The days of being a spiritual mentor in Meiman.

Chapter 1387 The Call of the Stars ([-])

In order to be able to communicate with people normally, Xu Shangqi had to bring a handful of sand to their second stronghold.

In fact, they don't need any strongholds, because judging from the current density of monsters, there is no difference between them sleeping in a house and on the street, and the terrifying attacks will not be weakened by the blocking of buildings.

But perhaps it was human's instinctive need to shelter from the wind and rain, so they finally found the upstairs of a fairly clean coffee shop as a base for the third night.

There is no doubt that this is an improvement, because everyone has fully anticipated what may happen tonight, and they can even have the leisure to prepare things in advance to facilitate communication.

Scarlet Witch's vision problem can hardly be solved. Such a short period of time is obviously not enough for her to evolve a keen sense of hearing and touch. But fortunately, Jarvis helped her, and Jarvis took the trouble to repeat to her the things around her. In order not to disturb others, I could only whisper close to her.

Although Riley can't hear, he can read lips, because the pronunciation of English is different, and the mouth shape is easier to read, so even if he has no professional training, he can barely understand it.

Xu Shangqi used writing on the sand to restore his communication ability, which was very effective, because for a person who is good at writing Chinese characters, writing English letters that can be connected to the end quickly is as easy as eating and drinking.

Before the sky was completely dark, they had a heated discussion. Xu Shangqi still insisted on his point of view. He wrote on the beach of sand at a very fast speed:

"The disaster will happen at night, so it must have a special meaning, but nothing special will happen at night, except for the illusory stars, there is only a dream."

"But it is very dangerous to verify this matter." Riley disagreed a little. He tried his best to swallow the redundant modifiers in those words, obviously choking himself, but he could only keep it as short as possible Said: "We may go crazy in our dreams."

"I feel like we have to sort through all the oddities we've had and prioritize them." Jarvis came up with an extremely sensible plan, and immediately put it into practice.

"First is the weirdest attack. Of course its importance is A, but the difficulty of investigation is also A. Then there is the state of the world. I think it is as important and dangerous as the attack."

"What follows is what we saw in New York City, which should be rated B for its importance and danger, then the whole story of the disappearance of the monster and the knot in Ancient One's heart, which should be rated C, and finally our One point that I have no time to think about, where did Quill and the raccoon go, this matter should be rated as D."

"The more important it is, the more dangerous it is. If we challenge it rashly before collecting enough clues, it is very likely that we will ruin our own lives."

"But after all, we have just come here, and we are still full of energy. We can also encourage each other and maintain a good attitude. If we waste this precious time on things that are not important enough, it is likely to slow down our progress. Caused us to be consumed to death here."

"So I think we should start from the intermediate level, that is, investigate the situation in New York City, and find out what the city and its people did when the disaster struck, so that it may partially reveal the disaster. nature, and perhaps find survivors."

"Although I'm not hopeful about the last point, I think what you said makes sense." Riley nodded and said.

The other two couldn't refute Jarvis's well-founded analysis. It was a blessing to have such a rational teammate under such circumstances, so they began to speculate on what happened to New York.

"I guess, maybe one day a monster parasitizes in the human body, and then it may secretly use its tentacles to sow more seeds in other people's bodies, and then they hatch and kill humans one after another."

Wanda first made a guess, but Xu Shangqi shook his head and said, "If that's the case, why haven't many facilities been destroyed? There are no traces of the army or police on the road?"

Wanda frowned and said, "Perhaps, the incident happened so suddenly that the authorities didn't react at all."

"Do you know how many people there are in New York?" Xu Shangqi asked back, he scribbled a string of words in his notebook: "Assuming the infection is done in binary, the time required is beyond imagination, as long as one monster is seen Mami, it will definitely cause panic."

"Is it possible that there is an existence that planted seeds in everyone at the same time, and then let them burst out at the same time?" Riley looked at the words written by Xu Shangqi and said with a frown.

But Jarvis shook his head and said: "If its ultimate goal is to destroy human beings, then since it has the ability to sow seeds in everyone, why not just kill everyone? Or plant the seeds in the heart On? The physiological structure of human beings dooms them to being unable to resist such an attack."

The discussion has reached a deadlock. Obviously, Wanda's "infection theory" that spreads from ten to ten does not conform to what they saw in New York, and Riley's "simultaneous outbreak theory" is very contradictory.

Suddenly, Riley had another flash of inspiration, and he said: "Maybe the culprit's purpose is not to destroy human beings, but it just wants monsters?"

"What does it want the monster to do?"

Riley was silent again, and he couldn't figure it out. Judging from the monsters they encountered, these monsters really didn't have many advantages.

"Perhaps, perhaps those powerful monsters have been wiped out by the ancient one." Riley tried hard to speculate, he said: "Just like in zombie movies, one or two of the countless ordinary zombies will always produce one or two with special abilities. "

"No, no, no." Riley quickly denied his speculation. He said, "Although the Ancient One Mage is very strong, it doesn't seem to be of much use if those special monsters are wiped out with a wave of her hand."

"Don't you think it's strange?" Wanda said suddenly, "Compared to the attacks we suffered at night, those monsters on the road are like babies. The difference in strength between them is too great."

"It's unlikely that these monsters were created to attack or destroy something, they're more...more like..."

Wanda searched for an adjective for a long time, but couldn't find it, but Jarvis touched his chin and said, "It's more like a failure."

"If they are failures, what are the successes?" Jarvis asked himself, but soon, he shook his head and said, "No, the idea is wrong. There are failures, but it doesn't mean there are successes, or Are they more like some kind of... dregs than failures?"

Xu Shangqi's hand froze suddenly, and then he wrote a line of words on the sand at an extremely fast speed: "They are the dregs of fear."

Everyone stared at him with wide-eyed eyes. Xu Shangqi took a deep breath, tried to clear his mind, and began to infer from his rich imagination after watching countless horror movies:

"Have you ever thought about what will become of us after we can no longer resist the attacks of the night and go completely insane?"

Everyone froze.

Scarlet Witch's fingertips began to tremble non-stop. The biological instinct of a woman made her hate those mucus, tentacles and tumors more than others. Just imagining that she would become that kind of monster already made her out of breath .

"You mean, if we lose to Hei Ye, we will become that kind of monster?" Jarvis asked, looking into Xu Shangqi's eyes.

But soon he found out the doubt again, he said: "Isn't this the same as infection? Human beings have different willpower, some people must go crazy early, and some people go crazy late."

"Then the monsters that appeared earlier will definitely attract the attention of the authorities. How come no one resists armed to the end, but all of them are euthanized?"

Several people were silent again. Obviously, the inference reached a deadlock here again. In any case, one fact cannot be ignored, that is, New York has not suffered much damage.

Those collapsed buildings don't look like they were attacked by artillery, but they seem to be abandoned by no one, or they were crushed by some large monsters. There are no traces of firefights on the road, and most of the cars are in good condition. Life-critical supplies were not looted either.

Although the few people present can be called young heroes, they all clearly realize that human beings are essentially chaotic creatures. If everyone can fully abide by their own kindness in the face of such terrible natural and man-made disasters If you don't want to hurt others at all, how can there be so many bad things on earth?

So it is conceivable that in the face of a disaster, huge chaos will definitely occur. When the disaster does not come and there are only rumors, people will panic and hoard supplies, and as long as a monster is photographed, even if the authorities respond Quickly, small-scale chaos cannot be avoided.

Xu Shangqi, an outsider, is not very optimistic about the organizational capabilities of the New York government, and the three locals are even less optimistic than him. It can even be said that they can feel desperate without even looking. Don't get in the way of past reasoning.

"Do you find it strange? Compared with the doomsday cities we have seen before, this city is too intact."

On the boulevard in New York's Central Park, Quill is discussing similar issues with Rocket Raccoon, and the two of them are obviously more knowledgeable than those few young people who have hardly left the earth.

"I'm on Star Longta, you know, that unlucky star in Centaur..."

"Oh!" Rocket Raccoon yelled suddenly, and said, "It was because of the impact of the orbital change of other planets that it was unfortunately knocked out, and was knocked out of the galaxy when the sun erupted, and then was sent to the sky by the racing Kree Empire planetary battleship. Hit the planet in the black hole, right?"

"That's right, that's it. Although the natives of the centaur like to call it the unlucky star, I prefer to call it the black 8. I'm not even that accurate when I play billiards on Earth."

Thinking of the unlucky things that happened to this planet, Rocket Raccoon finally showed a long-lost smile. He snorted, and then said, "There are many unlucky stars in the universe, but it is rare to see such unlucky stars."

"You should say that I was unlucky. At that time, I was sent by Yondu to find information on this billiard ball. To be honest, the leaders and residents there are quite good. Although there are not many people and the civilization is not developed, but the response is very fast. , and with one mind."

"Their only planet shield opened within a few tenths of a second after the impact, so the first round of impact did not cause devastating damage to the planet itself."

"But what's funny is that the younger brother of the leader of civilization thought it was his brother's plot to kill him, so he killed his brother first, and activated the propulsion device in violation of the regulations. As a result, the people were unprepared and were all photographed by the huge kinetic energy On the wall, it became meat sauce."

"What I want to say is that civilization is very fragile under such natural and man-made disasters."

"If you ask me, human beings are not as united as the people on the billiard ball. In the face of such a big disaster, no one will shoot? Why don't I believe it at all?"

(End of this chapter)