Alice stared into Chu Feng’s eyes for a long, quiet moment before lowering her guard.
“I believe you.” “Wait, really?” Chu Feng blinked, genuinely surprised.
Even he thought his excuse sounded like total nonsense.
“Are you serious?” Matt interjected, staring at Alice in disbelief.
“An ordinary college student accidentally wandering into Umbrella’s most classified underground bioweapons facility?
That’s the most ridiculous story I’ve ever heard!” “If he were trying to pull off a cover story, he’d have crafted a lie with far fewer obvious loopholes,” Alice said quietly, her sharp gaze scanning Chu Feng’s face.
“His eyes don’t show deceit.
More importantly, every piece of advice he’s given us so far has been dead right.
He’s saved my life twice.
In our situation, motives take a backseat to survival.” Matt hesitated.
Considering his own identity as a fake police officer had just been laid bare, he wasn’t in a position to lecture anyone about honesty.
Chu Feng hadn’t harmed them—in fact, he was the primary reason any of them were still breathing.
“Fine,” Matt sighed, throwing his hands up.
“I’m in.
College student it is.” Chu Feng rubbed his nose, slightly embarrassed.
“Well…
glad we cleared that up.” “Since you know so much about this place, do you know how we get out?” Alice asked, bringing the focus straight back to escape.
“I don’t know the exact path,” Chu Feng admitted.
“However, the Red Queen’s core mainframe manages the entire facility’s infrastructure.
She controls every pneumatic blast door, ventilation shaft, and emergency maintenance hatch in the Hive.
If anyone knows a way out, her central terminal does.” Hope flickered in Alice’s eyes.
“Then we reboot the mainframe.” She grabbed a heavy metal folding chair from a nearby cubicle, signaling she was ready to fight their way back to the central server chamber.
BOOM!
BOOM!
BOOM!
Inside the central control hub, heavy thuds rattled the reinforced steel entrance.
“Where the hell did they all come from?!” Chad yelled, his voice cracking as he paced the chamber floor.
“When we came through here earlier, the halls were completely empty!” “Chu Feng warned us,” Rain said bitterly, checking her assault rifle’s empty receiver before throwing the useless weapon aside and pulling her sidearm.
“When Captain Shade ordered the power cut to disable the Red Queen, it unlocked all the emergency isolation doors across B-Block.
We released every infected employee in this damn building ourselves.” Chad slumped against a console, face pale with regret.
They had dismissed the young man’s warnings as paranoia, only to walk straight into a nightmare.
Clack!
Clack!
The heavy door handle suddenly began to turn.
“Are you kidding me?!” Chad gasped, backing away.
“These things can open doors now?!” “Get out of the way!” Spence shouted, rushing forward to throw his weight against the lock.
BANG!
The door burst open before Spence reached it.
Rain instantly raised her pistol, aligning the front sight directly with the doorway.
“Don’t shoot!
Friendly!” Alice rushed into the room, raising her hands in panic as she found herself staring straight down the barrel of Rain’s gun.
Before Rain could lower her weapon, Chu Feng and Matt slammed through the door behind Alice, using their combined weight to force the heavy steel barrier shut against a wave of reaching, bloodstained hands.
CLANG!
The heavy deadbolt threw into place, cutting off the guttural snarls outside.
The survivors collapsed against the walls, gasping for air in the sudden silence.
Then Matt’s eyes locked onto Spence.
Knowing that this was the traitor who had stolen the pathogen, triggered the lockdown, and caused his sister Lisa’s death, Matt’s vision flushed red with rage.
“You bastard!” Matt roared, grabbing a heavy metal lamp fixture off a fallen desk and throwing himself straight at Spence.