Chapter 9

"Miss Kelly." Before Li Yexing could draw his gun, Tililith waved and greeted the woman first.

Is this Miss Kelly that Tililith often mentions? Li Yexing frowned. This Miss Kelly seems to be a researcher in that unknown institute, just like Freeman.

Although Tililith seems to like her, she still did not stop the tragedy that happened to Tililith in that institute. In Li Yexing's eyes, she is no different from those researchers who cruelly harmed Tililith. Just based on this reason, Li Yexing cannot be friendly to her.

Dumping the bags on the ground, Li Yexing held Tililith's small hand with one hand and the gun at his waist with the other, "Miss, did you get the wrong person?"

Seemingly not expecting Li Yexing to have such great hostility towards her, a hint of imperceptible panic flashed across Kelly's cold face. She tried to maintain her composure and said, "I didn't get it wrong. I came for this child. But, would you not invite me in first?"

Li Yexing asked in response, "Why should I invite you in?"

"Commission" Kelly answered after hesitating for a moment.

After a while, they returned to the office. Li Yexing casually threw the ingredients on the table and looked at Kelly, who was sitting on the sofa.

"So, tell me your purpose. Based on what you said, I will decide whether or not to twist your head off." Li Yexing said with a gloomy expression on his face.

However, Kelly's attention was completely focused on Tililith. Since she entered the room, Kelly had been staring at her. When she saw Tililith humming a slightly off-key song and taking out one piece of women's clothing after another from her pocket, her cold expression gradually softened, as if a worried mother watching her daughter.

This made Li Yexing even more annoyed. He harshly knocked on the table with his fingers and said, "Miss Kelly! Let's talk about the commission."

"Sorry, I was distracted." After the apology, Kelly crossed her legs and placed her hands with crossed fingers on her knees. She looked up at Li Yexing with a cold face and said, "First of all, let me introduce myself. My name is Kelly Marlene. I am a biochemical expert, and I have been serving in a certain research institute, participating in a certain project. The research result of this project is this child, codenamed T-Lilith."

"Get to the point. I have to cook, and I don't have time to listen to your rambling." Li Yexing impatiently waved his hand in response to what she said.

"Do you remember the armed escort a few days ago?" Kelly didn't get straight to the point. Instead, she mentioned the armed escort that Li Yexing participated in a few days ago.

"You also saw the two humanoid creatures that came out of the storage box, right? That's Tyrant T-103C. Our research institute has developed a new product based on the original Tyrant T-103. Oh, sorry, you may not understand what I'm talking about. In other words..."

"I understand. Tyrant was developed by Umbrella Corporation's former Soviet officer Sergei Vladimir as a B.O.W. prototype, and then basically all the popular models on the black market are based on this model. " Li Yexing rudely interrupted Kelly's words. He not only felt that this woman was putting on airs, but also that she was arrogant and conceited. "Hurry up and get to the point."

This time it was Kelly's turn to be surprised. The young mercenary from a small country in Eastern Europe who was sitting in front of her actually knew about this kind of confidential information.

It should be noted that after Umbrella's downfall, many confidential documents were lost or sealed by relevant agencies. Kelly herself was only able to access these materials after becoming a core research member. And this guy, he just spouted all of it like a textbook.

Where did this mercenary come from?

"If you can understand, that's great," Kelly said, straightening out her disrupted thoughts.

"Tyrant is a relatively successful B.O.W., but in the eyes of my superior, it's not enough. He wants Tyrant to become more intelligent and have a body more in line with a normal human, without decreasing its combat ability. So, we began to consider no longer using normal clone bodies as the basis. In order to make the bodies more compatible with the T-virus, we began to artificially create genetic defects in the bodies, and then use the T-virus to perfect them. If the traditional Tyrant was transformed using the T-virus on a normal genetic basis, then our project aims to combine the defective genes of clone bodies with the T-virus like a puzzle, using the T-virus to repair the genetic defects. After thousands of failures, we finally succeeded in obtaining an almost perfect product with human appearance, Tyrant's strength, and even more powerful intelligence. That child, T-Lilith, full name Tyrant Lilith."

After saying all of this, Kelly raised her head to try and observe Li Yexing's reaction, but Li Yexing's face remained unchanged, making it impossible to discern his thoughts.

Beside them, Tililith had already changed her clothes. She wore a white inner coat with a slightly loose red coat that looked like it was one size too big, and light blue ripped jeans on her lower body. On her feet were white sneakers.

She walked over to Li Yexing with light steps and tugged at the hem of his clothes, asking, "Li Yexing, do I look good?"

"Beautiful, no matter what Lilith wears, you will always look beautiful!" The shadow on Li Yexing's face instantly disappeared as he turned around and smiled while patting Tililith's head. She then turned around and asked Kelly, as if showing off, "Is it pretty, Miss Kelly?"

"It's pretty," Kelly's face also showed a slightly stiff smile. She wanted to continue the previous topic with Li Yexing, but his attention was completely off her. She had to clear her throat to emphasize her presence.

Li Yexing played with Tililith for a while, then said, "Lilith, take all the food to the kitchen, and wait for me in the bedroom in a moment."

"I want to hear Li Yexing talk to Miss Kelly," Tililith said.

"Be good and obedient," Li Yexing patted Tililith's head again. Tililith compromised and left expressionlessly with her bags.

"Mr. Li Yexing, since you know about the Tyrant, you probably also know a lot about other B.O.W.s, right?" Seeing Tililith leave, Kelly continued, "I believe you also understand the value of this product. My... superior, hope that I can retrieve this rare subject for the organization. As of now, T-Lilith's success is irreplaceable. You risked your life to recover her from the battlefield, so I assume you also hope to sell her for a good price. So, just name your price. As long as it's not too outrageous, we can afford it."

"Forget about that for now. The security forces of the convoy were wiped out that night, and the BSAA and Tyrant were in a tough spot. How did you know that I took Lilith away?" Li Yexing asked.

"I implanted a tracking device into T-Lilith," Kelly replied.

"Are you representing your organization to recover Lilith?"

"That's right."

"How interesting. Your big organization behind you didn't directly send their security forces to come after me for such an important cargo, which ended up in a place like Roples, but instead sent an unarmed scientist to negotiate with me?" Li Yexing's face, shrouded in darkness, showed a cruel smile.

He rushed forward, grabbing Kelly's neck in one breath and then forcefully pressing her entire body onto the sofa. With the other hand, he pulled out a Glock pistol and pointed it at Kelly's forehead. "Are you fucking kidding me? You idiot?"

"No, let me explain..." Kelly couldn't catch her breath. She still wanted to argue, but Li Yexing was not in the mood to listen.

"Shut up. You and your organization behind you are nothing but a bunch of lowlifes, even worse than scum like me. I heard you shot the girl to test her performance, right? How impressive, using a machine gun to shoot a child who doesn't even look 18?!"

"I wanted to stop it, but..."

"Don't joke with me. I'm afraid you're looking forward to it too, right? Hmm? Are you looking forward to seeing how many bullets that child can take? After all, she is a killing machine that you created!" Li Yexing's smile gradually became insane.

Blood vessels burst in his eyes, and even his voice trembled a bit. "To ensure the safety of that child and myself, I won't let you leave this city alive. Lilith seems to like you. Honestly, I'm a little afraid that killing you in front of her will make her hate me, but at this point, I don't care about that anymore. I'll hand over your body to the warehouse two streets away. That's where Roples specializes in processing outsider's corpses. There's a little mute girl living there who will use a chainsaw to cut your body into pieces. Now, let's hear your last words!"

"Actually, I am…!!!"

"Fine, I've heard your last words," interrupted Li Yexing rudely, "Now, go die!"

As soon as he finished speaking, a small hand grabbed the back of Li Yexing's collar. In the next moment, Li Yexing was thrown out and he even fired three shots toward the collapsed Kelly, all of which missed and hit the wall behind the sofa instead. Despite this, Kelly was still terrified and felt like she had just escaped death.

Li Yexing fell to the ground and turned his head to see Tililith holding onto his collar.

"Miss Kelly is a good person and wouldn't harm us," Tililith said.

"You shouldn't have saved her," Li Yexing stood up, slapped his butt, and said to Tililith, "She's just a researcher, and all researchers involved with B.O.W. related research are soul-selling demons! They're obsessed with turning all kinds of creatures in the world into freaks! They've never thought about the disasters their research could bring to the world! If we let her leave Roples alive, not only will we suffer, but they might even..."

"Enough!" Kelly slammed the table, interrupting Li Yexing's words. She took a deep breath and looked at Li Yexing with a complicated expression.

"I came here on my own, and I installed the tracker on the child without the organization's knowledge. The reason I lied before was that I thought Mr. Li Yexing only wanted to sell the child for a good price. I thought being straightforward about negotiating could make it easier for me to take the child away from you. But I was wrong. You're different from the other mercenaries I've met. Mr. Li Yexing, You're a kind person." Kelly finished speaking, her cold face showing a hint of sincerity.

Li Yexing didn't say anything, he just instinctively blocked Tililith in front of him.

"You don't have to be so hostile towards me. Our goal is the same. We both want this child to live a happy life, not as a weapon, but as a normal girl" Kelly said.

"How can you prove yourself?" Li Yexing asked.

Kelly looked at Li Yexing, her heart seemed to be struggling. After a long time, she made up her mind and slowly said something that also surprised Li Yexing.

"I betrayed the organization by leaking the T-Lilith convoy's whereabouts to the BSAA."