It seemed to have sensed its desire to survive, and the Veronica virus within Javier once again mutated its body.
From Javier's body, large amounts of black substance began to secrete, quickly wrapping around him, making him look like a cocoon.
And at this moment, the fuse had already burned out, detonating the blasting cap, and the explosion of the blasting cap in turn triggered the plastic explosives.
BOOM!
Nearly three kilograms of high-concentration plastic explosives exploded with astonishing destructive power. Aiden and the others, who were already several dozen meters away from Javier, still felt a strong wave of heat rushing toward them.
"It… should be dead, right." Looking at the smoke-filled location, the little maid Fabiola murmured.
"Probably." Aiden couldn't be sure either. He had seen the scene of Javier being wrapped up by the secretion, so he planned to wait until the smoke completely dispersed before approaching to check.
However, his plan was quickly dashed. Before the smoke had even dispersed, a tattered figure shot up into the sky from within the smoke.
Javier was actually still alive. However, although it was still alive, it was seriously injured, with no intact flesh left on its entire body.
So after flying up, it didn't intend to attack Aiden and the others, but instead flew toward the villa not far away from it.
Because inside its villa, there was still a Veronica virus plant growing.
"Chase quickly."
Aiden also realized what it intended to do and hurriedly called everyone to chase after it.
———
[At the same time, inside Sena Town.]
Garcia and his father Diego were nervously hiding in the restroom of the inn they were staying at.
Outside the restroom, several infected were tearing apart the servant they had brought with them. The chewing sounds and the screams of the servant who hadn't completely died made the two people inside break into a cold sweat.
"Why did it become like this?" Diego held a pistol, asking in fear.
"That guy Javier… is he really insane? He actually released monsters into the town!"
Garcia naturally couldn't answer that question. He just hugged his knees, staring blankly at the ceiling, thinking why Roberta and Fabiola hadn't come to pick them up yet.
At this moment, it suddenly went quiet outside the restroom. Not only did the servant's screams disappear, even the suffocating chewing sounds were gone.
'Could it be that they're full and left?' Diego thought, but didn't dare open the door to check. He could only press against the door, calming down to listen.
But he couldn't hear anything, because on the other side of the door, a Licker had appeared and scared away those infected who were enjoying the "delicacy."
And this Licker, after taking a few bites of the servant's corpse, looked toward the restroom, then raised its claws, directly piercing through the restroom door, also piercing through Diego, who was leaning on the door.
Looking at the claws through his chest, Diego turned his head to look at Garcia and, using all his strength, shouted, "Run!"
———
"Guide, didn't you say the scenery here was nice and the people were good? Why did we run into something like this the moment we arrived?"
On the town's streets, a tourist group of seven or eight people was continuously shooting at the infected rushing at them.
The person who just spoke was, unexpectedly, Revy from the Black Lagoon group.
"How would I know things would turn out like this? Just a few days ago when I came, everything was still normal." The one responding to Koko was the guide who had brought Aiden a few days ago. He also couldn't figure out how in just a few days, the town's residents had turned into monsters.
"Sigh, finally got some free time, planning to travel and relax, and we end up running into this. We're just too unlucky." Balalaika, beside Revy, complained loudly.
She had just finished dealing with matters at Hotel Moscow, and thinking that there wouldn't be much happening in the next month, invited Revy and the others to travel in South America, perhaps even bump into Aiden. But they were attacked by monsters the moment they entered the town.
"We're the unlucky ones!" Koko, behind Balalaika, couldn't help but interrupt.
"We were just here to deliver goods. You insisted on inviting us to join the trip."
"But you agreed really fast at the time." Balalaika retorted, "Almost without hesitation."
Koko immediately stopped talking. After pouting, she looked at Velmet beside her.
"Still no contact with our people?"
Velmet shook her head. "We did get in touch, but they'll still need a long time to arrive."
"Alright then, looks like we can only rely on ourselves for now." Koko said helplessly. "Fortunately we came on our own ship and brought weapons, or this would be bad."
At that moment, Benny, hiding in the crowd, suddenly pointed into the distance and shouted, "Look, there's a child over there, looks like Garcia."
Everyone followed the direction Benny was pointing, and sure enough, they saw a boy stumbling toward them.
"Looks like it really is him." Rock, who was most familiar with Garcia besides Revy, saw the boy's familiar appearance and also called out, "Run faster, Garcia!"
Garcia, who had already planned to seek help from the gunmen, was overjoyed when he heard someone call his name. He quickened his pace and ran toward them.
———
[Inside a house by the roadside.]
Dutch locked the door and carefully checked all the windows upstairs and downstairs before returning to the living room on the first floor.
In the living room, Revy and the others were surrounding Garcia, asking him what had happened.
"What exactly happened here? Why did it become like this?" Revy asked, sitting lazily across from Garcia with her arms folded.
"I don't know either." Garcia still hadn't recovered from the terror. After drinking the water Rock handed him, he continued, "When my father and I woke up this morning, it was already like this outside. Everything was fine just yesterday, but in one night, this place turned into hell. My father also…"
At this point, Garcia's mood dropped greatly. He remembered his father who was killed by the monster.
"What about your maid? Roberta, I remember she's called that. Where did she go? Why wasn't she by your side to protect you?" Revy sensibly didn't continue the topic.
"She went with Aiden to deal with Javier, along with another one of my maids, Fabiola." Garcia scratched his lower back as he spoke. For some reason, he kept feeling itchy there.
"Aiden… he's here too?"
Upon hearing Garcia mention Aiden, everyone sat up straight. Revy even exclaimed with joy.
"Yeah, he just arrived a few days ago, along with his friend." Garcia nodded.
"The Javier you mentioned, who is he? Why are they going after him?" Balalaika rubbed his head and asked.
"He's the biggest drug lord here," Garcia said. "Some time ago, he somehow got hold of some monsters, just like the ones we encountered in Roanapur. Then the night before yesterday, Aiden and Roberta went out for a walk and said they encountered those monsters, so they decided to go deal with Javier."
"And for safety, my father and I, along with the few remaining servants from the estate, came to Sena Town. But we didn't expect this place to turn out like this."
As he spoke, Garcia finally couldn't hold it in anymore and started sobbing softly.
Seeing this, Rock quickly went over to comfort him.
"What do we do now?" Dutch asked after glancing at Garcia crying in Rock's arms.
"Of course we go find Aiden." Revy said eagerly. "He definitely needs our help right now."
"What about you guys?" Dutch looked at Balalaika and Koko.
"Same here." Balalaika shrugged indifferently.
"Us too." Koko said, hugging Velmet.
"In that case, let's rest for a bit, then grab a few cars and go find Aiden." Dutch began making an action plan.
He walked to Garcia and asked, "Garcia, do you know which direction they went?"
Garcia raised his head, wiped his tears, and nodded, "I do…"
———
On Aiden's side, because Javier could fly, they lost track of him right away. But based on the direction it flew, Manuela quickly led them near a villa deep in the jungle.
As soon as they arrived, the speaker outside the villa blared with Javier's hoarse voice. "You bunch of bastards, I'll kill all of you soon."
"Including her?" Aiden couldn't help but talk back, pointing at Manuela and addressing the camera by the door.
"No, she's my daughter," Javier roared. "I won't hurt her."
"Then don't say all of us." Aiden shouted.
"You really deserve to die." Javier became even more enraged, then opened the villa's main gate, letting the zombies that were being kept inside rush toward Aiden and the others.
However, these were just ordinary zombies. Except for a few with explosives strapped to them, the rest posed no real threat and were quickly dealt with.
They continued moving deeper into the villa. After entering the interior, they encountered some more B.O.W. attacks, but easily defeated them.
While passing a corridor, they saw a few corpses in white lab coats lying on the floor. Manuela's eyes immediately turned red, these were the doctors who used to treat her. The guilt in her heart grew even heavier.
"If not for me, you wouldn't have died," Manuela said painfully.
She then took a deep breath, her eyes becoming resolute. Now she had only one thought, to completely stop all her father's evil actions.
They continued deeper into the villa and soon arrived outside a sunroom.
Manuela directly pushed open the door and walked in. As expected, her father Javier was there.
At this moment, Javier hadn't fully recovered, with multiple injuries still on his body. But this time, he didn't flee, instead, he stood in front of a huge plant, glaring fiercely at the people entering.
Looking at Javier standing before the plant, Aiden knew they were too late. Just as he was thinking whether to retreat, Javier suddenly spread his arms and shouted at them, "Are you ready to face death?!"
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