Chapter 2 Departure and Decision

It was the other soldiers who fired the shots, and when they saw Mercer "eat" his companions, they all fired at Mercer in horror. The bullets rained down on Mercer's body, and the blood flowed down his body, but before it could reach the floor, it was absorbed back by Mercer's body.

"Welcome to the top of the food chain!"

Mercer had always liked this representative line of "Torture and Killing" in the past, and he would feel the great power contained in his body, as well as that tyrannical instinct, and he said this sentence very naturally.

Mercer rushed in front of a soldier under the rain of bullets, and then grabbed through the opponent's body armor and skin, and it was such a terrible blood mist that Mercer devoured the opponent completely, and not even a drop of blood could be found on the ground.

At the same time, several other soldiers ran out of bullets, and Mercer's non-human actions caused them to drop the M4A1, which had turned into a burning stick, and then try to escape, but these actions were meaningless.

As soon as they turned, Mercer jumped over the morgue with only the base left, blocked the only exit, and then killed and devoured the other four soldiers who were defenseless. Whether it is Mercer in the past or Mercer now, he has always believed that some people are better to kill.

"You're the one who wants to kill me first!"

After the first devour, Mercer seemed to have gotten used to the process, glancing at the only corpse in the room, well, the hapless man who had been blown up by his own companion.

"There doesn't seem to be any interest in what is already dead. Vomit! ”

The sudden outburst of "appetite" for some unknown reason made Mercer's behavior brutal, but after the "food" was gone, the "appetite" began to fade.

When he came to his senses, he fell to his knees and began to retch, for a normal human, "eating" other people in any sense would be disgusting. It's not just physical, it's more mentally uncomfortable.

"I need to get out of here quickly, this is the heart of Manhattan, and as long as I get on the street, the other party will never dare to attack with impunity."

According to the soldiers' memories, this is a complete world, and there are even violent institutions like S.H.I.E.L.D. in the Marvel movies, and it is impossible for either Gentek or Black Watch to surround themselves with planes and tanks like in the game.

Mercer came out of the room, and saw that the position of the moon was estimated to be eleven or twelve o'clock, and near the room there was a helicopter gunship, and next to the helicopter lay two corpses, which were the two researchers.

"Right and wrong are all due to open up more, and troubles are strong."

The man who killed them was found by themselves, and who is to blame.

He walked over and picked up the folder in one of the men's hands, then removed the sheets of printer paper and folded them into his pants pocket.

After doing all this, he stepped directly on the large garbage bin at the base of the wall, and then climbed over the high wall where the barbed wire was installed. Controlling his power, Mercer landed gently on the ground.

He was glad that he was able to control both his strength and speed as if he were instinctive, and there was no such discomfort.

To his misfortune, his memories of the plot tell him that he is not a human now, or rather, it is not a human now, but a prototype of a black light virus.

"It's better to die than to live, and besides, who can tell what a person is?"

This can be said to be a philosophical question, how to tell if a creature is a human being?

Appearance? Gene? Thinking? Affection?

As if it was all right, and as if it was not, Mercer pulled his hood and looked around to see that there was no one around, and a passing car did not notice him.

Mercer heard the sound of a helicopter getting clearer and clearer, and immediately turned to leave faster than the car, he really didn't have time to wonder what was going on right now.

After leaving the scene, Mercer slowed down, and now no one could be left behind as long as there were no heavy weapons such as tanks or special weapons.

Mercer jumped towards the building, and in the next second, his figure appeared more than ten meters above the ground. After stepping on the glass curtain wall of the building, the right foot wrapped in blood mist seemed to be stuck to the glass, leaving a crack, and Mercer's figure rose more than ten meters again.

One step at a time...... Six steps later, Mercer reached the top of the thirty-story building.

"It's really similar to the game, it's easy ......"

Mercer's psychology can be said to be mixed, and the stronger the ability, the better, but this also proves that he is a prototype in disguise......

It was presumably an office building, with a huge central air conditioner on the top floor, and Mercer ripped open the door with his bare hands to enter the building. He needed a quiet place to think about what to do next. It's not as simple as the world of that game, after all......

The decoration of the office building is quite good, but this has nothing to do with Mercer, and he went to the bathroom on the top floor.

The voice-activated lights lit up the moment the door opened, but Mercer didn't feel like the light was piercing her eyes. Adaptability is the characteristic of all viruses, and the black light virus is one of the best.

Dark brown hair peeks out of the hood and is scattered on the forehead; Pale to bloodless skin with dead gray pupils, like a dead corpse. The collar of the white shirt stood up, and the brown hoodie and black leather jacket were a little weird but had a special feel.

The most striking thing is that the back of the leather jacket has a blood-red pattern of immortal bird wings, which seems to emit a faint light. Mercer stood in front of the mirror above the sink, looking at herself like a woman who loved beauty.

"This face is really the same as in the game, but the pixels are a lot higher. Well, according to the setting in the game, this body and clothes are disguised by a black light virus? It really doesn't make a difference. ”

I have to say that this fake skin of the virus is indeed a handsome guy, but he is a little sickly and gloomy.

"Torture and Killing" is a fairly creative game, when he was a soldier in China, Mercer went to an Internet café to play and cleared the level many times. I don't know what the principle is, but Mercer remembers a game he played more than ten years ago, and he remembers every picture and plot in it clearly.

The game's main character, Alex Mercer, is a researcher at Project Blacklight, a biological weapons program owned by biotechnology company Gentek. The purpose of the "Black Light Project" is to use a special biological sample, Elizabeth Green, to develop targeted virus weapons, which is an autonomous ulterior plan of the government and military.

I don't know what the reason is, this "black light plan" began to get out of control, and the military decided to send the virus biohazard handling team, the Black Watch Force, to block the entire plan and dispose of all related personnel.

As the first target, Alex Mercer sensed that something was wrong, so he began a private investigation, and used his sister Dana Mercer to ask her to help from the outside.

After discovering that he had become a target, Alex Mercer prepared to flee with a tube, which was also the finished product of all the black light viruses, but was shot dead by the soldiers of the Black Watch Force at Pennsylvania Station, but before he died, Alex Mercer smashed the bottle containing the black light virus.

The leaked virus began to spread in Manhattan, and Alex Mercer, who was closest to the Black Light Virus, became the prototype of the Black Light Virus, while the rest of the infected people either died or became zombie-like living dead.

"I don't know if I can conjure those attack forms now......"

Mercer clenched his fists and tried to turn his hands into claws or hammers, but to no avail, only his fingers grew thicker and his nails became sharp.

At the same time, the brain reflects a message that tells Mercer that the virus in his body is not complete enough to deform. Mercer could sense that this was not a message from someone, but rather an instinctive reaction, as if a baby knew it was hungry and needed to feed.

"What is completeness?"

"Fortunately in misfortune, the black light virus doesn't have its own mind, but will actively imitate the host's consciousness, otherwise it will ......"

"That's not right, Alex Mercer's thinking and personality have been swallowed up by the black light virus, and all the later behaviors are carried out by the black light virus according to Alex's thinking, so my current thinking and behavior are ......"

It was like a chicken-and-egg problem, and the more she thought about it, the more confused it became, so she simply didn't continue to dwell on it, but looked at the pool and remembered other problems.

"Anyway, I don't have to eat or drink water now, so can I still boo? Uh, what's ......?"

Mercer could feel that his little brother was definitely aggravated by Twenty-Eight, and if it didn't work, he would be blind.

It's a matter of survival, and Mercer wasn't an innocent boy in the past. He tried the little brother's reaction, and then couldn't help but sigh that the black light virus was thoughtful, and there was no problem with the length of time, touch or psychological feelings, but he didn't know if the fruits of his labor were viruses.

After confirming the important questions, Mercer glanced at the messages in his pocket that recorded Alex Mercer and his sister, now his sister, Dana Mercer.

Alex Mercer, 27, received his Ph.D. in genetics from Columbia University two years ago and is a highly intelligent figure.

As soon as he graduated, he was recruited by Osborne Industries, Gentek, and Ambrera, but in the end he chose Gentek......

“…… What's going on? Dana Mercer is actually an employee of Stark Industries? ”

Mercer did think of Spider-Man and Resident Evil, but these were a little far away from him now, and they were not in Mercer's plan, but Stark Industries, and S.H.I.E.L.D. could think about it.

Mercer felt that his thinking skills were much stronger than they had been in the past, and soon a complete preliminary plan came to his mind.

He's not the Alex Mercer who doesn't know anything about the truth, so he will definitely isolate himself from humanity if he goes on a rampage. The best outcome is to die with humanity, however, the world is not so simple now......

Leaving the bathroom and glancing at the dark sky of dawn from the rooftop, Mercer jumped straight down. Leave a deep pit in the ground and quietly leave.

It was dawn, and Mercer ushered in his first morning in this world.

Nearly all of the newspaper headlines in newsstands have something to do with Mercer, and news is relayed on TV screens on the streets. At the same time, the streets of Manhattan, which should be bustling, actually seem a little depressed.

"Pennsylvania Station Hit by Chemical and Biological Weapons Attack, Suspected of Terrorist Organizations"

"XXX Group Claims Responsibility for Pennsylvania Station Attack"

The End of the World? Zombies roam the streets of Manhattan! Linked to a biochemical attack? 》

Mercer tugged at his hood and headed straight for his sister's apartment, which was not far from Stark Industries' building.