"The outbreak of this weird world is probably not a biological crisis at all. This kind of attack is aimed at the spirit, and none of us have a way to prevent this kind of spiritual attack. The situation is extremely bad."
In front of the window on the second floor of the bar, Xu Shangqi said while eating the sealed bread that he found in the bar's storage room that had not expired.
"I have no idea what happened to you." Jarvis blinked and said: "This kind of mental attack is completely ineffective for me, and I can't imagine what the two of them heard and saw that could make them
They are so desperate to hurt themselves."
Jarvis's expression was very helpless. If he really had to sum up everything that happened tonight in one sentence, it would probably be "Human beings are so fucking interesting". If he added another sentence, it would be "I can't understand it, but I'm big
Shocked.”
Jarvis knew that although the siblings Wanda Scarlet Witch and Pietro Quicksilver had been separated since childhood, they had never suffered any physical pain because of their powerful abilities. Wanda could prick her finger with a rose thorn.
She screamed out in a soprano voice.
But just last night, she used a rough branch to gouge out her eyes, and now she still looks happy to have survived the disaster. What kind of horrific things must she have seen for such a big thing to happen?
transformation?
Jarvis had to hold Wanda's hand all the time because losing her sight made her very insecure.
More importantly, because he was worried about losing control and hurting his companions, Wanda directly abandoned his martial arts, poured all the power of chaos he could control into his eyes, and destroyed them.
And now she can't contact Sithorn at all, and she doesn't dare to mobilize the power of chaos in the universe, so she is almost an ordinary person now.
This is unimaginable for mutants. Their abilities are just like their arms. Losing abilities is not just a disability, it seems like the world has changed.
In the past hour, Wanda asked Jarvis hundreds of times about what was around her. According to Miss Witch, as a magician, when she has the ability, she does not need to use her eyes to perceive her surroundings.
world, her perspective of seeing and perceiving the world is completely different from that of humans.
Riley's situation is slightly better than Wanda's. He just lost his hearing and needs to rely on other people's mouth patterns to judge what the other person said. But he also has another problem, that is, he dare not speak for fear of exposing that person.
It has been repeated countless times, and the melody lingering in my mind is inadvertently sung.
He endured it so hard that he could hardly mobilize his energy to do other things, and the same was true for Wanda.
Therefore, I am afraid that on the next journey, not only will the two of them no longer be the strongest people in the team, but they will become a drag.
What is conceivable is that neither Jarvis nor Xu Shangqi will leave their companions behind. Therefore, although it is dawn, the next journey will probably be more difficult.
"I retract my previous judgment." Xu Shangqi was the first to say: "My original plan was to find a closed place to hide, slowly accumulate resources, wait until I have no worries about survival, then find a way to make weapons, and go out to explore regularly.
Once the base is large enough and the technology is advanced enough, we can then explore possible event centers step by step."
"But now it seems that this method of building high walls and hoarding food is not applicable to this world at all. There are too few monsters that can be seen and defeated, and weapons are useless."
"And I'm afraid there won't be any large-scale survivors to save us, so there is neither the conditions nor the necessity for large-scale production. More importantly, every extra day we wait, the greater the possibility of being eroded by darkness.
point."
Xu Shangqi covered his eyes and said in a painful tone: "Why did I travel to a world that tests my mental strength after I hugged Spider-Man and Scarlet Witch's lap?"
Then he gritted his teeth and said, "Don't let me know which little clever guy did this!"
Jarvis also sighed, shook his head and said: "I'm sorry, most of the machinery in this city has been damaged. My hacking ability is not of much use. I can only repair cars or something."
of."
"As for the mental attacks you suffered, I can't feel it at all, and I can't help you, so I'm afraid I'll have to rely on you next."
"I'm just an ordinary person." Xu Shangqi emphasized: "If you think it is my strong will that has persisted until now, then you will be disappointed. I rely on a treasure."
Xu Shangqi took out the jade pendant from his neck. He believed in the character of the few people present. More importantly, the energy on the jade pendant was already very meager. The high wall he built with the words of Qingxin Jue
Already crumbling.
The scanning device in Jarvis's eyes scanned the jade pendant around Xu Shangqi's neck, and he said: "There is a strange energy on it, but I don't know what it is. Do you have a way to replicate this energy?"
"Unfortunately, not at all. I told you that I just learned the mental method temporarily...Okay, let's not worry about this for now. We have to do something during the day. We can't wait here any longer, otherwise night will fall.
We are still powerless to fight back.”
"I think the way to solve your weird state is to find out the truth." Jarvis analyzed rationally: "Those strange things attack your spirit, and there is always a way to resist this attack."
"I searched the database for information on all mutants and superpowers with psychic abilities, including Professor
"This is not an attack." Scarlet Witch, who covered her empty eyes with cloth, squeezed Jarvis's hand and said, "It's hard for me to describe it to you, but I was not attacked."
"On the contrary." Riley's hoarse voice said: "It is facing the truth that makes us what we are now."
Xu Shangqi still did not forget his central theme. He said: "It's useless to sit here and discuss the route. No matter what, it will still be dark. Yesterday during the day, I saw some strange slime traces on the first floor of the bar. I
I think we can go investigate and see what happened here..."
After saying that, he ignored the people sitting in front of the window and turned around to walk down. Jarvis looked at Riley and Wanda who had lost some of their mobility, and they came to the first floor of the bar together.
The first floor of the bar was filled with a stench. The complex structure of human bodies made the odor they emitted when they were rotting more complex and more difficult to ignore. Xu Shangqi blocked his nose with his sleeves and lowered his head to look for the traces he saw yesterday.
Many people believe that fear is a persistent emotion. If thrown into a scary environment, people will continue to feel frightened and unable to do anything.
But in fact, the human brain has a protective mechanism. After experiencing intense emotions, there will be an extreme sense of exhaustion. This sense of exhaustion is not used to deprive humans of their ability to move. It just causes the brain to shut down briefly, and then
Let instinct take over the body and continue to maintain mobility, thereby increasing the chance of survival.
After experiencing many frights, this period of exhaustion will become longer and longer. At this time, humans will usually fall into a state of numbness. No matter what terrible things they see or what unacceptable sights they encounter,
The reaction will be very small.
It's not that Xu Shangqi is not afraid of corpses. After all, this is the first time for him to come into contact with so many corpses. It's not that he can tolerate the stench. It's just the normal operation of ordinary people's brains that makes him adapt to all this with numbness.
Fortunately, his numb state allowed him to overcome most of his physical discomfort, and he was able to calm down and act rationally.
"These monsters crawled out of human bodies." Xu Shangqi looked at the marks on the wall and said, "They crawled out of various parts of the human body, ate part of the human body, and then left in a hurry."
Jarvis also looked around, and his scanning function told him that Xu Shangqi was right, there were too many traces of mucus crawling out here.
Xu Shangqi suppressed his fear and tried hard to recall the situation when he faced the monster before. The monster holding the woman's lower body did not look like it regarded the human body as a part of itself.
Any creature has the instinct to get rid of encumbrances. The human body is completely useless to the monster's actions, so if it doesn't get rid of it, it means that it doesn't want to get rid of it, but it may not be able to get rid of it.
"Hatching failed." Xu Shangqi spat out a few words. He frowned and thought for a moment, then said: "If the monster is hatched from the human body, then in addition to providing the necessary nutrients at the beginning, the eggshell will also
It should no longer be left on their bodies."
"The two monsters we saw were probably failures that failed to escape from their eggshells midway through hatching, and these corpses are the eggshells left behind by those who succeeded."
Xu Shangqi had to hold back his nausea and use a more objective, even cold and ruthless third-party perspective to describe the incident, describing his own kind as a kind of inorganic substance.
But his reason told him that they were all living people. They might have been celebrating on the dance floor of the bar one second, and then they were broken out by the monster the next second, and then they were mercilessly devoured.
The scene forced him to stay rational, but his morality made him feel sad. Xu Shangqi took a deep breath and recited the Qingxin Jue several times silently in his heart. When he recited it for the last time, he couldn't even recite it silently anymore, but instead
He made a sound, as if the sound could give him a sense of security.
Several others could not understand Chinese and thought Xu Shangqi was praying. After calming down for a while, Xu Shangqi said: "If the monsters that did not fully hatch were left on the street, then where did the ones that hatched successfully go?
I think that might be the key to the problem."
"We can no longer sit here and wait for darkness to fall. No matter whether there is truth or not, we have to keep going. Let's go."
Xu Shangqi turned and walked out the door, with the other three following him. Xu Shangqi did not have strong investigative abilities, but fortunately, there were many traces of slime on the street and the lack of monsters gave them ample room for investigation.
The few people were following the traces and walking towards the end of the street. Although it was a good thing to have clues, it was time-consuming to stop and check the direction of the traces to make sure they were not going astray. They were not out yet.
After a few kilometers, the sky became dark.
"Find a place to rest." Xu Shang breathed out a breath. The presence of breath made him not physically tired, but his spirit was extremely exhausted.
Observing the mucus carefully was definitely not an easy job. In the end, Xu Shangqi even felt that the mucus had crawled up his body, making him feel sticky all over, mixed with the mucus on the street.
The corpse and the stench made Xu Shangqi's desire to vomit become stronger and stronger.
Xu Shangqi stroked his chest and kept breathing down with his hands. He always felt that something was coming up. He thought it was because his stomach problem was not cured yet and he was feeling nauseated, so he kept swallowing his saliva.
While on the road, several people found some weapons, but most of them were cold weapons, because the guns they found were basically out of bullets.
Riley, who was relatively strong, took a fire axe, Jarvis, who had an automatic aiming program, took a harpoon gun, and Xu Shangqi took a fruit knife from the store, which he found easiest to use.
Finally, they decided to rest in a relatively clean house. The owner seemed to have left early. The house had not been ravaged by monsters. The beds and daily necessities were complete. It was a good place for a temporary rest.
But they didn't plan to sleep in separate rooms, but planned to sleep together in the living room. Xu Shangqi threw his body into the soft sofa and sighed after a long absence.
But the more sleepy he became, the more he couldn't sleep. He could always hear his own heartbeat, "Bang bang, bang bang, bang bang..."
The more Xu Shangqi listened, the more irritated he became. He had to sit up from the sofa, took a few deep breaths, and started to run the exercises again.
When he was investigating during the day today, in order to deal with those disgusting scenes, he had recited the Qingxin Jue countless times, and when he recited it again, it seemed smooth and smooth.
But the moment he opened his mouth to finish reading the first sentence, Wanda, who was sitting on the sofa opposite and had just taken off the cloth from her eyes, suddenly raised her head.
The eyes with only two black holes looked directly at Xu Shangqi. Xu Shangqi also looked at her. Wanda said in a daze:
"What you read is different from what you said during the day..."
Xu Shangqi was stunned.
"I..." As soon as Xu Shangqi spat out a syllable, he froze there, and then showed an extremely frightened expression.
Because he discovered that what he spoke was not Chinese, or even any language he knew.
At this time, Riley, who was sitting on the sofa next to him, suddenly turned back and looked at Xu Shangqi, and Xu Shangqi also looked at him.
Riley's eyes suddenly showed a kind of sadness. He looked at Xu Shangqi with tears in his eyes and said:
"I just heard you talking."
The muscles on Xu Shangqi's face began to tremble, and then the tremors spread to his whole body, and the desire to vomit became stronger and stronger.
But when his throat tightened and a sour feeling spread up his esophagus, what he spit out was not food, but a series of languages he had never mastered.
The moment the terrible murmur appeared in the room, Riley covered her ears in pain, fell to the ground, and let out an astonishing scream. The Scarlet Witch also began to huff and puff, as if she was being pinched by something.
Covered the neck.
Xu Shangqi covered his mouth desperately, but his stomach seemed to be grasped by a big hand, and it kept squeezing out the vague and weird language. Xu Shangqi hit his head on the coffee table in despair.
, but the pain did not wake him up at all.
In the haze of tears, Xu Shangqi saw the last golden glow of the setting sun fade between the gaps in the curtains, and darkness had fallen.
The screams of Wanda and Riley continued to echo in the room, and their painful faces fell into Xu Shangqi's eyes.
Those were once his favorite characters, and he had been moved to tears by watching them on the movie screen countless times.
Even Thanos didn't make Spider-Man so painful.
The moment this thought appeared in Xu Shangqi's mind, unspeakable boundless anger burned through his soul.
The string in Xu Shangqi's mind was completely broken. He tremblingly threw himself on the sofa and touched the fruit knife he had placed in the gap.
Underneath the frightened eyes was a trembling, open mouth, and the sharp blade reflected the desperate eyes.
In an instant, blood spattered, and the nerve reflex caused by severe pain caused the severed tongue to still twitch slightly after it fell to the ground, like a fish thrown to the shore.
In the silence as the whispers disappeared, Xu Shangqi, whose mouth was full of blood, felt for the first time such a strong smell of blood lingering between his mouth and nose.
Then he discovered that he didn't dislike the taste of blood that much, and even after losing his sense of taste, he could still taste a hint of sweetness from it.
Xu Shang lay weakly on the coffee table, but he raised his head hard and swallowed the blood that should have been vomited out. The tears that blurred his vision stopped flowing, allowing him to see through the gaps in the curtains.
See the stars in the night sky clearly.
While panting, Xu Shangqi discovered that it was not the blood that was sweet, but the taste of victory.
In the same dark room, the quivering tip of the quill pen wrote this sentence on the black notebook -
"If I write about the end of the world, I can't just write about the end of the world. I have to write about fools who survive by accident, smart people who are just one move away from the agency, good people who are driven to madness, and bad people who make selfless sacrifices.
We should write about great heroes and compose hymns of courage, and we should also write about ordinary people who are as humble as dust, desperate and bloody, but willing to enjoy it."