Chapter 76: Shining Light, Stormfront is Coming
Each Supe emits a slightly different signal. Xia Shang can identify the Supe's identity through these differences using radio wave perception.
Furthermore, due to Kimiko's enhanced self-healing, which comprehensively enhanced his strength, physique, and reaction speed, the range of the innate ability he had previously fused, radio wave perception, increased from the original one hundred meters to around two hundred meters.
It's worth noting that radio wave perception has growth potential and can continuously expand its range based on the strengthening of his will.
Therefore, Xia Shang parked the car not far from Frenchie's house, transformed into Yuuji's appearance, and stood under a tree, silently monitoring everything. Soon, within his perception, a Supe was approaching Kimiko's location.
Mother's Milk had just brought Mesmer inside the house. Billy and Hughie were a step behind him, pushing open the door. Upon seeing Mesmer, Billy smiled and greeted him, "Hi, Mesmer, I'm a fan of yours. We can talk later."
After speaking, Billy turned and frowned. He pulled Mother's Milk aside and said softly with a grim expression, "I don't know what you're thinking? But we have to kill him now."
"No, we don't need to kill him. Listen, we made an agreement with the guy. As long as he keeps the secret, he can see his daughter. He's just a father who wants to see his daughter," Mother's Milk explained in a similarly low voice.
"He's a Supe who wants to see his daughter, and you brought him here? What in the hell are you thinking? Your level of idiocy is about to surpass Hughie's." Frankly, Billy didn't trust Supes at all, especially since Mesmer used to work for Vought. If he leaked the secret, they would all be finished.
Mother's Milk was still explaining for Mesmer. Billy gave him a helpless look. Now that the person was brought home, they could only take things one step at a time.
"Let's start," Mother's Milk nodded towards Mesmer.
"Okay."
As Mesmer spoke, he took the girl's hand, wanting to peer into her mind through his superpower. "That's a jungle. In the jungle, there's a camp. She's a soldier in the camp. There's a flag beside her with a double-headed snake pattern on it."
Suddenly, there was a crisp knocking sound from outside the door.
The sudden sound instantly interrupted everything inside the house.
Billy and the others were on high alert. Their gazes met in the air with unspoken understanding. Frenchie immediately pulled a rifle from under the sofa, and Mother's Milk also drew his pistol from his waist, aiming it at the door.
"If something's wrong, leave quickly," Billy made a gesture, then drew his gun and slowly approached the door.
"Who is it?" Billy called out towards the door.
"Pizza delivery guy."
"Did any of you order pizza?" Billy turned his head to ask Frenchie and the others.
The response he got was shaking heads.
"Sorry, you might have the wrong address." Before Billy's words even fell, Xia Shang cut the lock bolt, pushed open the door, and walked inside the house.
Seeing that the newcomer was an old acquaintance, Billy breathed a sigh of relief. While putting away his gun, he complained, "Man, that line you used is something I used when I worked for the FBI. I thought Susan sent someone to arrest me.""Go on." Billy didn't want to ask how the other party found him anymore; it was pointless, as the other party wouldn't say anyway.
"Right, did you just mention a double-headed snake? Like this..."
Billy crossed his hands, shaping his palms like snake heads. After getting an affirmative answer, Billy continued, "Behind the pattern are red rays." Hughie, standing beside him, asked with a bewildered expression, "What is that?"
"It's the military flag of the Shining Light Liberation Army." Speaking of Shining Light, Mother's Milk's eyes clearly showed some anger. Then he looked at Frenchie, "Frenchie, your girlfriend is a terrorist."
Xia Shang hadn't expected their investigation speed to be so fast, that they had already traced it to the Shining Light. It seemed Stormfront would appear before long. Her superpower was quite good and very promising.
Frenchie, standing by the sofa, looked at Kimiko in disbelief. "You're a terrorist?"
Kimiko had a bewildered expression.
"Shit, she can't be a terrorist." Frenchie was unwilling to believe that Kimiko was once a cold-blooded terrorist.
They had ended up in their current situation precisely because of a terrorist attack. It could be said that Billy's hatred for terrorists was no less than his hatred for Supes.
"Damn it, I think you need to restrain her," Billy said somewhat impatiently.
On the contrary, Mother's Milk connected the terrorists with Vought International. "Vought smuggled an extremist terrorist into America, then gave her an injection of Compound V..."
"After she awakened her superpower, they released her to wreak havoc on everything around. The only one who could handle her was that damn Homelander," Billy continued Mother's Milk's words.
"Why would Vought use a terrorist?" Hughie was a bit confused.
"Because what's more terrifying than terrorists are extremist superpowered individuals."
Xia Shang said casually.
His attention was now more focused on Mesmer. This guy's superpower was quite useful, but based on his performance in the source material, he seemed unable to control his superpower. In other words, his mind reading didn't have an on/off switch; as long as he touched someone, the superpower would definitely be triggered.
Looked at this way, the superpower of mind reading was also rather useless.
If, during combat, a piece of the enemy's deepest memory suddenly appeared in his mind, it would inevitably cause him some interference.
Only when he could solve this problem would Xia Shang consider fusing mind reading.
However, for now, Mesmer had considerable utility value. He could serve the same purpose as the Doppelganger, or even be better.
It was truly not a wise move for Vought to abandon him; it was tantamount to killing the goose that lays the golden eggs.
"Do you have a business card? Maybe I can give you what you want." In the source material, Mesmer only learned after hugging his daughter that she didn't actually welcome his arrival and only came to see him with the social worker out of politeness.
Therefore, Mesmer thought that since his wish to be with his daughter couldn't be realized, he might as well use the information he possessed to make a fortune.
Thus, he betrayed Billy and the others, found Homelander, and revealed photos of Billy and the others to him.
The conditions he proposed, besides wanting a large sum of US dollars, also included becoming high-level management at Vought International.
(end of chapter)