Chapter 58: Did I just offend that gentleman?

Chapter 58: Did I just offend that gentleman?

Ten minutes later, an orange-yellow taxi stopped in front of a supermarket.

"Thanks." Xia Shang, who had transformed into Yuuji's appearance, pulled out a 20 US dollar bill from his wallet and handed it to the driver.

By the iron door in the corner of the supermarket, Hughie sat on a discarded cardboard box and suddenly saw a familiar figure walking towards him.

"He's here."

"He's the helper that Billy guy found? Doesn't look like much."

Frenchie sized up Xia Shang.

"Move aside." Xia Shang pushed Frenchie, who was blocking the iron door, out of the way. He did indeed sense an unusual signal inside. If he remembered correctly, the person imprisoned inside was named Kimiko, a Japanese woman whose superpower was enhanced self-healing, which was exactly the ability he currently needed.

Moreover, she had a younger brother. Xia Shang couldn't remember his name, only that his strength was decent and his superpower seemed to be the ability to emit a psychic wave from his hands. All in all, his potential wasn't great, as he couldn't control the psychic wave he emitted.

"Fuck..." Xia Shang's action instantly enraged Frenchie.

Just as he was about to curse at Xia Shang, he was pulled back by Hughie beside him.

"I'll give Billy a pass today. I'd like to see how you're going to open that lock." Frenchie forcibly suppressed the anger in his heart, retreated to Mother's Milk's side, crossed his arms over his chest, and watched coldly as Xia Shang placed his hand on the doorknob.

Xia Shang didn't respond.

He simply raised his left hand and swiped at the door crack. With a *clang*, Hughie and the other two saw Xia Shang push open the iron door and walk in.

"What the fuck."

Frenchie quickly walked to the iron door in disbelief and examined it carefully.

"That guy actually cut off the door lock's latch. He's a Supe." Frenchie immediately turned his head to look at Hughie. Only then did Hughie say, "Translucent was taken down by him, that's why I told you guys to wait for him."

"Fuck you, why didn't you say so earlier? Did I just offend that gentleman?"

Frenchie wanted nothing more than to reach out and strangle Hughie at that moment. Frenchie, coming back to his senses, couldn't help but exclaim, "It's hard to believe Billy would bring a Supe into the team."

Hughie awkwardly rubbed the tip of his nose. "Actually... he's not part of our team, and Billy doesn't know who he is either."

"You'd better finish what you're saying in one go next time." Frenchie couldn't help but retort angrily. If Hughie didn't look so unlike Billy, he would have reason to suspect the two were father and son.

"Forget it, let's follow him and see."

Soon, Hughie and Frenchie followed behind Mother's Milk into the dim passage.

As soon as they stepped into the tomb-like passage, they heard intense gunfire coming from ahead.

Inside the dungeon, over a dozen criminals were continuously pulling the triggers, aiming at Xia Shang. Fire flashed from the muzzles of their submachine guns, and Xia Shang was hit by countless bullets for a moment.

However, the bullets couldn't penetrate his carbon skin at all. At most, the impact force from the bullets made him quite uncomfortable, but that was it.

Then, under the terrified gaze of the criminals, Xia Shang slowly raised his invisible right hand. At this moment, his five fingers shot out like threads, wrapping around them. As Xia Shang clenched his right hand, blood marks appeared on the bodies of the criminals before him, like shattered glass glued back together.

Soon, several drops of blood seeped from the cracks. The next second, their bodies collapsed like building blocks, turning into piles of mangled flesh.

In an instant, everything fell silent.

"Finally quiet." Xia Shang's right hand gradually became visible.

Afterwards, following the signal, he found Kimiko, who was locked in a cage. At this moment, Kimiko was mentally unclear due to the prolonged torture by the criminals. Her eyes were almost completely consumed by wildness, devoid of any reason. She seemed to smell the scent of blood on Xia Shang. Watching Xia Shang approach, she slowly crawled backward. "Analyze all her abilities."

Just as he was analyzing Kimiko's superpower.

Hughie and the others cautiously entered the dungeon. To be honest, the sudden gunfire earlier had scared them quite a bit, especially Hughie. Like Frenchie and Mother's Milk, he held his pistol, warily scanning his surroundings.

"Why did the gunfire suddenly stop? That mysterious gentleman wasn't taken down, was he?" As soon as Frenchie finished speaking, the scene that appeared before him around the corner instantly turned his face pale. "My God, did we just walk into hell?"

Frenchie said, his gaze vacant.

"Ugh." Hughie immediately covered his mouth and bolted towards the exit.

"That guy killed everyone." Fortunately, Mother's Milk, one of the trio, had seen many gruesome scenes before. What was before them was merely a bit bloody; he could just about handle it.

Mother's Milk stepped around the mangled flesh on the ground and entered a room on the left. In the center of the room was a dining table with unfinished food on it. He flipped through the documents in the surrounding boxes and found that all the contents were related to human experiments. It was utterly inhumane.

"Shit, these bastards." Mother's Milk spat on the ground.

"Quick, look around, see if there's any Compound V here."

After adapting, Frenchie joined Mother's Milk in searching for Compound V. Normally, a place like this would definitely have Compound V.

As he searched, he saw Xia Shang standing in front of an iron cage.

At the same time, he also discovered Kimiko trapped inside the iron cage.

"Who's that?" Hughie, who had finished throwing up outside, returned to the dungeon. He stood behind Frenchie and looked at Kimiko.

"I think we should let her out."

Frenchie felt the girl in the iron cage was special. Looking at Kimiko's vacant eyes, he said softly.

"No way. We're here to find Compound V. We leave as soon as we find it. This isn't a rescue mission." Mother's Milk blocked Frenchie and said.

Hughie, standing nearby, quipped, "That sounds like something Billy Butcher would say."

"Do I sound like a bastard who wants to stay alive?"

Mother's Milk retorted, facing Hughie.

"Could you please be quiet?" Xia Shang, who had been like a statue, suddenly spoke.

Hughie and the others immediately shut their mouths. If possible, they didn't want to offend the mysterious gentleman before them, who killed without batting an eye.

[analyze complete]

[talent skill: enhanced self-healing]

[fusion condition: one hundred milliliters of Kimiko's blood]

[after fusing, it will enhance the player's physique, strength, reaction ability, etc., and simultaneously strengthen the player's self-healing ability. the self-healing ability will increase with the player's physique strength but has a threshold. once the limit is reached, the player needs to continue fusing other self-healing abilities.]

Xia Shang originally thought Kimiko would have multiple abilities like Homelander, but unexpectedly, she only had one ability. No wonder the time required for analyze was very short, only a few minutes.

(end of chapter)