Chapter 503: Absolute Strength

However.

Once Dr. William finished speaking, Wesker immediately expressed his concerns.

"Capture this ancient Easterner? How is that even possible!"

"You saw how terrifying his combat strength is! With the strength of the company's mercenaries, they are no match for him at all!"

"In my opinion, the company should stay far away for now and try not to provoke them as much as possible."

Compared to William, Wesker was more rational.

In his view, with Umbrella Corporation's current capabilities, they were simply unable to contend with this group of ancient Easterners. The priority was to avoid conflict with them.

However, Dr. William still insisted on his idea.

"Hmph, how will we know the result if we don't try?"

Dr. William continued with a hint of disdain, "This world is dominated by our Umbrella Corporation. No one can stand against Umbrella!"

Dr. William stared at Wesker with a sharp gaze and said, "This time, you will personally lead five hundred of our strongest mercenaries."

"Furthermore, bring heavy weapons! Although these ancient Easterners fight amazingly, in my view, they are still made of flesh and blood."

"With heavy weaponry, we can definitely wipe them all out!"

"But take note: that ancient one who can fly must be captured alive!"

William directly issued the order to Wesker to capture Zhu Ying.

Although Wesker did not believe this mission would succeed, he chose to accept it.

After all, within the Umbrella Corporation, no one dared to disobey Dr. William's orders.

"Understood, Doctor."

"I will definitely complete the mission."

With that said.

Wesker left the base. Once he was gone, Dr. William turned to the staff and commanded, "Immediately use satellites to track their location in real-time!"

"We absolutely cannot let them escape!"

To the current Dr. William, he was already impatient to capture Zhu Ying and then proceed with even more advanced biological weapons!

...

Meanwhile.

On Zhu Ying's side.

The Imperial Guards had already finished cleaning up the zombie corpses. At this moment, Alice and the members of the convoy approached Zhu Ying.

After all.

Alice and the others had many doubts in their hearts and hoped Zhu Ying could provide answers.

Alice walked up to Zhu Ying and asked with a very serious expression, "Who... who are you?"

Zhu Ying glanced at Alice and said, "So you are Alice?"

Clearly.

Zhu Ying did not answer her question, but instead countered with one of his own.

Hearing that Zhu Ying knew her name, Alice's expression naturally became even more confused.

"Who exactly are you? Why do you know my name?"

"Have we met before?"

Alice pressed him, her tone tense.

In contrast, Zhu Ying appeared extremely calm.

"You don't need to ask that. Even if I told you, you wouldn't understand."

Zhu Ying clearly had no intention of explaining himself to Alice.

Seeing that Zhu Ying was unwilling to speak, Alice found him even more mysterious.

"Where... where do you and your army come from?"

"Can you answer that question?"

Alice changed her line of questioning.

Zhu Ying replied softly, "From another world."

"Another world?"

Without a doubt, when Alice heard Zhu Ying's answer, her face was filled with disbelief.

She had no idea what kind of "other world" Zhu Ying was talking about.

The convoy leader, Carlisle, suddenly spoke up, "You possess such immense strength, and you can even fly through the air!"

"Could you be from Heaven?"

Carlisle had seen the entire battle between Zhu Ying and the zombies clearly. In Carlisle's eyes, only God possessed such abilities.

Thus, Carlisle had mistakenly taken Zhu Ying for a deity.

Upon hearing this, Zhu Ying did not offer an explanation. After all, in a certain sense, Zhu Ying's strength truly made him a god of this world.

"You... you really are God!"

Seeing Zhu Ying's silence as a tacit admission, Carlisle jumped up in excitement. She shouted fervently, "Our world is saved!"

"God has descended upon the mortal realm!"

As Carlisle shouted hysterically, the other members of the convoy were also filled with excitement and fervor.

In their view, ever since the virus infected the entire world, the human population had plummeted, and most humans had turned into zombies.

Only a very small number of humans remained alive in this world, fighting a daily battle of wits and courage against the undead.

They even had to remain constantly vigilant against zombie attacks while they slept.

Life was incredibly exhausting.

Therefore, they desperately hoped that God would appear to save the masses.

"If that's what you believe, then so be it."

After saying this, Zhu Ying turned to the convoy leader, Carlisle, and asked, "How many people are left in your convoy?"

"Um... only eight people left," Carlisle answered truthfully.

At that moment, Alice immediately followed up, "What is your next plan?"

"Me?" Zhu Ying let out a cold laugh. "I have no plans."

Hearing this, a flash of disappointment crossed Alice's face.

"Don't you want to save the humans of this world!"

"The world has become like this because of the Umbrella Corporation! If you are willing, I will definitely help you tear them down!" Alice said with conviction.

But Zhu Ying responded unhuriously, "Don't worry. I don't need to take the initiative. The people from Umbrella will come looking for me."

Clearly, everything was under Zhu Ying's control.

Just then.

The Imperial Guard Commander, Liu Lei, suddenly appeared before Zhu Ying.

"Your Highness, something strange has happened," Liu Lei said, his tone slightly panicked.

"Speak clearly. What happened?"

Seeing his state, Liu Lei hurriedly said, "Your Highness, something is wrong with the corpses of these dead zombies. You should come and see for yourself."

For Liu Lei, words could not adequately describe it, so he could only ask Zhu Ying to inspect it personally.

Immediately, Zhu Ying walked up to the pile of zombie corpses.

Currently, all the zombies had been piled in a corner by the Imperial Guards. Just as the guards were preparing to burn the corpses with fire, they discovered a faint light glowing from within the zombies' brains.

The guards had quickly reported this discovery to Liu Lei, who then informed Zhu Ying.

"Your Highness, look at the zombies' brains!" Liu Lei pointed toward the corpses.

After taking a serious look, the expression on Zhu Ying's face changed subtly.

"Could these be zombie crystals?"

Zhu Ying reached out and directly pulled a golden-glowing crystal out of a zombie's brain. After carefully sensing the energy within the zombie crystal, he was instantly overjoyed.

"As I thought, these really are zombie crystals."

When Zhu Ying felt the power contained within the crystals, his mood improved significantly.

Because Zhu Ying understood that these zombie crystals could be used for alchemy to extract their stored energy!

In other words, these so-called crystals were like resources; the more there were, the more he could enhance the strength of the Great Ming Empire!

"Liu Lei!"

"This subordinate is here!"

Zhu Ying immediately commanded Liu Lei, "Immediately send men to collect all these zombie crystals, and then transport them to the Great Ming Empire through the [Spatial Portal]!"

"These zombie crystals will be of great use in the future!"

As soon as Zhu Ying's voice fell, Liu Lei did not dare to hesitate. He hurriedly replied, "As you command!"

Soon, Liu Lei led the Imperial Guards to collect all the zombie crystals.

However.

At that moment.

A violent humming sound suddenly erupted in the sky.

The Imperial Guards were drawn to the sound and instinctively looked up toward the sky.

At this moment, high above the city, a large number of armed helicopters had appeared, along with many troop transport planes!

The Imperial Guards were from the Great Ming; naturally, they had never seen modern aircraft before.

Thus, when they witnessed this scene, they were profoundly shocked, and some even fell into a state of panic!

"What... what is that?"

"I didn't expect the people of this world to be able to fly so high!"

"Is this modern society? Their technology is indeed more powerful than the Great Ming Empire!"

"Incredible! The humans of this world are so clever!"

Clearly, the Imperial Guards were stunned by the sight before them. However, upon seeing this, Zhu Ying immediately shouted to the crowd, "Enemy forces approaching!"

"Prepare for battle immediately!"

Zhu Ying knew that these armed helicopters and transport planes were sent by the Umbrella Corporation!

Just as Zhu Ying finished speaking, the armed helicopters in the sky had already flown directly above him and his group!

Seeing this, Alice immediately warned, "It's the people from Umbrella!"

"Danger!"

"You must be careful!"

Right then.

A transport plane landed directly in front of Zhu Ying.

Instantly.

Hundreds of mercenaries rushed out from the plane, and these mercenaries were all armed with heavy weapons.

Seeing this, a hint of tension appeared on Zhu Ying's face.

Zhu Ying immediately said to Liu Lei, "Withdraw immediately!"

"Leave this to me!"

Not daring to delay, Liu Lei followed Zhu Ying's orders and led the thousands of Imperial Guards to take cover.

In Zhu Ying's view, most of the Imperial Guards had not yet reached the Xiantian Realm and lacked internal energy as a barrier; they naturally could not withstand modern heavy weaponry!

Therefore.

Zhu Ying decided to deal with these mercenaries himself!

At the same time, Alice and the members of the convoy also retreated to a safe position.

Simultaneously.

In Raccoon City, within the Umbrella Corporation's underground base, Dr. William was watching the live feed transmitted via satellite.

"Excellent!"

"Wesker, capture that flying ancient Easterner!"

Dr. William stared intently at the display screen, his face filled with anticipation.

On the scene.

After seeing Zhu Ying, Wesker was, to be honest, quite nervous deep down.

"Attack!"

Wesker chose to take the initiative.

With Wesker's command, five hundred mercenaries immediately raised their weapons and aimed them directly at Zhu Ying.

Furthermore.

The armed helicopters high above also aimed their machine guns at Zhu Ying!

"Fire!"

At Wesker's command, both the mercenaries and the helicopters opened fire immediately!

"Rat-tat-tat-tat-tat!"

A dense hail of bullets shot toward Zhu Ying in an instant.

"Danger!"

"Get out of the way!"

Hiding behind a building, Alice grew anxious for Zhu Ying as she saw the Umbrella mercenaries firing.

She shouted warnings frantically.

But for Zhu Ying, his face remained filled with calm and composure.

It seemed... Zhu Ying was not afraid of these bullets.

In fact, he truly wasn't.

Zhu Ying's current realm had reached the Grandmaster Realm, and additionally, he had cultivated the [True Dragon Qi].

In other words, Zhu Ying's body was protected by True Qi!

Thus, when the bullets flew within about five yards of Zhu Ying's body, the True Qi within him instantly formed an air wall, forcefully deflecting all the bullets!

"Huh?"

"How is this possible?"

When Wesker saw the bullets being deflected, shock appeared on his face.

To Wesker, this scene completely defied the laws of physics!

The Umbrella mercenaries were also startled.

These fully armed soldiers looked at one another, their eyes filled with confusion.

But at that moment.

Zhu Ying struck!

With incredible speed, Zhu Ying unleashed the Eighteen Subduing Dragon Palms.

In an instant.

A golden-glowing giant dragon appeared once again within Zhu Ying's body, and this dragon charged toward the mercenary legion with lightning speed!

"Riot shields!"

"Defend immediately!"

Seeing this, Wesker immediately ordered the mercenaries to raise their riot shields, while he himself quickly retreated to the side!

However.

Mere riot shields were utterly incapable of resisting the impact of the Eighteen Subduing Dragon Palms.

"BOOM!!!"

With a massive explosion, the golden-glowing dragon slammed into the riot shields. A moment later, the shields held by the mercenaries were reduced to ash!!

Without a doubt, at this moment, the faces of all the mercenaries were filled with terror!

They finally realized that the strength of this ancient Easterner was far more terrifying than Alice, whom they had encountered before.

Zhu Ying did not waste words; he called upon his True Qi once more.

Then, he controlled the golden-glowing dragon to charge into the mercenary legion!

Accompanied by screams of agony, many mercenaries were directly pierced through by the dragon!!

High above.

The pilots of the armed helicopters were terrified after witnessing this scene, and they immediately began firing at Zhu Ying!

For a time, a dozen armed helicopters fired frantically at Zhu Ying.

But the result was the same as before.

Zhu Ying remained completely unscathed!