Chapter 1391 The Call of the Stars (XVII)

"Can we really survive?"

Rocket Raccoon stood on the edge of the sink, he asked somewhat dejectedly, then tilted his head and looked at the arm of Star Lord Quill, where the lower part of the sleeve was empty.

Rocket Raccoon closed his eyes, pressed his eyelids with his claws, and said painfully: "I can't believe that just a few hours ago, you performed an amputation on yourself here, you really, you really..."

Rocket Raccoon couldn't say the second half of the sentence. He actually wanted to ask "Are you really still awake?", or he wanted to ask "Are you crazy?", but when he thought that everything Quill had experienced was actually caused by him, he couldn't ask these sharp questions.

What happened the night before was so terrible. Rocket Raccoon didn't know what Quill had seen. He only saw him scratching his arm constantly, shouting wildly, and then twitching in pain and foaming at the mouth, while smashing his elbow with heavy concrete fragments, and then cutting off half of his arm.

Rocket Raccoon has traveled all over the interstellar society and has seen many terrible things, but this is the first time he has encountered such a strange situation. He can't find the enemy at all, so he has no way to resist.

The raccoon felt extremely guilty for not being able to help, but he couldn't help but give up on himself. He shook his tail helplessly and said, "Maybe it will be my turn tomorrow night, maybe we will all die here?"

"Don't talk nonsense." Quill used his only remaining hand to hold a blade and shaved his stubble against the mirror on the washstand in the bathroom.

He didn't look bitter or vengeful, but on the contrary, he looked a little cheerful. When the sun shone on him, he seemed even more out of tune with the depressing atmosphere around him.

"In fact, I already have some ideas." Quill tilted his head left and right, touched his smooth chin in front of the mirror and said, "Do you think there are too few monsters in this world?"

"Is this too few? Do you want them to fill the world and swallow us?!" Rocket Raccoon shouted in confusion.

"Didn't you see it when you came here? Most of the bodies lying on the ground only have part of the torso left. That part is missing. I guess the monsters may be hatched from there."

"If everyone is parasitized and hatches a monster, then the number of monsters is too small. If not everyone is parasitized, then judging from the number of monsters, the survivors cannot be silent."

"Although it's a bit pessimistic, I still tend to believe that almost everyone has a monster hatched in their body, but I don't know where these monsters go after leaving the mother body."

After shaving, Quill walked to the window of the hospital and looked at the road. There were many monsters dragging some human limbs on the road, but there were not many, and they were not dense at all. They were not fast, and their attack was not strong. It seemed that they were just following their instincts to find food.

"I have a weird feeling." Quill, standing in front of the window, stared at the broken road and said, "These monsters generated from the human body are not meant to attack humans. This is not an infectious virus."

"Oh my God! Listen to what nonsense you are talking about!" Rocket Raccoon jumped onto Quill's shoulder, turned his head and looked at him and said, "The city has been destroyed like this, do you still want to applaud these monsters?"

Quill shook his head and didn't explain any more. He sighed, turned around and began to pack his luggage with his only remaining hand, but in fact he didn't have anything to bring, so he packed some medical supplies and canned food found in the warehouse in a large package that he had found in the patient's personal belongings cabinet, and left the hospital with the bag on his back.

Although there were not many monsters on the road, it was still quite troublesome to avoid them. Quill relied on his good skills and mostly acted on the roofs of low buildings. The small rocket launcher loaded on Rocket Raccoon's arm could repel some monsters that wanted to climb up.

In this way, they walked between the residential areas in Queens, New York. Before the next night, Quill climbed to the top of a tall building in the business district and looked at the whole New York.

"My guess was right. The monsters are indeed moving in one direction." Quill stretched out his hand to block the bright sunlight and squinted his eyes to look into the distance.

It is not difficult to come to this conclusion. The traces of mucus left on the ground and tall buildings alone are enough to show that these monsters have made a large migration in the recent period of time. At least 90% of the monsters have gathered towards a certain point in New York.

Quill sighed and said, "It's a pity that I'm not a New Yorker. I don't know where their final destination is. I can only take it one step at a time."

"Where is their destination?"

Wanda asked, holding Jarvis' hand tightly. At this time, several people had already walked out of the residential area and climbed a building, but under Xu Shangqi's suggestion, they did not go to the roof, but climbed to the upper floors, entered an abandoned office, and found a room with a guardrail in front of the window to look out.

Hearing Wanda's question, Jarvis' expression changed slightly, but he quickly regained his composure and uttered a few words: "New York Central Park."

"Oh my God, why do monsters want to go there?" Wanda spread her hands and said helplessly: "Don't tell me they want to go there to see the scenery."

"I think there is something attracting them." Jarvis stared out the window with a serious face. When he was the only intact and unaffected member of the whole team, he had to take on the responsibility of leader, but he was actually unwilling to do so.

For a long time, he was just Stark's assistant. Intelligent life itself is good at following orders and acting. It was the first time for Jarvis to become the leader of a team and have full decision-making power. It was completely against his instinct.

But he had to do this. His team could not be said to be missing arms and legs, but it could only be said that it was missing everything except arms and legs. Riley couldn't hear, Wanda couldn't see, Xu Shangqi couldn't speak, and the three of them would be disturbed by that terrible power at the same time. I don't know if they can survive the next night.

So, Jarvis thought for a moment and said, "We should head towards New York Central Park, but first we should find a car."

Others had no objections, so they went downstairs together. Fortunately, they were not far from an exhibition venue, where there was a car show.

Several people went to the exhibition hall as quickly as possible, hoping to rescue a good car, but unexpectedly, there were not no good cars at the auto show, but too many, almost no one was damaged.

Apart from the terrible slime and messy corpses on the surface of the car body and the surrounding ground, the car condition was even quite good, and many cars used for test drives were full of gas, which really made several people confused.

Generally speaking, the most vulnerable to destruction when the end of the world comes are various means of transportation, especially civilian means of transportation. They were not born for defense. If there is a slight bump, that is, a bump beyond the power of ordinary people, it will easily fall apart.

When a mutant as powerful as Wanda fights with others, she can blow up at least a few cars with a wave of her hand. It is obviously abnormal that the cars here can be preserved so well.

"What's going on? Don't those monsters attack cars?" After hearing Jarvis' description, Wanda was very confused. She continued: "If they attack indiscriminately, then these cars must be more easily damaged than buildings. If they intend to carry out large-scale killings, they will definitely give priority to attacking transportation to prevent humans from escaping."

"They may not have thought of attacking."

Riley only said this sentence and then kept silent. Wanda also fell silent. Jarvis didn't understand what they were talking about. He could only find a car that he thought was most suitable, checked the condition of the car, and found that there was no problem at all, so several people got in the car.

They didn't encounter any monsters along the way, but the doubts in their hearts became stronger and stronger. The city was destroyed and everything was in ruins, just like a doomsday scene, but the problem was that there were too few monsters and they were not aggressive. There was no shortage of supplies, and judging from the state of the corpses, there was no riot.

There were even many stores with generators that still had lights on. The goods on the shelves were complete and not looted. The mutilated bodies did not have bullet holes or other wounds caused by modern weapons. This was not logical at all.

If the hatching of this monster was like the outbreak of the zombie virus, it would definitely cause panic among the crowd. Ordinary people who saw the monster would flee in panic. The police would try to maintain law and order and attack the monster. When the news spread, it would cause large-scale stockpiling of supplies among the people.

But the current scene was as if the remaining people were still living a normal life one second before everyone died.

This was even more terrifying than the chaotic scene.

The greatest fear came from the unknown. The few people present had more or less seen some zombie movies with chaotic and dilapidated scenes. Although they were sad and angry enough, they were not unacceptable. But now this kind of calm before the storm made a deeper fear grow in everyone's hearts.

With a "sizzle", the car stopped.

The three people in the team who still had vision looked up. They saw a huge temple in the middle of New York Central Park, which was completely different from all the surrounding buildings.

"Oh my god, what is this?!" Riley couldn't help but exclaimed. Jarvis blinked, a glimmer flashed in his eyes, and then he said: "It looks a bit oriental. Wait, that decorative pattern should exist in my database... Kamar-Taj!"

Hearing this name, Wanda immediately exclaimed: "Oh, yes, if the world is destroyed, what about the wizards? Are the wizards still alive?"

"Time Stone, if the Supreme Sorcerer still has the Time Stone, then maybe we can..."

Wanda's words stopped abruptly, because she thought that if the Supreme Sorcerer could really use the Time Stone to reverse the current situation, he would have done it long ago. If he didn't do it, it means that he is powerless to save the situation.

Wanda took a deep breath, and then sighed again. She held Jarvis's hand tightly, and even half leaned on him. Miss Witch rarely made such unrestrained movements, but she really felt desperate.

Jarvis hugged her, supported her back, buried his head in her neck and shoulders, and said, "It's okay, Wanda, we will survive."

"But it's getting dark soon." Wanda said in a crying voice, "It's getting dark again, can we really survive this night?"

Xu Shangqi and Riley both seemed a little silent. They had no confidence to answer this question at all. They had only been here for the third day, but the torture and darkness they had suffered were more than all they had experienced in their past lives.

"We will." Jarvis raised his head and quietly watched the sun setting on the skyline. A trace of inexplicable light flashed in his eyes, and then he said, "No matter what, I will let you survive."