American Comics: Something's Wrong with This Superhero World

Chapter 113 The Thug's Excited Punch

The group followed Daredevil into the restroom, but did not see Pennywise, whom Daredevil had mentioned. Xiao Xian picked up Daredevil's wallet, which had been thrown on the ground. The money inside had disappeared, replaced by a simple line drawing of Pennywise holding a balloon. Xiao Xian personally felt that the drawing was not very good.

"My hand, that's right, my hand." Seeing that Pennywise wasn't there, Daredevil hurriedly picked up his shattered hand from the cubicle floor. Looking at his hand, so badly broken, Daredevil cried out in despair, "My hand~ Can this ever be reattached?"

"Even if you reattach a hand like this, it's useless. It's not even as good as a normal person's hand." Barbara Morse walked into the restroom and complained. One of her female agents had been taken advantage of by Daredevil today, and she really disliked Daredevil.

"What happened? Aren't you supposed to be in charge of contacting the superheroes on the outside?" Xiao Xian asked Barbara.

"The Thing has disappeared. He found Pennywise's trail in the sewers, gave chase, but never returned. The locator for the Thing outside is also malfunctioning," Barbara said.

"Useless." Xiao Xian was stunned for a moment upon hearing this, then complained. They acted like they were fearless during the meeting, but turned around and gave away their lives. Luckily, he didn't count on these people.

"Does Mr. Fantastic know about this?" Xiao Xian handed the simple sketch left by Pennywise to a female agent from the forensic department, and then asked, "After all, he's a superhero from his company, and Mr. Fantastic has so many technological means, and the Thing is his teammate, so he might be able to find it."

"Mr. Fantastic knows, but he said he can't talk to you alone. There's some information I can only tell you."

Barbara glanced at Daredevil next to her and said that she originally wanted to whisper to Xiao Xian, but Daredevil's senses were so advanced that whispering to him was no different from shouting.

"Okay, let's come to the command center," Xiao Xian said, glancing at Barbara.

Entering the command room, Xiao Xian sat down in a chair and looked at Barbara.

"What information can only be shared with me?"

"Mr. Fantastic means that S.H.I.E.L.D. doesn't need to go to the trouble of rescuing the Thing. He won't ask S.H.I.E.L.D. for compensation because of this. He even said that it would be best if the Thing just died. He would give S.H.I.E.L.D. an extra ten million dollars in funding next year."

Barbara sat down in the chair opposite Xiao Xian, looking at him with a lovesick smile.

"Oh, I see. Why? Aren't Mr. Fantastic and the Thing longtime friends? They were classmates too, right?" Xiao Xian glanced at Barbara sitting opposite him and raised an eyebrow as he asked.

The person opposite him is definitely not Barbara; it's most likely Pennywise in disguise, Xiao Xian thought to himself. The real Barbara would never sit opposite him when she was alone in a room; she would only sit in his lap, and her collar would never be this high.

Even if she were sitting across from him, Barbara wouldn't be so gentlemanly; her foot would have already been stretched out.

"It seems it's because Mr. Fantastic found out about the Thing's crush on the Invisible Woman," Barbara explained. "I heard the Thing stole the Invisible Woman's underwear to take care of his bodily needs and even secretly filmed her using the restroom at the Fantastic Four's company."

"That's too abstract. Wait, Daredevil couldn't have gone to the women's restroom just to take pictures, could he?" Xiao Xian opened the screen in front of Barbara, selected the command room, and pressed confirm.

"It's possible. What are you doing?" Barbara asked Xiao Xian with a puzzled look. Why did Xiao Xian suddenly turn on the alarm and put the command room on the highest alert level?

"I suspect Pennywise is here. Be careful, don't stray too far from me, or I won't be able to protect you."

Xiao Xian looked at the layers of runes that lit up on the walls of the command room and said to Barbara.

"Pennywise?! How did you find him? Where is he?"

"Barbara" exclaimed, and tried to move closer to Xiao Xian, but instead she was met with a heart-piercing blow from Xiao Xian.

Xiao Xian floated slightly in the air. At this moment, Xiao Xian's hand could easily pierce even steel. Passing through Barbara's chest was as easy as passing through tofu. He reached into Barbara's chest, but Xiao Xian did not find her heart.

"How did you find me?" Barbara's tone changed instantly after being stabbed in the chest. She stopped pretending and looked at Xiao Xian coldly as she asked.

"Consultation services are not free." Xiao Xian rolled his eyes. He wasn't some stupid character in a movie. Why would he tell Pennywise about something he found out so that it could disguise itself better next time?

"How about your hand as payment?" Pennywise chuckled, the granulation tissue from his chest wound transforming into countless sharp teeth that firmly gripped Xiao Xian's hand, the chill spreading continuously along Xiao Xian's hand.

"If you like it, you can have it." Xiao Xian transformed his left hand into a blade and chopped off the hand that Pennywise was holding. Almost instantly, Xiao Xian's right hand grew back.

Pennywise was stunned for a moment. He looked at Xiao Xian's newly grown right hand, then looked down at the arm he was biting on his chest. Do humans normally have such a fast self-healing ability?

And even if that were the case, would this person not even bat an eye when cutting off his own arm?

"Hehehe~ You're funny~" To maintain his image, the clown chuckled, then pulled out Xiao Xian's right hand from his chest and ate it piece by piece, saying as he ate.

"Your meat is the most delicious I've ever eaten."

"Should I cooperate with you and scream to show my respect?" Xiao Xian asked, looking at the clown who was trying so hard to perform. It seemed to have swallowed Xiao Xian's surveillance camera.

I wonder what would happen if I chose the flesh and blood inside Pennywise's body as the regeneration core?

Xiao Xian was very envious of Pennywise's abilities, but considering that Pennywise was a cosmic evil god who had lived for tens or hundreds of billions of years, Xiao Xian felt that the possibility of him possessing him was really not high, so he decided to give up.

It doesn't even need to be much. If Pennywise's tens of millions of years of memories were to enter Xiao Xian's mind, it would be a big question whether Xiao Xian could still maintain himself with his mere two-digit number of memories.

"Aren't you afraid of me?" Pennywise stared blankly at Xiao Xian. Before, Xiao Xian had a slight fear of him, but now that fear had almost disappeared.

"You should switch your appearance to clown mode before saying that. Going out with a beautiful woman's face to scare people might actually excite perverts more," Xiao Xian shook his head and teased. In this world, there are plenty of perverts. There are even movies about Sadako, and maybe there are people who can do Pennywise.

Moreover, this is a dark version of the superhero world, so there might be one superhero with unusual tastes.

Perhaps the stone man has a taste for this. Thinking of this, Xiao Xian was not only not afraid, but even wanted to laugh.

This is one of the methods Xiao Xian came up with to deal with Pennywise: the Brain Circuit Breaker Technique, inspired by the bullet screen protection technique he used when watching horror movies in his previous life.

No matter how scary the original plot is, it suddenly doesn't feel scary anymore after being teased by the bizarre comments from silly netizens; it might even seem a little funny.

(End of this chapter)