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This was a desert with no water.
The Deep, his clothes tattered and looking quite disheveled, ran into the nearby abandoned building ruins.
Behind him, a group of armed criminals followed him closely, relentlessly cornering him until he was pushed into a corner of the ruins.
"Oh, look who it is."
Seeing that The Deep had nowhere to run, the leader of the heavily armed criminals laughed loudly:
"Isn't this our Superhero The Deep? How could he have fallen to such a state?"
"Hahaha, Boss, there's no water here!"
"Yeah, The Deep without water is just a fish on land; he's nothing!"
His subordinates also echoed loudly, their mouths full of mockery for the Superhero The Deep.
The Deep's hair was disheveled, and he slumped in the corner. He seemed to have been pushed to a dead end, but he didn't seem to be afraid of the group of people in front of him at all; in fact, there was even a hint of mockery on his face.
"No, no, no, you're wrong."
The Deep suddenly shook his head, refuting the criminals' words, and said with a smile:
"Without water, not in the sea, I am still the Ocean Goodwill Ambassador, Environmental Ambassador, and spokesperson for major aquariums, and you… are still nothing."
Even in this situation, The Deep maintained his composure as a Superhero.
His face was filled with a mocking smile, as if he didn't put these criminals in his eyes at all.
The criminal leader's expression changed; his smile vanished, replaced by a ferocious anger.
The leader snatched a gun from a subordinate nearby and pointed it at The Deep:
"You're on the verge of death, what are you still being arrogant about? Do you think this is the sea? Do you think you can still call sharks to bite my ass?!"
"Hmm, you're right, I really can't call my ocean friends anymore."
The Deep sighed as if giving up.
The criminal leader showed a triumphant smile, about to speak, but before he could, he heard The Deep say:
"But do you know, even in the desert, there are underground water veins."
"What?"
The criminal leader was confused, while The Deep slowly placed his hand on the ground:
"Although sometimes water veins are buried very deep, a few meters, a dozen meters, dozens of meters… they still exist…"
"What exactly do you want to say?!"
The leader felt a premonition of danger and shook his gun, questioning loudly.
At this moment, The Deep suddenly looked up, revealing a confident and charming smile to everyone:
"I want to say, game over, scum!"
As soon as he finished speaking, the criminals heard a rumbling sound from underground, followed by violent tremors that made them lose their footing.
It was like an earthquake.
The criminals didn't understand what was happening. In the first moment of the shaking, they instinctively tried to steady themselves.
But it was precisely during the period they were trying to steady themselves that the ground of the ruins finally broke open, and clear water, like a flying dragon emerging from the earth, burst forth and shot straight into the sky!
The cold, clear underground water gathered, condensed, and spun in the air, forming two dozens of meters high Water Manipulation tornadoes!
The Water Manipulation tornadoes flanked The Deep, like his most loyal guards, supporting this great King of the Seven Seas!
The Deep was like a god, standing on the water. In the eyes of the bandits, he was like the legendary sea god Poseidon, controlling the seawater and inflicting divine punishment on the mortals who angered him!
He lowered his head, a smile on his face, but his eyes were cold as he looked down at the 'mortals' below:
"Now, who is at a dead end?"
"CUT!"
A shout came from off-set.
The director, sitting in the distance, excitedly called a halt. Kevin also put away his cool pose, which he himself found greasy, and controlled the Water Manipulation that formed the water tornadoes, letting them return to the buckets underground in the ruins.
"Thank you for your hard work, everyone."
"It's nothing, it's nothing, The Deep! Can you give me an autograph later?!"
"Me too!"
"You little brat, you chased The Deep for so long, and you still have the nerve to ask for an autograph?"
Kevin smiled at the robbers, and the robbers also chatted and laughed as they went to get their bento boxes.
That's right, everything just now was not real; it was just a movie shoot. Everything that just happened was merely part of the movie's plot.
This was the final battle of the movie "The Deep 3: Desert Oasis."
The Deep was pushed to a dead end, chased here by someone using a modified gun that could harm a Supe.
On the verge of dying by the gun, The Deep sensed the presence of underground water veins here and managed to guide them out, thereby reversing the situation and achieving victory.
The scene just shot was this one, but although the decisive battle was filmed, it didn't mean the filming was over.
The director just planned to shoot all the scenes involving water first, which is why he filmed this 'special effects' heaviest scene first.
Afterwards, Kevin still needed to reshoot scenes like 'discovering' new abilities and controlling water in water, all of which needed to be completed in this location.
After all, this is a desert, and preparing dozens of tons of pure water for Kevin is not easy. To avoid unnecessary impurities in the water affecting the visual effects, it was, of course, necessary to film the 'special effects' scenes first.
"You've worked hard, The Deep."
As soon as Kevin stepped down, a makeup artist immediately came to touch up his makeup, and at the same time, Ashley, who was in charge of the filming, walked over and said to Kevin:
"After you finish filming the next few scenes, you also need to shoot a promotional video."
"Movie advancement?"
"Yes, I just asked the producer, and he said that according to the current progress, this movie will be completed in two months."
Ashley estimated the time.
A Hollywood blockbuster produced by Vought only takes two months from filming to completion, which sounds quite incredible.
In a normal world, this would indeed be surprising.
But this is the The Boys world, a world with Supe.
Some Hollywood blockbusters have long production cycles, in addition to filming issues, also due to special effects rendering, which sometimes accounts for the bulk of the time spent.
However, with Kevin, a genuine Supe, many places that require special effects can be transformed into live-action scenes.
By eliminating special effects rendering, only editing remains, which is no different from filming an ordinary documentary.
Therefore, it makes perfect sense that it only takes two months from filming to distribution.
Since the movie will be completed and released soon, the movie's early advancement naturally also needs to be put on the agenda.
"Okay, anything else?"
Kevin finished his makeup and looked up at Ashley.
Ashley compared the schedule and said:
"Tonight you're going to participate in the 'Jimmy Fallon Show,' and Starlight will appear as a guest. You two need to act a little ambiguous then."
"Hmm, got it."
Kevin nodded, indicating that he understood.
After talking with Starlight that night, almost a week has passed since then.
During this week, due to Translucent's disappearance and Kevin's image transformation, Vought began to allocate some resources to Kevin.
That's why Kevin's schedule became very busy.
"Ashley."
Rubbing his nose bridge, Kevin saw that there was still some time before filming and said to Ashley:
"I want to rest for a bit. Can you try not to let anyone disturb me?"
"Okay, I'll come back for you in five minutes."
"Thank you."
After a simple conversation, Kevin was the only one left in the makeup room.
He lay back in the chair, let out a long breath, and slowly began to rub his temples.
Honestly, it was his first time realizing that being a celebrity was so exhausting.
Not to mention memorizing scripts and lines, just the acting part alone, any mistake would mean starting over completely.
After the initial novelty, Kevin found this job very tedious, and even felt that he might not be cut out for acting.
He even thought that after this movie, it would be better for him not to make any more movies.
Attending talk shows or being a model for photos at certain aquariums would be much easier than this.
However, being busy also had its advantages. At least these past few days, through Kevin's 'efforts'… although he didn't know what he had exerted effort on, his skill points had increased again.
Perhaps it was the influence on Starlight, or perhaps his interactions with Kimiko, that allowed Kevin to gain three skill points.
Adding to the previous seven points, Kevin, who already had ten skill points two days ago, had unhesitatingly upgraded his Water Manipulation level at that time.
That's right, Kevin's Water Manipulation level is now LV4.
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