Marvel Book of Magical Events

Chapter 1724 Chapter 1720 Psychic Reaction

Due to the population density and construction technology of this period, after this battle, the only buildings that could be used as shelters by the Inhumans in this village with a large population in the Kree's sphere of influence were a few houses built with reeds and mud bricks. The owners of these houses were responsible for cooperating with the Inhumans and providing slaves for the Kree to serve as experimental materials. As a result, other farming villagers in the pre-dynastic period became much richer and even had a large number of slaves who cultivated the land and iron weapons.

After the war began, the mud brick house where the slave owner and his family lived became the hiding place and shelter of the Inhumans. The slave owner who once enslaved other mortals became Hydra's food, while the slaves who could only sleep in the reed house chose to escape when they found that something was wrong. When two bombs shattered the body of an Inhuman who looked no different from a human, they also shattered the relatively solid outer wall of the mud brick house. The empty bodies of the slave owner and his family lay in the center of the mud brick house. There was still blood on the bones, and the smooth skull was open mockingly. The empty eye sockets stared at the two parties who smashed the simple house.

The sparks floating in the air ignited the roof in a blink of an eye, and the loose bundles of reeds fell down, burying the dead with flames. But both sides of the war didn't care about these bones. Hammurabi didn't care about the life and death of these slave owners. For the Inhumans, these humans were just food for Hydra and materials to meet the needs of the master's experiments. The Kree didn't care about these "slaves of slaves".

Now there are fewer and fewer mud brick houses that can be used as shelters. With the support of the fire support team's flares, the outer fire team can even see the golden armor of the guards flashing in the burning ruins under the dazzling white light. Hammurabi was so fast that the mortal soldiers could only see a blurry golden afterimage.

The outer firepower group continued to shoot at the Inhumans who tried to break through the encirclement. They fired faster and faster, but they could not stop the Inhumans who were getting closer and closer. The fire support group fired mortars according to the established shooting parameters, and then evacuated as quickly as possible. The Inhumans who were not blown to pieces were lucky enough to come to the outer firepower group, and then stepped on the mines brought by the fire support group, and were blown up by the high-speed eruption of shock waves, flames and metal fragments.

Despite having relatively sufficient firepower, the outer firepower group still failed to complete the task of blocking the Inhumans.

An Inhuman with a strange appearance and a long and narrow face rushed to the front, staring at her huge pure white eyeballs. She was very fast and did not need weapons. Neither the impact of the explosion nor the bullets could get close to her. Facing the expeditionary soldiers who were rushing towards her with daggers and long knives drawn, she just raised her hand, and the trained soldiers flew up into the air, and then were squeezed into a ball of steel and flesh. Although they did not dare to face the guards, when they saw that their opponents were only mortals, the Inhumans who had lost their courage once again burst into amazing malice.

Under her cover, another Inhuman who was twice as tall as an ordinary human rushed into the defense line and fought hand-to-hand with the expeditionary army, and even rushed into the mortar position of the fire support group, causing huge casualties.

Hammurabi had no time to help the outer firepower group.

His garrison spear had just pierced the upper body of the Inhuman in front of him, and another Inhuman who looked exactly the same appeared out of thin air, rushed up and hugged his leg armor tightly. At the same time, a layer of rock-like hardened material suddenly appeared on his armor, as if he was being stared at by the legendary Medusa. Hammurabi immediately turned around and punched, and a narrow skull exploded under his fist, and the body with the remaining mandible flew several meters away, with twisted limbs. The Inhuman died without any pain, and he didn't even realize that death was coming. It took the Guards nearly a minute to find and kill the dozen bodies of this Inhuman who had the ability to copy his own body from behind each bunker. In this battlefield where the survival time of the Inhuman was measured in seconds, this Inhuman also delayed long enough.

"Mr. Tribune!" The Guards recognized the voice of the young woman. He had made a judgment on her psychic stability. After being certified, the temple priest could share power with the emperor and then leave the temple to join Inanna's army priest team. "I observed a violent psychic reaction at your position."

"Inhuman psyker." Hammurabi dodged a beam of lightning that pierced the air. The power armor told him that the temperature around him was dropping sharply, and he could smell the ozone released by the psychic lightning. In response, he fired several shells in the direction of the lightning. But he did not hear the explosion of the mass reaction warhead. As if it had sunk into the water, the shell splashed in the air, emitting nauseating colorful ripples of light, like the oil film on the water.

"This kind of psychic reaction is more intense, and it is not something a psychic can produce." The priest said anxiously, "Mr. Tribune, I suspect Hydra wants to do something."

"Can you stop it?" Hammurabi turned to avoid the arm of a deformed Inhuman with obvious physical mutation. The garrison spear thrust upward, easily cutting off the muscles and bones that had been modified by the Kree genes. He could smell the burning smell of inhuman flesh and the fear emanating from the pores of the Inhuman before he died. He has reason to believe that the Kree have prepared combat hormones for the Inhumans, which is like the dueling wine advocated by some Kree military nobles, but it is just a degraded version - the Kree's biotechnology is very advanced, but their wisdom will never change. Unable to compete with the Emperor, precious combat potions could not raise the strength of the slave soldiers to the level of the Praetorian Guards - in Hammurabi's eyes, this Inhuman's fists were as slow as an insect in the sap. The Imperial Guard punched the Inhuman's throat, and the modified muscles and high-density bones shattered like dried cookies.

"I can't, my lord, I'm sorry..."

The priest's voice became increasingly blurry, and she coughed a few times with difficulty, as if her whole body was under tremendous pressure at the bottom of the sea, mixed with a few vague sobs. The Praetorian Guards could hear the sound of blood rolling in her throat. The physical pain was almost unbearable for this woman - she was injured, and it was very serious. It might be bleeding caused by trauma - Hammurabi thought , emergency assistance measures should be taken by injecting 2 ml of combat cardiotonic, which is the maximum dose that a mortal body can withstand. At least it would keep her heart beating until she had pneumothorax surgery.

"The psychic reaction here is getting stronger and stronger, and the curtain between reality and illusion is becoming weaker due to the blood sacrifice. The fire support team position where I am located was attacked, and I tried my best to block the Inhuman attack."

"Thank you for the reminder, priest."

The sounds of gunfire and explosions reoccupied the communication channels. Hammurabi crushed the deformed corpses of the Inhumans under his armored boots. This severely mutated Inhumans were considered by the Kree to be the best slave soldiers - the Kree's experiments were full of randomness. They cannot understand the impact of the Celestials on the earth's ecosystem, and can only induce several types of aliens with specific characteristics. These Inhumans will become the ruling class of Attila's star castle on the moon in the future.

"Sir?" The voice of the expedition leader came from the communication channel.

"Where is the military priest? I want her to monitor the psychic reactions here."

Hammurabi pulled the trigger, blowing up the Inhumans hiding behind the bunker along with the mud brick wall. The Inhumans no longer dare to blatantly attack the expeditionary soldiers. What he has to do now is to kill all the Inhumans and find Hydera's parasitic body. According to the Emperor's theory, no matter what choices he makes now, Hydra will survive until killed by the Emperor himself thousands of years later. This is destiny.

"She is dead, sir." At the same time, the squad leader cleaned the dagger and put it back into its sheath. Lying in front of him lay a huge skeleton with burnt flesh and fabric remains attached. The grotesque shape of the skeleton was exactly the same as that of the Inhuman who broke into the fire support position. Next to this skeleton, there was an Inhuman woman whose throat was slit. Her head, chest and abdomen were beaten into pieces by dozens of bullets, and even the broken spinal fragments fell to the ground along with the blood. The four inhuman eyes on his forehead were poked out one by one with daggers from the expeditionary army. The powerful temple priest took away the soul of this Inhuman, giving the expeditionary force time to kill another Inhuman.

"Five minutes ago, she helped us kill the Inhumans who attacked us, but she was still attacked." The team leader said in a serious tone. The messenger responsible for carrying the radio station had been killed, and the fire support team suffered extremely heavy casualties. Every soldier was trained by the Imperial Guard Order ordered by the emperor. The skills mastered by every soldier are so precious in this era. The sacrifice of any soldier means that the huge resources invested by the emperor are washed away by the river. In the sea. "It's a pity that we didn't have time to provide her with more help."

Hammurabi raised his head and stared at the supernatural mist caused by the remaining power of the Inhumans over the village, invisible ghosts wandering in the dark night sky. Whenever a mortal or Inhuman dies, they cheer from behind the thin curtain. In this age of gradually fading mystery, it is still easier to penetrate the veil between reality and illusion than it was after AD 0. Hammurabi speculated that the Inhuman psyker may have suffered backlash from an extradimensional dimension.

This kind of thing is not uncommon. In Attila's Fortress in the Blue Zone of the future moon, the Inhumans still cannot overcome this problem after years of differentiation. Hammurabi knew very well that if the main parasite of Hydra was not found, the killing would continue, and the ghosts behind the curtain would enjoy the blood sacrifice and come to this world. He couldn't stop it, he could only fight it.

"I understand," the Praetorian Guard said, "Thank you for the reminder."

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The emperor was riding a horse, standing on the desolate gentle slope, watching the setting sun gradually sinking into the sparkling Nile River in the distance. During this flood season, the Nile Delta overflows with fertile silt and flows across the vast plains. Behind the emperor, one of the most powerful cavalry units in the world remained silent. This cavalry unit rides original Arabian horses selected and bred through artificial selection. This kind of heroic and elegant horse has great endurance and unparalleled loyalty.

The emperor equipped the cavalry with weapons suitable for two different combat modes. The lever-action rifle was used for high-speed movement, similar to the horse archery that nomadic peoples were good at, and used continuous firepower to smash the enemy's vanguard; the spear and the long sword were similar to the armored cavalry in medieval Europe, crushing the enemy's defense line like a hammer on an anvil.

Although this cavalry unit only had two to three thousand people, the generation gap in tactics and equipment was enough for them to deal with all enemies of this era. Except for the Kree, the two combat modes of the cavalry could not easily conquer the base built by the Kree, even if they brought fire support troops.

The Kree Research Center was not a simple scientific research functional building. The Kree who occupied Lower Egypt encountered psychic beasts wandering in the wilderness of North Africa, which had been left over from the Age of Gods, so they built a lot of defensive facilities here. The alloy walls and the electromagnetic barrier covering the entire facility completely blocked the cavalry's steps. Under the dazzling light of the flares, everyone could see that the shells fired by the fire support team were powerlessly exploded into a ball of black smoke and sparks on the arc-shaped barrier.

At the top of the sentry tower, a blue-skinned Kree looked coldly at the thousand-man cavalry on the hillside in the distance. Obviously, the Kree did not think that this unit could break through this line of defense, even though this unit demonstrated weapons that far exceeded the technological level of this era.

"Hammurabi has found Hydra's parasite, my lord." The guard standing next to Pegasus reminded softly, "There is also a psychic reaction there, just like Attilan."

The emperor nodded and drew the holy sword from the scabbard.

The night covered the hillside and slowly lit up a soft light, which was completely different from the dazzling magnesium light that was slowly descending. The Kree on the sentry tower looked in horror in this direction. They didn't understand why humans who were supposed to use primitive live ammunition weapons suddenly had such a high energy reading. The electromagnetic deflection shield can resist physical momentum and block objects, but it can never withstand this kind of stellar energy.

"Soldiers, don't let these aliens leave this planet alive." The emperor pulled the reins, raised the holy sword, and shouted at the soldiers. He was the first to rush down the hillside. One by one, the cavalrymen raised their spears equipped with explosives and followed the emperor to the distant Kree buildings. The long-standing trust made them choose to follow without hesitation. They saw the burning holy sword in the hands of the emperor releasing golden flames, and a flaming storm rolled up in the night sky. As the cavalry continued to move forward, the pure light released by the holy sword was like a hot wind sweeping across the wilderness.

The cavalry took the emperor as the spearhead and shot at the Kree research base like an arrow flying through the sky. The top of the arrow released the heat of scorched rocks and carbonized plants, but the cavalrymen who were close to this flaming storm did not suffer any damage. They saw with their own eyes that the electromagnetic shield that had been bombarded by hundreds of mortars burst like foam on the beach, and the high concentration of oxygen that the Kree people were accustomed to leaked out immediately. The burning meadow under the iron hooves of the war horses burned violently, and the huge warships that were several kilometers long and stagnant on the plains lay in front of them.

They seemed to be charging in hell.

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"Do you think you can win, slave?"

"I don't need to win."

Hydra's parasite, or more precisely, half of it. It pointed at the fog in the sky that was emitting a disgusting oily glow. In the hazy fog, there was a pure white human body that radiated many white filaments. This strange sight frightened the mortal soldiers who were still alive, but Hammurabi had seen many visions from other dimensions, and he knew that this was a precursor to the devil coming to the material plane.

Hydra squirmed the half of his body with his internal organs exposed on the ground, grinning at the guards, "I'm buying time for my masters, and I did it."

"The price is to violate the taboo of psychic energy. You and your master have no idea what power you are using."

This group of Inhuman psychics had difficulty controlling their own power. Even in the future Attilan, many unstable Inhuman psychics were used as living bombs to attack genetically modified warriors. Hammurabi suspected that those mortals had psychic talents before they were transformed. The Terrigen genetic transformation carried out by the Kree increased the instability of the Inhuman psychics. Until now, the only Inhuman psychic he had seen who could exert his power stably was the princess of the Attila royal family, the girl named Crystal.

"You cannot understand the power of the higher races that master the mysteries of the universe. Being their slaves is more glorious than the primitive intelligent creatures on this backward and ignorant stone."

Hammurabi did not intend to waste time on Hydra at this moment.

Hydra is a complete slave, a slave without free thought. Even if the Kree left the earth, it would still rule the "lower creatures" in its eyes according to the attitude of the Kree towards mortals and even other Inhumans. Even if it was overthrown by other Inhumans and exiled to another planet, Hydra would only treat other intelligent creatures as food. He simply fired two shots at Hydra, and then ordered the surviving mortal soldiers to ignite the remains with Molotov cocktails.

"Tell the fire support team to evacuate as soon as possible." Hammurabi lowered his head and said to the mortal soldiers in front of him, "You don't have to participate in the next war. That is not an enemy you can fight. Everyone, take the wounded and evacuate in the direction of the main force. There will be logistics and medical troops there to provide you with assistance."

“But, my lord.” The soldier named Caspar grinned, “We survived the last war.”

Sometimes, the courage or ignorance of mortals would surprise Hammurabi.