However, just after killing these two C5 Fly Larvae, Javier's Giant Tyrant body began to emit billowing waves of white steam once again.
A massive amount of steam enveloped Javier's body,
and his originally massive giant frame instantly collapsed to the ground, as a large amount of flesh and blood began to slowly evaporate away,
eventually turning into a pool of bloody water.
Javier's naked body slowly crawled out from the bloody water; he was completely stark naked, as all his clothing had been evaporated and digested, leaving him bare.
But Javier didn't care about this at all.
Instead, he gazed with a dazed look toward the mother C5 Giant Fly on the rooftop of the hotel building.
Physically and mentally exhausted, he leaned against the carcass of a C5 Fly Larva and slowly sat down; his transformation time for the Giant Tyrant had reached its limit.
So, Javier reverted to his human state.
At the same time, this meant it would be impossible for Javier to continue fighting the C5 Giant Fly on the rooftop.
He could now feel the hunger of the virus cells throughout his body.
If he forced himself into the Giant state again, he feared he would truly have to follow the C5 Giant Fly's example and start snatching up nearby zombies to devour.
Therefore, this meant Javier no longer had the ability to kill the C5 Giant Fly, which left him feeling extremely helpless.
According to the original game plot, Simmons' C5 Giant Fly was impaled by a lightning rod pushed over by the protagonist controlled by the player on the rooftop, followed by rolling thunder from the heavens.
The lightning rod attracted lightning from the sky, and with the divine punishment descending, the terrifying power of the thunder instantly knocked Simmons' C5 Giant Fly back to its original form.
It eventually reverted to a human body, then fell off the rooftop, its body impaled by a sharp statue on the ground, blood flowing onto the floor, finally forming the Umbrella Corporation logo to conclude his death scene.
But the current situation was that neither the timing, the location, nor the people were right.
First was the weather; currently, there was no storm or lightning over Lanshiang City, only an ink-black night sky and a cold evening breeze.
Then there was the location; there was no lightning rod on the rooftop of this hotel building.
Next were the people;
Javier no longer had the strength to continue transforming into a giant to impale Simmons' C5 Giant Fly with a lightning rod.
So, with not a single factor of timing, location, or personnel aligned, this plan was completely useless. Thus, Javier was very frustrated, not knowing what method to use to save this city.
"..."
"BSAA... are you guys really blind or what? If you don't show up with support soon, this city is really going to be destroyed."
"Or is it... that a massive Asian branch base and a government can't even dispatch a single air force unit?"
"Since when... did the world dictate that only people like us can save it, while others cannot?"
Leaning against the chitinous carcass of the C5 Fly Larva, looking at the ink-black sky, Javier couldn't help but mutter self-deprecatingly. Although he knew the plot in advance, he couldn't just keep exhausting people like them to the limit.
The role of savior isn't something only a few of them are qualified for; rather, everyone is eligible to act as a savior. So at this moment, Javier could only pin his hopes on the BSAA and the HK Government.
He hoped they would receive the distress signal for support sent by Sherry sooner, and that they could dispatch an air force unit for support quickly.
After all, as strong and massive as the C5 Giant Fly was, in the face of human technological weaponry, it was almost no different from a slightly larger greenbottle fly.
An air force unit could easily solve it; a few bombers could blow the C5 Giant Fly to smithereens, leaving it with almost no room to fight back.
But the frustrating thing was...
In the Resident Evil game plots, such a massacre scenario almost never occurred.
This was the most stifling and annoying part, which couldn't help but make Javier doubt himself—did people like them have to kick the bucket before the so-called support would arrive?
However, as if hearing Javier's inner calling, in the distant dark night sky, Javier heard that familiar engine roar. Looking up, he saw two grey silhouettes slowly revealing themselves from the clouds; they weren't turbine fighters, but attack aircraft.
With their sharp noses, long wings, and the two fan engines mounted at the tail, the shark-mouth nose art, the Gatling cannon mounted below, and that piercing sound of breaking the air instantly brought a name to Javier's mind:
"A-10 Warthog..."
Yes, in the Damnation movie, while Leon was on a mission in the Eastern Slav Republic, he encountered three massive Super Tyrants.
Although he easily took one out with a tank, two more were closing in for a pincer attack. Just as Leon was about to draw his tactical knife to perform the absolute skill of killing a Tyrant with a blade, a piercing sound of breaking air came from afar.
Support from two A-10 Warthogs arrived quietly, first launching a missile that blew the first Tyrant to pieces.
Then, with a banking turn, the Vulcan Gatling cannons beneath them spun, and in a fraction of a second, the last Tyrant was dismantled and torn apart.
That scene was vivid in Javier's mind.
He never expected that he would one day experience such reassuring aerial support. For as the soldiers of the US Army would say, as long as you see the Warthog appear, it means air superiority is under our control. After all, the Warthog is an aircraft designed for ground support; it cannot handle dogfights with other planes.
So, only when air superiority is fully secured will the Warthog appear to carry out ground support strikes!
And it had to be admitted, the firepower of the A-10 Warthog was indeed fierce enough.
Known as the tank can-opener, its wings have a total of eleven hardpoints—four on each wing and three under the fuselage.
Mounted under the nose is a 30mm GAU-8 Avenger 7-barrel Gatling cannon, with an ammunition capacity of 1,350 rounds.
It can be almost entirely depleted within seconds, just like a wild boar licking the ground; any target hit will instantly turn into a pile of dust and debris.
In addition, it can carry 18 MK82 General Purpose Bombs or 4 AGM-65 "Maverick" air-to-ground missiles.
Though not as extravagant as a conventional bomber, this kind of firepower was sufficient for ground support.
"Vroom vroom vroom..."
"Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr—!!!!!!!!!!!!"
As the A-10 Warthogs approached, Javier soon heard that all-too-familiar sound of ground-licking.
The Gatling cannons below began to spin.
Visible turbulence began to rise at the muzzles, and 30mm armor-piercing shells instantly sprayed out with a roar.
Dense lines of fire, like a meteor shower, all rained down onto the body of the mother C5 Giant Fly on the hotel rooftop.
"Swoosh swoosh swoosh—!!!!"
"Boom boom boom...!!!!"
Following closely behind were the MK82 General Purpose Bombs dropped from the wings, all of them exploding onto the C5 Giant Fly's massive body.
This level of fierce firepower was even more savage than that of the longbow apache attack helicopter.
"Hiss hiss... Roar roar roar...!!!!!!"
In the next second, a painful wail and scream immediately came from the C5 Giant Fly on the hotel rooftop. Dense red meteor showers fell one after another onto the C5 Giant Fly's back carapace.
The originally hardened black carapace was now as thin and fragile as paper before the 30mm armor-piercing shells, easily being penetrated through.
The bullets directly scraped away a large amount of flesh from the C5 Giant Fly's carapace.
Its originally full, massive back caved in almost instantly, as if a large chunk had been gnawed off.
The MK82 General Purpose Bombs that followed continued to tear at the C5 Giant Fly's wounds. In the blink of an eye... the C5 Giant Fly's massive body was nearly blown in half.
Only a portion of its limbs remained connected, with raging fire and blood pouring from its body, its wounds riddled with holes—a truly wretched sight.
Even the entire hotel building began to gradually collapse under the A-10 Warthogs' frantic ground-licking, starting to shake and crumble from the middle.
"..."
"The firepower is fierce, but this isn't enough to instantly kill the C5 Giant Fly completely. We still need a more powerful bomber."
Watching the two A-10 Warthogs take turns "scraping the bones" of the C5 Giant Fly, Javier nodded in acknowledgement.
But Javier knew that while such attacks had plenty of penetration, they couldn't kill the C5 Giant Fly in an instant. Because as long as it wasn't thoroughly destroyed—even if only a part remained, or if the previously bred C5 Fly Larvae escaped— it would cause massive trouble. So Javier still believed a bomber had to step in; otherwise, the firepower was still insufficient.
"Hum... hum... hum..."
And speak of the devil, just as Javier was lamenting the absence of a bomber, a massive black fortress slowly emerged from the clouds.
The engine roar was deep and resonant, clearly belonging to a juggernaut of a bomber. When he saw the newcomer clearly, Javier's gaze was filled with shock.
That was indeed a juggernaut, and one of the American "Bomber Trio" at that.
The B-52 Stratofortress, which along with the B-1B Lancer and the B-2 Spirit, is known as America's Bomber Trio—the three most powerful bombers...
Volume 9 Resident Evil 6: Chapter 76 Stratofortress
Stratofortress...
A long-range strategic bomber manufactured by Boeing; production began in 1948, it entered service in 1955, and it still hasn't retired to this day.
It remains one of America's top bomber models, and is the oldest bomber in service globally. Yet even as such an antique, it can still currently be ranked among the world's strongest long-range bombers.
With a wingspan of fifty-six meters, powered by eight turbofan engines, a maximum range of over sixteen thousand kilometers, and a payload of thirty-one tons, it is a true aerial arsenal.
During the Vietnam War, this B-52 Bomber truly demonstrated the meaning of carpet bombing. Its front is also equipped with four 12mm cannons, while below is a 20mm Vulcan cannon.