Resident Evil Volume 1 Chapter 9
keep them at bay long enough to reach cover. He spun and fired the last round in his clip. "Empty!" Ejecting the spent magazine, he fumbled for anoth- er one tucked into his belt as both Barry and Chris took up the defense, firing past him and into the closing pack. Wesker slapped in the fresh clip as they reached the edge of the overgrown clearing and plunged into another dark stand of trees. They stumbled and dodged through the woods, tripping on uneven ground as the killer dogs came on. Lungs aching for air, Wesker imagined that he could smell the fetid, rotting meat stench of the beasts as they narrowed the distance and he somehow found the capacity to run faster. We should be there by now, gotta be dose... Chris saw it first through the thinning shadows of trees, the looming monstrosity back-lit by an early moon. "There! Run for that house!" It looked abandoned from the outside, the weath- ered wood and stone of the giant mansion crumbling and dark. The full size of the structur…
