Strange felt like he had made a mistake.He really shouldn't have walked into this garbage-like place.It's not that the place is weird, the smell of decay offends him, it's the guys who have gathered here.Whether it is from the appearance or from the demeanor, it is very, very abnormal.The old man who welcomed him into the "tavern" in the first place had been corrupted by the strange forces that permeated the whole world, and he was no different from a monster, but this was almost the most normal guy among them.Next to Strange, who was a little restless, sat a guy who was drinking with his head down.The way it drinks is peculiar.Instead of mouthing, the wine is poured directly into the sarcoma-like head, as if it were sprinkled with water, and the disgusting, honeycomb-like holes in the head absorb the fluid.It barely maintained its human form, but its face was devoid of features, like a monster with severe burns.It also lacks "hands and feet" in the traditional sense, instead has vestigial limbs that have not yet turned into flesh and blood tentacles, but can be seen by the eel-like suckers on its skin.Maybe soon, this guy will lose the last shred of his sanity and completely transform into something like the monsters roaming the city.And throughout the tavern, there are such guys everywhere.In the collection of the mystery house, Master Wild had read cases similar to these guys.From the old man wiping his wine glass with difficulty in front of him, it can be seen that these monsters who are drinking should have been human beings living in this world, or humanoid life forms.As for those alienated organs, they are the alienation of life after being highly infected by the mixed forces.All the monsters roaming the city outside should have been truly intelligent beings.This sent a chill down the lines of Strange's heart.He had only read such stories in those magic books that recorded the stories of the Ten Thousand Worlds, when the dimensional barriers of a world collapsed, they were invaded by foreign creatures, and they were eroded and changed by abnormal energy.The stories seemed terrifying, but Strange always felt that those things were far enough away from him.And now, he saw it with his own eyes."
Bang" a cup of cloudy, weird liquid was placed on the dark wooden table in front of Strange's eyes.This interrupted Strange's thoughts."
Come, stranger, have a drink."
The only old man in the tavern who still maintained his human form looked at the wild mage with a smile.Although he could feel some kindness, the black face and the bulging eyeballs on the shoulders made the old man's smile even more terrifying.Strange moved his body a little uneasily, he certainly wouldn't drink the glass blindly.He held the glass in his fingers, he looked at the old man in front of him, and said, "How long have you been like this?"
”"Huh?"
The old man blinked in surprise at this question.A strange glint flashed in his cloudy eyes, and he put down the rag in his hand and stared at Strange like that, and after a few seconds, he said, "You're not from this world...
Take off your hood and let me see your face. ”"Why?"
Master Ye asked.The old man let out a strange laugh, like a night owl, and he said, "Look at our world, after the wall was broken more than ten years ago, we have seen more people from the 'outside', you are not the first, but maybe the last, you also see it, and the world is almost over." ”"Every night the noise is more intense, it rolls in a nightmare that is already full of holes, it doesn't want to wait anymore, it will soon swallow the last dregs of this world...", said the old man in a hoarse voice, "Do you understand?
We are the last dregs, its last meal. ”"After the last meal, there is no light in this world.Stranger, I don't know what purpose you have in mind to jump into this hell, and I don't care. ”"But if you want to know more from me, let me see your face."
Faced with this outlandish request, Strange hesitated for a moment, then pulled up his hood and showed his face.At this moment, the old man standing in front of him widened his eyes.He looked at Strange's face with standard facial features, hair, and normal contours, and it was as if he had seen the most beautiful and precious treasure.His mouth was slightly open, and his body trembled slightly.He raised his hand, trembling as he moved his fingers in the fine scales, as if he wanted to touch Strange's cheek.But before he could touch the wild mage's skin, he jerked his hand back as if he had been burned by flames.He breathed heavily, trying to keep his composure.But the other monsters also noticed this scene, and they were not as "restrained" as the old man.They roared, like a riot in a tavern, and they rushed from all over the place, letting out all sorts of roars, as if they wanted to hug Strange, but more like they wanted to tear Strange apart!
Jealousy, anger.Uncontrollable emotions hit their minds, unleashing endless malice.Strange held a crystal wand in one hand and a cold Proxima Centauri in the other, and Billy, who was hiding outside the door, also saw this scene, and he also clenched the wand in his hand, ready to help.A loud "bang" rang out in the tavern.The old man slammed his fist into Kuroki's bar, and he shouted at the out-of-control monsters, "Get back!"
Fool, those don't belong to us anymore, and he can't change reality if he is torn apart...""
and drink your swill!"
The thin old man seemed to be very majestic in this tavern, and the monsters who had lost their bodies were like a herd of beasts ordered by the beast king, and they retreated little by little under his reprimand.Strange really raised the killing intent in his heart at that moment just now.These monsters look terrifying, but they're not really powerful, and they're not much like the alienated ghouls that roam the city.Perhaps their most powerful weapon for spellcasters is the mental contamination of their terrifying appearance.Chaotic energy changed them, but it didn't make them stronger."
What's wrong with them?"
Strange asked."
They are jealous of you, stranger, and jealousy is a terrible sin that causes others to do terrible things."
The old man, with his head down, picked up the rag again and began to wipe the stained wine glasses, and he said in a low, slightly dejected tone, "Not only them, but I am also jealous of you...
Your appearance, ah, handsome, energetic young man, I was like you before I became this ghost. ”He let out a strange laugh and said, "As handsome as you are, as attractive as you, but look, look what the hell I have become now." ”"I advise you to leave quickly, stranger, you may have strange powers, but believe me, the world is not tolerant of you enough."
The old man raised his finger and pointed to his face with his black, slender, bumpy nails, and he gave Strange a terrifying smile, saying, "The things that have changed us are also changing you...
Quietly, change from the inside out, and by the time you react, it's too late!
”This was like a warning, and Strange was startled.What's worse is that I don't know if it's a psychological illusion, after the old man said this, Strange suddenly felt a little itchy on his skin.It's as if it's really the energy that is all over the world, and it's changing the world like it's changing it, quietly changing him."
No wonder the Mentor didn't set a time limit for the scramble..."
Strange scratched his red and swollen arm, he looked at the scratched skin debris on his fingers, and muttered, "You don't need to set a time limit at all, as long as you stay here long enough, you'll be automatically out." ”He took a deep breath, raised his head, no longer concealed anything, and asked directly: "So, uncle, what happened to this world more than ten years ago?"
”"Don't you have eyes yourself?"
The old man was impatient with the question, and he snorted and said to Strange, "The cursed flesh has polluted this world, and they have rained down from the sky like meteorites, bringing calamity to this world. ”"In the beginning, our civilization wanted to study their never-dormant, never-dying powers, but they spawned much faster than we thought.""
Seven days after the Day of the Damned, the first city to suffer was engulfed in living flesh overnight, and the entire city and 400,000 of its people evaporated overnight."
The old man chuckled, and said, "We have also seen, and at the dawn of that day, in the original location of the city, there was only a flesh monster covered with fangs and barbs. ”"It devours life and hope, and breathes more despair into the air of the world.""
Fifteen days after the Day of the Tribulation, the most prosperous nation in the world perished; Three months later, the Eastern Continent fell, and we did our best to transfer everyone to the Western Continent, the land under your feet, and we abandoned our homeland. ”"We've lost everything, but it's not willing to let us go...
Year after year, it began to take over the world, the oceans were polluted, and countless lives were either extinct or became part of it. ”"We were initially thinking of fighting back, with fire, with metal, with all sorts of things, with everything we could find, we were going to burn the fungus blanket, we were going to burn the flesh, we were doing everything we could to try to stop it."
He pointed to the depraved creatures in the tavern, and said, "This is how we will fight back, and there are only a few cities left in the world, and tens of thousands of people are still alive, but only alive...
If you think that they can be called 'alive' like this. ”"Who is 'it'?"
Strange played with his glass, and he asked, "Do you keep saying 'it', those flesh and blood tainted with the forces of Chaos?"
Is it conscious?
”"If there is no consciousness, how can it devour the world?"
The old man said excitedly: "The flesh exposed to the ground looks evil, but it is only a tool it uses to engulf the world, what is really evil is its own will, if you want to see it, go to sleep." ”"Just find a place to sleep and you'll see it.""
But I advise you not to do this, the alienation of the body is only a appearance, once the will is broken, there is no way to save it...
Once it sees you, then you're done. ”Strange has one more piece of key information.In this world infested by chaos, you must not sleep!
It seems that in his sleep he can foresee the face of the evil spirit that engulfs the world, and that act will undoubtedly destroy the spirit.But he was a little disappointed.Because he didn't find the information he was looking for, the civilization of this world seemed to be finished, and from the old man's words, he could guess that this world was not the same as the real world.It doesn't have a superhero to appear in times of crisis, and it's not technologically advanced enough to resist the arrival of Cursed Flesh from beyond the borders.The worst thing is that there is no supreme mage in this world who can maintain dimensional balance to defend these innocent people from calamity.The world is not as fortunate as Earth.From the old man's desperate words, he could sense that the people of this world had given up hope of saving themselves, and could only silently wait for the end to come.And at that point in time, it won't be too far away.For Strange, then, it seems that there is no second way to go other than to join the fight with the others."
You say, you've been trying to fight those cursed flesh for a while."
Strange suddenly remembered a detail, he looked at the old man in front of him, and he said, "Haven't there been a victory?"
If according to what you said before, the spread of those cursed flesh and blood is so fast, you won't be able to last more than ten years, and there is some hidden meaning in this, right?
”"UhhhhUnder Strange's gaze, he finally spoke, "If you want to win, indeed, there has been a time..."
Batson pricked up his ears as well.Both of these guys felt that the key point information about this battlefield world was about to be revealed.()