The Witch's Bodyguard [Comprehensive Anglo-American]

Collingwood Mental Asylum—

Waking up may be a very painful thing for Natasha. The end of the world probably refers to the current situation. She took a hard breath, and the air was full of gunpowder smoke and the smell of blood.It wasn't all her blood, Natasha knew, she just wasn't sure how many bones she had hurt, she hoped no more than three.

Natasha opened her eyes with difficulty. The pitch-black unknown area was filled with sand and dust. She couldn't see anything. The pain deep in her head forced her not to sit up immediately, and her consciousness was in a trance.The dark world can always improve the sensitivity of the five senses. Natasha can feel some small rustling sounds approaching from far away, as if the sound of fingernails digging on the ground stimulates the damaged eardrums at this time.

Natasha tried her best to judge the direction of the sound by hearing only, and prayed that those things would not come here, before she touched the flashlight.

A drop of viscous liquid fell on Natasha's face, and her stomach suddenly felt cramped. She was very familiar with this touch. It should be the blood of her teammates dripping from the zenith, and it must not be water. It is painful. With anger pressing on Natasha's nerves, there's nothing she can do now.

Natasha was so tired, as if she hadn't slept in more than seven days, it took her at least a minute to remember where she was and why she was hurt. 【Note】

Two hours ago, Natasha detonated the bomb/bomb. She was not sure whether it was a few hours ago, or only a few minutes passed, but judging from her years of experience as an agent, she was in a coma for at least an hour. Possibly even longer.

Since they entered the building, time seemed to be meaningless, the scene outside the window seemed to stay in the night forever, and she vaguely remembered that the timer stayed at two o'clock in the afternoon before she was conscious.

Before setting off, they drew up multiple backup plans, all of which were used in case of emergencies, but those plans were vulnerable to supernatural forces.The real situation in the hospital was much more complicated than they had imagined. The intricate corridors and the intermittent entrances and exits gradually made them lose their way.

Natasha was sure that the S.H.I.E.L.D. agents before them had died long ago. No one could survive for months in such an environment, lack of food and water, and of course, elusive ghosts and ghosts.

The 7 people never separated from the beginning to before the explosion. Since this is Ma Linglong's advice to Steve, they are willing to choose to believe it, and keep in mind that they will never act alone.

And the oppressive atmosphere inside made them not plan to split up.

Shortly after they entered, they lost contact with the outside world. The communicator could only emit the sound of electric current forever, and even their internal channels also failed. Although this was a problem they expected, it was still unavoidable. feel sick. The 7 people maintained a high degree of vigilance along the way, and moved back to back in the fastest and safest way of combat, using thermal sensing devices to search for possible survivors.

However, everyone did not report much hope.

A group of people first found the body of a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent at the mouth of the sewer pipe. His face had been eaten by rats and his bones were bloody and bloody. Maggots were slowly wriggling between his flesh/holes.They would have no idea who the deceased was if it hadn't been for the name printed under the eagle emblem on the deceased's chest.

Then, Natasha and Barton found more corpses. The stench and shocking pictures made everyone's stomach turn, as well as resentment and unwillingness.Because judging from the degree of decay of the corpses, they should have died less than three days ago. If the seven members of the rescue team could set off earlier, there might be still time for everything.

Along the way, I met many ghosts along the way. Every room they opened was inhabited by evil spirits. The ghosts tried to scare the living away, and their extremely deep resentment was displayed under the goggles.

The equipment provided by Ma Linglong to the agents was very practical, most of the evil spirits did not dare to approach, they only appeared from a distance, and then disappeared soon.The charms on the body armor kept shining and never stopped, but when the evil spirits tried to get close to them, they failed because of the spells.

Only at this time are they grateful that they have undergone special training, and no longer feel that it is a waste of time. So far, they can still maintain a calm head and a peaceful heart. These two points are very important.It was hard for the agents to imagine what kind of mental torture those unfortunate S.H.I.E.L.D. agents encountered before they died. Their deaths were horrific, covered in blood, and there were signs of scuffling on their bodies.

Even under the cover of exorcism gear, they must walk every step of the way, not to mention the terrifying sights that others will encounter without any effective protection measures.

Just because no one is afraid does not mean that someone likes to stay in the claustrophobic weird space. When they are sure that they have searched the entire building and found no living person, Steve finally decides to destroy it.

They must be destroyed, and there will be no room left. There will definitely be people who don't know who will come to this place to die.

Even when installing/bombing/bombing, they weren't really separated, and everyone was working from a position close enough to be seen by sight.Just when they were about to join together and go upstairs, a strange scene appeared.

The whole space changed suddenly, as if an invisible glass wall was erected between them, and the 7 people were forced to divide into two groups.

All followed the original route back to the hall they had entered in the first place, which was one of their backup plans, once separated, to return to the same place.The two teams followed the luminous marks made along the way and ran towards the finish line at the fastest speed. After an unknown period of time, they realized that they had been spinning in the same place, and the direction pointed by the marks was either a wall or a window. .

Natasha didn't know whether the marker had been moved without authorization, or whether the whole building had been moved.

They were so lost that, in order to save energy, both parties had to stop and reformulate their plans.

Natasha discussed countermeasures with Conrad and Tom, because they knew what they had encountered. The different-dimensional space is also called "ghost hitting the wall" in popular terms. Ma Linglong's information has very detailed information on this phenomenon. Records and cracking methods, but they may not be able to start in a short time.

Maybe they should have called out another group of people by name right away.

The monsters that suddenly appeared interrupted the thinking of the three. Their bodies were smooth and hairless, their limbs and torso were curved, and they could only walk in a crawling manner.The monsters have mucus on the surface of their skin, which makes them climb up the walls. The pure black eyes seem to be out of focus, and the sharp teeth look especially terrifying.

Natasha guessed that Steve and the others should have also encountered the same attack. The sterling silver bullets combined with the black iron dagger played a very important role. As long as those ugly and quick-moving unknown creatures were hit by bullets or received A dagger stab would quickly turn into a pool of blood.

The three fought all the way, and no one noticed that they returned to the place where the bomb was installed just now.

Not only did the monsters fail to kill them, but they received a devastating blow. They screamed and fled, and the sound was extremely unpleasant.

Conrad's complexion was extremely bad. Even though they retreated, they were also tired from the long-term battle.Conrad's arm was bitten by the monster's fangs, and the blood loss made it difficult for him to stand up. Natasha and Tom helped the seriously injured Conrad to sit next to him and rested. Natasha then noticed the explosion/ bomb.

She had a very bad idea in her mind. The appearance of the monster was actually to lure them to this place. Natasha couldn't be sure about this, because when she was going to stop Conrad's bleeding, she found the man's body The arms are all black, like symptoms after being infected by an extreme virus.

Natasha knew that they had to get out of here as soon as possible, but she had no idea. She called out Barton's name, and a red line flew out from Natasha's stamina.

She knew they had to follow the rope.

Conrad suddenly spat out a few mouthfuls of blood, then twitched twice before dying. Tom covered his teammate's wide-eyed eyes in grief, thinking that the monster might be a genetically mutated species, and once bitten, it would be quickly infected. , Not only is it difficult to calm down the inner emotions.

At this moment, the dead Conrad opened his eyes suddenly, and when Tom was still happy about it, he raised his pistol/gun and pulled the trigger without hesitation towards Tom's face.

Natasha didn't know until long afterward that it was just Conrad's instinctive reaction.

Tom died instantly without even having time to struggle.

Conrad rushed towards Natasha again. He seemed to have forgotten that he had a gun in his hand. Natasha clearly saw that the man's canine teeth were several times longer than before, and his mouth sounded like the group of humanoid monsters just now. With a deep roar, at least three monsters came back here again, and they opened their bloody mouths towards Natasha.

Natasha cleverly lured the monster into the range of the bomb/bomb, and finally detonated it. The air wave knocked her to a far corner. She couldn't be sure whether Conrad died in the explosion. Together with the monster, because he He himself became a monster.

"Damn" Natasha realized that she might have broken four ribs, and it would take a moment for her to recover from the desperate pain. She touched a metal handle, determined it was a flashlight, and turned it on.

Tom's body was hanging on the suspension beam of the zenith, which should have been caused by the impact of the explosion. His head drooped, his body armor was torn apart, and blood dripped down from his face bit by bit. The tragic death of his teammates was like a sharp knife. The same inserted/into Natasha's heart.

A monster slowly crawled towards her, and Natasha nimbly took out the pistol/gun and pulled the trigger, but the bullets ran out of bullets at this time.

She aimed the flashlight at the monster's face without making any sound, including her breathing.

In previous battles, Natasha discovered that monsters only rely on sound and smell to find prey. The long-term dark life has degraded their vision, and Tom's blood is more attractive than Natasha. This is really good luck, she thought , although Natasha knew the idea was ridiculous.

Several gunshots were heard in the distance, and the monster raised its upper body vigilantly, and then ran away in the direction of the sound.

The moment Natasha relaxed, a ghost appeared in her line of sight, and the ghost was very close to her. Natasha was sure that the other party must have seen her.She pulled out the black iron dagger and was ready to throw it at the ghost at any time. This distance was no problem for Natasha.

But she immediately calmed down. Although the goggles were slightly damaged and the cracked surface affected Natasha's vision, she still noticed that the spirit under the goggles was not malicious.

"You can't get out," said the ghost, "unless you sell your soul to the devil."

At the same time, Steve and his team heard the sound of an explosion, and he and his teammates knew how serious it was. The S.H.I.E.L.D. bomb/bomb had enough firepower to partially collapse the long-abandoned building.Of course, this was not what Steve was most concerned about. When they parted, he realized that the entire building was surrounded by barriers. He looked down at the silver wristwatch. But it was as dark as when they came.

Even so, they didn't intend to get close to the window to check it out. They had already done so, with serious consequences.

The agent who was with them planned to turn out the window to find a way out, but unexpectedly he was sucked out of the window by a force and never came back again. The scream only appeared briefly for a second.

Steve wanted to go to the rescue, but when he approached the window, it turned into a wall.

The windows disappear.

"The house is alive." Coulson said, he thought of someone saying in the video, "I think I know what it means, this should be the different dimension space that Linglong said, unless we find a real exit, we can only could be trapped in this place."

Barton was shaking up and down with the flashlight. The dark confined space is not scary to him, but the longer they stay here, they will be trapped here sooner or later due to lack of food and water: "I guess right For Linglong, this shouldn’t be a problem, why didn’t the higher-ups arrange for her to carry out missions with us, she can also be considered as a spiritual consultant of S.H.I.E.L.D., I remember Fury said something similar?”

They didn't immediately call out the names of their teammates, because they knew that Natasha would definitely be called Barton. In this space that could change at any time, they only needed one side to move closer to the other side so as not to miss it.

"I don't know, I suggested it to Pierce, but he seems to have a deep misunderstanding of Linglong," Coulson said.

"Shh, don't talk." Steve stopped suddenly, and the three of them immediately put their backs in a fighting position.

In the darkness, a figure wobbled slowly approaching them. Steve quickly saw that it was Conrad. Only a few pieces of cloth were left on his body armor, and the yellow talisman came from the middle of the interlayer. Falling outside, the cross he wore on his chest all year round disappeared.

Conrad's skin had obvious burn marks, and large chunks of skin were burned to a pitch black color.

"Conrad?" Steve put the shield on his chest, "If it's you, please answer."

His eyes were dull, and he didn't respond to Steve's question. Conrad opened his mouth suddenly, and rushed towards the opposite agent without warning.

"This is obviously not Conrad." Barton said heavily. He pulled out the bow and arrow behind his back and was about to aim, when he heard more screams from the depths of the passage on the other side, "I guess it's that kind of monster, everyone pay attention A bit."

"Undoubtedly yes." Steve threw the shield out, stopping Conrad's footsteps, "It's us, I'm Steve Rogers, remember!"

Conrad still didn't answer, like crazy, he didn't remember anyone or anything at all, his open mouth was full of bloodthirsty greed.The shield thrown by Steve just hit his abdomen, and Steve heard the sound of bones breaking, but the other party didn't show any sad expression of being hurt, but quickly got up from the ground and continued to attack.

"He's getting a little weird!" Steve's heavy fist swung at Conrad, "Conrad, what happened, and the others, who detonated the bomb/bomb?"

Monsters jumped out from all directions, some from the windows, and some from the end of the darkness. For a moment, the three of them couldn't tell how many monsters had come.

The range of exposure of the flashlight was extremely limited. Coulson fired a flare, and the night suddenly turned into day.Very good, there were not many monsters. Barton shot the first arrow. The moment the arrow hit the monster's forehead, it exploded. The bullets scattered like shotguns, killing and injuring a large number of people.

Barton came to Conrad and said excitedly, "What did you do to Natasha?"

Conrad's strength was astonishing. He grabbed the opponent's arm with his backhand and opened his mouth. His sharp teeth indicated that he was no longer a human being.

Coulson shot Conrad in the shoulder, forcing him back, and Barton survived: "Damn."

Steve rushed to the front, and fists belonging to Captain America fell on the faces and bodies of more monsters, and they became vulnerable.However, Steve soon discovered that these creatures could not be killed anyway, even if he twisted their throats with his bare hands, they recovered in the next moment.

Steve saw Conrad's body turned into a pool of blood, leaving only torn clothes: "Shoot, Coulson." He ordered, "These things are afraid of silver!"

Just when Steve was about to regroup with his teammates, the space moved again, and milky white gas with a sour smell suddenly flooded the corridor. The three immediately held their breath and crawled to the ground, and the monsters also ran away.

The gas didn't seem to hurt, and when they regained their vision again, Steve was left alone. He calmly pressed his back to the ground and rolled to the wall.

To his helplessness, the shield disappeared in the space change just now.

Los Angeles--

Stark still has a little understanding of Ma Linglong's special training, but he doesn't know the details, and he doesn't have the energy to understand those ghosts and ghosts.As for the content of Steve's mission, Stark also knew from Ma Linglong that there was such a thing. To be honest, he was still very confident in all operations involving Captain America, although he didn't really want to admit that he had no confidence in Steve. Tiff agrees, but it's true.

There is no battle that Captain America can't win, that's what the museum's slogans are all about.

So Stark will not gloat over the fact that the elite agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. are trapped in a dangerous place. Of course, if Steve and the others successfully complete the mission and hang some innocuous prizes, Stark will probably still laugh at them.

He used a satellite positioning system to scan a virtual model of the Collingwood Mental Hospital. Strangely, Jarvis was unable to give the structural dialysis data of the hospital.

"There was a lot of energy interference inside the building," Jarvis said. "That energy blocked the signal."

"I guess they can't maintain communication inside." Stark stretched out his hands and enlarged the model diagram. "There are many windows on the outer wall of the building. They are all experienced agents. It should be no problem to jump out of the windows and escape."

The reason why Ma Linglong was uneasy was not only about the safety of Natasha and the others, she was worried about another trouble that she was about to forget as a member of the Ma clan.

Those monsters are actually zombies.

In fact, Ma Linglong was very unfamiliar with zombies, although she knew how to subdue and kill them.

But ever since Ma Xiaoling and Kuang Tianyou traveled through the ancient times and exterminated zombies, there were no zombies in modern times. At least she never heard of zombies biting people and sucking blood again.Ma Linglong was indeed confused about this, so she sent the video to Ma Xiaoling to watch. Ma Xiaoling recognized the real identity of the monsters as zombies at a glance, but she didn't know what caused them to look very different from humans. They looked like zombies. Like alien monsters.

Fortunately, they are the lowest level of zombies.

But it's not lucky for ordinary people, if they are bitten...

Ma Linglong was glad that she had considered this when designing the equipment. She prepared a small number of sterling silver bullets for them. Obviously, she felt that the number of bullets was far from enough.

At this moment, the doorbell rang. It was almost impossible for this situation to happen in this villa, so that Stark himself didn't react: "Why would someone ring the doorbell? This is my private place, I remember?"

"If I remember correctly," Bruce reminded him, "you gave this address to the media across America."

Jarvis showed the image of the person ringing the bell outside the door. Under the surveillance camera was a woman. Maybe she should be given a prefix, beautiful woman.

Stark looked at Ma Linglong and said, "No, she's not, I don't know her." He would only preemptively strike when he was guilty and lying.

"I didn't ask anything." Ma Linglong said very understandingly.

The strange woman was dressed casually, with a plain face, and seemed to have no offensive power. Stark walked several yards away from her in armor: "Stand there and don't move." He said, "Who are you, you were sent by the Mandarin killer?"

The woman shrugged her shoulders: "You don't know me anymore." This is not even a question, which is enough to prove that she is very familiar with Stark.

Stark opened the mask: "You are not like Mandarin."

"What's your name?" Ma Linglong walked out from behind Stark, "How did you get in here?"

Stark didn't ask for security. He just installed electronic scanning transmission equipment around the territory. Anyone who appeared nearby, Jarvis could immediately find all the other party's information, but the woman skipped this step and walked straight away. Arrived at the door of the house.

"Don't go there baby, maybe she's in danger." Stark panicked a little, but not because of the possible danger of the other party.

The woman smiled awkwardly at Ma Linglong: "I've been here before." She said, "My name is Maya, Maya Hansen (Maya.Hansen)."

"I'm not that familiar with her." Stark said hastily, "She's a botanist, and I'm with her purely to discuss scientific research issues."

Maya didn't expose Stark's innocuous lie, she still kept a friendly smile.

Ma Linglong told the truth bluntly: "You are Stark's former female companion, and you slept with him."

"One night," Maya said, and she smiled apologetically. "I know you. You are Tony's public girlfriend. You are much prettier in person than in the photos."

"Now she is the fiancée." Ma Linglong shook the diamond ring, and put Stark's metal arm around her to declare her sovereignty, "Explain the purpose of coming here."

"For Tony." Maya showed a embarrassed expression, she said to Stark, "You have to come with me."

"No." Stark said with a look of nothing to do with me, "No, I mean, you can talk here, I'm about to have a family, I can't date you alone."

"I don't mean dating, Tony, I read your news, and I don't think you have a chance of winning at all." Maya said, and she could see that she was a little flustered.

"I'm fine," Stark said. "I'm waiting for him to come to me, or if I can find him, whichever is the matter of time."

"I will give you the whereabouts of the Mandarin, but you must leave here with me." Maya said anxiously.

Ma Linglong was about to reply, when Jarvis's voice sounded hurriedly: "Sir, we are in trouble, you'd better take measures and leave that place within three seconds."

There are two more 65-inch TVs in the living room, which are connected to the outdoor panoramic monitoring. The TV on the left shows the appearance of the beach house, and the TV on the right faces the cliff and the ocean. Smoke's missile, it is shooting towards the place where the three of them are standing at a wonderful speed of 7 kilometers.

The author has something to say: [Note]: The time in the hospital is different from the real time, which will be explained in the next few chapters.