Chapter 126: Killing The Deep (4k third update, requesting subscriptions for today's 10,000 words)

"The Deep, traces of a group of outlaws have been discovered along the Los Angeles coastline. I want you to go handle it."

Homelander looked at The Deep, his gaze as if he were looking at a corpse.

As it stands, A-Train is severely injured, Translucent is effectively dead, Black Noir is one of his own, and Queen Maeve, after all, once had feelings for Homelander; in truth, Homelander's range of choices is not very wide.

Starlight and The Deep, he looks down on both, and both have been chosen by him to be discarded to crush the supervision of The Seven.

However, The Deep is a veteran member of The Seven; having such a figure killed would be more effective at stirring the public's nerves, so he prioritized choosing The Deep.

The Deep dared not oppose Homelander, even though the so-called missions have historically been scripts prepared in advance by Vought International, and they, these Superheroes, are simply the best protagonists.

But since it was only targeting some ordinary criminals, The Deep was confident that he could easily handle it.

He rose to leave the office, but upon arriving at the Operations Department, he found Aishili of the Operations Department standing beside an Asian man with an ugly expression.

"Hi, Aishili, Homelander asked me to go to the Los Angeles coastline to handle an incident; help me arrange a car and target coordinates."

Aishili was still wavering at this moment; she had already realized that Homelander was spiraling out of control, and the culprit was clearly inseparable from the Asian man beside her, and Black Noir had also stood on Homelander's side.

But she dared not speak of such things at all; Homelander's hearing was enough to cover the entire building, and his Heat Vision could easily pierce through reinforced concrete to kill her.

She could only say tactfully:

"The company doesn't have that kind of positioning, and there are quite a few maritime police on the Los Angeles coastline, so..."

"Hey, Miss Aishili, Homelander already arranged this matter long ago."

"You only need to arrange a car, then send us together to the coastline; afterwards, I will watch and resolve it with the Superhero 【The Deep】, okay?"

Bai Cangshu was still smiling, but the hairs on Aishili's back stood up; she dared not say anything more, hurriedly walked to the side to arrange a car, and only took one last look at The Deep before hiding away.

The Deep, however, still had not realized the drastic change occurring in the company; he only looked at Bai Cangshu strangely, and he was even somewhat smug that the other party called him a Superhero, which led to him having a decent impression of Bai Cangshu as well.

"This... uh, sir, are you a new employee who joined the company?"

Bai Cangshu shrugged, his eyes as if looking at a lamb waiting to be slaughtered.

"Mm, you could say that; I work for Homelander."

The two sat in a black business car, and The Deep continued to chatter incessantly, recounting his own fake heroic experiences.

In reality, The Seven, including Homelander, only execute a small number of emergency hero missions; most of the other experiences that are praised are all forged and fabricated by Vought International.

It took the two about two hours to arrive at the coastline; this was not Los Angeles, but rather The Deep's suggestion, claiming he could summon a whale to let Bai Cangshu experience the feeling of riding a whale to patrol the coastline.

Bai Cangshu did not object, only sharing the new coordinates with George and the others via his phone, having them contact the media.

The Deep put his hand into the seawater, and soon quite a few marine creatures appeared; he frowned as he conversed with the marine creatures—this is one of The Deep's special abilities: he can communicate with marine creatures.

"Strange, these fish say they haven't sensed any unusual ships..."

The Deep still did not suspect the mission Homelander had arranged, and was still trying to find the traces of the non-existent incident.

This scene finally made Bai Cangshu laugh out loud.

"Ha, The Deep, you really are so stupid that I almost can't bear to make a move."

The Deep straightened his body, looking back at the man on the beach in confusion; the other party's hands hung at his sides, and golden light like ripples dissipated in circles from the sides of the other party's hands, like two ribbons, spreading several meters away.

He had never seen this type of ability, but he immediately became alert and took two steps back into the waves.

"What do you mean? Are you going to betray Homelander?"

Bai Cangshu had already lost interest in communicating with such an idiot; after all, a member of The Seven who could subsequently be led into a cult by a woman and be unable to extricate himself from being pua'd—one really cannot have too high expectations for such a person's brain.

Boom!

The signature 【Two Tigers Style: Fire Heaven Form: Raging Fire】 appeared; amidst the exploding sand, his figure instantly closed in.

The beach terrain would have a certain impact on force and speed, and The Deep used this to see Bai Cangshu's movement clearly; he instantly lowered his body, and the hand-blade grazed over his head, with the air emitting a whimpering sound.

Before The Deep could even catch his breath, the other party's knee was instantly raised; he pressed his hands down on the other party's knee, but a terrifying force instantly erupted.

Bang!

The Deep's center of gravity was scattered, and his whole body was sent flying.

The Deep stepped a few times in the water and was not affected by the waves; on the contrary, he moved freely in the water, looking at Bai Cangshu with a stern expression.

The other party's strength and speed were no less than his own, and the other party's movements were extremely sharp; in his feeling, they were even more swift than Black Noir.

"Do you know what the consequences are for attacking me?!"

The Deep said this while retreating toward the seawater.

Bai Cangshu shook his arms, his muscles becoming relaxed; it must be said that the physical fitness of these powerful Ability Users in this world is quite outstanding.

Even someone like The Deep, who ranks at the bottom of The Seven, is no weaker than him in strength and Constitution; one must know that Bai Cangshu's stats at this moment completely exceed the standard of three times that of an ordinary person.

The Deep could completely rely on this flesh to crush ordinary people.

Bai Cangshu walked toward The Deep step by step; the seawater submerged his calves, and his mobility was further restricted, but Bai Cangshu still wore a smile.

"You still don't understand, The Deep; my attacking you is naturally Homelander's intention. Homelander is prepared to directly eliminate guys like you who are weak in strength."

Seeing Bai Cangshu come into the sea, The Deep suddenly crouched down, his hands waving violently as if stirring up a small wave out of thin air to lash at Bai Cangshu; he himself followed up, and not only that, several poisonous jellyfish simultaneously appeared under Bai Cangshu's feet.

Bai Cangshu lifted his foot, golden ripples appearing from his foot; he suddenly stepped on the wave and leaped high, and both the wave The Deep had stirred up and The Deep himself missed.

He only looked up, watching the other party leap over his head.

Bai Cangshu was in the air, his posture relaxed, his right hand twisted and retracted, and the moment he fell, he stomped violently again.

The seawater sank downward as if it were jelly, and the golden ripples bore Bai Cangshu's weight, as if they were huge webbed feet, preventing Bai Cangshu from sinking under the water.

The Ripple Qigong has many wonderful uses, and treading water is one of them; unlike the principle of using Chakra to tread water in the Naruto World, the Ripple is more like expanding the surface area of the human body to disperse the weight.

He stepped down, his figure instantly recoiling, and with a speed that violated biological movement capabilities in water, he instantly appeared behind The Deep.

【Xiandao Luochazhang】!

Bang!

The Deep let out a miserable cry, being struck violently on the back by a palm; his tough muscles instantly twisted and were torn raw from the bone, and he lunged forward, falling onto the beach.

Splash~

At this moment, the seawater was broken at high speed; Bai Cangshu turned his head and saw a huge dorsal fin cutting through the sea surface, approaching rapidly from afar, and it did not slow down even when it reached the near shore.

"No, no, no, stop, Jiasiting!"

The Deep, bleeding from his mouth and nose, saw this scene and shouted with all his might; he had already realized that Bai Cangshu's power was definitely not something a killer whale could resolve on land.

But the massive killer whale would not stop at all, whistling as it broke through the waves, charging directly at Bai Cangshu like a large truck. Watching this, Bai Cangshu also revealed a cruel smile; he held his hands in a hollow embrace, and the cruel, tyrannical will in his heart stirred the special power within his body.

The pitch-black Soul power transformed into a Wave, constantly rotating and compressing; the black Wave expanded between Bai Cangshu's hands. That feeling—Bai Cangshu felt as if he were holding a bomb that could explode at any moment.

The terrifying power wanted to break through its restraints at any time.

Watching the killer whale reach the shallows and charge directly onto the beach, Bai Cangshu spread his hands and pushed forward violently.

The pitch-black Wave instantly stirred up seawater and sand, and with a whistling of air, it blasted out violently.

The killer whale's dozens-of-meters-long body also slammed into the beach at the same time.

Boom!

After the sound of the massive impact faded, The Deep crawled with difficulty from the beach; the muscles on his back were completely torn, and he could not move his hands at this moment. It was thanks to his powerful physique that his internal organs had not ruptured and killed him.

He looked at the motionless killer whale Jiasiting, panicked in his heart, and came before Jiasiting.

"Jiasiting, are you okay? You..."

The next moment, he could no longer ask, because he arrived at the front and only then saw that a terrifying, large hole had been blasted through Jiasiting's forehead, through which the vast, boundless sea could be seen inside.

!

The killer whale Jiasiting's body had been directly pierced through, and his internal organs and tail were completely shattered and gone.

A man covered in blood stood behind Jiasiting; it looked as if he had jumped right through the hole that had been blasted open.

The opponent stood in a backlit angle, and the sun shone over from the sea, blindingly bright, making The Deep unable to even grieve for the death of his friend Jiasiting before feeling intense fear.

Bai Cangshu opened his hands, once again feeling that unprecedented sense of exhilaration.

He was breaking the cage that restrained him step by step; he was releasing his power and wildness bit by bit.

"Ha, hahaha..."

Bai Cangshu turned around, looked at The Deep, whose eyes revealed fear, and pointed his index finger at the opponent from a distance.

Whir~

The intense condensation of Qi emitted a crisp whistling sound; that was the sound of the air being cut by 【Qi】.

The brilliant golden light was incredibly condensed. At this moment, Bai Cangshu felt that his control over 【Qi】 and energy was becoming increasingly handy. In terms of data, it was roughly that the power he could pry from his 【Ten Thousand Calamities Yin Spirit Yellow Springs Body】 had increased quite a bit again.

【Your mastery of the ability Divine Finger Art has progressed further, currently: lv3】

【Divine Finger Art (a+) lv3: Condense extremely strong Qi at the fingertip, wield it freely, and erupt with an extremely high-penetration strike at any time, causing devastating damage and explosions. The power is positively correlated with the strength of the Qi and gains a massive boost.】

【Energy +1, currently:?】

Pfft!

The golden Qi instantly crossed a distance of over ten meters and pierced through The Deep's chest and abdomen, blasting through the Gills that allowed him to breathe in water, along with his heart and lungs.

Bai Cangshu watched The Deep slowly collapse, but in his mind, he was thinking that his energy attribute was very high, but his utilization rate was very low, unable to allow him to erupt with Qi of terrifying intensity, yet it provided extremely powerful endurance.

He had already discovered that whether it was the Dodon Ray or the lv4-level 【Spirit Ball】 that came with the 【Spirit-Gathering Finger】, he felt absolutely no sense of Spirit or energy depletion when using them.

【You killed The Seven member · The Deep, gaining 2500 Dimension Points】

【You obtained an e-level Singularity *1】

【Milestone progress updated, you have completed the Milestone · Anti-Hero】

【Anti-Hero: After equipping, you will deal additional damage effects to characters crowned with the title of hero or those of the lawful or Justice alignment.】

【Detected that Sinful Reincarnator ex051 already possesses similar Milestones · Killer Species, Milestone · Villain; you may consult the Rank Management Office regarding title synthesis matters.】

Wisps of blue radiance slowly appeared in front of Bai Cangshu, finally condensing into a blue card.

Bai Cangshu clicked his tongue and reached out to take it.

【You obtained a Drop Card (Blue)】

【Drop Card · The Deep】

【Quality: Rare (Blue)】

【Description: A card condensing the Bloodline, skills, abilities, and items of the ocean hero · The Deep】

【Effect: Crush to open】

Bai Cangshu looked down on The Deep even more; he actually only produced a blue-quality Drop Card, and killing the opponent caused very little change to the world line—an e-level Singularity was already the lowest-level Singularity that could be produced.

He looked at the corpse in the distance, and while making a phone call to have George arrange for people and reporters to arrive, he walked from the sea toward another location.

【You opened the Drop Card · The Deep】

Blue radiance swirled around the Space Mark on Bai Cangshu's right hand.

【You obtained 1500 Dimension Points】

【You obtained special material · Deep Sea Gills】

【You obtained special mastery Scroll · Underwater Combat】

The blue radiance dissipated rapidly. Bai Cangshu not only failed to obtain a Bloodline Item, but not even a single item worth looking at had dropped, which made him feel even more regretful about The Deep.

Still have to take down characters of the level of Starlight or A-Train; The Deep was truly too weak.

Bai Cangshu was not surprised that Homelander was the first to discard The Deep; this was just the beginning.

If Homelander wanted to become a one-of-a-kind Superpower tyrant, then he himself was a legitimate Superhero terminator.

Also, on the other side, it was time for Wuxin to become a qualified bait. Bai Cangshu prepared to release Wuxin's coordinates after the other party handed that 【Card】 to him, to attract the attention of 【Evil Child】 and 【Calamity Wave】.

However, 【Calamity Wave】 had suffered a loss once and might be a bit more cautious.

One hour later, big news swept across the United States.

The Seven member · The Deep fought against criminals in the shallows and was defeated and killed!

(End of chapter)