# Chapter 56: Current Progress 99%

# Chapter 56: Current Progress 99%

"Yes, that's one way to look at it." Xia Shang naturally wouldn't tell him that the remote bomb inside his body could only survive for half an hour at most, because once the divided cells lost their activity, they would be no different from inorganic matter like rocks.

"I'll give you what you want as soon as possible."

After speaking, the Doppelganger suppressed his anger and left in a hurry. After all, no one who's been tricked can remain in a good mood.

"It's a shame, the food at this Restaurant is actually quite good."

Xia Shang returned to his seat and cut the Australian lobster on his plate with a knife and fork.

...

Meanwhile, Billy, on the other side, was lying in bed. He picked up his mobile phone and opened a piece of surveillance footage from eight years ago. The recording was simple: it was a video of his wife sitting alone on a Park bench for three hours. Since that day, his wife had been missing.

Therefore, whenever Billy thought of his wife's gentleness, he would open this video and watch it repeatedly, not only to miss his wife, but also to remind himself who his true enemy was! As usual, after watching the video, he prepared to sleep.

As a result, unintentionally, he accidentally glimpsed news about Translucent's resurrection.

"What the f*ck?" Billy was completely confused. The news of Translucent's disappearance had been causing a stir these past few days. There were even rumors that Translucent was dead, and Vought International was covering up the truth of his death. To make the rumor spread more widely, Billy had even personally put in a lot of effort.

"What's going on?"

Billy suspected this was probably another one of Vought International's means, just like the edited video Vought had previously released.

However, when he finished reading the entire news article, he immediately frowned.

"Translucent can actually livestream and interact with the audience. Could it be that Vought has developed black technology that can resurrect the dead?" Billy, who had personally dealt with Translucent's corpse, felt that this idea of his was absurd. If Vought had this kind of black technology, why would they still be fixated on the Military System? Wouldn't resurrecting the dead be even more profitable?

"No, there must be a problem here."

Billy went to the Washstand, washed his face with cold water, then found the recording of Translucent's livestream and watched it repeatedly.

To prevent Vought from finding someone to impersonate Translucent, he even found Translucent's past videos to compare.

"Impossible, something must be wrong." Billy observed for a full half hour but still found no flaw. Since the livestream allowed interaction with the audience, the possibility of it being edited was ruled out first.

Secondly, even with twins, there would be differences in certain details.

But at least in this livestream recording, he found no difference between Translucent and how he was in the past.

"Only one possibility remains... Vought International possesses Supes capable of transformation." Billy dejectedly put down his mobile phone. Even if he uploaded his thoughts to the internet, those netizens would likely not believe him.

"Damn it, I should have kept Translucent's corpse back then."

Billy said unwillingly.

The next morning, Billy had used up his last bit of savings due to investigating Superheroes, so he decided to try and get some funding from his former colleague. And his former colleague was Susan, now the Deputy Director of the FBI Operations Division.

Early in the morning, as soon as Susan opened the door to her Office, she saw Billy, like a nuisance.

"You're like the damn mold on the tile in my Laundry Room, scrape it off, and it just grows right back."

Her sarcasm clearly couldn't penetrate Billy's thick skin.

He put down the document in his hand and said, "Sounds like your problem is caused by dampness." Susan ignored Billy. She picked up the phone and smiled, "Get me the Security Department, please. Thank you."

Billy pressed down on the phone in her hand and said, "I can stop them from letting Superheroes enter the Military System."

"Why would you think I care?" Susan looked into Billy's eyes and continued, "Personally, I wish they would go to Syria. Maybe they could end the war quickly."

"No, they'll only prolong the war, after all, war gets funding." Billy shrugged.

Immediately, he took out a folder from inside his clothes pocket.

And placed the photos inside, one by one, in front of Susan. "Last week, A-Train injected drugs before that major race, and his girlfriend Crimson Countess also injected the same kind of drugs. They call that drug Compound V."

As he spoke, he held up a screenshot showing Crimson Countess injecting the drug.

"I suspect this is some kind of enhancer or steroid for Supes that can instantly enhance their ability. If there's a rumor that Supes are just a bunch of Addicts injecting drugs, I believe no one would be willing to let them enter the Department of Defense."

In fact, from the Government Department's perspective, Susan was naturally unwilling to hand over the power over life and death to a Private enterprise.

"These photos don't prove anything unless you can produce the blue serum inside. Do you have a sample?" Susan said.

"Not yet."

Billy said somewhat awkwardly.

"Since you don't have it, then that blue drug could be anything, like antihypertensive liquid medicine or something."

Susan put down the photos in her hand.

"You don't believe me? You think Supes are already enough of assholes now? Then just wait until they put on camouflage uniforms and see! How many people will Sergeant Homelander slaughter? If you ask me, you might as well just hand over the missile launcher to Vought." Billy's tone gradually became agitated.

In the end, Susan was persuaded by Billy and agreed to secret funding from the FBI to support him in continuing the investigation and find "Compound V".

"If you fail, you can expect to spend your life in prison. Damn it, I hope when you die, your blood doesn't splash on me." Susan said ruthlessly.

...

"The efficacy of Compound V is really long-lasting. It only barely disappeared after a week." After getting off work, Xia Shang returned to his car and took out the box containing Compound V from the car trunk.

At this time, the progress on his panel had reached 78%.

In other words, only about one dose of Compound V is needed to completely finish his fusion.

"Unfortunately, as the dosage increases, the effect will gradually weaken, and even cells will produce antibodies. At that time, more Compound V must be injected, and the prerequisite for injecting more Compound V is having a stronger physique and self-healing ability." Xia Shang took out a dose of the compound from the box. After cutting off the glass cap at the top, he poured it into his palm.

As the Compound V was gradually absorbed.

The progress bar on the panel increased little by little, finally stopping at one position.

[Carbon Nano-Super-Sensitivity Talent Fusing, Current Progress 99%]

(End of Chapter)