The fifteenth floor of the "Ant Nest" underground research institute is actually a dividing line between the B.O.W. R&D test area and the office area of ordinary personnel, and only senior researchers with special authorization are allowed to go deep.

Normally, if you want to continue to the next floor, you must pass through a half-meter-thick superalloy isolation door, and you can only enter after passing multiple identity scans and obtaining certain clearances.

This is the real reason why Zero and the others came across a door that had not been opened and required extremely high clearance to pass through when they came up the stairs to the fifteenth basement floor.

Because this isolation door is an escape path prepared for themselves by those senior cadres at the bottom, if it were not for the large-scale virus outbreak like today, this escape channel would be enough for the high-level people to escape smoothly.

Director Brandon and his henchmen have been working at the Institute of West African Studies for decades, and it is natural that they will take the opportunity of the expansion of the underground base to secretly leave enough backhands for themselves in case of accidents.

Even inside the "Ant Nest" research institute, there are many secret laboratories that they have deliberately hidden, and the location of these laboratories has never been recorded in the map database and camera surveillance range of the "White Queen".

In these hidden laboratories are the precious data that Brandon has obtained over the past decades through a series of inhumane live experiments, of course, all of which belong to the kind of research that is shady and anti-human...

In the previous chapters, Brandon injected himself with a particular virus that was his most valuable scientific achievement.

Brandon. As the chief disciple of Dr. Marcus, Bailey's talent in virology is unquestionable.

Especially after decades of experience accumulation in "clinical practice", this "submissive" director of the West African Research Institute can definitely be called a "grandmaster" in the field of virology!

With his mentor as a lesson from the past, Brandon knows very well that if he wants to live, he must be a man with his tail between his legs, and he must be careful in everything.

But that's not enough!

Due to the embarrassing situation of identity, if you don't want to be quietly disposed of, you must have the value of being used, and you have to belong to a unique type in the "raincoat" company, which is a "model enterprise that cares for employees"!

When Brandon realizes that his situation is in danger, he immediately turns his attention to his only life-saving straw - the Ladder of the Sun.

So for a while after learning the true cause of Marcus' death, Brandon began to study how to artificially breed a solar ladder with the attributes of the progenitor virus.

After many difficulties, he finally succeeded in the experiment before he was liquidated by Spencer (that is, around the early eighties), and thus had a chance to live.

(PS: According to the official information given by "Resident Evil", Spencer is the mastermind behind the design to kill Marcus, who is also one of the three giants of the "Raincoat" company, and the creator of the "God-making Project" and "Wesker Project", as for why Brandon is a little man who is liquidated by such a big guy.. Belch.. Of course, it's because Brandon's mouth is relatively poor, and by reading the "Brandon Journal" in the game, we can clearly feel that Brandon looks down on Spencer from the bottom of his heart, and he also wrote some things that should be said and not said into the log... But... What is written can also be called heartfelt words? Serious people who write logs! For those of you who are reading a book, do you write? I don't write anyway .. Ahem... ）

In order to save his life, this method of artificially cultivating the Sun Ladder was not taught by Brandon, and he successfully survived by holding (breaking) this core technology alone.

(PS: In the official plot of "Resident Evil", the West African Research Institute did develop the solar ladder technology that can artificially breed and carry the "Progenitor Virus" out of the Holy Land flower beds about two years after Marcus's death, and Brandon has been the director of the West African Research Institute since then, until he disappeared after the bankruptcy of the umbrella company.) ）

At a critical time when a large number of virus research institutes are desperate for the solar ladder, such an achievement made by the West African Research Institute can be regarded as a solution to the urgent need, who said that the naturally growing solar ladder is already scarce in production...

However, this technology also seems to have great limitations, and the number of artificially cultivated plants has not been able to form a scale.

Brandon, as the person in charge, will definitely personally participate in this artificial cultivation experiment, if he does not leave a backhand in secret, it will be his own life.

Only a "grandmaster" virologist like him, who knows a lot about the solar ladder, would make others helpless against this technology.

The "raincoat" company naturally knows this, but compared with the benefits it can obtain, a lonely old man who has no backer and no support is naturally insignificant.

In the face of huge interests, the high-level executives of the "raincoat", who were still unwilling to cut the grass and eradicate the roots, directly pressed Brandon to the position of head of the West African Research Institute for decades, so that he could cultivate and manufacture all kinds of B.O.W. raw materials for himself with peace of mind.

(PS: In fact, from the time when Brandon successfully cultivated the Sun Ladder, or those "Brandon Logs" stored in the computer faintly revealed a strong PY trading flavor...) ）

But who knows that this elder who has been doing nothing for decades and is a man with his tail clamped on the surface has almost developed the effect of the "Ancestral Virus" to the extreme.

This old man in the twilight, who was deliberately ignored by everyone and seemed to have a natural skill of "air-like presence", actually single-handedly researched something that even the three giants of the "raincoat" company dreamed of.

And now it has become his only lifesaver in this incident!

The reason why the virus spread at the West African Institute has evolved into what it is today has nothing to do with Brandon, even if it is said that he single-handedly caused the situation at this time.

Decades of "captivity" have allowed Brandon to completely abandon his desire for power, and the progenitor virus extracted from the "Ladder of the Sun" has opened a new door for him.

A top-secret door that ordinary people dream of, leading to the realm of eternal life!

(PS: It is clearly recorded in the official information of "Resident Evil" that directly devouring the "Sun Ladder" can indeed greatly extend the lifespan of humans, and even allow users to gain superhuman-like power, of course, the end of more users is to become a terrible monster with black tentacles all over their bodies, and they will only attack indiscriminately when they lose their minds... ）