Chapter 1: Black Watch
Pain! Pain! Pain!
For the first time, Zhang Tong felt the pain that penetrated deep into his soul.
My body was cold, my throat was sick, and my head tingled every time my heart beats.
In a daze, he reached out and wanted to pick up the existence that would give him a sense of securityβthe cold automatic rifle.
But what I touched was a warm pillow.
"I'm ...... What's wrong? β
With a drowsy head, he staggered to his feet, stroked his aching forehead, and looked around.
It was a warmly furnished room, and the bright moonlight sprinkled on the floor of the room, creating a faint layer of clear light.
There was a long-lost silence in the room, which made him a little uncomfortable.
This is not a Manhattan in purgatory, but a strange room.
There is no smell of smoke, blood, or steel, no bitter wails, no filthy, hideous, ugly infected, only silence and peace.
Zhang Tong, who was puzzled, looked at the room and tried to remember why he came to this place.
He only remembered that before he lost consciousness, the last image in his memory was a mutated walking corpse, pounced on him.
After the gunshots rang out, it was dark.
"Bang!"
Caught in his memory, he was awakened by a sudden knock on the door.
Then a female voice rang out.
"Peter! Are you planning to have dinner at home? β
"What......?"
"Your uncle and I made your favorite mince cake, are you sure you don't want to try it?"
Zhang Tong was stunned for a moment, and then replied, "I'll go down immediately." β
He couldn't figure out the situation now, so he had to deal with it.
Pushing open the door, Zhang Tong stepped on the stairs and went downstairs.
In the living room, a middle-aged woman wearing an apron is taking food from the oven with an enticing smell.
A middle-aged man with half-white hair and glasses sits on a sofa watching TV.
After seeing Zhang Tong go downstairs, the man smiled and said to the woman: "You shouldn't disturb this child, he is preparing for tomorrow's English exam." β
"Well, I don't think there's a need to worry, our little Peter is a smart kid."
The woman put down the plate and cast a loving glance at Zhang Tong.
Zhang Tong didn't notice the woman's gaze.
At this point, his gaze was on the mirror at the top of the staircase.
In the mirror, a thin young body was reflected.
That's not your own body!
Suddenly!
A memory flooded into his mind.
The memories that belonged to this body were forcibly instilled into his mind.
A few minutes later, digesting the sudden memory, Zhang Tong slowly raised his thin hands and watched.
"I'm ...... Traveled to the Marvel world and became Peter. Parker? β
"That Spider-Man who 'with great power comes great responsibility'?"
Whispering, his gaze turned to the two of them.
The woman who is cooking should be Aunt Mei, and the middle-aged man with glasses should be Uncle Ben who was "sacrificed to the sky" not long after.
After a second of silence for "Uncle Ben", Zhang Tong took a deep breath and thought about what he should do next.
But his attention was quickly drawn to the news reports on television.
"The New York City Police Chief has made a promise to the citizens that he will bring Spider-Woman to justice in the shortest possible time!"
The image that accompanies the female announcer is a spider woman in a black and white bodysuit, shooting spider silk and swaying between the buildings.
Behind her, there was a police car chasing with a whistle.
The two sides staged a thrilling chase on the streets of New York!
"Spider-Woman?"
Staring at the TV screen, Zhang Tong's brows furrowed.
He vaguely remembered a parallel world of Marvel, Peter. Parker didn't become Spider-Man, but his girlfriend Gwen. Stacy is bitten by a spider and becomes Spider-Woman.
And Peter. Parker, in place of Uncle Ben, became the object of the "sacrifice to the heavens" and died in Gwen's arms.
Now that Gwen Spider has appeared on TV......
In other words, I can't become Spider-Man, but I will become an unlucky guy like Uncle Ben?!
After pondering for a moment, shaking his head, Zhang Tong walked towards the dining table.
He didn't pay much attention to it.
As a "Black Watcher" who came out of blood and darkness, he has long looked down on death.
In the crossing into Peter. Before Parker, he was originally fighting in the world of "torture and killing".
Zhang Tong was originally an ordinary office worker in the Celestial Empire, and he accidentally died suddenly after staying up late.
After waking up, he traveled to the world of "torture and killing prototypes" and became a member of the special unit "Black Watch" under the Ministry of Defense of the United States.
This biochemical unit is the most elite unit in the United States, with strong individual combat ability, not confused or panicked, and experienced in dealing with biological viruses, and has made a move to slaughter zombie towns.
The Department of Defense researched the "Black Light Virus Project", but the virus spread in Manhattan, New York, and "Black Watch" was ordered to suppress it.
As a game party, Zhang Tong naturally knows what he will encounter in this turmoil.
The "black light virus" infected 80% of Manhattan residents, most of them became zombies, and a few became powerful biological weapons.
The apocalyptic Manhattan has become a killing hell entirely.
Whether it is an old man or a child, you must not hesitate to pull the trigger, otherwise you will die.
The monsters are endless like a tidal wave, and the roar of bullets can't stop them, only makes them crazier.
However, monsters and ordinary zombies are not the biggest enemies.
The man in the black hood, the most powerful being among the infected, became the blade that reaped the life of the Black Watch.
Every time the opponent attacked, a ball of blood would burst, and then the soldier would turn into a cloud of blood mist, which he absorbed.
Even though Black Watch is equipped with weapons such as bazookas and tanks, it still can't stop him from killing!
......
Exhaling, Zhang Tong pulled his memory out of "Manhattan Purgatory".
I remember that I was knocked down by a mutated zombie in the end......
It was at that moment that he crossed over again and became Peter. Parker?
He turned his arm, looked over to the point where it had been knocked over, and took a deep breath.
On the back of the arm, there is a bite wound.
Hideous and terrifying, the cyan marks that spread like spider silk reminded him:
He was infected with the "Black Light Virus" by zombies, and even if his soul penetrated to another world, this damn virus still followed him.
If you are infected with the virus, you will either become a zombie or live in symbiosis with the virus and become a powerful evolutionary life form with self-awareness.
"Black Light...... Virus? β
After muttering something to himself, he lowered his hands with a serious expression.
He didn't have much horror about death.
It's more about the fear of the virus spreading.
He knew that he was a selfish and cold-blooded bastard, and he would even pull the trigger on women and children without hesitation.
But in a hell like Manhattan, he didn't want to go through it a second time.
He could watch the death of tens of thousands of people with a cold eye, but if he went to kill tens of thousands of people himself, he couldn't do it.
As in the "Black Watch" unit, the instructor asked him to take the oath:
"When we hunt, we kill.
No one is safe, nothing is sacred.
We are Black Watch, we are the last line of defense, we will burn ourselves to defend the last line, and this is the last line of defense that must be defended. β
The instructor who took the oath to himself later died in the "Manhattan Rebellion" to save himself.
For this sergeant with an explosive temper, but firmly believes that he is a "righteous man", Zhang Tong has mixed feelings.
For the first time, he realized that perhaps the meaning of this oath was not easy for him.
After a few minutes of mixed contemplation, he turned and walked up the stairs.
"I'm sorry, Aunt Mei, Uncle Ben, I still have something to do when I remember it, so I didn't eat dinner."
In order to prevent the virus from infecting the two, he chose to stay away from them.
Aunt Mei and Ben watched Zhang Tong walk up the stairs and disappear around the corner, with worried expressions on their faces.
In the middle of the night, Ben took the dinner plate and tasted the meat pie, his eyes narrowed.
"It's delicious, and it's just right."
Aunt Mei pulled out a chair and sat down, and asked her husband worriedly, "Aren't you worried about Peter?" β
Ben put down his knife and fork and shook his head, "He's always quiet and always likes to think alone. β
Aunt Mei sighed and said, "I don't like this, he used to be a happy little boy." β
"But now, he's a lad with his own secrets, and he'll grow up, just like his father."
Ben said to his wife with a smile.