This isn't the first time Ryan has woken up naked and tied to a chair. At least his captors wisely let him keep his boxers; If he was naked, he would definitely be furious.

The courier coughed up the rest of the water and it took a while to see clearly. The room was dimly lit and square in shape, which was very unwelcome. A steel wall covered in brown stains surrounded him from all sides, with only a reinforced door being the only exit, and cameras at every corner. Ryan's chair rests at one end of a tin table with huge plates shielded with steel lids.

The messenger recognized the place.

Mech

o

Bunker.

"Caesar". Psychic Shock sat to Ryan's right, carefully opening a robot's head with his tentacles, fiddling with the processor. "Did you sleep well?"

Ryan immediately froze time and tried to pounce on the hijackers. Unfortunately, he couldn't move. The Courier's gaze wandered over his hands and feet, noticing steel bindings almost everywhere. The chair itself appears to be fixed to the ground, with syringe arms erected on either side. He can't even move his head!

Ryan tried to bite his tongue and choked on his own blood, but his teeth hit the metal plate near the molar; As the messenger focused, he realized that a metal device in his chair restricted the movement of his jaw. Damn, the people who capture him usually don't usually be so thorough!

"Can't move, Sleeping Beauty?" As time passed, Ryan heard Sarin's voice. The hazmat girl waited in a corner to his left, with her back against the wall. "I have to admit, for a moment I thought you were going to die"

"Where's Ran?" Rya

He asked as he glared at Psyshock, the metal shards in his mouth leaving him speechless.

"Fix your car upstairs, with my other slaves." Other slavery. This sentence made Ryan furious. "She's happier that way, Caesar. Little Ryan only feels calm when she uses her powers, and now, she doesn't stop doing so. It is an act of kindness. kindness, even".

How is it? How is that possible? Did Spirit Shock infect Ryan during the raid on the bunker? No, Ryan will notice. Technical questions?

The metal door opened, and the big fat Adam walked in with the ghoul. "What's wrong, Mr. Time Traveler?" The leader of the Powers Gang sat on the other side of the table and laughed at Ryan. "Can't you kill yourself today?"

"I guess the safe word should be 'weight loss', right?" Ryan laughed at him unconcernedly.

"Wit, I think we've got a new Bill Murray." Adam gestured to the chair Ryan was sitting in, while the ghoul stood behind his boss. "You can't start all over again this time, man. Mech

o

Human experiments were carried out with these devices. Like it or not, this chair will keep you alive. ”

If Ryan could, he would have clenched his fists.

It's bad. It's really, really bad. He was contained and taken pity by the Psychrons. If the psychic shock used his power on the time traveler...

"How?" Ryan asked, as Hannifat Lecter tied a napkin around his neck and prepared to eat. The psychopath opened his mouth and took out the dishes, as well as salt and pepper shakers. "How did you do that?"

"I told you before, little Cesare." Psyshock interrupted his work on the robot's head, saying. “Dy

AMIS's technology is compatible with my abilities. ”

Adam said proudly, "Be Ma."

The second time ADA gave it to us, I technically set up a 'mental shock' trap. "Whose mind is covered by it?" They became the newest host of Psyshock. It's a backup plan in case Dinas plays tricks on us. ”

Ryan's eyes widened, and he read between the lines. "This only happens when rewriting?" Rather than the process of creating a memory map?"

"Well, no." Adam laughed. "Otherwise, the destruction will be too obvious."

As a result, Livia still has an undamaged copy of Le

A copy of the mind, stored in the blue world.

Ryan just had to kill himself, stop the cycle, and then he would be able to figure it out. Without Ryan's machine, Psychoshock can't follow him back in time, and the Courier can find another way to transfer his friend's memories back. The appearance of the ghoul means that he has killed Re

Everyone in the ESCO bar, so the event has been damaged beyond repair.

Adam guessed his intentions. "I'm sorry, man...... You won't have a happy ending. ”

"Your real target is Hector Manada," Ryan said, desperately trying to figure out a way while stalling for time. "If Dy

Amis ends up using this technology, and you want to take him over. ”

"What can I say, man?" People think I look like a fool, but you're not my age because you're a fool. It was a fluke to take over your girlfriend when she went back in time, but my insurance paid off. ”

Adam opens the lid of one of the plates, revealing some fried chicken and apples, as well as some meat that isn't chicken. "Would you like some?" Hannifat Lecter handed Ryan the terrible dish. "It's the Lebanese."

"No, I'm vegan," Ryan lied. "I greet the chef."

Adam giggled, pointing his finger at Ryan with a pleasant smile. "You are interesting. I admire your wisdom and self-control. It's as if you've already experienced something similar. ”

Ryan didn't say anything, and Adam raised an eyebrow. "You did it?"

"Do you know what's so pathetic about you, stupid?" Ryan laughed at him. "You're not original. I killed a lot of you. It's not even the first time I've been cooked alive. ”

"Wow," Sarin said. "It's too bad."

Although Adam kept his pleasant smile, his smile could no longer reach his eyes. The Messenger takes pleasure in hurting his self-esteem. "Well, I think I'll be the one to kill you." The psychopath began to eat as he spoke. "Save the best for last. Frankly, the only reason Psyshock doesn't drive you crazy is that I'm not sure if it's a good idea. I feel like we're playing with fire. ”

"You are," Ryan said, his voice full of malice.

Adam giggled as he continued to eat. "She still loves you. Caesar. ”

Ryan froze, his body trembling with rage.

"I got deep into Little Ryan's thoughts." Psyshock said as he twisted the knife. "I know her biggest secret. I even know what she thought when you deprived her of her virginity; I'm afraid you didn't make a good impression on me. But then again, you're the only one for her. The special one. ”

"Shut up," Ryan said.

"Deep down, she still believes that you are a knight in shining armor and will make everything well. She's just too scared to let you in. She thinks Prince Charming has rabies. It's really tragic. ”

"That would be cute." The ghoul laughed cruelly, and Sarin was silent as a tomb. "If that's not pathetic."

The monsters taunt Ryan with his precious memories, much to Ryan's anger. But now his anger had cooled down and turned into a cold and calm hatred. "Someday, psychopath, I'll gouge out your brain," the courier warned, "but I assure you, it's not at all comfortable to do so." ”

"We all know that you don't have what it takes to carry out this threat," Psyshock said thoughtfully. "Once I control your mind, maybe I'll pair you with Xiao Lun. It will be the closest thing you will ever get to marital bliss. ”

"But will it really work?" Adam asked, wiping his cheeks with a napkin after eating. He just didn't touch the apple. "Your superpower can alter brain waves, and he will appear in two places and times at the same time. That means two brains, right?"

"I should be able to cover his consciousness," Psyshock insisted, apparently in a hurry to give Rya

Brainwash. This brain hijacker finds a morbid, twisted pleasure in forcibly invading the mind. "This trick worked for Xiao Lun, she can travel through time to shift her thoughts."

"Should". Hannifat Lecter raised an eyebrow, a little skeptical. "It's an optimistic outcome, but what happens if there is a failsafe in his powers?" What's the worst-case scenario?"

Psyshock seems annoyed by his boss's suspicion of him, but he knows it's best not to argue. "These two patterns can collide, leading to brain damage. Maybe death. ”

"But if his brain explodes after he reloads, will his strength continue to work?" Are we going to risk being trapped in an endless loop because he will die instantly and be reloaded? Or will it eventually stop? In terms of his power, is your brainwashing death?"

There was silence in the room, and none of the Meta people dared to say a word. In the end, Sepsie had to admit his ignorance. "I don't know, Adam. But it should work. ”

"But you can't know for sure if you don't try."

The silence of Psyshock is the answer in itself.

"Yes, that's my resentment of your power, man." Adam glanced at Ryan and said. "We won't know its limits until we test them, and if we mess it up once, you win. You are as bad as Augustus in your own affairs; If we fail, we die, so we're too scared to even try. ”

"Speaking of Augustus, his daughter has been trying to contact him through his phone," Psyshock noted. "Eventually, she'll start to wonder what's wrong."

"Well, we're going to kill her anyway."

"I would say that the longer we wait, the greater the risk," Psyshock said, looking at Rya with a wistful gaze

。 "I can fascinate him and force him to save money."

"But that would make his two selves coincide, right?" That's what he told his girlfriend. We know that he activates superpowers when he dies, but what counts as death? Does it count as stopping his heart for a minute? Does it count as rewriting his brain and destroying his personality?"

Ryan knew the answer, but he was as silent as a grave.

"I can ask him to tell us." The ghoul said, white mist enveloping his hands. "Freeze his limbs one by one."

"My fingers can't make the best ice cream," Ryan replied disapprovingly. He doubted that there was anything about the superpowers that would surprise him. "Calm down, Piccard."

The undead took a threatening step forward, but Adam waved his hand to stop him.

"No need, ghoul." The leader of the Powers Gang squinted at his captive. "I can see it in your eyes, lad. All those who think they can take advantage of you, Dy

amis, Augusti, are all deceiving themselves. You're such a goddamn hurricane. You will not be tamed, nor will you be crushed; Just avoid. ”

Damn, why do so many people want to catch Ryan, and Adam is the only one smart enough to realize it?

The problem is that even if Ryan is trapped in a capsule and thrown into space, he will eventually die and find a way out. He returned from Monaco with great difficulties. All they need to do is make one mistake, and Ryan will win the next time. They are

PC, and he's the player character.

However, the power of Psyshock does have the potential to brainwash him. He needed to keep Adam suspicious so he wouldn't try.

Await. Something is wrong.

Big fat Adam didn't doubt himself. At every point of the conversation, he makes the other psychopaths doubt themselves, slowly leading them to his own conclusions. That controlling bastard only gives his men the illusion of listening and follows his plans. He's already decided how to deal with Ryan.

What exactly is he planning?

"He can play a role in other ways." Everyone looked at sarin. "If he's really a time traveler, maybe he knows a cure?" Psyshock can read his mind and find out. ”

"Healing?" Ryan frowned. "What medicine?"

"To us, bastards," the hazmat girl replied, as if it were obvious.

"A cure for psychosis?" It makes sense. Ryan suspects that Salin wants to stay in a cloud of gas trapped in a spacesuit, or an animal "mongrel" who can't use the abilities he's gathered. "Is this what Whaley said to make you obedient?" He's not working for therapy. He doesn't even want to save himself!"

The messenger looked at Hannifat Lecter and felt that this was an opportunity to sow discord.

"Last loop, after we took over the bunker from you, I looked at the base plan at the entrance. I noticed something interesting. You try to conquer this place, room after room. But the path you take isn't the shortest path to a lab or host, it's the shortest path to an orbital communications tower. ”

Adam's smirk didn't waver, but his hateful gaze told Ryan that he had guessed right.

The madman had made up his mind from the start.

"Do you want me to knock him out, Adam?" Hannifat Lecter grabs a large apple from his plate, and the ghoul asks his boss. "Shut his mouth when he lied?"

"He doesn't want to save anyone, not even himself!" Ryan shouted. "He just wants to kill everyone, because he's a sickly evil bastard who thinks he's done—"

Adam shoves the apple into the time traveler's mouth like a pig, preventing him from speaking. The courier tried to swallow it and choked, but the metal plate in his mouth prevented him from doing so.

Psyshock knows for sure. The bastard was too smart to guess his boss's plan, but too sociopathic to care. Ghouls are either too groggy or too crazy to bother. Only Shalin looked annoyed, but Adam immediately noticed her uneasiness. "Anything to say?"

The hazmat girl was silent for a moment, as if trying to digest the news. In the end, her survival instinct came into play. "No, Adam, I don't know."

"Good, because you're a good friend of mine, and I don't want to have dinner with you." Adam said in a tone that feigned warmth, then picked up another plate and opened the lid. "Especially when we arrive at dessert."

As the courier stared at the horrible dish, his blood froze.

Sara is tied up and her mouth is stuffed like a pig on a plate, surrounded by salad and tomatoes. Tears of terror rained down the little girl's cheeks, her eyes begging Ryan or anyone to save her.

Adam snickered and began to salt Sarah with a shaker. Seeing this terrible sight, the other psychopaths did not flinch. "You think you can turn things around, man," said the sadistic monster, "but as far as I know, the only way we can lose the game is if you play." If you get kicked out of the board, no one will doubt it until it's too late. ”

Ryan didn't listen, his eyes were fixed on Sarah, desperately trying to find a way to save her. Even after these cycles, there are still things that scare him. Something he doesn't want to see.

"Let's assume your abilities don't work, Psyshock." After salting the little girl, Adam looked at his deputy. "What else can deal with him forever?"

Psyshock can't see it. He only had Ryan's memories to draw on, and while Ryan told her a lot, he didn't share everything either. "Cancellation, is it possible? Judging from what he told Xiao Lun, his ability is top-notch. Even Olivia Augustus couldn't influence him. ”

"Shame. Then let's use the most reliable method. Adam opened his mouth wide like a pelican and put his hand down his throat.

A second later, it came out with a bottle with the McLaren logo on it.

Black Elixir.

No.

"Do you see the light in his eyes, guys?" Adam said, shaking the container towards a terrified Ryan. "It's fear. It was the first time he was really scared. ”

No, no, no!

Ryan tries to escape the bondage, freezes time, tries to perform Houdini magic, suffocation, anything! But the chair froze him, and he had no tools to use!

"Are you sure, Adam?" Psyshock asked, he was upset by the development.

"There's something that has been bothering me," Adam said with a grim smirk. "He's been exploring all the options for centuries. However, he never tried to get his hands on a second elixir, even with his infinite attempts. This means that he knows that this is the only thing that will ruin his salvation point. If we can't disarm him of his power... We're going to poison it. ”

This bastard.

He doesn't want to weaken Ryan's power, he wants to destroy it! He believes that turning a time traveler into a psychopath is as devastating as firing Bahamut...... He may be right.

To make matters worse, the bottle of the elixir began to shake, much to the surprise of the psychiatric couple. As the courier approached, the contents of the container writhed, and Ryan felt a chill run down his spine. An unusual cold he had never experienced.

The black elixir remembered.

"Oooh! Looks like that ooze wants to connect with you too!" Ryan's panicked expression only made Adam laugh louder. "Well, boy...... It's time to take your medicine. ”

"Don't worry, we have enough supplies to keep you hooked." The ghoul happily added. Shalin crossed his arms and seemed to be lost in thought. "We'll be like a family."

That moment was what Ryan feared the most. The cruelest and most terrible ending. To make matters worse, Adam enjoyed it. The bastard's only pleasure in life is to destroy other people's lives. That's not enough to kill the time traveler; He wanted to destroy him beyond repair.

He will be the new blood. Endless nightmares.

Adam rose from his seat, and the room shook.

First there was a tremor, then a second. Ryan thinks it could be an earthquake caused by the earth, maybe in response to an outside attack, but it sounds more like an explosion in a bunker.

"What happened?" Big Fat Adam asked, and Psyshock stood up in horror. There was another tremor, and the epicenter was closer to the room.

"Another robot?" The ghoul moved in front of the iron gate, close to his head, and seemed to be talking to the guards on the other side. "Hey! Hey, what's wrong?!"

The ghoul barked at the door, and for a moment, neither Psyshock nor Adam noticed Rya

, and even frightened Sa

ah。 Instead, they focused entirely on the metal door, with Hannifar Lecter covering his skin with a layer of carbon alloy.

Ryan noticed Shalin subtly approaching him. The time traveler thought she was going to execute him, but instead, the hazmat girl moved her head next to his ear. "Do you have an antidote?" She whispered, too low for anyone to notice. "Can you find the cure?"

Ryan looked at her, amazed at the shift. Was she the cause of the explosion? No, she looked just as confused as the other lunatics in the room. She just jumped at the chance to jump ship, perhaps because his words shook her faith in Adam. She must have realized that he wouldn't deliver the baby.

Can Ryan find a cure for psychosis? In several previous operations, he never succeeded, but ...... He had never entered a Maykelen's bunker before, nor was there anyone like Dr. Terranor.

Maybe... Maybe this time will be different.

Ryan blinked repeatedly, hoping she understood what he meant. Shalin moved his hand behind his chair, and he felt his restraints slowly loosen. Maybe she made the machine rust with gas.

"No answer, boss." The ghoul said, covering his body with a thin layer of ice.

"Did anyone come to your rescue, man?" Big fat Adam glanced at Ryan, and before Sarin could notice her vandalism, he pulled her hand away. "Augustus? Do you have your own insurance plan in place?"

Ryan wishes he had.

Who could it be? Is it Livia? Did she rally forces to attack the bunker? Is it Jasmine? Carnival? What kind of unstoppable force can fight its way through a base full of genomes?

"Ghoul, open the door." Psychic Shock commanded the Ice Gymnast, raising his tentacles and preparing for battle. "If it's not our people, kill it."

Mr. Frozen Food obeyed, and the door opened, revealing a metal hallway. Someone smeared the walls with blood, and two armed psychic slaves dangled from the ceiling, hanging from ropes made of their own intestines.

Ryan's savior was waiting among them, its snow-white fur as white as snow. Because praying in front of a child less than ten years old to be saved from the predation of the superpowers, the time traveler simply summons a greater evil.

The messenger couldn't help but wonder as he looked at the beast's blue sun-like eyes, this dark abyss of endless darkness.

Why?

The Abyss replied, raising its long ears.

"I'll always be your friend!"