The Warden's Might

Xiao He turned to Xue Ting, Xue Ting nodded to indicate that he was telling the truth.

Xiao He then looked at the three people in front of him, raised his hand towards them, and three Reverse Perfect Cube enveloped them. Afterwards, Xiao He boarded the plane to check on the condition of the escort personnel. Of the twelve escort personnel, including the one who had been thrown out, four were still alive; the rest had been cruelly eliminated.

"Hey, Sister Man, we have four survivors, three of whom are seriously injured and need medical personnel," Xiao He reported, then asked, "What about the three Mutant? What should we do with them?"

"Let's bring them to the stadium for now, and we will ask their countries of origin to keep them under control," Cui Man replied.

"Received." Xiao He responded, then turned to the three people behind him, who were all studying the Perfect Cube with great interest.

However, there are only three ways to break the Perfect Cube: the first is to escape before being trapped, the second is to have the ability to traverse space like Dimensional Walker, and the third is to also have the Superpower of the Perfect Cube.

Xiao He's gaze lingered on Faust: This man's Superpower were rather strange, not as simple as they appeared.

The Superpower that guy just used was clearly Superpower's, but before using Superpower, he said "Go fuck yourself," a classic Wolverine line that he said to Professor X three times.

Xiao He felt there might be some connection between the two. Especially since this guy's nickname was "Faust," named after that famous poetic drama. He had to find a way to figure out this guy's Superpower.

"What are we waiting for?" Xue Ting asked curiously, hiding behind Xiao He.

"It's nothing, just grab me." Xiao He reached out his hand to Xue Ting, then led her and the other three into the Dimensional Plane.

"I'm so envious... Having this ability must make traveling so convenient, right?" Xue Ting exclaimed.

"Of course, I've even been to Mars," Xiao He replied with a smile.

Xue Ting punched him on the shoulder. "You show-off! If you're so great, take me with you once!"

"It's not impossible, we could just leave these three there?" Xiao He turned to the three people in front of him, his eyes turning cold. "By the time someone finds them, it probably won't be my fault."

"It's best not to do that, because it could cause diplomatic problems..." Xue Ting said with a wry smile, "But if you insist on doing it, I want to tell you... I support you."

Xiao He shrugged, and the surrounding scenery changed. The next moment, they arrived at the arena, where Cui Man and the representatives of the three Mutant were already waiting. However, judging from Cui Man's posture, she seemed to be there to fight, and she was quite aggressive.

"Sister Man, just give the order and I'll cripple them all..." Xiao He whispered in Cui Man's ear.

"Don't worry, leave it to me," Cui Man said softly, then turned to the Italian representative in front of her and explained, "The three ambassadors, you must already know about the incident on the plane, right? Only four of the escorts from various countries are still alive..." At this point, Cui Man glanced down at her phone, "Now there are only three left."

"That's impossible! These three people were all anesthetized with high concentrations of sedatives! What exactly happened on the plane?" the Italian representative asked incredulously. Cui Man held up her tablet. "Our on-site investigators have retrieved the last video footage recorded by the plane's surveillance cameras and the black box. You can take a look."

The three men looked at the screen on the tablet, then frowned in disgust, their faces showing signs of revulsion.

Xiao He resisted the urge to go over and take a look, but judging from the sound effects, it seemed quite tragic.

"Faust ..." the Italian representative roared angrily, "You bastard! You've been pretending to be anesthetized the whole time!"

"Otherwise, why would everyone praise me as an excellent actor?" Faust's face was full of a twisted smile, as if he had wanted to hear this sentence from the beginning, wanted to hear others say that he "acted well."

"Madman... madman!" The Italian representative cursed, then suddenly realized he shouldn't have said that, since he was a participant. So he cleared his throat, turned to Cui Man, and smiled, "Actually, he's not usually like this. There must be some misunderstanding..."

"Please stop joking," Cui Man said, crossing her arms in displeasure. "The danger these three pose is obvious. Allowing them to stay in the arena like the other contestants would seriously endanger public safety."

"But even so, they will still represent our country in the competition," the United Kingdom representative said arrogantly. "Maintaining Order is your job; you should have prepared contingency plans in advance, shouldn't you?"

"We do have one," Cui Man sneered. "Our country has a prison specifically for such Mutant. If you don't mind, we will send these three to that prison and then bring them onto the field for the competition."

"This..." The United Kingdom representative was speechless, while the Italian representative frowned and said, "A prison for the Mutant? But how do you plan to prevent Mutant from escaping? Deploy a large number of security personnel? But that would not only be too costly, but the safety of the security personnel would also be difficult to guarantee."

"Let me introduce you all," Cui Man said proudly, patting Yinglong on the shoulder, "This is our warden."

"Oh--!" The people present suddenly realized and exclaimed in surprise.

"Of course, we absolutely do not mistreat those Mutant," Cui Man added. "On the contrary, the living conditions in our Mutant Prison are quite good. There is no heavy labor, and their movements are not restricted inside the prison. As long as they stay in there obediently, they can live very comfortably. However, for the sake of secrecy, we cannot take you on a tour."

"In that case," the Italian representative cleared his throat, "We agree with your suggestion to detain these three in this prison. However, we must ensure their attendance when it's their turn to play."

"No problem." Cui Man nodded, then turned to Xiao He and winked.

As expected of Sister Man, she truly has foresight. Xiao He smiled inwardly, thinking, "This way, the prison won't be too deserted."

"Um," the Australian representative suddenly spoke up, "If there were such a prison, would you mind... discussing a cooperative project? As for the specifics... I'll report to my superiors and contact you again."

"No problem, Mr. Hauser," Cui Man smiled politely. "Then, we'll send these three to prison first. If needed, after they're in prison, we can show you all the Mutant's safety via internal video without revealing the prison's location."

After saying that, Cui Man turned to Xiao He and instructed him, "Take them over there first, I'll have Bixi wait for you there now."

Xiao He nodded, then turned to Faust, the Joker, and Ripper Rick behind him and smiled, "Ready? Go see your new home. I'm sure it'll be much better than your old living conditions."

Before leaving with the Dimensional Traveler, Xiao He instructed Cui Man, "It's my Bai Ze's turn to go. Also, please tell her that we'll have dinner together when I get back tonight."

"Leave it to me," Cui Man said with a smile, patting his head.

Then, Xiao He brought Faust, the Joker, and Ripper Rick to the prison.

Upon arriving here, Xiao He removed the Perfect Cube from the three people.

"Alright, the three of you, please look around here." Xiao He raised his hand and gestured. "During the competition, this will be your residence. There's water, electricity, and internet. However, your conversations will be reviewed before being sent out. Besides the three of you, there are some other prisoners here. I can introduce them to you."

The three men looked around, completely uninterested in what Xiao He was saying.

"There are only two rules here," Xiao He said, holding up one finger. "First, you cannot leave; then Xiao He held up a second finger. "Second, the only person you can attack here is me."

"Oh my..." Faust circled Xiao He with interest. "So it's okay to attack you? Does that mean it's alright for the three of us to team up against you?"

It will take some time for the information of these three people to be logged into the system and for them to gain enough Cognition Level for Ye Wanqing's name change, but Xiao He is not worried at all, after all, this is his territory.

In a place full of people like "Lin Tiannan," Xiao He is invincible. Everyone here activates his Superpower in a permanent state, making Xiao He much stronger here than he is on the field.

"That's right." Xiao He opened his arms. "Here, it's just me. You can attack me as you please. Any means are allowed: sneak attacks, assassinations, ganging up, poisoning, weapons—it's all up to you. How about that? No problem, right?"

"Hehe, shall we join forces and kill him? He's the strongest in the world, you know." Faust rubbed his hands together and laughed, looking eager to try.

"Sorry, I won't team up with a lunatic like you," Ripper Rick said calmly, turning his face away.

"What!? I'm crazy?" Faust was furious. "What the hell gives you the right to say that about me!? Do you think I don't know what you've done? You used your Superpower to sew a person's head onto a dog's body, and you did all sorts of horrific experiments that would be automatically censored if I talked about them! And now you're saying I'm crazy!? I'm an actor! A professional actor! I killed those people just because I got too into character!"

"And I'm a doctor," Rick said expressionlessly. "Everything I do is for the advancement of medicine; it's just that people don't understand. If they knew the results of my experiments, they wouldn't care about anything I've done."

At this point, Rick turned to Xiao He, his face full of eagerness, and said, "If I could dissect you, perhaps I could discover the secret to your power! Why are you different from others! What allows you to utilize more 'White Light'! And, the Miracle Factor! If I could cut open your brain, I could find out how the Miracle Factor is synthesized!"

"I'm sorry, I refuse," Xiao He said, frowning. "However, if you perform well here in the future, you might be allowed to participate in some legitimate medical experiments. For example... you might have the opportunity to study my fresh blood samples."

"Or... I can take samples myself for research." Rick smiled slightly, raising his hands, a faint silver light appearing on them. "The universal scalpel."

Xiao He raised his hand, and chains instantly attacked Rick from all directions.

Having been tempered in the arena, Xiao He has become more skilled and swift in using his Superpower. He can release them quickly even when the Trigger is not present, let alone now that the Trigger is in the prison behind him.

But Rick was also very fast. His hands moved rapidly, constantly cutting off the incoming chains without any unnecessary movements, making him seem nothing like a "doctor".

Rick swiftly passed through the chains and stood before Xiao He, thrusting his hands into Xiao He's chest.

"Clang!" Sparks burst from Xiao He's chest, but Rick's hand did not pierce Xiao He's skin.

"Look, there's a key point..." Xiao He said, extending two fingers to pinch Rick's wrist and twist his arm behind his back. "If I didn't want to, getting blood from me would be very difficult."

A normal person would feel excruciating pain in their elbow at this moment, but Rick remained expressionless. He simply tapped his elbow a few times with his left hand, then his right hand drooped down like a nunchaku, and then snaked along Xiao He's arm, stabbing into Xiao He's elbow.

"Surgery, joints destroyed!" Rick laughed, a spark crackling in his hand.

Xiao He felt his right hand go numb and droop down.

This situation immediately surprised Xiao He: Good heavens, so that's how this Superpower works!

"I can kill you..." Rick's smile turned morbid. He raised his hands, his body arching. "No matter how strong you are, as long as you're alive, I can kill you."

After saying that, Rick reached out and stabbed Xiao He in the heart. "Precision surgery, cardiac arrest!"

Xiao He blocked the opponent's thrusting hands with his left hand, then used the momentum to retreat two steps, feeling nothing in his hands.

"Does surgery targeting a specific area only work on that area?" Xiao He wondered to himself. He looked at his right hand; there was no bleeding, and the bones were not injured, yet he still couldn't control his arm.

This Superpower is troublesome; it's an undefendable Superpower. Even if you can't injure him, the effects of the surgery will still affect him.

However, Xiao He wasn't worried. On the contrary, this was a good opportunity to figure out the three guys' Superpower and give his teammates a heads-up. Even if he couldn't injure them, the surgery would still be effective.

"Stop running away. For the sake of human medical progress, offer your body," Rick said with a slight smile, approaching Xiao He.

"It is precisely for the sake of human medical progress that I cannot contribute," Xiao He replied.

At this moment, Faust grinned maliciously and said, "Ha ha ha, what an interesting show! Let me join in!"

But then Faust's expression changed, becoming solemn, as if he had become a different person. He raised his hand and snapped his fingers, "I... am... destiny."

"Thanos!?" Xiao He was secretly surprised, and a sense of foreboding washed over him: Could it be...?

Then Faust charged at him and punched him squarely in the face.

Seeing this, Xiao He breathed a sigh of relief, "What? So there's no Infinity Gauntlet after all. Then there's nothing to be afraid of."

Of course, Thanos himself was also very powerful, so Xiao He did not dare to be careless and caught Faust's punch with his left hand. But Faust immediately followed up with two consecutive jabs.

With one hand crippled, Xiao He's movements were somewhat inconvenient. Catching the two punches caused him to stagger two steps. Faust immediately seized the opportunity and delivered a side kick to Xiao He's chest. Xiao He absorbed the force of the blow and then jumped back to create distance.

Faust's power isn't as strong as imagined; it's probably around level 5, and not as exaggerated as Thanos's official power level. This is probably because the movies didn't portray his power as terrifying.

Now Xiao He understood the principle behind Faust's Superpower.

This guy gains the abilities of a character by "playing" that character, but he has to play the role in a way that makes it recognizable. Otherwise, if he plays a character like Doomsday, Faust can only yell and scream, and no one can tell which character he is, so his Superpower won't be triggered.

Similarly, if it were a character that Xiao He didn't recognize, Faust probably wouldn't be able to play the role either.

"Oh, you naughty kids..." Adner couldn't resist joining in, frowning and cupping his face in a smile, but then he roared with a ferocious expression, "Why use violence—! Violence must be punished!"

"Forced Mediation Domain!" Xiao He set up Forced Mediation around himself, but the moment Adner's Death Amusement Park opened, the Forced Mediation Domain was actually covered up...

Xiao He speculated that for domain-type Superpower, the later activated domain will override the effect of the earlier activated domain.

"Interesting..." Xiao He licked his lips and smiled, then recalled Sebastian's image and activated his "Invulnerable Domain," instantly restoring the mobility of his right hand. Xiao He chuckled, "As expected."

His hand bones weren't injured, and his skin wasn't pierced, so it must be due to the influence of Superpower.

The Invulnerable Domain directly dispelled the effects of all Superpower, naturally restoring mobility.

However, the Superpower of the three people in front of him were indeed quite troublesome: they all had the ability to injure him.

Just then, Ye Wanqing's voice suddenly came to Xiao He's ears. "Old Xiao, I've changed their IDs for you."

"Okay, baby, love you, be good, okay? Wait for me to come back so we can go home for dinner together," Xiao He whispered into his earphones.

"Okay, I'll be good," Ye Wanqing said obediently with a smile. "Be careful, don't get hurt, or you won't have the right to mate."

"Don't worry, that's absolutely impossible," Xiao He said softly, then turned to the three people in front of him and smiled, "Alright, stop being naughty, why don't you go in and meet your three roommates?"

His response was met with a dozen or so bumper cars that pounced on him like vicious dogs. They had cute bumper car designs, but four grotesque insect-like limbs sprouted from their bodies, and a gaping maw split open at the front. The stark contrast made these cars look even more terrifying.

"Let's try using this guy as a Trigger first..." Xiao He thought to himself, looking at the Joker in front of him.

Xiao He felt no sympathy for the three men, so he immediately activated his Superpower.

At this moment, Xiao He had a very strange feeling. He raised his hand, and a black sphere of light opened from his hand, like a black hole, sucking in everything around him, not even letting go of light. The colorful and Death Amusement Park, centered on Xiao He, began to fade rapidly, turning into a black and Chaos space.

The Joker looked around in terror as his beloved amusement park was sucked into the black hole in Xiao He's hand, and even he himself was being pulled in. He tried to escape backward against the powerful attraction, but suddenly more than a dozen octopus tentacles extended from the black sphere in Xiao He's hand and dragged him in.

Finally, everything quieted down.

At this moment, a crystal ball appeared in Xiao He's hand. Inside the crystal ball was the Joker Adner's Death Amusement Park, and Xiao He could see the Joker running around aimlessly inside.

Seeing this, Xiao He knew very well that he could not leave this world.

The name "World Devourer..." surfaced in Xiao He's mind.

This Superpower a chill down Xiao He's spine: This Superpower is a bit terrifying, especially if it could affect the real world...

Is this how Earth came to be?

But at that moment, Ripper Rick had already placed his hand on Xiao He's chest, smiling slightly, "Thanks to that stupid Joker for creating this opportunity for me..." Then his face turned cold, and he whispered, "Heart surgery, paralysis!"

A bolt of lightning pierced Xiao He's chest, but Xiao He was unaffected. Instead, he reached out and pressed his Ripper Rick's face, throwing him away.

Rick fell to the ground, sliding four or five meters before finally stopping. He sat up, furious, and roared at the lively Xiao He, "No! How is this possible?! I really did paralyze your heart!"

"Who knows?" Xiao He joked, standing still and calmly looking at Rick.

Rick pressed his hand to his temple. "Surgery, remote auscultation!"

Then he examined Xiao He closely and was so astonished that his mouth almost dropped to the ground. "This, how is this possible!? Your body has actually turned into a robot!"

"Mechanical Modification," Xiao He said with a smile. Suddenly, a pair of steel wings unfurled from his back. Then, he raised his right hand towards Rick, and the skin on his arm turned into metal. It quickly deformed, opened up, and then transformed into a particle cannon, firing a red energy beam at Rick.

Rick nimbly dodged and weaved, avoiding the lightning bolts shot by Xiao He, while roaring madly, "This... this is simply amazing! Changing your body and form at will! I want to study it, I want to study it! I want to study your body! Ahhh!"

Rick went berserk on the spot, lunging at Xiao He, his hands enveloped in a blinding White Light: "The Universal Operating Table! Death Surgery!"

As he spoke, Rick began stabbing Xiao He repeatedly, roaring as he did so, "Death surgery, organ destruction! Death surgery, nerve destruction! Death surgery, brain death! Death surgery, mental paralysis!"

No matter how busy he was, Xiao He was not affected at all. After all, Xiao He's body was now in a mechanical state. Although he did have facial features and internal organs, they were all mechanical parts and would not be affected by the "surgery".

These mechanical parts further enhanced Xiao He's physical abilities, and most importantly, improved his mental processing power.

Xiao He discovered that he could process dozens of pieces of information simultaneously and quickly calculate Rick's actions. This was not because his reaction speed had increased, but purely because his brain's computing power had improved.

Of course, he can't suddenly master the knowledge he hasn't yet acquired, but his memory and calculation abilities do allow him to quickly learn the knowledge he hasn't mastered.

Although he wasn't interested in studying, but...

This information processing capability enables him to use "Vector Control".

Therefore, Xiao He focused on Ripper Rick approaching him, first changing the direction of the reaction force under his feet, causing Ripper Rick to jump high into the air uncontrollably. The next moment, Xiao He modified his gravity parameters.

"Whoa!" Ripper Rick crashed to the ground like a piano falling from the sky.

"Boom!" Smoke and dust spread out, Ripper Rick's body was already deeply embedded in the ground.

"Gulp." The last remaining Faust nervously swallowed, clearly frightened, but he suddenly roared, then slammed his fists into the ground, yelling, "Hulk! Attack!"

Then, Faust's body swelled up and transformed into a giant green monster that charged toward Xiao He.

"So you're the only one left, huh?" Xiao He sneered, triggering a new Superpower.

Faust had already reached Xiao He and was about to strike with his enormous fist.

"Curtain Call." Xiao He raised his hand and clapped gently, and the world around him suddenly darkened.

A spotlight illuminated Faust, leaving him alone on the scene. The stage curtain then quickly closed, and when it opened again, Faust had become an ordinary person wearing motion capture sensors and suspended by wires.

"This... this is impossible!?" Faust stared in astonishment at the motion capture sensors on his body, then flew into a rage. "What are these!? My acting is real! I don't need these junk to add special effects! No... no!"

"Did you revert the film and television image back to its pre-production special effects state?" Xiao He asked with interest. However, these three Superpower are quite targeted, having a particularly good effect on the individuals Trigger them, but not so much on others.

For example, "World Eater" has no effect on Mutant without a domain; although Mechanical Modification increased computing power, Xiao He's own defense and strength were actually reduced, as he was limited by the machinery; and the final "Curtain Call" could only be used against Faust.

Even so, Xiao He was quite satisfied.

He turned to Faust in front of him and said coldly, "You're finished."

(I've been getting very few "recommendation votes" and "monthly votes" lately, which is honestly a bit disappointing, considering how hard the author works every day. Also, readers who read the official version should pay close attention to the chapter descriptions in the paid chapters; there are some things you can't see in the pirated version.)