American Comics: Something's Wrong with This Superhero World

Chapter 135 Choice

A minute passed quickly, and amidst the despair in the young Black man's eyes, accompanied by the sound of a machine, a huge screw was slowly driven into his brain by the machine behind him.

Finally, amidst his cries of pain, the young Black man collapsed, his blood flowing onto the ground and being absorbed by it.

"Congratulations on winning the first level of the game. Now it's time for the second level." Billy walked into the room and said to Xiao Xian. At the same time, the machine behind Xiao Xian extended a needle and injected a tube of anesthetic into Xiao Xian's neck.

Feeling slightly dazed, Xiao Xian quickly regained consciousness thanks to the rapid metabolism brought about by his super regeneration. He looked at Billy and asked, "Did you guys just give me anesthesia?"

"That's a dose of drug that can knock out three adult men." Billy said in shock, looking at Xiao Xian who was completely conscious. He wasn't too surprised that Xiao Xian, who had only one hand on the scale, now had both hands intact. After all, Xiao Xian had come back to life right in front of him, and Billy knew that Xiao Xian had regenerative abilities.

"I'm a superhuman. Who do you think you are with this level of anesthetic and dosage? Give me ten more tubes." Xiao Xian shrugged. He usually used Osborn or S.H.I.E.L.D. special anesthetics, the kind specifically for dealing with superhumans. Just a little bit is enough to knock out three elephants.

Xiao Xian hadn't used this common anesthetic, which was only enough to knock out three adult men in one dose, for a long time.

"There's only one tube per machine," Billy said helplessly. The program Jigsaw had set for him didn't specify what to do if the test subject wasn't drugged.

"Then you can just pretend I was drugged," Xiao Xian said, pointing to the machine behind his neck. "By the way, can this be removed now? It's not very comfortable to wear. Will I be punished and disqualified for damaging anything in this cell?"

"We can dismantle it now." Billy was a little conflicted. He was worried that after Xiao Xian was released, he would be dismantled by Xiao Xian.

"That's good." Reaching behind him, he tore the steel machine off as easily as tearing tofu. Then, to Billy's astonishment, Xiao Xian grabbed the lock and snapped it off, before confidently opening the door and walking out of the cell.

"Where do we go next?" Xiao Xian asked, looking down at the Billy doll.

"The next level room." Billy paused, looking at Xiao Xiandao. So you're being locked up purely out of respect?

"Let's go." Xiao Xian said and walked up the stairs with Billy, where they saw a small tricycle parked at the door.

"Usually you take a tricycle there, but since you're awake, you can walk there too," Billy said to Xiao Xian. He was just a little puppet, and dragging people around was tiring. Luckily, Xiao Xian was awake, so Billy could take a break.

"Alright, but this place and your tricycle are so dirty." Xiao Xian looked at the bloodstains and various stains on the ground with some disgust. Who knows how these things came about? Xiao Xian also saw a piece of what looked like dried large intestine. In short, it was disgusting.

After thinking for a moment, Xiao Xian slowly floated into the air and said, "I'll fly over there."

"..." Have humans outside become like this? This isn't what Jigsaw gave me, Billy thought helplessly, feeling that Jigsaw was about to crash and burn this time.

"Billy? And who is this?" Halfway there, Amanda looked at Billy riding his tricycle and Xiao Xian floating behind him and asked. For some reason, as soon as Amanda saw Xiao Xian, she felt her face flush and her heart race, as if she had fallen in love, even though she had already vowed to dedicate the rest of her life to Lord Jigsaw.

"I am Xiao Xian, a challenger participating in the Jigsaw Disciple Trial," Xiao Xian said, flying to Amanda and extending his hand.

According to Xiao Xian's experience, apart from those ridiculously strong beings like Pennywise, other members of the opposite sex, even those who are strange, are generally considered his teammates, such as Tomie.

"I am Amanda, Mr. Jigsaw's disciple." Amanda reached out and shook hands with Xiao Xian in a flustered manner, while also looking at Xiao Xian with great curiosity. Logically speaking, shouldn't they be drugged and taken over? How come Xiao Xian flew over directly?

"The anesthetic won't work on him." Billy noticed Amanda's confusion, but at the same time, he looked at Amanda with some doubt. Usually, she would refer to herself as Mr. Jigsaw's loyal servant to everyone she met. Why wasn't she emphasizing that today?

"I wish you success~ Also, be careful if you encounter Hoffman. His challenges aren't very friendly. You might have to break the rules to survive." Amanda couldn't help but remind Xiao Xian as she held his hand.

"Is this something I can say? Amanda, you never remind anyone of this before. Also, your pants seem a little wet. Amanda, are you very scared?" Short Billy noticed something different. He often saw people with wet pants, and those people were all because they were too frightened.

"I didn't! Don't talk nonsense." Amanda quickly denied it, blushing. She couldn't afford to lose face in front of Xiao Xian.

"It's there, look for yourself," Billy said very frankly.

"I didn't!" Amanda was almost in tears; she really wanted to take the doll apart.

"Maybe it was just from accidentally getting it on her while drinking water," Xiao Xian said, trying to smooth things over. In Xiao Xian's experience, even if he didn't help her out, he would still laugh at Amanda with Billy and even pull down her pants without losing her favorability rating. In fact, Amanda's favorability rating might even increase.

"That's right, it got on my skin by accident when I was drinking water." Amanda nodded repeatedly.

"Not yet," Billy muttered.

"Stop agonizing over it, just take me to the next level." Xiao Xian rolled his eyes; this guy was pretty stubborn.

"Go for it!" Amanda clenched her fist and cheered for Xiao Xian. It seemed that she cared more about whether Xiao Xian could succeed in his trial than he did.

"We're here. The second challenge is a barbed wire fence and a glass enclosure." Billy led Xiao Xian to a room, opened the door, and let Xiao Xian in, saying, "Please take off your coat and pants and stand in the middle of the innermost wall of the room."

"Barbed wire and shards of glass?" Xiao Xian glanced at the empty room and said, "How come I don't see them?"

"Once you take off your coat and pants and stand there, I'll press the button and these will be generated automatically," Billy explained.

"Okay, fine." Upon hearing this, Xiao Xian took off his coat and pants and stood in the middle of the innermost wall of the house. Then he heard what sounded like something coming from next door. "What was that sound?"

"That's the observation room, indicating that disciples are watching your trial," Billy replied, pulling out a button and pressing it. Instantly, a bunch of intertwined barbed wire appeared in the room, and a large number of shards of glass appeared on the ground, except where Xiao Xian had stood.

"You need to get out of this room within three hours. If you don't get out after three hours, the challenge is over, and the room will be filled with poison gas. You will die painlessly. On the contrary, if you want to live, you will need to get through barbed wire and shards of glass. They are coated with a drug, and the pain from the cuts will be ten times more painful than you imagine!" Billy read the lines according to the procedure.

"Whether you live in pain or die peacefully is up to you."

"This can be destroyed, right? The barbed wire is all tangled up, and the spikes are quite fine. Plus, there are shards of glass. It's very fragile," Xiao Xian said, pointing to the items in the room.

"This hurdle is manageable," Billy replied.

(End of this chapter)