Chapter 106: Death Stranding
From Friday the 13th to Candyman, Ryan has seen all the horror movies.
He has also acted in several films, either as a ruthless terminator in a brief punisher phase or as a lone target hunted by a vicious psychopath. He still fondly recalls escaping from the centipede wearing only shorts. Good times.
Therefore, there is nothing special about the current situation. The Daredevil is Freddie Kruger, except that he can attack people while they are awake. Pluto is death from the final destination. "Vampire" is a trap; Sexually fatal. As for Sparrow, she doesn't fit into any box.
Maybe she'll be the last girl? The assassin is a bit old for the character, but Ryan is open-minded.
Regardless, he and the Atom managed to escape through the woods, eventually escaping far enough for Sparrow to no longer be able to target them with a laser. The two walked down a hiking trail down a wooded valley surrounded by lush green ferns, verdant trees, orchids, and waterfall-like water. Ryan recognized the place as Val Ferrier, a pre-war nature reserve.
Unfortunately, the messenger sensed the power of Pluto at work on him. His heart was beating unnaturally, his fingers twitched with nervousness, and at one point he almost tripped over a stone. They had distanced Augustus' boss from them, but she wouldn't budge.
"If we continue south, we will reach the meeting point with the dwarf." Ryan checked his cell phone and tried to contact the Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Soviet Union, but without success. "Something is interfering with my phone."
"Probably Vulcan technology." Atomic Cat said. "Cut off your phone and they might be able to track it down."
Well said so that Lucky Girl doesn't send Ryan any more messages. "How wide do you think the range of Night's pajamas is?"
"I don't know," the atomic cat admitted, examining Ryan's neck. Where the blood hallucinations suffocated him, red marks were left on his skin. "Are you okay?" I'll admit, I was scared when I saw you go crazy like a demon. ”
Ah, he cares! Although after Jean Ryan goes through such fears, the night pajamas will be treated by Luigi. "Keep going south, I'll go east."
"You want us apart?"
This is taboo in horror movies, but this courier is not a helpless teenager. "Kuyla can only attack one person at a time, and her target is me. I'll lead her into a trap. If you can get out, we win. ”
Moreover, Ryan can't risk letting the Seven Killers follow them to the rendezvous location. It's one thing to risk your own life, it's another to endanger Ryan's life.
Felix immediately protested, "I'm not going to let you die, Ryan."
"Trust me, kitten," the courier said, clutching a handful of bullets in one hand. If he wasn't concerned that Pluto's power might aggravate the side effects, he would also take a dose of Rampage. "I do better without a team."
“But—”
"Do I have to beat you to death?"
The kittens finally understand that it's time for the grown-ups to do their thing. "Okay." Felix said, but he clearly didn't like it. "Well, I believe in you. But you don't dare to die for me. ”
"God forbid, if I do, your sister will nag me after she dies. Let's go now. ”
Atom Kitte
One last look, follow the hiking trail to the south, while the courier heads east.
Ryan wandered through the woods, even as he felt the growing pressure of Pluto's invisibleness. He walked past mossy houses and the ruins of a mill and finally down a meandering river. He soon came to a vast expanse with woods on one side and a small waterfall on the other. A river flows through a whetstone trail that one can walk from one side to the other.
As the shadows approached, the leaves stood up with hair. Ryan raised his gun, and there seemed to be a lot of people around him; Because of the darkness, he couldn't see clearly.
However, when the air was filled with sweet and delicious perfumes, the courier couldn't help but relax. The tension in his body seemed to disappear when an unseen voice told him to relax.
A figure slowly appeared in the bushes; She was the most beautiful sight the Messenger had ever seen in all his runs. She has beautiful red hair, a curvaceous body, and perfect skin; Even a few of her freckles add to her attractiveness. Her lips were red like blood, and her eyes shone like emeralds. Her red jacket seems to be a no-go zone, a promise of boundless joy for anyone who can get through it.
When he saw her, Ryan immediately wanted to drop everything and throw her down a tree and give her an all-Romano meal.
"Hey," the vampire said with a warm, cute smile, revealing his empty hands. Even her voice woke the messenger. "That's good. You are safe. Poor boy, you must be scared to be alone in the woods, aren't you?"
"Are you an angel?" So far, Ryan's pop culture-influenced subconscious mind is completely in control of his body. "They are the most beautiful creatures in the universe."
"I can be your angel if you want," the redhead said, placing a hand on the zipper of her jacket. "Throw away your weapons and I'll take you to heaven."
Who is Jasmine? It's a perfect street child. Romantic ending, real ending.
But when Ryan prepares to turn this horror movie into, he realizes a problem with this scene.
"Jiang people can't go to heaven," he said, "and they don't have souls." ”
"What?"
Then he shot her.
The bullet hit the killer in the chest and knocked her back into a tree, but there was no blood. Come on, what kind of villain will wear a bulletproof vest now? Ryan knew he should aim for his head!
"You shot me!" The vampire protested in shock. "You shot me!"
"Go away, demon!" Ryan raised his gun and fired at random like a madman. "I know your tricks, succubus!" Every freckle of yours is your stolen soul!"
Example looked at Rya
, as if he was crazy, and then fled behind a tree to avoid being hit. Damn, it's like that whenever he wants to vent his stress!" Richie, get the hell out of here!" She shouted. "How can you resist my pheromones, bastard"
"Well, when you take so many mind-altering drugs like I did, you end up developing tolerance," Ryan replied, loading the gun. Frankly, I've tried aphrodisiacs that are much stronger than your pheromones. You won't believe half of what I've done. ”
"It doesn't matter," replied the red-haired devil from behind her covers, "a kiss and your life will be gone." ”
As she spoke, all familiar non-human faces emerged from the woods, surrounding Ryan from all sides. "Dear guest." Five evil clowns, each with a napkin and silver cutlery. "The Monte Carlo Hotel is closed!"
"Bring it here, Pennywise." Ryan replied, shooting at the nearest one, as it had turned something white. These hallucinations will hurt him just as much as real hallucinations, but they will also die like real hallucinations. Their power is the same as his mind.
As he and the clowns exchanged fire, Vamp left her hiding place and moved through the bushes like a stalking lion, her hands now emitting a kind of colored smoke. Likely deadly pheromones.
Ryan briefly stopped time, and the illusion of Monaco vanished instantly. However, unlike the previous bleeding ghosts, when time was restored, the clowns came back to life.
"Is that the best thing for you, pajamas?" He fights his way through the clown while taunting the Night Fear. "I killed thousands!" I even ate one!"
Then, as he is surrounded by darkness and dead clowns, the air fills with a new scent. It filled him with anxiety and fear. The stench of death and disease, as well
"Rihanna."
Ryan turned to face her.
She stood on a whetstone beside the waterfall, dressed in blood-stained clothes.
"Shorty?" Ryan asked, intellectually aware that it was all his imagination.
Lunn opened his mouth, but vomited blood. With bright red tears in her eyes and a piercing scream, she raised her knife and rushed towards the courier.
Ryan was startled by what he saw, and before he could aim, the illusion narrowed the gap. She pushed him into the tree with one hand and tried to stab him with a knife with the other. The messenger had to put down a gun and grab her hand to keep the blade from approaching; He then tried to aim with the remaining gun, although the attackers began to shock him.
"You've never left Monaco." The hallucinatory voice is not Ryan's, but Ryan's. "You're still lying in that bed, and it's all a dying dream."
It was probably the worst thing one could ever say about a time traveler, and it made him lose focus for a moment. Night Terror's sword struck Ryan in the thigh at once, though the Courier managed to divert the attack from his point.
Unfortunately, when the horrific special effects fail and he is pinned to a tree, Vamp emerges from her hiding place. "You should take it easy, asshole," she told Ryan as her pheromone-laden hand moved toward his neck. "At least I'll you first"
"Maybe next time," Ryan replied with a painful frown, then froze time.
He had expected the hallucination to disappear, however, it had only changed. From the nightmarish twisted version of Ryan, to the masked man in an all-black suit.
"You're here."
Ryan pushed off the paralyzed Night Fear and fired two shots into his head.
When time is restored, the corpse of Blue Genome crashes into a surprised vampire, causing her to trip over a whetstone and nearly fall into a nearby waterfall. Ryan covered the wound on his thigh with one hand and held his gun up at her.
"Wait," the vampire pleaded and raised her hand in surrender, her scent filling Ryan with lust and regret. "Don't kill me!" I can make your trip worthwhile!"
Yes, she would be his. His thoughts, his body screamed at him. Whatever Ryan asks her to do, she does; He had to put down the gun and take her away. "What's your name?" Shin asked, pointing a gun at the corpse of the Night Terrorist. "Hes and yours?" for later. ”
"Richard Pinkman and Karen Rich!" She smiled reluctantly. "Yes, put down the gun, I'm going to kiss your wounds-"
Before she could seduce Ryan, Ryan shot the ginger menace in the head.
"You can't have sex before marriage," he quipped as the water dragged the Assassin's body down the waterfall. "My purity is my shield!"
Afterward, Ryan let out a painful sigh, Dire's knife still stuck in his flesh. Even though his physiology was enhanced, he could not remove it without losing blood. At least not until he finds a safe place.
However, he didn't have time to do that. The messenger heard an explosion in the distance, just south of his position. It seems that the atomic cat is also fighting for its own life, despite the time traveler's best efforts.
Ryan could barely hear what he was thinking, and his heart raced. His heart felt like it was going to explode in his chest, and his vision blurred around the edges.
"I'm very impressed."
Pluto.
Ryan immediately raised his gun in the dark, but couldn't find her place. Is she hiding behind a tree? Down from the waterfall? No, the voice is a distant cry, a distant place.
"No one has ever lived so long in front of us before, at least not without backup." Pluto was silent for a moment, and Ryan tried to find her place through the voice. "You're quick to help, aren't you?" My niece has just begged us not to hurt you. ”
"She asked me to let you go, too," Ryan replied with a frown. His heart was pounding in his head, and he couldn't hear it!" You know, I've always wanted to ask you, are you single?"
"I'm a widow," she replied in a tone that made Ryan wonder if she was joking. "Why?"
Either the lasting effects of pheromones, Jasmin's absence in his life, or pure masochism, but the messenger can't help but flirt incessantly. "Can't we settle our differences in the noble way of arranging marriages?" I swear, I'll be the best you'll ever have. ”
"I'm going to go," replied Pluto, preoccupied with business. "Your thought process is painfully transparent. Separate so that I can focus on just one of you. But at this time, Sparrow is on the hunt for traitors. Your plans haven't changed anything. ”
"Don't you know that cats eat sparrows?" Ryan shook his head, nervous. So far, he hasn't encountered any disasters because Pluto wants an audience, but he doesn't know what will happen once she fully unleashes her powers from so far away. "You don't know anything about the animal kingdom."
"I studied your mark from a distance and it seemed strange. It was as if connected to another, far beyond my capabilities. A universe beyond the reach of my curse. Her voice was getting closer. You're not really here, are you?" You're just a projection. Even if my calamity kills you, you will appear again. ”
"Honestly, I don't think the earth can handle two mes." At least that means that while Pluto can kill Ryan now and track him down in future loops, she can't let the Courier go forever. The news came as a relief.
Now, it would be great if he could confirm with Sykes.
"If you fight so fiercely to survive, then even if you can recover, there is a price to pay," the deputy boss said sharply. "Hurry up, you don't care about this. My brother wanted his godson to die for betrayal. He doesn't care about you at all. As long as...... Just look at it from another angle. ”
"I'm sorry, you're too poor to pay my rent."
"That's dead."
Pluto unleashed the full power of her curse on him, and the whole world trembled.
Literally. The earth trembled beneath his feet, and a terrible wind blew through the trees. The leaves flew in his direction, and before Ryan could realize what they were, the leaves cut through his clothes and skin like razors. The gun in the messenger's hand made an unsettling sound, and the branches fell on him at the speed of a javelin.
Ryan quickly froze time, dodged the shells, and threw the gun away, just before the gunpowder inside caused the gun to explode in flight.
"I understand how your power works," he hears Pluto taunt him as time recovers. "You freeze time for a few seconds. Five? Maybe ten? You can get the respite of my curse by breaking the flow of cause and effect, but at this distance, you can't escape everything. At some point, you're going to make mistakes. Eventually, you will die. All death. ”
Ryan opened his mouth to subtly retort, only to have something grab him from behind. A noose-like branch from a tree grabbed him by the neck and lifted him off the ground, gripping him tighter. At the same time, the Night Terror's knife moved on its own, slowly cutting through his flesh as if it were being wielded by an invisible hand.
At such a short distance, Pluto's curse completely distorts reality. This makes the whole world want Ryan dead.
To make matters worse, the messenger heard gunfire in the distance. Pluto decided to hasten his death the old way.
Ryan quickly froze time, managed to break the branch that imprisoned him, and removed Night Dread's knife, tossing it aside before it could crawl into his vital point. As he moved, he noticed that Pluto's bullet was frozen in mid-air; Its flight trajectory deviated significantly from the target, aiming at the courier's head.
Should he use a stuffed animal? No, it's too risky. If Pluto's power could influence it, it could do something worse than betraying Ryan.
As soon as the messenger dodged away, time returned, and he nearly tripped over a large rock, shattering his skull. His movements slowed down, his heart beat so fast that his body couldn't keep up with the flow of blood.
The sound of beeping.
Ryan heard a familiar voice coming from inside his clothes.
Play!
Damn, shit, shit! Pluto's power prioritizes killing him over collateral damage!
With no other options, Ryan froze time, dragged the device out of his clothes, and hastily turned it off. Luckily, the Temporal Anomaly disables the Calamity Power, and he successfully removes the detonator.
However, when time returned, he found himself defenseless.
The ground under his feet collapsed, dragging him into the river and down the cascade. Ryan managed to protect his head with his arms before hitting a large rock below, but part of the natural structure behind him collapsed. A pile of rubble buried him from the chest down, crushing his legs.
He barely raised his head, and a lonely shadow approached him from the top of the waterfall.
"Help, you can only go so far." Pluto said, raising his gun from a high place and aiming it at him. Now the distance between them is no more than fifteen meters. "I'll tell my niece that you've done your best."
"I'll ......," Ryan whispered, the water level rising and nearly drowning. Be... Came back......"
"I'll kill you as many times as I want."
"No, you won't!" Pluto and Ryan both turned their heads, and Felix came out of the woods with a weapon in his hand and a burst of power.
Panda doll in the panda car!
Yes! Ryan thought, his lungs crushed by the rubble and he couldn't speak. Use power! Use the power of pandas!
"Use this!" Felix roared, ready to throw a cannonball at the stoic Pluto.
The Courier feels the pressure of the Death Curse disappear, and its next target is Felix.
Just as the young hero threw the projectile, branches and leaves rained him from behind, and two wooden spears pierced his right leg and shoulder. When the leaves hit the panda doll in mid-air, Felix fell and detonated it from a safe distance.
Can Pluto defend with her abilities?
"Where's the sparrow?" Cruella asked calmly as she dusted off her clothes. The kitten's brave efforts were in vain.
"Dead." Felix roared in pain. The spears on the branches pressed him to the ground, his blood mixed with the water that flowed down from the waterfall. "Caught her off guard...... Then scolded her. ”
Pluto's anger deepened, and she aimed her gun at the kitten's head. "She's a loyal soldier," she said, taking a step in his direction. Felix coughed up blood, and the curse grew stronger, attacking him to the point. "Seriously, my niece is too good for you."
It can't end like this!
This run...... It started well and he made a lot of progress...... Ryan almost breaks his curse and unlocks the secret of taking people through the loop. It can't just end like this, after all, so much has happened!
God answered His silent prayer with a meowy voice.
Before she could shoot, Pluto stopped, and a white furball jumped out of the forest, right in front of Felix. The animal sat right in front of the atomic kitten, looking at Pluto with its adorable eyes.
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"What is ......" Pluto's expression changed from a boring professional to a hint of fear. No more wooden spears or leaves falling to kill her prey. In fact, a yellow energy seemed to flicker around this area, as if something was challenging you
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The power of the boss. "What is this?"
Someone followed the cat through the woods. A striking young woman with hair as bright as the sun, dressed in the most elegant costume, holding a gold-plated gun.
Destiny.
Of all of them, it was Fortuna who saved me. A living lucky charm.
Even better, her strength seemed to be strong enough to interfere with Pluto's power, so there were no disasters or heart attacks that killed her brother. Instead, a golden cloud surrounded Fortuna like a halo, and thanks to its proximity, Felix was protected.
"Godmother......" she said with a frown, then noticing her brother and immediately rushing to his side. Felix! Felix, are you okay?"
"Fate". Pluto frowned deeply, her gun still pointed at Felix. "You're going to stay with Livia."
"I ...... I tried to follow—" Fortuna's eyes widened in shock at the sight of Ryan below the waterfall. "Ryan!?"
The courier tried to wave at her, but his body failed. Now that Pluto's death curse was no longer directed at him, and the water level had dropped, there was no longer a danger of drowning him, but his body was still crushed, scarred, and bleeding. His state is not suitable for interference.
Fortuna's horrified gaze shifted from Ryan to Felix, and she quickly connected the two events. "No ......"
"Your parents agreed," said Pluto, almost reading the lucky girl's mind. "This task fell on me, just to keep your hands from getting your hands dirty."
"But......" Fortuna's voice choked in her throat as she tried to make her words coherent. No way!"
"He betrayed the organization to Carnival," Pluto insisted, increasingly annoyed with Felix's continued existence. "Now get out of the way. It's a must-do. ”
Fortuna's panic turned to a frown, and she silently made a decision.
"Godmother". Fortuna stood between the killer and Felix, pointing a gun to Pluto's head. "Stay away from my brother."
If she weren't that annoying, Ryan might fall in love with her on the spot.
"You're going to be a traitor too?" Pluto glared at the siblings. "You disgrace your parents, you both disgrace."
"Stay away from my brother!" Fortuna repeated, her fingers trembling as she pulled the trigger. "I ...... I won't hesitate!"
The two women looked at each other for a moment, and the tension between them intensified. "Fortuna, don't ......," Felix pleaded, his eyes wide with fear. No, don't ......"
"Save it," Pluto said, calmly turning her weapon on Fortuna as the Death Curse found a new target. Yellow threads surround the clouds of Fortuna, like spears ready to fall on shields. "Spoil the kids."
Two gunshots echoed through the forest, followed by silence.