Chapter 1399 The Call of the Stars (Twenty-Five)

"I'm afraid that what broke out in this weird world is not a biochemical crisis at all. This attack is aimed at the mind, and none of us have a way to prevent this kind of mental 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.

"I don't know what you have encountered at all." Jarvis blinked and said, "This kind of mental attack is completely ineffective for me. I can't imagine what the two of them heard and saw that made them so desperate to hurt themselves."

Jarvis's expression was very helpless. If he really had to use one sentence to summarize everything that happened tonight, it would probably be "Humans are so fucking interesting." If he added another sentence, it would be "I don't understand, but I am shocked."

Jarvis knew that although Scarlet Witch Wanda and Quicksilver Pietro, the brother and sister, had been displaced since childhood, they had never suffered any physical pain because of their powerful abilities. Wanda could scream out in a soprano tone when she was pricked by the thorns on the rose.

But just last night, she used a rough branch to dig out her eyes, and now she still has a look of relief after surviving a disaster. What kind of horrible things did she have to see to make such a big 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 chaotic power she could control into her eyes, and destroyed them.

And now she can't contact Sithorn at all, and she dare not mobilize the chaotic power of this universe, so she is almost an ordinary person now.

This is unimaginable for mutants. Their abilities are like their arms. Losing abilities is not just as simple as disability. 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 has the ability, she doesn't need to use her eyes to perceive the world around her. Her perspective of perceiving and perceiving the world is completely different from that of humans.

Riley's situation was slightly better than Wanda's. He just lost his hearing and needed to rely on other people's lip shapes to judge what the other person said. But he had another problem, which was that he dared not speak, for fear of accidentally singing the tune that had been looped countless times and lingered in his mind.

He was very hard to endure and could hardly mobilize his energy to do other things, and so was Wanda.

Therefore, I am afraid that in the next journey, the two of them will not only no longer be the strongest people in the team, but will become a burden.

And it is conceivable that neither Jarvis nor Xu Shangqi will abandon their companions, so although it is dawn, the next journey will probably be more difficult.

"I take back my previous judgment." Xu Shangqi spoke first: "My original plan was to find a closed place to hide, slowly accumulate resources, and then find a way to make weapons after survival is no longer a problem. Go out to explore regularly, and wait until the base is large enough and the technology is advanced enough, and then step by step explore the possible center of the event."

"But now it seems that this method of building high walls and storing 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 will be no large-scale survivors to save us. There is neither the conditions nor the need for large-scale production. More importantly, every day we wait, the possibility of being eroded by darkness is greater."

Xu Shangqi covered his eyes and said in a painful tone: "Why did I cross to a place where I had to hold the thighs of Spider-Man and Scarlet Witch? A world that tests your mental strength!"

Then he gritted his teeth and said, "Don't let me know which clever ghost did this!"

Jarvis also sighed, shook his head and said, "I'm sorry, most of the machinery in this city has been damaged, and my hacking ability is not very useful. At most, I can repair cars or something."

"As for the mental attack you suffered, I can't feel it at all, and I can't help, so I'm afraid I have to rely on you next."

"I'm just an ordinary person." Xu Shangqi emphasized, "If you think I have persisted until now because of my strong willpower, then you are afraid 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 several people present. More importantly, the energy on the jade pendant was very meager, and the high wall he built with the words of Qingxin Jue was already crumbling.

The scanning device in Jarvis's eyes scanned the jade pendant on 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 copy this energy?"

"Unfortunately, no. I said I just learned the mental method at the last minute...Okay, let's not dwell on this for now. We have to do something during the day. We can't wait here any longer, otherwise we will still be powerless when night falls."

"I think the way to break your weird state is to find out the truth." Jarvis analyzed rationally: "Those strange things attacked your mind, 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 method to establish a mental barrier."

"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 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. Yesterday during the day, I saw some strange mucus traces on the first floor of the bar. 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. It is precisely to let 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 eggshells 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 eggshells halfway through hatching, 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 their bodies by monsters 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 silently recited the Qingxin Jue several times in his heart. 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 few monsters, which 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 presence of Qi made his body not tired, but his spirit was exhausted to the extreme.

Carefully observing the mucus is definitely not an easy job, until the end. Xu Shangqi even felt that the mucus had climbed up his body, making him feel sticky all over. Mixed with the corpses and stench on the street, Xu Shangqi's desire to vomit became stronger and stronger.

Xu Shangqi stroked his chest and kept using his hands to smooth the air. He always felt that something was coming up. He thought that his stomach disease had not been cured yet, and he felt a little nauseous, so he kept swallowing his saliva.

During the 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 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 that he was most comfortable with.

Finally, they decided to rest in a relatively clean house. The owner seemed to have gone out early. The house had not been ravaged by monsters. The beds and daily necessities were complete, which was a good place to rest temporarily.

But they did not 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 for the first time in a long time.

But the more sleepy he was, the more he couldn't sleep. He could always hear his heartbeat, "bang, bang, bang..."

Xu Shangqi became more and more irritated as he listened. He had to sit up from the sofa, took a few deep breaths, and started to practice again.

During the investigation 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 fluent.

But just as he finished the first sentence, Wanda, who had just taken off the cloth on her eyes and was sitting on the sofa opposite, suddenly raised her head.

The eye sockets with only two black holes stared at Xu Shangqi, and Xu Shangqi also looked at her. Wanda said in a daze:

"You read differently than during the day..."

Xu Shangqi was stunned.

"I..." Xu Shangqi just uttered a syllable, and he froze there, and then showed an extremely horrified expression.

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

At this time, Riley, who was sitting on the sofa on the side, 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 speak."

The muscles on Xu Shangqi's face began to tremble, and then this tremor spread to his whole body, and the desire to vomit became stronger and stronger.

But when his throat tightened and the sour feeling spread up along the esophagus, what he vomited was not food, but a series of languages ​​he had never mastered.

At the moment when the terrible mumbling appeared in the room, Riley covered his ears in pain, fell to the ground, and screamed. Scarlet Witch also began to breathe continuously, as if something was strangling her neck.

Xu Shangqi desperately covered his mouth, but his stomach was like being grasped by a big hand, constantly squeezing out the vague and strange language. Xu Shangqi desperately knocked his head on the coffee table, but the pain did not make him sober at all.

In the mist of tears, Xu Shangqi saw the last golden glow of the sunset faded between the gaps in the curtains, and the night fell.

Wanda and Riley's screams kept echoing in the room, and their painful faces fell into Xu Shangqi's eyes.

They used to be his favorite characters. He had been emotionally ups and downs around them on the movie screen countless times, and was moved to tears.

Thanos didn't make Spider-Man so painful.

The moment this thought appeared in Xu Shangqi's mind, the indescribable and boundless anger burned through his soul.

The string in Xu Shangqi's brain was completely broken. He fell on the sofa with trembling and touched the fruit knife he had placed in the gap before.

Under the horrified eyes, there was a trembling open mouth, and the sharp blade reflected the desperate eyes.

In an instant, blood splashed, and the nerve reflex caused by the severe pain made the cut tongue twitch slightly after falling to the ground, like a fish thrown on the shore.

In the silence of the whisper disappearing, Xu Shangqi, with a mouth full of blood, felt such a strong bloody smell lingering between his mouth and nose for the first time.

Then he found that he didn't hate the taste of blood so much, and even after losing his sense of taste, he could still taste a hint of sweetness from it.

Xu Shangqi lay weakly on the coffee table, but tried to raise his head and swallowed the blood that should have been vomited out. The tears that blurred his vision stopped flowing, allowing him to see the stars in the night sky clearly through the gap in the curtains.

While panting, Xu Shangqi discovered that the sweet taste was not blood, but victory.

In the same dark room, the quill pen trembled as it wrote the following 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 made a mistake, the good people who were driven crazy, and the bad people who selflessly dedicated themselves.

I have to write about the great heroes and compose hymns of courage, and I have to write about ordinary people who are as humble as dust, desperate and bloody, but willing to do it."

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