Of the four villains, Bullseye was the only one who wasn't crazy.
Doctor Octopus was influenced by his mechanical arms and spent all day wanting to build a miniature sun.
Green Goblin's evil personality had awakened, a lunatic who wanted to destroy things all day long.
Scorpion King was the worst of all. Parts of his mechanical apparatus had influenced his entire body, causing him to develop toward becoming a scorpion.
But Doctor Octopus was clearheaded at the moment, so he had suppressed his impulse from the start. His inner evil will had not been stirred, and he hadn't wanted to do anything to Kingpin.
Green Goblin and Scorpion King were different.
In the presence of the Masked Man, who possessed absolute strength, they could restrain themselves. But now, in front of Kingpin, they had no desire to hold back their impulses!
Compared to that lord, who the hell was Kingpin?
Besides, hadn't Kingpin just used up too much of the power called Chakra and fallen from the ceiling, gasping for breath?
Kingpin might be forcing himself to keep up appearances right now. The two of them might have a chance to take him down, become their lord's most favored subordinates, and obtain the power called "Chakra"!
It was the prospect of such benefits that drove the two of them to defy their superior like this, even after Kingpin had beaten them up.
Under normal circumstances, they would never have dared.
In the end, it was their lunatic thinking that led them to misjudge the situation and believe that Kingpin, as he was now, was weaker than the two of them together.
But reality would teach them who was really in charge of Kingpin's forces.
Coating his fist in Chakra, Kingpin knocked Scorpion King to the ground with a single punch from his casserole-sized fist. Blood streamed from Scorpion King's nose, and he lost consciousness.
Seeing this, Green Goblin recalled the fear of being dominated by Kingpin just moments ago, but it was already too late.
Kingpin swung his massive fist, trailing a glowing blue halo, and struck Green Goblin squarely in the chest of his armor.
Smack! Crack!
A crisp cracking sound rang out, but it wasn't Kingpin's fist that broke. It was Green Goblin's metal armor.
Green Goblin flew backward and crashed into the wall behind him. The armor on his chest had shattered, revealing Green Goblin inside.
Kingpin reached Green Goblin in two strides. He looked down at him, a cold sneer curling his lips, but ultimately did not deliver the final blow.
He did the same with Scorpion King. In a rare act of mercy, Kingpin spared them.
It wasn't because Kingpin had found it in his heart to be kind, but because he remembered the Masked Man saying that the four of them were still useful.
Not wanting these two pieces of trash to affect the Masked Man's opinion of him, Kingpin showed mercy just this once.
"You heard our lord's orders too." Kingpin looked coldly at the four villains. "Green Goblin and Doctor Octopus, use your forces to search the east and west districts."
"Bullseye, Scorpion, each of you take a team of my men and search the south and north districts. Understood?"
"Yes..." After Kingpin had beaten them into submission again, the four obediently complied.
A thought suddenly occurred to Bullseye: If we search all four districts of New York, what are you going to do?
But one look at Scorpion King and Green Goblin, who were still lying on the floor, and he wisely kept his mouth shut.
If Kingpin had known what Bullseye was thinking, he would surely have slapped him to the ground and said disdainfully, "As subordinates, you should naturally help your leader shoulder his worries, while your leader goes about his own business."
That business was cultivating Chakra.
That was exactly what Kingpin intended: have the four villains search for what the Masked Man wanted, while he cultivated and grew stronger.
That didn't mean Kingpin was slacking off, ignoring Wu Chen's orders and doing only what he wanted.
Kingpin wasn't that shortsighted. He knew that all his hopes of growing stronger from here on rested with the Masked Man, so of course he would spare no effort to carry out the task the Masked Man had given him.
Thus, Kingpin would send other trusted subordinates to search in his place for the location where the Nine-Tails was sealed, completing the task the Masked Man had entrusted to him.
Moreover, he would send every member of his gang. They would turn out in full force!
It could be said that Kingpin was doing everything he could, short of conducting the search in person.
After watching his subordinates get moving, Kingpin called someone up to mop the floor, then went downstairs to the underground training room.
Kingpin had committed the Chakra Extraction Method, the Substitution Technique, and the Clone Technique that Wu Chen had given him firmly to memory. The originals on the computer had been completely deleted, without a trace remaining.
Keeping them in his head was the safest way.
Kingpin sat down cross-legged and began extracting Chakra according to the instructions in the Chakra Extraction Method.
Kingpin had a feeling that once he cultivated the Chakra Extraction Method, his strength would increase tremendously!
This increase would be far greater than the one he had gained when he went from having no Chakra to producing it!
Kingpin was busy on his end, and things were quite lively for Wu Chen as well.
After returning home earlier, Wu Chen had immediately prepared to use the various functions of the shop.
His shop balance now showed [15.05 million yuan].
That was more than enough for Wu Chen to use every function of the shop once!