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When Emma saw the crows flying towards them in a dense flock, she was startled at first, then she ignored Kevin beside her, immediately took off her clothes, and quickly returned to her adult size.
With bare feet, Emma stepped on the ground and rushed to the monitor, pressing the buttons next to it.
After a while, an ear-piercing sound came from the monitor.
Crackle, pop.
Crows fell from the sky like raindrops, and in no time, they became corpses on the ground.
Emma watched this scene with a tense expression, her eyes fixed on the screen, never moving away.
It wasn't until most of the crows had fallen from the sky, with the living ones struggling to fly back, that she let out a long sigh of relief.
Although it was through the screen, Kevin could still tell from the ear-piercing sound that the noise Emma activated was one of the tools Vought used to deal with Supes in the past.
It exploited the Supes' advantage of being able to hear more sounds than humans, releasing headache-inducing ultrasonic and infrasonic waves to make Supes lose their ability to resist.
Now it seemed, Emma had turned this thing into a defensive device.
"Is the crisis over?"
Seeing Emma's relieved expression, Kevin asked.
But Emma shook her head:
"No, it's just beginning."
"Hmm?"
"Too many things have died here… too many. The smell of blood will attract more beasts. Damn it!"
Emma slammed the table heavily at this point, then turned and glared at Kevin.
If Kevin hadn't killed those wild dogs, these bloodthirsty creatures wandering nearby wouldn't have been attracted.
But Emma quickly turned her head away from Kevin.
Because she knew very well that Kevin couldn't be blamed for this; after all, for someone who had just arrived in this world, who would know that killing a few wild dogs would lead to such a scene?
Including Emma herself.
Before this, she also thought that a few wild dogs were nothing, and even planned to bring these wild dog carcasses back as reserve food.
However, Emma gave up on the idea because the wild dogs might carry too many viruses.
Speaking of which… did this guy next to her hide another wild dog?
Emma thought to herself while changing clothes in front of Kevin.
She seemed completely unaware of what 'shame' was, openly and carelessly exposing herself in front of Kevin.
But then again, the world was already like this; who would care about shame?
Just being alive was a great fortune.
"I will continuously release high-power ultrasonic waves. Those animals shouldn't dare to approach here…"
Perhaps having encountered many similar situations, Emma was very experienced in this. She adjusted the power of the sound wave emitter and calmly said to Kevin.
But as she spoke, her voice stopped again. Kevin looked at her again, only to see the 'everything is under control' expression on her face completely disappear. She stared at the monitoring screens in other areas, her mouth agape.
"…This… impossible. Why haven't they left yet? No… more are coming!!!?"
Through the monitor screen, Kevin saw that the crows, which he had thought had flown away, were actually just circling higher in the sky, in a place where the sound could not affect them, circling around this area.
And further away, he vaguely saw some animals running towards them.
There were wolves, rabbits, and even tigers and bears. These creatures, which would normally fight upon meeting, were now staying here in unusual harmony.
They vaguely formed a circle around Emma's location, surrounding it in the center.
This was clearly unusual; at least from Emma's reaction, this should be a situation that had never happened before.
"Forget it, I'll go deal with them."
Seeing more and more mutated creatures here, Kevin stood up and said.
"You alone? Do you think you're Homelander?"
Emma seemed to disbelieve that Kevin alone could deal with all the mutated creatures. Perhaps a Supe like Homelander could handle all of this, but Kevin…
Well, Emma admitted that Kevin was indeed very strong, and even now, she still hadn't figured out what his ability was.
But no matter how strong the ability, it couldn't withstand the sheer number of enemies.
So many mutated creatures could pile Kevin to death just by their sheer quantity.
"Well, no bragging, but I'm much stronger than Homelander. Don't worry, I'll be right back."
Smiling confidently at Emma, Kevin left through the exit of the disinfection device.
Then he opened a portal and came from underground to the outside world.
Kevin left so quickly that Emma didn't even have time to stop him.
Seeing that Kevin had already gone out, Emma cursed under her breath and quickly turned off the ultrasonic device that affected Supes.
She was mainly worried that this thing would affect Kevin.
But in fact, it didn't matter whether she turned off the ultrasonic device or not; for Kevin, this thing was just a bit ear-piercing and couldn't cause much impact.
On the contrary, when she turned off the ultrasonic device, all the creatures that had originally not dared to approach due to the ultrasonic waves swarmed towards Kevin.
Emma bit her nails, watching this scene through the monitor.
She was very worried about the safety of Kevin, the visitor from another world, but she could only watch helplessly from here.
After all, Emma's ability was useless against these creatures; whether she became larger or smaller, she would ultimately only become their meal.
Aside from praying here, Emma could do nothing.
But fortunately, Kevin, the visitor from another world, was even stronger than she had imagined.
"WTF…"
In just two or three seconds, Emma's worry turned into shock.
Her mouth was wide open, her jaw almost dropping to the table, as she stared at the screen.
In that image, Kevin stood in the very center of the frame, facing the mutated creatures rushing towards him. Kevin almost just waved his hand at them, and those animals fell dead as if their souls had been harvested!
Birds in the sky fell like hail.
Beasts running on the ground also slid on the ground with inertia, like cars that had lost power, and then died.
Blood spurted from their mouths and noses. Except for a very few mutated creatures with strong recovery abilities, most of the mutated creatures completely died with Kevin's single wave of his hand!
What did he do?
What did he do to these animals?!
And how did he do it!?
Emma's heart was full of questions.
For a moment, Emma felt like she was dreaming.
Dreaming a bizarre and absurd dream, she didn't know if it was a good dream or a nightmare… a dream.
But rubbing her eyes and pinching herself hard, Emma confirmed that this was not a dream. There really was such a Supe who didn't need to do anything at all, just move his finger, and creatures would die.
He was simply like Death.
While Emma was amazed, she also couldn't help but feel a little scared.
She thought that if she hadn't surrendered immediately when she saw the situation was bad at the very beginning, she would probably have ended up like these creatures.
Seeing that most of the creatures outside had died, Emma then put on her hazmat suit, donned her gas mask, and emerged from the hidden underground to Kevin's side.
Outside, Kevin stood among the corpses of the mutated creatures, sensing some stragglers that hadn't died yet, observing the vigorous vitality in them.
It wasn't until he finally confirmed that they couldn't truly fully recover that Kevin crushed their brains.
For the current Kevin, there was no longer anything in this world that could threaten his life.
No matter how many mutated creatures there were, or how strong their superpowers were, as long as they hadn't reached the level of Kryptonians, Kevin could rely on the blood magic extension of water magic to crush their hearts, thereby sending them to the underworld.
But putting that aside, Kevin half-squatted in front of a dead mutated creature, feeling its body strength, and couldn't help but frown.
A large portion of the mutated creatures here had incredibly tough skin. Although they didn't reach Homelander's level, they were almost comparable to Starlight.
That is, they could defend against sniper bullets.
One was fine, but if there were more such creatures, could the humans of this world withstand them?
No wonder Emma said that many people were starting to choose to actively become Supes.
They had no choice but to actively become Supes. Most of humanity's hot weapons were already ineffective against these mutated creatures.
But if they became Supes, they would also be plagued by the virus.
It seemed that if they wanted to save the humans of this world, they either had to eliminate all the mutated creatures or develop a vaccine that could solve the virus.
No wonder this city had been abandoned for so long, and Emma still had to stay here.
"How… how did you do that?!"
Kevin was still studying when Emma, wearing a gas mask, walked up to him and asked.
Kevin thought for a moment and explained, "It's nothing. I just crushed their hearts through their bodies."
"Huh?"
Crushing hearts through bodies is "nothing"?!
"What exactly are your abilities? You can teleport, create energy whips, and… and do something like that…"
"It's a bit troublesome to explain. It's easier if you just think of my abilities as magic."
"…?"
Emma had even more question marks above her head.
Dropping the body of the Supe animal with steel bones and iron skin, Kevin was about to say something to Emma when he suddenly sensed something and looked up at the sky.
"No way…"
When he looked up at the sky, the sight made his pupils contract.
Emma beside him reacted the same way, and her reaction was even more intense than Kevin's.
Upon seeing the scene in the sky, Emma's legs went weak, and she sat directly on the ground, muttering, "Is this really… the end of the world?"
Just above Kevin and Emma, in the boundless sky unknown how far away, an extremely long crack, like a wound cut by a knife, stretched across the heavens.
The crack was almost pitch black inside, with only occasional glimpses of a few colorful ribbon-like objects floating within.
At the same time, the crack seemed to be gradually expanding, with more smaller cracks growing outwards beside the huge one.
"Emma, I'm afraid I have to go."
Kevin looked gravely at the huge crack in the sky, then turned to Emma and said.
Emma's breathing was rapid. She looked at the crack in the sky, then turned her gaze to Kevin. Her masked mouth opened and closed, as if she wanted to say something, but in the end, it turned into a long sigh:
"…Sigh, you should have left a long time ago. Go, go, don't come back again."
"If you are willing…"
"Alright, I finally made up my mind to stay here. Don't try to persuade me anymore. If you're going, go quickly, go!"
Emma's voice became agitated towards the end.
Of course, she knew that if she left with Kevin, she would definitely be rescued and could live a better life.
But Emma also had her own things to do in this world. She couldn't go with Kevin.
"Alright, if you insist… Goodbye."
Since Emma was unwilling to leave with him, Kevin couldn't press her further.
He nodded slightly to Emma, opened a portal, and quickly returned to the basement where Hughie was hidden earlier.
Hughie had been confined in the Mirror Dimension for half a day and had no idea what had happened. Seeing Kevin rush back, he asked, "Kevin? How is it outside? Is this… is this your world?"
"No! Less nonsense, use your ability to take us out of here now!"
Kevin interrupted Hughie's question and directly ordered.
Although Hughie didn't know what the outside world was like, seeing Kevin's anxious expression, he could guess that it certainly wasn't a good world, and even less likely to be Kevin's world.
So he didn't hesitate, grabbed Kevin's arm, closed his eyes, imagined the Boys stronghold with all his might, and activated his ability.
Whoosh—
A brief spatial distortion appeared, and the sensation of traversing space spread throughout his body. As Kevin felt this sensation of traveling through time and space, his free hand wrote magical patterns to record this special feeling.
But suddenly, a sense of weightlessness came over them. Kevin and Hughie did not appear at the location where they first left The Boys world; instead, they arrived in a place like a cosmic cosmos.
Hughie had the biggest reaction. His face suddenly flushed crimson, tiny frost began to appear on his body, and the blood vessels under his skin protruded as if they were about to burst.
Seeing this, Kevin had no time to observe his surroundings. He immediately cast spatial magic, placing Hughie in a Mirror Dimension with air and temperature.
Only after confirming Hughie's condition had stabilized did Kevin look up at his surroundings.
"This is… beyond the universe…?"
What first appeared before Kevin was a giant colorful ribbon full of flowing light.
The ribbon was directly above Kevin, stretching from one end to the other far away, almost endlessly.
Although it was his first time seeing it, Kevin recognized it at a glance: this ribbon was the 'Timeline' of The Boys world!
Realizing what it was, Kevin continued to look into the distance.
Near this spatiotemporal ribbon above Kevin, there were several other similar spatiotemporal ribbons.
They intertwined and collided. One of them had a long, narrow gap, and through that gap, Kevin seemed to see the existence of Earth.
Through a faint connection with that world, Kevin judged that this was Emma's Timeline.
The spatial crack he had just seen was indeed a precursor to the collapse of the Timeline!
However, it was fortunate that, perhaps because Kevin had left that world, the frighteningly large gap was slowly healing and disappeared not long after.
Clearly, this spatiotemporal ribbon had not yet reached its destined day of demise. The appearance of the gap might have been merely an unexpected consequence of Kevin's arrival.
With Emma's world restored to its original state, Kevin looked towards the light bands further away.
Unlike the spatiotemporal ribbons near him, those further away, separated from the main body of the Black Robe, were slowly disintegrating!
Colorful matter of unknown origin separated from the ribbons, and countless cracks appeared densely all over the ribbons.
Through those gaping fissures, Kevin even saw what was happening in those worlds!
He saw Homelander, with a righteous expression, delivering a presidential address.
He saw Butcher, wearing a black coat and with a benevolent face, running an orphanage.
He also saw 'The Deep', wearing glasses and having become a marine biologist.
All these people were, at this moment, looking out through the cracks in unison, their eyes filled with deep despair.
Until the ribbons completely disintegrated and disappeared.
Boom!
Further away, several spatiotemporal ribbons collided.
Immediately after, a very long crack appeared on another ribbon.
That was another space-time about to collapse.
"This is bad…"
But witnessing one Timeline after another collapse before his eyes, Kevin, while shocked, finally felt a sense of urgency.
Before he had truly seen the spatiotemporal ribbons, Kevin had thought he had plenty of time.
After all, at present, it was only a matter of Timelines intertwining, at most causing spatial ability users like Flashback to mistakenly go to the wrong world.
But now, there was a spatiotemporal intersection that led to the Flashback ability space-time, nearly turning a certain The Boys world into a spatial overlap dead end.
And now, he had personally witnessed the disintegration of the spatiotemporal ribbons, which made Kevin realize that his own world might not be that safe.
It could at any moment, like other Timelines, disintegrate and split, turning into colorful fireworks and then disappearing into this nothingness where there was nothing.
Resolving the issue of time intersection was urgent; he could not procrastinate any longer!
With this in mind, Kevin immediately sensed the spatiotemporal ribbon most deeply connected to him. After determining its direction, he took Hughie, as well as the stray dog brought from Emma's world, and flew towards the ribbon above his head.
That's right, the ribbon above his head, which seemed extremely massive to Kevin, was the Timeline where Kevin resided.
That's why Kevin and Hughie were so close to it as soon as they emerged.
Knowing the destination, returning to his original world would become very easy.
At least, that was the case for Kevin.
Therefore, it didn't take long, nor much effort, for Kevin to quickly return to his own world with Hughie.
And they appeared directly in the secret cabin he used for his travels.
As soon as he returned to the cabin, Kevin immediately saw Annie sitting on the cabin's sofa, her eyes still a little red.
Seeing Kevin and Hughie appear together, Annie was still a bit disoriented.
Kevin had no intention of reminiscing with Annie. Having just returned, he immediately said to Annie:
"Immediately have Vought's security team come and cordon off this area! And disinfect it at the same time, quickly!!"
Having just returned from a virus-infested world, Kevin dared not gamble whether he had carried any viruses with him.
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