ch 5

"Alex, you are not a human, you are just a virus that needs to be destroyed."

"Alex, don't forget how painful it was when you were betrayed by your most trusted person."

"Everyone uses you, and only you can survive."

...

In one of the hospitals in downtown New York, several experienced doctors stood around a man lying in a coma, looking at him like a monster.

"How did he even survive such a powerful explosion? It's simply incredible."

"What the hell? The problem is that when he was brought here, he was on the brink of death, but in half a day, his explosion wounds somehow miraculously healed!"

"And this woman next to him, she was hit by a stone column, but she doesn't even have any bruises!"

"Are they both mutants?? Maybe we should turn them over to the police."

While these doctors were discussing, the man lying on the bed suddenly got up, scaring them all.

Alex had just been in a coma, and a familiar voice was continuously sounding in his consciousness. He was just about to respond to this voice when he suddenly felt himself falling and abruptly woke up.

"Am I in a hospital? What is that voice in my head? I am not dead yet..."

Alex looked at the white ceiling around him and at several doctors in front of him, and immediately realized that he was in a hospital ward.

"Yes, you were brought here with severe burns, but how could your wounds heal so quickly?"

One of the doctors, still in shock, asked him with a trembling voice, while the other doctors hid aside, afraid that this man would suddenly pull out a hammer and start killing everyone in his path.

"Did you see my wounds heal?" Alex asked the doctors coldly, and this scared them even more, to the point that they were ready to run away.

"When you were brought in, we immediately sent you to the intensive care unit, and when we were about to undress you to examine your wounds, we discovered that your skin started healing before our eyes! Until you reached this healthy state, we transferred you to this ward for observation..."

This doctor honestly told everything, not knowing that the more they saw, the faster they would die.

"In fact, I am a secret agent raised by the US government with the help of a powerful serum. Essentially, I am just like Captain America, understand? Moreover, my identity is absolutely confidential. If you tell anyone about this, you must know the consequences?" Alex spoke confidently, fabricating a lie based on information he remembered about this world, but it made these doctors believe him even more; they only nodded their heads.

In fact, he could just kill and absorb them to eliminate the danger, but now Alex somehow couldn't do that, and it was inconvenient. After such a serious incident at the hospital, there must be many victims of this explosion, as well as police officers.

"I just heard that the woman who was brought in with me is still alive? Where is she now?"

"Yes, you two were brought in together, and she is currently in the next ward under observation, also in a coma," one of the doctors replied, seeming to look at him with admiration.

"Good, remember that today, everything I told you must not be shared with anyone, understand?" Alex asked.

"Understood, captain."

When Alex left the ward, these doctors began to get excited and talk. Alex left the ward, and the doctors started talking excitedly.

"Oh my god! Is he a government superhero? How cool! Which hero does he belong to? The undead hero?"

"Shh! Quiet! Didn't you hear it's a secret?"

......

"Why... I saw that she was crushed by a column, and I felt that she was suffocating, but there were no wounds on her body."

Alex walked with doubts towards Kylen's ward. When he approached the door of her ward, he saw through the window on the door that Kylen was indeed inside, and she was already awake, sitting on the bed. Alex immediately opened the door and went in. Kylen turned her head at the sound, but when she saw him, she said nothing. There was only indifference in her eyes.

Alex felt strange, and there was a familiar aura in Kylen.

"Kylen, are you okay..."

Alex was about to greet her when suddenly!!

Kylen instantly flew up at an incredible speed, and her right hand turned into a black claw, just like his! It instantly thrust towards Alex's wide-open eyes!

When the tip of the claw was only a few millimeters from his eyes, it suddenly stopped, and it continued to tremble.

"Why... I can't! I can't move forward an inch!"

"You are not Charles! Who are you! Did you kill Charles? Why did you become like him?! And what the hell did you do inside me?!"

Tears welled up in Kylen's eyes, and the claws on her right hand returned to normal. She covered her face and cried.

"Kylen... I'm sorry. I think you accidentally got infected with the same virus as me. Moreover, I am probably the parent organism of the pathogen, so you can't kill me. And you are already dead. Now you are just like me, just a virus with the consciousness of the original body owner."

Alex stood and watched her. He no longer approached to comfort or talk to her. He just watched as Kylen cried silently. He was at fault, everything happened because of him, and all he could do now was blame himself. After some time, Kylen stopped crying, raised her head, and looked at Alex coldly.

"Get out of here! Don't let me see you again! Don't appear in front of me as Charles! You don't deserve it!"

"Sorry..."

Alex returned to his usual form and silently left the ward, leaving her to sit alone on the bed, dazed.

"Unexpectedly, fate did not allow me to return to a normal life."

He slowly walked down the corridor, entered the elevator, pressed the first floor button, and waited for the elevator doors to close. Suddenly, someone's hand blocked the closing elevator door. The elevator door sensed the obstacle and reopened. At that moment, Kylen was standing at the door.

"Take me with you. I don't know why. As soon as you go far away, my impending heart feels inexplicable pain. I don't know what else I can do..."

"Kylen..."

In fact, Alex knew that it was just the subordinate virus in her body, which depended on the main virus within him.