"You definitely remembered wrong." After Ada finished speaking, she somewhat guiltily looked toward Aiden, and discovered the other party showing an expression of "You really are treating me like a fool," so she added, "It used to be that way, but I've already broken up with him."
"When did that happen?" Aiden widened his eyes.
"Just now," Ada said.
"Tsk, that's truly amazing efficiency." Aiden let out a sigh of admiration.
Ada took it as sarcasm towards her, so she let out a cold snort, then lowered her head and fell into thought, no longer paying him any attention.
Aiden helplessly shrugged his shoulders, reached his hand into his pocket. His craving for a cigarette had kicked in. He wanted to smoke one to refresh himself.
But he forgot, the last cigarette had already been smoked before entering the police station. In his pocket, he only felt some bits of tobacco.
"Ugh!" Aiden sighed. For someone addicted to smoking, this was too uncomfortable.
In the end, he couldn't bear it anymore. Aiden had no choice but to set his sights on the corpse in the room.
It was the corpse of a male police officer. When they came in, Aiden had already examined him. It was a suicide. He used a Glock 17 to shoot under his chin, and his skull had flown off.
Approaching the corpse, Aiden frowned and started searching it. He really hated those who shot themselves in the head. It greatly affected the mood of the person looting the body.
However, his mood immediately changed from gloomy to sunny, because he really did find a pack of cigarettes in the corpse's pants pocket, and it was the familiar Marlboro.
When he excitedly opened it, his good mood was cut in half. There was only one cigarette inside.
Holding up the cigarette, Aiden asked Ada, "Do you want one?"
Ada lightly shook her head.
So Aiden happily lit the cigarette and took a deep drag.
Smoke quickly spread throughout the room. Ada frowned and said, "Can't you go outside to smoke?"
Aiden had no choice but to open the door, leaned on the door frame, and exhaled the smoke outside.
Before he finished smoking, several gunshots came from the direction of the detention center.
Aiden turned his head and exchanged glances with Ada. The latter immediately rushed out.
Looking regretfully at the more than half remaining cigarette, Aiden took a hard drag, then threw it away and followed after Ada.
When they rushed into the detention center, they saw that the iron bars of the cell where Ben was held had been violently twisted into a spiral.
Aiden nervously raised the M16 in his hand and carefully looked around.
Ada directly entered the cell and found Ben Bertolucci himself lying on the ground covered in blood. He was still holding a spent M1911, but obviously, this classic old gun hadn't been able to protect him.
Ada crouched beside Ben, frowned, and checked his injuries.
He wasn't dead yet, he still had a breath left.
"Cough cough… You… finally came…"
Ben looked at Ada, heavily coughed several times, then finally spat out a mouthful of blood. Only then did he slowly pull out a stack of documents, handing them to Ada, who was preparing to bandage his wounds.
"Inside here… is… the chief's… true face… and… his dealings with…"
Before he could finish, Ben suddenly clutched his throat in desperation, his whole body violently trembling, eyes bulging wide.
Ada was frightened by his appearance. She quickly backed up to Aiden's side and asked in alarm, "What's happening to him?"
Aiden knew Ben had been parasitized by a G-larva. He stepped forward, shielded Ada behind him, and aimed his gun at Ben.
At this moment, Ben suddenly stopped moving, like he had turned into a stiff rock. Then came a tooth-grinding tearing sound. A giant bug actually tore out of Ben's body and ran out.
"What is that thing?" Ada was stunned by this scene. Even though she had undergone strict training, she still couldn't handle it for a moment, and could only watch as the giant bug dashed out of the detention center.
Aiden had already mentally prepared. Although he too was stunned for a moment, he quickly reacted. While the bug hadn't gotten far, he shot it into a pile of meat paste.
"What the hell is that?" Ada took a deep breath, forced herself to calm down, and then asked.
Aiden glanced at the documents in her hand and said, "Didn't Ben give you materials? Take a look, maybe what we want to know is inside."
Ada blankly nodded and began flipping through the documents…
After reading through them quickly, a flash of delight appeared in Ada's eyes. The documents happened to mention the thing she was looking for.
"G-virus, and William, looks like my luck has turned."
She looked at Aiden, then couldn't help but think, 'Looks like he's my lucky star.'
But then she started to feel conflicted again. After all, her purpose in coming to Raccoon City wasn't pure.
'How should I explain things to him in the future? If he learns the truth… will he forgive me?'
Thinking of this, the joy in Ada's eyes turned into worry. Her heart grew heavy, thinking about how to explain everything to Aiden.
Aiden didn't know about Ada's complicated inner thoughts. Seeing her fall into contemplation after reading the files, he tactfully walked to the side and began examining the G-larva that had been shot into mush.
But just as Aiden was poking the meat paste with a stick he didn't know where he picked up, Ada finally came back to her senses.
She folded the documents, put them in her waist pouch, patted it, then said to Aiden, "The files Ben gave me mentioned that the Raccoon City Police Station has a secret passage leading to the sewer waste treatment plant. Through the treatment plant, we can get to the Raccoon City underground lab."
"I think… the person I'm looking for is there."
"And then?" Aiden tossed away the stick, clapped his hands, and asked.
Ada's eyes flickered, her expression changed several times, then she said with some difficulty, "I want… you to come with me."
As if trying to explain, she added, "It's nothing else, I just need your help."
"Of course." Aiden shrugged.
Seeing Aiden agree, Ada couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. According to the file's records, she and Aiden returned to the police station.
Once back inside, they found the internal map of the police station and headed straight for the chief's office. Since the documents recorded his dealings with Umbrella, that secret passage could only be in his office.
On the hallway leading to the chief's office, the two unexpectedly encountered a blonde little girl.
But the blonde girl didn't ask them for help. Upon seeing them, she turned and ran.
Aiden immediately recognized the blonde little girl. The daughter of the G-virus genius researcher William Birkin, Sherry Birkin.
There was no time to explain to Ada. Aiden quickly gave chase.
Ada didn't want to get involved in other matters, but seeing Aiden take off, she followed him.
The little girl ran very fast, darting around inside the police station. The two of them got careless and actually lost track of her.
Just as Aiden was getting frustrated, a wall near them was suddenly smashed open. A monster wearing a military trench coat charged out and appeared before them.
Another Tyrant T-103.
However, this Tyrant wasn't the one the Echo Squad encountered. It was one that Umbrella had specifically deployed to the police station. So its trench coat was still largely intact.
Seeing the Tyrant suddenly appear, Aiden and Ada immediately turned and ran. They didn't want to get entangled with that guy.
The Tyrant's objective was to eliminate all life in the station, so it immediately gave chase.
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By the time the two managed to lose the Tyrant, a long time had passed. It was now early morning of September 30.
Finally, they arrived at the chief's office.
Inside the chief's office, the secret door had already been opened by someone. Ada, worried that someone had gotten the G-virus ahead of her, rushed in. Aiden couldn't even stop her.
Sighing helplessly, Aiden quickly opened all the drawers of the desk. After finding what he wanted, he then followed into the hidden passage.
Following the secret passage downward, Aiden arrived at the sewers.
There, he saw Ada in a standoff with a guy with parted hair. Both had their guns raised at each other.
"Don't shoot!" Aiden shouted at them.
Hearing his voice, Ada and Leon turned to look at him. Leon even joyfully called out, "Aiden! That's great, you're here too! I was worried something happened to you on the way!"
"Yeah, I did run into some trouble, but luckily, I've always had good luck. It's all taken care of," Aiden replied.
"You two know each other?" Ada asked. But unlike Leon, she hadn't lowered her gun, still pointing it at Leon's head.
Aiden nodded, "His name's Leon. A police officer in Raccoon City. He's my friend."
"Friend, huh?" Ada narrowed her eyes slightly, then finally put away her gun, walked to Aiden's side, arms crossed, scrutinizing the white guy with parted hair in front of her.
Aiden patted her shoulder, signaling her to relax, then asked, "Leon, where's Claire? Weren't you with her?"
"We got separated." Hearing Aiden mention Claire, Leon looked upset.
"Not long after we entered the station, we encountered a monster in a trench coat. No matter how we shot, it wouldn't die. While escaping, Claire and I got separated."
He then pointed to the walkie-talkie on his body and said, "At first I could still contact her with this thing. Later she said she found a secret passage in the chief's office and asked me to come over. But after I arrived here… I lost contact with her."
"I'm a bit worried about her safety now."
"Don't worry, she'll be fine. Maybe her walkie-talkie dropped or broke or something." Claire is one of the main characters, nothing will happen to her. Aiden is very confident in her skills.
Although Leon thought what Aiden said made a lot of sense, he still said, "We still have to find her. This place… is too dangerous."
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