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... [Rita] looked around Kevin at John, and her eyebrows raised. "What have you got there, John?"
     Kevin now turned to look at their companion. John was holding a scoped hunting rifle in one hand and a box of cartridges in the other. From the rifle hung a tag which clearly read HOLD FOR EVIDENCE. Kevin looked sternly at the other man, but John returned his stare with a hint of defiance in his eyes. "Foun’ dis on da shelf over dere," John said. "I wuz gonna say sunfun, but Miss Rita beat me to it."
     "Nice piece," Kevin said, "but that's evidence from a crime scene."
     "Kevin," Rita interrupted. "Let him have it."
     Kevin turned to look at her. "You know procedure," he said. "You of all people—"
     "Yes, but that's under normal circumstances," Rita quickly interjected. "These ain't normal, and we need every gun we can get, especially one that comes with its own shells. And that's a 30-06 hunting rifle, Kevin, or I'm a monkey's uncle, and with a scope to boot. It'll do damage at ranges which our pistols and shotguns can't even touch."
     Kevin looked at Rita for a minute, and the female RPD officer looked back at him. John stood there watching them both, unsure of what to say, so he said nothing. After a while, Kevin sighed and lowered his eyes. "All right," he said. "Take it. Consider it a freebie. We got what we came for."
     John grinned, shoved the box of shells into his last free pocket, stuck his right arm through the rifle's sling, then slung the rifle over his shoulder. "Okay, boss," he said. "Ise ready. Let's go."
     Kevin looked at Rita, who merely shrugged her shoulders. He then waved towards the door on the other side of the shelving units, doing his best to keep from looking disgusted

From Chapter 7 of

Resident Evil: Exodus - The Tale of Elza Walker

by Richard Mandel

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You can read online and for free the full text of the last official public release of Resident Evil: Exodus - The Tale of Elza Walker at the Wattpad free e-book site. Here's a direct link to the Table of Contents page:

www.wattpad.com/482772140-resi…

The old PDF download option link on Wattpad has been dead for years. Here's a new link if you want the complete text:
www.mediafire.com/file/wme7q87…

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This is one of my favorite John moments in Exodus, and he has a lot of them. It's scenes like this that I use to develop his character in a way that the John from the original RE1.5 is never developed. That John is just a cardboard stand-up NPC, more or less. Mine has personality, even if he isn't the sharpest tool in the shed (chuckle). He doesn't mean anything by it, of course. He is who and what he is. He's just a simple-minded man dealing with his situation as only someone like him can. BTW John's got some even better moments later in the novel, which you can look for if you'll read it yourself. XD

The hunting rifle is not part of the original RE1.5. I added it for Exodus in order to give the survivors a long range and fairly powerful standoff weapon with the big disadvantage of it being a single shot weapon (one trigger pull, one shot). It is best used for sniping purposes, just like Claire gets to use the Mauser rifle in CODE: Veronica, and I hope anyone who eventually does a video game adaptation of Exodus will keep it in the game. Both Kevin and Rita are trained marksmen per their police backgrounds but Rita is far better than Kevin, especially with long guns, and her skill with one approaches that of Elza's, who was the number one shot on the RU rifle team in Exodus. However, it's John and not Rita who first gets the hunting rifle in Exodus as you've read above, and he keeps it for quite a while until ... ahhh, but there I go again. No spoilers! Read the book! XD

We got what we came for - They found the missing puzzle piece. I never say this directly in the novel, but it's a small mock-up of a Wal-Mart department store sized to fit the hole where it's supposed to go on the city model. I didn't have Wal-Mart's permission to reference them in Exodus, which is why I don't name the building model directly in the novel. The building model also has a magnetic base with a bar code, and that part of it is the actual key (it works like a car fob) which opens the hidden compartment in the city model proper. Oh, and YES they did have magnetic locks back in the late 1990s. Those have been available ever since the 1970s (technically 1969, but who's picking nits?). Go look it up!

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... [Rita] looked around Kevin at John, and her eyebrows raised. "What have you got there, John?"
     Kevin now turned to look at their companion. John was holding a scoped hunting rifle in one hand and a box of cartridges in the other. From the rifle hung a tag which clearly read HOLD FOR EVIDENCE. Kevin looked sternly at the other man, but John returned his stare with a hint of defiance in his eyes. "Foun’ dis on da shelf over dere," John said. "I wuz gonna say sunfun, but Miss Rita beat me to it."
     "Nice piece," Kevin said, "but that's evidence from a crime scene."
     "Kevin," Rita interrupted. "Let him have it."
     Kevin turned to look at her. "You know procedure," he said. "You of all people—"
     "Yes, but that's under normal circumstances," Rita quickly interjected. "These ain't normal, and we need every gun we can get, especially one that comes with its own shells. And that's a 30-06 hunting rifle, Kevin, or I'm a monkey's uncle, and with a scope to boot. It'll do damage at ranges which our pistols and shotguns can't even touch."
     Kevin looked at Rita for a minute, and the female RPD officer looked back at him. John stood there watching them both, unsure of what to say, so he said nothing. After a while, Kevin sighed and lowered his eyes. "All right," he said. "Take it. Consider it a freebie. We got what we came for."
     John grinned, shoved the box of shells into his last free pocket, stuck his right arm through the rifle's sling, then slung the rifle over his shoulder. "Okay, boss," he said. "Ise ready. Let's go."
     Kevin looked at Rita, who merely shrugged her shoulders. He then waved towards the door on the other side of the shelving units, doing his best to keep from looking disgusted

From Chapter 7 of

Resident Evil: Exodus - The Tale of Elza Walker

by Richard Mandel

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You can read online and for free the full text of the last official public release of Resident Evil: Exodus - The Tale of Elza Walker at the Wattpad free e-book site. Here's a direct link to the Table of Contents page:

www.wattpad.com/482772140-resi…

The old PDF download option link on Wattpad has been dead for years. Here's a new link if you want the complete text:
www.mediafire.com/file/wme7q87…

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COMMENTS

This is one of my favorite John moments in Exodus, and he has a lot of them. It's scenes like this that I use to develop his character in a way that the John from the original RE1.5 is never developed. That John is just a cardboard stand-up NPC, more or less. Mine has personality, even if he isn't the sharpest tool in the shed (chuckle). He doesn't mean anything by it, of course. He is who and what he is. He's just a simple-minded man dealing with his situation as only someone like him can. BTW John's got some even better moments later in the novel, which you can look for if you'll read it yourself. XD

The hunting rifle is not part of the original RE1.5. I added it for Exodus in order to give the survivors a long range and fairly powerful standoff weapon with the big disadvantage of it being a single shot weapon (one trigger pull, one shot). It is best used for sniping purposes, just like Claire gets to use the Mauser rifle in CODE: Veronica, and I hope anyone who eventually does a video game adaptation of Exodus will keep it in the game. Both Kevin and Rita are trained marksmen per their police backgrounds but Rita is far better than Kevin, especially with long guns, and her skill with one approaches that of Elza's, who was the number one shot on the RU rifle team in Exodus. However, it's John and not Rita who first gets the hunting rifle in Exodus as you've read above, and he keeps it for quite a while until ... ahhh, but there I go again. No spoilers! Read the book! XD

We got what we came for - They found the missing puzzle piece. I never say this directly in the novel, but it's a small mock-up of a Wal-Mart department store sized to fit the hole where it's supposed to go on the city model. I didn't have Wal-Mart's permission to reference them in Exodus, which is why I don't name the building model directly in the novel. The building model also has a magnetic base with a bar code, and that part of it is the actual key (it works like a car fob) which opens the hidden compartment in the city model proper. Oh, and YES they did have magnetic locks back in the late 1990s. Those have been available ever since the 1970s (technically 1969, but who's picking nits?). Go look it up!