Chapter 1385: The Return of the Old Days (Part 1)

"Where am I?"

Xu Shangqi stood up, feeling dizzy and holding his head, and then realized that this scene had happened not long ago. But strangely, a certain pain and stiffness had left him.

He felt the flow of Qi in his body was smoother than ever before. Those mysterious powers that he rarely controlled seemed to have embedded themselves into his muscles and bones, becoming a part of his instinct. So when he jumped up, he unconsciously added these powers to his legs and arms, making his movements more powerful.

Xu Shangqi jumped up from the ground with a carp leap, and then heard heavy, overly rough breathing sound on his right side, so he instinctively rolled, avoiding a tentacle that was lashing out.

"Again?!"

Xu Shangqi shouted in surprise, but found that he wasn't very afraid, because the light before his eyes was clearly telling him it was daytime, the sunlight was bright, and the breeze was blowing on his face.

Good heavens, he was already in the mood to feel the breeze, Xu Shangqi complained in his heart, and then he turned his head to look at the owner of the tentacle on his right.

Very well, that was a monster he still didn't know how to describe, a bit like a shortened king cobra, currently raising its bloated upper body, dancing the tentacles in front of its chest like a fire wheel.

Xu Shangqi took one look at it, then turned and ran. On the way, he passed Riley, who was climbing up from the ground. Xu Shangqi skillfully grabbed Riley's arm, pulled him up, and then the two ran forward together.

"Hey, what's going on?" Riley's head was still a bit dizzy. He said, "Time travel? Or did we enter another dream?"

"Ghost knows!" Xu Shangqi shouted angrily. Just as they rushed out of the mall door, another zombie-like monster jumped down, smashed a big pit in the ground, and blocked their way.

Xu Shangqi and Riley braked urgently. Riley turned to look at Xu Shangqi and said, "So what's the situation now?"

"I don't know, I just woke up too!"

The two ran toward the side of the street, but that king cobra monster and the zombie that jumped down later chased them relentlessly.

Riley finally couldn't stand the inconvenience of running on the ground. He followed his spider instinct, jumped onto the wall of a building, and then crawled quickly in a spider posture, shouting at Xu Shangqi, "Why are we running?!"

"If we don't run, are we waiting to... Wait, my tongue is still there!"

Xu Shangqi stretched his tongue hard, then licked the inside of his mouth, and took a look at Riley's ears, finding no bloodstains there. Riley also dug his ears and said, "Yes, my ears have recovered, as if they were never injured."

With a "swish," Xu Shangqi braked urgently. Riley didn't react in time, ran out another tens of meters, and then had to run back in a hurry, jump to the ground, stand behind Xu Shangqi, panting, and say, "What's wrong with you? Why did you stop again?"

Xu Shangqi shook his arms, moved his shoulders, and then lifted his legs in place a few times, turned to look at Riley and said, "You're right, why are we running?"

"But if we don't run, are we waiting to... Hey, I'm Spider-Man!" Riley suddenly reacted. He and Xu Shangqi turned their heads together, stared wide-eyed at the two monsters rushing over, and said slowly, "They aren't hallucinations, but real, touchable, tangible monsters!"

With a harsh metallic friction sound of "chi-la," the crooked utility pole on the side of the road was broken off, and then there were two "whoosh" sounds of giant objects being swung through the air, followed by a loud "bang."

The king cobra and the zombie were hit by the giant utility pole Riley lifted and flew hundreds of meters away, looking as if they had disappeared in the field of vision.

Riley and Xu Shangqi looked at each other, both seeing the excitement in the other's eyes.

Riley stretched out a hand, and the sprayed spider silk stuck to the surface of the building. The spider silk shone brightly in the sunlight, and when he swung, his hair danced in the air.

And Xu Shangqi was faster than him. He moved Qi to his feet, shrinking the ground into an inch, and then light shone on two fingers. He wrote a series of complex incantations in the air, then bit his tongue lightly, a cold light arrived first, and the magic formula was blurted out.

"Tianyou Tianyou, descending to the Nine Provinces, encountering demons to be slashed, encountering ghosts to be captured—urgent as an imperial decree!"

Instantly, the phantoms of two warriors wearing golden armor and holding long spears rushed toward the monsters. That tentacle bug that looked like a king cobra hissed, using its tentacles to lash at everything around it. And when the spear poked its abdomen, it seemed angered by the pain, frantically dancing its upper body.

A black shadow attacked from the side, kicking the already unstable king cobra monster to the ground, then rolled to dodge the attacking zombie. The golden-armored warrior turned around and stabbed the zombie through with one spear.

The two golden-armored warriors stood with one hand and saluted, then disappeared. Before disappearing, Riley circled around them twice, clicking his tongue in wonder. Seeing Xu Shangqi walking over, his eyes brightened and he said, "Good heavens, you have this ability? And you actually said you were an ordinary person?!"

Xu Shangqi's face was a bit pale. He shook his head, sighed, and said, "Fortunately, I learned a trick before I left. This magic formula is good in every way, except it consumes too much vital essence and can't last too long."

Then he complained in a voice Riley could barely hear, "I don't know what the original owner of this body was thinking. All the Qi was used to train muscles. I'm a mage player..."

Having defeated the two monsters, the two finally had time to carefully examine the surrounding environment. Unsurprisingly, New York was destroyed again, but this time it was destroyed more thoroughly, more in line with the apocalyptic scene in their minds.

Collapsed buildings and burnt vehicles went without saying. The traces of artillery coverage on the streets, police cars, military vehicles, and even a helicopter that had crashed into the ground were all smoking, obviously having just experienced a great battle.

Seeing such a tragic scene, the two not only didn't worry, but instead breathed a sigh of relief. Fortunately, it was a traditional apocalypse.

The two walked forward along the destroyed street. Riley's tone was actually a bit relaxed: "I feel my spider-sense has recovered. It's operating as usual. How about you?"

"My Qi is no longer chaotic either." Xu Shangqi frowned and felt it, then his eyebrows gradually relaxed, and he said, "And it seems to be operating more smoothly than before. After all, it was running around in all the meridians of my body before, which actually let me know what those so-called meridians are all about. I can now even see them clearly in my inner vision, just like Director Zheng said."

Xu Shangqi shrugged and said, "You don't know, our kind of power emphasizes 'unity of form and spirit.' Actually, I couldn't successfully use that magic formula just now before, because everyone's Qi flow is different. Although I theoretically knew which acupoints the Qi should pass through, I didn't know how to use my heart and mind to guide them. Now I know."

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"It seems that terrible dream wasn't without gains, right?" Riley smiled and said.

"But don't ever let it happen again." Xu Shangqi shook his head.

Subsequently, the two began to focus on more important issues, which was where their previous teammates had gone, including Wanda and Jarvis who were with them before, as well as Quill and Rocket Raccoon who rushed over later. There was no sign of them at all on this street.

"It seems we are completely separated from them," Riley said with worry, "I'm sure Jarvis has the ability to take care of himself, and he should also be able to take care of Wanda, but Wanda's state is indeed a bit worrying."

"The power she drew at the end was too terrifying, and she seemed to have ignited it. I'm not sure in what state she exists now, but I hope nothing goes wrong."

Xu Shangqi also frowned and looked at the messy street scene around him. Now his five senses were very sharp, and he could even feel any wisp of breeze blowing past his ears, and it was this wisp of breeze that blew a trace of imperceptible breathing sound into his ears.

"There's someone over there." Xu Shangqi stopped his steps and turned to look inside the counter of the shop window at the corner. Riley stopped, sensed carefully, and found that the spider silk in his brain was gently plucked.

His spider-sense also became more sensitive, and could even be actively used by him to perceive certain things. He stepped toward the house. Xu Shangqi wanted to pull him back, but Riley shook his head and gently pushed away his arm, saying, "It should just be an ordinary person, no danger."

The two entered the shop, but saw a pitch-black muzzle sticking out from the counter. Given that the gun barrel was still trembling slightly, Riley could judge that this person didn't often hold a gun and was currently very afraid.

"Are you okay? Don't be afraid, we're here to save you."

"Get out!" A sharp female voice came from behind the counter.

Riley sighed, slowed his tone as much as possible to soothe, and said, "Don't be so excited, Miss. You can trust us. We are superheroes, and we will save you."

Obviously, during this period in the New Warriors team, Riley learned a lot from others, including how to better save ordinary people in disasters and communicate in a civilized way, instead of just carrying people away and throwing them aside.

Although the latter was more useful at times, when the situation wasn't so critical, one still had to consider the other party's psychological state. Victims already in a stress state, once stimulated physically, easily did irrational things. Although it wouldn't hurt Spider-Man, it easily hurt themselves, which went against his purpose of saving people.

Riley bent his body, took a step forward slowly, tried his best not to make a sound, then stretched out his hands to show he had no weapons, and said, "Don't worry, we aren't monsters."

"But superheroes are monsters!" The woman screamed crazily. The pitch-black muzzle turned and turned, as if not knowing who to aim at. She shouted, "You, you all are! Get out, or I'm going to shoot!"

Riley and Xu Shangqi looked at each other, finding something fishy. Riley attracted the woman's attention, and Xu Shangqi moved slowly and quietly to the side of the counter. But when he saw the woman, or rather the girl, crouching behind the counter, he shouted in surprise, "Jessica? Jewel Jessica?? How are you here?"

Hearing her name, the woman, or rather the girl, hiding in the counter was stunned for a moment. Taking this opportunity, Riley grabbed the gun barrel. With a "bang," the sparks of the old-fashioned shotgun burst out, knocking off the chandelier on the ceiling.

Riley and Xu Shangqi rushed into the counter from left and right at high speed, pinning Jessica down, but Jessica's strength was much greater than they had imagined.

"Let go of me! You monsters!"

"We aren't monsters, I'm Spider-Man!"

"Spider-Man is a monster!

!"

"Bang!"

Riley watched Jessica slowly fall to the ground, and then shifted his gaze to the fist Xu Shangqi had just retracted. Xu Shangqi sighed and said:

"I said, I'm better at physical persuasion." ===== CHAPTER 1386 =====