258. Chapter 258: The Second Form of Flesh and Blood Tentacle!
So he turned his head and began to appreciate the scenery outside the window.
Nothing happened along the way.
It wasn't until the airplane landed that the slightly dead atmosphere was broken by the vehicles that came to greet them.
Four black sedans and a white transport vehicle resembling an armored car drove out from the darkness and stopped in the open space in front of Billy and the others.
Immediately, the door of the white transport vehicle was pushed open, and a fully armed and masked man in black jumped out. He came to Billy with identification, and after comparing them one by one, he suddenly looked up at Xia Shang and said, "You are not on the list. I need to confirm your identity before I can let you leave."
As he spoke, he took out a pager and said into it, "The target has safely arrived in Russia, but there is one person not on the list. I cannot confirm his identity for now."
Putting down the pager, the man in black stood upright in front of everyone, holding a gun in both hands.
"Sorry, you can only stay here until we receive instructions from our superiors."
"Billy." Hughie, who was beside him, quickly gave Billy a look.
*God, what are you waiting for? Quickly make a phone call to Nina! If you piss off this big shot, none of them will leave alive tonight.*
*Nonsense! I know!*
After a round of eye contact, Billy took out his mobile phone from his pocket and called Nina.
"Special situation, we've been stopped. Quickly tell your subordinates to let us leave."
"There's an extra person."
"Don't worry, he has no relationship with Vought, and we haven't been held hostage. Dangerous? If your subordinates don't let us leave soon, they will indeed be in danger. By then, you might have to take an airplane to attend their funeral." Beep beep beep... Listening to the busy tone on the other end of the phone, Billy couldn't help but curse, "Fuck! That bitch hung up on me."
"Why do I sound like a serial killer?" Xia Shang chuckled.
It was better when he didn't laugh; his chuckle made Hughie's heart tremble a few times.
In less than a minute, the phone in Billy's hand rang again.
As soon as he pressed the answer button, Nina's terrified voice came through: "You motherfuckers actually brought the Mysterious Person over! What do you want? Do you want to start World War III?"
The fact that the Mysterious Person killed Stormfront was no secret to some people. At this moment, the Mysterious Person, who had successively killed Stormfront and Pure White Witch, was essentially equated with Homelander in their eyes. Everyone knows Homelander's deterrent power is no less than a nuclear bomb. Furthermore, because he can move at high speed, high-level government officials in various countries consider Homelander even more dangerous than a nuclear bomb.
"How could you have a relationship with the Mysterious Person?" Nina couldn't even imagine it. If the Mysterious Person went out of control and took out some Russian higher-ups, the problem would be severe. As the saying goes, a starved camel is still bigger than a horse; as the legitimate successor to the Soviet Union, Russia's underground military base still stored many nuclear warheads from back then. If her airplane were to trigger World War III because of this, she'd probably be cursed by humanity until she died.
"Don't worry, everything is under our control." Hearing Nina's agitated tone on the other end of the phone, Billy could only comfort her.
"Fine, I'm convinced. Don't ever come looking for me again. Go find whoever the hell you want!"
Nina angrily hung up the phone.
After calming down slightly, she picked up the mobile phone she had thrown onto the table.
"Okay, I understand." The man in black nodded respectfully, holding the pager.
"Sir, here are the car keys prepared for you. Also," the man in black took out a business card and said respectfully to Xia Shang, "This is our organization's business card. If there is a need, please contact us promptly. We can do anything for you."
"Can we go now?" Xia Shang took the business card and glanced at it casually.
The business card seemed to be made of some kind of metal, entirely black. Besides a telephone number, there was nothing else on it.
"Of course." The man in black stepped aside, clearing the way for Xia Shang.
"Let's drive."
Xia Shang threw the keys to Billy, then pulled open the car door and sat in the co-pilot seat.
"Where to?" Billy stepped on the gas pedal and asked.
"Let's go deal with that smuggler first. It won't take much time anyway." Xia Shang slightly stretched his shoulders, as if preparing for the upcoming killing.
"To be precise, he's an oligarch. That's the common term in Russia, but it doesn't matter, they're pretty much the same anyway."
While the car was moving, Xia Shang's attention was drawn to the graffiti on the walls on both sides of the road. One piece of graffiti depicting Queen Maeve gnawing on raw flesh was particularly interesting. If you looked closely, there were even scattered human body parts at Queen Maeve's feet. The other graffiti wasn't much better compared to Queen Maeve's. It was clear that they were doing their best to smear superheroes. Perhaps in their minds, superheroes were the main reason for their country's defeat.
Therefore, Supes basically couldn't survive in Russia. Their situation was like witches in the Middle Ages; if caught, they would be burned alive.
"A hell for Supes, a heaven for ordinary humans." Coming to Russia for the first time, Billy was clearly very satisfied with the environment and atmosphere here.
Half an hour later, Billy parked the car in front of a luxurious villa.
"Do you need Kimiko's help?" Billy asked insincerely.
"Are you kidding?"
Xia Shang pushed open the car door and walked straight towards the villa's main door.
Watching him walk further away, Hughie, who was sitting in the trunk, quickly breathed a sigh of relief. Billy lowered the glass partition. Hughie, Mother's Milk, and Frenchie all poked their heads out and looked in the direction of Xia Shang.
"Who are you?" The bodyguard standing in front of the villa's door reached out and stopped Xia Shang.
He sized up Xia Shang, and after confirming he didn't recognize him, he said impatiently, "Unauthorized personnel are prohibited from entering, unless you have..."
Before he could finish speaking, Xia Shang swung his right hand, drawing an arc in the air, and with a sharp whistling sound, slammed it hard onto the bodyguard's face. Bang! A human head suddenly flew off, smashing heavily against a stone pillar on the side, turning into a puddle of blood mixed with shattered bones.
Switching to Billy and the others' perspective at this moment.
In their eyes, Xia Shang barely moved, yet the bodyguard standing opposite him suddenly lost his head.
"Holy shit!" Hughie stared blankly at the headless corpse standing on the ground, his mouth involuntarily opening as he said, utterly shocked.
However, the scene that unfolded next shocked him even more!
Bang! As Xia Shang took a step forward, several hideous and terrifying thorn tentacles drilled out from behind him and stabbed towards the villa's main door. The reinforced door, inlaid with glass, was as fragile as a thin piece of paper before the tentacles. A loud bang! The tentacles, seemingly composed of black bone spurs, easily tore off the two doors.
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