On September 29, 1998, two months after the event of the first t-Virus outbreak, most citizens of the Midwestern American mountain community Raccoon City have been transformed into zombies by the T-virus , a biological weapon secretly developed by the pharmaceutical company Umbrella . Leon S. Kennedy , a police officer on his first day of duty, and Claire Redfield , a college student looking for her brother Chris Redfield , make their way to the Raccoon Police Department. They discover that most of the police force have been killed, and that Chris Redfield has left town to investigate Umbrella's headquarters in Europe. They split up to look for survivors and find a way out of the city. While searching for an escape route, Claire Redfield meets a little girl, Sherry Birkin , who is on the run from an unknown creature, and Leon Kennedy encounters Ada Wong , who claims to be looking for her boyfriend John, an Umbrella researcher ...