Since learning the news, Peacock has fallen into panic.
He didn't dare and didn't want to believe it because he couldn't accept the possibility that he had harmed everyone.
After entering Night City, Peacock focused all his energy on finding his family.
He thought he was far enough away from that weird page, but who would have thought that he would have a relationship with this thing again today.
Hearing this cult-like prayer again, Peacock clenched his fists subconsciously.
He thought he wouldn't be able to read it, but this passage seemed to have magic power.
"O black goat of the forest that gave birth to thousands of descendants, you are the one who gave birth to life in the beginning of time."
When the peacock heard his own repeating voice the next moment, his eyes widened in surprise.
"how so?"
As soon as this thought came up, there was a loud roar in Peacock's ears, and then he found himself surrounded by the familiar buzzing sound again.
Counting the time he picked up the book page on Interstate 5, this was the fourth time Peacock heard this disturbing sound.
In the past, he could only hear the buzzing sound, but couldn't tell what it was. But today, Peacock found that he understood it.
It was countless excited people who were repeating the words Peacock just repeated over and over again in excited tones.
After countless overlapping echoes, these sounds completely merged and turned into the buzzing echo now. He couldn't understand it last time, but now he could hear it more and more clearly.
"In the silent forest on this full moon night, I sacrifice to you with my crazy howl."
At this moment, the mysterious man in the earphone began to recite the second prayer.
"You can't read it! There's something wrong with these words! You absolutely can't read it!"
Peacock, who realized something was wrong, kept shouting in his heart, but a thin barrier appeared between his consciousness and body.
No matter how loud he yelled, Peacock was horrified to find that his mouth was still precise and he faithfully repeated the words of the mysterious man.
"In the silent forest on this full moon night, I sacrifice to you with my crazy howl."
Just after reciting this second strange sentence, the strange chanting sound that was lingering around the peacock just now suddenly disappeared.
The world suddenly became quiet, but the peacock did not return to normal.
At this moment, Peacock was silently looking at his body. He now needed all his willpower to suppress the fear in his heart and prevent himself from screaming.
"This is not true! This is all an illusion!"
Looking at the little black dots that were rushing to emerge from the palm of his right hand, the peacock said this to himself over and over again.
When the dots were still under his skin, they were no more than the size of a pinhead.
But when they got out of his skin, these things suddenly changed.
They look like thicker and longer hair now, but they can't be body hair, because hair can't twist around on its own.
Seeing these black tentacles coming out of his body, the peacock really wanted to lick his throat and vomit out everything in his stomach.
These disgusting things not only appear on the peacock's right palm, in fact, except for his left hand, these miniature tentacles are drilled out of every part of the peacock's body.
"Yeah! Yeah! Shub-Nicholas!"
When Peacock heard the mysterious man pronounce the last sentence, he knew that he would definitely not be able to stop himself from ending this evil ritual.
"Yeah! Yeah! Shub-Nicholas!"
Listening to his own emotionless retelling, he felt nothing but despair in his heart.
After reading this last sentence, Peacock suddenly felt his whole body relax.
When he looked at his palm again, he was surprised to find that all those disgusting tentacles were gone.
No matter where he touched, there were no earthworm-like insects on his body.
Not only that, he was not in the pickup truck at this time.
Now he is actually standing on the top of a mountain somewhere, and the scenery is the most beautiful one.
Looking at the beautiful scenery in front of him, the peacock suddenly had a strong impulse. At this moment, he wanted to laugh, wave his arms, and run forward happily.
"Mr. Peacock! It's almost time. Wake up!"
Just when Peacock was about to do this, the mysterious man's voice pierced his eardrum like a sharp sword, waking him up instantly.
When he looked at his feet again, the peacock couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat.
He was on some mountain top at this moment, he was clearly stepping on the hood of the pickup truck.
Because of the intelligent driving AI, the minivan ran quite smoothly. So even though it was standing in such a dangerous place, it was still safe and sound.
"Am I sleepwalking?"
After taking a look at the cab without a roof, Peacock understood what had just happened.
Of course he was still sitting in the driver's seat before. For some unknown reason, he climbed out of the driver's cab and climbed out of the car in a daze.
When he thought he was walking on the top of a mountain, he was actually stepping on the engine hood and moving forward.
If the mysterious man hadn't ordered him to stop in time, the peacock would have fallen out of the car if he took another step forward. At the current speed, he would definitely die.
"Mr. Peacock, your ceremony has been successfully completed. Now tell me, do you feel anything?"
When communicating with Peacock before, the mysterious man always maintained a detached attitude.
He once made Peacock feel that the other party was superior, but when he asked this question now, he was obviously a little excited.
"Feeling? Yes! I feel my ability."
Following the mysterious man's questioning, Peacock suddenly realized that there was something extra in his head.
"Great! Congratulations, Mr. Peacock, you succeeded! Now..."
Just when the mysterious man was about to continue speaking, Peacock interrupted him at this moment:
"Now, bye!"
While talking, Peacock stretched out his hand and patted the base of his left ear.
Following his movement, the miniature intercom in the ear canal popped out.
Grabbing the communicator, which was only as big as a bean, Peacock stretched out his finger and flicked the thing in his hand to who knows where.
"What? Peacock! You despicable guy, how dare you cross the river and burn the bridge!"
When listening to the peacock saying goodbye to him, the mysterious man was still confused by Monk Zhang Er.
When he found out that the bastard named Peacock took the initiative to leave his call, he still didn't understand what the goodbye just now meant.
After learning the highest secrets of the sect, that scumbag actually wanted to get rid of them and run away, but he was still helpless.
No matter how angry the mysterious man roared or swore, the peacock at this time no longer had to endure that man's noise.
Just now, Peacock resolutely cut off the call connection with the other party. He did not do this on a whim, but after quick thinking.
In order to better use that weird and dangerous ability, Peacock must learn the method mentioned by the mysterious man.
But this doesn't mean that he really believes in the other person, because he hates people who like to hide their heads and show their tails, not to mention that person is also responsible for Morty's death.
No matter what this mysterious person represents, Peacock doesn't want to be led by the other person anymore, so he wants to say goodbye to him.
The so-called ceremony just now was actually just three short sentences recited. Just after reciting these damn things, Peacock felt that familiar sense of detachment.
At this time, the invisible black hole was formed in his palm again. As soon as it appeared, it began to drain the peacock's mind.
However, this time, both in terms of intensity and speed, it was completely different from what Peacock had experienced before.
If the previous two times were like surging rivers, now it can only be considered a trickle at best.
Although the extraction intensity this time was obviously reduced, the formation speed of that powerful force was actually accelerated.
When Peacock drew the Prelude from his holster, the power had almost been condensed and was ready to be fired at any time.
"This is my power, and its name is wither!"
Watching this force quickly merge with the bullet in the gun chamber, Peacock could clearly feel every detail of this process.
Now that .44-caliber bullet is the embodiment of death. It can cause any living thing to wither quickly, and this is the power of withering.
"Gaga, mercenary king, take this move of mine and see if you still die!"
Staring at Adam Hammer who had climbed into the trunk of Draman, Peacock smiled strangely while pulling the trigger.
When the bullet flew out of the muzzle, the peacock felt that a piece of his body was torn off, and he flew out with the bullet.
This was a feeling that made Peacock feel very happy, so he laughed and dropped the gun and jumped onto the engine hood again.
Just when Peacock pulled the trigger, Adam Hammer was about to blow out the rear windshield of Delamain with one punch.
At this moment, an unprecedented terrifying murderous intention came from behind, which made the legendary mercenary stop immediately.
"dangerous!"
After years of life and death tests, Adam Hammer has also honed his intuition for danger.
This feeling cannot be verified by scientific theory, but it does exist, and it is more sensitive than any current reconnaissance plug-in.
Adam Hammer had just turned around when the bullet wrapped in a large cloud of black smoke flew out of the muzzle.
At this moment, Adam Hammer's electronic eyes determined the model of the pistol.
After comprehensively considering the distance between the two sides, speed difference, wind direction deviation and other variables, the smart plug-in in the legendary mercenary's head came to a conclusion that did not need to be ignored.
Although the computer only gave a "weak" threat assessment, the Mercenary King would not believe this fool's computer's judgment.
For a long time in the past, Adam Hammer has always been a lonely master, and has never encountered an opponent that can truly threaten him.
Even in the battle of the century with Johnny Silverhand, he won quite easily, so he didn't have this suffocating feeling of approaching death for a long time.
At this moment, he chose to trust his instincts instead of the computer, so he immediately gave up on the easy-to-get Dramain.
In order to have the strongest combat power, Adam Hammer has never stopped transforming his body.
To this day, he cannot remember how many surgeries he has had, nor does he know how much he has spent on cybernetic prostheses.
Facts have proven that spending money on improving combat effectiveness is definitely worth it.
When the bullet that made Adam Hammer's hair stand on end was fired towards him, he curled up his body at a speed that exceeded the design limit and took a step to the side.
"I escaped!"
Although the bullet flew right next to his arm, Adam Hammer did escape the shot.
Just when the legendary mercenary was rejoicing about this, he noticed something abnormal in his body.
The power of Wither is extremely overbearing. Even if the bullet failed to hit him, it was still close enough to Adam's hammer arm.
Just like this, most of the musculocutaneous nerves on Adam's hammer arm were necrotic in an instant.
Although this was not fatal, it immediately caused him to lose control of his biceps and brachialis muscles.
As soon as he let go of his hand, Adam's hammer fell down from the speeding Draman car like a rubber ball.
"Quack, I'll hit you to death!"
While the Mercenary King was still rolling on the ground, the peacock standing on the engine hood opened his arms, using this posture to welcome Adam Hammer.
His pickup truck was directly behind Delamain, so Adam Hammer, who fell from Delamain, collided with the pickup truck without any suspense in the next second.
"boom!"
After a loud noise, the mercenary king of Night City flipped and flew into the sky.
With his status, he should have shouted: "I will come back again!" Lines like this.
Unfortunately, Adam's heavy hammer made no sound, and we don't know whether he was knocked unconscious or killed.
At the moment when the person and the car collided, Peacock was also injured because of his madness.