Chapter Eighty-Eight: Suppressing Pollution
"Hey, my head hurts." Tony woke up from his coma, feeling his head hurt as if it had been torn, and when he stood up, he saw Qu Yizhi with a worried face.
"Mr. Stark, are you alright? Please don't try this dangerous thing again. Qu Yizhi reached out to help Tony up, she had already known to Jarvis what happened.
Tony stood up with the help of Qu Yizhi's strength: "Thank you for your help, Miss Qu, Jarvis, to scan my physical condition." ”
"Sir, you are in good health, do you need to call Dr. Helen?" Jarvis's scan didn't reveal anything unusual.
"Oh, that's damn fine." Tony hammered the table in frustration, feeling very aggrieved and powerless about this situation that could not be tested.
"Mr. Stark, mental pollution acts on people's souls, it is normal that your instrument does not detect it, if your body also travels abnormally, it means that the infection is irreversible." Qu Yizhi's voice changed Tony's sanity back to Tony's senses, and also made Tony feel a burst of surprise.
"Miss Qu, has your memory recovered?" Tony stared at Qu Yizhi, these words had never been said by the other party.
"Uh, yes, partially restored, Mr. Stark." Qu Yizhi swallowed her saliva, it was the first time she had seen Tony look at herself so excitedly.
"Very well, tell me everything you know, there is still a big war waiting for us." Tony immediately summoned Jarvis and pulled out a handwriting screen from the lab table, he had basically recovered from his previous state, so he also realized that Steve had found a big problem.
"All right, Mr. Stark." Qu Yizhi looked at Tony's expectant look, and slowly told Tony the memories he had recovered.
After she received Jarvis's urgent request, she saw Tony fainting on the ground, and the hazy memories seemed to be touched, making her recall a part of it, and these memories happened to have a way to temporarily suppress the mental pollution and wake up the person who was caught in it.
Most of the other memories are related to the conditions produced by mental pollution, and I also know that the effects of mental pollution are manifested in stages.
In the first stage, the tainted person will occasionally come into contact with something that does not belong to reality, whether it is a tentacle in the darkness or a whisper of an evil god.
In the second stage, the polluted person will not be able to distinguish between reality and illusion, and will basically fall into permanent madness, and some people's personalities will be completely changed and become evil minions.
In the third stage, if the polluted person is still alive, then he will become a carrier of evil forces, and those who are determined will become cultists, and those who are not strong will become monsters.
As for the higher-level stage, Qu Yizhi said that there is no need to discuss it, because it is already considered a high-level cult, and perhaps there will be a more detailed classification in the hands of cultists.
As for the first stage of the polluted, their influence is basically all from the soul, that is, they cannot find traces from the real world, which is why Tony's instruments always report that everything is normal.
Only the second and third stage people will change their original body structure due to the injection of evil power, but at that point, their souls have basically been completely polluted, in other words, they are hopeless.
As for Qu Yizhi's method of suppressing spiritual pollution, it can only suppress the polluted in the first stage, and it is linked to the mental firmness of the other party, and the suppression is only temporary, and if you want to really remove spiritual pollution, Qu Yizhi has not completely remembered it.
Knowing this situation, Tony thought about it, with the current level of human technology, it is not possible to prove whether the soul exists, so naturally the pollution from the soul cannot be detected, but since the second stage of people will change their form due to changes from the inside out, then the detection method is also essential, after all, those who can detect it can basically be identified as enemies.
After getting this information, Tony quickly shared it with the rest of the Avengers, especially Steve, who was in the cult's home base.
As for Tony himself, his pollution situation was temporarily suppressed because of Qu Yizhi's help, so he planned to put on the steel armor and go to help Steve.
Qu Yizhi was sent to S.H.I.E.L.D. by Tony to help suppress those agents because he found a way to temporarily suppress mental pollution, and judging from the information Tony obtained, the agents inside S.H.I.E.L.D. are the most polluted and concentrated, and they can suppress them all, which is very helpful for the next battle.
After receiving Tony's information, Steve immediately began to carefully observe the cultists who were praying, and this observation led Steve to discover a worrying fact.
Because the cult leader who spoke at the beginning gave Steve a very different feeling, and he was wearing a black cloak all over his body, and he seemed to have a mask on his face, which made Steve have a bad association with the new information.
But before he could think of a solution, the cult leader he had been staring at suddenly raised his hand, and all the cultists present instantly fell silent, and then the cult leader suddenly turned his head and looked at Steve's direction.
Steve's hair stood on end, and he immediately realized that he had been exposed, although he didn't know how he was exposed, but Steve, who had been in a lot of battles, immediately rolled to the side, dodging the attack from the cult leader in the next moment.
"Ah, look, I thought it was someone's old loser who sneaked here, it turned out to be our famous Captain America." The cult leader withdrew his elongated tentacles, and the wall where Steve was hiding had been blasted down by him.
Steve's pupils shrank, and he also stood up for the first time, and saw the changes in the hands of the cult leader clearly, it seems that this cultist is at least a second-stage tainted person, how is this possible. You know, even Hailar is still in the first stage.
"Oh, my dear Captain America, you dare to come here alone, and since you are here, then stay forever." The cult leader locked onto Steve's place, his hands squirming under his black robes.
"Hmph, since I'm here, your conspiracy won't succeed, why do you want to betray humanity and join the cult." Steve lifted his shield and shouted at the cultists.
The cultists behind the cult leader also got up one after another, they didn't pay attention to Steve's question, and one of the cultists looked at Captain America's tall body and immediately whispered a few words to the cult leader.
"What you said makes a lot of sense, I have changed my mind, your body will be the best gift we can give to the gods, so stay obediently." Two tentacles flew out of the cult leader's sleeve, and Steve threw out his shield.