I entered Resident Evil base - and survived

It is said that nothing that enters the experiment zone of a P4 laboratory, a room packed with the sort of equipment used for bio-experiments in the Resident Evil video game series, leaves alive - except for the researchers.

Luckily for me, I lived to tell the tale.

During a visit ahead of the inauguration of China's first such laboratory in Wuhan, I jumped at the chance to enter the experiment area of the three-story building, designed to be so secure that even nano-sized viruses cannot escape.