Code: Veronica (Resident Evil) by Perry S. D

Author:Perry, S. D. [Perry, S. D.]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Titan Books
Published: 2012-09-13T16:00:00+00:00

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Rodrigo had been right about secrets. Claire stood at the end of the hidden basement corridor, steeling herself to open the unmarked door in front of her.

The infirmary itself was small and unpleasant, not at all what she would have expected for an Umbrella clinic—no medical equipment to be seen, nothing modern at all. There was only a single examination table in the front room, the splintery wooden floor around it stained with blood, a tray of medieval-looking tools nearby. The adjoining room had been burned beyond recognition; she couldn’t tell what purpose it had served, but it looked like a cross between a recovery room and a crematorium. Smelled like one, too.

There was a tiny, cluttered office just off the first room, a lone body sprawled in front of it, a man in a stained lab coat who had died with a look of horror on his narrow, ashen face. He didn’t appear to have been infected, and since there were no virus carriers in the room and no obvious wounds, she guessed that he’d had a heart attack, or something like it. The contorted expression on his pinched features, bulging eyes and gaping, downturned mouth, suggested to her that he’d died of fright.

Claire carefully stepped over him, and found the first secret in the small office almost by accident. Her boot had nudged something when she walked in, a marble or stone that had rolled across the floor— which had turned out to be a most unusual key. It was a glass eye, one that belonged in the grotesque plastic face of the office’s anatomical dummy, propped leering in the corner.

Considering what Steve had said, about no one coming back from the infirmary, and considering what she already knew about the kind of insanity that Umbrella seemed to attract, Claire wasn’t surprised to find a hidden passage behind the office wall. A worn set of stone steps were revealed when she’d placed the eye back where it belonged, which hadn’t really surprised her, either. It was a secret, a trick, and Umbrella was all about secrets and tricks.

So open the door, already. Get it over with.

Right. She didn’t have all day. She didn’t want to leave Steve alone for too long, either, she was worried about him. He’d had to kill his own father; she couldn’t imagine the kind of psychological damage that would do to someone…

Claire shook her head, irritated with her own dawdling. It didn’t matter that she was in a barren, frightening place where lots of people had apparently died, where she could feel the pervasive atmosphere of terror emanating from the cold walls, trying to wrap around her like a burial shroud…

“Doesn’t matter,” she said, and opened the door.

Immediately, three stumbling virus carriers started for her, drawing her attention, keeping her from really seeing the details of the large room they’d been trapped in. All three were badly disfigured, missing limbs and long, ragged strips of skin, their putrefying flesh flayed and raw.

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