43: Raccoon City Cafeteria

Inside the bank lobby.

A massive metal sphere filled the entire hall.

Joa looked at the metal sphere, its exterior a mass of twisted metal, while roars emanated from within. He couldn't help but turn to Polaris.

"You did this?"

Seeing Joa look at her, Polaris smiled charmingly.

"Hmm? Who else could it be?"

"Do you want me to release them?"

Hearing this, Joa's lips curved into a smirk.

"Release them."

"Let them know who the real prey is."

Raising an eyebrow, Polaris waved her hand gently.

The metal on the surface of the sphere peeled away completely, and countless zombies scattered across the floor.

Her ability had clearly evolved to be stronger.

When she had trapped these zombies before, she had expended quite a bit of effort.

"Hiss! Ugh!"

As soon as they were freed, these zombies discovered Joa and Polaris.

They then scrambled and rushed towards them.

"Tsk, they can't distinguish the situation, rushing to their deaths. These irrational, useless things have no value other than being absorbed."

With that, Joa exerted force with his feet.

With a bang, he charged into the tide of zombies.

Countless black and red tentacles, like shining pythons, entwined all the zombies that approached him.

Absorption, devouring, hunger satisfied.

Joa felt himself steadily growing stronger at a slow pace.

Soon, a large number of zombies were completely devoured.

All tentacles retracted into his body.

Joa let out a long breath.

"Refreshing!"

'It's a pity these zombies are too weak and can't make me evolve quickly.'

'I wonder when Sergei will deploy the Tyrant and the Pursuer.'

Standing behind Joa, Polaris reached her hand in front of him and spoke softly.

"How refreshing?"

Licking his lips, Joa turned around.

"Here?"

"Just as I wished."

"The ability to control metal and magnetic fields is quite convenient."

Seeing Joa understand, Polaris smiled and waved her hand.

The bank door instantly slammed shut with a bang.

Outside.

Jill heard the commotion and was about to go in.

But when she reached the door and heard the sounds from inside.

Jill's face flushed.

'Raccoon City is about to be nuked, and they're still so...'

Retreating to the street.

Jill then saw that the Warriors had stopped wailing and stood up from the ground.

"Uh... hmm..."

She wanted to give orders, but seeing all the Blacklight Warriors under Joa looking at her.

Jill suddenly hesitated.

'I wonder if they will listen to my orders.'

The three Instructors of the advance team, seeing this, smartly walked quickly to a spot not far from Jill and stood at attention.

"Ms. Jill, please instruct."

Looking at the three Blacklight Warriors standing before her, Jill felt a sense of relief.

"Good!"

"Everyone! Fully rescue Raccoon City survivors!"

"Yes! Sir!"

The order Joa gave them was to devour and evolve, becoming stronger Blacklight Warriors.

This did not conflict with Jill's rescue of survivors.

It was just a small favor.

As all the Blacklight Warriors split into dozens of small teams and set off in different directions across Raccoon City.

The zombies of Raccoon City faced a Resident Evil crisis.

The tables had turned.

The positions of hunter and prey had swapped.

The Blacklight Warriors' buffet feast.

Begins!

Like wolves entering a flock of sheep.

The 199 Blacklight Warriors discarded their military equipment, each moving at an extremely high speed through Raccoon City.

Anything that appeared before their eyes, whether living zombies or zombies with exploded heads.

All were completely absorbed by the Blacklight Warriors.

Feeling the superhuman strength.

An unspeakable reverence for Joa arose in the Blacklight Warriors' hearts.

To be able to bestow such power upon them was like God and the gods in myths.

If gods truly existed in the world, they believed their boss must be one of them.

As for why a god would become their boss.

Does it even need to be said?

He must have come to the human world for experience.

That's how it's always written in stories.

Whether others believed it or not, the Blacklight Warriors truly thought so at this moment.

Using the divine power bestowed upon them by their god, the Blacklight Warriors faithfully completed the tasks given to them by Joa and Jill.

......

When Joa and Polaris walked out of the bank door.

It was already 2:30 AM on September 29th.

If it weren't for absorbing zombies to grow stronger.

They wouldn't have ended the battle so quickly.

Looking at the empty street outside the bank, with no one around, only equipment left on the ground.

Joa let out a soft breath.

"It's time to go, any later and the zombies will be eaten up by my Blacklight Warriors."

Although with his current strength, the improvement these ordinary zombies could bring him was limited.

He still held the idea that even a mosquito's leg is meat, wanting to devour as many zombies as possible.

Choosing a direction, Joa stored all the military equipment back into his system space, and he and Polaris also joined the current buffet feast in Raccoon City.

However, they hadn't walked far when a Blacklight Warrior came running towards them rapidly from another direction.

At the Raccoon City Police Department entrance.

Jill and the Blacklight Warriors of the advance team behind her brought some rescued survivors here.

"Kendo, trust me, your daughter Emma will be fine."

"I've sent someone to find... uh... my boyfriend, he'll definitely have a way to save Emma."

Although Jill knew that the virus in her body might be able to cure Emma.

She didn't dare to try it casually.

She didn't know how to operate it, what if it made Emma's condition worse?

Just then.

"Jill, you called us over..."

Arriving at the Police Department entrance, Joa saw Emma in Jill's arms and the middle-aged man standing beside her.

Joa suddenly understood.

On the way, the Blacklight Warrior said that Jill was looking for him to help save someone, but the Blacklight Warrior hadn't seen who it was specifically.

He had thought Jill was asking him to save a survivor who had been bitten by a zombie but hadn't turned yet.

He hadn't expected it to be Kendo's daughter, Emma.

Kendo was... how to put it, a tragic person.

He ran a gun shop near the Police Department, and business was booming.

But suddenly one day, the Resident Evil outbreak occurred.

His daughter Emma was infected.

Back in the game, the relationship between this father and daughter had quite touched Joa.

Resident Evil 2 Remake even released a Kendo DLC.

"Joa! Look at her quickly!"

Carrying Emma, Jill came before Joa, her tone slightly anxious.

If there was no way, then so be it, she could harden her heart and not care about this adorable little girl.

But since there was a possibility of saving her, she still wanted to ask Joa to try his best.

Taking Emma from Jill's arms, Joa looked at Kendo's pleading face.

With a thud.

Seeing Joa look at him, Kendo knelt before Joa.

Although he didn't know Joa, he understood from Jill's earlier words.

Kendo knew very well that this was the boyfriend Jill had spoken of, who could save his daughter.

"Please! Please save my daughter!"

Kendo pleaded tearfully.

Jill, standing beside him, also pleaded with an entreating tone.

"Can you? Joa? Please!"

Seeing Jill's expression, Joa extended his index finger and playfully tapped his lips.

Before Jill could react, Polaris, from tightly clenched teeth, squeezed out a sentence.

"I'm still here!"

"Uh..."

Feeling the pressure emanating from Polaris, Joa was about to say that he was just joking.

When Jill had already kissed him.

A touch and then a separation.

"Is that enough?"

"Cough cough..."

Coughing awkwardly twice, Joa returned Emma from his arms to the anxious Jill.

"Joa..."

"You... if you're not satisfied, I can... please save her first!"

As soon as she finished speaking, the unconscious Emma in Jill's arms slowly woke up.

Seeing so many people around and her father kneeling on the ground, Emma seemed a little scared.

"Dad!"