Still in orbit above Earth, the Shield Intelligent System, operating from within the Ishimura's Captain's Quarters, leveraged the ship's immense computational power. It rapidly infiltrated and seized complete control of most satellites in Earth's orbit, sending nations that had been monitoring their systems into a state of utter panic.
In Washington, inside the White House, frantic figures rushed back and forth through the corridors. Countless staff members, high-ranking government officials, and the President himself were caught in a whirlwind of alarm. This marked the second time they had unequivocally felt the reach of the Ishimura's capabilities. Despite numerous attempts and exhaustive efforts, technical personnel found themselves utterly unable to regain control of their satellites. The artificial intelligence from the Titan Empire had, in this moment, demonstrated a terrifying, dimension-reducing strike capability against their technology.
Having seized control of the satellites, Marcus, through the Shield Intelligent System, initiated a broadcast. The video flooded every electronic device capable of displaying images—televisions, computers, and digital billboards—across the globe.
In the video, a fabricated image of William Birkin, conjured by the artificial intelligence, stood amidst the ruins of Raccoon City, where zombies roamed unchecked. He loudly accused the Umbrella Corporation of secretly researching and manufacturing biological weapons. He further alleged that their large-scale human experiments had directly led to the catastrophic T-Virus crisis engulfing Raccoon City. As he spoke, the artificial intelligence's fabrication presented seemingly irrefutable evidence: inexplicable research data and terrifyingly real, yet utterly fake, footage of human experimentation. The video claimed that in the Raccoon City branch alone, thousands of individuals had been secretly arrested by Umbrella and subjected to inhumane experiments.
Subsequently, the perspective zoomed out, offering a panoramic view of Raccoon City, already engulfed in flames and teeming with the undead. The latter half of the video featured "William" accusing the American government of being Umbrella Corporation's biggest client for biological weapons. He then exposed the government's previously disseminated lie that Raccoon City was sealed due to a radioactive material leak. He also revealed the horrifying plan of the President and Congress to launch a nuclear bomb to destroy Raccoon City, all in an attempt to cover up Umbrella Corporation's crimes. The video concluded by showing countless survivors who had endured hardships to escape Raccoon City being arrested and detained by the National Guard, followed by the grotesque, grimacing face of a zombie.
Propelled by the Shield AI, this unprecedented super-news spread worldwide at light speed within half an hour. Over a billion people quickly grasped the horrifying truth. As time wore on, this number continued to climb rapidly.
In the President's Office at the White House, the highest authority in America furiously hurled every document within his sight. Beside him, dozens of high-ranking government officials, ignoring their President who was clearly at his wit's end, on the verge of impeachment, and potentially becoming a historical criminal, frantically contacted and conversed with various departments. Even though it was early morning and half of America was still asleep, tens of millions had already seen that chilling footage.
Outside the White House, a protest of tens of thousand people had rapidly materialized, attempting to storm the White House gates. All of this caught these often-sheltered officials completely off guard. They had never anticipated that the spaceship in orbit would, without warning, intertwine itself with the events of Raccoon City and, utilizing technology that utterly dwarfed their own, reveal everything to billions of people across Earth. These officials knew they were finished. Even those who had not directly participated in the actions and decisions related to Raccoon City would soon be ousted by the surging public outrage, branded as criminals. Their entire political faction would suffer an unprecedented blow. The whole of America, and indeed the world, was about to descend into profound turmoil.
At this very moment, Marcus, the architect of this global chaos, sat calmly on the edge of a rooftop, observing the video loop playing on a large screen not far away. Under the fabrication of the Titan Empire's artificial intelligence, the inhabitants of the Resident Evil world could scarcely distinguish between what was real and what was fake. Only a very small number who knew William Birkin was dead—such as his wife, daughter, and a few Umbrella Corporation executives—understood that this was fabricated footage. But it no longer mattered; the video had gone global, and billions would now know everything that transpired in Raccoon City. Moreover, Marcus wasn't falsely accusing the Umbrella Corporation and the American government; he was simply stating the grim facts. Soon, the eyes of the entire world would focus on Raccoon City, a city nestled in the desert of midwestern America. And at that time, Marcus would be able to display his Slashers army and the Ishimura to the entire world.
Standing up and dusting himself off, Marcus then leaped down. Only when he was close to the ground did he pull out his Sunflare Sword, plunging it into the nearby wall to control his descent, landing softly. "I need to complete the second mission while I have the chance," he murmured. Through a psychic link, Marcus summoned the lictor and the long-unseen Tyrant Xenomorph.
Soon, the Tyrant Xenomorph was the first to emerge from the shadows. At this moment, the Tyrant Xenomorph held half of a huge, bloody corpse—the beast-form Nemesis—in its hand. The Tyrant Xenomorph tossed the completely dead Nemesis in front of Marcus, then squatted beside him. "Well done," Marcus praised casually, then reached into Nemesis's bloody body. After a brief search, he pulled out the Nemesis-Alpha Parasite, which resembled a ginseng tree. Looking at the updated mission progress on the system panel, Marcus casually stuffed the Nemesis-Alpha Parasite into a backpack.
A moment later, the lictor also emerged from the shadows, a backpack hanging from its scythe-like claw. Marcus reached out and took it, opening the backpack. Inside, three vials of liquid were neatly placed: the Progenitor Virus, the T-Virus, and the G-Virus. At the bottom of the backpack, there was also a necklace. Not long ago, when he had just taken Sherry out of the sewage treatment area, Marcus had sent the lictor to the underground Umbrella Corporation base and given the key he had obtained from Sherry to the lictor . The lictor had completed its mission admirably, finding three virus samples for Marcus. At this point, the progress for the second mission objective, collecting 7 special infection sources, reached 4/7. Recalling the remaining infection sources in the Resident Evil world, Marcus quickly locked onto his next three targets: the Abyss Virus, the Las Plagas Parasite, and the Cadou Mold.