Chapter 1389 The Call of the Stars (XV)

Chapter 1382 The Call of the Stars (15)

"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 unexpired sealed bread found in the bar's storage room.

"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 even if she was pricked by a thorn on a rose. screamed out the soprano's tone of pain.

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 originally like their arms. Losing abilities is not just a disability. It seems that the world has changed.

In the previous 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. The melody, which has been repeated countless times and lingers in my mind, is sung inadvertently.

He endured it so hard that he could hardly use his energy to do anything else, 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 may 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, and then find ways to make weapons after I have no worries about survival, and go out to explore regularly. Once the base is large enough and the technology is advanced enough, we can then explore the 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 large-scale survivors to save us. That would neither have 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 willpower 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. 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 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 all mutants and superpowers with psychic abilities, including Professor X, and did not find any methods for establishing a mental barrier."

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"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 sounded: "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. I saw some strange mucus traces on the first floor of the bar yesterday. I think we can go and investigate and see what happened here..."

After that, he ignored the few people sitting in front of the window, but turned and walked down. Jarvis looked at Riley and Wanda who had lost some of their ability to move, 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 humans makes the stench they emit when they decay more complex and more difficult to ignore. Xu Shangqi blocked his nose with his sleeve and looked down to find the traces he saw yesterday.

Many people think that fear is a persistent emotion. Being thrown into a terrible environment, people will continue to feel terrified 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 fatigue. This fatigue is not used to deprive humans of their ability to act, but to make the brain shut down for a short time, and then let the instinct take over the body and continue to maintain the ability to act, thereby increasing the chance of survival.

After experiencing many shocks, this fatigue period will become longer and longer. At this time, humans usually fall into a state of numbness. No matter what terrible things they see or what unacceptable scenes they encounter, their reactions will be small.

Xu Shangqi is not afraid of corpses. After all, it is the first time he has come into contact with so many corpses, and he can't stand the stench. It's just that the brain of ordinary people operates according to the law, so he can only adapt to it with numbness.

Fortunately, the numb state allowed him to overcome most of the physical discomfort, and he could barely calm down and act rationally.

"These monsters crawled out of the human body." Xu Shangqi looked at the traces on the wall and said, "They crawled out from 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 held back his fear and tried to recall the situation when he faced the monster before. The monster that held the woman's lower body before did not seem to regard the human body as a part of itself.

Any creature will have the instinct to get rid of the burden. The human body is completely useless for the monster's actions. If it did not get rid of it, it means that it is not that it does not want to get rid of it, but it may be that it cannot get rid of it.

"Hatching failed." Xu Shangqi uttered a few words. He frowned and thought for a while, then said: "If the monsters are hatched from human bodies, then the eggshell should not remain on their bodies except for providing the necessary nutrients at the beginning."

"The two monsters we saw may be failed products that failed to get rid of the eggshell during the hatching process, and these corpses are the eggshells left by those who succeeded."

Xu Shangqi had to hold back his nausea and narrate the incident from a more objective, even indifferent and ruthless third-party perspective, describing his own kind as an inorganic substance.

But his reason told him that they were all living people, who might have been celebrating on the dance floor of the bar the previous second, and were broken out of the monster's body the next second, and then devoured mercilessly.

The scene forced him to remain rational, but morality made him feel sad. Xu Shangqi took a deep breath and recited the Qingxin Jue in his heart several times. When he recited it for the last time, he couldn't even recite it silently anymore, but recited it out loud, as if the sound could give him a sense of security.

The other people didn't understand Chinese and thought Xu Shangqi was praying. After calming down for a while, Xu Shangqi said, "If the monsters that failed to hatch completely stayed on the street, then where did the ones that successfully hatched go? I think this may be the key to the problem."

"We can't sit here and wait for the darkness to fall. No matter whether there is the truth ahead, we have to keep going. Let's go."

Xu Shangqi turned and walked out the door. The other three followed him. Xu Shangqi didn't have a strong ability to detect, but fortunately, there were many traces of mucus on the street, and the few monsters gave them enough space for investigation.

While chasing the traces, the few people walked towards the end of the street. Although it was a good thing to have clues, it was very time-consuming to stop from time to time to check the direction of the traces to make sure they didn't go astray. They hadn't walked a few kilometers when it got dark.

"Let's find a place to rest." Xu Shangqi exhaled. The existence of Qi made his body not tired, but his spirit was exhausted to the extreme.

It was definitely not an easy job to observe the mucus carefully, until the end. Xu Shangqi even felt that the mucus had crawled up his body, making him feel sticky all over. Mixed with the corpses and the stench on the street, Xu Shangqi's urge to vomit became 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 stronger, 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 most convenient.

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Finally, they decided to rest in a relatively clean house. The owner here 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 to rest temporarily.

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 technique 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 horrified expression.

Because he discovered that what he was speaking was not Chinese, or even any language he knew.

At this time, Riley, who was sitting on the sofa next to him, suddenly looked back 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."

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 being pinched by something. Hold 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 night fell.

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 countless times around them on the movie screen.

Even Thanos didn't cause Spider-Man this much pain.

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 twitch slightly even after it fell to the ground, like a fish thrown onto the shore.

In the silence when 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 trembling 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 the fools who survived by accident, the smart people who failed to make the best move, the good people who were driven crazy, and the selfless bad people.

It is necessary to write about the great heroes who compose hymns of courage, and it is also necessary to write about ordinary people who are as humble as dust, desperate and bloody, but willing to enjoy it. "

You don’t really think being covered by Schiller is a good thing, do you?

Look at Batman in the distance, family