Chapter 1409: The Old Days Return (8)
The rest was brief, and before Riley could fully heal Quill's wounds, he heard a commotion on the ground, the sound of evil female laughter, followed by the "rumble" of the earth shattering.
Jessica clenched her shotgun, walked towards the door, and said, "I'll go see what's going on." ”
"I'll go with you." Xu Shangqi followed her, he grabbed Jessica's arm, Jessica looked back at him, Xu Shangqi shook his head and said, "We can't just rush up, you stand next to me, I'll make a trick." ”
The two soon left, and Riley and Quill exchanged information about each other, Quill obviously knew more than Riley, Riley and Matt's fight ended quickly because Spider-Man wanted to vent his anger, Matt was hammered to the ground with little to fight back, but Quill and Captain America were fighting for a while, so they also heard something about this universe from the mouth of this evil monster.
"The whole universe is infected, there is no doubt about it." Quill shook his head and said, "Like I said before, this is similar to the universe we were in before, except that there are more superheroes here. ”
"But what makes me a little puzzled is that the superheroes here can't die, and they are not afraid of death, and when I showed that I wanted to die with Captain America, he was not only not afraid, but laughed, but fortunately, he was not very smart and was tricked into a trap by me."
"What do you think is causing this?"
"I don't know, but Captain America told me that death will also die one day, and that the universe that can't do this is weak, and he will give them true eternal life."
"Ridiculous." Riley commented.
"There is no shortage of such madmen in this world." Quill's wealth of experience allows him to say more: "They seek eternal life, and they don't even care what it is, whether it's themselves, whether it's their original soul, whether it's free, they don't care. ”
"Eternal life without power is like a piece of meat on a laboratory bench." Riley pursed his lips, barely believing that he could utter such a cold metaphor.
He couldn't help but think of the Ancient One again, of her powerful self-consistency and compassion, which was more appealing, more impressive, and viscerally awe-inspiring than her immortality.
Quill got up from the ground, he stroked the wound on his forehead, and said, "I should have come a little earlier than you, so I hid Jennifer in a place where only I know, and I think I should take her back, and I'll go now." ”
"No, I think you were right to hide her." Riley stopped Quill and said, "It's best to find her a hidden place, with enough food and water, and leave her alone and not make a sound." ”
"I thought you'd be sympathetic to her."
"But it's really dangerous to take her with you." Riley shook his head, trying to suppress the discomfort in his heart, he really didn't want to sound like a bad person, but the situation forced him to do it.
"Not only is she dangerous, but we are also dangerous, and no one can take care of her if something happens, and if she is distracted, we may all die."
Quill hesitated, he wanted to protect Jennifer, not only because he felt sorry for her, but also because of the Ancient One's entrustment, he also hoped that the powerful Supreme Mage could take them out of the sea of suffering.
"My Asian friend has some spells to cover her shelter and send her to safety when we find a way out of here." Riley said succinctly.
Quill and Rocket Raccoon had to accept the offer because they also knew that it was not a wise choice to run around with a little girl in such a dangerous world, and that would only cause problems for both of them.
They packed up their things and were about to push the door open, but the moment Riley stretched out his hand, the spider sensed wildly, and he instantly rolled backwards, and pulled Quill with a "bang" shot, which directly knocked the door away.
"Get out of the way!" Jessica's voice came.
Quill didn't know what to dodge, and he was pulled by Riley, and as he staggered to one side, he saw the wall behind him as if he had been punched.
"Invisible?!"
"Get out first!" Rocket Raccoon shouted.
Anyone could see that being trapped in this cramped place was not a good thing, and Quelza ran wildly, under the cover of Jessica's dense fire, and rushed to the first floor of the bar.
The scene outside the door was very bad, a giant with stone skin was wreaking havoc, another figure flying in the air was laughing wildly while spreading flames, and another man like a rubber band was about to strangle Xu Shangqi with his elastic arm.
Riley yelled, jumped up and kicked the rubber band, Xu Shangqi shook his head and shouted, "Fantastic Four?!" ”
"It's a magical monster!!" Jessica roared, and with another thud, the bullet grazed the invisible woman's hair, and she flew into the air, turning back to Riley and yelling, "I'm running out of bullets, fight quickly!" ”
Riley lowered his body, stabilized his center of gravity, a trace of hesitation flashed on his face, but it became firm again, Quill didn't know what was wrong with him, but soon, he saw Riley turn around and stare at him with a gaze that made his back feel cold, and asked, "You said that the superheroes of this world don't die, right?" ”
"That's what Captain America said."
By the time Quill's words fell, Riley had rushed out at a terrifyingly high speed.
Hardly anyone has ever seen Spider-Man go full throttle, because he knows better than anyone how much damage that could happen.
In fact, Riley never freed himself from all the power that belonged to Spider-Man, as he was more worried about causing damage than Spider-Man.
As the wind whistled, Riley's thoughts began to wander.
Counterfeit? Clones? Well, if that's his fate, he's going to thank God for sending him to a universe where he doesn't have to be a hero anymore, and it's not bad to be an evil clone who doesn't have any scruples, and they won't die anyway, so why give it a try?
Before Mr. Fantastic Richards didn't even react, a figure slammed into him with unrivaled force, and when Riley's chest and arms hit him in the waist with the impact of extremely high speed, he was almost instantly slashed in half.
Reed's body was not malleable enough to handle the instantaneous force, and he didn't have a chance to turn into a slingshot, and his ribs flew to the side like a crumbling spring, followed by his kidneys and intestines.
Riley didn't dare to think about what he had hit, all he knew was that he had stopped with the smell of blood, and the streets of the hundreds of meters he had used to unload the momentum and brake were full of Reed Richards.
Riley took a deep breath and stood in place, the feeling of violence was not good at all, at least he was sure of one thing, he was not an evil clone by nature, and the act of trying to kill the other party made him feel so sad that he wanted to vomit.
But Mr. Fantastic is not dead, although he has been evenly distributed on the street for hundreds of meters, he is still alive, his only remaining arm is connected to half of his chest, and there are many tentacles drilled out of it to try to reach his head, and his lower body is relatively intact, as if he wants to pinch an upper body out of thin air.
The Invisible Woman lets out a terrible scream and lunges towards Mr. Fantastic, only to be stopped by Jessica.
Xu Shangqi looked at all this dumbfounded, he took a deep breath and thought, they really can't die.
But despite this, Xu Shangqi didn't want to kill anyone, this thought never appeared in his mind, and he was not a person who could be involved in murder.
Just as this thought passed through his mind, he felt the wind whistling in his ears, and with a "bang", the sky was spinning.
Xu Shangqi felt that he was flying out, his shoulder was hit by something, and then he fell heavily to the ground, his right arm may have been broken, and his ribs may have been broken.
He let out a groan of pain, and in the dim field of vision, he saw the stone man leaping towards him, his red eyes full of evil, apparently trying to use his weight to smash him to death.
Xu Shangqi held back the pain and rolled to the side as best he could, dodging the stone man's target point, but the ground shattered by his huge power flew out again.
He won't fight! Xu Shangqi gritted his teeth and roared in his heart, this is the reason why he wants to be a mage, he is just an ordinary engineering college student, he has never even been to the gym, and he doesn't know how to exert his strength at all!
In this situation, the stone man would not give him a chance to cast spells, Xu Shangqi gasped hard, and a terrifying ruthlessness surged up from his heart and instantly occupied his brain.
Qi luck dantian, and then go to the acupoint, this body has also been well trained instinct was stimulated, Xu Shangqi turned over with a dexterous posture, transported a little qi to his legs, and shrunk the hand to the ground, flashed to the back of the stone man, and jumped onto his back.
Then in the most simple and crude way, he transported all the remaining qi to the fist of his dominant hand, until watching the muscles under his arm continue to expand, Xu Shangqi followed his instinct and swung his fist, punch after punch, until he almost completely smashed the neck and shoulders of the stone man.
What does it feel like to hit a stone with your fist? Xu Shangqi is difficult to describe, but he has to say that this is actually very cool, because of the protection of qi, the reaction force will not hurt him, and the touch of the fist to the flesh vents the unspeakable resentment that he has just risen.
With another punch, the stone man let out a painful moan, which woke Xu Shangqi up, not because the moan was loud, but because it was too weak, and maybe even the last sound.
Xu Shang panted and stood up, looking at the stone man who had been smashed into the depths of the asphalt with a trance gaze, he was completely shattered, but not dead.
Whose violence factor does this belong to? Xu Shangqi thought, his? Or is it the original Shang-Chi's?
When he felt the air flow in his body slowly return to calm, instead of churning with emotion and making him vomit blood like before, Xu Shangqi thought, well, it seems that he has to accept his violent side, just as he accepts that he is already in these crazy universes.
(End of chapter)