Chapter 12 Escape

"Give up, Emma, I will end your suffering, trust me."

Austin said seriously as he looked at the woman in front of him who was lucky enough to have awakened telepathy, but unfortunately was tortured by telepathy to the point of becoming a human being.

"End my suffering, what can you end it with?"

"With this." Austin took out a pistol, the same one used to kill Nick Fury. "Of course, the prerequisite is that you have to undo the diamondization on you before you can do so, otherwise the bullets won't be able to get in."

"You're dreaming!" Before Austin could finish speaking, Emma screamed and interrupted his words, then roared and rushed towards Austin with hands and feet, like a furious beast, or a bloodthirsty beast. of devil.

Austin raised his left hand, and the particle beams instantly converged.

Austin was always ready to respond to Emma's actions. When Emma acted, Austin's particle beam had already been gathered and was waiting to be launched.

Boom!!

With a flash of golden light, Emma's body instantly stopped halfway, and then in the next moment, her figure was instantly blown away by a huge repulsive force, that speed was even faster than her previous advance, and she eventually landed heavily on the ground once again.

"Don't resist, although this thing can't damage you, the good thing is that it has a powerful repulsive effect, you won't be able to rush over." Austin waved his hand and revealed the steel suit in his sleeves.

"Really?" Emma laughed hideously as she slumped to the ground. "Try blocking them then."

As Emma's words fell, a burst of soft, child-like laughter like that of a young child suddenly resounded in the tunnel, followed by a pale mist that filled out from the darkness.

Seeing this, Austin couldn't help but take half a step back, but he quickly stood firm and moved his retreating foot back to its original position.

"Is this the scene Petro just saw? It's really terrifying, like watching 'Ju-On' or 'It' in VR."Licking his somewhat dry lips, Austin's gaze was dead set on the increasingly dense mist.

Feeling a sense of dizziness coming over him, Austin made a split-second decision and fired several shots towards the figure looming in the mist, the muzzle spewing flames, and the figure in the mist suddenly trembled and was crushed by the bullets.

But before Austin could come to his senses, the scattered phantoms came together with the rolling mist and re-formed into human form. At the same time, eerie laughter kept ringing around, as if... He was laughing at Austin's overestimation of his abilities.

"It's useless. This is a force composed entirely of mental power. It has been in their bodies since you entered my territory. they're everywhere, and physical methods of attack won't be able to break them."

Emma was hidden in the mist, and since she was in a state of diamondization at the moment, this made her not affected by the surrounding spiritual forces at all.

Hearing this, Austin didn't react much, but judging from the beads of sweat on his forehead, he knew that his situation at this time was not good.

These mists were not a manifestation of telepathic power, which shows that Emma's human experiment was unsuccessful, because if these children can really awaken the skill of telepathy, then they will be controlled by the other party in an instant without this protective ability. He didn't even have the strength to resist.

But in a sense, Emma's experiment is not a failure, because these tragic children are already dead at this moment, and their souls and resentments are softened with the shallow mental power activated by Emma, ​​and as more and more people died, this energy was also getting bigger and bigger.

They usually hibernate underground in the welfare home, but when someone enters here, they will become their "hunting" targets.

Emma is not afraid of these mental powers because she was protected by Diamondization and her helmet. However, Austin is just an ordinary person. Faced with this strange power, he can't help but feel a little nervous.

Austin shot several ghost phantoms again. Although he knew that this was a useless effort, Austin had no other choice. He could not use the particle beam of the palm cannon to attack, because Austin didn't know if the particle beam could do any damage to these weird things.

Moreover, Emma was watching from the mist not far away, and the palm cannon could not fire continuously, and it would take a few seconds to recharge after a single shot, and these few seconds would be enough for Emma to rush in front of him and tear him apart.

Austin understood that this was the time Emma had been waiting for.

So Austin quickly gave up using particle beams, and while he used his energy-storing palm cannon to guard against Emma, who would attack him at any time, On the other side, he rushed into the mist to fight back, trying to stop these mental powers from eating into his thinking.

But fortunately, although these powers are large enough, the way they attack people is extremely single.

"Similar to slowly heating a pot with unsuspecting prey inside, it entraps its victims within its 'body.' Over time, it extensively drains the target's physical strength and mental vitality. When the prey reaches an unbearable state, it launches an assault on their mental realm, transforming them into a lifeless, mindless zombie."

Austin quickly calculated the speed at which this power would erode him. Those shadows and whispers getting closer and closer made Austin become a little anxious, but he quickly calmed down his emotions.

In fact, after Pietro entered here, Austin followed right behind him, and it was reasonable to say that both of them had been affected for about the same amount of time, but it was obvious that Pietro had been affected much more than himself.

At first, Austin thought it was because Pietro was a mutant and he was an ordinary person, so the main target of attack by that force was Pietro, and he was safe only when Pietro blocked most of the firepower.

But now that he thinks about it, it seems that this is not the case. Although Austin has no experience in dealing with supernatural forces in his memory, judging from the most basic rules, these forces invaded the two of them without being affected. It should be treated equally.

So.

Austin's eyes lit up, and he suddenly thought of the answer - Speed!

The biggest difference between himself and Pietro is undoubtedly speed. Pietro is a fast person. He acted and thought fast, his brain collected and processed information much faster than his own, so correspondingly, the consumption was also high.

Is this the truth behind the attack by these forces? The corners of Austin's mouth raised slightly. "I already know how to deal with these things. As long as I empty my mind, don't think about what is there and what is not, and minimize my mental internal consumption, these things won't be able to do anything to me."

Hearing this, Emma was also stunned for a moment. She looked at Austin's face, which was full of disbelief. This was the first time Austin saw this expression on Emma's face.

"I know what you want to do, but it's useless. I just need to focus on you wholeheartedly. You can't break through to me." Austin said warily to Emma.

"I have to say, you really surprised me. You are very smart, Austin. I can't help but fall in love with your brain." Emma took a deep look at Austin and showed a stiff smile. "But do you think you've won?"

Emma stretched out her arms, and the shadows in the mist seemed to be attracted to her, gathering around her.

"Even if you slow down your consumption so what, you're already trapped here, how long can you stall? One minute, ten minutes, or half an hour? Eventually, you'll die, oh no, you won't die - you'll stay and join our family."

"It won't take that long." Austin tilted his head and said with a smile. "I've already caught my last train."

The words have not yet finished.

A figure suddenly appeared next to Austin. The moment the figure appeared, the fog behind him suddenly exploded, as if it was torn apart by a flash of silver lightning with incomparable brute force. A hole was made, and the mist was separated in the blink of an eye, leaving a passage leading straight into darkness.

"What!?" Emma's eyes widened as if she had thought of something.

"You came at the right time, Pietro." Austin knew the identity of the person standing behind him without looking back. It was at this moment that Austin finally let go of his hanging heart.

Pietro did not answer immediately, but walked directly to Austin's side and tapped the helmet on his head with his fingers. This helmet was made of metal that blocked telepathy. Wearing this helmet, Pietro can use his abilities here unimpeded.

"I've got the thing, let's go quickly, I don't want to stay here any longer."

"As you wish."

Austin jumped onto Pietro's back without saying a word. The exchange between the two lasted only a few seconds. By the time Emma reacted from her shock, Austin was already on Pietro's back, and threw a flying kiss at her from afar.

"No-"

Emma reached out her hand, seemingly trying to grab hold of something, again trying to stop Austin and Pietro, but unfortunately, she had only just lifted her hand up, and in the space of a single breath, the figures of the two people on the opposite side of the room disappeared into thin air, at speeds that the naked eye couldn't keep up with at all.

With her mouth open and gasping for breath, Emma's eyes were left with two lines of blood and tears. She looked at the empty darkness, where there were no traces of Austin as if everything was an illusion.

 "No!!!!"

(End Of The Chapter)...To be continued.

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