I Have A Super USB Drive

by <unknown>

  In other words, he was the chief culprit in causing a global crisis to erupt.

  With this in mind, Chen Chen squatted and picked up a golden ring next to the corpse. This ring was left behind by the heroine, Alice.

  On the inside of the ring, there were even some English words inscribed - "Property of Umbrella Corporation".

  After putting the ring away, Chen Chen turned and led the two Black Knights toward the gate.

  The door to the Hive had been opened by a gas welding machine and could no longer be closed. Chen Chen walked in directly and saw an open elevator door.

  There was only darkness beyond the elevator doors. The elevator inside had already fallen to the bottom of the elevator shaft. Chen Chen led the two Black Knights down the stairs directly to the bottom of the Hive.

  The structure diagram of the Hive was shown many times in the movie, so Chen Chen did not feel lost. He went straight to the lowest floor and arrived at Dining Hall B.

  It was called a dining hall, but in fact, this was an area of incubators for Lickers. Even so, all the incubators had been destroyed now. The creatures inside had broken out many years ago.

  On his way, besides human corpses, Chen Chen had seen the corpses of those Lickers.

  Time cured everything. If the timeline in which Chen Chen had arrived was just after the crisis, he would not have been able to go so deep. However, it was different now.

  The three quickly crossed Dining Hall B and finally reached the end of their journey, which was the most important core of the Hive — the Red Queen Chamber.

  It was also the power control room of the entire Hive.

  If one wished to enter the Red Queen Chamber, one would need to pass through a laser channel. In the first movie, the laser channel was not only the turning point of the movie but also the first climax.

  This laser channel not only killed half of the commando squad, but even the commando captain, who seemed to be the most skilled, most important character, was also killed.

  The gate to the laser channel was closed at this time. Chen Chen did not think much about it. He beckoned at once and the two Black Knights immediately tossed their sticky bombs.

  "Boom!"

  After a thunderous explosion, the gate of the laser channel was blown away. The path to the Red Queen Chamber was completely opened. Throughout the entire journey, Chen Chen had not met any resistance from the Hive.

  Nonetheless, it was better to be safe than sorry.

  As he stared at the doors at the end of the passage, Chen Chen did not enter directly but beckoned again. At once a Black Knight took out a sticky bomb and walked straight into the passage.

  As long as the doors at the end of the channel were broken down, the path to the Red Queen Chamber would be unobstructed.

  However, the unthinkable happened…

  Just as the Black Knight entered the passage, the entire Hive suddenly buzzed with the sound of electric current. Chen Chen's expression shifted. The lights around him lit up rapidly while the laser channel came to life as well!

  "Get out of there!"

  Chen Chen hurriedly gave this command.

  Without any hesitation, the Black Knight turned right around and swiftly ran out!

  Behind the Black Knight, a cyan laser appeared out of thin air, flashing across the tempered glass wall with scorching heat!

  "Sizzle!"

  Just as the Black Knight threw himself forward and was nearly out of the range of the channel, the laser split this Black Knight in two!

  "Clatter!"

  The Black Knight was instantly severed at the waist, and both parts of the body flew out of the passage!

  Chen Chen's face darkened at once.

  As he stared at the Black Knight who was still struggling on the ground with his lower body cut clean off, Chen Chen took out a small knife and made a cut on the back of the Black Knight's neck, then took out the God chip.

  As soon as he did that, the Black Knight immediately stopped all signs of struggling and descended into a blank state.

  When one was severed at the waist by this sort of laser with a temperature of thousands of degrees, the wound would be directly cauterized and sealed, thus reducing blood flow. An ordinary person would even struggle for about half an hour before dying, which was extremely terrifying to think of.

  In contrast, the Black Knight experienced no thoughts or pain, acting entirely on a chip. As long as the chip was taken out, it could be switched to a new body at any time.

  After he kept the chip, Chen Chen looked solemnly at the laser channel that was lit up ahead.

  It was still able to retain power after so many years. Obviously, the Hive had generated power with a nuclear reactor.

  Previously, the Hive seemed to be running in a low-power mode. In this state, the entire Hive would enter a power-saving state. It would only be activated again when someone arrived.

  In other words, the Red Queen could have activated the Hive earlier, but it did not do so. Instead, it was ready to wait until the three of them entered the laser channel, then wipe them out by a surprise attack?

  If Chen Chen had been a little too careless, he would have been the one who was sliced in half.

  As he let this sink in, his mouth twitched a little. He looked up once again and glanced at the laser channel before him. After that, he took the sticky explosive from the Black Knight and flung it into the channel!

  "Boom!"

  There was another deafening bang. Under the massive impact, the glass on both sides cracked all over.

  Even so, they did not shatter!

  Chen Chen was not taken aback. After all, this facility was also installed in the Spire Experimental Base.

  The glass in the laser channel was a material called "ultra-white organic polymerized gold-tempered glass", which was stronger than steel and had a light transmittance of over 93%. It was because of this that it could be used alongside the high-temperature laser emitted by the argon-ion laser generator behind.

  In the laser channel defense system installed by Chen Chen in the Spire's laboratory, the glass was fifty centimeters thick, and neither firearms nor grenades could break it.

  The glass in the Hive was not to be outdone either.

  "In that case, Red Queen, I have a little gift for you."

  Chen Chen simply took out a round pendant from the rifle in his hand. The pendant was pitch-black all over and seemed to be made of glass, just like a round marble.

  After that, Chen Chen flicked his finger lightly.

  There was a tinkling sound and the pendant rolled directly into the laser channel, rumbling softly as it rolled along, then stopped in the center of the laser channel.

  Under the white, harsh lights, the pendant seemed as clear as crystal, like a piece of art…

  Chapter 205: Biological Gene Nucleus Laboratory |

  "Boom!"

  There was an even louder sound than before. A pillar of fire surged throughout the entire channel and the heat even reached the doors at the end of the channel.

  Even so, this new explosion came and went quickly. When Chen Chen turned back and looked toward the channel, he saw that the glass within had all shattered, leaving behind only fragments of a crumbled wall.

  The doors at the end had also been twisted by the explosion.

  Chen Chen waved his hand again and the remaining Black Knight walked in and placed the explosive on the deformed gate.

  With a final blast, the passage to the Red Queen Chamber was finally cleared.

  Chen Chen walked in after he had observed the blasted channel. The main control room of the Red Queen was a dark blue room, surrounded by four square metal pillars. In the center of the room was a circular metal platform.

  Chen Chen lightly stepped onto the center of the metal platform. Immediately the metal platform began to extend on both sides, revealing a circular device.

  This was the mainframe of the Red Queen.

  Chen Chen did not even have to give an order
for the Black Knight to start manipulating the device. The Black Knight was controlled by the AI in the God chip and was able to use various technologies. This sort of work was naturally a piece of cake.

  However, just when the Black Knight was about to locate the Red Queen's motherboard, a 3D holographic projector above Chen Chen's head was suddenly turned on. A figure that looked like a ten-year-old girl, flickering all over with red light, appeared in front of Chen Chen.

  "Get out, get out. You can't come in!"

  The little red girl had a warning tone as she repeated ceaselessly, "Intruder, you must leave this place!"

  All those who had seen the movie would know that this little girl was the Red Queen in the movie.

  It seemed that this was its only AI setting. When humans entered the computer room and there was nothing else that could stop them, it would use this last method to confuse its opponents.

  Too bad Chen Chen was not a pedophile.

  Moreover, he was used to hearing Little X's voice which had a strong personality. In comparison, this Red Queen, despite having an additional external appearance, was still too rigid. In one look, he could tell that its level of intelligence was not high.

  This was just a weak artificial intelligence.

  Seeing that the Black Knight was not stopping, the Red Queen finally pleaded, "Turning me off will cause the Hive to lose its main power and the laboratories will stop working!"

  Nonetheless, the Black Knight, who did not even have a brain, would naturally ignore it. He immediately pried open the Red Queen's motherboard and connected the hard disk in his hand to the Red Queen's motherboard.

  "Agh!"

  Suddenly, the Red Queen let out a scream and the holographic image rapidly became fuzzy!

  The simplified version of Little X was like a computer virus as it began to attack the Red Queen.

  The lights in the room flickered violently and the power system of the entire Hive became very unstable as if it had been disturbed. These two AIs were wrestling for control of the Hive.

  However, this battle did not last very long. In just ten minutes or so, there was a sudden "beep" and the red light on the hard drive suddenly turned green.

  "Did you make it?"

  Chen Chen looked at the mainframe of Red Queen before him, only to see that the Black Knight had started to verify the 128-digit secret key.

  As a series of secret key numbers flashed across the device in the Black Knight's hand, the Black Knight turned around and nodded to Chen Chen.

  At the same time, the holographic projection displayed the image of the Red Queen again but now the little red flickering girl turned around and said to Chen Chen, "Sir Commander, X-112 reporting. I've replaced the Red Queen and have taken control of the entire Hive's laboratories."

  In the Spire Experimental Base, the one controlling the lab was "X-111", so this clone was the "X-112".

  Chen Chen nodded. These Little X clones were not forms of intelligence that were as emotive and life-like as the original Little X. Rather, they were similar to the Red Queen that was just a program and code.

  Although they were all top AIs on the market, they were still a grade below Little X, which was infinitely close to the level of intelligent life.

  Still, now was not the time to think about this. Chen Chen said to the 3D holographic image before him, "X-112, examine everything in the Hive such as the dangers in the Hive and its various data."

  "Please hold on."

  Following Chen Chen's order, the little red girl in front of him paused slightly before speaking again:

  "No signs of moving objects were found in the Hive. The current amount of electricity stored in the Hive for now is at sixty percent. The 100 Licker incubators in Dining Hall B are destroyed and so are the elevator, the laser channel, the tram, the thirteen airtight laboratories, the three office areas…"

  After the entire report, Chen Chen asked again, "Is there a Level 4 genetic engineering laboratory that still functions and has complete, working equipment?"

  "The program confirms that the result is the biological gene nucleus laboratory on the sixth floor."

  As X-112 spoke, the little girl standing before Chen Chen suddenly turned into a three-dimensional map of the Hive drawn across a blue grid. The laboratory was marked out as a red patch.

  It was not until then that Chen Chen saw the so-called sixth floor was the sixth floor from the top and the area of ​​the laboratory alone occupied one-third of the entire sixth floor.

  As the Hive was in the shape of an inverted trapezoid, the area became smaller as one descended. Nonetheless, even if the area was smaller, one-third of the entire sixth floor was still a massive space.

  If his guess was correct, the T-virus was researched and produced in this laboratory.

  These laboratories were all airtight laboratories. When the Red Queen killed all employees, it used sarin gas for the office area and flooded the laboratories. As a result, many laboratories were written off because they were flooded.

  Fortunately, there had been no one in the biological gene nucleus laboratory at that time, so the equipment in the laboratory came out unscathed.

  Now that his target was found and the Red Queen had been replaced by Little X, Chen Chen would not linger here. Instead, he let the other Black Knight stay here and commanded as he walked away, "X-112, return the Hive to the previous power-saving mode and only power up the biological genetic laboratory. Meanwhile, probe outward to see if you can connect to the Internet of the outside world."

  "Reporting to Sir Commander — no Internet from the outside world was found," X-112 replied.

  "As I thought. Is it because the outside world has fallen to its doomsday?"

  Chen Chen nodded. If it were not for the end of the world, such a strategic underground experimental base would not have been abandoned for so long.

  "Oh, right."

  Chen Chen suddenly thought of a question and asked as he walked, "Check all the records in the laboratory. What year was it the day the Hive's virus was leaked and what year is it now?"

  In the movie's universe, the specific date of the outbreak crisis had never been revealed, but there were still the games. The Raccoon City crisis occurred in September 1998. Chen Chen just did not know whether the date in the movie was the same as the date in the game.

  "The date the Hive's virus was leaked is 5 September 1998 and the actual date now is 27 March 2005."

  At this time, Chen Chen had re-entered Dining Hall B and was walking up the stairs while the voice of X-112 came directly from Chen Chen's mobile phone.

  This was practically the same as the timeline of the game.

  After hearing this, Chen Chen was startled, then revealed a thoughtful expression.

  It appeared that the movie and the games still had a certain connection.

  As he pondered this, Chen Chen did not say anything else but quickly climbed the stairs.

  It took more than ten minutes for Chen Chen to walk through countless abandoned laboratories and come to the door of the biological gene nucleus laboratory on the sixth floor.

  On the door of the laboratory, there was also a yellow warning sign of biological contamination.

  This laboratory was more strictly sealed off than the previous laboratories. There were no floor-to-ceiling observation windows around it. Instead, the entire room was constructed with metal.

  After Chen Chen's arrival, the door opened quickly under the control of X-112, revealing the changing room behind the door.

  The regulations were the same as those of Chen Chen's level-4 biosafety laboratory. If he wanted to enter a laboratory like this, he must wear a sealed isolation suit.

  Chapter 206: The Progenitor Virus |

  After a rigorous disinfection process, Chen Chen finally entered the highest-level biological gene nucleus laboratory in this Hive.

  Although seven years had passed, the laboratory had been in a sealed-off state after all. Plus, it was a class 100 cleanroom,
so the entire laboratory had not been contaminated.

  It was as if time had frozen in this laboratory.

  Strictly speaking, this laboratory was a vestibule. It was divided into seven or eight laboratories with different functions according to various classifications such as the sterilization room, the quarantine room, the operation room, and so on.

  Not only that, but what made Chen Chen excited were the high-end apparatuses that Chen Chen had never seen before.

  "Centrifuge, nucleic acid extraction equipment, real-time polymerase chain reaction equipment…

  Chen Chen was encased in a bloated protective suit. He looked at each machine and by relying on his instinctive understanding and intuition about the equipment in the biological laboratory, he quickly identified some instruments.

  As the laboratory was also monitored, each apparatus that Chen Chen walked past which he could not recognize would be explained by X-112.

  "This is…"

  Suddenly, Chen Chen's attention was drawn toward a special device in front of him.

  This device looked like a large printer. It had a white shell and a deep groove in the middle. There seemed to be an extremely small component in the groove, so small that it could not be seen clearly.

  "Is this a micromanipulator?" Chen Chen raised his eyebrows.

  "No, this is an adenine base editor."

  X-112 said, "This editor can precisely manipulate a single base pair in DNA. It's a new technology developed in CRISPR genetic scissors technology. Through AI, it's able to lock onto and edit the genome more effectively."

  Chen Chen was shocked when he heard this. "Being able to manipulate a single base pair — wouldn't this mean that there are almost no off-target effects?"

  "It would seem so for now," X-112 replied.

  "So, it looks like it's not a fluke that this world could produce the T-virus. Has the biotechnology of the Umbrella Corporation reached such a high level?"

  Chen Chen murmured to himself.

  In the real world, there were three mainstream genome editing technologies that humans were using: ZFN genome editing technology, TALEN genome editing technology, and CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing technology.