On September 22, 1998, the Raccoon City Times reported the case of a teenager being attacked in a city park: Jenna Williamson (age fourteen) was at softball practice around 6:30 pm last night, returning home from a game , she was attacked by a stranger in Birch Creek Park.
A man appeared from the south side of the park, hit Williamson's bicycle and tried to take her hostage. Williamson abandoned his bike and fled the scene, running to the Atkins' nearby residence for help.
After receiving Ms. Atkins' call, police conducted a large-scale search throughout the park but were unable to find the suspicious person. According to the girl's statement (released by the police this morning), the suspect looked like a worker. His clothes and hair were covered in dirt and his body exuded a stench similar to "rotten meat".
Furthermore, the man appeared to be drunk and was staggering while chasing her, as if he would fall at any moment.
As the cannibalistic murders from May to July remain unsolved, police believe the man Williamson encountered may be the killer who was seen in Victory Park last month.
Mayor Warren held a press conference today at which Director Brian Irons gave a speech. It is scheduled that starting next week, the newly recruited police officers will carry out regular patrols in the Central Park area...
On September 23, the task force sneaked into the basement of Brood Base in Raccoon City. At the same time, William freed a group of mercenaries, killing most of the G-Virus researchers.
Four USS team members holding MP5 rushed into the laboratory. During the confrontation, the sound of a glass falling to the floor was mistaken for a gunshot, and William immediately shot and took away the suitcase containing the G-virus and T-virus. However, the team did not realize that William had infected himself with a vial of the virus.
William transformed into G1 and killed every member of the team except Hunk in the sewer. He swallowed all the test tubes containing the G virus and broke the paste. The T virus was exposed directly in the sewage. The rats in the sewers were infected with the T.
The Umbrella Corporation warns of the impending catastrophe, sending the Biohazard Response Team (UBCs) to the city.
Police Chief Brian Irons heard the news, suspected he was infected, and prepared to sabotage all police operations. At the same time, Mayor Michael Warren also received the news and hurriedly fled the city.
After seeing the mayor escape, Javier was not surprised. After all, his own life was important. At this time, the police force in Raccoon City was seriously understaffed and officers were bitten by zombies from time to time.
In the early hours of September 24, Raccoon City's sewer ecosystem collapsed and giant rats and cockroaches filled the sewers. Eventually, the pipeline enters the suburban Victory Lake Reservoir (Raccoon City's main water source).
Although the US government issued an order to the police department to open fire and use heavy weapons when necessary, Police Chief Brian Irons told all officers on duty that the government issued an order prohibiting shooting. So much so that in the early hours of the morning, after a robbery occurred in the municipal building, the police were unable to withdraw from riot control activities and victims began to occur, meaning the investigation could only be reserved.
The Pentagon sent a task force to assess the infection situation in Raccoon City, where thousands of people have been infected. To cover up the virus outbreak, they lied to the media that all operations were aimed at investigating radioactive contamination in Raccoon City. The military, the Raccoon City Police Department and the Raccoon City Fire Department began a joint evacuation of civilians.
The first helicopter full of citizens took off from the Raccoon City Zoo. Citizens leaving the city were placed in an unfinished quarantine area and all were required to undergo a full virus infection test before being allowed to leave. Local residents and the media failed to realize the seriousness of the matter.
In the afternoon, police carried out a violent raid on Annadali Street in the north, where the infection rate was high. The remaining police officers began to evacuate the citizens of the north. At this time, with the exception of a small number of citizens, people still did not know that this was an infection incident. The situation began to gradually deteriorate and finally, after the police abandoned the northern area, where infections were highest, Raccoon City was split in half and the virus began to spread south.
At night, Raccoon City police were ordered to block roads within the city and a team was ordered to detonate explosives on major thoroughfares. Furthermore, internal information vaguely implies that the police can kill any civilian who disobeys police provisions.
Javier and Jill also joined the team at this time. Facing the increasingly serious situation, they were helpless and could only do their best to save as many people as possible.
On September 25th, due to the growing scale of the epidemic, it was decided to use the police station as a temporary shelter.
Director Irons issued an order to block all escape routes, empty weapons caches, and disperse weapons and ammunition everywhere to weaken the survivors' ability to resist.
While this is useful for resistance in the early stages of an outbreak, once an area is overrun by zombies, it means that all ammunition supplies in the area will be lost, making it impossible to rescue them.
At night, an infected refugee turned up at the police station. Although he was quickly subdued, he still killed one police officer and injured three others. Some refugees who saw the entire process began to have a mental breakdown.
When a biochemical disaster broke out across the city, police publicly claimed it was a viral infection. The Daily Raccoon and Raccoon City Times accused Raccoon City police of blocking news.
The government launched a second emergency plan and blocked all escape routes from Raccoon City in the north.
Raccoon City General Hospital announced that it had developed antibodies against the virus, but the infection spread to doctors and patients before the vaccine could be administered, all researchers turned into zombies.
In the end, Raccoon City Hospital was abandoned by the police and quarantined, and the hospital's emergency rescue system collapsed. After Umbrella learned of this situation, they issued the command to destroy the hospital.
Upon learning of the situation, Javier decided to go to the hospital to get the antibody vaccine and rescue the remaining researchers on site, they were all talented people.
The hospital was isolated and occupied by zombies. Javier cannot get there and can only look for opportunities to act.
The Umbrella Company also realized the seriousness of the matter and hired unofficial troops to eliminate the zombies in the city. However, the mercenaries were wiped out after three hours.
The Umbrella Company and Brian Irons ordered RPD troops to face the zombies head on, but they were quickly eliminated by the zombies. According to investigations, a total of 43 police officers and special constables died in the line of duty, and the south began to gradually fall.
(End of chapter)