The sudden appearance of the tall man didn't make Shang-Chi and the others panic. On the contrary, even Wesley, the most nervous of them all, began to calm down when the man showed up.
Shang-Chi calmly slipped on the Frozen Gauntlets Alvin had given him, then adjusted the Icefire Twin Swords on his back so he could draw them and start hacking at someone at a moment's notice...
Dominic stared expressionlessly at the disheveled tall man and said in a low voice, "Who are you?
"Is Black Witch nearby?"
The tall man saw that no one found his joke funny. He gave a couple of awkward laughs, then looked at Dominic and said, "Kaldur, we've been waiting for you a long time!"
As he spoke, the tall man glanced at Shang-Chi, Peter, and the others and smiled. "I like the way you smell. You'll smell even better once you rot..."
Peter was startled by the tall man's pitch-black eyes. Uncomfortably, he edged behind Shang-Chi and said quietly, "What should we do now? Keep talking to him?
"He smells rotten. Living people shouldn't smell like that..."
Shang-Chi looked back at his little buddy and shook his head helplessly. "Come on, he doesn't look like he wants to answer our questions. Should we invite him to dinner instead?"
Then Shang-Chi looked at Harry, whose feet were already on the Triangular Hoverboard. He grinned. "Who cares? Let's beat him up first, then ask him whatever comes to mind..."
Before Shang-Chi had finished speaking, Gisele made the first move...
Wearing her Bronze Armor, Gisele charged at the tall man like lightning. Before anyone could react, she punched him in the jaw.
The immense force burst with a deafening crack. Gisele's fist, though not especially large, slammed into the tall man with a violent rush