American Comics: Something's Wrong with This Superhero World

Chapter 136 Don't come any closer!

Knowing that he could destroy the mechanism, Xiao Xian shot out a heat beam from his eyes, burning through all the barbed wire blocking the way in the room, and then flew to Billy's side.

"Is that all there is to it?"

"Uh, I haven't said 'start the game' yet." Billy was stunned for a moment. What kind of speedrun is this? A three-hour level is completed in three seconds?

"Alright then, let's do it one more time."

Upon hearing this, Xiao Xian flew back to his original spot. This time, he waited until Billy said the game had started before flying out again.

"Let's go, let's go to the next level," Xiao Xian said, putting on his clothes and pants.

"Um, there's a tranquilizer trap on the floor near the door, but you didn't trigger it when you flew over. Anyway, getting out means you've cleared the level. Let's go to the next one." Billy glared at the tricycle and led Xiao Xian to the next room.

"This level is a giant swing ride. You need to squeezing your hands together, otherwise the giant swinging axe above will cut you in two."

Billy pushed open the door and, instead of waiting for Xiao Xian to struggle before speaking, spoke directly to him, fearing that Xiao Xian would pass the level if he didn't speak soon.

"How do I clamp it?" Xiao Xian asked, looking at the mechanism in the room. "Put it in this mechanism?"

"That's right, it's this mechanism that's used," Billy nodded.

"If I put my hand in and it's still intact, does that mean I've succeeded?" Xiao Xian asked, looking at the mechanism in front of him.

"You can try it. I'll sense if you pass the level," Billy replied. Little did it know about such things. In the past, there were only people who didn't dare to get caught and were killed by the giant swing or whose hands were crushed by the machine. It had never encountered anyone whose hands were caught and then they were fine.

"Then I'll give it a try." Xiao Xian said, floating slightly in the air and then putting his hand into the mechanism. A large iron block fell down and hit Xiao Xian's hand.

"Alright, is it successful now?" Xiao Xian lifted the iron block and asked Billy.

"We've cleared the level." Billy exclaimed in shock as he looked at the iron block with two handprints below. He remembered that the iron block weighed about five or six tons. If that iron block had hit him, Billy felt that he would definitely have been crippled.

"Let's go to the next level." Xiao Xian glanced at the iron block that appeared out of thin air, then turned around and said that he would study it after he obtained the access here.

"The fourth level was designed by Jigsaw's disciples. Let me see who got assigned to it—Hoffman," Billy said after closing his eyes and sensing the situation.

"Hoffman? Amanda mentioned it just now. His schemes have no chance of survival if you follow the rules. You can only find a way out by not following the obvious rules." Xiao Xian recalled and said, "Coincidentally, I don't really like following the rules either, at least I don't like the rules that others set for me."

"Come on, let's go to Hoffman's room." Billy led the way on his tricycle.

"Transfer Xiao Xian to me, and I'll transfer three test subjects to you afterward." Before they even arrived, Xiao Xian heard Amanda and Hoffman talking.

"No way. Not many people can make it to the fourth level all year round. Who knows how long it will take if it gets assigned to you? It's been more than half a year since anyone died in my trap room. Do you know how much I'm looking forward to it?" Hoffman said sinisterly. "I can't wait to see him howling and dying in the trap room I designed."

"The testers have arrived." Billy ignored the conversation inside and pushed open the door to walk in.

"Here he is. Why wasn't he drugged?" Hoffman was about to say that he could just put him on his desk, but when he saw Xiao Xian walking in calmly and curiously, he immediately frowned and said.

"Your sleeping potion is too low-grade, it's useless against me. I'll just go with you to whichever room we're going to later." Xiao Xian curiously picked up a blade from the table and tried to bend it with his hands. It actually took some effort to bend it. He didn't know if it was imported from outside or generated by the Jigsaw Space itself. With Xiao Xian's current strength, such blades were usually no different from plastic pieces in his hands.

If the space were generated automatically, it seems like you could make a lot of money selling jigsaw blades.

"Why are you touching my things!" Hoffman said angrily when he saw Xiao Xian pick up his mechanical parts. How dare a mere test subject, a lamb about to be killed by him, touch his creation? Hoffman was going to kill this guy in the most cruel way.

"Did you buy this or make it yourself? Or does it refresh itself?" Xiao Xian asked curiously, pointing to the parts.

"This is none of your business!" Hoffman said with a dark face, stepping forward to snatch the part from Xiao Xian's hand, only to be surprised to find that Xiao Xian had bent the blade.

"Wow~ You've got quite a temper. By the way, if the assessment has any requirements, like not attacking Jigsaw disciples during the trial, does that mean I'll fail the assessment if I beat him up?" Xiao Xian asked Billy.

"There's no precedent for this," Billy stammered.

"There are no such requirements. The only requirement for you here is to pass the agency's assessment," Amanda said to Xiao Xian.

"So, actually, destroying the mechanism is also an option?" Xiao Xian turned his head slightly to look at Billy.

"This..." Billy panicked immediately.

"Of course," Amanda said without hesitation. "I'd even tear down the house if you could just beat the game."

"What's wrong? You want to fight me?" Hoffman sneered. "A mere test subject, you don't know, do you? In this Jigsaw Space, Jigsaw Disciples cannot die."

"You know that? You're so confident, I almost thought you were going to say you're invincible. Just because you're not dead, you're kidding me. I'm invincible, whether I'm here or out there."

Xiao Xian raised an eyebrow. Had this guy been using the game's designer and referee too much, getting used to the God's-eye view and being high and mighty? Did he really think he was God?

"You're not dead? You think you're..." Hoffman was about to sneer when he saw Xiao Xian's eyes light up red, and then a laser beam of heat vision pierced through Hoffman's brain.

"What about me?" Xiao Xian looked at Hoffman, whose head had a hole burned in it, and asked with a curious expression.

"Useless! I'm immortal! Hahahaha~!" A moment later, Hoffman's head returned to normal, and he looked at Xiao Xian and laughed heartily with a smug expression.

"Remember how happy you look now," Xiao Xian said with a smile. "I hope you'll still be smiling when I shove your head into my anus later."

"Wait a minute! What are you doing?!" Hoffman was startled by the words and shouted at Xiao Xian, who was walking towards him, while backing away. "Don't come any closer! Let's talk this out. There's no need to get so angry."

"Hehe~" Xiao Xian cracked his knuckles and slowly walked forward.

"Don't come any closer!!!" Hoffman wailed like a little girl.

(End of this chapter)