chsdbacks Chapter 1382 The Call of the Stars (15)
Chapter 1382 The Call of the Stars (15)
"The outbreak in this weird world is probably not a biochemical crisis at all. This kind of attack is aimed at the spirit, and all of us have no 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 unexpired sealed bread that he found from the bar storage room.
"I don't know what happened to you at all." 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, so that they can make you feel better." They are so desperate to hurt themselves."
Jarvis's expression was very helpless. If he had to sum up everything that happened tonight in one sentence, it would probably be "human beings are so fucking interesting", and if he added another sentence, it would be "I don't understand, but I know Shocked."
Jarvis knows that although the Scarlet Witch Wanda and Quicksilver Pietro, the siblings have been displaced since they were young, but because of their own powerful abilities, they have never suffered any flesh and blood. Pained out the soprano tone.
But just last night, she used a rough branch to gouged out her own eyes, and now she still has a happy expression for the rest of her life. What kind of horrible things did she have to see for such a big thing to happen? change?
Jarvis had to hold Wanda's hand all the time, because losing her eyesight made her feel very insecure.
More importantly, because she was worried about losing control and hurting her companions, Wanda directly abolished her martial arts, poured all the power of chaos under her control into her 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 this universe, so she is almost an ordinary person now.
This is unimaginable for mutants. Their abilities are like their arms. Losing their abilities is not as simple as being disabled. It seems that the world has changed.
In the previous hour, Wanda asked Jarvis hundreds of times what was around her. According to Miss Witch, as a magician, when she is capable, she does not need to use her eyes to perceive her surroundings. The world she perceives and perceives is completely different from that of human beings.
Riley's situation is slightly better than Wanda's. He just lost his hearing and needs to rely on other people's mouth movements to judge what the other person said. But he has another problem, that is, he dare not speak, for fear of saying that The tune that has been repeated countless times, lingering in my mind, is sung inadvertently.
He endured so much hardship that he could hardly use his energy to do other things, and so did Wanda.
Therefore, I am afraid that on the next journey, not only will the two of them no longer be the strongest in the team, but they will become a drag on the contrary.
And it is conceivable that neither Jarvis nor Xu Shangqi will leave their companions behind. Therefore, although it is dawn, the next journey may be even more difficult.
"I withdraw my previous judgment." Xu Shangqi took the lead and said: "My original plan was to find a closed place to hide, slowly accumulate resources, and then find a way to make weapons when I can survive, and go out to explore regularly. Wait until the scale of the base is large enough and the technology is sufficiently developed, and then explore the possible center of the event step by step."
"But now it seems that this method of building high walls and accumulating food is not suitable for this world at all. There are too few monsters that can be seen and defeated, and weapons are useless."
"And I'm afraid there are no large-scale survivors to save us, so there are no conditions for large-scale production, and it is unnecessary. More importantly, every day we wait, the possibility of being eroded by darkness is greater. point."
Xu Shangqi covered his eyes, and said in a painful tone: "Why did I travel to a world where spiritual power is tested after I hugged Spider-Man and Scarlet Witch's thighs!"
Then he gritted his teeth and said, "Don't let me know which little clever ghost did this!"
Jarvis also sighed, he 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, at most it can repair cars or something of."
"As for the mental attack you have 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's because of my strong willpower that I persisted until now, then you may be disappointed. I rely on a treasure."
Xu Shangqi took out the jade pendant around his neck. He believed very much in the characters of the people present. More importantly, the energy on the jade pendant was already very meager. Already crumbling.
The scanning device in Jarvis's eyes scanned the jade pendant on 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, I have said that I just cramped my feet to learn the mental method... well, let's not worry about this for now, we have to do something during the day, we can't wait here anymore, or night will fall We are still powerless."
"I think the way to crack your weird state is to find out the truth." Jarvis analyzed rationally: "Those strange things attack your spirit, so there is always a way to resist this attack."
"I searched the database for information on all mutants and superpowers with mental abilities, including Professor X, but I didn't find any way to establish a mental barrier."
"This is not an attack." The 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 somewhat hoarse voice said: "It is facing the truth that made 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. I saw some strange slime traces on the first floor of the bar during the day yesterday. I Think we can investigate and see what happened here..."
After finishing speaking, he ignored the few people sitting in front of the window, but turned around and walked down. Jarvis looked at Riley and Wanda who had lost some mobility, and they came to the first floor of the bar together.
The first floor of the bar was filled with stench. The complex body structure of human beings made the smell more complicated and difficult to ignore. Xu Shangqi blocked his nose with his sleeve and looked down for the traces he saw yesterday.
Many people think that fear is a persistent emotion. Being thrown into a terrible environment, people must 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 a sense of extreme fatigue. Let instinct take over the body and continue to maintain mobility, thereby improving the chances of survival.
And after experiencing many frights, this period of fatigue will become longer and longer. At this time, human beings usually fall into a state of numbness. No matter what terrible things they see or what unacceptable scenes they encounter, Reaction will be small.
It's not that Xu Shangqi is not afraid of corpses. After all, it's his first time contacting so many corpses, and it's not that he can bear the stench. It's just that ordinary people's brains operate in a regular way, so he can only adapt to all this with numbness.
Fortunately, the numb state allowed him to overcome most of his physical discomfort, and he could barely calm down and act rationally.
"These monsters crawled out of the human body." Xu Shangqi looked at the marks on the wall and said, "They crawled out from various parts of the human body, devoured part of the human body, and left in a hurry."
Jarvis also looked around, his scanning function told him that Xu Shangqi was right, there were too many traces of slime crawling outward.
Xu Shangqi held back his fear, and tried his best to recall the situation when he faced the monster before. The monster holding the lower body of the woman did not seem to regard the human body as a part of himself.
Any creature has the instinct to get rid of encumbrances. The human body is completely useless to the monster's actions. 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 spit out a few words, he frowned and thought for a while, and then said: "If the monster is hatched from the human body, then the eggshell will not only provide the necessary nutrients at the beginning, It should no longer be left on their bodies."
"The two monsters we saw may have been hatched and failed to get rid of the eggshells halfway, and these corpses are the eggshells left by those who succeeded."
Xu Shangqi had to hold back his nausea, and narrated the incident from a more objective, even ruthless, third-party perspective, describing his own kind as an inorganic substance.
But his rationality was telling him that they were all living people, maybe they were celebrating on the dance floor of the bar one second, and then they were broken out by monsters in the next second, and then devoured mercilessly.
The scene forced him to be rational, but morality made him feel sad. Xu Shangqi took a deep breath, and silently recited the Qingxin formula several times in his heart. He made a sound, as if the sound could give him a sense of security.
Several other people couldn't understand Chinese, so they thought Xu Shangqi was praying. After calming down for a while, Xu Shangqi said, "If the monsters that didn't fully hatch remain on the street, where did the ones that hatched successfully go? I think that might be the crux of the matter."
"We can no longer sit here and wait for the darkness to fall, whether there is truth ahead or not, we have to keep going, let's go."
Xu Shangqi turned and walked out the door, and the other three followed behind him. Xu Shangqi did not have strong investigative ability, but fortunately, there were many traces of slime on the street, and the monsters rarely gave them enough room to investigate.
Several people walked towards the end of the street while chasing the traces. Although it is a good thing to have clues, it is time-consuming to stop and check the direction of the traces from time to time to make sure that they have not gone astray. After a few kilometers, the sky darkened.
"Find a place to rest." Xu Shang let out a breath, the existence of qi made him not physically tired, but mentally exhausted to the extreme.
It's definitely not a good job to observe those mucus carefully, until the end. Xu Shangqi even felt that the mucus had crawled up his body, making him feel sticky all over, and mixed with the corpses and stench on the street, Xu Shangqi's desire to vomit became stronger and stronger.
Xu Shangqi caressed his chest, and kept using his hands to smooth the air. He always felt that something was about to come up. He thought that his stomach problem was still not healed, and he was a little nauseated, so he kept swallowing.
During their journey, several people found some weapons, but most of them were cold weapons, because the guns they could find were basically out of bullets.
Riley, who is 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 that he used most easily.
In the end, they decided to rest in a relatively clean private house. The owner here seemed to have gone out early. The house had not been ravaged by monsters, and 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 on the soft sofa and sighed after a long absence.
But the more sleepy he was, the less he could fall asleep, he could always hear his heartbeat, "Bang bang, bang bang, bang bang..."
The more Xu Shangqi listened, the more irritable he became. He had to sit up from the sofa, tried to take a few deep breaths, and started to practice the exercises again.
During the investigation during the day today, in order to deal with those disgusting scenes, he had already recited the Qingxin formula countless times, and when he recited it again, it seemed smooth and fluent.
But the moment he opened his mouth to finish the first sentence, Wanda, who was sitting on the opposite sofa and had just removed the cloth strips from her eyes, suddenly raised her head.
The eyes with only two black holes looked directly at Xu Shangqi, and Xu Shangqi also looked at her. Wanda said in a daze:
"What you read is different from the daytime..."
Xu Shang was stunned.
"I..." As soon as Xu Shangqi uttered a syllable, he froze there, and then showed an expression of extreme horror.
Because he discovered that what he spoke was not Chinese, or even any language he knew.
At this moment, Riley, who was sitting on the side sofa, suddenly turned his head to look at Xu Shangqi, and Xu Shangqi also looked at him.
There was a sudden sadness in Riley's eyes, he looked at Xu Shangqi with tears in his eyes and said:
"I just heard you speak."
The muscles on Xu Shangqi's face began to tremble, and then the trembling spread to the whole body, and the desire to vomit became stronger and stronger.
But when his throat tightened and a sore feeling spread up his esophagus, what he spit out was not food, but a series of languages he had never mastered.
The moment that terrible raving appeared in the room, Riley covered his ears in pain, fell to the ground, let out an astonishing scream, and the Scarlet Witch began to breathe continuously, as if being strangled by something. Stuck on the neck.
Xu Shangqi desperately covered his mouth, but his stomach seemed to be grasped by a big hand, and he kept squeezing that vague and weird language, Xu Shangqi knocked his head on the coffee table in despair , but the pain didn't wake him up at all.
Amidst the tears, Xu Shangqi saw the last golden radiance of the setting sun fade between the gaps in the curtains, and night fell.
The screams of Wanda and Riley kept echoing in the room, and their painful faces fell into Xu Shangqi's eyes.
They used to be his favorite characters, and he was moved to tears countless times around them on the movie screen.
Thanos didn't make Spider-Man this 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 broke completely, he threw himself on the sofa trembling, and touched the fruit knife he had put in the gap before.
Under the terrified eyes, there is a trembling open mouth, and the sharp blade reflects the desperate eyes.
In an instant, blood spattered, and the nerve reflex caused by the severe pain caused the severed tongue to twitch slightly after it fell to the ground, like a fish thrown onto the shore.
In the silence where the whispers disappeared, Xu Shangqi, whose mouth was full of blood, felt such a strong smell of blood lingering between his mouth and nose for the first time.
Then he discovered that he didn't hate the smell of blood that much, and even after losing his sense of taste, he could still taste a little sweetness from it.
Xu Shang lied weakly on the coffee table, but tried his best to raise his head, swallowing the blood that should have been vomited out, and the tears that blurred his vision stopped flowing, allowing him to pass through the gap in the curtains, See the stars in the night sky clearly.
While panting, Xu Shangqi discovered that what was sweet was not the blood, but the taste of victory.
And in the same dark room, the trembling nib 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 day, I have to write about the stupid people who survived by mistake, the smart people who made all the mistakes, the good people who are driven crazy, and the bad people who are selfless.
If you want to write a hymn of courage composed of great heroes, you should also write about ordinary people who are as humble as dust, who are desperate to shed blood, but enjoy it. "
You don't really think being covered by Schiller is a good thing, do you?
Look at Batman in the distance, my family