Javier has preliminary completed the fusion of the T-Veronica Virus. Yes... it was Alexia, not Lisa.
The long-unmentioned madwoman has finally appeared.
Regarding the T-Veronica Virus, no one dares to claim a deeper understanding than Alexia; after all, Alexia is the creator of the T-Veronica Virus.
Therefore, regarding the T-Veronica Virus,
Javier did not seek out Lisa, but instead asked for Alexia's help. The condition was to help remove the G Embryo from Alexia's body.
That was a time bomb Lisa had incubated within her after Alexia was captured at the Antarctic Research Institute.
Should Alexia dare to make a reckless move,
The G Embryo would fuse with the T-Veronica Virus and seize control of her body. Such an abrupt fusion could lead to Alexia's consciousness being consumed.
Afraid of death, Alexia did not dare to gamble, which is why she had been threatened for so long. And now... removing the G Embryo,
Meant that Javier intended to give Alexia her freedom; henceforth, she could go wherever she pleased and do whatever she wished,
As long as she didn't commit any mad acts like destroying the world, Javier and Lisa would leave Alexia alone.
After all, Lisa's current power was already sufficient to suppress everything.
Thus, there was no longer a need to manage this madwoman, Alexia. Faced with this tempting offer,
Alexia, being the madwoman she is, naturally agreed immediately.
Although she no longer harbored the mad idea of destroying the world, if she could remove the time bomb from her body, why wouldn't she?
And so,
With Alexia's help,
Javier began the fusion of the T-Veronica Virus. In the nearly ten-plus years since the Antarctic Research Institute incident,
Alexia's research on the T-Veronica Virus naturally hadn't stagnated. During this time, she discovered several ways to increase the purity of the T-Veronica Virus,
Including many more concise and rapid fusion methods. After all, she had been severely humiliated by that bastard Wesker and even criticized for creating an outdated virus.
Regarding this grudge,
Alexia had always kept it in mind. So upon her return, she worked hard, attempting to lead the T-Veronica Virus through a secondary evolution.
As the world's most brilliant genius,
Her intellect had once crushed both William and Wesker, the master and apprentice. In terms of virus research, if Alexia claimed to be second, no one would dare claim to be first.
Therefore,
In just four short years,
With Alexia's help,
Javier completed the preliminary fusion of the T-Veronica Virus. As for why it was only a preliminary fusion,
It was because the current Javier could not fully control the power of the T-Veronica Virus, coupled with the fact that Alexia had indeed researched the T-Veronica Virus to an exquisite degree,
So it could only barely be called an entry-level mastery.
But for Javier, this was already a massive surprise. After all, this brought Javier closer and closer to the Eternal Life Project.
Inside the Bay Villa—
"..."
"You said you completed the Stage II research of the T-Veronica Virus...?"
In the pristine laboratory filled with the scent of rubbing alcohol, Javier slowly sat up from the operating table and looked at the blonde woman beside him with a look of surprise as he asked.
This blonde woman was naturally Alexia, still possessing a perfect, angel-like appearance and a golden-ratio figure.
Her long golden hair cascaded behind her like a brilliant waterfall. Wearing a white lab coat, she faced Javier's surprised inquiry.
Taking off her mask and gloves, a pleasant smile appeared at the corners of Alexia's mouth. Hmph... Humans, are you impressed?
It couldn't be helped,
After all, she was the most intelligent life form in the world.
Although the strength of the virus in her body couldn't compare to that freak Lisa, when it came to intelligence, she absolutely crushed all other existences.
"Hmph..."
"Naturally. As the creator of the T-Veronica Virus, I can certainly provide it with the possibility of a second enhancement. Although that bastard Wesker is dead, I have to admit that the product from over a decade ago was indeed a bit outdated."
"Therefore, I have restructured the strain sequence of the T-Veronica Virus, and this new virus... I call it T-Veronica Virus Stage II."
"I haven't changed the name. Veronica is the most intelligent and greatest name of my Ashford Family. I come from her genes, so naturally, I won't change the name."
"At the same time, I will use the new T-Veronica Virus to bring glory and slap the faces of those who dare to say the T-Veronica Virus is backward and outdated!"
With her arms crossed, the haughty Alexia tilted her chin up and spoke with great superiority and self-satisfaction.
Over a decade ago,
The seventeen-year-old Alexia could research the T-Veronica Virus. Now, with Alexia being nearly fifty or sixty, it is perfectly normal for her to research T-Veronica Virus Stage II!
Without a doubt...
Alexia was extremely confident in her new virus.
Of course... Javier only hoped this madwoman Alexia wouldn't go out and cause trouble. If she, having researched a new virus, decided she wanted to destroy the world again, it would be a disaster.
To be honest,
Javier slightly regretted removing the time bomb from Alexia's body.
[After all, the logic of this madwoman is incomprehensible to ordinary people. Thus, Javier was pondering whether he should just go back on his word; it might be safer not to remove this madwoman's time bomb...]
[Volume 10: Resident Evil Village, vendetta: Chapter 2 Van Helsing]
As for the T-Veronica Virus...
Alexia had indeed mastered it to an incredible degree.
From that vial of Blue Enhanced C-Virus obtained from Ada's hands, Alexia extracted the strain and studied it,
And then she discovered other powers contained within that Blue Enhanced C-Virus. That power was lightning—
Yes,
Coincidentally,
That vial of Enhanced C-Virus was actually the same one Piers was supposed to inject in the original story.
Once injected,
Piers would immediately evolve into a "pikachu" and release a Thunderbolt. However, because of the intervention of Javier and Ada, that vial of Enhanced C-Virus wasn't used in time.
Thus, this C-Virus agent that could grant the user the power of lightning was extracted by Alexia.
Alexia discovered the new strain arrangement and mutation capabilities within it, clearly seeing that although the C-Virus was a combination of the T-Veronica Virus and the G-Virus,
In essence, it was still the power of the T-Veronica Virus that dominated.
The G-Virus was merely supplementary. After all, the C-Virus still retained the high-temperature heat characteristics of the T-Veronica Virus.
According to this principle and characteristic,
Alexia also discovered the true reason why that Enhanced C-Virus produced lightning.
It was the change in high temperature.
Lightning is actually a variation of temperature.
After all, the energy it emits is still thermal combustion, and the T-Veronica Virus causes blood to ignite into flames upon contact with air due to friction and heat.
Therefore,
Alexia concluded that the so-called lightning,
Was actually the blood of the T-Veronica Virus undergoing a mutation after coming into contact with air and heating up through friction. Instead of burning into flames, it turned into static friction and eventually produced lightning.
Just as high-voltage wires will spontaneously combust after an overload, including the wires in a home; they will spontaneously combust once the electrical load is exceeded.
And so,
Following this problem-solving approach,
Alexia really did manage to control the power of lightning... or rather, static electricity, after restructuring her T-Veronica Virus sequence.
During her first attempt at control, although Alexia couldn't be as ridiculous as the hundred-thousand-volt Thunderbolt released by "pikachu" Piers in the original story,
She could still generate weak static electricity and power in her hands. This result indicated that Alexia's research direction and theory were correct.
If she continued her research,
Alexia was confident she could develop T-Veronica into an Elemental Virus. Cough... of course, "Elemental Virus" is an exaggeration.
The T-Veronica Virus certainly couldn't summon ridiculous things like water or earth, but summoning fire, lightning, and wood—these three—was quite simple. There was even the possibility of derived magnetism.
After all, back at the Antarctic Research Institute,
Stage II Alexia was in a state where her entire body was like a bark-covered flower demon. She could control the surrounding plant tentacles to attack.
Although she lacked the "Wood Release" method of making a seedling grow into a towering tree, controlling a few vines for an attack was more than enough.
After all, the T-Veronica Virus is a combination of plants and the ancient Queen Ant, so it can be considered to have the power of wood.
Next is the blood fire, which needs no further explanation.
It's a standard attack method for the T-Veronica Virus. The flames of Manuela, as a highly fused host, were even a golden holy light, which was even more ridiculous.
It wouldn't be an exaggeration to say it was an angel descending to earth, or perhaps the Golden Emperor Sky Burning Flame from "Battle Through the Heavens". Lisa's original G-Virus even gave birth to a purple Phantom Flame, a colored flame, a Resident Evil version of a "Heavenly Flame".
Including the black flames spat by Wesker after he injected himself with the ouroboros virus and turned into Ghidorah, Javier didn't doubt for a second whether more colored flames might be born in the future.
And now,
By skillfully controlling the temperature generated by the blood's friction with air, static electricity could even be produced.
Then, by deriving hundred-thousand-volt lightning, another lightning element was gathered. And lightning can generate magnetic fields and magnetism.
In the future, relying on the lightning element to derive a new magnetism element is not impossible. Magneto is about to make his debut, and Heisenberg, one of the Four Lords from the neighboring village, was suddenly moved to tears...
All of this,
Indeed proved that Alexia had mastered the T-Veronica Virus to an exquisite degree. She was an out-and-out genius,
The most intelligent human in the world.
And this wasn't even Alexia's limit.
Her T-Veronica Virus was originally just a fusion of plant and ancient Queen Ant genes, giving the T-Veronica Virus the characteristics of plants and insects.
But what if she restructured it again,
And fused the T-Veronica Virus with something new? Ants aren't the strongest organisms in the world. What if it were a parasite?
So...
Alexia's strongest point was actually her IQ.
This was also what Javier feared the most. In terms of raw ability, she might not be the strongest, but in terms of virus research, she was definitely in the most invincible tier.
Having researched the T-Veronica Virus during her time as a seventeen-year-old genius girl, Javier could now somewhat understand the despair William and Wesker, those two fellow disciples, felt back then.
Fortunately, however,
Through over a decade of subtle ideological indoctrination,
Javier and Lisa had made Alexia more or less give up on the idea of destroying or controlling the world.
Although, as a higher life form,
Alexia enjoyed looking down on humans, she seemingly also had to admit the necessity of human existence. She didn't want to be an Empress or Queen anymore because managing it was too much trouble.
It seemed that enjoying such a life wasn't bad either.
At least she had everything she wanted to play with. Most importantly, Alexia felt she had escaped her loneliness.
As a higher life form, Alexia never felt that she and humans were the same species.
There were no others of her kind in the world, which is why she had the idea of standing above all living things. It's like being an extremely intelligent alien,
Living within human society,
Though the appearance is similar, the way of thinking is completely different, leading to a constant feeling of being out of place.