Chapter 97: Plushieland
For a moment, all the madmen did not dare to move.
Instead, they look at the surreal scene in front of them. A cute rabbit plush toy stands outside the room, surrounded by blood and corpses. Ryan had never told Ryan about this evil abomination, so the fools didn't expect to wake it up. The seal was broken and hell was released.
The plush toy noticed the black elixir in the hand of the big fat Adam and looked at it curiously.
Don't do it.
The doll gave Ryan a playful look.
Don't do it!
Then, the worst happened.
The stuffed animal notices little Sara who is tied to the table. It pricked up its ears in interest and cursed, "Found the child!"
Finally realizing the danger, Psyshock reaches out his wire tentacles to the stuffed animal, while Ghoul releases ice shards. The possessed toy leaps into the air with unnatural agility, its eyes turning red. A laser hits Psypsy, vaporizing his brain, and the rabbit bounces off the wall to dodge the attack.
Hannifat Lecter realizes the danger of Ryan dying in the firefight, and he raises the bottle of the black elixir and turns to his captive. "There is nowhere to run! He roared angrily, hell-bent on corrupting the time traveler.
In a sudden but inevitable betrayal, Sarin unleashes a blast of compressed air on her boss. The attack knocked Adam into the wall, shattering the bottle and splattering it with black mud. The evil ogre let out a scream of pain, and the black elixir passed through his reinforced skin, eating him whole.
Call it karma.
"Shalin, you traitor!" The ghoul raised his hands and froze everyone in the room, as it was too dim for him to realize it would kill Ryan and make him start over. However, before Mr. Bones could do anything, the stuffed animal bounced into his chest like a cannonball. The robot tripped over Adam's leg and landed on his boss's leg, and the black ooze immediately stuck to him. Soon, the scene looked like two birds desperately trying to escape the oil spill, but failed.
"Let's hug! The stuffed animal gave up everything, jumped onto the table, and hugged Sarah affectionately. The little girl's choking muffled her screams of fear and bewilderment. "We will be together, forever and ever!"
"What the hell?" Shalin watched the scene in shock before sorting out his priorities. With a faint but concentrated vibration, she untied Ryan one by one.
"Ahh Ryan spat out the apple in his mouth, gasping for air. "It's dangerous."
"It's not over yet," Sarin warned, the Black Elixir had devoured two victims. But somehow, it didn't collapse into nothingness like the previous cycle. Ryan quickly understood why. Ghouls don't die, but the black elixir devours its host.
A paradox.
Somehow, this circumstance allowed the black elixir to stabilize in the shape of a huge, terrifying mass of black slime; An oily sailboat. The victim's eyes and mouth float on the water, and the lips move to form words. "You ......," it said, and the strange voice belonged neither to its owner nor to it. You...... You open the door...... Send me back to ...... Send it back to the man in black......"
Shalin raised his hands to blast the monster away, but Ryan stood between her and the ooze to stop her. He had an idea.
Look for the stars in the night sky......
"How's this?" Ryan told the general. "You help me, and I will help you."
If the creature is sentient and needs help, then perhaps it understands the concept of reciprocity.
The goo bobbed up and down, writhing, but to the hazmat girl's surprise, it didn't attack. It didn't even try to assimilate Ryan, perhaps because it needed him alive to function. "Help...... How is it? Silt asked in a confused voice.
Ryan glanced down the hallway outside the room and caught a glimpse of movement at the other end of the hallway. Psyshock must have summoned his slaves. "Is it a start to help me get through this?"
"Wait, you're not going to kill yourself, are you?" Shalin asked, a little surprised.
"Not yet," Ryan replied. This game was doomed from the start, but it also provided a unique opportunity. "I'm fully supportive of assisted suicide, but with moderation."
"Okay......" The general slipped out of the room, and the Psyshock slaves immediately opened fire on the abominable alien. The bullet hit the creature, but it didn't hurt it, it quickly devoured them, just like it did with a psychopath.
"Man, you tame a huge slime," Sarin said in surprise.
"A general Goth." Ryan replied, then glanced at another abomination in the room.
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To correct it, there are two nasty bunnies in the room. While the original has been hugging Sarah's neck, the clone pulls out a switchblade and cuts her bindings. The poor girl immediately removed the vomit and took a deep breath, just like Ryan before her.
"Are you alright, Sara?" The courier asked her, and the little girl stepped back in fear and fell off the table.
"Who are you?" She asked, alarmed. "Where are we?" How do you know my name?"
Before Ryan could reply, the second stuffed animal pulled out a switchblade and grabbed Sarah's hand. "Let's play together!" It says that almost begging for its new binding child, who does not know how to react.
"Let's talk about it later," Ryan told the critter, then tried to comfort Sarah. "I'm your mother's friend."
"Mom? She's weird, and these people ...... They took everyone with them. β
"Yes, Adam wanted to throw them on the base's fortifications," Sarin said, then looked more closely at the stuffed animals. "Will they multiply?" Come here, Maomao. β
The two rabbits looked at Shalin with crimson eyes.
"Hey, hey, stop!" Ryan pleaded with his body to protect the dangerous goods girl, and neither critter let go of their murderous attitude. "She's thirteen too! Let's save other preschoolers before resorting to violence. β
The two stuffed animals calmed down and said in unison, "Let's go to Disneyland!"
"We're not going to Disneyland," Ryan said, snapping his knuckles. "We've done it."
"I don't understand what's going on," Sarin admitted.
"My life story." The messenger looked at the hallway at the back of the room, where the people had cleaned everything up. All the slaves, even the previous victims of the stuffed dolls, were devoured by the ooze mud. "By the way, thank you for your help. I almost regret beating you up in the previous cycle. β
"I didn't help you for free, bastard," she replied gruffly. "Do you have an antidote?" Can you turn me back into a human?"
"I don't have an antidote to myself," Ryan admitted. "But I think I have the resources to make one."
"Just like Adam." She crossed her arms, disappointed, but not surprised. "It's always the same nonsense."
"Except he's a sociopathic cannibal, and I'm a friendly, grazing time traveler. One should sound more trustworthy than the other. Who else knows what I'm capable of?"
"Uh, maybe acid rain?" She wants to stab you to death as soon as she sees you, so Adam locks her out. β
Wylie kept this secret tightly away from leaking or mutiny, which was good for Ryan. If he could get rid of Psyshock, the rest of the Psi Gang wouldn't know the truth.
"So what's your plan, save up?" Sarin asked, both stuffed animals holding one of Sarah's hands and trying to take her to the slaughterhouse. This little girl is still too timid to persevere to the end. "If you don't kill yourself."
"We'll save the kids and the dwarfs first, and then we'll take over."
Shalin was stunned for a moment. "What, bunker?"
"Yes, bunker." With Adam gone, most of the superpowers outside the base, and his current allies inside the base, Ryan gets a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Since the stuffed animal has entered the replication stage, the flight is destroyed beyond repair, but the Courier will have the opportunity to study the MEC up close
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of technology. "I need a gun and drugs. Something that can quickly change the brain. β
"Like all drugs?" Shalin was expressionless, but went anyway. "I think Psyshock keeps a batch of Bliss in the infirmary. Without that thing, mongrels can't sleep. The other baddies should be there too. β
"Okay, let's go get some eye drops." If mental shock is made up primarily of brain tissue, then the drug should be able to paralyze Enrique's toxin. "Sarah, you stay with the stuffed animal until Uncle Ryan comes back with your mom. You won't leave them, but you won't listen to what they say either. They have very bad influences. β
"Let's go outside and play!" The stuffed animal replied, eager to create chaos.
Sara bit her lower lip anxiously, exactly like Lenn. Lovely!" You're going to leave me alone?"
"Oh, you're safe, trust me. None of the others. Ryan walked out of the room and into the hallway, Shalin following him like a shadow. We'll clear the way. β
After walking for a short distance, the two entered an underground chamber filled with seven vats filled with colored liquids, each representing a different elixir. Three of the cabins were filled with mutated animals, connected to strange machines, and Ryan counted two blast doors on each side.
The Courier recognized the room as the one where he had died in a battle with Hannifat Lecter during a previous operation, despite a blast door that was closed at the time. The Psychrons must have opened the next area while he was sleeping, but that didn't help them in any way; Ryan could hear screams and gunshots coming from the next room, and the slaves tasked with exploring the bunker were facing the general.
There are A's all over the ground
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oids, and some tools that appear by chance. Since most of them had blood on them, Ryan believed they were the remaining victims after the stuffed animals entered their cells. The slaves must have been disassembling the robot before they were interrupted.
"The infirmary is on the other side," Sarin said, as Ryan searched among the tools on the ground for weapons that could be used. In the end, he settled on a bloody hammer, simple and elegant.
"You're not mad at ghouls, are you?" As they left the central hub for the next hallway, Ryan asked her. "I thought you two were a couple."
"What? No, I hate the action, it's just that Adam always pairs us up because we have a nice synergy of strengths. The hazmat girl suddenly thought of the meaning of his question. How many times have we fought before?"
"If I look up jobbe in the dictionary
Your picture will come to my mind. β
In response, she threw the bird at him. She's not a witty partner.
"I knew the job was bad, but I signed it anyway." Miss Chernobyl shook her head in exasperation. "What did you say about Adam......
He blew up New Rome with Mekron's orbital laser. You fight him until the last moment. That's why he's wary of her presence. He also remembered that she played a song next to Adam's close friends, after they burned the city.
His words did seem to scare her, though. "I think I've lost hope of a cure, but, oops, put the whole thing-"
She froze in place, only to see the towering figure of madman Frank coming towards them from the other side of the hallway. The Colossus lowered itself and moved through the narrow space, the tentacle-like shadow of the Cypsie sliding behind him. Ryan hurriedly hid the hammer behind his back and immediately thought of a plan.
"Frank, get him." Psyshock commanded, pointing his tentacle at Rya
γ He didn't pay any attention to sarin gas. "I want him alive!"
"Yes, Mr. Vice President."
The schizophrenic giant took a step forward, but Ryan was quick to get back to his feet. "Agent Frank," he said, pointing at Psyshock with his other hand while hiding the hammer in his other hand. "Arrest this Viet Cong traitor!" He killed President Adam!"
His words made the giant flinch in confusion, while Psyshock and Sa
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He was so confused that he couldn't speak.
"Ryan Romano, CIA!" Quicksave continues to bluff and is now entirely role-playing. "This man is a communist sympathizer who murdered the president of the United States!" He also killed JFK! The bullet is bent, Agent Frank! He made it bend in mid-air!"
"You can't fool me!" Frank said, regaining his composure. He may suffer from paranoia, but he's not entirely stupid either. "I know we took you to Guantanamo for waterboarding, and you're going back!" You're a communist spy!"
"He framed me!" Rya
Psyshock has always been accused of being the talent of an experienced actor. "He's framing me and trying to shut me up!" When I convince the president of the truth during the interrogation, he killed him! He killed him, Frank!"
"This is nonsense!" Psyshock said, although he did not dare to attack Rya directly
γ Perhaps reading Lunn's memories, he understood that he could not fight the Courier without backup. "Frank, he wants to divide us. Don't listen, stick to it. β
"Agent Romano is telling the truth, Frank," Sarin said, finally understanding Ryan's plan. She pointed to Mental Shock, who didn't expect her to betray her. "I swear, Psyshock murdered Adam. I see it. β
"Sharin, once we're done, I'll disperse you into the wind," Psychoshock threatened her, "You'll never be rehabilitated." β
"These charges are serious, Agent Sarin," Frank announced. Sharin's lies undermined his resolve. "Do you have proof?"
"I have!" Ryan said, freezing time.
When it started again, Sepsi held a bloody hammer in his tentacles.
"Look at his tentacles!" Rya
Say, Psyshock and F
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K all noticed the hammer. "His filthy tentacles hide weapons of crime!" The president's blood is still on it! He's trying to hit you by surprise!"
"A hammer," Sarin said, nodding. Although her performance is dull, it has some effect. "The weapon of communism. Those fools can't control themselves. β
"Frank, you're immune to metal!" Psyshock hurriedly threw away the weapon as he argued. The delusional giant has been going back and forth between his boss and Ryan. "Even if I want to hurt you, I can't hurt you!" He stopped time and framed me!"
Unfortunately, his last words confused Frank even more. As Sarin warned, it seems that the leadership of the Powers Gang is indeed hiding the Courier's power from their army.
The hazmat girl jumped at the chance right away. "Did you hear that, Frank?" She said mockingly. "Stop time? How childish. Now that he's been caught red-handed, he can tell any lie in order to survive!"
"The president died in my arms, Agent Frank," Ryan continued to use the delusion of a madman, mimicking the movement of holding a dying man. "Before he took his last breath, he told me to go to you!" He said, 'Find Agent Frank...... He fought the Nazis in the Alamo and the Vietnamese in the jungle...... Our Greatest Heroes...... Only he ......'"
Ryan shed crocodile tears.
"Only he can save democracy!"
His tearful words echoed through the hallway, like desperate pleas for help.
The madman Frank looked at the messenger and sarin, then at Psyshock, then at the two, and finally at his "boss". "'Mr. Vice President,' he finally spoke, 'I swear that we will clear up this misunderstanding through due process.'
"No, you idiot!" Psyshock shouted, enraged by the giant's madness. "He's talking nonsense!" You're not even Americaβ"
But Psyshock forgot about Rya
Something learned a long time ago in anger. The main reason why treating a psychopath is so difficult.
To run an insane asylum full of madmen, you must be able to speak their language.
"I voted for you!" Frank suddenly punches Psychoshock so hard that his head explodes and his brains splash out like a shower. The fist slammed into the wall of the hallway, and the entire bunker shook. "I voted for you, and you betrayed my feelings!"
As evidenced by Dinamis' psychological report on him, Frank reacts badly to people who refute his delusions.
"As long as I live, this great country will never fall into communism!" Frank turned and walked to the other end of the hallway. Rya
It is assumed that he intends to take the elevator to the upper floors to hunt down Psyshock's newest host. "It's better to die than to be red!"
The enraged giant's footsteps shook the ground, leaving a terrified Sarin and Ryan behind. "I hope it's worth it, bastard," she said to him, looking at the bloody wreckage of Psyshock, "because only Adam can manage Frank when he's angry." None of us can kill him. β
"I hope so." As Dy
As amis predicted, without Big Fat Adam to keep them unified, the whole of Meta-Ga
G will implode with the right push. Now that the road to the infirmary is clear, Ryan knows where to start.
After a short walk, the two came to the white room, separated from the hallway by a glass window. It is the place where the Messenger discovers the terrible eternal life of the shock of the heart. The children in the orphanage are either kept in cages like rats or tied to an operating table next to boxes filled with counterfeit elixirs.
"Hi kids! The messenger waved at them with a big smile. "We're here to rescue you and take you to your mother's magical land!"
"You're going to rape us?" One of the children, Julia, asks Ryan in the cage.
"What, no!" Ryan protested in horror. "Of course not, I would never do that!" Why do you ask this?"
"You're only wearing boxers...... the little girl replied unconvinced.
"Woman," Ryan asked Ryan as she began to pack her supplies, "Where's my super suit?"
"I feel like Psyshock threw your clothes into the incinerator."
Ryan's gaze became fierce. "Then these fools have chosen death."
"This will help." Shalin threw him a handful of dy
Laser gun and a Bliss inhaler manufactured by AMIS. "Your weapons and drugs."
"Great." Ryan replied, immediately checking the gun's energy reserves. It's not great, but it's passable. "Dude, will you regret slaughtering your old comrades?"
"No," she replied.
That's great. Then, as if the day couldn't be any more crazy, Ryan noticed six furry objects jumping into the hallway outside the infirmary. The demonic critters looked at the children through the glass windows and were mesmerized.
"The kids discovered! Enter Cute Mode!"
Ryan's first Meta Ru
And so it began.
Chaos and madness.