Chapter 1385 The Call of the Stars (XI)
On the way to find a shelter, Jarvis's terrain scanning function helped a lot. They didn't have to check whether there were monsters in the houses one by one. They just needed to stand on the street and let Jarvis scan them to find all the empty houses.
Before entering a room, Riley would use spider sense to determine whether the room was safe, but after a few times, everyone found that this trick was not so effective.
"My spider sense is always ringing, no matter which room you want to enter, it is ringing!" Riley frowned and looked very painful. He shook his head and said, "There is no safe place here!"
"So is there a change in the intensity of spider sense?" Jarvis is more inclined to look for variables.
"I can't hear you clearly." Riley covered his head and said, "I can't even hear you talking clearly. There must be something, there must be something that is constantly threatening it... Where is it? Where is it?"
At the end of his words, Riley had already turned into a painful groan. Xu Shangqi hurried over to support him and said, "You should try to block your keen sense."
"No, I can warn of danger in advance, I can..."
"You can be a fart!" Xu Shangqi decisively interrupted him and said, "You have driven yourself crazy with warnings, so what should we do? Hurry up! Turn off your brain! Now, right now!"
"Riley, my vital signs analysis equipment shows that your heartbeat and blood flow rate are abnormal, and I also think you should stop using your spider sense ability. "I can't stop!" Riley gritted his teeth and said, "This is my instinct, just like you need to eat and drink water, I can't block it!" Walking forward the south side of the mouth. When I came to another street, Javis blinked and said, "This should be Volon Street in the Brooklyn District. There should be a bar in front of the bar." This is New York? "Wanda said in surprise, she looked around, but she didn't see those iconic buildings. The scene "I am afraid it is." Javis nodded and said, "Although it is a pity, New York may have been destroyed." Riley, who was chaotic, instinctively moved in one direction. He wanted to see the iconic building standing on the New York Skyrim, and wanted to see the familiar name, but unfortunately, Stark Building disappeared. Several people walked to the door of the bar that Jarvis mentioned. There were no monsters in the bar, but there were many human corpses, and they were all incomplete, either the upper body or the lower body was missing, and some were disemboweled with their internal organs exposed.
"From the time of death, the disaster may have lasted for at least three months." Jarvis still said in a calm tone.
Riley turned his head away, not wanting to look at the corpses that had rotted beyond recognition, but Wanda covered her mouth and nose with some discomfort. Scarlet Witch was also well-informed, but she had never seen this scene.
"The monsters we saw just now seemed to be transformed from humans, but why didn't these people become monsters? Or have the monsters left their bodies?" Xu Shangqi said to himself.
He keenly found some mucus on the ground that should not belong to humans. Judging from the direction of the mucus, the monsters with tentacles should have crawled out of the door of the bar, so where did they go?
Even though Xu Shangqi had not been in New York for long, he knew that after a disaster, the population density of such a large city determined that the number of victims was unimaginable. Therefore, although there were many bodies in the bar, they seemed a little too few.
Not to mention, they had not encountered many monsters along the way. Many of them were like the monster Xu Shangqi encountered. They looked scary but did not have a strong desire to attack. After several people bypassed it, they did not catch up. This was not normal at all.
Thinking of this, the group walked to the back door of the bar and saw a door leading to the cellar in the backyard.
After opening the round cellar door on the ground, Riley looked inside and then screamed in pain again. He covered his head and said, "No! Don't go down! You can't go down. It will be dangerous!!"
Jarvis frowned slightly, tapped his temple with his hand, confirmed the scene seen in the scanning device, and then said, "There is nothing inside, only some goods are piled up, it should be safe."
"In fact, I don't agree to take refuge in a place with only one exit." Jarvis continued to analyze, "Because if an accident occurs, you will lose the strategic space for taking shelter, but it is not difficult for us to guard the exit, so I think we can..."
"No!!!" Riley raised his voice, he grabbed his eyelids with his fingers, and said in a sharp tone: "Can't go down!!!"
"What's wrong, Riley?" Xu Shangqi grabbed Riley's waist who was slowly kneeling down, and asked, "What did you see?"
"I can't see, I can't see anything, I can't see! I can only hear!" Riley just kept repeating this sentence, he shook his head vigorously and said: "Can't go into the darkness, can't go to the closed... can't stop..."
Xu Shangqi, who was holding Riley, could clearly feel that Riley was trembling all over. The dilated pupils and trembling lips also showed that he was trapped in some terrible imagination.
Wanda stared at the dark cellar entrance in a daze. The cellar entrance became more and more obvious in her vision, as if a hole was burned in her eyes.
Her body felt a crooked thrust, like a swirling wind.
No, it was more like a stream than a wind. Wanda felt a thick thing wrapped around her, trying to make her tiptoe off the ground and go with the flow.
Along with it came a sense of dizziness of weightlessness. She felt as if she was being sucked into the dark hole, like the residue washed into the drain of the washbasin.
"Wanda!! Wanda!!! Wake up!!!!"
Wanda suddenly woke up, and then she found that several people around her were lying on the ground. Xu Shangqi was holding a raised floor tile on the ground, and his other hand was pulling Riley. Jarvis was holding the corner of the building, and his arm veins were bulging.
"Wanda, what's wrong with you? Why is the power of chaos out of control?!"
"I, I don't know..." Wanda blinked, she looked down, and saw that the sand on the ground under her feet accumulated into a vortex pattern, and the center of the vortex was the dark cellar entrance.
The violent power of chaos has not yet completely calmed down. Obviously, Wanda just used her magic to create a storm here, almost dragging everyone into the cellar entrance.
Wanda kept panting and said, "I have no memory, I just, I just saw some illusions... The water flow swept us all in."
"Calm down, Wanda, you must not lose control." Xu Shang walked over with a hunched back, covered the cellar cover that had just been blown open, and said, "There is definitely something wrong with this cellar, let's not go down."
"Where are we going?" Jarvis asked with a frown.
"The rooftop." Xu Shangqi looked into Jarvis' eyes and said, "We have to go against our premonition of danger. The more strange and attractive a place is, the more we should go in the opposite direction."
Before Jarvis could speak, Xu Shangqi said in a somewhat irritable tone and at a rapid speed, "What do you superheroes want to do when you encounter something? We have to do the opposite."
"Now all these things, whether it is the entrance to the cellar that will cause an out-of-control or the room that will make Riley's spider sense ring non-stop, I have no curiosity about them. I just want to stay as far away from them as possible."
"So now, let's find an open rooftop to stay until dawn. From now on, my brain will be turned off. Before I see the sun, no matter what I hear, see, or encounter, my brain will not work! I advise you We'd better do the same!"
Wanda looked at Xu Shangqi's somewhat nervous reaction and pursed her lips. When several people went to the roof of the bar through the iron stairs outside the building, Wanda turned around and asked Xu Shangqi: "I remember you said you were from S.H.I.E.L.D., right?"
Xu Shangqi nodded, and then Wanda asked again: "You are an Oriental, and you went to the S.H.I.E.L.D. for training. Does that mean you have a relationship with the S.H.I.E.L.D.?"
Xu Shangqi nodded again, and Wanda's eyes changed a little. She deliberately lagged behind a little, then patted Xu Shangqi on the shoulder and said: "No matter what you have experienced before, it's over. You have to believe that we all have the ability to protect ourselves and will definitely go back safely."
Xu Shangqi looked at Wanda. He knew that the witch lady might have misunderstood something, but it was good to let her misunderstand like this.
Although Xu Shangqi didn't know whether he could play the role of an experienced agent with deep hatred, he knew that if he didn't have the leadership of this team, then this group of super huskies would definitely rush into the manure pit without hesitation, without looking back, and accelerate 6.6 kilometers per hour.
Xu Shangqi knew that he actually had no experience in dealing with danger, but his biggest advantage was that he was an ordinary person before.
Judging from the current situation where Scarlet Witch and Spider-Man were almost out of control, this world could not be unparalleled at all. Only by being timid, cautious, and having a strong desire to survive can you survive, which is exactly what Xu Shangqi is good at.
The best thing ordinary people do is to survive, and they find ways to survive.
The bar is not high, only three floors, but because the first floor is relatively high, it is roughly equivalent to the fourth floor of a residential building. There are guardrails around it, but more than half of the guardrails are broken. There is nothing else except some cigarette butts, wine bottles, branches and dead leaves.
Several people climbed to the top of the building. Jarvis looked around at the tall buildings around him and said, "I think we should go to a higher place. This will help us observe the surrounding terrain and decide on tomorrow's route."
"That will cause us to fall down." Xu Shangqi said very seriously. Jarvis was about to refute, but Xu Shangqi emphasized his tone and repeated, "As long as we climb the tall buildings, someone will definitely fall down for various reasons, so we will stay here and not go anywhere."
Jarvis opened his mouth. He had no idea where Xu Shangqi's resolute and confident attitude came from.
But soon, he found that Xu Shangqi was right, because Wanda seemed to be bewitched again and began to walk towards the edge of the broken guardrail.
"Hey, Wanda, where are you going?" Jarvis rushed over and grabbed Miss Witch's arm, but Wanda flicked her tongue vaguely, and then said: "I'll go, I'll go on patrol, downstairs, downstairs may be..."
The other hand grabbed Wanda's arm faster, and then directly hugged her waist, threw Wanda back to the center of the roof, and Xu Shangqi clapped his hands and said.
"There's nothing downstairs..."
"But..."
"No!"
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