novelraw Chapter 150 Collingwood Asylum
Chapter 150 Collingwood Asylum
The author has something to say:
The word count is too high today, and the final truth will be revealed tomorrow. This branch line is also to pave the way for the subsequent plot, so it is still very important.
Before you know it, there are already 150 chapters. The author will slowly lead you little angels to the finale. Starting from August, there will be one chapter less. I don’t know if the darlings are willing to fight with me to the end. Okay, Yes, I have heard your voices meow meow meow!
Before Steve had the bodybuilder look and tight red, white and blue uniform, and was considered a hero, he never thought he'd be noticed by anyone other than Bucky.Until he met Howard, the super-rich and scientist that Steve could only stand in the middle of the audience looking up at, and honestly, given Howard's reputation, he never associated him with invention .
There is a gap that will never be bridged between them, and whether Howard is in the spotlight or not, he is a shining star.
Nevertheless, they met, and in the laboratory filled with a large number of machines and instruments that Steve could not name, Howard first saw Steve, who was so emaciated that he couldn't even support the Marine uniform. Steve didn't laugh at him, didn't even spit out any sarcastic words, and Steve thought that a rich man like him must say something sarcastic to provoke him.
Howard was only obsessed with his own research, and he didn't care whether Steve was tall and mighty. The only reason he expressed his opinion on Steve's figure was that he was worried that he couldn't bear the pain during the transformation process.
Howard didn't treat Steve as a living experiment, but rather kept telling Steve about the super serum and why it was so important.Howard made it clear that it was difficult for him to estimate the possible risks of serum injection. He said that there is no [-]% success in this world, although he has done experiments on various animals.
He hoped that he would think carefully before making a decision.
But in fact, Howard didn't have to do this at all. For the two of them at the time, they were completely unfamiliar.
Unlike the officers who stood by and watched, they didn't care whether Steve could bear the accidents during the transformation process. In their eyes, this soldier without any background was just like those mice and monkeys, just chosen for the progress of human science. It's just an experiment.Probably their biggest complaint was that Steve's thin frame might affect the results of the experiments.
It seemed that he was still an unqualified experimental subject.
There is no doubt that Steve succeeded, or that Howard succeeded.When the transformation machine was turned on, the relieved expression on Howard's face really impressed him. It was not the joy of seeing the success of the experiment, but the affirmation and praise of Steve's own courage. Of course, there may still be joy in it. He is a scientist after all.
For a period of time after that, they got very close, and that was probably the most glorious moment in Steve's life.
Howard never treated Steve with the attitude of "I created you", he didn't even have this idea, he regarded Steve as a friend, and when he learned that Steve loved his female boss, he always kept secrets Advise him.
Howard may be regarded as Steve's second real friend after Bucky. Even though they live in two completely different worlds, they have a tacit understanding with each other, and their conversations can always arouse the interest of both parties. Never argue over some inexplicable issues.
Therefore, when Steve's familiar friend appeared in front of him, or in such a strange environment, Steve had to think that he had hallucinations.
"I'm real." Howard clearly saw what Steve was thinking, "Well, I don't know how to explain this to you, but in fact, I've been by your side for 70 years, man, you Don't you want to give me a hug?"
Steve didn't give him a hug, but he seemed to remember something. Steve remembered that Ma Linglong said that there was a ghost beside her, but she didn't want to say the name of the ghost, and the girl always used "he "To address each other.Steve kept wondering who that person was, and then he met Howard.Steve suddenly realized that he should have thought earlier that because of the relationship between Ma Linglong and Stark, she respected Howard very much, so she used "he".
"God." Steve didn't know what to say to express his mood at the moment, as if his language function was blocked.Sweat blurred his vision, and it might have been tears. Steve wiped away the stuffed eyes, "I can't believe it, I can't... Howard, you didn't go to reincarnation, why, why Is it me? This is not a good idea, you shouldn't... I'm fine, old friend, you should go to reincarnate, Ma Linglong said, ghosts who miss the reincarnation time can only be wandering souls for the rest of their lives, I don't want this It happened to you."
"Look at you." Howard floated up to Steve, and he smiled happily, "Look at you, you remind me of 70 years ago when you thought Peggy and I were lovers, you were about to cry gone."
"Come on, I didn't." Steve felt as if he was not so uncomfortable, he was no longer hot and sweaty, "I guess you always broke the water glass I put on the table in the first place, or There are windows, it's all your fault."
"I'm just afraid you'll catch a cold." Howard said, "Okay, listen, now is not the time to reminisce, understand, I shouldn't let you see me, then we will get along a little less comfortably in the future. But I have to show up, I see that you are planning to do something stupid. Let's go to Linglong quickly, she will find a solution."
"I can't get out of this place," Steve said. "You see, I can't even find my teammates."
"Don't worry, she's here," said Howard excitedly. "I know she's coming, she's the best girl, she's a Stark girl. I mean, it's coming soon, you know , she is engaged to my little Tony."
"How do you know?" Steve looked at him suspiciously.
Howard pointed behind himself: "Look at this, does it look familiar?"
The Iron Cat was sitting upright not far from Steve, when a mouse ran past it, and the cat's claws swept the mouse away.
"Is this, Iron Man?"
"It's the Iron Cat."
Steve sat up, and he walked up to the cat: "Looks like Stark's new pet?"
"No, this is Linglong's new pet." Howard said quickly, "Linglong must want you to go with it."
"Why haven't I found out?"
"Because the changing space always separates the two of you, this cat has been following us. I wanted to remind you, but you ignored my warning. It was enchanted, so it could find you no matter what , which means it can also find its owner." Howard patted the cat's head, "We can meet Linglong as long as we follow the steel cat."
The steel cat suddenly opened its mouth (at this time Steve thought a real cat would jump out of it), and a small yellow ball was held in its mouth.
"I guess it wants you to take it." Howard said uncertainly, "I seem to have seen this before. It's a kind of pill, made by Linglong."
Just when Steve was hesitating, Stark's voice came out from the Iron Cat's sound device: "Why are you still hesitating, idiot!"
At this moment, Steve actually felt an inexplicable sense of intimacy. He picked up the pill and said to Howard, "Forgive me, it's really hard for me to reach a consensus with your little Tony."
the other side--
Ma Linglong learned about the past history of the mental hospital through the resentful spirit, but it was not a haunted incident that actually caused the hospital to be closed.
In the beginning, "Collingwood" was originally a public hospital funded by the government. Although it occupies a huge area, the internal facilities are quite backward and not as perfect as the rumors outside.Medical staff are even less patient in treating patients, and sometimes even punch and kick patients if they do not cooperate with the treatment.After all, the salary is not very impressive. Most people come here with emotions. Later, it was found that at least half of the doctors and nurses did not have formal licenses or had their licenses revoked long ago.
Therefore, the patients who are sent are often homeless tramps, or poor people from poor families who have no money to go to private hospitals for treatment.
I don’t know when it started, beating and ill-treating patients became an unspoken daily routine of doctors and nurses. At night, there were screams of patients being beaten. Over time, nearby residents thought that It's haunted.In that era when the Internet and communication were not well developed, no one could produce evidence to prove the authenticity of the abuse.
The medical staff will not receive any complaints from the family members of the patients, because most of them are homeless, and even their relatives have abandoned them.
One day, a new nurse discovered the secret. She fled the hospital and told the local police about the treatment of patients.But it didn't take long for the nurse to disappear, no one cared or reported it, and the abuse continued every day.Every patient has more or less trauma on his body, and the severe ones even died of kidney failure due to long-term abuse.
It wasn't until the last few decades, when several bodies were washed onto roads by heavy rains, that people thought about it.Many residents began to speculate on the truth of those abuse incidents, and the troublemakers even sneaked in to find out the possibility, but they never left in the end.
A fire completely cut off people's suspicions about Collingwood Hospital. The flames destroyed everything, including evidence that could prove that there was indeed patient abuse inside the hospital.The search and rescue team entered the interior to try to save the survivors, but it didn't take long for those involved in the rescue to die in various accidental ways.
Since that day, the hospital has been declared completely closed, no one has sent patients in, and no one has seen the original patients come out of it.
The nearby residents gradually moved away from the hospital because of the fire. Over the past few decades, there will be strange and inexplicable noises from the hospital at night, and some people see patients in hospital gowns standing in front of the window facing the passing people. Pedestrians beckon.
No one knows what happened inside, except for the ghosts who became wraiths.
No one thought that the culprit was the director of the hospital. He was an authoritative brain surgeon who was over half a century old, but he was also a believer in demons.
The dean treated the patients as living bodies for sacrifices, tortured and killed them with extreme means, and summoned demons from another world with the hatred of living people.He turned the entire hospital into a hub connecting the real world and the spiritual world. Since then, the dean himself has become a servant of the devil.
He obeyed the instructions of the devil, and dedicated the patients and doctors and nurses to his master one by one. In the end, only himself was left, so Dean Hao donated himself without hesitation.
But this matter did not end because of the dean's death, the devil still exists, and he is looking for opportunities to strengthen himself all the time.The leftover ghosts cannot be reincarnated, let alone leave this place. The demon threatens them to participate in the demon's game. They are forced to play with the living to death, and the demon seems to make fun of it.
Taking advantage of people's curiosity, the devil never lacks new toys.
When the first group of supernatural lovers walked into this building with a DV, intending to make a documentary about spirituality, the demon had an evil idea.It looks for an object from among them that can be used, and the demon tells him what to do in exchange for freedom when the other party is on the verge of desperation.
The chosen person will kill his teammates, all of them, and record the supernatural phenomena he saw in the entire hospital, including the scene where he killed his teammates.Then, that person must agree to the devil, and after leaving, make the video into a movie and distribute it on the Internet or sell it to merchants for dissemination, and he can leave.
If he breaks his promise after going out, he will still be taken back to this place.
This is what the so-called "sell your soul to be free" really means.
"It seems that the devil hates us." Patton stretched his limbs on the bed, he had enough rest, "It must want to put a curse on us." Patton patted the body armor that was obviously damaged, "This Thanks to you, Linglong, these things of yours are very useful."
"As I said, the equipment is just an auxiliary tool. The reason why you were not bewitched is because your own concentration is stronger than other intruders." Ma Linglong put away the two captured ghosts and promised to save them.She thought about the fact that the demon in the ghost's mouth might have other secrets, a truth that even the ghost didn't know.
Coulson's legs still can't walk normally, but they are better than a few hours ago, at least he can stand up smoothly.
Natasha was sitting in the corner thinking. Compared with Barton and Coulson, the mind control she was subjected to obviously affected her, and the feeling of despair was not relieved by the stable environment.Natasha kept recalling the past in her mind, and those dark experiences that would make her feel uncomfortable no matter what the situation was, were infinitely magnified, more intuitive than Loki's verbal stimulation.
For a while, she really had the idea that she could be freed by simply killing them all. She wasn't sure whether it was caused by the demon's invasion of her brain, or whether she was just so cold-blooded.So later she decided not to commit suicide, so that she would not have to kill others.Natasha hated herself for being so weak after so many years, and she was even more afraid that if Ma Linglong found her a little later, she would really take action.
"You forgot to recite the meditation mantra. It is very dangerous to be distracted in this environment." Ma Linglong walked to Natasha's side, "The devil is good at taking advantage of human weaknesses, and your weaknesses are your past experiences, so You are the worst affected and there is nothing to be ashamed of."
"You didn't use some kind of mind reading technique on me, did you?" Natasha said, wiping the sweat from her brow.
"From the day I met you, I know that you have killed countless people. Even if I don't read your mind, I know what you are thinking now." Ma Linglong sat next to her, "You feel that you are no different from a demon, and you have been killed by people before. As a demon, you have many blood debts that can never be repaid."
"Don't expose me so directly, girl, I'm feeling guilty." Natasha said with a wry smile.
"At least you didn't kill like everyone else, you're still fighting, you're still sane. The reason why the devil is a devil is because it can spy on the darkness in your heart, and then use it to ruin your whole life " Ma Linglong handed her a complete box of chocolate frogs, and the wrapping paper was also there. Ma Linglong packed a lot of useful things in the handbag this time, and the food was the most, "Open it, there will be a surprise. "
"Like a clown sticking out his tongue?" Natasha said, she opened the box, saw a brown frog, and then smelled a strong aroma of chocolate.
The frog moved twice, and Natasha hesitated if this was Ma Linglong's prank to make her happy.
"Chocolate frog." Ma Linglong said, "it's not a real frog, it's just been enchanted, so it can move. Don't let it escape, you'd better catch it and bite off its head."
Barton smelled the scent of sweets and came over: "Sounds like a cruel thing, are you instigating Tasha to eat live frogs?"
"So when you ate the bear biscuit, did you also consider the biscuit's feelings?" Ma Linglong said. She broke off a frog's leg and put it in her mouth. "Many things in the magical world can move."
Natasha took out the chocolate frog, and she noticed a card under the frog's body, which showed an old man with a long white beard.
"Is this Santa Claus from the wizarding world?" Barton asked, pointing to the portrait on the card.
"His name is Dumbledore, and he is one of the few, surviving, and greatest wizards in Europe." Ma Linglong introduced with some pride, "I just work for him."
Natasha distributed the chocolates to Barton and Coulson. She turned the card over and read the text on the back, which was about the deeds of the old man with the white beard.Of course, to a Muggle, those deeds seem to come from the settings of a fairy tale character, such as Dumbledore discovering the twelve uses of dragon blood, and his partner Nicole May in alchemy, and What kind of ten pin bowls game.
Natasha turned the picture over again.
Barton bit the chocolate and exclaimed vaguely: "He's gone?"
This made Ma Linglong immediately think that Stark had a similar voice when he saw this thing for the first time: "You can't expect him to stay on it all day, but he will come back. As I said, there are many magic worlds Everything moves, didn't the wizards in the wizard department tell you?"
"I think they hid more than one card from us," Natasha said.
"Professor Dumbledore can indeed be called great, but even he had the idea of conquering the world and eliminating Muggles, and he even took action for it, but in the end he recognized it because of some not-so-glorious things. What I should do most." Ma Linglong pointed to the first sentence on the back of the card and said, "'Defeated the Dark Wizard Grindelwald in 1945', this is his famous battle, but many people don't know that they are actually very good friends. Good enough to be alone.” She paused, then continued, “You’re not the only one with a disgraceful past, and you know you can’t change the past no matter what you do, but you still have a chance to be a great ..."
For a moment Ma Linglong didn't know how to define Natasha.
"Muggle?" Natasha couldn't help laughing.
"Agent." Ma Linglong said, "A great agent."
Natasha kissed Ma Linglong's face. No one has ever encouraged her to be a "great" agent. This idea sounds a bit funny, but it is very touching.
When she turned the front of the card towards her again, the old man came back again, with a slightly different expression from before. Dumbledore looked very kind, and the slightly raised corners of his mouth revealed unsatisfactory joy, just like the one he just said Leaving is for something that is particularly meaningful to him.
The idea of seeing him suddenly struck Natasha as a little crazy.
"You can put 'Dumbledore' in your breast pocket." Ma Linglong suggested, "He will protect you from evil forces entering your heart."
In fact, the wizard card does not have this function, but obviously Natasha doesn't know, and she believes what the girl said is true.
At this time, the door was gently pushed open, and there was a creaking sound that made everyone's spirits tense up. The three agents made reflexive attack postures almost at the same time.
A red cat-shaped robot walked in with its butt twisted. It meowed and flicked its tail. The reactor blue on its chest was faintly beautiful.Followed by Steve, he sticks to the door carefully and observes for a while, and then slowly approaches.
"Captain!" Coulson greeted him excitedly, limping, holding Steve's usual weapon in his hand, "This is your shield."
Steve saw Ma Linglong, which is enough to confirm that Howard's judgment just now was correct: "No, don't come near me!" Steve walked quickly to the other side away from the crowd and said, "I was cut by the monster's teeth I hurt my hand, and I'm not sure if I'm still human now."
This is really an unsatisfactory opening statement.
"It depends on whether you have sharp fangs, captain." Barton grinned and pointed at his own teeth. He seemed to want to defuse the tense atmosphere, but unfortunately no one thought what he said was funny.
Ma Linglong stepped forward, and she noticed Howard who was following Steve, Howard was not assimilated by the resentment here, he just turned into a young look: "Let me see your wound."
"There is no wound." Steve lifted his injured arm. Except for a little blood, there was not even a paw print on the skin. "I mean, it healed, because of my system and the time here. Something is wrong, anyway, I don't know what to do to prove that I am not infected."
"I swear Steve's still Steve!" Howard said. "He definitely hasn't turned into a monster. Have you ever seen such a handsome monster, honey?"
Steve looked at Howard, he probably wanted to say something, but he didn't want his teammates to find out, so he didn't speak.
However, Ma Linglong noticed this detail, and she planned to pretend to be ignorant for the time being: "It's easy to prove whether you have turned into a zombie." She took out a small sprayer and sprayed a little gray liquid on Steve's skin, "how do you feel?".
Steve put the liquid under his nose and sniffed it: "What is this?"
"Sterling silver solution, to deal with zombies." Ma Linglong observed Steve for a while, then threw the bottle to Barton, then turned to the crowd and said, "Okay, let's act and spray all the weapons." She frowned and said to Barton, "Save a little, it's expensive."
"Hey, you're Iron Man's girlfriend." Barton made a dissatisfied voice.
Steve stood there a little at a loss, he rubbed off the silver liquid remaining on his skin with his other hand: "So, what am I going to do, should I stay away from you?"
Ma Linglong said: "Hurry up and spray your shield, it's very convenient to kill zombies." She was surprised why Steve wasn't infected, but the focus is not on it now, "I think we need to spend a little time to make a plan , that's your specialty."
Steve nodded, the solution didn't react with him, enough to prove that he was safe: "I found some strange things when I came here."
At this moment, like an earthquake, the room shook violently. This was from the demon's anger when he discovered that someone was trying to break the rules.
Ma Linglong picked up the orchid with both hands, and popped out four golden balls from his fingertips and nailed them to the four corners of the house. They were spirit beads made of condensed mana, and the shaking stopped soon: "If you can successfully get rid of these demons and ghosts this time, , I can give you a half discount if you need anything in the future."
"It doesn't sound exciting." Barton said.
"The money must be collected." Ma Linglong said, "If you don't pay the price for finding someone to exorcise the demon, you will lose your life."
"There is still this rule?" Barton looked at Coulson, "Why haven't you heard of it?"
"Because most psychics don't know about it."