Chapter 891

In the deep cosmos, a massive meteor deviated from its original orbit for some unknown reason.

*Beep beep beep~*

At the House of Evolution, a piercing alarm rang out.

"Dr. Jinos, what happened on your end?"

Via video call, Broly heard that piercing alarm and frowned as he asked.

"Nothing major. The growth fluid I developed for the Infinite Kelp worked a little too well; the kelp is growing rapidly and squeezing the instruments, hence the alarm."

"Is that so? But the glass behind you — I get the feeling it's about to give way."

"No problem. Although the lab here isn't as sturdy as the original House of Evolution lab, it's absolutely not something a Tiger Level monster's Infinite Kelp can destroy."

"Are you sure, Dr. Jinos? I seem to see cracks starting to appear on the glass. You'd better turn around and take a look."

Hearing this, Jinos turned his head and saw the Armored Gorilla's evolved Chimpanzee Man pinned against the glass by a huge mass of kelp.

The other's mouth opened and closed, as if saying something to this side of the glass, but the lab's soundproofing was so good that even Dr. Jinos on the call with Broly hadn't noticed until now.

And as the kelp in the lab kept growing, the reinforced glass could no longer bear the weight; with a *crack*, it shattered completely.

"Doc, I can't hold it."

At this moment, the Armored Gorilla's words finally got through, but it was already a bit late.

A large amount of kelp filled the entire room.

On Broly's phone screen, only a stretch of blue-green could be seen.

"Dr. Jinos, are you alright?"

Broly was a bit worried about the situation at the House of Evolution; after all, the Youth Serum hadn't been delivered yet, and if the doctor got done in by a pile of kelp, that would be a bit of a joke.

"I'm fine. The kelp's growth should have stopped."

Dr. Jinos's voice came through, somewhat muffled but still audible.

"Next, let's see how you sell all this kelp."

"Selling shouldn't be a problem. The question is, how do these rush-grown kelp taste? They wouldn't be defective goods, would they?"

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"The resilience of these kelp has decreased somewhat, but the taste is the same. Yesterday the Doc and I ate some; it was quite delicious."

The Armored Gorilla's voice also came from the other end of the call; though his person couldn't be seen, the affirmation of the taste could be heard in his tone.

"Fine. Then you get to work cutting the kelp and packaging it nicely. I'll come by later to pick up some samples."

"This afternoon, I'll have the House of Evolution's Infinite Kelp products take up the ad slots at the Beauty Pageant as well————"

Ending the call with Dr. Jinos, Broly contacted the person in charge of organizing the Beauty Pageant in the city he was currently in, explaining that he wanted to add the House of Evolution brand kelp products into this Beauty Pageant's advertisements.

"Ah, Mr. Broly, all the ad slots for the Beauty Pageant have already been sold. You suddenly bringing another one makes things a bit difficult for us."

"Just swap one out, won't that work?"

"That won't work. Contracts are already signed. Swapping arbitrarily means paying a penalty fee."

"Then how about adding one more?"

"If we do that, the sponsors who've already agreed will likely be dissatisfied."

Broly frowned; he hadn't expected adding a single ad slot to be this troublesome.

Just as he was preparing to give up on advertising in this city's Beauty Pageant, Mosquito Girl spoke up: "One of the sponsors isn't Tanaka President's brother-in-law? That guy gave you quite a few kickbacks to reserve an ad slot for his company. Why don't you discuss with him whether to take his company's ad slot down, or have him figure out a way to persuade the other ad sponsors?"

"Ah, you————"

"Is your next sentence going to be asking how I know? Nonsense. The Beauty Pageant is sponsored and hosted by my man. Although he himself doesn't care much, I, as his wife, naturally have to keep an eye on things for him. What, you want to bet I don't have evidence of you skimming kickbacks?"

"No, no, very sorry, Miss Mosquito Girl. I'll handle this new ad properly."

Tanaka President took out a handkerchief and wiped the sweat from his forehead, no longer daring to speak any difficult nonsense, and left with the task of adding the new ad.

"Mosquito Girl, you really have evidence of that guy skimming kickbacks?"

Broly asked Mosquito Girl with some curiosity.

"Naturally I don't. I just had some mosquitoes tail the Beauty Pageant organizers. Mosquitoes aren't phones; they can't snap photos of so-called evidence."

"Then what you just said?"

"Bluffing him. Of course, if that guy really dares to call the bluff, we don't need to be polite with him either. Let him know we're not easy to fool. Tonight we'll go straight to his house and steal his house clean, and I'll have the mosquitoes suck him full of bumps."

"Mosquito Girl, you really are the housekeeper of my household in this world."

"What's wrong, you don't like it?"

"No, I like it very much."

For unimportant matters, Broly generally doesn't like to use his brain. Now that Mosquito Girl can help him think things through, he welcomes it more than anything.

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Meanwhile, in Z-City, at Saitama's home, Genos also received a summons text from the Hero Association.

"Sensei Saitama, I'm heading out. The Hero Association seems to have business with me."

"Go on, go on. You haven't been active as a hero lately; the Association might be planning to fire you for all we know."

Saitama lay on the floor, propping his chin on his hand, and said without even turning his head.

"Then I'm off."

Genos left Saitama's home, his mind on what his master had been doing recently.

【Sensei Saitama has been chasing some martial arts movies lately, saying that compared to real combat, the fighting techniques in those movies are more useful.

Perhaps when I return, I can stop by a video rental store and buy some of those movie discs to bring back for Sensei Saitama————】

"Z-City is done for!"

Genos was a bit dazed. He had just come to attend a meeting, and the person in charge of the Z-City Hero Association dropped this line directly.

"A meteorite with a diameter exceeding 200 meters has suddenly undergone an orbital deviation and is heading toward Earth. According to professional calculations, that meteorite will strike the surface in six hours, and the impact point is Z-City. The Association has classified this disaster as a Dragon-level threat and summoned everyone here for a final desperate attempt. Does anyone have a way to save Z-City?"

After the Z-City Branch Head finished speaking, the heroes who had come to attend this emergency meeting in the meeting hall were met with a stretch of silence.

Dealing with Mysterious Beings is one thing, but resolving a natural disaster like a meteorite strike — is that something human power can solve?

"Sigh~"

The Hero Association Z-City Branch Head sighed; he actually asked this question with some unwillingness as well.

As long as Z-City exists, he is the Hero Association's top man in Z-City, but if Z-City is gone, returning to Hero Association Headquarters, he would just be an ordinary manager.

"What about the other S-Class Heroes? Do they have no way either?"

Someone asked.

"The other S-Class Heroes either cannot be contacted, or have no time because they have their own matters to attend to, or they directly stated they lack the capability to stop a meteorite from striking the surface —"

The Z-City Branch Head answered.

"Unreachable at the critical moment?"

"No time, have their own things to do — right now Z-City is facing a crisis of destruction."

"Those S-Class Heroes, even if they don't live in Z-City, how can they be like this —"

In the meeting hall, some dissatisfied voices rang out.

Those heroes settled in Z-City have all their principal and property in Z-City.

If Z-City is destroyed, although it doesn't equal total ruin, it also counts as being rendered homeless.

"This can't be blamed on the other S-Class Heroes either; a natural disaster like a meteorite is inherently difficult for human power to resolve."

As the dissatisfied voices of condemnation grew increasingly fierce, a white-haired, spirited old man spoke up and interrupted this venting-style complaining.

"S-Class Rank 3, Silver Fang, Bang."

Everyone quieted down; clearly the speaker held great prestige within the Association.

"I have a proposal."

Right at this moment, Genos raised his hand.

"You are the rookie exceptionally rated as an S-Class Hero by the Association, S-Class Rank 17 Genos, right? Don't know what good proposal you have?"

The Z-City Branch Head's eyes lit up and he hurriedly asked.

"The other heroes can't do it, but perhaps we can seek help from Sensei Saitama or Mr. Broly."

Genos said directly.

"Who are they?"

The person in charge frowned and asked.

"They are also rookies who joined the Association not long ago along with me; they are C-Class Heroes, and their current rankings are respectively —"

"Mr. Genos, please don't joke at a critical juncture like this; a disaster that even S-Class Heroes are powerless against — can it really be solved by relying on C-Class Heroes?"

Genos's words weren't finished before he was directly interrupted by the Branch Head, and the other heroes who had come to attend the meeting also looked at Genos with strange gazes.

"Alright, has the Association prepared the evacuation warning for ordinary citizens?"

Before some heroes who might be unaccustomed to a rookie like Genos directly riding roughshod over them could open their mouths and utter some sarcastic remarks, Bang directly asked the Branch Head.

"Mm, preparations are already done. After this meeting ends, once we confirm there's no way to resolve the meteorite disaster, we'll immediately issue it. Everyone, you should also each make your own evacuation preparations."

The Branch Head nodded; the others also no longer cared about Genos's remarks just now, because those who are slow to flee Z-City might really die.

【Sensei Saitama and Mr. Broly, can they really resolve this meteorite disaster —】

Genos, having left the conference room, couldn't help but think this; he had personally witnessed the scene of those two exchanging blows.

In Genos's eyes, whether Saitama or Broly, both are very strong — a strength he cannot comprehend.

However, the power of a meteorite two hundred meters in diameter falling to the ground can definitely destroy Z-City and even the surrounding cities together in an instant.

【A disaster like this — can Sensei Saitama and Mr. Broly really resolve it?】

"Beep beep~"

Genos was thinking when the phone in his pocket rang; it was Dr. Kuseno calling.

"The new equipment and new mecha are ready. Genos, when are you coming to pick them up?"

"Right now."

【That's right, I'm also a hero; when encountering difficulties and perils, I can't only think of entrusting others to resolve those difficulties and perils —】

Genos thought of Saitama's teaching, but in reality it was just something Saitama didn't know how to teach, and when Genos pressed him on how to forge a strong heart like his, he casually made up on the spot — chicken soup along the lines of relying on oneself and doing one's best is fine.

Genos rushed to Dr. Kuseno's research base to collect equipment, and after collecting the equipment he headed toward Z-City.

During the round trip, the evacuation warning had already been issued, and the news of the meteorite then plunged Z-City completely into chaos; countless people were scrambling to flee outside.

Some had already fled out smoothly, but some, because everyone was fighting to run first, caused the roads leading out of the city to fall into a state of massive traffic gridlock; practically every road leading outside the city was filled with the sound of honking and cursing.

As for the traffic police maintaining order — joke; traffic police are people too, they also want to survive. In the face of a meteorite disaster, naturally they also become part of the fleeing crowd.

Even heroes are among them.

Genos, flying back, saw from the air the vehicle flow below that fundamentally couldn't get out, and the civilians stepping and crawling over cars in a desperate bid to escape the city; his heart was incomparably heavy.

If this disaster cannot be stopped, I'm afraid all those people down below will die —

"Ah, Mr. Broly, I'm afraid my sponsorship of your beauty pageant can only stop here.

At the same time, far away from Z-City in 0-City, having received the Hero Association warning and long since escaped Z-City by private helicopter, Zenier sought out Broly who was staying on this side.

"Zenier, what happened? Why are you cutting off sponsorship of the beauty pageant? Don't you want to push your taste to the whole world?"

Broly felt some drumming in his heart, because he had just made a new promotional kelp plan, preparing to designate the attire worn by pageant participants for the next pageant as mandatory to be produced using his own kelp as material.

And this routine was still learned from Zenier; it's just that Zenier promotes his own feces taste, using the beauties participating in the beauty pageant to change the public's prejudice against feces-shaped objects.

And this trick was learned from Zenier, except Zenier publicized the taste/experience of his own feces, using beauties participating in the Beauty Pageant to change the public's prejudice against feces-shaped things.

And what he prepared to publicize was his own kelp, and he also planned to use the participants to bind kelp, thereby conducting publicity.

【Could Zenier have known? But that shouldn't be, my proposal is still in the Crystal Palace Space————】

"I wanted to push it, but unfortunately, something unexpected happened on my side."

"What unexpected thing?"

"You don't know?"

"Should I know?"

Broly looked at him with some confusion.

"Uh, it seems you really don't know, then I'll just say it directly, six hours ago, the Hero Association issued a premonition, saying a huge meteor is about to fall on Z-City, that is an irresistible Dragon-level Threat."

Although my property, after receiving the premonition, I tried hard to rescue a part of it, but there was still more left in Z-City, once Z-City is destroyed, it would be a heavy blow to my group.

Although it's not enough to bankrupt me all at once, my property has lost eighty or ninety percent, wanting to continue supporting my dream, supporting you, but I am willing yet powerless."

Zenier sighed, as a rich person, although compared to ordinary people, he could easily preserve his own life, but the loss of property was greater than ordinary people.

"Meteor impact, huh, Zenier, if I can help you preserve those properties of yours in Z-City, can the future Beauty Pageant be decided by me?"

Broly thought for a moment and asked.

"Ah, Mr. Broly, if you can truly preserve my properties in Z-City, then let alone letting you decide the future Beauty Pageant, even giving you half of my family fortune is fine."

"Forget about directly dividing money, recently I made a kelp product, in the future I might make other products, you just help me sell them together."

"No problem."

Zenier did not hesitate, directly agreed.

"Old man, my Disciple will be temporarily entrusted to you to take care of."

"Saitama Teacher————"

Genos, who almost exhausted his energy to fight against the meteor, watched Saitama walk past him.

The building rooftop suddenly shattered, Saitama just started jumping.

A terrifying energy light beam, directly roared toward the meteor falling on Z-City.

Just like ice and snow melting, the huge meteor directly vaporized and vanished in the energy flood.

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The energy flood came fast and went fast, Saitama just happened to pass by it.

Landing, he looked toward the direction of the energy flood.

"Broly, why did you come?"

"I came to protect the Gold Master's properties in Z-City who invested in me, sorry, it seems I stole your credit as a hero."

"Uh, that's fine, by the way, what was that light beam just now, it seemed I saw it shoot out from your fingertip."

Saitama asked curiously.

"Just an ordinary Energy Bullet."

The building collapsed because of Saitama's jump, Bang held Genos and jumped down safely.

He looked at the two people chatting as if nothing happened, and asked Genos in his arms with some surprise: "Is this the Saitama Teacher and Mr. Broly you mentioned?"

"Hmm."

"Such a person, unexpectedly is only C-Class?"

Bang fell silent.

Although this old man did not see the scene of Broly shooting the energy light beam, the power of Saitama's jump was right beside him.

And from the dialogue between the two, he could also conclude that Saitama should have the ability and means to solve the meteor, when did the Hero Association's C-Class Heroes become so crouching tiger hidden dragon?