Time quietly arrived at June 25, 1998.
"I didn't realize I had a talent for being a scientist."
Playing with the two syringes in his hands, Asa was in a pleasant mood.
Using Marcus's complete set of T-Virus research data and the stable new T-Virus within his own body, Asa had developed two agents designed for use in different environments.
T-Hope: As long as it is injected before the T-Virus kills the host's brain cells, the medicine within the agent will target the T-Virus for directional elimination, clearing all T-Virus from the body and restoring the host to their pre-infection state.
After injecting this agent, T-Virus antibodies will also be produced in the body, which will greatly increase the window of time before infection if bitten by a zombie in the future!
Therefore, Asa named this agent 'Hope'—a beam of light in the midst of despair.
Doesn't it feel quite sacred?
Furthermore, T-Hope completely lacks the drawbacks of the T-Virus vaccine; it won't cause a relapse infection ten or twenty years after the initial exposure, leading to an old man Leon in his fifties or sixties having to shoulder a gun and continue fighting zombies.
Of course, if you're crushed to bits, there's nothing to be done; T-Hope doesn't provide a reassembly service.
Additionally, T-Hope does not provide any physical enhancement to the host; it kills the T-Virus in the body rather than merging with it.
Its main purpose was to serve as a foil for the existence of the other agent.
T-Evolution.
This was the answer to evolution that countless villains in the resident evil world had been bitterly searching for. It possessed an extremely mild capability that neither destroyed the host's cells nor possessed any infectivity. Its sole function was to slowly enhance the host's physical functions and lifespan after combining with human cells.
It could allow humanity to step toward a higher level of evolution!
Compared to Asa serum, the enhancement provided by T-Evolution was limited, with effects only roughly equivalent to fifty percent of the serum.
The advantage was that the serum Asa gave to Jill was enough to formulate five T-Evolution reagents, providing a greater quantity.
Furthermore, T-Evolution used the stable T-Virus as raw material; the reagent did not contain any of Asa own cells.
Otherwise, injecting serum every time someone got infected would feel quite strange, giving off the illusion of being some dark, obsessive 'minefield girl'.
These two reagents were just the beginning. In the future, for the G-Virus, T-Veronica, and so on, Asa could create stable versions of the corresponding pathogens following the methods used for these two agents.
The System is quite amazing, isn't it?
In short, the main harvest from this month of time was these two reagents.
Asa was also contemplating which path he should take in the resident evil world in the future.
Whether to stay with Umbrella, join the United States, join the BSAA, or return to his hometown—during the period before the System awakened, Asa had been hesitant.
However, once the System awakened and the new world was revealed to be the 2077 World, where the level of technology completely surpassed that of the resident evil world, all problems were solved.
Umbrella, US agents, BSAA, the Federation, HCF, Tricell—he chose none of them. He wanted to forge a path of his own.
With cybernetic modifications and weaponry from the 2077 World, plus the enhanced viruses from the resident evil world, the future was bright.
These two reagents were prepared precisely for the power he intended to build in the future.
But first, he had to get money.
The storms of the outside world could not affect the researchers in the underground base; Umbrella was still far from being at the end of its rope.
While researching the reagents, Asa was also looking for traces of the Ark Base's existence. According to the setting of resident evil 9 that he played before transmigrating, the Ark Base had already been built by this time, and it was personally handled by Spencer himself.
The existence of the Ark might be the most classified of secrets; at least, Asa could not find any information regarding the Ark Base in William's NEST Underground Facility.
On the other hand, Asa did learn a piece of news: the personal information on the blog of Alyssa, the reporter Jill was looking for, listed her as unmarried.
Alyssa was the adoptive mother of the protagonist of resident evil 9, and also one of the eight protagonists who escaped Raccoon City during the resident evil outbreak.
But at this time, Grace was clearly not yet born.
Never mind, there was no need to explore that for now.
Asa was simply coveting the Progenitor Virus samples preserved in the Ark Base and the existence of the ultimate anti-viral agent, Elpis.
He wanted to see what effect Elpis would have on him, given that he had already perfectly merged with the T-Virus.
It certainly wasn't because he heard it could subvert everything and just decided to inject it randomly—wouldn't that make him a clown?
While verifying the existence of the Ark Base, Asa bought some vegetables and took the time to return to the cyberpunk world.
In 2077, after temporarily spending all the money on his person, Asa thought of a way to find a new source of income.
Vegetables are very common in resident evil; you can even see zombies with plants growing all over them.
However, in the 2077 World, the natural environment has been greatly destroyed. The land is everywhere covered in toxic soil left by nuclear radiation, saline-alkali land, and deserts. Terrestrial plants have died off on a large scale, and various infectious diseases have led to the death of animals.
The oceans were polluted by oil spills caused by corporate wars, turning from azure blue to black; 97% of marine life went extinct as a result.
In this current world, the 'Guangdong Little Elves' successfully evolved into 'World Elves', becoming pets loved all over the world.
Due to the scarce natural environment, the main sources of food for humans are various insects and synthetic meats.
Such as cockroach protein powder and organic synthetic meat.
Asa saw an advertisement for synthetic meat on a billboard.
"Meat that bleeds, bloody real meat!"
Vegetables from resident evil, however, were things only the powerful and wealthy could enjoy in the 2077 World.
In Night City, Asa could sell the vegetables in his hand at will, but not in Atlanta.
This place was like a pool of stagnant water; the lives of the residents were manipulated by corporations. If one were to sell vegetables in large quantities on the street, it would be considered a miracle if the corporations didn't find them within three minutes.
Ultimately, Asa chose a black market located on the edge of the city near the wilderness to sell a portion.
The details of the transaction need not be said; the bullets scattered all over the ground were his'sincerity'.
Asa didn't sell many vegetables; ten kilograms of carrots imported from America could actually sell for a high price of 150,000 Eurodollars in the black market!
And this was under the condition that the black market could provide even higher profits for the elites.
A massive profit!
But he couldn't trade too much. After this confrontation, next time the black market merchants get a taste of the sweetness, they might not just be using pistols.
The covetousness of black market merchants was secondary; if he alerted Biotechnica, they really would send agents to raid his home and exterminate his household.
After getting the money, Asa immediately used it to upgrade the cybernetics on his body.