46: Joey who ate too much

"Still alive?"

Squatting down, Joa flipped Hank's body over and removed his gas mask.

When he played the game, he was a little curious about Hank's appearance.

After all, his combat uniform paired with a gas mask was really cool.

After removing the mask, Joa was somewhat disappointed.

'Standard White guy, far worse than me.'

'It's true that when you wear a mask, your specific appearance is left entirely to others' imagination.'

Seeing that Hank was still alive, though his facial expression was distorted and grotesque from pain, Joa spoke.

"You must have just escaped from the underground laboratory, the Hive, right?"

"Where's the G-Virus you snatched from William? Hand it over."

"Otherwise..."

As he spoke, Joa's forearm, under the Creep of black-red tentacles, became covered in black sword-like spikes, and his hand transformed into sharp claws gleaming with cold light.

Seeing this terrifying scene, Hank, who had fought BOWs, or various dangerous bio-weapons, for many years, couldn't help but frown, but he didn't speak.

"Heh, your stubbornness will cost you your life."

With that, Joa prepared to directly absorb him.

If it weren't for the filter the game left in Joa's mind before his transmigration, Hank would have died long ago.

But since Hank didn't cherish the opportunity given to him, Joa couldn't be blamed.

Seeing that the other party really intended to kill him, Hank couldn't help but quickly speak.

"Wait! Wait!"

"The G-Virus is in my bag, I'll get it for you."

With a sneer, Joa slowly stood up, his arm returning to its original state.

"Heh, you really won't shed tears until you see the coffin."

Relieved, Hank didn't dare to delay.

Struggling to stand up, he took out the insulated box containing the G-Virus from his bag and handed it to Joa.

It wasn't that he didn't want to resist, but after the previous battle, he found that firearms were useless against this kind of monster.

Even if a shotgun could break through their defenses, they would recover in an instant.

Even shooting them in the head was useless.

These monsters seemed to be cheating; how was Hank supposed to fight them?

He retreated a few steps, pressing against the wall, his eyes constantly scanning between the Blacklight Warrior who had sent him flying and Joa, full of vigilance and caution.

Hank quietly waited for an opportunity to escape.

Taking the insulated box, he took out the G-Virus container.

Joa was about to swallow it.

Polaris and Jill quickly stopped him.

"Joa! Wait a minute!"

"What dangerous thing are you trying to eat again?"

Hearing this, Joa paused, then turned to look at Polaris and Jill, who had worried expressions, and said with a smile.

"It's just the G-Virus, nothing major, don't worry, there's no danger."

With that, Joa didn't wait for them to say anything more and swallowed the container and the virus together in one gulp.

Actually, absorbing it with tentacles would also work, but Joa didn't want to waste any, so he simply swallowed it directly into his body, not a single drop would be spilled.

After successively swallowing all six tubular containers of G-Virus from the insulated box, Joa silently waited for his evolution.

The G-Virus also had the characteristic of unlimited evolution and mutation.

But it also had a very obvious drawback.

That was, it was uncontrollable.

No matter whether the mutated genes were good or bad, it would accept them all.

Ultimately, it would become less and less human-like.

Fortunately, after Joa fused with the Blacklight Virus, this drawback of the G-Virus was remedied.

'I wonder how strong I'll become after devouring the G-Virus.'

With a faint anticipation in his heart, Joa couldn't help but curl his lips.

However, the next moment, he suddenly frowned.

'W-what's going on?'

'I feel... I feel so strange!'

'Could it be the G-Virus... I ate too much at once?'

As if confirming his thoughts, Joa's body uncontrollably began to surge outwards with tentacles.

Extremely rapid and violent mutations were occurring within his body, so fast that even he, having fused with the Blacklight Virus, was somewhat losing control.

'Damn it! I really ate too much!'

It didn't hurt, Joa just felt very awkward.

After all, he had only recently fused with the Blacklight Virus, and then he had eaten a large number of zombies, five Tyrants, and one Pursuer.

And now, six doses of G-Virus original solution.

Such rapid evolution in a short period of time required his body to adapt.

It was normal to lose control for a short period.

Understanding the reason, he felt relieved.

Turning to look at Polaris and Jill, Joa gave a wry smile.

"It seems we need to prepare to go back. I need to rest for a while, digest this, and then after some time..."

As he was speaking, a huge eye suddenly opened on Joa's chest, looking around wildly.

But it only appeared for an instant, then was pulled back into his body by the black-red tentacles.

"Uh..."

Blinking, the sudden extra vision just now left Joa a bit bewildered.

'Am I... developing into something unspeakable?'

Not just Joa, everyone who saw that huge eye on Joa's chest just now was dumbfounded.

Polaris and Jill, with blank expressions, nervously swallowed, their voices extremely complex.

"Qiao... Joa... are you sure you're really okay?"

Hearing this, Joa showed a reassuring smile.

"I'm really fine, it's just that the evolution speed is a bit fast, and my body hasn't adapted yet. It'll be fine in a while."

As he said this, several more bright red eyeballs connected by tentacles drilled out of Joa's body, darting around.

Not just eyeballs, but also bone spikes, and various cold weapons.

Reaching out, grabbing these strange things and quickly stuffing them back into his body, Joa gave an awkward laugh.

"Hehe, I'm really fine."

'Don't come out! It's too awkward!'

'Fortunately, I fused with the Blacklight Virus, otherwise I wouldn't even be able to maintain human form.'

Coming back to their senses, Polaris and Jill hesitated to speak.

Relax? How big would their hearts have to be to relax about this?

"Didn't you hear Joa? Why are you still waiting here? Go notify the others quickly!"

"Yes! Madam!"

Hearing the simultaneous reprimands from Polaris and Jill, the Blacklight Warriors rushed out of the Raccoon City Police Department to notify the others.

Walking up to Joa, Polaris and Jill helped him stuff the strange things back into his body while asking with concern.

"Joa... you won't turn into something strange in the future, will you?"

Hearing Polaris's words, Jill involuntarily shivered.

"Oh! No! Better not... He's too sanity-draining like this now."

Hearing this, Polaris looked at Jill, her gaze sly.

"Actually, I'd quite like to experience the feeling of sticky tentacles wrapped all over my body."

"Stop! You two, stop talking!"

The thought of potentially turning into some unspeakable entity in the future sent shivers down Joa's spine.

"I must maintain my human form for this entire life!"

Joa and the others were chatting over here.

Hank, who was nearby, saw this and his heart stirred.

He looked at the terrified survivors who dared not make a sound.

Then he looked at the monster that was still chatting.

Hank swallowed, carefully, step by step, moving towards the second floor of the Raccoon City Police Department.

Watching the steps under his feet, Hank didn't even dare to breathe loudly, afraid of making a sound and attracting attention.

But he didn't know that at this moment, several black-red tentacles, at least ten centimeters in diameter and covered in eyeballs, were quietly following him from behind.

Hank, sensing something was wrong, turned around and saw the dense, eyeball-covered tentacles.

His soul was almost scared out of him.

He fell onto the stairs with a thud.

Hank swallowed, and, sensing the situation, returned to his original spot under the gaze of the eyeball-covered tentacles.

'Damn it! There's no way to escape like this!'