Chapter 72: Successive Breakthroughs

Hundreds of meters below ground, as the elevator doors slid open, Alice stepped out to face the waiting guards. Yet, what greeted these guards was not a lamb ready to surrender, but a goddess of death they could not hope to resist.

A sharp whistling sliced through the air—the sound of blades cutting the silence. In an instant, the guards stationed at the elevator fell where they stood, their hearts pierced by flying knives. One by one, they collapsed at the threshold.

Deep within the base, Isaacs watched the security feed, his brow furrowing as he realized the gravity of the situation. “Deploy all guards. And release the Hunters,” he ordered without hesitation.

With Isaacs’s command, every guard in the facility was dispatched. At the same time, the corridors leading to the core were flooded with zombies, unleashed as a last defense. If the guards failed to stop Alice, then the undead would surely overwhelm her.

But Isaacs watched in mounting disbelief as his dispatched guards were felled in the blink of an eye, slain by Alice’s telekinetically controlled knives. Entering the zombie-infested corridors, Alice dispatched the undead with equal ease, sweeping through the resistance as if she walked through tall grass.

At last, Alice arrived before Isaacs himself with barely a pause. With a single thought, a knife shot forth and ended Isaacs’s life, the blade piercing his skull. Having purged the base of all opposition, Alice made her way to the cloning facility.

Within, each pod contained a clone identical to herself. She frowned at the sight, but did not activate them. Instead, after a brief search, she moved directly to the core of the base, intending to use its energy reserves to annihilate the entire underground installation.

Previously, Wang Kun had instructed her to handle the base as she saw fit. After careful thought and judgment, Alice chose destruction.

A few hours later, her preparations complete, Alice left the base. Moments after her departure, the ground above gave way with a thunderous crash, leaving behind a massive crater. The base, buried hundreds of meters below, was utterly obliterated.

With her mission complete, Alice rejoined Ju Ziyun and continued her studies. Days later, in a remote Umbrella base in the far north, Wang Kun’s loyal agent, Kai Xin, discovered another key figure from the story—Jill, who had been present since the beginning of the outbreak. But Jill was no longer herself; she was now a remorseless killer, controlled by Umbrella.

Upon learning this, Wang Kun hurried to the scene. Seeing the controlled Jill, he activated the death warrior card in his mind. Instantly, Jill, once bound to Umbrella’s will, became one of Wang Kun’s own death warriors.

A few more days passed. In another Umbrella facility in Asia, Wang Kun’s beautiful agent, Zhang Yijun, found another character from the series: Ada Wong, from the fifth installment of the saga. Upon discovering her, Wang Kun teleported to the location, confirmed Ada met the criteria for the card, and without hesitation, claimed her as his own death warrior as well.

Thus, Wang Kun successfully recruited three new death warriors in this world. Since his first recruit, he had used nearly twenty death warrior cards, gathering almost twenty loyal agents. Yet, with more than half his cards remaining, Wang Kun never missed an opportunity to add to his ranks whenever suitable targets appeared. He had come to appreciate the convenience of having capable subordinates.

Now, with his death warriors, Wang Kun found that entering new worlds no longer required him to personally handle every task. He could simply send out his beautiful agents and, with a thought, teleport to wherever news or trouble arose. It was far more efficient than racing everywhere himself.

After recruiting three more death warriors, life settled into a calmer rhythm. But Wang Kun did not waste the five years he could spend in this world. Nearly every day, he quietly honed his strength in the starship’s training room.

A year after arriving in this world, Wang Kun smoothly advanced to a new level of strength—Seventh Rank Planetary. His domain also reached the second tier. However, his dual-layer domain still lagged far behind his female death warriors, whose most powerful among them had already reached the fourth tier—a gap not of degrees, but of magnitude.

Just days after Wang Kun’s own breakthrough to Seventh Rank Planetary, several of his newly recruited death warriors also ascended to planetary rank. Among them, Alice became a First Rank Planetary Psychic, while Jill and Ada Wong both advanced as martial artists.