While Quill was still immersed in his thoughts, Rocket Raccoon suddenly turned his head to the side of the road and let out a scream.

"What's that?"

He asked, but without waiting for Quill's answer, he jumped off Quill's shoulder and ran across the street, and Quill had to interrupt his thoughts to chase him, for he was now left with only one animal buddy.

But after running across the street, Quill stopped in surprise and saw a little girl next to a street tree near Central Park in New York - blonde hair, brown eyes, not very pretty, but a little girl of this age is always cute.

"Oh my God, a living man!" Rocket turned to look at Quill, but pointed his hand at the little girl and said, "Survivor! ”

It was so nice to see the same kind here, Quill swallowed, trying to suppress the urge to rush over, because this scene was very strange, and he didn't think that such a weak little girl could survive such a disaster.

He hurriedly grabbed the rocket raccoon's tail, threw him back on his shoulder, and then slowly walked towards the little girl, and when he got closer, the little girl noticed him, but with a puzzled expression, followed by horror.

The little girl took a few steps back, as if trying to escape, and found that she seemed to have a remnant of her sanity, and Quill couldn't care much more, he rushed over and grabbed the little girl's shoulder, and the little girl began to struggle desperately, and the moment she turned around, Quill let go of her hand in fright.

The little girl has two tufts of tentacles on her back.

Just a little below her shoulder blades, two wing-like tentacles grew on either side of her spine, but for some reason, they didn't seem to be fully developed, the number of tentacles was very small, they couldn't move, and they didn't have that disgusting mucus.

The quiet tentacles didn't look much better, they were still just as disgusting, but Quill was getting used to it, and the little girl didn't seem to be able to speak, just screaming in horror to break free from Quill's grip.

Seeing that her figure was reflected in her innocent pupils, but there was a lot of horror there, and the little girl's struggles became more and more violent, Quill cursed in a low voice, and then said, "She may have been stimulated...... Rocket, help me, we need to calm her down, forget it! ”

Realizing that his animal companion was too small to help, Quill remembered that he had just evolved another hand, and that he had been holding the little girl with the one that still existed.

But when the invisible hand suddenly touched the little girl's shoulder, a connection that was not a human way of communication was established, and Quill saw some images rush into his mind.

It's a rather novel communicative experience, terrifying, but it seems to be as natural as talking and listening, like his innate instinct.

Quill shook her head and let go of her hand, but the little girl didn't run away, she stared at Quill with big eyes, her eyes full of doubt.

"She seems to want to talk to you." Rocket Raccoon poked Quill in the cheek, then turned to look at the little girl and said, "I'm afraid it's not the kind of communication we usually use." ”

Quill took a deep breath and sobered up a bit, and he reached out again with his non-existent hand and put it firmly on the little girl's shoulder.

Memories come flooding in, but not every time this phrase comes up, there are good times behind the tide, Quill thought, but there was a hint of warmth in those terrible scenes.

Jennifer Mavey, the little girl thinks she is called by that name, and then one day, half of her father's body turns into a tumor, and her mother's head and waist have tentacles sticking out of it.

Jennifer thought she was crazy, even though she was already crazy, having been diagnosed with childhood depression when she was about 5 years old and suffering from a fairly rare form of insomnia.

She can only sleep about 4 hours a day, and she sleeps separately, and she can only sleep lightly for less than an hour at a time, not so much sleep, but a hazy nap with her eyes closed.

Doctors said it could be related to damage to an area of her brain, but the disease caused her great pain, she would be sleepy, tired, but unable to sleep, and the disease was tormenting Jennifer as well as her parents.

Jennifer finally went crazy, she thought to herself, although she was not very old, she already had some vague ability to think independently, so when she saw that the image of her parents was exactly the same as that of the neighbors, she felt that she should be crazy, after all, there was a warning.

Jennifer's chaotic thoughts flooded Quiel's mind, and he really wanted to rip the little girl's head open and tell her "You're wrong", but he thought the fact was too cruel.

Jennifer accepts the madness of the world with unimaginable speed, and agrees with her parents locking her up in the house, as she thinks going out on the street and seeing more monsters will only make her mader.

But her parents still love her, and every Monday afternoon, when everyone goes to work, they let her go to the yard to bask in the sun.

At this point, Quill saw a familiar figure that would normally be seen in interstellar traffic accidents, sitting in Yongdu's pirate ship, looking out of the porthole, using a special telescope to observe the violent beating of a demon god.

"Supreme Mage Ancient One." Quill read her name, and there was a tremor in her voice, the fact that the Ancient One might be on the same planet as him was even more terrifying to him than he was with thousands of monsters, he had seen too many demon gods beaten to smithereens.

Quill saw that the Ancient One stopped in front of Jennifer with a puzzled expression, but when Jennifer's parents who had turned into monsters rushed out of the door, the Ancient One hesitated, flew over and picked up Jennifer, and then turned to leave, while Jennifer's parents waved their tentacles and screamed behind them.

As Jennifer looked, Quill saw that the Ancient One had carried Jennifer to a temple above New York's Central Park, which might have been a base she had created out of thin air, and the Supreme Mage certainly had such abilities.

Jennifer kept crying, but at the same time she was curious about the Ancient One, and Quill could sense her doubts - if I was crazy, then why didn't this person in front of me turn into a monster in my eyes?

Jennifer asks the Ancient One a question, but Quill knows when she sees the Ancient One's look that the two of them want to go together, and sometimes, ignorance is a kind of happiness, and the truth is too cruel for adults to accept, let alone such a young child.

The Ancient One hugged Jennifer and told her that he could take her to a new world where there were many children about her age who were studying magic at a place called Kama Taj.

No child of this age could resist the temptation of a magic school, and Jennifer was attracted to the attention of the Ancient One, and began to ask the Ancient One about Kama Taj.

The Ancient One prepares food and hot water for Jennifer, and Jennifer eats a little, but feels uneasy.

Quill could feel as if she was missing her parents, but her intelligence was good enough for her to tell that things were probably not what she had thought they were, so Jennifer didn't cry, but quietly took a small sip.

When she was full, Gu Yi wanted to coax Jennifer to sleep, and Jennifer croaked in a lot of nonsense medical terms to her.

But the little girl couldn't really remember the names of those complicated pathologies and drugs, and Quill could sense that Jennifer's purpose was to tell the Ancient One that she was sick, but the Ancient One obviously didn't understand.

Quill found himself thinking of being with Koyi again, who thought that Jennifer's strange behavior was actually frightened, so he thought that she should get some sleep.

From Jennifer's vision, Quill saw that the Ancient One was holding her in his arms, a hazy glow flashing on one hand, and Quill recognized it as a contemplation spell.

He had also dealt with some non-Protoss magical creatures before, because he did not have the unique ability of the Protoss, so most of the magical powers of these creatures were borrowed, and there was a price to pay for bearing these powers, so they needed some calming spells to shield themselves from pain and allow themselves to sleep well.

Quill speculated that the Ancient One might also have cast a small spell, and it didn't look like it was the first time she had done so, and based on the Ancient One's previous description of Kama Taj's situation, Quill deduced that the Supreme Mage might have often used this trick against calves who were energetic and didn't go to bed on time.

With a dreamy glow, Jennifer finally fell into a deep sleep, probably the longest sleep she'd ever had, with Quill estimating it could have been more than eight hours.

Then, disaster struck.

The more time she stays in this world, the more terrifying the attack becomes, and Jennifer has never been attacked head-on due to her particular insomnia, but this does not mean that the power of the attack has not been accumulated.

The ancient one's wrong actions put Jennifer in great danger, the little girl was too fragile physically and mentally, and faced the sudden and terrible attack, and even before the chance to mutate, she was already facing death.

Quill saw Jennifer's hazy vision trembling violently, she should have been twitching all over, foaming at the mouth, and the slightly panicked face of the ancient one appeared in Jennifer's afterglow, judging from her eyes, she probably already knew what was happening.

But the Ancient One calmed down at a speed Quill couldn't imagine, and hesitated for only a moment, before reaching out a hand to touch Jennifer's brow.

"No !!" Quill shouted in his heart.

And the worst happened, the power of the attack was transmitted to the ancient one along Jennifer's mind, and the terrifying waves crashed against the high wall, and the terrible madness infected the high wall that was always as solid as a rock, tearing open a tiny crack.

A force that Quill had never seen before, even unimaginable, poured out of the cracks.

New York, the Americas, the whole planet.

All the monsters are gone.

“…… Terrible EMP. Quill whispered.

In Jennifer's last vision, the little girl saw the deep guilt on Gu Yi's face, even though she took on most of the invasion for Jennifer, but the initial wave of attacks still made Jennifer polluted, and tentacles grew on her back, and Gu Yi failed to save her.

Quill let out a deep sigh as he told the story to Rocket Raccoon, who asked him, "Then why did Ancient One leave Jennifer here?" Isn't she afraid of danger to her? ”

"Keeping her with you is the real danger." Quill frowned, took Jennifer's hand and said, "When Gu Yi saw her, the crack in his heart will only get bigger and bigger, and if she gets out of control, it will be all over." ”

Quill shuddered, he had just clearly seen that the power seeping out of the rift was probably only one ten-millionth, but the power that had been compressed to the extreme essence only needed a trace to destroy all living things on a planet.

"And I guess that the ancient one didn't throw her out at random, he should have deliberately thrown Jennifer to us."

Quill took Jennifer's hand with the non-existent hand, trying to use her newfound power to send a message to her brain, as if the mutated people could only communicate with each other in this way, rather than opening their mouths to speak as they used to.

"Wait!" Quill suddenly spoke, Jennifer suddenly had a thought, Quill experienced it carefully, and then subconsciously said: "Jennifer has experienced an extremely terrible attack, but she is not completely crazy, and she can still communicate with people." ”

She told me that most of the madness that invaded her was borne by the ancient one, and she took this opportunity to see the ...... behind the crazy invasion Part of the truth. ”

(End of chapter)