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Chapter 373
Chapter 372: The Curtain Falls! Homelander Defeated!
"Quickly put your hands on my shoulders!" Hughie yelled.
Hearing this, Mother's Milk and the others immediately reached out and grabbed each other's wrists.
"Can you handle it?" Mother's Milk put his right hand on Hughie's shoulder, his expression full of worry. He knew very well that Hughie's superpower was granted by Temporary Compound V, a drug with extremely strong side effects. Last time Hughie used it, he not only vomited heavily but even had unknown liquid flowing from his ears.
"Even if I can't handle it, I have to! I can't abandon you guys."
Hughie activated his superpower, taking Mother's Milk and the others with him, and disappeared from Xia Shang's sight.
In an instant, their figures appeared in front of the entrance on the First Floor of Vought Tower.
"Shetty!" Hughie, who had just gotten his footing, turned pale, then stumbled, almost falling to the Ground.
"Are you okay?"
Mother's Milk supported Hughie and asked with concern.
Hughie suppressed his discomfort, waved his hand, and said, "It's not a big problem. You guys leave first, I'll go bring Starlight and Billy out."
"Do you have any extra Temporary Compound V on you?" Mother's Milk and Frenchie spoke almost at the same time. They had already realized that without superpowers, the only role they could play was holding the team back.
"I don't even have underwear on me, how could I possibly have Temporary Compound V?" Hughie was a bit speechless. He was essentially naked right now, wandering around.
"Then how did you bring the nerve agent in?" Frenchie asked in confusion.
"Throw it out, then Teleport and catch it, throw it out again, then Teleport and catch it again."
Hughie explained with a helpless expression. Although this method sounded very low-tech, as long as it worked, that was all that mattered. In any case, he was a Supe after all. Although his strength wasn't as good as Billy's, he was still much stronger compared to Ordinary Humans.
"What... trying to leave?" Xia Shang appeared quietly behind Hughie, like a ghost, following like a shadow, silent and without a trace.
Hughie was like a startled rabbit, disappearing again with Mother's Milk and the others as if by reflex.
However, they still couldn't escape Xia Shang's tracking. After all, the range of Xia Shang's Parasyte Sensing far exceeded the limit of the distance Hughie could Teleport.
"The cat and mouse game ends here." Since the Fusion Condition had been met, Xia Shang directly took action, using Flesh and Blood Tentacles to trap Hughie and the others, and simultaneously activated Memory Storm and Cognitive Intrusion to completely erase the memory of him in everyone's minds. The compatibility of the two superpowers was extremely high, basically allowing him to completely modify others' memory with an extremely small probability of recovery.
Of course, the premise was that the target was weak enough. Once hit, like Hughie, Billy, and the others, it would be difficult to recover the memory modified by him unless they were under the effects of Temporary Compound V.
After dealing with Hughie and the others, Xia Shang returned to the top floor of Vought Tower.
The moment he walked into the Meeting Room, his body split into four.
Swish! A suddenly appearing blade instantly pierced through Billy's right arm, bringing out splashes of blood.
"The game should end." The same sentence was spoken simultaneously by the five Xia Shangs. They respectively twisted the heads of Starlight, Billy, and The Deep and Lamplighter, forcing them to make eye contact with him.
"I once told you, the deity of this world has never been you, but me."
Xia Shang's true body slightly raised the corner of his mouth and looked towards Homelander.
While the other four clones were expressionless, like four puppets, they turned their line of sight and looked coldly at Homelander.
The extremely bizarre scene, coupled with the extreme silence, couldn't help but make Homelander feel a chill down his spine. His pupils suddenly constricted, and a strange fear surged into his heart. "Next, I will make you understand that the gap between me and you is not evenly matched, but complete crushing." As soon as Xia Shang's voice fell, the brainwashed Starlight, Billy, and the others walked out of the Meeting Room with slightly stiff movements and dull expressions.
Afterwards, under Homelander's gaze, the remaining few Xia Shangs successively fused with the Xia Shang in front of them.
"Concentrate, don't disappoint me..."
"Wait...!" Just as Homelander was about to speak, he saw Xia Shang suddenly flash in front of him. The speed was so fast that even he found it difficult to capture its movement trajectory.
The astonishing strength erupted from the four Heart Engines gathered on Xia Shang's fist. The moment it was thrown out, a terrifying air explosion sound rang out.
Homelander only felt his vision blur, followed by a sharp pain in his right cheek. Before he could react, he was sent flying backwards with a bang, smashing through four walls in succession, and finally flying out of Vought Tower.
Beneath the bright moon, Homelander barely managed to stabilize his figure, a trickle of blood flowed from the corner of his mouth.
"Injured?" The metallic sweetness in his mouth, like rust, made Homelander's heart beat faster. He looked forward in disbelief, unable to believe that Mr. Jervis, who had chased him out, could actually injure him.
"From now on, Vought can only have one master, and that is me."
Xia Shang slowly raised his right arm, his palm facing Homelander, and said in a deep voice.
One by one, eyeballs scrambled to drill out of his skin, densely piled up on his palm. The next moment, a thick purple heat vision shot towards Homelander's face with a bang.
At first, Homelander could still barely resist with his laser eye, but could only resist for less than a breath's time.
The purple heat vision completely crushed the crimson beam with a devastating momentum. Although Homelander intended to dodge, he was still cut open by the heat vision, leaving a gash several dozen centimeters long.
The blood didn't have time to surge out of the wound and was blocked inside by the charred flesh and blood.
"Impossible! Impossible!!" The injured Homelander couldn't believe he was being beaten down. He was completely insane at this moment, charging towards Xia Shang recklessly.
"I already said, there is only one deity in this world, and that is me!"
Xia Shang suddenly clenched his right hand. The invisible psychic power, like a hammer, smashed heavily onto Homelander's back.
Bang! Homelander, who was in supersonic flight, his eyes wide open, blood overflowing from his mouth, then plummeted straight towards the ground like a sparrow with broken wings.
Boom!!
A deep pit was directly blasted into the ground. Homelander, draped in a damaged Stars and Stripes flag, knelt awkwardly at the bottom of the deep pit.
"Give up, you are not my opponent."
Xia Shang, with his hands behind his back, slowly descended from the air to in front of Homelander.
"What Stan Edgar can give you, I can also give you. Besides me, you are still the strongest Supe in the world."
"Make me give up? You might as well kill me." Homelander raised his head and laughed ferociously.
"The scene just now must have been clearly captured by the satellites in the sky. Think about it, if the video spreads out, everything you currently possess - glory, reputation, fame, and authority - will all turn into nothing. Are you really willing to lose these?"
Half a month ago, Victoria Neuman successfully ran for Vice President. Under Xia Shang's arrangement, tonight's satellites would temporarily malfunction.
(end of chapter)
"Quickly put your hands on my shoulders!" Hughie yelled.
Hearing this, Mother's Milk and the others immediately reached out and grabbed each other's wrists.
"Can you handle it?" Mother's Milk put his right hand on Hughie's shoulder, his expression full of worry. He knew very well that Hughie's superpower was granted by Temporary Compound V, a drug with extremely strong side effects. Last time Hughie used it, he not only vomited heavily but even had unknown liquid flowing from his ears.
"Even if I can't handle it, I have to! I can't abandon you guys."
Hughie activated his superpower, taking Mother's Milk and the others with him, and disappeared from Xia Shang's sight.
In an instant, their figures appeared in front of the entrance on the First Floor of Vought Tower.
"Shetty!" Hughie, who had just gotten his footing, turned pale, then stumbled, almost falling to the Ground.
"Are you okay?"
Mother's Milk supported Hughie and asked with concern.
Hughie suppressed his discomfort, waved his hand, and said, "It's not a big problem. You guys leave first, I'll go bring Starlight and Billy out."
"Do you have any extra Temporary Compound V on you?" Mother's Milk and Frenchie spoke almost at the same time. They had already realized that without superpowers, the only role they could play was holding the team back.
"I don't even have underwear on me, how could I possibly have Temporary Compound V?" Hughie was a bit speechless. He was essentially naked right now, wandering around.
"Then how did you bring the nerve agent in?" Frenchie asked in confusion.
"Throw it out, then Teleport and catch it, throw it out again, then Teleport and catch it again."
Hughie explained with a helpless expression. Although this method sounded very low-tech, as long as it worked, that was all that mattered. In any case, he was a Supe after all. Although his strength wasn't as good as Billy's, he was still much stronger compared to Ordinary Humans.
"What... trying to leave?" Xia Shang appeared quietly behind Hughie, like a ghost, following like a shadow, silent and without a trace.
Hughie was like a startled rabbit, disappearing again with Mother's Milk and the others as if by reflex.
However, they still couldn't escape Xia Shang's tracking. After all, the range of Xia Shang's Parasyte Sensing far exceeded the limit of the distance Hughie could Teleport.
"The cat and mouse game ends here." Since the Fusion Condition had been met, Xia Shang directly took action, using Flesh and Blood Tentacles to trap Hughie and the others, and simultaneously activated Memory Storm and Cognitive Intrusion to completely erase the memory of him in everyone's minds. The compatibility of the two superpowers was extremely high, basically allowing him to completely modify others' memory with an extremely small probability of recovery.
Of course, the premise was that the target was weak enough. Once hit, like Hughie, Billy, and the others, it would be difficult to recover the memory modified by him unless they were under the effects of Temporary Compound V.
After dealing with Hughie and the others, Xia Shang returned to the top floor of Vought Tower.
The moment he walked into the Meeting Room, his body split into four.
Swish! A suddenly appearing blade instantly pierced through Billy's right arm, bringing out splashes of blood.
"The game should end." The same sentence was spoken simultaneously by the five Xia Shangs. They respectively twisted the heads of Starlight, Billy, and The Deep and Lamplighter, forcing them to make eye contact with him.
"I once told you, the deity of this world has never been you, but me."
Xia Shang's true body slightly raised the corner of his mouth and looked towards Homelander.
While the other four clones were expressionless, like four puppets, they turned their line of sight and looked coldly at Homelander.
The extremely bizarre scene, coupled with the extreme silence, couldn't help but make Homelander feel a chill down his spine. His pupils suddenly constricted, and a strange fear surged into his heart. "Next, I will make you understand that the gap between me and you is not evenly matched, but complete crushing." As soon as Xia Shang's voice fell, the brainwashed Starlight, Billy, and the others walked out of the Meeting Room with slightly stiff movements and dull expressions.
Afterwards, under Homelander's gaze, the remaining few Xia Shangs successively fused with the Xia Shang in front of them.
"Concentrate, don't disappoint me..."
"Wait...!" Just as Homelander was about to speak, he saw Xia Shang suddenly flash in front of him. The speed was so fast that even he found it difficult to capture its movement trajectory.
The astonishing strength erupted from the four Heart Engines gathered on Xia Shang's fist. The moment it was thrown out, a terrifying air explosion sound rang out.
Homelander only felt his vision blur, followed by a sharp pain in his right cheek. Before he could react, he was sent flying backwards with a bang, smashing through four walls in succession, and finally flying out of Vought Tower.
Beneath the bright moon, Homelander barely managed to stabilize his figure, a trickle of blood flowed from the corner of his mouth.
"Injured?" The metallic sweetness in his mouth, like rust, made Homelander's heart beat faster. He looked forward in disbelief, unable to believe that Mr. Jervis, who had chased him out, could actually injure him.
"From now on, Vought can only have one master, and that is me."
Xia Shang slowly raised his right arm, his palm facing Homelander, and said in a deep voice.
One by one, eyeballs scrambled to drill out of his skin, densely piled up on his palm. The next moment, a thick purple heat vision shot towards Homelander's face with a bang.
At first, Homelander could still barely resist with his laser eye, but could only resist for less than a breath's time.
The purple heat vision completely crushed the crimson beam with a devastating momentum. Although Homelander intended to dodge, he was still cut open by the heat vision, leaving a gash several dozen centimeters long.
The blood didn't have time to surge out of the wound and was blocked inside by the charred flesh and blood.
"Impossible! Impossible!!" The injured Homelander couldn't believe he was being beaten down. He was completely insane at this moment, charging towards Xia Shang recklessly.
"I already said, there is only one deity in this world, and that is me!"
Xia Shang suddenly clenched his right hand. The invisible psychic power, like a hammer, smashed heavily onto Homelander's back.
Bang! Homelander, who was in supersonic flight, his eyes wide open, blood overflowing from his mouth, then plummeted straight towards the ground like a sparrow with broken wings.
Boom!!
A deep pit was directly blasted into the ground. Homelander, draped in a damaged Stars and Stripes flag, knelt awkwardly at the bottom of the deep pit.
"Give up, you are not my opponent."
Xia Shang, with his hands behind his back, slowly descended from the air to in front of Homelander.
"What Stan Edgar can give you, I can also give you. Besides me, you are still the strongest Supe in the world."
"Make me give up? You might as well kill me." Homelander raised his head and laughed ferociously.
"The scene just now must have been clearly captured by the satellites in the sky. Think about it, if the video spreads out, everything you currently possess - glory, reputation, fame, and authority - will all turn into nothing. Are you really willing to lose these?"
Half a month ago, Victoria Neuman successfully ran for Vice President. Under Xia Shang's arrangement, tonight's satellites would temporarily malfunction.
(end of chapter)
