Chapter 144: Black Dinner
Ryan wants to know how many lives Felix "Atomic Cat" Wilan will live.
He died at least twice at the hands of the Superpowers, once from the radiation bombardment of Lane's underwater base, and once from bleeding as he escaped confinement, and he was probably with everyone in New Rome. Then he has only five lives left out of nine lives?
"Felix!" Naginia was about to get up from her seat, but Mars put his hand on her shoulder, forcing her back to her seat. The young girl looked at her adoptive father and adoptive brother in bewilderment.
Fortuna's reaction was far less mild. "Felix, you bastard!" She complained so loudly that Matthias winced at the sound of her shrill voice. "How dare you dress like this for a family dinner!" You look like a plumber!"
"I'm glad to meet you, sister, too." Felix replied as he stood up and swept the dust and dust off his clothes. His gaze scanned the table, meeting the bewildered gazes of the guests. "Jamie, Ki Jeong...... Father. ”
"You can go in through that door," Mars said, his eyes strained. To Ryan's surprise, he didn't immediately grab his son's throat, perhaps because his daughters were present. "We invited you."
"I'm sure the guards outside are putting on a show. If I walk through the entrance, you won't let me get near Narnia. Felix turned around and left his father before noticing Mathias and Ryan. Who are you?"
"Your sister's boyfriend," Matthias replied with mixed feelings. His nervous gaze met Ryan's, silently waiting for the signal. He also understands that the situation will soon deteriorate.
"Which one?" Felix asked curiously.
"The right one." Fortuna replied.
Her brother rolled his eyes, then looked at Ryan. "So...... Who are you, the new member of the Seven Killers?"
Ryan considered more than a dozen ways to introduce himself; Immortalized as a quick savior, as president of the free world, as conqueror of Monaco. One is more noble and gorgeous than the other.
But I can only think of one sentence.
"I'm beeping your ex."
The awkward silence welcoming his statement pleased the Courier.
"Don't look at me like that," Ryan said to Felix, the young hero looking at him with surprise. "That's your ex or your sister, she's almost as pretty as you!"
"Near?" Fortuna asked angrily. "He doesn't even comb his hair!"
"Whatever." Felix said, although the discovery apparently shocked him. "Nacinia, follow me."
"What," asked little Veran, "where?"
"Go. My current boss is very disappointing, but it's still so much better to work with them than to make drugs. "The atomic cat held out a hand to his sister." Now that the Death Factory has been burned to ashes, you can put an end to this tragedy now. ”
Nacinia did not answer, but looked at her father anxiously. This frustrated her brother. “Na
ci……”
"Did you do it?" Mars asked his son, his tone dangerous. "Destroy our production centers?"
Felix shrugged. "It has nothing to do with me, although I wish I did it. Whoever blew up that toxic dump should be rewarded. ”
His father frowned, and Ryan felt a chill run down his spine. A purple flash appeared in Mars's hand, and the Olympian immediately made a call.
Livia's vision became a reality.
"Ki-jeong, don't you have anything to say?" Felix asked, but the woman avoided his gaze, which annoyed him. "What about you, Jamie?" I heard you got promoted. It's not enough to close your eyes, now are you willing to help Augustus sell that poison that almost killed your girlfriend?"
Ki-jeong winced, and her fiancé took her hand in his own. "Why are you here, Felix?" Jamie asked uneasily. Ryan could see that the young hero's words had touched a nerve in him. "Open old wounds?"
"I'm here to shut them down. Bacchus needs your department's chemicals to make his medicine. If you accept this job, it will lead to the death and destruction of thousands-"
"Felix, I ......" Nacinia took a deep breath. I don't think this is the time to discuss this. ”
"Now is the right time," he protested, taking a step toward his adoptive sister. Jamie got up from his seat, perhaps to stop him, while Matthias glanced at Ryan, waiting for his signal.
At the same time, Mars answered the phone with a frown. "He's here, Jenas, but he doesn't know...... He swore he wasn't involved...... Yes, but ...... Please don't be in front of my daughters...... Somewhere else......"
The Olympian's face tensed, and while Ryan couldn't hear what was being said on the other end of the line, he could guess. Mars tries one last time to convince his boss not to execute his godson, or at least to make this assassination operation a little more cautious.
But Ryan knew that the old man was talking in vain. Lightning Bart is convinced that it was Felix who provided the information to the Carnival that made the devastating raid on Ischia possible, and that the myth of his organization's invincibility was in jeopardy. A brutal public murder would send a clear message to his enemies and followers.
"A traitor can't survive, not even my godson"
Finally, as Hector Manada once said, Lightning Bart is a gangster with too much power. When threatened, the answer is always more violent and terrifying.
The time traveler looked at Atom Kitte
Behind the fireplace, noticed the tip of a barrel sticking out of the stone.
"I see." Mars sighed, his face gloomy and sad. He looked at his stubborn son, with the phone in his hand. When faced with the choice between disobeying his invincible boss and paying the price, or offering a sacrificial lamb, Capo quickly decides.
The snapping sound echoed through the room.
Ryan froze time, jumped out of his seat, and pushed Felix out of the way of the bullets.
When it restarted, the projectile hit the wall, Fortuna screamed in surprise, and Felix staggered in shock.
"You should stop shooting in the back," Ryan said, glancing at the fireplace. Mortimer had a gun in his hand and had gone among the stones. "It's predictable."
Mortimer pulled the trigger again in reply, and the room was in chaos.
The window exploded into a raindrop of glass, and Nacinia screamed, and Ki and Jamie grabbed her and got under the table. Mortimer misses and retreats to the wall, while the shards dodge the terrified Fortuna and the attentive Matthias.
The projectile hit Mars, and on his skin appeared Roman-style centurion armor and a steel mask. The Olympus touched the only exposed part of his body, his eyes, with his hand, and then stood up from his seat.
"What—" Felix said, completely stunned.
"Later, Boomer." Ryan replied, grabbing his chest like a princess in distress and jumping out of the open window. The dining room is on the ground floor, so his favorite cat rolls on the ground as the time traveler gracefully lands on the grass below. The Courier whistles and summons his Plymouth Fury to the rescue.
"Get up!" Ryan ordered Felix to help him to his feet. A shower of glass rain kept Mars busy on the first floor, but it didn't take long.
The headlights of a car appeared to their left from the darkness, just as the lightning struck the ground.
Felix and Ryan looked up in horror to see an ivory figure descending from the night sky shrouded in a dark red lightning cloud. Lightning Bart looked down at the two of them, his eyes flashing with murderous aura.
But when Felix seems to give up on the spot, Ryan wisely activates his time-stopper. Augustus did not move in the frozen time, but disappeared from his sight, accompanied by his red lightning.
One of the Daredevil's hallucinations.
Ryan quickly found the man in charge, who was standing against the wall of the mansion to the right of the messenger, his black tights against the darkness. The time traveler grabs two knives hidden in his pocket and throws one at the killer.
When time returned, the blade struck Night Terror's eye, causing him to fall on his back and scream. His hallucinations vanished as if it had never existed. Felix kept blinking. "Where did he go?"
"There's no time, come with me if you want to live," Ryan said as the car drove by. But to his surprise, it wasn't his Plymouth Fu
y, but a Mercedes Benz parked in front of the two. The door on the right opened, revealing the driver.
"Here!" Livia said, inviting them in. "Quick! Before anyone else arrives!"
Ryan almost took the bait, her face and voice, and even her clothes were so perfect until he realized Ca
Cel is not with his girlfriend. Felix was too confused to think clearly, so he took a step forward; Shin stopped him by holding down his chest with one hand.
"When things get tense, Livia always calls me 'Rya
Young Master'," the courier declared.
The woman standing in front of him blinked in shock and surprise, then tried to grab the bullet hidden under her clothes. Ryan froze time and threw another knife at the steering wheel, pinning her hand to the steering wheel.
"I lied," Ryan said, and time returned, and the impostor lowered his weapon, hissing in pain. "But it's worth it to see your face."
Felix quickly guessed what was happening. "Mother?"
"You ruined everything, you ungrateful little ......" Livia's voice changed to that of Venus, and Augustus was restored to his original form. Great, she was able to change her vocal cords. She tried to pull the knife off with her other hand, and her teeth grinded in pain.
"You...... You want to kill me?" Felix stood still, frightened by this reality, not even angry.
"They are, but not me," Ryan said, relieving him that his self-driving car was pulling into their place. "Sorry, we'll miss dessert."
"I knew you were a traitor as soon as I saw you," Venus hissed. "There's nowhere to run."
Behind the group, the glass storm is over, either because Matthias was caught, killed, or something else. Mars stood by the window, his expression cold, purple spatial cracks opening around him. The tips of swords, arrows, spears, tridents, and other weapons loom through them.
Mars could have launched them onto the two people below and skewered them together, but he didn't. Although it was night, Ryan could swear that he saw a flash of doubt and guilt in the old man's eyes.
But when he notices his injured wife, Mars quickly resolves to his mind.
Ryan barely had time to push his kittens away as weapons landed on them in swarms. From the Courier's understanding, Mars could pull and summon items from the pocket dimension armory, but he never imagined how quickly he could throw them. Spears and swords flew as fast as arrows in the air, striking the ground with enough force to cut a man in half.
Luckily, Ryan managed to dodge the initial attack and reach his car. "Go! He ordered Felix as he quickly got into the driver's seat, with the superhero occupying the front seat.
Ryan noticed Fortuna grabbing her father's arm and trying to keep him away from the window, temporarily stopping the bombing. "Daddy, stop!"
"Either him or the rest of us," Mars replied, then summoned a thick chain to tie his daughter's hands and feet. They soon began to fall off her body, probably because of the structural damage caused by her strength, but it paralyzed her. "Matthias, Mercury, move my daughters to safety! Glasses users are nearby!"
By that time, Ryan had already driven out of the mansion and out of range of the Olympus. Mortimer went through the walls of the building and fired at the car with a gun, but his bullets only grazed the body. As Plymouth Fury fled the property, Mars jumped out of the window and a red Suzuki Hayabusa motorcycle appeared beneath him.
"It's a trap...... Felix whispered, and the two fled into the streets of New Rome. Plymouth's fury overtook two cars, rounding a red streetlight, with Mars in hot pursuit. This Roman cose
Bringing the flying sword to life, he tries to pierce his target, but the distance is too far for him to aim. His blade pierced the road, and Mars briefly interrupted his attack, focusing on closing the gap between the two cars with skillful driving.
"Dinner is more dangerous than fighting," Ryan said, opening the glove box and grabbing a handful of bullets hidden inside, "but no wedding danger." ”
Ryan quickly pulled away from the suburbs and the shadows of the Augustus Hill and headed for the shores of the Mediterranean. The shortest path is through the Lesser Maghreb region, but this will force them closer to Vulcan's base.
Time travelers decide to take the longer road, passing through southern neighborhoods on the edge of the city. Houses here are in desperate need of repainting, and groups of revelers and ragged people line up to beg in front of the dilapidated nightclub. Ryan noticed a woman vomiting on the sidewalk under a streetlamp and a friend helped her up. Cheap pimps and drug dealers openly sell their "goods" in an alley. Even during the day, tall buildings and narrow alleys cast a shadow over this area.
To avoid a drunken man, Ryan made a sharp turn off the road, doing his best to avoid casualties. Mars did not sympathize with him. When another civilian almost tripped over his path, the Olympian planted a wooden nail in the victim's body, nailing them into the street like an "impierc". Onlookers screamed in horror and fled, but the Plymouth Fury and its suitors were long gone. A night of drinking turned into a horror.
When Mars begins to catch up with them, Ryan reminds himself that he can teleport things anywhere within a 10-meter radius, but the cannonballs he fires can fly up to 100 times that distance.
While Plymouth Fury is not a panda car and is comparable to motorcycles in speed, the narrow streets force the courier to slow down in order to maneuver. Soon, Mars will be close enough to them that his projectiles will reach them. "Shorty!" Ryan shouted, "Shorty, are you listening?"
“Ri
I, what's going on?" Her voice came over the radio. "I was listening to the private security guard's radio, and they said there was a firefight—"
"Let's put it this way, the Augustus brothers are very competitive at the 'Father of the Year' award," Ryan replied. "Can you come and pick us up?"
"I'm tracking your signals. Go to the sea, and there I am. ”
Rya
I opened the window, stopped time, and photographed Ma in frozen time
S of motorcycles. Bullet cose from Rome
The armor bounced back, but hit the wheels. When time thaws, the man almost lost control of the car; Unfortunately, purple flashes erupted around his motorcycle, and when the light faded, all the damage was gone.
Damn, he could have swapped out the damaged parts in the car for spare parts in no time. The transition was so smooth that the vehicle didn't even break down.
"Maybe I can run into a streetlight on the road," Atomic Cat suggested, at which point Ryan reloaded and his hands off the wheel. "I can blow things up behind us."
"Listen, kitten, that's a terrible idea." Felix's explosion would have been useful in a highway chase a few laps earlier, but would have been catastrophic in congested areas. It would have been even worse if he had caused a gas leak. Ryan doesn't take collateral harm lightly, but he prefers to avoid exposing civilian lives to conscience.
Unfortunately, Mars disagrees with Ryan. Now that he was close enough to hit the target, the Olympian turned the spear into a real object and fired at the Plymouth, ignoring the safety of passers-by. One of his spears tore a prostitute in half, and the other hit a window of a house. Rya
It was thought that it would be a repeat of the car chase with Pluto two laps earlier, but the previous race was on the highway and not in the metropolis at night.
The messenger had to retract the steering wheel with one hand, making a difficult turn, and enemy shells grazed the paint of his car. If the senseless murder of civilians has not yet made Mars the time traveler angry, this relentless war crime has made him angry!
"Now you do!" Ryan growled angrily, then turned to his kitten. "How many weapons does your dad have?"
"I don't know, thousands, right?" Dad was a hoarder. ”
"Compensate for what?" Unfortunately, as Ryan made his way through an intricate back alley, he noticed that the shadows of two other motos joined Mars. Mortimer rode one, and a woman with a helmet rode another. Since she is not carrying any weapons, Ryan thinks she may be Sparrow.
Felix took off his mask and wiped the sweat from his forehead. His smooth skin sparkles as they pass under the streetlights, and his beautiful eyes melt the heart of any maiden. "Who are you?" He asked. "You're on Livia's payroll?"
"Now, come on, I've never sold my body for money," Ryan said. "I'll give. I am a giver. Moreover, you are an idiot. ”
"I ...... I didn't expect them to kill me. I mean, they're my parents. I think it's valuable. ”
The young hero didn't even sound angry.
Just sad and depressed.
"Well, at least you have sisters willing to fight for you," Ryan comforted as they escaped the narrow streets of the nightlife district and onto wider roads. They were close to the New Roman Boulevard, but unfortunately the riders behind them made progress, with Sparrow and Mortimer on either side and Mars in the middle. "But it's stupid to come alone."
"I didn't." Felix replied, looking through the windshield at the night sky above. Despite the bright lights of the city, a few bright stars can still be seen. "Come on."
A dragon's wings obscured the stars, and she flew through the streets. The roar of a private security helicopter echoes over the road, accompanied by the shrill sound of sirens.
It was the first time in Ryan's life that he was happy to see a police officer.