Chapter 372: Closing the Net
"What did you say, Soldier Boy?"
Mallory's mind suddenly 'buzzed', and some dusty memories came like a tide.
"It can't be."
"It can't be."
Frankie looked up, looked at Mallory and said, "What's wrong?" ”
"What don't you know about Soldier Boy?"
Mallory's body trembled, then shook his head, "No, it's nothing, me."
"Madame!"
Frankie jumped up at once: "The mother's milk is dead!" ”
"Killed by a soldier boy."
"Damn, Soldier Boy is very good, but I never knew that he could shoot a beam of radiation from his chest like a cannon."
"That thing just blasted breast milk to slag."
"Breast milk has a daughter, and that poor child will have no father in the future."
"So you know something, can't you tell me?"
Mallory was silent.
She looked at Frankie for a long time.
Then he took out a cigarette from his body, took out one and began to smoke.
"That was a long time ago."
"At that time we were at war with the Soviet Union."
"I'm commanding a team on the front."
"But at that time, military spending was tight, in order to maintain it."
"We had to do some work to subsidize the military."
"I won't say the specifics."
"Anyway, at the time, when we were busy, damn it, the Watts Corporation sent some superhuman idiots to the front line."
Frankie tried to ask, "Soldier boy?" ”
Mallory spat out a smoke ring: "That's him." ”
"And the Crimson Countess, the gunpowder ones."
"That is, the 'Blood Debt and Blood Repayment' squad, the predecessor of the 'Group of Seven'."
"At that time, the Waters Corporation and the federal army made an agreement that they would fund the army, but assign transhumans to join the war in order to gather the necessary data."
Frankie spread his hands and said, "So, they sent the 'Blood Debt and Blood Repayment' team over?" ”
Mallory nodded: "That's right, those idiots, without a bit of military literacy, are purely to make trouble for me." ”
"There's a damn idiot with wings behind his back who actually flew into the sky on the battlefield, and as a result, he attracted the attention of the Soviet League."
"He was blown to pieces on the spot, but it also exposed our location, which led to an attack from the Soviet Union."
Speaking of which, Mallory said through gritted teeth.
"If it's just the Soviet Alliance, I can still repel them, but those superhuman idiots with brains full of mush, they can't even tell the difference between enemies and friendly forces."
"At least half of my men were killed by mistake in that battle."
"The only good news is."
"The soldier boy was killed and taken away by the Soviet Union."
"I thought that after he was killed, Su Meng would feed his body to the dogs after studying it at most."
"But I didn't expect you to say that he was still alive."
Frankie nodded, "He's still alive, and I wouldn't believe it if I hadn't seen it with my own eyes." ”
"Oh my God, all these years have passed, but his appearance hasn't changed at all."
"And his strength is stronger, I don't know if he evolved it himself, or if the scientists of the Su League changed his genes."
Just then, Mallory suddenly made a silent gesture and pointed to the television.
Inside the TV screen, a news story is being reported.
"Just this morning, there was a transhuman villain vandalism on the streets of New York, and the dangerous transhuman not only destroyed a building, but also killed several innocent passers-by."
"This is a footage captured by nearby surveillance."
On the TV screen, the picture turned, and a street corner appeared.
On the corner of the street, a man bent over, holding his head, seemed to be enduring some pain.
He suddenly screamed and straightened up, and a torrent of light erupted from his chest, and the entire screen lit up before the picture ended.
Syllable.
Mallory's cigarette fell to the ground.
Frankie jumped up: "It's him, it's him!" ”
"Soldier boy!"
"He escaped."
"He's back in New York."
Mallory froze in his seat, then stood up and said, "Let's go, French, let's go to the scene." ”
In the blink of an eye, they were on the scene.
A cordon had been set up, and in the distance the ruins of a building could be seen, blasted through by the furious energy, and still burning and rising smoke in many places.
Mallory pulled out his ID, a forged FBI ID, and walked with Frankie to the ruins of the building.
She glanced at Frankie, and the Frenchman took out a device and put it around to test.
Bang bang bang.
The instrument rang out.
The above values made Frankie's face ugly.
He turned to Mallory and said, "Ma'am, the reading is out of spec, and there's an extraordinary amount of radiation left here. ”
"It's a soldier boy, that's right, he was in the military base at the time, and he also fired a light cannon from his chest, directly opening a passage through the base."
Mallory looked around: "Now that he's gone, he's back in New York, who will he go to." ”
Suddenly, the two of them said in unison: "Crimson Countess! ”
That's the old good looks of the soldier boy.
When he returned to New York, he would definitely go to the Crimson Countess.
"Let's go."
Mallory headed for the cordon.
Frankie chased after him and said, "Madam, do you want to go to him?" ”
Mallory nodded, "You also saw the damage caused by the Soldier Boys. ”
"Perhaps, we can use him against the Motherland."
Frankie whispered, "It's too dangerous. ”
Mallory laughed: "What do we do, which one is safe?" ”
This woman, who is already not young, is still vigorous, and she got out of the cordon in three or two strokes.
Frankie had no choice but to follow.
Meanwhile.
In the command hall of the Tower of Seven.
As soon as Azu walked in, he saw Starlight, Maeve and the others gathered in front of the TV screen.
He coughed dryly and smiled, "What am I missing?" ”
Starlight turned around and said nervously, "Sir, you need to take a look at this news." ”
"There are transhuman villains."
Azu raised his eyebrows, walked over, and saw a man on the TV screen blasting out a light cannon from his chest.
"Aha."
Isn't this a soldier boy?
So, Mallory they came back from Russia?
Even though Butcher died, they still let the soldier boy out?
That's interesting.
"Sir."
Starlight, who has a sense of justice, nervously asks, "Should we be dispatched?" ”
"This superhuman villain is too dangerous, and if you don't get him under control soon, more people will get hurt."
Azu looked at her with a smile behind his back and said, "I appreciate your mobility, but Starlight, don't forget that we are no longer doing heroic activities for free. ”
"If the federation needs it, they will notify us."
"And until then."
Azu looked at Maeve: "Let the Crime Analysis Department investigate the identity of this superhuman first, and have detailed information so that we need to use it." ”
Maeve nodded and left the command hall.
Only Starlight and Azu were left in the command hall.
Starlight was still unwilling to give up: "Sir, I can track down this superhuman first, and once we take action, we can also grasp his location as soon as possible." ”
Azu stretched out his hand, gently picked up Starlight's chin and said, "Okay." ”
"I approve it."
"But be careful, that superhuman isn't a vegetarian."
"If your pretty face hurts, I think a lot of people will feel heartache."
"Plus, I can give you a clue."
"The Crimson Countess."
Starlight searched in her mind before she said, "Do you mean the crimson countess of 'blood debts'?" ”
"There should be no other countess besides her." Azu lowered his hand and walked behind Starlight to look at the soldier boy on the screen, "He'll go find the Crimson Countess." ”
Starlight was surprised and said, "Sir, how do you know?" ”
Azu laughed: "Want to know the answer?" ”
"I'll tell you if I date me."
Starlight was stunned and blushed.
Azu shrugged his shoulders: "Just kidding, you go to work." ”
A beautiful chick like Starlight, Azu is happy to swallow in one gulp, but he doesn't like the overlord to bow hard, it's too boring.
So he just teased Starlight.
Unexpectedly, when Starlight walked to the door, he stopped and whispered, "I'm free this Friday night." ”
Then he hurried away.
This time, Azu was stunned, then smiled dumbly, shook his head, and didn't take it to heart.
He looked at the soldier boy.
As a time-traveler, Azu naturally knew about the entanglement between the soldier boy and the 'blood debt and blood payment' team.
Although it is not too clear in the TV series, Azu sorted out the outline of an event from some fragments in the TV series, the dialogues of the characters and other details.
The soldier boy can be said to be the predecessor of the Motherland.
At that time, the Walter Company created him to make the Soldier Boy the most powerful weapon of the Walter Company.
However, soldier boys are more difficult to control than the motherlanders.
He is a very jealous person, and Xuan Se only has the potential to become a second soldier boy, and he is violently beaten by the soldier boy.
It was also because of this that the Walter Company was determined to get rid of him.
The Walter company even cooperated with the people of the Soviet Union for this purpose.
This is also the reason why the soldier boy will be taken away by the Soviet Union in the end.
To achieve this.
The Vought Corporation financed the army and made it a condition to involve a superhuman army in the war.
On the surface, he wants to collect data on superhumans in the war, but in fact, he wants to use the special environment of war to kill the soldier boys.
At that time, Edgar of the Walter Company also arrived at the battlefield in person, originally with a character like him, there was no need to go to the front, but in order to command and arrange to kill the soldier boy, he still went.
In the TV series, there are several details worth scrutinizing at the time.
One is that the worm man flies into the sky like an idiot, and the superhuman may be megalomaniac, but not necessarily all idiots.
Even an ordinary person knows how stupid it is to expose your position on the battlefield.
Will the wormmen not know?
So when he flew into the sky at that time, he actually intended to let the people of the Soviet League know where they were.
Another detail, the members of the team who paid the blood debt were all killing Mallory's people.
In the TV series, Mallory thinks that these are idiots who can't tell the difference between friend and foe.
But in Azu's opinion, it is clear that these superhumans are deliberate.
Their aim was to kill all the eyewitnesses and prevent anyone from knowing that they were colluding with the Soviet Union.
Later, there is another detail, which is that when Butcher and they go to look for Psychic Storm, Soldier Boy said that Psychic Storm will trap people in endless nightmares until he dies of dehydration.
From here, it can be known that people who are trapped in nightmares by psychic storms will eventually die of dehydration.
And in the TV series, in Mallory's memories, when Su Meng attacked, she woke up and saw Psychic Storm feeding water to Gunpowder, in other words, Gunpowder was likely to be attacked by Psychic Storm's superpowers.
Why did Psychic Storm attack gunpowder, Azu didn't know, he was more inclined to use superpowers on him while Psychic Storm took advantage of the chaos and took advantage of the soldier boy's defenselessness, but it affected gunpowder.
So.
Edgar's plan was fairly clear.
The exposed location of the bugs attracted the Su League.
When the Soviets attacked the position and caused chaos, Psychroic took the opportunity to use superpowers on the Soldier Boy to control the Soldier Boy.
The Countess of Scarlet and Crimson were in charge of attacking the Soldier Boy.
Others are responsible for cleaning up witnesses.
Eventually, Edgar's plan succeeded.
The soldier boy suffered a heavy blow and was taken away by the Soviet League, thus dying in death.
Walter also took this opportunity to launch new 'products', namely 'Motherland' and the Seven-Man Team.
The 'Blood Debt and Blood Repayment' team was disbanded after the mission, and only Xuan Se remained in the seven-man team, becoming a hole card used by Edgar against the motherland.
But after Azu crossed over, he replaced the original owner and became a 'motherland', and the hole card of Xuanse was obviously scrapped.
And now, the Soldier Boy, a valuable character in the show, has finally appeared.
His light cannon that can turn superhumans into ordinary people is indeed a 'secret weapon', but unfortunately it can't threaten Azu.
First of all, the soldier boy's chest cannon needs to be charged, not to mention the current Azu, who is the motherland in the play, if it is not controlled, it is impossible for the soldier boy to hit the motherland.
Secondly, for Azu today, even if he stood still, the light cannon of the Soldier Boy would not be able to break through his 'absolute realm'.
Azu didn't think that his awakening talent would be wiped out by the abilities of a character from the original show.
So, he was in no hurry to deal with the soldier boy at all.
It's like he knew that Mallory and the others would eventually find out the soldier boy, but he didn't stop it.
Because for Azu, the Soldier Boy is not a threat, on the contrary, he can also use the Soldier Boy to lure some big fish out of the water.
For example, Mr. President.
Without the president's support, Azu would not have believed it.
He let Mallory live and pretended not to see through the storm's schemes, with the ultimate goal of luring the president out of the shadows.
Let the 'conspiracy' of Mr. President to murder the people of the motherland be made public.
Then at that time, Azu can justifiably let the Federation change a president!
"It's finally time to close the net."
Azu said with a smile. (End of chapter)