On Tina's side, being affected by the system amplified her already unlucky streak to its peak. No sooner had she set foot in Lanxiang City with Claire than she was apprehended by the fake Ada and her cronies.
"Tina Sprout? I didn't expect to see you here," Carla remarked, recognizing Tina as an old acquaintance of Ada Wong. Without further explanation, Carla had her men arrest Tina. Claire, ready to resist, was swiftly knocked unconscious and captured as well.
Tina sighed helplessly as she watched the cutscene unfold.
At this point, Kayu Senju was still with Ada Wong, helping Sherry and Jack escape. After ensuring the two met up with Leon, she helped Chris snipe the fake Ada twice and managed to grab a handbag from her. The handbag contained three viruses, of which one was gone, and the remaining two were seized by Ada Wong. Although Tina sympathized with the fake Ada's plight, the real Ada pulled the trigger, eliminating 'Carla,' the mastermind. Kayu Senju then broke down the fake Ada's body using the Veronica Virus, ensuring it would never threaten the world again.
After solving this problem, Ada Wong arrived at the control room. She paused the missile launch program targeting Lanxiang City and ordered the ship to stop resisting, then headed to meet Leon.
Leon, meanwhile, had encountered a significant problem. Ada Wong's obsessive suitor, Simmons, had injected himself with a virus and, learning about Ada Wong's true nature, transformed into a 'dinosaur' to pursue Leon relentlessly.
"Miss Kayu, want to join?" asked Leon.
"Sure~" Kayu Senju eagerly agreed.
Leon soon discovered that Claire and Tina had been captured, passing this information to Chris, who had just finished eliminating the bandits on the ship. With only one airplane available, Chris and Piers headed to the fake Ada's secret base.
After watching the cutscene, Tina could finally move, albeit with her hands and feet still tied. "Claire~ Claire~" she called out. Claire awoke and, after struggling a bit, found she couldn't move. "Unlucky, we got captured again," she sighed to Tina.
"Hahaha! Just like on that island, but this time we weren't injected with any crazy viruses," Tina replied. She noticed a computer displaying, "Experiment completed, theoretical data correct."
Though she couldn't fully understand it, her intuition told her this might be good news.
While tied to a pillar, Claire found a comfortable position and said with a smile, "I remember finding you tied to a pillar last time, injected with some fear virus. What happened to that virus?"
"It got neutralized, lowering the infection rate a bit," Tina explained.
"Tina, what's your infection rate now?"
"Forty-five percent. It's dangerous but manageable," Tina reassured, noting the in-game data showed a dangerous level due to multiple experiments. However, her real self maintained a delicate balance between the viruses in her body.
As they chatted, the devices binding them released. "Tina! Claire?" Chris's voice echoed in the room.
"Brother?"
"Stay put, Piers and I are coming down!"
"Okay!"
Claire looked at Tina, "Looks like we're saved"
"But I have a bad feeling about this."
"Tina, stop it, please, I'm begging you," Claire pleaded, fearing another encounter with a new virus.
"It's okay! Chris is on our side," Tina reassured.
"He'll be happy to hear you say that," Claire quipped.
They armed themselves with the weapons conveniently placed nearby. Tina couldn't help but find it odd that the captors left their weapons within reach. They followed Chris and Piers to escape but soon encountered a huge cocoon.
"What is this?" Chris asked, seeing the computer introductions about Chaos Zombies. The cocoon was a proto-gut creature, a fusion of the Gastrea virus and the C-Virus.
"This is..." Tina's whole body went cold. The cocoon was a Stage 5 Gastrea, a formidable monster nearly impossible to defeat without special weapons.
"No!" Piers received crucial information from Leon, who had met up with Sherry and Jack. Leon shared the details of a fusion agent, which Chris showed to Tina.
"When creating this Chaos Walker, the researchers retained some humanity, developing a fusion agent, a neutralizing agent, and a destructive agent. Tina, can you see if these will work?" Chris asked.
The fusion agent balanced the two viruses in the body. The neutralizing agent transformed infected tissues into normal cells, neutralizing both viruses and ensuring safety. The destructive agent destroyed the regenerative properties of the viruses, turning them into harmless substances.
Tina's goal in playing the game was within reach, but the cocoon began to shake ominously, ready to hatch into a monstrous stage-five Gastrea.
Liu Yuan and Kisara, watching Tina, were fascinated by her progress. "Tina hasn't reload a save until now, right?" Kisara asked.
"Yes, except for the initial first, she hasn't restarted. If she passes this level, the reward will be unimaginable," Liu Yuan replied.
"What's the reward?" Kisara asked excitedly.
"You'll find out later. Although Resident Evil goes up to eight, passing six completes an achievement. She might be the first in our internet cafe to achieve a true no-deaths, no-save completion of the Realism Difficulty."