[Zhongyingmei] The beating heart

"Uhmm... I don't know what you guys think, I think I'm going to scream."

Walking in the long and narrow passage covered with red blood, Tony's growl as if something in the passage came from the depths of the empty corridor ahead.Although covered by red fungus, it seems that the power and electricity have not been affected, so fortunately this place is not yet dark.Tony is starting to regret it now. He shouldn't have watched so many horror movies overnight with Clint. You might laugh it off when you watch horror movies, but when you are in this environment, All the ghosts and chainsaw massacres are back.

"Are you sure these...things are not contagious?" Mika began to feel uncomfortable all over her body, those strains were growing everywhere, and what made it even more itchy was that you could see them growing with the naked eye the process of.

"If it was really contagious just by breathing, then we would have become dead people long ago." Tony replied, he still felt a little insecure outside the armor, "I think we should find a weapon now."

"Good idea, we—"

Just halfway through the conversation, Maika was directly interrupted by a low growl from the corridor ahead, and when Steve realized that he wanted to ask his companions for advice, he found that some of his teammates were very He hid behind him cooperatively.Now Steve thinks maybe he should have let those two guys stay, and took Patrolman O'Brien himself.

"Calm down, we've had worse." Steve carefully turned around and said softly, but obviously his companions didn't agree with this statement——

"No Steve! It doesn't get any worse!"

"That's right! Even Alice's mirror wasn't so bad!"

Can't you two calm down?Steve narrowed his eyes slightly to look at some two unpromising adults, and then took out a long-handled thing from the fungus-covered table, picked it up, and it seemed to be some kind of measuring instrument. There are scales on it.But it's hard enough and easy enough to use, and that's it.

"I swear I've never wanted Alex around so much, Steve. I'm even a little bit jealous of Bea."

"Don't be jealous of the little girl casually."

Glancing back at Tony who silently raised a stool, Steve said, "Even if Alex is here, he won't protect you like he protects Bea."

"How do you know? We're on good terms. By the way, you don't know. Alex once fought a tank one-on-one just to cover me."

"I think a tank is as completely unchallenging to him as 'a giant cockroach in the bathroom'."

"Cockroaches are disgusting!"

"Hush—" What are you two talking about there!Mai Ka interrupted the two guys who were discussing inexplicable topics in time. She pointed to the direction of the low growl, and then walked carefully to the wall not far in front, and touched a special firefighting toolbox on the wall. , and at the same time got a 'light-emitting fire axe'.A fire ax with some sort of blazed ax seems to be satirizing some two 'big heroes': this is the real weapon.

There was no time to find a more suitable weapon, Steve and Tony also slowly moved towards the place where the growl came from, they carefully tried not to make any noise, and then came to a cabin with a transparent observation window, and watched To the source of the growl—

"I, need, want, ah, li, k, s!" Tony mouthed the words to Steve, syllable by syllable.

However, Steve ignored him, because what he saw also shocked Steve. It was a group of Skrulls, but they were sick.Very sick.Purple veins bulge out almost bursting out of their skin, twisted joints and bloodshot eyes reminiscent of movie zombies.They stood in that room blankly, from time to time suddenly let out a struggling roar, and their arms twitched forward or backward, letting the sticky saliva hanging from their mouths splash on the ground——

"Let's go over there!" The captain gestured and mouthed to tell Tony where to go. They didn't want to disturb these terrible things at all. They were preparing to walk through this corridor like a minefield of land mines, however, the moment they passed by the automatic door of this cabin——

The automatic door with the red indicator light beeped and then turned green with a click, and then opened with a snap——

There was an eerie two-second silence throughout the spaceship. In this silence, three humans made direct eye contact with a group—six by visual inspection—of green-skinned aliens infected by a deadly virus, perhaps because of the automatic door. The slight sound of opening it seems particularly harsh in this silence, anyway——

"Roar——!!!!" The alien roared.

"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhly.

Immediately afterwards, the stool flew straight towards the alien's head and hit the target with a muffled sound, and then: "Run!" Tony was the first to react and shouted, turning his head and running.He was followed by two of his teammates.

"You know I played a similar game with Clint once!!"

"Now is not the time to talk about that, Tony!!"

"OMG they run so fast it's not like in the movies!!"

However, just as the three of them ran across the corridor and returned to the cabin where they had just searched for weapons, another group of people ran screaming from the direction they came from. As soon as he saw Steve, he ran even faster: "Captain!! Help!!"

"Why are you all in here?! Don't come here! Go back—" Before he could finish speaking, Steve saw the 'zombie aliens' chasing after them, so he overturned them almost without a pause. A table made it block the door he had just passed through, and then he rushed to the small patrolman O'Brien, pulled him, and passed through the rest of the crowd to block them from the deadly zombies!Steve vigorously moved the measuring tool he was holding as a weapon, and the long-handled thing hit the head zombie's face heavily, and then shattered into seven or eight petals—what kind of counterfeit product is this? !

"Steve!!"

Still marveling at how brittle this thing is, the captain heard Tony's voice and turned around to take what Tony threw - he thought it would be a better weapon - and he got it A stool - how much you love stools, Tony! !

Before he could complain, Steve slammed the stool into the face of the next attacker—and the stool shattered six or seven petals—

"Just kidding!! How poor are these aliens, so they can't buy a quality product?!"

"Captain the head! Attack the head!! It's always done like this in the movies!"

"I don't think there's anything to be said for the tricks in the movies these days—oh hey! This really works!"

Too much!While hitting the head is a good idea, it's too much!Why are there so many!Did the virus transform all the Skrulls on this ship? !If only Steve was here alone, he might feel more at ease, but now there are more than 20 civilians who are almost scared to death, and he can't calm down and think carefully about the plan!

"Susan! Susan!! No matter what happened to you! Now is the best time for you to wake up!!" Tony obviously thought of another way.Susan Storm.If the Invisible Woman wakes up, then mere zombies are nothing to worry about.Susan, who can control force fields and 'air', can even create a shield to protect everyone - provided she is not in a coma.

"Tony!!!" However, Steve knew that being distracted during this close combat was the worst idea in the world, and he yelled at Tony to watch out for the sudden attack from the flank!

"Ahhh!!" Tony hadn't turned around to dodge the attack, and suddenly the King Arthur Excalibur pierced his ribs. The little policeman O'Brien seemed to be very proficient in using this gleaming weapon. He kicked Kick away the zombies stuck on the Excalibur, "I'll cover the captain behind you!"

"Thanks O'Brien!" Steve heaved a sigh of relief, but it wasn't enough to resolve the crisis—although Maika on the other side really displayed the same fighting power as Natasha, the way she swung the ax was simply amazing. Steve is hallucinating - they need a better plan, "Tony! Wake up Susan!"

"I think so too!!" Tony slid up to Susan who was crowded in the center by the crowd. Thankfully, she was hugged and protected by several women in the center, "Susan! Susan Wake up!! We need you Susan!!"

"Too~~~ Ni~~~~"

"Wait! Wait a minute! Susan! Wake up! We are going to be eaten by zombies as snacks! Wake up! Oh my god...Richards will kill me if he knows..." Talking about Tony raised his hand, trying to hit Susan's face, although he raised it high, but when it fell, it turned into a caress, he couldn't get down, so he thought of another "same" Will be killed by Richards' way, "Susan! If you don't wake up, I'll give you a Stark kiss—"

"Wow?!" Before Tony finished speaking, Susan suddenly woke up.

"Oh please?! Really?!! Susan, you did it on purpose!!"

"Tony, Tony?! Ahhh!! What is that!!!" However, Susan didn't notice Tony's strange complaints. She understood the current situation almost instantly, the powerful force that the Invisible Woman could control The field immediately erupted from her body, with the 'living people' gathered in this room as the center, the transparent force field erupted outward!Blast all those half-dead things out!

"Oh my god..." I finally had the time to catch my breath. Everyone said that the Avengers are the strongest League of Legends in the world. Those who said this must have never seen the Fantastic Four—the name of the strongest Avengers is still So a little bit controversial.Tony calmed himself down from the strong force on Susan, and then quickly supported Susan who had just woken up and used such force and was a little unsteady, "Hey, I'm holding you, look, I It's not that bad, is it?"

"Oh Tony... what's going on here? Where's Richards? Don't tell me Johnny did it..." Susan was afraid that this farce was caused by her famous brother, and she was dizzy now , I can hardly remember anything, and I don't know what happened here.

"I think it's still a little difficult for Johnny to figure this out. Let's take a break and I'll tell you the details later." Tony was finally able to hold Susan justifiably, and he was about to help Susan to a corner in the corner. When the only stool that hasn't been smashed goes away—

"There's no time to rest Tony..." Steve's words shattered their fantasy of resting, those things that were blown away by Susan's force field stood up again with bloodshot bodies, this scene, Steve described in his Saw it on a friend, "This is not good at all." They can repair themselves.

"This way!" Meika yelled, smashing an observation window of this cabin with an axe. If they went to the room on the other side, at least they wouldn't have to be attacked from all sides. "Then attack the head!"

That's right, the head.If the head is broken, they don't seem to be able to regrow it.I don't know if Alex also has this weakness, but since he can survive a nuclear bomb explosion-probably not.In any case, Steve thinks that Maika's judgment is very correct: "Everyone follow Agent Bailing! Immediately! Hurry up!!"

Everyone ran over the window to another room, which seemed to be a laboratory, anyway, there were no zombies there, and the automatic door was blocked.People ran to the back of the room in horror, and pinned their hopes on the few heroes who protected them. Many of them didn't even know what happened. It's not a good idea to die with confusion and fear in their hearts. , and the monsters behind them were rushing towards them crazily, they could hardly do anything except scream——

"Be careful!!" O'Brien rushed to a fallen person, he swung the sword in his hand to chop off the head of a monster and then helped the companion, "Go!" he shouted, never thinking about himself Would do it like a hero.Just like what he imagined countless times that night after passing the patrol police exam, but the next second——

Reality is always cruel and bloody.

"No!!! O'Brien!!!" Steve's eyes caught red blood splattering out, and he kicked the enemy who attacked him, but when he turned around, it was too late——

The hand of the heavily infected Skrull pierced O'Brien's body, and the monster screamed as if proclaiming his great achievements, and then the shining holy sword pierced his head!The purple blood and the red blood spurted out and mixed almost together, and O'Brien fell backwards—

"Grab him!!" Maika instructed like this, and the others reacted. Several of them ran over and grabbed O'Brien's hand and dragged him into the room. Maika saw a bloodstain on the ground. She knew what the end would be like, but she couldn't stop, the ax in her hand cut off the neck of another monster.

"Steve!!" Tony had to run to the captain, he gave Steve a hard push to refresh him, "Steve!! Calm down!!"

"..." Why, why, why... like this... Steve thought he was used to it.I am used to seeing someone die in my own eyes.But he was wrong.He'll never get used to it.He still remembered the way O'Brien looked at him, those gleaming blue eyes showed great trust and admiration for him, he believed in himself so, so much...

"Steve!!"

"Seal this window!!" Steve came back to his senses, he jumped over the window sill, trying not to pay attention to the bloodstain, "Mica!" The window, and then he almost lost his mind and picked up the experimental table in this room, turned around and threw it at the monster who was trying to pass through the window sill behind him!

The monsters were directly hit by the experiment table, and then all kinds of broken materials flew towards the broken window as if they were alive, and sealed the window tightly!After finishing all this, Susan used various facilities and materials in the room to fix the windows, and then she fell down and fell into a coma because of using too much force under this physical condition——

"Susan!" Tony ran over, and now he was safe for the time being, at least those little monsters couldn't come in. She hugged Susan, checked her situation, and then turned her head and nodded at Steve.She's fine, just...too tired.

"..." Steve didn't relax. He looked at O'Brien who was lying on the ground and was hugged by several other survivors. He walked over, and people made room for him.

"...captain...captain..." O'Brien's wound was bleeding continuously, although people tried their best to hold his wound, but... if the wound was too big, nothing could be done.O'Brien was only holding King Arthur's Excalibur in his hand. He looked at Steve and uttered a few syllables from his blood gushing throat, "I...protected..."

"Yes O'Brien. You protected everyone, everyone." Steve held O'Brien's hand, and he said so emphatically, "You are the best soldier I have ever seen."

"Captain...I want to..." O'Brien stared at Steve with teary eyes, "I want...to go home..."

"..." Steve couldn't say anything, he didn't dare to look into O'Brien's eyes, O'Brien's words kept echoing in his ears, he tried hard to make his own voice, " I'll, I'll take you home to O'Brien. We'll fix you...and..."

"...I can't..." But O'Brien interrupted Steve, who looked at Steve and forced a smile, "I know, I know why you use the shield...captain. "

"O'Brien..." Steve didn't know what O'Brien meant, but he wanted O'Brien to talk to him, at least that would prove that O'Brien was still alive.

"I like you...always...from a very young age. It was you who made me...decided to be a policeman. A person who protects...others. But...cough cough...cough! Uh...cough cough... ..." O'Brien suddenly choked on his own blood in the middle of the speech, and he coughed for a long time before he could catch his breath, "I thought... if I had a gun, or a sword... I could protect other people... But, my father said, I'm an idiot...because guns, and swords, don't bring protection and safety, they just, bring death."

"So, I...know...Captain, you...why, use a shield..." O'Brien smiled weakly again, "Because...that means to protect...shields are used to protect people Yes. No guns, no swords...no other...things. Because you...have always...protected us from...wars, panics and...everything...so it's...shields-yes ,Is it right?"

"..." Nothing could be said, Steve could not say anything, he knelt beside O'Brien and could only hold his hand tightly.

"Father, it is said that... guns and swords are curses...responsibility and...burden. It's just that many people...don't know...so, violence and...misunderstanding, just...appeared. But you... You can..." O'Brien said using his last strength to lift King Arthur's Excalibur, and handed it to Steve, "You can..."

"No...O'Brien!! O'Brien...O..." Steve found out that O'Brien was dead in the middle of his yelling, with the last smile on his face, Ben's shining eyes It started to become cloudy, Steve clenched the sword in his hand, and he raised his hand to close O'Brien's eyes, sorry, sorry...not as good as you said.

I can't protect everyone, I can't protect Bucky, I can't protect Peggy, I can't protect you... I can't do anything.But I... won't give up.I will always work hard for this, and become a better and stronger person to protect... this world.

So, O'Brien... the curse.This responsibility.And this burden.Leave it to me.

The author has something to say:

This chapter is a bit long... I still feel that many things have not been expressed, well, forget it and leave it at that...

The first half is full of funny comparisons, and the second half has a sudden change in style, sorry for ORZ, but it is also in line with the previous style of this article =w=

Little Patrolman O'Brien improvised after seeing a fan comic (author ZacGorman) of "Legend of Zelda" on LOFTER, because there happened to be King Arthur's holy sword, so...

O'Brien's words basically come from this little cartoon, the original sentence is:

"It's dangerous to walk alone, take this." (a sword)

"Will it keep me safe?"

"No, safety is not to be found in the sword. The sword brings death and does not give life. It is a duty, a burden. It is not a gift, but a curse. Hopefully, one day, you will be able to forgive me."

That's it... It's up to everyone how to understand it.In Xiao Cang's opinion, the fact that the captain's weapon is a shield is simply too appropriate.This shield would not fit well on anyone else.It can only belong to the person who is used to protect it.

Controlling violence with violence may be a difficult choice at a critical moment, but even under the cloak of justice, it does not mean that one can do whatever one wants.Is S.H.I.E.L.D. necessary?Do the Avengers exist?In such a chaotic world, of course there is.But even if a person saves the world, it doesn't mean that his exploits allow him to lose his bottom line.No matter what the reason and purpose is, if you are swallowed by the devil, you will never be able to turn back. [No, I didn't advertise my other article on mages and demons.