As powerful combat maids, Roberta and Fabiola very quickly took out the members of the terrorist group who had split off, and immediately entered the first floor of Carriage No. 11, launching an assault towards the second floor.
At the same time, after throwing in more than a dozen grenades, Aiden and the others also raised their guns and rushed into Carriage No. 11. After an intense firefight, most of the terrorists were taken out by them, leaving only one survivor who appeared to be their leader.
Dragging that survivor to Carriage No. 10, Aiden didn't rush to question him, but instead had Roberta and Fabiola watch over him while he himself went over to Dutch.
At this moment, Dutch's face was covered in blood, looking extremely terrifying, but it was only terrifying in appearance.
When he was thrown out by the shockwave of the explosion, aside from one piece of shrapnel cutting his scalp, there was nothing wrong with the rest of his body. It's just that when he fell to the ground, he didn't catch his breath in time and couldn't get up right away.
Coupled with the blood-covered face, it made Aiden and the others think he was seriously injured.
Seeing that Dutch was fine, Aiden let out a sigh of relief. After chatting with him briefly, he came over to the captured terrorist.
At this time, Jill and Choi Ji-yoon were interrogating the terrorist leader, but the other party's attitude was unusually tough. No matter what Jill and Choi Ji-yoon asked, he wouldn't open his mouth.
Aiden immediately signaled Roberta with his eyes. Roberta understood, pulled out a military knife, and neatly sliced off one of the terrorist's fingers.
But the terrorist was still very tough. Although he was sweating profusely from the pain, he still wouldn't speak, not even scream.
"Very tough, a real man." Aiden snorted coldly and looked at Roberta again. Roberta then sliced off another finger.
This time, the terrorist finally screamed, "Stop cutting, I'll talk, I'll talk."
Afterwards, enduring the pain, the terrorist confessed his origins.
But what surprised Aiden and the others was that the terrorist's organization turned out to be an anti-government armed force from T Country. And their goal wasn't Soi, but to take revenge on T Country's government. Their ultimate aim was to spread the virus in Bangkok.
Hearing that they weren't after Soi, Aiden lost interest in the interrogation, but Jill and Choi Ji-yoon became even more serious.
"Who provided your virus and parasites?" Jill asked.
"And those B.O.W.s," Choi Ji-yoon added.
"The black market. We bought them on the black market," the terrorist said. "The virus and the B.O.W.s you mentioned were sold to us by an E Country man named Vladimir. For that, we paid him ten million U.S. dollars."
Upon hearing that familiar name, Aiden immediately turned his head, stunned. 'That guy hadn't been taken out by Wesker yet?'
"What about the parasites?" Jill asked again. "Also bought on the black market?"
The terrorist shook his head. "No, the parasites were given to us by a European woman."
"For free?" Choi Ji-yoon asked curiously.
The terrorist nodded. "She didn't ask us for money."
"What did that European woman look like?" Jill asked again.
The terrorist thought for a bit and said, "She wore a bird-beaked mask and a large cloak. I don't know what she looked like, but…"
"But what?" Jill pressed.
A strange look appeared on the terrorist's face. "But there was a very tall woman beside that European woman, almost three meters tall."
"Three meters? That tall? Are you sure you're not exaggerating?" Jill frowned and asked.
"Of course not," the terrorist shook his head.
At that moment, Aiden suddenly asked, "Did that very tall woman call the masked woman 'Mother Miranda'?"
"How did you know that?" the terrorist asked in shock.
"You don't need to know," Aiden shook his head, but was somewhat puzzled in his heart.
Whether it was Mother Miranda or the Plaga parasite, they didn't seem related at all. After all, Mother Miranda possessed the Mold and was single-mindedly focused on reviving her daughter, she wouldn't need or care for parasites. And why would she give parasites to terrorists?
Aiden couldn't figure it out. 'What is she doing this for?'
Looking at Aiden deep in thought with a frown, Jill left the terrorist and turned to ask him, "Aiden, do you know something? Who is that Mother Miranda?"
"I know a little," Aiden nodded and continued, "Remember Spencer?"
"How could I not? He was a key focus of BSAA. But after Umbrella's branch in the Americas was dismantled, no one knows where he went," Jill said.
"But what does that have to do with him?" she asked again.
"That woman called the Mother Miranda was Spencer's spiritual mentor," Aiden said.
Jill instantly frowned. "Sounds like that woman isn't any good either."
"That's one thing you're absolutely right about." Aiden smiled, then continued asking the terrorist, "After that woman called Mother Miranda gave you the parasites, did she say anything else?"
The terrorist thought for a while, then hesitated before saying, "She didn't say anything to me, but when she left, I vaguely heard her tell that tall woman to notify… notify… oh right, the one you just mentioned, Spencer. She said to notify him and let him send people to record the data."
After hearing his words, Aiden suddenly figured out a few things. Perhaps Mother Miranda was helping Spencer do something a friend and mentor should do.
After all, according to official lore, Spencer had always kept in contact with Mother Miranda. Now that Spencer was in trouble, his company was nearly gone, and research resources were dwindling.
He probably sought help from Miranda, and not wanting to expose the Mold to the public, she simply got hold of some Plaga parasite samples and handed them over to the anti-government forces who had just finished a deal with Vladimir, letting them use it together with the virus.
After all, compared to lab data, live experiments using a large number of human subjects were much more efficient.
However, what Spencer and Mother Miranda didn't expect was that just as the plan began, it was accidentally discovered by Aiden and his group. Although it still caused many casualties, the damage was limited to this train and did not spread, naturally, it failed to gather the necessary data.
But actually, this didn't have much impact on either Spencer or Mother Miranda. Mother Miranda, of course, didn't care, helping Spencer was just a favor, and she didn't care about the outcome.
As for Spencer, his experiences over the years had made him used to failure. Anyway, he did all this only to use the characteristics of the Plaga parasite and the T-virus to create a more controllable bioweapon.
Of course, not for himself, he just wanted to trade the research for more resources. After all, most of Umbrella's American division had been taken over by Alexia. Even the survivors were controlled by the M Country's government, turning into the "New Umbrella."
But without exception, none of it had anything to do with Spencer anymore. Naturally, he couldn't get the resources he used to rely on to continue researching the Progenitor Virus.
As for Umbrella's European division, it had even less to do with him. After losing control of the Americas division, several major pharmaceutical companies divided the European branch under the UN's direction. The remaining strongholds were controlled by Alexia and Wesker.
As for the African division of Umbrella, it had never been under his control. After Marcus died, it had basically become independent and was now out of reach.
So, Spencer was now basically penniless. If not for the loyal Vladimir working for him, he wouldn't even have the capital to continue researching. But precisely because of this, he had gone all in.
In the past, he was afraid his actions might cause too much trouble and bring sanctions. Now, he didn't care about anyone's opinion, so long as someone paid, he was willing to sell any technology.
This was also why the terrorists could buy a virus and B.O.W.s from him for just ten million.
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Although through the terrorist's confession Aiden guessed part of the origin of this matter, he didn't dare jump to conclusions about what exactly Spencer and Mother Miranda were trying to do.
Then Aiden asked the surviving terrorist a few more questions, but that was all he knew. After all, their organization's purpose was "simple", to carry out a bio-terror attack in T Country's capital.
When there was nothing more useful to ask, Aiden handed the terrorist over to Jill and Choi Ji-yoon, after all, one worked for the BSAA, and the other for the UN counter-terrorism unit, so it was most appropriate to give him to them.
What came next was very important.
Although most humans on the train had died under attacks from zombies and parasites, there were still some lucky ones.
At least there were still a dozen survivors gathered around them. So, for their safety and to prevent the virus from reaching the city, what they needed to do now was stop the train.
Only, the terrorist told them the control panel was destroyed in the second explosion, and now the train was heading for Bangkok at top speed, with no way to stop it.
"If it can't be stopped, then we can jump off!" someone suggested, it was one of the tourist group.
"When we were kids, we watched Railroad Guerrilla, and there were demonstrations in it," he added.
Aiden was about to nod, he also thought this was feasible. But when he looked at the reference points speeding past outside the window, he felt this might not be such a good idea.
Then Dutch said, "This train is a high-speed passenger train, with a top speed of 140 km/h."
As he said this, Dutch looked around at the people and continued, "At this speed, if we jump, probably not many of us would survive."
Of course, the "us" here referred only to them. With their physical strength, jumping would at most cause injuries. But for the others, it wouldn't be so lucky.
Everyone fell silent, racking their brains for a solution.
After a while, someone else suggested, "Maybe we can jump when the train passes a river. Falling into water should be better than hitting the ground, right?"
"At a speed of 140 kilometers per hour, falling into water is no different from falling onto concrete." Aiden glanced at the person.
He had experienced it himself, in Raccoon City, he once jumped into water from a helicopter dozens of meters up and almost lost his breath. And back then, his physical condition was far above normal. Even he barely made it. For normal people, one wrong posture and they'd die instantly.
Hearing Aiden's rebuttal, the person immediately fell silent, furrowing his brows, seemingly worried about his own future.
"But actually, we have another method, and we don't even need to jump off the train," Aiden said after a while.
"What method?" everyone looked at him.
Aiden didn't answer. He just removed his backpack, pretending to take something out, but actually pulled it from his system space.
They were palm-sized yellow block-shaped items, colorless and odorless, looking like sliced butter.
Aiden neatly placed those yellow blocks on the floor, then picked one up and said to the crowd, "Our country has a saying, 'a fast train relies on the engine.' We just need to cut off the power to our carriage."
Dutch instantly recognized what he was holding and asked in confusion, "This is... plastic explosive? Balalaika didn't prepare this for us, right? Where'd you get it?"
"Don't worry about where I got it. What matters now is getting out of here." As Aiden spoke, he pulled out some tape from the backpack and began making a daisy chain of explosives.
The only issue was, though he had plenty of items in his system space, he didn't have a suitable detonator.
Luckily, he still had several grenades. He took one, removed the fuse, attached it to the explosive, and tied a string to the pin.
Because the plastic explosives were very powerful, once the daisy chain was prepared, Aiden went to Carriage No. 9 and, under cover from Roberta and the others, installed it at the junction between Carriages 9 and 8.
After doing all this, Aiden returned to Carriage No. 10, holding the string. Just as he was about to pull it, Jill suddenly said, "If you do this, won't the engine car bring all the zombies and parasites into Bangkok?"
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