The Undead Empire That Travels Through the Multiverse

The moment the gunshot rang out, Stephen felt that his heart had stopped in fear.

Fortunately, Christine was standing close to the door. When the gangsters attacked, she was only grazed by the bullet on her arm and fell to the ground. She was not affected by the subsequent strafing.

"Long live Superman! Die to President Pedestrians on board.

This immediately caused a huge commotion. The police patrolling the street immediately rushed over, raised their guns and started shooting at the gangsters.

But Stephen had no time to care about this. He rushed towards Kristen quickly, came to her side and asked her with concern: "Kristen! Are you okay? Are you injured anywhere?"

While generally asking his girlfriend, Stephen checked the injuries on her body.

Fortunately, Christine was only slightly scratched by the bullet and was not seriously injured.

He took her to his clinic and handed her to the nurse who had just been hiding in the clinic to treat the wound. Then Stephen came outside to give first aid to the wounded person who was shot on the ground.

If it were in other countries, doctors and nurses might be at a loss when encountering this kind of thing, not knowing how to deal with it.

But there are no such worries in the United States, especially for small clinics like theirs.

Thanks to the U.S. Constitution, which stipulates that everyone can own a gun, the proliferation of guns and shootings everywhere are a major feature of the United States. Just like Indians who don’t even spare lizards, you can’t live in the United States without encountering two shootings. It can be said that I have experienced the authentic American style.

Therefore, street clinics like the one where Stephen works, in addition to daily treating headaches and fevers for nearby residents and selling home-made emergency medicines, the biggest source of business is treating gunshot wounds of gangsters.

Even Stephen, a former top neurosurgeon, is very familiar with this gunshot emergency procedure.

Even though he couldn't hold a scalpel with both hands, his skills and knowledge were still there. By directing other people on the side to help, Stephen quickly dealt with several injured people with minor injuries, and several injured people with more serious injuries, Then other doctors from the clinic sent him to the operating room for temporary surgery.

After the police took control of the situation by shooting the gangster and sending someone over to the clinic to ask if he needed help, Stephen finally had time to stop and catch his breath.

But at this moment, a male caregiver who was explaining to the police what happened suddenly cursed: "Despicable superhumans! Damn the Avengers! These separatists should go to hell!"

After hearing these words, Stephen's mind buzzed with thoughts. It seemed that the gangster just shouted slogans like "The Avengers will win" and "Long live Superman" after shooting, which also mentioned A strange name - President X.

For Stephen, this is nothing less than a thunder on the ground. In his memory, the Avengers are the heroes who saved the world. Everyone is called a superhero, and they are led by Captain America, a symbol of the American spirit. Why did he suddenly become a damn separatist?

Stephen was full of doubts, but noticing the environment and atmosphere at this time, he naturally would not ask, but was going to go back to his clinic to check the information online.

If the Avengers really became notorious separatists and everyone knew about them, there would undoubtedly be information about them online.

However, when Stephen returned to his clinic, he was stunned and found that his clinic had regressed back to what it was like in the 1980s right in front of his eyes, and the computer on the table immediately changed into something quite different. Bulky old desktop computer.

Even Christine and the nurse who were treating the wounds on the side changed their clothes to what they looked like in the 1980s, and the medical equipment also changed accordingly.

Before Stephen had time to react, Kristen saw him coming in and asked him with concern: "Stephen, how is the situation outside?"

"Ah? Ah! The gangster has been killed and the injured have been treated. The police are outside now and have the situation under control." Stephen was stunned for a moment before he came back to his senses and hurriedly answered Christine's question, At the same time, he tentatively asked her: "I heard just now that it was the Separatist Avengers who did it. What happened to them? Why did they come to attack the clinic?"

Stephen seemed to be complaining inadvertently, but in fact he was directing the topic to the Avengers, trying to get some news from Christine and the nurse.

"Who knows what those freaks are thinking? Ever since Anthony Stark was injured by a grenade from the National Guard a few years ago, causing him to become Iron Man, this group of separatists has not been quiet for a day." The nurse took the conversation in line with Stephen's wishes, and quickly revealed the news he wanted to know: "Those superhumans gathered together and established this shit Avengers Alliance to oppose President X's rule, but they didn't Seeing them do something to really overthrow the president, there will be endless riots, riots and shootings all day long!

Last month, a guy named Punisher was shot to death in the street in Chicago, and a guy named Hawkeye was executed in Washington because of his status as an Avenger. They are a group of villains and scoundrels! "

Of course, the nurse in this kind of small clinic cannot be the young and beautiful nurse in the big hospital that Stephen remembered, but a middle-aged woman with a big body and a round waist, and naturally a much louder mouth.

But at this time Stephen really hoped that she would be more open-mouthed so that he could get more information.

But the middle-aged nurse did not continue talking, but quickly stopped talking and said to Stephen: "Doctor Stephen, I have taken care of Miss Christine's injury, but you still need to give her an injection of morphine to relieve the pain. , I’ll go out first.”

With that said, the nurse left the consulting room, leaving Stephen and Kristen alone.

Because of the shooting incident, the clinic is expected to have no patients for a while. Stephen can stay with Christine for a while.

If it was before the shooting, Stephen would certainly have wished for it, but now...

Although he still wanted it, deep down he couldn't help but want to know more about the Avengers, because he instinctively felt that something was very wrong.

However, Stephen did not forcefully verify that this was just his hallucination or dream at this moment, nor did he try to ask and explain his situation to Kristen. Instead, he calmly followed Kristen's usual behavior, first calming Kristen's emotions, and then taking the initiative Offered to send her home to rest now.

Kristen naturally refused and left the clinic with Stephen.

Because of her hand injury, Kristen could no longer drive. Stephen wanted to offer to drive himself, but Kristen said that Stephen's hand was not fully healed yet, so it was better not to drive.

This somewhat reassured Stephen, at least his experience should not have been distorted.

The two chatted while walking. Apart from some daily topics, the things Stephen heard Kristen mention the most were superhumans and the Avengers.

This was exactly the news that Stephen wanted to know, so he did not change the topic and listened very carefully to the information Christine talked about.

According to Christine, the existence of superhumans seems to have existed a long time ago. In the 1960s, the hippie movement was very popular due to the outbreak of the Vietnam War, and at an airport in Nevada, an out-of-control superhuman caused a fatal accident. The huge magnetic field went wild, and several aircraft were torn to pieces. The flying metal fragments caused huge and horrific casualties.

Since then, various superhuman incidents have occurred one after another, but they have all resulted in very serious and horrific consequences.

This caused ordinary people to have an extreme dislike of superhumans, and also led President X to announce very severe sanctions and crackdowns on superhumans, and to carry out large-scale arrests.

In Oklahoma, a group of new *** thugs headed by Bucky Barnes, Victor Creed and others were sentenced to death for cannibalism and other atrocities. The newspaper carried a long article on this There are numerous reports accusing superhuman beings of evil deeds.

There was a doctor named Donald Blake in Montauk, Long Island, who claimed to be the reincarnation of Thor, the god of thunder in Norse mythology, and founded a cult based on this, deceiving believers into eating Amanita muscaria like the ancient Vikings, insisting that it would Transforming into the God of Thunder in this way resulted in the death of several people due to food poisoning.

The newspaper also reported that when the US military conducted nuclear tests, a doctor endured a huge amount of gamma radiation but survived. However, his body suffered severe mutations. In order to study him, the military locked him up in a dark lake for experiments. room, the experimental codename of the research is "Hulk".

In addition, there is a man named Summers who burned his family to ashes with lasers ejected from his eyes, and another superhuman named Pietro escaped from prison many times by relying on his super speed. , and finally betrayed the death penalty of cutting off limbs...

Everything deviated from Stephen's knowledge and understanding, as if history had turned a corner since the Vietnam War...

No, the turning point seems to be longer, because Stephen heard the name Captain America from Christine, but he is no longer a symbol of the American spirit, but just a Vietnam War deserter.

It is said that he was afraid of the enemy on the battlefield, and was even exposed to the evil deeds of cannibalism. After being sent back to the country, he escaped the trial and sanction of the military court and is now hanging out with the leader of the Avengers, Iron Man Anthony Stark. Together.

This news made Stephen believe that there was not something wrong with his brain, but that the world had been tampered with by someone.

He immediately thought of Hiromi Jonouchi and Chen Mo whom he had met before. Those two people seemed to know magic. If the world was tampered with, they would definitely not be able to escape their involvement!

Thinking of this, Stephen hurriedly asked Kristine: "Kristen, are you still in contact with Dr. Jonouchi? I want to consult her on something."

"Doctor Jonouchi? Who is that? Why don't I remember that I know this person." However, Christine's answer made Stephen confirm his guess, but at the same time, a chill ran down his spine.

This kind of thing that distorts the whole world is obviously not comparable to the kind of street magic that turns into a fireball or a rabbit comes out. This is real horror.

Stephen did not believe that this was just a hallucination or cognitive deviation.

As a professional neurosurgeon, he has enough methods to verify his mental state and determine whether he has cognitive biases.

The result of a series of cognitive checks he conducted on himself was that there was really nothing wrong with him, but the world.

Although cold sweat broke out on his back, Stephen continued to talk to Kristine: "This is the doctor who performed the manual surgery on my hands. Did I remember her name wrongly?"

"Oh, you're talking about her, the Japanese doctor returned to Japan after performing the operation on you." Kristen said the doctor's name, and Stephen confirmed that it was a name he had never heard before.

Pretending that he had remembered it incorrectly, Stephen brushed it off.

The two were walking on the street. Stephen noticed a newsstand on the street, so he stopped and said he wanted to buy a newspaper.

Kristine nodded in agreement. Although she was curious about when Stephen would like to read newspapers, she still stayed where she was and waited for him.

After Stephen bought the newspaper, he and Kristen walked into the subway station and took the subway to take her home.

After sending Kristine home, Stephen quickly read the newspaper while walking back.

The first thing that caught his eye was the date on the newspaper, 1980.

This year! Stephen confirmed that there was indeed a problem with the year, because the time in his memory was already in the 21st century. How could it be such an ancient year as 1980?

After confirming this, Stephen hurriedly looked down again, hoping to find more discrepancies between this world and his own memory.

Soon, he noticed a news in the newspaper. The African King T'Challa of Wakanda was arrested and imprisoned for supporting the Black Panther Party to engage in anti-American activities. Wakanda has now been liberated by the US military, overthrowing this He ruled as an autocratic king.

"Wakanda?" Stephen does not have this small African country in his memory, and he does not know who T'Challa is, but he does know about the Black Panther Party.

It was a black affirmative action organization that emerged during the Vietnam War in the United States. It was once committed to improving the discriminated status of black people. However, because they promoted anti-Japanese ideas and sectarianism, they were brought back to the United States, sold and spread, which caused serious consequences and led to the organization being banned. Due to the suppression, the main leaders of the Black Panther Party were arrested, imprisoned or died. The organization also announced its complete disbandment in 1982.

So I am really in 1980? Stephen took a deep breath and felt dizzy.

Just when he was about to cheer up and see what other news there was, he suddenly noticed a man in a suit holding a cane right in front of him, adjusting the monocle of his right eye and looking at him inexplicably. smiled.