American comics: From the black robes to becoming the ultimate Doomsday

"The word 'before' also means..."

Seeing Butcher's expression, even the clueless Hughie understood. He clutched his head in despair and interrupted Butcher, "Oh my god, so I just killed the Invisible Man with an ordinary person! No procedures, no investigation! I actually believed you?"

"I can explain this later; now is not the time to dwell on it!"

Butcher rolled his eyes, then looked at the Asian youth and stepped forward to snatch his phone.

However, just as he reached out halfway, his wrist was grabbed by an even stronger hand.

Butcher stared at the Asian youth in front of him with an incredulous expression.

You should know that he is physically strong, and few guys can match his fighting ability, let alone this guy in front of you who doesn't look so muscular.

"Oh damn, I hate superhumans..."

Almost instantly, Butcher understood something. The difference in the other person's physique could only be explained by the fact that the other person was a superhuman.

"What? You're saying he's also a superhuman, and also from the Vought Corporation?"

Hughie, whose life had been filled with countless ups and downs in a single day, was completely disoriented.

Butcher looked at Pei Yuan: "I guess he's not from the Water Group, so what exactly are you up to, kid!"

Pei Yuan simply smiled. "That's right, I have no connection with the Water Group. My request is simple: I want to kill this invisible man myself!"

Seeing that the other person was still staring at the phone in his hand, Pei Yuan added, "Giving you the phone is useless; I've already synced all the files to my email!"

Butcher grinned. "Perhaps you're a little too late. This guy's already dead."

Pei Yuan glanced at his trunk. "Actually, he might not be dead; he was just stunned by the electric shocks you guys gave him!"

Upon hearing this, Butcher immediately went back to the back, opened the trunk, checked the pulse, and, to his surprise, found the straps in the car and tied him up.

"So you have a grudge against this guy? But do you know his skin is harder than diamond?!"

"But we'll find a way, won't we!"

"Okay, then get in the car!"

In the blink of an eye, Butcher had figured it out.

The other party now has leverage over him, and if he doesn't agree, they might send the photos to the media, which would be bad.

He could tell that the other party would do that.

Currently, it seems that the other party's claim to want to kill this guy is clearly due to an irreconcilable conflict with the Vought Group.

Coincidentally, he had one too.

Although he disliked the guy opposite him, the enemy of my enemy is my friend, and he wanted to see what tricks this guy was up to.

At Butcher's insistence, Pei Yuan got into the black car and sat in the back.

Hughie was still rambling on, complaining about why Butcher had lied to him, and wanted to get out of the car, but was eventually persuaded by Butcher's words.

However, Butcher explained that he had worked for the FBI and drove very fast, but it was still dawn before he arrived at the location he wanted and found the person he wanted to see.

That was one of his old teammates, a businessman who now sells arms and does illegal things, French.

When Butcher and his two companions appeared where French was, French was clearly quite surprised.

"Shit, so you brought him here knowing someone might know our secrets? Are you trying to make us die faster than we're going to die?!" After a brief exchange, French looked at the Asian youth and said excitedly.

Butcher laughed. "I believe he won't, but don't you want to know what good stuff I brought you?"

"My forty thousand dollars?"

"No, no, he's worth a lot of dollars."

Butcher's mysterious demeanor also piqued French's curiosity.

But when he opened Butcher's trunk and heard the invisible curses, he knew he had boarded Butcher's pirate ship again.

"Oh damn it, it's the Invisible Man! You put the Invisible Man in your trunk?" Frenchie backed away in disbelief, scratching his head in frustration.

“Nothing can be hidden from you, buddy,” Butcher said with a fearless grin.

French, enraged, pulled out a pistol and pressed it menacingly against Butcher's chin. "Get out! Take him away! Take this damn guy away! This isn't my problem!"

"Alright, alright, calm down."

"Calm down? Don't you know he has a tracking device on him? The superheroes might be on their way here, and Homelander might be in the sky right now! You actually brought him to my doorstep! This is no trouble for me!"

“It doesn’t look right now. He saw your face, which is already a problem for you, buddy. I need your help…”

"Damn it," French gritted his teeth.

"And the gentleman next to me has some brilliant ideas on how to kill the Invisible Man! We can ask him for his method later!" Butcher pointed to Pei Yuan, who had been watching the commotion.

……

Forced onto the pirate ship, French first gathered his tools, changed vehicles, and arrived at a secluded street in Jersey City.

French found the abandoned restaurant where he had once stayed to escape being hunted down.

Then, on Hughie's advice...

They covered the kitchen's cold storage with radio-shielding foil to block the locator's tracking signals, and then stuffed the invisible man into a cage with electricity in the middle.

With everything in place, French tilted his head, looking on with amusement, and set his sights on the Asian youth that Butcher had brought.

"So, now, this amazing Mr. Dongfang, what brilliant ideas do you have for dealing with this troublesome fellow!"

Chapter 19 [Give the Invisible Man a glass of life-purifying water...]

French knew about the Invisible Man, one of the Seven Giants.

As one of the most popular people in the world, he is known to many.

This guy's ability is to reorganize the carbon in his skin, turning it into a super-material that is as hard as diamond and virtually impenetrable by any weapon.

Even other methods, such as suffocation, were tried by some Dominicans back in 2007, and they all died.

That's why he was so devastated and utterly wicked when Butcher brought this guy over.

If it weren't for that damned bastard Butcher, he would never have been able to get close to this troublesome guy, this hot potato that he didn't know how to handle.

But now the die is cast. The invisible man saw his face, and he was forced onto this pirate ship no matter what. So now he just had to figure out how to get out of it.

As for the Asian guy Butcher brought, to be honest, he didn't really trust him.

Only then did Hughie belatedly realize their plan, looking at the people in the room in disbelief, "What did you say? You're going to just kill him? Wasn't it to interrogate him or something?!"

The group looked at him, unsure whether to feel sympathy or envy for this guy whose face was filled with a sense of dejection and who seemed oblivious to the situation.

Butcher looked at him. "We didn't bring him here for some kind of kids' fun meal."

"This guy might be fine disappearing for a few hours, but if he disappears for several days, the Vought Group will definitely take notice. As for not killing him, do you think you can just let him go? Don't be silly, they're the Super Seven!"

If they are allowed to return alive, then the final outcome is obvious.

They will be torn to shreds by the enraged Seven.

At this moment, Hughie clearly could not accept such a plan.

He fell silent for a moment, and seeing that he couldn't persuade them, he went into the kitchen cold storage alone and began to communicate with the invisible man.

Fran ignored him and looked back at Pei Yuan. "So, let's continue our previous topic. How do you want to kill him?"

"It's simple. If we can't break through from the outside, we'll start from the inside. For example, we can pour some sulfuric acid into this invisible man's stomach or rectum. Or, if you want to make it bigger, we can even stuff plastic explosives in there!"

French paused, his initial disdain vanishing: "In 2007, the Dominicans captured him and used all sorts of methods..."

"But are you sure you used these?"

French paused for a moment, then thought for a second and became somewhat excited: "This method is possible, very possible... The problem lies in his skin. His skin is as hard as a diamond, but he might be like a turtle, only his shell is this hard..."

Pei Yuan nodded and continued, "His internal organs are the same as ours, so we can start with his internal organs. We can give him a few cups of sulfuric acid and see if his stomach acid or the sulfuric acid is more effective! As for whether this method will work, we can ask this invisible man, can't we?"

Pei Yuan took a stun gun and walked into the kitchen room.

The invisible man roared angrily, "Oh fuck, what the hell do you think you're doing, you damn yellow-skinned bastard?"

Pei Yuan brandished the stun gun in his hand, his expression amiable. "We're discussing whether to feed you sulfuric acid or give you an enema with a plastic bomb..."

The invisible man was stunned. His skin was indestructible, but his internal organs were indeed his weakness. The other party's expression did not seem to be joking.

Seeing the stun baton slowly approaching like a demon's claw, the invisible man finally panicked, "No...no...don't kill me! Whatever you want, I'll tell you. I know a lot of things..."

Pei Yuan looked at French, who smiled knowingly, realizing that the Invisible Man was doomed.

"Homelander! What are Homelander's weaknesses?"

"Oh, I don't know, I don't know what his weaknesses are!"

"Didn't you secretly observe him?"

“He can see me and knows my weaknesses, I dare not…”

……

Next came a series of questions from Butcher and Hughie.

Although the answer wasn't entirely satisfactory, they didn't come away empty-handed either, as they obtained some information about the locomotive.

For example, where did Luo Bing go the night before the locomotive killed him?