Chapter 439 The real hell!
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The endless darkness was like sticky ink, and every tiny movement became more and more laborious. The surrounding black mist seemed to come alive, and something seemed to be slowly squirming in the darkness.
Breathing heavily, the blond man opened his eyes with difficulty. He only felt that his throat was burning, like a broken bellows, and every breath made a rotten and harsh sound.
In the darkness, a group of shadows twisted the body and turned into substance, and filled the air with a strange aura.
"you're awake"
The mass of light and shadow covered by countless shadows made a sound, but the sound was like a high-frequency vibration, playing a strange frequency, like the whisper of an unknown creature.
The blond man closed his eyes, feeling a sense of fear in his heart, but in an instant, this fear was overshadowed by doubt.
Listening to the suppressed and restless sounds around him, the man only felt confused and uneasy.
His thoughts gradually became clearer, and his brain slowly regained control of his body. The blond man found that at some point, the sounds around him began to quiet down, and eventually became dead silence.
When he opened his eyes again, the gorgeous light and shadow seemed to be distorted by some invisible force and returned to their original positions. The boundless darkness and shadows were dispelled, and all the blurry scenes gradually became clearer.
"you're awake?"
The voice sounded again, causing the blond man's body to tremble.
After coming back to his senses, he discovered that the owner of the voice was a middle-aged man with a strange pendant hanging on his chest and a red cloak hanging behind his back.
"Stephen?!"
The sentry opened his mouth wide and looked at the man in front of him in disbelief.
"Hmm, it seems that this blond gentleman from afar knows me." Dr. Strange smiled easily, then turned around and said. "I just said that he is not an enemy. Punisher, you can put down the ax in your hand first."
"Whether he is an enemy or not cannot be determined by whether he recognizes you or not." The Punisher said coldly.
"Wait, no, what on earth is going on?"
The sentry struggled to sit up and looked around. He found that he was actually in the Supreme Sanctuary. Although it was very different from the Supreme Sanctuary in his impression, he knew that he was indeed in the Supreme Sanctuary at this moment.
Looking curiously at the somewhat unkempt Doctor Strange in front of him and the Punisher who was wary of him, the Sentinel frowned deeply. He had not yet realized what was going on.
Suddenly, something occurred to the sentry's mind. He suddenly looked at his hands, but what he couldn't believe was that his hands were so white and shiny.
"How can this be"
"I guess you need this."
Doctor Strange took out a bronze mirror from his arms and handed it to the sentry with a kind face.
Taking the mirror, the sentry silently looked at himself in the mirror, who was no different from before. Different from his impression, his white pupils were gone, and his ferocious, bloodthirsty teeth had returned to their original appearance.
"I, have I changed back?" The sentry touched his face tremblingly. Although he looked calm on the surface, he didn't know how turbulent he was in his heart at the moment.
"To be precise, you were cured." Doctor Strange explained beside him. "I have been exposed to many viruses from other dimensions. I have to say that this one in you shocked me greatly."
"No, it's impossible, how is this possible?!" The sentry looked at Doctor Strange in surprise, his lips trembling uncontrollably.
Of course he knew that the Doctor Strange in front of him was not the Stephen Strange in his mind, because in his world, Doctor Strange had been eaten by him with his own hands and mouth.
"Don't get excited, sir."
Doctor Strange waved his hand, and the teapot levitated automatically and poured three cups of tea.
"I know you have many questions now. Likewise, we also have many questions for you. For example, why did the wizard send you to this place?"
"This place, what is this place?" the sentry asked doubtfully.
Doctor Strange and the Punisher looked at each other, and both sighed slightly. Then Doctor Strange turned his attention to the Sentinel again and said with a wry smile.
"This is real hell, sir."
If you want to completely make others believe in yourself, the first thing you have to do is to believe in others. This saying is very useful for Doctor Strange. Anyway, there is nothing worth losing now.
Compared with this guy who was infected with the inexplicable zombie virus, Doctor Strange felt that he was quite lucky, and at the same time, he was also full of curiosity about the outside world.
".Just like that, we have to be sealed here. In fact, we are locked up here. It's like a prison, but the seal sounds more acceptable."
Doctor Strange sat opposite the sentinel, calmly describing the changes that had happened here before. Now, he has slowly become accustomed to the life here.
"So, this universe is the product of mental pollution, a world about to be destroyed?" The sentry frowned thoughtfully, seeming to understand something.
"You can understand it this way. At the beginning, there was indeed a feeling of chaos in the world. Many people died at that time. Under the influence of pollution, many incredible monsters were born here.
Because the natural cycle here has been completely out of balance, the dead people cannot be calmed down. Slowly, they began to mutate and merge, transforming into monsters that seemed to wake up from a nightmare. "
With that said, Doctor Strange pointed at the sentinel. "Of course, you've already dealt with those guys, but you just don't know if they suit your taste."
"Ahem." The sentry was a little embarrassed.
Without lingering on this topic too much, Doctor Strange smiled and continued.
"Later, the remaining people began to re-establish a new civilization. They established various gathering points and city-states, and then fell into endless madness under the mental pollution of disorder.
In fact, life here is pretty good. At least here, we don't have to worry about birth, old age, illness, and death. No life will be born here, and no life will die here. "
"Then why do you still retain your senses? I thought you would be part of killing each other." The sentry also recalled part of the memory of coming here.
At that time, he was slaughtering and devouring all the flesh and blood that could be seen. Similarly, all the lives here also attacked him one after another.
Those weird deformed monsters, weird creatures composed of countless severed limbs, left a lot of psychological shadow on him.
"There are always ways to avoid pollution, as long as you can find the rules." Doctor Strange smiled. "I don't know if you've heard of Franklin."
"Mr. Fantastic's child?" the sentry thought for a moment and replied.
"Yes, that child has a very strong talent. Even if he wants to, he can completely reshape the universe with his own thinking. But sadly, such a powerful existence like him was still stabbed to death by Deadpool." Doctor Strange shrugged.
"You mean that pollution will subtly affect people's reason and cognition, and that invisible forces will 'forcibly' explain what happens in reality through some kind of logic?"
"You see, it's not difficult to deduce the truth, isn't it? This is a higher level of spiritual radiation, which reflects what those high-dimensional creatures that we don't have contact with want to see, which is what happens here. .”
Doctor Strange took a sip of tea and said calmly.
"So in a sense, people trapped in pollution are basically a group of walking zombies, doing mechanical work every day and killing everything in front of them.
Forget it, let’s talk about you. I’m quite curious about you. "
"Me?" The sentry was slightly startled.
"Yeah, you, a new, magical, weird superhero"
Doctor Strange crossed his arms and said in a deep voice.
"The wizard will not send you here for no reason. Even if it is the zombie virus in your body, I believe that with his ability, he will not be able to find a solution. So, what is the reason?"
After hearing Doctor Strange's question, Sentinel also fell into deep thought. He had never understood what he had experienced before. He only knew that his thinking was being driven by some kind of desire.
Originally, he thought those desires were caused by the zombie virus, a bloodthirsty obsession with devouring flesh and blood, but now, after understanding the experience of this universe, he began to think about other possibilities.
"I, I'm not sure." The sentry lowered his head in distress.
Suddenly, a strange energy filled the air.
Doctor Strange and Sentinel, who were extremely sensitive to special energy, reacted immediately. They suddenly raised their heads and looked around cautiously.
This is an invasion from the outside world and oppression from the spiritual realm.
The flames in the Supreme Sanctuary began to jump fiercely, and were dyed a dark green in an instant.
Feeling the familiar yet unfamiliar feeling of uneasiness, even the Punisher couldn't sit still. The three of them stood up almost at the same time and looked at the door of the Supreme Sanctuary Hall in unison.
There, a scarlet portal was rising slowly, eventually forming a rectangular barrier. No one knew what kind of terrifying creature was on the other side of the door.
Across the illusory and chaotic barrier, the sentry even seemed to see some indescribable shadow twisting his body.
Finally, a black leather shoe poked out.
Slowly, the opponent's entire body emerged from the portal and appeared in the three people's field of vision.
Looking at the man in a black trench coat, the Punisher's eyelids twitched and he was the first to break the silence.
"It's you!"