**Chapter 128: What is an Oppressive Presence? This is it!**
Goddammit! Billy and Hughie nearby were practically grinding their back teeth.
Just then, the sound of something heavy landing not far away instantly drew everyone's attention. Under their gaze, the originally stacked steel shelves were actually lifted one by one by an invisible force. They seemed to be fixed in the air, forming a wall of steel.
Immediately after, the center of the steel wall split open, forming a gap.
Xia Shang's figure slowly emerged from it. The invisible tentacles behind him pushed him out of the steel wall.
With Xia Shang's appearance, everything around seemed to fall into extreme silence. Except for the slightly hurried breaths of a few people, only the sound of rolling cargo could be heard.
"Impossible! This is a hallucination! It's a hallucination!" Kenji Miyagi was on the verge of breaking down, his voice trembling slightly as he said.
As if to respond to him, the steel wall behind Xia Shang collapsed with a crash. Since fusing with Gluttony Enhancement, his strength was around ten tons. Although it couldn't compare to Homelander, for a regular Supe like Kenji Miyagi, who lacked physical enhancement, it was an astronomical figure, like an insurmountable chasm, burying his hope and fighting spirit!
"Let's end this," Xia Shang said expressionlessly.
In the next second, Kenji Miyagi's hands were pierced by invisible tentacles. The irresistible impact nailed his entire body to the wall. Under the violent impact, he immediately fell unconscious.
Kenji Miyagi's head slumped to the side, and blood seeped from the wounds on his palms.
"His pose... I think I've seen it somewhere before," Hughie couldn't help but say.
"No shit, everyone has seen it."
Billy irritably patted Hughie's shoulder. "Go pick up my gun."
At this moment, Xia Shang landed on his toes and retracted his tentacles. [Psychokinesis is fusing, current progress 2%]
"Here's the guy, don't forget what I told you to do."
"I'd do it even if you didn't say anything."
The terms they had agreed upon.
It had nothing to do with Hughie at all. As for selling Hughie as a lab mouse, Billy was just teasing him; that guy's sharp tongue wasn't a new thing. What Billy didn't expect was that silly kid Hughie seemed to have taken it seriously.
"Tomorrow, I hope to see the Media all across the United States reporting on Compound V. Don't disappoint me."
Xia Shang turned and walked towards the guard room. As he walked, he controlled his tentacles to shred the surviving surveillance cameras. Arriving at the guard room, Xia Shang placed his hand on the computer. In an instant, the entire computer instantly disintegrated under his hand, turning into a pile of useless fragments.
...
The next day.
Billy arranged to meet Mallory at sea to pick someone up. He got a yacht from a 'friend'.
"You really want me to ride this thing?" Hughie looked troubled.
"You can stay here, and when a passerby finds you, don't come crying to us for your life."
Billy smoothly entered the cockpit. As he stepped on the gas, the yacht slowly left the shore.
"That damn bastard."
Hughie grabbed Frenchie's outstretched right hand and then stepped onto the yacht's deck.
Half an hour later, Hughie felt his stomach churning. His complexion instantly turned pale.
"Are you okay?" Mother's Milk came to his side, asking with concern.
"No..."
Before Hughie could finish speaking, he felt a wave of nausea. He quickly leaned over the railing and threw up violently into the blue sea. It wasn't until he had nothing left but stomach acid to vomit that he finally breathed in the fresh air with a sense of relief. Meanwhile, Billy in the cockpit had already dialed Mallory's phone.
"Is the target safe? Has anyone found him?" Mallory asked from the other end of the phone.
"Currently, this yacht is five kilometers from the coast, you tell me if it's safe or not?"
Billy faced the sea, and his mood became cheerful.
As for whether The Female would be tortured by the CIA, he didn't care at all. If Xia Shang hadn't been too mysterious, he would have wanted to team up with the CIA to capture that powerful Supe, then wrap him in cement and throw him into some random corner.
Unfortunately, he couldn't fall out with Xia Shang yet. One Homelander was already troublesome enough; with another even more mysterious guy, he couldn't handle it.
"Don't forget you have the ability to screw everything up." Mallory absolutely couldn't have imagined that her words would become a self-fulfilling prophecy.
"Listen, I just want my wife back."
Billy reminded Mallory.
Mallory said she hadn't forgotten. As long as the CIA agents took the super terrorist away, she would tell Billy Becca's location, and the others would also be able to reunite with their families.
At this moment, Mallory, who was at the CIA, picked up a seventies-era hero poster and said, "Oh, right, have you ever heard of a Supe named Liberty from back then?"
Billy had never heard that name at all. Just as they were talking.
In the Room where The Female was being held, Kimiko was talking to The Female. Now The Female's hands were tied and wrapped in bandages, making her completely unable to use Psychokinesis.
Kimiko talked through the sign language they had created together. She wanted to persuade her younger brother to let go of his hatred, for the two of them to leave the United States together and live the ordinary life they had before.
Kenji Miyagi, who had been deeply brainwashed, tried to get Kimiko to help him untie the ropes. "The Americans will torture me, you have to let me go," he said. "I promise, I won't attack anyone, and I won't seek revenge against them."
Kimiko wasn't stupid just because she was mute. She knew very well that her younger brother was just deceiving her. There was nothing she could do. She shook her head and left the Room.
As soon as she left, Frenchie, holding a can of soda and some chips, slipped into the ship's cabin. In order to communicate with Kimiko, he wanted The Female to teach him the sign language between them. Even though Frenchie's expression was incredibly sincere, he was still decisively rejected by The Female.
Compared to Billy, Frenchie could almost be considered a champion of pure love.
"No?" Frenchie then left the cabin dejectedly.
Unexpectedly, he forgot to take the can containing the soda.
This is an opportunity! The Female immediately realized this was a rare opportunity. All he had to do was rub a hole in the bandage to stick out a finger. With just this one finger, he could use Psychokinesis to tear open the can and then use the fragments of the can to cut the ropes and bandages.
While he was trying, a Police helicopter stopped above the yacht.
"Is that the CIA?" Silly Hughie thought the CIA had arrived to pick up the person.
"Shit, that's an airplane from the NYPD!"
Mother's Milk quickly pulled Hughie into the cockpit. "What's going on? Why did the NYPD find us?"
Soon, the broadcast from the helicopter told him the answer.
"Yacht below, please stop your operation immediately," the broadcast said. "The owner has reported you to us Police. You are illegally occupying someone else's property!"
"Fuck you! Billy, didn't you say this yacht was borrowed from your friend?"
Facing Mother's Milk's questioning, Billy said shamelessly, "He's my friend, but whether I'm his friend, I'm not too sure."
Honestly, Mother's Milk really wanted to reach out and strangle the bastard in front of him.
(End of Chapter)