Wesker's Report - Resident Evil

Wesker's Report I

Introduction
My name is Albert Wesker. I aspired to become a leading researcher at Umbrella Inc. A pharmaceutical enterprise who covertly conduction Bio Organic Weapons, better known as B.O.W., for development. But at the leader development training ground situated in Raccoon City, I met a brilliant and talented researcher who decided to take a different path; William Birkin.

In time I shifted my position to S.T.A.R.S., a special force unit of the Raccoon Police Department. Umbrella, for crisis management reasons of their illegal Bio Organic Weapons development had many of its people working in the police department.

I became the leader of S.T.A.R.S. and conducted all sorts of intelligence activities for Umbrella. As I continued to serve I devised my own plans and waited for the right time moment to execute them. Then at last, opportunity knocked.

July 24, 1998
The freak murder incidents that had occurred in the forest near the mansion started it all. The mansion was Umbrella's secret BOW laboratory and it was clear that the indevelopment T-Virus was the cause of the murder. Initially, Umbrella instructed me secretively to keep S.T.A.R.S. to the mansion, dispose of them, then report the situation to headquarters so that their combat with the B.O.W. could be used for data analysis allowing Umbrella a comprehensive portrait of the B.O.W.'s combat abilities.

From the two S.T.A.R.S. teams I first pitched in the Bravo Team. As expected, the top elite of S.T.A.R.S. gave all they had and became useful sample data. Then following, I geared up the Alpha Team to "search and rescue" the lost Bravo Team. The members of Alpha Team also proved their worth and as expected many died.

There were five survivors from the initial eleven S.T.A.R.S. members. From the Alpha team were Chris Redfield, Jill Valentine and Barry Burton. And from the Bravo Team were Rebecca Chambers and Enrico Marini. It was time to begin executing my plans.

In the midst of the whole affair I could take Umbrella's ultimate Bio- Organic Weapon, the Tyrant, and join forces with an opposing corporation of Umbrella. To buy into that opposing corporation I would need the actual combat data of the Tyrant. The surviving privileged members of S.T.A.R.S. were just the perfect bait.

I decided to have one of them play the Judas and draw them to the Tyrant. That Judas was Barry. Barry was the strong truth and justice kind and cherished his family more than anything. His type is easy to manipulate. I just took that most important thing away from him.

My only miscalculation was the high potential of Chris and Jill. But with the family man Barry playing Judas the scheme went as planned. Then the winds turn unexpectedly. I had to eliminate Enrico who found out what was behind it all. I used Barry to get to him.

After I successfully got rid of that nuisance I awaited the sample specimen that Barry would bring to me in the Tyrant room. I injected the virus I obtained from Birkin in advance. If I made Umbrella believe I was dead, it made it far more convenient to sell myself to the opposing corporation.

According to Birkin the virus had profound effects. It would put my body in a state of temporary "death". It would then bring me back to life with super human powers. Therefore I unleashed an awesome Tyrant from its slumber and let it attack me. As my consciousness faded away I was certain that the whole scheme would end in success.

Never did I imagine that S.T.A.R.S. could slay the evil creation. I lost the Tyrant and the plan I devised which cost me my humanity ended in failure. Now anything and anyone who stood in my way would be terminated. It's been that way for a long time and it always will be. At all costs I had to make S.T.A.R.S. pay.

September 1998
Two months had passed since the mansion incident.

To regain everything I had lost in my new organization I joined hands with Ada Wong, a female agent who was also sent to spy on Umbrella. I knew in my bones that the key developer was William Birkin, but what he didn't know was that Umbrella did not play games...with anyone.

Eventually, Birkin would be assassinated, and the G-virus would be in the hands of Umbrella. But the salvage team led by Hunk was ahead of us. By the time they got to Birkin, he'd already injected himself with the G-virus...he became his own creation, and decimated them. Soon after, the T-virus carried by rats spread throughout Raccoon City, and Umbrella faced its worst scenario.

September 28, 1998
The good citizens became zombies, and the city had headed for its devastating fate. Humans were no match against zombies. In the chaos, Umbrella Europe applied a new type B.O.W., called "Nemesis". The Nemesis would hunt down and destroy the surviving member of S.T.A.R.S., Jill. It became imperative that our organization would also obtain the Nemesis data.

September 29, 1998
To cover up the whole affair, Umbrella jettisoned a Tyrant to take care of Leon and Claire, who were trying to unveil their secrets. Then, there was a new revelation. Birkin used to hide the findings of his studies in his daughter Sherry's pendant.

It was very possible that the G-virus was there. While Umbrella was busy with their cover up, we had to capture Sherry before they did. I sent Ada undercover to seek the location of Sherry. I, the "dead man" on the other hand, had to work in the shadows.

A spy's obligation and priority is in mission, to carry out the mission like a machine without any emotional interference. But through her interaction and involvement with Leon Scott Kennedy, there had been an affection growing inside her. My instincts sensed danger. Something had to be done, quickly. My instincts did not disappoint me.

Even though Ada almost had her hands on the G-virus, which Leon had acquired from Sherry, that affection of her drove her to her death. But she was still of some use. I had to save her life. My people hurried to retrieve the G-virus that Leon threw away.

But Hunk, the only survivor of Umbrella's salvage team, was there before us.

September 30, 1998
Our only option left was to bring back Birkin, the monster, as the sample specimen and have him finish Leon and Claire in order to obtain his combat data.

Although Birkin lost the battle to Leon and Claire, we succeeded in gathering samples of the G-virus from his dead body.

October 1, 1998
In the morning the government bombed Raccoon City in an attempt to stop for the viral outbreak. This was, of course, their feigned reason... Later, Claire left to Europe to find her lost brother Chris, and Leon joined forces with an underground anti-Umbrella organization.

Sherry is safe in our hands. I would never underestimate Birkin. There's something about this little girl..."

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Wesker's Report II

July 31, 1978 - Women Specimen Subject
It was summer, 20 years ago, and I was 18 years old when I visited there for the first time. As I got off the helicopter, I remember the sight of the swirling wind that the blades whipped into the air. When viewed from above the old mansion seemed quite normal, but when seen from the ground there was something foreboding and unapproachable about it. Birkin (my junior by 2 years) seemed, as usual, to only be concerned with his research notes.

We were assigned to the mansion 2 days earlier, on the day that the executive training center we had previously been attached to was closed. It all seemed like it was planned and too much of a coincidence. But probably the only person who knew the real truth was Spencer.

Spencer was one of the main guys in charge of America's "T-Virus" research at the Arklay Research Facility.

As soon as we got off the helicopter the head of the facility was standing in front of the elevator ready to greet us.

I can't even remember the guy's name. Who really cares about formalities and figureheads like him? From that day on, the Arklay Research Center was ours. As Chief Researchers, we were put completely in charge of all aspects of the facility. Of course that is just how Spencer had planned it all out. He chose us.

We ignored the facility head and got on the elevator. I had already memorized the building layout the day before, and Birkin, although he has no bad intentions, never really paid much attention to other people.

Most people probably get pretty irked within the first 5 seconds that they meet us.
However, the facility head had no reaction at all.

Back then I was a young buck completely full of himself, so I didn't really pay the facility head any mind.

But in the end, I was really only Spencer's puppet. And the facility head, whose boss was also Spencer, at least actually knew what Spencer was up to, and what he was thinking.

The whole time we were riding in the elevator, Birkin never took his eye off of the documents he was holding.

The document that Birkin was scrutinizing so closely was a report about a new virus that had shown up in Africa. It was called "Ebola".

At this moment there were many people, all throughout the world, who were studying the Ebola Virus. However, there were two major reasons why they were studying it. To help people and...to kill them.

As you probably know, the death rate of someone infected with Ebola is 90 percent. In 10 days it quickly destroys a person's organs. Even now, there are no known ways to prevent it or cure it. It could, quite possibly, destroy a large part of the human race.

Of course even before this, due to the "Biological Weapons Prohibition Pact", it was illegal for us to study the virus as a weapon. However, even if we weren't the ones to research it, there was no proof that someone else wouldn't be doing that same thing and so it was considered acceptable for us to research it--just in case. There is a thin line in international law between what is acceptable and what is prohibited.

And so, it became necessary to research how the virus would be used as a method of prevention, not as a weapon. There really is no difference in the way in which you research a virus as a cure, however, from how you research it as a weapon.

Since the two are very similar, it is possible to pretend you are researching a cure, while in fact, be researching the virus as a weapon.

At that time, even though Birkin may have been looking at the Ebola report, he wasn't really researching the Ebola virus. The Ebola Virus had too many "weak spots".

First of all, the virus could only survive for a few days if not inside a human body. It would soon "die" if under sunlight (ultra-violet light) for too long.

Secondly, since it kills the host too quickly there isn't enough time to transfer/infect other hosts.

Finally, the virus is only transferable through direct touch and so it can be easily prevented.

Try to imagine the following: If a person who was heavily infected (the disease had spread all throughout their body) could actually stand and walk around? And, without knowing it, was in direct contact with other people, of their own accord...
What if the RNA of the Ebola Virus could actually alter a person's genetic code? And if, through that, a person was able to carry the virus without dying? What if this person had the resilience of a beast?

That is, wouldn't this person be a "living dead" whose body carried the virus? Something that could infect others, sort of like a "living biological weapon".

I guessed that we were lucky that the Ebola Virus didn't have the potential to do such things.

I wondered if we would be successful in holding on to such a virus without it getting into the wrong person's hands?

The Arklay Lab headed up by Spencer was built for that purpose, it seemed. To create a disease capable of the characteristics I listed above. Officially it was just a pharmaceutical company researching cures to viruses, but the truth is, it was really a factory for manufacturing biological weapons.

The origin of the company was based on the creation of the "Mother" virus by recombining genes.

In order to produce "biological weapons" out of this new "Mother", or “Progenitor” virus, Spencer and his team of researchers began studying "virus mutations" in order to strengthen the virus they had created.

This was known as the "T-Virus" experiment.

RNA based viruses can easily be mutated. Through those mutations, it is possible to strengthen their traits.

The reason Birkin was so interested in the Ebola Virus was that he was thinking of recombining the Ebola genes with the “Progenitor” virus to strengthen its attributes. By the time we had arrived at the research center there was already a sample of the Ebola Virus waiting for us.

We changed elevators several times and finally reached the upper level of the complex. When we arrived even Birkin looked up.

It was the first time we had met "her".

We hadn't heard a single word about "her" before. She was a secret of the utmost confidentiality at the research center. And they didn't let any information about her out of the compound.

According to the records, she was at the research center from the very moment it was first built.

She was 25.

But we didn't know her name, nor why she was here.

She was to be used as the experimental subject host for the T-Virus. The day they had begun experimentation was November 10th, 1967.

They did T-Virus experiments on her for 11 years running.

Birkin mumbled something.

Maybe they were words cursing our situation. Maybe they were words of praise. In any case, we had come to the point of no return now.

We had two choices: to succeed in our research...or to lay here rotting like she was. Of course that meant we really only had one choice.

She was bound to a "pipe bed" and something about her made me think...

Had this been a part of Spencer's plan all along?

(The report continues 3 years later)

July 27, 1981 - Alexia I
(Three Years After the Previous Report)

Today a 10 year old girl was appointed as the senior reasercher at the Soth Pole Laboratory.

Her name was was Alexia Ashford.

I was 21 and Birkin was 19.

Irritatingly, the rumor about Alexia at the South Pole monopolised discussion amongst Arklay's researchers.

The Ashford name was ledgendary to the old staff who had been at Umbrella long enough to remember.

Whenever the research cam to standstill they always said "If only Dr. Ashford were still alive."

Certainly Dr. Ashford was a great scientist, one of the original research team who discovered the "Founder Virus", and the originator of the T-Virus.

However he died soon after Umbrella was established. 13 years have passed sice his death. What was the point in expecting anything from the Ashfords?

In fact, the South Pole laboratory, which was fouded after Dr Edward's death by his son, had so far yeild no results.

So not much can be expected from the granddaughter, Alexia!

However, from that day, our dotards subordinates started saying "If only Ms Alexia were here."

It seemed like there was no future potential in tihs lab, as long as we had staff like those bunch of idiots, who could only judge people by their geneology, instead of using their own sense of values.

Those fools could never take initiative and would remain as minor researchers even though they had one foot in the grave. But I was different, I had good judgment.

If I, as the cheif reasearcher, had become emotional, the development of the "T-Virus" would have been delayed even further.

To acheive results, one must stay calm and make sensible decisions whatever the circumstances.

An idea came to me -

The success of the research relied on how to handle those ancient gentlemen. As they could drop dead at any moment, wouldn't it be usefeul if we were to use them for the most dangerous expeiriments.

The art of management is to utilise those beneath you.

However, Birkin was becoming a nuisence.

His reaction to the Alexia rumors was so pathetic.

Althoguh he never said it, he took pride of becoming the youngest researcher at the age of 16. But this 10 year old girl had smashed this figurative trophy to peices. It must have been the first time he had felt defeated.

He could never approve of someone who was younger, with breeding, and a woman.

It was unimaginable that he was being affected by a personal reshuffle, in such a far away place, where there had been acheivments for so long. Afterall, he was still a kid.

Immature as he was, I needed him to pull himself togoether.

Over the last three years our research had reached the second stage.

By then, the "T-Virus was becoming stable enough to be used to create "Living Biological Weapons," better know as Zombies.

Howeve, the virus would never be able to modify the human gene 100% - there are compatibilities between the virus and the genes because no one persons genes are exactly alike.

10% of humans would make a lucky escape and not develop the disease, even though a zombie infected them with the virus. There was nothing we could do about this, no matter how hard we tried.

If it had a 90% success rate then it was good enough to use as biological weapon. But Spencer didn't seem to be satisfied.

Our boss wanted a "stand-alone" weapon which could be used to wipe out an entire population.

But for what?

Essentially, the virtue of biological weapons was the low development costs. But our Living Biological Weapon was becoming extremely expensive.

Spencer would never have chosen this path if he was looking for financial rewards.

If manufactured for use in conjunction with an orthodox weapon, it would have made a handsome profit. But to keep the research going to make a stand-alone, exterminatory weapon did not make business sense.

Why did he continue ignoring the costs?

If his aim was to monopolise the entire war industry by changing the very concepts of war, perhaps I could agree a little bit. I still didn't know what his true intention was.

Apart from Spencer's intention, Birkin was engineering a living biological weapon with an increased emphasis on its ability to fight.

He was trying to create it not only through mutating human genes with the T-virus but also by adding another creature's genetic information.

The fighting living biological weapon would kill all human beings, including those wearing body armor, or equipped with biological warfare suits and those humans who escaped from death through infection. It was later called "The Hunter".

But we had to suspend the experiments for a while - to protect the specimens from Birkin.

Birkin, who had this meaningless anger directed at Alexia, started acting abnormally.

He worked through the night at the lab time after time and repeated disorganized experiments one after another.

Me and my staff collected biopsy samples as quickly as possible before the specimens could die, but we couldn't keep up with his speed.

The Manager of the Laboratory supplied the new specimens as if nothing had happened, but they didn't survive long.

It was Hell.

But she, the female specimen survived the hell.

She was 28 years old by then and had spent 14 years in this lab. The numerous injections of the "Founder" virus she had received over the past 14 years would have left her bereft of any logical reasoning, but if she still had any mind left, death would have been the one and only thign she wanted.

But, she has continued to live. Why was she the only one to survive?

The experiment data did not highlight any difference between her and the other specimens.

We needed much more time to find out the answer to that question.

(Record Continued 2 Years Later)

December 31, 1983 - Alexia II
My 6th winter at Arklay Laboratory.

Two almost stagnant years had passed without much achievement, but the turning point has finally arrived.

The catalyst was a report we received that morning.

Alexia had died at the South Pole institute.

It was said that Alexia was accidentally infected by the T-Veronica virus which she herself had developed.

At that time, Alexia was twelve years old, and was too young to continue this kind of dangerous research.

A rumour began to circulate that Alexia had deliberately infected herself with the virus, but that seemed very unlikely. More likely, she had not got over the death of her father a year earlier and had made an error.

At the South Pole institute, Alexia's research was then taken over by her twin brother, her only blood relative. But no one expected any worthwile results from him. The Ashford family line seemed to have almost died out without producing anything of note. As I suspected, the legend surrounding this family was no more than that.

Alexia's death changed Birkin - or should I say it transformed Birkin back to the person he once was. It played a major factor in Birkin's psychological wellbeing as his researchers started showing him more respect. With Alexia dead, the was no longer anyone who exhibited greater potential than him.

However, talking about Alexia in front of him was still taboo.

Birkin strongly disagreed when I tried to get hold of a T-Veronica sample.

I had to bide my time to find a better opportunity to find out the truth about Alexia's research.

In spite of the fact that Birkin was in much stronger position he still never grew up.

However, in those days, I had much bigger issues to contend with.

The Arklay Laboratory was situated in the centre of a mountainous region, itself surrounded by a deep forest. I often went out for walks during my time there, but I never came across anyone else.

Helicopter was the only means of reaching the laboratory, making it inaccessible to outsiders. The remoteness of the area and lack of people is an important factor when choosing a site for an institute like this, in order to minimise a potential disaster if the virus escaped.

However, biological weapons were not as simple as that. The viruses would not just infect human beings.

No virus chooses just one type of carrier.

For example, apart from humans, the influenza virus can infect birds, pigs, horses and even sea lions.
It complicates the matter further when you know that not all the species of the same family can be infected, but other species of birds are spared. More over, the same virus may take different carriers, depending on it's variants. It is impossible to know all the carriers for even just one virus.

The biggest problem is the high adaptability of the "T-Virus."

While Birkin was not contributing much I had been studying the possibility of secondary infection from the T-virus. What I discovered was that the T-virus has carriers in almost every single species. Not only animals, but also plants, insects, fish, almost all the species have a potential to multiply and spread the "T-virus."

When I was strolling through the woods, I always thought -

Why did Spencer choose this location?

There were so many species that co-existed in the forest.

What would happen if the virus escaped and came into contact with a creature capable of being a carrier?

If it were some insects, then they would not pose a big threat of secondary infection due to their size.

But insects can multiply to enormous numbers.

In that case, how far could the virus spread?

Suppose it was some plants. It may appear at first that the possibility of widespread infection would be small as plants cannot move.

But what about their pollen?

This location was too dangerous.

Come to think of it, it made perfect sense for the Ashfords to choose the South Pole as site for their laboratory.

In contrast, this location, it seems, was selected in order to spread the virus.

But, that couldn't be ture, could it?

What did Spencer want us to do?

These thoughts were too important to share with anybody else in the laboratory.

The only person I cold possibly ask was Birkin. But, it was obvious there was no point in talking to him about it.

What I needed was more information.

Around this time, I started to feel the limitation of my situation.

In order to find out Spencer's true intention, I needed to be in a position which would give me access to the information I required.

I had no hesitation in giving up my present position for this purpose. But, I did not want to be too hasty because if Spencer had any suspicions about my real motives, then the game would be up.

I concentrated on my research with Birkin so that my real thoughs would not betray me.

While we were keeping ourselves busy, the female specimen was almost forgotten about.

A failure, with no use, but still she lived on. We called her a failure because we could not get any valid data from her.

Until that experiment took place, five years later...

(Record continues five years later)

July 1, 1988 - Nemisis
It was our 11th summer since we arrived at the Arclay Laboratory.

I was twenty-eight years old.

Birkin was then, a father with a two year old girl. His partner was also a researcher at Arklay.

It was hard to believe that anyone could marry and bring up a child while both of them worked here. On the other hand, because he was different he could continue his research at Arklay.

Only the mad could succeed there.

In those ten years our research finally reached the third stage.

A highly sophisticated Fighting Biological Weapon - with intelligence, which would obey programmed orders and act as a soldier. That was the monster we tried to create and we called it "The Tyrant."

But, from the beginning there was no huge obstacle - it was almost impossible to obtain a living subject on which we could base the Tyrant. The supply of genetically adaptable human beings for the Tyrant was extremely limited.

This is due to the nature of the "T-virus."

The T-virus variant which was ideal to create the zombies and the Hunters was suitable for most humans, but it had a fault of making the carrier's brain cells decline.

To transform the carrier into a Tyrant we needed to keep the carrier's intelligence at a certain level. In order to overcome this issue, Birkin had been working on extracting a variant which would cause the least damage to the brain when it was adapted perfectly to the carrier.

However, humans with a genetic match to this variant were extremely rare.

The Genetic Analytic team's simulation report told us that only one in ten million would be infected and transform into a Tyrant with the remainder becoming zombies.

It might have been possible to develop a more progressive strain of the T-virus which could transform more humans into Tyrants. However, to push the research further, first of all we required human subjects with a perfect genetic match to the variant.

There was little possibility that such a specimen would be supplied to us, because even if we scoured the whole USA, we would only be able to find fifty or so of them. In fact, at that time, even with the utmost effort we only managed to collect a few specimens with a close match.

Even from the outset, our research was at a standstill.

But one day, we heard a rumour that a European laboratory were working on a project to create a third Living Biological Weapon.

It was called the "Nemesis Project."

I acted quickly to obtain a sample from the project so that I could use it to our advantage. Of course, Birkin was against this idea, but this time I somehow managed to persuade him. He had no choice but to admit that our research wouldn't go any further unless we found the matching specimen.

A few days later, in the middle of the night, a parcel arrived from Europe via various transit points. It arrived to our heliport in a small box.

"Nemesis Prototype"

We had to pull many strings to obtain it from the French laboratory where it had been developed, but it could not have happened without the support of Spencer.

Birkin showed no interest at all, but he accepted the importance of the experiment.

The samples had been developed with a brand new design in mind.

A parasitic living body, created by genetical modification - that was Nemesis.

A living body with intelligence, which was unable to do anything on its own.

However, once it parasitised the brain of another living being, it would take full control of the body and demonstrate its highly developed aptitude for combat. The project was to provide the intellience and the biological body for combat separately and then combine them in order to create one living biological weapon.

If it was successful we no longer needed to worry about the problems we had previously encountered.

But there was a new problem in that it did not always settle in the carrier in the same manner as we desired.

On the report attached to the sample, we saw nothing but a long list of deaths.

The carriers lasted for only five minutes after Nemesis took control of their brains.

But we already knew that an incomplete prototype would be extremely dangerous.

If we succeeded in prolonging the carriers' survival then we could hope to take the lead in the Nemesis project. This was my aim.

Naturally, I was planning to use the female specimen.

With her unusual ability to survive, she could endure the Nemesis prototype for a long time.

Even if we failed, we would lose nothing.

However, our experiments took an unexpected turn.

Nemesis vanished when it tried to enter her brain.

At first, we could not understand what happened. We never thought that she would take over the parasite.

That was the beginning.

Until then, she was barely alive but something was about to awake in her.

We had to start examining her afresh.

Over the last ten years, she had been checked down to the minutest details, but we decided to ignore the past data and start anew. Now, for the first time in her twenty-one years of being here, something no one had seen was about to be revealed.

After much examination, only Birkin noticed it.

Something definitely existed in her. This, however, went beyond the original T-Virus project and led us in a totally new and different direction.

That was the beginning of the G-virus project, which changed all our destinies.

(Record continues seven years later)

July 31, 1995 - G-Virus
It was summer again and 17 years from the time I first visited the place.

Whenever I went there I was remembered the smell of the winds from that day. Nothing has changed since then, even the buildings and surroundings.

I could see Birkin, who had already arrived, standing on the heliport.

I had not seen him for a long time.

Four years have passed since I left Arklay Laboratory.

At that time, when Birkin's G-virus project was approved, I applied for my transfer to the Information Bureau and was readily accepted. It must have looked natural for everyone that I was giving up my career as a researcher and seeking a change.

Actually, the G-virus project was beyond my abilities. Even if I did not have any reasons to find out Spencer's true intention, it was true that I felt my faculties as a reasearcher had reached their limits.

In spite of the downdraft caused by the helicopter, Birkin never took his eyes off the research papers. Although it seemed he still visited Arklay regularly, he was no longer a researcher at that facility.

Sometime ago, he had been transferred to a huge underground laboratory in Raccoon City, which was his base for the G-virus project headed up by himself.

Quite honestly, four years ago, I never thought that Spencer would approve the G-virus project because it was founded on an unknown belief and deviated from the original concept of a biological weapon.

The distinct difference between the G-virus and the T-virus was that the organism infected by the G-virus continued to mutate by itself. Because a virus is an unprotected form of a gene, it can easily mutate. This mutation can happen when a virus is left on its own, but once a virus is in other organism, it is a different story.

A gene in an organism's body hardly mutates even though its structure was modified by a virus, unless some external influences, such as exposure to radiation, takes place. However, an organism infected with the G-virus keeps mutating itself without any external influence until it dies.

Similar characteristics did exist in the "T-Virus."

When we placed the Living Biological Weapon under certain circumstances, we recorded some genetic recombination caused by an activated virus in it's body. However, in the case of the T-virus it always needed some external influences to trigger the recombination and the results were always close to what we predicted.

G-infected organisms totally lacked such predictability.

No one could foresee what recombination it would take, and whatever means to stop the process it kept mutating nonetheless, making our manipulation worthless.

Seven years ago, Birkin found signs of this effect in the female specimen. On the surface she had not changed at all, but internally, she changed continously and remained alive by merging and coexisting with all the experimental viruses she was administered. And the twenty-one years of internal mutation evolved her enough to accept the parasitic organism Nemesis.

The G-virus project was trying to push this abnormality to the ultimate limit.

But, the end result of this project could be either the evolution of the ultimate organism or total destruction.

Can we call this a weapon?

What made Spencer approve this project?

Even though I had been in the Information Bureau for four years by this time, I could still not understand his motives. And now, Spencer does not even come to Arklay.

It is as if he had foreseen something was about to happen there.

The image of Spencer fading away from me like a mirage in the desert.

But an opportunity must present itself sometime.

If I can survive until then.

The lift was carrying both Birkin and me to the highest security level, to the place where we saw him for the first time. The new chief researcher John, Birkin's successor, was waiting for us there.

He was transferred from the Chicago laboratory and was said to be an excellent scientist, but he seemed to be too normal to work for this laboratory. He had doubts about the cruelty of the research and reported to his superior to correct the situation.

That caused a big enough stir even in the Information Bureau.

It was everyone's opinion that if any information was leaked, it had to come from him.

We ignored John and started to give her final treatment.

To kill her.

She has regained a little intelligence after taking in Nemesis. But, it resulted in nothing more than making her behave strangely.

The odd behaviour continued to escalate. Nowadays, she peels off other women's faces and wears them over her own. The records show that she behaved in the same manner when she was first given the Founder Virus. We were never sure what made her react in such a way, but her termination was decided after three researchers had become her victims.

Now that the study of the G-virus was on track she lost her status as a valuable specimen.

The termination of her vital signs was checked and confirmed repeatedly for the next three days. Then, the body was taken away to some location at the instruction of the Laboratory Manager.

Even now, I still do not know who she was and why she was brought here.

Of course it was exactly the same for other specimens.

However, she had not been there, the G-Project might never have existed and if that was the case then Birkin and I would be in very different situations.

As I left Arklay Laboratory, I was thinking things over.

Just how calculating is Spencer?

(The "Case" began three years after this report.)

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