8. Self-cultivation of qualified cannon fodder
Mason landed on his feet in a foul-smelling place, and before his eyes was a scene of post-war ruins.
The three-story platform in front of me had obviously been hit by some kind of explosives falling from the sky, and even the main body of the large railway station had been blown up.
Mason felt like he had stepped into the battlefield of World War II.
He looked around, and in this ruin, which was littered with wreckage, he could not find even a trace of life, as if it had been abandoned for decades.
"Orechette!"
The only woman in the team exclaimed in surprise when she saw the tragic situation in front of her, chewing gum and trying to relax herself.
This very capable white girl with short black hair, thin waist and long legs looked at the old K who checked the crossbow in her hand, and she roared angrily:
"That's not what you said when you recruited me! This is a different world full of power? Shit! This is obviously a ruin, a wasteland! It's worse than the battlefield in Afghanistan, and I feel like I'm back in a nightmare. ”
"Calm down, Ms. Betty."
Old K didn't pay attention to her at all, and said in a casual tone:
"Believe me, this place is already quite a peaceful world in the records of the Star Society, and it is very suitable for beginners to explore freely.
Actually, if it weren't for the fact that my old team members all died in another goddamn chaotic world, I wouldn't have brought you 'good babies' back here. ”
After saying that, the mysterious fellow coughed and said loudly to the four people beside him, including Mason:
"I've been here many times, and my induction test was done here, and I promise you won't have any problems as long as you're obedient.
The target of our expedition is a magical academy that has been destroyed and abandoned in the apocalypse... Well? Why this expression?
Isn't it normal to have a magic academy in another world? ”
Old K showed that disgusting condescending expression as if talking to a fool, and while he took out an arrow box to reload his crossbow, he said slowly:
"This world has a magical heritage, but it is very weak.
There have been many magic academies here, but most of them have been looted by my peers... Ahem, I mean, 'Explore' is clean.
All that remains for us is the last and most dangerous one.
There's a lot of good stuff in the ruins, and our mission this time is to find one of them and turn it over to the Order, so that Team K can be reorganized.
I promise, ladies and gentlemen, that as long as you survive to the end, everyone will get benefits that you can't even imagine.
The lucky ones will officially join my squad and become E-class members of the Stars Club, and I will take you to the world I am battling into, and we can do great things together! ”
"Does 'doing great things' mean being abandoned by you in another world, just like your previous teammates?"
Another tall and thin man next to Betty, a hot-tempered girl, asked coldly, making Old K's expression suddenly ugly.
The choking creature was wearing a black tights with a red spiral logo on his chest, and a heavy black cloak lined with green patterns.
He has blond hair but wears a strange half-covered mask that covers the upper half of his face, and speaks in a very gloomy tone.
Mason thinks this guy is quirky.
Because every time he looked at him, he felt his head suddenly dizzy, as if there was some kind of special force field around this guy.
"Shut up, Lord 'Earl'."
Old K sneered and said:
"You didn't have that much to say when I got you out of Amanda Waller's prison.
Find the Philosopher's Stone in the ruins of the abandoned Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, the most rewarding and medium-difficulty quest that the stars will have in this C-tier world.
Now I'll give you some time to get acquainted with each other, and we'll set off when I get back from scouting.
As a matter of kindness, I remind you that the miniature bomb will explode immediately when it is out of the perceived range of the remote control, which is three kilometers.
So if you're going to run, I'd advise you to be fast. ”
After saying that, Old K turned around and left.
Probably to deter the team a little, this guy showed his "ability" while walking.
After taking three steps, the figure suddenly flashed, and appeared strangely ten meters away, and after taking a few steps, it flickered again, and the four cannon fodder who saw it frowned again and again.
"Uh, that, hello guys, my name is Charles, you can call me 'Kite Man'. I'm from Gotham, and I was brought out of Black Gate Prison by Old K.
What about you? ”
The most talkative member of the team took the initiative to speak.
He wears a green jumpsuit and carries a special brown backpack on his back with flying goggles.
Although he is tall, he always unconsciously reaches out and touches his head when he speaks, which makes this guy full of a very unconfident feeling.
"Save it, I know you, Kite Man, the former minions of the Clown Gang, after the Clown was captured in Arkham, you guys fell apart.
Those who have the ability have gone to seek refuge in others, but you and no one wants them.
Reduced to robbing a bakery and being captured by Gordon himself, I actually doubt that you did that on purpose and went to enjoy a big bowl of delicious prison meal. ”
Betty, a hot-tempered girl, chews gum and crosses her waist, not caring if the various explosives filled inside her coat are seen by others.
She was dismissive of the kite man, casually told him about his embarrassment, and looked at the other two people in the kite man's embarrassed laughter, she looked up and down at the man who was choking with the old K just now, and said:
"You're a member of the Suicide Squad? Not bad, man, what are your abilities? Please don't tell me you can play tricks, we've got a waste kite guy as a group pet. ”
"I know you too, Betty Susie."
The man who looked the most powerful glanced at the girl and said:
"I heard that you have been modified to make everything you come into contact with explode, and after you retired from the army, you joined a terrorist organization in Canada, and people in the circle called you 'Bomb Girl'.
Amanda Waller is attentive to you, but that's not a good thing. ”
"Thank you, bombardier!"
Betty puffed up proudly, corrected the man's statement, and stared at him again.
The latter hesitated for a moment and introduced himself:
"My code name for the Suicide Squad is 'Vertigo', but everyone in the circle calls me 'Count', and to clarify, they're right, I do have noble blood.
As for my abilities.
I can put all living creatures in my sight into an uncontrollable state of vertigo and, if necessary, interfere with electronic devices. ”
"Cool! You'll be a good partner. ”
Betty seems to have figured herself out as the leader of this small gang of four, and neither Count Vertigo nor Kite Man has a problem with that.
Then the eyes of the three people looked at Mason, who had been silent.
Young people don't care about their gaze at all, and they have no interest in introducing themselves. Just kidding, he's here to save and he's not here to make friends!
He's thinking about what Old K just said.
"Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry? Philosopher's Stone? ”
Mason looked up at the windswept "King's Cross Station" sign above the blasted crack in the ruins, and he thought his guess was probably ten.
A wave of happiness and doubt came to my mind at the same time, glad that I knew something about the world, which could be a hidden advantage.
And the question is, what happened in this world to make the station in the city of London bombed like this? Could it be that the counteroffensive that the dark wizards have been planning has succeeded?
Wizards and humans broke out into a world war that led directly to the fall of London?
No way?
"Hey, boy! Everyone is waiting for you to introduce yourself. ”
Betty, the bomb girl, sensed Mason's contempt for the "majesty" she was trying to build, and spoke unceremoniously, and Mason glanced back at her, shrugged at her menacing appearance.
He reached out and pointed to his mouth, then waved his hand again, making a helpless expression.
"Ah, it turned out to be a mute..."
Betty was a little embarrassed.
She glared at Mason with some annoyance, and then asked:
"What are your abilities?"
"Huh"
The crit shotgun "Old K", which is used for precision sniping, was pulled out from behind by Mason and placed in his hand to make an aiming motion.
This action immediately caused Betty to lose interest in this tall, thin young man with black hair and yellow skin.
Hey, it turned out to be a gunman.
In the circle of supervillains, this ability is too inferior.
Unless he has the super marksmanship and super gun control of the Death Shooter or the Bloody Sport, the mere bullet is no threat to his explosive ability.
Betty lost interest in Mason and turned to talk to the only vertiginous earl she had ever looked up to, but the despised Kite Man came over and patted Mason on the shoulder.
The guy whispered to Mason:
"Ignore freaks like them, these bastards always think that power is power, but they don't know what real power is.
When I was following the Joker, I knew all too much about these things.
They see the two of us as a burden, and they will definitely let us go up to the top when we encounter something, and I've seen this kind of thing a lot, so we have to help each other. ”
Mason, who pretends to be mute to avoid communicating too much with the others, gives him a polite but distancing smile in the face of the Kite Man's overtures.
Mason then retrieved a flying bomb assembled from a drone and an engineering bomb, as well as a control tablet from his backpack.
After a simple operation, the thing flew up and flew into the ruins in front of it as a scout.
This action made the onlooker Kite Man blink, and as a villain who had followed the Joker and seen the big world, he immediately knew that this low-key mute young man was more powerful than Bomb Girl had imagined.
But seconds later, the footage coming back from Mason's scout tablet made the Kite Man almost scream with round eyes.
He covered his mouth violently, and his heart pounded as he looked at the surveillance screen.
The engineering bomb flew through the Black Hole tunnel below, a crater created by the collapse of the platform staircase leading to the parking lot from the underground platform, and filled with a group of wandering "people".
They...
No, they hide in the shadows beyond the sun-soaked area overhead, and some of them don't even have their lower bodies, they just use their upper bodies to climb on the ground.
The ground of that hellish place was stained with filthy congealed blood, like hell on earth.
As the drone approached, the faces of those "people" were realistically revealed, their skin festering and their eyes bulging, their blood-stained teeth mutated and twisted, and some even dragging their shriveled internal organs moving.
Anyone who has watched a few B-grade movies knows what this thing is.
Zombie!
Tons of zombies!
Mason's mind was also full of doubts.
He wasn't afraid of zombies, but he was just struggling with why a zombie catastrophe happened in a world where wizards existed? These two things obviously don't even have the same painting style!
"The two of them are leaving."
The Kite Man suddenly reached out and poked Mason in the shoulder and whispered.
The young man looked back and saw that Bomb Girl and Count Vertigo seemed to have discussed a plan of action, and were walking towards the exit of the station with a smile and a smile, unaware of the danger hidden around them.
He waved his finger at the kite man and made a "follow me" look, then walked lightly to the waiting hall of the train station along a safer route detected by the drone.
The nine-and-three-quarters platform that could board the Hogwarts magic train was there, and the old K should be there.
The cunning guy said that leaving time to get acquainted with each other was just an excuse.
That bastard is specifically going to give the four newcomers a "dismount", and wait until they are scared by the zombies and their legs and feet are sore.
The old actor belongs to yes.
The funny villain Kite Man, dressed in green, hesitates to stand still, and Mason leaves in the opposite direction to Bomb Girl and Count Vertigo.
It seemed like a choice was in front of him.
Which side to follow?
Is it a male and female duo that completes Mason's strength on paper?
Or is it this ordinary-looking 17-year-old high school student?
The kite man didn't hesitate for long.
He decided to trust the super instincts he had cultivated after a few years of undead in the Clown Gang, and he followed Mason in three or two steps.
The two of them advanced one after the other in the dark and dead silence, with strange roars sounding from time to time, and as they followed the drone into the waiting hall, a violent explosion was heard from behind.
That's Bomb Girl at work.
It seems that she has finally found the zombies in the station and understands their current situation.
Mason didn't stop but sped up, the zombies were alarmed, and soon a wave of corpses would form, and he had to enter the magic platform immediately.
As expected, when he reached the three-quarters platform of September, he saw the old K, who was leaning against the stone pillar and smoking a pipe, who looked at the silent Mason and the kite man who followed behind him with an appreciative gaze.
"Not bad."
He grinned, spat out a puff of smoke rings, and said slowly:
"I've brought a lot of newcomers, and there are some idiots in each batch who think they are invincible in the world, and they don't end well with their abilities.
The first rule of the Stars is to fight with your brains, not your fists, and it seems that you were born to join us, Mason, a young man who is worthy of Batman's eye.
But everyone is a team, so it's not good behavior to leave your companions behind. ”
The hypocritical old K flicked his fingers, turned to touch the stone pillar behind him, and said to Mason:
"Those wizards have made an enchantment here, I need some time to open it, and your mission is to protect me from being disturbed and save those two fools.
Still have questions? ”
"Click"
Mason opened the safety and turned behind him to make a preparatory shooting move, showing his attitude with practical actions.
Glancing at the nervous kite man beside him, he casually tossed him an engineering pistol he had made during last night's practice and motioned for him to take a few steps back.
Don't bother yourself with "brushing experience".
When everything was ready, the young man watched as the engineering bomb monitoring the movement of the corpses returned.
At the moment when he saw Bomb Girl and Count Vertigo being chased by a large number of zombies, Mason decisively pressed the explosion button.
There was a loud bang.
The shattered floor slab above the only road leading to the waiting hall is blown up by an engineering bomb floating there, blocking the zombies and blocking the path of the male and female duo to the point where only a narrow space remains.
At this time, whether the man and woman want to or not, they must fight and retreat against the surging corpses behind them to escape.
This action made Old K glance back at Mason, but he didn't say anything and began to break the wizarding barrier on the platform again.
Mason moved his shoulders and raised the gun in his hand.
Entering the combat state, the combat assist is online, a large number of free aiming frames appear in the field of view, the red preset trajectory is also turned on, and the "FPS mode" is activated.
"There are warriors to stop the tide of corpses."
He aimed at the disgusting head of the fastest zombie, and when his finger touched the trigger, he couldn't help but think:
"It's rare to have such a good opportunity to practice guns, and it seems that being taken captive here is not all bad. By the way, will my shooting skills break through to Lv3 when I leave here with Old K's head? ”