In order to be able to communicate with people normally, Xu Shangqi had to bring a handful of sand to their second stronghold.

In fact, they don't need any strongholds, because with the current density of monsters, there is no difference between sleeping in the house and on the street, and that kind of terrible attack will not be weakened by the blocking of buildings.

But perhaps because of the instinctive human need for shelter from the elements, they eventually found the upper floor of a fairly clean café as a base for spending the third night.

There is no doubt that this is an improvement, because everyone is mentally anticipating what is likely to happen tonight, and they are even able to have the leisure to prepare things in advance that are conducive to communication.

Scarlet Witch's vision problems were almost impossible to solve, and such a short period of time was obviously not enough for her to evolve a keen enough sense of hearing and touch, but fortunately there was Jarvis to help her, and Jarvis took the trouble to repeat to her what was going on around her, and in order not to disturb others, he could only whisper close to her.

Although he couldn't hear it, he could read lips, because the way English is pronounced differently and the shape of the mouth is easier to read, so he can barely understand it even if he has no professional training.

Xu Shangqi used writing on the sand to restore his ability to communicate, which is very effective, because for a person who is good at writing Chinese characters, writing English letters quickly can be as easy as eating and drinking.

When the sky was not completely dark, they had a heated discussion, but Xu Shangqi still insisted on his point of view, and he wrote on the puddle of sand at great speed: "Disasters will happen at night, and they must have a special meaning, but nothing special will happen at night, except for the ethereal stars, and there is only a dream left." ”

"But it's very dangerous to verify it." Lylie disagreed, and he tried to swallow the superfluous modifiers back into his stomach, apparently choking himself, but he could only say as briefly as possible: "We may go crazy in our dreams." ”

"I think we have to be organized and prioritize all the weird things that we're going through." Jarvis came up with a very sensible plan and immediately put it into practice.

"First of all, the most bizarre attack, its importance is, of course, a, but so is the difficulty of the investigation, and then there is the state of the world, which I think is as important and dangerous as the attack."

"Then everything we saw in New York City, its importance and danger should be rated B, then the beginning and end of the disappearance of the monster and the knot in the heart of the Ancient One, which should be rated C, and finally the point that we have no time to consider, where Quill and the raccoon went, this matter should be rated D."

"The more important it is, the more dangerous it is, and if we rush to challenge without gathering enough clues, we can potentially bury our own lives."

"But we've just come here, we have a lot of energy, we can encourage each other, keep a good attitude, if we waste this precious time on things that are not important enough, it will probably slow down our progress and cause us to be wasted here."

"So I think we should start at the intermediate level, which is to investigate the situation in New York City and figure out what the city and its people did when the disaster came, so that maybe we can reveal part of the nature of the disaster, and maybe find survivors."

"Although I don't have hope for that last point, I think you have a point." Lai Li nodded and said.

The other two couldn't refute Jarvis's well-founded analysis, and it was a fluke to have such a sane teammate in this situation, so several people began to speculate about what happened to New York.

"I guess one day a monster may parasitize the human body, and then it may secretly use its tentacles to sow more seeds in other people's bodies, and then they will hatch and kill humans." Wanda took the lead in making a guess, but Xu Shangqi shook his head and said, "If that's the case, then why haven't many facilities been destroyed?" There is no trace of the army and police on the road either? Wanda frowned and said, "Perhaps, the incident happened suddenly, and the official didn't react at all." ”

"Do you know how many people there are in New York?" Xu Shangqi asked rhetorically, and he scribbled down a string of words in his notes: "Assuming that the infection is carried out in binary, the time required is beyond imagination, as long as a monster is seen by someone, it will definitely cause panic." ”

"Is it possible that there is a being that sows seeds in all of them at the same time and then allows them to burst out at the same time?" Laili looked at the words written by Xu Shangqi and said with a frown.

But Jarvis shook his head and said, "If its ultimate goal is to destroy humanity, then since it has the ability to sow seeds in everyone, why not just kill everyone?" Or sow the seed in the heart? Human physiology predesimates them to be unable to resist such an attack. "The discussion reached an impasse, and it was clear that Wanda had proposed a pass of ten to a hundred

The "infection theory" is not in line with what they saw in New York, and Lyric put it forward

"Simultaneous explosion theory", the logic of the behavior before and after is very contradictory. Suddenly, Laili had a flash of inspiration, and he said, "Maybe the culprit is not aiming to destroy humanity, but just wants monsters?" ”

"What does it want the monster to do?" Laili was silent again, he couldn't think of it, judging from the monsters they encountered, these monsters really didn't have much merit.

"Perhaps, maybe those powerful monsters have been wiped out by the Ancient One Mage." Lai Li speculated hard, he said: "Just like in zombie movies, there will always be one or two ordinary zombies with special abilities among the countless ordinary zombies. ”

"No, no, no." Lai Li quickly dismissed his speculation, saying, "Although the Ancient One Mage is very strong, if those special monsters are destroyed by her wave of her hand, it doesn't seem to be of much use. ”

"Don't you think it's weird?" Wanda suddenly spoke, "Compared to the attacks we suffered at night, those monsters on the road are like little babies, and the difference in strength between them is too great. ”

"It's unlikely that these monsters were created to attack or destroy something, they're more like ...... It's more like ......" Wanda searched for a certain adjective for a long time, but couldn't find it, while Jarvis touched his chin and said, "It's more like a failure." ”

"If they are failures, what are successes?" Jarvis asked himself, but quickly, he shook his head and said, "No, the idea is wrong, there are failures, it doesn't mean that there are successes, or they are more like some kind of ...... Residue? Xu Shangqi's hand suddenly froze, and then he wrote a line on the sand at great speed: "They are the residue of fear." Everyone stared at him with wide eyes, Xu Shangqi took a deep breath, tried to sort out his thoughts, and began to deduce with his rich imagination from watching countless horror movies: "Have you ever thought about what will become after we can no longer resist the attacks of the night and go completely crazy?" "Everybody froze.

Scarlet Witch's fingertips began to tremble, her female instincts made her hate the mucus, tentacles, and tumors more than anyone else, and the mere thought of turning into that monster was enough to take his breath away.

"You mean, if we lose to the night, we'll become that kind of monster?" Jarvis looked into Xu Shangqi's eyes and asked.

But soon he found out the suspicion again, and he said, "Isn't this the same as infection?" Human willpower is different, and some people must go crazy early and some people go crazy late. ”

"Then the monsters that appeared earlier must have attracted the attention of the authorities, how could no one put up armed resistance to the end, but all of them were euthanized?" Several people were silent again, and it was clear that the inference had reached an impasse again, and in any case the fact that New York had not been greatly damaged.

The collapsed buildings didn't look like they had been attacked by artillery, but rather like they had been abandoned by no one to maintain them, or had been crushed by some large monster, there were no signs of firefighting on the road, most of the cars were in good condition, and many life-threatening supplies had not been looted.

Although the few people present can be called young heroes, they obviously all realize that human beings are essentially chaotic creatures, and if everyone can fully abide by their good intentions and not hurt others at all in the face of such terrible natural and man-made disasters, then how can there be so many bad things on the earth?

So it is conceivable that in the face of disaster, great chaos will inevitably arise, when the disaster does not come and there are only rumors, people will hoard supplies out of panic, and as long as a monster is photographed, even if the authorities react quickly, small-scale chaos cannot be avoided.

Xu Shangqi, an outsider, is not very optimistic about the organizational ability of the New York government, and the three locals are even less optimistic than him, and it can even be said that he can feel desperate without looking, so there is no trace of crossfire in the city, which is an insurmountable reasoning obstacle.

"Do you find it strange? Compared to the apocalyptic cities we've seen before, the city is overdone. On the boulevard of New York's Central Park, Quill is discussing a similar issue with Rocket Raccoon, and the two of them are clearly more knowledgeable than the young men who have barely left Earth.

"I'm on Ronta, you know, the unlucky star in the constellation Centauri......"

"Oh!" Rocket Raccoon let out a sudden realization and said, "It's because of the orbital impact of other planets that he was unfortunately knocked out of the galaxy, and was knocked out of the galaxy by the solar eruption, and then was hit by the planetary battleship of the Kree Empire that was racing and hit the planet in the black hole, right?" ”

"That's right, it's it, although the aborigines of Centauri like to call it the Bad Luck Star, I prefer to call it the Black 8, and I haven't been so accurate when I play billiards on Earth." Thinking of the bad luck that happened to this planet, Rocket Raccoon finally showed a long-lost smile, he snorted, and then said: "There are many unlucky stars in the universe, but it is rare to see one as unlucky as it." ”

"You should say that I was unlucky, I was sent by Yongdu to find out information on this billiard ball at that time, to be honest, the leaders and residents there are quite good, although there are not many people and the civilization is not developed, but the response is very fast, and the whole body is united."

"The only planetary shield they had opened was within a few tenths of a second of a hit, so the first hit didn't cause devastating damage to the planet itself."

"But the funny thing is that the younger brother of the leader of civilization thought that this was his brother's plot to kill him, so he simply killed his brother first, and activated the propulsion device in violation of regulations, but the people were not prepared, and all of them were slapped on the wall by the huge kinetic energy and turned into meat sauce."

"What I want to say is that civilization is very fragile under such natural and man-made disasters."

"If you want me to say, human beings have not yet been united by the people on that billiard ball, and in the face of such a big disaster, will no one shoot? Why don't I believe it at all? ”