Resident Evil Volume 3 Chapter 28
The elevator did go down, though not as Leon had expected, and not nearly as fast as he needed it to go. The wide platform slipped down an angled tunnel, like a slide, neon gridwork on black walls humming past. Slowly. "... now forty seconds to reach minimum safe distance." "Go go go..." Leon breathed, every ache and pain in his body forgotten in the rising dread that beat at his brain. The voice had stopped telling him to report to the bottom platform, now only making announce- ments in ten-second increments. As much as he loathed the repeated instructions, it was much worse not hearing them; the silences between the statements were telling him not to bother trying. To make it this far and then die because of a slow elevator... He couldn't accept that. He'd been through too much. The car crash, Claire, the running and the monsters and Ada and Birkin - he had to make it, or it was all for nothing. There didn't seem to be a real floor beneath the descending platform, or he…
