In the early 21st century, Umbrella Corporation (Umbrella) has become the largest for-profit organization in the United States and a world business giant.

The giant is a huge economic and political tentacle that extends to every corner. It is an international super monopoly enterprise, covering most high-tech industries such as drugs, medical hardware, defense industrial products, and the world's leading supplier of computer technology and health care products. However, even if many of its employees do not know, its real source of interests comes from unknown secret industries such as military technology and life genetic engineering, biological weapons, etc.

July 1998

Raccoon City, located in the Midwest of the United States, is a modern city with a population of 100,000. Its predecessor was a rural town. Because of the intervention and support of umbrellas, it has transformed into an industrial modern city. Its strong influence has allowed umbrella companies to integrate into people's daily lives. 50% of citizens are employees of umbrella companies, although these 50% of citizens know nothing about the illegal activities of umbrella companies.

They even more unaware that just below this city, there is a huge underground experimental base called "Hive" (Hive) of the Umbrella Company that studies bioengineering.

Honeycomb-Experimental Storage Room

This is a storage platform for storing the newly developed T virus and pathogen vaccines.

A figure wearing a thick white biochemical protective suit stood in front of the operating table, controlled the robotic arms of the opposite platform through the transparent window, and slowly and carefully placed several spiral test tubes on the platform like DNA into the silver metal suitcase next to it.

The figure took off the operating table, took off the heavy protective suit and threw it aside, took out the silver suitcase and stuffed it into the backpack she carried in.

The figure stopped when he walked to the door of the laboratory, pulled out a spiral test tube with blue liquid inside from his backpack, and threw it into the corner of the laboratory. At the same time, he pulled open the thick metal sealed door of the laboratory and quickly left.

This is a reed

The spiral test tube turned and drew an arc in the air, hitting the corner of the table, smashing the outermost layer of fragile glass, and then falling to the ground, splashing fragments. The blue liquid in the test tube flowed out.

It seems that gas invisible to the naked eye evaporates from the test tube and enters the ventilation duct...

In the corner of the room, the monitoring probe suddenly turned automatically and aimed at the spiral test tube that was broken into several sections on the ground.

...

"Umbrella company employees must wear identity cards at all times. All radioactive objects must be recovered before 5 p.m.."

A young white man holding coffee, shirt and tie, blazer carrying coffee on his arms, walked through the corridor where female voices kept repeating broadcasts.

As he walked to the corner, a man in a black jacket and hurriedly carrying a backpack hit his shoulder. The cup of coffee splashed all over him.

"Thankyou!" (Thank you!)

Adam looked at the figure that hit his jacket just now and couldn't help but complain loudly. But the other party didn't respond at all, so he walked away quickly. Adam turned around in dissatisfaction and looked at the man's back, walked to the elevator hall where several people were waiting, looked down at the coffee stains on his shirt, and even the flax-colored hair was splashed with some coffee, and his body smelled strong. It smelled good but was very sticky. He couldn't help complaining: "God..."

"Is it someone?" asked a Latino woman waiting for the elevator.

"Yes." Adam restrained his negative emotions and replied with a shy smile.

At this time, the elevator door opened. After the people inside came out, Adam and others who were waiting for the elevator walked in one after another.

Warehouse - store experimental biological areas.

More than a dozen Dobermans who were locked in metal cages suddenly looked up and barked at the ventilation ducts above their heads through the cage, as if they had noticed something abnormal.

Laboratory door

"Don't show me this."

"Why?"

“Because I’m very busy.”

Two men and one woman, three young white men wearing white coats, holding coffee in their hands, talking and laughing, returned to the laboratory. A bald white man behind them closed the metal sealed door.

"Drip—drip—drip—drip—drip—drip—drip”

Just as they put the coffee on the table, the sudden alarm sounded made them raise their heads in a daze.

Meanwhile, a sharp alarm sounded throughout the underground institute.

"It's nothing, the fire alarm acts." A white female supervisor with long soft blonde hair said to the phone indifferently. Other staff cooperated to walk to the exit of the office area. But just as they were about to walk out of the office area, the tempered glass door had been closed in advance.

elevator

"What's going on?" Adam turned his head and asked her.

"Fire acting." The Latino woman replied, looking calm. Adam nodded thoughtfully.

laboratory

"Damn it!"

The three people in the laboratory were wondering, and the fire sprinkler head was suddenly activated. A large amount of fire water was sprayed out from the sprinkler head above, and everything in the laboratory was quickly wet by rain.

"What the hell is going on!"

"Cover the computer!"

"Testings! Remove them!"

The three of them panic searched for things to cover the computer and files. These were important test records of the umbrella company. If it was damaged, the losses were inestimable.

Warehouse - storage of experimental biological areas

"Hey! Guys, quiet! Quiet!" The administrator scolded the Doberman who seemed to be irritated and barking. These Doberman who are well-trained on weekdays are not aware of what happened, and they are extremely manic.

elevator

"Shouldn't the door be opened?" Adam just joined the company for a few days. He encountered this situation for the first time. He was in a panic and squeezed in front and kept pressing the door key.

"It should stop on the next floor." The Latino woman approached him and told him not to be so nervous. As soon as he finished speaking, the elevator suddenly stopped and the power was cut off.

Several people in the elevator looked around in a daze. The Latino woman picked up the emergency phone in the elevator and fed it a few times. There were only a dripping busy sound inside.

“The line is blocked.”

Adam's Adam's apple moved, and he always had a bad premonition.

"I hope I'm thinking too much..."

Office area

"What's wrong?" The white female supervisor followed everyone to the closed glass door.

"The door cannot be opened."

"Locked." The employee replied angrily.

"What about the doors behind?" The female supervisor swept the hair that fell on her shoulders, and she was not panicked at all. In fact, this is often done here. According to the company's senior management, it is to give employees experience. Except for the new little guys who are shocked, most people are accustomed to it.

So far, everyone thought it was just a normal exercise. They knew nothing about the upcoming disaster.

laboratory

"There is no fire here! No fire!" The young white woman who was soaked all over waved her arms and shouted angrily at the surveillance head at the top of the corner of the laboratory wall. At this moment, the water on the laboratory ground had reached the height of the calf. Some office supplies were floating in the light yellow water. The bald white man was hurriedly covering important items with something to cover them.

"The password does not work!" shouted the white young man who was competing with the sealing door. Even if he entered the password, he could not open the sealing door.

"No fire! What's wrong with you? The door can't be opened!" The woman roared angrily with a fist waving her fist to the surveillance head.

"These water cannot flow out!" The white young man walked to the console and pressed it a few times.

The young woman said, "What?"

"This is a sealed room, please help me open the door!" He returned to the door and tried to enter the password again. This metal sealed door dedicated to the bank vault will not even circulate after closing it.

"Fuck the door!" The bald white man who had been protecting the information to prevent it from being soaked in water suddenly cursed. He no longer cared about the information, but took out the fire axe from the fire hydrant, walked to the floor-to-ceiling window facing the corridor, and roared and smashed it hard.

choke!

The tip of the fire axe pierced into tempered glass, and a piece of glass the size of a little finger nail bounced out, landed on the ground in the aisle outside, rolling a few times.

elevator

"We must leave here. Send...what happened? Has it happened before? We must leave here!" Adam, sweating all over his head, kept pressing the elevator button in panic, trying to get it to operate again.

"Hey, don't be nervous." Another white man persuaded.

"Can you not be nervous!" Adam pushed him away.

"Quiet!"

The Latino woman suddenly stopped the quarrel. She looked up at the top of the elevator. In a vague way, she heard something.

"Quiet..." She repeated in a low voice, and when even the breathing sound in the elevator was reduced, she slowly turned around and looked upwards at the diagonal point of the sound.

Adam also heard some sounds and asked in a low voice: "What is that..."

"ah--"

The screams of men and women mixing together quickly amplified from far to near. This was another elevator. It passed by the elevator where Adam was and fell rapidly. A second later, there was a loud bang. Then the elevator cable pulled the air.

"ohmygod." The Latino woman murmured in a daze. As soon as the words fell, the elevator where they were located suddenly fell!

"ah--"

Several people in the elevator clamped against the wall and screamed involuntarily.

9F

6F

3F

The elevator emergency braking finally started, and metal friction burst out with bright sparks. The people in the elevator were driven by recoil and all sat on the ground, their faces pale in fright. Fortunately, they were still alive.

Although only temporary.

office
To be continued...