"So what are we going to do now?" Nick tentatively used the ring to send out a few energy attacks, but these attacks fell on the five monsters chasing behind, like a breeze blowing, and he didn't even make it back, or even stop the momentary action.

Nick didn't give up on changing his ways, he molded the energy into a rope, and surrounded a black monster in front of him, but the energy turned into nothingness the moment it touched the other party's body. Nick took a step back with an ugly face.

"It consumes my energy." Nick didn't want to believe it, but the facts reminded him. He's also feeling Stephen's headache now.

"What else can I do? Can we still run away? It's good that Dr. Banner is here, and he and Hulk might still have some effect. Maybe these monsters are afraid of purely physical attacks? Stephen waved his hands, and two red fan-shaped shields appeared on his hands.

Ring of Raggador

He hadn't used this magic in a while.

"You're going to play melee combat with this thing?" Nick is no longer a novice in the occult, although he can't, but he has dealt with the mages of Kama Taj a lot, and he also knows a little bit about the combat methods under Kama Taj's magic system. His eyes widened at the sight of the two familiar fan-shaped rings in Stephen's hands, and he thought that Doctor Strange was simply crazy.

Those black monsters can only exert their corresponding lethality when they are close to them, and the safest thing for them to do is to stay away from them and keep enough distance from them, even if it is a kite. In any case, it is a little too risky to fight close to them.

"I'm just trying to test the truth." With a wave of his hands, several spell figures appeared around him, some holding the Ring of Raggador in their hands, while others rushed forward and unleashed the crimson chains of Setolak, binding up a black monster that approached. At the same time, the remaining mage phantoms rushed forward with the ring of Raggarol, attacking the bound monsters.

But soon, Doctor Strange's face was only helpless, because his attack did not have the desired effect, and only forced the other party back again. Depending on the situation, the other party did not even suffer much damage, or simply said that there was no injury.

"This is a problem." Stephen smiled wryly.

The two of them seemed to act in a way that angered the black monsters, or the joy of being found after their attacks revealed their figures, and the five black monsters rushed towards them almost at a faster speed. The one at the head was also dragging a few of Stephen's mage phantoms. The chains from the power of the crimson dimension that were bound to their bodies didn't seem to have a corresponding effect other than wrapping them in a layer.

"I'll talk about it later, I think we're going to start running away! If Luke's core lab can't be visited, I think Luke's collection room is a good place to be. Nick took two steps back, his body suspended in mid-air with the help of the energy suit.

"That's a nice place to be." Stephen nodded approvingly. The levitating cloak on his body immediately couldn't wait to drag his master again and hurried away in a certain direction. The curve of the two men's movements drew one curved arc after another in the air.

Seeing the prey fleeing again, the black monster screamed angrily. The silent power spread to all sides, and the black monster led by it burned with black fluff-like flames, and the flames dripped to the ground like oil droplets, and immediately smeared around.

"Huhuhu."

After arriving at his destination smoothly, Stephen, who stumbled a lot of steps with inertia because of his extreme speed, gasped for air.

"We've activated the monitoring mechanism in the collection, and whether it's working or not may tell us directly whether it's bad or controllable." Stephen stood in the clearing in front of him. The ground has criss-crossing lines that form a complex and ornate pattern. As he and Nick stood on it, a rainbow of energy began to spread along their lines.

"Doesn't seem like it's bad, does it?" Seeing this scene, Nick also breathed a sigh of relief. This shows that the monitoring and protection mechanisms of the Silent City are still working. They can hide in the collection room for a while and figure it out. Even if you can't leave, you can find a lot of good things from the collection room and strengthen your strength. Thanks to that capital Luke's love of showing off, Nick is not blind to some of the things and functions in the collection room, as well as how to use them.

"I think they might be targeting you." Looking at the figure chasing after him again from afar, Stephen suddenly said thoughtfully to Nick beside him.

"Me?" Nick pointed at himself in amazement? He didn't know how Stephen could see this, could it be that because he was dark-skinned and the same skin color as those monsters, he was being used as a companion to play with him?

"The energy of your psionic ring, to be exact. You're just an incidental. Stephen glanced at the psionic ring on Nick's finger.

"I'd rather you guessed wrong." Nick said with a dark face. Maybe Stephen is telling the truth, but he can't just throw out the psionic ring he wears just to verify it, right? What if you guess wrong? What if the other party devours the reserve energy in the clean psionic ring, and then relentlessly pursues them again? When the time comes, he will lose the protection of the ring, and he will inevitably be the first to die on the spot.

The black monster was already roaming in front of it, led by a head raised, revealing a bloody scab under the hood, a gaping mouth. The silent scream rang out again, spreading and reverberating through the space.

Nick and Stephen just felt dizzy. The energy pattern that was about to be completed under his feet was disturbed and froze. Nick felt a cold and piercing sense of hopelessness and powerlessness, he knew that he shouldn't be like this, but this sudden negative emotion swept through his spirit in a gesture that he couldn't resist. He came up with the idea of how to push out Stephen to ward off the disaster for himself and buy himself time to escape.

The worst side of human nature began to prevail at this moment, and Nick's spiritual consciousness at this moment was like an additional schizophrenic evil personality.

If it weren't for the crumbling energy suit on his body as a cushion and protection, Nick even thought that he was now fighting between heaven and man in his heart, and he would probably put it into practice as soon as possible, giving a bitter betrayal and blow to his partners around him.

It just so happened that at this time, Stephen also turned his gaze, and the black glow in his eyes made Nick feel a sigh in his heart, and he almost couldn't control his evil personality and let him completely dominate.

Nick was now somewhat convinced that these monsters were really coming for him, or rather for the psionic ring on his hand. Because wisps of energy particles were being swept up by a strong suction force and falling into the bodies of those black monsters.

Stephen pointed to the psionic ring on Nick's hand, and then to the black monster floating in front of him. These simple movements, Stephen did extremely jerky and difficult, and at the same time, his eyes and face flashed with various emotions. And these emotions are also among the devoured.

Nick understood what Stephen was trying to say. While the energy cloak could still shelter him and keep him awake for the last time, he ignored all the instigations of the evil personality in his mind, such as "he wants to kill you", "this is a betrayal", and so on. He was afraid that if he listened to it any longer, he would really lose control under the dominance of negative emotions such as despair, and do something that he would regret for the rest of his life.

With the courage of the psionic ring, he chose to trust Stephen. While resisting the influence of the other personality, he took the psionic ring from his hand with great difficulty, until the moment he threw it out, his body shone with the protection of another energy. And those black monsters also restrained their silent screams for a while, and instead pounced on Nick's thrown ring, which was as chaotic as black mist.

The stagnant energy lines under his feet also resumed their operation, and in the light of the teleportation, the figures of Nick and Stephen disappeared in place. A black monster that had not been scrambled for the psionic ring and had been squeezed out wandered back and forth where the two had disappeared, as if feeling something.

"Are you okay?"

Nick, who was awake after a coma, only felt that his body was light and fluttering, and he remembered the moment of his coma, and his will seemed to be replaced by another personality. He hurriedly looked around, only to find his body, and Stephen sitting on the ground. Seeing his gaze, Stephen waved his hand at him and asked for the greeting he had heard since he woke up.

"What am I?" Nick looked at his illusory, floating body, and he began to think that he was dead, but soon, he thought that the situation was familiar to him.

"Astral projection." Stephen confirms Nick's conjecture. "You just wanted to release a dangerous object to kill me, and I almost got hit."

"Then I'll have to say sorry, that wasn't my intention." Nick said apologetically. He had already guessed what that evil personality might have done. Just look at the mess on Stephen's body and the mess around him.

"You're in trouble." Stephen didn't pay attention to Nick's apologies, just looked at him and sighed a little.

"I feel like I'm in good shape, except for seeing my body as a soul. It always made me feel like I was dead. Nick's heart sank, but he forced himself to make a joke.

"You've been infected by some kind of negative psychic." Stephen said something that made Nick's face change, but soon, he comforted, "It's not the abyss, at least not to the point where the abyss is infected." As long as Luke can be found, it will not be difficult to get rid of this infection. In fact, if it weren't for the fact that I'm not a good fit right now, I can help you try to solve it. ”

"So, we still have to find Luke, right?" Nick sighed, and he followed Stephen's gaze to his left hand, where a dark spot was spreading little by little towards his soul. Nick knew that it didn't need to spread to 100%, it only needed to spread most of it, and his current consciousness would be considered completely dead. When he was alive, he would just be a mutant monster in human skin.

"What's the matter with your father?" A crisp female voice suddenly sounded in the ears of the two, and in a flash of lightning, Becky jumped out of the void.

"Oh my God! Becky! Seeing the visitor, the depressed Nick and the pensive Stephen became excited.

"What the hell is going on here? Why are there so many black monsters wandering outside? How did they appear? And, what about Luke? Why didn't he show up? Nick asked in one breath.

"Nothing is happening here?" Betsy gave Nick a strange look, "What could happen here?" As for the black monsters roaming outside, they're not monsters! They're called Regents, and they're my pets! ”

"Pets?" Nick and Stephen's faces instantly turned black.

"That dangerous creature can't be a pet by any means, right? They're just too dangerous! Shouldn't you be locked up? Nick took a deep breath. Imagining that he was almost killed by Becky's pet, he had a strong urge to scold his mother.

"Those regents must have something to do with the abyss, right? Is it really good to let this monster roam outside? Stephen also had a bit of a headache.

"It's time to let the wind out. I'm going to have to get my pets out for activities. People don't want to play with the Psychogens, so I'll have to leave them out for now. They don't run out. Becky blinked, and said eloquently.

"Your Uncle Nick almost died." Nick sighed again. "They chased both of us all the way! Also, where's Luke? ”

"It's supposed that they're hungry and looking for food. They feed on all kinds of positive psionic abilities, as well as the emotions of life, and generally do not kill people directly. They don't have that concept. Becky fumbled in his pocket and replied, "Of course Daddy is in the lab." ”

"Found it!" Becky suddenly screamed, and pulled out of his pocket a creature that made Stephen and Nick both covered in body, it was a monster that was exactly the same as the black creature that chased them all the way outside, the only difference was that the monsters outside were black, like the Grim Reaper, and this one, pure white, like the Holy Spirit.

As soon as the white regent came out, it pounced on Nick as if it had smelled it, and before he was caught off guard, he was caught off guard by a deep breath from close proximity. Nick only felt as if his whole being had been purified from the inside out, and a few smiles mixed with happiness and joy appeared on his face.

(End of chapter)