"What broke out in this strange world, I'm afraid it's not Resident Evil at all, this kind of attack is against spirits, and none of us have the means to guard against this kind of mental attack, and the situation is extremely bad."

In front of the window on the second floor of the bar, Xu Shangqi said while eating the sealed bread that he found from the bar's pantry that had not expired.

"I have no idea what happened to you." Jarvis blinked and said, "This kind of mental attack is completely ineffective for me, and I can't imagine what the two of them heard and saw that could make them hurt themselves so desperately." ”

Jarvis's expression was very helpless, if he had to sum up everything that happened tonight in one sentence, it would probably be "humans are interesting", and if he added another sentence, it would be "I can't read it, but I was shocked".

Jarvis knew that although the two siblings, Wanda the Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver Pietro, had been displaced since childhood, because of their strong abilities, they had not suffered much from flesh and skin, and Wanda could scream out the tone of a soprano when she pricked her fingers from the thorns on the rose.

But just last night, she gouged out her own eyes with a rough branch, and now she still has a happy expression for the rest of her life, what a terrible thing she has to see to make such a big change?

Jarvis had to hold Wanda's hand at all times because losing her eyesight made her very insecure.

What's more, because she was worried that she would lose control and hurt her companions, Wanda directly abandoned her martial arts, poured all the chaos power she could control into her eyes, and destroyed it.

And now she can't contact Sithorne at all, and she doesn't dare to mobilize the chaotic power of this universe, so she is almost an ordinary person now.

This is unimaginable for mutants, their abilities are like their arms, and losing their abilities is not just as simple as being disabled, as if the world has changed.

In the previous hour, Wanda had asked Jarvis hundreds of times what was around her, and according to Miss Witch, as a magician, she didn't need to use her eyes to perceive the world around her when she was capable, and her perspective on the world was completely different from that of humans.

Riley's situation can be slightly better than Wanda, he just loses his hearing, and needs to rely on the shape of other people's mouths to judge what the other person is saying, but he has another problem, that is, he does not dare to speak, for fear of inadvertently singing the tune that has been looped countless times and lingers in his head.

He endured so hard that he could barely muster his energy to do anything else, and so did Wanda.

Therefore, I am afraid that on the next journey, the two of them will not only no longer be the strongest people in the team, but will become a drag.

And it is conceivable that neither Jarvis nor Xu Shangqi can leave their companions behind, so although it is dawn, the next journey may be even more difficult.

"I retract my previous judgment." Xu Shangqi was the first to speak: "My original plan was to find a closed place to hide, slowly accumulate resources, wait until I have no worries about survival, and then find a way to make weapons, go out to explore regularly, and wait until the base is large enough and the technology is developed enough, and then explore step by step towards the possible event center." ”

"But now it seems that this method of building high walls and accumulating food is not suitable for this world at all, there are too few monsters that can be seen and defeated, and it is useless to have weapons."

"And I'm afraid there are no large-scale survivors to save us, so there are no conditions for mass production, and there is no need, and more importantly, every day we wait, the possibility of being eroded by the darkness is greater."

Xu Shangqi covered his eyes and said in a painful tone: "Why did I cross over to a world where my spiritual strength was tested after I hugged the thighs of Spider-Man and Scarlet Witch!" ”

Then he gritted his teeth and said, "Don't let me know which little clever ghost did this!" ”

Jarvis sighed as well, he shook his head and said, "I'm sorry, most of the machinery in this city has been destroyed, and my hacking skills are not of much use, at most I can repair cars or something." ”

"As for the mental attack you have received, I can't feel it at all, and I can't help it, so I'm afraid I'll have to rely on you next."

"I'm just a normal person." Xu Shangqi emphasized: "If you think that it is my strong willpower that I have persevered until now, then I am afraid that you will be disappointed, I rely on a treasure." ”

Xu Shangqi took out the jade pendant from his neck, he believed very much in the character of several people present, and more importantly, the energy on the jade pendant was already very meager, and the high wall he had built with the words of the Pure Heart Recipe was already crumbling.

The scanning device in Jarvis's eyes swept over the jade pendant on Xu Shangqi's neck, and he said, "There's a strange energy on it, but I don't know what it is, do you have a way to replicate this energy?" ”

"Unfortunately, no, I said that I was just cramming and learning the mind method temporarily...... Okay, let's not dwell on this for now, we have to do something during the daytime, we can't wait here any longer, otherwise we will still be helpless when night falls. ”

"I think the way to crack your weird state is to find out the truth." Jarvis rationally analyzed: "Those strange things attack your spirit, and there is always a way to resist this attack." ”

"I searched the database for all the mutants and superpowers who possess mental abilities, including Professor X, and I haven't found any way to build a mental barrier."

"It's not an attack." The Scarlet Witch, who had covered her hollow eyes with a cloth, squeezed Jarvis's hand and said, "It's hard for me to describe to you, but I'm not being attacked. ”

"Quite the opposite." Riley's somewhat hoarse voice sounded, "It's the truth that has made us who we are." ”

Xu Shangqi still hasn't forgotten his central theme, he said: "It's useless to sit here and discuss the route, no matter what, it's still going to be dark, I saw some strange traces of slime on the first floor of the bar during the day yesterday, I think we can go investigate and see what happened here......"

After saying that, he didn't pay attention to the few people sitting in front of the window, but turned around and walked down, Jarvis looked at Riley and Wanda, who had lost some of their mobility, and they came to the first floor of the bar together.

The stench on the first floor of the bar was pervasive, and the stench emitted by the complex structure of human bodies made it more complex and difficult to ignore when they decayed, Xu Shangqi blocked his nose with his sleeve and looked down for the traces he had seen yesterday.

Many people think that fear is a constant emotion, and when you are thrown into a terrible environment, you will be constantly frightened and you will not be able to do anything.

But in fact, the human brain has a protective mechanism, after experiencing intense emotions, there will be an extreme sense of exhaustion, this fatigue is not used to deprive humans of the ability to act, it is precisely to let the brain stop for a short time, and then let the instinct take over the body, continue to maintain the ability to move, so as to improve the odds of survival.

After many shocks, this period of exhaustion will become longer and longer, and human beings at this time will usually fall into a state of numbness, no matter what terrible things they see or what unacceptable sights they encounter, they will react very little.

Xu Shangqi is not afraid of corpses, after all, it is the first time he has come into contact with so many corpses, and he can't stand the stench, it's just that the laws of ordinary people's brains make him can only adapt to all this with numbness.

Fortunately, the numbness allowed him to overcome most of his physical discomfort and was able to barely calm down and follow his rational actions.

"These monsters crawled out of human bodies." Xu Shangqi looked at the traces on the wall and said, "They burrowed out of various parts of the human body, ate part of the human body, and then left in a hurry. ”

Jarvis also looked around, and his scanning function told him that Xu Shangqi was right, there were too many traces of slime crawling outward.

Xu Shangqi held back his fear, and tried hard to recall the situation he faced with the monster before, the monster holding the lower body of the woman before, it didn't look like he regarded the human body as a part of himself.

Any living thing will have the instinct to get rid of the burden, and the human body is completely useless to the actions of that monster, so if it does not get rid of it, it means that it does not want to get rid of it, but it may not be able to get rid of it.

"Incubation failed." Xu Shangqi spat out a few words, he frowned and thought for a moment, and then said, "If the monster is hatched from a human body, then the eggshell should no longer remain on their body except for providing the necessary nutrients for the beginning. ”

"The two monsters we saw were probably failed to hatch and fail to get rid of the eggshells halfway through, and these corpses were the eggshells left behind by those who succeeded."

Xu Shangqi had to hold back his nausea and narrate the incident from a more objective, even indifferent to the point of being ruthless, from a third-party perspective, to describe his own kind as an inorganic substance.

But his reason was telling him that they were all living people, who might be celebrating on the dance floor of a bar one second, then being torn out by monsters the next, and then mercilessly devoured by them.

The scene forced him to keep his sanity, but morality made him feel sad again, Xu Shangqi took a deep breath, and silently recited the Qingxin recipe in his heart a few times, and when he read it for the last time, he couldn't even recite it silently, but recited it out loud, as if the sound could give him a sense of security.

Several other people could not understand Chinese, and thought that Xu Shangqi was praying, and Xu Shangqi calmed down for a while and said: "If the monster that did not fully hatch is left on the street, then where does the successful hatching go?" I think that's probably the crux of the matter. ”

"We can't sit here anymore and wait for the darkness to fall, whether there is truth ahead or not, we have to keep going, let's go."

Xu Shangqi turned around and walked out the door, the other three followed behind him, Xu Shangqi didn't have too strong reconnaissance ability, but fortunately, there were many traces of slime on the street, and there were few monsters to give them plenty of room to investigate.

While the group was following the trails, they walked towards the end of the alley, and although it was a good thing to have clues, it was time-consuming to stop from time to time to check the direction of the trails to make sure they hadn't gone astray, and it was dark before they had walked a few kilometers.

"Find a place to rest." Xu Shangqi exhaled a breath, the existence of qi made his body not tired, but his spirit was exhausted to the extreme.

Carefully observing the slime is definitely not an easy job, in the end. Xu Shangqi even felt that the slime had climbed up his body, making him feel that the whole person was slimy, and mixed with the corpses and the stench on the street, Xu Shangqi's desire to vomit became stronger and stronger.

Xu Shangqi stroked his chest, and kept using his hands to smooth down, he always felt that something was about to come up, he thought that his stomach disease was not healed, and he was a little nauseated, so he kept swallowing saliva.

In the process of hurrying, several people found some weapons, but most of them were cold weapons, because the guns they could find were basically out of bullets.

Riley, who had more strength, took a fire axe, Jarvis, who had an automatic aiming program, took a harpoon gun, and Xu Shangqi took a fruit knife from the store where he was most comfortable to use.

In the end, they decided to rest in a relatively clean house, the owner of this place seemed to have gone out early, the house was not infested by monsters, and the beds and daily necessities were complete, which was a good place to rest for a while.

But they didn't plan to sleep in separate rooms, but planned to sleep together in the living room, Xu Shangqi threw his body into the soft sofa and sighed for a long time.

But the more sleepy he is, the more he can't sleep, he can always hear his heartbeat, "bang, bang, bang......"

The more Xu Shangqi listened, the more irritated he became, and he had to sit up from the sofa, take a few deep breaths, and start running the exercises again.

During the daytime investigation today, in order to deal with those disgusting scenes, he had already recited the Pure Heart Recipe countless times, and when he recited it again, it seemed smooth and smooth.

But at the moment when he opened his mouth to finish the first sentence, Wanda, who was sitting on the sofa opposite and had just untied the strip of cloth on his eyes, suddenly raised his head.

The eye sockets with only two black holes left looked directly at Xu Shangqi, Xu Shangqi also looked at her, Wanda said in a daze:

"You don't read the same thing as you read during the day......"

Xu Shangqi was stunned.

"I'm ......" As soon as Xu Shangqi spat out a syllable, he froze there, and then showed an extremely frightened expression.

Because he found that he didn't speak Chinese, or even any language he knew.

At this time, Riley, who was sitting on the sofa on the side, suddenly looked back at Xu Shangqi, and Xu Shangqi also looked at him.

Riley's eyes suddenly showed a sadness, and he looked at Xu Shangqi with tearful eyes and said:

"I just heard you talk."

The muscles on Xu Shangqi's face began to tremble, and then this tremor spread throughout his body, and the desire to vomit became stronger and stronger.

But when his throat tightened and the sour sensation spread down his esophagus, it was not food that he spat out, but a series of languages he had never mastered.

The moment that terrible murmur appeared in the room, Riley covered his ears in pain and fell to the ground, letting out an astonishing scream, and the Scarlet Witch began to breathe incessantly, as if she had been choked by something.

Xu Shangqi desperately covered his mouth, but his stomach pouch seemed to be grabbed by a big hand, and he kept squeezing the vague and strange language outward, Xu Shangqi desperately let his head hit the coffee table, but the pain didn't make him sober up at all.

In the haze of tears, Xu Shangqi saw the last golden light of the sunset fade between the gaps in the curtains, and the night fell.

Wanda and Riley's screams continued to echo through the room, and their painful faces fell on Xu Shangqi's eyes.

It used to be his favorite character, and he had been moved to tears countless times around them on the movie screen.

Thanos didn't make Spider-Man so miserable.

The moment this thought appeared in Xu Shangqi's heart, an indescribable boundless anger burned through his soul.

The string in Xu Shangqi's mind completely broke, and he trembled and threw himself on the sofa, touching the fruit knife that he had placed in the gap before.

Beneath the frightened eyes were trembling open mouths, and sharp blades reflecting desperate eyes.

In an instant, blood splattered, and the nerve reflex caused by the severe pain made the severed tongue twitch slightly after falling to the ground, like a fish thrown to the shore.

In the silence of the whispering disappearing, Xu Shangqi, who was full of blood, felt such a thick bloody qi lingering between his mouth and nose for the first time.

Then he found that he didn't hate the smell of blood so much, and even after losing his sense of taste, he could taste a hint of sweetness from it.

Xu Shang lay on the coffee table weakly, but he tried to raise his head and swallowed the blood that should have been vomited out, and the tears that blurred his vision no longer flowed, allowing him to see the stars in the night sky clearly through the gap in the curtain.

In the midst of his breath, Xu Shangqi found that what was sweet was not blood, but the taste of victory.

And in the same dark room, the quill pen trembling nib wrote this sentence on the black notebook -

"If I write about the end of the world, I can't just write about the end of the world, I have to write about the stupid people who survived by mistake, the smart people who did everything they could, the good people who were driven to madness, and the bad people who gave selfless dedication.

If you want to write a hymn to the courage of a great hero, you also have to write that ordinary people who are as humble as dust are desperate and bloody, but they are willing to eat like food. ”

You don't really think it's a good thing to be covered by Schiller, do you?

Look at the Batman family in the distance

(End of chapter)