Starting with Naruto, I'll become stronger through my own efforts.

Chapter 392 Xia Zuo manifests himself before the people, establishing deterrence

Amid the vibrations of the helicopter rotor, a man was shouting at the top of his lungs.

"Attention everyone, we will begin the search from the center of the explosion, spreading outwards in a spiral pattern."

Someone countered, "Hou Lei Shift, that's the Mother of All Bombs! The boss saw that enormous mushroom cloud too. What are we supposed to be looking for?"

The leader retorted, "Pay attention to the tiny marks on the ground, especially anything that looks like teeth. Even with a powerful explosion, how could it possibly shatter all the teeth?"

One of them said angrily, "Damn it, we're superpowered! Why are we being made to do this kind of corpse-collecting work? Wouldn't it be better to hire some forensic doctors?"

The boss laughed heartily: "Can a forensic doctor really tell us what a dismembered human body looks like?"

The nine of them burst into laughter.

However, the next moment, they found that the machine was fighting wildly, and two people were thrown out on the spot.

What's frightening is that the people who were thrown out didn't fall downwards, but instead flew forward rapidly, as fast as cannonballs.

Immediately afterwards, the plane accelerated wildly, and just one second later, the rotor broke off, turning the Black Hawk helicopter into a cannonball.

When the helicopter landed in front of Xia Zuo, only the main frame remained, and the frame was covered with pits due to the uneven distribution of electromagnetic forces.

From within this completely destroyed machine, a burly man suddenly emerged. His bone and muscle density far exceeded normal levels, clearly indicating that he was a superhuman with enhanced physical abilities.

But the enraged superpowered individual froze completely the moment he saw Xia Zuo: "You, you're not dead?"

Xia Zuo sneered, reached out and grabbed him from the cabin, then put his neck directly into Xia Zuo's hand.

Xia Zuo shouted, "Now think about it! Who are you? What is your identity? And who ordered you here?"

Two seconds later, by simply searching through his shallow memories and thoughts, it was clear that this guy was a simple-minded fellow, and that he was also a bloodthirsty bastard with a penchant for torture and murder.

Xia Zuo mercilessly snapped the strong man's neck and threw him onto the other two corpses behind him. Then he grabbed the next superhuman and repeated the same process.

It wasn't until the sixth superpowered individual that Xia Zuo found the leader of the superpowered team and also obtained the information he wanted about the judges of the Owl Court.

"As expected of the court's directly subordinate super-powered combat team, they really know a lot."

With a sinister grin, Xia Zuo snapped the neck of the Death Cross squad leader and then used his magnetic force to mold the Black Hawk helicopter fuselage into a metal ball.

He had lost patience to continue the investigation. Since all six people were bloodthirsty villains, the remaining three superpowered individuals were definitely not innocent victims.

After doing all this, Xia Zuo realized that Batman was gone.

Xia Zuo exclaimed in surprise, "Hey, this kid runs really fast!"

"No, it's not that he runs fast, it's my problem. I forgot to label this kid, and once I'm focused on something, I naturally overlook him."

"So that's how it is. Even though I can handle batch processing of big data, there's still this hidden flaw."

"Forget it, he's already suffered a lot today. Let him recover, lest he turn into a blackened bat."

"Hehe, why do I feel like the corrupted bat is really fun? Or maybe the laughing bat is good too?"

"Oh, I'm mentally ill, then it's alright."

Xia Zuo looked at the frozen forest around him, then suddenly raised his hands high: "You trash, feel the terror of chakra! After all, you are not worthy to enjoy the power of ki and cosmos!"

[Wood Release: Dionysus Wood Man]

The frozen forest began to tremble, the trees shook off the frost, and pulled their roots out of the frozen ground, paying no heed to the broken roots that had fallen into the earth.

The trees grew closer and merged with each other, stacking up to increase their height. A wooden figure, 18 meters tall, with broad shoulders, a thick waist, a protruding belly, and carrying a huge wine barrel, appeared before Xia Zuo's eyes.

Shazo then jumped onto the head of Dionysus and directed it to a church on the outskirts of Gotham City, where the Court of Owls was located.

Based on information from the leader of the superpowered squad, Xia Zuo tracked the electromagnetic signal channel and located this unremarkable little church.

The enormous wooden figure weighs over 300 tons, and each step it takes leaves a footprint up to a meter deep.

Because of its extremely long stride, the Dionysus wooden figure walks very fast, reaching speeds of up to 60 yards per minute.

Moreover, the wooden Dionysus can walk through streets and alleys, step over residential buildings, and cross highways, so it only took a few minutes to cover half the distance.

After the massive wooden Dionysus figure had been roaming around for ten minutes, half of Gotham City was already in an uproar and chaos.

The media reporters, who had sprung into action because of the mushroom cloud explosion, were also drawn to the wooden man. After all, this was the United States, where explosions were commonplace.

No matter how large the explosion is, unless it's a nuclear explosion, what could be more captivating than a magical wooden figure?

The reporters then turned around and started snapping photos of the wooden figure.

Not only journalists, but countless others drove cars and motorcycles, following in the footsteps of the wooden figure and frantically spreading their discoveries.

Soon, the giant wooden Dionysus figure occupied all the major television stations, and despite it being late at night, the ratings soared to unprecedented heights.

As the TV station's helicopter arrived, from its elevated position, it was easy to spot Xia Zuo atop the wooden figure, sparking great curiosity among the people.

Some helicopters also followed the wooden figure's straight walking path to the place where it was born, only to be bombed and burned there.

The frozen appearance was astonishing.

I wonder how many people gasped in shock after seeing this scene on television.

Christian: "God! Is this a myth descending to earth?"

The original believer: "This is nature's wrath! This is the druids' punishment!"

A Muslim: "God is great, this is Your warrior!"

Harley Quinn and her friends had just completed a blatant "theft," and because the police who were chasing them turned and left, they curiously turned around and chased after the police instead.

When the police arrived at the scene, the three women were stunned to see the wooden figures moving like a building.

Harley Quinn had half her body sticking out of the car window, staring intently at the wooden figure, making meaningless noises.

Poison Ivy was even more shocked than Harley Quinn. As a plant enthusiast and a terrorist who pursued nature, she swore she had never imagined that plants could be so powerful.

More importantly, that wooden figure was alive!

Even when they were still several kilometers away, Poison Ivy could feel the Woodman's surging life force, as powerful as an entire forest, truly like a messenger of nature.

Poison Ivy believed that this was the revitalization of the forest, and she was determined to learn the divine skill of revitalizing the forest into a divine messenger. She absolutely had to!

Catwoman's surprise lasted only a moment, replaced by fear, wariness, and resistance to approaching the wooden figure.

Cats never like things that are too big.

Xia Zuo became the focus of the world's attention, and he was very satisfied with it.

He's not Clark Kent; his body is 100% human, so there's no need to worry about fear caused by racial barriers. Shazo understands the meaning of deterrence better. He's neither a good person nor does he want to be seen as one. He wants to be a villain that everyone fears, a villain with principles but not a very high bottom line.

In that case, people will avoid him and refrain from provoking him.

Not only will life become easier and more comfortable, but even when he wants to achieve his goals, he will make people fully consider their own safety, thus giving up more benefits.

Thinking of his triumph, Xia Zuo couldn't help but burst into laughter, urging the wooden figure to run, each step causing the earth to tremble.

Arriving at the small chapel, ignoring the warnings from the cloaked guards, he delivered a decisive punch, sending countless bricks flying and revealing the thick steel frame inside.

In that instant, countless discerning people realized that there was something wrong with this church; beneath its simple, rough brick structure lay a steel fortress of the level of a doomsday bunker.

Whether it was the power of brainwashing, being forced into it, or innate courage, the cloaked guards pulled out their guns and opened fire on the wooden figures.

The wooden figure raised the wine barrel it was holding and poured it onto the ground.

The green liquid, like a flood, knocked all the guards to the ground. Before they could get up, the ground began to sprout and grow into large trees.

No, that's not a tree, that's a living tree person.

When the tree-man grew to six or seven meters tall, it pulled its feet out of the ground and attacked the cloaked guards.

The size difference between the two sides was enormous, like that between a human and a monkey, and yet the number of tree people far exceeded that of the guards.

The wooden god of wine paid no attention to the battle between the soldiers. He grabbed the steel frame with both hands, shook it with all his might, and then pulled it upwards with force. With a silent roar, he pulled the integrated Doomsday Fortress out of the ground and threw it horizontally on the ground.

Then the wooden figure lifted the barrel again and poured the green liquid into the fortress.

Just a few minutes later, six men with shiny hair and wearing tuxedos were pushed out of the doomsday fortress by the plants and thrown in front of the wooden man.

Xia Zuo looked at the disheveled fellows with satisfaction, then threw his head back and laughed loudly, "Judges of the Owl Court, I've finally caught you rats!"

"Are you simply going to die, or do you want to leave some last words?"

One of them tried to stand up, but due to the severe deformity of his legs, he failed several times. He simply lay on the ground and shouted, "Empty! You think you've destroyed the Court of Owls by killing us?"

"You're dreaming!"

"Owls are immortal, and the Court of Owls will be your nightmare, haunting you until the day you die!"

boom!!

The wooden figure slapped the guy, merging him into the earth.

Xia Zuo sneered, "A mere mortal dares to threaten me."

"What nonsense about owls being immortal! Don't you know that the ancient East University already cracked your game? I'll show you what 'Nine Clans Elimination' really means!"

The other man swallowed hard, bowed deeply, and pleaded, "If I pledge my allegiance to you, will you spare my life?"

Xia Zuo shook his head: "No."

His expression twisted in agony, and he roared like a madman, "Are you really going to let us die?"

Xia Zuo calmly replied, "Of course, it's not just you, but also your family, your father-in-law and mother-in-law, your brothers and sisters, including those whose blood ties can be traced back three generations. Anyone who has profited from your underground system must die."

"You, you demon! You devil!"

With a snap, the wooden figure crushed him to death with a single finger, leaving a bloody trail more than ten meters long on the ground.

Xia Zuo looked at the remaining four people and asked, "What were your last words?"

All four of them were so weak in the knees that they collapsed to the ground, trembling like leaves.

The first middle-aged fat man cried out, "No, don't kill me! Please don't kill me!"

Xia Zuo: "No."

Snap—squeak—

This is a fat person, with a lot of flesh and even more fat, so the lines drawn on it are longer.

The second old man seemed even more afraid of death: "I have money, I have lots of money, it's all yours, all of it!"

Xia Zuo: "First of all, I don't need your money."

"Secondly, even if I kill you, your money will still be mine."

Finally, I think you've lived long enough.

The third one was also an old man, wearing a small round hat, who shouted hoarsely, "Devil! I curse you, you will surely be punished by God—"

With a snap, the fourth old man's eyes rolled back, he fell backward, his heart suddenly stopped beating, and he was completely speechless.

Xia Zuo waved his hand, manipulated the wooden figure to stand up, and returned step by step along the same path.

At that moment, a reporter who was desperate for fame tied himself with a rescue rope and jumped out of the helicopter, landing next to the wooden figure's head.

Suppressing his discomfort and fear, the reporter grabbed the microphone and shouted to Xia Zuo, "Sir, are you Kong, the serial killer who recently eliminated two major mafia families who withdrew from Gotham City?"

Xia Zuo was amused by the reporter who was bungee jumping from a helicopter and swinging on a swing. He casually used electromagnetic force to pull the guy back to prevent him from swinging too far.

After securing the reporter, Xia Zuocai replied, "That's right, I killed those Farnecos and Maronis."

The reporter quickly pressed further: "Then why did you kill the gangsters? And who were those people you killed so openly today?"

Xia Zuo replied, "I've lived in Gotham since I was a kid. When I was weak, I was bullied by gangs a lot. Now that I'm grown up and stronger, isn't it normal to get revenge?"

"The six people killed today were from Gotham City's legendary Court of Owls," or rather, Gotham City's shadow government.

The reporter's jaw dropped: "A cat, an owl court?"

Fortunately, he was very polite and immediately steered the conversation back to the first question: "Mr. Kong, it was indeed pitiful that you were bullied by gangsters when you were a child, but you still grew up healthy."

"But your revenge nearly wiped out both families. Isn't that going too far?"

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