127. Chapter 127: [Talent Skill: Psychic Manipulation]
Following this, Xia Shang tossed the ice water upwards and manipulated his tentacles to completely disintegrate it. As countless water droplets fell, Xia Shang raised his hands, gently tapping each drop with his fingertips.
At this moment, he was like a conductor of a symphony, calm and elegant.
It was as if everything around him became extremely slow in his eyes; the trajectory of every falling water drop was within Xia Shang's grasp.
It seemed gravity had silently disappeared before Xia Shang...
As time passed, another pair of arms emerged from behind Xia Shang. When twenty fingers simultaneously played their melody, the water droplets were met only with the fate of being shattered.
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As night approached, Hughie had narrowed down Homelander's incriminating evidence to two or three points, such as secretly using Compound V to create super terrorists.
They had evidence for these points, although it was just Crimson Countess's testimony before her death, it was enough to explain some issues.
Of course, they couldn't produce more substantial evidence, nor was it possible to do so. After all, the risk involved was considerable. If that evidence fell into Homelander's hands and was given to Vought, their previous work would have been for nothing.
So Hughie chose a mix of truth and falsehoods. He didn't expect Ryan to turn against Homelander immediately; that was completely unrealistic. After all, Homelander was Ryan's biological father.
All they needed to do was plant a seed of doubt in Ryan's heart, relying on this seed to subtly change Homelander's image in Ryan's mind.
If they could achieve this much, Hughie and the others would be satisfied.
"Why isn't that guy here yet?" The guy Frenchie was referring to was, naturally, Xia Shang.
Billy checked the time on his mobile phone. "We'll set off in half an hour."
As soon as he finished speaking, steady footsteps came from the stairwell. Immediately after, Xia Shang, wearing a black coat, appeared before them. Xia Shang, still wearing Yuuji's face, said, "Nine fifty-nine, just right."
"Let's go," Billy grabbed the pistol from the table and tossed it to Xia Shang, then picked up a modified submachine gun and tucked it into his coat.
In the car, Hughie tried to talk to Xia Shang several times but found that Xia Shang completely ignored him. There was nothing he could do, so he awkwardly turned his gaze towards the window.
After driving for about an hour, Billy finally stopped in a remote district and, using the address, found a children's toy supermarket.
"Everyone be careful," Billy waved his hand, signaling everyone to get out of the car.
He took out the submachine gun from his coat and cautiously led the way into the toy supermarket. Most of the toys displayed in the supermarket were related to Vought, primarily licensed toys and merchandise of superheroes.
Xia Shang even saw a Homelander standee.
Perhaps because it was close to late night, there wasn't a single customer in the supermarket, nor was there a cashier. It didn't seem to be operating normally.
As they went deeper, Kimiko suddenly made a strange noise.
As Xia Shang and the others rushed over, inside the security room, Kimiko had already twisted off the security guard's head. Seeing this scene, Frenchie and Hughie were dumbfounded. Frenchie couldn't believe Kimiko would kill innocent people indiscriminately.
He hurried to the corpse and used his gun muzzle to push aside the clothes covering the tattoo on the security guard's chest. He saw a symbol of two snakes wrapped around a sun. "Shining Light Liberation Army? That extremist terrorist organization."
No wonder Kimiko was so agitated the moment she saw him, even cruelly twisting his neck.
It was this organization, after all, that had killed Kimiko's parents, kidnapped her and her brother, and destroyed a once happy family.
Afterward, Kimiko climbed up high along the iron frame in the security room. Her gaze quickly locked onto a man wearing a baseball cap. The man was sneaking around, seemingly having just arrived at the supermarket. After their eyes met, the next second, Kimiko pounced.
The man was Kimiko's brother, Kenji Miyagi, also known as Mouse. He embraced Kimiko tightly in disbelief.
"So that's what 'brother' meant," Frenchie said softly.
Xia Shang stood behind Kimiko, watching the two reminisce while using his analysis ability. Kenji Miyagi, or Mouse, wasn't weak in ability, but his body was too fragile, a flaw Xia Shang completely lacked.
"Wait a minute," Hughie suddenly realized Billy didn't know about this, so he quickly found Billy, who was about to shoot, and said, "Don't shoot, that's Kimiko's brother."
Billy didn't care if Mouse was Kimiko's brother; he just wanted to take Mouse back and report back.
The plan Billy had agreed upon with Mallory was to either find a clue to the smuggler's supplier or catch a super terrorist and hand him over to the CIA. The CIA was worried that super terrorists who had snuck into the United States would carry out terrorist attacks.
As long as he handed Mouse over to Mallory, Mallory promised to help Billy investigate Becca's imprisoned location. Just as Billy pulled the trigger, Hughie, who rushed out from the side, tackled him to the ground.
As a result, the tranquilizer dart that was fired shattered the glass beside Mouse.
Seeing the glass shatter, Mouse, stimulated, pushed with both hands. An invisible psychic wave instantly sent Frenchie and the others flying. Boom! As they flew out, the shelves behind them also collapsed, and a large amount of goods nearly buried them.
But this wasn't over yet.
Mouse extended his hands, controlling the shelves on both sides, and sent them rushing towards Billy and the others.
Boom! The stacked steel shelves twisted and deformed, goods scattered everywhere. Fortunately, Billy and the others reacted in time and avoided the incoming shelves.
Extremely angry, Mouse still didn't give up. He raised his hands towards the ceiling. The steel frame hanging from the ceiling immediately emitted an unbearable creaking sound. The steel cables connecting the steel frame to the ceiling twisted and deformed visible to the naked eye. Just as it was about to detach, an enormous strength kicked him flying.
[Talent Skill: Psychic Manipulation]
[Fusion Condition: Withstand Kenji Miyagi's attack for ten seconds and extract two hundred milliliters of his blood]
[After fusing, the player's brain will be strengthened, causing it to generate psychic power. The player can control psychic power through their hands. In addition, once psychic power is released, it cannot be withdrawn. The more psychic power controlled, the harder it is to control. Friendly reminder: Angry emotions can accelerate the speed of psychic power generation.]
An amazing superpower!
Aside from only being able to control it with his arms, it had almost no flaws. Furthermore, Xia Shang remembered that there were a few other people in The Boys who also had psychic-type superpowers. If they could fuse with each other, it could definitely approach perfection! "Mm-hmm!!" Kimiko, seeing her brother stand up and extend his hands towards Xia Shang, couldn't speak. She could only use her eyes to signal Xia Shang to avoid.
Xia Shang didn't dodge. Instead, he withstood the psychic wave released by Mouse, approaching him step by step. He saw his black hair sweep back. Under the impact of the psychic power, everything around Xia Shang flew out. Even as the psychic power gradually strengthened, the tiles under his feet were lifted piece by piece.
Every step Xia Shang took left an indentation on the ground! Two clearly visible rows of footprints were simply shocking.
The clothes on his body flapped loudly.
Finally, Xia Shang stopped. He stood still, but his figure was retreating! Rip! The black coat was gradually torn, cracks rapidly spreading across it, but Xia Shang's face showed no trace of being blown by the wind. This scene stunned Billy and the others, who were peeking through the gap while hiding in the wrecked shelf.
"Holy crap! What kind of monster is he?!" Hughie unconsciously opened his mouth, completely immersed in shock.
"Fortunately, we called him over..."
Billy said thankfully.
"Why does it feel like he's even stronger than before?"
Kimiko's brother's superpower was simply monstrous, but what Hughie didn't expect was that Xia Shang was even more monstrous. He could actually last so long under that kind of strength; the strength he possessed was unimaginable! Time passed second by second. Accompanied by a roar from Mouse! A psychic wave far more violent than before slammed heavily onto Xia Shang's body, directly sending him flying.
With a boom! Xia Shang was slammed into the concrete wall.
"Ah!!" Mouse raised his arms again, pulling the steel frame from the ceiling down to smash. For a moment, the ground shook, and countless steel frames tilted down, instantly burying Xia Shang.
Seeing that Xia Shang had stopped moving, Mouse finally stopped his attack. He bent over, resting his hands on his knees, gasping for air rapidly. It was finally over. That guy just now was definitely the most difficult opponent he had ever seen, bar none.
"Mm-hmm."
The sudden eruption of combat made Kimiko sense unease. To protect her own brother while not harming Frenchie and the others, Kimiko had no choice but to pull her brother Mouse's hand, preparing to take him away from the toy supermarket.
Unexpectedly, Mouse actually directly broke free from her hand and walked towards Billy and the others.
"Mm," Kimiko grabbed Mouse's hand again. Her face was filled with guilt. She had once promised her brother she would protect him. Now that Compound V had succeeded on her body, her brother was also implicated and had to undergo the same experiment. That kind of pain she still didn't dare to recall.
"Let go, I want to see if they're dead or not," Mouse's expression was cold.
In a daze, Kimiko saw the expression that only those extremists had on his face. Mouse's heart was already filled with revenge. He wanted to kill everyone who was a threat to him. He wanted revenge! He wanted to take revenge on everyone!
"Sister, have you forgotten? The village we lived in since childhood was destroyed by a group of Americans. That pair of eyes that could shoot heat vision wantonly slaughtered everything. I can't forget that day! I want revenge! I want Americans to personally experience my pain."
Mouse roared angrily. He flung off Kimiko's hand and then made a tearing motion towards Billy and the others.
He saw that the wrecked shelf blocking Billy, Frenchie, and Hughie was separated from the middle under Mouse's control and slammed into both sides! "Oh shit!" Billy's complexion was extremely ugly.
(End of Chapter)