Xu Shangqi, who has watched countless horror movies, deeply understands a truth. If one day, you travel to the world of horror movies, then the most important way to survive the dangerous journey of horror movies is to "not be curious."
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Don't wonder how the world became like this, don't wonder what the world will become like, don't wonder what this is and what that is, and most importantly, don't wonder where you came from and where you are going.
There is no mission that must be completed, and there is no truth that must be explored. At the moment when the end comes, these are not important. What is important is to live. This is the idea of an ordinary person Xu Shangqi.
Of course, this may not be the case for superheroes, because they have abilities beyond ordinary people, and it is normal for them to feel that they have a mission to save the world.
But obviously, in this hellish world that Xu Shangqi lives in now, superpowers will only be counterproductive, and even wisdom and acumen will be counterproductive.
"What happened to the two of them?" Jarvis sat by the bonfire raised on the roof, glanced at Wanda who looked dull, and then looked at Riley who was shaking all over, with a confused look on his face.
"Am I abnormal, or are they abnormal?" Jarvis lowered his head and glanced at his hands. This was not actually a question, but Xu Shangqi immediately replied: "They are abnormal."
Jarvis covered his eyes with his hands and said, "What the hell is going on? Why can't we just use magic to destroy the monsters? Or open a portal to go home?"
"Haven't you noticed yet?" Xu Shangqi looked at Jarvis helplessly and said, "The disasters in this world are far more than the monsters on the street. Or do you think these monsters can really be called disasters?
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Jarvis looked around. Even if the roof of the bar was not high, it was enough to have a clear view of several nearby streets. They were all very quiet, there was no chaos, no screams, and the flashing black shadows were just blind.
Chasing the subtle noise didn't cause much damage.
So how did New York become the dilapidated state it is now? Jarvis couldn't understand it, as if an invisible hand smashed everything in New York and then took it back.
Xu Shangqi pointed to his temple with one finger and said: "This kind of disaster may directly attack the human spirit. Otherwise, why would the two of them become like this?"
"Then you..." Jarvis was about to ask "Why are you okay?", but he quickly remembered, why was he okay? Because he is actually a robot?
Xu Shangqi reached out and pinched the jade pendant around his neck, and recited the Qingxin Jue silently in his heart again, but his tone still contained a slight tremor. He said: "Don't think, don't associate, block all intuition and induction, maybe
It will be better...but only a little better."
Xu Shangqi swallowed his saliva. He could clearly feel that the operation of the technique was getting more and more jerky. In the inner vision, the words of Qingxin Jue, which built a high wall for the atrium, swayed significantly.
Xu Shangqi knows that once this high wall collapses, he will not be any better than Riley and Wanda, but by then, because his power is weaker than the two, he can cause less damage if he loses control.
Just a little.
Riley, who had been tortured by the strong spider sense, finally seemed to be a little unbearable. He began to shake his body back and forth, clenched his hands into fists and beat his forehead, and uttered inarticulate murmurs.
"It's not Spider Sense, it's not Spider Sense, the noise I heard in my head, it's not Spider Sense..."
"What is that?" Jarvis asked instinctively.
Xu Shangqi wanted to reach out and cover his mouth, but it was already too late. Riley shook even more violently. When he shook forward, his head almost hit the ground. He roared:
"That's not a spider sense, that's... that's..." Riley raised his head and said in an operatic tone: "... that's a song!"
Riley jumped up and instinctively waved his fists in the air. Xu Shangqi didn't care much and rushed forward to knock him down, but his strength was no match for Spider-Man and he was thrown away in one round.
With a "bang", Xu Shangqi hit the ground hard. He covered his chest and let out a cry of pain. But hearing his scream, Riley paused and shook his head vigorously, seeming to have recovered.
A little sober.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, Jarvis rushed forward and knocked him down. Jarvis's strength was much greater than that of Xu Shangqi, but as Riley's struggle became more and more intense, Jarvis also became a little
I can't hold it any longer.
Xu Shang staggered to his feet, but before he could rush over, Riley directly knocked Jarvis away, even rushed toward Jarvis, and grabbed his neck.
Just when Xu Shangqi was about to rush over to save Jarvis, Riley suddenly let go again. He stretched out his fist and punched himself, even hitting himself so hard that the corner of his mouth bled.
"Riley! Riley! Calm down!" Xu Shangqi shouted.
In Xu Shangqi's field of vision, Riley opened his eyes wide and stared at the sky, then slowly sat down on his knees with a look of horror on his face.
But if you look closely, there is an unshakable wave of perseverance in the tide of fear surging on his face and eyes.
When the trembling young man stood up, it was as if he was carrying a huge burden on his shoulders. The sound of his bones being crushed was heartbreaking.
The huge power from Spider-Man resisted the invisible pressure. It was like having all his bones broken in another world. Riley struggled to stand up, but fell down helplessly.
"Xu...Xu..." Riley called Xu Shangqi's name in a dying tone. Xu Shangqi hurried over. Riley's dilated pupils couldn't even focus, but he still squeezed out a sentence from between his teeth.
talk:
"Twigs, branches...Give me, give me branches..."
Xu Shangqi was stunned for a moment, and Riley tried his best to twist his head. His dull eyes fell on the bonfire nearby. His chest seemed to be pressed against a big stone and he remained motionless, but his limbs began to twitch.
"Quick, quick... I can't be controlled by it, go quickly!!"
Amid Riley's sharp screams, Xu Shangqi didn't care much. He staggered to the bonfire and picked up a branch that was not completely burned.
However, Riley straightened up his upper body as if he was having a flashback, and snatched the branch from Xu Shangqi's hand. His lips began to open and close uncontrollably, and the syllables of the song seemed to have reached the tip of his tongue and were about to blurt out.
Tears kept overflowing from the young man's eyes. The hardships he shouldered came from Spider-Man's tragic fate, and the sufferings that made him think about the meaning of his existence countless times. When Riley grabbed this branch, he was as firm as
Seizing the throat of fate.
Under Xu Shangqi's shocked eyes, Riley grabbed one end of the branch, and then stabbed the sharper other end into his eardrum.
"Pfft! Pfft!"
As blood gushed out from Riley's ears, the young man finally let go of his hands, as if he had been untied, and his hands dropped. Jarvis rushed over and held Riley's head,
But Riley couldn't hear what he was saying.
Xu Shangqi walked to Riley's side and looked at Riley's bleeding ear. The fear that he couldn't resist gradually took root in his heart.
Riley sat back by the bonfire, staring straight at the flames. Xu Shangqi and Jarvis also sat by the bonfire. Jarvis mouthed to Riley: "Are you okay?"
"I want to talk as little as possible." Riley said in a dry voice: "It wants me to sing..."
Jarvis was silent, then he looked up at Xu Shangqi and said, "Are we just waiting here? When?"
"Wait until dawn." Xu Shang swallowed his saliva and said, "We have to wait until dawn."
"Will it really be dawn again?" Wanda's voice came. She didn't even realize that her tone was becoming more and more ethereal and frivolous, and she didn't even realize that she had been staring at the flames in the same position for a long time.
"Can you still contact Sithorne?"
When Jarvis's voice came, Wanda regained some consciousness. Wanda took a deep breath, rubbed her eyes vigorously with both hands, and then said, "I'll try."
After saying that, she closed her eyes to concentrate, and then heard an echo in the chaos of complete darkness.
"What is that?" Sithorn's voice came intermittently.
Wanda was puzzled.
"Behind you."
Wanda began to fear.
"Wanda..." Sithorne's calling voice became weaker and weaker, but before their contact was cut off, Sithorne still tried to speak out and left a piece of advice:
"Remember, don't close your eyes before dawn."
Wanda woke up suddenly and found that Xu Shangqi and Jarvis were staring at her. Jarvis asked: "What did Sithorne say?"
Wanda shook her head.
The night was getting darker and darker, but this also meant that the sun was getting closer and closer to rising, and Wanda kept staring at the fire.
Wanda's eyes were dry and shed tears, but she didn't dare to blink anymore. The darkness left when her eyes opened and closed became longer and longer. She already understood that if she closed her eyes, something would open them for her.
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Suddenly, Wanda, whose eyes were full of bloodshot eyes, stretched out a hand and picked up a branch with some trembling.
Jarvis looked at her in horror, but a barrier of chaos rose in front of Wanda, blocking Xu Shangqi and Jarvis.
Behind the barrier, Wanda's eyes became redder and redder, and then she began to shed tears. Her face showed a child-like innocence and holiness, as well as the same helplessness as a little girl.
"It's coming, it's coming..." Wanda's crying could no longer be suppressed. She gasped and trembled, shook her head slightly uncontrollably, and cried:
"My talent allows me to turn reality into reality, and if I see them when I close my eyes, they can really come, come into my body, and gain my power..."
"What's wrong with you? Wanda! Don't do anything stupid!" Jarvis kept knocking on the barrier, but Wanda looked at him with eyes full of tears and said:
"If I lose control, you will all die...I can't let it happen!"
"It's almost daybreak!" Jarvis shouted.
Wanda kept swallowing her saliva, obviously frightened to the extreme. She looked at Jarvis with slightly dull eyes and said:
"Chaos is most intense in the moment before dawn...it's coming!"
At this moment, among the fear and cowardice on Wanda's face, a powerful aura inherited from her father that could not be provoked came out, and she shouted in a tone she had never heard before:
"I said - you can't come!!!"
The powerful power of chaos spread out, knocking Xu Shangqi and Jarvis to the ground. The endless red light became more intense in the darkness of the last moment before dawn.
Then, all the power was gathered into Wanda's body and flowed into her eyes, making her eyes like gleaming will-o'-the-wisps, retaining the last light for the extinguished bonfire in the extremely dark night.
After all the power of chaos controlled by Wanda condensed into her eyes, the branch in her hand was inserted into her eyes. She raised her head, threw her red hair back, and let out a terrible scream:
"Well!!!!"
The ruthlessness and determination she inherited from her father made Wanda continue to use force until her eyes were gouged out.
The eyeball rolled to the ground, and something seemed to emerge from the uncontrolled power of chaos. Wanda used her last bit of strength to crush the eyeball, letting her power disappear into ashes along with those strange shapes.
The Scarlet Witch shouted in a savage tone she had never seen before:
"roll!!!!!"
The Scarlet Witch, who had lost all her strength, knelt on the ground, raised her head, and stared at the starry sky with her empty eyes bleeding profusely, like a statue of a god that was abandoned in the ruins of an altar because it was not pious enough.
But the blood flowing from her eyes was like moss traveling backwards in the endless barren time. In addition to the stable destiny given by God, it grew wild and unshakable, powerful and fresh vitality.
As the first light of dawn shone into the eternally frozen ruins, the stars that stared at it all retreated unwillingly.
Endless brilliance rises from the distant horizon, and the golden morning mist is like surging waves, gently and powerfully blowing over the ruins of the city.
The long first night finally passed and dawn came.