Chapter 1394: The Call of the Stars (20)

(This paragraph is very bad! Watch carefully!)

"Where am I?"

Xu Shangqi stood up, holding his head, which was a little dizzy. Just as he regained his senses, he smelled a foul odor. A dark shadow rushed past the window where the light came from. Xu Shangqi shook instinctively and looked towards the window.

The window closest to him was very large. It should be the window of a corner store. The delicate colored window frame did not provide any solid sense of security. Xu Shangqi just turned his head and "crashed". The glass shattered all over the floor, and several thick tentacles came from above.

Xu Shangqi, who had just stood up and had not yet stood firmly, exerted force on his left foot and dodged to the side in a clumsy and stiff manner, but was still hit on the shoulder by the tentacle that came in at the end.

"Ah!!!"

Xu Shangqi screamed, but he had no time to think about it. With the faint light coming through the window, he rolled and crawled towards the half-broken counter, grabbed the chair that fell to the ground, and threw it at the tentacle.

The chair hit the end of the tentacle, but it did not cause any damage at all. With the sound of mucus flowing, a round mouth appeared outside the window. It grew in the middle of the tentacle, wrapped around the window frame with the tentacles, and was crawling into the store.

What frightened Xu Shangqi the most was that after the tentacles and the big mouth completely crawled into the store, their back half was not a bloated worm with a bunch of legs, but the upper body of a human.

The tentacles stretched out from the abdominal cavity of a middle-aged woman. The intestines that had completely shriveled and rotted could be clearly seen around the big mouth, and the terrible stench was emanating from it.

As the monster moved forward, the remaining corpse was dragged on the ground like that. The skin on the chest, neck and entire face had completely fallen off due to decay and friction, leaving only yellow bones stained with blood, like a sled for plowing the land, plowing one gully after another in the mucus and dust.

Xu Shangqi stared at the monster in amazement. After being stunned for less than a second, he let out a scream that was not human, and then he rolled and crawled towards the side door.

His mind was blank, there was no room for rational thinking, and he couldn't even express his emotions. At this moment, he had only one thought, that is - run!

In his previous life, Xu Shangqi was a movie lover. He liked to watch both Hollywood movies and art films. Like many movie lovers, he was particularly obsessed with horror and bloody movies at a certain time.

Whether it was a zombie movie with blood all over the screen, or a ghost movie that created psychological horror through suspenseful shots, Xu Shangqi could always get some excitement from all kinds of scares and disgust.

It was this kind of excitement that made him crazy about this kind of movie during that time, looking for resources on the Internet to find the uncut version to feast on.

Xu Shangqi didn't remember where he had seen a certain theory, which seemed to say that humans are interested in horror movies because fear triggers their self-preservation instinct.

Witnessing bloody and horrific scenes will make the human brain think that it is in danger, and then adrenaline will surge, which can speed up the human heartbeat and make the nerves excited.

On the other hand, human reason will tell them that the scene they are in is safe, so these nerve stimulants that should be used for self-protection will turn into an enhancement of sensory experience, thus bringing a certain sense of pleasure.

Therefore, many horror movie fans are not actually brave, or in other words, if they are too brave, they will not feel this kind of excitement.

Xu Shangqi is one of them. He is not a very brave person at all, and he is even very cowardly in some aspects, but when facing horror movies, he is afraid and wants to watch, and he is both inexperienced and playful.

But watching horror movies and being in horror scenes are two completely different things. Without the assistance of drugs, the horror scenes and irritating smells that have never been seen before will only stop the brain from working temporarily, because it cannot be understood, so it cannot be analyzed.

So in real life, when faced with a sudden disaster, many people's first reaction is not to run, but to stand there and watch. This is not because they like to watch the excitement, but because the brain needs time to process and digest scenes that have never been seen before.

Xu Shangqi was exactly like this. He had already rushed out of the side door of the store. He still didn't react to what happened. He didn't even remember how he got here.

He stood at the door, panting in confusion, and even looked back at the monster in the store. He staggered forward two steps, and was at a loss on the street at night.

He stood by the street lamp pole next to the street, looking through the broken window at the tentacle monster that was crawling over the counter. When the brain finally processed this information, Xu Shangqi's first reaction was to half-kneel down, cover his neck, and start vomiting desperately.

But he didn't actually eat much, and he had almost digested it a long time ago. He vomited out only acid water, which made his throat hurt like a fire.

After convulsing and vomiting for a long time, Xu Shangqi stood up with the help of a street lamp. After regaining some of his senses, he knew he had to leave here quickly, otherwise he might be the next one to be dragged to the ground.

Xu Shangqi looked around, but couldn't see anything. At this time, he finally remembered the method he had learned in the Shenmao Bureau before. He moved his Qi to his eyes and could barely see the surrounding situation.

The street was empty, with only the wreckage of vehicles and building fragments scattered on the ground. From the smell of decay floating in the air, it can be judged that there may be human corpses among these fragments.

In addition to the monster that just got into the store, there was also movement in the two houses at the end of the street. Xu Shangqi suspected that it might be a similar monster, but the first thing he did after discovering this was to turn around and leave.

With the ability of night vision, Xu Shangqi walked towards a more open place, but it was not as he wished. There was a fierce fight coming from the two buildings at the end of the street.

A flash of red light passed by, followed by a scream. Xu Shangqi turned and looked there. He widened his eyes and saw a figure coming out of the broken window. It was Ben Riley. He looked like he was thrown out by something.

Xu Shangqi gritted his teeth, clenched his fists, took a few deep breaths, tried to dispel the panic in his heart, and ran over there.

He moved his Qi to his legs, and soon he crossed the broken street, ran to Riley's side, helped him up, and as soon as his hand touched Riley's skin, he found a piece of glass stuck in his back.

But Riley didn't care about the pain at all. He pointed to the window and said, "Hurry, go save Wanda."

Xu Shangqi helped Riley look into the building. The red light in the window became brighter and brighter, and then Wanda fell to the corner of the wall as if she was hit by something, and lay on the ground, followed by Jarvis's roar.

Xu Shangqi stood on tiptoe, looked at Riley and said, "Don't run around, just wait here, I'll be back soon!"

After saying that, he ran towards the window that Riley had just broken, not caring to avoid the glass fragments all over the floor, holding his head with both hands, bending over and lifting his legs, and jumped directly into the narrow window frame.

After entering, he didn't even turn his head to see what was opposite Wanda, but grabbed the witch's wrist. Pull her to the window.

Wanda staggered before she could react, she screamed, and then heard Xu Shangqi's roar.

"What are you doing! Run!"

"But I..."

Xu Shangqi grabbed Wanda from behind without saying anything, and after transferring the Qi to her arm, he grabbed Wanda's waist and threw the slender witch out of the window, and then he and Jarvis jumped out of the window one after another and ran back to the street.

Wanda was thrown to the ground and rolled a few times. Riley rushed up to help her up. She was a little dazed by the fall. She turned her head to look at Xu Shangqi and wanted to say something, but Xu Shangqi ran ahead, then turned back and roared at everyone:

"Any human with a brain and a normal mind will only choose to do one thing at this time, that is, fucking-run!!!"

People have a herd mentality, especially when they are at a loss, they will instinctively follow the loudest voice of their kind. Xu Shangqi shouted to run, and the other few people who didn't react followed him.

And this action may have saved their lives, because the monster that rushed out of the window was different from the one Xu Shangqi saw in the store window.

In the weak light, a monster with two legs standing upright rushed out of the broken window, but it was not the legs that supported it to walk, but the tentacles like sea anemones that burst out from half of its head.

Maybe the human brain gave this monster higher intelligence. Its desire to attack was much stronger than the monster that grew out of the lower body that Xu Shangqi saw, and its means of attack were much more numerous.

The tumor and tentacles that entangled half of the human corpse worked together. Half of the tentacles stuck to the wall and moved forward alternately at a rapid speed, while the other half of the tentacles kept whipping forward to interfere with the movement of the prey.

"Wanda, put away your magic!" Xu Shangqi turned around and shouted, "Don't make light!!"

Wanda gritted her teeth while running, and she said helplessly, "I... I can't control it a little bit!"

"Then run faster!"

Fortunately, they are all agile heroes. Although they are not completely known for their speed, they are not slow either.

Xu Shangqi can use footwork, Riley is Spider-Man, and the speed of full-speed sprinting is naturally needless to say. Wanda can use magic, and Jarvis himself is the culmination of mechanics. Several people ran all the way and soon left the monster behind.

After rushing out of the street, they came to a crossroads. Several people stopped and gasped. Wanda covered her chest and gasped, saying, "Why should we run? I think I can..."

"You can't do anything!" Xu Shangqi also gasped and said, "If you can beat it, you won't be thrown against the wall!"

"I." Wanda was choked, and then explained in a low voice: "I was ambushed..."

"What the hell, what's going on?" Riley pressed his temple with his hand, slowly half-knelt on the ground and said, "My spider sense has been ringing, and it's ringing very violently. It's so noisy that I can't hear you guys talking clearly."

Riley's expression was very painful. He tried to open his eyes wide and looked at the ruined scene of the city around him. Xu Shangqi put his hands on his hips, constantly calmed his breath, and said: "There is no doubt that we have traveled through time and space and came to a damn universe that may be the end of the world."

"Traveled through time?" Riley groaned in pain, but still gritted his teeth and said: "You mean we traveled through the universe?"

"Almost."

"But why is it like this here?"

"How do I know."

Xu Shangqi answered absent-mindedly. He looked around, glanced at a few people, and said: "Let's go."

"Where to?" Wanda frowned and looked at him and asked.

"Hide somewhere without monsters."

Wanda opened her eyes wide, she looked at Xu Shangqi in disbelief and said: "The world is about to be destroyed, you still want to hide?!"

"I want to hide because the world is about to be destroyed! You don't really think that we can save the world?"

"But, but we have to save..."

"We have to save ourselves first!"

Wanda opened her mouth to say something, Xu Shangqi stretched out a hand to interrupt her, and then said: "I know what you want to do, you want to rush into the city center where there are the most monsters, knock down all the monsters there, and then find a group of culprits in the center and eliminate them all. Destroy it, and you will successfully save the world. "

"But from my experience, in this process, the whole team will die one after another, and they will die miserably, including but not limited to being drowned by insects, swallowed by monsters, being clamped by gates, and being shot into sieves due to infighting among survivors..."

Wanda's face became paler and paler, and her eyes when she looked at Xu Shangqi had completely changed. She opened her mouth and said, "Oh my God, what have you been through..."

"Anyway, listen to me now, find a place to hide quickly, and talk about it tomorrow morning if there is anything!"

Wanda was a little shaken, and Riley's painful voice became the last straw that broke the camel's back.

"Wanda, please, you are here because of me, I have to take you all back safely!"

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