior executives.

Mu Xiang tossed Alice a disc, which turned out to be a device engraved with the Umbrella Corporation's logo. Alice was stunned when she saw the electronic symbols displayed on the front. Then she nodded to Mu Xiang and walked to the other side.

“The Red Queen’s orders are that we cannot take action against the company’s senior management, and even disobeying the orders could easily trigger problems. So she can’t do this herself…” Mu Xiang said to Zhang Heng and the other two, “The information and data that I asked you to gather last time were all for this moment.”

Behind them, Alice was staring blankly at a hibernation pod.

(End of this chapter)