latent syndrome

Chapter 5 5. The Dark Alley
[Today at [-]:[-], an explosion occurred in the central business district of Los Angeles. 】

……

The flames are burning.

The scorching hotness envelops the soul, and even the tenacious will will disintegrate it.

Only the endless pain poured out until the soul was completely submerged.

Inside a convenience store.

Colin took a deep breath, as if he had been suffocated for 1 years.

He was bleeding from the mouth and nose, his body was trembling, and his staggering steps were unsteady at all.

clap clap clap...

Ke Lin supported the display rack, swept down a dozen bottles of wine, and all fell to the ground with a crackling sound.

The messy glass shards and the overflowing cloudy wine looked like a mess.

At the same time, Ke Lin felt that his body was extremely weak, his internal organs seemed to be exhausted, his Qi and blood flowed backwards, and his whole body was tormented by mysterious forces.

The tingling in the head is more like being drilled by an instrument, the pain is so painful that the thoughts have to be penetrated.

Colin groaned in pain.

And Di Yu, who was stealing something, had already been disturbed by this movement.

"He's having a heart attack! Call an ambulance!"

Di Kuo yelled at the cashier.

The cashier kept complaining, and seeing Ke Lin's appearance, he was afraid that he was really going to die.

But don't die in the store, otherwise the police will maintain the scene, and it will be closed for a long time, and my uncle will kill me. In addition, even if it is spread, the number of customers in this store will decrease. Mortuary shopping.

The cashier didn't dare to be negligent, and hurried forward to help Colin to take him out of the store, and at the same time called an ambulance for him, wanting him to die on the side of the road.

Di Kuo took this opportunity to steal some of the more valuable items in the store, including cigarettes, alcohol, and all the change in the counter. Thinking that he had business to do later, he also took a few boxes of rubber products, all packed in a large I packed it in my pocket and took it away, and drove away in a sports car with the Eastern European girl.

Colin was speechless, he didn't even pay for the chewing gum this time, right?

But his consciousness was fuzzy, and he couldn't control that much anymore. He wanted to stop the clerk from calling an ambulance for him, but the muttering was the same as chanting, and the clerk couldn't understand it at all.

"Hold on here, I'll go to the store and find you some quick-acting medicine."

The cashier took Colin to a public bench by the side of the road and told him to sit down, and then he left directly. In fact, there were no emergency medicines in the store at all. Prescription medicines must be sold with a license. He just wanted to get rid of this responsibility. .

10 minute later.

The ambulance arrived, and a large group of medical staff looked at each other in front of the convenience store.

There was no trace of Colin.

……

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In the remote and dark alley, without a single light, Colin hid behind a telephone pole, and the concrete wall was covered with graffiti and spray paint of some punk kids.

His face was haggard, extremely haggard, and he took a deep breath with difficulty like a dying person.

The mouth and nose are hoarse and the air is swallowed, as if the lungs have been punctured.

From the beginning to the present, it took nearly 10 minutes to slow down, and the body gradually improved.

He didn't want to go through it again, and he had already experienced what life was like death.

Is this a side effect of going back in time?It is too painful.

Not only will the pain before death remain, but there will also be a more perverse kind of spiritual abuse.

Colin realizes that this ability cannot be used indefinitely, and every time he looks back, he will be weaker than the previous one, and once his body reaches its limit, he will die completely.

His phone was about to explode. In addition to the police call, there were calls from some colleagues and his ex-wife.

The text messages were all asking if Colin had committed any crime, because he ignored the summons from the Los Angeles Police Department.

Colin realized that running away was not an option. The one-eyed woman's reaction speed was unbelievably fast, and she was able to reach the checkpoint out of the city before him. I don't know if she flew over or something, and she could actually judge where he was going to leave. What the hell.

Moreover, the mobilization speed of the Los Angeles police this time was so fast that Ke Lin could not believe that it was the Los Angeles police. Some murderers who had been rampant recently could not be caught, but it was amazing to catch him, an innocent citizen.

calm.

Must be calm.

With trembling hands, Colin took out a cigarette from the cigarette case and lit it, and hissed violently.

The current situation is that there are not many times to go back in time. At most, if you do it again, you will be completely finished. You must seize this opportunity and not run away blindly.

The one-eyed woman wanted to test her controllability. The first time she was too nervous, she lost control and turned into a monster. As long as she could calm down and control herself well, she might be able to avoid disaster.

Gray would choose to talk to herself, which means there is still room for it.

but.

How can we control it?
If you want to know how to control a monster, you must first know how to become a monster.

Colin tried to transform his left hand into a bone knife, and he began to imagine how his hand would look distorted and deformed.

1 minutes passed.

No matter how much he imagined, there was no movement in his left hand, so he had to give up the idea.

Isn't it that simple?

Is there any special skill?
Colin began to recall the situation at that time, because he was threatened with life and death and became a monster because of his high mental tension.

So when there is a crisis in the body, when it is stimulated, it will be activated?
Colin searched for stones in the dark alley, and after a while, he finally found one.

But it is not stone, but permeable bricks used to pave sidewalks. Although a corner is cracked, they are large and thick, and they are very heavy when swung.

Unlike ceramic tiles, permeable bricks are not fired, but compressed, with lower brittleness and stronger hardness.

Colin frowned, hesitating, do you really want to do this?
The phone started to ring, and it was still an official call from the Los Angeles Police Department.

There was no time to linger, Ke Lin took a deep breath, and with a hard heart, he swung the permeable brick with his right hand.

lb!
The left hand was hit hard, and the crisp sound of the fascia breaking and deforming could be heard. The three fingers were broken and distorted, all misplaced, and a bloody mess.

"Hold."

Colin's left hand was trembling and convulsing. Although the pain experienced by going back in time was more intense than this, it didn't mean it wasn't painful.

The extreme numbness twisted the nerve center and spread to the whole body. The tinnitus was like a car horn, and the magic sound penetrated the brain.

But the left hand still didn't respond, it seemed that everything before was just an illusion of his own, and he was still an ordinary person at all.

No.

Can't think in a conventional way.

Colin took out a cigarette with one hand and lit it up, his left hand was dripping with blood.

It can't be an overly abstract concept, just like if you want to move your arm, you can't just imagine moving your arm in your mind, and your arm can move.

It must be a definite thought, a natural command, like manipulating the fingers to grasp, there must be a specific goal and movement.

Since it is hidden in one's subconscious mind, it must be able to be mobilized.

"Specific... specific..."

Colin repeated these two words, and looked at the electric pole where he had been before.

How about trying to cut it in half?

Colin walked up to the electric pole. He remembered that when he transformed, there was an electric current passing through him. Although he didn't know whether it was an electric current or a conscious command, there was indeed such a thing.

bioelectricity, and specific actions and goals.

Almost unconsciously.

With a wave of his left hand, Colin hit the electric pole.

cack cack...

The bone exploded from the left hand, and the flesh and blood proliferated rapidly. The sharp sickle between enamel and bone replaced the left arm, splitting the concrete stone pillar in two.

There was a smooth cracking sound.

The utility pole slowly tilted along the arc of the cracked section, and finally hit the ground heavily, setting off a large cloud of smoke and dust.

Because the wires were pulled and broken, some surrounding houses were cut off, and many residents shouted and cursed.

"Hold."

Ke Lin knew that he had to leave quickly, so he ran away from the alley. Under the influence of Colin's unconscious disguise and hidden thoughts, his left hand also returned to a normal arm. Except for the sleeve being torn, the left hand was intact, as if there was nothing at all. Like any injury.

(End of this chapter)