8. The Call of the Quantum Sea--Add More for a Lonely Dog ​​Brother【4/7】

"Ava Ava"

The faint calling sound echoed in the restraint chamber filled with energy.

It was difficult for Ava Starr to tell where the voice came from, did it come from the real world?

Or that azure blue, light-filled shallow sea of ​​energy?

She tried hard to open her eyes, but it was difficult.

Accompanied by pain.

Just like a patient suffering from a bad cold, the brain becomes dizzy, the body becomes very insensitive, and it is difficult to respond quickly to painful stimuli.

But that pain is present everywhere in the body.

Just like the needle prick in paralysis, it is more torment than simple pain.

"Ava wake up and don't sleep!"

Between the sinking of consciousness and the intermittent awakening, the voice of the call became more real.

Ava tried hard to open her eyes wide, and it took several minutes just for this simple movement.

The world before her eyes was no longer real.

The blue light filled every part of the horizon, as if there were two worlds overlapping, and those blue halos seemed to be joking with her, playing hide-and-seek.

Sometimes it disappears, sometimes it reappears.

It's like lying under the sea, can vaguely see the swaying water waves, but it is difficult to really touch the world beyond the water surface.

She was falling into that blue sea.

The ties to the real world were fading fast, the world she had lived in for nearly 20 years, and she was waving goodbye to it.

That is the quantum sea.

A mysterious, unknown world, completely different from the real world, where the physical concepts and world rules she understands do not apply.

It was a new world.

A world where there is no more pain.

Light.

The colorful light bloomed in front of Ava's eyes, as if she was sinking into the bottom of the sea, but she was still looking at the world above the sea. The sunlight was refracted through the water waves, rolling into staggered balls of light in her eyes.

She raised her hand, and in that icy quantum sea, she tried to hold the light.

She lived 23 years in the real world, her friends, loved ones

Those memories rolled in numb pain.

"Ava!"

The calling sound in his ears was more real, and a scorching energy was also transmitted into the restraint cell, as if a flame was burning in the fireplace, and he was standing beside the dancing flame.

This made Ava Starr's paralyzed body a little warmer.

The warmth dispelled the numbness of the body, and even temporarily suppressed the pain.

It was as if a pair of warm hands reached into the water, held Ava's raised arms, and completely awakened her from the call of Quantum Sea.

Hill's face came into Ava's vision.

It was the worried face she had seen when she first met Ava 12 years ago in the rubble of Argentina's explosion.

She wants to help her.

It was she who rescued Ava from loneliness and fear, brought her back to the real world, and she never gave up on her.

Ava's consciousness was a little chaotic.

The power of the Quantum Sea entangled her ever-changing body and disturbed her thinking. In Ava's eyes, the image of Hill and her already blurred image of mother slowly overlapped together.

"Mother"

Ava called out.

In the opened restraint cabin, Hill heard Ava's call, and she subconsciously turned her head to look at Carol beside her.

The latter is half-kneeling in front of Ava's hospital bed, holding Ava's left hand which is constantly changing as it disappears and reappears.

This girl who has been trapped in the unstable molecular structure of her body for a long time is about to be captured by the sea of ​​quantum.

Although Dr. Bill Foster tried his best to keep her, in the big explosion in Argentina 12 years ago, the stable structure of Ava Starr's body was completely destroyed by the energy from the quantum world.

This is always changing back and forth between reality and fantasy, and the poor child's fall into the quantum sea is an inevitable ending.

Everyone helped her stay in this world for 12 more years.

But today, she can no longer resist the call from another world.

"Talk to her more."

Carol said to Hill, and then carefully wrapped her cosmic energy around Ava's body.

Using that scorching power to maintain Ava's final stable form, but this maintenance can't last long.

The power from the quantum world is constantly emerging in Ava's body, it is growing rapidly, and will soon break through Carol's energy barrier and take Ava away forcibly.

That was the call of the world, and even the mighty Carol Danvers couldn't stop this scene from coming.

Hearing Carol's words, a tangled pain flashed in Hill's eyes.

She turned her head away, trying to make her expression look gentle, and she looked at Ava lying on the hospital bed.

The girl's face was extremely pale, and her body was like a ghostly shadow, which would always disappear strangely, and then reappear again.

Even the hands that the two hold together will cross each other in an instant, and hold each other again in the next moment.

It's like a ghost that seriously violates the laws of physics.

"Mom is here."

Hill said to Ava lying on the hospital bed in the gentlest voice:

"Don't be afraid, I'm here."

She tried to help Ava straighten her long, unkempt hair, but she couldn't.

Those hairs floating on the pillow just seemed to be there, and Hill couldn't touch the reality of those hairs at all, as if they were just a realistic projection.

With just one sentence, the tears in Hill's eyes couldn't stop streaming down, and she pressed Ava's extremely cold hand on her forehead that kept dissipating and reuniting.

It's like despairing, grieving over the illness of a real loved one.

In 1998, Hill and Merlin brought 11-year-old Ava back to New York from the wreckage of a test bomb.

Although Ava has been living with her father's friend, Dr. Bill Foster since then, Hill, who was working for S.H.I.E.L.D. at the time, would always find time to visit her.

She was like Ava's guardian, more like a foster mother.

After the collapse of S.H.I.E.L.D., after sl.d. relocated to Raccoon City base, Ava's connection to Quantum Sea increased every day, and Ghost was no longer sent on missions.

Hill would come to the lab every day, stay outside the cell, and talk to Ava, who was getting worse.

They are not related by blood.

But they really are like a mother and daughter.

"don't cry"

Ava, who was lying on the hospital bed, felt very cold. After she regained consciousness, she also knew that she might completely disappear from the real world today, and completely fall into the mysterious and unpredictable quantum world.

She has been dreading this moment, she is only a 20-year-old girl after all.

But when this moment really came, Ava's heart was quite peaceful, probably after 12 years of suffering in this world, she was also longing for relief.

"Don't cry, Hill"

Ava said to Hill in a weak voice:

"This is relief, not only for me, but also for you. You don't need to be sad for me anymore. You, Bill, and Merlin can stay with you for another 12 years and experience so many things together. I am already very satisfied. gone."

"Don't say stupid things!"

Hill wiped away tears, she said to Ava lying there:

"Lorna and the others are rushing over, don't you want to say goodbye to your friends? Ava, hold on a little longer, please, hold on a little longer."

Ava shook her head slightly.

She didn't seem to want her friends to see her bad appearance at this time, she turned her eyes and said to Hill:

"Where's Bill? Isn't he coming to say goodbye to me?"

"He went to find Hank."

Hill whispered:

"He is not willing to give up yet, he wants you to stay, he wants to cure you, Ava, he treats you as his real daughter."

"I've caused him too much pain."

A difficult smile appeared on Ava's pale face, and she said:

"Every night, I can see him painstakingly studying those blueprints in the laboratory. I can see his efforts, but I have delayed him too much time."

"Bill should have used his wisdom in more important places. I shouldn't restrain him anymore, and neither do you."

"Don't say stupid things!"

Hill gritted her teeth, stretched out her trembling hand, and stroked Ava's illusory face. She tried her best to smile, and said:

"No one will think you are a burden. Be obedient and hold on for a while, okay? Be good."

"click"

The sound of a door opening sounded in the laboratory. Hill turned his head and saw Raven, Lorna, Laura, Matt, Eric, Charlie, Aunt May and little Peter coming from the pink Out of the wooden door.

Everyone has hesitation and despair on their faces.

When they heard about Ava, they rushed over as quickly as possible.

"Ava!"

The green-haired girl threw herself in front of Ava's hospital bed with tears all over her face. She looked at the dying Ava in disbelief.

This poor girl is like a soap bubble, which has become extremely illusory, and like foam on the sea, it may burst in the next moment, and then disappear completely.

"I won't allow you to leave!"

Lorna tried to grab Ava's hand, but couldn't.

It was as if Ava and them were already in a different world, and what remained here was only a vanished shadow.

"Where's Merlin? Where's brother?"

Lorna looked back at the silent Riven, and she screamed:

"My brother must have a way, call him quickly! Ava is dying! Doesn't he care at all?"

"Merlin is not a god."

Ruiwen grabbed Lorna who was a little out of control. She held her sister in her arms and stroked Lorna's trembling body. She looked at Ava and said softly:

"Magic is not omnipotent, Merlin is already in action."

"Don't cry!"

Ava looked at the desperate Lorna, she said with difficulty:

"Send me away with a smile, friends, let me still remember you in that world, your smiling faces, don't cry, okay?"

"Ava."

Without saying a word, Matt walked to the hospital bed with his guide stick.

He half knelt in front of Ava, this blind young man had never seen Ava's face, he could only perceive her with his voice.

When he was a child, and even when he was in college, the relationship between the two had always been good, and there was even a relationship beyond friendship.

But at some point it stopped abruptly.

"Matt"

A shy smile appeared on Ava's pale face, and she said in a soft voice like the wind:

"You're here too. It's a good thing you can't see it. I'm ugly now and I'm definitely ugly."

"terribly sorry."

Matt whispered in a soft voice:

"When you needed it most, I couldn't be by your side. I was heartbroken by your letter. I thought you really rejected me because you knew you would disappear eventually, right?"

"Even so."

There was an open-minded smile on Ava's face, she raised her hand with difficulty, trying to touch Matt's face, but couldn't.

The power of the Quantum Sea has filled every cell of this child, her existence foundation in the real world has died, and she will really disappear at any time.

not death.

But worse than death.

Alone, forever alone in another unrecognizable world.

"I heard you have a girlfriend, that's great."

Ava said in a low voice, as if talking to herself:

"Why pay for someone who will eventually disappear? Matt, you have a kind heart, and you deserve better wishes for your happiness."

"We have already broken up."

There was also a tremor in Matt's voice.

He heard it.

Like the sound of soap bubbles bursting, he knew that Ava was disappearing, that he was losing his best friend since childhood, the best

The girl who missed out.

"A blind man who was blind, and a ghost who walked silently"

Matt whispered:

"We should have been together a long time ago. If you can come back, I will wait for you to come back. Ava, I will wait for you."

Ava couldn't answer him anymore.

The blue light danced on her body, she moved her lips, but could no longer make a sound.

The sound of waves like the sea kept echoing in her ears, the blue light covered every inch of her field of vision, and a pair of warm hands embraced her.

Quantum Shallow Sea

The new world is accepting her.

"Bye now"

The silent farewell echoed in the restraint cell, and Hill let out a desperate scream.

She opened her arms. At this moment of life and death, the always calm commander could no longer suppress the surging emotions in his heart.

"Mom is here, don't go! Ava, don't go!"

She screamed and rushed to the hospital bed. In the blue light, everyone saw that Ava's phantom also opened her arms and hugged Hill.

Just like the beautiful soap bubbles under the sun, the radiant sparkle disappears in the next moment.

Matt could feel a faint kiss on his forehead, and Ava's chuckle fading away.

He lost her.

forever

lost.

"No!"

A scream came from behind everyone, and Ruiwen turned her head, and saw Daisy brought here by Gordon in the blue light.

She has the best relationship with Ava among all the children.

pity

In the end it was a step too late.

"She'll be back."

Carol hugged Hill who was about to collapse, she patted Hill's shoulder lightly, and she said:

"Merlin will definitely bring her back"

"That man made a promise to us. Ava called you Mommy. She is also Merlin's daughter. That man will bring his daughter back."

"Trust him! Hill, trust him."

"Just like before."