49. Navigator

In Raccoon City's physics lab, a group of people stand outside the open quantum tunnel.

"The signal from the periscope disappeared."

Howard turned back to the people behind him and said:

"Pym and Merlin have entered the quantum world, and their existence has also been transformed into a quantum state, which cannot be traced."

"It's been 14 minutes now."

Dr. Reed looked at his watch. He raised his head and stared at the tunnel that remained open in front of him. He said:

"In another 16 minutes, the quantum tunnel will close, and if they don't return by that time, then they will be trapped in a world that we currently know nothing about."

"What can we do now?"

Icarus, who stood outside the crowd, stared at the opened tunnel and said:

"The concept of time in the quantum world is different from the present world, in case they confuse time..."

"don’t worry."

Carol reached out and patted the glasses lady on the shoulder, she said:

"The periscope is set with a return program. It will automatically return 5 minutes before the tunnel is closed. As long as they do not leave the periscope, they will definitely be able to return."

At the same time, in the gorgeous and weird quantum world...

"boom"

The submarine-like periscope was hit by a huge tentacles, and in a halo that was as unclear as pixels, this sophisticated instrument exploded.

The dancing flames looked extremely gorgeous in this illusory world, but the ignited flame dissipated invisible in less than a second after it appeared.

Its energy is absorbed by the world.

In other words, the energy that makes up the flame is rapidly collapsing.

And the wreckage of the periscope after the explosion was also entangled by a worm-like monster with tentacles-like limbs, and was sent bit by bit into the eel-like mouth full of staggered and rotating sharp teeth.

"This world is really unfriendly."

Lord Raven grabbed Old Pym's quantum suit with one hand and jumped out of the periscope before the explosion, but the danger did not disappear.

Surrounding their bodies, shrouded in an ever-changing halo, there were three other attackers in the constantly changing air, like giant monsters swimming in water.

They stretched out their crystal clear bodies, surrounded by hundreds of tentacles and limbs, and surrounded Merlin and Old Pym.

Their shells look very soft, and they seem to be made of gemstones, reflecting jade-like streamers in the unique light of the quantum world.

Two dark eyes grew on both sides of the head like agate, and there was a plump mouth.

At first glance, these guys seem harmless.

But when that chubby mouth opened, the indescribable sharp teeth were entangled in circles and circles in the monster's chrysanthemum-like mouth, the sense of horror was really indescribable.

The body length of these guys was at least a hundred meters, and the shadows when swimming easily covered Merlin and Old Pym.

But considering that this is the quantum world, the indivisible limit microcosmic world where all things exist.

Therefore, it is difficult to describe the real size of these bugs with normal concepts.

They are like ferocious beasts living in a world the size of an atom. They should have been extremely small, but now they appear extremely large under the gaze of Merlin and Pym who are also in this world.

"Crack, click, click"

Old Pym, who was dragged by Merlin in the air and kept dodging those weird bugs, kept pressing on the belt around his waist, trying to use Pym particles to enlarge his body to fight against these bugs.

Although he is a grumpy old man now, he was also a superhero when he was young.

He was not afraid of these terrifying-looking bugs. After seeing the crucial periscope destroyed, Pim even wanted to beat and kill these damned guys.

But the ever-reliable Pym-particle-powered suit was unresponsive for a moment.

"Pym Particles Failed!"

He was wearing a motorcycle helmet, and he shouted to Merlin who was flying around in a brilliant halo that was completely unclear:

"Don't get entangled with them, let's get out of here!"

Lord Merlin still didn't wear a helmet. The extreme pressure on his soul suddenly disappeared when he entered the quantum world, but he didn't return to a normal state of thinking.

The current state of Lord Raven is hard to describe.

Nothing he saw could be explained by science or magic, but he could still see everything.

Noises, all kinds of noises do not pass through the ears into the mind, those unknowable voices echoed in Merlin's consciousness, like whispers or calls.

Ordinary people cannot think in this situation, but Merlin does not belong to the category of ordinary people.

"You let me escape."

His slightly tired voice sounded in Old Pim's heart, he was struggling to gather the state and its weird magic power at his fingertips, and he said:

"Fleeing without fighting is not my style."

The magic is gathering.

But it gave Merlin a completely different feeling from when he used magic power in the past.

how to say?

In the real world, with Maharaja's manipulative power, he can easily gather enough magic power to destroy a city, just as easily and naturally as sensing and manipulating water flow.

The magic is tangible, as real as air.

But in this world, the magic is no longer continuous.

In this already microcosmic inseparable world, the magic element also presents an indivisible original state, it is like grains of gravel, although it is still scattered around Merlin's body.

But the Maharaja needs to sense them before he can mobilize them.

Magic is still magic.

But the difficulty of release is more than a thousand times higher than in the real world.

very obscure.

Merlin seemed to be in a time stop, and also like a rusty gear. The physical rules of the real world could not be applied to the quantum world. Similarly, the magic rules of the real world were also invalid for this world.

"hum"

A yellow halo appeared in front of Merlin's finger. It was crooked and completely devoid of magical beauty, but at least it formed a closed circle.

The same distorted and disfigured cross star light burst out from the ring, and the moment it came into contact with the ring beam, a scattered yellow beam of light shot out.

Like a battle spear, it pierced through the strange insects that were rushing towards Merlin.

Milky white liquid splashed out from the worm's shattered skull. Under the watchful eyes of Merlin and Old Pym, the worm's body began to collapse at the moment of death.

In an indescribable scene, after just a moment, the bug disappeared in the quantum world.

It's as if it never happened.

This scene seemed to frighten the other predators. They realized that these two weird creatures were not easy to mess with, so they kept backing away.

Under Merlin's gaze, their figures became more and more erratic, like distorted shadows.

As quietly as they come, they leave just as quietly.

Even the king of vanity, when he was concentrating, couldn't notice their departure.

"Phase change?"

Merlin narrowed his eyes.

The scene in front of him reminded him of the scene when Ava assassinated and attacked at his request, like a real ghost crossing two worlds.

He thought it was Ava's special ability at the time.

But now it seems that every creature in the quantum world has this ability.

"ah!"

Just as Merlin was thinking about this phenomenon, old Pym, who was held by him and wearing a full quantum suit, suddenly let out a scream.

The unlovable old guy curled up with his head in his arms.

He is in pain.

Merlin looked around, the attack just now came too fast, and he had no chance to observe this real quantum world until now.

He took the painful old Pym to hide on the "ground", which is not the normal sense of the ground, in fact, there is nothing in the normal sense of this bloody world.

In Merlin's horizon, the entire quantum world is in a "fuzzy" state,

Whether it is the jumping colorful light, or the cool world itself, it seems to be wrapped in a layer of rolling shadows.

But it's not really clear...

Probably the world itself is like this.

Those shadows are dancing, presenting a sharp or streamlined appearance, but they are changing every moment, but no one can predict what those lights and shadows will become in the next moment.

And when Merlin raised his head, he got a glimpse of the composition of the quantum world.

Those rays of light flicked back and forth between countless thick or thin "pillars", and those pillars covering Merlin's field of vision were intertwined in an irregular way, forming a super huge system.

It's like an ant's nest magnified countless times, a hollow system with no head or tail.

Those staggered pillars and the larger spherical "land" reminded Merlin of the structure of human DNA.

But just associative, in fact, the two are very different things.

Moreover, this huge system is constantly collapsing and reorganizing at the same time, just like the shadows covering everything, no one can guess what they will look like in the next moment.

"Quantum state?"

A scientific term came to Merlin's mind.

He didn't know if the state described by that noun was the state in front of him, but don't make things difficult for Lord Raven, he is a wizard, and he is not a scientist of quantum mechanics.

In fact, it was remarkable that he could still think now.

Just look at old Pym at his feet.

In this world, normal life cannot think at all.

Merlin's feet stepped on the ever-changing ground, as if he was stepping into a mass of crazily tumbling non-Newtonian fluid, and it seemed to have a "slimy" feeling.

But in fact, it is stable, just like the solid earth.

"boom"

Merlin roughly pulled off Old Pym's helmet. After losing the protection of the quantum suit, Old Pym's condition became even worse.

The noise tumbling wildly in Merlin's mind also invaded the spirit of old Pim, but this grumpy guy's soul was not as big and tough as Merlin's, and he couldn't maintain normal thinking under the interference of the noise.

It was like thousands of red-hot needles piercing old Pim's spirit, hurting... This word can no longer describe the current state of old Pim.

"Snapped"

Merlin grabbed the twitching old Pym and slapped him on the face with his backhand, but it failed to wake up Hank Pym who was on the verge of collapse.

"too weak."

The majesty sighed helplessly, then raised his finger, and amidst the tumbling power of vanity, a brain-blocking spell was cast on old Pym's spirit.

And it took Merlin 2 minutes for such a simple incantation.

"That's not okay, brother."

Just when old Pym's condition got a little better, Merlin grabbed him and planned to leave here.

A gentle voice suddenly appeared in Merlin's mind, exactly the same as the sudden reminder when the particle accelerator in Central City exploded.

"Eva?"

Merlin turned his head, and there was nothing behind him.

But he did hear it, and it wasn't an auditory hallucination.

"are you here?"

Merlin shouted towards the light and shadow behind him that was beginning to collapse:

"Ava? Answer me!"

"Wait a minute, brother."

Ava's surprised voice sounded again, and she said to Merlin:

"Your plunge point is a bit far away from me, I have to spend some time locating you...Okay, turn back now!"

Merlin turned around again.

In this world in the quantum state, in the shining light and shadow, he saw Ava walking out of the light, the girl who disappeared in the real world, looking at him with a smile at this moment.

"elder brother!"

Seeing her relatives, Ava opened her arms, her long black hair fluttered in the changing light, and she herself rushed into Merlin's arms like a suckling swallow.

Merlin also hugged the lost sister tightly, and the poor Pym who was held by him fell to the broken and reformed ground with a bang.

"You really came."

Ava buried her head on Merlin's shoulder and said in a weeping voice:

"You really came to see me."

"Everyone is worried about you."

Merlin finally showed a smile on his face. He patted Ava on the shoulder and said:

"Hill told me to take you back, or she'd ignore me...and Matt, and the other kids... how could I leave you alone in this bloody world."

"I..."

Ava wanted to say something, but she held back.

She sniffled, and in the light and shadow of collapse and reorganization, she said seriously to Merlin:

"But you shouldn't come, brother, this world doesn't welcome you, if you can't leave before the crash point is closed, you will be locked here forever, and then you will be assimilated by this world..."

"It's dangerous here."

She grabbed Merlin's wrist, and reached out to mention the bewildered Pym, she said:

"I'll send you off right now!"

"No."

Merlin reached out his hand to stop Ava's movement, he glanced at Pim who could only look at him with pleading eyes, and said to Ava:

"We're looking for someone, old Pym's wife Jennifer..."

"Oh, you're talking about that good-tempered aunt."

Ava shook her head, and she said to Merlin:

"I've seen her, she lives not far from here. I'll take you there, but we have to speed up."