Chapter 1384: The Call of the Stars (10)
"Where am I?" Xu Shangqi stood up with his head covered with some dizziness, and as soon as he regained his sensory senses, he smelled a foul smell, a black shadow rushed past the window at the source of the light, Xu Shangqi instinctively shook and looked towards the window.
The window closest to him was very large, it should be the window of the corner store, and the delicate color window frames did not provide any solid sense of security in the slightest, Xu Shangqi just turned his head,
With a "bang", the glass shattered to the ground, and several thick tentacles drew from above. Xu Shangqi, who had just stood up and had not yet stood firmly, exerted his left foot, and dodged to the side a little clumsily and stiffly, but he was still hit on the shoulder by the tentacle that came in at the end.
"Ahh Xu Shangqi let out a miserable scream, but he didn't have time to think about it at all, and with the faint light from the window, he crawled towards the half-broken counter, grabbed the chair that fell to the ground, and threw it at the tentacles.
The chair hit the end of the tentacle, but it didn't do any damage, and with the sound of slime flowing, a large round mouth appeared outside the window, it grew in the center of the tentacle, and it was crawling towards the window frame with its tentacles wrapped around it.
And what frightened Xu Shangqi the most was that after the tentacles and big mouths completely crawled into the store, the back half of them was not a bloated insect with a bunch of legs, but the upper body of a human.
The tentacles protrude from the abdomen of a middle-aged woman, and the intestines that have completely dried up and rotted can be clearly seen around the large mouth, and the terrible stench emanates from them.
As the monster advanced, the rest of the corpses were dragged across the ground, the skin on the chest, neck, and entire face completely peeled off from decay and friction, leaving only yellowed bones stained with blood, like a plough plowing the field, plowing one ravine after another in the slime and dust.
Xu Shangqi looked at the monster dumbfounded, and after being stunned for less than a second, he let out a scream that did not look like a human being, and then crawled towards the side door next to him.
His mind was blank, there was no room for rational thinking, and he couldn't even express his emotions, and at the moment he had only one thought, and that was - run!
In his previous life, Xu Shangqi was a movie lover, whether it was a Hollywood movie or a literary film, he liked to watch it, for example, like many movie lovers, at a certain time, he was particularly obsessed with horror and bloody movies.
Whether it is a zombie movie full of plasma on the screen, or a ghost movie that creates psychological horror through suspenseful lenses, Xu Shangqi can always get some stimulation from all kinds of frightes and nausea.
It was this kind of stimulation that made him crazy obsessed with this kind of film during that time, and he searched for resources on the Internet to find uncut versions and feast on them.
Xu Shangqi can't remember where he read a certain theory, as if to say that humans will be interested in horror movies, but it is precisely because fear triggers human self-preservation instincts.
Witnessing bloody and horrific scenes can make the human brain think that they are in danger, and then the adrenaline will rush and the human heart will be racing, and the nerves will be high.
On the other hand, human reason will tell them that the scene they are in is safe, so these neurostimulants, which should be used for self-protection, will be converted into a sensory enhancement, which will bring some kind of sensual pleasure.
Therefore, many horror movie lovers are actually not bold, or if they are too bold, they can't experience this excitement.
Xu Shangqi is one of them, he is not a bold person at all, and he is even very cowardly in some aspects, but when facing horror movies, he is afraid and wants to watch it, and he loves to play.
Watching a horror movie and being in a horror scene are completely different things, without the aid of drugs, the horror images that have never been seen before and the pungent smell will only make the brain stop working for a short time, because it cannot be understood, so it cannot be analyzed.
So in real life, many people face a sudden disaster, the first reaction is not to run, but to sit there and watch, not because they like to watch the excitement, but because the brain needs time to process and digest the scene that has never been seen before.
Xu Shangqi was exactly like this, he had already rushed out of the side door of the store. Still hadn't realized what had happened, and he hadn't even remembered how he had come here.
He stood in the doorway, gasping for breath in some confusion, and even glanced back at the monster in the shop, and staggered forward two steps, at a loss for what to do in the street when the night fell.
He stood by the lamppole next to the street, looking through the broken shop window at the tentacle monster crawling over the counter, and when his brain finally processed this information, Xu Shangqi's first reaction was to half-kneel down and cover his neck, and began to vomit desperately.
But he hadn't actually eaten much, and he had already digested it, and he only vomited acid water from retching, which made his throat hurt like a fire.
Convulsed and vomited for a long time, Xu Shangqi reluctantly stood up with the help of the street lamp, and after regaining some reason, he knew that he had to leave here quickly, otherwise he might be the next one to be dragged to the ground.
Xu Shangqi looked around left and right, but he couldn't see anything, and at this time, he finally remembered the method he had learned in the Divine Spear Bureau before, and he transported his qi to his eyes, barely able to see the surrounding situation clearly.
The street was empty, with only the wreckage of vehicles and fragments of buildings strewn on the ground, and the smell of decay wafting through the air suggests that the debris may also be mixed with human corpses.
In addition to the monster that had just entered the store, there was also movement in the two houses at the end of the street, Xu Shangqi suspected that it might be a similar monster, but the first thing he did after discovering this was to turn around and leave.
With his night vision ability, Xu Shangqi walked towards a more empty place, but the sky did not fulfill people's wishes, and there was a fierce fight in the two buildings at the end of the street.
A flash of red light followed, followed by an exclamation, Xu Shangqi turned to look there, his eyes widened, and he saw a figure out of the window, it was Ben Laili, he looked like he had been thrown by something.
Xu Shangqi gritted his teeth, clenched his fists, took a few deep breaths, tried to dispel the panic in his heart, and ran over there.
With luck in his lap, he walked like a fly, and soon ran through the broken street, ran to Lyley's side, helped him up, and as soon as his hand touched Lailey's skin, he found a shard of glass stuck in his back.
But Laili didn't care about the pain at all, he pointed to the window and said, "Quick, go and save Wanda." Xu Shangqi helped Laili to look into the building, the red light in the window became brighter and brighter, and then Wanda fell to the corner of the wall as if she had been hit by something, lying on the ground, followed by Jarvis's roar.
Xu Shangqi tiptoed in place, looked at Laili and said, "Don't run around, just wait here, I'll be back soon!" With that, he ran towards the window that had just been shattered by Laili, and without thinking of dodging the shards of glass all over the floor, he held his head in his hands, bent down and raised his legs, and jumped directly into the narrow window frame.
Once inside, he didn't even turn his head to see what was on the other side of Wanda, but grabbed Miss Witch's wrist.
Pull her to the window. Wanda was dragged by Xu Shangqi before she could react, she screamed, and then heard Xu Shangqi's roar.
"What are you doing! Come on! ”
"But I ......" Xu Shangqi couldn't help but grab Wanda from behind, and after carrying the qi to his arm, he grabbed Wanda's waist and threw the slender Miss Witch out of the window, and then jumped out of the window with Jarvis one after the other and ran back to the street.
Wanda was thrown to the ground and rolled a few times, Laili hurriedly rushed up to help her up, she was a little stunned, turned her head to look at Xu Shangqi, and wanted to say something, but Xu Shangqi ran ahead, and then turned back to everyone and roared at everyone: "Any human being with brains and sanity will only choose to do one thing at this time, and that is fucking - run!" "People have a herd mentality, especially when the six gods have no owner, they will instinctively follow the same kind with the loudest voice, Xu Shangqi shouted and ran away, and several other people who didn't react also ran with him.
And this action may have saved their lives, because the monster that rushed out of the window was not the same as the one Xu Shangqi saw in the shop window.
In the faint light, a monster with two legs upright burst out of the shattered window, but it wasn't the legs that supported it to walk, but the anemone-like tentacles that burst out of half of its head.
It may be that the human brain has given this monster a higher intelligence, and its desire to attack is much stronger than the monster that Xu Shangqi saw growing out of its lower body, and it has many more attack methods.
The sarcoma and tentacles that entangle half of the human corpse work together, half of the tentacles stick to the wall, quickly alternating forward, while the other half of the tentacles continue to whip forward, interfering with the movement of the prey.
"Wanda, put your magic away!" Xu Shangqi turned around and shouted, "Don't make the light!" Wanda gritted her teeth as she ran, and she said helplessly, "I...... I can't control it! ”
"Then hurry up and run!" Fortunately, several of them are agile heroes, although they are not exactly known for their speed, but they are not slow.
Xu Shangqi can use footwork, Laili is Spider-Man, the speed of the full-speed sprint is naturally needless to say, Wanda can use magic, and Jarvis himself is a masterpiece of mechanics, and several people ran wildly all the way, and soon left the monster behind.
After rushing out of the street, they came to an intersection, several people stopped to catch their breath, Wanda held her chest and gasped, and said, "Why are we running?" I feel like I can ......."
"You can be a fart!" Xu Shangqi also gasped and said, "If you can beat it, you won't be thrown against the wall!" ”
"Me." Wanda choked for a moment, then whispered, "I was attacked......"
"Hell, what's going on?" He pressed his hand on his temple, slowly knelt on the ground and said, "My spider sense has been ringing, and it is so loud that I can't hear you a little clearly. Lai Li's expression was very painful, he tried to open his eyes wide to look at the ruined scene of the surrounding city, Xu Shangqi crossed his hands on his hips, kept calming his breath, and said: "There is no doubt that we have crossed over and come to a damn universe that may be the end of the world." ”
"Crossed?" Laili let out a groan of pain, but gritted his teeth and said, "You mean we have traveled through the universe?" ”
"Pretty much."
"But why is this happening here?"
"How do I know?" Xu Shangqi replied a little absent-mindedly, he looked around, glanced at a few people again, and said, "Let's go." ”
"Where?" Wanda asked as she looked at him with a frown.
"Find a place where there are no monsters and hide." Wanda's eyes widened, she looked at Xu Shangqi in disbelief and said, "The world is going to be destroyed, you still want to hide?!" ”
"It's because the world is going to be destroyed that I'm hiding! You don't really think you can save the world with just a few of us, do you? ”
"But, but we have to save ......"
"We have to save ourselves first!" Wanda opened her mouth to say something, Xu Shangqi directly stretched out a hand to interrupt her, and then said: "I know what you want to do, you want to plunge into the center of the city with the most monsters, defeat all the monsters there, and then find a group of culprits in the center, destroy them all, and successfully save the world." ”
"But from my experience, in this process, the entire team will die one after another, and they will die very miserably, including but not limited to being overwhelmed by bugs, swallowed by monsters, being caught by the floodgates, and being shot into a sieve because of survivor infighting......" Wanda's face became more and more pale, her eyes looking at Xu Shangqi had completely changed, and she opened her mouth wide and said, "Oh my God, what have you been through......"
"Anyway, listen to me now, hurry up and find a place to hide, and I'll talk about it tomorrow at dawn!" Wanda faltered a little, and Leli's painful voice became the last straw that broke the camel's back.
"Wanda, please, you're here because of me, I need to bring you all back safely!"